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what is going on everybody welcome to
sunday sunday sunday night crossfit talk i
don't have a mixer with me so i
have to do it myself this week
old-fashioned um old-fashioned way
NorCal is still going on if people are
watching it.
So we'll catch up a little bit and
then we'll get into the weekend.
I'm going to be up front with everybody
being at the syndicate and you can see
I'm still in my hotel.
I did not catch up with a ton
of NorCal nor any of MadFit other than
leaderboard watching.
But we're going to talk briefly about it
tonight and we'll see if Carolyn,
who just,
just finished her final event at NorCal.
We'll see if we can do like a
show later this week to kind of recap
everything.
Yeah.
So thoughts on the event as a whole.
I've got to say,
you're doing better than me.
I'm at home,
and I haven't even caught the leaderboard
of MAD, so you're doing better than me.
I have watched all of NorCal and
Syndicate,
but I have not even peeked at the
leaderboard for MAD.
I don't even know.
Is it on YouTube?
I haven't even seen things pop up for
where I'm at.
Honestly, just so you know,
at Syndicate and the Meteor area...
We supposedly had Wi-Fi,
but all the passwords I was given,
none of them worked.
So the little bit that I like was
uploading from there was done on my
hotspot from my phone.
And to then stream off of that was
nearly impossible.
So it just made for trying to watch
everything in the downtime impossible.
Yeah, agree.
I will say it was really nice that
California is three hours different.
So like I was able to like watch
Syndicate and then go catch up the streams
of NorCal afterwards and not be that far
off.
Vicky says NorCal was on Sivan Overflow
Elite.
Mad was on YouTube.
Oh, yeah.
I just I didn't even see a notification
for Mad.
I mean,
I probably just not subscribe to the right
channel.
John Jenkins, who I met this weekend,
and if that last name looks familiar,
that is Ty's dad,
who is probably having an amazing night
tonight.
Yeah.
Carolyn is being interviewed right now at
NorCal.
Shoot.
yeah so i gotta ask because i know
i talked about it after legends um and
you haven't been really in person in a
little while to an event and i know
for me it was really nice being back
in the community and having people come
talk and say how much they enjoy the
show i'm guessing you were bombarded with
that this weekend
Uh, Friday, a ton, Friday, a ton.
Um,
and then it was just sprinkled in the
rest of the weekend.
Um,
I met Jason Bourne who was always on
our lunch show chat.
Okay.
So I now know who Jason Bourne is.
Okay.
Um, a lot of,
I met a lot of people.
John was one of the first people I
met when I got there.
Uh,
who says he listens to the show every
day on his way home from work.
Oh, that's awesome.
So, yeah.
And I met his wife and Ty's mom.
I met Lydia Fish's mom.
She introduced herself to me.
Shoot, I don't have.
They gave me the clapper.
Oh, yeah.
That they use in the crowd.
Yeah, it was a really fun time.
I brought my wife,
which she has not been to one of
these since the Masters Games in twenty
four.
And usually she just, like,
helps me get food or whatever.
And this time she took it upon herself
to get some content.
And it is...
It is awesome content.
I'm going to put it together.
It'll be out this week,
probably members only for a couple of days
and then and it'll go wide.
But yeah,
she it is it is so raw.
My wife knows very little about the
CrossFit scene, which makes it really,
really cool.
Really, really cool.
I'm excited.
You told me a bit about that.
I'm excited to see these interviews.
Yeah,
like her fingers in front of the camera
or her,
like it's just all the stuff that you
would expect.
And it's really, really funny.
And Shoop, I saw you, Scott,
but you were busy working and didn't want
to bother you.
Maybe next time.
Always bother me.
Always bother me.
I am.
I'm always up for meeting new people.
Right.
And this weekend was just getting my feet
back in the water of kind of being
an event, getting through the weekend,
pounding the pavement,
getting my body adjusted to it.
And and so I everybody I met this
weekend, it was so much fun.
Vicky said she had to go track down
the YouTube of Matt Fitt.
It's out there.
J.Y.
gave you a shout out on the broadcast
today when they were talking about Saxon.
I did.
He actually.
So when Saxon won,
I sent John a text and it was
just Saxon in all caps.
that's all it was and uh and i
heard the comment that he made i'm not
the biggest fan i think his parents are
the biggest fans yeah and maybe his kids
but i'm like right a notch below that
yeah so anyway um
Anna Shoup says great event.
It really was.
They always,
Wilson and Taylor and all those guys
always do a great job.
I mean,
it looked like it ran incredibly well,
which I would expect nothing less with JR
helping out there on the field.
I mean, crash runs on the dot, right?
Putting Wilson and JR together is a force
to be reckoned with.
John said Scott didn't come say hi to
me once.
I didn't know, honestly,
because we got there late Friday.
I didn't know if I was allowed to
go up near the broadcast booth.
I just knew I was allowed where the
purple tape was.
So I just did my thing.
I saw Tyler.
I saw Hobart.
Talked to them.
But didn't run into John anywhere.
Saw Hiller.
I, I've never met Jr personally.
And, uh, he came over,
said hi to me, shook my hand.
We talked for a little bit.
Uh, I mean,
I know who he is and I've seen
him in, at events,
but this is the first time we've actually
talked.
You didn't talk to him when we were
there in, was it?
Twenty-four, twenty-three.
What year did we go?
Orlando?
No, no way.
When we went to syndicate,
I don't think I saw him.
I talked to him like a few times,
like while we were in the media fit
lane, like that year.
Don't nobody care on the last day.
Walk your walk.
Yeah.
I thought about going up and saying hi
to everybody up there, but I just,
they're in the middle of a broadcast.
Like I just,
I'm trying to be respectful and all of
that.
so fergie comes in with this question of
the week jamie if you could choose any
location to host the crossfit games where
would it be and why michigan state that's
funny i actually would not choose michigan
state um now i do think somewhere in
michigan would be awesome if we could do
it i just don't know i have thought
about this because we have the great lakes
i like truly i i personally think madison
was
the best like the best it gets for
being able to have that festival
environment have everyone there like those
college towns are where it needs to be
I don't think Michigan State would be
great I don't even know where you would
swim we don't have I mean I guess
you could do a pool yeah I don't
know I've thought about that and I
wouldn't want to go towards Detroit I
would I would probably choose somewhere
towards Muskegon area um but then you you
miss like the college
a big enough town with enough hotels and
food to, um, yeah, I don't know.
