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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the original Sunday, Sunday,
Sunday Night CrossFit.
I don't know how I got up
for that because every team
I root for stinks.
Flat out stinks.
It's been a rough weekend.
Yeah, we had our ups and downs.
Lions did great.
Spartans, meh.
I didn't watch a – normally
I'm a huge football fan on the weekends,
but I don't think I watched
a single game today.
Yeah, I watch too much.
The Rams game is awesome right now.
It's an overtime.
Yeah, I was just watching that.
I thought Stafford was going
to pull it out at the end.
I couldn't quite get him
into field goal range.
Mm-hmm.
But my Penn State Nittany
Lions in the big matchup of
the weekend laid an egg,
but only fell to sixth in a
twelve team playoff this year.
Hopefully they can just
close out the year.
Ohio State has been their nemesis forever.
And it sucks because I live in Columbus.
And that means all week this week,
everybody who has never
watched a football game
will tell me how bad my team is.
Right.
Did they get smoked?
I'm just looking right now.
One score game.
It's not like they would say
that they suck.
It's like they got blown out.
They could lose by one point
and everybody in this city
will tell me how bad they are.
Yeah.
And then my Bears,
who I thought I had all
this optimism and all this hope.
And then the Hail Mary last
week that we talked about
going into this year, this week,
a lapse in defense on the
last play of the first half
to give up a touchdown.
And then they just fell apart.
And it looks like they're
crumbling from within.
And I feel like I have no
joy in Mudville tonight.
And speaking of Mudville,
Jamie's Detroit Lions
played in an utter monsoon
and spanked the Green Bay Packers.
They did.
I got a little nervous there
at the beginning with
Branch getting ejected.
But, yeah.
They didn't seem to need him today.
I guess not.
And I hate the Packers.
I don't like the Lions,
but I hate the Packers.
How can you not like the Lions?
We've been terrible for so long.
We're in the Bears' division.
I can't like them.
Yeah, that's fair.
And then we're going to
touch on one more piece of sports news,
and then we'll get into the
CrossFit stuff.
But I wanted to share this
because I thought this was really cool.
In telling us where we are today in sports,
I'm going to share the screen.
Paige Bukers becomes the
first college player to get
a Nike sneaker, a signature Nike sneaker.
Love it.
I like her a lot as a player,
and I like her personality
on social media.
She's an amazing shooter.
She's an amazing player.
The shoe is freaking awesome.
I love the looks of it.
And then it actually has
stuff for her on the tongue.
But there's a look of... Good colors.
I like the colors a lot.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
She's seriously the first
college player ever to have a shoe.
Nike.
It says Nike.
Okay.
But you also have to think
about a lot of the players
couldn't get like big deals
and stuff before because
you couldn't accept any
money and as a scholarship
athlete and just now you
can have some endorsement deals.
So that's awesome for her.
Yeah.
Page buckets.
You have the NIL issue.
And then in men's college basketball,
so many leave early.
I think that's why women's
basketball is taking off
because you know the
players and what team they're on.
Yeah.
And you can follow them for four years.
On the men's side,
it's just a shuffle all the time.
And you know, living in Lansing, Michigan,
I mean, Michigan State,
the players just roll in
and out all the time and
you really don't have a
consistent team year after year.
The women's college game is
kicking off this week, I think.
Crazy that we're starting
that season already, too.
That is crazy.
Not ready.
Huge shout out.
She's going to be the player of the year.
As long as she stays healthy.
She's had some bad luck the
last few years.
As long as she stays healthy,
Juju and other players can certainly
for that player of the year.
Yeah, I have an East Coast bias, I guess.
But it's hard for me to stay
up late for those.
Now that the Big Ten has
games on the West Coast, oh my goodness,
trying to stay up to watch
like Oregon and Michigan.
It was on early yesterday,
but those games now could
be on at ten thirty at
night and it's going to be
tough on this old body.
Yes, Indiana Fever has a new coach.
Not surprising.
Stephanie White, I think.
Stephanie White, yeah.
She was Connecticut's coach last year.
She played for Indiana as well.
Oh, okay, cool.
It was like a very,
very predictable signing.
Yeah, I heard it was,
like I saw it being predicted,
and then it came to
fruition at the end of the week.
So, yeah.
Fun stuff in all sports.
So that's awesome.
But we want to talk about
some of the CrossFit stuff.
And we're going to start off
with the all access behind the scenes.
We are nearing the end of
the eleven part documentary.
Episode nine comes out
tomorrow at twelve thirty p.m.
I have a trailer for it,
but I want to send out a
huge thank you to the
sponsors who made it possible,
which was Beck Bodie.
They're a financial company
that helps people financial plan.
And when you watch the video,
there's a QR code.
You can hit that and they
can help you out with all
of your financial planning needs.
And they love working with
CrossFitters because they
know all about goal setting
and doing the steps it
takes to reach those goals.
And that's kind of how they
set up CrossFitters.
The Financial Plan.
So make sure you check that out.
And of course, Thick Boy,
who has been behind us in so many ways.
And that documentary specifically,
those were two big sponsors
that got me to Birmingham
and got me to film and got
me an editor for the workout stuff.
So thank you so much to them.
Without them, this wouldn't be possible.
But tomorrow,
we're going to hit up Workout Eight,
which was the Toaster Bar,
Burpee Over Bar, and Heavy Clean,
which our very own Jamie
Latimer took second in.
But yeah, so we are going to hit that up.
And I have a little preview.
No real theme this week.
It's just kind of a
smattering of some of the interviews,
really small segments of them.
And I'm going to play that now.
so you get the best of both
worlds you get to have fun
but you also are competing
against the very best if
you think about the math
it's point zero zero one
percent is what's here in
the final stage so after
tasting it once do you want
to come oh yeah I'm coming
back you ain't gotta worry
I'm tasting it once I'm
already thinking about next
season yeah the workout
here the barbell like
depending on what side you
have to start on,
you have to turn a separate direction,
and it was just so confusing.
And my brain was not understanding it,
and the poor judge is like, oh my God,
just tell me what to do.
Help me, help me, sir.
Oh my God, it's not your fault,
I just don't understand.
I'm gonna say fuck a lot,
I'm really sorry.
But we figured it out,
so I got seven rounds,
so I feel good about it.
So in these moments,
are you just an ear to listen,
or are you giving him strategies?
A little bit of both.
I mean,
I don't know what I'm talking about
quite as much as he does,
but a little bit of both.
Ear to listen, mainly.
Just let him talk it out,
work through it in his head.
How nervous do you get
before you go somewhere?
Real nervous.
Real nervous.
What did he say?
Like I look like an FBI agent.
Like, excuse me, sir,
we've got a security breach.
So being part of this community,
it becomes more than the workouts.
It becomes more than the leaderboard.
It's just the camaraderie.
It's more than I expected for this event.
And that means the world.
That's what keeps you going.
