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All right, everybody.
It's been a minute.
WFP puts out workout number one.
Time for the smear campaign.
Let's talk about it.
I love the chase and the hunt,
and I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I want,
and I always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
Train Tala says it's lunch time.
What's going on everybody?
How you doing buddy?
I'm doing fantastic, brother, man.
I am doing fantastic.
Ready for the schmear campaign.
The schmear that a bagel with some
schmear.
It's a bagel with a schmear campaign.
Yeah.
Top.
I need, I let me, I gotta,
I'll pull it up on Instagram so we
can see what we're talking about.
Um,
WFP released event one yesterday.
It's making the rounds of discussion to
say the least.
We're going to talk about it now.
Bring it up.
Let's see.
There it is.
Dang it.
Hit the wrong button.
There we go.
So I am slow today.
Here we go.
We got Amanda in the chat.
We got dense in the chat up,
up at Dayton.
It's all already.
And we got Craig.
We got Mike can train to olive.
So the workout here it is.
Are we ready?
pro one a and one b five hundred
meter swim time cap ten minutes in the
first part second part thirty four thirty
two forty calorie ski hundred twenty five
meter swim thirty two forty calorie bike
hundred twenty five meter swim thirty two
forty calorie ski time cap sixteen minutes
In between,
you get a two minute rest from ten
to twelve.
I'm assuming it is a running clock.
So you really only have a four minute
cap for the second part.
What?
So Carolyn actually sent this to me and
said, wow,
this is this makes no sense to have
two swimming events.
And I said, well, if it's half points,
like if it's fifty fifty and it equals
one one hundred point event at the end,
then it's the same as if it was
just a single swim.
Right.
But apparently it's not.
Down here at the bottom,
I don't know if you can see this.
Workout one A is worth a hundred points.
Workout B is worth a hundred points.
So this, and look,
and if you look our,
look at just these Yonikoski and Lucy
Campbell.
Oh, let's go.
Of course, Pat Vellner, not psyched.
That's like surprise, surprise, surprise.
Yeah.
So you can see, like,
Lucy and Yona are going to kill this.
Oh, yeah.
Yonkosi's going to smash this.
Matt Vellner is going to have his water
wings on and hope to finish.
So I really think this is...
Craig is saying cool event,
maybe a cool event, but it,
a swim event in a nine event weekend
that counts for two,
a hundred points makes no freaking sense.
No freaking sense.
Um, and, and here's what I want to,
I'm going to get nitpicky and I'm going
to get a little swimmy here because of
my background in swimming.
Here we go in, in swimming.
There is no five hundred meter swim.
Yeah, no, that's across.
It doesn't exist.
There is a four hundred meter swim.
There's a five hundred yard swim.
Yeah, that's what we had at.
NFC a couple years ago.
But there is no five hundred meter swim.
So then you take you take the five
hundred meter swim.
In my prime,
when I trained five hours a day,
six days a week,
and this was my specialty,
five hundred meter swim would probably
take me five and a half,
five and a half.
And I'm guessing because it isn't a real
event.
So five and a half to five forty
five ish peak at the peak point of
my season.
And that is a guy who is swimming,
swimming only five hours a day,
six days a week.
The time cap on this is ten minutes.
I saw that just now,
and I'm thinking in my head.
Other than Yona and Lucy, and maybe if,
and I don't even think she's there,
Grace Walton, who's making this cap?
It is in a pool, everybody,
just so you know.
It is in a pool.
You're not going to swim outside in
Copenhagen in December.
Although if you did,
it would make this event a whole lot
more interesting.
So the time cap on this is absolutely
asinine.
essentially this is a ten minute swim for
at least half the field for distance right
then they get two minutes rest and hey
now you're fatigued and now you gotta do
another two fifty let's get back in the
water and the time cap on that is
probably only four minutes and you gotta
ski in between and bike in between these
things
Two meter swim.
Like that's in my prime.
And I'm saying prime,
like that's like two, twenty each.
No, no.
For the whole thing.
Two, twenty, two,
twenty for the two hundred and twenty five
meter swims.
Yeah.
Two hundred twenty for one hundred twenty
five.
Yeah.
So you have over half the time is
in the swim and you've got to do
the ski and the bike in between.
This makes no sense.
Unless this is five K measuring at the
games in twenty twenty three.
It's a five hundred foot swim.
It's right.
I mean.
I mean, if it was a yard pool,
I'd say you got some shots at some
people finishing this.
But at a meter pool, no way.
Not happening.
And generally,
if you're swimming a meter pool,
it's fifty meters each way.
So you're not even getting a rest for
fifty.
And that's ten laps of a fifty meter
pool.
If it's a twenty-five meter pool...
which do exist they're just not as as
popular um but if it's a twenty five
meter pool you're talking twenty laps in
ten minutes which is a lot fyi uh
yeah yeah the uh the pool where i
swim is twenty five yeah generally if it's
twenty five it's yards
I'm saying, but back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth.
