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what is going on everybody I
hope everybody's jazzed
because we've got a bonus
day of some cajun coverage
my man corey in the house
um yeah I I didn't really
have anything on the agenda
for today and I thought why
not make it a cool
conversation and then some
things popped up so we'll
talk about the things that
popped up since I first
since you and I were
texting this morning and uh
And yeah, all of that stuff.
It's been a crazy week.
I don't know.
I'm still coming down off
the adrenaline rush or the
beginning of the week and
all that kind of stuff.
So,
but we got a ton of people in the chat
already.
We got,
we got trained all of our favorite.
We've got, we've got Jay Birch.
We've got Shanna.
We've got Lido.
We've got Bako.
We've got Sten.
All the people.
Jody Lynn.
She must not have to be
selling cabinets right now.
She's probably going to
measure somebody if I had
to make a guess.
David Johnston.
Dude, that guy is ripped, man.
Have you ever met him?
I have not.
I think he was at Legends last year,
same time I was,
but clearly we were not in the same heat.
Yeah,
podium finisher at the CrossFit Games
age group this year.
What a stud, man.
but no I went and after I
realized who he was last
week I went and looked and
I was like oh shit okay
yeah we're on the podium he
said you saw that and I was
like yeah I noticed I
noticed when I looked at
his Instagram that dude's
huge Jesus Christ oh shucks
well he even spelled a
Cajun for you I mean we do
like to add in unnecessary letters
Winter, Trent Olive, Scoot,
the latest video about
Masters Athlete Wise was fantastic.
One thousand percent agreed.
Watched it this morning.
Even though most of those
people are not that blurry in person,
the content,
the subject matter was
absolutely outstanding.
So...
Corey has been rubbing the
salt in the wound all morning long.
I have a clip I'm going to
share with you guys,
but it's something I'm really proud of.
It was, you know, the media access for the,
the age group CrossFit
games got out of whack this year.
I had to pivot on the fly.
I came up with this thought
and concept of like,
You know,
everybody hears about how the
events are going and
nobody's going to care in
three weeks how event two
at the CrossFit Games went.
Right.
So why don't I have like
some deeper conversations
and then clip them all
together in a way that tells a story?
And so the first episode was,
what is your why?
Why?
Because all of these Masters
athletes have other jobs.
They...
They do all of that.
And so why not capture that?
And then it's going to mean
more at the end.
And when it came down to it,
it got me so fired up.
Like it got me fired up to
find out what refined my
why let's get back to business.
Let's get back to this thing.
And we all have them.
We all have that.
You and I talked about it yesterday.
Like I want to be able to do
a burpee at seventy five.
I don't want to fall and
can't get up like the
commercial said in the nineties.
Right.
Like those things I want to happen.
And,
and so I think the best demonstration
of it was the last interview of the, this,
it really wasn't the last, but the one,
the one I put last from the, the film.
And so I'm going to go ahead
and play that.
Cause I think it came across well,
and it's not about his why
it's about what he says
with his why at the end.
So.
this is joel hughes at one
time he was ariel lowen's
training partner um so he's
out of midland texas um
he's just a stand-up dude
he's won the crossfit games
before in his age group uh
he's podiumed a couple
times uh but here it is
what a good question I'm
gonna freak out a lot of
people probably but
My why for everything in
life is I believe that I am
on this planet to make God look good.
That's my purpose in life.
And the way I make God look
good is he gave me these abilities.
And I'm not going to waste them.
And so I come out here,
and I hope to influence people.
I make my family happy.
I make people back home happy.
As a master,
you know this isn't about the money.
We don't want sponsorships,
don't care about that crap.
I just want to have fun.
And so my purpose is to
hopefully influence people.
I'm a big believer in
CrossFit and what Greg Glassman started.
it works from you look at
the crossfit pyramid that
works nutrition metabolic
conditioning all that good
stuff is where it's at and
uh I hope that people will
uh jump in with it and uh
join an affiliate somewhere
I think that's the best
thing to do so that's why I
added this in my local affiliate
Um,
and it was fantastic the way he said
that in his own way.
And I love that you get to
hear it in their words.
Yeah.
How awesome is that dude?
Like all of it, his entire,
his entire response from the back.
Like I want to make God look good.
And I want,
and I want you to go find an affiliate.
He's easy, simple, not a whole lot of.
You know, hey, I can, so I will.