That's what gets you up in
the morning and say, all right, day three,
let's go.
Hey, back up.
Old hat?
Old hat with the stuff?
No.
Feels like the first time every time.
It's horrible.
I wish it felt like old hat, but no.
So this is your first bus with him.
Sure is.
Are you having a ball?
I'm having so much fun.
I've learned a lot in a
really short amount of time.
It's cool.
It's like I was fit enough to get here,
and then it's just the depth of field.
It's just wild.
Girls are so good, so...
That's a trailer, episode nine,
tomorrow at twelve thirty p.m.
Shout out Jonathan Ortega,
Ellie Hiller and Holly Dugan,
major players in putting this together.
Couldn't have done it without them.
As always, Jonathan and Holly.
contributing continuously
week after week with stuff
for these documentaries and
ellie hiller that the
weekend getting some of the
post uh event footage
couldn't have done it
without her what's one
thing I hated from that
workout montage do you know
it I don't know the workout
just I hate step over
burpees oh yeah I know
hate it.
They were allowed.
It is part of the rules.
I just personally... Did you do it?
Jamie, did you do it?
I think I stepped my last
burpee on maybe all the rounds.
Maybe all but one round.
Just to kind of get a
breather before going back?
Yeah.
Plus I had to step, step.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, like what Katrina was talking about.
You had to face certain ways
for certain things.
And depending on what side
of the or what stagger you had,
your rules were different,
which made it really confusing.
And a lot of athletes messed that up.
And it made it hard to see
who was winning.
And some people, it seemed,
had a straight shot down
and straight shot back.
Others had to do this twisty
thing as they were going,
which I feel didn't equate
to evening out the
difference in the bar stagger, for sure.
But it was still a great event.
Yeah, it was a good event.
Still a great event.
It's amazing how many people
really dreaded that clean.
Yeah.
Because the people that were
really good at the other
two things were really
dreading the clean.
Yes.
Because it was definitely heavy.
And that's kind of what you get in these,
this behind the scenes.
So that's that.
That'll be tomorrow.
So excited how these are coming out.
And I don't know if he knows,
a couple weeks back I got a
text from a friend named Lex who said,
why don't you put the ages,
age groups of each person
on their names so we know
what age group they're in.
And I think that has added a
little bit to the thing.
So I thank her for that suggestion.
Genius.
Yeah.
Just another step in the process.
That's all.
um cool so we had some big
news this week uh one mr
brent fukowski announced
his retirement uh he did
that on instagram and via
an exclusive interview with
the morning chalk up and
here is his instagram post
he said after twelve years
competing in the sport the
twenty twenty four rogue
invitational will be my
last competition it's been
a tough decision knowing
I'm still at my best and
improving but the
excitement for a new set of
challenges far outweighs my sadness
I have saying goodbye to
this chapter of my life.
The level of focus I gave while competing,
I can now put into what is
setting my soul on fire,
improving this sport via
the PFAA to help the next
generation have it better than I did.
Don't expect me to give
anything less than a
hundred percent next week
at the Rogue Invitational.
I plan to go out with a bang.
I'm going to open the floor
to you two if you have
anything you would like to
share about Brent.
I have a couple notes of
things that I'd like to share.
I will give a couple career highlights.
Three podiums, two bronze and a silver,
three fourth-place finishes,
and for a big stretch,
dominated the West Regional.
And one of the fourth-place
finishes was a tie as well.
He just lost the tiebreaker there.
Yeah, that was, uh,
it was the guy with the
little flag blank.
He never really competed much after that.
Yeah.
I'm sure Patrick comments, I think.
I mean,
I feel like I grew up in the sport
of CrossFit watching him, right?
Because he was basically my
generation of qualification
and regional side.
I felt like I've watched his career.
Lucas Holmberg, that's what he did.
Or whatever his name is.
Yeah, I mean,
he's had an impressive career.
He's getting at that age where
you know it's it's a lot on
the body and he's got a kid
as well um he's been
involved with the pfa and
like he said he has if that
desire to like train as
hard as he did before isn't
quite there and he's found
a new passion in terms of
trying to put the sport in
a better place like you can't
fault him for, you know,
going that direction.
And I'm sure he's going to
do the best job that he can with that.
And yeah,
he's had super impressive career.
Like he would be in that
hall of fame list that we, you know,
we talked about prior and
he definitely helped the
sport of CrossFit in Canada grow.
He's one of the main, you know,
athletes that Canadians
have looked up to all these years.
So yeah,
he's earned it.
Yeah.
He's a happy retirement to
him and looking forward to
seeing him compete next weekend.
And hopefully he finishes
out his career on a great note.
you think this will be a
trend I'll give it up to
jimmy here in a second do
you think this will be a
trend you know carrie
pierce announced her
retirement did rogue to
finish it off uh kristen
holta kind of did the same
thing she did one more um
if-three uh as well before
she finished but they both
had that like final moment
on the rogue competition floor
I think Carrie put her shoes down.
Kristen didn't do that,
but do you think that's
going to be the trend going
forward for the Hall of Famers?
I think so.
I think it's hard to say no to Rogue.
You come off the games,
you have everything paid for for Rogue.
There's less pressure,
so just finishing off with
a little bit of...
um you know a more intimate
competition I guess I think
makes sense um and you just
finish off that year there
and then you take your off
season basically after that
and not really off season
whatever you want to call
it your new season your new
reality but I think it
makes sense yeah yeah jamie
I mean,
I'll be curious to see if he just
means he's retiring from
CrossFit HQ events.
Um,
will he like continue to try to do
Wadapalooza, do team stuff,
do things that he, that he can,
or is he like truly done competing?
I've in a way, I mean, I can see, I mean,
he put himself kind of in a
bad spot asking for a
somewhat of an ultimatum.
Um,
But I do think his... He
seems genuine in his care for the PFAA.
That does seem to be a place
where his heart lies.
So...
putting his time and energy
into that is I can't blame him for that.
I,
I find it hard to believe that he's
going to totally stop competing though.
Like that's in those people's DNA.
The thing that's hard with
our sport is like you,
you do all the other sports.
Like when I retired from hockey last year,
like it's very easy for me
to not play hockey, but in CrossFit,
you're still going to continue to train.
Right.
And for the most part, right.
Most people will continue to
train and stay active and, and be Finn,
whether they choose to do
CrossFit or they choose to do more, um,
Um, outdoor stuff like,
like road biking or mountain biking,
running like that,
that is a separate thing.
They might do other races and stuff,
but it's, you know, you,
you're still fit.
And if you enter,
if you ever enter the open and stuff,
like you're still kind of competitive.
And I think that's why you
see a lot of these athletes, uh,
You know,
one year or not even a full year
after retirement, you know,
still dip their toes in in
the water of certain competitions.
And then, oh,
they still have all this
fitness that they've built
from all these years and
all these repetitions that
they're still very
competitive worldwide and
can qualify for these things.
