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What is going on, everybody?
I promise the theme song
will be back next week.
We need the hickory dickory
dock to get us going.
But I'm just consumed with
other things right now.
But it'll be back next week.
But welcome to Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
As Kenneth DeLapp says,
the original Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
And we're going to get into
a lot of stuff tonight.
Can't wait to talk to you about that.
But
Haven't seen you guys in a week.
Has your week gone okay?
Yeah.
Getting back in the swing of things.
How about you, Carolyn?
Yeah, just back teaching,
getting ready for the
provincial math test for my grade nines.
That's this Thursday and Friday,
so a little stressed with
that because we have high
standards at our school,
so got to keep meeting those.
That's good.
Yeah.
Well, I've been sending these things out.
I saw that.
Another batch is ready to go tomorrow.
So we're up about 50.
Envelopes have gone out this
week from all over the
world or to all over the world,
which has been really exciting.
So super stoked about that.
But if you want these, hop into my DMs,
send me your address,
and they're yours for free.
F-R-E-E-E-E.
So I've had some requests for flags.
So you might have to
consider getting some of those printed.
Ooh.
Flags.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'll look into that.
I will talk off air and do that.
I still,
we're still supposed to have a
shirt soon.
Uh, so I'm trying to figure that out too.
Um, but with that,
the other thing I've got
going on before we meet again next week,
I'm going to go to the U S
Olympic trials in swimming, uh,
this coming weekend.
Is that the one that's on
the football field that
they're transforming that I saw online?
It is.
Wow.
In Indianapolis,
they converted the Colts
football stadium into three
swimming pools.
That's insane.
It is.
Where do they drain it all after?
I'm assuming a lot of tubing or hoses,
but they did a time-lapse
on Twitter that you can go
see them build.
Yeah, I think I saw that.
It's insane.
Because they build it,
and then they build a deck
up at the top of it,
so it's all elevated.
But there's the competition pool,
a cool-down pool,
and a warm-up pool all on
the football field.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
So my mom is the biggest
Olympic nut in the world.
And for her birthday and mother's day,
that was her gift to take
her to the U S Olympic trials.
Um, and she's super stoked.
So we're going over her next
Saturday for the prelims in
the morning and the finals
in the evening.
Um, and then back on Sunday.
That's awesome.
And what's cool is Julie and
I just watched The Boys in
the Boat tonight.
Have you seen that movie?
So it's George Clooney directed it.
It's a true story of a crew
team from Washington.
It's on Prime.
If you have Prime, it's on there for free.
Check it out.
It's well worth the watch.
yeah I've seen it I just I
haven't watched it yeah
it's the night and it takes
place into the 1936
olympics okay so it's uh
it's really good but with
that we'll get back to crossfit talk um
Wrapping up semifinals.
It's been a week.
We've had time to breathe.
Some of us have had time to grieve.
What are our final thoughts
about what kind of went on
those three weeks of semifinals?
For the most part,
I think they were exciting.
There was...
you know, close races and a lot of heat.
That was fun.
I mean, that's fun and exciting.
You want stories like that.
I don't,
I didn't go back and watch really
like much of any coverage,
a little bit of Oceana's
coverage and a little bit of West,
but I like after being at
East and seeing some of West online,
I feel like,
I feel like those stories weren't,
And maybe it wasn't as
closely contested in the
heats as it was at East.
But I didn't feel like that
played out as well in West.
And it could just be the, you know,
camera work.
We all have frustrations with that.
Yeah,
I think as much was on the line there,
maybe the story just wasn't told as well.
or when you're there live,
you tell the story, right?
You watch what you want to watch,
not what they're showing you.
So you can kind of see the
whole floor and go to whatever.
And we say that every year, like it,
it's so much better live.
Um, yeah, I, um, overall,
like that last event was really cool.
Like,
I thought that was a really good
ending to the workout, uh,
Only because so much was on
the line and decisions had
to be made whether you are
aggressive at the end or
conservative at the end or
however you're going to handle that.
And some handled it way
better than others.
And it cost people trips to the games.
Yeah.
Yeah,
a lot of drama for sure on the final
event.
I think overall,
the semifinals went down pretty smoothly,
like on all of the regions.
A lot of vets made it back to the games.
And I think there's some
excitement around some of
the new faces that we're
going to be seeing in Texas.
So I'm looking forward to
seeing how they how they end up doing.
yeah we're going to talk
about the rookie class
later in the show but 20 20
rookies this year I mean
there was a lot of open
spots so somewhat to be
expected but it is crazy
eight men 12 women rookies
this year going to the
games uh so that's crazy
The other thing,
a couple of things I have in my notes,
and we'll get into
DataWad's analysis a little bit,
is Barbell Spin did a blind
leaderboard where they
talked about the most
exciting thing from the weekend.
And everybody went to
Colton's Touch and Go.
Not Joe Piero's.
What's that?
Not Joe Piero's.
Exactly.
So when they said that it has to be Colton,
Colton wasn't the only one
that went touch and go.
Hannah, or is it Hannah?
Julia Hannaford.
Yeah, that's it.
She did it as well.
He did it.
I think it was more so like
the moment because it was a
tight race versus the
actual touch and go.
Because I think we did see it, what,
three or four times over the three weeks?
Mm-hmm.
Some people didn't need to do it.
I bet you cursed at her
could have done it if she
really wanted to.
That's still the most
impressive performance.
That was my vote.
Yeah.
What Olivia did to that
snatch ladder was freakish
and should go down as like
one of the most impressive
things ever done.
Did you see the training think tank video?
They had one of their
coaches do like the woman's ladder.
and tried to beat Kerstetter's time.
I think that he only beat it
by like three or four
seconds or something like that.
Very, very close.
And he had to go touch and
go on the last bar.
And the transitions were
even tighter than what
Olivia had to do just to
show how dominant her performance was.
That's crazy.
She like,
and I think they brought this up
on the spin is that she had
to practice changing weights.
Like she had to do that so
fast to be able to get that time.
And then I talked to Hattie
on Friday night and she said, when,
when they got word of what her time was,
like, they all were like, well,
we're all fighting for a second.
Like they were all just like, that's out,
that's out of reach.
so and that that's just
craziness but um I think
the lunges were a story I
think um what the men's
competition getting shaken
up with ricky winning his
first semi-final jay crouch
not finishing top two and
bailey martin kind of
ruining jay's party I think
that was pretty crazy down there um
Similarly,
Dallin did that to Roman in the East.
True.
And kind of, you know, we,
a lot of people thought probably,
you know,
Jeff and Roman one and two in
whatever order.
And I mean,
I'm sure some people expected
maybe Dallin or Hopper to be in the mix,
obviously,
but at the end for Dallin to
take the spot similar than
Oceana with the three boys.
Yeah.
And then I'm going to,
I'm going to admit something here.
I was,
I was putting up our document that
we share for notes and I
saw Carolyn typing and
deleting and typing and deleting,
and then she ended up deleting,
but I liked it too much
that I put it back in.
And that is,
and I phrased it a little bit different.
And that is our Austin
Hatfield and Jack Rosema
enough to offset the
feeling that this was
slanted to the big boys.
I would say no for me.
Do you know my thought on this?
We talked about this the other day.
I just feel like the sport
gradually over the last few years,
if you look at where the women were,
where the men were overall
in terms of height and weight...
The sport is shifting towards taller men,
taller females,
heavier as we're going more
and more machines and power
output and the weights are heavier.
I think that over the weekend,
I don't think on any of the workouts,
gymnastics was really a
limiting factor for most athletes.
