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I know we talk about a lot of
CrossFit on this channel,
but all I can think about, bearing down.
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.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to break up so I can
make a better me.
Eeeeee, abadabadoo!
it's lunch time what is going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the Clydesdale my
name is Scott that's the cowboy we're here
live coming at you on a very brisk
and cold northeastern morning here in the
states Mr.
Louisiana boy down there complaining about
the thirties
Hey, bro.
Everything's relative.
It's just like intensity.
You know what I'm saying?
It went from thirty six to it's now
sixty five outside.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Going from my upstairs to my basement for
this podcast, it dropped twenty degrees.
So, yeah.
I found his gut.
I'm sending it to you.
All right.
So I've said in the open,
all I can think about is the Bears
game this weekend.
I was trash talking with my wife,
who's a Steelers fan this morning,
and I said to her, you know,
the Steelers last won a playoff game in
two thousand sixteen.
You know,
when the last time the Bears won a
playoff game last week.
Last week, baby.
last week um lito says do you get
do gyms have heating where you guys live
um where i live they do have heat
um but gym owners are very reluctant to
turn it on um until it's really really
cold and i'm kind of like i don't
like the furnace heat trying to breathe in
when i'm working out
Yeah, that's fair.
It's just dusty.
It's, you know,
and it's usually in like a big,
big warehouse.
So it's just, it's not good.
But like on a day like today,
it will be turned on,
but it will not be set very high.
You know,
like a typical house here is like seventy
to seventy two is where it's set kind
of during the day.
A gym is like sixty to sixty two.
I think the thermostat of my house is
set to sixty seven, sixty five,
somewhere up in that area.
Just because during the daytime, dude,
like we get no sunshine.
My house warms up on all on its
own.
I don't really need it.
And during the wintertime,
unless it like I told you earlier,
like if it gets that that one time
where it's cold for like five days.
Jody said, yes, but gym owners are cheap.
Andrew Sten,
our heat in the gym is super low,
just enough so your hands don't stick to
the barbells.
And then Lito comes back with, same here,
but it's never on and it's below zero
Celsius.
I'm not thriving.
Sean says,
mine doesn't rough when it's thirty
degrees at six a.m.
Well, you know,
when you live down in the bone temps,
thirty degrees is a little cold there,
Scott, Corey, probably.
I totally massacred the Cajun language.
You did, but that's all right.
It's bon ton.
FYI.
You don't pronounce it.
Yeah.
It's cool.
David Reed, we have heat because Ohio.
Again, we have heat.
But at Polaris,
they did not put it on very much.
My former gym shred,
like it had to be really damn cold
for them to turn it on.
But that...
shred was much larger and i i can
imagine the heating bill in that place
even at a low temperature was pretty rough
i will say this we do have as
you know those stand up looks like a
lamp post like a lamp but it's a
heater it's a propane here we do have
one of those in the gym and it
will heat up one side because we have
two different we have the weight lifts
inside we have like the regular gym class
side
Like last year when it snowed and it
was actually cold for a week or so,
we had that thing lit up on the
other side just to kind of keep,
just to get the same thing,
to be able to grab a barbell without
going, oh my God, like type deal.
So yeah.
Um,
Shanna says I bring hand heaters to my
gym in Oregon.
Yeah, I can see,
I can see Shanna in the gym training
and she has the little muff pouch like
the NFL quarterbacks do.
It just kind of keeps her hands warm
until she has to go hit the barbell
or the rig.
Um, with like,
I think Tom Brady said he put like
ten or twelve hand warmers in that,
in that little muff pouch just to kind
of throw in there,
get them nice and toasty.
Got to keep them flexible at that point.
I did see Lito's story.
I don't know if it was yesterday or
the day before.
She was, I don't want to say complaining,
but she was making a point to say
that
it's that cold like it's hard to get
yourself motivated to train in the way
that like somebody that hurt or somebody
like me or somebody like you know high
level type because you got a lot of
stuff to do and it's cold and if
you're not doing stuff whatever your
pieces are back to back you got a
little break in between where you kind of
cool off a little bit it is miserable
to get back started it's not fun so
i want to share this because i am
all about the bears this weekend right
And they're playing the Los Angeles Rams
this weekend in Chicago.
In Chicago.
Right?
Yeah.
This was posted today welcoming...
Not today.
It was actually posted yesterday.
Welcoming the Rams to Chicago on
Instagram.
So I wanted to show this.
So let me start.
Let me get the...
So you can hear the wind.
That's why you fight for home field
advantage.
Nope, don't like that.
Don't like that at all.
The wind whipping off the lake is going
to be brutal this weekend.
Brutal.
To throw a football in that is going
to be insanity.
Insanity.
Just trying to hold on to it, dude.
Yeah.
Because everybody's going to have gloves
at that point, right?
But like how many gloves do you have
to try to keep your hands somewhat warm?
Like being on the sidelines,
I'd rather be on the field.
Like can I play both ways today?
Because I don't want to stop moving while
I'm out here.
Bart Scott on Get Up this morning said
that the people that have the most trouble
in the cold are the people who have
junior whopper hands.
The hands only big enough to get around
a junior whopper, right?
That's me.
Oh, yeah.
Can you imagine?
My hubs is an LA Rams fan going
to be tense.
And you're from Chicago, right, Jody?
I'm pretty sure she is.
Yeah.
Um, uh, David Reed, Scott CrossFit one,
eight, four is a large gym.
They do an amazing job with the facility.
Yeah.
I'm,
I wasn't dogging like shred CrossFit for
their, they would do an amazing job.
Keep with the upkeep of the facility.
They just weren't big fans of turning on
the heat.
