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Beautiful.
So I know we try to have a
lot of fun on this show.
We try.
But it is the twenty fifth anniversary of
nine eleven.
And I would be remiss.
We're going to do I'm going to talk
about it briefly.
Yep.
Because and then we're going to move on
to have some fun and give you an
escape for the day.
But yeah, nine eleven impacted us.
me and what i believe this country greatly
twenty five years ago uh my daughter was
six weeks old when nine eleven happened it
was the first week at a babysitter for
her my my wife's first week back to
work when everything happened um my
immediate reaction was how do i get to
my kid right and and hold her right
and uh thankfully the company i worked for
let us go that morning and uh i
went way too fast down the freeway to
the babysitter to get my kid and to
get her home regretfully my wife's company
did not let them go and my wife
was freaking out almost the entire day
But I had my daughter at home,
snuggled her, held her, did all the stuff.
I still have nightmares about what I saw
that day.
I could still see the pictures from the
news channels.
Like it's clear as day in my head.
Like, like it happened yesterday.
I saw,
I just brought my oldest to school,
dropped her off for schools right across
the body from where we live,
dropped her off at school in the car
line, got back.
And as I got back, um,
uh michelle had it on tv and the
second plane at the tower and i just
remember saying they were talking to
somebody who was in an adjacent building
whichever news channel she had it on and
the guy said oh my god there's another
one and it hit i'll never forget that
as long as i live i will i
Watching people jump from a hundred
stories up to avoid flames is a horror
that I cannot get out of my head
and I cannot unsee.
And it's something you don't ever want to
have to comprehend, right?
To have to make that choice.
And right now, I want to cry.
It's twenty-five years later,
and I want to cry for those people.
What I hate about this day is the
people trying to spin their conspiracy
theories today.
You've got three hundred and sixty-four
other days of the year to do that.
yeah let it ride people let it ride
today there were there were there were men
and women running toward danger that day
it's another thing that i can't comprehend
in my own world but i'm so glad
those people exist in my life yeah and
the fact that they ran what i would
consider the wrong way right to do
whatever they could to save as many people
as they could
that is something we should never ever
forget that there are people in this world
that run into the danger to save lives.
And that is pretty freaking cool.
God bless them.
I hope there's a special place in heaven
for each and every one of them with
what happened that day.
But we lost a lot of people.
We had a,
we had a person at my old gym
whose dad was in the tower that day.
and you know he tells the stories and
it is it's tough man and uh i
just want to give a second to commend
the people that did the brave things that
day um and i wish i wish on
september twelfth there was no
divisiveness in this country and i wish we
could get back to something like that
I think it's a hope and a prayer
more than a wish.
Yeah.
Every day I wish that I remember what
September twelfth was like.
And it was as tragic as the rest
of it was.
Those couple of days as a citizen of
this fantastic country that we live in was
it was amazing time to be alive.
Everybody had everybody's back.
It was amazing.
No matter what you needed.
You know, I grew up outside of Pittsburgh.
There's a memorial right outside of
Pittsburgh for a plane that went down
there that sometimes gets forgotten.
But it lost their lives that day.
Yeah.
We don't know where that plane was truly
heading.
We can make assumptions,
but there were brave men and women on
that plane that ran to danger too.
Ran right into it.
Quite literally ran right into it,
knew it, knowing it, it was a,
it was an un, unwinnable situation,
no matter what was going to happen,
but they tried anyway.
So I,
and who knows how many lives that saved.
Correct.
so with that our heartfelt thoughts in
person the family and the friends of of
people that not only died that day but
died from the effects of that day in
later years um it was a traumatic event
i will never forget it it will be
with me till the day i die and
um
And so this isn't a celebration,
this is a honoring of the people who
did the right thing that day.
When a couple people did the wrong thing.
Trent says, I was a freshman in college,
like day two in New York City,
and I could see smoke from the towers.
Can't even explain how that affected me
since that day.
I would say I know a part of
it there, Winter,
being as how you are now the police.
Yeah.
Shannon was supposed to fly to Laos on
the thirteenth to volunteer for a year.
Ended up leaving on the eighteenth.
Yeah.
My wife and I went to a Chicago
Bears game a month later.
There were like six people on our plane.
Yeah.
Oh, I'll bet.
I'll bet.
It was a weird and wild time, dude.
And just like you couldn't even bring a
car within a mile of Soldier Field.
They had it barricaded off because there
was so much like fear of what was
next.
Well,
everybody was waiting for the next shooter
drop,
like something else to happen directly
after that.
Right.
And just waiting and waiting and waiting.
I remember that being on edge like that
for months and months before people
finally started to kind of relax a little
bit.
I remember that time well.
Wayne has lots of friends who were at
the Pentagon that day,
still haunts many of them to this day.
I can't even imagine.
I mean, I watched it on TV.
I listened to Howard Stern that day
because he literally was looking at it as
it happened.
And a man who doesn't take many things
seriously became a serious journalist that
day.
And it was wild.
My ex-wife had went around from probably
the thirteenth through the fifteenth or
sixteenth and just took pictures around
where we lived of the unimaginable amount
of American flags that were on everything
that people just put up everywhere,
just says, you know,
show support as much as much as they
could.
It was an amazing time to be to
be alive at that point.
George Wang had a brother who worked near
the World Trade Center,
didn't get word from him until late
afternoon.
I know people were holding their breath as
to what happened that day.
But again,
I don't want this whole show to be
about this because this is supposed to be
the break from your stressful day,
the break from your special day or your
work day, whatever.