So then I think it is easy to.
you know,
compete here and there as a team
or just less pressure on
yourself and still have
other balance in your life
and focus elsewhere.
Yeah.
How old is Brent?
Like, thirty-two?
I think he's thirty-three.
I mean,
I can see the guy possibly...
Depending on how many
athletes kind of push this
thirty-five bracket,
I could see him stepping
into that stage possibly if things...
go the direction he wants it
to go if he's able to get
this pfa to take off um and
crossfit is in a position
he feels like he wants to
represent that I could see
him doing that but yeah I
could see him just doing
things like water close our team stuff
And we talked about the PFAA
and the fact that when you
have active athletes in the sport,
it's hard to get certain stuff.
And maybe he realizes that
and he can have a different
role even with CrossFit.
And he's not affiliated with
any training camp.
He's the perfect athlete
technically with the
experience as a competitor
and not have any skin in
the game with other players
that are competing that he could...
either do testing,
either do have some input
on safety procedures or how
to run certain things better.
And he's not involved now in
terms of the competition side.
And maybe that's attractive to him.
They could even give him a paid contract.
Who knows?
And maybe that was the thing
is you can't be a
competitor if you are working for,
you know,
this part of either CrossFit or PFA,
but yeah.
I think I'll get into my PFA
part of my discussion in a minute,
but I want to talk about
him as the athlete and the person first.
And that is, um, he was a game changer.
He was really the true first
tall athlete to succeed in the sport.
Right.
And, um, I think what,
what that did is one, it,
it showed other tall athletes.
They could.
Then I think the sport
actually modified itself to
almost attract more people like Brent,
where we are today, the Dallins,
the James, like those types of athletes.
Yeah.
I think one of the things
that most impressed me was
when he first started,
he was known as the cardio guy.
The chipper.
He was the chipper.
He'd win every chipper.
Right.
Worldwide.
And then he got strong.
And he really worked hard on
his snatch and his clean
and jerk to make them world class.
He was technically strong.
His technique was very, very good.
I don't know.
I'd have to look at his raw
strength numbers.
I think they're, they're good,
but he's technically very,
very good in terms of his
snatching and stuff.
So he, yeah.
Wasn't it a clean and jerk
that kind of kept him out of the games.
And then he ended up.
The one year it was a clean
and jerk for sure.
Maybe.
Yeah.
And then he worked on that
and has gotten much better
at that where it wasn't
even a deficiency for him, which was very,
very impressive.
Um,
a couple of memories I have of him are
the ranch run where Sam
Briggs was trying to catch him.
I thought that was a classic moment.
Um, the snatch that he levitated, uh,
when he went over three
hundred pounds and it came
down and he did the like
out like he was almost
levitating the bar down.
Um.
And then personally,
he's been on the show a couple times.
He spent more time with us
after the record button
went off than he did while
the record button was on.
And he was so giving of his time.
He gave us notes on stuff he
had taken from previous years.
He was always a very giving
individual and one of my
favorite people of all time
because of the way he acted
when the cameras weren't on.
Right.
He didn't have to do that.
The cameras were off.
Interview is over.
And he spent as much time
after the interview as we did on the air,
probably more.
And really,
really dove into media stuff
with us and his opinions
and where he thought it should be.
And and how can you be
differentiate yourself and
like almost being a mentor,
which was really, really cool.
and he does I know Patrick
is saying can't wait to
hear him providing color
for a broadcast I think
that's going to be amazing
because he does have strong
opinions about what a color
commentator should be and
he shared those notes with
me and it's going to be
amazing to see if he can pull that off
Yeah.
He's so well versed in the sport.
Brent is a great speaker.
I like to hear him talk.
He doesn't fumble around his words.
I think he would be excellent.
He changed the game for a lot of things.
He would go over the video
review process for people.
He changed the games in
terms of how to study your
workouts and try to find
the smallest little parts
of your strengths and
weaknesses to better your score.
He would really study the movements,
the timing of things,
how long everything would take.
He was very intuitive.
He would think about
different ways to climb the rope or
I remember he pulled out a
split snatch or something at,
at one of the events.
And it's like,
he had stuff in his back
pocket always just from
years of training and,
and taking notes and being
that professor.
And like, I think that's another thing,
thing that I take away from,
him is just like the
attention to detail that he
always had in the sport.
And I think that's important
for others to see that.
And that's what it took for him to,
you know, make it to the top and,
and to be successful.
Corbin Dallas says,
I think AJ Bartow is taller.
I think he was too,
but he did not ever see
this that Brent did.
Right.
AJ was kind of a one trick
pony when it came to the
games and he was really
good at that one pony,
but that's all he had.
So when it comes, so now that like,
and that's why it's been
tough for me to comment on
the PFAA for a while, because I really,
really respect Brent as a
person and I really like him a lot.
And he has come on our show
several times and it's been
awesome every time he's been here.
But I do think, I wonder,
has like the stuff that
Carolyn's been saying about
active athletes cannot have
this position.
And I know that we're not
the only people saying that.
Did that affect this
decision that maybe he can
be better at this position
if he isn't an active athlete?
My questions are,
as we've been researching into the PFAA,
you can't be a board member
if you're not an active athlete.
so are they going to modify
their own rules so that
brent can be a board member
of his own thing or is he
going to be a separate
piece of that it's going to
be interesting to see how
they deal with that yeah I
mean in a lot of sports
they have like uh like the
nhlpa alum and well I
wonder if there's I mean I
think he's gonna be like
the president is what he
said in one of the in the article
When you look at players associations,
there is a person who is
not a player that is the
main negotiator and is the main person.
And it's so that the players
don't get into the weeds
and the sticky situations with ownership,
right?
You know, famously,
Donald Fear is the one that
changed how baseball
structured everything.
He was an attorney.
And he did all the
negotiating for the Major
League Baseball Players Association.
No player was involved in that.
And it was ugly.
And he was able to be ugly
because he wasn't a player.
If that makes sense.
So apparently president is
often a non-athlete.
And so maybe that's the
position he'll become.
And I think it's going to be
interesting to see if they, again,
I beg and plead that the
PFAA represent more
athletes than they do.
That's my biggest beef.
I love the athletes.
I want to protect the athletes,
but I love the Masters athletes.
And I love the team athletes.
And I wish they had representation too.
That is my plea to the PFAA.
But I think he had these
plans of retiring at the
beginning of the season.
And regardless of what
happened at the games,
I think that this was his plan all along.
I think that Hopper wrote
something like that in
response to Hiller's post
on Instagram earlier today,
that this was his last competition.
I guess the game was his last games.
And I think when you can end
your career...
You know,
it gets your decision.
It's not like you didn't
qualify and it was ended for you.
I think that's also a good
way to step out of, um, of the sport.