That's all.
Train Olive,
fifty seven in Florida and I'm freezing.
Yeah, I lived in Florida for four years.
It did not take long for my blood
to thin.
It didn't like year one,
I was swimming in the Gulf in January.
Year two, I wouldn't even dip my toe.
Yeah, percent.
I just was kind of cold.
I'm not.
Yeah, I get in there.
So it's going to be fun with all
the weather this weekend.
I'm sure we'll toughen up and get through
it all.
But, yeah.
The good news is that it doesn't last
forever.
It doesn't.
But one last thing on the Bears.
They do play Sunday night.
That is a conflict with our Sunday night
CrossFit show.
And I'm sorry,
I am not doing a show during the
Bears game.
This does not happen very often in my
life.
So I am going to be watching the
game.
My guess is we'll probably do a show
Monday night.
I think that's where we're leaning.
I've got to really talk to Carolyn and
Jamie.
I've kind of been avoiding that because I
had an all-day meeting yesterday.
That ended at three forty five last night.
Eight thirty a.m.
to three forty five.
There's nothing there's nothing that
that's a seminar, that's not a meeting.
Well,
how do you expect people to be attentive
six hours into a meeting?
And actually be productive,
it's just dumb.
i'm pretty focused when i do stuff and
like you got about forty five minutes
before i need to take a break and
do something completely different like
i'll get up go walk outside like i
just can't dude like i've had phone
conversations with people going over all
of their coverages and it lasts an hour
and a half because they're just so far
off into the weeds asking the most
ridiculous questions and i'm just sitting
there
biting my tongue and just kind of, yeah,
okay.
And just continue answering the same
question X six different ways.
And I just can't fathom having Jennifer's
had, my wife's had meetings like that,
that started in the morning and she's
like, no,
we're going to be in a meeting until
two, three o'clock this afternoon.
And I was like, how there's no way.
Like I've had all staffs where we have
like icebreakers and get in, you know,
brainstorming sessions and,
and they kind of bounce around a little
bit.
That's fine.
Like, I get that.
This was a detailed meeting about a new
system and all the details that had to
be sent back and forth between two
different systems.
Yeah, no, thank you.
Scott, we understand.
It's great, though,
that you have fallen into this daily
lunchtime routine.
Your show marks the end of my YouTube
day.
I love it.
Cool.
And we're so happy to have you.
Yeah, I need this lunch show now.
Like,
I need this as the break in my
day to get away from everything work.
So, yeah.
So I want to dive into a little
bit of announcements that came in in the
last twenty four hours.
And that is the first one is the
WFP has announced their payouts for the
twenty six season.
So I'm going to pull that up real
quick.
So here are the tour stop payouts first
through thirtieth.
Now, remember,
they're bringing fifty athletes to the to
the game.
And so they pay out thirty of the
fifty.
So basically,
you have to finish in the top three
fifths and you'll get some cash to at
least offset your your expenses.
Right.
But these upper these upper payouts are
actually pretty damn good.
It's pretty decent.
Yep.
Thirty five grand to win.
Thirty, then twenty, fifteen, twelve, ten.
So top six, you're making ten grand.
And even like,
you know what you make in the open
or the semifinal, the nine,
eight and seven and six and five are
pretty good, too.
So you finish top fifteen.
You're getting about the same payout as
most semifinal events.
So I was.
What's that?
Said not a bad payday.
So I was talking to Carolyn yesterday,
you know, if I'm Carolyn Prevo,
I try to get to Mexico City.
Because if you look at the schedule,
which is complete insanity,
the week before tour stop one,
you have Del Mar.
um and the crash crescendo which it
probably wouldn't affect it much the same
weekend as tour stop one you have copasaur
and you have the far east throwdown the
week after you have the age group online
semis and the french throwdown so you have
a major european competition you have a
major u.s competition you have the far
east throwdown
You have the major Latin American
semifinal.
You're probably taking a bunch of your
competition out of the mix.
If you just want to go make a
payday and you're a games athlete like
Carolyn Prevost,
and we saw who they ended up getting
into the finals in Copenhagen,
we're not at the level of a Carolyn
Prevost.
No.
Go strike when the iron's hot and make
a payday and then go on with the
rest of your season.
Thoughts?
Yeah, no, I agree, dude.
I agree.
I mean...
I don't know if it was strategic in
that way.
I don't feel like it was.
I feel like they just kind of picked
a date at random trying to space it
out evenly or whatnot, but...
With all the other stuff that's happening,
so many things falling off.
Like you said,
people are just going to be out.
There's only so many times you can compete
in a row or in a month even
and be able to maintain that level of
intensity.
Maybe your body can,
but from a mental standpoint,
you can't just keep putting out and keep
putting out and keep putting out.
So yeah, dude, go make some money.
And like you said, that's decent money.
just roll over there even if you're you
know you you don't have sponsors paying
for your travel or something along those
lines where you can just pocket the money
if nothing else you get some more
competition experience against high level
athletes and if you finish you know
somewhere inside that top twenty at least
you got your travel and your uh your
accommodations paid for at that point yeah
top twenty what top fifteen you're five
grand yeah that's pretty sweet five grand
or up and
Depending on the workouts, I mean,
someone like Carolyn could compete pretty
well.
And he decides to go and who decides
not to go.
And I'm just using her as an example.
It could be anybody in that range.
Because she finished between twenty and
thirty at the games,
made zero dollars at the games.
And there are ten other people that were
at the games that finished in that twenty
to thirty range.
That's a huge payday for them.
If they can get their qualification for
the game season or the games at a
different time in the year,
go make some cash.
