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what's going on everybody it
is lunchtime lunch with the
Clydesdale here on a
Thursday afternoon what's
going on Ken Walters just I
think it's just you and I
it's a song by Crystal Gale
and Eddie Rabbit from the
eighties just you and I
Now we got Corey.
So there we go.
It's not just you and I anymore.
There we go.
Got to do my dart throw.
I'm going to do it open
instead of at the close
because close I always miss terribly.
Dang it.
One of these times I'm going
to hit a bullseye.
I got a... I think I just realized...
think I just realized my
dart board is um spun it is
not configured correctly
because I just hit a triple
twenty and um twenty should
be at the top not kind of
side wickered anyway ken is
having uh rudd russets and elk
Elk is one of my favorite
things in the world to eat.
When I was out in Montana with my daughter,
the Fuddruckers even served elk like,
oh my gosh.
And there's no Fuddruckers
left in Columbus.
They've all closed down.
And, uh, so we went,
we were out in Montana and
when I saw elk on the menu, so stoked,
it is just the best.
So enjoy that today, Ken.
I had a Bear Bells salty
peanut protein bar about an hour ago.
My schedule's way off with
getting my wife up and around,
and I'm back to work today,
getting ready to launch a
new project in a few weeks.
So getting some of the
prelim talks done today, but yeah.
Speaking of my daughter in Montana,
we got a call last night
that she got moved into her new place.
So she has her own space now.
She has an apartment.
She mentioned at work that
it came open and three of
her coworkers with pickup
trucks showed up at the
U-Haul storage facility.
They loaded all of her stuff
up into three trucks in one trip.
took them over and unloaded
everything into her apartment.
And she got to sleep in the
apartment last night.
So good to have friends with
pickup trucks.
And that was awesome for her.
She said it was the best
night's sleep she's had in three weeks.
And so that was awesome that
she actually has her own space.
And the best part is you go
out onto the balcony of her
apartment and you can sing, you can sing.
you can see the rocky
mountains uh it's a
beautiful view from where
she's at it is uh is so
cool it's the best place
she's lived in since she
left this house her college
apartments were trash her
apartments in pittsburgh
were not much better and
now she's in a really nice apartment so
Uh, Meredith,
he had debt props to the
coworkers for having her back.
She's only been there a week and a half.
Um,
so I guess she's making an impression
that they were willing to help.
Uh, pretty crazy.
Ken says, check out Buffalo gal online.
She's in Minnesota elk, wild boar, bison,
venison order from her
until the son-in-law starts
hunting seasons in fall.
Yeah, there you go.
There you go.
I will check her out for sure.
A couple of things I wanted
to touch on today.
We're going to be all over
the map a little bit today,
but I saw this,
I saw this thing that Sam Briggs posted.
I had to share it because it's like that,
that unanswered question
that's always been out there.
And, and she finally answers it.
and so I'm going to share my
screen and we'll take a
look at her post so you can
see in this picture this is
from I think the sixteen
games um when sam overtook
brent on the trail run
And a lot of people asked
why she did it because she
was already winning the women's side.
There was no advantage to doing that.
And she says that she was
recording a podcast
yesterday and the old
Fikowski takeover got brought up.
I've been asked numerous
times after why I fought to
overtake him when I didn't need to.
Well, here is the answer.
Simple.
I did need to.
And Fikowski has Rich
Froning to thank for it.
And during the two thousand
fourteen champions open announcement,
I led for most of the workout.
But during the closing rounds,
Rich was catching up.
The voice inside my head was
telling me we're hurting enough.
I don't need to beat Rich.
I just have to stay ahead of Annie.
And I listened to that voice
and didn't try to push and
stay ahead of him.
Ever since that workout,
I always wondered if I had
enough energy left in the
tank to beat him.
But now we'll never know.
So when I saw Fikowski in my sights,
it didn't matter that we
weren't in direct competition.
I had no choice.
I had to see if I could pass him.
Moral of the story,
if you ever get the chance
to beat Rich Froning in a workout,
you take it.
And Fikowski actually comments,
you definitely passed me fair and square.
I was in a rough place and
couldn't have held you off
even if I wanted to.
But I made sure Tia and
Christy didn't get me the next year.
And Rich Froning chimes in,
I always thought you let me.