But yeah, I mean, that's why like, uh,
now that like I see him retire,
like it also validates to
me another reason as to
like why he chose also
probably to continue the competition,
knowing that this was in
the back of his mind, his last,
his last competition, because to me, um,
when you put those demands,
but then you continue to
comp to compete at the competition.
I felt as an athlete, like that's like,
which like, if you want safety,
like maybe like that was
the time maybe to step away
and he continued and maybe
he had other reasons.
And this, you know,
this to me shows maybe that that's,
you know, that was a big reason for him.
Like he already knew that
this was his last season
and he wanted to also do that for, um,
himself and then also his
way of honoring lazar was
also to continue to
continue to compete so I
think a lot of just
reflection on that when he
announced his retirement I
know this year's games
weren't ideal but he did go
out on the podium yep
which, you know,
you look at other sports
when John Elway went out as
a Super Bowl champion.
Like, that means something.
That's huge when you go out
winning the championship.
I know he didn't win it,
but he wore the leader's
jersey on the last event.
Um,
and the picture that I actually put for
the thumbnail,
I believe is from the last event, um,
tonight, uh,
cause he does have the leader shorts on.
Um,
and I wanted to show him in the leader
shorts.
That was kind of my, my idea behind that.
Um,
and I got that picture at this year's
games, but, um, anyway, um,
Kudos to Brent.
Great career.
Thank you for being one hell
of a person and being
awesome to us on this show,
as well as I know you've
been that way to other
people as well and continued success.
And I hope that what you do
in the future is amazing.
Representing athletes in the
right way to further the
sport for all of us.
I wonder if you'd get into coaching too,
maybe down the road.
Programming coaching,
if that interests him at all.
He has some programming.
Yeah.
Like I've taken his snatch
programming that he has.
Um, yeah.
When you talk to him about it,
it doesn't sound like a
passion thing for him.
Yeah.
It's like, hey,
I have all these notes from what I did.
And so I just share them with the world.
It's more of like, hey,
I've got all this stuff.
It's just sitting here.
Here you go.
Rather than like, hey,
this is what I want to do.
Yeah, the professor project.
Yeah.
And doesn't he has friends
that help him with all that?
Yeah.
Like his coach is Yeah, he Yeah,
he has a coach,
which I feel like is who
actually works with Shelby.
I think we're mentors a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So great career.
Kudos to you.
Can't wait to see what happens next.
Next this week,
we also had an announcement
from Will Morad,
an announcement that something is coming.
Is this what they call a
hold the date card?
Yeah, save the date, yeah.
Save the date.
Don't really know what's coming, but hey,
save the date.
um I will say that um
there's nothing of
substance at this point and
I have not talked to will
in a minute to know any
more than that um but I
will say that in my time
during the games and the
masters crossfit games when
I was hanging around the
ttt folks there was
rumblings of something coming
different league and I don't
think it was I don't think
it had anything to do with
what happened with Lazar
and I don't think wills has
anything to do with what
happened with Lazar I think
it is hey we need to make a
better structured season
and this is our effort to do so so
And when I say I heard it
around the TTT folks,
I don't think TTT had
anything much to do with this.
Maybe they did.
I am not saying that in any way.
It's just Will is a TTT athlete,
and that's who he was
hanging out with at the
Masters Games and at the CrossFit Games.
Right.
I didn't even know he was TTT.
He was originally and just
went back this season.
he was proven and then went
back to yeah he was a coach
at proven left and now is
coached by max got it yeah
so um and max was at the
masters games um as well as
a plethora of their other
coaches uh because it was a
short drive from georgia
yeah I mean and ttt just
did their podcast the other
night talking about the season and
I don't feel like they went
much into Will's side,
more of just the game
season being online mostly
and their rumors that they've heard.
So there's obviously been
all kinds of rumors all over the place,
right?
When I started to listen to that one, too,
I actually listened to it
going to bed and fell asleep.
So I have to go back and
listen to like probably the second half.
But it felt like at the
beginning they knew they
were very careful of what
they knew and what they
just wanted to talk about.
Right.
I agree.
I mean, yeah,
it's almost like they know
that it's going to be online,
which I feel like at this point.
that seems to be all but confirmed.
Like everyone has agreed
that that is the case.
It is going to be whether,
whether it's fully online
or partially online with some sanctionals,
right?
Uh,
Patrick Clark says this sounds like
spring professional football league, XFL,
UFL, USFL.
I've said the exact same
thing in past show.
I really don't think there's
enough money to go around
to support more than one league.
Um,
the way they have everything
structured now,
but those are a couple of
talking points that I just
thought about this week when this came up,
because I think I said last week,
I don't think there's a
chance of another league
competing with the CrossFit games,
unless you just have a boatload of money.
Right.
And at that point,
is it sustainable model?
And like,
I feel like I've gone through
this with the woman's
hockey for like so many years.
And now it's just like
bringing me back to what I
literally went through for
so many years was we had a league.
It wasn't quite professional
in what we wanted.
People had money.
They started another league.
Fans got split.
it wasn't as good as, you know, media side,
it looked great.
And then there was a lot of
stuff that behind the scenes,
wasn't great about the new league.
And then there were still
things in ours that could improve.
And then like,
it was just for so many years,
like we were divided.
And then finally this past year,
they finally created one league.
And then now it's, it's back to,
it's kind of taken like the best of,
of both things.
And now it's thriving, but it's just like,
as soon as you start dividing it,
like into different paths
and different leagues.
Like I just, I don't know.
I don't think it's going to
be sustainable and it can look good.
Like I said,
for one year and it can look
good on the surface,
but behind the scenes and
how things will get like, like money wise,
like it we'll see in two, three years,
whether it could actually be a thing.
But yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, how many,
how many of these comps have,
gone under and take you know
like that's the last thing
we need is people to get on
board with one of these pay
their money do a qualifier
pay for pay a three hundred
dollar entry fee and book
hotels and just hit the fan like
And you see all these
sponsors giving money to
CrossFit and they invest
for a few years and then they're like,
shit,
we invested too much and now we need
to pull back and rearrange
our model because it's not
as sunshine and rainbows as
what we thought.
And...
we'll see, but I have a,
like my gut feeling is it
might be like a couple year thingy.
And for some of the athletes
that might be behind it, that might be,
you know,
while they're actively in the game,
like that's what they want.
But for ten, fifteen,
twenty years down the road, like,
do they care about it as
long as they got what they
needed when they were there?
Like, and I guess this is exact,
like this seems so much
like what I've already been through.
And yeah.
So my thoughts this week
have been that all these,
like what Patrick mentioned, XFL, USFL,
US football, whatever, USF,
while they didn't succeed,
they were innovative.
And so let's take a step
back and think about how
can we do things better to
improve what we're doing
to copy what may be coming
from other competitions.
One, hey,
how about letting us know when
things are happening early
enough that we can plan
like our vacation time and
our hotels and our flights
to go to the events of the season.
Two,
when you go to any other sporting
event and you look in the stands,
everybody's wearing a jersey.
