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Thank the Lord.
It is Friday.
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right there.
I like that.
That was nice.
Yeah.
That was definitely nice.
Why is it that Joseph Ramirez every day
associates a food with the day of the
week?
I'm going to tell you what.
When you burn as much calories as Joseph
Ramirez does,
the man exercises like a maniac.
You got to feed the machine.
Got to feed the machine.
feeding the beast man let's be real
hundred percent absolutely yeah anybody
who who subs in an echo bike for
an erg i don't have a choice hey
sometimes you have a choice you got to
do what you got to do you got
you have to feed that beast because you
are burning more calories on the echo than
you are on the arc depending on the
workout yeah i would say that for sure
had a real fun one uh monday that
actually did tuesday that was absolutely
disgusting because that's just kind of
that we program you didn't you did so
i don't know you watched the sunday show
late did you see what jamie programmed for
her gym last week and uh oh the
freaking mile yeah yeah no she's out of
her mind when i saw that as a
matter of fact i wanted to text her
and be like dude do you hate your
members like what is wrong
And I preface that with my dumb co-host.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she seemed like she deserved it.
I mean, that's just absolutely insane,
dude.
She was shooting me videos of it going
down.
She'd completed it in the morning.
These were evening videos of the class.
It looked awful.
That's because it was.
That's only the reason why it looked awful
is because it absolutely is.
There's no way, dude.
Like, that's just... What is it?
Four hundred meters of burpee broad jumps?
Four hundred meters of something else?
Four hundred meters of... Well,
I think there's a run in between each
of the... Oh, yeah.
That makes it so much better.
Yeah.
Thank God.
You can break with a run.
Sure.
I... Yeah.
Just...
Mark Phillips is another stupid,
silly pants, dumb, stupid, silly,
whatever it is.
It's DDSP.
DDSP.
DDSP.
I want to do it,
just don't want to do it alone.
Oh, you just finish with a four-meter run.
Somehow I doubt by the finish you're
looking to do anything that's even
resembling a run.
I would say it probably ends with a
four-meter shuffle.
Yeah.
You just finish with a run.
I take...
Take it back.
Yeah.
It's not broken up by runs.
You finish with a run.
Yeah.
Run.
I don't want to do anything.
No, Meg.
As far as I know, she's not.
She may have been.
She's been watching some sort of trial.
So that might actually be it.
She watches it on her phone.
So I have no idea if that's actually
what it is or if it's some other
trial because she loves that kind of shit.
So it might be.
I can't do that kind of stuff because
it involves kids.
And I'm going to get irrationally angry
and upset and all that stuff because...
If you hurt children,
you are the absolute worst possible thing,
in my opinion,
on the face of the absolute planet.
And I will take it out personally on
you.
My wife is probably watching it.
I wouldn't know because I check out
whenever any true crime is on.
When I'm down here doing this is when
she squeezes in her true crime stuff.
yeah we watched them uh together because
some of the stuff she we we pick
up is interesting like the the what the
what was it uh some of the ones
that are like the world's worst like worst
neighbors or whatever is on uh is on
one of them that one was that was
four episodes of that's pretty cool like
one of them these people house just
exploded in the middle of a neighborhood
which seemed pretty random at one point
but they were actually trying to do it
to get uh
to get the insurance money off of it.
And the neighbors ended up dying.
It was a whole terrible thing.
But in some of the other ones,
the one that started off,
this woman went absolutely batshit insane
on her neighbors,
and they lived across the street from each
other.
So it wasn't like she was down the
road or nothing like that.
It just kept going on and on and
on and on.
Bro, it was wild.
Yeah, Daniel, I don't even want to know.
If it's my time, it's my time.
Yeah, no.
Wayne Short said something.
Wayne, if you could pull up to Wayne.
I challenge anybody to hit the like
button.
If you don't,
your weekend will be filled with doo-doo.
Or am I making that up?
With two-doos?
Doo-doo?
Oh, honey-doos.
With honey-doos.
He edited it.
got gotcha uh i got news for you
there homie doing that anyway right so i'm
going to visit my mom next weekend um
and i said why don't you just leave
that and i'll and i'll fix it when
i get there she said i've already got
a list of things for you oh good
oh yay wait to see you mom that's
super exciting right there yeah no my wife
texted me earlier this week and was like
we're pressure washing the garage
Saturday.
So find a good pressure washer was his
exact, her exact words.
I'm like, find a,
like we have a pressure washer.
Why am I looking for another one?
I don't understand what's happening right
now.
Yeah.
My mom gives me sunny do lists.
Yeah.
Well, I mean,
gotta be grammatically correct.
Um, Ken Walters, some of the,
about a proven longest five K, uh,
sorry don't want to forget that it was
way up there uh the proven workout world's
longest five k you do twenty five burpees
then a thousand meter run then fifty air
squats for five rounds our box did that
in endurance class last week that was
rough ken no just no yeah um
Meg says that was your chance to get
a new pressure washer.
Corey, way to blow that opportunity.
Megan, I don't want a new pressure washer.
You understand what happens if you have a
new pressure washer?
Then you actually have to use it.
Exactly.
No.
I'm okay.
I'll be all right without that.
I watched some football last night.
Oh,
was the Hall of Fame game last night?
No, no, we're past Hall of Fame.
We're a week in preseason week one.
Shows you where I'm at on the timeline
there.
Yeah,
I actually told Garrett and Joseph and
Jeremy that the reason you weren't on the
sports show is because I have to explain
the sports to you if it's not CrossFit.
Yeah, well, I mean,
it depends on which sport we're talking
about, but yeah, for the most part.