It's a lot of transitions,
and if you don't know how to flip
turn,
you're going to lose time every single
time.
How many of these people are going to
have enough breath control to be able to
flip a turn?
You're going to have five people that can
do a flip turn.
If.
That's what I'm getting at.
There's so much more that goes into it
than just saying, well,
let's do five hundred meters.
Let's call it good.
Sean, I'm agreeing that it's meters.
I'm agreeing that it's meters.
And that's what's making these time caps
impossible.
Oh,
it must be a twenty five meter pool
because they have bike and ski on separate
sides.
So they have to do one twenty five.
It's definitely a twenty five meter pool.
Yeah.
So the pool like we had at Legends,
because they literally just did almost the
exact same workout at Desert City Classic
last weekend.
I was just looking at it yesterday.
They biked fifteen calories,
fifteen calories, like fifteen,
twelve or something like that.
did a seventy five.
So down, back in and down skier,
don't know the side down,
back and down at three times.
That was the whole swim event.
Yeah,
but they didn't have to do a five
hundred before that.
No, they did not.
That's what I'm getting at.
One piece of that.
It's not a bad test.
I don't understand the five hundred
beforehand.
Like, what is that?
What is that there for?
It is going to completely fatigue three
quarters of the field.
They're going to get no rest and
And,
and then they have to do this other
thing.
It's, it makes no sense to me anyway.
No, no.
And then having it, like you said,
having them both be a hundred points.
So like you are,
you're putting out on both of these.
You can't like,
I don't say sandbag one of them,
but you know what I'm saying?
You can't,
Um,
I'm not gonna go a little bit of
just a distance swim.
I'll be better on the machine with the,
the one, twenty-five in between.
You can't do that.
Like both of these are worth a hundred
points after there's just seven more
events.
So you have to do what you can
to get as maximize your points.
Uh, Ken Walters,
Pat Vellner is going to have his water
wings on and hope to finish Clydesdale.
That's why Jenny's here.
Lito, back with us.
Nice seeing you, Lito.
What's up, Lito?
Is Vellner canceling his trip?
I mean,
if you're a Vellner or you're someone who
is not a great swimmer,
to start off the weekend with a two
hundred point event that is basically all
swimming.
Yeah, because for these guys,
the ski and the bike is irrelevant.
And I think there's confusion about the
double points.
The double points aren't per event.
If you finish first,
typically that gets you...
I don't even know what the point structure
is anymore.
Five hundred points, say,
for winning tour stop one.
Winning this tour stop,
you get a thousand points to the overall
standings.
It's not event by event.
you get double points it's at the end
of the weekend where you finish earns you
double points toward your season total
i'll just go with that i believe you
he could just skip the event and save
the energy i mean let's let's be honest
here the man is uh
known for digging himself a hole on the
first event of a particular weekend so
right there yeah not psyched not psyched
so yeah i not off to a great
start over there not the only i'm assuming
that's the only one released so far uh
the only one i saw i'll go
Yep,
that's the only one released on their IG
at this point.
Yeah, Shay's got a point.
What's the minimum work requirement?
Jump in the pool?
That does not have it on this at
all.
So not only is it a two-hundred-point
event, you have to travel to Sweden.
this event and then travel back to
copenhagen for the rest of the weekend so
you ever caught yourself in a rainstorm or
in a in possibly in snow i'd imagine
that probably happens on a frozen road as
well and uh you were going to kind
of start to skid out a little bit
and then you over correct it back in
the other direction this feels like what
that is
Oh, we can do swimming better.
Watch this.
We're going to do events.
Back to back.
With a two minute break in between.
I just don't see where it makes any
damn sense.
I love swimming like that was my jam,
right?
Too much.
This is way too much.
Way too much.
There's a comment up here like Lucy
Campbell's got to be out of her mind.
Yeah.
And she's got to be.
James Sprague.
I'm guessing they'll have a long run as
well.
Poor Patrick Vellner.
That's probably the second event.
They'll do that and then they have to
run back to Copenhagen.
That wouldn't surprise me.
Like, all right, Pat,
you got out of the water.
We're going to take a hundred more points
away from you.
You got to run back to Copenhagen.
We'll see you when you get there.
think the problem is you have to take
a ferry so he just has to run
laps on the ferry while it's going it's
going it don't matter if it gets broken
whatever what you make and if you miss
the ferry god help you because nobody else
will get their ride in iceberg across the
across the whatever body of water that is
your big paddle just like your stand-up
paddleboard oh
In their defense, oh gosh, Lito, please.
There's been back-to-back running events
and erg events that are worth doubling
points, such as row run at NorCal,
where the row was scored separately.
But this is a specialist event.