But it wouldn't feel genuine if we didn't
at least mention it.
No, we can't just skip over it.
I just got to skip over it.
But there's lots of shows doing a lot
of things today about it.
Even like ESPN did some nice tributes this
morning as they film a bunch of their
shows in New York City and they are
so close.
I got to watch some of those this
morning and they did a really nice job
with that.
Good on them.
One of the worst things is that
self-service was jammed and so you
couldn't even try to see if people were
okay.
I know.
It's crazy.
Last thing I'm going to say is like
when I got to my daughter and we
were driving home,
I had a Jeep at the time.
No top.
You don't realize how many planes are in
the air that you don't notice every day
until they're not there.
Until they're not there.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was.
Yeah.
That was like a very ominous type thing
that happened.
It's a similar feeling.
So right after a hurricane passes,
there's no birds flying at all.
And you don't realize it,
how accustomed you are to the noise until
there's none.
It is so bizarre, dude.
It's like this quiet still,
like the quiet after the storm.
That's probably where that came from.
Yeah, you just go in.
what's happening right now it's bizarre
but yeah same thing you don't realize how
many planes actually fly over you on a
regular basis until there's none in the
sky whatsoever uh shana lived next to an
airport the silence was so loud dude i
can't even imagine um so let's get into
a couple fun things um yeah please
Oh, my gosh.
Ramirez.
I'm going to show you.
I'm going to text him later.
I'm going to text him later.
Don't even worry about it.
I'm going to spam him with a bunch
of bullshit.
He's one of the ones that texted me
yesterday.
That was three minutes of our pre-show.
Oh, my gosh.
When we left the Pentagon this morning,
I looked up at the plane that was
taking off, and it was a flag plane.
It was so patriotic.
It was nice,
but sad at the same time.
Well, yeah, because you know why.
Yeah.
So,
Waterpalooza has announced two of the four
full teams now.
Dun, dun, dun.
The Battle of the Camps.
If that's something you...
care about um here is the proven team
and i don't know if you can see
it all it's pretty much what we predicted
oh no it's exactly who we thought it
was it's olivia kerstetter it is colton
mertens it is ricky gerard it is kyra
milligan it is maddie sturt and jay crouch
that's exactly that is exactly who we
predicted
In addition,
they just announced the Brute team.
This one does have some surprises.
So everybody was dogging Sprague from not
making the team.
There he is.
We have Emma Lawson.
We have James Sprague.
We have Jason Hopper.
And we have Dallin Pepper.
Those, I think we all kind of knew.
Yeah.
Did we know Janie Chevrie?
No,
I would not have guessed Janie Shevery.
She was not going to be on my
roster.
Did we know Eileen Wurz?
No.
Also would not have been on my roster.
So, yeah.
Was a little surprised about those two,
but, hey, good on them, man.
Hey, more power to them.
More power to them.
You know, Jane just missed the games.
Yep.
and i think oh yeah well no she
got in didn't she did she get in
on the last chance janie yeah uh is
that who made the last chance i think
that i think that might be gosh it
just was like um six weeks ago dude
yeah well aware where uh
Joseph said they're going to get to talk
to her live tonight on Dick Linton Things.
Which one?
Eileen or Janie?
I think Janie.
Okay.
Ramirez, correct me if I'm wrong,
but I think Janie's coming on tonight,
correct?
When he says she was.
Yeah, she was at the games.
It's all coming back to me now.
I think Celine Dion told me that.
But it's all coming back.
Dude.
But regardless,
back to the point I was trying to
make is that this is a great opportunity
for both Janie and Eileen.
Eileen, Eileen.
Come on, Eileen.
Let's go to Waza in South Carolina.
Yep.
Sorry.
Because it will give them an opportunity
on a big stage to get some experience.
Get some experience.
Get some more exposure.
And honestly,
and this is going to sound so freaking
participatory, but have some fun.
Because this competition, traditionally,
unless you're on Danielle Brandon's team
and she screams at you while doing worm
thrusters, they have a good time.
I want to pose this question because I
kind of
I kind of disagree.
Every team partner competition I've ever
done, the pressure on me was much,
much greater.
Yeah, I see that to a point.
Now,
after each workout and in between the
workouts, blast.
Hanging out with my best friends in the
world.
Loved every minute of it.
That moment on the floor,
I was even more...
I was afraid of letting people down.
Yeah.
So in twenty four, I did beach brawl.
I did individual on Saturday and we did
team on Sunday.
And I mean,
I want to do well doing individual,
but I really didn't care that much because
I just didn't want to leave my teammates
down the next day.
Like that was my biggest thing.
And I even told Bernard that one of
my best friends in the world who was
also on my team,
cause he was yelling at me the day
before about what I was doing on the
lift.
And I said, I don't give a damn.
I really, really don't.
I just found out I qualify for legends
and I'm,
and we're competing team tomorrow.
I'm doing this because it's fun.
Um, yeah, I, I,
I probably PR'd more things in a team
competition than I ever have doing it on
my own.
It's a different animal.
Anybody who's competed on any kind of team
at any kind of level will understand this
if you've done it more than once.
It is a different animal because,
first of all,
you're not working for that long at a
time, right?
You're generally going in small,
short sprints unless you have some
high-level thing where you get a big,
long team run or whatever,
which is not the majority of them.