As a matter of fact,
I was at the barber this morning,
and I go to an actual barber shop,
and it's
one of the highlights of my month when
i get to go in there because it
is straight up old school barber shop like
if there's a woman in there it's because
she brought her kid to go and and
get their haircut and whatnot so it's a
bunch of old dudes or adult god men
whatever
talking about whatever comes across this
morning.
It was Jaden Daniels and, uh, you know,
preseason football and all that other good
stuff.
But that's why I sell my barber this
morning.
So Jonathan, I said, man,
I might actually watch the saints this
year.
I haven't watched professional football
and I had to think about it for
a little while.
I think the last full season of
professional football I watched was in two
thousand and fourteen.
And it's two thousand twenty six.
If anybody was keeping track.
Yeah, it's been about that long.
It's been about that long.
So last night I watched Steelers Packers.
I watched Bengals Lions.
I tuned in for a minute of Raiders
Cardinals.
That was boring as hell.
And then I hit a little bit of
Titans Niners.
So there was a lot of football last
night.
So this is the Joseph Ramirez section of
the podcast.
Drew Aller for the Steelers looked
awesome.
All right.
So he is a Penn State kid.
I watched every snap he took at Penn
State.
He didn't look this good in college.
And in his first pro start looked really
freaking good.
He went ten of thirteen for one eighty
and three touchdowns.
Wow.
That's impressive.
Yeah.
That's efficiency actually is what that
is.
Um, which is outstanding.
Uh, they went,
so I was watching a thing, uh,
actually not that long ago where,
they were, you know, the,
this quarterback or that quarterback,
whatever.
And they were talking about college
quarterbacks, nothing from, uh,
what's his name?
Brandon on, uh, Barstool sports.
And they were doing college quarterbacks
and, you know,
it came up Peyton or whoever, right.
Talking about Peyton Manning.
He's one that he was okay in Tennessee,
but like he couldn't beat,
he couldn't beat Florida.
And then once he got to the NFL,
and I feel like a lot of them
were like that.
Drew Brees was that freaking Purdue,
for Christ's sake.
That football powerhouse, Purdue.
It goes to show you that one player
can't win a game.
Correct.
you get them in the nfl and all
of a sudden they got all these other
tools and weapons around them and a better
line and a better system that works better
for them all of a sudden it's like
somebody you've never heard of potentially
is holy where did this kid come from
yeah well penn state was in the final
four two years ago with drew aller at
quarterback yeah lost on a last second
interception to notre dame
Like,
they could have been in the national
championship game two years ago very
easily.
And then last year,
the wheels came off the bus, the train,
whatever.
All of it.
But it was fun.
It was good to see football back.
And then I'm excited for tomorrow where
the Bears' first preseason game and the
cross-fitting Tyson Bajent will be getting
the start for the Chicago Bears tomorrow,
one p.m.
against the Cleveland Browns.
And I'm excited.
He's getting a whole half,
a whole first half.
Not the Indiana Bears yet.
They said yesterday that they are
adamantly,
they will never be the Indiana Bears.
They may have a stadium in Indiana,
but the name will always be Chicago Bears.
Just checking.
Just checking.
Ken Walter says, pump the brakes.
It's first week preseason Nittany Lion
bias.
Hey, bro.
was skeptical whether he could play in the
NFL because I watched every snap at Penn
State he was very inconsistent his
footwork looked really good and really
different last night that's all I'm gonna
say and that's a big thing with
quarterbacks yeah
The other thing I wanted to get into,
and I need Vicky's help on this one,
is yesterday during the chat, people said,
hey,
did you see the end of the barbell
spin?
Oh, yes, I did.
And no, I did not.
So I did.
If Vicky is ready,
we have it queued up.
And if she goes ahead and plays this.
All right.
with volume, hopefully.
Oh, no.
All right.
So let me see if I can pull
it up, Vicki, real quick.
While you're doing that, Mr.
Brian Thompson,
the Tuesday Sports Talk was on Glinton
Things Podcast.
Our friends, the Glintons,
friends of the show,
collaborators on the show from time to
time, good people.
I gave her the timestamp.
Can you put the timestamp into the chat,
Vicki, so I can find it real quick?
Thank you for having premium, Vicki.
Yes, we have premium, Vicki.
We don't have discount Vicki.
One fifty one twenty.
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
I don't know, but.
I.
I just think about the direction of media
and marketing within CrossFit.
I don't know what you do with it.
I know.
I think I'm about done.
No, I'm serious.
I think I'm about done.
That was such an old man way of
saying it, dude.
We're all sitting on a porch in rocking
chairs and John goes, well,
I'm about done.
I wish I had the end stream button
ready.
I'm not talking about the podcast.
Just with it all.
Just focus on me and mine.
I'm serious because people don't know
We, we are in,
we're in a CrossFit matrix and only a
few people have chosen the red pill.
I think that's far enough.
So, um, very interesting.
Uh, I was caught off guard by this,
um,
someone who is so passionate about the
sport all of a sudden, um,
says he's done and that he needs to
prioritize him and his family.
He goes on to say that he's just
tired of trying to say things that he
thinks are helpful and that could help the
sport and that nobody ever listens and
nothing ever changes.
And then I will say that Brian Spinn
jumped in and said that we need to
be the voice of reason.
Without third-party media being the voice
of reason,
then you just get what everybody wants you
to do.
And he hearkened back to ten years ago
to when CrossFit ran the media and nobody
could get access to anything.
Right.
And they controlled everything.
And it wasn't until this third-party media
came to kind of
Be the voice of reason.
Be the devil's advocate.
Be the other side of the argument that
we actually had some stuff like this.