I would be curious to know what the
payout is going to look like after taxes
are taken out,
and especially with them competing in
Mexico City,
how much the Mexican government is going
to want to take out of that.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I don't know.
I don't know any of that.
Yeah,
they were asking about the payouts after
Copenhagen last year and talking about how
much that government had took out of them
and whatnot.
It was significant.
It was significant.
And then by the time you get that
taxes taken out and then regular income
taxes taken out from here, right,
on winnings, whatever that looks like,
it's a fairly substantial amount.
And I understand that's part of the deal,
right?
I'm not saying it's good or bad.
I'm just curious to know what it would
be.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's still like an interesting – if you
don't make any money during the season and
you have a legit shot to make some.
Yeah.
Oh, no, a hundred percent.
I'm just curious of what it looks like
after it's done.
That's just where my head goes.
I do the same thing whenever the Powerball
comes up and it's like how much money
would you actually get from it by the
time it's all said and done if you
were lucky enough to win.
Lito asks,
have they announced the pro cards for next
season yet?
Well,
the top-twenty finishers at Copenhagen got
the pro cards.
So it's not like an announcement.
It is what it is.
Now,
whether all-twenty accept the pro card,
we don't know.
But those are the twenty that got the
pro card.
Are they paying in pesos?
I have no idea.
Yeah.
One dollar equals seventeen point six
seven Mexican pesos.
Wow.
Mark Phillips,
I hope CrossFit HQ isn't too proud to
take some of the good things WFP
implements and incorporate them to improve
their own product.
That really holds a lot of.
historically other events that compete
against sports in other sports, right?
Like the USFL to the NFL or whatever
XFL to the NFL XFL was so innovative
that the NFL adopted like a bunch of
their rules.
And so I hope the CrossFit does the
same thing, right?
And some of their technology,
like the whole reason the cameras that are
above the field,
that was directly from the XFL,
the ones that are on the cables and
whatnot.
They looked at what they were doing.
They looked at what they were doing and
said, holy smokes, that's cool.
Let's go ahead and do that.
Yeah.
Ortega says Mexican holds fifteen to
twenty five percent from a thousand to a
million.
That's a decent chunk.
That is significant.
And then I am certain that the IRS
is not going to let that slide or
let that be it.
Like, there's no way.
Yeah.
Yeah,
my nephew worked six months in Toronto for
a company here in Columbus.
And the taxes he had to pay to
Canada and then again to the U.S.
when he got here made it almost like
not worth going up there for that job.
Yeah.
Joseph says that's a sick sweater, Scott.
It is.
It's a nice Penn State hockey jersey.
One of my favorite pieces of clothing.
And it's warm.
It's warm in this basement when I'm
dropping twenty degrees.
So they're upstairs to downstairs.
Yeah.
Also,
the altitude at the first stop is over
five thousand feet.
Yeah,
we talked about that a little bit
yesterday,
that that's a whole different animal in
training and the cardio is going to be
very, very hard.
You wonder like.
I heard Dallin talking about training and
altitude in Utah and like,
would that help?
And he was basically saying like,
it's half of Colorado.
Like, so it's not really the,
the significant impact that like a Denver
or a Mexico city is.
Yeah.
And so I've never been I mean,
the Appalachian Mountains are not tall
enough to give me altitude where I grew
up.
So I don't know if it would.
I don't know what.
And Jonathan says, yeah,
I'd look out for altitude sickness.
And the sixty eight Olympics there.
In Mexico City,
sixty eight or seventy seventy two is
Munich.
Sixty eight was Mexico City.
I think that people had to get acclimated.
It was a thing that they had to
work on.
And that's another deterrent for the top
athletes.
Do you want to because like when an
NFL team goes and plays in Denver and
they their record the week after is is
very low.
Because going into the altitude,
playing in the altitude,
and then recovering from it is very hard.
It's a whole thing.
Right.
So do you want to go to Mexico
City and then have to try to recover
from that and bounce back for a semifinal
here in the States?
Denver is five thousand two hundred and
eighty feet.
Let's see.
That's why it's called mile high.
This is.
Let's see.
Utah's average elevation is around sixty
one hundred feet above sea level.
Yeah, but where I guess where Dallin is,
it's about half.
It's probably not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Where's he at?
Is he in Salt Lake?
I really don't know.
I wonder when somebody inevitably
declines.
Where are they going to backfill from
another invite qualifier next person from
Copenhagen next person from Copenhagen,
I believe they have already announced
that.
Or take us as for deployment,
we had to get acclimated in Colorado for
four weeks and train hard in the altitude.
And I think that's why the Olympic
training center is in, in Colorado,
correct?
Like training.
So, cause you can,
you can then train there and leave it
and be okay.
But without, without being any,
in any way acclimated to it,
it's going to affect your performance.
Yeah.
Period.
But anyway, nice payouts.
We dog WFP enough,
but those payouts are really substantial
and could mean a lot for an athlete
trying to support themselves through a
season.
And the finals is more.
The finals was, I think,
like a hundred grand for first place.
It is.
But that's end of season.
It's not the final tour stop.
It is your final standings at the end
of the season.
It starts at a hundred grand and tenth
place is fifteen grand.
Which is still a good deal.
Yeah.
And they pay out again top thirty,
but only thirty qualify for the finals.
Yeah.
So if you make it to the finals,
you're getting something.
Yeah.
That's good money specifically for decent
semifinals.
It truly is.
Yeah, absolutely.
Good on them.
The Schmier campaign continues.
It's not a Schmier Friday.
The Schmier campaign continues.
Yeah, I think, I mean,
you can't debate what they're trying to do
with the money and trying to support
athletes.
