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That was very Broadway-esque.
I don't even know what it was, dude.
It is lack of sleep sing.
That's what that is.
I slept about nine hours last night,
which is like at least two hours more
than I normally would,
and that's at a minimum.
I slept probably eight last night,
like a good eight sleep,
but I'm making up for lost time.
Oh, yeah, I bet.
I absolutely bet.
But you know what helped me with my
eight-hour sleep?
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a little bit of water, shake it up,
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what doesn't thirdsy doesn't stop thirdsy
doesn't stop me singing our theme song at
three o'clock in the morning every time i
get up to pee
Oh, yeah, a hundred percent.
It hits me randomly during the day, dude.
It hits me randomly during the day.
If I hear something like my Generation X,
you know, word association brain, because,
you know,
we used to play word association games all
the time.
I'll hit something like it doesn't even,
it's just one word from the song and
all of a sudden I'm,
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
One of our dudes in our EMOM group
has signed up in the Clydesdale division
for a triathlon.
And as soon as he put that in
the group,
I sang the entire song to myself.
Yeah.
Well,
there's nothing like singing a cowboy in
the saddle as you're peeing.
As you're peeing.
That's fantastic.
This may be proof that this song is
better than the Sunday song.
I don't disagree with that.
I don't.
It's a lot easier with just the two
of us.
One of us is Clydesdale.
One's a cowboy.
They just go together.
It's easier to make a song about a
horse and a cowboy than it is about
a hockey player, a gritty athlete,
gritty Masters athlete,
and a dude that talks a lot.
Yeah.
Right?
A hundred percent.
So it just is what it is, man.
It's fine.
Meg got nine hours,
didn't even know it was eight thirty when
she woke up.
dude that's so I flew home yesterday and
the Kansas City Airport is a solid thirty
five minutes from Kansas like it's out in
the middle of nowhere at this point flight
was at six fifteen and I am the
not the get at get to the airport
at the last minute and hope for the
best guy like I'm not doing that so
I woke up at three o'clock in the
morning
Got my stuff together, loaded up,
rolled out.
Had to stop with gas in the rental
before I dropped it off.
Like all of the all that shit.
And got a little bit of sleep on
the plane.
Got a little got more on the second
on the second flight, dude.
So you tell people this because it's
incredible.
So Southwest does assigned seating now,
right?
Like that's a thing now.
And whenever you, like I had,
we used points and I just,
I was like,
I don't really care where I sit.
There's nobody else coming with me.
If I'm in the middle seat, whatever.
Both flights there, sat in the middle.
First flight home, sat in the middle.
Second flight home was on a window seat
in the very first aisle.
Which has not happened since I came home
from basic training or was going back to
actually basic training in my travel
attire for the army.
And they were like, oh,
we're going to upgrade you to, you know,
whatever, just because I was in uniform.
FYI, more leg room for one.
Not that I need a whole lot of
leg room, but still, it's not the point.
I could stretch my legs out a little
bit and had that nice, just like,
I'm just going to sleep my head up
against this window.
And that was completely random.
It wasn't even a thing.
So I actually got a deal on my
trip home where I could upgrade for one
hundred and twelve dollars to first class.
What?
Yes.
Here is my hundred and twelve dollars.
And you get free checked bags when you
upgrade to first class.
So take the forty five dollar bag fee
off.
Sixty bucks.
First class.
I'm flying overnight.
I just want to sleep.
Well worth it.
Well worth it.
That's awesome.
However, people are rude.
I was in the first seat on my
last from Minneapolis to Columbus.
Guy beside me has like a whole mining
outfit that he's got to get down from
the overhead.
Yeah.
Helmet, lamp.
All the things.
Yeah.
And he,
he comes down and then I go to
get up and move.
And all these people like dark past me
to get off the plane.
And about the fourth one went by and
I'm like, F this.
And I threw an elbow and a shoulder
and,
Let's go.
I'm getting off the plane.
Yeah.
People are so – people are incredible.
Sometimes it's good.
Sometimes it's bad.
Usually on flights, it's pretty bad.
I will say that.
The six-foot-plus guy walking in seeing
Corey in his seat, it was probably livid.
So a couple sat next to me on
that flight, like from Chicago back to,
back to New Orleans.
And the dude that was on the aisle
was, is probably six foot three,
six foot four.
I have never seen somebody sleep so
comfortably sitting up in my entire life.
His wife sat down,
he sat down and within five minutes he
was out completely and just
like that the entire time when we landed
i was uh talking to his wife for
a second and i said and he woke
up and you know you live here blah
blah whatever and they were coming in to
visit and i said man i admire your
ability to just sleep sitting up that was
i was actually pretty awe-inspiring to
watch well um i did see uh ken
walters in here where's that at
Where the hell were you hiding all week?
I met and saw everyone and anyone but
you.
Here's the crazy thing, Ken.
First of all,
I spent the first couple days at the
Masters games.
So I was not even at the SAP
Center or anything around the SAP Center.
And I met a ton of people at
the Masters games.
Met a lot of people that listened,
took selfies, did the whole bit, right?