That's a tough one.
I personally think the Chicago area or
like towards Wisconsin is, is the right.
I just think,
I personally think out West is it's
everything is so much more expensive.
I just registered for the games.
It's five hundred dollars this year.
Five hundred.
I want to say it was like
three thirty in twenty four and then like
four hundred last year and now it's five
hundred.
It's insane.
And you get less and less as an
athlete and less every year.
And now you've got to buy three tickets.
Like the more I just see content coming
out about this year's games,
I'm just getting more and more frustrated.
To say that you're bringing it all back
together and it's going to be the greatest
year and then you've completely split it
up.
You haven't even brought the masters
together with their teenagers.
And you have to buy two different tickets,
like two separate four hundred and fifty
dollar spectator tickets.
And then if you're there and you want
to go see the individuals,
you got to spend another, what,
five hundred dollars ticket.
So you want a master who's competing who
might have like a teenager there to
possibly pay their games ticket to get in.
Then four hundred bucks to watch their
team.
Then maybe.
go watch some individual events.
I mean, you need,
that's why you need the environment.
Like you had at Madison where you have
the festival environment.
So you can just have a beer garden
and watch, watch the elites,
but still you're there.
Right.
I don't know.
I, I,
I'm never a person that like looks
backward at where,
where I want CrossFit to go.
Yeah.
I'm kind of with you.
Like,
The festival atmosphere at Madison was
unmatched at any other location.
Now,
I'm sure you could get that elsewhere,
but the biggest drawback was the Airbnbs
and the
um hotels were outrageously caught priced
because it was a smaller town yeah and
and space was limited but you go to
like a chicago you're gonna get swallowed
up in that big city like ohio state
has all the amenities that madison does
but it's such a much bigger town in
columbus that and as much as i'd love
it to be there you just get swallowed
up you do i think
That was when he said that.
That was kind of where my head went
was back to like somewhere so that you
could be around Rogue.
I think though if it was all back
together, like we did get swallowed up.
I'm not going to lie.
The Masters teenagers last year being in
Columbus got like people,
like we were just
not even a tenth of a mile away
eating dinner.
And people were like,
what are you here for?
So yes, people didn't know.
I do think like had the twentieth
anniversary and CrossFit got on board to
go somewhere like Columbus this year and
make a big deal out of it.
I don't know.
I think they could do it right and
not get swallowed up.
If it was all together.
Yeah, I'm sure they all will gouge.
Madison just seemed out of, I mean,
what we paid for like a fleabag hotel.
Bullet holes in the wall.
Like, it was crazy.
But I agree with, like,
the campground not being there.
Big loss.
So many people took advantage of that.
It was a community atmosphere in the
campground where people were doing
workouts all evening long.
Those are the things you lose when you
go away from a place like Madison.
And Madison's as close to the middle as
you can kind of get.
Right.
We're not,
anybody's flying clear across the country.
I mean, I feel that way with,
I think Columbus sort of has that going
for it too.
I just,
you want the fans to want to come
and be there for everything that they can
be there for,
and you can't price them out of it.
You can't charge them for three different
tickets.
It needs to be one fee to get
in.
President says Nashville, Raleigh,
Indianapolis.
I like Indianapolis.
I don't think you would get swallowed up
there.
It is a convention hub.
So they have tons of hotels,
tons of amenities.
Nashville, it's always under construction.
Every time I've been there,
traffic just getting in and out of that
place is nuts.
But every central regional that I went to
was in Nashville.
Well, not everyone, but the last several.
That's a lot smaller scale, though.
Yeah, a lot smaller.
I mean,
than if you did the entire games,
everyone all together.
I suppose just the individuals.
I don't know.
With the kind of foot traffic you want
to get in for spectators, I don't know.
Larry Young says so far,
I think Madison is the only one that
overperformed.
And you know why it overperformed?
Because you could do ninety dollar tickets
for the week.
Right.
And hang out in the beer garden or
hang out at Orange Park or whatever they
call it.
North Park.
North Park.
That's what I don't.
That's where I don't understand where
they're where their head is like.
you had so many people come because it
was affordable to get into and they just
keep pricing people out.
I,
I know there's like,
it's the same thing with the affiliates,
right?
Like you went from,
you went from like thirteen thousand
affiliates at three thousand a year to
eight thousand at forty five hundred.
I guess you're still netting almost the
exact same.
Maybe they are even making a little bit
more money, but it's not better.
It's we have fewer like that's not the
way to just because you netted the same,
it doesn't make it a better model.
Right.
Keep it portable and get more people in
in the doors.
Yeah,
we've lost sight of trying to get people
addicted to watching this by making it
affordable to come see it.
We're not SEC football or Big Ten football
that can charge a hundred dollars a game.
And that's low end, that's upper deck.
But yeah,
I don't understand the pricing at all.
I heard a rumor.
I heard a rumor.
Someone told me that it might be Larry
Young's birthday.
It is.
I wish I had a birthday earlier,
but yeah.
Happy birthday, Larry.
So huge shout out to Larry Young.
I'm sure he is young.
He's always young.
Always young.
But happy birthday, Larry.
The chat wouldn't be the same without you.
So let's talk syndicate crown.
If you didn't see the winners or the
people who got their ticket to the games,
the women's side was pretty much over and
done with going into the final event.
Like it wasn't mathematically done.
But Lydia Fish had like an eighty four
point.
Sure.
Lydia was locked in.
Yeah,
but that third spot was not locked in.
That was no, no, no, no.
That was wild.
But Lydia, the win was in.
Yeah.
And then.
Yeah, for sure.
And then Haley came in second.
And third place was Danielle Brandon.
And she came from fifth.
Yeah.
To get that spot and had to win
the event.
To do it and only did it by
a couple points.
Right.
