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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
What's going on?
I'm Mark Phillips.
He's Jonathan Ortega.
Is it okay to do that?
I don't know.
We'll talk about it.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
Midday motivation every time you press
call.
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Cowboy bring the heat.
Crossfit, boobies, music on repeat.
High-fouled hustle, yeah,
we building that brand.
Grab a plate, tune in now,
you part of the fam.
It's lunch time.
What is going on, everybody?
Really need to record that again.
To lunch with the Clydesdale.
I can actually give it like a little
flair if I want to, though,
when I do it live.
You can, a hundred percent,
but I know it bothers your voice.
So maybe.
Yeah,
I'll probably grow tired of it pretty
quick.
Well, we're filling up.
Jason Bourne is here.
Eric Mackey's driving.
We've got Craig Pasley.
We've got Amanda.
Amanda's still hanging in there.
Video review going on.
She's a beast, dude.
Jay Birch.
All that stuff.
What's going on?
If you didn't catch the open,
I'm Mark Phillips.
He's Jonathan Ortega.
Yeah, you can't pull it off.
No way can you pull off that stash.
The reason I say that is apparently it's
okay to use somebody else's identity
without their permission.
Yeah, that's what I was about to add.
Not even tell them.
Without their permission to get your boy
to the games.
One, we've been through this before,
right?
And last year it happened.
Hiller found out.
It got exposed.
And I'm sure,
I am sure for every one that gets
caught,
there are ten that are getting away with
it.
If not more than that.
But the thing that boggles my mind is
they didn't even tell the person whose
name they used.
I'm going to put this out there right
now.
If you need me to lie for you,
for some reason,
you might want to tell me about it
first.
Hey man,
this dude is fixing to call you in
a little bit and tell him I've been
knowing we've been knowing each other for
twenty years.
okay cool thanks i appreciate the heads up
and that you were in texas last tuesday
not minnesota yes absolutely or conversely
you could just do it and just hope
for the best and see what happens can
you imagine being on vacation getting a
call hey
Can you verify your location?
Yeah.
Why?
What?
Huh?
What?
Who is this?
You were said,
you were said to be judging in Texas
last Tuesday at three PM.
And were you there?
Well, no, I've,
I've been up here in Minnesota.
I'm just making the locations up.
Yeah, no, I know.
I know it was a long distance away
from where she actually was.
She could have been in Maine and other
people would have been in San Diego,
like complete ass in opposite ends of the
country.
It really didn't matter.
They could have been two towns over.
It really wouldn't have mattered.
Where I'm at right now,
I'm in Prairieville.
Gonzales, where I live,
is fifteen minutes from here,
twenty minutes from here.
And if you'd asked me, hey,
at noon on Thursday, the fourteenth,
Were you judging somebody in Gonzales?
No, I was doing a podcast in Brava.
Thanks.
Click.
OMG.
They didn't even tell the dude.
Well, it was a female.
It was a chick.
They didn't even tell the dudette.
Man, this is so not worth it.
People be peopling.
Yeah.
It was a lady.
And no, they did not tell her.
There's no advance warning thing.
what that that's that's the only scenario
is that they know that she'd been like
no don't do that i'm not going to
be there you can't just do that and
then they just decided to do it anyway
i don't know man i don't know um
is that the backup plan
It'd be like if I called Birch and
I'd be like, Birch, look,
I know you got all the judging
credentials.
You're the head judge in charge.
As it turns out,
I'm going to need you to tell these
people that you judged me.
You were my head judge, whatever,
during semifinals because I'm putting your
name down.
I know you live in Texas and I'm
in Louisiana,
but I'm going to need you to just
go ahead and verify that for me.
The problem is you got to put Jay
Birch on camera.
according to the new rules what if i
have a life-size cardboard cut out of jay
birch with just the arm going like just
looks like uh the the thing that kevin
had on home alone when he was trying
to yeah he was there yeah yeah so
that's perfect this dude is kevin and he's
trying to fool the the house robbers
Yeah.
Using cardboard cutouts and fake names.
You filthy animal.
Or weekend at Bernie's.
That's even better.
Yes, Birch.
Just got to tie the rope to the
hand.
You got to rescue Randy from the games
and just kind of got him in the
background just holding a clipboard in one
hand and got a pencil in the other
and was like,
And that's my judge, Randy.
