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That morning alarm clock rang early this
morning after the wild weekend of sports
we had.
We talked a lot about it last night,
but I got more to say.
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.
what is going on everybody it is lunchtime
on a monday so what's going on i
uh i had my ct scan finally on
my sinuses today so just got to wait
for that to head on over to my
ent doctor uh so we can discuss what
the next steps are with my sinuses um
pretty quick and painless just laid on a
slab of metal got put well not metal
but then got put into the the big
cone of magnets had all that done and
i was telling carolyn and jamie that after
the show last night and they're like you
know you think with all the technology
that we've advanced in this world there'd
be a better way to take a picture
of like the inside of the human body
that isn't this big tube with magnets
circling around all the other technology
that's like been advanced in medical
science and around the world and in
computers and all of that stuff we still
we still have the big tube with the
magnets
That is extremely noisy, extremely loud,
and very, very uncomfortable.
Thank goodness I only had to go in
for my head.
I didn't have to go the whole way
in the tube, but man, wild.
Train all of CT scans are so
uncomfortable.
Yeah, but it's over.
I actually have to do a second one,
like November twenty fifth on my voice box
for the pulmonologist.
So had to do one today for the
ENT.
Had to have to do one the twenty
fifth for the pulmonologist.
I don't know why they couldn't combine
them into one.
They're so close.
Just inch me in the tube a little
bit further.
Get it all done in one foul swoop.
But I guess...
I guess it is for,
they get to charge me for both now,
right, I guess.
They don't run a BOGO deal on the
old CT scans.
So, got a lot of people here already.
Seven Easter's refugees.
He's here first because we have nowhere
else to go.
Well, I hope,
I hope you're here for other reasons, but,
you know, I get it.
Train Olive, Corey Leonard, Shanna Bunce,
Joseph Ramirez, Jody Lynn, and Vicky.
We got a lot of people in the
house already.
Craig Pasley and Denise Moore.
So what's going on?
um denise says do you have to do
die for the other scan no i don't
think either one of them are with contrast
um so it's really just really just a
basic ct scan i was really in and
out in like less than ten minutes maybe
it didn't seem very long anyway uh super
quick so but they're at two different
imaging centers so maybe that's it too um
i don't know
Joseph Ramirez,
where does Penn state go from here?
Um, I don't know, man.
I've really, it was really funny Saturday.
You know, they were here in Columbus.
Usually I'm like really anxious because I,
you know, if,
if they lose to Ohio state, I,
I hear about it for a week straight.
I hate that so much.
And then, uh,
this year i just didn't care like the
the penn state's so bad right now like
it just doesn't even matter and it
actually gave me a more relaxing saturday
i went to my nephews um he just
had a baby a couple months ago so
we hung out there got to see the
baby um do all that stuff it was
it was pretty good
So I'm not dwelling on every play of
a Penn State game,
which has been kind of relaxing.
And then I can focus all my attention
on the Chicago Bears,
who gave me six heart attacks yesterday in
two minutes.
Wow.
What a crazy, crazy day.
Missed last night's live,
but just finished watching.
Great show as always.
Thank you so much.
If you think CT bad,
try an MRI much, much longer.
Yeah,
I've had when I had my back surgeries,
I've had MRIs and those are like forty
five minutes to fifty minutes long.
That was bad.
And that was fully in the tube as
opposed to just my head in the tube.
I'd much rather do the CT than the
MRI.
I wasn't saying the technology thing from
a discomfort standpoint.
I was saying you would think with all
the advancements
the way to take a picture inside the
person you would think they'd come up with
something different but maybe there's no
need maybe that like they're just happy
with what they have and there's nobody out
there trying to solve a problem over that
so i don't know maybe
So I wanted to take this time to
just a huge shout out to Holly Dugan,
who is our stats and info person.
What she does for us is so unsung.
If you ever go to our videos after
the live,
um almost all of them are chaptered out
you can look at the bottom of the
screen and you um and you can see
all of the topics that we talk about
throughout a show she is responsible for
all of that she puts that in there
um i just copy and paste it into
the show notes and it automatically
populates into the youtube where you can
then if you just want to see a
topic we've talked about you can go
directly to that and that is all holly
And I thank her for that.