Saw David Johnston,
who's in the chat there.
Saw him out there giving it his all.
us hung out with Shanna Bunce this
weekend.
Um, really great time.
So then we get over to the SAP
center for Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
and the media room and the media seats
were down by the rig and to get
to like any place other than it,
we were just,
we were in a really nice room with
a lot of accommodations other than
outlets.
Um,
To get up and around to anybody was
hard because we were at a level where
you couldn't go to another level without
going out to the seats and getting up
and around.
It was just weird.
And just for mirror's lice.
But did you get pocket tacos?
I did not get pocket tacos.
I didn't.
So I finally got up on Sunday,
and I just started walking around the
arena.
And I went out,
and I went to Vendor Village,
and I walked around Vendor Village.
I didn't see a damn soul.
Really?
I bet you I made two laps of
the upper deck.
It wasn't upper deck.
It's how you get down to the lower
seats, but the concourse around it.
And I made two,
three laps around Vendor Village on Sunday
at different times.
Didn't see a soul.
Damn.
Cause there was a big gap between the
machine thing in the morning,
then all the teams and then the
individuals finishing off the afternoon.
And so I got to meet Jason born
this weekend.
Outstanding human being.
Big shout out to him.
Also got to meet Mr.
Peter Benoit right there from the chat,
who is eight hundred feet tall.
FYI, very, very fit dude.
He was competing this weekend.
Me and him chatted Sunday for probably
thirty five minutes standing there in the
middle of in the village,
just talking about all the things that had
happened.
Awesome dude.
Who else?
Who else?
Who else?
If you may have seen him around,
AutisticHiller in the chat.
I met that guy this weekend.
I don't know if he's necessarily in ours
or hold out.
Yes, he was.
Talk to that dude.
Another thirty five,
forty minutes on Friday, I believe it was.
Another great human being and just some
other people that I see on a regular
basis whenever I go
Incompete.
So shout out to all of those people.
Shout out to my girl Toya for keeping
me in her basement all weekend.
Can't thank them enough, dude.
Cannot thank them enough.
Anything I needed,
including apparently knee sleeves,
which I own now, which are awesome.
Good stuff.
Seriously good stuff.
So I got to meet Meg and Joe.
Meg more jacked than I thought.
Joe much taller than I thought.
Really?
Really?
How short do you think he was, dude?
No, dude, dude.
No,
I actually thought he was smaller than I
thought.
Yeah.
He is a very small man.
Like jacked.
Yeah.
And the nicest guy ever.
But I would not say taller than I
thought.
Meg is not as mean as she is
in the chat.
so she's worse no no she is she
is a delight in person but i can
like i said this to them straight up
you you meet people online and when you
know you're going to meet them in person
you wonder like is it going to be
are they going to meet expectations or not
absolutely joseph and meg far exceeded my
expectations yeah man they were just
wonderful human beings
And the way Meg,
they went to Whole Foods to eat all
the time, right?
She comes back with a sandwich like yay
thick.
Somehow she got her mouth the whole way
around that thing.
Good job, Meg.
And ate it like it was her job.
That's actually what I did Thursday
whenever I got into Kansas.
I went to Whole Foods and got some
stuff off the hot bar because if you've
never gotten stuff,
food from the hot bar at Whole Foods,
you are missing out because those people
had their stuff together.
It is amazing.
So I kind of took the...
I kind of took a different approach this
year.
I really was laid back about kind of
everything.
I didn't want to stress out about all
the stuff I, and the first,
the first day or two at the masters,
I was trying to get some content of
like Carolyn and Jamie.
And I put out a reel of Jamie
stuff and I got one going for Carolyn.
Um, and hopefully it'll be out today.
But I started that at the,
at the individualist.
I was like, you know what?
You have this guy, Ishmael, uh,
E captures best in the business.
Why are you trying to even remotely
compete with him?
Yeah.
And, uh, and so then I just said,
you know,
I'm going to sit back and enjoy the
games and I'm going to watch it.
Cause what do I do really?
What is my role to talk,
to talk about what I see.
So why try to capture it all with
a camera?
And I just want to show a couple
of shots that, that Ishmael took.
Yes, please.
Um, this picture that he did,
I don't know if you can see it.
Well,
he took three pictures and layered them of
Dallin hitting the buzzer.
That's awesome, dude.
Like I could never do anything close to
that.
Why the hell,
why the hell would I even try?
And then, dude,
one of the reasons I couldn't sleep when
I got home yesterday was because this
carousel of pictures of the champ and her
entourage is like half a million views
right now.
It's going to get more than that.
And how many,
the likes are like in an insane, like,
twenty-two thousand nine hundred likes.
Likes, not views,
not actual people harking it.
Yeah, people going, no, no, no,
that looks fantastic.
And my notifier would not stop the entire
time.
And at the same time,
he put out the MailChimp,
him and his wife.
Oh, I haven't seen these.
Him and his dad.
That's outstanding.