Yeah.
One or two spots.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It was very close.
Uh,
is how wire to wire Lydia was the
most shocking part.
I'll tell you what the most shocking
parts.
Cause I was right in her lane for
a lot of the weekend.
She's found a switch.
she's found it like she can just
completely know oh and like when it was
go time you could just see the demeanor
change it was really cool to see that's
awesome um and then you have the like
is it chevrolet genie chevrolet genie
chevrolet
I was right there.
She was devastated.
I felt really bad for her.
It was crazy, crazy, crazy.
And I think going into the announcement,
Danielle did not think she did enough.
Agreed.
She looked a little surprised.
I know Janie just needed...
hair faster on those.
I mean, honestly,
it might even have been her Kota bar.
She had a break a few times.
Yeah, I felt so bad for her.
I guess there was some drama at a
semifinal where it wasn't elimination,
but maybe because we're towards the end of
the semifinals.
She's good, man.
I mean,
I think she's got a shot on line.
I enjoyed watching her this weekend.
I, I mean,
I've kept an eye on her through WFP.
She's, she's the real deal.
There were so many couples,
so many couples.
I know they're all coupled up now, huh?
It was crazy.
Um, and, and,
Austin and Haley are about as in love
as I've ever seen a couple be.
And the way that their families support
the other athlete is insane.
That's awesome.
And there were a whole lot of Hatfields
at this venue,
all with their Coors lights and all going
crazy.
Scott,
what did you think of the Syndicate venue?
Not the newest,
but also not a bad seat in the
house.
I kind of like it because it's elevated
above the floor.
So if you're in the seats,
you can see.
You don't have to worry about getting over
media or the judges or whatever,
or the equipment.
You're elevated.
And they did a really nice job inside,
really kind of sprucing it up.
On the men's side,
there was a comment about Danielle.
Everybody was writing her off.
People were telling me she's out of it.
I was like,
there's no way she's out of it.
Because she can win at any time.
But she needed help.
She did need help.
I thought she was going to miss out.
I thought it was going to be another
legend for Danielle.
I knew Lydia had it locked up,
but I thought...
I thought Janie would be able to hold
her off just enough that Danielle would be
one spot looking out again by one
placement.
And yeah, I just,
that sucks for Janie because I think she's
that fit.
I think this was a little bit of
a.
Yeah, I don't know.
This was not my favorite final,
if I'm being honest.
I don't like racing an overhead squat.
Not that heavy.
It was exciting in the venue.
I'm sure it was.
I really enjoyed it.
I wish there was a way you could
know what number total bar they were on.
Yeah.
Because at forty nine, you're just.
I kept looking at the clock.
Well, it's going to be over a minute,
like before someone jumps down and waiting
for a hand to go up.
And, but yeah,
does Daniel Brandon's muscle mass hurt her
engine?
No,
it is weird seeing her next to the
other girls though.
Cause she, she kind of, I mean,
she just towers over them.
She does.
She is so much.
She's just thicker.
I mean, she's, she's taller for sure.
But Haley's like on the little bit of
the taller side too.
And even those two standing next to each
other.
I mean, Lydia's small, right?
She's one of the smallest ones out there.
So they're both going to look bigger next
to Lydia.
But I mean, Daniel.
Even Lydia's taller than like Lexi Mealy.
Oh, for sure.
You know, but yeah.
Yeah,
I said there was a lot of Hatfields
and CrossFit and a lot less McCoys.
Danielle's, I think, got a good engine.
I mean, she's not like your,
it's not like the men when you get
so big and so muscular that you can
see that they just can't keep up in
the really long like cardio workouts.
Danielle, I mean,
Danielle's got a good engine.
I just think these girls coming up,
like the Janie and Lydia, obviously,
are just... I mean,
it's a problem for Alexis, even.
The field is getting fitter.
Daniel Arnson, dollar ninety-nine.
Thank you so much.
Is Haley no longer at Mayhem?
So on my rundown,
the announcement came out this weekend.
She is now with Brute and not Mayhem.
Brute made the announcement on Instagram,
so it's Instagram official.
But yeah,
Coach L was with her the entire weekend.
He was even sitting with her when she
was watching Austin.
It's, it's a strange, I mean,
we talked about this on text.
It's a strange announcement to me,
especially to hear you say how like in
love Austin and Haley seem.
Cause that means to me,
that means she's not moving out of
Cookville.
And so are her and Austin not going
to train together anymore?
I mean, I know you're like, well,
there's other gyms around there.
So she's in a drive to a different
gym every day.
It's just,
it's weird move to me when you're,
I don't know.
Maybe she thinks she's too comfortable.
I don't know.
And I don't,
I don't disagree that she needs a change.
Um, it's just, it's weird.
It's weird timing to me.
I, I saw it and I was like,
are they broken up?
And then you were like, no.
And I'm like, this is just really weird.
I don't know,
but I hope it's for the best.
Yeah.
I, um,
I made the comment that she's starting to
change coaches like Sarah.
Yeah.
Um, and I, I got told no immediately.
Not that's not Sarah level,
but she's started a brute.
She went to mayhem.
She went to Mario back to mayhem and
now back to root.
So it's like an up and down ladder
of coaches.
Yep.
Back to her roots.
Um,
And I hope she finds something right.
Like that.
And maybe what I told you on text
is maybe her and Austin need a little
separation during the day.
Just some, I mean,
I've been married for twenty nine years.
Occasionally you needed some time apart.
I mean,
he's Austin said it like she does will
not talk CrossFit.
When they're at home, like.
That's not what she wants to talk about.
I kind of wonder if they aren't training
together though,
if there will be some CrossFit talk since
they aren't.
I mean, if you've,
if you're with them all day at the
gym and doing workouts together,
you have no business talking about it once
you get home,
but it'll be different if we're not
training together.
So before we move on the men.
The men, Saxon Pancheck with the win.
My guy.
My guy.
The one time I don't,
the one time I did not pick him
in the top three.
I figured this would be a good event
for him.
Like this is, I mean,
JR program's pretty classic CrossFit stuff
that that's right up Pancheck's alley.
