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I had a lot to choose from today.
Did you? Yeah, we had like.
There's a lot. Going on.
Yeah, there's a lot going on. I mean, there was a lot from
last week's show and then Alex, Suzanne just got high.
So that was another one. And then we we had to do the
spin cast for some grid match. So there was all kinds of
comments to throw out. So this is going to be a lots of
different topics. First one at Serra TP5 OV You
can really tell how much certain people are worried about the
World Fitness project taking over just from how much spin is
frothing at the mouth for the slightest bit of controversy.
It's. Just I don't, I don't disagree
with her man, but I, I don't think that's bad.
I don't think it's bad, but I think there's a little truth to
it. It's OK.
I think there's little truth to
all of it. I think they're shady as all get
out, but I do think there's a little truth.
Reporting. The reporting would be exactly
the same if. But you.
Like if Alex Kazan. You.
You would be. I agree with you.
The reporting would be exactly
the same. It'd be exactly the same.
You put it out there no matter what.
I would 100% agree. You're not.
You aren't like, like helping only puts negative stuff out
there. He'll never put a positive thing
out there 'cause he can't do it, 'cause yeah, it hurts him to be
happy. I don't.
I, I'm not saying that's you at all.
I'm just saying you would report everything no matter what.
But you do like it, that's all I'm saying.
I think after seeing this, it's my opinion that they're starting
to realize it's not so easy to run something like this.
You know, you know what you are right now, Spin.
I think you'll appreciate. This this would be good.
OK. You know when the Big Short when
that do with the glass eye, I think Exxon, I think that was
the company. Am I wrong on that or is it you
know what I'm talking about? Yeah.
Christian Bale. He had a glass eye.
And the Big Short. The movie.
The Big Short. And he called the bank.
He called. Well, I'm asking you what it
was, Tyler. I didn't know Michael.
Bury. Yeah, well, whatever Michael
Bury, correct, Whatever company that was.
Like he saw the bank collapsing, the 2008 crisis, he saw that
happen two years before it happened.
And he was just so fast to it that everybody hated him.
And they're like, you're this isn't happening, right?
And everybody was like, like the house Enron, thank you.
The housing market is just going up every It's all successful.
And then boom. And I'm saying you are that guy
right now. Is that fair?
And you are trying. You're like just guys.
I'm telling you, I'm telling you, this is not gonna happen.
What you think it's gonna happen because you said it way, way,
way beforehand and it's gonna go boom.
You think that? You're happy to report.
It boom goes the dynamite. I think there's some parallels.
I think what people confuse is that I'm trying to 'cause it or
that I'm like, actually the one creating the division or playing
a role in its potential demise, right?
Like I'm literally just showing what's happening.
I'm putting a spotlight. I am reporting what Alex said.
If Alex had said that about CrossFit and what Dave Castro
said, I would have done the exact same thing.
I hate the lights. Do you?
Nope. Nope.
If the lights, if the lights, the lights on the live stream
were so dark that I could not see, I would report it, Hanu
said. He they've changed it.
It was not the way it was supposed to be.
Like I think even Wilmore had agreed, like it wasn't or
somebody said like it was not the, the, the view, any of the
criticism on what the the lights were was just from a, on a live
stream perspective. Well, I think, yes, I, I, I
think where people get us twisted, we would say the exact
same thing about CrossFit. You don't say you don't, you
don't hear every single thing CrossFit does.
We're not like it's the greatest thing in the world.
The problem is they know we don't like WFP.
So then everything we report is like, just because we're haters,
we would do the same thing to everybody.
I'm just saying you enjoy it, you know?
You go, you know? I'll let you go.
Yeah, I want to, I want to know
what John's to John's question, was there a little motivation in
there, but would Halpen say anything different?
I'm just showing the ticket sales.
Oh, Halpen. Halpen wouldn't say it, though.
If it didn't fit his narrative, he wouldn't say it.
Oh OK, so he wouldn't highlight it good or bad.
He only would highlight it. He would only highlight it if
he's not getting paid by whatever The thing is or
whatever, you know, like he would only highlight the things
that he hates. That's all he does.
I I very. Early on reported that ticket
sales were well, well behind what they were in previous year
a whole. Yeah, we've not, we've not
hidden that at all. We've not shield away from that
at. All I mean, it was like maybe a
month ago it was it was a few weeks after maybe yeah, probably
like a few weeks ago I wrote an article that said that, you
know, there's some concern with the ticket sales in Albany.
And I think when you look at some of the comments that were
said about our just quick discussion about the 40% off
sale, they, they many people interpreted as saying it was not
a bad thing, it's not good. We we focused more on why it was
ticket sales were down, what's. Happening.
How do we fix it? Right.
Not trying to say that ticket sales were like the 40% off was
a great thing. No, no, we've, we, we, we
mentioned that we focus on a different piece of that.
What people have to understand, we have likes and dislikes just
like everybody but one. We're not getting paid by
anybody. All of our opinions are
unbiased. This is how we feel.
This is why we like these guys. This is why we don't like these
guys. But it's unbiased, right?
And we're in every other every, I bet we could just go across
the board everybody who's we'll just go ahead and say it.
And and I and I think I'm the least negative WF peer like in
the group. Would you say that yes or no?
I would. I would say I'm right there.
With oh, I, I agree Tyler. I agree, Tyler.
I agree, I'm right there with you guys too.
No you're not but but every person, every person who is
reporting that's pro WFP is extremely hypocritical and
whoever pays them the most is who they're gonna say is.
I don't even think it's who pays them the most.
I think, I think they're whoever pays them.
There's a. There's an.
Ryan, the French throwdown, how much did the other dude, how
much did the unfriendly dude report on the French throwdown?
Those are his people, the Europeans that nobody gets to
see that we've that he's, he's thrown his whole career away to
show these Europeans, right And the people that nobody gets to
see. How much did he report on those
people or that competition? I think he did a recap show.
Oh good, that was very helpful. Deering.
All 12 people who watched that. Recap And what did he do for the
top athletes in the CrossFit space?
Did he cover those people, The people he's already thrown his
back to like at the game? Like I'm never reporting
CrossFit Games ever again. Those are the people that you're
talking about. But who paid him and who didn't?
That's all I'm saying. Like what?
We are not hypocrites, is what I'm saying.
Until we get paid and then we like us or.
Dislike us? Yeah, but here's the thing,
Tyler. I'll say I'm getting paid, so
I'm going to talk good about it. I'll say that live.
It only takes $50,000 and John will be all aboard.
But I'm still going to critique it.
I'm still going to think it would have been better if we did
this. You're What are we doing over
here? Get your hat straight.
Sorry, it's. Blocking my no hey Lu Zhao
should've paid us and I said I can't wear them.
Yeah, you did you. Know what I mean?
I you can't pay me enough for me not to give my honest opinion.
I will try to slide it the way you want it, but if it's I don't
like it, If I don't, I think it's shady.
If I think it's bad, if I think the scoring system is dumb,
whatever, I'm going to say it. And I think the Lou Jajun are
the best, absolute best weightlifting shoe.
If you wear them, they are better than tier.
They're better than Reebok, they're better than any of them.
They're the most solid weightlifting shoe.
I've had Nikes, I've had the Reeboks.
I have two pair of tier. I don't wear them.
I wear the Lou Jejun. That's an unpaid opinion at this
point. 100% hundred. Percent they were a sponsor.
Yeah, Frog. Grip I think you can still use
code spin and save money, but I don't get a dollar of that.
So right now, a frog grips. That's something I will endorse
because they're freaking filthy. They have the easiest product to
endorse. It's like it feels like cheap.
Well, because they're cheap. Because.
Because they're great. Yeah, they, they are very
sticky. They're like, it's not, you
know, whatever. Yeah, better than the Roma Leos
to 100% you if you if you have only worn Roma Leos and you try
the Lujo June like and you and you'll be like and you need a
way of looking shoes like they are the most solid shoe you will
ever wear. Like everything else feels
flimsy. I have the tier whatever the
carbon ones, they feel super light like it does not feel like
you're wearing a a solid weight lifting shoe.
Luz Raju and you know you are and I don't even get paid by
them. Next comment from our favorite
CrossFit athletes, Mom Jules Brandon Jules Brandon 7.
I was thinking Christy. Yeah, that's what I was
thinking. Christian Hey, is Christy a
member of the The Spin? I don't.
I know. Come on Christy, don't be.
Don't be cheaping out on us here all.
Right. I can imagine the poo storm if
this was my kid. Did it really say poo?
It had the poo emoji. OK.
All right. I used to take those gummies
just talking about the THC gummies and quit because I am an
addict and they gave me the bungies.
I had to call my sponsor so just imagine if like.
