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Talk about everything that's
going on in sports
entertainment and the
CrossFit space specifically.
And damn,
did we get hit with some breaking
news right before we went on air.
As it's being talked about in the chat,
if you go on Instagram,
Alex Kazan posted some
pictures and video from
what appears to be a brutal
car accident in where she broke her leg.
It says a small fracture in her fibula.
Yeah.
There's also pictures of her husband, Jake,
in a neck collar.
Yeah.
they are both currently out
of the hospital and they
are home recovering we wish
them all the good things
all the prayers all the
wishes all the thoughts um
for a speedy recovery but
dang how it's wednesday
like they were just in just in in norco
over the weekend.
So if I'm assuming which I
obviously don't know,
but left from NorCal,
take a little vacation, right,
just finished the competition,
take a couple days off, whatever.
And then that happens.
Whatever it is, it looks terrible.
Like, I mean,
there's a giant hole in the
passenger side,
right where Alex is sitting, apparently.
in the roof glass everywhere and whatnot.
So yeah, she, they're extremely lucky,
extremely lucky, blessed,
whatever you want to call it.
That that's bananas, dude.
So I've,
I've gotten to know them a long time, uh,
net for a long time now.
Um,
Jake worked for us at the CrossFit
games two years ago as a photographer,
videographer.
Um,
they do not live together
for a period of the year
because jake's job is um
fire prevention in
california wildfire
prevention so he goes and
does that for like six
months a year and then they
live together the other six
months but during that time
they're apart that is this
time of the year where they
are not together so when
norcal was done they were
taking some time together
they have a camper pickup truck
Very much like the Dolmets have.
And they,
if you followed their Instagram
at all this week,
they were out on the beach,
like just chilling in their camper,
doing the things, you know,
Alex is a land lover, hippie at,
at heart.
They were doing all of those
like camping things that are,
that are upper alley.
And apparently something happened.
While traveling from place
to place and man looked the
video footage at the very
end of her Instagram post looks awful.
Yeah.
But hopefully she's okay.
She does say it's a small
fracture of her fibula and
we'll see what happens.
I see the comments asking,
would Carolyn get her invite now?
if she could not go to the
crossfit games that invite
would go to carolyn by rule
but she is twenty two years
old twenty three years old
bones heal six weeks or
less we have what eight
weeks to the crossfit games
ish something like that
could she make it to the
crossfit games she could
How much training can she
get in without a
weight-bearing leg injury?
I don't know.
We don't even know what the
extent of it all is, right?
Right.
How much is Cutler going to let her do?
You know what I mean?
Knowing that there's a
fracture right there.
Because he is way more
interested in long game
than he is in right this very second.
Or I feel like he is anyway.
So, Justin's my boy.
With her potential, he's what it is.
Justin's my boy.
And this is,
it's weird where your head
goes in these situations.
He had Ricky set up to win the games.
And Ricky flies over some handlebars,
jacks up his shoulder,
and cannot participate in the games.
Alex was having the season.
The season.
And two days after she
qualifies for the games, bam,
we have a car accident.
Justin get a break as a coach.
How unlucky is that?
I can't wrap my head around it.
You think of these people as
being practically
indestructible from all the
things that you see them do all the time.
And then that kind of stuff
just reminds you that they
are still people.
And unfortunately,
as much as we don't like to admit it,
shit happens.
And that is a perfect example of that,
because I am willing to bet
they were not doing anything crazy.
Like they're not driving like maniacs,
you know,
doing Dukes of Hazzard type shit.
It looks like they were just
driving along the road and
then whatever happened happened.
And if you know them,
they're just not that type
of person to do Dukes of Hazzard stuff,
right?
Probably a reference only you, me,
and Doug Reed know.
But they're not that type of people.
But I'm just gutted for them like that.
Alex is one of my favorites, man,
on the female side.
Like, she's a lot of fun to watch.
Her smile is infectious.
Her energy is, like,
off the charts nine times out of ten.
So, yeah, I hope she recovers.
Selfishly, hey, I like Caroline.
Um,
but I don't think I would even say that.
I don't think Caroline would
want to accept an invite
under these circumstances.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, because of car accident,
like if she wanted cool,
if somebody popped for drug tests,
that's one thing,
but I don't think Caroline
would want it because
somebody can't go because
they got in a car wreck and, you know,
got themselves hurt.
I wouldn't, I would feel.
I agree she wouldn't want it
to happen that way yeah but
I'm telling you if she gets
if they call yeah no
absolutely dude I'd be the
same way like like would I
feel bad about it yes am I
still taking it absolutely
absolutely no question
about it you will still
find me there after talking
to carolyn this week thirty
seconds more on that clock
she's hitting that that clean
Like her max is two fifty five.