This is not just monostructural.
This is specialist.
Yeah.
The machines don't matter.
They don't.
They don't matter at all.
They're all going to be about the same
cadence, about the same, you know,
run the herbs at about the same watts,
whatever you want to call it.
And they're going to get in the water
and that's where it's going to make a
difference.
It's an AMRAP and that it's true.
Unless you're, you're,
you're James or Yona or Lucy.
This is, this is an AMRAP.
That is a fact.
I'm sure they're probably all
transferring.
I was just making that up.
Didn't you hear one more?
We just make this stuff up as a
smear campaign.
Smear.
Yeah.
It's a smear campaign.
It was funny because Carolyn's coming to
me like there's no way there should be
two swimming events that both are a
hundred points.
I'm looking at it as these time caps
are ridiculous.
Yeah.
Like in my prime,
I would have to push at an all
out pace to finish at like six minutes.
And you were a swimmer.
That's all you did.
Right.
And that training five hours a day,
six days a week,
all out pace to hit six minutes.
And then, so it, it did, you know,
not training like that and training other
things.
You're talking seven, eight minutes.
with maybe two minutes rest,
and that's only the best swimmers out
there.
That's not the other people that just swim
to survive and to just middle in these
things.
Agreed that it's a specialist because we
don't do it very often,
but since when is bike or rowing a
more functional skill than swimming
speaking in general here?
I'm not saying that it's more functional
by any stretch of the imagination,
but the machines are the machines.
Everybody trains them all the time.
Yeah.
I just don't.
I don't see it.
I would put the over-under in people
finishing this at ten.
Oh, yeah.
And I'd take the under.
Yeah.
Just would, dude.
Finishing the worst part.
For sure.
Absolutely.
So, that's that.
I also wanted to show you this,
a civic pride here.
Did you see that Rogue,
have you seen this video of their new
expansion?
I have not.
I need to turn on my notification for
Rogue.
That's a big building, sorry.
Yeah, so this is what exists right now.
In downtown Columbus.
So you can see the skyline back here,
right?
Yeah.
If you look behind, right in here,
and I know if you're on your phone
or something, it's dirt now back here.
They have demolished everything behind the
building because that's where the
expansion is going to take place.
When they are done,
they're going to have over a million
square foot of space inside their
building.
Is that not freaking cool?
Good for y'all.
Good for them.
This block used to be a steel mill
that made bearings called Timken.
And the whole community around it worked
at that facility.
so when that that factory shut down the
whole area like became dilapidated and and
broken down when rogue moved their
facility here they bought the whole block
they've built this facility and it has
grown since they've put this this facility
there it is phenomenal and this little
part like up here this little corner
This is their showroom on the front here,
and this is their store right there.
That's where I would like to go play.
And the rest of this is all factory.
That is where I would like to go
play.
Oh, we use Timken bearings, yeah?
They used to be made where Rogue sits
now.
Rob's a helicopter mechanic, so yeah,
he probably does use Timken bearings.
So, yeah.
And where this parking lot is right out
here,
that's where the Rogue Invitational was in
twenty nineteen.
The outdoor part,
the indoor part was in the factory.
They built stands inside the factory like
that is on a floor.
It's already a big ass building.
Yeah.
Look at these buildings right here.
These are theirs right here.
They even own this restaurant right here.
Did not know Bill and Kitty was in
the restaurant business.
Well, Bill, before COVID,
was going to open like a barbecue because
he loves to smoke meat.
And he was going to open a barbecue.
So here's the drone at the side.
So you can see here where all the
demolition has happened.
Yes, Lord.
So the front of the,
up here in front is Fifth Avenue.
This here is Second Avenue.
So now they own like three blocks.
What are they putting in the new space?
Did I miss it?
So when Rogue initially was in Columbus,
they were in five buildings.
When they built this facility,
they consolidated those five buildings
into this one.
Because of the growth over since twenty
twenty,
they are now in four buildings in Columbus
again.
Including this one.
So they are building this expansion to
consolidate back down to one building.
Isn't that insane?
That's a lot of bumper plays.
I showed you like the skylines over here.
Over here, this is Ohio State University.
It's right there.
The Ohio State University.
Yeah.
There it is.
Yep.
So that's, they're kind of like, you know,
and Katie calls games for them.
So it's a short drive.
And they actually live up in here.
So you got four to go.
It's going to be like a whole complex
type thing,
like a self-sustaining neighborhood of
sorts.
Dude, what they do is like unreal.
They like,
they order food in a couple of times
a week for every staff member.
They have, they have thousand people.
They really take care of the people.
Damn rich people creating jobs and
cleaning up a rundown area.
I know.
How dare they?
How dare they?
All these Ohio State fans.
No, Rob's not an Ohio State fan.
He's just a football fan.
Like Hershey PA.
I love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Only it doesn't smell like chocolate.