I don't, I don't, I don't know what you just.
Said John's like I. Don't know where to go with
that. I I no.
It's your sponsor in NA, it's the the addiction group.
No, just imagine what would be different if Daniel Brandon told
Dave, oopsie, I took THC in the cross at the CrossFit Games,
It's CrossFit Games or at semifinals or whatever.
And Dave was like, oh, don't worry, I told you it's fine.
I meant to take it out in March. I just didn't do the paperwork.
Can you imagine how much hate Danielle will be getting right
now? Way more.
Everybody, Everybody gave Alex the benefit of the doubt.
I think, I think it would be the exact same.
I think if it was Brooke Wells, you wouldn't have even heard.
Of it? No, absolutely not.
No, I, I think if it Brooke Wells, Dave would just find a
way for us not to hear about it. So you're saying crossword would
cover it up? Whoops, sorry I slipped.
My bad. Sorry.
I I will fight you, pool boy. Those are not the same.
They may look like regular tennis shoes would have a little
heel on them. They are not the same.
I I challenge you to find one Olympic weightlifter that wears
strike movement. Just one.
So what if I took it before the broadcast?
I've never taken anything. And we just.
I would not and. We could just see if it actually
has an effect or not on performance, you know?
Knowing, knowing you and your body, it might not.
You're like a gorilla. There's no.
I'll take it right before Heavy Isabel.
We'll take like 30 minutes before that's.
A good idea. This is a great plan.
You just walk out that all these lights are bright.
Oh. Man, John, just be smiling out
on the field. I think it's a bad idea, John,
but hey, if you want to try it, go for it.
At Vittorio 75. These CrossFit athletes want to
be treated as professionals but get butt hurt when someone
covers the stories as a professional.
Spin is covering the news he is reporting as a professional on
CrossFit and its athletes. I don't know if I'm a
professional, but I just write. And it's athletes who continue
to say they want to be treated as professional athletes.
Get used to it. Great work Spin.
That's and that's the thing that I think everybody's missing the
forest for the trees on this one.
It's like they only say that because we have been critical of
the WFP, but it's you would care, like you said about the
CrossFit example, if Dave had done the exact same thing,
people would be freaking out. And so take all of your bias
against our bias out of it. It's still relevant news.
It honestly, it's gotten more wind because you guys are like,
this isn't news. Would you say the same about
WFP? It's gotten more wind because
we're like, this is. Is of us maybe a.
Half. Million years, so really we're
the biggest supporters. We are, we are the biggest
supporters. No, I mean when CrossFit
produces a or puts out a press release on an athlete failing
drug test, I'm the first one to put it out there.
Morning chocolate does not like they may bury it in their bottom
of their e-mail like a few days later.
Talking to Elite fitness only does it after I post it.
Maybe they're not talking about, you know, some South African
woman or South American woman getting popped.
Yeah, I'm talking about Holti. No, no, it's like I, I don't
think anybody reported that, right?
Like I will call them out that people are getting popped on
that. It's news Summer Vine for
tonight. Thank you to see John take a
THCCBD gummy. Oh, Speaking of Summer Tyler, do
you have a partner for the Community Cup?
So Summer decided to almost tear her Achilles when I was gone at
GRID and she did a workout that I did not program.
She just decided to do something.
I don't, I don't know why I just decided to do something by
herself. And she has like Bursitis and
like tore something in her foot. It's not her Achilles.
But but now she's got a little boot for four to six weeks.
So I don't have a partner anymore, so do you.
We'll figure that out when you get here.
Do you just want to just be me and you partners and then they
can just accept it? I'm.
Sure, we can make that call. I'll be, I'll be Joanna.
Joanna. It's.
Not really a female Tyler name. Taylor.
Yeah, I think it's good.
Jim Lafave Even if World Fitness project was August through
February, I'll never be on board with it because it will always
represent the league of athletes who believe they are worth more
than their actual market value entitlement like the WNBA.
Hey, Caitlin Clarke's rising that value I She's also out four
to six weeks summer. Yeah, RIP.
So I, I just wanted to call that out because it's not just me
that. Cole feels this.
Oh Eric Mackie, are we missing running in too many tests this
year? At least online TFX Annika
Sydney Michalician Olivia Syria Miha hoping event 1 is only
running based event at the games.
So Annika, Sydney, Olivia, Syria are only hoping that there's one
IS. Syria a bad runner.
We know this. I would say by looking at her,
no. Like she don't look right.
She ain't, she ain't. She's not a very big girl.
Well, it's it's Annika and Olivia.
Annika is not a very big girl, she's just slow.
Olivia is sitting here on the bigger side.
Not here at the Syndicate Crown. There's plenty of running being
tested here, so get out of here with that crap.
Fair enough. We'll find out.
I mean I did you guys watch
Train of think tanks video with Annika or about Annika?
I tried, you tried fill me in. I there was some of it.
Baby time is sneaking up on me and I was listening to it in the
shower trying to absorb some of it.
So not listening at all. Oh yeah, it's like I listen to
Sevon in the shower sometimes and it really is just background
noise. Whatever, whatever you, whatever
you have to tell yourself. I wouldn't admit that, but you
told Jeanette. Hey, I need some alone time.
I'm going to go shower with seven on like.
She just hears and you guys know, it was actually like from
what I absorbed from it, I probably got like maybe 40% of I
watched the whole thing, but only listen to probably 40% of
it. It was.
It was OK. I have a clip for you.
It kind of goes back to Jim Lafave's message about the
August through February. So yeah, well, this is this is
about the season, right? Like getting all of it done and
and where you prioritize your time.
To have y'all talked about what's is there a priority?
She's doing both. Is there a priority?
There's no mental priority. I think her, I mean, I think the
priority is going to be what's happening now.
So when we get to WFP, to qualifier, like that's the
priority and games training will take a back seat.
Is that annoying to you though? Like saying that like, I know it
is what it is. You know, we got this.
She's doing two things. So you're not going to change
that. But is it kind of like, Dang, I
wish I could just focus on the games or well, the annoyingness
is what we've all, or maybe not we've all but many people in our
community are frustrated with is that we just don't know because
like that's not even the most complicated.
You don't know what know like what the next season is going to
look like. We don't know if she's going to
make the events. If she's not going to make the
events. If she does well at the games,
that might mean she gets an automatic bid to Rogue.
So then that puts a new competition in between WFP to
and the WFP finals. And so it becomes very hard as a
coach and like you have people in the outside being like, well,
what is she doing for running or why isn't she getting better at
running? Or I don't know if they're
saying that, but if people were saying that it's very hard.
It's like, where do you put base building run training?
How do you prioritize running when you have an online
qualifier? One month than two big in person
qualifier competitions that are probably going to require a
taper workout practice and AD load around both of them.
So that's like six weeks of training right there taken.
So it becomes frustrating only in so much as I can't really
guide training that much and. Yeah, but listen, she's so bad
at running. I I would just have her run
everywhere. All the time.
I mean, she is strong enough to be you were.
Not allowed to have a car you and like find out how to refer
to live within a 2 mile radius of the gym.
And then she just if she wants to go somewhere, she has to run
like like like listen, I I know that's not how you get fast, but
she's so bad at running. It'll help.
It would it would be better than what she does now.
Wasn't it like 2 years ago John, you were running every day.
Coach L had you running every day.
Did it help? Yeah, to an extent.
It's just you're just not going to like I'm not going to run a
530 anytime soon. I ran my 559 though when I did
that, like a 559 mile. I can't do that now.
I also remember TFX 2 years ago was rough the row into the run.
Yeah, that was bad, yeah. But I, I hadn't started that
though. But I ran, I ran 6 miles at an
850 pace, which was like a really, that's really good for
like long, long distance for me, like that long of distance.
And my 5K was 2312. So you know, we're looking,
we're looking at a sub sub 8 minute pace for a 5K.
It's like a 750. Now, obviously that's not that's
not good at all. But like we're I'm not a games
athlete, right? This is literally the worst I'm
ever going. This is the worst thing that I'm
ever going to be at anything. And I was holding 750 for A5 Ki.
Don't think Anika's that much better.
Do you think? Like she's an actual games
athlete. You think she's much better than
that? No.
That's sad. Danny Spiegel ran a 7 minute
mile. I think it was 65640.
That's Tyler knows he called it on the dot.
OK, but like. 6. 40 I'm saying that's terrible.
If you're one of the fittest women in the world and I run
faster than you, that's that's atrocious.
That's, that's insane. You, you know.
What I'm saying, but how do you do it though when you try to
compete in two? Seasons run everywhere you go.
Dude, this is Groundhog Day again.