So I thought that was pretty cool.
It's one of those infamous
moments in CrossFit Games
lore that Sam Briggs took
that opportunity to pass
Fikowski on the final, what,
couple hundred meters of the trail run.
And now we know the whole story behind it,
that it actually was something burning
in her from when she
basically let rich froning
overtake her in an open
announcement and um and it
was never gonna let that
happen again uh so I
thought that was pretty
cool and then the fact that
rich chimed in to say that
I always thought uh that
she let him beat her in that event
Cause I can't imagine Sam
letting anybody win,
but there we have it
straight from her mouth.
She did that back then and
has had a hard time living with that.
So there you have it.
Pretty cool.
A fun little story to read today.
When I was looking through my Instagram.
Um, so Ken Walters, I know,
I know I have a story for everything.
My strength coach,
Will Griffin beat rich and
Angelo in a team event at
the big Texas event last year.
He put it on our PR board.
There you go.
There you go.
Um, yeah,
rich has a team that always comes
up to fresh coast, uh, up where Jamie, uh,
lives in Detroit.
It's actually, uh,
about an hour away on Lake
Michigan and they compete on the beach.
And, uh,
I don't think they win every event, um,
every year, but they,
they come him and Dan Bailey.
And, um, I think it was, uh,
who was with them.
They're three person teams.
It's one of his cousins from Michigan.
We're up there.
And they did that event.
And then Mayhem brought
another team with Ben.
And I think I'm just having
a brain fart today.
Again,
the guy who does the merchandise for
them and the graphics.
Can't think of it.
the top of my head anyway it
was fun seeing them up
there uh working out and uh
as I was capturing some of
that event live um it was
cool seeing them do that
with the community pretty
cool um one other thing I'm
going to touch on real
quick uh to just kind of
back up what we talked
about yesterday and that is
uh this was posted hillary shared it
It was actually, let me share the screen.
I don't know if you guys have seen this.
We'll crank this up a little bit.
Your fitness videos being
scrutinized by a YouTuber
that's compensating for
never qualifying for the CrossFit Games.
Are you tired of the
CrossFit community
attacking your movement
patterns because you still
don't understand how to do
a burpee correctly?
Then maybe you should
consider finding a real coach,
a coach that holds you accountable,
a coach that'll tell you the truth,
even if it hurts.
We might just know a guy.
How cool is that?
What an answer to everybody
saying that the athletes
are in a tough position
getting judged by everybody
in the community right
after they spent their
energy hard at work over
the weekend as a professional athlete.
And I love that Marco used
that as a marketing thing
for his coaching.
That was awesome.
But I still can't get over
the fact that people are
butthurt about this.
Every professional sport has this.
And Corey and I were talking
after we went off the air yesterday.
Like,
look at divers and figure skaters and
gymnasts.
They get judged every event
right after the event, live on TV,
live in the arena.
People hold up cards about
how good or bad you've done
during that event.
And so many of these
athletes come from the
gymnastics background.
Why is it such a surprise
that people are actually
going to judge you?
Jason Bourne, they get to do CrossFit.
They don't have to.
Exactly.
When you sign up to be a
professional athlete and
you're in the public's eyes,
whether it be a big
spotlight like the NFL or a
smaller spotlight like the
CrossFit community,
you are going to get judged
in everything that you do.
People are going to pick
who's going to win.
People are going to say
you're better at this event.
This is an event that's tough for you.
Analysis is going to happen all the time.
But there is a standard.
There is a standard out
there that you are supposed to follow.
And when you don't follow that standard,
it makes the sport not fair for everyone.
And to make a sport real and
to make it legit,
it has to be a fair playing
field for everyone on the
on the floor everyone has
the same chance to win not
that this person has to go
below parallel this person
can go three inches above
parallel it's not a fair
equitable field for them to
compete in and when you're
online the only way to
determine if that has
happened is through a video
review it's so it's so dumb
Ken Walter says, yeah,
and even the all-star game
slam dunk competition.
They get the scores right after.
I would say that that was
not a fair and equitable
judging during the eighties.
When the slam dunk contest
was at its peak and you had
Dominique Wilkins and Spud
Webb and Michael Jordan and
all those guys competing, man,
the judging was sus at best back then.
But anyway, that's that.