Last night during the show,
one person in the chat said,
wouldn't it be nice if we had a
chart that showed the CrossFit game season
for different types of athletes?
And I swear she didn't even go to
bed last night,
but she put this out on Instagram
overnight last night.
And so I want to just show you
what she has come up with.
Now,
it's hard to see unless I blow this
up, and I will blow it up.
But here's the master season.
It goes from the open to quarterfinals.
Talks about the rules for that.
Semifinals.
talks about who qualifies for that,
and then she lists out all of the
semifinals that are available in person.
So there's Legends, French Throwdown,
Magic City, Torian Pro,
the online semifinal, and the LATAM.
All the dates,
how many people they're taking,
and then how many people qualify.
So, well,
that doesn't have how many they're taking.
She has something like that.
It's coming soon.
And so she did that for every.
So here's just elite individuals and all
of the hit all the semifinals listed.
There we go.
She did it for teams.
There's the teams where they can qualify
for.
she even did it for adaptive even though
it's a very simple process for the
adaptive athletes oh that's the teens and
then there's the adaptive um she's
actually putting together a document for
us uh that actually show all the rules
for each semi-final um and
many people they are inviting the
invitation process if it is available on
their website or a document that she could
find um right now it's in a really
like archaic spreadsheet um but she's
trying to figure out a way to make
it pretty um but she's working on that
and those all of this came out of
questions from last night's show and here
we are
This morning,
we already have all these products she's
put out there and this spreadsheet that
you wouldn't even believe.
It takes, say, Syndicate Crown,
and the spreadsheet says how they're
inviting people to that event,
how many people are qualifying from that
event.
And everything.
It's just so much stuff.
And she deserves so much credit.
If you're not following her on Instagram,
go give her a follow.
It's at data wad.
She does so much for us.
Every time there's a competition this
weekend,
especially like all of the leaderboards
that come out on our website or on
our Instagram are from her.
She does all the leaderboards who won
every event top five, who,
And then the standings after each day,
she just, she's just incredible.
And I just want to give her her
kudos for doing all that because she
it gives us a presence that, um,
that we wouldn't have otherwise.
And she,
what I love the most is when I
go to like an athlete's page and I
see that she has changed that,
that athlete has shared our leaderboard
because of how Holly does it.
And it looks so good that she, um,
she just keeps, um,
doing this and they share them and she
tags everybody in that.
It's so cool.
Um,
I saw a ton of them being shared
this weekend and that's why we did it
initially.
We did that for legends a couple of
years ago and the athletes loved it.
Um,
and they just started sharing them and it
gave them something other than a
leaderboard to share something that was
pretty and that was formatted for
Instagram as opposed to going to
competition corner and trying to
screenshot it all.
So Jonathan,
she should keep it as a Google sheet.
And when you click on the comp,
it gives you the notes on the separate
sheet.
She's doing all of that stuff.
But she's not a Google person.
She's an Excel person.
So it's all in an Excel spreadsheet that
she's working on right now.
And if you didn't see her running
charts...
Let me see if I can find that
real quick.
Like the creative stuff she's done.
Let me do this one and share.
So if you guys didn't see this,
this is the top five at Rogue and
how their finishes went over the weekend
and where their placements were during
that event.
So you can see that Lucy Campbell and
Olivia Kerstetter started off low and then
had to bounce back and how it fluctuated
throughout the week.
These are the things she's putting
together.
She did this last night as well,
which is really crazy.
So I just love the effort she's putting
in and I could not appreciate her anymore.
I'm really pumped for all the stuff she's
putting out.
Wanted to take a second to give her
her due because most of the stuff,
and I know other people in the space
like Siobhan talk about his team and how
you don't have to tell them anything they
just do.
That is Holly.
I don't even have to ask her anything.
Now, if I do ask her something,
I usually get something within a few
hours.
But most of the time,
what she puts out is all her own
idea or she heard something on a show.
And so she's reacting to the audience or
the chat.
But yeah, she just does, which is really,
really awesome.
Yeah.
And then she shares it with me.
And what was crazy,
she put out so much overnight.
This morning she sends me a text
apologizing for putting out so much
content.
And I was like, wait a second.
Do not apologize.
Keep it coming.
You are awesome.
No need to apologize.
You do you,
and I am here to support every single
bit of it.