And the reason this kind of resonates with
me is there's part of me that feels
this way too.
Not that I'm done, but man,
I'm really tired of banging my head
against the wall.
Sure.
So I went back in time.
uh to an interview that i did oh
i thought you meant you actually went back
in time that would have been way cool
um and if vicky could give me the
time stamp on this one um i know
about where it is uh so i'm gonna
oh she said it's in a private chat
uh
yep all right so i'm gonna just play
it from here uh so this was episode
two sixty of the clydesdale fitness and
friends before we changed our name and uh
the whole crew is there but i'm i
it's only armin talking so uh this is
armin hammer back in the day and this
is after he disappeared and we asked him
why have you disappeared and then it was
you know, the whole Greg Glassman thing.
And then it was, you know,
CrossFit gets sold.
And what does that mean for CrossFit?
What does it mean for the future?
I just felt like at a certain point,
I was kind of repeating myself.
I felt like I was just saying similar
things over and over again.
And the people who listened either agreed
or disagreed and kind of brought up good
points or in both directions.
And the people who heard what they wanted
to hear generally tended to just assume
that I was saying something that I
definitely wasn't.
um which is just common for the internet
in general and i felt like i kind
of got my point across in a lot
of ways and by the time we sort
of did this insane like third trimester
cross-country move and then like couple
months later had a baby by the time
that happened i was just really worn thin
by the the
crossfit not like the community because
that was a hundred percent the best part
of everything that this thing has to offer
but i was just worn thin by the
organization like crossfit as an
organization wore me out to the point
where i just could not i could not
see myself like especially once lev was
born and i kind of felt this really
monumental shift in my priorities
The time that I was spending covering
CrossFit as an organization felt
poisonous.
It just didn't.
So I feel like there are very parallel
stories here with what John Young said the
other night on the barbell spin and what
we captured with Armin.
Gosh, I don't know.
It was years ago.
Um,
I don't even know when that came out.
Four years ago, four freaking years ago.
So how do you,
and I see Sean asking,
banging my head against the wall to do
what?
We're a talk show that talks about
CrossFit and we talk about the same things
over and over again, the same mistakes,
the same things that frustrate us.
And it gets old by the end of
the season.
Like I am done.
I don't want to talk about it anymore.
That's why I love this show.
I love this show because, um,
Because we don't always talk about
CrossFit.
We have fun.
We do other things, right?
But this is a serious piece.
And Jake's in the chat.
What's up, Jake?
Haven't seen you in a bit.
Good, you're back.
CrossFit is very simple.
There's only so much content one can make
around the central stuff.
The issue is you say that,
but they have this arm that is a
sport.
And it has a season that goes all
year round.
People talk about the NFL all year round.
People talk about baseball all year round.
People talk about other sports all year
round.
And it's just getting to be hard because
you're saying the same things.
Nobody is doing anything different.
And you're begging.
That's why I wanted to dive into WFP.
It's going to be different.
And it just turned out to be kind
of the same old thing.
Well, yeah,
it's still a CrossFit competition at its
base.
I mean,
even Jason Ansley said that the other day
when he was on Pedro's show.
Right.
But just because you're a CrossFit
competition doesn't mean you can't change
the format up.
And I've made this argument in the past.
The CrossFit Games finds the fittest on
earth.
It has to be a balanced test.
It has to meet all these criteria.
When you're not that,
you can be whatever you want to be.
But everybody just dives into,
we need to have a balanced test.
We need to find the fittest at this
competition.
No, you don't.
You just need to do something fun for
competitors to come sign up for.
We already have the thing that finds the
fittest.
We don't need to do that eight more
times in a year.
Oh, okay.
I see what you're saying.
Yeah.
The games needs to do that.
I will concede to that.
But Rogue doesn't try to find the fittest.
They try to find the coolest shit they
can put out on the floor to market
their stuff, and it's a different comp,
and that's why I enjoy watching it every
year.
Or the most ridiculous, or sometimes both.
Yes.
Asima,
I like the show because things aren't
clipped and posted to IG and YouTube to
be taken out of context and spun a
narrative to take other shows down.
Thank you.
You have no idea how many conversations
Scott and I have had about that very
thing.
The fact that we don't.
So, yeah,
we're not trying to do that by any
stretch of imagination.
No, I don't disagree, but there's not...
Beyond that,
so this is another counterpoint or kind of
goes hand in hand with that is that,
oh, athletes, they won't, you know,
WFP is a perfect example.
Oh, it's going to be great.
More chances to compete,
more chances about whatever.
And there's only so much competing in
CrossFit you can actually do in the span
of a year and not be completely broken
as an athlete.
just isn't so like and you know wfp
came out swinging big time you know we've
got all these athletes blah blah whatever
and then it takes a toll and you
see the guys slowly drop off of it
slowly drop off of it so there's only
so much that that stuff you can do
and i'll agree with you that yeah i
would there's not there's only so much to
talk about it does get super annoying to
just be rehashing the same things over and
over again but i would also say that
I don't know what else we expect them
to do because it's not like they've ever
listened to media in the first place.
But I think that's where the frustration
comes in, right?
Like if we think about Armin,
Armin was in the space for ten years.
Yeah.
Ten years prior to any of us being
in the space.
He was the naked CrossFitter.
He was the WODcast podcast, right?
Like all that stuff that occurred way
before any of us jumped into this.
And he had a breaking point.
He hit a breaking point about that
CrossFit just never did anything
different.
And this is where I worry, right?
Because it's not just a sport thing,
which is what we focus on on this
show and most of the shows focus on.
Affiliates are leaving.
Affiliates are leaving.
We used to have fifteen thousand
affiliates.
