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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.
All right, it's a Friday.
You know what time it is?
You know what time it is?
Time for some pouch jerky.
Let's go.
Let's go.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
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call.
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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Half hour hustle, yeah,
we building that brand.
Grab a plate, tune in now,
you part of the fam.
It's lunch time.
Stream your hate.
I don't know what the hell is going
on where StreamYard is muting my mic.
I don't get it because I was not
muted.
It's just yours.
It's a good big breath of air to
go.
It's lunchtime and bam, it's just...
And it's like, it's frozen time.
It's shit.
Maybe StreamYard doesn't like pocket
jerking.
That's entirely possible.
You know who does?
This guy.
So, Meg,
make sure you keep those hands at ten
and two.
Keep them on the wheel.
Rubber side down, Megan.
Rubber side down.
Ed says,
does StreamYard mute you automatically,
software updates?
It just happened yesterday and today.
That's it.
It normally mutes us when we play the
video.
Right.
But when I come out of the video...
It unmutes the mics.
And for some reason, it's not...
The last two days,
it had not done it.
Just on yours.
Because mine was perfectly fine.
I didn't have to unmute myself.
But anyway.
Maybe it didn't want to hear about the
jerky.
Maybe it was jealous of your pouch jerky.
No jerky for you.
No jerky for you.
uh it was good too i was worried
i wasn't going to finish the piece before
uh the music stopped it's fine just come
back come back from there come back from
the intro video and just yeah guys don't
mind scott he's got a little pocket jerky
non-oma jerky so i saw something today it
was bizarre but it reminded me of
something
It was a Lego talking about hiding in
the bathroom at work.
I don't know why it was a Lego.
I don't know why it was a,
but I was sitting there thinking,
you know, I used to do that.
If I was having a bad day and
a bad moment,
I'd just go in and sit on the
toilet, not go to the bathroom,
just go in there and hide.
Just hang out for a little bit.
Sure.
It doesn't hit the same when you work
from home.
No, not exactly.
not exactly i will so we own a
digital phone system nowadays like we
don't actually have real hard phones
actually i still have a phone on my
desk but we don't use it anymore so
if i don't want to be bothered i
will i got to go and shut it
down completely like stop the system from
running on the laptop but that's the only
way i can get in here and like
not have it ring and not have anybody
buzz me or anything like that so i
understand plus i'm in a closet so i
just close the door i don't close all
day long
I came home from work six years ago.
My desk number never changed.
It doesn't reach my PC.
And so I don't know if I went
into the office and plugged in my phone
or if I don't even know if it
still exists.
It's probably got like seven thousand
voicemails on it.
If that more than that.
Well, you don't get calls from the public.
I get calls from the public, too.
I did get calls from the public.
Oh, gross.
See,
the system I test and I work on
is out there for the public to use.
And what I think in twenty twenty,
I was still like second tier call center
help desk as one of my duties.
It's no longer one of my duties.
Thank the Lord.
Yeah.
Nobody wants to be help desk.
no especially second level because that's
when they go can i speak to your
supervisor yeah yeah yeah so they're
already pissed off the minute you pick up
the phone it's the best people to deal
with it is it is i don't get
that you never get the layup you never
get the oh it's simple i can just
fix you here
if someone calls here and specifically
only wants to deal with me it's because
they're either really really angry or they
or they're not like or they're you know
they're really really happy and just want
to tell me something help you know get
me to help them with something there's no
in between i only want to talk to
corey oh fabulous this is probably going
to move really well that son of a
Yes, David Reed.
Second tier help desk equals death.
They are pretty much the same thing.
Pretty much.
I don't know.
I don't have a lot of specific things
to talk about today.
We're going to be all over the map.
It happens.
You know, Vicky,
it won't even take a heavy push to
get us off the rails today.
i did want to say yesterday crossfit did
announce the bikes are coming back so so
now we have biking the pool the pig
the snail and the hopper earlier this week
i was thinking do i even really want
to pay the money to go to the
games
But now that there's bikes,
now that you're in, they're like,
they say, oh, wait, bicycles.
Sign me up.
Today I'm going,
thank God I bought my ticket on Wednesday.
Because everything that used to be cool
about the games.
All they need to do now is be
like, oh, hey,
we're bringing back the killer cage.
It's been in California this entire time
anyway.
We just moved it from.
What would make me so giddy.
If they said we're doing an O course.
Oh yes.
If they said we're doing an O course,
I don't know if I could contain my
excitement until July.
Well,
you don't have to contain it a whole
lot longer.
It's the.
So July is on the corner.
Um, I'm with you, dude.
Like it's so fun to watch.
It really, really is.
It is so fun to watch.
With, yes.
With Rescue Randy.
That was my, the sprint, of course,
was cool.
Like having to run up the logs and
whatnot and come over the walls and
whatnot.
But this, the big long, of course,
with the cargo net that, you know,
people are falling off of right behind
each other for some reason.
That was incredible to watch.
And you could throw a rescue Randy in
any event.
I don't care.
It could be indoor, outdoor,
just a drag them from here to their
rescue.
Randy toss modification of the softball
throw.
It's a rescue Randy toss.
How far can you throw rescue Randy without
his head coming off?
Hey, I, uh,
I had actually just saved this from
Instagram and it's similar.
There we go.
Cake toss.
Just grab Randy under each armpit.
Get set.
And there.
Jason Kelsey showing us how to do it
in his captain's hat.
He is full on.
He is a man of the people.
Yeah.
That is what he is, man.
He's dressed for the boogaloo with the
captain's hat and that shirt.
And matching shorts, man.
I don't know why you wouldn't be.
So anyway, Rescue Randy Toss is awesome.
Oh, man.
Sign me up.
Corey's going to die on the toss hill.
He wants something tossed.
And we don't mean your cookies.
He wants something thrown some way,
somehow.
I was not around.
Rescue Randy, football.
I was not around.
You know what my favorite toss event was?
The GHD medicine ball toss.
Med ball toss.
There you go.
Look.
Yeah.