The only thing CrossFit
sells are shirts that say CrossFit.
They don't say Carolyn Prevost.
They don't say Jamie Latimer.
They don't have your numbers
from the games.
You can get the athlete jerseys.
How?
And get them in a timely fashion?
At the games, you always could.
It's an afterthought done by
the lead sponsor a couple
times that never succeeded
because they couldn't
handle the demand of what people wanted.
which tells you something
you're missing out on
merchandising and marketing
of these things to market your sport.
You've got all these
training programs around
make underdog shirts that
can actually say CrossFit on them.
Yeah.
Make a mayhem shirt that can
say CrossFit on them.
Those are,
that's a licensing you have that
nobody else has.
And it's a way to stream
income into your business
that you have not tapped into.
You've let third party
people do whatever the hell
they wanted to.
And they have to skirt
around the rules and can't
use the word CrossFit on them.
Right.
So they don't look,
it's the cheap replica
instead of like the real
replica that has the
stitched numbers and the stitched,
you know what I mean?
Like that is ridiculous and
should be done.
They also need to live stream everything.
I don't care if you can't
afford the big one.
However,
if you have to do it down and dirty,
figure out a way to live
stream everything.
Screw the haters that jump
in the comments and say
it's not good enough.
Make sure you do it and
stream everything that goes
on so that people can tune
in and watch the sport.
Right now, nobody can watch it.
That means that you're not
growing what you're doing.
And then there has to be
enough consistency to make a plan.
You can't change the rules
every freaking year and
expect people to be able to follow along.
Right.
You just can't.
Those are five things you
could change that improve
the sport today.
Tap into other revenue streams,
stream everything,
announce everything early
enough so people can make plans.
So be consistent with your season.
Okay, four.
I'll leave the fifth one up
to someone else in the chat.
But those are four basic things.
If I'm starting a league to
compete or if I'm CrossFit
and I want to stave off competition,
that I need to do tomorrow.
Because this, like,
letting third parties do
shirts and stuff like that
and then trying to sign
them on as the vendor to make the money,
license it and make your
own money up front.
You license the shirt.
You give Carolyn X percent.
You give yourself a big
chunk of it for selling the licensing,
and the vendor gets some
for making the shirt.
That's what every sports league does.
If I buy a Patrick Mahomes jersey,
he gets a percentage of that.
Which is the way it should go.
I actually think more
jerseys would sell if
people knew that their
athletes were getting them.
Every time they've put them up for sale,
the vendor can't handle the demand.
It tells you how many people
want a freaking jersey.
Normally,
you should have it on the website
for at least a year.
The athletes that were
competing at the games that year,
it stays on the website the
full year for people to order.
And then the following year,
once you get the new
athletes that qualify,
you can have the new athletes.
And then you still have the
more popular ones that made
it the year prior.
You keep those ones on the
website maybe as like,
we've made too much, little deals.
But yearly,
you should have the current
athletes that are competing
in the season.
We have a couple of files.
Craig says,
an athlete development program
with teams.
There's just no future for the teams.
Like there's no scholarship opportunity.
So like a lot of athletes
that would be great in CrossFit,
like why would you compete
in CrossFit at a young age?
Like you can,
you should be using it as
supplement for your sports
to get a scholarship at, you know,
individual sport or team
sport versus specializing as a team.
Because there's just like
the better athletes are
just not in CrossFit.
Like at, at the teenage age,
they're playing all these other sports.
Yeah.
So unless there was actually
a route to go get your college paid for,
then right.
Make it an enjoyable in-person event.
I agree.
I think semifinals is very enjoyable.
I think the games really stinks lately.
But you're watching from a fan.
How do you bring new people
on that don't know the sport?
Every time that there's an event,
you should be able to see
on the live screen what is
the damn workout.
Because if you just watch it
right away and you don't
know what's happening and
you're not a part of the CrossFit sport,
you should be able to see
what they're doing.
It just needs to be more visually...
easier for not just our
people watching it but
people have no idea what's
happening I just look at it
and just know right away oh
this person is in the lead
uh this is what they seem
to be doing live viewership
which is how you're going
to really grow the sport
you're not going to grow
the sport from people just
going to fort worth or
madison or wherever that's the
true true fan like you're
only going to get true fans
showing up at the in-person
event people who are
knee-deep in crossfit and
yeah I think half those
people want to go stream
everything because you need
to make new fans right yes
and it needs to be very
visually appealing it needs
to be sent kill taylor
mentioned in the chat kill
taylor's a great
resource to get people.
It's something you can stream.
They stream the quarterfinals.
We have said on the show
that if everything goes online next year,
we're going to copy what
they do and try to get
other athletes to jump on
and do that as well.
As many people that can
stream what's going on, the better.
But it'd be better if
CrossFit tried to do the
same thing or whatever the
competitor's league was.
Yep.
Patrick says,
wait till you see what we do
for Belgrade games.
I think you'll see some of
what you just brought up in two weeks.
Can't wait.
Napoleon says,
haven't had a Scott Cries in a while.
Apparently,
you've missed the beginnings of
the last two shows.
Yeah,
that Hail Mary made you a little
teary-eyed, I think.
I was sobbing like a baby
right before we went on air.
I like a lot of my teams.
I love the Chicago Bears.
I love the Chicago Bears,
then I love CrossFit.
Chicago Bears have been in
my life since nineteen eighty two.
I've loved them ever since.
And they break my heart week
after week after week.
OK, so we've talked about the league,
we've talked about all that stuff.
And then to rub salt in the wound,
CrossFit announced this
week that the details for
the upcoming open will be
out in December.
Yeah.
Yeah.
have talked the last three
weeks that it was like
november sixth eighth I
think eighth last year um
now they've pushed it to
december and they said that
they wanted to bring out
the information earlier
like than yeah prior years
and I'm like well is this
earlier yeah but
Kenneth says,
I only like the Bears for Tyson Bajent.
I only like Tyson Bajent
because of the Bears.
How about that?
Scott.
I actually like Tyson Bajent.
Rogue kicks off this week.
Carolyn,
you're planning to head over to Scotland?
Yep.
I leave Tuesday after work.
I'm a little stressed right now.
I need to do a lot of things
before then for my lesson
plan stuff for school, but
Yeah, leaving Tuesday after work.
What's that flight like?
I leave at six p.m.
I get to London in the
morning and go from London to Aberdeen.
I think I get there around
like nine thirty a.m.
over there.
On the sixth day?
On the Wednesday, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Can you sleep on a plane?
Normally, yes.
We'll see how much sleep I get.
I'm hoping because then I
got to be in the morning
hours of over there.
So hopefully, yeah, we'll try to.
So you have.
You have.
And Lex is also going from
California and she'll meet
me there also on Wednesday.
She leaves tomorrow night as
well or Tuesday night.
So it's been kind of put out
there that you've done some
testing for Rogue.