Well...
but yeah I thought they put this out
this morning I thought it was cool to
kind of show like look at all these
loading docks dude across the back that's
what I'm saying man like I mean obviously
never seen it in person but just knowing
how big cars are knowing how big eighteen
wheeler trailers are looking at this
picture and going holy smokes that is a
ginormous building isn't that awesome
it smells like rubber plate steel and sex
appeal yeah got to love it got to
love it got to love it i said
dude that they sell sarah coat um goes
on all their barbells now oh that uh
speaking of that did you see pedro's
interview with uh uh what's his face from
rx margaret
I did not.
They are giving... He's giving away...
You gotta go comment on the actual video.
A Cerakoted...
the handles are cerakoted when they're new
uh the rx evo whatever the same one
i got but it's cerakoted i was like
i need that rope one year where every
month they came out with a like a
flavor of the month uh and they did
that one when they were sponsoring us they
gave away like one of that the color
that came out each month
And it was based on like whatever holidays
were in that month.
Like February was pink for Valentine's
day.
You know, March was green for St.
Patty's day, things like that.
So yeah, they're good people over there.
Yeah.
It seemed like it seemed like it,
they had other people working for him,
dude.
Like they,
I had never used one until legends last
year.
They had a booth set up and I
went and tried it out and I was,
I would, I,
I was sold soon as soon as really
knowledgeable.
A lady was looking at me,
watched me jump rope,
made some suggestions,
watched me jump rope again and was like,
here, try this one.
And like, so got me properly sized.
And I was like, okay.
And you look back.
I love it.
What's funny is I can't use an Evo
rope because I spin it too fast already
for me to get double unders.
They actually, I had to use a,
what they call the buff rope.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's a little bit heavier,
a little thicker,
so it would spin a little bit slower
because I whip too fast.
So that got me to slow down to
get my double-unders.
It's a wild problem to have.
Isn't it?
What's cool is if you go and you
talk to them,
they can pinpoint that stuff like,
And when they're at events,
and if you need help with double-unders or
anything like that,
they are there to help for free.
They'll hand you a rope, say jump rope,
and they'll correct your stuff right
there.
It's amazing.
It really, really is.
Dave and Susan are the couple that own
RxMark here.
Dave and Susan Newman,
they're the best people ever.
That was good stuff.
Humble brag.
It's not a brag.
It's not the right technique,
but they couldn't get me to slow it
down other than to put a heavier rope
in my hand.
It's only crazy if it doesn't work.
Yeah.
I mean, bottom line,
it's only crazy if it doesn't work.
I was just thinking that.
Poor Scott has to slow down dubs.
easy there killer my jumps are not slowing
down my jumps are not slowing down i
just whip too fast trying to get that
rope underneath there you want to go
slower i'll tell you what get you a
get you a weighted rope most of us
have the opposite problem right see i'm
just weird i'm just weird
Uh, one Oh one, one Oh, Oh,
Oh one.
I always do double unders with heavier
rope.
I like those better than the speed rope.
I can do them with a speed rope
as well.
Well, that's a humble brag.
That's personal preference.
I know people that,
that don't like speed ropes.
They're like,
we'd rather have the heavy one because
they like to feel right.
Like the base base model of the RX
rope.
You can get all different kinds of ropes
on it.
Right.
And they have like,
the one I have is a,
it's like really thick.
It's literally called the buff rope.
And then they have it all the way
down to just the wire.
That's what I got.
I don't need to look like I was
in a slave movie.
Just beat yourself up and shit.
I'm going to tell you right now.
I got a heavy rope.
And heavy rope with heavy handles as well.
And if you want to look like you
just got out of the passion or roots
or whatever else is go ahead and start
learning on that.
That shit hurts a lot.
Um, yes.
Anyone that swam five to six hours a
day is a little off competitor or not.
Did you not go to school or have
someone do your homework?
You hockey people are just as bad.
I got up at four thirty a.m.,
went to school at five,
swam for two hours,
went to school all day,
went immediately to practice after swim
another two and a half and then did
off deck work.
Just lean muscle mass building,
which I might say that's like that's like
you.
You just regular training type shit.
And then a couple days a week,
I would lifeguard immediately after that
to make some money.
And my mom or my coach would bring
me food to eat,
and I would do my homework on the
deck of the pool some nights.
And if I'm being truly honest,
I was not the best student in the
world, so probably didn't even do that.
I did not stay eligible.
Okay.
So you finished fifty dubs with twenty
five jumps.
No, I wish.
I do like ropes,
but cool whip speed ropes is the fastest
rope in the game.
The best rope no one has ever heard
of.
I've actually heard of it.
Jesse Coolman did social media for us at
the games in twenty twenty two.
And she is her.
I think it's her brother that owns that
company.
Man, that's an exhausting schedule.