I was not around for the G.
I saw videos of it and I was
not around for the softball throw.
Just saying.
So I know it's not going to happen.
I'm not that delusional, but.
it's just fun, man.
Like go out there.
It would be a fun thing for them
to do.
And it would be a fun thing for
us to watch,
especially for the people who have never
thrown a ball or who have no idea
how to, they might have thrown a ball,
but they have no idea how to throw
a ball.
CrossFit is designed to
at the base level to help you succeed
at living life.
Right?
And part of living life is tossing things.
Yeah.
Right.
Fundamentally,
you should be able to throw something.
If a guy throws a grenade at your
feet,
pick it up and throw it right like
throw it back.
Pick it up and throw it back.
Maybe not the best example.
No, but I mean,
it's not a terrible example.
If it lands at your feet,
it has not exploded.
You have a fifty fifty shot.
Pick it up and throw it.
What's the worst thing that could happen?
It's going to blow up regardless.
If you've never if you have children,
you have picked up and thrown your child
at some point,
whether it be onto a bed,
onto a onto a couch, into a pool.
somewhere and if not you if you have
nieces and nephews you have younger
brothers you have picked them up younger
sisters whatever and thrown them somewhere
i throw things all day
whatever the case may be.
So why not?
Why not have throwing in there at some
point?
I'm not saying it needs to be a
softball.
I think that would be hilarious just
because.
Yeah.
Like if I had my pick of what
to throw,
the GHD med ball toss would be.
That'd be pretty cool.
Number one.
Absolutely.
If you're going to throw your kid or
throw your niece or your nephew,
just don't post it on the internet because
everybody will throw hate online.
You know what?
Let them hate.
Because we've only been tossing our kids
in the air for a couple hundred years.
Maybe even thousands.
If you're going to throw your kids in
the air,
don't do it under a ceiling fan.
That's the only hard and fast rule that
I have.
Just saying.
Train says swim with Rescue Randy.
That's a...
let's not have a drowning thing yeah
that's a strong move that went to i
think what rescue randy weighed like a
hundred and eighty pounds right it was not
light only one man did i see actually
grab it by one arm and a coal
and make it his bitch yeah coal just
cold what coal is running with it
Everybody else,
I remember Ben Smith had it like,
had him underneath the arms and whatnot,
was trying to drag him backwards and then
fell over because he lost his balance.
Yeah.
Oh, Rescue.
Oh, of course, with Rescue,
Randy strapped to your back,
and if he drops, you're eliminated.
Damn, Winter.
Man, that's like American Gladiator rules.
This is why Winter is not programming for
the game.
Okay,
then I have athletes carry a firefighter
rescue mannequin up the hill at Dave's
Ranch.
That is functional.
Carry rescue Randy up the hill.
I'm okay with that.
So the sandbag sprint,
the sandbag hill sprint,
but with rescue Randy instead.
That would destroy some people.
That would be so bad, dude.
Three GHD tosses, one at the start,
one at fifty reps,
one at a hundred reps.
So make it a four time and a
distance.
So like your very first one,
sling that ball as far as you can,
keep going.
Get to fifty or forty-nine,
they hand you another ball.
As far as you can.
So a hundred GHDs for time and we're
throwing three med balls for total
distance.
Total distance.
Oh, um,
do you think they'll have monkey bars this
year?
Bring back the killer cage.
I'm okay.
I'm okay with that.
It's gotta be laying around somewhere.
It is somewhere.
Well,
rogue pulled about what to the last year
in, um, Austin.
Oh yeah.
So they've got him around somewhere.
And bring Josh Bridges out to demo how
to get across it because he was pretty
quick.
That video that says, Dave,
are you pulling from old workouts and
shows a lot of stuff that has been
announced so far and the video has monkey
bars.
I did see that.
That would be cool as well.
While we're at it,
bring the watt bike back.
Let's go.
I really like the dead hang for time.
How many hold on for more than two
minutes?
You must have both hands on the bar.
I don't hate that one as like a
quick...
thing i but i it's got to be
a setup where everybody's kind of facing
each other like a little dead hang in
the round like the first kit like the
first uh set of rings they had for
amanda for amanda everybody's like doing
ring muscle-ups looking at each other uh
it was different in austin it was
connected to zeus i know andrew that's
okay i'm saying they've got monkey bars
laying around
Yeah,
I don't give a shit how they connect
it, because I don't know what's with you.
Or what they call it.
Not at all.
But bring it out.
Yeah.
Let's slide down that big-ass hill that
they had out in Austin while we had
it, too.
So, like, you know,
yesterday I gave that radical thought of
the change in the games to make it
more consumable.
Please know that that's not my ideal thing
that I want to watch.
It's just what I think would be more
widely accepted for others.
Right.
This Games,
with all this stuff coming back,
has me so dang giddy.
I cannot wait to get to the Games.
It's going to be fun, dude.
It's going to be a good time.
And like I said earlier in the week,
I was like, meh.
Maybe it's better if I just cover it
from here.
Like now.
But now I'm like, no.
As soon as they announced biking was back,
Scott's like, well,
thank God I already got my tickets.
Yeah.
It has me jazzed up.
It truly does.
I actually got new stickers made.
New stickers.
Are they going to go with the shirts?
Have we figured out how people are going
to pay for them yet?
So I think I have it all lined
up.
I'll probably announce it Sunday night.
I still don't have the shirts.
So I don't want to get too far
ahead of myself until I have them in
my possession.
Right.
But yeah,
I have new stickers made too with the
Clydesdale playing the saxophone getting
jazzy.
Getting jazzy.
so i'll have those with me at the
games too beautiful thing uh watching a
competitor really does make a difference
in workouts i tried to keep up with
our class rx plus male and i'm sore
af today level says all day long all
day long
I think it was Pasley Craig that said
he wanted Murph.
Excited to see Murph.
I like the concept of Murph as a
workout and the concept of Murph as like
paying tribute to something.
To me,
it's not the most watchably fun event to
sit through for thirty five minutes.
No.
No, especially if there's it.