You just pull it to my pull the
string and he's like.
And then you got one that goes.
Yeah.
No rep.
Oh, he's just no rep me.
He's just getting ready to no rep me
just in case.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Ask Luckett.
He may have a rescue, Randy.
I will text Brandon here in a little
bit.
picturing the home alone house party yeah
filthy animals yeah so when I submit for
media credentials and put down Scott
Clydesdale and my personal info I won't
get approved
Well, the thing is, Ken,
you might because unless you go with Joe
and Bob,
probably not going to get in from them.
But anybody else in the whole thing,
you don't have to put my picture down.
You don't even have to do a video.
This, you have to go on camera.
How much dope was smoked when they came
up with Weekend at Bernie's?
A lot.
A whole lot.
A whole lot.
They're going to carry his body around and
pretend like he's alive for the entire
weekend.
We're going to get the audience watching
the movie to buy into it like everybody
else is going along with it.
Oh, no, he's fine.
He's just taking a nap.
It's good.
They make him move.
We'll just tie ropes to his wrists.
so that he can wave to people.
Surely.
When was it?
Late eighties?
We'll just put him in a wagon.
We'll carry him around.
All the stuff, dude.
It's going to be comedy gold.
We should do two of them.
And can you imagine getting the acting
job?
You just have to play dead for ninety
minutes.
Get your body contorted in weird
positions.
Slump a lot.
Do a whole lot of that.
And you have no speaking lines.
You're going to wear sunglasses most of
the time.
It's fine, dude.
Yeah.
Chet,
if anyone else think Tyler's little
comment on Spin last night sounded like a
slight or mean,
I didn't watch Spin last night.
I was watching it just now or listening
to it mostly,
and he said something about you,
but I don't even know what it was.
I usually listen to it every week.
Just didn't have it in me last night.
to go one more CrossFit video.
Cause I went where I did family time
last weekend.
Right.
And then all week has been ketchup.
Yeah.
So I have been like slamming CrossFit
content all week.
And I just,
I hit a point last night where I'm
like, just need to go to bed.
Cause I'll tell you the night before,
I think it was the night before when
Jeremy hosted Clinton things on Tuesday,
I tried to,
I tried to listen to that show to
go to bed and I got so pissed
off.
I had to wake up and shut it
off.
No comment.
And,
and I think that was like the downturn
of like the content I could consume.
understandable understandable i was
listening to the majority of that live on
my way home from work and i got
in my garage and uh i'm in a
group chat with garrett and joseph a
couple other people and i was like i
love y'all uh i can't listen to this
anymore i'm going inside yeah i i pretty
much
and chill about stuff like that.
You know, think what you want to think,
do what you want to do.
Be you.
Sure.
I'm all for it.
Yep.
I, I was like,
this is making me dumber.
Is it, I can't, was it,
what's the movie where the guy gives a
speech and then the moderator says we are
out all now dumber for your oh that's
uh was it old school or at no
point in your rambling incoherent we are
all dumber now may god ever mercy on
your souls oh goodness
I can see the moderator, Billy Madison.
Billy Madison.
That's how I felt.
I felt like the moderator during that
podcast the other night.
I get it.
It was out of the blue and just
unnecessary, I felt like.
I'll listen to it, I guess.
It was pretty early on.
I went too far into it whenever I
heard him.
He said something about...
I just heard Clydesdale,
and he had to remember your name was
Scott.
Kipping's getting pretty aggressive now.
A lot of eye-for-eye stuff out there.
Yuck.
I talked about the one piece of his
video yesterday that I wanted to address
yesterday.
and that is that everybody just wants to
blame Dave for everything,
and I just think it's a lazy take.
You're not diving into anything.
It's just Dave is the face,
so let's all just blast him.
That's it.
Yeah.
Because it's easy.
It kind of made me feel better as
a father knowing my daughters didn't turn
out like that.
Amen, brother.
And now Grant's here.
At the end of the day,
I watched all of Grant's video.
I watched it from beginning to end.
I watched the first couple minutes of it
or so,
and then I got distracted by something
shiny, I'm sure.
Or work, whatever.
Like something was going on.
I saw Mark Moss asked if Luckett could
make the games.
I don't mean to be disrespectful because I
like Brandon a lot.
But that question doesn't even matter
anymore.
Oh no, he is all the way...
I mean, he still trains like a psycho.