And these are at like three hundred
thousand views with nine thousand likes.
when you look at the insights and you
see how many times these have been
forwarded shared saved reposted it is a
i've never been a part of a viral
thing before yeah right and it is really
really crazy that's amazing um and so and
he was doing it all week he did
here's a real levonica greer finishing
Coming right at you.
Here's pictures of just randomness from
the weekend.
Oh, Patty.
Like, I can't do that.
Well, and again,
why would you when you have him there
to do that?
Right.
Instead of...
If I am busy taking pictures,
I am not busy being in the moment.
Right.
So I really just put my camera down
and said,
I'm going to let him do his thing.
Yeah.
And I'm going to sit back and watch.
And then Saturday,
I took some time to watch the stream,
and I didn't go to the arena because
I wanted to know what that perspective was
like.
Right?
Because it's different.
So I really tried to be in the
moment and do all that.
And that was really, really cool.
Because it was very different for me.
I wasn't like trying to get to this
and trying to get to that.
Everybody was doing interviews.
I didn't need to do more interviews.
I just needed to do a show that
night or that next morning to talk about
it.
And so I really got a different.
You better talk about, hey,
I'm here and this is what I'm seeing.
Instead of just talking to people about
what just happened,
which is what ninety nine percent of the
rest of them is going to do anyway.
Yeah, percent.
Before we get into too much more, though,
my shirts came three hours before my
flight took off.
I saw that.
Or after my flight took off.
So I do have them here.
I've got a bunch of them.
If anybody is interested in getting a
Clydesdale Media shirt,
they are light blue.
They have the logo that you see.
It's kind of what you see behind me.
It's a little deeper blue than what that
sign is.
But it's that logo with Clydesdale over
the top,
media under the bottom in a circle-ish
manner.
What I need you to do is you
can,
they're going to be thirty two dollars and
that includes shipping.
Thirty two bucks shipped, baby.
And you can Venmo me.
at scott-soitzer-one.
And the last four of my phone,
if they ask it, is six, eight, four,
nine.
And then in the memo, put your name,
your address, and the size.
That would be helpful.
You do that.
And then I will ship them out.
I'll start shipping them out as soon as
I get orders.
They're all here.
I bought all the shipping materials.
So it's all ready to go.
Uh, we just have to,
or if you don't have Venmo and you
are like cash app,
my cash app name is the dollar sign.
S W I T Z Thor T H
O R. Oh, okay.
um so and thirty two dollars shipped that
includes everything to your door just um
men sizing or i i'm assuming it's unisex
shanna i yeah they did not ask me
for men or women i just picked a
bunch of sizes so
I like that.
Can I get one that says hater of
DDSP on the back?
And Vicky, who's in the background,
said you can buy the letters and iron
them on the back.
So...
get to we get to check in we
get our stuff right at monster games and
we got two shirts um one of them's
very very nice like that soft uh poly
blend um like expensive first form shirt
and the other one's a regular cotton first
form shirt also very nice and they give
us our names to be able to be
heat pressed on there and you can go
bring them to the thick boy booth and
he would press them on there for you
right so did that all that thursday
of dudes in my age group brandon williams
who's an absolute treat like i love that
dude so much he is he's super kind
he's unbelievably fit and he just seems to
be on his own planet most of the
time right he shows up i think it
was saturday it was either i don't know
if it was friday or saturday when i
saw him but like when you bring it
to thick boy they put your name on
the back right got leonard written across
the back of mine
Brandon shows up,
the shirt's got Monster Games logo all the
way across the front of it.
And then right here across the top,
it says Williams.
I said, Brandon, what?
He said,
I used the iron in my room and
I just put it on myself.
Messed up the S right here a little
bit.
He's just running around with Williams
right across the front.
And it's on the top, dude.
It almost looks like a soccer jersey from
a really low South American league where
they have just decals and stuff just
written all over it.
Or like a...
like a racing jersey or a racing shirt
where they just have all the sponsor
stuff.
But we just got Williams written across
the front.
So we were laughing because of that.
He was laughing because of that.
The next day, John Gleich,
who is the fittest guy to never make
the games,
rolls up and he's got Gleich on Sunday
written across.
I said,
you just couldn't help yourself or what?
He's like, I mean,
it's different than everybody else's.
It looks pretty cool.
Well,
the games jerseys were name on the front.
Yeah, but probably, yeah, but like here.
No, they were up more.
Yeah, probably not.
It looked almost like, you know,
you've seen the people with the neck
tattoos or the no regerts.
That's what it reminded me of.
Because it was right here.
Because it was right there at his
neckline.
Like it wasn't right here and blazing
across the chest.
It was right here.
It looked fantastic, dude.
Oh.
Vicky said she's just going to drive down
to your house and pick hers up.
That's fine.
That is fine.
Anyway.
uh no regerts yeah that is one of
my favorite movies of all time oh dude
i did i get to meet tyson i
did not which is probably for the best
because god only knows what happened scott
would have been bear down yeah yeah i
yeah it just i wanted to be with
my friends at the masters games yeah
sure and and that took precedence over it
all i you know getting to see carolyn
win was awesome i can't even imagine dude
my my only my only beef is that
i didn't get to see no win because
they were going at the same time yeah
um but i thought i don't know if
you saw carolyn's instagram and um
She got a picture with Noah,
the two champs of the thirty five to
thirty nine.