We're somewhere around eight or nine now.
That isn't...
That is a scary drop in affiliates.
Sean in Oregon,
I'm an influencer leading voice in my
industry.
I stopped talking at conferences,
publishing articles, et cetera,
ten months ago because I have nothing else
new to say.
So I get it.
I think that's what Armin was saying.
The John Young thing,
you have to listen to it.
He makes the analogy to the Matrix that
there are people that know what's going on
behind the scenes and people that don't.
And the people that don't are just kind
of like driving aimlessly down the road
without knowing what's going on and
thinking that everything's going to be
great.
We've never been in the know on this
show.
I know a few things,
but I've never been in the know or
part of any group that's been in the
know.
I'll tell you,
if you're third-party media and you go to
the games, there are definitely tears.
Oh, I would say so.
And I've never been in the games as
media or even just as a guest.
I have no problem believing that
whatsoever.
Yeah.
some people are going to get treated
differently than others yeah and i don't
even have a big problem with that and
unless it's abused and um people are being
very blatant about it
Yeah.
So I don't know.
I just wanted to,
people brought it up yesterday.
I went, I watched it.
I,
and I just got to say like after
the games,
I need to take a step back and
I'm actually,
I'm going to WFP in another week and
a half.
I'm actually excited about that.
I'm, I'm excited to see,
I'm excited to see something different.
I just want to see what's there.
And I'm telling you this,
the infighting in the media,
I've said this a million times.
I'm so over that.
I think it totally brings everything else
down.
I don't know.
I'll never understand it.
I really, really don't.
Because it's not like there's not enough
room for everybody.
It makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I don't get it.
I am eternally grateful.
that we are not part of that like
every day that i come on here and
do this show i am incredibly grateful that
we never got caught up in and i
have no plans on getting caught up in
any of that external you know it's not
us and i'm happy for that
Peter hanging out in the chat.
WFP back in Indianapolis should be good.
Jason taking a step forward is great.
Listen,
that's why I'm excited about WFP because
we dogged them pretty hard in season one.
yeah they've made changes and the major
major change in my opinion is making jason
ainsley the front-facing voice of wfp
people if you did not watch his interview
with peter on peter's show the other day
go watch it it's an it's incredibly good
because there's no bullshit in jason
ainsley there's none whatsoever i'm like
i'm so this happened at monster games
while we're talking about jason
So we did the combine.
We were the test mules for the combine.
We didn't do the bench press,
but we did do the four-yard dash,
the five-ten-five, the vertical leap,
and the broad jump.
They had problems getting all the data
together for the four-yard dash and the
five-ten-five for whatever reason.
Their technology wasn't working exactly
right,
so they couldn't get everybody's scores
in.
So what they ended up doing was just
deleting those two scores completely.
Okay.
So the next morning,
like that Sunday morning,
I wake up to two separate emails from
Jason Ansley.
The first one is explaining what happened.
Hey, the data was corrupted, whatever.
We couldn't get all of it.
So this is the decision that we made.
And he probably sent that sometime
Saturday night.
I don't know.
I didn't check my email that much.
Okay.
The very next email, because in my app,
they come in,
the newest one is on top.
So I actually read that one first and
said, basically, he's like,
and this is not a direct quote from
Jason.
This is me saying basically what he said.
Me paraphrasing here is like, hey,
all you people who sent me emails back,
bitching at me, come find me today.
And I will gladly have a conversation with
you about as to why we did what
we did.
I'm sorry if you don't like it,
but it was the best and only solution
that we had.
And that's the kind of dude that he
is.
I was not blown away because I've had
a couple interactions with him before,
and I have no problem believing that.
But he legitimately told people, hey,
I will talk to any and everyone who
has an issue.
I'm going to be there all day long,
and I will talk to everybody that wants
to be talked to until everybody is
satisfied.
Yeah, the bench press,
the combine style of the bench press is
too hard to judge, I guess.
And that makes complete sense.
But they are doing a one rep max
bench at WFP in a week and a
half.
It is just,
it's not during the combine session.
It is later in the weekend.
Yeah.
So basically is what I'm getting at is
that Jay Stansley is that dude.
He has no problem talking to anybody who
wants to talk to him.
We'll have a, you know,
a legitimate conversation.
Um, he, it was awesome.
It was,
it was an outstanding interaction with an
entire group of people who were highly
upset, uh, that they're, you know,
the work that they did the day before
was not going to get counted.
And I understand that.
And he did too,
but like the hate that he was getting,
he was like,
y'all want to talk to me,
come talk to me.
Don't just send me emails randomly behind
a wall.
So.
Having him in short, as like you said,
being the front facing for the WFP was
probably the smartest thing they did since
they've been a thing.
Can I just say on another note,
watching back those interviews with Armin
that we did,
I missed that dude so much.
People, if you have never...
I'm sure that was what you're still on
there.
Never listen to Scale As Needed,
the podcast that he used to do with
his friends when they just sat around and
talked about whatever was on their mind.
And every day, it was S-A-N.
So every time they let alone S-A-N stood
for something else, which...
made my uh my humor heart so so
uh so warm because they just made up
something new every day it is fantastic to
listen to it is outstanding to listen to
it's fan is is top tier content if
you think we go off the rails no
no they didn't even have a train we
are just copying
We are just copying.
We are a cheap copy of S.A.N.
and we have no problem with that.
It's perfectly fine.
It was outstanding.
Yeah.
Armin was great.
You know, we weren't like close friends.
We didn't have each other's phone number.
But the fact that he would answer my
messages and come on the show a couple
times.
And him and Chase both.
Chase I would consider a friend.
And love that dude so much.
Yep, podcast, podcast.