Are you testing when you get there,
like first thing Wednesday morning?
I don't have anything planned.
Like last year,
I went to Texas in case they needed to.
And then because of the rain,
I ended up testing a few
things early morning before
athletes got there.
who knows at this point,
once the floor is laid out,
they might make,
make me do a round or two
of something just to see timing wise,
but perhaps,
but I think everything's
basically set in stone right now.
And especially that it's indoor.
I don't foresee many changes,
but it might just be some
transition stuff just to
see how long certain things take.
But yeah, I mean,
Andrew Sten says I might be
on your flight from London to Aberdeen.
uh patrick says we are
stealing your co-host for
our preview show tomorrow
by the way send us your
pics carolyn um that's not
stealing uh everybody's a
free agent on this show and
we're all able to go on any
other show if asked uh we
don't mind helping out
wherever we can um so uh
you don't have to confirm or deny,
but you have to test the
workouts in a kilt.
Oh, I hope they get that.
I hope they get that too.
They had that one video that they, um,
they, they were like sewing.
So I like, I mean,
I feel like it would be a
miss not to give that to the athletes.
Can I, can I, I'll ask you this question.
You were a tester last year.
Did you get a goodie bag for
being the tester athlete or
was it only the athletes on the floor?
Only the athletes on the floor.
I can kind of see that,
but I think you also kind
of deserve it too.
I mean, they brought me there,
so I think that's true.
I take that as that's my goodie bag.
Um, Oh yeah.
They, they are doing a, uh,
a kid killed in a set of
rogue golf clubs.
They're getting golf clubs.
I don't know.
Oh man.
But there is like a longest drive thing.
What?
At the like last,
like I think it was last year.
They,
they had like a baseball simulator
thingy.
Um,
Jamie acts like she's a good golfer.
Maybe they would get that.
I'm a pretty good golfer.
Says every golfer ever.
Yeah, the Thursday night,
there's a longest range.
I got to enter that.
I haven't golfed in a couple years, though,
but I can swing a club.
I don't know if you've seen
the event schedule,
but for us that are stateside,
if you're on the East Coast,
you'll have to get up
pretty early most mornings.
If you're on the West Coast,
probably have to stay up
late a few nights.
But I know like the first
Friday morning is like seven thirty a.m.
Eastern time.
I think Saturday morning is five a.m.
Eastern time and Sunday is
around that time as well.
Yeah, well,
so we get the workouts tomorrow, right?
Monday, they release them.
Patrick,
I hope that there's like a woman's
versus men's division.
That's what I'm hoping for,
for a longest reign or longest drive.
I'm sure.
Because I cannot compete
against some of the men
that will be going.
The other kind of newsworthy
stuff are James Sprague had pneumonia,
was debating on whether he
was going or not,
has decided he is attending the event.
So he is going now.
And that this show will,
Jamie and I will do some
update shows over the weekend.
In between,
I'm sure my teams will do so
good this weekend.
I won't cry a bit before
getting on the air.
But we'll get on the air a couple times.
And then hopefully we can do...
like a post event show maybe
early next week uh when
carolyn gets back uh
because I know with the
travel and all that stuff
trying to get coordinated
with them in scotland may
be tough uh but maybe we'll
uh get with her when she
gets back to talk about
what she saw live and then
she knows that anytime
we're on the air she and
she sees us she knows how
to get in and say hi
Uh, Jody, uh,
you're a better woman than I. Same.
I mean, I will say I'm, I'm usually up,
but not up and around.
Like Aaron gets up for work at five AM.
So yes,
I wake up and then I have to get
Lucas up.
He gets on the bus at like six forty.
So I'm up, but man,
I try to not start my day
till like nine AM.
Yeah.
I used to be like, uh,
I actually did five a.m.
workouts for a while.
But I was I was in bed early.
Like I complain about late nights now.
Like I was in bed early, early.
I mean, that's like Lex.
Lex is three thirty a.m.
or three fifteen a.m.
sometimes.
And but she's in bed like that.
That's just insane.
That is insane.
Honestly,
when I'm on that schedule and I'm
in California, it's really not that bad.
I'm like tired literally at
like six thirty seven p.m.
I just get used to it.
Yeah,
but that's really your ten ten thirty.
I know.
So like I just I basically
stay on the same time zone.
So speaking of that,
one of the last things I
have in my notes for
tonight is we just went
through the fallback an hour.
How does that affect you and
your training when we have
to change times either back or forward?
I don't think it affects for me.
I could use an extra two
hours today for the work
that I still have to do for
school this week.
I need to do for tomorrow.
I feel like the back doesn't
affect me so much.
It's the forward.
When I lose, they both affect me now.
When I was younger,
like they didn't really
affect the forward affected me a little.
The back didn't now as I'm getting older,
they both affect me.
And it takes me about a week
just to kind of get my
circadian rhythm back.
Yeah.
Um,
I just feel like I don't sleep well for
like a, like five days.
I could see that.
See, I'm like a night owl.
And so I feel like it's
better for me that it's
dark at five o'clock and
maybe I can wind down by nine, ten p.m.
instead of winding down at one a.m.
So, yeah, I don't know.
But yeah,
it was it was dark at like five
thirty dark.
Yeah, it's going to be bad.
Walking the dog is going to be tough now.
He likes to go out at like
seven o'clock at night and
now it's going to be pitch black.
Yes.
He always wants to go out as
soon as Jeopardy comes on.
There, I sound really old.
He knows.
He knows.
Yeah.
This barbell spin put out
this week that no failed
drug tests from the twenty
twenty four CrossFit games.
Do we think that testing was
aggressive or do you think
because of the instance, maybe we just.
Check the box.
I'm sure they still did the top five.
They don't test that much.
Everyone that competes at
the games has been tested
on the individual side.
Every single athlete at the semis.
If it was a backfill for
whatever reason they didn't get,
normally they get an at-home test.
Some of the athletes got
tested prior at home.
Once they're at the games,
it's not many that get tested there.
Maybe the top...
Ten?
Not even?
Maybe top five?
I don't know.
I can't imagine some more than top five.
Let me ask you this.
If we go to an online semifinal,
which none of this we know,
there's no place where
they're all at to test them
before they get to the games.
Right.
That's a huge issue with
going online is the amount
of things people can do
with drugs and in terms of
reps and videos and fake
weights and all of that.
When you start putting...
I mean,
we went to the games prior online
and maybe it wasn't as bad then,
but I just think if
everything goes online,
it's just going to get
worse in terms of the
cheating that can happen
and the cycles that people
will be going through.
Well,
look at the Masters and the fifty to
fifty four year old
division was completely
destroyed because there was
no testing prior to the games.
Yep.
I don't know if they're
going to have to do a
little bit more like at
quarterfinals or semis,
maybe send out like maybe top.
I don't know.
They're going to have to do
some random top five,
ten people send out some
home drug tests and do that
for quarter semis.
So Patrick says they don't care.