We've documented enough what we can blame
them for.
Correct.
In the previous days this week.
Yeah.
And again, not to beat a dead horse,
but they're trying.
I think they have the best of intentions.
I just think that sometimes their
execution is not up to what their
intentions are.
I would argue that their self-assessment
is a little bit blinded.
I would agree with that assessment.
I would agree with that assessment.
Anyway, moving along.
So what else do we got today?
So let's go to this first.
Did you see the Sarah Sigmundsdottir video
this week?
Oh, no.
I didn't know there was a Sarah
Sigmundsdottir video this week.
So she's talking about how she had some
stuff done.
It didn't work as well as planned with
some stem cells.
And she's now coming to the States.
The whole video is about,
do I go to the States or do
I go back to Dubai?
And there's this like rehab guy in Arizona
that's working with someone who has a
similar injury to what she has and he's
seen great results.
And so she, it's,
Basically,
her coming to Arizona and going through an
assessment with this guy and he telling
her,
these are the things you need to do
to make this work better for you.
And all that's fine.
And I actually found the video not great
content for Sarah.
And that's odd for her because I am
a huge Sarah fan.
But with that being said,
I'm kind of over the comebacks.
It's been a lot.
And I think she's got a new coach
again.
And so I'm just over all of that.
So I'm watching CJ and Claire this
morning.
And CJ's like,
I think she's becoming too Bethany.
And I was like, wait, whoa.
Too Bethany.
Like,
those are two of my favorite athletes.
Yeah.
And he was saying that Bethany, like,
is more delusional about her back injury
than Sarah is about her knee injury.
And at least Sarah knows what is...
what her body that she's willing to just
go for it and just see if her
body holds up.
I would say the opposite.
I'm,
I think it's smarter for Bethany to know
she has a back injury to work through
it and around it.
And if you,
if she can make it to the event,
she performs at such a high level,
like blows us all away and surprises us.
I just was shocked at his take on
that.
Um,
And I was curious to know what other
people thought about the comparison
between Sarah and...
And Bethany.
And I love them both.
They're both great human beings.
Sarah is, again,
one of my favorites of all time.
It goes back to volunteering.
She was amazing in the back with the
volunteers and everybody there.
Bethany has always been great to this
show.
She comes on a ton of times.
She always says hi at events and does
interviews with us.
But I'm just curious.
Kate McGee says that Sarah's working with
Kyle Ruth at TTT.
She previously worked with both Max and
Perrin there.
Correct.
But she also worked with Justin Cutler.
She's also worked.
She was with Cutler until that was her
last coach before Kyle.
Yeah.
She's also been with Mayhem.
She's also been with people in Europe.
Just name somebody.
Right.
She bounces around so, so much.
And then I thought about Bethany and
Bethany's kind of done the same thing.
She has bounced from coach to coach to
coach.
The difference is she's married to a,
a trainer for the LA Lakers.
And he does a lot with her.
And I think that he's truly her main
coach.
And she sometimes brings in a CrossFit
coach to like assist,
but
I don't know.
It just was a weird comment.
Larry Young needs to fix her conditioning
along with that knee.
And Jonathan says,
can't condition a bad knee, Larry.
it's uh it's super hard to train and
do conditioning work if you have a bad
knee like you're limited to a couple of
machines really and truly like you don't
want to run on a bad knee that's
going to make it worse you probably want
to bike on a bad knee maybe you
can maybe you can't probably see two bike
i would say probably more so than uh
an echo and that's really it depends on
what deflection looks like and what's it
feel like whenever you're moving
So, yeah, no, it's got a solid point.
Lito says,
I think CJ may be referring to Bethany
doing red light therapy and things like
that that CJ thinks are bogus.
The way the comment was said,
I think it is her mental attitude toward
the injury is what his big focus was.
Yeah.
I'm not trying to speak for CJ.
I respect him and his opinion.
Absolutely.
I would say this, dude, like,
every time i hear somebody say some stuff
like that i try to put myself in
the in the athlete shoes right and so
if i'm bethany and i know what i
am capable of when i am healthy and
i also know that my back is kind
of jacked up so i'm going to avoid
the things that i know are going to
make it worse i'm going to focus on
the things that are i can kind of
work around it and like you said if
that means that i can get to a
high level event
and then come out and perform somewhat
close to what I'm probably actually
capable of, then yeah,
maybe if that makes me delusional,
then okay, call me delusional,
that's fine.
Sarah has been trying to recreate Sarah,
the Sarah that we know for the last
ten years, like since twenty sixteen.
Right.
And God bless her.
But like, it's one thing after another,
after another, after another.
And she just cannot seem to get right.
And I don't think and again,
I love Sarah as well.
Like,
she just seems like a really sweet person.
She's always I never had heard anybody
have a bad interaction with her.
Right.
Um, having said that though, like, well,
well, maybe I'll,
I'll move to this person because maybe
they can help me or I'll move to
this person because maybe they can help
me.
I can move to this person.
It's almost like you're avoiding the
actual issue of what's actually wrong with
you instead of doing that.
And if she's actually.
working on like okay i'm gonna try this
stem cell stuff to get my knee right
so that i can maybe stage one more
comeback whatever that it whatever that
ends up looking like in which god bless
her she's gonna try how old is she
now because she has been around since like
what twenty thirteen twenty fourteen and
it's now twenty twenty six uh yeah she's
gotta be she's like katrin sage right
Yeah, she's got to be thirty plus tired.
She dude.
Like her glory days were fifteen,
sixteen when she podiumed.
Exactly.
And it has been a fight to get
back there ever since.
She had that injury at Waterpalooza and
she has not been the same since.