And I know there, you know,
we've gotten better at this since then,
but it's hard to tell where everybody's
at.
No matter what format,
no matter what format you put it in,
like, especially if, okay,
do your a hundred pull-ups,
then do you two hundred pushups?
That's a lot of reps.
So like somebody is up there and doing
sets of twenty five or thirty or whatever,
and they jump down and without something
to count them to say where everybody's at,
especially everybody butterfly like that's
going real quick.
It's easy to lose track.
Now,
if they're making their way across the
floor, you know, twenty, forty, sixty,
eighty,
a hundred got five bar set up and
OK,
you got to go to the next one
to your next twenty next one.
That could help.
But man.
So the unbroken version,
I think they – because you had to
do like so many pull-ups per bar and
keep moving forward.
I think it was twenty.
And then there was a grid on the
field and you kept moving forward for so
many of each.
I thought that was pretty good.
But when they broke it up the next
year and you could do however you wanted,
it got a little hard to figure out
where everybody was.
Yep.
Joey.
Joey.
Dead hang slash staring contest.
Cause you know, like Hopper, Pepper,
Sprague, Madaris,
they're when they're looking around to see
who's still there.
Absolutely.
Looking left and looking right.
Patty V.
Patty V has said it a couple of
times.
Something he does probably more than he
should is look around to see where
everybody else is.
Well,
you should as a competitor because you
don't win more points by winning by a
bigger margin.
No, not at all.
Right.
Not at all.
I don't have to go faster than –
I need to go faster than you.
That's it.
And we have Tony events coming at you,
and, you know,
like –
surviving the weekend in the best most
efficiently is the best way to go about
it yep short girl workouts can be exciting
because of the speed murph not so much
why are we talking about short girls uh
short girl workouts short comma girl
workouts uh mark phillips the events i
like most of the ones i can't just
go do an affiliate i would say that
that is partially true because i also like
the ones that i can go and actually
do
I'm not doing Atalanta at any given point
in time.
I'm just not.
It's too much.
But some of the other stuff like the
Friendly Friends of the World and the
Jackie Pro and stuff like that,
those are also kind of fun because I
can go do them and see how much
more ridiculous those guys are than I am
at any given point.
after i'm telling you the uh the marathon
row i know personally five different
people who went and did a marathon row
one of them just did it at his
house just to just just to see i'm
gonna go ahead and roll a marathon see
how long it takes me yeah we did
uh one christmas
We did not a marathon,
but probably a half on Christmas Day,
my family,
and we would just rotate in and out.
And that sucked.
Oh, yeah, a hundred percent.
It's monotonous.
It's as much a mental as it is
a physical test because I don't like
rowing as it is.
And you want me to go for how
long?
Three and a half, four hours?
That's a long time to row.
Dave was talking about it with Riley
Martin.
I forgot that Adrian Munweiler did that in
like two... Two something.
Two forty-eight.
Averaged a one, a high one forties.
Which is... Two, almost three hours.
Banana's crazy.
Banana, na-na-na-na-na-na's crazy.
I can't barely do that for two K,
much less... Forty-two K. Or however many,
I don't know, it's a lot of meters.
Yeah, thanks, Ed.
I did a half for fun once.
Didn't consider I would be blistering
between my fingers.
I did a five K on a row
once and blistered.
I've done that, not all the way through,
but my rowing intervals has added up to
five K before to where we've done,
I've done five thousand meters like in a
morning,
takes about forty five minutes or so,
something like that.
But that is a long time, dude.
With rest and whatnot,
that's getting up and each one you get
up from, you're like, oh, God,
I can barely stand and try to relax
yourself a little bit while my timer is
going to be able to get on to
the next row.
That's a lot, dude.
I did the first workout from last year
before the game started to see how I
stood compared to elite athletes.
Not too good.
Yeah.
It's amazing how that works.
Do you know why certain people win the
CrossFit games?
Because they do a half marathon row twice
a year.
Shano.
I say this with all the love that
I have in my heart.
That's dumb.
Love you to death.
But that's just silly.
There's no way.
There's no.
We have a rule, not a rule,
but it's something that me and Bernard's
been saying for years at the gym is
that I will happily do a marathon row
as soon as I make it to the
games and they program it there.
Everybody's doing it.
Cool.
Let's go.
And she does that and can't imagine doing
a whole one.
Yeah.
Well, I can imagine it for you.
Take the two halves that you do and
put them together and imagine doing it all
at once.
Okay.
So I had this brilliant idea one time
that I was going to run a marathon.
First of all, I'm a Clydesdale.
Even at my smallest,
I'm still a big dude.
Right.
Right.
I,
so I did like a bunch of five
Ks.
I went to some five milers and then
I said,
I'm going to go to a quarter marathon
and I was going to leak my way
up.
Right.
Sure.
I ran that quarter marathon.
I finished and said,
there is no way on God's earth that
I'm going longer than this.
Whoever does is out of their ever loving
mind.
So you did like a ten K.
yeah it's a little bit longer than a
ten k but sure like it's six five
quarter marathon six five six six
something like that where a ten k is
like six two six point two yep so
yeah it's it not that that's a huge
difference but when you're big like me and
oh no believe me you know the worst
the worst part of a five k is
it's not the three it's the point one
point one
Yeah.
A lot of,
I've heard people say the marathon,
the twenty six miles were fine.
It was the point to the point to
get you, which is the thing, dude,
when you get that,
when you get that close to the end
and you're like, I just gotta,
I just gotta finish.
And you're like,
you hit point two ordinarily is nothing.
You can sprint point two.
You get to that point two and you've
already done twenty six.
You're like that.
The half I did in Savannah.
that they told us was flat,
which FYI was not,
you made a turn right at,
it was like, so you had, you know,
point three miles left to go.
And you,
when you made a turn to make that
last little push, it was uphill.
And I was like, you have got,
this is not even this, this is,
this is wrong on every conceivable level.
And you make it all the way up
the hill.
And like, it was so slow going, dude,
it felt like I was running on in
sand on in mud under water,
like all of the things.