So two, two and a quarter, two fifteen,
whatever it ended up on that bar.
I don't even know at this point.
Like she was going to hit it
with just with a good setup.
Yeah.
She told me she hits two
twenty five in her sleep.
But I wish we would have had
that opportunity to see it finish.
Comes down to the wire, man.
Comes down to the wire.
If with some rest could have hit it.
So we don't know.
She may have taken longer to
set up if she would have
known she had more time.
So we don't know like how
any of that plays out.
And we were just cheated for that end.
I didn't mean to dive back
into that right now, but.
well wishes everything for
the Gazan family again Jake
worked for me two years ago
at the games could not ask
for a better dude to hang
out with and I really got
to know I knew Alex before
got to know her much better
because she was hanging out
with Jake during her
downtime and that's the
year we followed her at the
games that year I remember that
they are freaking awesome
people and I do think she
will one day win the
crossfit games and I think
she was having the year
even if t is there I think
she is now to the point
where she can go toe-to-toe
with her on some things
yeah and maybe enough of it
to make a difference
And enough to like test into,
to have the ability to test
herself against Tia would be really cool.
Yeah.
I think that's what any high
level athlete wants.
Like I want to go against when,
when Matt Fraser said on
one of the old documentaries, like,
I hope you're having,
I hope you're in good shape.
I hope you are.
Cause I want a good race.
Like I don't want same.
And I feel like most high
level athletes kind of feel
stuff like that.
Judy Reed,
DBE putting a hex on Justin Athletes.
I think some of that.
I think they're past some of that.
Yeah, I'd be willing to say.
Justin doesn't seem like the
type to hold on to that kind of stuff.
That doesn't serve anybody.
It doesn't serve a purpose for anybody.
Yeah, so if you're just joining us,
Alex Kazan in a car accident,
her and Jake both taken to the hospital.
Both are out of the hospital
now recovering,
but Alex does have a broken leg.
She says it's a small fracture.
So I don't know what that means,
small fracture.
Is it a hairline fracture?
All of that is dependent on
how long it's going to take to recover.
depending on what that
definition turns out to be
and um and she's recovering
and she says she can't wait
to get back to doing what
she loves the most so with
that we'll see where that
takes us we'll see what
that means for her crossfit
games ticket um hopefully
in the next couple weeks um
And the cast in the picture
didn't look like a big,
thick plaster cast either.
So it almost looked more
like gauze where she may
have had the glass.
I was going to say the same thing.
It looked more like bandages
than it did anything else.
Yeah.
So I don't know what that means.
And hopefully we'll find
something out in the near future.
I mean,
I feel like they're pretty
transparent when it comes
to stuff like that.
Like, and why wouldn't you being, I mean,
you got in a car wreck.
It's not like you had a
training injury and you
don't want to tell people
because you don't want to
like you got in a car accident.
So why wouldn't you be like, Oh no, no,
I'm fine or not fine or
whatever the case may be.
Well, one of the,
one of the things I had on
my list to talk about today
was I feel like with all
the craziness that happened at NorCal,
we didn't give the winners their flowers.
Not at all.
And so I wanted to come on
the show today and give
Alex her due because it was
a dominating performance.
And I know I've made
statements this week that I
don't think it should,
that NorCal should be a
qualifying event the way it
was carried off.
But even with all of that
stuff that happened at NorCal, Alex,
dominated and showed that
her mental aptitude has
changed dramatically where
she can handle all of that
stuff and still go out and perform.
And I think that's even more
important on the men's side
where William Leahy,
who has been ridiculed for
his lack of mental
preparedness and things like that.
He,
took this opportunity to win,
win convincingly during a
strange situation and
pretty much one handedly.
And he deserves a huge amount of kudos.
And I know, you know, him personally.
So I'll let you talk.
It was a good dude, man.
So I think a lot of what
Bill's problem was,
as far as that part is concerned, like,
you know,
people saying he didn't execute
at semi right up until his,
he blew his Achilles out and whatnot on,
you know,
You know, when he did crash,
what was that?
Not this past year, but year before last,
same thing.
He doesn't have a lot of
competition experience.
People don't realize that.
But, like, he is very, very young.
He started doing CrossFit, like, after,
you know, playing high school sports,
being a basketball, basically, phenom,
superstar type deal, you know.
He doesn't have a whole lot
of CrossFit competition experience,
a lot of experience on the floor.
So what I've learned over my
very many competitions at this point,
you got to kind of roll
with whatever's happening.