We talked about this what before with the 2/20/19 season or 2018
season, whichever one that one was, we were just like, how can
you get better? You don't have any time to just
train, train. You're going to have to
selectively do the season as you see fit, which we're already
seeing. Alex Kazan's already doing it.
She's the first one to like pick that that way of doing it.
She included the WFP more so than the CrossFit side.
I wouldn't say more. So she just, you know, kind of
leaning. She she put the target on of
saying I'm going to focus on Norcal and that, yeah, all that
like that was probably the view that's actually said it, that
that's what she's doing. Now, but she can afford to do
that because she can afford to adjust her training.
Annika, who needs to work on stuff, can't, like John said,
like you just have to start making a run everywhere, at
which point she can't do CrossFit stuff all the time.
She can't do weight lifting stuff all the time because she's
going to have to run more and then she's just going to get
worse at that. So it's like your your
progression of the Challenger division is actually worse.
You could. You could do your stuff and
still just run everywhere. I don't know, dude.
Dude, Mall O'Brien would wake up and run 3 miles just to wake up
and start the day just. Where is she now, John?
Where is she now? She's in Iowa or Hawaii doing
yoga. You're absolutely right.
Bert. But Annika needs to do that
right like I I do. You can't be that bad at some.
She's as bad at running as Laura Horbath is a deficit handstand
push ups. But you know, and Travis
Williams, Travis Williams did this and he's, you know, he's
not the greatest example because he weighs 280 lbs now, but he
would. But he and he's still probably
better than me, Wayne. He's still so yeah, he's still
very, very good. But but he was like, you know
what? I'm always going to be bad at
this stuff. I'm just going to worry at the
stuff I'm good at. And like she might be like, I'm
going to get last place anyway, even if I do improve, like I
even if I do improve. So like that, like you brought
up TFXI went from last place to like 5 spots away from last
place. But that's how, that's how bad I
was at running. Like improving a whole lot was
not enough to be middle of the pack.
It was enough to not be last place, right?
So for her, if she's still going to be last place no matter what,
maybe she's just thinking I'm just going to focus on other
things because I'm already going to be last, I mean.
That's what they talked about a little bit.
It's so much time to get a little bit better.
It's just annoying. Look at that Pedro's in in the
States. The legendary Willy be making.
Is that Will? I thought he was.
I thought he quit CrossFit. He's about to run out of here as
soon as we put the camera on him.
Maybe that's the idea, and if that's the idea, that's fine.
I wish you would just say it though.
Don't say there's not time to run, just say hey, I'm so bad
that I'm just not going to work on it.
So Mal is from Iowa. Her parents live there, and then
she hangs out in Hawaii. So she she's a, what do they
call it, the people that fly back and forth from New York to
Yeah, yeah, something like that. Barry Mccockner.
Iowa and Hawaii, they're basically the same.
Place they are about the same. Barry Mccockner would get mad if
I do not pull up this comment since he is a member. 496 views
on the World Fitness Project day one live stream.
Whoo. Half a million.
There you go. Let's see.
What are they referencing like? Nothing.
They're referencing nothing. So no SO.
Every time somebody click on their website.
Maybe every time. I mean, I can let me let me pull
up the video in case somebody has not seen it.
Every once in a while I get somebody that.
And we're, we're speculating This is why they didn't want to
go on YouTube, so they could just say whatever they wanted to
say and make it sound better. I'll I'll get to that.
Let me let me show the the video and probably make people mad
again, which is fine. Let's see.
How many numbers? So I know people were talking
like about all the numbers that were being thrown around, how
many viewers there were, and by weekend's end.
Yeah, like half a million and. There was like 260,000 views.
Yeah, like half a million and. There was like 260,000 views on
the stream in totality. That answer your question.
I mean, they have. It's clear as mud, Jackie.
So I think. And guys, guys, that's why they
did not go on YouTube because they you can't, you can't lie
then. So there I think there's a
couple things at play. I think Seth had a had a number
that was at the end of Sunday. I think Will has a number that
may high ground. So you think, you think, go
ahead, span, go ahead. You're span.
The whole thing go. Ahead Will did this interview a
week later. 2 weeks later I'm sure they had some playback.
Generally speaking those types of playbacks after the event
ends is like in the 10 to 20% range on YouTube.
So if Will is right, they had 190,000 views post competition
playback versus the 260 live on a website on a website.
The the problem is, and I see it on my website, you have to
filter it out is bots. Bots can get on your website and
do it. Also the clever cast is every
time play is hit it counts as a view.
YouTube takes 30 seconds to get a view.
So if you start my video, if you watch this and click off after
25 seconds, it doesn't count as a view on YouTube.
But on the Internet is every time somebody clicks it.
But Clevercast of what they use to stream it and what their what
their platform is using, when you go actually look at their
FAQs, it's every time somebody clicks play, it counts.
So there's a difference in how it's counted.
I think there's some bots at play because bots are always on
websites and if they're going through and just screwing up
your numbers, that can be an issue.
If will is being a little generous in the 500,000, that's
another issue. I think the two 60s should be
dude like, but like if, if that's the case, if that's the
case and I know it's in totality every single time somebody
could, I still think it's generous.
But if that is the case, imagine if they were on YouTube and they
had a, a, a video on YouTube that had 200,000 views.
That's what the CrossFit Games is doing.
You literally could use that and be like, see, we're the biggest
thing coming. This is our first thing.
That's how you know it's a lie, because that could be their
biggest piece of like, this is the this is the future.
Look at how many people came and watched our thing, right?
And they would, and they we could not fight it.
We couldn't fight it if we wanted to because that many
people watched it and and right. But so if they didn't use
YouTube and it was the actual truth, which no way it's the
truth because like that's how you know it's not the truth.
Jeffrey Lewis I added 50 views because I kept opening and
closing waiting for the last heats.
Oh, I so many times I like you'd watch and then you'd see, oh,
it's not on yet. I'll close out and I don't feel
like watching Dead Air or it's the update show or whatever.
The thing that I really struggle with is when you do look at
their YouTube channel and they did the recap shows for the men
and the women the last couple days, they get like 500 views.
450,000 people or a half million people do not watch the show and
then 500 people watch your recap show.
I was gonna add up. That's like having 200 and 1000
subscribers but only 1000 live, but only 1000 views on your
video. Yeah, well, that's the fun.
That's The funny thing, like the whole impressions math that
happens. It is the number one aggravating
thing for me. So like when we're trying to
give ad space to companies and they're like, how many
impressions do you get? It's like, well, every time
somebody accesses the app or an ad rolls across your screen, you
could have seen that the ad 1800 times.
Is that an impression? And it's the same thing here,
like Spin, you're actually in a unique situation where people go
and access your site individually for different
articles probably each time. So yours are a little bit more
true to what an impression actually means.
But on this YouTube thing or on their whatever that site was, I
mean, like, who knows what the math is?
And like we can't even really do it because we under we
understand and speak in YouTube. This is a totally different
language. And so it it's just all crap.
I understand that. I understand the witch crap
they're pulling. They might actually be using a
real figure, but it's not if 20,000 people all access it 100
times. Like what is that?
The only the only thing that you can believe is YouTube views.
That is the only thing that's truthful.
YouTube views, not subscribers, not like like not comments.
Because like you said, bots can just kind of start doing stuff
is YouTube views. Yeah, they scrub it.
All right. Next up, Siberian Kelly.
Why didn't I get the notification?
I don't know. YouTube block again.
All right, two comments real quick.
We'll move on to the grid recap. It ties into it.
Christy Mean. I love how the whole stream was
about lack of standards. That was on the spin cast and
Jon still managed to be the only one to get no repped.
Love him though. And Paul Behar.
Crazy to be commentating on the sport and they don't even know
the rules. Grid.
Got it. We, we don't.
They don't. Y'all don't.
We're trying. To you don't claim to.
I was there to give as much context and appreciate it.
Watch it with everybody else. This was not a official
broadcast. It was not tied to the UGL.
This was to show. Support not partnered in any
way. Spam the comment section with
tacos which was amazing. Worth it and to cheer on John.
It was not to be the official commentary with all the rules
because I'll be the first to admit, and I think we said it,
we have 0 idea what the hell is going on.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure
Grant was like, guys, I don't even know what I was coming on
for. And then like they're just
learning and it's probably going to how it's going to be for the
next couple once. Look at this.
Oh man, the whole. Crew.
Wow, it's good stuff. So John Grid recap, what was
your thought of the very first time on a competition floor
competing in grid? So the competition is very well
ran like it's it's like for such a chaotic sport, we'll go ahead
and let Saman go. What's up, Sivan?
This hey, this is this is this is my first time here.
This is crazy. The fans are on top of the
athletes. This is this is the best venue
ever. You guys been here?