It's pretty cool.
Like two multiple time CrossFit Games
athletes.
Winning the thirty five to thirty nine.
Good for them, man.
Good for them.
I'm happy for Noah, bro.
I really, really am.
I've never been the hugest fan of him
necessarily,
but I know how hard it is to
get to where he's at, right?
And how hard he's been trying for so
long just to be able to do,
you know,
to be able to stand on top of
that podium and coming close,
but never actually hitting it.
So good for him for knocking it out
over the weekend.
He was so cool with everybody at the
Masters games.
He just was walking around as part of
the community,
which is the coolest part of the Masters
games.
All the athletes just walk around and hang
out.
What was super cool is on Thursday,
the last day,
some of the athletes were coming in.
Not athletes,
but the coaches and stuff were coming in.
I used to,
Cole Sager was at the Masters Games
coaching.
Fisa Goff,
he came over and hung out because of
Scott.
It just was really cool to see these
other athletes come over and do all that
kind of stuff.
Yeah,
David Johnson sent me a picture of him
and Lito together.
That was pretty cool.
He goes, you know this chick?
And I said, I know who she is.
I don't know her,
but I definitely know who that is.
She's hard to miss.
That top five finish?
Dude, she killed it.
I think she took fourth, right?
I want to say that is correct, yeah.
Yeah, she's just awesome.
I think from the time I met Leto
till now,
she is increasingly getting more and more
fit, which is hard to believe.
Yeah.
But it was cool.
I saw her and her husband.
I met them a year ago at the
Columbus Games,
and it was really fun seeing them.
Yeah, I met Wayne Short,
who's been in the chat for a long
time now.
He actually gave me my plan for next
season.
Oh, okay.
Mark Phillips is saying she got fifth,
not fourth.
She got fifth.
She was in fourth for a minute,
so she must have fell back in that
DT workout.
And then Jamie in that DT workout, dude,
she gives me a,
I told her this exact quote, like,
it's hard to keep my AFib at bay
watching you compete.
She missed the final rep of DT.
The final rep.
And then she went to,
to pull the bar off the ground to,
to complete it.
And then just dropped it.
Like, like, you know,
when someone lifts it goes, no,
that's too heavy and just drops it again.
And then she finally picks it up and
finishes it.
And it ended up moving her from eighth
to eleventh.
That, that missed rep.
That missed rep alone because that's how
tight it was at that spot.
And for her to come in where she
did in a games where she was hurt
was freaking phenomenal.
She's a whole different species, dude.
She really is.
It's ridiculous.
Shout out to Carolyn one more time.
She's unreal.
She really is.
She is.
Mackenzie Riley and her were going
toe-to-toe most of the weekend,
and it was fun to watch, dude.
So fun.
Again,
two former games athletes just going
toe-to-toe.
Shannon got to arm wrestle Travis Bajan.
Did she win?
I don't know.
Shannon gave me a hug.
I got to tell the story.
So she thought I didn't like hugs,
but she gave me a hug anyway when
we first met.
And I'm like,
I don't have a problem with hugs per
se, right?
I'm just a big guy.
And like,
I'm worried that I'm going to come on
as a creeper or whatever if I try
to hug on people.
So I'm very reluctant to hug because I
just don't know how people feel.
Sure.
So we were at the SAP Center,
and Shannon and I were talking for like,
twenty minutes,
having a really good conversation.
And she goes, okay, I'm going to go.
I'm like, well,
now we're going to do a hug.
Now that I know that, like, it's okay,
we're going to do a hug.
She squeezed me so tight.
Like, that woman is strong.
Oh, I bet.
And she said, yeah,
I did that to Dave Castro one time,
and he said too tight,
so I went harder.
too tight.
Okay.
Oh, Jeremy, you jackass.
uh don't worry about him most bear fans
yeah i did a show with him in
the glintons the other night yeah i know
right after you left yeah i was on
jeremy's internet so like i kept going in
and out just being down there um i
was literally in in their basement and i
have i have connections i wouldn't have
connection i would have connection i
wouldn't have connection and i needed to
honestly i need to get to bed anyway
because i was getting up shortly after
that
And yeah, I'll forget who it was.
Somebody texted me later and it was like,
Scott came in right after you left.
No big deal.
I was like, sweet, even better.
Yeah.
We actually had some really interesting
conversations.
Oh, I love those people, dude.
Every time I go on there, it's fantastic.
It was about like...
should you put an asterisk on different
game seasons and stuff like that it was
really good if you didn't see it glint
and things sunday night no sunday yes
sunday night sunday night yep um can you
pull up the sean in oregon one vicky
the one you start there we go the
stands look somewhat empty empty on the
youtube stream what was the crowd like for
the events it was not empty in that
arena
First of all, you have to remember,
this is the largest arena the CrossFit
Games have ever been in.
So the lower bowl on Saturday and Sunday
were pretty well full.
And the center sections up above in the
upper deck were three quarters full.