Yeah.
I would imagine so.
Hockey is like Chad.
Shoot a thousand pucks, call it a day.
You never build up stamina and skated?
I would imagine most hockey players have
been skating since they were three years
old.
I mean,
I understand the sport is different.
I don't know.
I shouldn't be talking.
I don't know shit about ice skating or
hockey for that matter.
Yeah.
Louisiana kids don't know nothing about
ice skating.
Nope.
And I heard they were putting a,
there's an ice hockey rink in Baton Rouge.
You guys tried on sweat and spit.
A hundred percent.
But there's a,
there's actually an ice hockey rink in
Baton Rouge.
And the first time I heard about it,
I said, there's a what?
Where?
Where?
like yeah they built the ice hockey ring
and i was like for who i did
not grow up running around outside and
going skate on frozen ponds why because
there were no frozen ponds to skate on
or skates for that matter roller skate
sure absolutely but even then like street
hockey wasn't a thing that wasn't that
wasn't a deal at all yeah i'm going
to share one more thing before we move
on and then then we can talk about
whatever
But Susan Prevosnak sent me a reminder
yesterday that Mike Egan broke a world
record yesterday.
And it deserves to be shouted out.
He tried to break the record for longest
wheelchair run in twenty four hours.
And he went one hundred and fifty two
point three six miles for the new world
record.
Talk about jaw dropping.
Bro.
Oh, hundred and fifty two miles.
Don't forget the point three six.
Excuse me.
And a point three six.
Super important.
Yeah.
What what was the old record that we
know?
It was like he blew it away.
I think it was like one eighteen or
something like that.
Oh,
so he didn't he didn't just go like
one nineteen.
And I think it was his record and
his goal was it.
I knew he like blew it out of
the water.
And I think it was his record and
his goal was to get one fifty.
Hey, you know what?
You set a goal.
You look at it and you go,
that's what I'm doing.
That is what I'm doing.
That is insane.
So insane.
Hey, Lana.
Do they test for PEDs in that?
I think he's competed in the CrossFit
Games.
I think he's done other things around the
space.
This is just a goal that he had,
and he trained for this.
And if you look at him,
he doesn't look like he's juiced up.
And I would think that he would not
want to be heavier.
You do not want to push more weight
than you need to.
To be fair,
Lance Armstrong also did not look like he
was juiced up.
That was different stuff, though.
I have absolutely no idea.
I just know he got popped or whatever.
He never popped.
That's the key.
Really?
He just finally admitted.
Oh, he just finally admitted.
He finally just said, you know what?
Yeah.
uh and mike devito was just teasing uh
meredith my hands would be torn to shreds
by the end of that yeah i think
you'd have to train that too you'd have
to build up the calluses he's got gloves
on meredith i don't know what you worried
about for uh people had grips on during
atalantia did you see hayley adams in the
blood dripping
That image is one of several that has
burned into my brain for the rest of
my life.
Yes, I definitely saw that.
Speaking of Haley Adams,
along with her back after the ruck run
at the games,
was that the following year or the year
before?
Claire,
I've had the opportunity to train with
Lance.
He's still a freak.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
I think that's the thing that's like –
I was thinking about this.
I've thought about this for a week when
the last games person,
the Masters woman that tested positive,
and we make a big deal about it,
right?
There are people that are testing positive
in the NFL like all the time now.
They get a six-game suspension or
nine-game suspension,
and it's not even talked about on
SportsCenter.
It might be on a crawl.
It's just something that is, right?
And we just move on.
And you've never seen the Lance Armstrong
documentary.
The crazy thing is he tried to do
it natural for so long.
And he kept just missing the championship
of the Tour de France.
And everybody else was doing it.
And he's trying to beat these steroid
freaks and these people using...
They spun the blood,
whatever that's called.
Human growth hormone and spinning the
blood.
he and he kept not beating them and
he just finally said if i'm gonna win
i'm gonna have to do it yeah he
had he admitted it and he admitted he
admits it in the documentary too he he
has definitely admitted he just never got
he never tested positive
EPO.
Blood doping.
Yeah.
You spin the blood cells out and then
you put them back into your body.
And so you can get more oxygen to
your way.
And so I was very conflicted watching the
documentary because the whole sport is
dirty in cycling.
The entire sport.
Now, does that condone him doing it?
No.
No, of course not.
But as a human,
I could see the only way I have
a shot is to do it,
to join him.
Knowing you have greatness inside of you,
knowing that you can do it,
you're trying to do it the right way,
and you're watching literally everybody
else do it the opposite way.
It's got to be...
demeaning and like one of the hardest
things on the face of the planet to,
to accomplish knowing that if I can,
if I just do what they're doing,
I'm going to beat the shit out of
all of them.
And I'm not saying I would make that
jump and do it.
I'm just saying I can understand the brain
that would.