It's basically what he said.
I can do these things.
I will do these things.
It's not about being a religious person.
It's about that was his why.
And through this whole thing, everybody,
there are so many different whys.
And it doesn't matter what that why.
Corey's why doesn't matter
to me because it's not my why.
But it tells me that I
should have a why and that
I should be convicted to my why.
Right?
And that's what the beauty of this is.
And then it was to say,
go find an affiliate.
Go step in a gym and let
them help you find your why.
How awesome is that?
I...
Look at this.
Jeff Baco.
I'm headed to my local
affiliate this week to begin the process.
Bam.
That's what we're talking about.
That is what we're talking about.
So back on the blurry before
I let you come at me some
more about this thing.
Things got messed up at the
age group games with my media access.
I never got the right
wristband to get into a
room to have a quiet place.
I had to do these interviews
in the hallway of the convention center.
Now there was a big long
bench down the one wall.
So we just sat on that bench
and that's where I talked to everybody.
Cause if you went in where the floors were,
the echo and the, as loud as it was,
I wouldn't have got any
quality audio at all.
Not out in the hallway where
it was carpeted, a little muted,
at least somewhat, but still not quiet.
And then I had to live out of my backpack.
So I was taking my camera
and like shoving it in my backpack,
pulling it out of my backpack,
shoving it in, pulling it out.
And at some point on
Saturday was that process
flipped the focus from auto
focus to manual focus.
And I did not notice because I,
as I said before, um,
didn't I didn't wear my
glasses because of the
lighting there and so I
couldn't see in the
viewfinder that it was out
of focus and everything was
out of focus and I will
make sure that I check that
button now before I do any
interview for the rest of
my life but it didn't
diminish like that last one
was blurry but it doesn't
diminish the the message
You can still see who the people were.
It's not like it was me
without my contacts.
Cause all you, everybody is just a big,
like literally a blur.
I can't tell.
I can't even distinguish
faces without my contacts.
And if you're not right here at my face.
Um, but yeah,
and I'm just picking on you
because it was just, Jamie came up,
Jamie was clear.
And then the next person who
I think was Megan.
was like, I mean, poor thing.
She was blurry.
And there's somebody I know.
So I immediately messaged
her and I was like,
I didn't know you were that
blurry in real life.
That's amazing.
And she was like, I'm not.
I said, all right, cool.
Um, but she was very,
very complimentary and, uh,
you know,
thanking you for everything that
you do for our community,
the masters in general.
And I mean, it was just fantastic.
It really, really was.
Yeah.
A couple of people were blurry, whatever,
but the message that you
got out and the video
itself is fantastic.
You know,
letting those people express
themselves as to why
they're actually there,
because as a boy just said,
we ain't getting paid, dude.
Yeah.
We ain't getting paid the top level.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
They're getting something, but even them,
like even Jason Grove is not, you know,
for winning is not getting
anywhere near what the individuals get in,
whatever.
It's fine.
It's not a big deal.
It's not why he does it either.
I'm sure.
posted just left class love
my affiliate yeah
affiliates are great places
man that they love on you
no matter what you look
like no matter what you're
coming in with no matter
what baggage you have you
walk into the affiliate and
they love on you as long as
your dog doesn't bite
you're good to go you don't
leave notes on on machines
that nobody else is allowed
to use them yeah
Oh, that's good.
He's got a class at the
affiliate of five thirty.
And the best part about the
blurry stuff is most of the
Masters athletes think it's
just them anyway.
I'm sure nobody would have said anything.
Nobody mean me.
I just got away with it.
I got to go to the doctor,
get my prescription checked.
This is terrible.
We're trying to get the
Pentagon affiliated again.
real pentagon like the big
guy in dc they um if you
saw the video and he'll do
a video on it of the uh
whatever it is I leave my
cat at home she does bites
of the uh the physical
fitness challenge whatever
it was uh with the pull-ups
and uh push-ups or whatever yeah um
that's in the basement of
the Pentagon and they got
like a full robe rig set up.
Like it looked really super nice.
So I'd imagine that's
probably exactly what he's talking about.
Well, thank you, Frida.
Not being perfect just makes
it more human and real.
I told you, if I didn't know any better,
I'd be like,
it looks like a creative choice.
You know what?
Go ahead and get a little out of focus.
I beat myself up for hours.
I can't imagine, dude.
I can't imagine.