Um, and number one,
it was the runner at your engine.
Number two, I would argue is again,
your engine.
You could say toes to bars maybe,
but I think overall all
three kind of played a good factor.
That was a well balanced event,
but for most people it's
just their breathing.
Um, number three, same thing.
Like the echo bike played a bigger factor.
And I think the females
being on the echo bike
longer because the 10 cows
you're able to recover for
the legless rope climbs, um,
Same with the,
like it's enough time with
the box jump overs that the
legless was less of a factor.
I think that for that one, the rowing,
we talked about that last
week being a big factor there.
Unless you had really,
really fast handstand walk
as a shorter person,
you could stay in the mix more,
but it was more of a power
output rowing capacity.
Let me get this right.
Was that a rowing workout?
Yeah.
And you have to snatch with the weight.
And again,
those lunges playing a big
factor with if you can get
a head start on the echo bike,
it did play a role.
Because most people were one
or two sets on the ring muscle ups,
but you could you could gain some stuff.
So I just think the sport in general,
like we used to be rare to
see guys over 200 pounds, six foot tall.
And now you're seeing that quite a bit.
And even I think the height
of the females and the
weight of the females is
shifting higher towards the
155 to maybe 160 pounds now.
Like on an average scale,
maybe even heavier than that,
155 to 165 maybe on average.
And it used to be closer to like 145.
And I think the taller you are,
the better you will also be
on machines in general.
Yep.
Yeah, if you look at Tia, Laura, Gabby,
Alex, they are all taller athletes.
I mean,
I think Tia still is the older
model mold.
Yeah,
she's more of an exception to the rule.
She's just so good overall.
She just stands tall in your
head because she's just so dominant.
Um, yeah, I guess.
So, um, that was one question I had.
And then this got posted
this weekend and I don't
know how to feel about it.
So that's what I'm posing it
to you guys is CrossFit
made a post saying is Paige.
The men's are the most underrated athlete.
I mean,
I don't think she gets a whole lot
of coverage.
Um,
think if you're like into
the sport like we are like
she's never forgotten when
we talk about the sport but
on the on the whole I do
see that but I think it's
everybody sixth and below I
agree because and crossfit
made it that way yeah yeah
anyone that's not in those
top those top that top tier
They don't really talk about,
they don't really film during events.
And she's just so consistent
year after year,
no matter the programming,
like she's always relevant and,
and solid.
And she seems to be getting
better the last couple of
years as she's kind of
maybe getting older,
maybe being smarter with her body too.
And just using that experience for her.
Andrew Sten says most people
don't know who 90% of the athletes are.
Larry Young says,
I personally think not
having a max or high level
gymnastics before
semifinals hurt people like
Colton and Olivia,
because everyone who made
it were really fit cardio wise.
They have to be strong too, though.
I think it was still a good balance.
Every event, you had to be strong,
but you had to have some
level of gymnastics capacity.
You had to be able to run,
but you still had to be
able to lift a certain amount of weight.
It was still balanced,
but I just think it moves a
little bit more towards certain stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
but page is never underrated in our book.
And it was funny.
I actually, uh,
ended up texting Patrick
and Brian last night
because I was listening to
their semifinal recap and they said,
nobody interviewed page
before semifinals.
And I was like, excuse me.
And then they,
they apologized and said
that they would make a correction.
I said, I don't need all that.
I just was giving you a hard time.
But, um,
But yeah, we did interview Paige.
But she's not someone that
posts every single day like
some of the other people.
She's more to herself,
training and under the radar, really.
And that's just who she is.
She's not flashy.
She's not trying to be
someone that she's...
you know,
not like just to get the
followers and stuff like that.
Like you see a lot of
athletes just posting stuff
and sometimes you're like, Oh, well,
okay.
This isn't in the notes,
but you brought that up.
Have you noticed that Tudor
is posting way more than he ever has?
And it's all running.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, I've seen more posts lately.
I guess I didn't necessarily
notice about the running.
But that's good.
He's got to embrace it.
I mean,
all of his counterparts are all over.
Yeah.
Damien says, like,
nobody knew about Kenya.
That is so true.
Okay, Larry,
I'm trying to figure this out.
If Big Braun was the
Colton... If Big Braun...
Colton moves up and the new
guy that beat him openly
says he isn't strong.
I'm confused.
Who's the new guy that beat him?
In the West?
Chris Ibarra.
Ibarra?
That was the only rookie in the West,
right?
Yeah.
If Big Braun was there...
Colton moves up.
And the new guy that beat him.
We'll go to Andrew Sten.
And that fault falls on
CrossFit for not having a
media department who highlights athletes.
Unfortunately,
not enough people watch this
channel to see the other
athletes covered.
We're getting there.
We're getting there.
We're growing.
Got to like and subscribe.
You got to keep telling the people, Scott,
like and subscribe.
That's why I brought you on here,
just to tell me.
Just tell the people, like and subscribe.
If you haven't already,
like and subscribe.
Larry, we know.
You only get so many
characters in this new age world,
and it's hard to condense
them down into the comment section.
It's like Twitter.
Twitter.
So the last thing I want to
talk about is DataWad put together,
because I think really
probably the major story of
semifinals was the allocation of spots.
Yeah.
Right?
And a lot of us don't
believe that that is done
in an equitable way.
So she put together a
combined leaderboard.
Now let's stay up front.
We know that it probably wouldn't have...
broke down this way if they
were all competing head to
head because you don't have
the races right you you may
have pushed harder here or
not here depending on who
you were up against but in
in the men's side it
doesn't shake up too much
and she actually did it
with the run and without
the run because the runs
were different from place to place
This first one,
is it only comparing
athletes that qualified or
is this with everyone in the field?
Because I think she did two of them.
I think this is all of them.
Yeah, I thought it was all of them.
Yeah, this one is the most recent one.
And so...
Their original rank is over here.
Here's the combined rank.
And you see that like Europe, Oceania,
North America,
East are getting people in.
And then Guy is kind of the
outlier with South America.
Which is great to see him up there.
It is.
What a great bounce back for
year for him so far.
And it doesn't change with
or without the run.
Yeah, that's great.
Well, we can get into that later, but, um,
and so we go,
we keep going and then South
America actually has two
more representatives in the top 20.
Well, I would, I would use the,
without the run category.
Okay.
Yes.
Um, so, but still qualifying spot top 40.
Yeah.
um and then we go here
nobody is out at this point
on these uh still pretty
much north america europe
and oceania and then here
we would have with the run
oldest would have been in
yonakoski would have been
in without the run yona
would have been in
Um, oldest out without the run,
Brandon Luckett just makes it in.
We know he's a great runner.
So taking out the run is a huge,
like he would do well in any field.
So it's hard to say that he
would bump out to 52.
Cause now you're just going
to find the fence,
but I get what you're saying.
I think this is the interesting part.
These three people from
North America East.
Taylor Self, Dre Strom,
and Tyler Christoffel would
have been in with the run.
Taylor and Dre would have
been in without the run.
Yep.
So North America East would have had 15.
It's hard.
The only other thing that's hard is, um,
comparing weeks one when they only had,
you know,
certain amount of time to
prepare versus a week three,
like North America East, which then keeps,
can see the results.
And obviously the scores
typically get better as you
go through the week.
So there's all,
there's also that factor
that's hard to compare
between semifinals.
Um,
But it's still a good
indicator that we could have more spots.
And just to confirm this,
all 267 men and 271 women.
So then we go to the women.