You're working in short bursts and short
sprints.
and you're going to get up whether you
want to or not and just push as
hard as you possibly can because you don't
want to let the guys down next to
you end of story yep when that when
the when crossfit used the team series
which was my favorite event of the year
i it i i literally threw up for
a year
going so hard yeah it's the only time
i threw up like i literally would do
workouts and run out the back door and
heave after every event because i was so
anxious about letting my team down sure
because every year i would put myself on
a team where i was the least fit
right right so if anybody's gonna let him
down it was gonna be me and i
didn't want to be that that guy
Well, and you don't even,
it's not even that you don't want to
let them down.
You don't want them to think that you're
doing any less than your absolute max
every single time,
whether you are actually letting them
down.
Because if they're your friends,
they know damn good and well that you're
not trying, right?
But in your head, you're like, well,
I got to go.
I got to go.
I got to push it to one hundred
and fifteen,
one hundred and twenty five percent of
what I actually have,
because they're going to think I'm just
I'm just over here just dicking around.
I've got to show them I'm not dicking
around like it's a.
it's a mind dude that that on that
part of it well and I should have
told myself they wouldn't have picked me
yeah if they didn't like we work out
together every single day like they know
what my capabilities are yeah it wasn't
like they walked Scott walked in the gym
was like that guy right just randomly yeah
yeah no no we want that guy
Yeah.
So in other Brute news,
I don't know if you saw this,
but they announced the new members of
their team.
Now,
some of these I heard at WFP because
they competed at WFP and they announced
that they had moved over to Brute.
But Brute has released this,
and now we officially know all the new
roster.
And there's a big surprise on the last
slide.
Yes, we got Jack.
Not a shock.
Emma's already a brute athlete.
Now he's officially with her.
Yep.
Um, we have, uh, Jennifer Muir, uh,
up and comer doing really well.
Yep.
Uh,
we have Luca Jukic that was announced at
WFP.
Again, unsurprising.
Uh, Louisa Marquez.
I said Brazilian, right?
sure uh kike survey uh we have yep
yep we got her yeah norja bleaker
I know that is not the pronunciation.
I heard it like eight times at WFP,
and there's no way.
I feel like the sweet chef would probably
pronounce it a whole lot better.
It's probably how that goes.
And if not, you know, it is now.
Then we have Blair Cheney.
I have no idea who that is,
but okay.
And here's the big one.
Someone that has always announced that she
was going to stick with her coach that
has been coaching her at her local
affiliate, and that is Reese Littlewood.
Reese Littlewood.
That is her going to Brute.
That's Ortega's girl right there.
I'm telling you, she's my girl.
Like she's been on the show.
She is freaking awesome.
Her going to brute.
She's, she's someone to watch.
I,
I call it now in my way to
early prediction.
She will make the games next year.
I think this, this is a,
this is going to be the catalyst right
here.
Going to brute.
I mean, come on.
Their track record at this point.
That's the reason.
She's already shown the talent in all the
gymnastic stuff.
I mean, let's be honest.
I'm forty nine years old.
I could be like, I'm going to brood.
People are like, well,
he might make the games next year.
Based on that track record alone.
I mean, good Lord.
You add some strength to her.
And she's already she's already.
a danielle danielle level handstand walker
she's great at gymnastics joseph she's too
young for me to be making those jokes
dude yeah when i give her two more
years two more years and then we'll start
making those jokes about her uh
She's ready for the next level.
She is.
She was my underdog this year because I
watched her at Syndicate two years ago,
and she blew me away.
Yeah.
She is right on the cusp anyway.
Bubble athletes are my favorite athletes
because I'm also a bubble athlete,
so I'm kind of biased as far as
that's concerned,
but I love bubble athletes.
I'm telling you,
her plus brute equals no longer bubble
athlete.
So here's why I'll say that.
Bubble athletes, there's more story there.
Will they make it?
Won't they make it?
What are they doing?
Instead of the guys that are like, oh,
I've been in, yeah,
I made it the past five years and
I finished thirteenth every single time.
Like, okay, cool.
Nobody cares who you are.
Sorry.
It's just a thing.
Like, you're not moving up.
You're not moving back.
You're just kind of staying right there.
People at the very top...
that are fighting for podium positions,
the people who are on that bubble and
are trying to actively make it,
in my opinion,
is two of the best stories you could
possibly tell.
When she's asked, like,
you didn't make the games.
How upset are you?
And she says, you know what?
I'm only nineteen years old.
I've got a lot of runway and this
is where I'm supposed to be right now.
That's an elite mindset.
Nineteen year old has that comprehension
of patience and like none.
The limit does not exist.
None of them do.
I am fifty six and I'm maybe just
halfway to that point of comprehension.
Fair point.
Yes, Jaybert,
she's only she is just a sophomore in
college.
She's barely out of high school.
She went to prom like last year,
a year before last.
She almost made the games while she was
in high school two years ago.
Yeah.
Which is,
if you just sit there and let that
wash over you for a second,
that's an insane statistic.
Yeah, but to understand, like,
how many nine-year-olds are so impatient
that they've got to have it all and
they've got to have it now?
Well, they won it two weeks ago.
right and to to have the the forethought
to say nope i need to just develop
more and i need to get better this
isn't my time and i've got a long
runway to get there knowing that they have
time like no no i got plenty of
time i got plenty of time i got
i'm nineteen years old good lord
And you know what that also means?
And she does the class workout every day.
She does other workouts throughout the
day,
but she wants to hang out with the
people in her affiliate.
And when she comes to Syndicate,
her affiliate brings a shit ton of people.
And that's another thing that today's
athlete doesn't understand,
the support she gets from that community.
It's not fans.
It's not followers on Facebook or whatnot.
These are people that she interacts with
every single day.
So, and once you see her succeed,
see what she does.