Oh, by the way,
I did text Rudy and Lynette this morning.
I said,
I think it's kind of messed up that
Scott gets an invite to the
gym and I don't.
Going to the gym and I don't.
I said,
it's not like I live twelve hours away.
I mean, what the hell?
I'm heading there tonight.
I'm excited because they bought a barn.
They actually bought a house
to get the barn to convert
it into a workout space to
create their own community
of Masters athletes and training camps.
So we're going to go to that barn.
We're going to walk through it.
And Rudy Berger was the
forty to forty four year
old champion this year.
This is his third time
winning the championship.
So we're going to walk through the barn,
what they're doing, why they're doing it.
Their son's going to be there.
Their daughter has a cross-country meet.
But the whole family works out together,
and that's what I want to capture.
I want to capture that whole vibe.
We're not going to talk about the games.
We're going to talk about what they do,
why they do things.
Those kids are awesome.
They are.
And if they beat you in a workout,
they will let you know about it.
I can tell you that from
firsthand experience at Southland camp.
And you should have no shame
in it because they are
incredible athletes.
They are stupid fit.
It's incredible.
Yeah.
Um, and I've been, you know,
I've been hanging with them for, uh,
since right after the first championship,
we got to know each other pretty well.
And, um,
Mason has gone from three foot one
to six foot six and not really,
but not really, but he's big.
He's way bigger than the
first time I met him.
That's for sure.
And that's, that was about four years ago.
So, um,
And he came up to me at the games,
shook my hand,
and had an adult conversation with me.
And the kid's thirteen years old.
Yeah, it's wild.
But that's an amazing kid.
Yeah,
but I've gotten some good feedback on
the video.
I'm really glad it came out
the way it did.
We're going to do a series of them.
There'll be...
um there'll be a couple
different themes right yeah
um and so the next one will
be a different theme and
kudos to caitlyn um my
little five foot one
videographer uh who had no
pit access no floor access
got a lot of coverage the
montage was fantastic
Like that was high quality work, both,
you know, from the video that she got in,
wherever,
I guess you got edited together.
Like that was good stuff, dude.
For real.
She edited the whole thing.
I just added the music.
Um, but like, you know,
it was about the why.
And so she caught crowd
shots of people cheering on
their athletes,
the athletes doing the pump
up as they're running on the floor.
Like it was,
she just did a great job of
catching that theme.
um and I told her the theme
so she like that montage
was created for this theme
right and then the next one
will be created for that
theme um and we'll just
continue moving forward
with all that speaking of
the video there's denise
moore right there yeah
she's she's a star in it uh
jay birch asks where rudy's
from about five miles that way I told him
Yeah, Lynette said, she said,
you don't need an invite to
come over here.
And I was like, I appreciate that.
I said,
next time if I find myself anywhere
in Ohio, believe me,
I'll come and bother the
shit out of y'all.
Don't even, don't even sweat it.
It was not, Denise,
stop beating yourself up.
We all are more critical of
ourselves than anybody else.
Well,
I'm more critical of myself except
for when Corey critiques me.
Well...
Yeah.
So anyway, so maybe, maybe,
so I was talking to somebody, you know,
I told you like,
I didn't know who Graham Holmberg was.
And last week someone said I
should have him on the show
and not say who it's going to be.
And then like the first
person in the chat that can
identify my guest is.
I'll send you a,
I'll send you a jazz shirt.
If you can figure out who this guy is.
Right.
So, well, there's been some other news.
Speaking of which,
one of these days I'll have
time to bother you, Corey.
He comes to Gonzalez or
right nearby like once a year at least.
And every time he comes, I'm like, dude,
when you come here,
come drop in at the gym.
I will come work out with you.
He's going to Shreveport
this weekend to go, uh,
judge at wild gods.
And I came about that far
from signing up and go and do it.
Cause it's one of the few
competitions around here
that programs appropriately to masters.
And I did not because I don't know.
I just didn't because
there's another hotel stay.
I can't afford to pay for it right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That this CrossFit stuff ain't cheap,
even for media.
Mm.
Did you see the news that
broke a little bit ago that
CrossFit Reykjavik has sold?
To BKG.
Yeah, it was broken by the barbell spin,
of course.
Of course.
And so I'll share that here.