So we're going to talk about
a few other things today.
I watched,
I talked yesterday that I
watched Tia's video.
I'll tell you,
it takes a lot for me to
watch a Tia video.
Her content is not my
favorite on the planet.
It may be others, they love her to death.
She is the greatest athlete
we have ever seen in this sport,
but her content does not
live up to what she is as an athlete.
And so I saw clips of her
getting her hairdo getting
compared to Tim Paulson's hairdo,
which is really funny.
And some stuff about her and
Colton shit talking, which in the video,
the full video, it never amounts to much.
Colton says he's saving his
shit talking for the competition season,
not for an exhibition with Tia.
And he chuckles a little bit.
And he's not in the video a lot.
I know that Kenneth Lapp
said yesterday that there
wasn't enough Colton in it.
And there really wasn't a lot.
She's also asked why she's
not competing in the
in-person semifinal or the
in-affiliate semifinal.
And she says that she actually needed...
to have something to train
for and to train hard for.
And so she's putting
everything into the Torian
as her big event.
She doesn't mention the games.
She doesn't mention if she's
going to go to the games,
if she gets an invite.
Those are all those
speculation things that
have been swirling out there.
And she does nothing to clarify it,
which is a little bit
aggravating because...
she put that last video out
making everybody think that
Torian was going to be it.
And she's done nothing to
clarify anything that came
out after that.
And in this video,
they talk about Torian again.
And again, she does,
she talks about nothing
after Torian and what her
decision will be, uh, following that.
So found that, um,
somewhat interesting I guess
is a word for it um but I I
just am tired of the games
everything is this like
cloak and dagger with her
and she doesn't really say
anything um to give us any
direction as to what where
her career is going to go
And she doesn't owe us that
or anything like that.
If you're going to put it
out there in a coded way,
explain yourself at some
point so we actually know what you said.
So there it is.
Ken says,
at least she's consistent since
her original retirement announcement.
I guess.
Yep.
consistently shady not not
shady in a bad way but just
cloak and dagger never
really giving you the full
story or the full
understanding as to what
all of that means I also um
this is the video review
process of the show.
I watched the behind the
scenes part one of the
world fitness project.
Um, what I'll say is it was short.
It was cute.
Um, I enjoyed it a little bit.
Um, but again,
like I think it lacks some storytelling.
Everything was super quick hitter in that.
Um,
there's a part in there.
So basically what it is,
it's people arriving in Indianapolis,
getting their new jackets,
getting the new t-shirts,
doing some media stuff.
And then they go to the Indy
Motor Speedway where they
meet up with some IndyCar drivers.
And this is all athletes.
They hop in a car,
get driven around the track a little bit.
I didn't,
I think that is cool,
but you're not telling me
how fast they're being
driven around the track.
You don't see any real reactions to them,
like getting scared of the
speed or anything like that.
Those are things I would
like to know or see as
they're doing that.
They did get like
autographed milk bottles.
And if you've ever watched
the Indy five hundred,
the winner chugs milk at the end of it.
And they all the driver
signed milk jugs for them.
to take back with them.
And that was kind of cool.
But then there's a part
where they actually are
talking about or showing
the community events where
they teamed up with local gyms,
showed up and coached classes, did Q&As,
all of that stuff.
That's where I thought the
meat on the bone was that I
really wanted to see.
This is stuff that's been
explained to us as things
that they want to do to
kind of differentiate themselves.
And to me, it was too short.
I wanted to see them working
with the athletes.
They showed a little bit of the Q&A,
but not a whole lot of it.
And I think that would have
helped understand what
their goal is with this
community event or community events.
They did a couple of them to
see what it is they're
doing to reach out and
connect and become a part
of the community.
Because they don't have an
established affiliate system,
they have to create their
own community now.
And I wanted to see how they
were doing that.
You hear them talk about it.
You hear Saxon and Will talk about it.
I wanted to see it in action.
And it was really short in that area.
They did show the facility.
It is massive.
They showed the turf being laid.
They were getting ready to
lay the rubber mats and put up the rig.
It looks like there's a full
lighting rig that's going
to be floating above it.
So it's going to be more of like a,
from my guess, with what I saw,
like a Wadapalooza light
show as it's going on.
Rogue kind of leaned in that
direction in Scotland.