Right,
but he has no intentions of going for
the games.
No.
Not at all.
He is settling into...
On the CrossFit side, anyway,
of actually being coach and doing what he
can to coach his athletes.
He's getting pretty good at it.
Dude is wicked smart.
Wicked smart.
Wicked smart.
And, yeah,
I think he's happy doing what he does.
Yeah.
And how many times did he compete with
a bad back or –
Like that has got to grind on it
pretty hard.
When he flung his elbow out of position
on that snatch and then finished the
weekend on an insane amount of ibuprofen.
That's literally, if you ask him,
that's what he'll tell you.
He just took enough ibuprofen where he
didn't feel it anymore and went back to
work.
I love him to death.
He's an absolute psycho in the best
possible way.
Grant's saying,
I know he mentioned NorCal and reining
them in last year, though,
so there still has to be some potential
control.
No.
I think on paper there is a little
bit of control where the semifinals have
to submit the workouts to HQ.
But I think that there is a lack
of enforcement on that because you've
handed it all over to them and you're
not paying them to do it.
There's only so much you can tell somebody
about how to do their own event when
you're asking them to use their event to
qualify people to your event.
And what I will say is the NorCal
guys were open to help.
Yeah.
They have publicly stated they want to be
a good semifinal qualifying point.
And...
they have actually opened themselves up
for the input.
And that was their choice,
not a mandate from CrossFit.
And that was a year ago.
I don't remember the timeline of them
being open to it and Dave saying,
we're going to rein them in.
don't know how that all worked out or
because dave is very familiar with both of
them they've been around a very long time
they're all both in the same norcal
location yep so ben and blair or by
all accounts are really good dudes and are
doing their absolute best to provide the
best possible experience event
I guess that's probably the best word for
it,
that they possibly can while still
remaining true to what they do.
Mark Phillips,
I'm impressed with their acceptance to
listen to critical feedback.
Yeah, I mean, none of us are perfect,
right?
But when we make mistakes,
are you willing to ask for help?
Are you willing to get better?
That is the difference between Ben and
Blair and Joe and Bob, in my opinion.
I don't want to throw that on you,
Corey,
because you're a Masters athlete who's
competing, but that is my opinion.
Ben and Blair, Bob and Joe,
Ben and Jerry.
One of those I dearly love.
Guess which one?
Laverne and Shirley.
Let's go ahead while we're just doing
that.
Okay.
they catch too much flack.
They're all in and open to conversations
about getting better.
I agree.
As long as you're willing to have a
conversation and learn,
I know at least one person who isn't
open to being wrong.
Corey knows who.
I heard Tristan is not open to being
wrong.
I may actually get to see Tristan next
weekend.
I forgot all about it.
We are going to a, God help me,
a Pitbull concert in Houston next weekend.
And it's on his side of town.
Friday night.
Mr. Worldwide.
My son and his girlfriend.
Yeah.
My son and his girlfriend wanted to go,
and Jennifer's like,
I'm not letting him go all the way
over there by themselves.
And I was like,
so why do I have to go?
Can you explain that part of it?
And it's not because I don't want to
see Pitbull.
It's because it's a concert that's not
going to start until like nine o'clock at
night.
That's my whole problem.
Mr. Three Oh Five.
Three Oh Mr. Worldwide.
Fireball.
Mm-hmm.
i i am a closet pitbull fan oh
dude i have a i have a i
based a uh a playlist for the gym
off of like seven different pitbull songs
and just started adding stuff after that
because like most of this stuff is real
high energy it's great to work out to
the sanitized versions are pretty
user-friendly as far as that kind of stuff
is concerned.
So boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom.
Let's go.
My wife's theme song is Fireball.
She's a redhead.
We've been together thirty-four years.
Fireball.
All day, every day.
Fireball.
I can't see,
like if you're shopping at a convenience
store and they're selling little bitty
bottles of liquor and whatnot and they got
Fireball up there.
I can't see that and not hear it
in my head.
Fireball.
I mean,
can you imagine if we were in college
when that song came out?
And as much as people drank Fireball,
it would have been the biggest thing.
Let me get some cinnamon-flavored whiskey.
That and Goldschlager, man,
if you wanted to go bougie.
Fireball, Goldschlager, Aftershock.