And you can make a little right turn
right there to go across the finish line.
It's probably the rest of the race was
fine.
That was probably the most miserable
experience I'd had.
I had run in quite some time.
So that quarter marathon ended at a
hospital.
I don't know if that was planned or
what,
but you'd run it and the last little
bit you come off the street and up
through where the ambulance would come in
and drop people off.
Naturally.
So we're running this thing and my wife
is in front of me the whole time
because she used to run all the time.
and and i could see her i just
couldn't catch her she just keeps this
steady pace where she never gets faster
she never gets slower she just keeps going
right we we go to make that turn
into the the driveway of the hospital and
mr rigamortis man it must have come down
and slapped my wife on the back literally
she's like two hundred yards from the
finish totally cramped up the worst
And so, like, me and my buddy,
we catch her and we pass her.
And after the race, she's yelling at me.
You couldn't let me have this one?
You couldn't let me win it?
Whoa, whoa.
You had it in the bag.
You had it in the bag.
All you had to do was finish the
last two hundred yards.
It's not my fault.
Yeah,
I've been trying to catch you for the
last however many miles it's been.
Six miles.
Six miles I've watched you from behind.
Yeah.
And you want to be mad at me
because you cramped up at the end?
Nah, bro.
We ain't doing that.
No, sir.
I ran a half an Indianapolis thirty five
years ago,
ended on the Indy five hundred racetrack
on hot black asphalt.
One lap around.
It was miserable.
I'd imagine.
The best race I've ever run and.
is uh it's a five miler it a
four miler it ends on the ohio state
football field you come down the tunnel
that the players come out of you go
up around the the other end zone and
you come back finish on the fifty yard
line yep we got one and they broadcast
it on the jumbotron
So much fun.
I hate the Buckeyes.
I hate everything about Ohio State.
But that run,
when you get to run down that tunnel
and out onto that football field,
it was like a jolt to finish.
Oh, yeah.
Unlike that one that ended at a hospital,
there was no jolt to get you to
the end.
the uh there's one like that lsu tiger
tenk and it's also got a one mile
fun run for the kids so we i
brought jameson this year and we did the
in the same thing just across the fifth
yard line and poor baby she's never run
a mile before right and she's eight okay
so we take off and she's all right
she's good and oh my legs hurt i
said they're gonna hurt you're gonna be
all right so you know we did that
a couple different times walk a little bit
come on baby let's go
So she's been to Tiger Stadium before.
We've been to football games.
She loves it.
As soon as we made the turn where
we could actually see the stadium,
her whole demeanor changed.
It was like, look,
all we got to do is run down
there.
We're going to make a right,
and we're going to go in the stadium.
And all of a sudden, nothing hurt anymore.
And then right when we made the turn,
she kind of yanked a little bit,
and she saw inside and was like, oh,
we really are running into Tiger Stadium.
And I was like, oh, yeah, I know.
And I had to catch her because she
just took off in a dead sprint.
Like,
we're going to get across the finish line.
And it was cool.
Same thing.
Like,
they're calling your name as you come in
because, you know,
they got your little tag on you so
they know who you are and whatnot.
It was pretty awesome.
But it was fun for her because I
was like,
look at where you are right now.
And she's like, daddy.
football players play down here and i was
like i know that's cool that's a cool
experience yeah that was awesome one of
those one of those things that you you
got to love to do with your kid
yeah it was pretty fun it's pretty awesome
um core memory right there so one of
the other things i want to talk about
it looks like the leaderboard's done oh
there has not been much movement in the
last couple days
Yeah, it's usually a pretty good time.
People are announcing on their Instagrams
that all their videos have been accepted.
Doesn't look like we're going to see much
movement at the top.
Look,
Xanojun has put out a video about Colton
Mertens.
They have.
So it looks like Pat Vellner is going
to get to go one last time.
He is one point ahead of Ari Lightfoot.
Oh, wow.
Ari made it all the way up to...
One point behind Vellner.
Damn.
Yep.
But looks like... Harry Lightfoot.
Looks like Vellner's going to get to go
one last time.
I'm excited for him.
Yeah.
I mean,
that's what he wanted to do was go.
He wanted one last shot, so... Um...
Kate Curry,
I saw the additional sanctions for judging
misrepresentations.
Did Claudia Gluck get in trouble or no?
It was not Claudia Gluck that had the
misrepresentation.
It was Jess Green.
It was Jess Green.
She made a big post about it,
like a whole thing.
She actually brought up some good points
about...
She said she notified CrossFit as it was
happening.
Right.
So I think if she did that...
That probably exempts her from the
sanctions.
I would think so.
She said as soon as she realized what
was happening,
she went out and tried to get ahead
of it.
Now, that's her side of the story.
We don't have CrossFits.
But as she described it,
the minute she knew that her judge didn't
have the qualifications, she notified HQ.
Yep.
She'd make a decent point about, okay,
yeah,
I'm sorry my judge didn't have his
qualifications and whatnot.
Still submitted her videos.
They got rejected, whatever,
because the rules are the rules.
I get that.
I did understand,
even though it's outside of the rules,
her point about,
here's my actual videos showing the actual
work that y'all are going to look at
anyway.
I get that, but at the same time,
your judges weren't
Your judge wasn't accredited like they
were supposed to be.
Correct.
I can argue the validity and how stupid
rules are.
Right.
But they're the rules.
But you still have to follow them.
Yeah.
They're still the rules.
I get what you're saying.
If you're going to compete in the season,
you have to follow the rules as written.
Yeah.
Everybody's subject to the same thing.
now hopefully for her sake it is as
she stated she did contact hq before
submitting right and and that exempts her
from getting a a sanction the other one
i read about on on the spin the
the judge the person who misrepresented
the judge the person who they were
supposed to be representing the affiliate
owner who apparently knew about it and the
athlete all got sanctions
Yeah.
I was like, wow.
I think that's pretty much the
consistent... If, in fact,
there's misrepresentation, the athlete,
the floor judge,
and the head judge all get sanctioned.