I think that it's going to
be more that that we're
going to see this weekend
as opposed to like the
conventional semifinal or regional setup.
So that's going to be interesting to see.
I would a fitness rave.
That's it, Corey.
It's going to be a fitness rave.
Yeah.
T-Bird says,
I really enjoyed the behind
the scenes video just released.
I enjoyed the video.
I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it,
but I want more storytelling.
There's this aspect about
community outreach that
they keep talking about
that I want to understand more.
And they showed it so
briefly in this behind the scenes.
I just wanted more of that
meat from the bone than
maybe the athletes going
and riding in a car fast.
that's just me personally um
I want to understand it
better so I can talk about
it better and and just
understand what's going on
I want to I want to gauge your
opinions.
They,
they got these new like leather
varsity jackets with the
WFP logo on the back and their name.
And I'm just curious, like, is that,
is that cool now?
Because I come from the era
of Seinfeld where putty put
that on the eight,
the magic eight ball and
like got made fun of with
the leather varsity jacket kind of thing.
I think it looks kind of cool.
Um, but in my head,
I have that whole thing going on.
And so I'm having a hard time figuring out,
is it really cool or is it just, um,
I don't know.
The athletes seem to be enjoying it.
And again, I'm I am not,
I am not the hippest guy in the world.
So I just trying to figure
out whether it's cool or not.
And,
Everything old is new against us, Corey.
And Ken says,
I think those look awesome in
black and white.
Ken says putties was even
bad for the eighties.
Okay.
Touche.
Touche.
Um, so there we go.
Uh, but yeah, overall it was a good video.
It's, it's not real long.
It's super short.
The behind the scenes.
Um, if you want to watch it, it's a quick,
quick watch.
Uh, again,
I just wanted more of that
community outreach piece.
And there's, there's,
there's so many like
elements like Saxon looking
at this sign that they
designed about the
community and what it means
and what are the different aspects of it.
But then they don't really
talk about what those aspects are.
And then they go to gyms and
they're doing workouts with the community,
but it's super short.
And you don't like,
I wanted to see them like
coaching the athletes,
talking to the athletes.
They show a little bit of a Q and a,
I just wanted a little bit more.
That's it.
So, um, but it's, it's a,
it's a good watch.
Just not, I just wanted a little bit more.
T-Bird says maybe they'll
release a longer form behind the scenes.
What says BTS one?
So I'm assuming there's
going to be a BTS two and
three and maybe some behind
the scenes of the actual
competition weekend.
That would be cool.
So, yeah, I don't know.
Ken says putties fur coat
wasn't much better.
No, no.
And his face paint at the
Devils game was absurd.
Jay Burch,
the PRCA gives out those to
competitors who make the
finals and have for years.
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
So those leather jackets are like a trophy,
I'm assuming, for those people there.
What I couldn't tell from
the behind the scenes is,
did just the twenty
contracted athletes get it?
because I didn't see any
that said like Sagafi or
some of the challengers
that had advanced.
I didn't see their leather jackets.
I saw them in the t-shirts,
but not the leather jackets.
It appeared like just the
twenty pro card athletes
got the leather jackets,
and I could be mistaken.
I was just trying to
I was just trying to figure
out if the challengers got
it as well because they qualified.
Ken says, now I have a hockey bias.
I did like the devil's face paint episode.
Love the episode,
but the paint job was absurd.
Tiber says, I think they are great.
Speaking of the videos, something unique.
I think they have the
potential to be super great.
The Laura Horvath one, I will go on and on,
is one of the best
storytelling episodes of anything.
CrossFit, WFP, whatever.
One of the best episodes
I've seen in a very long time.
Uh, Corey,
Patrick Warburton is a hilarious
as an actor, dude.
I've, I've loved him since Seinfeld.
And when he played the tick, uh,
loved the old tick episodes.
He was so awesome in that.
A T bird think these are for
quick turnaround again.
Hopefully there'll be
something released after.
I would bet Colton doesn't
wear the WFP coat auctioned for charity.
I don't know.
I kind of have a thing about that too.
And I don't know.
I don't know.
I was thinking about saving
this for tomorrow.
I don't understand why
people are refusing to even
mention WFP's name when
they're talking about the
fitness space as a whole,
the competition fitness space.
To ignore them is stupid.