So...
wanted to to go back and talk about
a couple things from last night's show
that kind of stuck with me a little
bit and one is the innovations that rogue
brings every year you you can pick apart
different things if you want to
But this year,
what they did with the broadcast,
we've been talking for weeks before Rogue
launched about how Hamilton Road's
production of a CrossFit event has not
changed since twenty twelve.
It's been the same graphics,
the same storyboard getting into the event
and out of the event that that has
been there for for thirteen years.
And what I loved about what Rogue did
is they're always trying something new.
Now, you may not like what they're doing,
but they're trying different things.
And some of the innovations I thought were
spectacular.
Now,
whether they're affordable for another
production company to do like the CrossFit
Games or not,
I don't know whether the CrossFit Games
even watches what happened at Rogue to
take notes on that and try to do
something different.
I'm not even sure I'm confident in that.
But the three D graphics were awesome.
What it did for the dual made that
event so much more entertaining and so
much easier to understand.
Kudos to them using the cable cam or
the spider cam or whatever you want to
call it.
to go up and down the sides on
remote to follow the athletes up and down
the field of play using different angles,
zooming in, zooming out,
giving some different angles to the field
of play that we have not had ever
was huge.
The indoor run at the venue was fantastic.
It allowed you to experience a little bit
of what it was like to be there
in person,
seeing Vendor Village and having cameramen
all around the running path to see
different athletes at different times
instead of just like one person on a
golf cart in front of the lead runner.
um showing that for the entire time we
got different angles from different spaces
all around the running track that gave it
more of a story than just people on
a golf cart in front of the lead
person and they probably couldn't run a
golf cart in the middle of the the
indoor arena anyway but you get my point
at the crossfit games when there's running
events it's generally a golf cart or
a bicyclist out in front filming
everything from the lead.
All you're getting is the lead person.
This way we got people all throughout the
pack, which was very, very refreshing.
And you could tell that the director of
the production was going to say,
was trying to get every finish as people
came across the line.
they would watch the lead person come
through and start to look at them a
little bit,
but then flashed immediately to the next
person as they were crossing the line.
Did they get that perfect every time?
No,
but you could tell that the effort was
there to not just hang out on the
winner longer than it took for the second
person to come across the finish line.
So the innovations that they have come up
with,
The things that they try are awesome.
I know last night we talked about that
they gave away what they used to call
the tailgate show for free,
which was you could go on the website
and you could actually go picture and
picture up to four items,
four cameras that were in the arena and
show them all at the same time.
So you could have the cable,
what they called the cable view.
You could have the side view,
a ceiling cam.
You could have like an end zone wide
shot.
And then they had a leader cam.
And you could put all of those up
at the same time and get different angles
and see different things of the race all
at the same time.
And in this day and age where people
are watching multiple screens to watch
events, I found that to be very,
very rewarding.
Now,
Jamie argues that she would never go to
a website when it's available on YouTube.
And I know that there are people addicted
to the chats in YouTube and would never
leave that to go to maybe an innovation
like this.
But I, on the other hand,
would rather see the race so I can
look at it and talk about it the
next day and have all of those different
angles.
And for me,
it's worth going to the website to do
that.
What they do that is best case scenario
is they offer both.
It is live on YouTube for those people
who want to go to YouTube and to
want to be in the chat.
It is also available on the website with
all the camera angles and all of the
bells and whistles that you get there.
And so people can choose which way they
want to watch the event.
I love the innovation of the multiple
cameras and that you get to direct what
you want to see.
To me, that is well worth it.
Even when it was twenty five dollars for
the weekend,
I paid it every single year because it
allowed me to see the whole field much,
much better.
But I get it.
I get that people are addicted to being
in the chats and talking about the events
as it goes on.
I know that's part of the community
aspect.
So what was really cool is that Rogue
offered both.
So.
So what I want to say about that,
because there is this other entity,
and as CrossFit would say right now,
heading into my smear campaign,
there's this other entity, WFP,
that keeps saying they want to be
innovating.
They want to do these things.
but they're doing it in a way where
it's either all or nothing.
And they may have good reasons why that
is.
They may have perfectly fine explanations
why they can't be on YouTube.