And I would say the seats that were
the least full were the finish line seats,
which would have been the most expensive
ones.
Which had tracks, right?
Yeah.
It was really,
really much larger than last year for
sure.
I was in Albany.
It was way less last year.
Way less.
And the vibes in there were freaking
awesome.
It was loud.
loud that forward backward roll to support
got so loud in there that's what somebody
was saying this morning uh was that that
was probably the thing that the crowd was
most hyped for was that one or at
least seemed like it was making the most
noise for i'm gonna tell you this dude
watching it from home
or from where I was anyway,
just watching it on TV.
That was wild to watch,
both in terms of just what they were
doing, first of all,
which is insane in and of itself.
I kept thinking like every time somebody
would fail one, I was like,
if I would try that,
my arm would still be attached.
Right?
Like, and by still be attached, I mean,
like,
my hand would still be attached to the
ring and the rest of me would be
on the ground at some point,
because my shoulder would just come
completely separated from my body.
And then watching people figure it out in
the middle of the workout was just,
it's incredible.
Like, it's...
know we say oh it's unbelievable it almost
was unbelievable to actually see that take
place in real time where all of a
sudden you know you hear chase or somebody
say oh they figured it out and you
kind of see it at the same time
like oh yeah they just figured it out
okay i got this now the front the
forward roll was one thing but that
backward roll to support holy smokes dude
that was insane
Or even like Lucy got one.
Lucy Campbell got one.
And how excited she was to get one
was crazy.
And I was going to say this,
John George, who jumped in.
Pat Vellner had to do his fall from
something.
Pat Vellner.
So I was thinking about this earlier.
Yeah.
pat velner almost recreated every single
epic fail moment he's had what since being
a games athlete in this weekend like the
only thing that that would have come in
that that had been better is if he
came in last on the run completely just
just strolled in looking behind him to see
if anybody else was coming he fell off
the rings and what multiple times twice
not just once yeah
um and what's crazy is he was really
good at it like he was he was
in contention to win the thing and still
fell off twice yeah his pedal fell off
on the bike within what like like he
had the most pad and then he wins
this deadlift event like he he had the
most pad builder weekend possibly dude
possible i i
I got to say this, man.
The grace that they showed him and the
standing ovation that he got in the arena
was freaking awesome.
Good dude.
Yeah, he took a year off.
Yeah, he had some thoughts,
but he came back and he was welcomed,
and it was freaking awesome.
He is a legend, an OG,
and he deserved every bit that he got.
Won two freaking events again.
It was awesome.
And I want to say this too,
when we're talking about like kind of the
reconciliation and comeback of things,
Matt Fraser,
how about Matt Fraser being there,
participating,
doing an event announcement,
but picking one of the workouts that got
up for the poll for the hopper needing
to shave his beard.
Awesome.
Didn't he shave his beard?
Dude,
he got out there and it's just like,
this giant like he looked like somebody's
uncle but that only you see at certain
certain events at and holidays and whatnot
and i understand like that his level of
give a is probably pretty low at this
point right when it comes to stuff like
that but like he just him being out
here's matt fraser and the camera went to
him and i was like holy smokes he
looks homeless like hey man
I'm going to need you to just trim
it up some, dog.
That's it.
That's all you really need to do.
He can look however he wants.
He won the games five times.
The fact that he was there.
Yeah, I know.
The fact that he participated.
Good for him, dude.
The fact that he let bygones be bygones.
Yep.
You're a parent.
have a pull-up i don't know if you
guys can see it um this is new
to the show uh matt's beard yay or
nay um when you become a father like
your perspective on things just changes
yeah absolutely
And it just seemed like Matt was in
a different headspace.
Let bygones be bygones and let's go have
fun.
I will say this, dude.
He genuinely looked like he was having fun
when he was on.
He looked happy, calm, peaceful,
whatever you want to call it.
Just making the announcement,
doing the things that he was doing out
there.
He looked like happy Matt,
which is not something we're necessarily
used to seeing at this point, right?
Good stuff.
Jeremy says,
never took Corey as one who attacks
homeless people.
Hey, bro.
One of my best friends is the fittest
homeless dude I know.
It's fine.
Chris Real.
Where is it at?
Ken Walters.
It was a bummer more champions didn't make
it on the women's side, i.e.
daughters.
What's crazy is like, first of all,
and I said this on one of the
weekend shows, it bummed me out that,
okay, Rich's plane got delayed,
but we didn't know that in the arena.
Yeah.
when they knew that they should have put
up the placard on the Jumbotron,
like they did for every other champion
said,
Rich was trying to make it as playing
got delayed so that you knew why he
wasn't there.
It wasn't a protest.
It wasn't, it wasn't,
I just couldn't get it in time.
Right.
Out of all the people,
people were shitting on like less, maybe,
maybe,
maybe you want to give Rich Froning a
little bit of grace that like, yeah, dude,
I'm coming.
Like took a step to like, yeah, it,
They could have mitigated that.
Sam Briggs was there all weekend,
but something made it so she couldn't be
there.
I don't know what that reason was,
but she was there over the weekend.