Hell,
the old episodes of the CrossFit podcast
that are still,
as far as I can tell,
on Apple Podcasts are also really,
really good.
The ones from, like,
the year or somewhere around there.
When Armand got kicked out of the games.
Right,
when Armand got kicked out of the games,
yes.
Yeah.
So anyway, um,
chat's talking about other stuff,
trying to stay focused.
I did want to lock in the one
thing I did.
I was listening to the spin and them
talking about Jenna too.
And I wanted,
I had one final thought that best
describes Jenna and why I'm sad that she's
leaving.
I messaged her yesterday and we talked a
little bit.
so the other thing is i i always
was told that when you go visit someone
you should leave whatever you have access
to in a better place than when you
got there leave it better than you found
it and the one thing that jenna did
was leave that place in a better spot
than when she found it because when she
found it it was in a really bad
place
Yeah, underground with a headstone.
And she left.
And that CMO position is now in a
much better place than it was when she
got there.
Yeah.
And so if that's said about me when
I go visit somebody or when I go
do something,
that is the ultimate compliment.
And I just wanted that to be said
about her.
Yeah.
Again.
I messaged her yesterday and I totally did
not expect a response and had a short
conversation with her on Messenger
yesterday and basically just wished her
all the best.
Told her everything that we said
yesterday.
And like you said just now, hey, congrats.
Like you took something that was dead and
buried and resurrected it.
And we can't thank you enough for that
because it was needed.
Right.
A hundred percent was needed.
And just wish her, you know,
all the best in whatever she does going
forward.
what actions do you think jenna did that
left it in a better place uh i
don't think we have enough time jake to
lift it list it all off um the
documentary she did with the nerd who
crossfits or whatever i can never remember
her for her name um the one she
did with the the the guy who was
obese and lost whatever and then showing
them going to an l-one
Like those things.
The marketing,
there was nothing before her.
Yeah.
There just was nothing.
And there were actually things I saw that
got me inspired, that got me thinking,
man, CrossFit is cool.
Now, I have had criticisms as well.
when nerds teach.
The documentary she did on her, amazing.
And the fact that she just keeps doing
content based on her CrossFit journey is
awesome.
The other things are she did the F,
the quick fix.
She did,
there was another promotion after that.
There are CrossFit commercials,
essentially,
that show up in different places on social
media.
And she brought back Road to the Games.
She brought back some other,
that's just off the top of my head.
None of the,
all that was gone for years before she
jumped in.
Going, going.
I don't know if you guys remember that
or not,
but like the last road to the games
was what,
in two thousand fifteen or sixteen?
Maybe, maybe seventeen.
I have to go look and see.
Maybe Vicky can find out for us.
But like it's been quite some time.
Well,
the media team was fired in eighteen.
In eighteen.
Yeah,
but I don't remember if they if they
had shut that down before that or not.
Honestly, don't.
were still road to the games because
sixteen was uh bridges and sixteen was
bridges and ants yeah and then everybody
unfortunately remembers that one um andrew
asked if she's leaving voluntary or being
replaced her official response is that she
has resigned yeah what that means uh who
knows
look it's not for us to find out
it's really really not we might at some
point but that's a decision is she saying
she resigned then she resigned like it's
not for us to i am a big
proponent of that's her story to tell yes
yes yes yes that's what i'm trying to
get across um
Barry asks,
who in HQ is responsible for affiliate
growth?
Every single person.
Every person that walks in the door should
be a sponsor.
That should be the number one priority of
everybody who walks in the door at
CrossFit HQ.
Not even at HQ.
I'm going to tell you who else is
responsible for affiliate growth.
Anybody who goes to an affiliate.
True.
Any and every person that goes to an
affiliate.
I am a coach.
I am also an athlete.
If it comes to CrossFit,
I'm an athlete and a coach.
It's probably about what and what because
I need to get my fitness in as
well.
Probably more so on the coach side.
I want twenty people in every one of
my classes.
I do.
Why?
Because that means there's more people
getting healthy.
That means there's more people enjoying
the best hour of their day.
Shout out to the best hour of their
day, boys.
And getting healthy and getting fit.
And the more people that are in there
doing it,
the more people are out there in the
world telling other people about it and
can get other people cross-fitting and
therefore trying to take on the world's
most vexing problem head on.
So when you say who's responsible for
affiliate growth,
every person who considers themselves to
be a CrossFitter and goes to an affiliate
is responsible for affiliate growth,
not just the people in HQ.
So Barry says,
we keep talking about affiliate numbers
declining,
but who has that as their metric of
performance at HQ?
I think that's the problem we've had at
CrossFit HQ.
Yeah.
They don't have metrics anymore.
Now, I'm not in the building.
I don't know if they have metrics or
not, but doggone it.
If it were me,
I would have a poster on the wall
of current affiliates and
what our goal is and are we achieving
any growth at all over the course of
whatever?
Yeah.
The minute they walk into that door,
if you're on a football team, uh,
they were talking about this the other
day, Ben Johnson wants to be the highest,
um,
powered offense in the history of the NFL.
And,
and when you walk into the room or
into the locker room at house hall,
it says strive for greatness, right?
Everybody knows what the goal is.
Everybody knows walking in.
There is no HQ building anymore for people
to walk into and be on the same
page of going in the same direction.
Shout out to Sousa.
He's been beating that drum for years now.
The fact that there is no actual place
for people to come in.
But it's more than the building.
It is more than the building.
But if everybody's in the building...
As opposed to, oh, well,
I'm here and you're here and then remote
and maybe we might see each other once
every three months or so,
something along those lines.
There's no people.