Yeah, no, one hundred percent.
I can understand looking at it and going,
yeah, if you can't beat them doing like,
and slowly realizing that it's not just
that dude, it's not just this dude.
It's not just this dude.
It's all of these dudes.
Like that's gotta be,
it's gotta weigh on me.
I mean, it has to.
Well, and in the documentary,
they do a great job showing like,
cause he finished like second,
finished third in the tour de France.
It wasn't like he was finishing eighth and
twelfth.
Right.
Just kept getting out sprinted at the end
on every,
like every single year he would be winning
for stage after stage.
And then at the very end,
they would out sprint him and beat him.
Howie,
I would juice to it's taking money out
of your pocket.
Yeah,
but the damage it did to him after
like now he is a he is he
went from one of the most revered athletes
in the history of sport to an outcast.
That's that's what kind of blows him.
There's different standards for different
sports.
Like,
people are popping left and right in the
NFL,
and they just go away for six weeks
and come back, and nobody says anything,
right?
And nobody cares.
Like, I got a notification,
but I don't know where I saw it
this morning,
I think before I went to coach.
Like, oh, former LSU player,
now playing in the NFL,
popped for whatever use.
I don't remember what it said.
And it was a footnote.
It was just like, oh, yeah, this dude,
he used to play for the Tigers,
just got popped.
And that was it.
He didn't even mention his name.
It was just former LSU player.
And I was like, oh, all right.
David Reed,
twenty of twenty one podium finishers in
the Tour de France from ninety nine to
two thousand five have been directly tied
to doping through admissions.
That's and that's the time where Lance
was.
Yeah.
Right.
And that they point that out in the
documentary.
That's insane.
That's all of them.
So it wasn't like this guy and that
guy.
It was everybody.
Let me put this out there.
This is my own personal opinion.
If it's twenty out of twenty one,
it's twenty one out of twenty one because
that's it's through admissions.
Right.
So one guy is just sitting there going,
oh, no.
Yeah.
He's the guy still tied up to the
chair with the one light bulb hanging over
his head,
getting beat with a phone book and still
hasn't given it up.
Not giving it up.
No, no.
Like they,
they fix it and start going with the
pliers on his fricking on his thumbnail.
And he's like, wouldn't me, wouldn't me.
Yes, it was.
Isn't that wild how like in CrossFit,
like the minute someone pops, it's,
The biggest travesty in the world.
They should be gone forever.
Ricky should never be allowed to come
back.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
And in football, it's like, yeah, okay.
Will my team be able to make it
through the six games without them?
And then when he gets back,
we'll be better.
And look, and don't do it again.
Right.
Not a problem.
Or don't get caught again.
Yeah, that's what that means.
That's what that means.
That's what I'm with right there.
But that's what we're saying, Winter.
There are sports where it doesn't even
damage your reputation.
I think she's talking about just like in
our space.
I am terrified of him because I have
absolutely no idea what it's going to do
to me long term.
I'm forty years old, dude.
I got a long time to go and
I do not need to be like you
see, you know,
like all these giant bodybuilders that
were on all of this shit back in
the eighties, nineties,
two thousands and whatnot.
They can barely walk now.
Right.
I'm not messing with none of that shit,
dude.
Like, I don't want that in my life.
I don't.
If I win.
Cool.
If I make it.
my own merit cool if not i'm not
there's i can't bring myself to do it
there's no possible way well and those
athletes in bodybuilding are put they're
they're the extreme level they're the ones
doing the hair horse steroids and they're
putting so much mass on their body that
it just can't take the weight right that's
why they're walking around the way they
are it's not like the steroid comes in
and deteriorate your joints your body
wasn't made to carry
eight, twenty eight inch biceps, right?
Lightweight.
Oh, yeah, that's another good.
Miss Olive,
I don't think another person will pop and
make a comeback like Ricky did.
Maybe it was his accent or is,
but I doubt that will ever happen again.
I don't know.
We'll see.
I think harder today.
Oh, man.
What was his name?
That's when I said he was the Propecia
he was using.
Phil Toon?
Phil Toon.
Phil Toon's a good example, dude.
Phil Toon is not Ricky Mack.
Phil Toon popped.
Phil Toon popped and said, all right,
now I'm going to lean in.
And yeah,
he just went completely in the opposite
direction.
He was like, here we go.
You want to know about stacks?
Keep it a secret.
Yeah.
Buy my e-book now.
He leaned all the way into it.
I like what Olive's saying.
People were freaking out when Sha'Carri
Richardson tested for marijuana and she's
a track star, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
When was the last time you've looked at
marijuana and said, well,
that's a performance enhancing drug?
That's what I'm saying, dude.
Why is that a thing?
Why is that a thing?