Yeah.
And love her to death.
And if she if she makes it to
a semifinal,
I will be tuned in watching her every
single time she takes the floor because
it'll be a door down.
And it'll be entertaining.
And it'll be a story.
But with the field being what it is,
especially the women's field,
this year in particular,
with Tia being out of the picture because
she's pregnant, it is wide-ass open.
And there are a handful of women,
a large handful of women,
that could end up on top of it.
And that's a real hard field to try
to insert yourself into with the history
that she has.
Sarah is a U S thirty-three.
She's an Iceland.
Thirty-four.
Roger.
Just kidding.
She is thirty-three.
You say wide open field,
but Sarah's not a top end contender
anymore.
Like games would be significant.
And that's what I'm getting at.
I think the field is wider at the
trying to qualify point of the season.
You know,
you have like the Miley Wades and the
Reese Littlewoods and all these people
coming up right there at the beginning of
that funnel that she'd have to get past
to qualify.
That's what I meant.
There's a lot of them.
There's a handful that could win,
and there's a lot that are just trying
to make it and have a good legitimate
shot.
That haven't been battling this stuff for
ten years and trying to make it back.
So it would be an amazing story and
God bless her if she makes it,
but man.
Uh, Lito says, uh,
I watched at the African event and to
be frank, other than the running event,
she was decent and really fun to watch,
but it was obvious be different in a
different field completely.
She actually dominated that event,
but those two women,
there was not enough competition with the
other two women and her to,
to give her any middling.
So the one running event cost her the
entire thing.
There weren't enough people to get in the
way of the other folks for her to
be able to be strong as she is,
as strong as the stuff that she's strong
at, enough to overcome the run.
She needed a lot of help.
Where Bethany,
every time she makes it to semis,
she qualifies for the games.
She just has to get her body there.
Her problem is getting there.
Yeah.
Um, so anyway, I,
that's enough about that.
It's, it's a, it's a very narrative video.
Like she sits on a bike talking most
of the video.
And then there's a small portion where
they show the assessment that gets done
with this rehab guy.
Um, and that part was really interesting.
Um,
One of my best friends has did stem
cells last year in his shoulder and he
just got something in his knee and heard
nothing but great things about it.
He is progressing along nicely,
but it is a long process.
way longer than either he or i thought
it was going to be so kudos for
her to like getting it fixed and whatnot
but the odds of her getting it fixed
being and still trying to like make this
come back and make it back to the
games and whatnot the longer it gets
thrown out the less opportunity she's
going to have unless she's going to wait
two years and try to go as a
master yeah um
If people don't remember, like,
Bethany broke her back in gymnastics as a
teenager.
Like, what she's gone through is not easy.
So, I applaud her,
and every time she shows up at an
event, she just kicks ass.
It is crazy.
It's fun to watch.
Yeah.
Okay, so...
Lito says Lucy Campbell and Gabby both at
mayhem though.
Can't wait.
So I'm,
I pulled up the confirmed attendees at
mayhem.
Um,
I'm going to pull it up on the
screen.
This was not on,
on what I was going to do,
but it's a great thing to show.
So here are the confirmed athletes.
We have Lucy Campbell, Roman, Gabby,
Austin, Jason Hopper, Emily Rolfe,
and Colton Mertens.
Hell yeah.
Um,
so that's a pretty good lineup already at
mayhem.
I like it, dude.
I like it a lot.
I like it a lot so far.
So good.
And we pointed out with Holly's data on
Sunday night that if they would not have
allowed non-eligible members,
non-eligible athletes to compete for the
CrossFit Games,
they allowed like Guy and Sasha to
compete.
Emily would have won Mayhem last year
instead of Fee.
I think it's top three.
People are asking how many people go.
I believe it is top three for Mayhem.
I want to say that's correct.
Yeah.
It was top two last year,
but I think they got one more spot.
And with this lineup,
they deserve one more spot.
Let's be honest.
And this is just the first couple that
have trickled in.
It's going to be a bit of a
lawsuit.
The Gabby thing is going to be fun
to watch.
There's a lot of people that are saying
she's going to blow it out of the
water.
I am not one of those people.
I know that everybody hates me for that.
But Achilles tears take a long time to
recover from.
And she did it twice.
Yeah.
She did it twice.
Ask Bill Leahy.
Right.
I'm not, and I'm not, I like Gabby.
I think she's going to be great again.
It just takes some time.
And to have high expectations for this
season.
I think she's going to be great again.
And I want to see her be great
again.
Like truly, truly, truly.
But it was,
she tore the same Achilles twice.
Within what?
Months.
Right?
When she was rehabbing it to her again.
That is going to be insanely difficult.
Not to just come back to you,
but come back and be competitive all at
the same time.
So, good on her.
I can't wait.
I am curious to see how she's going
to look at me.
That's going to be fun.
Ortega is on month ten post-op.
Just started running one mile twice a
week.
Well, I will say that she probably has...
better genes and is younger than you,
Ortega.
But it's a good time stamp for us
to know that it is not an easy
recovery.
Shay says, regardless of her fitness,
excited just to see her get back on
the call floor.
I'm excited to see where she's at.
I am not putting high expectations on her
season,
but I do want to see where she
is in the process.
Larry Young, twenty four,
twenty five years later,
I'm still waiting on my torn ACL to
get back to normal.
Mark Phillips,
I couldn't trust my Achilles after that.
It would be so mental for me.
I think that's I think that's the biggest
part of it.
Right.
Is one.
She already retore it.
Imagine that in the back of your head.
Not I did it once.
I've done it twice.
Holy smokes, dude.
I know people that had their shoulder
repaired, you know,
and have not been the same since.