If I'm in the room with you,
it is way easier for me to hold
you accountable or for you to hold me
accountable than it is for if I am
just doing my work remotely somewhere and
maybe I'll get on a call later and
maybe I won't.
Do I think it works for everybody?
No.
Do I think it works for somebody like
that as far as business growth is
concerned and everybody be able to be a
lot easier to get on the same page?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So Jake,
I didn't get a chance to answer your
first question,
but if you pull up the latest comment
of Jake,
this is what I would have answered to
your last question.
I think what she did initially by bringing
back the eat meats, veggies,
and the pukey,
the clown and all that fed into the
base that already exists and got them
reignited.
Then there should have been a transition
to,
we need to bring in outside people to
this thing.
I'm not sure that truly happened.
Now, I do think Nerds Who Teach,
that documentary,
could reach other people,
but we have to get it to places
where other people can see it.
It's the same problem with watching the
CrossFit Games and having commercials for
CrossFit during the breaks.
You're selling ice to Eskimos at that
point.
Like, what are we doing?
Yep.
Those commercials are great.
They really are.
If you've watched any of them,
they are outstanding.
The people who are watching the games,
by and large, already get it.
They've already bought that product.
Just slapping it onto YouTube means that
it's going to go into the algorithm for
that type of thing,
and you're going to be selling it.
The same people who watch CrossFit content
are going to see it.
You're not reaching anybody new.
It's one of those, it takes money,
you're going to spend money to make money
type deal.
It needs to be on during something else
that is not CrossFit related.
Period.
Do I think they need to be at
a thirty second spot at the Super Bowl?
No, we don't have that kind of money.
Not currently,
but should it be on during a baseball
game or during a basketball game or
something along those lines?
Sure.
Why not?
Why not have a, you know,
pay for some ads during another,
at least a sporting event.
People were watching sporting events.
This is my completely, totally,
and probably really off-base opinion here,
but are more likely to be people who
would want to go and work out and
do those type of things if you're watching
that kind of shit.
So, Jake, conceptually,
I understand what you're saying.
Zlatan probably gained CrossFit
affiliates,
a thousand members worldwide with one
post.
We don't have a metric to show us
that.
So back to Barry's comment,
how do you measure that?
And this is getting way in the weeds
of shit that is back into my business
background and my MBA.
The issue that CrossFit has is it throws
spaghetti at the wall.
And you can't measure it.
You can't measure the effect of the
spaghetti because you've thrown so much
shit up there.
You don't know what any single piece of
that pasta has done to make an impact.
Yep.
And they've always been that way.
They've always just thrown shit up.
Now, we're at a point in the growth,
and I've talked about this earlier in the
week,
from a small business to a medium business
to a large business,
the thought process has to change because
you have to think of things differently.
When you're a small business,
you can throw shit at the wall,
and it's still going to have an impact.
And it doesn't really matter which way it
comes from,
but you have to know where you're spending
money and where is the value coming back
from that money that you spent.
Making a commercial that's only going to
air to your base,
is that money well spent?
No.
It's not.
I don't give a damn who says what
about anything.
Are those things cool?
Yes.
Those things are fun to watch when you
see the guy that, uh,
the one that he did with Scott Pancheck
with the older fellow that was at Scott
Pancheck's, uh,
that one was outstanding to watch and they
made it into an ad basically.
And it's fun, but okay.
We already,
like we get that people have seen that
kind of stuff at their local affiliate.
There is more,
more than likely a chance that that kind
of stuff has already been seen at your
local affiliate.
So why are you showing it to us?
Not that we don't want to see it,
but money well spent,
money better spent is to send it somewhere
else where it's actually going to get some
traction.
One of the things that used to be
done very well was the website was kept
up and it had relevant information on it.
And when you did search engine
optimization of that stuff,
then people were finding it because it
wasn't in an algorithm.
People were searching for certain things.
Now the website is so freaking confusing.
Yeah.
Does it look more modern?
Yeah.
It's not white and black text on,
but is it easy to navigate?
No.
That is the first thing I would do
as the chief marketing officers.
Get people to open up your website or
make an app that people are interested in.
And again,
I'm just spitballing off the top of my
head because I have not sat down and
thought about a marketing strategy for
CrossFit.
As it turns out.
uh you gonna get that one the wayne
one uh there isn't a voice outside of
the crossfit community hell cindy is now
known as the spider-man challenge because
the general population has no clue and
that is on crossfit amen wayne that is
incredibly frustrating the fact that
crossfit hasn't jumped on that that piece
of content
and blowed it up because now you have
people looking for tom holland people
looking for spider-man not just crossfit
and if you listen to him he says
it's a crossfit workout like from the
original thing and then he explains what
it is and instead people skipped right
over that they're like let's do the
spider-man challenge
Mind-blowing.
Mind-blowing.
I would have him slowly get that clip
of him saying that,
and then when he says, it's a CrossFit,
we're CrossFit, CrossFit,
and just say it six times,
and then he cut to somebody else going,
yeah, it's called Cindy.
So here's the disconnect, Jake.
Yes, they did it eight months ago.
Hey, I don't know if you know this,
but a new freaking Spider-Man movie came
out two weeks ago.
It's projected to do two billion dollars
worldwide.
So guess what's back at the top of
people's minds?
Spider-Man.
And the guy who plays him does CrossFit.
He's on every talk show right now.
Not eight months ago.
Right now.
Now's the time when you want to jump
on these activities.
Oh, and FYI, Tom Holland's ripped.
The couple of times that he's been in
the movie or whatnot,
like when he's without a shirt,
the dude is ripped.
And they're calling it Tom Holland's
Spider-Man workout.
Oh, my God.