They exist.
They are affecting the season.
You cannot talk about the
season without talking about them,
whether you like them, love them,
hate them, disagree with them,
whatever it is.
You cannot,
you cannot talk about the
season without
acknowledging that they exist.
And all these people on shows,
like when WFP comes up, they're like,
I never heard of them.
Oh, don't know who that is.
It's just dumb.
You cannot do your part as
an analyst if you don't
acknowledge they are having
an impact on the season.
And when I look at,
and I was going to pull up
the French throwdown lineup,
and you look at WFP this weekend,
one of these two elements,
or one of these two events,
is going to be better to
watch than the other, in my opinion.
And it's probably not the
French throwdown.
I was watching Beyond the
Whiteboard yesterday,
and I heard Chase...
try to act like the wfp
didn't exist and I just I
don't understand it uh jay
birch I always acknowledge
when a rattlesnake is in
the room yeah competition
is a good thing competition
makes everybody better
And you shouldn't be afraid from it.
If you are confident in what you are doing,
you should move forward
with what you want to do
and be confident that you
are just better than the other person.
Jason Bourne, I agree.
It's like being a petulant child.
I mentioned WFP at a workout
recently and someone said,
you know about Women for Peace?
Yes.
I did not know about Women for Peace.
But that is just driving me crazy.
And I know, like,
Hiller is refusing to talk about it.
And I think it's a protest
that he doesn't believe
they're telling us enough
about what's going on.
But regardless of that,
they are impacting the season.
If you are talking about the
fitness space as a whole,
you have to talk about the WFP.
Because...
They're happening this weekend.
TFX is happening next weekend.
And whatever happens this
weekend at WFP is surely
going to affect what
happens next week at TFX.
The Europeans that are
choosing to do WFP this
weekend and not going to
the French throwdown where
there is nobody in the lineup...
not nobody,
but there's very little in the
lineup and actually a good
shot at qualifying at French Throwdown,
you're basically throwing
away your games ticket by going to WFP.
And that needs to be talked about.
Because Wadland Fest is over.
The in-affiliate semifinal is over.
If you didn't qualify in those,
and the only thing left in
Europe is French Lowdown,
which is this weekend,
and you're choosing to go to WFP,
you're basically handing in your ticket.
Unless you think you can
qualify in the last chance qualifier.
Or you're going to fly to the U.S.
or fly to Torian or fly to
one of these other
competitions to compete.
So let's take a look.
Ken says,
that just tells you how much
guaranteed money WFP
athletes are getting.
They don't all care about
the games anymore.
I wouldn't say they, yeah, I don't know.
I need to think on that a little bit more.
but let's look at the French throwdown.
Um, and this is the leaderboard.
Um, and this is the men's division.
There are names on here.
I know Brianna Guillaume.
I know,
I know Bronislaw Alinkowitz and
Callum Clements.
Uh,
Enrico Zanoni has already has his spot.
Maybe, uh,
Now, if he qualifies here,
then one spot will move up
on the leaderboard on the in-affiliate.
George's Kervis.
Luke Parker.
Moritz Fiebig, who already has his ticket.
Yep.
Any names, anybody?
Ola Supanix.
It is not a stacked field by
any stretch of the imagination.
So this is your lineup for
the men at the French Throwdown.
I'll do my picks tomorrow for that.
On the elite side, again...
Andra Moistus almost qualified, I think,
at Wadland Fest and then
fell off at the end.
Claudia Gluck.
Lisa Fuliano, we already know,
is not competing this year.
Emily Lundberg.
Karen Frey is not competing this year.
Lucy McGonigal, Miriam Von Rohrer,
and Taylor Howe.
It is not,
not at all a stacked field on
either side.
And there are going to be
four tickets coming from
this competition.
Four tickets.
That is insane.
And there's already people
here who have either
qualified or did not do the Open.
So it's going to mess up the
leaderboard a little bit to
try to figure out who's going.
But, yeah,
I see people saying Braun could
actually qualify again.
There's Jay Burch.
Braun could qualify again.
Luke Parker for the win.
It is entirely possible.
Now, I don't know.
So my question to you all is,
do you watch this,
the French throwdown with these athletes,
or do you watch the WFP
where you get to see Jeffrey Adler,
Dallin, Jason Hopper, Colton Mertens,
and the names go on and on and on.