Yeah.
Yes, Joseph.
It is on her...
It is on her to verify.
She said they verified it verbally.
Right.
We have learned through last year at
Mayhem that verbal verification is not
good enough.
It's not good enough,
ladies and gentlemen.
If you are trying to qualify for the
games,
here is Clydesdale's top tip of the week.
Go online.
Do your homework.
Vet these people before you let them judge
you.
Period.
End of story.
If you want to avoid it altogether,
qualify for an in-person and go get judged
live and in person.
Can't go wrong like that.
However,
if online is your only resort or your
best resort, cool.
Take it upon yourself to go vet whoever
it is.
Have it set up in advance long enough
to where you can go and vet them.
Yes, Joseph Ramirez.
Verbally,
I can tell you I'm five foot eleven.
And I've met Joseph Ramirez and I can
verify that is not the case.
David Johnston still thinks I'm six feet
tall and he's met me in person.
True.
Which has nothing to do with what we
were just talking about.
I just thought it was funny.
Kate, you're one hundred percent correct.
If you're not verifying online before your
event, you start the events,
you're setting yourself up for failure,
unneeded stress.
Don't trust somebody who just tells you
something when it comes to something like
that,
if you are trying to achieve a goal,
an end goal, a result and just going,
oh, yeah, no, I got everything I need.
Oh, yeah, cool.
No,
they said they had everything they needed.
You're asking for trouble.
Eric Mackey, the only Packers fan I like,
think CrossFit will change that judgment
requirement next year since they are
irrelevant due to video review.
I think the season's going to be a
massive change.
I think it has to be economically,
and it has to make sense.
And so I think we are in for
a massive change next year,
just from stuff I've heard Bruce say
already.
I'm super curious to see how it's going
to lay out,
especially considering next year is the
year I'm pushing to actually make the
games to see how it's going to end
from the stuff we heard from this year.
Because I'm pretty sure Kate had talked to
Boz as well while we were over there
and him saying that they were going back
and Magic City was going to be another
in-person for Masters next year and
whatnot.
So how much of that is
was wishful thinking at this point because
it's going to be changed.
If there's going to be changes,
how much is going to look like,
how drastic it's going to be one way
or the other,
if they're just going to completely just
hand it off to whoever,
whether it be Joe and Bob,
whether it be Micah,
whether it be whatever.
I'm super curious to see how that's
actually going to lay out.
Almost apprehensive, I would say,
because I want to be a games athlete
and I can't be a games athlete if
there's no games.
It would be very difficult to do.
I think if you talk to Boz at
Magic City, Bruce had not been hired yet.
That's what I'm saying.
So your idea of what next year was
going to be at that point probably is
not the same as what it is today.
That's exactly my point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm actually not a Packers fan.
See,
that's probably why I like you're the only
Packers fan I like because you're not
actually a Packers fan.
Which I need to call Eric this weekend.
So we'll set that up.
I'll text to Eric.
Avera, I hate to harp on your point,
Corey,
but why in the hell do you need
two judges and a video?
Please make it make sense.
Brother, I do not know.
We have been talking about that since they
implemented it.
If I am submitting a video to be
reviewed,
why do I need two judges in person
to
watching me, judging me,
one to be in charge of everything,
and one to be actually judging me,
it seems like overkill.
It's a lot.
You're asking for two people to have their
L-Ones, have their very least their L-One,
have their judging certificate,
whether it be the advanced judge's course
or the judge's course.
And to give up their entire weekend,
more than likely,
to have everything in there.
No,
it is not a KL Lehmann rule because
it was in place before KL Lehmann was
a thing.
Correct.
Well, my question is,
even if there was no video review,
what does the head judge actually do?
I'm going to tell you what mine did.
Nothing.
Nothing.
He stood there and acted silly as I
was introducing them because that's what
they had to do because that's who they
were.
They were doing push-ups at one point
while I was introducing them.
And then either Bernard or Jeff was
actually judging me.
They were doing bicep curls in the
background at one point while I was
introducing them.
That's what they did.
Yeah, I mean,
every elite athlete I've talked to says
their head judge is there because they
have to be there.
They have to be there.
But they don't do anything.
Yeah.
So at that point, you're like,
why do we even have them?
No.
It's like you're cut and you put a
Band-Aid on it because you need to have
a Band-Aid so the blood doesn't come out.
But we're requiring you to put three more
on.
A hundred percent.
And what do those three more do?
Absolutely nothing.
If you have kids and you've ever seen
the emperor's new groove, he has a lever,
one of them that goes down at the
supposed to go to their lair.
And the other one goes down to where
the alligators are and then come back.
They pull the wrong one at one point.
Like, why do we even have that lever?
It makes no sense whatsoever.
Head judge equals good for the intro and
a hug when you're finished.
Yeah.
I got daps every single time.
Hey, man, good job.
But do you need certification for the hug?
No.
Because I am certified as an amazing
hugger.
Here's a fun fact is that those are
two of my best friends in the entire
world.
I hug them all the time.
Like,
they didn't have to get a judge's course
at all for that.
It's not certified.
They didn't need to be certified for that.
They are.
The head judge thing is mind-blowing to
me.
I don't get it.
Peter Benoit,
I guess the head judge is supposed to
be quality control,
ensuring non-fake bumpers and non-doctored
measuring tape, I guess.
But your floor judge has the same
credentials and should have the same moral
integrity.
Here's my problem.
You know how much trouble it is?
I wouldn't even know where to find a
fake bumper plate.
None at all.
I have no idea.
wouldn't know how to doctor a measuring
tape.
Because here's the thing,
I got one at my house and I
got one at the gym.
The one at my house is for stuff
at the house.
The one at the gym,
I actually brought from my house to use
at the gym.
And I'm not about to doctor it because
I might need it for something to actually
measure something.
See, I completely agree.
If they're a good judge,
they give you the opportunity, correct?
a bad or missed rep without a redo.
Yeah.
But do you need two of them?
I don't need.
Yeah.