You have to kind of be aware
of what's going on around you,
what's going on inside your body,
what you can do,
what you can't do at that
moment and learn how to
just kind of roll through it.
And he's still that's still
happening for him.
Right.
So all of the Jody's thumbnail,
all of the things that
that's been building, you know,
and in him rebuilding his
Achilles after blowing it
out last year and having
surgery like that in and of
itself is like a miraculous event.
For him to come out, show up,
and like you said, I mean,
he was far and away the
best person there all weekend,
and he's just going to get better.
I mean, bottom line.
Don't worry that he drops
from the top on rope climbs.
That's a youth in probably
just a used to it thing.
I mean, the dude can, he can still dunk.
So like he's used to being
up that high and just
dropping and cutting loose.
And we'll just see what
happens when it gets to the bottom.
Look, I'm the same way, dude.
I don't,
I did legless rope climbs yesterday,
Scott.
And I am, when I get to the top, I touch,
lock my feet back in, slide,
probably cut loose twice before I cut,
before I come down from the
top of the roof.
Like I'm not,
That's insane to me.
Yeah.
Jody Lynn, OMG,
laughing so hard at the thumbnail late,
but I'm here.
Yeah.
Took me a couple attempts
with some AI to combine a
picture of Corey and I into
the Step Brothers movie poster.
It's my wife's second
favorite movie of all time.
Her favorite is Dumb and Dumber.
But I showed it to her.
When you sent it to me,
I was pulling it in the garage.
And I'm sitting there looking,
and I'm laughing, dude, like so hard.
And I walk in the door,
and I just had it up.
And she said, what are you laughing at?
And I said, come here.
I said, the Wednesday show I do with Scott,
yeah, we make a thumbnail, go on Twitter.
I said, check it out.
We had just watched Step Brothers,
like the night, literally not last night,
night before last.
She looked at it, she said, what in the AI,
what in the AI hell is this?
I said, I don't know.
I think it looks pretty good.
Next week,
I have to try to get it to do a
Dumb and Dumber movie poster.
You might get a call or a
text from my wife.
It's entirely possible.
It's so good, Scott.
It's so funny.
I'm not deleting that
picture because it came out so well.
Kaya, oh my God, just checked Alex's post.
Hopefully she is fine soon.
Very scary post.
So yeah, so before we leave this,
huge congratulations to
both Alex and Bill for such
a dominating performance in utter chaos.
Yeah.
They both seemed relaxed.
They both seemed like they
had everything in control
the entire weekend and
everything went super well for them.
And again,
that alone has to give Bill confidence.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I mean, I would think so.
Speaking of Bill,
what he was known for
before this weekend was
maybe not following
directions correctly on a
score sheet or a workout description.
And that brings us to Corey.
And I'm wondering if it's
just the Cajun language and
there's a barrier.
Do we need to get a better
Google Translate from the
directions to...
The the workout.
So you did the the MFC qualifiers.
You finished in the top
twenty to go elite this year,
which was a huge goal of yours.
And then you get an email
saying they want to make a
scoring adjustment for your
handstand pushups.
And why do they want to make
a scoring adjustment for
your handstand pushups?
Because I did them to a butt
pad and not to the floor.
That's it.
That's full stop.
It's not because I didn't
come to full extension.
It's not because my feet
weren't this wide or anything else.
It's because I had a
three-quarter inch butt pad
that probably compresses
down to less than a quarter
of an inch by the time my
one hundred and ninety
pounds worth of body is
sitting all the way into it.
And I get it.
I email back and forth with them.
So I got it Saturday, which, first of all,
I want to give them their
props for actually watching
all of these videos because
these qualifiers have been
done for a while now,
like at the beginning of May.
And before you go further,
when you say butt pad,
it's actually a gardening
pad that old ladies use to
kneel down on when they're gardening.
CrossFit gyms usually buy
them as an extra padding to
put on underneath the head
or whatever in the gym.
It does compress very small,
but the rules do state that
your head and hands have to be even.
Right.
And look, and to their credit,
I missed that completely, obviously.
Anytime I've done handstand pushups,
whether it be for a workout, honestly,
probably for qualifiers before,
for the open that we've had them,
we've thrown a mud pad down
because stall mats hurt.
Bottom line,
beating head against the ground.
I know, Andrew, don't start.
So this, this,
I'm going to get into it
here in a second.
So I didn't think twice about,
I honestly did not.
I was getting set up when
it's not compressed.
Yes, absolutely.
Jeff.
Um,
I didn't think twice, twice about it.
I threw it down.