Annie Thorne's daughter
sells CrossFit Reykjavik
BKG part of new ownership
group and not only is he
part of the new ownership
group he is going to be the
head coach and head
programmer for that that's
like a complete takeover at
that point like I mean I
don't know how much
difference obviously I've
never seen BKG program
anything couldn't tell you
what they do at
CrossFit hardware up there, but like,
that's a big switch.
If not just somebody just taking over,
like somebody's taking over,
he's going to start writing
the program and like the
whole nine yards.
That's kind of a big deal.
And I remember somewhere
saying that like Ricky Vic
was one of them,
or if not the second biggest place, uh,
basically in,
in Iceland for like Uber rides, uh,
Well, they have like,
I think I heard it one time,
like close to a thousand members.
Yeah.
The videos I've seen and
some friends of mine actually went,
I actually have a CrossFit
forward patch on my bag
that they got me while they
were up there.
And they said the place is massive.
Like it doesn't even make sense as far as,
you know, for being a gym.
The whole place is insanely big.
I mean, it has, it has recovery stuff.
It has like, it's not just a typical box.
It's got like all the amenities,
all this stuff.
And, and this is the big question.
And, um, you know,
she made the announcement,
she wasn't doing the open
for the first time this year, uh, because,
and she signed the letter
to have day fired and, um,
Sorry, T-Bird.
At the time that this popped up,
I have not seen any response from her.
If she has responded, I'll look for that.
Break and use by T-Bird.
But if she doesn't feel
strongly about CrossFit in
a positive light anymore,
why would she keep the gym?
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Wouldn't make sense.
So if you're not,
that into it anymore um okay
her answer is I let bk step
in because I am now
expecting my third child
and want someone that has
more time to give to step
into a gym I care so much
about I am still part of
crossfit reykjavik we're
good there there you go
good good for her good for them
Priority shift, man.
People get older, start having kids.
It's not for everybody.
It's a lot.
I can't imagine, like you said,
if they have a thousand
members managing that on a daily,
a day-to-day basis and
still training and still competing.
And now you're having your
third kid and it's a lot, dude.
The Shannon's right.
The article did say the open
enrollment was drastically
down this past year.
that's because annie and I
believe it's because annie
announced she wasn't doing
the open absolutely didn't
give it the push that it's
had in the years past g and
the new owner did do the
open there at reykjavik
they were one of the fifty
eight people who did sign
up uh generally they're
close to two hundred like
one sixty five I think in
the past something like that um
And if she doesn't want to
be a part of CrossFit, that's okay.
You're allowed to have that, that choice.
And if you step away,
you have that choice too.
Like I'm okay.
However,
this manifested itself into
whatever it is.
And she is having her third
child that I can't even
imagine the amount of time
that's going to take.
No, not, not, not even a little bit.
I hope BKG keeps it Philly.
I don't see anything on the
BKG was at the games, right?
I don't see that not happening.
No.
The quotes in the article
from the new owner,
because I think BKG isn't all the money.
It's mostly... He's
basically going to be the head forever.
They were saying how excited
they were to promote the
Open again and to do those
kinds of things.
I think that everything's
going to go back.
I'll say this about the Open
enrollment thing, thinking about it,
is that
I don't think she intended
for the open enrollment at
her box to drop like it did.
Does that make sense?
I don't think she was maliciously saying.
But I think just by saying
and telling everybody, well,
I'm not doing the open this year,
that people just looked at
her and flocked and went, okay, well,
she's not doing it and I'm not doing it.
I understand what you're saying,
but as a business owner,
you have to understand the
effect you have by the
decisions you make.
I'm not saying it was a stupid idea.
It wasn't a stupid idea.
I absolutely think that's an
insane way to go, to not sign up for it,
especially when you have a
thousand members.
Like,
Friday Night Lights is fantastic at
my gym, and we have a hundred members,
and we might get
twenty-five to thirty to sign up.
Right.
So like with one hundred and sixty,
it's a circus and it
probably a fun circus to attend.
Like I would I would think
that would be fantastic.
You're going to heat all
afternoon into the evening.
It's a big deal.
I know my old affiliate
before I went to players
like they they split the
gym into teams like it is a big deal,
the open and they get over
one hundred people signing up every year.
And we only have like two hundred.
And at the time we had like
two sixty as a membership.
and like half signed up so
it's insane it's insane
yeah I'd love it dude I
would love that and and for
them like cutting it to
three weeks makes sense it
was so frantic and so
chaotic for those three
weeks like you go to five
and they're just it's exhausting
I don't strong men go there
also like Thor.