No, yeah, I'm not. I'll be there tomorrow.
I can't wait. Oh, are you?
You're coming to spin. We saw where you're asleep and
we checked out the top of the parking lot.
Hell yeah, the the RV will be rolling in around noon to 1:00
tomorrow. Crazy.
All right, Good to speak. With Caleb.
Caleb will be out there too. Can't wait to see you guys
tomorrow. Yeah, that's be good.
I'm pretty sure I'm the first one taking the floor, Savon.
On Friday, yeah, you're going to.
It's going to be intense. Either people are going to be
supporting you or laughing at you and you're going to hear it
all. Either way, it's support John.
Yeah, that's why he's going to take some THC.
Hey, remember guys, when this show's over, look for the Sevan
Podcast. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Good segue. No professional, John.
Yeah, it was it's for such a chaotic sport and like to not I
know it's a lot and like you don't really know what's going
on. You kind of really have to like
re study it to know what's going on.
It's really well ran like they the turn around for events is so
fast. They have basically a pit crew
that changes the event like that.
It's just, it's just a way different thing from CrossFit
because you do, you know, 8-8 or nine different little races in
one thing. It's just, but it's, it's, it's,
you know, we did the national anthem for every before every
match. So like, like, like it's, it's
just, it's just very like it's just they take it real serious.
I like, but it's refreshing. I, I loved it.
I loved it. And there was a, it's during
like a fitness Expo. And I don't know if they're all
like this, I think. They tried to.
But like the Miami Fitness Expo, like there was a bodybuilding
contest, there was a powerlifting thing, there was
jujitsu going on. There's A and so like they kind
of have everybody, all, everybody who's like doing
something like in this little area.
And so every time I went to the bathroom, I just saw 10 naked
sick women like, you know, about to do the bikini contest that
you just think you could brush in half and they're all just
lined up next to the men's bathroom.
It's, it's wild. But no, I had a blast.
I, I wish, I wish our team would have done a little bit better.
We got we did get smacked and that's that's, you know, it is
what it is, just a lot of rookie mistakes.
So but hopefully that stuff's cleaned up.
I do think we'll be better than this next one.
The team that we were against was very, very good.
So shout out to those guys. But it was, it was a really,
really fun time. John, your team was so close on
for the first time, like I think you guys did really well.
We have a lot of really good people.
It's just we just got to get it together, right?
Like, I feel like we were ahead in a lot of races.
And then you make thing is when every race is 2 minutes, you
make one mistake, other team wins, right?
Really let down. I didn't get to show people that
I'm the strongest person the grid's ever seen.
Yeah, I'll get in trouble saying that, but but that's OK.
Like since we were losing so badly, my thought process was I,
I was going to do my 3 cleans and everybody seemed to be
struggling with it, especially like trying to power them all.
And at the third one, then I was going to jerk it and then I was
going to walk across the finish line with it above me and then
and then let it go back. So we're already losing by a
lot, right? And Matt was already struggling,
so we were going to lose that one too.
Like it was just, you know, so I was just going to just do
something stupid. But, but everybody was really
nice. Nobody like it was mean to me.
I was expecting a couple people to be mean to me, but a couple
other teams like introduced themselves and everybody was
fine. I was I was into Tom.
I did. I was 10 feet from Tom.
I I can I almost positive you saw me.
I just stood there for a little bit.
I was watching the other next the next the match after us go
and. We're about to leave, like me
and my teammates. And then so his team kind of
just got there and I saw him. I don't know if you saw me, but
I saw him and I was just going to stand there for a little bit.
So if he wanted to do something, I was ready to do it, you know,
Like we're going to, you know, it's up to you, man, you know?
He didn't. He didn't go get on you all Ed
Mao style. He.
Didn't come talk to me at all. And I, I was ready for it.
I, you know, I don't know what I was ready for, but I was ready
for it, you know what I mean? So like, and he didn't do
anything. I was really surprised.
I assume that the fitness Expo was pretty busy though, right?
Did people come watch what was going on?
Or is it kind of like, oh, this is some weird freak show over
there? I would say a little bit of
both, like like it's they definitely have their fans, like
people are just there to watch grid.
But the family members it's a not really not I wouldn't say
family members just because it's you know, it's far away.
I mean, I guess all of them are not, you know, for the Florida
people, I guess not far away. But I was a mix of people who
are there to watch this and then there to watch and then, you
know, people who are there for other things like just watching
what's happening, right. It's not the crowd's not huge,
but it's it it is like a lot of passerby's checking it, checking
out what's going on. But as far as the competition,
the competition is great. The announcers are great.
They they like dude, they, they, they do it up a lot more than I
thought it was because I I was thought it was just like a
sideshow thing, but like they, they do it up big and it was the
judges were great. There is one like judge who who
is like the only guy who would be a CrossFit judge, like as far
as standards go. And they like rotate judges.
So like like he's on one team side and then the next race he's
on the other team side and like it's so hilarious.
People who like are only grid people because they get aft
every time by this guy. Like this guy like like it's
crazy. Like like when he's like when
he's on our side. I was like, hey, hold the
lockout a little longer than you would or like extend your hips a
little more than you would, right?
It's like you can't race at this point.
We just have to have, you know, if they take it, look at it as
like CrossFit, if you're in a CrossFit competition, and then
when he's not on our side now we're in a grid competition, we
can start shorting some stuff up like like it's 100%.
That's what it was. Like I got, I got in trouble for
that. I was like, it's just, you know,
the standards are a little bit loose on the grid side.
Speed is valued over standards. It's not like people cannot look
at this. This is why Taylor would never
watch it, Bryson would never watch it, and that's that's
completely fine. The kettlebell to overhead was
insane. The ground overhead kettlebells
like this is the first, the first race they were just like
slinging it up like. Oh the the lighter ones I was
like, my lockouts were beautiful.
No, the very first. The first one was like 53.
Pounds spell light that people just kind of like, toss them
around. What happened, John on the
bobble on the snatch you like had to reset or something?
That bar fell out of my hands. It was actually like if y'all,
nobody saw it, but if you could see what happened, it's actually
incredibly impressive. I was impressed because I like,
I like got, I like got the bar and then I went to go and the
bar just fell out of my hands. And then I was like and then and
then like went to like and like I had to like re grip it and it
was like, OK, now we're good. Like my like hook grip slipped
out everything like just slipped.
The guy before me, his hands were real sweaty and that made
that. And I'd like re grip the bar in
a different spot and then kind of like just get crooked with it
a little bit. But again, speed is valued ahead
of like movement standards. You cannot treat this like
CrossFit reps These are just freaks being freaks moving as
fast as they can. But it was very, very fun.
I'm sorry that we weren't better.
We will be better. Vindicate wants to know are they
going to come out with adult sized shorts for the next event?
Those are perfectly sized. I was eating those shorts dude,
trust me, I can feel it. Jeanette Jeanette was looking at
the pictures. She goes, Why are his shorts so
small? I was like, hey, good thing,
good thing I don't have to squat these cleans because I think
they would RIP. Like if we're not powering,
we're in trouble. I I love it.
All the wall balls I just feel like the tightness around my
Dick every time I squat it like it was just like and I knew I
hit depth right when it hit a little skirt smart like I could
I could just feel it but no they are very tight.
They do that on. Purpose, I tell you and the the
the shirt, they they make everything super tight.
It I did not like myself. I didn't like how I looked and I
was like as soon as Isabel's over, because I need to be
strong for Isabel, as soon as that's over, I'm getting ripped
up again. I'm I'm not I don't like this at
all. Like I'm going down to 195.
That's that's the yeah, so, but I had a good time.
I feel like I'm, I feel like I did my part well.
I don't feel like I messed up very much.
So the you just got to get it together as a team.
It's one of your competitors. Looks like he's on the Sharks.
One of the best team. He's the, he's the coach slash
owner of the Sharks. He's got all the money.
Look, look at the Sharks like the Yankees.
They're they're the Sharks are like the Yankees of the Gridley.
Really. As I as I listen.
More and more, that's how they got Kelsey Keel.
Right. Are the bandits Oakland?
No, the bandits aren't Oakland we're I would.
Say White Sox. No, no, no.
I would say the bandits are the are the Cardinals OK?
What does that mean? Which takes us a little bit to
get warmed up, but once we get going, once we get going.
Post season, we're we're going to be on it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. Does every team make the
playoffs or is it only? Top four and they go by points.
So like we it was the score was like not the record.
No, no, no, no, it's not the record.
They go by points. So it's like 20, like our score
was like 20 to 11 or something like that.
So our current score for the playoffs is -9 and then it's
like, so if we win really big, then we're plus, you know what I
mean? It matters how much don't.