It was six wall facing
handstand pushups at a time.
So it was fifty foot lunge,
six wall facing handstand pushups.
I forget how many box jump
overs and then six bar muscle ups,
four rounds.
So grand total of twenty
four wall facing handstand pushups.
Got to think saying that, hey, you know,
we noticed in regularity,
whatever you want to call it,
whatever you use the pad.
We'll talk about that in a second.
Use the pad.
So much bounce from those pads.
Yeah, so much, a hundred percent.
It's like they're basically
like jumping on a trampoline.
What took me aback,
I guess you could say startled me,
was that they adjusted my
score according to the
email that I got from nine
forty eight to eleven fifty.
which you ain't got to worry
about doing the math
because I did it myself,
is a two-minute and two-second penalty.
It said that because I used the pad,
none of my handstand push-ups counted,
and we adjusted your score
from nine-forty-eight to eleven-fifty,
which is two minutes and two seconds.
And it took me a solid day
and a half to process that
to where when I did email him about it,
I didn't just say a whole
bunch of words that we try
to avoid on this show so we
don't get demonetized.
And I finally, Monday,
I emailed scoring and I said,
I said it to you, Scott,
you said it was well stated.
Basically that while I
understand that I – no, not two seconds.
Yeah, it would have been, Jeff.
So two minutes, twenty-four,
about five or so, something like that.
No,
that's not even – it's more than – it
would have been more than that.
So it's twenty-four reps.
I don't know what
twenty-four times five is.
Math is hard.
Math is hard.
So basically saying that I –
You know,
none of my handstand pushups kind.
So I said,
I sent him a video of the mat that I used
like showing my hand
compressed all the way down into it,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Um, and said, look, I understand.
I'm not saying I don't deserve a penalty.
I'm just saying that the
penalty that y'all says
seems fairly harsh.
Um,
understand I hold y'all in the highest
regards.
I am super glad that y'all
are actually looking at all
of these videos.
So that's cool.
Um,
because I don't feel like a lot of people,
like,
I feel like I record a lot of
qualifier videos for people
not to look at them.
Um,
So I get an email back
Monday night saying that, you know,
we sent it to the head judge, et cetera,
et cetera.
And she agrees that
basically what I said that
probably didn't gain a
whole lot competitive advantage.
But the point is that I was
not on the same level as my
hands in my head.
So they can't count.
And that's fine.
I am perfectly fine with the
fact that I was going to get a penalty.
so what I emailed her back
saying was that okay can we
talk about how we got to
two minutes and two seconds
for twenty four reps
because that seems kind of
wild to me like it was four
rounds three of the rounds
I did the handstand
push-ups unbroken the last
round I did them four and
two that's not two two
minutes and two seconds
like cool give me a penalty
I deserve a penalty but
probably not two minutes
and two seconds worth
I therefore got another email back saying,
well,
that's not what your actual penalty is.
Your penalty,
like we changed your score
from nine forty to ten thirty.
And I went, well,
that's not what the email I got said.
That part.
And I understand they got a
big they got a big group,
they got a whole lot of
stuff going on and whatnot,
but they took the entire
qualifier off of competition corner.
So you can't see any of it right now.
You can't like I couldn't go
back and check to see where
I missed it on the standards.
I can't go back and see what
my score was as opposed to
what it is and what it's
going to do to me and whatnot.
They took the whole darn thing now.
So when they send this email
out and I get it and it
says that I got a two
minute and two second
penalty and I'm going, really?
And I want to see what other people got.
You know, because.
That seems kind of crazy.
And then the lady tells me, no, no, no.
Your score is actually ten
minutes and thirty seconds now,
not nine forty.
Like the email that she said,
I'm looking at the leaderboard.
It's fixed.
It's right on here.
Just the email that got sent
to you was wrong.
And I'm like, well,
that's like I'm over here
about to have a heart
attack because of that.
And I'm like, you know, whatever it's done,
it's over with.
So Andrew says often when
the number of no reps
exceeds a certain number,
they give a percent penalty,
not doing the math right now.
They, she told me it was two seconds per.
So none of my handstand pushups kind of,
because I did them to the
pad and she told me I got a,
a two seconds per rep
penalty for all of them.
So that math actually, yeah.
And,
That's fair.
That's way better than two
minutes and two seconds
because that's not discrediting.
That's almost taking an
entire round away from it.
Or almost adding,
it'd be like if I had did
five rounds instead of four
or pretty close to that anyway.
And so at the end of the day, you asked,
because you have to be in
the top twenty to stay in the elite.
Yeah.
So I said, so how was it?
I said,
and so elite invites was go out Friday.