What are you going to argue over it
in the middle of my workout?
Scott,
is there a chance in hell the bears
will actually ever play in Indiana?
Seems like a game of chicken.
I think you've said it best.
I think that the bears do not want
to go to Indiana,
but it may be their only option.
And right now they are playing a massive
game of chicken to see who,
who's who steers out of the way first.
But I think like Kevin Warren has his
shoelace tied to the tractor gas and can't
get off.
Oh, where's the, where's the,
you're trying to pull up okay i am
no not that one guys on it where's
that there it is joseph next year we
need a judge head judge phone judge clock
judge floyd marshall and the rental
property manager and a um an ai and
graphics expert to analyze the video after
it's done send them along with the video
give me give me their contact information
with the video
Joseph's not wrong.
That's how silly it is to me to
just have,
we need to have two people there.
And I get Mark saying,
Boz implied at one point,
it's hard to have three people conspire to
cheat than it is one or two.
And you're probably not wrong as far as
that goes.
And look,
people are getting caught cheating on a
regular basis.
Yeah, because gangs don't exist.
Thank you.
That's what I was about to get at.
But that's like saying that the Bloods and
the Crips are really solid organizations
because how could a group with that many
people possibly be doing something
nefarious?
If you've got enough people there that
want to see you succeed at any cost,
they are going to do whatever you want
to do.
Because especially Jeff...
uh he does tactical games but he doesn't
compete in crossfit anymore he can't he
can barely go overhead like his shoulder
mobility is is is dusted right so he
does tactical game stuff so if he gets
a two-year ban for cheating for me because
he said that the my forty-fives were
forty-fives and they were actually
thirty-fives it's no sweat off his back he
wasn't gonna compete anyway
So I'll do you one better though.
There's a hundred and one members of the
Senate and they do everything on the up
and up.
Exactly.
Just saying.
Exactly.
So there's a four hundred thirty five
people that make laws in this country and
they are always just have your best
interest at heart the entire time.
Yep.
That is the response to this.
yeah it's less likely for six people to
have lied now i do get that like
concept that the more people involved the
the the more likely somebody's going to
report the yeah somebody's conscious
somebody's conscious will get rubbed on
you know one way or another if there's
enough people in it and somebody sees
something and realizes oh wait that's not
right
hundred percent i get we have a hundred
one people in the senate and they don't
even like each other and they do wrong
all the time daily daily so there's that
uh xenon is this weekend it is i
know people that are going can't stream it
but
I'm hoping we get a lot of internet
peeks at what's going on through Instagram
or YouTube or different things like that.
And I'm excited.
I want to see what it looks like.
I want to see what they pull off.
I want to see if this is something
that is sustainable.
they've got funding they've got good
athletes they've got a neat concept is it
something that could eventually be
viewable is it something that is
sustainable
My buddy Chris Real,
that is going to the games,
is competing this weekend.
Garrett DiBetta is competing this weekend.
Sammy Pugh is competing.
So I know people that's going.
Personally, that's going.
So I should be able to get a
pretty good report back of how it is.
And they're not going to blow smoke up
my ass.
They're not going to be like, oh,
it was fantastic,
and it was shit the entire time.
Jason Bourne's going to be there.
One of my photographers, Joe Valens,
is going to be there.
Joey!
So yeah,
we should definitely get some feedback on
what it's like.
I'm excited, dude.
I kind of want to see.
If I could have made it,
I would have went.
It looks like fun.
Yeah, I would have loved to.
If I had the disposable income and the
vacation time,
I would have went down to check out.
If I already wouldn't have been committed,
I mean, I'm going to Monster Games,
and that's a flight and a place to
stay and all that other good stuff.
And it's at the end of next month.
Then, yeah, I definitely would have gone.
But time constraints and money and all
that other good stuff being what it is.
Vera, WFP has good funding, good athletes,
good coverage.
Do you think it will survive?
Yeah.
Well, first of all, before it launched,
I was a supporter of the WFP.
I thought that if they did it well
and did it right, it could survive.
Not just survive, but thrive.
I haven't made my schmear alert yet.
But then they threw all of that in
the garbage by just trying to rehash
everything that's been done before.
And
not even do it at a level that
made sense.
So I do think they've made adjustments.
I do think they've put the right person
in as president.
And I'd still say their chances of
survival are.
I would put it higher going in as
something that would have been cool and
different.
Yeah.
But then they let me down on all
that.
So now I'm down to like,
and I do have faith in Jason Ainsley.
A hundred percent.
I was going to say that,
but let's see how this year of their
stuff goes out before I make any kind
of, you know,
proclamations or whatever you want to call
it.
I'm going to Indianapolis.
I'm going to,
I'm going to go see it firsthand.
Are you on incognito?
No.
Well, I don't have it in writing,
but in our chat,
Patrick Clark said I was approved for
media credentials.
Oh, all right.
So I am going to go check it
out.
Again, I don't have that in writing.
Still waiting on that.
Here to smear.
Clydesdale Media, here to smear.
um really hope they put out post videos
of final heats and not just some reels
i just want to get a sense of
what it's like and we do have some
people there that i can i will get
direct feedback of yeah here's the thing i
don't know
Because you're competing for points,
right?
It's not necessarily head-to-head with
people.
You're just trying to accumulate as many
points.
So I don't know about final heats.
I don't know because it doesn't really
matter when you go necessarily.
You're just going for points.
So you're going for a max effort pretty
much every time.
And there's only like two hours in between
events or an hour in between events,
something like that.
So it ought to go pretty quick.
So I don't... I mean, they put out...
I would say they put out...
I don't want to say...
full videos of a heat but like put
out some reels of notable people that are
there you know notable performances that
happen right right right people like
colton people like uh what's her face
isn't abby going dome it
yeah yeah um stuff like that i would
love to see that that would be pretty
cool um and who knows i'm super curious
i'm in uh my wife's out of town
this weekend so i'll be able to actually
watch like look out for stuff like that
uh that kind of content and actually be
able to uh be able to check it
out without her going what are we watching
yep uh um
Someone asked, here it is.