And what I find fascinating is,
even though they were the first week,
Laura and Gabby are second and third.
But not surprising.
You look at the top three...
you're like, yeah,
that could be the podium at the Games.
Really,
you can look down further than that,
and that order wouldn't be surprising.
Yeah.
I think what was surprising
to me is nobody from the
West on the first page.
Because we thought it was top-heavy,
but we didn't even get this
in the combined ratings.
Europe is a dead even split
with North America East.
Now, without the run,
Linda Kiesman falls out,
and Shelby Neal pops in.
So that changes up a little bit.
But it's not until we get to
17th with the run or around
that without the run, 13th,
is Abby Domet.
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
Yeah,
because the West Run is by far the
longest,
and they have the stairs and everything.
So that one is really hard
to compare because their
original scores would be much slower.
And when we go to the third page,
we finally see Oceana.
And a couple more from the West.
Kazan and Kenyo.
Okay.
Some more from Emily
Lundberg jumps way up and in.
She was, and she was out.
She was the first person out for Europe.
11th.
Anika Greer.
Look at the difference it makes combined.
Yeah.
That's not surprising though.
Amanda Barnhart gets in either way.
I think we have 17 or something from the,
from the East, which is crazy.
And it's not until the last
page do we get some Asia,
which we didn't get any on the men.
None from Asia,
none from Africa on the men's side.
But Sahir Kaya and Shung
Young Choi are good athletes.
They're great athletes.
Yeah, they're legit.
They're great.
But Jordan Sheffs would make it combined.
Ashley Wozni, Fee Sagafi,
Elizabeth Weishart.
it that's insane to me a lot
of yeast so uh no juan
young no kenneth no juan
young um so I think I think
this does point out that
there's some fallacy with
the allocations of spots
do you think there's an
immediate solution do we
want to listen to the
castro piece you could yeah
I i yeah I've got comments
on this did you listen to it yeah
So I have it started at the
357 mark of Patrick Clark's
interview with Dave Castro
backstage at the Syndicate Crown.
This was on Be Friendly Fitness.
I want to give credit to them for this.
But here it is.
And we'll go ahead and play that.
One last question.
The future of the semifinal.
Is that stage still,
obviously you mentioned
something about tweaking.
You can put it full screen.
Every year we're tweaking something,
improving it.
Is the semifinal something
that you would like to keep around?
And if so, if not,
what would you like to see
in place of semifinal?
I have ideas.
We have big ideas on how it
can evolve to a different model.
Are we ready for that now?
Potentially not.
Maybe.
I think this model here
There's an evolution of it
that's necessary if we're
if we're to stay with the
semi final and do semi final again.
I think we're operating a
model that is at the 60
yard line and not at the 99
yard line with this format.
And again,
it's some of the stuff I
mentioned in the beginning,
like I don't think
two events in North America
is the right expression of this.
But it's where we kind of
are and how we've evolved
to this from being on our
heels often in the last few
years and trying to climb out of that.
So there's also radical
expressions of what next
year looks like that are
potential areas we might
take that look nothing like this.
The actual decision yet has not been,
it's not final,
but there could be an
expression where it's like
this with some tweaks or
where it's a little
different or a lot different.
Yeah.
Cool.
I like that.
All right.
Cool.
Appreciate it.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
So thank you to Be Friendly
Fitness for that video.
And nice job, Patrick,
getting that interview
backstage at Syndicate Crown.
Original thoughts on that.
I have a lot of thoughts.
So, uh, but I want to hear yours first.
So a little bit earlier in
that video and I find it,
I'm wondering what,
at what point of syndicate crown,
this was, um, done.
So there's Saturday.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we didn't get to see all the,
like all the heats, all the drama,
all the, he comments in there that.
there's too many people
qualifying and kind of like
the games kind of,
we've had this discussion,
like the fourth heat
doesn't matter and people
don't want to watch it.
And I,
and while I'll say that's true at
almost every single region,
that was not the case for
North America East at all.
Every heat was relevant.
There was like,
So I get what he's saying.
And if you could have if you
could have only had like 10,
12 representatives from
West and if you had five
regions still in the US and
you only took like 20 and
then East was actually split up properly.
Yeah, it would probably be more exciting.
Carolyn.
he just was like smirking the whole time.
Like the whole thing is
going to flip around next
year or the following year.
Like he knows,
like he obviously knows what's going on,
but he can't say it just felt like he's,
um,
talking like something big
is going to happen and
they're talking about it.
And obviously he doesn't
like the format right now.
He went to the West.
He probably saw the same thing,
like almost the whole final
heat qualifies and doesn't
quite like that.
But it's just hard because, I mean,
a lot of people are living
in similar regions.
Like back then you didn't
have training camps anymore.
that kind of influenced the
regions as much as they would now.
So it would just be very
hard to do regionals, I guess,
because there are so many
people within the same area.
So if you start going five
per like different parts of the East,
like it's just crazy.
I don't know.
I also feel like they don't
want to take responsibility
for the semifinals.
So doing like sanctionals again,
maybe under a like umbrella of CrossFit,
that's a little bit more
controlled from before
might be something that
they're looking into where
you just have different
competitions all around the
world where two or three qualify at each.
I could see something like
that coming back around,
like a hybrid model of the
sanctional season with regionals-ish.
I don't know.
That's my thought.
So here I have a couple thoughts.
One,
I don't think it's good business to
admit failure in the middle
of the stage you're talking about.
I think it's better to say, you know,
we can always improve.
We'll always look at this at
the end of the season,
and then we'll go from there.
Because now everybody's
talking about what's it
going to be instead of who
these athletes are that are
going to the CrossFit Games.
We've now removed the
spotlight from all the
phenomenal athletes that
have earned a great
accomplishment of making
the games and turned it
back on the failures of CrossFit.
Because you, the head of all this,
are saying we're failing at
this stage and we need to make a change.
While it's going on 30 feet
from where you're saying it.
Yes,
but I think a lot of people are saying
it's failing.
Like,
there's a lot of people not very
happy with the allocation of spots.
I get all that.
It's just bad timing.
Like,
the spotlight should be on the athletes.
If people want to talk about that,
that's great.
But you, the head of this company,
should not be the one leading the charge.
What is he going to do,
praise the Africa and Asia athletes?
You don't have to do the
polar opposite to not do the one.
Sure.
Right?
And there's a time where
this discussion needs to be had.
And they can talk internally
and get this together
behind closed doors right
now and announce it after
the celebration.
Or even like a month before
the games that next season
is going to be different.
But I want to move on from that and say,
the problem is that there
is no easy solution to the
CrossFit's in a very big
bind because you can add
more regionals or
semifinals to the United States.
So that's right out.
The drama is always going to
be at the cut line at semifinals,
whether you're allocating five games,
10 to the games or 20 to the games,
it's always going to be at the cut line,
not at who's winning.
So that's inherent with this
stage of the game.
The next thing is you can
move them all over the country,
but it's not evenly
distributed geographically
in the United States where
all the talent is.
There's so many camps in the
East that the East is just loaded.
And if you have,
like they did a couple years ago,
four of them in North
America and distribute them evenly,
you've taken away the
regional aspect again
because you're moving
people away from where they live.
My biggest fear is they're
going to go online.
And if they go online,
it's going to break my heart.
It's going to destroy the
coolest thing in CrossFit.
And we've been pounding the
desk that you need to go to
semifinals because it is
the coolest time to watch the sport.
And I had listeners come up
to me at the Syndicate Crown saying,
thank you for telling me that.