Win. So don't let up, just crush the.
Other team right so the the the CrossFit ones that we won the
triads one I thought it was hilarious my my parents are
Cardinals fans. I guess he does not a fan of our
team, but that's fine. The is I thought it was funny
that we won the Crossfitting ones I'm.
Going to have to migrate. Oh, computer's dying.
Yeah. So good times.
When's your next match? June.
The week after Norcal, so I have Syndicate and then Norcal and
then Tampa and that's the next match.
Was Matt OK? Yeah, Matt, listen, listen, Matt
had four of those things. He had four, like, like that's
how much he has. And he got no Rep on one.
And then he went for five and he did not have 5.
And it's like a legless rope climb or a strict handstand push
up. When it's gone, it's gone.
And that's what that's what happened to Matt.
I I have a theory that he just wanted his handstand walk to
have more views than Mike Clean. So he was like, F me, I'm going
to take this into my own hands and not give me a shot to show
out. So that's fine.
But. The the handstand walk over the
ladder or over the stairs and the ramp was highlight of our
match. Highlight of our match.
It might have been one of the most impressive things of the
entire weekend. No, I didn't watch anything
other than your match, but I would say it's probably one of
the toughest. I don't know what else could
beat it, honestly. I mean, there probably could be
some pretty gymnastic guy up on the rings that looks real
pretty, but I mean, it's pretty. Relative to everybody else that
does it, I have to imagine if you if you piece score that.
If you piece score at first, sure, yeah, it's highlight of
the weekend. Honestly, it was pretty
impressive of the Lions because they were not that far behind.
We beat them by like they were. They had four reps left when we
were done and their guys ain't doing that like so it was pretty
impressive that they were not that far behind, I feel.
Yeah, I was glad we won at least one.
Some we didn't get. We didn't get skunked.
It was looking that way early on.
All right, Next up, Syndicate preview.
John, I think for for lack of time, we've spent a lot of time
talking about everything else. Let's go through your top ten
and then we will tell you where I I do not have a list of it.
So you're just going to walk 10 through 1 and we will go through
and say what we like and don't like about this.
First of all, the field in general, the women, I think is
tighter than the men. I I would agree.
I think there are. I think there are potentially 7
women who can get the top 2 spots.
I would agree with that. And then for the men, I think
there are five men who can get the top 2 spots.
But what's crazy is I feel like it is very wide open on both
sides. You know, I agree with most.
I think they see Brooke Wells and they're like, oh, Brooke
Wells is way better than everybody.
Brooke's been sucking, man. Brooke has not been very good as
of late. And I do I think Brooke's better
than everybody else too. I'm, I'm with the field on that,
but she's not been great. It's kind of like Alexis Raptors
would be what most people would think.
Who would win the games now if T if Tia is not playing but Alexis
been sucking man, you can't you can't depend on like you know,
it's it's Brooks kind of got that going on.
Before we get into your picks, Tyler Heat 1.
Heat one yeah, so same games shot caller top ten, but I've
been waiting to release the prize and now I I need to make a
graphic now to release what the prizes are.
I know you guys have been all waiting for this big moment,
haven't you, John? I've been waiting for it.
This is this is cool. This just came finalized today.
We are going to we are going to give away 20 tickets to the
CrossFit Games. 20. 55 sets of 4I.
Thought he was going to say $20,000. 3 Three sets for shot
caller. I got my eyes opened up and then
they closed real quick. Dude, John, this is a big prize.
This is like, this is like over. It's probably like $1500 worth
of. Oh no, it's, it's a big prize.
It just doesn't apply to me. Because.
I play these to, I play these to win, Tyler, I play these to win.
Trying to have this big magnetic moment and John's like, yeah,
whatever. Listen, I'm I'm a, I'm a
participant, you know what I mean?
I'm playing. I'm playing to win.
Yeah, if you win the tickets, you got to give them away.
That's only the right thing to do.
I will sell them. 3 Three sets of four for shot Caller and two
sets of four for top 10. So you better make your friggin
picks. That's awesome though.
It is huge. CrossFit.
CrossFit helped us out on that. So they're showing us a little
love. Guys, go play.
This is the probably the biggest prize package we've had in a
while. For sure.
For sure the biggest prize package.
Judy lives in New York, doesn't she?
Yeah, Judy. Judy.
No, Judy. Judy lives in Ohio of.
Course I know. I have no idea the Clintons.
Maybe. Maybe.
All right, so Tyler, we're going
to go just, we're going to, John's going to go 10 through 1
men and women. We're going to tell him why he's
wrong. And if you need to download the
Heat One app, download it right now.
Thank you, Alan Pugh. It's go to the PA.
So go to the App Store, Android or Apple and type in Heat 1 and
you're ready to go. I'm just kidding, I'm sorry.
I'll impute. Right John.
Top ten men. OK, we're going to go.
We're going to go 10 through one.
Yeah. All right.
My, I'm going to do 2 guys at once here.
OK? My 10:00 and 9:00.
OK. Zach Levy is my 10th and Ben
Smith is my 9th. Are we going to do?
We're just going to tell him why he's wrong.
OK. Why is Zach Levy?
Because Zach Levy is a he's he.
I know he's a very powerful guy and I know there's 2 events that
Zach Levy should do well in. I know he's going to do well in
Heavy Isabel. I know he's going to do, he
theoretically should do well at bag 9.
And I think bag 9 is going to devastate people.
I know the hundreds. If you have any kind of engine
about you at all, it comes down to the front squats.
I'm assuming Zach Levy's got good front squats.
I did a lot of this is an assumption, but I know he's
going to be good in those two events and so that's what I'm
chalking it up to. If he's a trash handstand
Walker, just pick screwed. But I didn't know anybody else,
so that's who I'm rocking with. I will say when you look at the
rosters of both because of how the season is.
Following, Taylor has an announcement.
Me and Bryson got the bunk beds, John, but your room doesn't have
AC unfortunately. OK, sounds good.
It's good. Stuff.
Sorry about that. There's a lot of men and women
who. Does my room really not have AC?
No. OK, cool.
There's a lot of I'm going to sleep naked.
If it is, we're just going to deal with it.
That's why I'm staying in my RV. There's a lot of men and women
who this is our first, I'll say it call it semifinals
appearance. Yes.
If there are athletes who are up and coming who've made big
strides over the last 12 months. Now's the time.
We may not know about them and they could definitely surprise
us. Correct.
That's the thing, like I was talking with Barclay about this
last night. The story of this one is of the
syndicates. Actually, this is playing out
better than I thought it would 'cause I think everybody's like,
oh, I'm tuned out because all the big athletes made it.
But now we're in that part of the season where it's like, it's
like the little teams. So I don't know if you guys know
how UK basketball works, but like 2-8 ball teams and five 8
ball teams all go into the same bracket and so they're like
literally just trying to make it.
And so this is like a really important moment and it's
nobody's show. I don't think anybody's a lock
to win. So it's like we could see some
people who've net we've we've never seen before really show
out. Well, that's what we said.
Like John thinks there's probably 7 women, five men who
probably have a real like are in the running to.
We would expect to have a shot at the top 2 to qualify.
But it could be in any order. But it could be in any order.
And don't be surprised if we see something that we've not really
heard about or we've seen once before that has a really good
weekend, that this programming suits them.
And we're like, wow, who is this person?
And by Sunday, we're rooting for him.
Well, I'm thinking how fun was the women's field at Crash
Crucible? Like Colton Connor ran with it
and Taylor and Chris had their little thing right.
And that was fun. But the women's feel that crash
Crucible, none of us knew what was going to happen.
They just kept like it was just roller coaster city.
And then nobody believed in Brittany Weiss at all.
I, I, I think we'll give credit to Angelo, to Chico.
I think he said a lot of these events are good for Brittany
because Brittany was first after day one.
None of us thought that would hold.
And I'm pretty sure I he he, I don't, I don't think he
predicted her to win, but he did say Britney's really good at all
a lot of these like I wouldn't shock me if she remained there.
So we'll give him credit for that.
But nobody knew how the women's field was going to shake up.
And then it was just a bunch of bunch of roller coasters.
We didn't know who Caitlin Sanders was and found out.
And she's she's also here. She's got some crazy strengths
along with some weaknesses, but like, I think we're like, Smith
said. But we're gonna find out about
new people, and that's always really, really exciting.
I think that's I think it'll play out more in the shot caller
is we could probably what do you think about the top those top
athletes? We have a pretty good idea of
who will do well in it, but we don't know who like, like
Caitlin Bernardin last year at the West Coast.
I mean I I called Caitlin Bernardin last year though.