And it's not because it's not fixed.
It's because they're still waiting on that
other shoe to drop,
like waiting for it to happen again.
Wait and just, you know,
I could probably push a little bit
further, but oh,
what happens if I tear it again?
Well, if you tear it again,
you have to get it fixed again.
I mean-
Yeah, but she's hurt so bad.
Oh, I'm aware.
I'm aware.
When my wife had hers, dude, like,
when she got it fixed, I mean,
I did very little besides take care of
her while she was rehabbing until she
could, basically,
until she got out of the sling and
started actually using it.
And it was not fun whatsoever, but...
Ortega tried dubs this week, got three,
and got scared and stopped.
Yeah.
It is totally understandable.
Understandable, dude.
I would be too.
Isn't Mayhem Classic the first semifinal
too interesting that she chose that event?
I think she has that champion's mindset
where she thinks she can do everything.
And you need to have that.
That is not a dog on her at
all.
She is a dog because of it.
Right.
And I think she just wants to get
back out there and show that she's healed.
That's what a champion's mindset is.
It is just, it's just, I hope her,
I hope Adam Rogers and the TTT team
are being realistic with her though,
about not like the worst thing that could
happen is reinjuring it again.
Yeah.
I think, yeah.
There's a couple reasons.
Tristan says she wants multiple shots.
Shanna says,
I'm suspicious the first surgical repair
was bad.
And I've heard speculation on that front
as well.
Not from a doctor,
but from the space that the first surgery
was not a good one.
tristan said if she doesn't qualify mayhem
she will know exactly where she is
compared to a very good field so that
is a i wouldn't call that a hot
take i would call that a very very
educated take good job tristan uh you get
to put yourself up against a ridiculous
field right just invitees alone
the rest of the people that are invited,
if they show up,
you're going to have some of the best
in the world and you get to go
and see.
And if you don't make it, okay,
this was the first one of the season.
Let's see if I can go here.
These people already qualified.
This is probably who I'm going to go
up against.
Yeah, dude, that's a very,
very good take on it.
I like it a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's going to be fun.
That's going to be a fun one to
watch.
And, you know,
they'll probably stream it and they'll do
a good job of streaming it.
And because it's mayhem and it'll be a
first class.
If it's.
Seventy percent of what it was last year,
it's going to be fantastic to watch
because their their stream last year was
outstanding.
Shay asked,
do we know why Alexis left Adam Rogers
and that's Gabby's new coach?
It is Gabby's new coach.
They announced that in a TTT podcast.
Nobody knows why Alexis left Adam Rogers.
And she was with Kyle last year.
Kyle Ruth.
I wanted to just do a quick grading
of
the CrossFit HQ this week.
Because we dog them a lot.
And I wanted to just put it out
as they've had a really good week.
And the way that they did those collabs
with the athletes was an A-plus marketing
thing.
The fact that they added a Castro version
of it
was awesome with all of his announcements.
The fact that they are letting affiliates
apply for their own version of that is
awesome.
And then they announced that at the West
Coast affiliate gathering,
They are going to do a throwdown with
the boys interrupted at the location of
the twenty twenty six CrossFit Games,
the SAP Center,
and it will also be with the National
Guard and the seminar staff.
All at the SAP Center, which is,
I think,
a big coup for HQ as a as
an advertisement and a pump up to get
people excited for the games.
If they're smart,
they'll broadcast it live.
Or a documentary of it of some sort
that comes out fairly quickly after.
I think the biggest point to this is
going to be,
do they sell tickets to the games
immediately after?
That would be...
Again, a smart move.
I would grade them an A-plus other than
that they... The Air National Guard,
Kenneth, I'm sorry.
I would give them an A-plus other than
the fact that they should have done
registration for the Open closer to the
first of the year.
They should have done more marketing going
into that
And then, so people were ready for this.
Still be surprised with the collabs,
but like just little taste leading up to
the registration.
And then my other thing is, yeah,
this is a really cool thing with the
throwdown, but it better be covered well.
It better be put out and ticket sales
better start immediately after.
It's all about-
Whatever the three, two, one, go.
And then they take off and Justin Medeiros
is in the lead on the first round
of whatever it is they're doing.
And oh, by the way,
tickets are now on sale.
Go get your tickets for the CrossFit
Games.
While you have their attention...
hey as soon as this as soon as
this event goes live tickets are now on
sale for the crossfit games go get your
tickets for the twenty year anniversary
done moving right along it better not be
another golden barbell oh my god yeah i
try to i try to eliminate that yeah
i try to eliminate the golden bell barrel
from my memory leader
That was such a disaster.
Good God.
I'm trying to pull up the details.
I'm typing one-handed.
I'm sorry.
That's a talent few possess, Scott.
One-handed typing.
I'm more of a two-finger typer.
The golden barbell.
Okay.
It was so dumb that I have no
idea who won it or what it was
even for.
I know it was something to do with
the Open.
That's about as far as I remember.
I think it was for the winner of
the Open announcement.
So here we go.
There it is.
There's the announcement.
It is the Air National Guard.
Get a sneak peek of the twenty twenty
six CrossFit Games venue and throw down
with CrossFit seminar staff,
the boys interrupted and the Air National
Guard.
The event registration is free and all
attendees get a swag bag with a co-branded
Yeti shaker,
a limited edition patch and more.
Following the event,
an affiliate summit will take place in a
private lounge with the SAP Center and
Dave Castro, Katie Hogan,
and other CrossFit team members.
Click the link in the bio or in
the stories to register.
So it sounds like you get to throw
down with them.
It's not just the four of them,
but you can register and come in and
do that.