I can't remember what the blue one was.
terrible absolutely terrible yeah they're
all versions of cinnamon schnapps jay
birch just they charge you more because
they put gold flake in it or whatever
uh trish buchi i was in college when
that song came out yeah i was well
past it oh don't even say yeah i
never understood rumple mints thank you
larry young
Jaeger is my jam.
I have not drank in two and a
half years.
I have two freezing shots in my freezer
of Jaeger just for the day that I
just want to break it open.
I don't understand.
Okay, back it up a little bit.
I don't like licorice.
To begin with,
at no point have I ever,
this is how you can tell Jägermeister,
I don't give a damn,
what's on a label is made by German
people because they don't like nice
things.
They don't like fun things.
They don't like things that taste good.
So they're like, let's make a liquor,
a liqueur,
and let's make it taste like the worst
candy ever invented by man.
Make it happen.
My last name is Schweitzer.
Let me just start with that.
Makes perfect sense.
And I like black licorice at thirty three
degrees in a liquid form.
Now,
if I'm just eating it out of a
room temperature bag.
No, thank you.
And it's solid and it's shaped like a
like a like a straw.
But at thirty three to thirty three
degrees and liquid all day, every day.
never never in my life i say never
i my whole problem is that when i
was eighteen nineteen um i had enough of
it one night that it all came right
back up and i've never had it since
then yeah that was me and tequila
until I discovered there was better
tequilas than Jose Cortez.
Not even Jose Cuervo.
Yeah,
I got me a Ford the Cortez in
college.
dude so mother's day um we left from
church and we were going uh to go
get jennifer some mexican food we stopped
at a red light and there was a
lady next in the car next to us
and she looked at jennifer and she waved
at her and she held up a bag
with like happy mother's day written on it
and it said peach tea
written on it and she like wanted to
give it to jennifer had a flower on
it and whatnot so okay cool i guess
that's what we're doing so she gets it
from her she pulls in the card you
know waves it late tells her thank you
all that good stuff she opens it up
there's a little card inside says you know
hey you know your mother blah blah
whatever happy stuff and a bottle of uh
taco peach vodka about this big and i
went oh
That's what they meant.
Got it.
There you go.
Got it.
Tristan played quarters with Jagermeister
one time.
Didn't end his way.
It would not.
It's not made for games.
It's a serious drink for serious people.
Yeah.
Birch has got a point.
German beer, way better than liquor.
A hundred percent.
I will drink me some German beer.
I'm not mad at that.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
This biggity boy is a diggity dog.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
This biggity boy is a diggity dog.
It's going to be an interesting concert.
I'm going to tell you that right now,
just because I'm old.
But there should be, in theory,
a whole bunch of old people in there
my age and slightly younger.
So they're all going to be like, hey.
Let's get this thing going.
We got stuff to do tomorrow.
Oh, I was young and in the army,
you know, just happens.
That's a fact.
Jeremy says, hey, Scott,
Packers versus Bears Christmas Day.
Has that been announced?
Because I haven't got anything on my phone
yet.
I know the Saints are playing overseas
against somebody on whatever day.
I heard that this morning.
The Saints are playing someone on some day
overseas.
Yep.
As far as I got.
That is crackerjack journalism right
there.
It's the kind of reporting you get.
Sports reporting you get over here.
There was a murder somewhere, someday,
by some guy.
Somebody, one hundred percent, got killed.
They were killed by a person.
They had a face.
It was terrible.
Yeah,
I know the Bears play the Lions on
Thanksgiving,
which I always love when the Bears play
on Thanksgiving.
Oh, here you go.
Apparently it's the Steelers in France,
according to half of the chat.
Yeah, I know the Steelers are in France.
And yeah, they're playing the Saints.
I should have known that.
There you go.
Seema, Scott,
does any part of you think Joe and
Bob treat you differently because you were
overweight?
People treat me way differently when I was
eighty pounds overweight.
I don't think so.
I don't think it's about that.
I truly think it's about money.
because you're not giving them any so joe
and bob hire this media company to come
in and do packages yeah for and you
bought your package from them hercules
media yep and they come in and they
they either pay joe and bob to be
there or joe and bob get some commission
on the packages sold
And so they are threatened by anybody from
a third party coming in that may steal
some of those packages away.
That's just silly.
That's just silly.
I can't imagine you running around trying
to take – you know what I'm saying?