But I mean, life happens.
So.
Meg.
Well,
after hanging out with Joseph and his
beard, Matt has to clean it up.
Maybe Matt saw Joseph's beard.
like at some point and is growing it
out so that he can put the braids
in it.
Maybe that's what it is.
I'm going to give the man some grace
and say that that's where he's going.
He saw Joseph's beard and he's like,
you know what?
That's a great look.
I'm going for that.
Him and Joseph are about the same size,
roughly.
I'm sure Matt's probably a little taller,
but I mean, whatever.
No, where is it at?
They didn't do that for any of the
champions that didn't show up.
But Andrew, Rich was trying to show up.
That's the difference.
His plane got delayed.
The whole plan was for him to be
there and to participate.
They could have let the crowd know why.
There's too much drama in CrossFit to let
that just out there and for people to
wonder.
Yep.
I agree.
If you never plan to come,
I get it.
Don't put his up because of the others.
Yeah, if he just flat turned him down,
that's one thing, dude.
But like OPT was there for Christ's sake.
Jody, Julie Gentry?
Jolie Gentry.
Jolie Gentry.
It's a combination of the two.
Yeah, it is.
It's like Jody and Judy in the chat
that everybody gets mixed up,
which it's really Jolie.
Jolie Gentry, OPT.
Andrew Sten, disagree.
CrossFit people need to just not read so
much into things.
And we can all go to Narnia and
hang out with Azul the Lion or whatever
and do all the fun stuff.
That ain't ever going to happen.
No.
It's a knee-jerk reaction.
I guarantee,
especially all the people watching at home
and then somebody says something in the
comments.
and that's a wrap all of a sudden
everybody's just piling on oh which didn't
come oh rich didn't come rich didn't come
didn't come blame southwest or delta or
whoever like i'm pretty sure again if
anybody is going to deserve a little bit
of grace it's probably the the uh
patriarch of the mayhem empire mr rich
from junior
aslan that's correct mark sorry i'm over
fifty five now i get i have the
right to mispronounce names moving forward
yeah look andrew andrew owning it right
there got it andrew said sorry just me
hoping people actually act like mature
adults my mistake brother
It's an unfortunate fact that people are
not going to act like adults.
So I shook Andrew's hand on Wednesday,
maybe.
And, you know,
him and I have been going back and
forth for weeks prior to Legends at
running the Masters.
I let him take a shot.
I was there.
I'm like,
I'm right here in front of you.
Let's go.
But we just shook hands and took the
Matt Rich picture.
Oh, yeah, the completely not staged.
Yeah.
We're friends.
It's fine.
We've moved on.
I know someone mentioned,
I wish they would have,
I think it was Sean in Oregon,
wish they had done a tribute to Pat
like they did for Brooke Wells.
And I hated the Brooke Wells one.
Yeah, I did too.
So I would have rather had that one
deleted than to have another one because
you never know when it's going to be
your last games.
No.
You know,
it's very rare that someone announces,
hey, this is my final run and blah,
blah, blah.
But Brooke was the meanest person to the
third-party media in the history of
CrossFit.
And then you do this big tribute.
We were all puking in the back.
So I don't know.
I would have rather deleted it.
You could have had...
A Pat,
like an actual Patrick with just a bunch
of clips from interviews,
like the thing of him coming in from
the runs when one at the end,
everybody's saying they wish there was a
video.
They,
they announced it like this is his last
run as he was leaving the floor for
the last time they made a big freaking
deal about it.
Yeah.
When he won the one event,
they talked about it being his last run
and why it was important to do it
in front of his two sons and his
wife being there.
He got flowers and love the whole weekend.
The video thinks just lame.
I don't know.
I think his, in particular,
could have been entertaining just from all
the stuff.
Like,
you could have just put a blooper reel
up.
Him chasing the plate across the floor
during Aeneas when it's just in the
background and you see a yellow plate and
then Pat, oh, no,
I got to get my, like...
falling off the cargo net, coming in,
just looking behind him and see if anybody
else was trying to run up behind him
on the run, swim, run.
Like all of the things, dude.
And plus all the highlight stuff that he
did, like walking off after the...
But we all have that vivid in our
memories.
They announced...
Because now it's in a montage.
As he was leaving the floor for the
last time, hey, everybody, Pat Vellner,
legend in the sport,
heading off the floor and they it was
a standing ovation yeah like to me that's
the best tribute ever I don't need to
see all the video footage again yeah I'm
going to agree to disagree on that one
whatever he doesn't read books Jeremy it's
fine yeah there you go and yes
And the weekend was so positive and there
was so much fun stuff.
And it was,
it really came off well in the arena.
Like to nitpick that Pat didn't get a
video is just looking for something to
hate on.
No, I don't think, yeah, that's,
I think that's kind of sick.