On the 1st event, yeah. Because you just listened to
Pool Boy, Yeah. 100%. You had no, you had no idea.
I just. Decided to trust him.
On that, but are there? Yeah, but he also was saying
Sanson was going to be great. I didn't trust him on that one
though. So you just got to know when and
which. Which one to trust them?
Yeah. Yeah, you got to read.
Old boys vibe you? Got to no, you got to research
along with his his suggestions and be like, ah, maybe.
And then you got to just, you know.
So there's a chance where the the those with the with the shot
caller, somebody is just really good at legless rope climbs or
they're really good at right. And we just don't know because
we've not seen them in a competition where they're
running 400m intervals. Well, and to that point, from
the two posts that I posted over the past couple days, and I'll
say this because it like it, it doesn't matter where I end up
placing in shot caller. Like if I win tickets, I'm going
to like whoever's next. Gets.
You're not going to be in the top three.
You don't know that, that I've been getting some Intel of
athletes, yes. When Crash.
You didn't beat me in Crash. Yes, I did, John.
I did. I play.
In Crash, yes, you did because you said, Oh well, you only beat
me because you know what? You did all your research on the
athletes that I don't care about.
Oh well, maybe that's the case. But anyway, good for you, Tyler.
I I've been getting, I'm sorry, I've been giving me some Intel
about the athletes who like don't have any data on them and
like some of the heavy Isabel times, like some of these
athletes that we don't really know about are going to have
like could potentially win and win by a lot.
All right. We're going to talk about them,
right? We're going to talk about shot
Cloud on here too. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Yeah, OK.
Tune into the spin every morning.
Oh, I'm in today. No, we're gonna do that every
every morning. So the very first thing every
morning, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we will be doing the
spin to kick things off and we'll be walking through the
shot caller, all the prop bets and that stuff.
So all. Right.
Anyway, back to the top ten. That was Zach Levy.
My reason for Zach Levy, my number.
Not my reason for Ben Smith, dude.
I just think I know his Isabel is a competitive time.
I don't think he's going to have a problem with the last workout.
The last workout I think is going to obliterate a couple
people like and and like like where they're doing great and
then all of a sudden they just can't do it.
Like a Lydia fish on the shoulder overhead and crash
right? Or it just it just it just
destroys her. And I think the last workout
that's going to happen to a lot of people.
I don't think that's going to happen to Ben.
And then the other other, like he's just not.
He's seen everything. I just think he's not gonna be
bad at anything. I don't think he's gonna really
be great at anything. I think Isabel might be his best
score, but I don't think he's gonna be bad at anything.
That's the thing I think with this programming that's.
A solid 9th place. With this programming, I think
what you're gonna see is of the 40 athlete field, I think you're
gonna have 10 that can do it. Well, you're gonna have another
10 who can do it, but they're struggling and they're like
there's another 20 who are gonna be exposed every event.
It's not the same 20. But I think you're going to see
like you're going to see a big separation in it.
And I think Ben is one of those who's never outside the top 20.
Like he can do all of these things like nothing that is
going to scare him. Now, he may not be have high
enough finishes to do better than 9th.
I have him 8th. But like, I think he's just one
of those guys that, you know, 6th, 7th, 15th, 20th ends out
where he doesn't have anything terrible and he ends up
squeaking into the top 10. So we're all agreeing to my
10:00 and 9:00. I mean, I'm OK with Levy.
I have Quinn Robinson. He's a team athlete.
This will be the first time we'll see him, I think on the
individual side, all. Right.
Do you are we going to do our our bottom 2?
Are we going to do? Is he going to do his two and?
Then you just comment on where you think like Ben is or.
Who you have? I have Zach Levy at 10th.
Oh. Look at there, Tyler.
Ben and I have a very different place.
All right, my 876, this is the next tier, if you will.
OK. We got Connor Voltz, Tanner
Velaz and Spencer Panchick. OK?
I know both of you probably have Spencer Panchick higher and I
don't know how many times I got to tell you, you cannot believe
in a panchick whatsoever. Scott, where are you?
Connor Voltz is very strong. I I think, I think Connor Voltz
is, he's essentially he's my Zach Levy, but he's a little
fitter. That's that's where I have him
and those that's my, that's my reasoning.
I think Tanner is a very beautiful.
You remember he's very good at handstand walking.
I think he's going to be good at that event and I think it's
going to separate a lot of people.
He's I also think he's going to be good at the 2223 intervals.
Tanner's very fit. He's just not.
He's doesn't have home run ability.
In the strength department, he's not.
Bad but. He's not, but he's not.
He's not good. Either my my only concern about
somebody if you're is I don't know much about Connor, but if
he is truly one of the stronger athletes, Jr. does not program
strength without fitness right? So that's my only concern with
him. I I I almost put him in the top
10 but I couldn't. I have Spencer 5th.
I have Spencer at 8th. John has finally worked in on
me. Oh.
Wow, good job, Tyler. Good job, Tyler.
It's a little too much, but good job.
Tyler I do. I do have Tanner 9th though.
I have Tanner at 4th. And Tyler's back, so we're just
going to average the Tanner and Spencer placements and we'll put
them together. He's got them.
Both at 6th. And that's, that's where I'm,
I'm cool with that. I think Tanner's really good at
weird stuff. Not that this weekend is weird,
but it's a lot more athletic than.
Tanner's good at Jr. programming.
I think Tanner is good at Jr. programming.
Yeah, 100%. And so and Tanner, I mean like,
dude, he's been training with Alexis and he likes to downplay
like he's like, you know, I the job and like I have all these
things, but like the dude trains like an animal and I think he's
he's fitter now than he's ever been.
He's, I think Tanner also gets in his head a little and I think
he's more confident now than he's ever been.
I do know Tanner personally and so I think this is the best
version of. Tanner we've ever seen.
We didn't. We didn't know.
That sorry I I wanted to get that.
By the passion, the passion was not showing through on your on
your. Sorry, who was the other
athlete? Sorry, John.
It was, it was Connor, Connor Volta 8.
I got Tanner Belazz at 7 and Spencer Panchik at six.
Where you have those guys is we average them is about the same.
Spin hasn't learned quite yet with the Panchik stuff.
And then I think we're on to the next year.
Yeah. I want, I want Spencer to do
better because we have never like I, I like the Panchik and
we need, we need to save your brother right now.
Dude, when you want them to do something, they will never do
it. I just hope I'm not wanting.
I'm just hoping, OK. All right, 5th and 4th, John.
OK, I'm going to go by 5. OK, we can.
No, I'm going to go 543. I'm going to go 54.
Three. Oh damn, no, go 54. 5454 OK.
OK, my 5 is Jack Rosema and my 4 is Seth Stovall and I know
Tyler's got Seth Stovall winning probably I know I know Tyler, I
know Spin's probably got Jack Rosema up there in the top 2.
And whenever you guys think I'm wrong, watch him wait and see
what happens and then we'll we'll come back to this.
OK, this is AI. I'm I'm not going to promise
because I can always be wrong. And, and any of these five
people, right? I said the top five.
Any of these five I think could get the top 2 spots.
This is one of these ones where I think I'm going to have a
different top 2 than everybody. And just like FISA Gaffi and
Abby Dolman, it's going to come to fruition.
Those are my two guys that are going to take it and go to the
games. Yep.
No. And I, I, I, I, I figured it
might be. Go ahead, Tyler.
John, I'm offended. Seth Sovall is not my number one
spot. Jack Rosama is my number one
spot. And Seth's number 2.
Seth is #3. Oh, OK, good.
Tyler, you're better than normal.
So who Who is The Who gets the Tyler Christafell Award for 3rd
place? Well, hold.
Hold on, hold on. Seth.
OK, I love this prediction. I, I, I love that prediction.
Tyler, Seth. Is an athlete that I've wanted
to make it for so long. He's so good.
He's a freak. He's built like no other human
I've ever seen. He needs to go to the games.
I want him to prove me wrong. This is a part where I'm playing
with Jon the the part Jon usually plays, which is I need
to see it. And from Seth, we haven't seen
it. And so I'm not going to be he's.
Done multiple times of just not good enough, right?
Multiple times. That's crazy that he said that
about Seth. I think we should put more
respect on Seth's name and saying that.
I totally huge respect on Seth. Sean third.
So I don't want to say I want to say something.
Shoot, Tyler, you made me lose my train of thought.
OK? Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
So when I said Fee was going to win Mayhem, did anybody believe
in that ever? Anybody.
No. You.
All you all looked at me like I was crazy and what happened All
right, that's all I want to say. OK, whenever it's.
You got lucky once. Whenever what?
I get lucky every freaking time we do something, OK?
Like when, when, when I go out on a limb.
