All right. Good evening, everybody.
Welcome to the spin. February 21st, not a great
afternoon for me, took second place on the whiteboard.
It was a good show though. It was a great show.
Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah.
That was as Seth started answering the last question
about the goat. And then looking at Hiller's
reaction, I knew that we were all all on the same page and at
some point I didn't have a a way to get out of that and pivot,
but I I thought maybe my olive oil swig might have have gotten
him to. Did you do a full swig?
Really. Oh yeah, it was real.
Get them fats up. Oh yeah, that was it was
intense. But I tried.
I tried. So what did you guys think would
you have on the brand question? What was the brand question
again? Sorry, I was in a.
Non so if you want to get it all fancy, non endemic.
CrossFit. Brand CrossFit brand and how
would you pitch to them? Yeah, that would be tough.
I'd have to give that one like a day's worth of thought.
What did you say, Brian? I said I don't want to go just
find anybody to give us money. I want a partner brand that
actually supports and lives by the CrossFit mantra versus just
taking money. You know what I would have done
there? I would have been like, I'm not
going to go to Coca-Cola and say that you should partner with
CrossFit because we're not about that life.
I want to be with people. I mean, I brought up the whole
monster stuff. But the Coca-Cola thing would
have hit Pedro in the fields. You would have gotten points
mentioning Coca-Cola and be like, I'm not going to sit here
and be freaking out Chama and just drink Coca-Cola all day and
act like that's the way to health and fitness.
No, I want people who live that life.
It's OK, Brian. I mean, if I was on there, I
clearly would have won. We all know.
You're such a sore loser. It's OK.
You know, it's it's all good, man.
It's all good. You did your best.
You did great, but I do think that would have earned points
with with Peter. It's hard.
It's hard to find another rogue because that is that's
essentially what you want to do is find a rogue.
But but that's not endemic and it's like, that's so hard.
Like I don't want to use the word niche, but it's like it's
hard to fill that. Like where do we overlap with
other people or other brands? Right.
I mean, I think, I think Seth picking a credit card
institution, finance institution was probably the safest route
you could go. He started losing me when he's
like you could track yourself and track all the stuff you're
doing and get discounts for moving and all like that.
No, that's not my style, but fair enough.
All right, We got a good show. Want to cover a lot of
information that's been going out a lot of the news this week
we'll get to your viewer comments.
We'll take a look at the top 25 media poll, go through all three
of the open announcements, get our takes on it blind rankings.
And then we will finish off with a special betting with the boys.
A little bit heat, one flavor. So this one you'll definitely
want to stay around for because. You get to play along.
Yeah, you guys will be able to play along and if you've been
waiting for what's going on in the open with heat one, you will
find out. So all right, first one, Laura
Horvath going to the European Weightlifting Championships,
putting up a two O 5 total. John thoughts on Laura lifting
out there and how she did. She should have just gone into a
joke. Right there.
Well, I mean if you if you ask her, I think she would have said
like she had a really poor performance like she went two
out of six and like in in weightlifting.
I honestly was amazed at the weightlifting commentary.
His name is Seb Austrawick's or something like that.
His YouTube channel is Weightlifting House and if
you're part of the weightlifting community, they're essentially
like the sevon of the weightlifting community or or
spin. They're not like as out there as
Sevon gets sometimes but like they're the news source for
weightlifting and they are announcing this and they said
CrossFit about a million times. And I was just, I enjoyed
listening to their commentary. As far as what Laura lifted I
mean we she lifted numbers that I know she can lift I and she
went two out of six. I think she, I think she's
disappointed in her performance but I it it does show what cross
fitters can do versus like elite people in their, you know in
their own sport. It's I it's honestly pretty
crazy. She can even go to the European
Championships and and be top ten and whatever, like you really
think about it. And she was in contention to
potentially get a bronze in the cleaning jerk.
But if she'd hit her, her lifts. But I don't think she would have
ended up that way. But she was at least in the
running for it. And she did hit her lifts.
So they just didn't. They just wouldn't.
They didn't count in. Any green lighter?
No, the first one, I think. Yeah, here it is.
White light, sorry. Yeah, they they red lighted her
very quickly. And this is something that, like
a lot of people, if you're not in the weightlifting world, like
you don't understand, like I would say.
I see it, yeah. I would say like 70% of the
lifts you see would not count on the platform.
It has to be the cleanest thing in the world and like there
cannot be that hers. Was hers, was microscopic.
It was barely at all it. Wasn't though for the weight
like the. Way I understand.
Like they'll they've called stuff, red lights that it's like
you just kind of your elbows went back a little bit like, you
know what I mean? Like it's it's and like doing it
on a platform is wildly different than doing it at a
CrossFit competition. And it's.
I think it's lost on a lot of people if you're not like in the
weightlifting world. I'm glad that she hit one
though, 'cause I was scared that she was she bombing not going
to. You know what?
I mean, her cleans look very strong.
Those were the easy part. And then it was just.
That's a jerk. And I tell.
You what? He looks slim, which I think is
a good thing for her. She probably.
Do you think she cut a little bit to go into this?
Probably, yeah. But like, I think, like in her
mindset, I think is you know what?
I'm going to go head first into weightlifting for a little bit
and then, but I'm going to like get in this lower weight class
or whatever that she's in. And that way her weightlifting
will stay top tier and she'll be smaller, which is just going to
help her in the gymnastics that she struggles with.
Everything else she's going to keep fitness wise, like being
smaller doesn't hurt her at all except in weightlifting.
And if you're working weightlifting, she's already the
strongest one. You know what I mean?
Like, maybe on her worst day somebody can beat her, but right
now she's the strongest one of the girls that are going to make
the games. Danny Spiegel not included,
right. And so, like, I get it.
I think it's a smart move. Yeah, no, it was.
I'm glad I was able to get that and put that out there so that
we could everybody could see it. It's a shame somebody from
CrossFit didn't follow her around or video or I wonder if
because she has a YouTube channel or if they put anything
out. Well, usually everything comes
through Rad, which she was wearing a Rad singlet.
She's also wearing Mark Bell's knee sleeves.
I don't know if you saw that. No, I didn't pay attention to
that. No, but rad.
I definitely noticed the rad. The rad one.
I saw a lot of people saying they wanted one.
Next one. Dave Castro.
He There we go. There we go.
Dave Castro. What he he said he I was going
to be a lot more involved in the games.
Let's. Take a listen with me back.
I provided feedback and guidance with the games.
I'm definitely finding myself. I'm going to be heavily
involved, even in A at a creative level.
I started working on the schedule and started working on
the flow and just got really sucked in.
We'll all work together, but I'm definitely enjoying kind of with
the games and and leaning into that.
In his defense, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
Ryan, Do you do you have the meme?
Do you have the meme on on hand? Don't you know what I'm talking
about? I do.
Let me let me pull this up here. Before go ahead Tyler while he's
pulling it up. Well, I was going to say in his
defense of years that this needs to land.
This is it. And I would not want to put it
on anybody else's back if I were him besides my own.
So that's what I was going to say.
Here we go. This is fantastic.
Can you read it for them? So Bosman when Castro says he's
heavily involved with this year's programming.
And so this is. Yeah, man.
This was Zuckerberg at AUFC match and he stayed in there and
the guys just keep handing them stuff right past them and.
His his hand reach. His his the hand reach that he
does. It kills me on one of the.
I love that he's. There it is.
There he is. Passes it all, Yeah, I'm
involved. I'm part of the team.
Yeah, that's the that's the first thing I thought of.
And I saw that meme over the weekend.
Then when when Dave said this, I was like, oh man, like, what do
you make of this Tyler? Like Dave being back creatively,
there's a team. He's already mentioned last week
he was highly into the schedule. I mean, what is?
He I mean like like I said like he's the he's the goat by the by
default essentially because there's been no one else but but
but Bosman and Bosman hasn't had it long.
But how? Many people are going to suck
off Dave today. I'm not sucking him off.
You're not listening. I think I wonder if he left a
little bit out. Like Boz already has some of the
programming thought out and he's giving.
He like they're doing it collaboratively.
But I hope, I hope that he's not kicking Boz all the way out
because I like Boz's flair. I like the way Boz writes
events. But like I said, with the
pressure that's on for this year to land, I'm going to want to
hold that real close to the chest, you know what I mean?
Yeah, Yeah. What do you think?
Me and Brian. Either.
Go ahead, John. I I I'm happy that he said he's
going to be more involved. I I think there is AI think
there is a good mix somewhere somewhere And if they find it no
you don't understand what like like like Dave is very high
volume high reps we're going to see who can survive and then the
fittest person will be the one who survives the best like he
wants to break your body and we'll see who doesn't break.
Right Boz execution Boz his skills like it's it's and it's
very evident but like I think there's a good combination
somewhere in the line where you can have like execution with
seeing who survives right Like and and I don't know what that
looks like but I'm hoping like I think somewhere if we if you can
find that middle ground we could have like the greatest games
ever as far as programming goes. And like I'm thinking like like
we probably like there's no need to see crossover double unders
when nobody can do them. You know what I mean?
Like that's not something you just spring on people.
You could spring the parallette free hand standing thing because
some people will have it, the gymnast will have it.
I don't think you spring crossover double S for some
people like and like. People can do them now, but
yeah, I don't know. You understand what I'm saying?
Like yeah, that that event would never have been programmed.
Under Dave. Under Dave.
Right. And I'm not saying like we
shouldn't do things like that, but I'm just saying like I think
there is a good combo somewhere between the two, the two, those
two guys. I don't think.
It's great that it's. I don't think it's great when
it's just overkill and he survives either.
It's cool. It's fun.
I enjoy seeing the winner, but I do think there's I enjoy seeing
what boss does too. When like, hey, let's this is a
skill that's going to be hard. Let's see who's got it.
And like, I enjoy that in the quarterfinals level almost more
than anything, because it really separates the people who just
work out a lot and are fit and the people who are like,
actually athletic and can and can adapt on something they
haven't done before, right? And I'm.
I'm excited. I hope the two truly work
together. And it's not just Dave run the
show or Baz run the show. If if it ends up people think
Dave's run the show, but they're really collaborative, that's
fine. But that's how I That's how I.
When you say that, it makes go ahead, sorry.
Yeah, T bird. Does anyone think Baz cares a
lot if Dave is involved? They're friends.
And I mean it's they've been that way since the beginning.
I I'd imagine it feels like falling into into place for him.