She is not...
hitting the bone so she could run a
nine second hundred meter or whatever she,
whatever, how fast she, you know,
I don't even know what,
what race she runs, but she's, uh,
like it's not,
it's not performance enhancing.
A relaxed muscle is a fast muscle.
Yeah.
But the bag of Doritos is air drag
when you're running down the running.
Yeah.
It's hard to run with five donuts in
your hand.
I'm going to tell you that right now.
Yeah.
Spiking on down the thing.
I don't understand that one.
I don't get it.
I really don't get it.
The banning of marijuana blows my mind
completely.
Not that I'm advocating that everybody
should be on it by any stretch of
the imagination,
but it is not a performance enhancing drug
by any stretch of the imagination.
asthma medication in skiing is a big thing
as well.
Well, good.
I have tons of asthma medicine because I
have asthma.
So maybe I should take up skiing.
Scott called me the next minute.
Look out, here I come.
That's good shit.
I think that's why the NFL stopped testing
for marijuana.
Actually,
where the NFL got caught in is that
marijuana has been shown to have benefits
for CTE.
Yeah.
And CTE is a bigger issue for the
NFL than weed smoking.
And if weed smoking is helping CTE,
then by all means, toke it up, guys.
Yeah.
Yeah,
with Philip Mike's comment right there.
Yeah.
If weed would have been a PED,
I would have earned a full scholarship to
college.
I got a full ride.
One hundred percent.
Same, Mike.
Same.
I'd have been full ride, full.
Like they'd have been paying me to go
at that point.
One hundred percent.
You see Olivia's five hundred pound squat.
No, I am not.
Which Olivia?
I saw a chick do a five hundred
pound squat.
Olivia Reeves.
Yeah, I did see that.
Who is Olivia Reeves?
Power lifter, if I'm not mistaken.
The video is insane because she's got like
nine billion plates on it.
She's an Olympic lifter.
And I don't see the squat.
I just saw it yesterday or day before.
Something like that.
But it was bananas to watch.
It looked like me squatting two hundred.
Saw four fifty one for two.
She just went and popped one back up.
Smile on her face.
And reacted.
She's twenty two.
No, not that.
But I mean, there's four eighty four.
That's not it.
It's her from the front.
That looks like work.
The one that her five hundred.
Her five hundred look like I'm telling
you, it didn't look like that.
Yeah, I don't I don't see it, dude.
Maybe it's in her story.
Nope.
She had her story on.
Somebody shared it.
But yeah, it's her from the front,
trying to freestand the squat rack.
And like Lito says, no knee sleeves,
full depth, and it's just back up.
Racked it.
It looked like if I had had two
hundred pounds on the bar and just
Scott didn't entertain my bait on the
Fikowski comment.
I didn't see the Fikowski comment.
He said that there's a lot of comments
coming in here, guys.
Yeah.
He basically said that Fikowski looks like
Gumby since he stopped competing.
So clearly that means he was on something
while he was competing.
Hmm.
They also stopped training, dude.
A lot.
Doug said he sent you a DM.
That was ESPNW that had it.
The W.
Not to be confused with the Ojo.
Yeah, that looks hard.
Can I just say,
I hate those squat racks.
We had those in my high school when
I played football.
And trying to hit those.
Yeah.
Scott,
just the fact that she's got five hundred
pounds on that squat rack.
Like.
Look, just.
Yep.
Wow.
That's terrible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
mine wasn't that easy i hit a five
hundred in high school one time and i
was trying to get there a couple years
ago and the most i got to is
four sixty seven yeah maybe the uh
My last one was like four,
fifteen or something like that,
and it did not look like that.
There was a whole lot more of me
trying to fight out the bottom,
fight through the sticky part,
trying to get it back up.
Barbell was working harder than her.
Yeah.
She doesn't get any whip at the bottom
and coming up, though.
It doesn't really start whipping until it
gets back onto the rack.
Yeah.
I'm more likely to weigh five hundred than
to lift five hundred.
I deadlifted five hundred once.
You understand?
And it looked way harder than it did
for her to back squat just now.
And that's how I met your mother.
Frida, if the bar didn't dance,
I would be sus that they were painted
plates.
Painted plates.
through that.
So I was brave enough to put painted
plates on a video on the ESPNW that
they knew was going to be on everywhere.
God bless them for that.
imagine oh and her face is like beet
red at the top she made it look
easy but it was you could tell it
was not oh yeah i was having that
conversation with uh somebody this morning
that like a lot of things that people
make look easy or anything but easy like
you see it you see people going on
walking on their hands and like just
flying down the thing and they're like oh
it looks so easy it's not you've got
upside down trying to breathe while
walking on your hands it's taxing so
So my buddy and I would do,
they used to have this night before
Thanksgiving competition at a local gym
here.
So the Wednesday before Thanksgiving,
three workouts, just like bang, bang,
bang, waterfall style.