A hundred percent.
you're just gonna nitpick that one thing
like oh they didn't give pat a tribute
video they gave one to to uh brooke
whatever who by the way wasn't finished
competing because she went and did wfp
after that but yep and rogue and rogue
anyway the only person to ever be honored
with a video was brooke matt fraser won
five in a row
in a row and they didn't they didn't
say shit whenever he left it was like
hey matt fraser and we knew that was
his last one like it wasn't a oh
maybe sort of kind of whatever no no
no so daniel arnson looking for something
to hate is my job and that's why
he hands out the dumb dumb stupid pants
awards ddsp baby
There it is.
Shanna said she was bawling in the stands
when he left the floor.
I remember back in the day,
like Stacey Tovar just took her shoes off
and left them on the floor and walked
off.
Like that's how it was done back in
the day.
So didn't Tia leave her shoes on the
floor and came back and won three more?
Or she came back, put them back on,
tied them up.
I was just kidding.
Just joking, y'all.
Sorry.
So here's the question.
After watching Amy absolutely decimate the
field all weekend,
what's going to happen next year?
well if you listen to um is it
ari ari metosian interviewed her and asked
her if she was coming back and she
said after she saw what amy was doing
it might be fun to compete against her
ari ari had some of the best interviews
when he asked colton what he had for
breakfast and then colton just answered
him yeah that was so awesome dude avi
avi avi yeah i uh
we've i've talked about this all weekend i
don't i don't know if i'm if i'm
tia i don't know if that's i don't
know if i want that smoke i think
tia does want that smoke if she is
okay if she's the competitor that
everybody has built her up in their brains
to be myself included right as a
competitor i don't want to go and come
and beat
for lack of a better word, scrubs.
I don't want to go beat the B
team.
I don't want to go beat.
I want to beat the best on the
floor, period.
And especially somebody like her, like,
and dominate them, not just beat them.
Like,
I want to beat the crap out of
them.
She ain't dominating Amy Kringle.
I don't think she will either.
But what I'm getting at is that without
taking the floor again,
she's never going to have the opportunity
to see and to really test herself.
How many points did she win the last
game?
Five.
I don't know.
Vicky will find it.
I have no idea.
A hundred points, two hundred points,
whatever.
A hundred, two hundred points, right over.
The last one's before that.
Two hundred somewhat odd points, right?
It's never been in question.
Well, other than Cara.
Other than Cara.
The two-point victory over Cara.
Which is her first time winning.
And she had one other down year where
it wasn't quite as big a gap.
Right.
Once.
So that's two out of eight?
Mike DeVito,
I'm not saying she would mop the floor
with her,
but Tia is in no way afraid of
the smoke.
I'm team Amy all day,
but Tia said her hands are rated E
for everyone.
I just, I, listen,
do I think Amy wins if they go
head to head?
I don't know.
I think it's actually an epic battle.
I think that's the thing that's going to
get people is that they don't know.
Right?
So if you don't know,
now it's intriguing again.
My argument to everybody is she's now the
mother of two children.
Sure.
Right?
Which is going to take priority.
She also is another year older.
She'll be two years older since the last
time she took the floor.
Age is undefeated.
I don't disagree.
So to apply just because she's been
dominant forever to the future is
irresponsible.
And the one thing that Amy showed is
she doesn't have deficit handstand pushup
problems like somebody else.
No, she does not.
She showed no weakness.
No.
What was her biggest weakness?
Her back squat?
Okay.
Moving right along.
There you go.
A hundred and eighty points in twenty
twenty five hundred fifty one points in
twenty twenty four.
What Amy went by a hundred and twenty.
Yeah.
Something like that.
That doesn't tell the whole story because
the top three were two hundred points
ahead of the rest of the rest of
the field.
Sure.
And then she beat them by another one
twenty.
I just want to be honest,
if you watch that final event,
she's just trying to be clean.
Oh, that's it.
She was not trying to do...
She was not trying to hurt herself at
all.
None whatsoever.
Like, nope.
This is in the bag.
I just don't need to do...
I don't need to fumble this bag.
That's it.
I don't need to do anything stupid,
hurt myself, or I can't complete it.
That's basically all there is to it.
I just... Two kids or not,
and I don't disagree that it takes some
time away as far as that's concerned,
but she's still Tia Tickler to me.
To be the best, what do they say,
Scott?
To be the best,
you got to beat the best?
I want to see it.
Personally, I want to see it.
Okay, you want to see it.
I don't.
I want to see it.
Look, this is the stuff that gets me,
right?
I have to address this.
I will bet you right now that she
wins next year.
That's Tia.
That Amy had twenty events.
Why is Amy having twenty events in
advantage of
She over twenty events showed zero holes.
They threw everything at the but the
kitchen sink at her.
Right.
And she never there was new stuff they
didn't even know about.
And she was crushing it.
Yep.
More Phillips got a point.
She's very, very well prepared.
But I want to see,
like what Meg's saying,
I want to see a fight.
I want to see a fight too.
I'm just telling you,
analytically looking at it,
I think Kringle gives her everything she
wants.
A hundred percent.
Which would make for a hell of a
show.
This is the true thing.
Is Tia willing to lock it down?
Because she will need to lock it down
for another year.
as a mother of two with a thriving
business is she is she willing to lock
it down for another year that's a huge
commitment you know how much content we'd
have oh my gosh so let me ask
you this do you think tia makes an
announcement one way or another the next
next few weeks
She's never made an announcement ever
about anything.