And I've said on here that I think
it's because they're courting an online
streaming service and the online streaming
service wants to know what the numbers
would be straight to something other than
YouTube.
So they cannot taint the numbers by using
YouTube.
regardless it's all or nothing and what's
happening with what's happening with them
is they're losing interest in that because
it's rip off the band-aid we're going all
the way over here and you're gonna like
it and then there are people that are
just addicted to being in the chat who
do not like it so
what i'll say about that like it's not
a smear campaign it's just your business
plan and your business plan was to make
a mass change and that mass change meant
you're switching everybody from one way to
another and there are people that are
going to uh ride against that so um
what is wfp jody uh joseph says it
uh some bush league thing
Yeah.
It's a league that I hope was watching
Rogue and saw how they did things and
maybe will change their outlook as to how
to cover an event.
Last night I was talking about the
lighting.
WFP is so into their lighting,
yet Rogue takes their own lighting rig as
well to an event.
And what they had last night or this
weekend was off the chain.
It was so crisp around the edges.
You could see every lane plain as day.
You could see the finish line the whole
way across.
There were no shadows or darkness to it.
And it made it a very awesome viewing
experience for the spectator at home.
But it also had like different colored
lights.
It had different things going on that I
hope that the WFP looked at and said,
that's what we have to be more like,
not having an event in the shadows.
I don't know what that – and I
like what they're trying to do,
and I like that they have the spotlights
coming down the field telling the story,
but there's just misses along the way that
are making it easy to pick on them
about.
Jonathan,
I like that WFP is sticking to their
own thing and doing whatever the F they
want.
It's their money, their thing.
They can do whatever they want.
It doesn't mean that I don't have opinions
about it.
I think the people that built the Titanic
were very adamant about the way they built
that ship.
And they stuck to their guns and they
wanted to make the cross ocean voyage.
And we know the end of that.
Sticking to your guns doesn't always mean
you're going to be successful.
That's the point I'm trying to make.
there have been a lot of people who
stuck to the guns and were successful so
we have one year to look at and
see how we're not even a full year
through but i here's the thing between
tour stop one and tour stop two they
were so inactive and i made comments about
that and got from everybody about it but
here we are between tour stop two and
the championship and you're not seeing any
content from them again it's like they all
just stopped
How do you keep interest in a league
that's going the whole year long when you
stop activity coming out from your entity
for months at a time when there's a
dead period or a lull in the sport
itself?
It makes no sense.
And they're doing it again.
But it's their money.
It's their league.
They can do it how they want to
do it.
a horrible,
horrible business plan when people are
starving and starving for content because
there were, there were weeks before rogue,
like we had actually until crash,
like from the end of water Palooza,
SoCal to crash, nothing.
Then we had Crash and Rogue.
Now we're going to have nothing until
Copenhagen.
I hope to God they put out some
stuff promoting this or promoting the
athletes because right now there's like
nothing going on.
And what are the media going to talk
about?
But I think that the WFP doesn't want
the media to talk about them because
they're afraid what they're going to say.
So I don't know.
We'll see.
Wayne Short,
the fate of the WP will be decided
by the athletes.
If they don't support it,
the community's opinions don't matter.
I know, but I run a talk show,
so we're about opinions.
So my opinions may not matter,
but that's what we do.
Jonathan Ortega,
probably because their socials person is
at Rogue doing content for other outlets.
There you go.
That's their priority.
And it's not just social, Jonathan.
It's all these vignettes that were
supposed to come.
It was the promotion of the athletes like
we've never seen before that was supposed
to come.
And I haven't seen any of that.
It's been a little bit here.
It's been a little bit like an off
the clock with Emma tall.
Um,
I think we got a second off the
clock with somebody that's not promoting
the athletes like they promised.
I don't.
And now I just,
I think they have a huge PR problem
and because people are saying there's too
many things going on.
Um,
And maybe they're going to have to
prioritize one over the other.
And it sounds like from a lot of
people,
whether or that it's going to be the
CrossFit game season as opposed to WFP.
So I just think they have a huge
PR problem.
And that's when I would be out there
attacking with content and promoting the
athletes.
So Dave Anderson,
where will row go next year?
So I have no inside information on this,
but what I heard Katie say on Coffee
Pods and WODs was talking about how
they're expanding Rogue Columbus to go
from four buildings here in Columbus,
because that's where I live.