He won two events.
Yeah.
More than Colton, right?
I think Colton won two, too, didn't he?
No.
I think he only won the one because,
well,
Saxon beat him in the one that we
thought he'd win.
So there you go.
Yep.
But Ty won two.
I know.
So it ends up Saxon in first,
Ty Jenkins in second,
and Austin Hatfield tied with Ty.
But because Ty won the two events,
Ty got the tiebreaker.
And then you have Nate Ackerman just on
the outside again.
And then Colton Mertens in fifth.
Nate looked devastated.
I mean,
Nate and Janie both looked heartbroken.
For her, this is like, you know,
kind of the first real shot.
So hopefully she takes some things from
this.
For him, I feel like, you know,
kind of got a little bit robbed last
year and,
and now you do everything you can and
it's just still not enough.
It's, it sucks.
Yeah.
I, on one hand, I hope,
I hope he comes back fighting online.
A lot of the big names are already
in.
Yeah.
He has an excellent shot at making it
online and,
But the youth in the sport,
like Ty and Nate both beat Colton in
an event that a lot of people said
Colton would win four events.
I know.
Like Ty won two.
I know.
The youth in the sport is crazy good.
Crazy good.
And then you have OG Saxon winning it.
Hell, Travis Mayer was top ten.
I figured he would be.
I wanted Quinn to get a spot.
I was bummed for him.
Yeah,
I don't know much about Quinn other than
what I've seen at Crash and at Mayhem.
The guy looks like he's right on the
verge.
I know.
I mean, it was a strong field.
I don't think anyone would have had a
better shot at Norkel.
I mean,
there was only the two spots there,
and I think the right two made it
out of there.
Yeah.
The shakeups on the leaderboard were
crazy.
The programming was great at creating
leaderboard chaos.
And yes,
it was really sad seeing Nate afterwards.
I was right behind him when he finished
that workout and he sunk right to the
cooler.
And yeah.
I get it.
Yeah, I think Dave likes Nate.
I think Dave will be calling him to
demo again if he doesn't get it online.
I think he'll get it online.
I think he will too.
He's got a great shot online.
What else?
Alexis,
she overheated on the first workout.
Yeah.
It seems like every big event,
she's having some kind of medical issue
with
I hope she gets it fixed.
Because when she looks good,
she looks really good on the floor.
Yeah,
but every workout's not going to be a
softball ball toss right up the middle for
you.
She's got to learn to deal with these
workouts that aren't perfect for her.
And what is it?
Is it because she's nervous and she's
trying to go out too hot and stay
with field in a workout that she shouldn't
be?
Like, I don't know.
I mean,
I think there's a lot to delve into
there to figure out what's going on with
her.
Yeah, I don't know.
I saw Kyle Ruth briefly,
but no time to like really talk to
him.
And not that he would want to talk
about it this weekend anyway.
But yeah.
Yeah.
I did have two little shout-outs.
My old coach at Polaris took thirteenth.
He looked really good.
Yeah, Alexander Majors,
he was my coach at Polaris.
Every noon class I would go to.
One of the nicest guys ever.
And he had some real,
he had some nice home runs.
He did great on Nate.
He looked great.
So that was really,
really exciting to see him.
And then on the women's side,
Elena Pomerisi,
I saw her at a local comp three
years ago and thought this girl is going
to do something.
And we asked her if we could follow
her through the open and we did.
And it's so cool to see her on
a semifinal stage now.
And, uh,
And she looked good on some of the
events too.
I agree.
Her and Tracy Johnson.
I remember you kind of followed both of
them.
Yeah.
Yeah,
that's when I first met you and asked
you if we could follow you.
Yeah.
So you all three were in that.
Yeah,
I was keen on watching them this weekend.
I was thinking the same thing the whole
time.
The funny thing is Elena,
her last name is Pomerisi,
and her fans in the crowd would do
this as she was racing the Italian race.
Yeah.
It was really cool.
That's like the Nicolette Toragiani.
They were, I mean,
Bill and Cool Boy would do that a
lot on the broadcast.
Mark Phillips,
I kept seeing Griffin roll out there.
No, that's my guy, Alex Majors.
He does give Griffin vibes for sure.
Yeah, long-haired blonde.
Yeah.
Griffin's was a little redder,
I would say.
Yeah.
Alex is a little taller.
Yeah.
And probably a little more lean.
So how about Rhino punching their ticket
there at the end?
Were you so excited for Allison?
I...
So for people who don't know both Raph
and Alison have been, uh,
commentators for us during the games in
the past,
Alison did it last year with us.
Raph did it in like, gosh, twenty-two,
twenty-three and Raph and his team have
made it to the games two years in
a row.
Alison,
everybody knows has been struggling to get
to the games since like what,
twenty-fifteen?
Yeah.
And they came into that last event in
fifth.
Yeah.
And they won it by a lot.
Yeah.
They looked really good.
And to see her cry as soon as
it was over,
like the tears just gushing down her face
and how excited Raph was.
And I think he was as excited that
they got her there.
I agree.
As he was going himself.
Yeah.
We've been saying we wanted her on the
team with them.
I'm excited that she's doing it.
And Raph would always answer,
I'm not good enough to compete with her.
Right.
And yeah, they made it.
It was really, really great.
Really great.
I'm so excited.
She did it.
Syndicate is greater than Torian.
I've never been to Torian.
Yeah.
And Wilson is like my guy.
Yeah.
I'll never go against Wilson Pac.
So I can't pick with my head.
I loved that they did the... Like the...
regular joes at whatever athlete spotlight
workouts i mean that showcases yeah that
was a that was a good idea and
it's like it's good for the fans there
or even watching it on tv to like
see the workout flow through and then you
know what to sort of expect from the
athletes you had really great athletes you
had regular i like uh so there were
a lot of comments so
Allison was a noble model, right?
She was a born primitive model.
Correct.
She's got like.
She had a line with them.
She did after her cat.
I cannot think of what she called her
cat.
But yes, she had.
But she's not she's not with them anymore.
But for a while she had her own
signature line and she was a model for
them.
Yeah.
How was the showcase in person?