I'm sure she wipes the floor with them
every single day.
Right.
But you know that even like people in
a, in a local fit have those,
those party tricks that they're really
good at that can push you in certain
elements, right?
And you and I both know when you
work out next to someone,
that relationship grows in ways that it
can't if you don't suffer together.
Absolutely.
Shared misery is a wonderful thing.
Beautiful thing.
I absolutely love it.
Is Brute the only major camp that doesn't
own a gym?
I can't think of one that doesn't.
I mean,
mayhem has mayhem proven has proven.
TTT has combined with Travis's gym United.
Yeah.
I can't,
HWPO has that thing up in Vermont.
I don't know if anybody's using it,
but it was really clean last time I
saw it, but they own it, but yeah,
but they do own it.
And that was purpose built for that much
like a proven proven and mayhem were.
So yeah,
they put regional rigs in that thing just
to train on.
so that when they would go to like
a semi-final or whatever it was the exact
same equipment they would see there yeah
and maybe they do train there right before
events
but do they i don't know i don't
know i don't pretend to know i don't
really care if i'm being completely honest
um i just i always thought it was
funny like you'd always see the videos of
the place and it looks amazing and there's
never anybody there but matt
I know this.
I know Justin Kotler is their head coach.
I know he lives in Las Vegas.
That is, I don't know if you checked,
but about three thousand miles from
Vermont.
Roughly.
And Alex Gazan is his number one athlete.
She also lives in Vegas.
My assumption is that training her in
Vegas is just easier.
It seems like it would be.
It seems like it would be.
It seems like they're not going to...
You know what we ought to do is
move to Vermont.
A completely different climate, altitude,
like the entire thing, time zone,
whatever.
I know everybody you know and everything
you know is right here in this town,
but maybe we should move across to this
admittedly state-of-the-art facility that
Mr. Fraser built up here in Vermont,
but
How about we just stay here instead?
Yeah.
Barry, I don't understand the question.
I mean,
Luca can be on whatever camp he wants
to be on to train and to get
programming and to compete with.
He's not on the battle of the camps
at Waterpalooza, SoCal.
He was just saying earlier, Barry,
was that he doesn't even participate in
the CrossFit Games season,
so why is he on their roster?
Because he's on their roster.
There are several other events that you
can participate in throughout the year,
especially in Europe.
Europe has a ton of mid-majors.
Him and his brother would go and compete
in all of those to win money to
support themselves.
Basically,
we're competing year-round for quite some
time.
uh wasn't was hwpo supposed to move to
boston i think their their executive team
moved to boston because that was matt
o'keefe and that's where matt o'keefe
lives right i don't think it was like
a physical move to another purchased
facility no but i don't think matt left
vermont i think that's just the the
headquarters for
all of their like all of their programming
pieces and their wow earthquake in
louisiana i'm just knocking just knocking
off my desk no big deal um i
don't think you could pry uh matt fraser
out of out of vermont with hand grenades
and a pry bar like he's not leaving
dude that's yeah grew up there that's his
hometown he loves that place and i mean
more power to him like i'm not leaving
louisiana it's fine
Corey's just mad.
He slammed his desk.
Not mad.
Clumsy.
I got a Bluetooth speaker up here and
I've just been messing with it the entire
time.
I just went ahead and knocked it off
my desk because that's the kind of shit
that I do.
Well,
I'll do all the sharing stuff and then...
Yeah.
The maple syrup's good there.
So I hear.
Yeah.
I love real, authentic, not Aunt Jemima,
not Golden Griddle.
It's not Aunt Jemima no more.
It'll always be Aunt Jemima to me.
Yeah.
And the Land O'Lakes will always be the
actual thing.
It's a whole different story.
Sacagawea.
But Golden Griddle, whatever...
None of that store-bought sugary stuff,
but the actual stuff that comes out of
a tree.
Yes.
Unprocessed,
just poured over a piece of French toast.
I am like...
Or a pancake or over some breakfast
sausage.
Oh, my God.
If you've never put syrup on a breakfast
sausage,
you are not an American as far as
I'm concerned.
All right.
I am not an American.
But anyway, but where I grew up,
these people do the homemade maple syrup.
Hold on here.
And then they make at the local fairs
and carnivals,
they make homemade apple dumplings.
They put a scoop of homemade vanilla ice
cream on top and then drizzle their
homemade maple syrup over the top of that.
Didn't homemade maple syrup just come
straight out of a tree?
Does that mean they have a tree in
their yard?
I don't understand what the homemade part
of that is.
Hey, it was homemade.
The tree's in their home,
on their homeland.
Got it.
Scott,
I'm going to need you to get some
breakfast sausage.
I've had it, dude.
Homemade syrup.
I've had it.
i don't want i don't want sweet on
top my savory dude yeah well you're not
living right syrup on eggs no if it's
the right kind of like if it's actual
not that like you said not the corn
syrup that's been tilted uh tinted brown
no not that but actual real come out
of a tree so squirrel was trying to
eat it uh maple syrup yeah
I want some good eggs.
I want some good breakfast sausage.
I want a biscuit.
Any day.
Yeah.
Wow.
All right.
I wanted to share this post with you
real quick.
How long could you keep this up?
You saw the first one?
That's about where I'd stop.
This is about, however many times this is,
is as many times as I would have
failed trying to do this.
There's no way.
I'm really good at wall balls,
but I am not that good.
He actually is hitting depth pretty good
for as quick as he's moving.
Now,
never getting to full extension to help
himself with that ball getting to the
line, but damn.