They can start with elite
invites and then backfill from there.
And then RX invites go out
at that and then backfill from there.
So the last thing I said was, well, I mean,
can you at least tell me
where do I stand or do I
have to wait till Friday or whatever?
And the last email I got back from him,
she said,
it looks like you're still in the top.
So all of that for nothing,
you know what I mean?
Like,
anxiety annoyance whatever
you want to call all all of
the things all the emotions
end up basically being for
no good reason because I
didn't I either didn't move
or didn't move enough to
where it made it made a
difference because once
you're an elite you get to
the competition you start
at zero percent it's a
whole different thing and
there's a judge there like
andrew stenn to tell you uh
remove the butt pad
Right.
Or it just won't be there to begin with.
Right.
And then they just put stuff on the floor,
whether you need it or not.
We did.
Yes.
Yes.
A hundred percent.
I will say this and I want
to say this publicly
because I understand that's where I was,
Jeff.
I don't know if that's where I'm still in.
I understand the argument about all,
you know, being on the same plane, right?
Hands at hands, head, blah, blah,
whatever on the same plane.
So what they said was in the
initial email I got back is
that if I had put pads under my hands,
like the same pads under my hands,
as I had it in my head,
I'd have been fine.
Well, I get that in theory,
but if I'm doing a cartwheel to get up.
and trying to land my hands on these pads.
And one of them goes sliding
out from underneath me
because that's not where
they're designed to do.
Now I'm having shoulder
surgery because I'm coming
down on my head and my
shoulder at that point.
My other,
because- Are you trying to join
the PFAA now?
I'm just saying, dude,
like that's in my head.
That's where that that's where I go.
Like, that's the first thing.
The other thing is they talked about,
you know, some people use an ab pad pad.
If you put a twenty five on
either side of it,
it's all on the same plane.
Yes.
Until your head hits the ab
pad and now is going below
the level of the twenty five.
And now I'm doing a deficit
handstand push up.
To the same level that I'm doing a short.
But that is the acceptable
way of doing that.
Or you find someone who has
cut up like an old
wrestling mat into rectangles.
I had five different people send me,
and I'm not kidding.
I'm not exaggerating.
I had, yeah,
just because you know how much those are?
Pull that up, please.
That Kia in nineteen twelve.
Easy fit pads that are big
enough to place heads and hands on them.
They're ninety five bucks a piece.
I know that because I had
five different people,
Jamie Latimer being one of them.
And then for my other friends,
send me the link to where
you can buy them on Rogue
or on some other company.
Probably that's probably who
buys them from whatever.
They're ninety five bucks a
piece for something that
I'm going to use.
Four times a year?
No,
you start using them for every workout
you do handstand push-ups
in so that you're used to
it when it comes to the qualifiers.
They had them at Legends.
The first workout we did,
the first thing I did at
Legends was handstand push-ups.
And they had them,
and I think they were stuck
to the ground.
I don't know if they taped
them down or whatnot,
but I know when you kicked up,
it wasn't going in.
Maybe you get your affiliate to buy it.
Yeah, he won't buy a freaking C-tube bike.
And we have C-tube bike
stuff programmed every single week.
I'm with Andrew.
Either spend the money on the equipment,
do it without anything,
or use something and get a penalty.
Hey, lesson learned.
I'll put it to you like that.
I'll put it to you like that.
Maybe we can do it.
If you donate money to the chat,
I will give that to Corey to buy a pad.
No.
One of my partners that I've
been knowing for quite some
time helped him open his affiliate.
Actually,
he just shut down not that long ago.
He's one of the ones that
sent me the link to that pad.
He said, I'm buying you one of these.
Father's day, birthday,
all the things together.
And I was like, dude, you know,
they have those mats that you walk on,
you put in your kitchen.
So when you're doing dishes and cooking,
like it's cushiony on your,
that's what train to live uses.
Those aren't ninety bucks.
I still can't.
Every time I see train to live thirty two,
I still,
I still read it as trained olive.
I can't help myself.
Yeah.
Erland pad.
I love them.
I love me some Doug Reed, Doug and Judy.
The problem with, so with,
with Bert saying right there,
the soft interlocking pads
at Academy for cheap.
Yep.
They absolutely do every time.
So we have a giant,
like those giant gymnastics
pads and ones that fold up or whatnot.
I've tried to do them on there.
And when my hands sink into
it every single time,
I feel like I'm doing either
more work or not enough.
It just doesn't feel right.
I'm hearing a lot of excuses here.
Oh, you can.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
I got a pocket full of them.
Yeah.
I got a pocket full of them.