Think IndyWFP will get more high-level
qualifiers?
I don't think they should.
I think they need to right-size into
giving those people the opportunity that
are just on the outside looking in during
the CrossFit Games season.
Let them earn some money.
Let them pay for their season.
Let them be able to fund their attempt
at finally making the CrossFit Games.
getting some good on the floor competition
against, against people who are there.
I cannot express how valuable that is to
get that kind of floor experience to see,
you know, for pace and whatnot.
It's one thing to do local cops that
are around and whatnot.
And maybe you get some good, you know,
people that show up,
people are good to your area or whatnot,
but WFP is going to have,
or should have in my,
I would say both of our opinion,
A lot of those people who are just
on the outside looking in,
it's an easy way to make some money,
to get out there and get good experience
against the same caliber of athlete that
you are.
I like it for that, for sure.
Seema,
my brain doesn't have the space to follow
another league.
I can barely understand this CrossFit
season.
I'm with you.
I love college football.
I love the NFL.
I can't watch the UFL.
Like I'm over it by then.
Is it, that's a, is it,
is it still United football league?
It's a combination of the USFL and the
XFL.
So it's like pro pro wrestling and
football.
It's just a minor league football system
for people to try to make it to
the game.
I don't watch minor league baseball.
I don't watch minor league,
like the D league basketball.
We don't give a damn about any of
that.
The only kind of lower league stuff I
will watch because it's not that much
different quality and it has something to
do.
And it's,
this is me being a very niche thing
is,
is like the championship soccer league.
in england because they'll sometimes those
games will be on and you might be
able to see somebody's going to be in
the premier league next year that's it but
like all those lower league you know
whatever you just said ufl i'm not
watching any of that dude that's if i
want to watch lower league football lower
league football i'll watch college
football uh ufl games are fun to go
to it's like mixing nfl with college and
high school scrub football um i think it'd
be fine to go to in person we
have a team here in columbus
I just can't watch it on TV.
I'm with Ramir.
Going to a game,
there's a I guess you would call it
a semi-pro soccer team in New Orleans.
We've been to the Jesters several
different times and those games are fun as
shit to go to.
Because it's just
It's small.
It's, I say smaller, you know,
smaller crowd, but they're loud.
They're enthusiastic.
They're getting behind their team and
whatnot.
And it's good,
high quality stuff to watch.
I'd imagine if there was a UFL game
around here,
like if we had a team in New
Orleans or team in Baton Rouge or
something like that,
I'd probably go check that out at some
point.
It would be cheaper to get into and
easier to get into an LSU game.
That is for damn sure.
And way cheap.
Like,
we go to the Columbus Clippers AAA team
for the Cleveland Guardians.
It's fun to go to.
It's a fun.
And it's way cheaper than going to the
Major League Baseball game.
And they do more to, like,
entertain the crowd between innings.
Oh, yeah.
It's more of a,
there's a lot more spectacle going on.
There's a lot more, like you said,
just it's more entertaining because they
have to be.
Right.
Right.
To be more engaging,
to get people to come, hey,
we're throwing t-shirts out in between
every inning and whatnot and giving away
this and giving away that and doing
whatever they can because they want to get
butts in the seats.
Whereas people going to an actual MLB game
are going because it's an MLB game.
I will say this.
We saw the Seattle Mariners last year.
The day we got off of the cruise
ship,
the day after we got off the cruise
ship, whatever it was,
and they did a lot.
They did a lot at that professional game
as well.
That was actually pretty fun.
That was the first professional game I'd
been to in God only knows how long.
But, yeah, like Joe was saying,
you can go because you can get sideline
seats for twenty-eight bucks.
Yep.
Just to move on, Peter Benoit asks,
what's the heart of AmericaComp?
Same weekend place as WFP.
WFP is partnering with other local comps
that have grown into bigger comps.
The heart of AmericaComp is one of the
biggest competitions in the Midwest.
It was in Missouri for years.
They've moved it to Indianapolis in a
partnership with WFP.
And the simplest way I can put it,
and I think it's actually a pretty
brilliant idea by them,
is if you can't build the community,
buy the community.
And so by bringing this local comp in,
they have a full local comp with all
of those athletes coming and their
families, in addition to the WFP crowd,
to hopefully build up the crowd more like
a Wadapalooza.
you can,
it's a brilliant idea if you can pull
it off, right?
Right.
This crowd's already here.
Cool.
We're going to be there as well.
They're doing the same thing at monster
games.
I actually got an email yesterday or day
before from the people from the monster
games, people saying that if I wanted to,
I had a free invitation to heart of
America.
So that's,
Thank you for being a part of Monster
Games every year.
Athletes from across the country, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
As a thank you,
we are offering an exclusive opportunity
to all Monster Games participants.
Free entry to Heart of America.
Join us August twenty through thirty at
Grand Sports Campus in Westfield, Indiana.
Just for being over there,
and I'm sure they're doing that or able
to do that because of the WFP thing
that they're partnering with and throwing
money at them.
That's pretty cool.
Riley says the current fitness competition
model is stale to me.
Some post-produced miniseries or some
other kind of spectacle would be nice.
Tune in to go back and watch yesterday's
show.
I had a radical plan to do just
that.
Everybody hated it except for me.
But regardless,
I think it would bring in other people
that don't normally watch the stuff.
I will agree with Vera.
I don't agree with a whole lot there,
my brother,
but not sure how the Granite Games died,
but they need to come back.
I love the Granite Games.
The Granite Games was fun.
It was fun to watch.
It was fun to watch.
I didn't get to go, obviously,
but it was one of the ones I
got to see because it was broadcast,
and it was pretty cool to watch.
That's the first time I ever saw Colton
Mertens,
and that's when he still had the mullet
that people probably at this point do not
realize he used to have.
As long as it's not J.Y.
's draft idea, I may be in.
It is not J.Y.
's draft idea.
Drafts are stupid.
I didn't even know J.Y.
had a draft idea, but that's unsurprising.