Nah.
nah also he's throwing that thing really
that's got to be like a ten pound
ball two ten pound balls hell it might
be a six yeah just i mean like
see how high it's going without him
getting to full extension there's no way
that's a twenty regardless the the clumsy
thing you talked about i i have that
gene too yeah just staying upright would
be hard for me
Well, like getting it started,
first of all,
I got to throw one and grab the
other one.
Like that part right there.
Like he kind of like shovel past the
second one, right?
Through the first one,
like an actual wall ball and just kind
of grab the second one.
No, thank you.
That looks terrible.
No, no good.
Look at Matt Sousa.
Yeah.
He had a good show yesterday,
if you missed it.
He had a fantastic show yesterday.
I enjoyed the shit out of his show
yesterday.
That was good stuff.
Yeah,
those are always a can't miss for me.
Because to be honest,
we don't touch on the affiliate side of
things probably as much as we should.
And that's where I get all my knowledge
about, because he runs an affiliate,
right?
A successful affiliate, as it turns out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
I've been saying this for years.
Matt Souza is incredibly intelligent and
knowledgeable when it comes to that kind
of shit.
And I enjoy watching his shows because I
learn shit just about every single time.
And he's also got a very dry sense
of humor, which I also highly enjoy.
So, yeah, good stuff yesterday,
my brother.
Extension doesn't matter if the rep is
good.
Did he squat and did the ball reach
the target?
I wasn't calling him no rep.
I was just saying.
No, somebody else was.
Okay.
Yeah.
He's not helping himself get the ball to
the line by not extending.
No.
Which is why we're saying it's probably
got to be a six-pound ball at,
you know, a ten-pound at the outside.
Something along those lines.
Look at Ortega.
Ortega, your girl is now a brute athlete.
Yeah.
How do you feel about that, my brother?
Yeah,
you missed our Reese Witherspoon
celebration.
Reese Witherspoon.
I am terrible.
Reese Witherspoon.
Reese Withouterspoon.
If you didn't know, Reese Witherspoon,
Sweet Home Alabama, is now a CrossFitter.
Reese Bigwood.
Reese Littlewood.
Yeah, Reese Littlewood.
We did a celebration of Reese Littlewood
and her signing with Brute.
And Reese Witherspoon.
She's also a Brute athlete now.
She's a Masters athlete,
but she's definitely with Brute.
I just made that up.
It's fine.
It's fine.
It's definitely a thing.
And CrossFit will do a story on Reese
Witherspoon in about two years.
A hundred percent.
Absolutely.
Becoming a CrossFitter.
They'll see it from this show and be
like, hey,
that dude was talking about Reese
Witherspoon.
Is she actually a master's athlete?
I don't know,
but let's do a thing about her anyway.
Sweet.
Scott, you could have played that off.
I thought you were joking.
I was not.
I'm just dumb.
It actually brings up a topic I wanted
to.
If I read more, I'd probably be smarter.
It's not that I was doing a bit.
I'm just not real smart.
Oh, that's fantastic.
It brings me to a thing that I
was watching yesterday.
everybody knows i love music and i was
watching an interview with john resnick
from the goo goo dolls the lead singer
of the goo goo dolls and the main
songwriter i thought it was johnny
resonating we just well i thought that i
was doing that because we're friends but
i'm going to say do you know him
that well that it's just john do you
no no that's just john it's fine so
he was on rick beato's show this week
um talking about songwriting and gear he
uses and all this kind of stuff but
great interview but at the end of it
they talk about how ai is killing music
writing because young musicians are using
ai and resnick basically says the most
you're ever going to get from ai in
songwriting is a derivative of what's
already been done
Right.
Yeah.
And so the days of getting anything new
with young musicians is going to be hard
because they're all relying on AI to
finish off their music or to add a
component or to add strings or whatever it
is.
Right.
And he says that they play live.
They don't use background tracks.
They don't do any of that kind of
stuff.
And he goes,
I mess up all the time.
And I found that the audience actually
appreciates when I screw up because they
know it's real.
Right.
If I'm off key at a moment,
it's almost like they're like, yay.
Yeah, he's a human.
We're not suffering through AI shit.
Right.
he also say he'd give up forever to
touch you sorry i've been holding on to
that the whole time you were talking i
had to get it out they talked about
that song a lot but i imagine they
did i would imagine they didn't um i
just wanted to get your opinion on all
that because i've been saying for years to
my wife like
i don't care if they hit every note
perfectly i want to know that they feel
every note yes that's a big difference big
huge difference go back and look and if
you can find it's not that it's hard
to find mind you but like
concert footage or, or, you know, the old,
uh,
just live performances from old artists.
I hate to say it, but it's true,
right?
Old artists, whoever it might be journey,
Boston guys like that.
Um, old country artists, George straight,
George, see him at, see it,
see him live.
Right.
And it does not sound like it's not
perfect every single time.
Right.
It's not going to be.
When we saw the Black Crows a couple
weeks ago, a couple months ago,
whenever that was,
it did not sound perfect because Chris
Robinson was singing right there in front
of us.
And it's not going to.
I don't expect him to.
People said the same thing about Guns N'
Roses and Axl Rose a lot,
that he was a studio musician.
Because when you heard him live,
it did not sound anything like it did
on the stuff you heard on the radio
and on the recordings because you had a
million takes to get it perfect.
But if you saw him live,
it did not sound that way.
But you appreciated it because you knew it
was real.
Yeah.
I am so...
that is so my, my style of music.
And I know you can't stand YouTube,
but that's why I love YouTube because Bono
doesn't sing a perfect note every time,
but you know,
he means whatever note he's saying, right?