But after having the games for a year and a half, I mean do you
want somebody to come in there and start your vision of you
thought right, like I've I I came in last minute in 2223 I
got my whole thing and now like vetoed again.
I I yeah, like, I have their like a vision of how it's going
to go and now maybe it goes in a different direction.
You can't. You just don't look at it like
that. Like, like what do you?
Mean, for instance. OK, so.
If if boss looks at the games this past year and he's like
this, this was the greatest games ever program that I did
right. Like all him, like this was the
greatest games ever programmed. If it was like unanimous people
thought that way then it's like I got it but and I'm not saying
it was a bad games I don't think it was but if you can see if you
can like just let go of your ego for a minute and be like I think
we can create a better product and work together versus having
an ego about it. And I this is for Dave too you
know what I mean. Out of those two, Dave's more
likely to have the ego than box. True or wrong?
That's. Probably true.
That's probably true. But I, and I'm saying like both
of them and both of them like, this is my idea, OK?
This is how I've always done it. Collaborate.
If they can let go of their ego, I think we'll get the best
product. I think it's.
Hard. My thing is, why haven't they
done that? Like Dave had a decade to get it
to get it right to to to hammer that that true right.
And boss needs the reps and so it's like why?
And then I think, why haven't they been doing that for the
past five years? I understand doing that for the
first, you know, 10 to 8 years, but it's like you need an
understudy. So why wasn't he there in the
1st place? Why wasn't this hand off smooth
to begin with? Why do we have to backpedal?
Yeah, but he should have had an understudy at all times.
And that understudy was boss. Not if you take it back.
Yeah. He didn't voluntarily leave.
He didn't it. No, but Bosman was.
Bosman was the you you just got, you just replaced him.
I think what Tyler's saying is have Bosman in there being
collaborative for years, he. Would have had the reps.
Right like you come in there. I get what you're saying.
I get what? You're saying and I think that's
where Dave, Dave came in there last year and was like I made
some tweaks, right. Like he and we saw it at semi
finals where I don't think again though I don't think the semi
finals would have been programmed the same way.
They won't be the same way as what it was last year, right.
And I think that's experience and that's where that's where I
was always wondering was Bosman's now had a full season.
He's learned it. And then you, how excited would
you be to be able to implement those things then you know, the
second full year and that, yeah, maybe how that starts?
Working out, you start cooking, you know, like as soon as semi
finals is over, you're like, oh, I see what I should have done
differently. And same thing with the games.
And it's like, especially since that was his first full season,
you'd think he'd have all these ideas.
So it's weird. I do think, John, with what you
were saying, my brain starts thinking most of Dave's most
iconic events and the and the the kill you with volume are
outside. Now that being said, he
programmed killer regional workouts that are like that are
volume killers. So I mean I don't hate it.
I I hope they come to what John is saying where they they have
this really good back and forth and collaborative and maybe Dave
gets final say or whatever, but we'll see.
Also coming out earlier this week, the Pitt Teen Throwdown
and the PFAA partners together to create a mentorship program
for the 120 athletes who will end up qualifying for the
teenage CrossFit Games this summer.
It's a 10 week program. It looks like Pat Velner, Ariel
Lowen, Paige Powers have all signed up already.
Some comments in the art in the post I had on Instagram.
It sounds like some others are interested in it.
Initial thoughts on this type of program for the teens, Tyler?
I want to know your thoughts first, honestly.
At first I'm like is there a need for it right?
I got because what it talks about is like movement and.
Coaching. Yeah, I was like coaching and
movement and I was just like, I don't.
I don't get it like this. Doesn't they all have coaches.
They all have. A lot of them are probably in a
camp. I I don't get it.
And then as more I guess the athletes were coming in and
saying they wanted to work with them and do more, I I think
it'll it could be beneficial for those who want it.
It's A to me, I just see APR play to get at, to get younger
athletes to want to participate. Because if I know that, like I'm
going to get to chum it up with with Fukowski for a while and
he's going to get to see me, then I'm like, Oh yeah, like
I'll I'll do the team games. Whereas before I I might I might
have just been like I'll do team or something.
I don't know. It's.
I think you're being too hard on it.
It's like a like a Rivals football camp or like a like a
Nike football camp. I like for like all the five
stars out there. They go to Alabama for a week
and they have a camp of football drills and Adrian Peterson shows
up and it's, it's, it's like that.
Well, and this is all online virtual like over 10 weeks,
right? So like, basically what they're
going to do is they're. Going to house in person?
Never. Mind no, no, they're they're
going to get like. They're not going to some some
facility and all hanging out and camping together.
I'm sure a lot of it will depend on how involved the athletes, or
how many athletes want to be involved and how many they end
up getting as a team, mentor, mentee.
But yeah, it's it sounds like it's all virtual.
It's. How?
To catch up a week. It's valid and arrow low and
really going to be in that like like.
After the games 100%. Highly just doubt that.
And it's it's from June 16th to August 18th, so that's right.
Before that's. That's so they're playing.
In the middle of the games. Because games, the games will be
in the last, the second, the last week of that or yeah.
They are not talking this this when they OK, you know what this
is they have pre recorded videos Hey guys how to do rope climbs
this is what I do like I bet you like Bukowski's got his thing
where you can buy it like in it's like the the professor
project I think it's what it's called where he just walks you
through like his movement. I guarantee they've just pre
recorded stuff and that's what they're sending them with a
message every single week of hey, and just be a kid, go do
sports. Like don't burn out.
Like just be a kid. Like you don't want to overdo
it. I guarantee you they say that
about a million freaking times. For any team that.
You have said that the time and that it was should have started
with that. I think the whole thing is
ridiculous. What I think that was and what
it was, it's completely different.
For any teen who who's who might be listening who wants to do
this, write in that you want Taylor Self as your mentor
please. Because I I think it would be
beneficial to you, but also I want that content to be out
there. Kyle Landis I hope Colton signs
up and makes the kids clean the barn.
Here's how you're going to do it.
He just makes a new free labor doing this at my house.
T Bird, why don't you have Pat or Brent on to ask before you
judge? That's a fair question.
I just don't think if it's in the middle of freaking game
season T bird, that they're going to be super invested in
mentoring children when they're trying to make a livelihood.
This is their care about. This is their dreams.
Belner and Fukowski, I'm talking about, right?
They're not going to spend the time to freaking, like, raise
these children on how to do rope clamps.
No. And and these kids are already
really freaking good. They're already fitter than I
am. Almost all of them like.
They all have coaches like I doubt there's very many who
don't have some sort of dedicated coach and and so and.
And if they are invested in it, like say say they're really
invested in it and it's actually like 1 to one face contact like
every Sunday or something. If that is the case, then I
think they need to place their priorities somewhere else
because I'm not going to bank on them being good at the games.
If their priorities are investing in y'all in the middle
of freaking game season, like I just, I don't see it, I don't
see it and I have no idea what it is.
I'm passing judgment way before I know what it is.
I have no idea. That's what we're here for.
First. First reactions.
Yeah. No, I I think there could be
some benefit to it. I think the timing of it is
going to be rough, like John said, like in the middle of like
deep CrossFit Games training. And you have a couple weeks
where it's not even going to matter because they're going to
be traveling. They're going to be, I mean,
competing on a week like Sunday. They have their standing 1:00
call. Hey, I'm a little busy.
We're at the skip this week and do it next week.
Yeah, from I don't. I just don't see them from the
coaching standpoint. I see it from an ongoing
relationship of having somebody to look up to and talk through
how to get through the challenges of competing at the
highest level. I don't know if that has to
happen as you're preparing for your CrossFit Games, right?
Like that's a all an offseason year round type thing and maybe
it'll turn into that, but Speaking of teens who have not
decided to compete anymore and possibly burnt out or.
You want to talk about somebody to have a mentor that like.
This she's got like 8 mentors. No, she said.
This is, this is the person that needs to go to Colton's farm and
just live and just and just live for a while.
Not Hawaii. Just live on the barn and do
Colton's chores so he could freaking get top ten in the
games and he has not. He doesn't have an excuse
anymore, OK? In the comments, spell Hawaii
like John just said it. So if you're not, you're not
watching. You're listening on a podcast.
We're talking about Mal O'Brien. She is not competing again.
That's kind of what we expected. You know she's out.
I don't know. I I do, We do.
Do you think she'll ever come back based off of the minute and
a half video that we saw? Tyler.
I I I can't judge this unbiasedly because I've thought
she was going to come back up till the moment that she posted
that she wasn't coming back. Yeah, you were very anti Haley
Adams and very Rove Al O'Brien in the exact opposite Tyler
Watkins Curse is strong. I know it's I, I, I, I I see.
I think I can see in her that that it's the fire's still
there. But I mean, who knows, man?
Like, we don't really know what she's gone through mentally and
so it's hard to know if she would come back from that.
She's got all the time in the world, so I never say never.
John. Yeah, I mean, she's 19, so like,
if she wants to come back, she can come back.
I honestly don't care to talk about her anymore until she
comes. Back I heard.
If, you know, like I don't, I don't think it's news she's
done. She's not doing CrossFit.
I mean, I think she should do what you you said, Brian.
I think she should go to high rocks and and just get as fit,
endurance as she can and have fun with her life.
And then I don't have to talk about her until she decides to
come back to CrossFit and then have to talk about it.
And she. She needs to go talk to Christy,
Erimo O'Connell and figure out how to do content with the way
that she does, because the current stuff that Mel's putting
out is not going to last. And Chrissy's.
You know who's good at that stuff?
Nick Bear. Nick Bear is very good at that
stuff, You know? You know what?
I'm not. I'm talking.
About BPN. Yeah, yeah, Adam Clink and Adam
Clink did high rocks for a little bit.
Like, he's all about that lifestyle and a monster.
And like, I think, I mean he be, I get you, Christy Hermo would
be cool too because she's in that life now.
It's probably the better call. But that's another guy that is
very good at running that's very fit.
I like Clink as far as the mentor for TOO, though, because
like that dude's got a good view on life.
It'd be good to to spend time with him in Texas, I guess.
Yeah I I just if you go guys go watch miles latest water
polluter video it is it is not good.
I think the bottom We have given an award on the critics, the.
Critics. Viewer comments All right, here
we go. Ivana 4888 John is the best
analyst in CrossFit. Cannot staff stop laughing
where? Whenever he's yelling.