They have four buildings across the city.
One of those buildings is a big major
HQ,
which they have built and expanded once
already.
Katie said their plans are to expand it
again to consolidate down to one building
again.
And what I heard in the way she
said it was,
I think she'd like to have it in
Columbus next year to show off the new
expanded Rogue.
Now,
I might be reading more into that than
was there,
but that is how I heard it from
her.
And I'm not trying to start a rumor
because she definitely did not say where
they're going.
And on Coffee Pods and WOD,
she said they were going to be done
in Scotland this year and not come back.
And then on Savon over the weekend,
she kind of walked that back a tick
and said that most likely they're not
going to be in Scotland next year.
But she didn't want to talk about the
future until she was done with the
weekend.
So I guess we'll see what happens with
all of that.
But I, for one,
would be ecstatic if they came back to
Columbus.
Just makes my life way easier to cover
it because I can do it from the
comfort of my own bed.
And I loved it when it was there
in twenty nineteen.
And they were a semifinal that qualified
people to the games.
That was one of the.
most fun competitions i've ever been to
and it was like a huge party um
when they built the outdoor venue um and
there was an outdoor vendor village that
was packed um it was just great and
i they never half-ass anything and if they
can bring money into my city then i
will be stoked for that
The other thing I wanted to just finish
up on is we talked last night in
our game, pencil, pen, or Sharpie.
The question was,
will Laura Horvat do the CrossFit game
season next year?
And most of the people said pencil.
My two co-hosts said pencil.
And I said pen.
And I said pen for this reason.
On one hand,
I know that Laura is upset with CrossFit
HQ.
But outside of the CrossFit Games,
Laura has pretty much dominated most of
every competition she's ever been in.
She has made it clear that she is
one of the two best female athletes in
the sport.
I think that her white whale is Tia.
And the only way I think she's going
to have a shot to take that whale
down and to beat Tia in a competition
that matters is to do the CrossFit Games
season.
So last year, even months ago,
I would have said it was a pencil
that that would happen.
But I'm really edging now towards Penn
because I think the only big
accomplishment that matters to Laura at
this point is to beat Tia.
If you look at Justin,
everybody said after Justin won the first
two years is that he did it after
Matt had left.
And if Matt were there,
Matt still would have won.
And there's all these whispers around.
Laura won the games the year that Tia
took off.
Laura has beat Tia at Rogue,
but she was coming off a pregnancy.
She probably wasn't a hundred percent.
And there's always the whispers.
I think Laura wants to go head to
head with Tia and beat her one time.
One time to cement her legacy.
as one of the two greatest female athletes
in the CrossFit space.
Because at this point, what else matters?
She has all the money.
She's won Rogue a handful of times.
I mean, she has millions of winnings now.
What is there left for her to accomplish?
It's to beat Tia.
Yeah.
It's not to win the games.
It's not to win Rogue.
It's to beat Tia.
And in order to do that,
she's going to have to go to the
place where Tia is to make that happen.
It's the only thing left.
It's the only thing left for her.
If she beats Tia full strength head to
head,
it's going to cement her as one of
the two greatest female athletes of all
time.
Agreed that she should,
but good luck beating Tia, Claire, Toomey,
or... Well, I didn't say it was easy.
But I bet if you asked Justin,
he would have preferred to beat Matt.
I don't know if he would say that
out loud to the press at this point
in his career,
but I'm betting if you asked him...
his feelings back in twenty one and twenty
two,
he would have hoped that he could have
beaten Matt to get his first title.
Frida says it's hard to tell when grieving
is involved,
the time needed is different for everyone.
I don't disagree with you at all.
And that's why I didn't go Sharpie either.
Like,
I don't think it's a done deal and
written in Sharpie.
I just think that looking at it,
when you look at greatness in sports,
When Michael Jordan was playing
basketball,
it meant something if you beat him.
And nobody did.
The only time people beat the Bulls is
when Jordan retired for two years and the
Rockets won.
And Akeem Olajuwon was like,
he won the title only because Michael
didn't play those years.
And that eats up at athletes.
That eats up at athletes.
If you are a champion athlete and you
are as competitive as Laura is,
you want to stick a stake in the
ground and you want to take your shot
at the best that there ever was.