It's a cash grab now.
That's my point.
Because you're saying it's a cash grab now,
you're just letting the sport die.
Then give it up to somebody
else because if you don't
care and it's just a cash grab,
let somebody else do it
where they can make the
improvements needed to grow the sport.
Not let it die on the vine.
The thing is, people are like,
I've heard some people say,
pay for the licensing of
the word CrossFit, but
and sell that off, like make CrossFit,
keep the money from the open.
But like, if you're another,
if you're another league or whatever,
you're just going to call
it the fitness of whatever.
Like,
why would you let CrossFit keep all
the money from the open and stuff?
Like if it's your money that
you're investing in,
you're not going to
generate anything from the open.
Like,
why would you not just call it the
fitness games?
Like you don't need the word CrossFit.
I think, I mean, we know what CrossFit is,
so it helps with the history of it, but.
Yeah.
If you take, if you,
this is my true feeling here.
If you take CrossFit off of the season,
it doesn't mean as much.
I agree.
At least for the foreseeable future.
Now maybe you can build it
into something special,
but right now it doesn't mean anything.
If you take the open away
from the sport as then you're,
you're taking the beauty
away from what it is.
The open is a way for everybody,
whether it's realistic or
not to say I get to play.
I did the same competition as X, Y,
and Z who qualified for the games.
And I got to compare myself
to that person and this
person in this age group.
Yeah.
And then that bleeds into
people going into the
affiliates and growing into
crossfit as a methodology
the concept is great the
concept was great there was
a few things that needed to
change a few things to get
better the open if you made
the open matter like I did
before it was like the open
is fun and it's a great
community event and and all that um
I just think that there
needs to be more than one
path to the games.
If there was injuries or if
you just were sick that
weekend or you didn't perform very well,
like you should have more than one way,
which is why I like the
last chance qualifier for
certain athletes.
I didn't quite, you know, we were close,
but you know,
got to get a couple extra spots,
but like something like, you know,
after the semifinals,
here are the options.
Like there's other routes to
also get to the games,
which is like the sanctional season,
but there was fricking, you know,
You know, you didn't need that many.
If you had, you know, no more than six,
you can't have that many,
but like no more than like,
let's say six globally.
And then those, as well as, you know,
the original route to
complete your roster for
the games like that,
that would make sense.
And like the system is not broken.
That was there before that
it just needs tweaking a little bit.
And I think if you start
having all of these leagues
that are way different,
you're almost ruining what
we have and ruining our own sport.
There's not going to be all these leagues.
There's not enough money in
the ecosystem to have all these leagues.
There may be a league that
tries to go up against it.
But again,
CrossFit has history on its side.
But let's...
hopefully it makes them
become more innovative to compete.
That's my only hope.
Well, if I'm curious, is,
is Will's thing waiting for
CrossFit announcement or vice versa?
Cause I feel like whoever
gets their information out
first has a better shot at this.
I don't think he necessarily
wants to compete against CrossFit.
If you look at his interview,
he's still up in the air as
to whether it was something
that could run parallel and not compete.
Just an alternate season of
another way to make money
and sustain yourself.
How bad do you think the
Open is going to take a hit this year?
it's going to take a hit
because of the association
of a death at the CrossFit Games.
Ten percent?
Twenty percent?
What's your thoughts?
And they did say that the
Open would stay the same price, too.
I don't think it's going to
be as big as you think.
You think it's going to lose
one hundred and fifty thousand?
Patrick?
I think, yeah.
Yeah, that's a little overzealous.
I think there are some
people that are going to join because,
and this sounds demented,
but this is the way that the world works.
There's a danger to it now.
I think going online,
more people think they have a shot.
Yeah.
Yeah,
we don't even know what it is at this
point.
Well, that's the thing.
We need some details, but yeah.
So you're saying there's a chance.
I think that's what happened
this year at the Masters CrossFit Games.
I think they thought that
because it was split off on its own,
there wouldn't be testing.
So people said,
let's juice it up and let's
see what we can do.
They just don't test enough there.
Yeah, they don't test enough.
Agreed.
The top five is not enough,
especially on the male side
that traditionally take more.
But I think the three men
that were busted were good
and knew with just a little
help they could be great.
And they went for it
thinking they wouldn't test.
And get their payday.
Yep.
Yep.
Well,
we're going to finish up with just
two quick things, and that is, first,
Hayley Adams did an
interview with Rory McKernan.
If you have not seen it, it's really good.
You can tell Haley and Rory
have been around together
for a long time and they
are very good friends.
Haley opened up a lot about
her eating disorder and
talked about why she had to
walk away from mayhem for a
minute and just be a kid
and travel and do things without guilt.
It's an exceptional
interview if you have not seen it.
Is there any insight to the
Haley Murillo and Josh Murillo?
She doesn't say anything
derogatory or that she just
had to go do something different.
And when she came back after
taking nine months off, like it was bad.
And that she's glad nobody
at Mayhem saw her.
I still think like she
didn't address like Haley
and Josh and everything
that they did for her.
like they were all in on her.
So whether she needed her
little break from mayhem
and then came back, I think, and I don't,
and I don't know what happened between,
you know, that situation,
but a thank you on air
would have been nice.
A appreciate the fact that
these two took me in and
had me on my lowest or one
of my lowest parts and,
and were there for me and
cheered me on at semifinals
and all these people traveled.
Like, again,
I don't know what happened
from an outside.
I was hoping to hear something for that.
And then here, and then I wanted, you know,
I went to Mayhem because
this is what I knew going to the games.
And, and I wanted, you know,
to prepare with, you know,
these athletes that were
going to push me a little
bit more in training.
Like I would see that part,
but I wanted to hear during
the interview that,
her acknowledge the help
that she got from Haley and Josh.
I agree.
It just didn't come and I
just feel like there's
something like missing.
And I'm not talking about
the Hiller documentary.
That's before everything.
The Hiller documentary was
when she was all in with those two.
Right.
Regardless of what happened,
they were there for her
At that point,
and I think that I wanted to hear that.
Yeah.
Your sentiment, Scott,
do you remember this,
is exactly my sentiment
when Haley did Hiller's
video and I felt like she
didn't acknowledge Tasia.
Do you remember how I felt about that?
So it seems to be a pattern
that Haley... And then she
didn't acknowledge Tasia in this video.
Yeah,
she did mention a little bit of Tasia.
But yeah,
Tasia is someone who was such a
big role player for her
over the years and knew a
lot of what was happening
with Haley and tried to mentor her.
Yeah, it could be a pattern.
We don't even know if Haley
and Josh wanted to be
full-time coaches for Haley.
They were all in.
They were all in.
Like there's no way that you just,
you move your life and you
go towards that.
Like, there's no way Scott, like that.
They're like, Oh,
you made it to the games.
Our job is done.
No.
If you listen to their interview,
like they were ready to, you know,
do anything to support her.