I think Thor does go there.
I'm not sure how many others do, but it's,
from what I understand,
it is just massive.
Like there are spots for everybody,
different classes going on
at different times.
Speaking of Thor,
I saw a reel with him and Dr. Mike Israel,
the RP guy.
Okay.
uh they're hanging out
together somewhere thor was
working out and apparently
thor wants to whenever his
strongman career is over
maybe looking to get into
bodybuilding can you
imagine well he for that
boxing he trimmed down he
looked good dude he looked
good that was one of the
things he said another
level yeah he said when I did boxing
He said, I wasn't trained to be strong.
I was trained in the box.
He said, and I got pretty lean.
He said,
so maybe when I get done with strong man,
you know,
see what I can do with my physique.
We haven't even talked.
And that's a perfect segue
into the next thing I
wanted to talk about, man.
Look at you go.
All right.
I saved this Instagram post.
Where is it?
Here we go.
Have you seen this?
So this is two former wrestlers,
two action movie stars,
and the drastic body
changes they have gone through.
So let's start with The Rock.
This is his red carpet right
here on the left,
and this is him at peak rockness.
Yeah.
Right.
Holy transformation, Batman.
Here is Dave Bautista.
Yeah.
This is on the right,
him in peak wrestling, Batista Fitness.
And here's him at a recent
premiere on the left.
No more steroids, no more muscle?
Yeah.
I mean, look at that.
And here's the thing, dude,
because I saw this in a
couple of different places, right?
I didn't see the Bautista thing.
That's new.
But I saw this as far as The
Rock is concerned, is that, yes,
on the right there,
he is massively blown up.
He's a big-ass dude.
On the left,
you're not seeing him with his shirt off.
He's probably – he's definitely smaller.
Like I said, he's not that much smaller.
But he's probably still
ripped if he takes that shirt off.
He's probably still got muscles.
He's probably still got all
his abs and whatnot.
But the amount of deflation
between the two things and
the fact that I'm pretty
sure both of those guys
have been adamant about, oh,
we never took steroids the entire time.
So would you like to revise
your statement now?
I think that, one, it's the extremes,
right?
On the right, they're both gym pictures,
right?
Here's Batista sitting over
a rack of dumbbells.
You know, he's probably got a pump on,
on top of whatever else that's happened.
Here's The Rock in a gym,
getting his workout in,
probably got a pump on,
so he's even bigger than everything else,
right?
Then you take the dramatic...
decrease so it even makes it
even bigger but holy the
rock went from can you
smell to uncle jimmy yeah
to hey guys I'm gonna cook
some hot dogs yeah if
anybody wants anybody want
to mad he doesn't look like
the same person like a dude
on on the left
Uh, she has these things.
The rock had some heart issues.
Yeah.
You keep injecting all that
shit into your body until
you can get swole up ginormous.
Eventually you can have some
heart issues too.
Uh, Shanna.
Wow.
They look like they're sick,
like cancer sick.
That, that actually, I can't lie.
That popped into my head.
Oh yeah.
The first pick us the first
time I saw this pig, like the rock,
not being the rock.
Basically that's the Wayne Johnson.
The dude on the right is a rock.
They're doing the left is Dwayne Johnson,
especially the outfit that he's wearing,
where it looked,
he looks like he's about to
go pick up his kids from a PT, you know,
or go to a PTA meeting.
Yeah.
And in the glasses and in
the whole nine yards and in this too,
dude, like
And their movies are awesome.
I love both of their movies.
I'm huge fans.
But I just saw this and I was like,
holy crap, man.
Something I wanted to share.
Thought it was a good
discussion point for us.
I'm like a slow news day.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
The rock looks like he
filled out the shirt a bit
better in the past.
So here's the crazy thing with the rock,
right?
Andrew Sten said it earlier
that this is his, his right picture.
The big picture was post wrestling.
The rock actually got bigger
after wrestling for his
movie roles than he was
when he was wrestling.
But his left picture went
like smaller than his wrestling picture.
Yeah.
So he went from like a
little bit bigger after
movie then to a lot smaller after,
which makes it even more dramatic.
I would like to know the
weight difference.
I think that's only like fifty pounds.
That's a lot, dude.