Everybody there loved it.
Yeah.
Um,
I think everybody loved getting to see
Hobart out on the floor.
They loved when Hopper and Kyra and Paige
went head to head to head.
Um,
today they loved Miley Wade out there
doing her thing.
Um,
It just was really fun.
And when there's downtime,
why not fill the space with something fun?
Agree.
Now,
what I'll say is what was really funny
is Hiller didn't do the workout correctly.
I know.
Immediately went to the rope and not the
sled.
Yeah.
Well, he came out to the handstand walk,
did one sled when you had to do
two laps because it was two hundred feet.
And went to the rope and J.R.
came down and had to yell at him.
But Mr.
Standards himself couldn't even follow the
standards for the rope.
I kind of wondered if he wasn't testing
the judges.
He was not.
I mean, because people are always like,
you do what you can get away with.
I mean, if the judge lets you go,
then you go.
No, he messed up.
He knew him, and then he felt bad.
I mean, I was standing right there.
He was, yeah.
He did not mean to do that.
Speaking of judges,
the judges were pretty good this weekend
calling no reps from what I could see
from my angle.
Now TV broadcast might get a better angle,
but there was one judge that should not
have been on the floor.
That guy was going to hurt somebody or
get hurt himself.
He didn't know where to move on the
floor.
He almost got run over by a wheelbarrow.
Like it was bad.
That's not good.
Yeah.
I tried to get booze going for Hiller.
I don't think anybody was in a booing
mood.
Paige is a finisher.
She came on at the end of that
showcase.
At first,
I thought she didn't even care about this
event.
She's just out here.
And then the next thing you know,
she is blazing a trail up to catch
everybody.
Kyra was there the whole weekend,
both Saturday and Sunday,
supporting the Proven Athletes.
That's awesome.
Um, yeah, I thought that was really cool.
Did any, so who, I mean,
you have TTT with Lydia and then brew
and then knifer with, uh, Danielle, who,
what are,
what are they on the men's side?
I'm it.
Did anyone from proven make it?
Cause it was all like all proven at
Korean.
No, because it's mostly Mayhem.
Saxon's Mayhem.
Austin's Mayhem.
And Ty is Brute.
And Brute.
So there you go.
Brute and Mayhem.
And Knifer.
DB yelled at a judge, right?
Almost.
Not surprising.
Do you want to know the real tea,
Ed?
Do you want to know the real tea?
Yeah, with the real tea,
because I missed that.
I think she was yelling at Ortega.
Oh.
Okay, that tracks.
There was a few times that I saw
media getting in the way again.
Oh.
They were all over the floor.
I was getting really frustrated.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was...
It was nearly impossible.
I shouldn't say impossible.
Every time I had like a good shot
lined up, a media person would.
And then if the person is winning,
it was like eight media people came to
that lane.
And that's what the fans want to see
too.
Why do we need eight camera angles on
the same lane?
There were times that there was, like,
a perfect camera angle from the floor.
It would have been, like,
kind of back behind your media pit.
And a media person would get in the
way on the floor.
And then you couldn't, like,
you couldn't see the shot anymore.
And they, like, would try to move, but,
like, oh, yeah.
The media people just need to be off
the floor.
I hate it.
No, Ortega's not a judge, Gabby.
Yeah,
Ortega was doing the spin broadcast as a
cameraman.
I wish HQ would kick in some dough
for scoring graphics every semi.
Agreed.
So what I learned this weekend is
Competition Corner has created a rep
counter system that they're letting people
use for free.
You have to buy like the app system,
right?
They said as long as you have iPhones.
And I think if your event is using
Competition Corner.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
for the leaderboard,
then you get to use it for free.
I saw the night before preview that I
think Spin did where Wilson was showing
that system.
It wasn't Wilson that was showing it.
Who was that?
I don't know.
I think the guy from Competition Corner.
I was like, this is awesome.
did you see what happened to Henry
Matthews and his judge with the handstands
chirping back some I'll be honest like the
one event I did not enjoy was Nate
from because being in person everything is
inside the rig yeah so it's really hard
to see anything live he's talking about
the handstand walk today Matthew's got two
no reps on the handstand walk but I
can see what you're saying about Nate yeah
But yeah,
Matthew's got sent back twice on the
handstand walk today with the wheelbarrow.
Okay.
He was getting frustrated.
You didn't see it happen?
I saw him get sent back.
I didn't see the chirping.
Scott and floor cameras.
Oh, dude.
It and finish lines are my two things.
But JR was awesome about finish lines.
what's great about that like touching
there's no buzzer but touching that cone
just let you know like who who was
in the lead um john didn't enjoy me
either i'm guessing
AZ, Zachy, I thought it was a lot.
There were streaming cameras,
but the amount of cameras that were just
taking photos on the floor is just too
much.
Yes.
And there's people there with lenses like
this long.
Exactly.
You can get nose hair from the sideline.
Agreed.
I didn't enjoy Nate either.
Yeah.
I can't believe you couldn't get one more
muscle up than Tyler.
Yes, they did it.
I like the broadcast.
You guys crushed it, Spin.
some of the i mean obviously that's like
the some of that camera stuff is it
is what it is i mean it's what
the comp allows if you're gonna allow
people on the floor that's what it's gonna
be the way it is commentary was good
i think both sides with both both norcale
and uh spin they could both work on
learning the names and pronouncing them
beforehand a little practice but I mean
once you get rolling it's you're just
speaking it's whatever you see quickly
comes out however it comes out favorite
moments from the weekend so personally it
would be Rhino punching their ticket
because two of my friends and one of
them who has never made it to the
games is going
Saxon winning was epic for me personally.
But probably the favorite moment of the
weekend was seeing Lydia Fish learn the
switch,
learn to be able to go into that
space for an event and just turn it
on.
It was so cool to see that in
person.
Yeah.
So someone said that John and Tyler should
be photoshopped into Bert and Ernie.
Who's Bert?
Who's Ernie?
CrossFit says Ernie's Tyler easily.
Okay.
Terry's favorite moment is seeing Haley
get emotional.
Yeah.