Taking money out of – because I have
had several conversations with the
Hercules Media people and they are good
people and I cannot imagine –
them being hurt you know what i'm saying
like coming down the line and going oh
man what's that guy doing here is he
on he's not on my media team no
he's here just to cover what's going on
because he's outside media he's actually
going to tell a story not just put
pictures and video together because and
look they take great pictures i've never
been i've never gotten stuff from them and
i was like this sucks
They made me two different or three
different reels,
one from Monster Games last year and one
from both times I went to Legends.
They were all outstanding.
But at no point have I ever looked
at it and went, you know,
this is really telling a story here.
Because it's not what they do.
It's what you do.
Right.
Right.
Right.
So I think that's why.
And I think it's short-sighted.
I don't think it's looking at long-term
success.
It's looking at the immediate cash jackpot
that it is for them.
And I don't even know what they get
paid, but it's crazy.
I can tell you immediate packages for
athletes are not cheap.
Oh, I know.
You can pretty much double your entry fee
depending on what you want.
And I don't think you get a whole
lot for that, to be honest.
So I got...
will say this the who and i don't
remember who was heading it up at magic
city but i got a ton of pictures
from magic city and i mean a ton
and they uh the video that they put
together for me was way better than i
expected it was like a minute and fifteen
seconds long which is pretty long for one
of those
But I have so many pictures that I'm
not going to post them all because it's
just too much.
I don't say too much,
but you know what I mean?
There's too many to try to post all
of them.
I selected a whole bunch of ones.
That's why I put up today that I
thought were pretty cool and put them up.
But if I could go back and do
that same thing I did probably five more
times.
But I will say this, Seema.
I do think being overweight did affect
getting media credentials initially.
Until I proved myself.
Yeah, they didn't take you seriously.
Right.
Which is ridiculous.
So I do think like I had to
prove myself and the work I put out
before I was accepted into that media
world.
Have you seen any gen pop pics for
people that didn't buy a package yet?
I did not join.
Let me, so this dude's Joey Perez.
He and I,
we hung out a lot over the weekend
at magic city and we should probably not
ever be allowed together in during an
athlete briefing ever again,
because I don't know that we paid too
much attention to what was going on
because all we did was.
laugh the entire time at one point uh
and i don't remember it wasn't micah it
was whoever was doing the the first in
the first round we had an athlete briefing
in the where the track area was and
we had an athlete briefing on the other
side and bill harris and then at the
The first one, old boy said,
are you guys ready to make history?
And I leaned in and I told Joey,
I said,
I don't think I was coming here to
make history.
This is like a lot of pressure.
This is way more pressure.
This is almost as bad as telling a
seven-year-old that I'm the only one who
can prevent forest fires.
Like, I don't,
this is not cool at all.
And Joey kind of looked over at me
and he started laughing.
He's like, son of a bitch.
That's a lot.
Corey,
are you saying you received too many
photos from MSG?
At that price,
he should have received a buttload.
No.
It's more than I expected,
is what I'm saying.
Generally speaking, you get a lot.
You get several,
but you don't get as many as I
got from Magic City.
No, it wasn't too many.
I don't need that much smoke, says Joey.
Also, Joey is fit, with a capital I.
Sounds like an Army recruiter speech.
he did for real he actually said are
y'all are y'all ready to make history and
when the five or six of us i
will say when i like whoa let's settle
down a little bit uh sema in response
to my thing uh that sucks makes me
sad just know sema we're in the lab
we're working on it and hoping this
thing's uh uh
The thing of the past in the near
future.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
We're in the lab.
We're doing our thing.
Work is being put in.
But my knees are hurting, dude.
My knees are hurting this week.
I'd imagine so.
Oh, dude.
Hurting.
But we'll get through it.
Got my Theragun on overtime.
I love it.
Yeah.
Um, so French known as this weekend.
Yes.
Show you guys real quick that everybody
asks like, where is it?
Can you get it on YouTube?
Blah, blah, blah.
Actually games website.
Day one, day one, Coliseum day one,
rogue gymnasium.
Now I don't know what the differences are.
Well, one of them is the Coliseum option.
You got the red pill and you got
the blue pill.
I mean, obviously, Scott,
when I was a Coliseum,
when I was a gymnasium, I mean,
come on.
There you go.
So it is,
but it is on the game's website.
Cool.
I was not expecting that.
Day one, day two, day three.