If I showed you a picture of
me fifty pounds heavier, which I have,
as opposed to a picture of me now,
when I show my fat pictures to people,
they do not believe it's the same person.
just like those two guys
look like they might be related, but like,
they're not the same guy.
Like that looks like it
could be Brian Johnson,
Dwayne's fricking second cousin.
Sean in Oregon as a cancer survivor,
my thoughts immediately
went to cancer for the rock.
He looks sick.
He does.
I wonder how long it took
him to lose so much weight and size.
And in that outfit that Bautista's wearing,
he looks like he's on the
HOA committee somewhere and
he's about to come in and
tell you about your pink
flamingo in the front yard
and how you can't have it
there or your grass is too damn tall.
Yeah.
All right,
here's the next one I got for you.
I saw this on the internet today.
The fun when I first got
into an affiliate back in
the day is you get all your
gym buddies and you all
think you're invincible.
And so you do stupid shit to
test yourself when you're
bored at the gym.
Like when the coach left you
responsible to lock up
this is the that goes down
right and here we go did
you see this so apparently
Hillary left town and Mitch decided, hey,
what can we do now that
Hillary took the kids and I
got the gym all to myself?
Let's make the mega ramp.
Let's get some jerk box and
let's put one ramp.
This is insane.
All the way up backwards.
Stop.
Wait for it.
Then comes back forward and
does the whole thing again.
Bro.
That is one hundred percent
a like you said, I'm going to go in.
I'm going to do a couple of things.
And then can I lock up now
after you leave?
Yeah.
And then leaves and hey,
let's get out all the toys.
Yeah, that, what Lito said.
Austin,
you've already used up one of your
lives at me howling.
That poor dude.
Jeez, man, that was absolutely terrible.
But yeah, what he said on, yeah,
on this episode of What's Rich Doing?
He ain't had nothing else to do.
And then Barbell Spin,
Brian's saying it's a Crash
Crucible workout then
released because that looks
like some shit that J.R.
would be like, hmm.
I'm glad they edited out all
the guys that fell off the side.
Can you imagine?
Or maybe the sequel to this.
Yeah,
there's three or four guys back there
that's like,
please don't put that video in there.
Please don't put that video in there.
If she sees that.
He's jogging back and forth
to go get the ramps and the steps.
Like, oh yeah,
we need to hurry up and do this.
Hilary's probably on her way to the gym.
And he knew that.
So he's like, let's go ahead and get that.
Let's go ahead and get this
done before somebody comes
in here and tells us not to.
But also, lest you forget,
mayhem is really good on their hands.
And that's maybe why.
A hundred percent.
Dude, handstand walking, GHDs,
like you do not want to get
in either a handstand walk
race or a GHD competition
with a Mayhem athlete.
Absolutely hilarious, man.
I saw this.
Because I know, like,
we did the dumbest stuff
when the coach left.
I have a video...
on my phone and I didn't do this,
but I watched somebody else do it.
Or rigs bolted to the wall, right?
So like, pull up bar, pull up bar,
pull up bar, pull up bar.
And they were trying to
figure out how to swing
from one pull up bar,
fly near like Tarzan.
The American engine.
The problem is that, yeah, Birch,
learning to play new sports regularly.
There it is.
Yeah.
Top of the pyramid.
But there's a support means
for the roof that are also
right next to the wall.
And so there's a video of my girl, Chelsea,
jumping up, grabbing, you see her swing,
swing, and she swings for it.
And she misses the next bar
and tackles one of the
fricking support means
where the shoulder and she
gets up and she's like, I'm all right.
Yeah, we, we had, we did that too.
Only yours was right down
the middle of the gym and
they were trying to go from
middle to middle to middle.
Lashane like Ninja warrior.
And the one guy went and
totally missed and did the
face plant right into the floor.
It was not good.
When,
when I did what Rich is doing in two
thousand nineteen,
we did more handstand walks
per week than I thought was possible.
And half the time they did it on the ramp,
talking six to seven hundred feet a week.
I did two hundred feet this
morning and that was plenty.
At the end of a workout.
I think the most I've done
in one workout was like five hundred,
but that was it.
That was it for the week we did.
But we might have even had
it the next week.
The last thing for your viewing pleasure,
and this is just going to
be a quick hitter.
We won't need to keep it up for long.
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They're awesome.
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So yeah, just a quick hitter to end it on.