Thank you. Thank you, Ivana.
Gotina Katya, 92. She loves seeing the Colton
Picks across the board. But favorites aside, when
betting on an athlete to win an open announcement, would you go
by 1 results against each other in person on the same field?
2 results on open workouts or three?
Just who's got more dog mentality because it's
one-on-one and no one's peaking anyway.
What was that? What was the the actual
question? What?
So what? Do you?
How do you go ahead? Yeah.
Who went? And maybe we'll get into this,
more of it on the open announcements, but yeah, what do
you care more about? Do you remember the first
one-on-one? I I don't care about the
individual one-on-one. I just care about workouts that
they've done that are the same. In the open quarter finals
versus like say semifinals and games.
Yeah, yeah. Because open and quarter finals
doesn't correlate really to semi finals and semifinals doesn't
correlate to the games and you can't.
Do you hear that, Brian? I I did not.
Can you repeat that? Although Hopper's going to get
first at his semi final because he does amazing at semi final
programming. Yeah.
And then Tyler is just going to be so hard on Hopper.
Podium. He's going to be third place.
I'm standing on that man. John, do you agree?
No, I I think I don't pass judgment on who I think is going
to win an open workout until I know what the movements are and
then I go by movements only. For instance, if it's a
handstand push up workout, guess what?
Colton's going to win. If it's like a grinding long 10
minute amrap of a bunch of bourbon box jump overs and
dumbbell snatches and then pull ups like I'll probably give that
to Justin. I I whatever the workout is,
look at what movements are in there and then who is better at
said movements doesn't really matter their fitness
capabilities because they're all top of the sphere.
That's the person that's going to win.
Yeah, yeah. The movements are definitely
going to be a huge factor in this.
I have my thoughts. I'll I'll hold off until we get
to the open announcements because I do have like it is
sometimes athlete dependent on that.
So here we go Miss masters, athlete.
How about pullovers? I can see that movement being in
the open. You're on crack, Miss Masters
Athlete. Yeah, not not working.
In other years, maybe not this. Year No.
No. Never.
That'd be a disaster. Disaster.
No, there's no need for it. Bryson Del Monte Highrox isn't
controversial. They're not claiming to make the
fittest athletes on earth. They're not fighting a war on
horrible nutrition. What CrossFit does scares big
companies, and they don't want to be associated with the
company that fights Sugar when they probably get a bunch of
money in partnerships from Pepsi and Coke.
We used to fight sugar, you said, is the key part of that.
Right. I mean that goes back to my
thought on well that and then just what what brands do we
want, right And I and goes back to Pedro's question on around
the whiteboard. I thought about actually
Speaking of sponsorships, Like, I've thought about weird ones
like like what if Zen sponsored CrossFit?
There's nothing. Like there's nothing weird about
it. It's just nicotine.
But it seems like a no no, right?
But it could have some overlap. A lot of a lot of weight
lifters, power lifters and all that use in and there's
technically nothing wrong with it but it.
Yeah, we lose Tyler. You froze, Tyler.
And he's gone. It must have been a bad take,
so. He goes There's nothing wrong
with it. He's out.
He is, Yeah, He is gone. All right.
While we wait for him to get back, let's head over to the
next segment, the Top 25 Media Poll.
Were you surprised by the results?
Here I was. A little bit.
I'm surprised, I guess the first, top first place, Ricky
Gerard on the men's side, Tia, Claire Toomey or on the women's
side. I think overall my thought on
the women's side is I'm surprised that nobody moved.
The top ten was the exact same men's side.
Would have moved it. I just figured that some like.
Somebody would use their mind somewhere.
Like Emma Carey did. Well, right?
Water Palooza. Does she move up and go ahead of
Ariel? I don't know.
I mean, like one of those types of of moves.
Like, I don't think there'd be a whole lot.
I think a lot of it we're pretty set on.
But I mean, like, you have Migala, Raptus, Lowen, Carrie
all kind of there bunched up a little bit.
Will they have moved just from what we've seen on the
offseason? It did change like big time on
the men's and then the women's are there's nothing.
Yeah, Ricky moves up. Or four spots from 5th to 1st.
Five first place votes he out. He got, what, eight more points
than Roman Krenikoff? What's funny is Roman still has
more first than Ricky. Yeah.
Yeah, there were a couple voters that did not have Roman very
high, which is interesting. I assume it's funny how that
happens after one one bad showing at.
Roman's probably first then and then these people are just being
dumb as well is probably happening.
But as it shows I I think this is exactly what my top ten was
like person for person, but is is I think.
So can you look at my top ten I'm.
Pretty positive I don't have it pulled up, no.
It would be cool if this is just a critique, if we could get our
top $0.25 back to us. I don't know if that's an
option. I I could do it.
It's always a stretch to get it all pulled up.
I had it last last time I had it available to give you a look at
it. Yeah, no big deal.
Yeah, Jason Hopper down in 10th, I think.
Quan should be higher. I know he moved up three spots,
but I mean that Quan. I think Quan, like, I know he's
hit or miss man, but. What do you think about, like,
longevity wise? Like he's starting to get into
the territory of like, oh, what's his face, Just move back
over to TTT, Will Morad, Will Morad?
Like, we're starting to get into those years for him.
He's been doing it for a long time.
You don't think? No, I don't think he's that old.
He's in his upper 20s, maybe. It's just training years, very.
Young when he got into. I mean he I think until we see a
decline, I don't think there's anything to think about it.
And he looked great at Water Palooza.
Yeah. Yeah, very strong.
And I I I would put him right like where?
Like under Justin, Justin Medeiros.
I think he should be in the Lazar, J crouched.
I I agree. I totally agree.
I think I put him that high. And I'd probably put him above
those guys. I think I'd put him.
I I don't think I'd put him above Justin.
It's hard to do that with just one bad gear by Justin, but.
The bitch about Quan is his consistency year over year.
She's like. I understand that, but when Quan
Quan is on, he's. That's what I said do.
You think we obviously keep talking about the the indoor
side of things. We don't know what it's going to
look like, but I feel like Quant would benefit if it does shift.
Inside. To more of an inside type
competition. He's good on machines and he's
not the best runner, 100 percent 100.
Percent I agree. Any thoughts on Yon Koski?
No. Going from 6th at the Games down
to 12th, they're just. Well, he only didn't got one
spot in the ranking. I think it's a consistency thing
for Kowski because he's been like, I mean he got six, so why
wouldn't you? And it's that he missed and he
start. He like he shows that he gets
injured from time to time. So it's like I think he could
get up to six, but I'm I would feel safer putting him closer to
where he is. So I mean like, I think, yeah,
he might be a little low, but I don't think he's super low.
I know he's got 6th place, but like you scroll back up like
there's people that are there that weren't there before you
got Roman or not Roman, Ricky, who's there, that's a that's a
spot. And then Justin, who should be
who should finish higher than what he did this last year,
that's a spot. And then Hopper who we all know
his top ten potential he's just the most he's probably the most
inconsistent person that we've ever seen at the games as far as
like what he can do and then what he ends up doing like which
he I think when he got 7th place that's more what he is but he
didn't right. So but that's three spots that
are all better than Kowski. What we we think should be
better than Kowski and that would that would put him at 9th
right As what he as what he would finish at the game.
So we put him at 9th. Now it's unfair to Yonah to do
that because they didn't and he got 6th place.
But if we think that he should have been 9th and then we have
him at 12th, it's not that big of a deal right?
And Quant is one of those spots as well.
But I I do think it is a little bit unfair to Yonah.
I think he's like 10th, but it's not that that far off in, in my
opinion. Travis Mayer 16th Hold steady
Tyler. I get it.
Where did you, where did you put him in your rankings, Tyler?
I think probably around 12th or something.
That doesn't make sense. Tyler guaranteed 5th.
I guaranteed he's going to make top five.
It was like on Chase's go. It was like on.
It was like on Chase's show when we were talking about Laura
winning the games and you know, and Doctor Strange just sitting
there thinking like there's one, there's one route for this.
I think we're on a perfect wave season.
I think he's going to get 5th, but if you want to talk about
top 25, yeah, I'm going to put him in.
I'm like well. This is what you think is going
to happen, Tyler? No, no, no, no, no.
Yes, yes, yes. No, this is your prediction for
the 24 games. This is your prediction.
This isn't not what anybody else going to put I.
See, it's going to change. It changes all the time, though,
because as we get closer, I'm going to be like, OK, we're
really honed in. This is the year, and that's
when he starts moving up in my polls.
I don't know. I don't know how you can
guarantee it. And then throw them down there
in 16th. James Sprague, Jack Farlow both
pop in two. Shouldn't be there anymore.
Chandler is now going to be out since he is official.
He's a legacy. Legacy bugs.
With Chandler. I mean, that was that.
Would put Austin Hatfield back into the top 25.
The they're the two first people that are out should be 19th and
20th place, and the fact that they are not me.
G and Spencer. No, the two that are not that
like the first two out should be 19th and 20th I.
Won't Argue and Bill Leahy. I won't argue with you about
Bill because we really haven't seen him because ever it
crashed. What I will push back.
So what did you what would you say about Austin from Water
Palooza that makes you think he should be in the top 20?
Austin hat if he hits that snatch but she got kind of F by
the judges. He would have been like 7th
place and a five event and a five event like competition or
swimming. He was going to be trash and
then they changed one of the events that he would have been
very good at to something that he wasn't very good at.
And like if you that's. I mean that's it.
That's really my only argument. I think the more events there
are, the better he will do. He does not.
His holes are going to be similar to what Colton's holes
are, OK and at what? And they finished pretty darn
close to each other. I know Colton beat him right?
Like Colton was ahead right by two points.
Yeah, yeah. Didn't he?
Didn't he barely beat him? Or was he?
Was he comfortably? Ahead of him.
They were right there. No, they were right there.
Colton and Alton. Right there.
So, so like what Austin Hatfield is going to be bad at is similar
to what Colton is going to be bad at.
And then Colton's home run hits where he's the best in the world
at and can kill everybody. Austin Hatfield is not as good
as Colton, but he's going to be the next level down from like
that. You see what I'm saying?
He's got the the lower extreme of the highs and the upper
extreme of the lows of Colton Merton's.
That is Austin Hatfield. So you're saying, but can Austin
be have a higher ceiling than than Colton?
I think so just because of his lifting because like he can
snatch 300 and he can clean and jerk 375 like and and that's
home run hits that Colton currently does not have.