Like, no, I mean,
I can appreciate that point of it.
I just don't like that music.
Um, Wayne says like,
it's technically impossible for AI to
improvise, which is the beauty in music.
It is.
AI cannot have an original thought.
All it is really is an amped up
Uh search engine is really all it is
they can put stuff together from stuff
that it'll find here there and yonder You
can't it's not going to have an original
thought to be able to or feelings to
be able to write down Stuff that that
you would hear in music doesn't work that
way um talking about ai writing stuff and
I don't know if i've said this before
or not,
but like one of the beauty things I
love about brandon,
uh luckett is that
we will give him so much shit if
we find a typo in the programming like
one day he had uh like that we
had to finish a workout with like it
said a hundred calories for the guys and
eight for the ladies and i was like
well he's gonna have a real easy row
and that's like on that last one
He was like,
that's how y'all know I'm the one actually
writing this.
It's not AI.
I'm not just putting that out there.
And it's true because like he types it
all himself, puts it into the app.
And then sometimes it comes out great.
Sometimes he had me doing,
had us doing two hundred meter strict runs
the other day.
Not this week, but last week.
And I had to text everybody.
I was like, hey, bro,
what's a two hundred meter strict run?
I've never done that before.
And he's like, I meant stride, asshole.
And I was like, yeah,
I know what you mean.
I just want to pick that up.
Seema says her little sister purposely
messes up her IG reel so people know
it's authentic.
Yeah.
What kills me, or not kills me,
it tickles me sometimes is that
everybody's, oh, AI's going to do this,
AI's going to do that,
AI's going to do this.
It is so incredibly easy to pick out
when something is AI.
You can read through it one time and
know that, yeah,
this is probably not written by an actual
human being.
What I think would be funny is if
people went,
you had people go out and say strict
run and give them no directions and see
all the different interpretations of what
a strict run might be.
Oh, I got plenty from our text group.
Believe me.
Uh, means no knee bend.
That's one of them that I got.
Somebody was like,
I put on your knee sleeves,
put a PVC pipe through each one.
That way you can't bend your knees and
just run like that.
Uh, it means no hopping or skipping.
I want to say it's like you can't
run two hundred and one meters or one
hundred and ninety nine meters.
It has to be two hundred.
Sorry.
Not sorry.
Yeah, that's great.
Speaking of music,
I don't know if you know this,
but I started to play drums a week
ago.
I may have seen it.
I may have may have seen some video
footage of it.
May have may have.
So I posted a reel about it yesterday.
And I put it up on Tik TOK
and I got, I got a comment.
I don't usually pay attention to like all
that stuff because we put up a lot
of reels on here.
Um,
but this is on my own account and
I put it up on Tik TOK and
a studio musician from LA was like,
that's after a week, you're doing awesome.
And I, you might,
I could have floated across the floor at
that point.
Yeah.
Yes.
you too call me and then last night
i was like okay i've been doing all
this methodology maybe maybe i am getting
good enough that i can do a song
so i went to my little drumeo app
and i picked the beginner version of in
the end by lincoln park and uh no
kicking the crotch i am not good enough
yet turns out get back to methodology
Back up, back up a little bit.
Let me back up a little bit.
The Drumeo, the app that you're using,
the Drumeo people, their YouTube is,
they'll get drummers into their little
studio area or whatnot.
They'll play a song for them that they
have never heard but with the drums
removed and have them, dude,
that is fun to watch.
That's why I'm playing drums now.
Yeah.
I've watched so many of those videos that
I was like, I can do this.
Yeah, I can do this.
Got it.
No big deal.
No big deal.
To be fair,
I saw your reel and you looked like
you knew what you were doing.
Well, that's actually me playing.
That is the actual sound coming out of
my guitar amp,
which is not geared for my electric drums.
No, I didn't have the sound up.
I just said, you look like you.
The rhythm's right.
I'm playing it right.
It's a very simple money groove.
That's all we're at right now.
That's all you need, brother.
Drums is where it's at, dude.
Drums is where it's at.
Gotten back just beating on stuff the
entire time.
Sign me up for that.
It is such a good stress reliever too.
Well, yeah.
And it is way more cardio than you
think it is.
Oh, no.
I've always said this.
every drum I've ever seen has been skinny
as a rail.
And there's a reason for that because they
are busy.
Except for this one.
Well, you were brand new.
You were brand new drummer, Scott.
We'll get there, brother.
It's a process.
But you've never seen like every drum I've
ever seen because like you're,
swinging and beating and like you're doing
stuff the entire time you've seen guitar
people like if you've seen a concert
you've seen dudes just stop playing their
guitar and like go to adjusting stuff and
it doesn't really sound all that different
right yeah the drummer can't stop no they
got a usually got a bag full of
sticks next to them in case one breaks
they just got to grab it and just
kind of keep on keeping on
Um, drums is a workout too.
Yep.
It is.
Uh,
it's so good for your brain to learn
new things.
I had to do something cause reading,
it was not going to help me.
Once we gave up reading it,
the next best thing was going to be
learning how to play the drums.
Scott, are you building a garage gym?
I built a garage gym in twenty sixteen.
Yeah, it's I've added pieces to it.
I still use it four or five times
a day, a week,
not a four or five times a day,
a week, whatever.
It's like twenty five times a week.
It's fine.
Yeah.
I've got an assault bike.
I've got dumbbells.
I've got kettlebells.
I've got a barbell with about four hundred
and some odd pounds of weight.
I've got rings.