But it was a slow news day at first,
so I thought I would go
ahead and share some of that stuff.
Wang and dong for all your
real estate needs.
Had another announcement
today and yesterday for Rogue.
I missed that completely, apparently.
Yeah, so one makes perfect sense.
The other is holy shit.
Heinrich Heipleinen,
one year after a torn Achilles at Rogue,
has been invited back to Rogue.
Wow.
So recovery must be going well.
I will tell you everything I
know about Achilles tears.
I learned from, uh, Chelsea Nicholas.
Uh, she was a master's athlete,
good friend of the show,
but on several times I have
followed her recovery.
She had the same surgery as Aaron Rogers,
the state of the art one.
They told her that it was, it was a,
it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a,
it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a,
it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a,
To be fair, so did Bill Lee.
Yeah,
but then you saw what happened to Bill.
He didn't really perform at his best.
No, and he's aware.
He knows he underperformed,
but he's also giving
himself a little bit of
grace for the amount of
time that he can't.
What he did,
and if Heinrich actually
competes and does well,
same thing for him, dude.
What they did
is a miracle in and of itself.
Yeah.
Um,
I'm glad they invited him back and hope
he does well.
Um, and, and to me, everything.
And just so you know,
like everything's based on
a five year history of your
performance with the new rogue standings.
So if they're going through
the rogue standings,
it's not about last year.
It's about the last five years.
So he may have accumulated
enough points over those
years to make himself a viable option.
But the other announcement was, come on,
Lucy Campbell.
She's been killing it this year.
She got the other invite in
the last twenty four hours.
Love her.
She's awesome.
David Johnston,
Megala tried to get back to
training for hers again, didn't she?
Yes, she did.
She sure did.
And that's the thing that
people don't think of, right?
An Achilles is not a muscle.
You can't build it back.
It has to heal.
It is a tendon.
You can't,
there's nothing you can do
physically to strengthen it quicker.
You can build the stuff around it,
but you can't build it.
Yeah.
Time.
Time is what's going to fix it.
Period.
I mean, you can do all the right things.
Like you said,
you can strengthen everything around it,
but ultimately it has to, it has to heal.
Shanna says,
Alexis Johnson came back to
competition in a year.
You can do that.
And football players do it all the time.
But what Chelsea told me is
they informed her the risk
of re-injury is
is still significant until
it is fully healed at
eighteen months so if
you're coming back sooner
than that you are you are
playing with fire and if
you tear it again it's
worse than the initial part
if you if you re-tear it
after already tearing it
like the same one it's a
longer process to come back
And if you look at football
players that have come back in a year,
that first year back is not great.
No.
They're usually not as good as they were.
And it's the next year that
they then have fully
recovered and come back and
get back to peak performance.
Right.
So.
Anyway, happy for Lucy.
She just keeps on rolling
along and she's killing it.
She's a great human, dude.
Like, not so much as, not just,
I should say that she's a
great athlete because she is.
But every interview I've
ever seen with her,
like she's so down to earth.
She's so just like a normal type person.
Like there's no BS in her whatsoever.
So like kudos to her, dude, for real,
for being where she's at.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the last thing I had in my docket is,
you know, I got that,
that pucker this morning
when I saw that I was on
dense updates and didn't
know which way the wind was
going to blow.
You don't ever do.
You never know.
see what's going to happen
but she did highlight some
of the stuff that happened
earlier this week between
myself and Patrick Clark
and posted some screenshots
of the back and forth that
occurred but I didn't know
that it was going to roll
over throughout the week
and then the barbell spin
guys were going to fight
amongst each other last
night if you did not see
last night's show no James
had softball practice
uh john had took exception
with brian being too
negative in his post about
the wfp over the weekend
and they went back and
forth for fifteen or twenty
minutes um arguing over
what was negative and what
was critical and what was
and I will tell you that I felt like
Once the ball got rolling on
the criticism of the WFP,
then everything that they
did wrong was going to be nitpicked.
Highlighted.
And so I really,
when we got on Sunday night, we said, Hey,
we're choosing to look at
some positive things and
constructive feedback.
So if, if we find something wrong,
we want to have a solution to offer.
And we only did that because,
not because it wasn't
warranted that they did things wrong,
but it was just, okay,
they've seen all that.
They've had to have seen all that.
Let's just go in a different direction.
And I think John felt the same way.
But in true John fashion,
communicating that to Spin
became just a shouting match.