Scroll down a little bit.
Scroll down a little bit.
Spider-Man hit workout.
Hit.
Hit workout.
Why is this?
Good God, people.
It's a freaking CrossFit workout.
I just got a headache.
Oh, my God.
Joseph Ramirez says Spider-Man is washed.
It broke the record for box office in
the history of movies week one.
Yeah.
That's another one.
Yes.
Patrick Clark.
Thank you.
The thing we talked about last week with
Patrick Wilson doing grace.
Yes.
Not even doing grace,
just doing a bunch of power cleans,
but whatever.
Same, almost the same thing.
And why he thought it looked cool.
Joseph Tyson Bajan is a nice story and
I'm a Chicago bears fan and I love
him to death,
but he's a backup quarterback in the NFL.
Tom Holland just starred in the number one
box office movie in the world for in
box office in the history of movies.
Yeah.
If you haven't seen it, it's so good.
Just throwing that out there.
Are you freaking kidding me?
Like the opportunity was right there to
grab and nothing was done.
No,
we're going to call it a hit workout
on YouTube.
We're going to call it the Spider-Man
workout.
Tom Holland, Spider-Man workout.
No, it was Cindy.
Yeah, still is FYI.
I go do it right now.
It'll still be Cindy.
It has nothing to do with, with,
with Spider-Man other than the fact that
Tom's like, oh,
when I'm pressed for time and it,
this is another, this, this, another,
lots of people doing the Murph challenge
have no idea.
It's a CrossFit workout.
That's the, a problem.
That's a problem.
jake jake said funny funny how they don't
do fran yeah you know why it hurts
well and um the cape fear guy uh
my the name is patrick wilson said that
they have to film this like twenty
different times
If he were going to do Fran twenty
times, he wouldn't survive the day.
He had to find something that was doable
over and over again.
Can you imagine, so you did Fran once,
say Patrick Wilson's got a three minute
Fran, three and a half minute Fran.
You're now dusted for the next ten minutes
before you can get up and move around
and think about doing it again.
But Ken,
if I want to see Fran on Cape
Fear, I don't want it scaled.
no no not at all not even close
as a matter of fact oh yeah i
i just tried to picture like i got
a name ten takes of somebody doing fran
Jesus Christ, you'd be wrecked, dude.
Why does my pee look like Coca-Cola?
I don't understand.
This doesn't feel right at all.
Something's wrong, bro.
Patrick actually admitted that the cleans
were just the easiest to repeat over and
over and over again.
Yeah, because somebody was like,
why don't you do snatches?
He's like, oh, no, we're not doing that.
And they were good form.
They were good cleans.
Yeah.
He actually did.
Yeah.
He actually did have decent form and he
looks, he's ripped dude.
Like clearly that's not the first time
he's done them.
First of all, so you do enough, hundred,
thirty-five pound cleans.
It will ruin your day.
All right, let's go off.
I have to get back to work.
However, however,
I have to rip on you one last
time.
Oh, please.
Because Vicky and I talked about doing the
Dumb Dumb Stupid Pants Award of the Week.
The DDSP.
And taking nominees throughout the week.
And we have been very reluctant to get
those nominees or remember to even
advertise it as an award.
As a thing.
But...
So I'm doing a bad job.
I am not marketing to my people the
way I should for the Dumb Dumb Stupid
Pants Award.
It's a cry in shame.
But I want to hand out the Dumb
Dumb Stupid Pants Award of the week.
Sure.
And it goes to Jaden Daniels.
Oh, yeah, a hundred percent.
He should get two.
I don't even know if it goes to
him or if it goes to his mom.
He should get two.
Well,
one for him and one for his mom
because she's going to have to give him
his anyway.
The memes that have been flying around.
Did you know that five guys changed their
name to four guys because they don't know
if they can use the five permission from
Jane Daniels to use the five?
Yeah.
FYI,
a lot of businesses across the country are
switching from nine to five to nine to
four.
So if you're hearing this right now,
go ahead and leave an hour early for
work and you can thank Jaden Daniels
later.
When I heard his teammates on the
commanders are no longer giving high
fives,
they are now giving high fours because
they just want to respect his number.
So yesterday we talked about how he
compared himself to Joe Burrow,
yet Joe Burrow won a national
championship, went undefeated,
embraced the city,
changed the spelling of his last name to
E-A-U-X, all that stuff.
The piece that I forgot about until you
sent me a reel was that Jaden Daniels
refused to play in the bowl game for
LSU.
And the Cheez-It Bowl.
And then he's going to sue LSU and
give me everything back because you gave
my number five to another player.
And it wasn't even,
it was the Cheez-It Bowl.
You didn't treat me like Joe Burrow,
the legend.
Mind-blowing, dude.
Absolutely mind-blowing.
Oh, Jody, sorry.
You're in here late.
Apparently you weren't here yesterday.
Jaden Daniels' people, his team,
excuse me.
He made a statement himself.
I'm not excusing him anymore.
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
Sent a cease and desist to LSU to
no longer use his name, image,
and likeness because he feels offended
that somebody else is going to use the
number five.
So apparently he's the only person on the
planet that can use the number five.
Sorry.
If you are a NASCAR driver and you
happen to have number five,
sorry about your luck.
You're going to have to go ahead and
change that.
I don't know if anybody had told you.
Wayne Short says, first home game,
LSU should give away number five picket
jerseys.
You're not going to have to.
First,
DJ Pickett is going to be one of
the top cornerbacks in the league this
year.
Secondly,
you know how many jerseys they're going to
sell just because it's got number five on
the back of it?
I'm going to give you a hint.
It's a lot.