This was the most fun I've
ever had at a CrossFit competition.
And we have decided we're
going to do this instead of the games.
CrossFit should market this
phase better than they do.
I don't think they want to go online.
I don't think they want to
deal with all of the video
stuff and the responsibility there.
I don't think they wouldn't.
But how are they going to
economically do anything else?
Yeah, without putting on other people.
Yeah, I mean,
the thing with the sanctionals and stuff,
it's like it just becomes
who has the most money,
who has the most time off
to go travel to all these places.
Because I know like for me
having a full-time job,
I can't go overseas and
just take a week of vacation,
two weeks of vacation to –
to go do that while someone
could go and do every single one of them.
Um, some sort of point system,
maybe a new ranking system,
but then again,
we're just changing the
ranking systems left and right.
And we have,
we haven't kept anything consistent.
It's just hard to know
because things just are always changing.
Um, who knows?
I hope to God they don't go online.
It's just a fear I have because that's,
that seems to be the answer
for everybody else, but the elites, um,
and they're crying,
they don't have money.
And so it's the cheapest way to do things.
Yeah.
I, in a way I think done correctly, it,
it could be the right move.
Um,
but it'll never be done correctly.
So I hate it.
But I think,
I think it could be done well.
And I think it could,
I think it could get the
right people there.
It wouldn't come down to a,
it would come down to you
move as well as you think
you need to move.
And we're going to make your
video public and we're
going to figure it out.
Like, did you move well?
It's not going to be a
judge's call ruining
someone's chance on the floor.
We would eliminate that kind of stuff,
but it'll never be done correctly.
So yeah.
It's a moot point.
If you look at every avenue
possible that I can think of,
there's something wrong
with that thought process.
You're spreading out to four again,
but you still have to
spread out the talent.
So then you lose the
regional aspect that way.
I'm almost on the bandwagon
of keep it as it is, allocate better,
and...
And really embrace this and
market it better.
Would you do the one spot
per region minimum and then allocate?
Or would you just put, for right now,
Africa with another region
and it's just like travel?
Combine Africa with...
I've said all along that the
way to get global expansion
is not the Olympic model.
CrossFit is not big enough
to go to the Olympic model yet.
And that's what they're trying to do.
I think I think this is like
the last chance qualifier
is a good model.
And that's how and those
people need to get good
enough to show up there and
earn a spot that way.
at the end of the day I
would rather have what we
have today than some
bastardization of what it
could be that's going to
fall short anyway I would
rather stick with the same
thing market it better
refine it better so that
it's not as bad and hone
that in than to take
another shot at something
wild in the dark that is
going to take two years to
figure out and then they'll
scrap that and go to something else
The thing is a lot of these
regions like Asia, South America,
the ones that got more spots this year,
they're probably getting
more spots next year
because they have new
athletes that are going to
make it to the games that
have just gone points at
the games for their region.
And then if you add any previous people,
you're going to get four
people from Asia next year.
You're going to get four
people from South America.
And slowly,
as people are accumulating more points...
It's just going to keep
taking out from Europe, North America,
Northwest, and the bigger, I guess.
And at the end of the day,
you watch sports because
someone's going to win and
someone's going to lose.
And it sucks to be the
athlete that loses and loses out.
But that's why you watch.
You watch for that drama.
And if we open it up too wide,
because I'm just looking at the chat too,
I think 40 is plenty.
I don't think that South
America needed three women.
I don't think Asia needed three men.
Those are obvious places
where the allocation was wrong.
Yep.
And it's going to be four next year.
I'm telling you.
They're going to get more points.
It's going to be four next year.
Everyone is going to go down.
I don't know.
I can't see them looking at that and not,
especially if those people
are all in the bottom 30.
But that's the way the system's created.
This is how South America or
Asia got three spots this
year was Choi came back.
So people got points last
year for being at the games.
And then she comes back and
they got points.
Now you have someone else, Duan Zhang,
will get points, new points for Asia.
And then you start adding more.
Like it's... Right.
One of the things they need
to hone is that model.
That model is strapped and then new...
The more that athletes are
different in regions,
like the more rookies in a region,
the more they're gaining
points for the region.
The more that the region
stays with the bets,
the harder it is for the
region to keep getting
points because everyone
else is not getting extra
points for the region.
So North America East
doesn't have many rookies.
North America West doesn't
have many rookies.
That's bad.
That's bad for the point system.
That's how it's made.
Europe getting rookies in
this year is actually good for them.
They got more rookies this year,
like four or something on one side.
That's actually going to
help their point system.
Because people in the year
prior had their games points,
new people are getting games points,
and now they're getting
more people within the top 100.
If we keep getting only the
vets in for the North America,
it's actually worse for us.
We're going to keep losing
and losing spots.
I know you're right.
And I know that everything
you're saying is absolutely correct.
I think they need to scrap
that model for allocation of spots.
And use more common sense.
I know that is really hard to do,
but common sense.
When we do a combined
leaderboard and there's no
man from Asia close to the
top 40 and they get two or three spots,
two, that's ridiculous.
Yes.
I mean,
the evidence is looking at the
scores of these people and
do they have the capacity
and the ability to compete?
Because what you're doing by
this allocation is watering
down the final product at the games.
And then heat one doesn't matter.
Because heat one is never
going to be a factor in the
rest of the scores.
Because they're never going to,
like in the East,
there were top five people
from heat one in almost
every workout through the final day.
Because it's so deep.
And we lose that.
It's better at the, that's what sucks.
It's better at the semifinal
than it is at the games.
Because by the time you get to the games,
the bottom 10 aren't going to compete.
I shouldn't say bottom 10.
Bottom seven aren't going to compete.
So Seema says I need to clip
what Carolyn just talked about.
So look for that on a reel
in the next day or two.
All right.
We jumped all around these notes.
It actually made sense to go
in that order.
Um, but I, I am really me personally,
I'm at the point of let's
keep it the way it is and
change the allocation model.
until we can figure this out
and get better I i larry I
don't agree that every
level was watered down if
you were in knoxville it
was insane how how fit some
of these people were in
heat one heat two heat
three I wasn't at the west
so I didn't you don't get
the same feel over a stream
as you do live
But, I mean,
Carolyn knows she was battling
these people.
That was a super deep field.
There was almost, I think, 20,
on the female side,
almost 20 individual games
athletes that have
individual games athletes
experience in the last few years,
which is crazy.
All right.
So let's uplift and talk
about the uplift challenge.
This week,
our buddy Wadzombie is
sponsoring the uplift
challenge along with Hero
Barbell for prizes.
So make sure you go to
Uplift's IG account and do
everything you need to do
to do the workout, video it,
and make sure you submit
that video by June 21st if
you want to qualify for
some of those prizes.
In addition,
they made a huge announcement
this week that their actual
hero or uplift,
the beginnings of uplift
were every Labor Day weekend,
they would do a workout to
raise awareness of suicide prevention.
And they've done that for
the last couple of years.
This is, I believe,
the third year that they're doing it.
And they made the
announcement that the
person programming that
workout this year will be Adrian Bosman.
So this Labor Day,
make sure that you gear yourself up.
Unless you're competing at
the Masters Games...
make sure you gear yourself
up to jump in that WOD that
Adrian will put together.
And they usually do like three, four,
five versions of it to make
sure there's a version for
everybody to be able to do that.
And it's a great cause.
Make sure you jump on there and do that.
But a cool get to get Adrian
to program that for them.
Andrew Sten said that should
be the final workout for
the Masters Games.