And there was a workout where you had
to do like a wall-facing handstand hold
while your partner did wall balls.
Oh, right.
Every time, like, to breathe upside down,
doing wall balls and then going upside
down so your body can go for a
while, it is nearly impossible.
Now,
I know I'm a bigger guy and I'm
holding a lot up there, but damn.
You're just holding a handstand, like,
after a while.
And by a while, I mean, like,
fifteen to twenty seconds.
Your breathing gets labored.
You're doing a whole lot more work than
you ever expected you would do.
And it's because your body was not
designed to...
Rest.
Upside down.
And you realize that wall balls are slow.
Yeah.
There's really no way to speed them up.
Gravity only brings the ball back down so
fast.
Gravity works.
It's constant, as it turns out.
I know that's a wild concept for most
people to understand,
but having to hold a handstand while
somebody else does anything,
or just hold something.
Like we...
I had one,
I forget what it was for,
but you had to pick up deadlift and
just hold the bar while somebody was doing
something else.
That fucking sucks.
That is fun for about ten seconds.
And then you're like, hey, bro,
I'm going to need you to hurry up.
I need you to hurry up.
I always hated those partner workouts
where you had to hold something.
Hang on a bar, upside down,
hold a deadlift.
This is not getting any lighter.
Speaking of competitions,
thoughts on French throwdown reserving
half the field for the Europeans.
I'm okay with it because it's only half.
The other half,
anybody around the world can come.
I actually think it's a good strategic
move to let hometown people out on the
floor to compete,
to bring more crowd to the event,
to watch their people.
And the fact that they get to go
up against maybe some of the better
athletes in the world is pretty cool.
I just don't like it when it's a
hundred percent competitive.
Yeah,
they just strictly geofenced it and said
just Europeans, whatever.
That I probably had a bit of an
issue with, but half, I like that.
Those type of partner workouts turn
friends into enemies.
Yeah.
Friendlies.
John George, not true.
Have you seen how fast those High Rocks
people do wall balls?
It's a lot easier if you don't do
all the rep.
Yeah.
Not half the rep.
It takes half the time.
Takes half the time.
Don't try to understand it, Tristan.
Just take a deep breath and move on,
dude.
Yeah.
You're not,
you're not going to make sense out of
it.
Every single thing, every single year,
something comes up that either doesn't
make sense or, or whatever,
whatever the case may be.
I guess.
You're combining years.
We don't know that the Open is a
requirement this year.
We haven't seen that part of the rulebook
yet.
All we've seen is what semifinals are
saying.
We don't have CrossFit's requirement to go
to the games that you have to finish
anywhere in the top whatever in the Open
like it did last year.
That has not been released yet.
official we got what the semifinals are
telling semifinals to tell us we still
don't have a rule book yet either which
is unsurprising but george you talking
about uh joe linton on jason girl podcast
i don't know i didn't i didn't watch
that whole thing i've watched enough joe
linton in the last few weeks and i
just can't anymore
I've been watching everything that comes
up in relation to the Masters just to
get the best look,
try to figure out what it's going to
look like whenever it comes time.
If I see one of them on,
I'll go watch it.
Lito, Barbell's been posted that,
but yeah, fair.
That's also what the French Throwdown told
me when I DMed them.
Here's the issue.
The releasing of information should be a
rule book first.
Then the locations of the semifinal
second.
I'm going to need you to stop trying
to apply logic to how any of this
goes on.
We're so excited that CrossFit's telling
us anything this early.
We're kind of forgiving them on the order.
Yeah.
But it's created all this confusion,
and that's why Holly put up that Google
Doc with everything she can find so that
we can sort it out the best we
can at this point.
But hopefully we get a rule book soon.
So.
Wishing one hand and pooping other one.
Scott,
you tell me which one fills up first.
Generally,
the rule book has come out first part
of December.
We're not that far away from the first
part of December.
No, we are not.
And then hopefully when that comes out,
we can then put all the puzzle pieces
together in the Google document so you
guys can have that.
And then you can...
with all the links to wherever you need
to see the source document.
So, yeah.
And I say we,
and I have very little to do with
that.
I just cheer Holly on.
Go, Holly.
She does fantastic.
She is amazing.
I cannot express that enough.
too much or too many times she is
amazing and i just love the fact that
i don't even have to give her any
information she just keeps spitting out
information i love that i'm sorry i posted
so much stuff yeah that was my favorite
hey bro stop apologizing to me you are
incredible keep doing what you do stop
apologizing to me for making my channel
better please stop doing that
All right, guys,
I need to get back to work.
I got to write a document.
So with that, it's been fun today.
Didn't get to the hall of fame topic
that I would wanted to revisit today with
you.
So maybe we'll do that later in the
week.
We'll see.
But with that,
we'll see everybody tomorrow on lunch with
the Clydesdale.
Bye guys.