It is a lot, a whole lot.
Oh, it's fantastic.
Yeah.
No.
So if I'd make a Jersey number four
plus one, the flag is thrown.
Whistle gets blown.
It's a,
Offsides, number seventy-three offense.
Six-yard penalty, still first.
I'm going to take a wild stab in
the dark and guess that Barry McOchner is
an Eagles fan.
Probably.
He has talked about the Eagles owning the
commanders, owning Jaden Daniels,
owning everything for the last five
minutes.
So I'm just taking a wild stab in
the dark that he is a fan of
the team that puts out a promo video
of his quarterback throwing an
interception.
Just, you know,
because we love Jalen Hurts so much.
Let's put out a promo video of him
throwing an interception.
See, now that he said that Cinco,
so Wayne Short said we had Ocho and
now we have Cinco.
I also found out that Cinco de Mayo
is no longer going to be called Cinco
de Mayo.
It's going to be called Cinco de Jail
in honor of Jaden Daniels.
uh patrick's right santa owns the eagles
the only town that santa gets booed in
the eagles fans are rough dude eagles fans
are rough
Oh, good night.
So I do have a new fun thing,
and I'm going to hit this, Vicky.
This is what happened to Jalen Hurts when
they threw that interception.
Son of a bitch!
Oh, that's good.
I need to go watch the new episodes.
I really need to go watch the new
episodes.
That is so good.
That may be the funniest thing I've seen
on TV all year.
Yeah.
That is outstanding.
I'm trying not to just,
I'm trying to hold it.
I'm trying to hold it together.
I was laughing so hard yesterday.
My abs hurt.
It was fantastic.
Um, my cheeky little laugh.
Thanks, Jake.
Um, well, I laughed a lot yesterday.
I posted a thing.
If you only knew what happened after the
show,
we're going to quickly tell you what
happened after the show yesterday.
Let's get the quick recap going on.
Let's get the,
we want to bring Vicki in.
You actually want to bring Vicki in so
she can, she can try to defend herself.
No, cause there's no, no, no.
No,
we're not going to let her speak because
we were there.
We witnessed it.
So I said to Corey that my wife
and I are thinking about coming to New
Orleans for our thirtieth wedding
anniversary as part of a tour that we're
going to do because she wants to see
New Orleans.
And a lot of conversation happened in the
middle there.
But then Vicki said.
Vicki said,
make sure you go to that hotel that
serves breakfast, brunch.
Brunch.
The historic hotel.
The historic hotel that serves brunch.
And Corey's like,
every hotel in New Orleans is a historic
hotel that serves brunch.
So all of them.
And Vicki keeps going, you know the one.
The one that serves brunch.
And it has the ducks.
And then Corey's going, the ducks?
What the hell are you talking about,
the ducks?
I don't know a single hotel that serves
brunch with ducks.
Never.
We eat ducks.
Yeah, I said we eat ducks.
But you can get ducks served to you.
And she was like, you know,
the chef comes in and they bring ducks
inside and it goes into the – never
in my life heard about it.
Turns out Vicky is frantically typing on
her keyboard to prove us wrong.
She goes, it's the Peabody Hotel.
And Corey's like,
I don't know a Peabody Hotel.
And Vicky goes, it's in Memphis.
It's in Memphis.
Damn it.
I don't know if y'all notice or not.
This isn't going to be a spoiler alert
to some people, but Memphis from my house,
my house is forty five minutes from New
Orleans.
Memphis from my house is about six and
a half hours away.
If they're bringing ducks from Memphis to
New Orleans every single day,
that's dedication.
I'm just just throwing it out there.
Oh.
anyway people dog my wife for wanting to
go to new orleans she is an interior
designer who studied architecture she
wants to go see the architecture of the
buildings there that's why she wants to go
we're not there to drink and party and
all the no the whatnot we are there
for like architecture and maybe a beignet
at the cafe dumont and i'm gonna make
him a gumbo uh you know the ducks
now make sense
Some stuff you got to wait for, Mark.
Some stuff you got to wait for.
Yeah.
Jody's.
Tell her to Google pictures.
Just go tell Julie.
Hey, Jules.
We talked about you wanting to go to
New Orleans on the show today and the
chat said you should just use Google
because it would be just like being there.
Listen, it's our,
it's our thirtieth anniversary.
If she wants to go to New Orleans,
we're going to New Orleans.
And hey,
if I can stop by and see Corey
in person.
Absolutely.
And get a little gumbo out of the
deal.
I'll have dinner waiting.
But anyway, with that, guys.
Hold on, one last thing.
Patrick Clark, this is about the same,
this is about the same thing.
Go to the Voodoo Museum.
Which one?
Anyway, let's go.
What is more plentiful?
Historic hotels that serve brunch or
voodoo museums?
That's about what and what.
Most of the historic hotels have voodoo
museums inside.
The ones that aren't haunted.
And guess what?
They're all haunted.
Guys, my abs.
I'm going to have washboard abs from all
the laughing I've done this week.
Scott's going to be like,
I woke up yesterday and I had to
do a figure competition from all the
laughing that we did.
Andrew Sten has a recommendation.
Go to that place that sells pro boys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Or that place that sells jambalaya.
Yeah.
That's the one spot.
Honestly,
there's really only like one or two.
Good night.
All right, people, we got to go.
I'm hungry.
All right, take us out.
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
room to jazz me up.
I'm already jazzy.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
Midday motivation every time we press
call.
Lunch with the Clydesdale,
cowboy ring the heat.
CrossFit movies, music on repeat.
Half hour hustle, yeah,
we building that brand.
Grab a plate, shoot it,
now you're part of the fam.
Yeah.