So if he gets like second or third in the events that Colton
gets first in, but then he gets second and third in the events
that like he gets first in what like like if Colton got second
or third in every lifting event he ever did he'd be top ten
perennial. Yeah, that's Austin Hatfield.
And then like, right now that's awesome.
Hatfield. And what I'm saying is we don't
like he's only going to get better.
He hasn't been doing it very long.
The and that's the reason I would push against you and cast
him not very far beyond the top 20 but just outside of the top
20 is because he needs more exposure, He needs time.
I think what I absorbed from him was just.
Tell me what I have said. The thrill of competition.
Colton, tell me what I have said that's wrong.
It's Colton in the yeah, it's just that he needs, he needs
more exposure and that's the only reason I would put Austin
outside the top 25 or 20, sorry, top 20.
And for the record, I'm not saying he's going to beat you,
Colton. I'm just saying don't.
Start apologizing now. No, no, no, I.
Haven't I haven't said that. I said it should be 19th and
20th and Bill Leahy should be 20th.
You like? I I think it's more about the
higher ceiling. It's the higher ceiling
question, the belief. Colton just shows up and starts
making you shake. I asked you to tell me.
Where I was wrong? How am I shaking?
You start? Apologizing.
Damn, he's going. To be shaking in a minute, the
belief that Hitler has in Leahy. I have that same belief in
Hatfield all right now, and we just have to see what happens.
But Leahy is like, he's really, really good too.
Leahy's like a hidden gem that people are like, why are you
guys so high on Leahy? He's done nothing.
That's 'cause we know he could do some things that are the best
in the world, and he just hasn't gotten to show it yet.
Don't go basketball. You're #1.
No, it's not that. And for the for the record, same
thing with Colton. I was screaming Colton Mertens
before he even came on to the sea and I was saying guys, he's
the best in the world at 5 different things.
He's the best in the world and nobody wanted to buy it until he
was there. Now just believe me when I say
hat feels the same thing. Mr. Young, 49, thank you.
Colton has more dog in him. I won't deny that, but we'll see
what we'll see in the games. Women's side Tia Claire Toomey
racks up 13 of the 17 first place votes.
Laura Horvath and Emma Lawson each get two, and then Alex
Gazan, Gabby Magala, Alexis Raptis, Ariel Lowen, Emma
Carrie, Danielle Brandon and Katrin, David's daughter round
out the top 10. Man, these are flat.
No change at all, huh? Which, I mean, where would you
change it? O'Brien said.
Him and Carrie. But I have not added that he's
got Bunny rabbits, man. Like, I know your Wiener dogs
are there, but I mean, he's coming.
I'm telling you, I think y'all would get along, right?
He's a Bunny breeder versus the Wiener.
I will lie, you might have him, you might have him on
intelligence, but maybe that's just his accent talking.
Because I know Speaking of Cole's a very smart guy, but I
think y'all get along. You hear that, Colton?
He's insulting your intelligence.
Jeez, John. I said it the other way around.
You're. The one who brought it up, dude.
Yes, Speaking of Colton, if you guys, I don't know if there's
any left, but go over to Paper Street Coffee.
They have a limited run of Colton's Light Roast Hank coffee
Bean. And then you also get a Colton
Merton's T-shirt, So. I've had a few.
They sell a Tyler. Yeah.
And I I didn't know about it. And I've had several people ask
me, is this you? Oh.
My God, I don't think so. Only if you were in the Fight
Club movie. That's it, right?
That's an open announcement I'd like to see Is Hatfield versus
Colton. Quit messing around with
freaking Justin Maderos. Nobody cares.
Hatfield should go down to down to Charlotte.
I went to the barn. No, I think Hatfield should go
to the Colton's barn and do open announcement 24 point.
Three. I'm waiting for Shannon to jump
in here. All right, women's side, any any
surprises on the top 10? No.
Haley Adams moves up one to 11th, right above Paige Powers.
But I have no problem with her being there.
She's just a big question mark. It sounds like after Hiller was
there, he's impressed. I mean, where she was two years
ago. I mean, does it, is it hard to
stay to get back to that level and then take 11th versus what,
7th? No Colt Mertens.
I'll be in Nashville week one. This is an official call out to
Hatfield. Come, Amy.
Oh, and and for people in the comments, you're probably right.
A lot of people care about Justin.
I'm just speaking biasedly. I don't.
So.
John's mom, Miss Shelly M Colton's going to be top ten
this year. It.
Highly depends on the events, but we'll see, We'll see.
Moving on the list, Amanda Barnhart moves up four spots to
17th. Is that a 7?
Is it a 7 on boost do? You think that that that
definitely feels like it. I think so.
Amanda was on Von's podcast. What, two weeks ago?
Week and a half ago? Yeah, right when we were doing
this voting and. Tugging all the heartstrings.
Yet at the same time, her shoulder is not doing so high.
It's fine. Yeah.
Again, I think she'll be fine getting to quarter finals,
quarter finals, Top 40. We'll see that one.
That one could be tough. Jamie Latimer.
That shoulder has me worried. Yes, she won't.
Be. Open and then we have any Thor's
daughter. I don't know what some people
were thinking, but she moved up and left her in the rankings.
She's. Pregnant, still tugging on the
heart. She's very pregnant.
And will not be competing. Jamie Simmons is going team so
that we have two on the women's side as well that will be
popping out. Emma McQuaid and Man and
Anganees would then take their spots.
Mal O'Brien still in the receiving votes.
Well, we voted. We voted before she made her
announcement, so. Writing on the wall guys.
Oh, Keith said. She wasn't competing like 3
months ago. Yeah, yeah.
Well it was a non answer, but it kind of answered a lot of
questions. I hope she does That week one of
the Open, she signs up and submits a score.
Please, Yeah. I know.
No, listen, Mal O'Brien would dominate the Open like, just
like the open is made for Mal O'Brien.
It would be funny. Then again, I'd be very annoyed
because if she gets first place in the open, everybody's going
to want to know what do you make of the nothing?
She'd. Be the same.
It was just the pressure. She relieved all the pressure.
It's. Not anything.
It's just the workouts are made for her.
In the open it means nothing. Right.
OK. That was the top 25 media poll
for February right before the CrossFit Open starts.
We will be updating that monthly going forward as we have more
competitions. Head over to the Barbell spin
slash top 25. You can take a look at those
rankings. Moving on, open announcements
today. This morning, Tia Claire Toomey,
Ariel Lowen will be competing in Nashville at the new proven
headquarters. Are you guys surprised?
Once again, on the same day as our show.
I don't believe in coincidences. I'm not surprised after I
predict or after I screwed up my who I thought was going last
night and I fixed it and said I think Ariel's going to go.
And then, sure enough, here we are.
Yeah, I know we all wanted to see Laura.
I think we'll have to wait for the games to get that match up.
So up until really this week, really knew we knew the match
ups. We didn't know the first week
where it was. I did some digging, looked at a
schedule, found out it is at CrossFit.
Pleasanton also helped that area or that Alexis Raptus shared
that she was going to Pleasanton CA, which is very nice of her.
Thanks, Alexis. Yeah, and then of.
Course, thank you. Where?
Where where is the open? And we went, I don't know.
I'm just going to be in Pleasanton.
I don't know where. It's at yeah.
That's what she should have said.
That's where I'm going to be. Who knows where it's at?
I'll just. I'll just go be in Pleasanton,
CA. I don't.
Know and and then you got Justin Medeiros who shared the location
on his podcast. Was given the OK, it sounds
like. What do you make of the
locations not being announced and then coming from 1, Alexis
kind of accidentally spilling the beans and then me doing the
research to make sure it's the truth and then Justin sharing it
on his podcast versus CrossFit making the announcement?
I got something, John. So if you watched Rich's podcast
today where they talked about media getting taken out of of
the games, essentially are making, it's going to be very
difficult for media to be there. And so they're not really
wanting to cooperate with outside media.
But then you allow athletes who have their own channels and you
know, Alexis is a sort of a weird situation because it seems
like they let that go on accident, but then you use
outside media to promote your own thing.
It's got a weird optic, doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah. It's, I don't get it.
Like why are we hiding where it is?
And then today they announced proven, which I think everybody
would have guessed with Tia coming.
Yeah, there and everybody there, John.
I'm not a big fan of your question or or or.
You, your choice. You have something else that
you're talking about the opening.
Something I wanted to bring to light I I I don't care if they
don't announce the location. The location doesn't really
matter that much to me, them to announce it.
The location matters to me. Just them announcing it or if we
didn't know until the day of I I don't really care.
I care about the people who are doing it and then the workout
and I. Would agree.
I would agree with you, but it's weird that the way they went
about it. Does that not strike you as
strange? Sure, but who cares like like
that? Like I mean like maybe y'all
care, but like like that's my. Given that we pontificate on
crossing it. Is constantly.
It doesn't. It doesn't matter to me.
I mean, it was great for me, right?
Like I was able to break really getting in front of for.
You. It's news getting to that.
Superficial news first. That's you.
And like, I know people watch the Justin video, but I, you
know, there's a lot of less retention.
And by the time I got to the very end of it, I don't know how
many people are actually watching it, right?
And so there were a lot of people that didn't know about
it. So it definitely brought a lot
of traffic to me. I'm very thankful for CrossFit
by not doing it. They can do it.
They can just tell me going forward.
But it was just a very odd that they wouldn't share that, right?
Like, it doesn't bother me. It's just odd that they wouldn't
do it. Larry Young, 499 Betting with
the boys Will we see a weight in a workout 225 lbs or more in an
open? Yes.
I'm going to say no. No, I think it could go either
way. I think that betting line is
5050. Well, it depends on what it is
too, right? Like if it's snatched, it's
deadlift need to. Right.
If it's programmed, I think it will be programmed.
Like a ladder type thing that goes above it.
Most people probably won't see it.
It could be. I hope so.
John definitely wants one, yeah. I just don't think.
I just don't think it will be, but I wanted to.
I wanted to wanted to say though what I want.
What I wanted to say though, I do not like where they the open
locations are. I think it's pretty BS that some
of these people get home field advantage.
Like I would rather like just pick like the first one is fine,
but like for to go into Justin's garage or to go into Tia's
proven gym. Like I don't.
I just don't like it. I don't like having this person
has to come to you because you're so high and mighty.