Right now,
Laura has the best shot of beating Tia
with her skill set.
Laura has one weakness, one weakness.
And I think that Laura has a shot
to go head to head with her.
Whether she wins or not, I don't know.
Because when you're so obsessed over the
one thing that you need to complete your
career,
that comes with a lot of mental issues
that you have to overcome, right?
Like when Tiger wore red on Sunday or
Michael Jordan was in the playoffs,
those players knew that that person was
great.
And it was going to take an exceptional
performance to beat them.
And so Laura is going to have to
know when Tia's wearing that leader jersey
that she has the ability to beat her
still.
And that takes an extra to get there.
yeah this is it corey this is perfect
at the twenty twenty games jeff adler said
i don't care who wins the next event
so long as it isn't him and points
at matt frazier something tells me it
won't happen in twenty twenty six he
hasn't posted a video in two months
pregnant i don't disagree with you and
that's again i did not put this laura
thing in sharpie i put it in pen
Because there are other factors to this.
If Tia doesn't compete,
then it's going to be easy for Laura
to say,
I'm going to take another season of just
WFP, stay in Europe, do my thing,
collect my money,
do some Olympic weightlifting,
have some fun.
Because the CrossFit Games, the title,
I don't think matters to Laura.
It's beating Tia.
That's what matters.
Laura only beat her when Tia was like
six months postpartum.
Laura is great,
but I don't think she can take Tia
in twenty twenty six.
I'm not predicting the winner, dude.
I understand what you're saying exactly.
But as a competitor,
listen to the guys that played basketball
in Jordan's era,
like the Charles Barclays,
the Carl Malone's,
the Akeem Elijah Juan's.
the Isaiah Thomas's,
they wanted to beat Jordan.
They wanted to beat Jordan's bulls.
None of them did,
but that was their white whale.
That was what they wanted to go after.
Laura's great when the test is not about
being the fittest.
I completely disagreed.
I completely disagree.
The only thing that prevents Laura from
winning events is handstand pushups with a
deficit.
So.
So there it is.
Jonathan Ortega.
So I don't think Laura is that type
of competitor or else she would have come
after Tia this season.
She doesn't have the love.
I completely disagree.
I think she has the love for the
game.
Look at her on the floor.
Look at how pumped she gets when she
wins an event.
She has all the love of the game,
but she was grieving and she had rage
and was upset with CrossFit HQ.
That's why she didn't do twenty twenty
six.
As the further we get away from Lazar's
death,
the more that's going to wane a little
by a little by little.
And there's going to be a piece or
there's going to be a time where it's
going to be enough for her to want
to go after the white whale.
And that is Tia.
Laura is one of the fittest period.
I one hundred percent agree.
I guys, I.
Nobody goes into events and hurts
themselves like that if they don't have
love for the game.
She is at the tip of the spear.
She is one of the two greatest female
athletes in the sport.
And maybe you could put her on the
Mount Rushmore of ever.
She has stood on the podium, what,
four times at the CrossFit Games?
Winning once?
Mike DeVito,
I definitely understand what you're saying
now, and that makes sense.
But if it is her white whale,
she needs to put her issues with HQ
aside and show up.
And I don't think she has the mental
side.
A lot had rage and still showed up
and handled business.
You have to be mentally tough to overcome
adversity like that.
Some did, Laura did not.
And just like the commenter said earlier,
and I think it was Frida,
said that everybody grieves differently.
And that time can be different for every
single person.
Look at go back and look at the
twenty twenty four rogue invitational and
the interview style that Laura had with
the on the floor.
Mike, I think it was Kiki back then,
too.
Then look at this year and how she
was in her interviews with Kiki.
There is a difference in Laura from last
year to this year.
I'm not saying she's over everything,
but I'm saying that we're time does help
heal some wounds.
And her wounds just need to be healed
enough for the pros to outweigh the cons
of going to the CrossFit Games.
Exactly.
Train Olive.
She has a different air about her
recently.
I like this version of Laura.
Laura also quit on a workout in the
WFP.
I know it's just the WFP,
but Tia would never have done that.
She may not have quit.
She just may not have been able.
When Kobe passed away,
how many players showed up to the court
right after?
Apples to oranges, Jonathan.