How about that?
How about that?
What time does it start?
Remember, they're six hours ahead of us.
seven for you um so yeah they're starting
birch is on one today probably before i
wake up one is for basketball one is
for gladiators
It's also on YouTube.
Yeah, I know,
because these are the YouTube links is
what CrossFit's using.
But if you had any questions,
games.crossfit.com, boom,
it's right there.
And Pedro is commentating it.
I think they're doing an English and a
French version.
I hope Pedro's doing the French version.
Well,
I'm not sure we can call what he
says the English, so let's say French.
I hope he's doing the French version with
his Irish accent.
I think that would be fantastic.
So we've talked about the lineup.
Mark's asking Reebok question mark.
They sponsor the Coliseum.
I don't think it's sponsoring the event,
but Reebok is way bigger in Europe and
they have way more European athletes
signed still in the CrossFit space than
they do in the States.
It says one forty a.m.
for day one for me.
I'm in South Carolina.
So that would be one forty a.m.
for me.
It would be twelve forty a.m.
for you.
Yeah,
I'm sure I'll get up at midnight and
start watching that.
Mark Moss with an emoji with a tear.
Yeah, Elisa Fuliano is sponsored by them.
I think Mathilde Garness is.
Elisa Fuliano has been with Reebok
forever.
Yeah,
so they it's more of a European thing
right now.
knows maybe they come back someday so we
talked about how stacked the lineups are
and i warned you this morning to have
your predictions ready i'm good we went
off the cuff the other day but i
was just being wild and reckless do you
have your do you have your podium picks
for the weekend i absolutely do let's go
man going to man
uh i'm taking the obvious jason hopper to
take it to to win it all going
to champ i realize that's probably a safe
pick but there's a reason he suddenly
decided to go to france and compete over
there i i i want to present believe
that um i got harry lightfoot standing on
the second part uh podium and i got
uh calum clements in third
And you apparently copied off my paper.
I have the exact same top three.
And I have Moritz Fiebig just on the
outside looking in.
Same.
Same.
With people to watch, Colin Bossard,
Tom Kingdon, and Enrico Zanoni.
Yep.
What do you got on the women's side?
I got Lucy McGonigal.
Okay.
Up there at the top.
Miriam Von Rohr in second.
Excuse me.
Amy Kringle in second and Miriam Von Rohr
in third.
So I have Kringle winning.
Okay.
I have Claudia Gluck in second.
Okay.
She really impressed me at Mayhem.
She was fit, dude.
And Miriam Von Rohr in third.
with Reese Littlewood,
the one to watch outside looking in.
Okay.
I am super curious to see what Elisa
Fuligano is going to do because I haven't
seen her in live competition other than
the couple of things that she's done in
the past couple of years since she hasn't
been actively competing in
CrossFit-sanctioned events.
So I would really like to see that.
Well, she's been competing in them.
She just hasn't been eligible to move on
from them.
Right.
That's more or less the point.
I think she's going to do well.
The women's side is so jacked because you
have Matilda Garnett,
you have Elisa Fuliano,
you have Lucy McGonigal that aren't in my
top three.
No.
And there's Menon Inglis and...
I don't think she has it in her
anymore.
I can't say her name without,
but Andra Moistus.
Yeah.
She was great at Waterpalooza.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
So yeah, we got lots going on.
We'll be watching it tomorrow.
There'll be a lot of stuff that's already
happened by the time we get on the
air.
So a lot of stuff that happens by
the time my alarm clock goes off at
four thirty in the morning.
Seema asked a great question.
Do we think Jason will get booed when
he wins by Europeans the way Americans
were at Copa Sur?
I don't.
And I'm really just basing this off of
the Europeans in our chat.
And they're just excited that they get to
go see him live.
I don't think it's the same vibe.
I really, really don't.
Because everybody I've talked to from the
chat or that I chat with on Instagram
has said they're just super stoked to be
able to go see him in person.
And rightfully so.
It's just different.
And rightfully so.
Why wouldn't they?
Right.
Right.
I mean, when this all started,
I was a fan boy.
I wanted to see all the,
all the people, you know?
So yeah, I get it.
You get,
you get jaded after you've been to a
lot of events though.
Right?
Like you forget what it was like to
just want to see that stuff.
Once you start meeting some of these
people and you realize that they are in
fact just people.
You know what I mean?