We don't want you to move. Or maybe you wouldn't do it if
you had to move. I just, I don't like home field
advantage when it comes to these things.
Fly them all out to HQ or fly them out or go to a random
location in the middle. Like it?
Whichever, I just don't like. I don't like home field
Advantage to a workout in a CrossFit Open announcement.
Maybe I'm, maybe I'm maybe that's stupid, but, like, I just
don't like it. Spin what's the benefit of doing
it at proven I mean like I've I've thought a lot about that I.
I mean, when when I heard Proven was trying to open early this
year, my initial thought was that's where they want to have
they're, they were going to do something for the open.
I mean, Proven is an affiliate or they're going to be an
affiliate at some point. I don't know if they're
officially one yet or not. I mean, I've not been to the
facility yet. I've tried to go, but things
have just haven't gotten there. I plan on being there for
2024.3. I mean, it does look like the
facility's top notch, right? Like if you're training there as
an elite athlete, there, there are spaces probably the best out
there. So I think it's probably the
showcase that their top woman in the game has an affiliate.
I get it. I get it.
But. I just don't like what's the
return for CrossFit for doing that.
Like you could go a bunch of, you could go to the top
affiliate in the United States and do it or something like that
that's. Pretty much what they did last
year, right? They went to Bison and a few
others. I I don't know why Pleasanton.
I don't have anything against them.
It just seemed that seemed like an odd tip to me.
It's a. Pleasant gym.
Is it very pleasant? I I yeah, it shocked me.
That's why I was kind of nervous to to share that news until I
needed. I got full confirmation on it
because I had never heard of it. I believe the the the owner's
been around for a while, but that doesn't always guarantee
you a an open announcement. But you don't know if you guys
saw this. Oh, sorry.
Go ahead. Brian Zach Davis.
I love Hal Morning. Chalk up.
Maybe Barbend. I don't know what they are
anymore. Had Toomey's advantages in the
open against Ariel as everything.
I thought that was interesting. Yeah, Yep.
I don't know what. To I don't know, I don't
disagree. And we'll pull this one back up.
Alyssa, do you think? CrossFit asked Tia to do an open
announcement, and she said only if you come to my gym.
I I. I don't think so.
I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
I think they said we will come to your gym.
Do you want to do it? Or, you know, if we come to your
gym, will you do it? Yeah, she's the expensive part
of that. Right.
And maybe and maybe maybe y'all are right, but like and like I
almost. I don't think she would travel
for it, right? Like I don't.
Think, she would say. But she, I don't think she
forced them or you know Strong armed him.
I think it was more of hey, would you do it if we do come to
to Proven. Right, they better halfway.
That's not meeting you halfway. That's just you getting what you
want. And then do an open workout.
Like that. Does it matter though?
I think it does. It means to me and I and and
like so the thing you asked before the thing you asked.
Before location doesn't matter to me, but this matters to me,
no? No, no, no, no.
The time, the time of the announcement or how they did it
like that? Matters.
Doesn't matters to you. Y'all found that weird.
You're like, why do you do that? I don't care about that at all.
Like, let them do what they want, but you don't care about
this. Like, why does it matter that
that like it it it matters to me?
I don't think. I think home field advantage is
unfair to aerial lowing. And I I 100% think that they
were like, hey Tia, will you do an open announcement?
And then she goes, could we do it at Proven?
We have this new facility, It would be awesome.
We could showcase everything and they're like, yeah girl, we'll
do it at Proven like that's exactly how that conversation
went. It's not, it's not that Tia was
like all high and mighty, but it's just the fact that we're
given this. It's just, I think it's unfair
to whoever she's going against. I don't know.
I don't think that conversation happened with with Justin.
Because Justin was over the moon, thrilled that it was going
to be happening at his garage like his.
Like it almost looked like disbelief that they were going
to do that. I don't think Justin was like
and again, I I know nothing. So like before, people like take
stuff and run away with it. I know nothing.
But I don't think Justin was like only if you do it in my
garage, make Colton. Come to me.
I don't think either was. I think.
I think CrossFit looked at it and said there's some interest
in what what Justin has with his shred shed, and then obviously
the proven gym is one-of-a-kind hot.
Topic, yeah. So Marn is one-of-a-kind.
I don't. It's not OSHA approved.
Can you imagine Justin and Colton doing lunges or cleans or
whatever, and then a whole litter of Wiener dogs just
running around? Are you kidding me?
That would be very good. I don't know.
Speaking of I'm. Back with well, I have a dog.
I don't care. Not a Wiener dog, Not 18 Wiener
dogs. Speaking of Justin Maderos in
his his show, I want to one one last topic before we move on.
Let's see, here we go. Justin Maderos on his latest
podcast he was on. They just kind of walked through
and gave their predictions and then Justin said this.
OK well I messed up earlier. There's all right.
Sorry. We had, we had.
We had to cut a part out real quick.
I I, I said something I was supposed.
To say said that the. I didn't think that one of the
open announces would be in. Or we would be doing it in Week
2 because there's lunges in it and you need bigger space and we
are doing 24.2 in the shred shed.
It's going to be freaking insane.
Like, I am so freaking excited. I've kept the secret.
Yeah. Do.
The thing So. Did we not get the part where he
talked about lunges? So he No.
So that's the one he cut out. OK.
Right. And so Sivan brought it up in
his news. I was like, I don't know.
I'm, I'm skeptical. There's got to be some extra
context we're missing. I'll go back and watch it.
And then they, they, they're going through the predictions.
Ellie goes through it. And then all of a sudden it
cuts. And then you can see that part
where they're laughing right there in the middle and they're
like, oh, I said something I shouldn't have.
And then you skip forward another, you know, to the very
end and then they share that. You know, they were referencing
something he talked about 30 minutes ago that they cut, ended
up cutting out and said, well, you know, there's lunges.
And like, I don't know. Like, he knows that it was at
his gym and he's going to predict that there's lunges.
We got to wait. Right.
Like it doesn't make sense to me, like there's something else
going on, right? Like if he's going to say.
Well, what do you mean? How could that?
How could there? Be some what?
What? What are the other
possibilities? If he wasn't there and he said I
think there's going to be, I don't think there could be
lunges in 24.2, but he said like there are going to be lunges in
24.2, right? Like, is he referring to it
like? And then why?
Have to cut. Is he trying to throw it out
like? Well, I have to cut it if it's
not something that you knew. Right.
And if it was that, it was spoiling that where it was.
This is not live right like, so if he just spoiled that it was
in his gym, they could just announce and inhabit that
section, not at the very end like it was in the middle of it.
So. Well, you know what's going to
happen then is that they told Justin the workout and then he
spoiled it. And then Castro has to do an
audible and 24.2 will now be bench and burpees over the bench
press. All roads lead to bench press.
Yeah, I we'll see. If 24.2 has lunges in it, then
we need to absolutely bring this back up and then we need to have
Dave on and be like can you explain this good stuff?
Yeah, Yeah. We will have Dave on 100%.
He's, He's. Maybe we have like.
And I just think, hey, hey, the right time, I'll bring you on,
but. Would you quit emailing me?
It's getting a little. It's getting a little bunch.
No. How'd you get this e-mail?
Here. Here's how we'll do it.
I think we should have Sevon on and then just have Sevon call
him without him knowing he's on the podcast.
Yeah, does that won't remove what?
Happened. Did Justin ruin the workout just
on a phone call with Sevon? OK, he just.
Hangs up. That's what happens.
Yeah. So I don't know.
I mean, if we see lunges, then it's going to be a complete
shipstorm. If we don't, I don't.
Yeah, it was. Just maybe, Justin, it was.
A Nothing burger. Well, immediately what we're
going to do is we're going to think about what the workout
would have been like. Yeah, what was it?
What was it before we changed? It.
We see bench press, we'll know we.
See, we see just 10 dumbbell squats.
It was like these were these were supposed to be alternating
lunges. That piece.
Here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, exactly. All right, it's Time Boys.
Blind rankings. This time we're going to stick
with the open format where I'm up.
Hang on, give me a second. I got it.
I'm bummed our prop hasn't showed up yet, but we won't
spoil that yet. Hopefully I'm working on it.
That'll be. That'll be cool.
If we do get it, Here we go open things.
Open things. Legs #1.
This is. Open I got Brian, I got Brian,
I. Didn't think that, man.
You got me, you got me. This is anything you're going to
rank stuff that is associated with the CrossFit Open.
OK. So it could be anything that's
with the open rank what you see fit so.
This is terrible. It's just going to be so I I.
Have no idea what this is. Just go ahead.
I think you'll.
I think you'll get it once you see the first one.
All right. Flying Rankings, Open Things and
Friday Night Lights. That's a too for me.
But I have nostalgia for Friday Night Lights.
No, I no, I agree this is high. Do you think, do you think like
the open announcement is on here, like is that part of you
think that'd? Be it could be, it could be.
That's what I'm that's definitely almost for Friday
night Light. Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, I'm I'm good with two Friday night.
I'm good with two. That's like some of my favorite
memories of CrossFit is because because of Friday Night Lights.
I'm going to say two, yeah. It's not the TV show, Nick.
It. I we all finished the Open and
go watch the TV show. Fantastic.
Way better than the movie Biased.
No disagreed of movies. I've cried to Friday Night
Lights is one of them. I I know I'm in the minority
with that. OK, I think the show was better
than the movie. I've never watched the show, so
I can't. Well, you have no idea then.
I've not watched the the TV show either, but the movie was good.
I didn't. I don't think I cried but
anything. With Billy Bob in it.
Lynn and Jerry Friday Night Lights for New Cross Fitters.
What do you mean? What's the question here is?
That a question or a or a statement.
Have you Never. Oh, so if you've not, if you've
been involved in CrossFit since probably about 2019, you may
have not had a Friday Night Lights if your gym got spoiled
after after 2018 open or the The Weird Fall Open.
Yeah. Can I go ahead?
So like Friday Night Lights, like it was like the entire
community was like, we're doing this because it worked so well
for every gym. I mean like across at Maximus,
we had it catered. There was like 300 people there
at any one time. Everybody you go in heats.
Now it was always terrible because you were like, I'm like
the the 3rd or 4th heat and you got to sit there and be anxious
for two hours. And it was also terrible if
there were long workouts. But, like, it was just the
magnetism of all these people cheering each other on at
CrossFit. It's it is the purest version of
what CrossFit is and should be. It's Friday.