Kobe didn't die on the court.
And Kobe was retired.
We're all making assumptions about Laura's
mindset and why she's making the decision
she is.
All the speculation doesn't make it fact.
I'm just putting a theory out there.
That's all.
Just for something to talk about.
Because love or hate her,
she is a phenomenal athlete.
And I think that people look at it
and they discredit her fitness or her
ability because she's unlike other
athletes in the space.
But that may be what makes her special.
Exactly, Sean in Oregon.
But then we wouldn't have a show.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Mike DeVito.
And I like Laura a lot.
She's a solid athlete in so many ways
that might not come across right now,
but I do.
LOL.
So it's just a theory.
It's looking at when I've like,
I've watched sports my entire life.
my entire life and I've watched greatness
and I've watched people want to over
become great themselves.
And the way to become great yourself is
to hang with those that are great already
or beat those that are great already.
You know, we have the phrases like,
the student becomes the master.
Things like that because, one,
of Star Wars, but two,
because the apprentice has learned enough
about being great that they overtake the
person who is currently great.
There are still golfers who talk about
Tiger like he's still there.
because of the runs he made,
and none of them can match what he
did on the course.
And they still talk about it.
And you know if they're talking about it,
it's in the forefront of their mind that
they want to be able to do what
he did to show that they're as great
as he was.
but you can't hang with those that are
great if you don't show up for the
event.
Jonathan, you keep banging this horse.
The horse is dead.
People grieve differently.
She didn't show up for one year.
We got to see what happens.
I mean, if you listen to Pat Vellner,
I think there's a chance he comes back.
And he was as outspoken against CrossFit
HQ as anybody.
Trade Olive,
if you look back at Tia in the
beginning to now as far as interviews and
such, I'd say she's less likable.
I think Laura is becoming more likable or
maybe personable is the word.
I think personable is the word.
I think that she has burnt some bridges
where there were people out there that
will never like Laura.
And that's just a fact.
It doesn't mean that...
She can't become more personable and maybe
convert some people over to likable.
But I think for some,
she's already burnt that bridge.
And that's why people don't think she,
I think that is why people give her
less of a chance to be great or
to be on the Mount Rushmore or to
be the person that can take down the
white whale.
Tia had a huge shift in mindset when
she started,
so there's always room for change and
growth.
Laura is very Eastern European from a
personality standpoint.
I don't disagree with that at all.
But it's food for thought, right?
It makes, to me,
as someone who does this every day now,
It's those storylines that make me want to
come watch an event.
And so I am hoping upon hope that
this theory of mine is true and that
we do get the opportunity where we get
the head-to-head Laura versus Tia.
Because I don't think there could be a
better matchup in the women's field at the
CrossFit Games than to see those two go
head-to-head.
They are very different culturally.
They are very different personality-wise,
but they're both great.
And I would love to see it happen
head-to-head one more time.
So as much as I'm just throwing this
theory out and I'm using past experiences
of watching other people who are great,
a lot of this is hope.
A lot of this is because I just
want to see it happen.
because it will be something that we would
talk about all the time on this show.
It's like the men's field has gotten to
where you can't pick a winner anymore.
Everybody is getting so good that we have
these epic battles,
even at a semifinal level,
all the way to the games, at Rogue,
at all the events.
That's what's awesome.
And that's,
we haven't had that on the women's side
because it's been dominated so much.
We need the villain for Tia.
And that's what I'm hoping for.
With that, guys,
I need to say one thing.
Last night on our show,
Carolyn said that she helped Lex with her
picks.
Lex wants to make it clear that
that Carolyn does not help her with her
picks on Heat One,
that Lex makes her own picks,
and they are hers.
And she has beaten John Young on her
own,
and she has done all the greatness on
Heat One because she's my white whale on
Heat One.
Every weekend,
that's the person I'm trying to beat is
Lex.
Alexis Detroit for you people out there.
And she is my white whale,
but she wants it cleared up that she
makes her own picks.
Carolyn does not help her.
They may discuss the event and the
athletes,
but they actually come up with different
choices on who will be in the heat
one.
So Lex wanted me to make that clear.
I've made it clear.
Lex is probably the king queen of the
heat one app.
And I'm just coming,
trying to come for the crown.