You know, you learn how to do stuff.
You want to be a games
athlete in two years, man.
Oh yeah.
I need to buy a ninety five
dollar early pad.
Apparently.
There you go.
Apparently my handstand push.
Or a kitchen, kitchen softening pad.
If that makes you feel more cozy.
I should change my thing to
kitchen softening pad.
I might write that down so I
won't forget it next week.
Good news is I'll find out Friday.
One way or the other.
Here's my thing, dude.
I don't have a problem buying stuff.
I just bought a drag rope
because Brandon programs it
about once a week, something like that.
I just got that in Monday.
I was actually...
peer pressured into buying out,
but that's a whole nother thing.
Those aren't really expensive.
Say again?
Drag ropes are not that expensive.
No, they're not.
I just haven't bought one.
I meant to buy one while I
was at Legends because they were there.
Oryx Morgan was there and I just didn't.
We went back to the Airbnb
and Robbie had bought one
and Gareth had bought one
and they both bought different sizes.
We were practicing them that
night and I was like,
I'm going to buy one of
those tomorrow and I just didn't.
Oh, but anyway, I was,
every time it comes up,
I just ended up using, uh,
a heavy rope that I have
access to instead of the drag room.
And so a friend of mine from
the chat from our text
group or email company text
group texted me one day last week.
I was like, what's your address?
And I said,
it sounds like a loaded question.
And she already had it in the cart.
Like she was fixing to buy me a drag rope.
And I was like, no, no, no, no.
Kaya says, grow thicker hair.
I mean, God, dog.
Get that man bun up there to
bounce off of.
I don't have the patience.
This is way long right now.
I need a haircut.
I'm going to go get one Friday,
and I just don't have the
patience to do that.
I wish I did.
Yes, Lito, drag rope dubs or absolutely.
Yeah, I have a drag rope.
I did some... My rope came
in Monday and we had a drag
rope workout program this
week and I did them... I
did it Monday and it was
absolutely miserable.
Absolutely miserable.
Yeah, I... I got a drag rope at MFC.
They were selling them that
they used in a comp like a
couple years ago.
So I got it for like twenty bucks.
Yeah.
Dude, it was forty dollars.
Like...
It's not that big a deal.
It's just me going,
I'll just use the heavy rope instead.
Or we have a calf rope at the gym,
which is miserable.
It's worse than the drag
rope because it's heavy and thick.
One of our first ever
sponsors was RxMark here.
I have a beaded rope.
I have the Echo.
Is that right?
the really fast one.
I have their normal RX Mark here rope.
Yeah.
Like when NorCal said that
they were breaking apart, like I've had,
I've had RX Mark here ropes
for years and nothing has
gone wrong with them.
Oh dude, that's tough.
Like I finally,
I had an RPM rope forever and at legends,
they had their booth there
and I went and tried out that, uh,
super bad-ass speed rope,
whatever's like the, uh,
And I bought one,
like I ordered one the next day.
Evo is what it's called the Evo.
Yeah.
The Evo dude.
And that thing's a game changer.
Um,
we just ha how well and how easy it
spends and whatnot.
And you don't have to worry about cutting,
measuring, like you just, Hey,
this is the one I need to order.
You want to do is I ordered that in a,
in a spare cable.
And yes, Judy, there is that.
Each item isn't necessarily expensive,
but it adds up when you're
buying everything you think you need.
Yeah.
I guess like when I first started CrossFit,
I bought it.
I bought all the stuff, right?
Like the knee sleeves, the arm sleeves,
the wrist wraps, the.
Eighteen pairs of nanos.
I still have a problem with shoes.
I still have a problem with buying shoes.
Like I'm waiting for those Adidas,
the new ones, the.
Drop set.
No, not the drop sets.
You can buy drop sets right now.
The ones that they just came out with,
Bill was wearing some.
They look like regular Spezials.
Spezials.
They are a training shoe
that does not look like a training shoe.
The problem is that, yes, those, Lito.
I love drop sets, man.
One of my...
Actually,
two people at the gym bought some,
and the one that I trust
more than anybody else, Benoit,
my training partner,
because I need something I can run in.
And he's like,
I don't know about running in these.
That's the only reason why I
haven't bought a pair of drop sets.
But those Spezia are lower profile.
Yeah.
And... Well, my running sucks anyway,
so it wasn't really...
uh ddos yes sir yeah I'm
actually going to probably
buy it because I got a
notification to uh get an
email or whatever whenever
they come back in stock for
the white ones because
that's uh but in the
meantime they just
announced that workout at
monster games that is
basically a high rocks type
event um with a k of
running so it's a a k of rucking actually
So it starts off with a K of rucking.