And she went right back to mayhem,
which is fine.
It's fine.
Like, you know,
she's got her training
partner said that she loves Luke and,
You know,
they have a ton of people
training for the games and
it's what she knows.
And it's, you know,
she went back to what she knew.
But there's no way that they
wouldn't have wanted to
continue their journey
together to the games.
It's definitely a
conversation worth
exploring if they're willing to talk.
Yeah.
I mean,
I've talked to Haley and Josh a ton.
I'm not against reaching out.
And I'm sure,
I'm sure there's no hard feelings,
but I just think a thank
you in the interview.
Like I was just,
I was just hoping for
something like that.
I agree.
Just like, like Ken said,
just a shout out would have
been great just to talk
about that part and what
they meant to her and her training.
But maybe, maybe, um,
road didn't want to go that direction.
And maybe they talked prior
about not talking about that part.
I don't know.
But just a shout out would have been nice.
Yeah.
A little flashback to the open talk.
Mike Halpin brings up a good point.
Twenty twenty five is also
the first year affiliates
are paying forty five hundred dollars.
I'd be curious if more
affiliates take the open
in-house and the twenty
dollars goes to them versus HQ.
I know my former affiliate
was doing this five or six years ago.
They gave you two options.
You could pay twenty dollars to them.
Everybody who did it
in-house had to pay twenty
dollars to them.
You got a shirt and you got
assigned a team.
Yeah.
Then you could pay another
twenty dollars to do the HQ version.
And I would bet three
quarters of the members did
not do the HQ.
Piece of it.
I still think that there's
something about going on a
leaderboard and then seeing
your name year after year
versus your in-house, but it's like.
But I understand the people
that do it and want to
support the gym and all that.
People like us would do the
HQ version because we want
to see if we improve year over year.
Yeah.
There were people in this
affiliate that didn't even
know there was a sport, right?
Yeah,
like the people that you're trying to
get to do the open and they're like,
what's the open?
You're like, we're signing you up.
They don't care.
They'll give the twenty bucks to anyone.
But for the people that
actually know what the open
is and to test your fitness
and to see your
improvements year after year,
you can compare a bunch of things.
The leaderboard is nice to
see that progression or
that regression year to year.
My former affiliate was,
which I still have a good
relationship with, they are very diverse.
There's people from every
walk of life around the world.
And there are people that
don't even know anything
about CrossFit HQ.
They don't even know there
is a website that you can go fill out.
Like, they didn't care.
They just wanted to have fun
with their friends and be
on the green team and see
who did best in these three weeks.
Yep.
Yeah, I mean,
the community part of the
Open has always been amazing and fun,
depending if you have that at your gym.
But, yeah, it's fun.
That's how eighty,
ninety percent of my gym is.
They don't comprehend it
other than the fact that
Jim and I have both been there now.
So they realize that there's
something that one or two
of us are competing for,
but that like beyond that,
they don't understand the season at all.
And then the last piece of
news is an organization we
support wholeheartedly on
this channel is Uplift.
Mark Moss is an amazing dude.
We love that guy.
They have a November challenge,
which is due... When is that, Jamie?
The second.
Can you say that again?
You cut out for me.
The twenty-second.
Okay.
The November challenge...
is double grace right double
grace it's like an interval
style you have to get to
the sixty reps um so yeah
not really send them the
video work one minute rest
one minute yep man I've
never done it that way I
know interesting right
um yeah who programs these
oh it's always someone
different I think it's um
sentinel I think taylor was
uh partnered with this one
um but they get someone
every month yeah it's a
different different group
every month I think is that
the same weekend as reps
ahead yeah but you have all
months to do it oh you have
all month to do it right
you just have to turn it in
on the twenty sec by the
twenty second got it yep
have you ever done double grace
No.
I did it with my nephew.
And somehow he fooled me
into thinking we were just doing Grace.
So I went like all out sprint.
Oh, no.
And then he goes, no, we're doing double.
Kind of like the ranch run.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
It turned around.
You got to do it again.
And I was just hanging on for dear life.
And I think I was right at
like eight minutes because the second,
the second thirty were just brutal.
Yeah.
I don't think I've done double grace.
I've done heavy grace.
I've done double DT because
that was program at the games in,
I don't know, twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, somewhere about there.
So I did that,
but I don't think I've ever
done double grace.
I've done double grace,
like with Lex going like
maybe back and forth or we
just had like sixty,
but not not on the spot.
Yeah,
my friend and I did that where we
just singled it back and forth.
Yeah.
And you can,
you can fly pretty fast
through double grace then.
Um,
it's almost like an average single
grace time, but that,
but that's pretty fun.
I like doing that double
grace as a partner.
But if you want to do that,
it's a fun one for this month.
All barbell.
Usually it's a lot of burpees.
I know.
I usually like them.
I know.
I'm not digging this one as much,
but all right.
I like to do them,
so I'll try to get it done.
And then one call out before
we leave tonight.
Carolyn still hasn't done
her death by burpees.
No,
I did my rogue burpee challenge last
weekend.
And then...
Wisconsin Badgers let her
down two weeks ago.
The only win any of my teams
have had in two weeks.
Yeah, mine has been sucking.
This guy hasn't done well
the last two weeks.
I will get to it eventually.
I know Carolyn's got to
grade some papers and
create a test before tomorrow.
I've done grading my papers.
I've got to
create a math test right now
for tomorrow morning.
And it's, you know,
it's nine thirty at night on a Sunday.
I told her this is like what
the high school student I
was nine thirty at night on
a Sunday doing my homework.
I got a fifteen page paper.
I was so like I was
preparing like doing laundry,
making sure everything was
ready for like Scotland.
I don't even have anything
packed for that.
So I don't even know why I'm
saying everything was ready.
But finishing my laundry,
like organizing what I'm
leaving for my math classes
and stuff when I'm gone and
it's just it took almost
the whole day and even
yesterday as well I was
writing report card
comments all yesterday and
then all of a sudden I was
like oh my gosh it's seven
fifty five I gotta start I
gotta get on the air here
and then I realized I had a
math test to do so with
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And then more of the full
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I have no idea what that says.
He said I gotta read Bullying Haley.
Oh.
Not bullying anybody.
No, it was a great interview.
I was just saying I wanted
her to shout out my friends.
And I don't even know what happened.
I'm just saying.
That's all I wanted.
It's a good interview.
I like him.
Yeah, it was a great interview.
Rory did a great job,
and he said he teased it with, hey,
we're just touching the surface,
so make sure you come back
and see the next one,
which is great for a content creator.
Well, we got Rogue in a couple days.
Carolyn will be there in three.
And then fun weekend of
watching some CrossFit and
strong man stuff and strong woman stuff.
So we will do that this
weekend and we'll do some
shows to kind of update
everything with that.
Thank you everybody for
being with us tonight on
the original Sunday, Sunday,
Sunday night CrossFit talk.
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