Thank goodness.
She forgot to put in athletes for event
seven and I beat her this week,
probably for the first time ever.
So.
I think Alex Kazan is going to be
trying to be the villain in Proven's
comments.
More information, please, Trent Olive.
I've seen HBO posts about Alex because
that's who she's with now.
Um... Um...
So anyway,
I didn't see any proven comments on
anything.
But again,
I don't dive into the comments very much,
especially when I'm busy,
which I have been for the last couple
weeks.
Lucy Campbell appears to be the future.
She has crazy grit.
think the only thing holding lucy campbell
back is she's an older athlete she started
this thing later than most um and so
her window is a little bit shorter than
some athletes
it's then some athletes are or is or
whatever um I love Lucy Campbell she is
one of my favorite athletes um every
conversation I've had with her has been
remarkable um and if you noticed she's the
superhero in the comic uh on the thumbnail
for this show today um and I think
she's awesome
But I think if Alex Kazan can stay
healthy,
she is going to be the future of
the sport as well.
Oh, yeah, yeah, she did do that.
I did see that.
I'm sorry.
You're very right, Train Olive.
There was a post about Tia keeping the
jersey and not giving it up,
and Alex said something like,
I'll be trying to take it.
True,
but she was an athlete from another
discipline.
I'm not disputing that, David.
I just think she's thirty.
So in the women's field,
it's very rare to go past thirty-four,
thirty-five.
I'm just saying the window's smaller for
her than it is for someone like Gazan
at twenty-four or an Emma Lawson at
twenty-one.
They just have a longer runway to pull
it off.
That's not Alex being a villain, though.
That's the type of fun trash talk we
need more of in this sport.
Yeah, and I think if you know Alex,
it was probably all said in fun,
but the Alex I used to know would
never have said that because her
confidence level wasn't where it needs to
be to be a champion,
and I think it is now.
I think I'm bummed that we didn't get
the full healthy Alex this season.
So we'll see.
I was showing bias with regards to age.
Thirty is so young compared to me.
Yeah, I mean, thirty is really young,
but for an athlete.
The athletes that go past thirty five in
pro sports, you can count on two hands,
maybe, you know, you have your LeBron's,
you have your.
Max Scherzer's you,
but they are not they are not common.
Aaron Rodgers.
To come back from that accident and do
what she did at Rogue is simply amazing.
It was.
She looked great.
I think she looked tired on Sunday,
but a lot of athletes did.
But I think the Alex that could train
fully would be less tired than she was
this week.
So I'd love to see her at full
conditioning moving forward.
Haha, I'm forty.
So to me, thirty is crazy young.
But as a CrossFitter,
even thirty is getting up there.
There are some people that have not been
hit by the age wand as quickly.
Emily Rolfe is thirty five,
and she has been competing until this year
when she suffered her first injury.
Sam Briggs famously qualified as a Masters
athlete in the individual field.
It can be done.
I'm just saying from second,
like Lucy finished second at the games.
Second.
That's impressive.
And she may be a monster in the
next couple years.
Her window is just smaller, that's all.
Emma Lawson's twenty-one.
She's got like fourteen years of working
to be the best.
five a.m squad club I'm getting younger
all the time there you go CrossFit
reversing age one workout at a time uh
Briggs isn't human I'm convinced she's a
cyborg that got left in the past after
failing to get John Connor yeah I think
there's a lot of speculation um
But hey, she's a firefighter here in Ohio.
And if my house is on fire,
I want her saving my ass.
I'll tell you that.
No questions whether she's fit enough to
get my house taken care of and my
family out safe and sound.
She's one of the coolest humans ever.
I'm going to finish on this.
I've said this on this show a couple
times.
When I was doing the open at CrossFit
Polaris, I was standing over my deadlift.
Sam had come in to work out with
Christy,
and she started yelling at me to pick
up the bar that it was not going
to move itself.
And then she got right beside me yelling
at me the whole time.
And it was a burpee deadlift workout in
the open a couple years ago.
Nothing worse than having Sam Briggs yell
at you to finish out that open workout.
I did way better than I ever planned
on doing,
but it's also one of the coolest moments
I've ever had in my life.
And I picked up the bar.
I picked up the bar.
So with that, on that story,
we're going to get out of here.
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