And on the women's side,
you get to see Ariel, you see Emily,
you get to see Laura Horvat,
you get to see...
Emma Lawson, you get to see Alexis Raptus,
all of those.
It just seems absurd that
you're not going to at
least give the WFP a chance.
One, just out of curiosity,
I want to see what they're going to do.
I want to see what it's
going to look like.
And all honesty,
they have a stacked field
that I'm going to know
everybody in that field,
and I'm going to have a rooting interest.
And I will admit my Europe
knowledge on athletes is not that strong.
But I know a handful of
people on the men's side
and a handful on the women's side.
And it's going to be a lot
harder to root for all of
those other heats other
than the main heat in that one.
So...
Yeah.
I mean, technically,
I'll be watching both.
I'm going to see what's
going on at both so I can
talk about it on Sunday night.
But, yeah.
But I'm more curious about
the WFP to see what is new,
what is different, or are they just, like,
revamping what's been done?
Yeah.
I see what else is here.
I'm watching WFP.
Not so much athletes except Colton,
but to see how this new
circus monkey works.
Yeah.
And who knows?
They may put on a great show.
We don't know.
We don't know until we see it.
Corey says,
I'll probably watch some WTF
this weekend out of sheer curiosity.
I think it's more than curiosity.
I've gotten to know these
athletes over the time I've
been doing the media and
judging and security.
I want to see these athletes
and what they're going to do.
None of the semifinals will
match the field of what's
going to happen at WFP.
And I want to see what that is.
T-Bird, I'll be watching both.
I mean,
I'll be watching both so I can
report out on everything on Sunday night.
But I will tell you,
I'm more excited to watch
WFP this weekend just
because I want to see what they're doing.
And are they bringing
innovation and new stuff to the table?
That's what I want to see.
For sure.
The last thing I want to talk about,
and I'll get into it more
tomorrow because I'm running out of time.
And that is,
did anybody else watch the
spin last night?
Because when John did the Games Mountain,
I really had a hard time with it.
His obsession with Austin
Hatfield has gotten out of control.
And what I mean by that is
to make him the top of the mountain,
the guy won mayhem.
And other than that has
never won an event at all.
And he has him at the top of the mountain.
And he made the statement
that Jeff Adler has never
beaten at Austin in the last two years.
And, um,
Who else was it?
And Dallin has never beaten
Austin in the last two years.
And James Sprague has never
beaten Austin in the last two years.
Jay Burch, Crash is great.
Great competition.
It is not Rogue,
which Jeff Adler won and
took second in the year before that.
It is not the North or the
East North America East semifinal,
which Jeff Adler won and
Austin Hatfield finished seventh.
I think James Sprague won the games.
Jeff Adler won the games two years ago.
All of those things are
bigger accomplishments than
what Austin Hatfield has done so far.
I think that Austin is talented.
I think that he has a shot to make a move.
But how the hell can you put
him at the top of your
mountain when he has not
done anything to prove that
he belongs there without
going up against the Adlers
and the Dallin Peppers of the world?
It is...
It just is insanity to me.
Like, has John lost his marbles?
Has he fell in love so much
with Austin Hatfield that
everything else be damned?
He's going to be at the top
of my mountain.
And it doesn't matter that
Jeff Adler has won a ton of
shit since then or that
Dallin Pepper beat him at
the games last year.
I mean, come on.
Come on.
T-Bird, completely agree.
Just giving the John Young perspective.
I mean, I watch the spin every week.
And it's just stuff like
this that makes me shake my head.
I actually watch it as I'm going to bed,
as I'm getting ready for bed,
and I lay down,
and literally this made me
pop up out of bed and scream at the TV.
Are you kidding me?
Yep,
and he is the senior analyst in the
CrossFit space.
Uh, so anyway,
just had to get that off my chest.
Today was a get things off
of Scott's chest day.
Um,
Jody Lynn's still haven't watched the
spin.
That's okay.
Cause you watch me.
And if there's something important,
I'm going to tell you, uh, what, uh,
Adler would have smoked
Hatfield at mayhem.
look what Adler did in the
online qualifier.
He smoked everybody.
Now I get it.
Hatfield and Mertens didn't compete,
but he had Colton like up
on tier three and he's
never finished above ninth.