Yeah, it's not.
I'm just like,
are you shaking your head like, no.
It's not.
Terry says, yes,
you need time away from the sport to
actually miss it.
I agree.
I agree.
We had the talk earlier this week about
with all these semifinals doing all these,
this variety of events,
you don't miss any of the movements or
the events when you go to the CrossFit
games,
because everybody's had their hand in the
cookie jar.
Yep.
Back in the day,
there were six events people got to see.
And those same six events were done at
eighteen different locations.
But they were the same six events.
So when the games came,
you wanted to see a thruster or you
wanted to see a ring muscle up because
you didn't get to see it earlier in
the year.
When you had an idea where it was
going, what was coming anyway,
because we already did this, this,
this and this,
we're probably not going to do it again.
Yeah.
And there's very little offseason now.
Games are going to be at the end
of next month.
There's going to be a short break.
Then it's going to be Rogue.
Then it's going to be a short break.
And then basically you got from Rogue
until January,
and then we're going to start talking
about the Open again.
Plus whatever changes are going to be made
that Bruce is going to start talking about
probably after the games is going to be
out there.
So I have two videos to close this
out today.
Just so we can leave on some levity.
Love it.
Can I just tell you,
I love Sophie Cunningham.
Dude.
yes i'm glad this meme has taken over
the world i sent it to my wife
earlier this is the meme this is the
meme right this is the meme and and
i know she's kind of the enforcer of
um the indiana fever and and so she's
she's doing that like she got a tech
for that my first interpretation was
want me i'm right here i'm right here
then i saw this which is a full
on version of the thing right so the
other team is pointing at her yeah she's
pointing back oh yeah i absolutely adore
that woman
Yes.
She backs down from nobody.
She ain't scared, dude.
Unafraid.
I love it.
Unafraid.
And she's not like what you would picture
as an enforcer.
No.
But she backs down from nobody.
No.
From what I read,
she refused to quit the point.
And that's why she ended up getting a
technical because she just kept
And you know what?
She don't care.
No.
You can get one.
That's not a big deal.
Just can't get two.
The last thing I want to show you
is we announced it a couple weeks ago
on the Sunday show.
Carolyn is starting a new program called
Plyo by Prevo.
Do you know who needs to be the
first person to sign up?
Miley Wade.
Oh.
Do you want to see why?
By all means.
So let's check this out one more time.
We good.
We good.
We good.
Not good.
So we need to direct message Miley Wade
and tell her you need to sign up
for Plyo by Prevo.
Carolyn can help you out.
She'll get you over that second to last
hurdle and the last one.
So close.
Just right there.
Just right there.
It's like right there.
Right there.
Right there.
That's fantastic.
But what's funny is like Carolyn has been
a big believer in this like for a
long time.
Sure.
Like she doesn't just talk about it.
She lives it.
And I have seen so many people working
on the plyometrics and their athletics
over the past couple past week or so
that are games athletes going to the
games.
And you know they're waiting for the
sprints.
They're waiting for the hurdles.
They're waiting for those things that are
going to be coming at them that we
haven't seen in years.
And that has me giddy too.
That is anticipation right there,
as they should be.
As they should be,
because those things are coming.
I saw the Pancheck brothers doing suicide
sprints.
Like you're, I've seen a lot of hurdles.
I've seen a lot of people working on
plyo that they have not been working on.
I've not seen for a long time.
Cause look, Tony events, dude,
like that's a full deck of cards that
they're sitting there holding on to.
And okay.
Yeah.
The pig's going to be back and then
that's it.
Right.
Hey, the snail also making the comeback,
but I'm not telling you how.
right hey bikes bikes and that's it like
we're gonna ride a bike pool pool yeah
you don't even know if you're gonna swim
you may paddleboard across that pool don't
matter skim board look throw it out and
jump on it get all the way across
i love it yeah i love avera always
coming in with the blunt
Yeah,
have elite athletes work on plyometrics.
CrossFit will force them to step down from
boxes.
We had thirty inch box jumps.
I coached thirty inch box jumps Wednesday
morning and one dude that was like
finishing up right at the time cap and
like he had
He's like, man, this is so step down.
I was like,
you don't have to step down.
You can jump down while we're here.
I said, but while we're talking about it,
yeah,
they said I'm five foot six with a
twenty nine inch inseam.
And they made me step down off of
this thirty inch box three years ago for
semifinals.
So.
I understand it's silly.
Let's be honest for you and Joseph
Ramirez.
It's not a step down.
It's a climb down.
I had to, so it was just jumps.
It wouldn't even jump over is where I
could like pivot and just step down all
the other side.
So it was like, jump,
stand all the way up, bend back down,
reach my leg back down to get off,
reached in and kind of pivot.
Dude, it was so bad.
It was so bad.
I'm stepping down cause I need the rest.
Yeah.
I love that.
Oh, no,
I'm just going to go ahead and step,
man.
I'm tired.
That's fantastic.
We saw Miley Biffett.
So as requested in the chat,
let's see someone.
This dude here.
And he didn't make the games again.
He's so close, dude.
you know what though everybody's pulling
for him he's such a i mean he
comes off as such a good kid like
yeah you know what that reminds me of
is little lucas parker ah i missed some
lucas parker
that uh that video him doing the hang
power cleans with his beard down to like
right here and like the barbell is just
missing it every single time it was uh
oh gosh darn it the voice of the
crossfit games saying uh rumor has it that
he actually uses that barbell to trim his
beard
showing and he was just he's doing that
and like it's his beard stopped and the
barbell was hitting right where the beard
stops roommate has to use that barbell to
clean to to actually trim his beard the
only problem with lucas parker is he
extended the game's time by about an hour
every day because of his setup for every
lift tap tap fantastic dude
Nate Ackerman is young and a beast.
He'll make it soon.
I hope so, man.
He's got plenty of time, dude.
I understand his frustration.
I get it,
being so close and not being able to
make it.
It can be taxing on the old noggin
there, but I think he'll be all right.
He's got plenty of time.
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