That'd be really cool if they did that.
So the next thing is the Service Open.
Service Open has already started.
It goes through June 13th.
It is being hosted by the Rogue website.
So it's a joint effort
between CrossFit and Rogue.
It requires athletes.
It can be three workouts
over the course of one week.
The competition will include
an RX and scaled community
division and service
members in the following
professions are encouraged to join.
Affiliate owner, CrossFit trainer,
medical professional, educator,
military veteran, active duty military,
law enforcement, firefighter,
first responder, EMS responder.
So,
I'm a CrossFit trainer.
Carolyn's an educator.
You doing it, Carolyn?
Yeah, I've done.
I did Randy and Kelly Brown already.
Randy's one of them?
Randy's one of them.
Ben and Snap.
second favorite workout of
all time yeah randy's one
of them kelly brown was a
good one so the kelly brown
one was uh five rounds for
time 440 meter row 10 box
jumps at 30 inches 24
inches so higher box jumps
uh 10 deadlifts also
heavier I think for the
females it's 185 I'm not
sure what the weight is for
the men and then the at the
real kelly brown one is actually
10 wall balls with 30 pounds
and 20 pounds for the,
for the ladies to a 10 and
nine foot target,
but to facilitate within the affiliates,
they've adjusted to regular
20 pounds and 14 pounds,
but they say that you can
like choose the heavier one.
If you want, I chose the 14 pounds.
Kenneth,
the lab says bend and snap like
legally blonde.
Yes,
that's exactly what I was referring to,
but yeah, that was a sneaky work.
It was, uh, it was hard.
Houston, Texas, 94.
Finished my Service Cup
workouts yesterday.
Was rough, but incredible.
I just don't know how I'm
going to do the Dango one.
The running one is going to be...
challenging because you have
to film your distance and stuff.
And it's like, I mean,
if you're trying to win your,
your division, which I am, um,
like if I'm just doing it by myself,
let's say at my school gym,
like I'm gonna have to take
the camera after my 400 meter run,
show the assault runner,
put my camera back, continue.
Um,
I just think of running distance like
that in an online format is like,
hard to do like even if you
go and run outside like a I
don't know 200 out and back
like I hope people are
actually running that
distance like it's just
hard to do I'll probably do
it on the assault runner
just so I can not have to
film something outside but
larry young says that one
to do he can check all the
boxes except the fitness one
And there's community versions too.
So if you're part of a
service category there and
you can't do the RX version,
they have like a modified
version for you to still
participate in the service cup.
How glad are you that they
brought this back?
Yeah.
I mean, I always just, like,
did the hashtag in the open.
In the past, like, they just used the open,
which I think that would
actually make more sense
because everyone signs up for the open.
So you can actually see if
you're the fittest teacher.
But the problem is,
is people use the hashtag
for anything this year,
as we saw some people that
had jobs that they don't actually do.
But...
I think the open still would work,
but this is another like revenue for,
for them.
And I think it's just kind of, it makes it,
it makes it more special, I guess.
Um,
more focused on the service members in
the community versus in the open.
I think the open is a better
representation of the
fittest firefighter.
Everything is they actually sign up,
but this is still like a specialty.
Do you have to prove your teacher?
It says that you may be asked to prove.
So I filmed the first one in
the school and I filmed the school.
And I'm pretty sure a bell
rang while I was middle of Randy.
So if they had any doubts.
So the start date is June 6th,
which is already passed.
End date is Thursday, June 13th at 5 p.m.
specific time or 8 p.m.
Eastern time.
So make sure you get those workouts in.
Some of you already have.
Good luck.
And we hope to see you all
next week to know who is
the fittest where.
John Woolley.
John Woolley lost his Instagram account.
Half a million followers.
It's crazy.
So insane.
What happened?
Lex told me that and I
didn't know what happened.
So I don't even really know.
um it just got and he said
it's not coming back I
talked to him at syndicate
crown um it's not coming
back and he started a new a
page and it's had a couple
names but he settled on woolly memeth
is the new page but he does
want to kind of change the
structure of it not just be
a meme page but some other
stuff that he has a passion
for or an interest in uh
but he's already like he's
got tens of thousands of
followers already back to
it um he posted something
that was copyrighted by mtv
wow that is crazy
they don't just make him
delete that post yeah
that's crazy yeah he was on
glint and things I did not
I did not catch that
episode yet um but I'll try
to catch that or I'll I'll
just reach out to him he's
been on with me on a couple
different things when I
used to do the music show
and uh he's had a couple
interviews when we've been
at events together
So I'll check out what happened.
Maybe it wasn't his first time doing it.
Yeah,
it says that he already had two
previous strikes.
Yeah.
So there's that.
But it sounds like he's in a
really good headspace with
it because he did want to
kind of change –
What he's doing and he
wanted to talk about
different things than just memes.
So it allows him to kind of
change that up and move in
a different direction.
And he seems to be cool with that.
So.
So now we're going to talk
about the CrossFit Games
coming up a little bit,
and I teased this on my IG
Live before we jumped on here,
but I'm going to show something first.
I did a poll question on YouTube today,
and it was, at the 2024 CrossFit Games,
who do you pick to win the women's title,
Tia Claire Toomey or The Field?
And 88% of you all said Tia
Claire Toomey with 12% saying the field.
So I'm going to ask you guys first,
surprised by the results of this?
No, not at all.
I'm actually surprised 12% said the field.
Yeah, I guess.
When I voted earlier,
I think it was like 93 and 7.
And that was like right
about what I would expect to see.
Okay.
Well,
I am one person that is picking the
field.
Of course you are.
And this is not new.
I've been saying this for months.
And when I do my spin poll,
I put Emma Lawson number one.
I actually, in the spin poll two times ago,
I went Emma Lawson, Laura Horvat,
then Tia Claire Toomey.
The last spin poll, I went Emma Lawson,
Tia Claire Toomey, Laura Horvat.
I feel like what she is
doing is amazing and she is
a phenomenal athlete and
that if everything is perfect,
she will do amazing things
and probably win.
But this is a lot.
It's been two years since
she's been on the floor.
She has to crank up the volume.
She has to get that body
ready for another run at this.
Anything can happen.
Everybody thought Mike Tyson
was unbeatable until Buster
Douglas beat him.
Everybody thought that
Georgetown couldn't be beat
with Patrick Ewing and NC
State beat them in the NCAA finals.
Upsets happen all the time in sports.
And for everybody to talk
about this like it's an absolute,
I think is insane.
Just as much as you guys are
yelling that I'm insane in the chat,
that I'm on crack and all
of those things.
I think it's insane to think
in sports period, there are absolutes.
Other than...
I can respect the, hey,
this is a sport and things can happen,
just like Roman.
Like, barring a sickness,
an actual injury in
something at the games,
she will run away with it.
Like,
if you're just saying she needs to
get back in shape,
she needs to get her body
back ready from the baby,
you are on crack.
I don't think she has to get
her body back after the baby.
That's what you just said.
She's still got to retrain her body.
I'll take Mia's body from
when she had the pregnancy.
She had a better body than I did.
Every athlete is cranking up
their volume at this point.
Every athlete is going to
another level for games training.
It is another stressor on
the body is what I'm saying.
And for years,
everybody has told me that I
put too much credence on
the results of semifinals
when I look at my games predictions.
And now, because Tia did what she did,
everybody's jumping on that
Tia is going to win the games.
Absolutely.
I agree.
I agree with Jamie.