There's a hundred meter sled drag,
another one K run.
Then as a K, a one K skier, another run,
one K run,
and then a hundred meter sandbag lunge.
And then it ends with a one K run.
So I need new running shoes
because the ones I have are
beat to absolute crap and
just not going to work well for that.
Yeah.
That's a great segue because
have you noticed that like
some of the conventional
old school media are going
all in on high rocks and
have kind of like left the
CrossFit space?
It blows my mind.
That's the exact same event
every single time.
So like how many different
times can you come?
How many different times can you cover it?
I mean, like,
I mean I'll name names like
the buttery bros just an
hour before we went on air
came out with a new video
it's high rocks specific
and they're running the
race with a different
partner than they've ever
had before and how are they
gonna like and they're
trying to race each other
like it it doesn't even
interest me like no to be fair
And I know Morrison and
Hebrew are two of the
hardest working dudes in
the space as far as that's concerned,
but none of their stuff has
interested me in quite some
time because it's the same
stuff over and over and over again.
You know, it's, and I'm sure it's,
I'm sure it's good, but
I haven't watched any of it
because nothing that
they've done here lately
has looked interesting.
Like, it really hasn't.
Yeah, I mean,
I was one of the biggest
Buttery Bro fans when they
first came out.
Same.
Watched everything, really respected them.
But man,
like the Hiller stuff that's
coming out now,
Because Hiller doesn't focus on himself.
He focuses on the athlete
that he's covering or the
behind the scenes from this
weekend's NorCal.
All about the athletes and
the people he was talking to.
And the random athletes.
Right.
Like not all elite athletes, just people.
People that were in whatever he.
Yeah.
So I agree.
Okay.
I have to address this.
So Kaya says Formula One's
the same every time also.
Hundred Meter Dash is the
same every time also.
I'm not talking about High
Rock's The Race.
I'm talking about the coverage of it.
And the way they do the
coverage starts to get the
same flavor over and over again.
Yeah.
What I thought made the
buttery bros great was
going to Australia and
doing that competition.
They did there.
That was very different than
anything I'd ever seen
before doing skydiving,
doing like weird and crazy
stuff that I would,
that was different and new.
And now it just seems like
every other episode is a
high rocks episode.
doing the strongman stuff,
going up to train with Matt
Fraser or being there on
his off day one weekend,
I guess when it comes to mine,
when they built the – he
built the target for them
to throw axes at.
That kind of stuff was fun
to watch because it felt more real.
It felt more not just, hey,
let's go run this high rocks again.
Oh,
and this time I'm going to run it –
this time I'm going to run
it with Charlie instead of whoever.
Yeah.
And I'm not here to dog them.
They did one of my favorite
videos of the year.
They did the Laura Horvat video for WFP,
which was spectacular.
Dude,
they're... But it was not a Buttery
Bros umbrella.
They're... Which documentary did they do?
Was that in the year?
Yeah,
their CrossFit Games documentary from
twenty nineteen is one of
my favorite ones to watch.
when they're talking about, you know,
they got the, the workout,
they had the first workout
figured out and they're, you know,
they in the motor home with
Dan Bailey talking about which should be,
and just that,
that entire thing and the
way they put it together,
I thought was fantastic.
Um,
And like I said, I'm the same way.
When they first started putting out videos,
like when they first got
fired from CrossFit and
started putting out their own videos,
they were outstanding to watch.
It was fresh.
It was new.
It was fun.
And I'm not saying that
their stuff's not now.
It's just there's nothing
that they're putting out
that I have any interest in watching.
I hope they still get views.
To Lito's question,
I have no idea what their
views on High Rocks episodes look like.
god bless them I hope they
get all of you I wish them
nothing but success but for
me personally I just don't
care anymore like until
they put out something that
you or somebody I know and
trust will send me
something that says that
hey this you should
probably watch this this is
pretty darn good then I'll
probably watch it at that
point but up until then so
the high rocks video that
came out an hour ago that
currently has one point one k
That's impressive.
No.
Mayhem Classic,
when they're focusing on a CrossFit event,
Mayhem Classic, a hundred thousand.
They did a thing with the
daughters at Waterpalooza,
a hundred and sixty thousand.
When it's adding stuff together,
you know it's going to work, right?
People still want to watch
stuff about the daughters.
People still want to watch
stuff about Waterpalooza.
I would watch that.
I'd at least check it out.
A feature of Kelsey Keel,
who didn't even make the games.
One hundred and forty one thousand.
Like they have big numbers in.