According to Winter,
you're going to start getting tattoos here
shortly.
I have a few.
Way more.
A lot more to catch up to Travis
Barker.
So he says in his documentary the reason
he got tattoos is so he wouldn't have
a plan B. Yeah.
A lot of musicians have said that.
It's like, no, I'm committing.
If I get shit, jelly roll.
What jelly roll else is he going to
do?
I do that shit all over his face.
Who's the other one?
Post Malone.
Teddy Swims.
Teddy Swims is
And I've seen videos of him interacting
with the public.
He's the nicest guy on the planet.
But you look at him,
and if you just saw him coming down
a dark alley somewhere,
you'd probably run the other direction
because he looks scary as shit.
Go to prison.
The other option is go to prison.
Yeah.
It's either tattoos on my face.
I got two things I can do.
Rob banks or play.
What do you call a drummer without a
girlfriend?
Homeless.
I read fitness came out with a new
treadmill.
It looks great.
I saw it's resistance built in.
I don't know about the resistance building
thing.
That seems kind of weird.
It'd be like running in sand, I guess.
Wasn't that what they had at Legends?
No, it was not.
They might have had resistance,
but it wasn't.
Because you could actually do a simulated
sled push on their treadmill if you
cranked it up to ten.
Yeah,
because they had the gear shift on it
looking deal.
Yeah, exactly.
My problem with those kind of things is
that,
and I'm looking at it from a practicality
standpoint, it's more shit to break.
I would much rather just get...
If I'm going to spend the amount of
money that those things normally are,
just give me the regular little Air Runner
because you just get on it and run.
No big deal.
Our next purchase is a rower.
My wife wants a rower again.
We had one.
We sold it to get the bike because
of my back.
The bike was easier on my back than
the rower, but now my back's good.
Now she wants a rower back.
We'll probably...
That's our next purchase.
And then I want a bench rack,
squat rack.
Oh, yeah.
Those shouldn't be that expensive,
I wouldn't think,
even from a Facebook marketplace.
I'm sure I'll find some.
You should be able to.
Or if not,
you can just walk down the street to
Rogue and see what they got in the
dumpster out back.
Pretty much.
Just walk up, dude.
around here i can just you know so
they they used to have a garage sale
i was about to ask you if that
still went on because i remember when that
used to happen i have not seen it
in a while i haven't i tell you
what man if you weren't usain bolt off
the line yeah you are literally people
would run and especially like the the
weight plates they would run and dive on
top of the spread eagle
and wait for their friends to come,
and then they would pick all the ones
they wanted.
These are mine.
These are mine.
I kid you not,
that's not even an exaggeration.
One guy run down and just spread eagle.
It's like a brother and sister situation,
right?
When he's like, I looked at it,
it's mine, type deal.
Like, whoa, hey, it's just a,
it's just a forty-five pound plate.
Not a big deal.
Which, to be fair, dude, like,
If they're selling at garage sale prices,
like that shit's expensive.
Their plates.
So, I mean, everybody's place,
not just theirs.
What's crazy back in the day,
the old games plates would be there.
Now they sell those at the games because
people want them with the printed thing.
Right.
But back when I was,
cause I started CrossFit in two thousand
eleven, man,
like you'd go down there and they'd have
like the plates from last year's games
just sitting in a pile of plates.
They had bars.
They had bars from the games.
They had like tons.
If there was like an apparatus from the
games that they were never going to use
again, it was in the garage sale.
Fun times.
I remember getting the emails about it and
thinking,
I would love to go up there and
go catch it, right?
Because you can probably come back with
some badass shit.
And then I remember hearing stories like
what you just said of people just making
a wild break for it as soon as
they open doors or whatnot.
I'm like,
I don't want to fight anybody over a
barbell.
I really don't.
It was mostly the super expensive stuff.
Like a wall ball is expensive, right?
For what you're getting,
it is really expensive.
People would dive into the pile of wall
balls and on the plates.
Those were the two main things.
You could get barbells pretty easily at
the garage sale.
You could get kettlebells pretty easily.
There was stuff that you could get not
too bad, but damn,
those couple things that were a little bit
pricier, really tough.
Yeah.
winter i'm not fighting anybody over a
barbell i have a shorty barbell that i
ordered from uh rogue um my my uh
my shorty one i'm going to get another
i can buy another an actual full size
my own barbell but i'm not getting a
rogue one i'm gonna get a uh oh
what's it called i got it saved in
here
hero when i get a hero barbell uh
there's still a garage sale section around
the corner behind the checkout always have
rogue invitational stuff yeah it's not the
same judy it's not like the old garage
sale like they they used to fly drones
over it to watch the carnage
It was like Black Friday mornings, right?
At the mall and whatnot,
and people just pressed up against the
door.
With a whole bunch of fit people.
Exactly.
Unlike Black Friday at the mall.
Yeah,
which is not a whole bunch of fit
people.
That's just a bunch of people.
My wall ball at home is from an
old gym that was getting rid of it
because it was ripped.
So I taped it up and use it
because wall balls are so expensive.
A little sand in the eye makes it
RX+.
Nothing like a little sand in the eye
there, Winter.
So if you go back,
like Savan did a video called,
what was it called?
It's the one about Miko Salo.
Oh,
I know exactly what you're talking about.
It's Sisu?
Sisu?
Sisu.
Sisu?
Sisu.
And Miko's wall ball was like a bed
pillow stuffed with duct tape.