Tyler learned how to say Zoe.
I mean, I feel like you guys,
as like people chat or maybe people came
and talked to you and would give you
guys some pronunciations you try to do
better.
But yeah, I understand.
Probably a lot harder than it seems.
Yeah.
I didn't see most of the broadcast.
I was commentating in my own head as
I was telling people.
So I didn't get to hear any of
it.
I was coming on my own head too.
I would just like say the names for
them.
I was yelling at a lot this weekend.
Yeah.
I thought they were epic competitions.
The way the leaderboard shuffled at the
end of both were great.
It was exciting.
I mean, nothing was locked up.
The venue,
the crowd was pretty decent on Saturday.
I talked to Gabe from Paper Street.
He had his best day in two years
on Saturday.
That's awesome.
And, um, and then what,
but there weren't many vendors like there,
which was sad.
They had one acai bowl tent that had
a mile six,
had a line six miles long.
Always do.
Um,
the vindicate paper street booth was
hopping the whole weekend um but there
wasn't much it was really it was sad
because i remember the days of like vendor
village being packed at these events and i
hope we can get back there someday because
it was definitely there just weren't many
options
And they had the spectator,
they had like a spectator workout area.
Cause the one we were there was outside,
but they had that inside this time.
So when we were there,
there was a competition outside.
Right.
Now there's right.
So where John and,
and Tyler and spin were right behind them
was a floor.
And what they do is they bring the
equipment that the athletes were going to
use and
And so you could do the wheelbarrow.
Nice.
And they had workouts set up.
You just registered through a QR code.
And if you worked out,
you got a free t-shirt.
That's awesome.
But yeah,
you got to play with the wheelbarrow or
whatever apparatus they were,
D-balls or whatever they were using that
day.
Yeah,
I think that's key at these comps to
have something like that set up.
Uh, Vicki says,
I knew I should have started my food
truck instead of this government job.
If you would add a food,
there was not,
there were not many options for food,
but there was a guy there with, uh,
making charcuterie boards.
And he said, he said to Julie,
I cannot believe how much meat and cheese
these CrossFitters eat.
Yeah, that's true.
But they were nice, too.
They had, like,
different meats and cheeses with carrots
and pickles and olives and, like,
all the stuff.
And he was almost sold out at the
end of the day Saturday.
Wow.
Does Torian have a vendor village?
Sure they do.
Torian is a community event as well.
Yeah.
Scott,
if the wheelbarrow is anything like a
pushing a sled in football,
I'm sure you would own that race.
I used to be really good at sleds,
like CrossFit sleds even.
Really good at them.
It's been a while.
It's been a while.
Someone's asking if Emily qualified at
NorCal.
I don't think so.
Sorry.
I didn't realize that.
It changed my voice.
I got scolded.
I'm in a hotel with a really bad
chair.
What I would tell Andrew is maybe you
should read the standards before you do an
event.
How about that?
Sometimes you just kind of blink when you
get out there.
Your brain has to like just focus on
moving.
Yeah, yeah.
Trust me, in the gym,
I'm the guy squinting at the board trying
to see what the next movement is.
So Ortega says,
nice seeing you this weekend.
So Jonathan, I got to know,
was Danielle yelling at you at the end
of...
It was the one with the wheelbarrow and...
He's blaming the judge.
Okay.
I don't know.
It kind of looked like she was yelling
at you, Jonathan.
Just saying.
I got to go find that clip.
Somebody put it up.
Oh, was it counting loud enough?
I could see that, too.
I've seen Danielle yell at other judges
for not counting out loud.
Yeah.
Counting down the clock.
famously in her open video.
That's fair.
Grace has said the showcases were so much
fun.
I loved them.
They were fun, man.
And everybody I talked to in the crowd
loved them.
It was a nice break from the day.
Yeah.
I think more accounts should adopt that.
I saw her mouth move auto.
Well, if it was during the handstand walk,
what would the judge be counting?
What does she need?
I mean.
It might have been on the double under
part of that workout.
I don't know.
The flex cam.
I loved that.
That was pretty fun.
That was a great addition.
I mean,
it was cool sitting at home to see
that camera pan around the audience to see
who's there.
Yeah, that was fun.
CrossFit.
So showcases are the CrossFit version of
the Red Panda.
And if you don't know who the Red
Panda is,
it's the Asian woman on a unicycle who
flips onto her head.
Yep.
So, yes, Syndicate was a blast.
Since Hiller's here,
I do want to say this.
I've loved all of his behind-the-scenes
content that I could watch.
I need to get caught up on a
lot of it.
Me too.
But he did put out a comment that
he thinks it's the best it's ever been.
Why do we have to fight?
Why do we have to nudge?
what's the best it's ever been i that
he filler put out a comment that i
think that this behind the scenes is the
best that's ever been oh why do we
have to poke the bear why can't you
just i like when i have multiple
storytellers and i get to get different
perspectives in different ways and i've
loved taylor's behind the scenes so far
But I think it's going both ways.
People are taking nudges or shots or jabs
in both directions.
And I've said this a million times.
To me, I'm not watching for that.
I'm watching for the content.
I just want to enjoy the content again.
Yep.
Besides using a Hoobastank song,
behind the scenes have been great.
I feel like there was comments on there
that people loved the music.
Andrew, I've loved everything.
But I watch so much content,
I like different storytellers.
But I've loved what I've seen so far.
Loved it.
Kenneth, did you talk to Dave?
Well, Dave talked to me.
How about that?
Dave slapped me in the back and said,
what up, dog?
Which I did not expect coming from Dave.
And then he turned,
we fist bumped and talked briefly.
But you don't get long conversations with
Dave.
No.
And CrossFit now is singing Hoobastank.
I mean,
I think your pieces speak for themselves.
You get the views.
There's lots of comments.
People love them.
Three separate pieces in that video make
the claim legit.
I don't think it was meant in the
way you understood it.
Maybe, Peter.
Maybe.
Just give them my opinion.
Other behind the scenes I've put on as
background noise without watching first.
Hiller's behind the scenes.
I sit down and pay attention.
Man, these are moving too fast.