Nineteenth at the games.
Like we've lost some sense
of reality in this whole thing.
Um,
Lunch rant.
There we go.
Lunch riff, Jody.
It's always a riff for me.
I always like to be just a
little bit different.
The spin is fun to watch
just on at a bad time for
me to watch live.
That's usually family night.
I actually never, ever watched.
I very rarely do I watch the spin live.
And
I always watch it going to
bed so it is it's probably
two or three hours after
they go off the air I start
watching it um but yeah I
stand up and I stood up in
bed last night like what
the hell are you talking
about john young but
Atlanta is WFP being live streamed.
It is.
It is going to be a full
production live stream.
They're adding bells and
whistles that we don't know
all the details of,
but it's on their website.
It's not going to be on YouTube.
So you have to go to the
worldfitnessproject.com to see.
You have to go to their website to see it.
But they're using AI to do
like six or seven different languages.
And they're doing other
bells and whistles that
YouTube will not allow for them to do.
So they're taking a risk
because YouTube is such...
the is the place where
everybody goes to for
crossfit content and it's a
the number two search
engine in the world and I
think they're going to be
missing out on viewers
because they're not there
with things popping up to
them but they wanted to um
they wanted to do something
new and different and see
if that made a difference
uh and it will then the
replay will be available on
youtube after the fact
And they didn't say how long
after the fact,
I don't know if it's like right after,
or if it's like the following week,
we don't know, but we'll see.
Um, we'll see sometime.
Uh,
Jake says some people get phased out at
in-person comps.
I agree.
Um,
I also think Jay Crouch
should be higher than Hatfield.
He did extremely good in the
online semis as well.
And he's done well at the
games the last couple years.
A couple top ten finishes.
So he's doing it in person and online.
Ken, I don't know what this means.
I didn't get to hear Savon this morning.
So I have been off nicotine
for a very long time.
Uh, so they're taking on YouTube too.
Now they are.
Yeah, they are.
They're not competing.
They're just taking them on.
Uh,
doing something new for new sake is
silly when you're just starting out.
I think if you have enough
money to like throw a bet at the wall,
then fine.
Do it.
But just don't do it in a
way that takes away your
stability to keep going.
If the bells and whistles are cool enough,
then fine.
Like when Rogue added the
camera that I could move
around and see whoever I
wanted on the stream,
that was a bet that I would
pay the twenty five dollars
every time Rogue puts it
out there to watch that way.
So.
there are bets worth it and
there are bets not worth it.
Um,
I don't know what those bells and
whistles are cause they're
not telling us.
So until I see it,
I don't know if it's worth the gamble.
So of course there's also,
what could they possibly be
doing that YouTube doesn't allow?
Um,
That's what Rogue did.
Rogue's special broadcast
that you pay for is not on YouTube.
It is on their website.
And that allowed you to move
the camera to different lanes.
It allowed you like four
different or five different angles.
It allowed you to hear an
alternate broadcast from a
desk show as opposed to
Sean and Adrian on the broadcast.
So...
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it could be worth it.
Jake says,
I have no idea who came where at
the games.
All I know is Philip Kelly
went and was sensational in
his shorts in the stands there.
Whatever helps you out, buddy.
T-Bird is twenty three days
away from being smoke free for a year.
Nice job.
Good for you, T-Bird.
T-Bird heart heart.
It allows them to do live
interpretation using eye.
I know that is the one bell and whistle,
but they actually said
there was more to it than that,
but they didn't dive into
what those things were.
I am hoping that it allows
some interactivity that you
can look at different camera angles,
things like that, like Rogue did.
Hopefully they reached out
to Rogue and said,
what did you do with your
broadcast that made it so special?
Maybe we'll take some of
that stuff over here.
I'm excited to see what that is,
but we won't be able to do
that until tomorrow afternoon.
So tomorrow we'll be back on the show.
We will.
I will make my picks for who
I think will podium at the WFP.
I'll make my picks for who I
think will get their
tickets at the French throwdown and, um,
and whatever else pops up
in the world of news and
fitness in the space.
We'll do that then.
But it's my first day back
to work after my wife's
surgery and I need to get back.
So it's time to get back to work.
You knuckleheads.
We are out of here.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Bye guys.