Y'all need to learn how y'all need to learn.
Maybe he's on to something. OK, my third my just short.
I actually love the Tyler theory.
And when Tyler's not wrong, when he says somebody's just not good
enough. I didn't say he wasn't good
enough. That's what but but but you said
he's the Tyler Christopher L role and that's all I.
Said no. This is the Tyler Christopher
Ward. Yeah, yeah, but I'm not going to
bet against Tyler ever when he says it's.
Seth quits on a workout. I will.
Lose my My third place is George Sterner.
OK, I think George, I think George stroner's going to be
really, really good in a lot of these workouts.
And I George Stroner is my Tyler Kristenfeld award because I
think the sandbag at the end is going to crush him.
He's a smaller guy. He he's very technical, like his
Isabel is very good, but he he squat snatches every single one.
But the pacing of it, the fitness of it and like he never
faced one bit almost Colton Merton's desk is just not as fit
as Colton right do. You think he's going to be top 2
going into the final event? I do, I do.
I think he's going to be top 2 going into the last event and I
think 8 guys are going to pass him up on the last sandbag.
I think, I think the last sandbag is going to crush him
and he's going to get, he might get there second or first and
then eight guys are going to pass him up and that's going to
be your Tyler Christopher. He's going to.
Fail 9th sandbag. Yeah, no, I mean he's going to
fail before that, but but he's he's not the 9th one.
He's going to fail like the 7th one just going.
To walk around, it's going to be like the full low moment.
And that's, and George Sterner is my third, is my third play
and I think he's going to be in a position to win it.
I have I have George Sterner, 6th.
I have George Sterner at 7th I don't know much about.
Him, man. All right, so this this is this
is the pick then for you guys that I'm like, hey, this guy's a
lot better than you think. What was that snowboarder's
name? Jason.
Was it Jason? Shaun White.
No, he was a cross fitter. Jason.
Bourne, he's he was like circa 20.
He was at the California Regional.
He went to the game little guy. But anyway, George Sterner
reminds me of him. No.
I don't know, but he only went to games like a year.
But anyway, when I see George, he looks like like a normal
Crossfitter that just somehow made it out onto the field.
Yeah, and I, I love it. It's like it's one of us.
Like can you do it? I like George.
I think it kind of goes to it's the opposite, but the same as my
Connor Volt's concern of Jr. programs strength with fitness.
The fitness is also with the strength and so like.
Jason Carroll. That was good, Jason.
Carroll, that was it. Can.
Can he? He's going to probably dig
himself a hole the first the first event.
George Turner. Isabel.
Yeah, you want to bet money? He's not top five.
You want to bet money? Yeah, whatever said he's not top
five. Zero chance.
Hold on, hold on, let me do math.
Zero Chance Jonas 0. Chance.
I will bet money he's top 7. Go for it, I take it.
I will bet you $100 is top 7. Whatever, that's fine, yeah.
He's. Not top five, He's not Top 7,
not. A chance Are we betting?
No chance, John all. Right bet.
Put it in and spins making notes.
John owes me $100. Hey, when have I lost one of
these? Always you just don't pay out so
you don't lose If I if I. Lose.
I pay immediately. Ask Taylor.
You. Ever get your money?
All right, all right. That means one and two are Luke
and Ty. Yeah, my number 2 is Ty Jenkins.
Little bit of a heart pick, I understand.
This so hold on so Tyler gets in trouble for picking Tanner up
there but you're OK picking? Yeah, because it ties in the
running to actually do it, I think, I think you guys would
agree with that. It's a little bit of a, it's a
little bit of a heart pick. I understand the first event is
going to be his worst event. OK, I want this to happen and I
think he'll be in the running for it.
I have. Listen, if it's not Ty, it's
George and y'all both don't believe in that dude.
Again, it would not surprise me if Jack made it or if Seth
Stovall made it. It would not surprise me at all.
I think they're all in the running, right?
But I I think Ty is actually fitter than pretty much
everybody that it's in this field.
He's just not. Is he strong enough?
Hey Barkley, what are the odds of top seven?
Top 10 is different. Top 7 is what the matters.
Where's Ty here? What Ty for me.
Yeah, Where do you have him? I have a fourth, I have Luke
third. Luke Parker and I have Luke
Parker as my winner. I don't see a thing that he's
going to be batting. He is a the hometown boy here.
I have Ty at we. We already made the batsman.
90%. And listen, listen.
And then I just had feelings when the computer backs me up.
When the computer backs me up, it's a wrap.
OK, it's negated I've. Negated.
I've beaten the computer more than the computer has beaten me,
but when we agree, it's a wrap. We'll see.
Hey, this is a site. Hold on.
One minute, 1 pause one second. Look at this site over here.
This is something I went too far. 8:40. 7 Which where do I go
that way this way. This is a site you rarely get to
see the squad squadding up. Even Brad ass Raff right here.
They're they're prepping, dude. We're we prep.
Are we count? Are we counting him in the
squad? He's not like.
He's he's got a bed, John. Yeah, but he's not like in in
it. Anyway, Luke.
Luke. Parker, Luke Parker is my winner
and like and like my only reasoning, my only reasoning.
I don't, I don't have good, good faith in this.
I'm not going to say he's going to go off and run it.
I'm that's not like my Hatfield's going to win the
World Finish Party. It's not like that at all.
I just think there's nothing that Luke is bad at in this
competition and for this in this programming, and I know he's
going to be very good at Isabel. I know Jack's going to run away
and win Isabel easily, but I know Luke is going to be good at
Isabel. I think Luke is the type of guy
who's going to go for it in the last event and then do 9
unbroken sandbag cleans in the very last bit and end up winning
that event. Like Luke is the type of guy
who's 3rd place or fourth place, 3rd, 4th place and then wins the
last event to make him be first. Place in fifth Brakes.
What about brakes? George's heart. 3rd, 4th, 5th
place here's and yeah, Luke is that guy.
Wait, like Callum Clements won and took it away from?
Who did he take it away from? He took away from somebody that
we thought was going to make it. You remember Boss Heart Colin
Boshart, he was like 8th place and then he melted to the
lunges. Calum Clements had like the
second fastest time in the world, right?
And then he just took his GameSpot away.
That's what's going to happen to George Sterner and Luke Parker
in the very last event and Ty Jenkins just going to be like
pace King, like a James Sprague almost, but like your eyes are
extreme and just have an even keeled time.
Nothing crazy, nothing bad, and just be second place Tyler.
Luke Parker, I, I hope you make it to the games.
I have him at 6th place. I think he's just cooked, man.
It's, it's too much time on the road, it's too much travel, it's
not enough training. If he pulls it off, it's a very
Travis Mayer asked performance. I think he's going to pull it
off at the last second. Total faith in dude.
Love watching him go to the game.
He's an entertaining cat. I don't think he's going to make
it. All right.
Do you have one too? My number 2 is big drum roll Ben
Smith. OK, in my defense, listen.
Listen. Did you honestly ask if I
actually win the top ten? I'm going to give the tickets
away. You got Ben Smith is number 2.
You're shitting all over it right now.
Tell me this is bad programming for Ben Smith.
Tell me this is the most I'll tell you, Ben.
Smith is not fit. Sam, who's going?
To be doing everything. He's been competing as much as
the individuals he'll be out there for Isabel and Kill Taylor
and I think athletes. Yo, Sam, if you win all three
and like you beat Austin and athletes only, you beat Taylor
in a workout that Jr. Thinks Taylor can beat everybody
in the world. And then you beat me and Isabel.
I will go on live TV and say that you might be the fittest
man in the world if you could just go.
Fittest unknown man. And beat and beat everybody.
Yeah, Sam. Would be fitter than than Ben
Smith. You will be on like Sam.
I will put you on top of the mountain if you go 3 for three.
That would be like a Harlem Globetrotters kind of thing.
Like you win all the sideshows but not the show?
Itself, you can't. You can't make it to the games
as an individual. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But look, I'm sorry. That's the fastest way.
That's the fastest trip to top. You know how pissed Alan and
Jason are going to be if Sam de Meester is on top of the
mountain before them. He's not even going to the games
and he's on the top of the mountain.
Because he goes 3 for three in this.
But listen, my Ben Smith pick, it's one of those picks where
it's the it's that horse, it's the the 35 to one odds.
I understand it's a it's an outlier pick, but when I get it,
man, I'm going to rub it in. And when I don't get it, I'll be
like, Yep. Nobody expected.
I, I have an honest question, Tyler, and I'm not, I'm not
trying to be mean to you at all. I promise you do not take this
like I'm trying to be mean to you.
When you're picking somebody for it to like be a good thing, not
a bad thing. And it's like this.
Has it ever happened? Yeah.