Barring any injury,
fluke injury or something
prior to the games.
sickness.
Someone food poisoning something.
Yeah.
It looks pretty strong.
But yeah, it doesn't take like,
I still think it's gonna be close.
Between like Laura is never
to be counted out.
Like Laura,
like Laura has been the second
best to Tia for the last
few years while she was in the field.
And it takes something away
from Laura's win last year.
She was awesome.
But I think it with Tia in
the field with that many events,
if she's healthy and everything,
I would expect her to win.
Can she lose?
Yes.
Anyone can lose.
Like you said, right?
It's sports.
That's why we,
that's why we play the game.
She can lose.
Do I think?
No.
Can it happen?
Yes.
Okay.
Let me ask you this.
Last time she competed at the games,
she was not the dominant T
as she was in years past.
She was not healthy too.
That's, that's what I was saying.
Like if she's healthy,
She still won.
Not even healthy.
But the competition is much
better this year than they
were in years past.
You're telling me two years older,
she's going to be fitter
than she was two years ago?
Yes.
I am.
Now she can defy age.
yeah but I do agree with
your point with like lawson
is going to be there in the
mix she's very consistent
there's not many holes that
she has so she is going to
stay relevant the whole
weekend laura we know the
one hole that she can have
but she's she can win multiple events um
Yeah, it'll be interesting.
I think a lot of the events
that Emma would win,
Tia excels at the same similar things.
A lot of stuff that Laura would win,
neither Emma or Tia win those,
if that makes sense.
Yep.
I think Emma's like a mini Tia.
Like a younger version, future version,
possibly, of Tia.
Although, like, can't count out Kazan.
Raptus is looking great.
There's plenty of great women.
Yeah, Gabby.
Danielle, you know,
Brooke's back in the field now.
Haley.
There's a lot of people who could middle.
If she slips up here, slips up there.
Then they weren't there in the past.
Just saying.
Yeah,
and that's what the men's side needed
when Matt was in the field.
Matt would win or he'd take second,
but there was no one taking middle.
It happened with Justin.
Pat couldn't get enough people to middle.
But this is taking nothing away from Tia.
I think she is amazing.
She is the greatest
CrossFitter to ever do this sport.
Male, female, period.
Period.
I hate when people talk
about winning in an absolute sense.
That's it.
Well, nothing's absolute,
but... Everybody's talking
like it's an absolute.
It pretty much is, and it's annoying.
We just don't even want to
deal with her anymore.
See,
I like watching a champion just to see
what the bar is, a possibility.
Some people are annoyed that she wins.
She's made the woman's field much better.
She's pushed the woman's
field better than anyone
else has ever been able to do.
Tristan,
there's a difference between smart
money and an absolute.
An absolute.
All week long, all I've heard is,
it's over.
Might as well not even have
the competition.
Well, we're having a competition.
But Carolyn, when you first came on,
before we went live, you said to me,
that's why they play the game.
Yeah, 100%.
Yeah, that's why you play sports.
You don't know what's going to happen.
People get hurt.
People start having bad events.
And then mentally, they are out of it.
That's all.
Yeah.
That's all I'm saying.
Like,
what she did at Syndicate was amazing.
And she dominated that field.
But there were a lot of
really good people not there.
Like, we talked about the East being deep,
but, like, Laura wasn't there.
And Gabby wasn't there.
And Alex Kazan wasn't there.
And Ariel.
Those are all people that can get.
Dolmett looked great in the West, too.
But Alex is a home run hitter.
She can actually go
toe-to-toe in stuff that
Tia's not good at.
Like what?
Just like Laura.
Just like... I mean,
Tia was in the field at
Rogue and Alex won two events.
That's all I'm saying.
That's all I'm saying.
Okay.
I don't think Tia's far
behind on any of the events
from like Gazan winning or someone else.
The only thing that I think
Tia gets a little bit
behind is that there's like
a major power output event
on a machine or something
where there's no way she's
matching someone like Laura
Horvath that's just gonna
dominate certain stuff.
But
She's so well-rounded.
Her Olympic lifting is great.
Even like her raw strength is great.
Like there's, there's no holes.
There's no major holes.
And if she has a bad event, it's,
it's an 11th place.
Mate,
like it's everyone else is going to
get something outside the top 15,
but she just doesn't.
But she did last time she
was on the games floor.
On a single under.
Okay.
I beat her.
It happened.
That's all I'm saying.
It happened.
I beat her on a skipping one.
But I guess everyone's
saying it's an absolute is
what makes the upset so great.
So.
All right.
people make mistakes also in
workouts like they just
make mistakes sometimes for
sure all right uh kenneth
says might not even watch
the games no colton no
taylor stealth no prevos
all right uh next thing is
roman's statement about
taking third with one leg
people better be scared or afraid
Now that he has two.
Thoughts?
I don't think people are afraid.
I don't either.
I don't either.
I think there's a lot of men
that are confident right
now in this field.
A lot of them that feel that
it's wide open to win.
Which is crazy.
Jeff is, you know, the champion.
He is going to do well.
But I think there's a lot of
guys that are confident and can do it.
You know what I think is
hilarious is after the games last year,
Roman said Jeff talked too
much trash and was unsportsmanlike.
Yeah.
Who was the only one not
talking trash at Syndicate Crown?
Roman.
No, Jeff.
Oh, yes.
I felt Roman was constantly
talking trash at Syndicate.
Dallin was talking trash.
Roman was talking trash.
Hopper.
They're all talking trash.
And there's Jeff just
quietly doing his thing.
Now that's an absolute.
Adler's winning the games.
I'm just kidding.
Nothing's an absolute.
I just think the men's field
is so exciting.
There's so many good guys.
This is by far the deepest
field of men that we've ever seen,
I think.
Of legit chances to win.
You've got seven or eight guys that are
One small trip up,
and you could fall eight spots quick.
Yeah.
Oh,
there's going to be some middling there.
There's a lot.
Yeah,
the men's field's crazy good this year.
As much as I want Belner to
do well and always root for him,
I feel like this is going
to be his worst shot
because he always has a mistake,
and you cannot have those
mistakes in this field.
Either you can't have one or
everybody's got to have one.
Yeah, and that's not happening.
Because Medeiros looks better.
And he's back to just don't
make a mistake.
Wads always said Medeiros is going to win,
been saying it all year.
That would be a great comeback story,
though.
Especially with this group at the top.
Yeah.
For him to pull it off again.
I'd be happy for him.
think this is a great
discussion I hope or
crossfit uses rogues live
stream format for the games
it was so good that was
like the best thing to come
out of 2023. being able to
pick the the screen you
wanted to watch it was like
being there live yeah
um damien asked will we have
a better guess after the
first event depends on what
the first event is yeah I
mean because if it's a big
run then that's going to
favor those who run well
jeff yeah so impressive how
much that he's transformed
as an athlete like he's so
strong and the way he's his
aerobic capacity has
developed over the last few
years has been so impressive
It is because he was really
just a strong guy.
And then he's now turned
into like the engine guy with,
with strength.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He doesn't have any major holes too.
That we know.
Everybody's talking about
the rogue live stream.
They won't.
If they charged like rogue did.
What was it?
25 bucks for the weekend.
Well worth it.
In my opinion.
If you're a CrossFit nerd,
that was the best $25 you could spend.
I didn't end up watching it.
I just donated $25.
I just wanted to make sure
that I supported so that
they could keep doing it
for other events.
Because I was there, so I was like,
I don't really need the live feed,
but I just paid the $25 just to... Yeah,
and the Manning cast
version they had with Pat
Sherwood was great.