It was not a hundred K Jose.
It was one thousand in the first hour.
I'm trying to find other high rocks ones.
I know they've done some others.
Here we go.
They're high rocks.
The last high rocks that's
been out for a month.
Forty nine K. Yeah.
Mayhem classic out a month.
A hundred K.
So that's telling me a lot.
Fifty percent.
It's kind of a big deal.
Yeah.
There you go.
So anyway,
it was just an observation I'd made.
Thought I'd make a comment.
It's usually where I get in trouble.
Yeah, it's fine.
Well, that's the thing, you know,
they are doing it for the views, though,
because that's how they get paid.
Yeah,
they're probably the highest paid
content creators in the CrossFit space.
I've heard the numbers of
what they get for title
sponsor for an episode,
and it is bananas.
Oh, I'd imagine so.
Because they were the
biggest thing in the sport.
They're bringing on it.
If I'm a sponsor, yes,
I want to sponsor your show
because I know how many
hours I'm going to get on my product.
And the, and to be, and also to,
to prop them up, give them their,
their ad reads that they do
like in the mid in mid show
are usually smooth,
smooth as glass and entertaining.
And for the most part,
smooth as you can be smooth
as you can be exactly.
So bless them for that.
Like they're good at, they're,
they're good at it.
So why wouldn't you pay them
or why wouldn't, or couldn't they, I say,
why wouldn't you pay it?
Because I'm sure they're,
they have a set price at this point.
Like, no, no,
this is how much it's going
to cost for you to,
for us to promote your stuff.
Yeah.
I, yeah.
I don't know how much it is
in inside the episode.
I do know the title is what
they were charging a year ago.
Yeah.
which was like I said
bananas and again good for
them yeah they deserved it
they're if you're averaging
a hundred k on your
crossfit videos like you
you're getting eyes on
everything and the rest of
us are just trying to get
anywhere near there that
includes I mean it's
When Hiller goes over a
hundred K that's a big deal
to him still for them.
That was the norm.
Right.
So like, we're all striving for that.
They,
they set the bar and Hiller and Savannah,
the only ones that are even
approaching those numbers anymore.
But, but it's a,
it's not a consistent thing
to hit six figures on views.
Yeah.
No.
I wonder what the Mayhem show,
the Rich Fronten podcast,
what does that do?
Yeah, he's an anomaly.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
He might be another one that's... Because,
like it or not, or admit it or not,
but he's basically universally loved.
He's got haters just like
anybody else does, but in our space.
Did you see that short the
other day about asking
Angelo about how famous
Rich was in Cookville?
And it's like,
he rides with Santa in a
Christmas parade.
It said basically, it's him and the mayor,
like,
pretty much what and what as
far as famous people in town.
Like he can't go anywhere
without being recognized.
He said, now that he goes anywhere,
Angelo said he door dashes
Chick-fil-A and his groceries.
Like he doesn't leave the
house unless he absolutely has to.
So yeah, they're,
they're podcasts around thirteen K.
Some of their stuff out like
Mayhem on the Mountain or
Syndicate Crown behind the scenes.
Yeah.
One K,
seventeen K. Individual athletes
with semifinals,
sixty two K. So they're not
even hitting those buttery bros numbers.
That's impressive.
What Lito said right there.
Speaking of mayhem,
looking forward to the next
podcast and what they think about NorCal.
Yeah, I'm anxious to hear that as well.
I am.
I'm going to watch that one.
I can promise you that.
I don't watch all of their stuff.
I will have it playing
sometimes while I'm working
just so I can hear them talking.
But, oh, my,
I really want to hear about that, I guess,
for execution boards' concern.
Kaya has to take off.
Yeah,
we're running a little over today
than our normal time.
But, yeah, we just got into that.
Sorry, we got off on a sidetrack.
But that usually happens when Corey joins.
Easily derailed.
Did you notice the thumbnail
that I added some jambalaya
instead of steak to the thumbnail?
I am in the jambalaya
capital of the United States.
Yeah,
added some jambalaya and a hurricane.
God bless you for that.
I don't think I've had a
hurricane since I was
probably nineteen years old.
Yeah, I had one in New Orleans.
Because you have to have one.
And it was way too fruity for me.
Yeah, no, it's super duper sweet.
Judy, I am... So happy I caught it live,
especially with the great Corey Leonard.
I don't know about great, Judy.
I'm working on it.
Apparently I need a giant
pad to do handstand push-ups on.
All right, guys.
As everybody's leaving to get back,
the rest of you
knuckleheads get back to work.
We're going to get back to work.
We'll see everybody tomorrow
on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.