Hiller's is also mostly just proud.
And you should be proud.
You should be.
They're really, really good.
Great, in fact.
I have not seen the one with Danielle
yet.
Seems like she was a lot more open.
She seemed open to media in general this
weekend.
That's good.
I think when she didn't think she was
going to make it was the one time
she kind of closed off.
Yeah.
But I think that's understandable.
Mm-hmm.
You heard her here first, guys.
Dave put his hands on Scott.
Fire him now.
Mama Brandon was in the chat.
She's usually pretty active.
Agreed, Wayne.
I was surprised she let her guard down
even a little like that.
I've always had great experiences talking
with Danielle.
Always.
And she's always been very open about
things with me.
It's just in the last little bit,
I think she felt attacked and she started
closing off.
And it looks like she's kind of throwing
that away and kind of opening up again.
All right.
So that's the syndicate.
It was a great time.
I'll definitely be back again next year if
they do it again.
Or who knows what kind of format we'll
have next year.
That's the one thing I wanted to ask
Hiller, but he was always on the move.
Hiller always has good music playing,
even when he had Alexis working out.
How he gets to use real music,
I would love to know the secret.
I need to message him.
I need to find that out.
Well, he's listening.
Maybe he'll tell you.
Because I think that makes the content so
much better.
Something about Knoxville feels like
almost the right city.
I'll tell you why CrossFat is.
I posted some stuff and I tagged Knoxville
in it as my location.
They like and respond to all of that
stuff as a city.
You don't always get that with a city.
I just can't speak properly.
Fergie,
you're the first person to point it out.
I thought you were great.
I listened to teams a couple times coming
in.
I thought Peter was great on the
broadcast.
I loved Peter on every broadcast he's
done.
I think he should be one of the
new talking heads.
Yeah.
So we had two other events going on
this weekend.
Again,
I have not caught up a lot on
these.
I'm going to see if NorCal is final.
Well,
we know the men was final before we
got on.
So the women's is final.
Alex Kazan overtook Rachel.
Wow.
Must not have been a great event for
Rachel.
I mean, you figure... Rachel took second.
Yeah,
I don't even know if she could have
possibly fallen out of second.
Rachel took a twenty-fourth on the last
event.
Yeah.
Who took third?
Leah Storn.
Okay.
Emily Rolfe took fourth.
Good for her.
I mean, that's a good showing there.
Not an easy count.
How about Carissa Stapp?
Longtime friend of the show.
Finishing sixth.
And she was in a qualifying spot for
me.
I know.
She was, I mean,
it sucked for her because I feel like
everything Rachel was good at, she was,
that's what she was good at.
So she wasn't going to be able to
surpass Rachel.
They were like neck and neck on the
two events.
Literally back and back.
And I guess Carolyn won the last event.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Good for her.
She was on just as we were finishing
up.
Just getting ready to come on the show.
So I didn't know where that ended up.
Good for her.
And on the men's side, Tudor, of course,
won.
And Dylan Hamming got second.
Yeah,
Victor Lundahl was not good at that event.
Mitchell Stevenson was third.
Spencer Pancheck was fourth.
So the only reason I know who Dylan
Hamming is is because I've had to hang
out with you for the last three years,
and you make me watch eighth day CrossFit
every time they compete.
So I've known Dylan for a while.
crazy that he's going to the games as
an individual.
Yeah.
I mean, he was close at Legends.
He just sent it and couldn't hold on.
That dude's fit.
I mean,
I've seen him here at local comps for
years,
so it's fun to see someone come out
of the teens and make a run at
individuals and be able to make it.
Yeah.
Now, on the women's side, I...
I have followed Rachel Noel for a while.
This blew me away.
Agreed.
This many event wins?
Yeah, agreed.
She won three events at a minimum?
She had four.
I count three.
Three.
Yeah,
eighth day has been around and sending
teams for a long time.
I think it was four.
Yeah,
I think she had four going into the
last day.
Yep.
She won quad trio, the mountain,
sand trap, and a bar exam.
Yep.
So...
To come out of nowhere.
And like her best semifinal finish is like
twenty fourth.
Yeah.
And to come out of nowhere and win
four events at NorCal.
Against the likes of LZN.
Crazy.
I. I don't even know what to say.
I don't.
Because she's been around a while.
Yeah.
I mean,
was this just like perfect programming for
her or what?
Like it's, it is really, it's crazy.
Yeah.
I really don't know.
Having strict dumbbell press be your
pressing event and eighteen K biker be
your heavy endurance event takes two big
weaknesses and turns them into event wins.
I'm not a fan of this,
but congrats to her.
I can see that.
How did Gazan do?
She won.
She won,
but only because Rachel took a
twenty-fourth.
Yeah.
It looks like Gazan's lowest finish was an
eighth.
Ninth.
Was a ninth.
Ninth.
Oh,
so she's so she can't do handstand push
ups.
That's, that's a bit of a problem.
How'd she make it?
We tested strict handstand push ups.
Plenty.
Well,
I guess she's a group with a second
place, but we tested in quarterfinals.
We tested strict handstand push ups.
I watch Mrs. Rachel as a twin.
My theory is her sister did the even
and Rachel did the odds.
Well, it is.
It just may not be the test you...
It is to an extent.
I mean,
I think part of the problem is,
especially watching people do strict
handstand push-ups at these comps,
it's evident to me, it's always been,
but it's very evident to me that people
do whatever the hell they want to do
in their own gym and just get away
with whatever they want to do.
And that's how they get through.
So again,
we may do like an emergency podcast
midweek with Carolyn to get her feedback
on NorCal and, um,
And talk about that and Mad Fit once
we get caught up.
But Mad Fit finished first of all three
events.
Three men,
three women made the games from this.
On the men's side, Enola Kai won.
Lewis.
See,
you had to say mispronunciation of names.
And now I've got to read this.
Luis Cielar.
Oh, he was at French Throwdown.
I want to say it's like Cuiar.
And Callum Clements.
Oh, Callum made it.
Those are your top three.
One spot out by two points was Yonikoski.
Man,
I feel like maybe Nate or someone should
have gone out there.