So you could get two
different perspectives,
switch from one to the other.
Um, it was awesome.
They brought in a lot of people.
Yeah.
Pat, Pat hosted the whole thing.
And then they bring in like Josh rich,
Annie, uh, Katrin, Annie Sakamoto.
Uh, they brought it, it was,
they brought in strong men
during the CrossFit,
which was interesting.
Damien says he's cheap, only $4.99.
Watch it once, and you'll get sucked in.
So the next question someone
put in here was, early predictions,
who will be rookie of the year?
So my first answer to this,
because I didn't put this one in here,
We have no freaking idea who
will be rookie of the year
because there's no criteria.
It's just whoever they pick
at the end of the weekend.
But there are eight rookie
men and 12 rookie women,
and they include Callum Clements,
Victor Hoffer, Ivan Kukartsev,
Harry Lightfoot, Chris Ibarra,
Peter Ellis, Ruan Potgeiter,
Austin Hatfield,
Then on the women, Gemma Rader,
Andrea Pinheiro,
I put question marks
because she went in the Masters.
This is her first time elite.
Lexi Neely, Georgia Pryor, Gracie Walton,
Daisy McDonald, Hattie Cano,
Kyra Milligan, Amy Kringle,
Linda Kiesman.
Are you missing Jack Rosema?
Yeah, that's who I picked, actually.
I am.
Jack Rosema.
Yeah.
Because I was going to say
Austin Hatfield wasn't the
highest finished rookie, I don't think,
in the East.
Let me add that to the mix here.
I picked Jack as my dark
horse to make the games,
and so I just assumed he
wasn't a rookie because I
already had him there.
There we go.
So, thoughts?
Thoughts?
I'm intrigued by Chris Rivera.
If they, if they go gymnastics heavy,
I think that's a huge
advantage for him more than
cause he's great at gymnastics.
I don't know enough about him, but he was,
I was expecting him to have a fall,
like a fallout in the West
and he just never did.
He was always just there.
And I was like, Oh yeah.
Okay.
he's worked hard on his
strength because when I
talked to him two years ago
in our semi-final series
like he was super confident
at the um super confident
in his gymnastics ability
but was not in his strength
so he's come a long way
with that so we have in the
we have a lot of hat fields
I do like the Jack Rosema pick though.
That's who I picked.
Especially with the
confidence that he had when
he did that interview with you.
And he was like, no,
I'm coming to podium at the
East and I'm going to go, you know,
top 15 at the games.
I was like, okay, so you're very, you know,
confident in where you're at this year.
And he was the highest, I think,
finishing rookie in the East.
And I don't know how he is
with like odd objects and
stuff like that.
Cause we didn't test any of
that at semifinals,
but I'll be interesting to see.
Uh, Larry young for 99, uh, Gracie Walton,
rookie of the year.
That's who I picked for women.
Damien Fink, Austin or Gracie decks.
Also who's men's 30 to five
to 39 rookie of the year.
Are you saying someone that
came in 40th just under the
cut line is going to be
rookie of the year decks.
Gracie or Hatfield from Chelsea Miller.
I think this is in reference to Jack.
Rumor is he has a new strength coach.
I wonder if Larry Young has
some inside information.
Claudia Gluck has been looking good.
She could do well.
I know that nobody knows who
this person is,
but Hattie Cano is really well-rounded.
good pick and looking at the
women she's my pick for the
women's side it's a great
thing um on the men's side
I think nobody's saying Victor Hoffer
I know he has some strength deficiencies,
but he's really good at a lot of things.
He moves very well.
And he's going to win some events.
His running isn't that great.
and his raw strength
probably is a little bit on
the lower side compared to
some of the bigger boys in the field.
But his gymnastics,
he can win a couple events if it's very,
very strong, like, gymnastic base.
When you're going to get at
least one of those at the games, right?
He's really good upper body pulling.
Yep.
So there's usually something
like that there.
I think he's going to have a
couple really high finishes
that will give him a few
hundred points that then
it's just can he do well
the rest of the way.
I think you've got to take
your mind out of past games and –
I don't think you're going
to get the games of past.
I don't think you're going
to get a bunch of running events.
I think it's going to be the
machine games and you're
going to see Dalen and
Hopper and Fikowski excel.
I don't think someone like
Hopper has as great of a shot.
It's still way more events
than the stages we've seen.
And I still think you're
going to get a gymnastics heavy event.
There's more monostructural
at the games because you can do that.
Yeah, when you're outside.
Think about the Coliseum.
Maybe for one event.
Just take all the Coliseum
programming and extrapolate that.
Yeah.
They're going to go outside
for more than one event.
A swim.
They're going to swim.
I think – I love the idea of
a Friday Night Lights.
Texas is known for Friday Night Lights.
Go get a high school football field.
Not going to happen.
Going to happen.
They are spending all this
money to move to that stadium.
That's where they're going
to put their energy.
They're not going to find
other venues and put time
and money into making another –
all they want everyone at
that venue for their
vendors they are not going
outside of that well the
vendors aren't in the venue
the vendors are down the
street yeah like they'll do
some sort of running it'll
just be probably in the morning
It'll just be interesting
how big that venue is.
If they can put a turf area,
can they do the flips or some sleds?
Boz loves sleds, whether it's sled pull,
sled push.
I mean, we saw that on the rubber floor.
I guess they can still do that there.
It was in the Coliseum.
Dex used to live in Fort Worth.
Fort Worth has some pretty
interesting options for outdoor venues.
Trinity Trail, TCU Football Stadium.
Listen,
they made those people run in 118
degrees in Vegas that year
for the West Coast Classic.
Yeah, some people dropped over,
but the show went on.
I'm not saying they won't go
outside and run one event.
I actually do think they'll
take them outside.
If that Trinity Trail is
close to that venue and
able to step outside,
I can see it happening.
But I don't see them paying
to go to an entirely
different venue and set up
an entirely different venue.
They don't need to put a rig and stuff up.
You can do an outdoor event
without a ton of equipment.
It's freaking CrossFit.
Take some sandbags.
They could still go outside
and do something and come
back in like they did for
the semifinals or what they
did at the games.
And that Vegas run was in a
hot parking lot, right?
Yes, it was.
And Bethany Flores...
beat about all but one of
the men on that run.
Sarah says only off-site will be a swim.
No, I don't agree with that.
I think they'll have more.
Football stadium is a
20-minute walk away from the arena.
I don't think they have the
funding to reserve a pool
and a football stadium and the venue.
If he dies, he dies.
Rocky IV reference.
Favorite movie.
Deck says TCU would be so
easy to get cost site for.
A ton of health initiatives with them.
There we go.
All right,
so final rookie of the year now
that we've totally went off the rails.
I'm going to go with... I
hate going with Rosamund
because you already picked him.
So I'm going to go Victor
Hoffer and Hattie Canio.
I have Rosamund and Grace Swanton.
I'll try to pick someone
else from you guys.
So Victor... I'll go...
Chris Ibarra and Amy Kringle.
Good picks.
Amy Kringle was probably my number two.
And none of us picked Austin Hatfield.
We'll let that other show do that.
All right.
Question here.
CrossFit being sold.
So
I don't know.
I'm guessing either Lex or
Carolyn put this in here.
I think it was Lex.
And when Peter was doing
Beyond the Whiteboard last week,
it was a week and a half ago now,
Mads Jacobs was on,
said that Dawnfall was at
an event in Europe where he
told the affiliate owners
that they were preparing to
sell CrossFit.