Just way fitter than you.
Just way fitter than you.
Sometimes it's silly.
When Pancheck was at Legends the first
year that I went,
we stayed to watch him.
It was just ridiculous.
The dude that was in second place on
the very last event was in second place
running right next to him, rep for rep,
until he wasn't.
Like that dude could have physically ran
into a wall and he wouldn't have slowed
down any more than he did once.
And Scott just kept going.
It was absolutely insane.
But I went and talked to him the
first night we were there, um,
while he was at the pool and like,
he's just a dude, you know,
he just happens to be incredibly fit and
stupid strong.
so true um what i will say is
that french pretty much kicks off week
after week after week of action the rest
of the season yeah there's gonna be a
lot happening
So if you cannot see it,
I'm going to blow it up here.
This is Holly's data wad, her chart.
This is an old one,
but it has all the dates.
French learn on this weekend.
Next weekend,
we have Torian and Rebel Renegade.
The week after that,
we have Syndicate Crown, Mad Fitness,
and NorCal.
And then we have Team Online Send Me
Finals,
and then Elite Individuals the week after
that.
So there it is.
Syndicate and NorCal being the same
weekend is going to be a lot.
Yeah.
Like a lot.
Why is it so bad that Anika went
down to Brazil?
It's the nature of the game right now.
I didn't say it was bad.
No, somebody.
It's just booed her.
It wasn't our opinion.
No, Helson was saying that.
She went down there because she wasn't
going to be able to qualify otherwise.
She went down there because that's the
best place she could go to try and
qualify.
That is the nature of the beast right
now.
Same reason why Jason's going to France
this weekend or in France right now.
Because he can.
Jay Burch says,
love you guys and I'm headed over to
the CrossFit podcast for JB and Hobart.
You don't have to tell us you're leaving.
It isn't like the dining room table where
you have to be excused.
No, it's not an airport.
You don't need to announce your departure.
No, we're good.
We know people come and go.
Not mad at it.
Yeah.
I like the CrossFit podcast.
I like we're listening to on a higher
speed.
so I jump in like five minutes late
hit it at one point two five catch
up about ten minutes I would have to
be like focused in I can't listen to
it that fast it just it blows by
me the last piece of news I just
want to talk about is and I was
trying to find it oh Jody Jody would
only ever leave me for a customer for
a cabinet yeah yep
She's got to sell a cabinet.
She's gone.
You know what?
Thick and thin.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's perfectly fine.
Um, the FJ,
their director of education announced on
Instagram yesterday that he was stepping
down.
I, um,
I wonder what's going to happen because
they were backed by the PFAA.
I knew there was a couple letters of
something in there.
And that seems to have gone away
completely.
I have not heard anything about it in
quite some time.
You mentioning it just now made me think,
oh yeah, that was a thing.
Yeah.
So I'm not sure... I'm not sure...
how much longer the afj can sustain itself
i like the concept i like that getting
judges organized but i don't think they're
going to be able to do it themselves
i think it has to like link up
with a bigger entity to have some
oversight because they keep they just keep
shooting themselves in the foot
And if you read his reasons for stepping
down,
while he said he was still being
supportive of them,
it was clear that they wanted him doing
things that weren't necessarily what he
believed in.
Oh.
I didn't read that deep into it.
I just saw that.
Whether it was the schedule,
whether it was how to teach, whatever,
was obvious there was a disagreement in
the way things were going okay and that's
the if that's the case then good for
him like stick to your principles i seem
i like to imagine you guys are the
at the desks across from me and this
is our water cooler talk hey i work
from home this is my water cooler talk
every single day anytime somebody says i
like to imagine the first thing i think
i would like to imagine jesus in a
tuxedo t-shirt
Andrew Sten's calling me out saying I'm
assuming a lot there.
I may be.
I just, as I was reading it,
it just,
it came off as he wanted to choose
his own path for supporting the community
is what he said.
Right.
And maybe I did read too much into
it, but I don't know.
It seemed weird to,
to do a long Instagram post saying goodbye
though.
I, I don't know, just weird,
but maybe Andrew knows more than I do.
So that is fair.
That is fair, Andrew,
that I am definitely assuming with that
post.
Yeah.
I would imagine you were right to call
me out.
I w I was complaining that my ice
cubes are too cold.
Damn it again.
So, yes, thank you for calling me out.
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