Can I just say that if I was
Jason Hopper,
every time they would want to take one
of these promotional pictures of me,
I would have my medal on.
I'd be like, hey, by the way,
I'm the fittest guy on earth.
Breaking news.
Jeff Adler confirmed to compete at Mayhem.
So that didn't hurt the field.
That did not hurt the field.
No.
No.
Definitely not.
The field just got a little bit stronger.
Tickets go on sale,
but only for affiliates and their members.
Would that be a good idea?
Sure.
I think the affiliate members should get
first dibs on the tickets.
You absolutely should.
You pay forty five hundred dollars a year.
You should get something.
So a discount code,
early access to tickets more than whatever
it is they're getting now,
which is not a whole lot.
Yeah, Jody.
Oh, well,
another Yeti as if these athletes need one
more.
It's the swag bag for those that come
and participate, not for the athletes.
I have lots of Yetis.
I love Yetis.
Insulated cups you can shake a stick at.
So back to CJ DePalma from the WOD
Prep podcast this morning, him and Claire.
He said that he liked this idea of
the boys interrupted,
but he thinks it needs expanded beyond the
boys interrupted.
Like start bringing in some other
athletes.
Okay.
And I don't disagree with that take.
Okay.
But I do think that the boys in
Erupted are the ones initiating the, hey,
let's work with CrossFit.
From what,
I forget if it was Dallin or Jason
was saying,
they've been trying to get together with
Dave and do something at the ranch for
a couple of years now.
Like, hey, we want to do something.
And I don't think they really care if
other people come in.
They just want to do something.
So, yeah, why not?
Bring some other people in.
My fear about this, though,
is you remember the Brooke Wells days
where Brooke got picked to do everything
and then the stories were circling that
Dave loved Brooke and, hey,
maybe there was something extra going on
there and Brooke gets extra treatment
because of a relationship with Dave.
Like, I don't want...
I don't want this to become that, right?
Yeah.
So I'm hoping that they do reach out
to some other athletes and mix this up
a little bit more.
But it has to be a two-way street.
The athletes have to want to work with
HQ.
Yeah.
Yeah, Shea is correct.
Dave absolutely still loves Brooke.
That's it.
Yeah.
Only now he loves Sydney too.
And if you watch behind the scenes,
that was very evident as well.
Oh, she showed capacity, Scott.
She showed capacity.
I'll never let that, like,
that'll never be out of my brain.
I just, I still, to this day,
do not, I don't get that.
Or Craig makes a big point, good point.
Who doesn't love Broker Sydney?
I'm kind of indifferent,
if I'm being completely honest with you,
as far as they're concerned.
I felt really bad when she broke her,
uh,
The whole elbow thing.
Her elbow went ninety degrees in the other
direction.
In the wrong direction.
Yeah.
And I think it's cool that her sister
was like,
I can be a games athlete too.
And it was.
So kudos to her for that.
But besides that,
I'm kind of indifferent to the whole
thing.
Aside from the whole
I don't want to say favoritism,
but like some of the stuff that the
capacity thing,
the Brooke Wells burpee thing, and like,
or chest was clearly not touching the
ground.
And like it took, yeah.
After a lot of uproar.
Well, we never gave,
because the uproar came so fast,
HQ never had the opportunity to do the
right thing first.
Yeah.
And so they were in a lose-lose situation
because by the time they got the video
to even review, there were already,
the court of a public opinion had already
made their decision.
If the boys are doing this event,
does that mean they're not doing an open
announcement though?
That is not what I, I don't know.
They said on Boys Interrupted that they
all most likely were going to be doing
an open announcement.
And I think James is already confirmed for
the one at the airbase, right?
Yeah.
So, yeah,
so that's not going to be true, Lito.
They're probably going to do something.
It's just James, though.
Well, he's the only one that's confirmed.
They have to have a second person.
I just don't know who that is.
Nepotism.
Nepotism.
And again, like I have nothing,
I have nothing against the boys
interrupted and what they're doing for the
space right now is invaluable and needs.
We need those types of athletes doing
this.
Yeah.
But I do think CJ made a great
point that I think reaching out to some
other athletes.
So.
So having said that,
who would you like to see?
besides Lucy Campbell.
Well,
and you know she's going to get the
European one somehow.
If she does it,
they're missing a huge opportunity.
Yeah,
I think Terry Lightfoot needs to get one
over there too.
Hopefully they do a set of women and
a set of men.
I must say, I must say this too.
I do think that even though she's not
participating in the season because she's
pregnant,
if they don't utilize Tia in some sort
of way, even to be there, like announcing,
hey,
twenty six point two is or twenty six
point three is or whatever the case may
be.
They're missing an opportunity because she
would.
And I mean,
she got up at three o'clock in the
morning to go and chase the show.
use her she is the goat she's not
yeah but she's got a good reason to
not be speaker i understand that but
people respond to her yeah right she's
going to bring eyes oh t is going
to be there doing something or another
absolutely she will however many months
pregnant she's going to be at the time
i just think that's a that's an easy
win that they're that
They can just kind of let slip away.
I'm a huge fan of Harry Lightfoot.
Oh, Harry Lightfoot.
They definitely need to get him just for
his personality alone, dude.
Like that dude is a trip.
Well,
when he at Rogue was going around the
crowd doing the pump up thing,
like that's what we need.
Yeah.
That's what we need.
I love it.
Yeah.
Lucy was involved with the teaser for
Europe.
I'm sure she's going to do Europe.
I think that's going to be it for
sure.
And if you did,
if you didn't watch the sport of fitness
podcast,
Chase and Hobart are going to compete
against each other with teams.
I saw that.