We already know when the open is.
Well, if she signs up for the open,
then that's the announcement.
I don't think we'll get anything other
than that.
Winning with a hundred plus points is
easier with twenty events than with ten in
that you need to be a lot more
dominant with ten events.
That's why I think Tia wins.
Leo's not wrong.
If you've got a smaller amount of events,
you can make fewer mistakes.
Fewer fumbles.
Okay, tell me the mistake that Amy made.
Oh, no, I'm not disagreeing with you.
She was a hundred points ahead way before
the twentieth event.
On like day two.
Like halfway to day two.
Just point to the event where she showed
a weakness where she wouldn't be dominant.
The five hundred meter sprint was so
impressive.
Like that's all I'm asking.
She dog walked everybody.
It wouldn't even, it wouldn't even,
it wouldn't even, gosh, just,
just take the ranch run and the sprint.
Yeah.
She won five events before day two was
done before.
Yeah, she did.
The winning by a hundred points Lito also
has a lot to do with your competition.
Well, I think,
I don't think Lito is necessarily like
trying to poke holes in Amy's thing,
but for either one of them,
it doesn't matter if it's Tia or if
it's Amy at this point,
It's way different with ten events than it
is with twenty.
I get what she's saying.
I hear you.
But those three women, Lucy, Emma,
and Amy,
had a two hundred point lead on the
field midway through Saturday.
Yeah.
They separated themselves.
Everybody else was fighting for top five
at that point.
And that was way more competition in the
top three than Tia ever had other than
twenty seventeen.
Yeah.
And she still beat them by one twenty.
And she had the hundred point lead halfway
through Saturday, which was insane.
Like it of itself.
Tia has nothing to prove,
but it would be great for the sport
if she does.
CrossFit wins if those two go head to
head.
This is what I'm going to say,
Peter CrossFit only wins if they take
advantage of it.
Oh, absolutely.
I've been taking crap for this.
CrossFit should have known Amy had the
potential to be at least a top five
competitor and marketed her before this
game.
The fact that women's fitness put her on
the cover of a magazine before she won
the games shows that they are more in
tune with what is happening in CrossFit
than CrossFit themselves.
So it's all well and good.
And I said that CrossFit did nothing to
market her.
And I got a message last night showing
me the road to the games with Kringle,
Lightfoot and Clemens.
It was a twenty five minute road to
the games that Amy was in for like
five minutes.
And probably just because she was training
partners with Harry.
It's ridiculous how little that they
pushed her.
I'm so sick of the CrossFit media just
rehashing what we've already seen.
So, okay, Tia comes back.
How is it going to be marketed?
If she comes back,
it should be monthly releases of the two
of them training leading up to it.
It's Rocky III.
Yeah, Jeremy says something about Rocky V.
That doesn't even exist in my mind.
No, but it's Rocky III.
Yeah, Rocky III or IV.
Or IV, either one.
Tia's the Russian, and Amy is Rocky.
Yeah.
She doesn't look like a superhero.
That's a fact.
CrossFit HQ is about to be in their
feelings if they watch this.
It's the truth.
It is.
It's the truth.
If she dies, she dies.
Yeah, Tia would say that.
I was about to say Tia would say
that.
If she dies, she dies.
That is absolutely fantastic.
It's absolutely fantastic.
And it's true.
I think it would be good.
Let's talk.
Can we talk about James?
We got enough time to talk about James
right quick.
Like if for no other reason than the
fact that I just want to bring this
up.
Well, I got to get to work,
but can we do this tomorrow or is
it something that you have to say?
It's in my head.
I just want to give a shout out
to James because he is the first male
in the history of the games to win
two titles and not do it in back-to-back
years.
And that has got to be,
if that's not noteworthy,
I don't know what is.
Because everybody else who's won multiple
titles,
and there's really only two people, right?
It was Rich and Matt.
They went on these runs.
James wins, comes back next year,
doesn't win, comes back a year after that,
and wins again.
And in a dogfight the entire time with
Dallin, especially on that last day.
um that is just unbelievably impressive i
was anyway i don't know i don't know
the significance of winning different
years the reason that matt and rich didn't
do is because they just never lost like
you'd have to lose one to do it
So there's a different perspective to
that.
One,
I think James just proved he's really damn
fit,
and it's going to take a perfect games
to beat him.
He proved that there shouldn't be an
asterisk next to his name for his first
win?
I don't believe in asterisks.
Ask Jeremy.
We had this debate the other night.
I just thought that was – just because
nobody's done it.
again it's because he lost last year that
he was able to do it right yep
so it's more impressive to me that matt
won five rich one four justin one two
yeah it's just that that's the first time
that happened
I don't know.
We can get into that tomorrow because I
know you got to go.
But like the parody in the sport is
kind of starting to finally show up a
little bit in my mind anyway because of
the more dogfighting type stuff.
Somebody wins, they lose, they come back,
they win again within three years.
I like that a lot.
Let's get the if she dies,
she dies thing off there.
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