CrossFit came out,
said that isn't exactly what was said,
that because they are owned
by an equity firm,
that you're always kind of
gearing up for the sale,
but there's no plans for
that in the next two years.
So I don't even think it matters anymore.
Like,
Now that you're already with
a private equity firm,
it doesn't get any worse than this.
It's either going to go back
to a private company or
it's going to be a private equity firm.
And it's just going to change hands.
And none of those people are
going to directly run CrossFit.
They're just going to do it
as an investment or some
private company is going to
buy it and then want to do something.
And that might be a good thing.
So...
Either way,
I don't think it really matters anymore.
Once Greg sold it,
it changed how it was owned,
changed the structure,
and we're never going back to that.
this point it's just it's
either going to be
swallowed up by a bigger
company like ufc and dana
white's big it's now wwe
ufc and I don't know what
the bigger company is
called but they own all
that stuff so anyway um
there's that uh and then
we're just gonna finish up
with what's next for the show
So we are starting our Games
Athlete Series.
We started that with Hattie
Cano on Friday night.
Had a great conversation with her.
In case you haven't heard of her,
she is a qualifier out of
the North America West and
headed to the Games.
Hasn't been on many shows.
No.
No.
She made her 15th appearance
on our show on Friday night.
But, you know, nobody knew.
So...
But we have two people
locked up for this week already.
Both on Thursday.
Back to back.
Tough day for this dude.
Thursday at noon, we have Alex Kazan.
Nice.
Followed by Thursday at 1, Eastern Time,
James Sprague.
So a nice back-to-backer on
Thursday should be a fun
two hours of conversation.
We'll talk to them about semifinals,
going back to the games for
third and second time and
what that means to them and
all of that stuff.
So, yeah, have that coming up.
Someone tell Savan that it's can-yo.
Can-yo.
What does he say?
It's not that.
Kenyo.
I don't know.
So, yes, Kenneth, we have James Sprague.
I've only ever had James on
one time and it was with
the whole Brute crew.
I did an interview with Dallin, James,
Emma.
It was when they were just, when he was,
it was all the teens, right?
now james dominated that
whole conversation but it's
the only time I've had him
on and super stoked that
he's coming back on um to
do that so that's going to
be fun the last thing is
going to be kind of a plea um and that is
think we cover the masters
group as well as any other
media company in the space
other than like the masters
themselves like with
masters chatter all of that
stuff I don't want to take
anything away from them but
of the more um overarching
media companies I think we
cover the masters as well
as anybody we are trying
trying I've put in the request
To go do a behind the scenes
of the Masters CrossFit Games.
I have put together a team
to come do that with me.
Because Jamie will be a
little busy that weekend.
I don't want to bother her
with any of that stuff.
But I've put together a team
that if we get that from
Legends or CrossFit...
That we'll be able to come in,
talk to you all behind the scenes,
highlight all the awesome
stuff that the masters do.
And very much like the other
behind the scenes that you see,
just we'll do it with the
masters community.
I put that request in.
I've heard nothing.
So if you are a Masters
athlete or someone that
wants to know more about
the Masters athletes and
you want this to happen, please,
please let the legends people know,
let CrossFit know that we
want to do this.
And I've got a really cool
team put together.
It also helps that a lot of
my friends are competing.
And I want to be there to support them.
And now I have a frog in my throat.
So with that,
I am making the plea to
please let me cover this.
Because people are going to
want to jump in on the fact
that it's the games.
When we went to Legends last year,
we were the only company there.
The only company at Legends.
Will they have a live stream?
are.
The teens and the masters
are both having a live stream.
The heads of both companies
were told that that was
going to help their live
streams to be on at the
same time during the weekend.
Not sure I buy that.
What?
Yeah.
It's totally going to
distract from one or the other.
They're not on the same channel, right?
There's.
They're both going to be on YouTube or.
Right.
But not on one channel.
There's going to be a teens channel.
And so you have to go to one or the other.
Yep.
You're viewing.
So I'm putting out the plea
to our listeners and our
Masters lovers that if you
want us to cover this,
people who know these athletes,
who have interviewed these athletes,
who know the backstories
before we even get there on
a lot of these athletes,
Please let us cover this.
Please, please, please.
And I bring with me the
greatest stats and
information person ever who
puts out leaderboards
nonstop of everything
that's going on through the weekend,
charts and graphs and
interesting numbers and
facts and figures all weekend long.
You get that too.
And when we were at Legends
and Holly was doing all that for us,
I don't know how many
mathletes came up to me and said,
thank you so much.
What she does, I can share with my family.
I can share on social media
so people know how I'm
doing during this weekend.
And a lot of competitions don't do that.
And it's hard to, like,
screen grab the leaderboard
where it makes sense to people.
So...
We want to do a really
freaking cool job with this,
and we want to do it in a
way where everybody is highlighted.
Do you have sponsors to help
you for the trip?
Not yet, but I'll fund it myself.
I have committed more to
this than I am to the regular games.
Let's help Scott get to the Masters games.
Yeah.
Uh, masters lover.
Well, I just got a new label.
Awesome.
Is the competition Friday to
Sunday for the masters or
is it four days or three days?
Do you have any information?
I don't know.
Is it, say what?
Is it a three day event?
Is it a four day event?
Do you have any information on that?
Thursday through Sunday.
Okay.
So four days of continuous,
not no rest day.
Yeah.
Denise, you got that correct.
I put in the request with
Joe Linton from Legends by
text because him and I have
texted since last Legends.
I put in that request.
I have not heard back.
Okay.
I'm hoping we get check-in
information back.
sooner rather than later I
like I need to decide when
I'm getting there and if
it's this age group has to
be there at this time like
I need to know that yeah
like aaron we need to know
that for we're probably
driving and it's 11 hours I
need to know if I need to
leave at two in the morning
all right kent this is the
last thing I'm taking
Thick Boy Tour.
I'm taking this because
Thick Boy is the best.
He has sponsored us all at certain times.
Thick Boy Tour is,
Mark is the owner of Thick Boy,
is one of the hardest
working men in the business.
And every weekend he travels to events.
And he sets up his booth and
he sells his wares and he
just loves supporting and
meeting athletes.
Just loves it.
And so over like the next eight weeks,
I think he is at an event
every weekend for the next eight weeks,
all the way to the end of July.
Correct.
Huge.
Thank you, Mark.
And thank boy.
Huge.
Thank you.
And he does this not to the big events.
He does this to the
mid-majors and those where
those comps need his help,
need him to be there.
And he's there supporting them.
So he does so much for the community.
If he has an event near you,
go check him out.
Um, you, most of these events are free, uh,
that are being held.
You can just walk in, watch some CrossFit,
check out his apparel, uh, meet Mark.
He's a really cool guy.
Um, and hang out with him.
And I'm going to try to get
to at least one of the spots, uh,
to do some interviews in his booth.
If I can swing it,
I'm going to try to go to Metcon Rush.
Uh,
Because it's near Pennsylvania,
and I could probably swing
by my mom's house,
then down there for a day,
and then back up to my mom,
and then back to Ohio.
So I think I'm going to try that.
And don't forget,
we're going to be at Fresh Coast,
out there on Lake Michigan,
for anybody who wants to
head to the beach in the summer.
And what's the name of the town again?
Muskegon.
Yeah.
muskegon michigan awesome so
uh denise is telling you
all of her travel agenda
there jamie all right yeah
I will not be getting there
tuesday night that's not
possible for me so with
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