Trying to re bring back the row versus
boss.
I mean,
Chase versus Hobart could be a very,
very interesting competition.
Yeah.
it would be like the Chicago Bears versus
St.
Agnes of the Epistle Junior High football
team.
James Hobart, super high-level athlete.
Chase still can't deadlift.
Chase and Dave Castro,
possibly the two worst public deadlifters
on the face of the planet.
Yeah.
Guys,
I would not be pushing Gabby to do
this.
That's a terrible idea.
Yeah, I like the Kringle-Lucy angle much,
much better.
We've got a Harry Lightfoot versus an
Olakai.
I'd take that.
Callum Clements.
Yeah, but it has to be Harry.
I think it has to be Harry.
Harry is the star in Europe right now
on the men's side.
Again, on personality alone.
Not to say he's not fit.
He is extraordinarily fit.
But on personality alone,
let's get Harry Lightfoot in front of the
camera.
Kenneth is saying my Chase versus Hobart,
like the guards versus the inmates was
supposed to be during the longest yard.
Yeah, the inmates.
Chase may come back.
Beat the shit out of James.
There we go.
It would be interesting either way.
Entertaining, I should say.
Either way, for sure.
USA versus Europe,
Mertens versus Lightfoot.
I'd watch.
I'd watch that.
I'm going to watch it anyway,
but I would enjoy that.
Did you say Chase can't lift?
Let's go Hobart.
He can't deadlift.
He can't deadlift.
I didn't say he couldn't lift.
No, and he knows he can't deadlift.
That's the thing.
Like he is well aware as a glaring
weakness that he refuses to work.
He said it many times.
Maybe Gabby in a year.
I agree, Shanna.
Give her a year.
I hope to God that her coach is
like not, and I'm sure he's probably not,
but like,
or kind of pulling the reins back to
not do too much too soon.
Cause everybody in this space wants to see
her succeed and knows what kind of
potential she has, right?
Like she is ridiculous whenever she's fit
in that.
What if they brought back all the
champions for the first one?
One, I don't think it's possible.
um it's not that many people i know
but there's some that are not going to
do the season even so to get those
champions back is going to be difficult um
and then do i don't think we need
to go back to you know get uh
oh man hold up
James Fitzgerald,
we don't need to see out there.
OPT, yeah.
OPT, who else?
But it'd be cool to see like Kalipa
and... Jason Kalipa.
I mean, Rich would be in.
That ain't a big deal.
Graham did Masters last year.
Graham, I was about to say,
Graham would be out there with a shirt
on.
Beco goes to Rogue every year.
I would love to see Beco go.
I can't see Frazier coming and doing it.
You know what?
I bet if you asked him,
if they asked him and he was like,
and gave him enough time to actually be
in some kind of open shape,
because I'm sure he's in shape now,
but what's that look like?
Because he does not look the same as
he did when he was competing.
I do have him in the crowd and
pan to him at one point.
That I could see.
Like, invite them all back.
Maybe give them, like,
something to say congratulations.
You get this jacket for being a games
champion.
I don't know.
Something like that.
Like, all I'm saying is, like,
the Bears brought Brian Urlacher and Devin
Hester.
They wore their Hall of Fame jackets out
on the field before the last game.
Something like that.
I'm trying to think about the women's side
because we've got, like, Katie.
The war ain't coming.
no i'm aware of that i'm talking i'm
going like oh seven oh eight right give
them all a golden bell barbell and play
and play the theme song from the golden
girls thank you for being a friend what
was it gentry that won this oh seven
joley gentry and then katie henninger won
a god so who was after then you
have kristen clever was ten tanya wagner
was nine on the wagon was nine and
then you start the annie annie sam camille
and sam camille and katrin tia tia tia
tia tia laura tia tia tia tia it
sounds ridiculous when you say it out loud
but that's where it is
Yeah, you have Gentry, Henniger, Wagner,
Clever, Thorstotter, Thorstotter, Briggs,
LeBlanc, Bazinet, David Sutter,
David Sutter, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia,
Tia, Tia, Laura, Tia, Tia.
When you say it out loud like that,
you realize how ridiculous it is and how
many times she's won.
Yeah,
all I can think of is that stupid,
like, whoop, Johnny, whoop, Johnny,
Johnny, Johnny.
Laura's just the whoop in the middle of
the Johnny Johnnies.
So even Matt winning five times in a
row and Rich winning the four times before
then with Ben smacking, so it's like Rich,
Rich, Rich, Rich, Ben.
Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt.
But then after that,
it's been somebody else.
Justin, Justin.
Yeah.
Justin, Justin.
Jeff, James.
Jeff.
Jason.
Jeff, James, Jason.
Right?
So like that's – it's not – Tia,
Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia,
Tia, Tia, Tia.
Your nickname better start with a J. Yeah.
It's not Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia,
Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia.
Laura.
Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia,
Tia, Tia.
Jonathan says,
sounds like a Mexican wedding.
Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia.
My Tia.
That is.
Tia gets golden plates to go with her
golden barbell for repeats.
Bro.
Yeah.
Been a while since I've picked up a
comic,
but I thought Captain America was pretty
strong.
The real Captain America was strong.
He had super serum.
Chase was out the day they gave the
super serum.
Chase is strong.
He just can't deadlift.
He just can't deadlift.
It's not that he's not.
And again,
he will be the first person to tell
you that.
That he can squat.
Not a big deal.
He had a decent clean.
He had a decent snatch.
But just don't ask him to pick anything
up off the floor.
It's just not his deal.
All right, well,
we've gone really long today.
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Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia.
That is true.
Tia, Tia, Tia, Tia.
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