I agree 100%. Your whole gym comes out to
support everybody. It's not just the the Super fit
people at your gym, it's it's somebody getting their first
Toto bar right. It's it's somebody getting like
their like somebody who can't do double unders and is just going
to try their best to get a couple.
Like, it's experiencing things. Like doing stuff because you
have to do the workout right. You can't just scale it like a
normal class. And it's being able to do things
that you didn't think you could do with the whole entire
community cheering you on. Watching people who've been
training all year just to get a pull up or a muscle up and then
finally breakthrough and get it or fail.
That like that's where. And it fires you up for next
year too. Yes, like you'd be like, I'm
going to get that muscle up next.
Year. This is a bit of a tangent, but
this is where I struggle with the the scaled option.
Yeah, 'cause you're not on the same, you're not on the same
feet. Because there were so many
people who did get their first muscle up because they just had,
they just got there and they tried and they may have had 15
minutes to go get it, but they tried versus scaling and they're
doing pull ups instead and they don't, they don't put themselves
out there in front of that crowd and they don't get that
opportunity. You have to give.
Yourself, the opportunity. What I'll say though is like it
does create a goal to be like, OK, I just want to RX all the
workouts because I know a lot of people with that goal.
I want to RX the Open and I do think the Open is good at, you
know, making bar muscle UPS, ring muscle UPS at the end of
the workout, right, Like like the like this last year 23.1,
everybody's like, oh, we got ring muscle UPS at the end of
it. Like, don't worry about it.
You're not going to get there. You have to be really, really,
really fit. Together, right.
Yeah. Right.
So like in. Most.
And if you do get there, you're probably not going to.
Have you're going to feel like shit you're.
Going to have like 2 minutes to do one, right?
So, but but I'm saying it's it's great for so many different
reasons. What I would say to those people
actually, John, this is a good compromise, is that if your gym
has Friday Night Lights and you're going to do scaled at
Friday Night Lights, do the RX workout and then give you and
then do the scale later, you're not going to be beat up enough.
If you're if you're scared of the workout, you're not going to
be beat up enough for it to matter anyway and just give
yourself the opportunity to get exposed and maybe have a
breakthrough moment though. That's that's the power of the
open. And the gated workouts are
really good for that too, where it's like you have to do this
amount of work in 4 minutes, this amount of work in 8 minutes
like, oh you're only going to have a a 4 minute workout
because you're not good at toasted bar or whatever.
Still do that 4 minutes, get whatever score you get and then
wait 10 minutes and do the scaled version.
Like it's not like like it's a good warm up for the scaled
version you. Know you may, you may string
together 2 toes the bar that you never have done in the past
because you've gotten 4 minutes to try it.
So I I 100% agree with that. All right, next one, the live
announcement shows. That's a hard #1.
I think that's a number one man. I'm with you.
And it's. Can you think of anything
better? Like the only reason that would
get discounted is because of years, recent years.
I mean, we're living off the 2000, I I agree.
But it's like we're living off the 2015, like when the Open was
like this freaking. Castro's invested.
You heard him first. He's in it.
He didn't want to be, but now he's in it.
And the way he's talking ain't no way he ain't doing these
announcements. He No, he he hinted that there
were other two There were two other people who were going to
or there was someone else going to do the next ones.
He that he wasn't going to do all three.
Am I wrong about that spin? Yeah, his last week in review he
said he was going to do the first one, then he's going to
potentially. It sounded like he was going to
have two different outside of CrossFit people.
And Hiller. Outside of CrossFit.
Or sev on and chase. I would like that Sev on and
chase. Can you imagine Savon doing an
open announcement? I feel like he would misread.
He would say the workout wrong. That doesn't matter.
We're not doing this anyway. 10 minutes of assault bike.
At 20 RPM. All right, #3 getting APR
that's. 3. OK.
Yeah. Three getting, getting or
watching. Somebody get APR.
Yeah. I'm saying three.
Yeah, I'm that's fine. You guys have put yourself in a
corner here. Yeah, I know we have.
We have. Well, I don't care.
Tyson Beijing is a guest for a You don't think so?
Tyson with his dad, though. The arm wrestler, here we go,
getting into the pain cave. 5. I mean I feel like you should do
this in almost all like all of your non all of your workout
pieces. It's it's not not your not your
practice or training, but like if you're doing a workout a
metcon. I feel like you should be there
all the time. Yes, but it's different in the
open, man. There's no pain cave like, well,
there are, but you know. You don't.
You don't train hard enough if it's like if there's nothing
like the open. Well see, I'm a game.
I'm a game day athlete and it's like when when people are
watching I'll hurt myself, but like when no one's watching,
it's just different. I don't get to the same level.
So for me, it's like I I like the pain cave, but I hate the
pain cave. I I think the more you hurt
yourself, the more like accustomed you are to do.
I, I, I It's the same for me. It's like any other workout so
I'll I'll wait. We haven't agreed on it.
I I'm fine with five. Yeah.
Your least favorite part of the Open?
I it's it's just a part of it. Yeah, it's a part of it.
Here we go. Here we go.
Castro's hints. That's a good four.
No, I. Shouldn't like it?
So, so dumb. Every year I'm like, I'm, I
don't care, These are stupid. And then here I am later reading
The Grapes of Wrath, trying to find.
Out what we're. Talking about so dumb, so dumb,
I think that are the most retarded thing about the open.
I like but the one where it's like the the weird.
Machine went back and forth. I was like, oh, I know, I know
this one for sure and I was totally wrong.
Tell you did you if you watched this week in review, this week,
he said he was planning on putting out a hint good that he
was unsure if it would be too obvious.
He's full of shit. It's going to be so esoteric
we'll never understand it. I hope it's a bench press.
It's just some dude bench pressing.
All John wants is a bench press. Well, there you go.
I think we think it. I think we did good.
This is good. Yeah, that's fine.
I think we're getting better at it.
We have not been a bad one in a while.
You're. Making a first one as a absolute
well, I really expect you guys, first one's rough, first three
to be all top three. Well, they're all good.
Would you? Would you have put one somewhere
else? I thought maybe the live
announcement you would but lower thinking there was something
else going out. Right.
Especially after Friday Night
Lights like OK, I don't want to put in 1-2 and then a one.
John saved us with with saying the announcement, yeah.
Like you could if you guys, you could have been really screwed
if you had put some in the middle there.
Most of these, most of these things are like once you see the
first one, when you kind of know what it is, right?
And then you just think, is there something better?
Because if it is the best thing, it's probably on them.
Yeah, right. You know what I mean?
Most of the time, yeah, most of the time.
All right. And the last segment, we're back
with Bettin with the boys. This one is a little bit
different. Tyler, do you want to?
Yeah, I'm this one off. I'm stoked about this.
We've been working on this since hell I before, like around the
games or something like that. I started thinking about this
idea. So do you have a?
Do you want to pull it up? Do you?
Want me to pull up the website or do you want me to pull up?
The web or either one doesn't matter.
Yeah, there you go. So we're going to introduce the
Heat One open Bracket challenge. If you guys can go through it,
works just like the NCAA March Madness bracket and fill out who
you think's going to win for each Open matched up just on
that workout. As they pass through.
You'll you'll do the next match up in the next and and fill out
your bracket every week. We'll cover what's going on and
and who we think's going to win in those matchups and we'll see
what happens. I promise you, I've done this a
bunch of different iterations. The people who win are not who
you think. The other part of this should I
announce it now or or wait till the end?
I. I don't know what.
I don't know what you're going to.
Say about the app, so you'll be able to play along in the app.
It'll work a little differently, but you'll be able to pick the
same match up. So fill it out here, get
yourself prepped and then put your picks in the app, so the.
The link is down below. Heat one dot app slash bracket.
Yes, is that right? So yeah, it's in the in the
description down below. You can check that out.
Go to our website, print it out. It's right there for you to
print it out, and then the app will be out.
The updated version of the app will be out in the next few
hours. It's already ready for Android,
but you can go ahead and be prepped for Apple as well.
Is there a winner? I do as a winner, get anything.
For the bracket, no. But for the for the app, yes,
we'll, we'll announce. Prizes in the app.
So the app is going to be a little bit different.
You'll do it each week, right? So you'll.
Get each week and. Then if you miss them, you'll
get another shot at. Yeah, yeah, if you if your don't
make it through, it doesn't matter.
We're going to, we're going to set the actual matchups in the
app. Hey.
Guys, I got to feed my dogs really quick.
Can you can you take dog wait, wait, wait to do anything?
But they're just crying. I like, go get to where we're
going, getting and then just don't do anything without him.
You got it. Mr. Ortega Tyler's asking
permission to release his own app he owns.
I don't own it completely. Yeah, let's see.
Any other comments up here that are any good?
The other thing I'll say is that, oh, I forgot I I I blank.
Go ahead. So yeah, this for Button Benton
with the boys this week. We are going to do the entire
bracket, so not going to do one. We're going to see.
We're going to see how well we can do blind, not knowing the
workouts and then having to double.
Are are we going to do this based on based on democracy?
No, we got one for each of us, so.
Oh, we get our own picks I like. This.
It's betting. We got to see how good we are.
We're. Going to see who can pick the
best bracket. Completely unknown.
All you know is you have three weeks.
Real quick question for you. If we have A A 24 point
something, A and AB, Oh yeah, so.
The way we'll do that is overall we'll we'll take the points that
they made on those workouts. Whoever has the last points
takes that win on the on the cumulative total of both.
Got it. And how did you come up with the
pairings? So we this was back and forth
forever. We started with the games and
then we started thinking about, well, Tia's back.
And then we started thinking, well, Chandler's going to pull
out. We sort of knew that ahead of
time. And then we we also thought
about other matchups that me we might want to see.
So it's a little bit of heat one's own take on on who we want
you to watch and who we want you to see.
So yeah. Bernie Spin used to be the
maestro. Now I want to check with that
dude Seth for his picks. I think you mean Joe Dirt or Kid
Rock. Tell me this, how has A bracket
not existed up to this point? Like has How has no one tried
this? That's what's befuddled me.
I don't think anybody has had an app to be able to do it right.
Like how do you need? An app to be able to like.
'Cause it's like it's the make a bracket sure to make a piece of
paper. I don't know.
By the way, fill yours out and post it to Instagram and tag us
and we'll repost. Yeah, that'd be good.
All right, John, we're going to go through now.
We're going to make our picks, each of us, and then we'll I'll
be filling it out as we go, so. Question.