John Young yelling is my
favorite hashtag ever.
So usually I put that show
on as I'm going to bed on
Wednesday night and just to
kind of like lay back, relax,
listen to whatever news they have.
And then I go to sleep.
There was no going to sleep
over the yelling from John Young.
He's so loud, dude.
And he's passionate.
That's why he's yelling.
He doesn't know how...
Hard to get a point across
in any other way other than the fact that,
like,
I'm just going to be louder than you are.
And God bless him for that.
But, yeah, no, I was at softball practice.
I did not get to see.
So we had that going on.
We had the Laura Horvat
quote that people on the
Internet are too
comfortable not getting
punched in the face.
So last night they did blind rankings.
Who would Laura's top five
people that she would want
to punch in the face?
Was Siobhan on the list?
Did Siobhan make it?
Because I'm pretty sure she
wants to punch Siobhan.
He did.
And really,
that's got to be the answer one
through four.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
But yeah, he did make the list.
And then Terry,
remember when he was so mad
he left the show?
Yes.
John hung up, left, walked away,
and never came back one night,
which was pure internet gold.
You can't not love that dude.
Seriously.
If I didn't know him,
I would say that they are staging it.
Right.
But that is him.
That is truly who he is.
I'm done arguing with y'all.
And just clicks off.
And that's it.
I'm done for the night.
Yes.
Yes.
So anyway.
That was crazy.
And actually,
in the middle of the fight
between Spin and John,
Patrick Clark jumps in in
the comments to start making comments,
and John stops and says, Patrick Clark,
if you try to jump into this,
I'm going to stop defending you guys,
and I'm going to let Spin
do whatever he wants to do.
So just shut your hole.
I'm going to move on.
To be fair, I can see like, cause I mean,
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't watch it.
All my WFP coverage came
from whatever everybody was
posting about it.
I did not watch a single
minute of it because I
don't get notifications for it.
If it'd be on YouTube,
I get notifications for it.
I would probably have watched it,
but being as how it was not, I did not.
So not knowing what was actually going on,
only seeing highlights here, there,
and yonder.
Um, I can understand.
people thinking that Brian's
just posting negative... Well,
that was the best line from
Dense Updates this morning.
When Jenny said, Patrick,
stop drinking the whiskey.
Stop drinking the whiskey.
Anyway,
I can see how people would think
that it's negative,
but if an event's happening...
And all of a sudden,
a piece of equipment breaks
while somebody's on it and
they look like they hurt themselves.
That's news.
It doesn't matter if it's
good or bad or indifferent.
Somebody's going to post
about it because it's news.
Yeah.
If traffic at you in your
town goes smoothly for four
hours and then there's a five car pileup,
nobody's nobody's.
Uh,
reporting on the fact that it was
smooth for four hours.
They are reporting on the
five car pilot because that is the news.
If it goes fine,
all you're going to see is, Hey,
this person came in first.
This person came in second.
This person came in third.
Here's an interview with
them moving right along,
but that's not what happened.
Ricky Ricky had two bikes
break in one workout.
Freaking, uh,
Austin Hatfield's GSD broke
while he was on it.
And he slid down and managed
to not make himself a monk.
These are things that happen.
So it's not,
I can understand if you look
at him and go, well,
all you're doing is posting
the negative stuff.
No, he's posting what happened.
So I just don't understand that.
He's just posting the negative stuff.
Dude, it's just what happened.
I don't get it.
All right.
Well, man, every time I have you on,
the show freaking flies.
I've got to go get a haircut
because I've not had a
haircut in four months.
I don't know.
No product.
It's just... Hey, bro, look.
So going to get that done,
and then I'm going to get a
follow-up on my lungs at
the doctor this afternoon,
and then off to the burgers
to film them and their
family and how they do things.
and then uh rich froning
coffee pods and wads I
should be shortly just got
the notification they just
went live five minutes ago
yep so why don't you guys
all head over to coffee
pods and wads to go meet
the inventor of the mega
ramp the mega ramp the mega ramp
Yeah,
go check that out because that's got
to be good.
And I'm sure that Peter will
dive into everything.
Sail, Malik.
There's no doubt in my mind.
All that stuff.
So with that, guys, head over there.
Check out the mega wall, the mega ramp.
The mega ramp.
All right.
Check that out, guys.
We will see everybody
tomorrow on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.