Maybe.
It was an all-Spanish podium.
Yeah, that's crazy.
It's Cuellar.
That's close.
On the elite female side, big shocker,
Gabby Magawa.
Oh, I didn't even know she was there.
Okay.
Lucy McGonigal took second.
Okay.
And Elle Wilkinson took third.
Good for her.
Claudia Gluck took fifth.
Mathilde Garnes took sixth.
Dang, Claudia Gluck missed out again.
Poor girl.
Goodness gracious.
And Aileen Wurz took the fourth position.
I skipped over.
Yeah, online's going to be...
There's still some names that need to do
some work.
What are you thinking about...
Pat and Emily.
Rolf's chances.
Emily's good online.
I think she'll be fine.
Again,
I think Claudia Gluck's going to be fine.
Matilde's probably going to be fine.
Emily Rolf's going to be fine.
Who I'm worried about is Alexis Raptus.
She's got to get better.
Yeah.
I'm just trying to think of all the
people who've missed.
I think both Emily and Pat should have
done Masters.
I think Pat makes it online.
But it's going to be tight.
It's going to be real tight.
So Wajima's putting up Pat, Justin,
Colton, Nate, Quinn.
I think Nate has a great chance.
I think Justin has a great chance.
Colin probably does.
Colin does well online.
Colin will probably win it.
I don't know.
The thing about the judge thing, though,
Colton can do the same workout six times
in a weekend.
Yeah.
And he has a lot of times.
Well,
he better review all of his video and
make sure everything's perfect because
that's the last thing he needs.
And I feel like there will be other
people who don't,
who hopefully get knocked for...
It is going to be hard online.
This is going to be crazy.
Yeah, we've got Ariel.
We've got Alexis, Rolf, Gluck.
It's what, seven spots?
Mm-hmm.
There's way more names than seven names.
It'd be cool if it was televised.
That would be cool.
Kenyo, Grace Walton.
Yeah, that's going to be tough.
My thoughts are also,
what are the workouts?
And there's going to be a surprise.
There's going to be your Rachel Noel's or
your.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Peter Ellis.
Harry Lightfoot.
now that your name we're naming all the
names yeah there's so many so vicky says
there's the season drama i wanted yeah and
none of it's shown to us it's all
in her own gyms doing her own thing
and none of us get to see the
drama
And it'll be a hidden leaderboard until
Monday night.
And then you just get to read it.
You don't get to see it.
You just get to read it.
Oh, we'll get to see it.
There will be some serious judging going
on.
But there's no head-to-head competition.
I know.
Well, when it comes out on Monday,
I don't think Colton would have won NCC,
no.
I don't think he beats Tudor.
I don't think he can beat Dylan at
those events.
Not with that.
The run.
Dylan's an excellent runner.
So that first event with the run.
He won that event.
The.
He would have done great at the clean
at the bar exam.
The clean and jerk.
The rope climb.
I.
think would have gotten colton as well
that it was like that one and a
half rope climbs i think that would have
gotten him you know who else is really
good online is carolyn privo she's always
i i totally get her wanting to go
if she can make it but man she
just needs to go win the twenty thousand
dollars
I mean, Klutz is going team.
I'm about to have to sleep.
Congrats on Saxon, Scott.
You were the first person I thought of.
I even called him to win an event.
So I'm basically pro-pancho.
I heard that, yeah.
I don't believe it.
I don't believe it.
There's not enough room on the bandwagon.
What do you think about Justin at NCC?
He has to look better than he did
at Dorian.
That is a good question.
Because Justin would have done better at
NorCal Sioux than Dylan did.
That one hurt Dylan.
I don't know.
Tudor beats Justin.
Tudor's a top ten games athlete now.
That's the thing.
And I think you guys are somewhat selling
Dylan a little bit short.
I mean, he was beating Tudor at Legends.
And James.
So, the dude is fit.
um big becca has a legit shot gosh
she that overhead squatted if she would
have caught the first one right i know
not that she would have got it but
she would have been close yeah and as
tiny as that girl is like to be
able to do that overhead squat like she
did once she got it locked
Yeah, she amazes me.
I wouldn't have been able to do that.
It is seven men and seven women.
You are correct, yes.
All right, well,
I think that's all I got in me
tonight.
Yeah, you've had a long weekend.
She looked great.
She's so much stronger than when she made
the games.
Field is crazy deep now.
She's way stronger.
That's for sure.
And if it's a gymnastic event,
she is really, really good.
Larry Young, four ninety nine.
Really, Spin was the MVP of that show.
I wanted Becca to get back.
Yeah,
Brian Spinn did a lot of work behind
the scenes of that broadcast.
The graphics looked awesome.
The leaderboards were updated quickly.
And you know that's all him on the
back end.
Yeah.
And they were showing that on the
Jumbotron during the competition.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
He lost ten pounds this weekend.
Oh, man.
I think it's got to be hard for
all of you.
Yeah.
I dude,
I don't eat when I go to these
things.
Yeah.
I, and I get hangry.
Like, you know, I'm always like,
I gotta go get some food.
I like, I can't deal with that.
Last thing is, uh,
Julian are staying in the exact same
hotel.
You and I stayed in last time we
were here.
And we explored the food scene a little
more around the hotel.
And there are way many more places than
we found.
Fergie ate for both of us.
Thank you, Fergie.
All right, with that, it's been awesome.
I love jumping on with you guys tonight.
I had a blast at Syndicate.
It's good to get the feedback in the
water.
Can't wait for the games now.
Just got to figure out what the hell
I'm doing for that.
With that,
I hope you guys have a great weekend.
rest of your night and into the week.
There will be no lunch with the Clydesdale
tomorrow as I'll be on the road on
the way back to Columbus.
And,
but we'll be back on Tuesday and I'm
going to leave you with this because,
and I'm going to let Corey talk about
it more this week.
If you didn't go to the event or
any of the events,
you don't have the right to bitch in
the comments about people not being at the
event.
Very true.
With that, we'll say goodnight.
And I'll let Corey back that up this
week.
Hope you have a great night, guys.
Bye.