Yeah, what is the deadline?
Deadlines, I guess by the start of the three.
G1 Deadline for the first. Yeah, which deadlines?
And you have to do your whole bracket.
You can't, yeah. Yeah, for us, for sure.
Yeah, for people who are playing.
We're doing tonight. No.
No, I I understand. But I'm saying like if you're
going to fill one out later on, like you can't wait.
So you can't wait until 24.2 to make your decision.
You have to fill out the whole thing until fill.
Out the whole thing now. Without knowing the workouts.
You're not going to have fun if you don't fill it all out.
Now I want to see if anybody can get them all right.
Yeah, I do too. Without knowing the workouts
this. You don't know the workouts.
That's rough, man. Running this right now is you're
It's so thin. Every time I did it, I test.
I would go back years and like set up a bracket and fill it out
and I would still be wrong. Yeah, yeah.
I think you. I think we go back to last year
and I think, yeah, you weren't the.
Best at it without knowing the workout.
I I hate doing things without knowing without.
I know, that's why I love it. Because you could just get
scourge just by the workout, but it's OK.
All right. It's your app, Tyler.
That means you're on the spot. We'll go through one at a time.
We'll work our way through and then we'll keep going.
So the first one is Jeff Adler versus Jay Crouch.
I. I think the obvious choice here
is Jeff and that's who I picked. But I will note that I have
built him a a calculator since John hates that and the
matchups. So I went back and I pulled the
last three opens. Yeah, the spreadsheet says I
went back and pulled the last three opens and I matched Jay
versus Jeff and what do you think their their split was?
Thanks John, it was 5445 Adler percent wins.
They're basically off by 1, which I thought was crazy.
Jay is really good at the Open. How did you, how do, how did you
work the calculator? Just one to one.
Like I I match their scores against each other.
Yeah, it's exactly how this would work.
Like times. Yeah, times.
Yeah. Yeah, Who?
Who would have won all the 9 workouts or whatever it was that
they and? Then you did it percent together
with it. Yeah, just the this many, this
many wins versus. I think if you did the
calculator, most people would be like that.
Not, not as much as you think I've seen as much as 8020, yeah.
OK. John.
Adler. Even though he's going to be
going first. He'll.
You think he'll redo? I didn't think about that.
That is a great, great point. Hold on, hold on.
See. There you go.
I'm going with Crouch because now there's.
Going first, I'm going to go with Crouch, then yeah.
Oh, you're switching, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You bet. That's the one Open.
He won the open. That's the one.
Mole again. You get John.
Well, I didn't think about that, man.
That's that's a pull. Yeah, it's a tough one,
especially if they load their weights wrong, do you think Do?
You think Jeff, do you think Jeff would redo it?
Not now, no. What if he wants?
Unless he wants? He wants to win the bracket.
No, the Open. Let's see.
That's what I want. I want he wants so big that
people think about the bracket. You got to, you got to make a
prize for people wanting to win. I know.
We'll get there do. You think Adler will would would
redo a workout. Top 25% man.
Like if he beats Bukowski. Kowski's not hard to beat in the
open. He puts out a good, he puts out
a good score, he finishes 100th in the world.
Do you think he would even redo it to?
Try to. I'm changing my mind.
I'm going to go with Adler. Go with Adler.
I'm going with Adler. You OK?
Don't. Do that.
Again, I'm going to go with. Adler, I'm going to.
Go with Adler I. I Text I.
Can't not do it, Jeff. Spitter.
I just. I just.
I can't. I hate not knowing the workouts.
I thought about rearranging so that Brent and Jeff were matched
up the first week they they probably should be, but I was
like, hey, I tried to get. You on the women's side, but?
It was. It was a little too late, but.
Adam was a wizard. He is a wizard.
But I text Brent and I was like, hey, we might match you and Jeff
Adler up. If you could go ahead and win
that, that'd be cool. And he said I'm not even going
to start the workout. All right.
We're going to, we're going to go this time, John, you go first
Roman versus Fykowski. Which is for 24.1.
Yeah, this is. The first week spinner.
You not feeling yours? Oh, you did?
Yeah, I picked, I picked Crouch. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry. Yeah.
I am not going with Brent. I think he is while he will try
hard in week one out there at Cross at Pleasanton.
You think it'll go back home and be like, all right, that's
enough of that. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to
go redo it and kind of sandbag this thing and put it in just
kind of, you know, put a different.
Score in Tyler. I'm I'm going to look at.
I'm going to consult with the calculator real quick.
Come. On.
Just for shits and giggles, John, of 12/11 workouts, how
many you think? You're putting Roman, aren't you
80%? Out of 11 workouts.
Yeah, 11 workouts. How many do you think?
80. Roman is 1. 8081 percent 83.
Percent. 63%, It's seven to four for Roman.
I'm surprised. Yeah, 2021 helped.
Helped Brent a little bit. Oh, OK.
Yeah, that makes sense. All right.
And you picked Roman. All right, I'm up now.
Ricky versus Dallin Pepper. Dallin.
I'm going. You're your last there, John.
I'm going with Ricky all day long, Tyler.
I'm going with Dallin Allen has won 71% of the last, I guess two
opens since Ricky was out for one.
I think some people just care more than others in the open.
I I I'm not a big fan of betting on the open because of that
fact. Because.
What people are People push harder in the open.
More yeah and and like if you're out of the running to win it,
then it it just does not matter at all to them.
Ricky's a hard one. See again, I I'm still sticking
by my prediction that 24.1 is going to be fight gone bad, so I
have a little bit of that through my lens.
Which week is Dallin? Sorry, go ahead, finish.
Which one is 24.1 Taylor Taylor Worlds for Dallin Week 2, right?
Week 2, so Ricky will have that. On Isn't it Ricky?
It's Jason Week 1, Dallin Week two, and then Colton Week 3.
You should put Taylor in here. We have a different set up.
So for those who are watching, if you go to the Heat one app,
you will be able to pick Taylor versus whoever he is facing off
with in Taylor versus the world. Dude, you know what would be
real fun Is if you set up the same bracket but analyst and
then like and like like 7 would be like an eighth seed.
Right A1 sided bracket I like. That you know what I mean.
They. Are we're going to pick Jr.
Taylor John Jr. Is going to win.
I think Taylor would be #1. Taylor would be one Jr. #2.
Jr. would be #2. Is there a masters division for
this 7:00 on? Nine need to be.
It doesn't matter. Bill's going to spank us all.
Anyway, no, I I can beat Bill I if there's handstand, push ups,
anything, I can beat Hitler. But.
You better watch it, John.
Hitler will beat me in most things we're.
Going to set this bracket up. I'd say Hitler would be.
I'd say Hitler would be 3, then I'd be 4, and then Bill would
probably be 5 and then you you would be 6.
I think Tyler's better than Chase now.
I think now, yeah, for sure. Gymnastics.
He's just not a. Yeah, he's, he's also been
injured for. Me and Sivan will be hanging
down there at the bottom. And then and then.
It beats when. Wait, are we are we missing
anybody, Pedro? Will Pedro.
Pedro. I can take Pedro.
I think so too.
You want to put Brian in there,
the other one? I think Brian's are pretty
close. I say you two are very close,
yeah. I like you fitness wise, I think
for especially for the open. I think it depends on the
movement, but. So you picked Ricky or Dallin?
You picked Allen I. I picked it down.
Yeah, I think so. Clean Sweep, we all picked
Allen. Rick and Sousa would be.
No, I picked Ricky. You picked Ricky?
Why? He think 'cause?
I think he has something to prove this year.
I don't think he cares. Like prove it in the games.
I like that, I I agree. But I think he's just wants to
win everything right now. We'll see.
Let's see. Back to you, Tyler.
Patrick Velner versus Yonikoski. Shit, I keep telling myself to
pull this up earlier. Pat versus Yonah.
And the spreadsheet says and the survey says.
Yonah. Yonah by one event.
Is that who you're going with? That's who I'm going with is
Yonah. I think, especially for Week 1,
Yonah, unless Yonah just doesn't care, which I could see.
John. I'm going to say Yonah as well
and I I hate, I hate that me and Tyler have the same pics right
now. It'll shift here in a second.
I'm going. With Pat.
Really. Yeah.
So you're either going, you're either going to smoke us or be
like the worst. It it was like 5545.
So it's. I mean it's.
It's right there. It's right there.
And I honestly like, I think Pat's a little.
He's he's somewhat of a safer pick in some ways.
I just like Yona for the Open. Yeah, what about that Charles
guy? Bernie brings up a good point.
Charles I had Charles Guy from Mayhem who was beating Rich for
the first two weeks. He was like top. 3.
In the open. Yeah.
It was. So my name was Rich, that
wasn't. He.
No, he's mayhem. He's mayhem.
He was at Mayhem because he was Mayhem's fittest person for the
first two weeks, and they asked Rich about that.
And then Rich, you could see how annoyed Rich was.
And he just goes, yeah, those are two really good workouts for
him. Like it just was like the best
workouts ever for this cat. And there it is, Charlie Kiran.
Yeah. Yep.
All right, back to John, right, moving over to the women's side,
Laura Horvath versus Emma Carey. Emma.
Carrie. Oh no.
For me, I'm going to go with Emma Carrie as well.
Damn it, guys. Tyler.
Emma. Carrie, I have not built the
computer for the women, so this. Is all on me.
I have not built the computer. You're.
Probably going to do better on the.
Women side you'll probably get them better, right?
Man, you're. The you're going to get them all
right, and then you're going to get them all wrong on the.
Men, I hope for your own sake that's wrong.
I have always built the computer for the.
Women, dude. It takes forever.
I bet Emma Lawson or Gabby Mcgall it's my pick.
I'm gonna go with Gabby for Week 1, Tyler.
I like ammo. So we all Emma and Emma for you.
All right, John. Emma Awesome. 2 Emma's.
You guys are? See how dumb is the computer
now, John? Since we're picking the same
pics, I. Know it's it's I'm.
I'm as amazed as you are, Tyler. John is the.
Computer. All right.
Ariel Lowen and Alex Gazette. Tyler Ariel.
Especially because it's week one.
But if that bench press comes out, John, boy oh boy.
John, have you got Ariel or Alex?
I feel like I'm better against myself if I say I want to say
Ariel. But like I agree with everything
Tyler has said because it's week one.
It was a week 1. They're usually burners.