And he would throw it on the outside
of his house.
he also did the the he's uh the
famous uh what is it miko's triangle yeah
in like this the dirtiest basement you've
ever seen in your entire life and hey
bro make do with what you got that
was i mean that was kind of the
glory years of crossfit the we don't need
air conditioning we don't need lights we
don't need heat dude i can't tell you
the amount of times like um
The power wouldn't get knocked out at the
gym.
During the middle of a workout,
nobody stops.
I'll grab my phone right quick,
turn on the timer, and be like, hey,
this is how much time y'all got left.
Let's go.
The power went out at our gym,
and it was dark inside.
They pulled up the bay door,
and the owner pulled his car up and
shined the headlights in to the gym,
and we kept going.
Yeah, we have.
So the panels in the roof have a
couple of, they're not transparent,
but there's like translucent.
So like the sunlight will still come in.
So if it's a power line down,
down the street, yeah,
the light might go out,
the fans definitely going to turn off.
but you still can see for the most
part,
see enough to do whatever it is we
were doing.
And yep, the music is going to stop.
Ain't a whole lot I can do about
that right this second.
Although now we have a battery powered
speaker, Bluetooth speaker,
so I can just hook my phone to
it and we can call it good.
Like we can keep rolling.
We're not going,
y'all keep doing what y'all doing.
I got the rest of this.
Y'all keep working out.
Don't even worry about it.
And now I think that's,
those are like the disconnect pieces now
with the
The elite athletes like having air
conditioned places to work out in and all
that kind of stuff.
That's the disconnect from like the roots
of CrossFit.
Not saying one is better than the other,
but like there was a grittiness to the
old school CrossFit that I think has been
lost along the way.
Well, I mean,
that's why we still write stuff on the
whiteboard every day.
I wrote the workout this morning when I
coached this morning,
wrote everything down,
wrote the warm-up down and whatnot.
We write everybody's name on the board,
everybody's scores and what weight they
lifted, all that shit.
We still do all of that by hand,
where a lot of places I've gone to,
it's just on a TV screen now,
and you can just go to the computer
and whatnot.
The computer might break,
the TV might break,
all that shit might go down.
The whiteboard is always going to work.
All we need is a marker.
Yeah.
I love watching the Burpee King on
YouTube.
Just a four by six space.
Get after it.
It's really all you need.
You can do a whole lot of fitness
in a very small space.
My gym got struck by lightning a few
weeks ago.
No fans, no music,
no lights for a few days.
We can still do music.
We got three different speakers in there
that are battery operated.
Once the big one would die,
as long as it had a good charge
on it,
we can charge it overnight and it'll play
all day from five o'clock, five and six,
eight, twelve, three thirty, four thirty,
five thirty.
So you're looking at eight hours of it.
being able to play at basically full
volume the entire time, not a big deal.
And then where there's two of them,
two little Bluetooth speakers on the other
side by the weightlifting area that if we
need to,
we can pull over at any given point
in time and just roll with those as
well.
You can play music off your phone,
not a big deal.
Like we are, we are,
we are around us anyway.
I feel like the Kings that we can
make it work,
like whatever you need to do,
we can make it happen.
I want to leave with just a fun
question for you.
Cause I was posed this question on
Instagram today and I thought I'd share it
with the group and yes,
get your vote for what this question is.
Um, sure.
So the question is who was the best
Hollywood quarterback?
Your nominees are Shane Falco from The
Replacements,
Mike Winchell from Friday Night Lights,
Paul Crew from The Longest Yard,
Willie Beeman from Any Given Sunday,
Ronnie Sunshine Bass from Remember the
Titans,
and Johnny Mox Moxon from Varsity Blues.
Is this really even a question?
Pain heals, chicks dig scars,
but glory lasts forever.
mean my initial vote was shane falco
pretty much hands down right yeah but i
don't want your life for a kid who
didn't really want to be a football player
he was pretty damn good johnny mox moxon
he was and i will say this as
far as like straight up talent and and
doing it in a different a different time
period sunshine was pretty damn good
But I will tell you,
who actually looked like a real NFL
quarterback was Willie Beeman.
Stephen Willie Beeman, yeah.
Props to Jamie Foxx.
He did make it look real.
Yeah.
Like, I love Shane Falco,
and I love his O-line.
Like, his O-line are my favorite.
Like,
they are all about the protection in every
single way.
Yep.
But, like,
he did not look like an NFL quarterback.
No.
Willie Beeman looked like a real NFL
quarterback.
Is it because he was left-handed and
you're not used to seeing too many
left-handed quarterbacks?
He just doesn't look smooth, dude.
I get that.
Have you seen the conspiracy theories that
say that Shane Falco...
Is actually Johnny Utah.
I've, I've heard that.
I've heard that.
I was getting confused.
Shane Falco confused with Joe Flacco.
And well, I mean, that's fair.
Yeah.
uh replace sandler with burt if you put
burt reynolds up there and his paul crew
that guy looked like that guy actually
played quarterback at florida state yeah
but i say he actually was a quarterback
so that's probably why they went with uh
went with stan with sandler instead yeah
utah my battery is just about dead on
this laptop because i plugged in the wrong
cord utah
me too well the reason i wanted to
bring this up is last night i was
watching the nfl game and uh and they
did an opening with a kyle chandler going
through speech lights and he's doing it
and i said to my wife clear eyes
full heart can't lose can't lose she goes
what are you talking about and then he
ends it with
Clear eyes.
Clear eyes.
Full heart.
Can't lose.
Can't lose.
She goes, how do you know that?
I'm like, Friday Night Lights,
how do you not know that?
How do you not know that?
Yeah, that's the real question.
I never wanted your life.
I don't want your life.
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