But I'm going to pick Alex Kazan just in case.
I I hope. This I.
I hope you were going to get all of them right and now that's the
one that just totally screws it up.
Oh man. It's a it's.
It's not an obvious pick to me. No, I'm going to go with Ariel.
I think Ariel is a smarter pick. I just yeah, think Kazan's got
something to prove. Yeah, John rounding out round
124.1. Claire Toomey OR versus Alexis
Raptis. Tia.
Is there a world where Alexis beats her?
Yeah, there's handsome push ups. I'm doing Tia, not week one.
Yeah. Or, if at all.
Tyler, Tia. My heart wants to say Alexis.
Man train. Think tank, I know.
It's the goat. All right, now we're down to
24.2. Going back to the men's side,
it's my pick first Jay Crouch versus Roman.
That go ahead. Oh.
Man, I'm going to pick with Roman because I think I'm more
confident about Roman winning and get into that round.
And I. Beat Jay regardless.
I thought about like when would the rower show up?
I feel like Workout 2 is pretty safe for that.
Now I have a question. If so like say say Crouch beats
Adler, but Adler beats Roman. In week two, do you get points?
Do I get like, do you get points for Adler beating Roman?
Not with betting with the boys. OK.
OK, so like, once he's out, you're out.
Like. This is the NCAA bracket type
style. No, the app will be different
because you're only going to bet one week at a time, right?
One week at a time. Just making sure, just making
sure. By the way, spin of the past 11
Open events, Jay Crouch has won eight of them against Roman.
He's got to beat Jeff first, so that's a tough.
That's just the tougher Jeffers, the tougher beat.
This is even worse. So I have Adler versus Roman.
Obviously I'm going with Adler. He has won nine of the last 11
open events against Roman against Roman.
All right. And John, I'm.
Going to say Adler as well. You sure?
All right, back to Tyler Dallin Orkoski.
Dallin dallin all day. John.
I'm going to pick Dallin. Although Kowski has won six of
the last 11 workouts against Dallin and I have.
Ricky versus Pat, completely different than you guys.
I'm going to pick I. Think you're going to pick
Ricky, man, I think you're just going to Ricky.
You're thinking about the games and it's and then it's the open.
I Ricky has four of the last seven that he's done against Pat
in the open. I like the data on your side
because we're missing some for Ricky and I like that he would
probably have picked up some. Fair enough.
John, over to the women's side, you have Emma Carey versus Emma
Lawson. Emma Carey.
That's it. I have Emma Carey versus Gabby
McGowan. I'm going Emma, Carey and Tyler.
I'm going with Emma Lawson. There we go.
There's my.
Separation. There, There it is.
My separation. Yes, Sir.
Good job, Tyler. All right.
Emma Carey, an eighth seed, could win the bracket.
I don't know the heart, the part that's the parts that that's
difficult with. This is like in the games, it
makes sense for her to be an eighth seed, but like in the
open, she's almost at like a two or three seed.
Yeah, I think she should be a one seed.
She I mean, you could make the argument for that, and I
wouldn't. I wouldn't put much resistance
against it. Early matchup Ariel Lowen versus
Tia in Week 2 for my My bracket, I'm going back with Tia.
Tyler, you have Ariel and Tia as well, Tia and John, you have
Alex versus Tia. Bench press, baby.
We do how? Much How much are you running
again? We ain't done it at all in the
past, however many. Years.
If they If by some miracle bitch presses a week one, it won't be
a week two. So see, I'm going with Tia.
All right. And now to the Championship on
the men's side. Tyler has Adler versus Dallin.
Who do you got? I have Dallin, but well, yeah,
yeah, I'll say. But Adler is 1/8 against Dallin.
John. I'm going to go Adler.
If there's a two parter, it's the average of those two scores
and it's most likely to be A2 parter in week 3, which will be
a lifting thing on the second part most most likely.
I think just all stats would point to Adler in week 3.
If it's not like that, it's a different open.
Then down for sure has a shot, but I'm going to say Adler.
Even if it's like, say, rowing and thrusters.
I'd pick dude that's hard. I think Down has just a good of
a shot to be Adler at rowing and thrusters.
Yeah. And then it comes down to Roman
and Ricky for me. I'm going, Ricky.
Dude, Ricky is not good in the open.
I don't know why you think he's. We'll have to pick Roman or
Ricky. That's.
Wild. That's a Wild matchup you have
in the end. He's thinking about the games,
man. Yeah.
I got here because I had Roman over Crouch and then I had
Patton, so we'll see. Yeah, John.
Women's Champion Emma Carey or T.
Same, same reasoning, same reasoning.
I think I'm going to say Tia as with the Adler.
You think Tia, even though she is in the proven, she'll be
doing the open announcement. Does that change your answer?
I think she'll be doing it, I think.
I think. What?
It, yeah. Do you think Tia can win it, Win
the Open? Yeah.
And that be why she does it and re does it.
I do, I do, I think. I think coming second in Rogue I
bet pissed her off a lot, even though we are all amazed by it.
And it basically sealed the case for 2024, at least for me.
And I think she'll, I think she'll want to win the Open and
just to show everybody this who's who.
And yeah, I'm going to say to you.
All right. Going back to me for the
Championship, I have seen also have Emma and Tia, or Emma Carey
and Tia. It's just tough because this
could be an upset. I mean this is like.
I don't like that Tia is going during the announcement on it,
but I also don't see her. But she has that against her
too, because she know she's going to try to set a pace there
and it could be wrong. That's what I mean.
That's what I don't. If it's a two parter though,
then it's sealed. It doesn't matter.
I think they're gonna be a two parter on the I don't either,
but. It it would be the IT would be
the one it. Was it was week two last year
and Tyler, Emma Watson or Tia? I can't.
I can't pick, I can't pick Emma over Tia on this.
It's like I almost want the match up to be Emma, Carrie
versus Tia, because that that showdown's amazing.
And I think Emma takes I I think Emma takes that one.
But this Emma? No.
All right. There you go.
Pretty different there. At the end we got pretty.
Different, Yeah, yeah, yeah. There a little bit.
I will say for last year, and this is what we tested with the
group, I set it up a bunch of different ways and Dallin wins
every time. Well, Dallin.
For last. Year.
No, there you go. No, but it all matters is if you
just win in a knock on somebody else, somebody else gets else,
gets knocked out, and then you're home free.
Interesting. Interesting.
I I think John has a point. Like, it's very tough in the
open of who cares, right? Like who cares enough to redo a
workout or to push themselves to a dark place to get first in the
world in the workout. I think John's right, Tia.
Tia is definitely one of those who could come out and say I'm
going to win and show everybody I'm I'm going to win.
In her last video, For Willow. For Willow.
So on her. Last video she said that she
wasn't. She wasn't totally up to speed
yet. Now, not to say that she's
already not heading. Well, that was two points for
beating Laura at Rogue. For a competition that is built
for Laura to win, and if she was even less up to speed at that
point, I don't think it quite matters.
When you consider that Emma Carey is on the upswing of her
career, she has a bone to pick and she's built for the Open.
I like that. And the fact that she's not
doing the Open announcement in TA is and could possibly screw
up her pacing. True.
If she's in the running, though, I think she redoes it.
She redoes it on Monday if. She's, I bet.
She if she's in the running for the the the cash, $15,000 on the
line for first place. Yeah, so there is a prize there.
I think she just wants the title of winning the open more than
the money. She isn't.
She's fine doing the money. No, I know, but I.
Think she wants She wants to do it because she see the she'll
see the bracket and she wants someone to bracket.
Well, I'll, I'll take I'll if if she's in it, I'll take her the
bracket and let her. Know, Yeah, I just said there's.
A lot on the line for Tyler, if you could really try your
hardest on this one. And she'll say, I know I I
watched the show, yeah. I'm sure she's watching.
She just doesn't comment. That's fine.
But yeah, I'm sure she's watching.
I watched the show. Thanks for playing along.
Dante is. John does this.
How much does Roman pull on the rower?
For what? A million.
For For what? For what?
What? I don't.
Think he never. He never goes below like, what,
1400 ever. There's no way, yeah.
His Zone 2 is at 14. I bet his marathon pace is
probably slower than that. But like, give me a time domain
and then I can tell you what he pulls.
He pulls all the time. 60 calories.
Like what was he pulling when he did the the work 20?
4.3 probably I would say probably 17118. 100 the first
round two not, Yeah, not the second.
What do you think his Max like his Max power output is?
4. Do you think 4?
I don't think I've ever even seen 4.
I just think if I can pull 3 something, you could probably
pull 4 something. It wasn't like.
Back in the napkin math, you know.
Wasn't it Brian Shaw? Brian Shaw did it and did the
five. Hundred 105, yeah, it was 101
hundred. He can't get that long.
It wasn't. A minute 20 is way too long for
that. Guy, he snapped the rower in
half. I'm pretty sure it broke.
They had to put like plates underneath the middle, yeah.
So there you have it, go to heat one app when it will be
available in the app to start making pics.
Tonight. All right, So by the time this
airs, or by the time people in, like Europe and Australia see
this in the morning, it'll be up and ready to go, I.
Mean 80% of our audience is from Australia, so that's true.
They're already on it. So yeah, go to Heat one app, go
check that out. Go download your bracket, play
with your friends, get your gym members to fill the bracket like
we did. See if you can beat any of us on
your full bracket without any resets each week.
So yeah, go check that out. John, any big news on the JY
barbell front? Yeah, a couple.
A couple things. I had a girl named Amy Hines
Clean Two O 5. This I think a week ago and she
had never cleaned 200 before. Then she cleaned 200 and cleaned
2O5I think she has a shot to make the games as a master this
year. It'll be very, very like just
because they've expanded it as the only reason.
But she's a freaking monster, just just waiting in the wings.
We're building it. Every day.
What? What age group is she in?
40 to 44. Nice.
Or or maybe, maybe maybe I'm thinking in a year she might be
39 and like in a year she'll she can make the games.
Either way, be Top 40, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good luck. All right, guys, good show.
Go check out thebarbellspin.com. Go check out the Top 25 media
poll, and then stay tuned. I'm sure we should get region
exemptions here any day now. Keep waiting for those to come
out. We'll see who else gets an
exemption and then, yeah, next thing we'll know it's a hint
from Dave Castro sometime this week and then it'll be next week
ready for the open. So until next week, we'll be
there on Wednesday leading up to it and we'll see you then see
us.