When? I couldn't tell you.
What rich frody in 2014? Yep.
That's not that's, that's not, that's not it, that's not it.
That's not what I'm looking for. Who you have winning tie?
Jake, I have Luke. Parker.
I have Luke Parker winning. I have tie tie Jenkins, 2nd
place. George Sterner is going to play
the Christopher role. Poor Tyler.
Christopher, I hate talking about about him like this.
Tyler, you've kind of, you've kind of taken that over like
it's, it's, it's, I accept it. I accept it.
It's real. I got Seth Stovall 4th and I got
Jack 5th, and I think any one of those five guys can actually get
those two spots. So I have one, I have one guy in
the top ten that you haven't mentioned.
That's and this is a little bit more of a Homer pick.
I have my one RJ Mestry, he's a teen teen guy who just graduated
from the teen division. Yeah, I have him in 7th.
Little bit of a flyer R. JRJ Master.
Mestre yeah, I have Brandon Smith in 9th.
That's my Homer pick. That is 4 barrels.
Pick 4 barrels. Glass at 4th.
That's what. No, I think that's legitimate.
John Tanner could pull that off. I know you do.
I I hope he does, just to see you grin from here to here
before I will give you all of your flowers.
Before we move on to the women, one thing I will say about, I
think some people have been saying, well, Ty just beat Jack
in the Challenger division at World Fitness Project.
They were using kid weights. I think when it gets heavier,
Jack holds the benefit, gets the advantage on that when it when
the weights actually get heavy compared to the Challenger
division. The Challenger division, they
were doing 50 LB dumbbells. They were doing 150 LB sandbags.
Yep. I don't think they go there.
I think that's where Jack beats out Ty.
All right, women, John. Top ten women.
All right, top ten women. I know I'm going to disappoint
y'all in the first. The first.
This first little bit. My 10th pick is Lydia Fish now.
Yeah, 9th. I have Nina Brockovich, but I
will talk about Lydia because I know everybody loves Lydia,
myself included. I tried to look up Lydia's
Isabel time spin and it's not there because she didn't do in
affiliate semifinals and I just think it's going to go really
bad. I think heavy, Isabel.
Sweet bad one. For I I I I wouldn't be shocked
if she got caps and I just think I think heavy Isabel is like
enough to just knock her out right?
Like as far as like being like a legitimate contender.
That's unfortunate, but like, it just it is what it is.
And I have I have her 8th and I have Nina 7th.
OK. And yeah, Nina Brockovich is
going to be great at the great at Isabel.
Not relatively. I don't think she's going to, I
don't think she's going to be top five in Isabel, but I do
think she'll be, you know, get points.
I I mean I don't even know if top 10 is she'll do.
Well, in Isabel. She will.
She's. Going to do good in.
Isabel yeah, and she's going to do very good at the handstand
walking event. I don't know if she's just good
on the ramps as she is on flat ground because her speed is what
stuck out on the flat ground. Lydia could not handstand walk
with her hand for hand. It's just Lydia paced that
better and you know, did the GHDS faster, but like actual
speed she couldn't keep up with her.
So, but I don't know if she's just good at the ramp, if she
has straight speed. Those are two different things.
Everybody can't beat Matt Rote and then my 8 and my 7.
I just bragged on him, but he's going to hate this.
My #8 is Caitlin Sanders. One of Caitlin's worst events
was the handstand walk event at Crash Crucible.
I can't imagine the ramps going to make that any better.
She should be good at Isabel, but I just think I think
Caitlin's going to have, you know, what Jr. is really good is
at exposing people her want. Her second worst event was the
legless rope climb event. And so these are two events that
are going to go not great for her and the field and the field
is better than it was at Crash Crucible.
The top 10 is I think, I think we'll see a lot of women on the
legless rope, climb the the cut rope be really struggle in this
field. Again, it goes back to 10 will
be fine, 20 will be OK. And then those, those bottom 20,
if you're not good at it, it could get really, really ugly.
Now, I would, I would say, but like it is a minimum work
requirement. So if you don't make it, you're
not going to sit there and struggle.
You're just done, your workout's over.
And that means we're going to have a lot of ties too.
So it kind of like depends where you are in that.
And then my 7th place is Lexie Neely.
Now Lexie Neely is a home run queen.
Lexie Neely is amazing at handstand walking and very
strong. But the problem, the problem
with Lexie Neely is she's just not super fit.
So when it comes to fitness, the yoke run that comes to mind, the
hundreds come to mind. Now she's an excellent squatter.
So it's, you know, I think she's fit enough that she'll actually
do pretty good in the hundreds workout.
But the yoke run I think is going to go real, real bad.
The two 2-3 I don't think is going to be great.
And then the sandbag muscle up. I don't I don't, I just don't
know. Maybe she's awesome.
Maybe she's not a brute strength is much different, much more
different than technical strength.
And she's very technically strong.
She's a good Olympic lifter, but that doesn't equal brute
strength. It's it's, it's different.
There's a reason he doesn't win all the sandbag workouts.
I know he's still up there, but there's a reason he doesn't blow
everybody out of the water. And Hopper can still get him in
summer. Frakowski can get him in
something like that, right? Or like you think about the
sandbag Isabel, he wasn't there. He was like 7th or something in
that, right? Like brute strength is wildly
different. So I don't know how she's going
to be on that one. I'm just kind of chalking it up.
And so I have her 7th. I think she's going to be top
five in maybe two or three events, and then I think she's
going to be outside the top 15 in two or three events.
I have her 4th. Oh so.
You think she's going to be great?
Tell me about it. I mean, I think I think the.
Lexi Neely. Yes, Fourth, she made it to the
Games last year. Like she's not some slouch.
Yeah. I.
I think she's sneaky fit. We won't talk about her too much
except for the handstand walk event.
But I think outside of the the run yoke, I think she's going to
be in there top ten, top five a couple times.
Like I I think that's her only bad events could be the run.
Wait here, but I will, I will tell you this, the field is for
the women. The drop off in talent is so big
that like an Erica Fola or somebody that might have a hole
in an event like not be very good in an event.
It's still going to be like 8th in the event she's not very good
at because she's still better than fringe semi finals girls,
you know what I mean? She's just not better than
games. It depends on where Lexi is in
that situation, right? Like her running maybe?
No, no, no. Lexi's bad.
Bad. OK.
I mean, I, I hear you, but if the women's leaderboard is what
you say it is, where it's going to be kind of going up and down
like. I got you, Lexi.
'S weaknesses are. Worse than Folo's weaknesses?
If it's like crash and it goes up and down, then it's just
leaderboard is just shuffling every single time it plays to
Lexi not having a very good workout.
No. And I and and I would.
OK, and like I said, and, and what, how many women did I say
have a chance for top 2? 5.
I said 7. There's five men. 07 Gosh close.
So I said seven. I said seven women for a reason.
I think Lexi Neely can be higher than 7th, right?
I think she can be. I can.
Yeah, I think she can be 4th. I just her fit.
She's the least fit one out of a 7 when it comes to like actual
fitness engine lungs and so that's why I have her.
That's why I have her 7th. She's already.
She she bought, she got rid of her car and she runs everywhere
in Indianapolis now. But hey.
But then I predict first then I predict her 4th but like but she
can be top two. She might could have a miracle
run and make it. I don't put it out of the realm
of impossibility for her to make the games, but I just have her
said she's the 7th one out of this tier.
Have you guys ever held these mics?
No, it's not supposed to be. There's no heavy the big old
boys. Well, he's holding on right now.
This one by ours, they're so heavy.
Anyway, all right, we're going. My my 6:00 and 5:00 is Shelby
Neal and and Erica Folo. I have Shelby Neal at 9th.
She's trash. Folo I have.
Shelby's been to the Games won, Alex and Neely has.
Did you see her at Mayhem? Yeah, different programming,
man. And you know, it was hot.
What kind of? Programming hot.
I think Shelby, I think Shelby Neal is is better than her
performance at Mayhem. Needs to be.
I, I don't like, I think people hyped her up really, really hard
and then she wasn't as good as people think.
But now, now it's the opposite. Just like Justin Medeiros, like
people wanted to leave Justin Medeiros so hard.
And I'm like, guys, he's still probably, you know, one of the
seven fittest guys in the world. Shelby Neal is still top seven
in this field. I everybody wants to leave her a
hard right now. Like she's still very, very fit.
She's just not perennial games fit.
And it depends on the programming if she makes it.
I've heard fifth. Who was the other?
What was your four or five, John?
My 5 was Erica Folo. Wrong again.
Tyler's got her top 2 all right. Next up 4th and 3rd.
Tyler just thinks she's the most marketable athlete that's ever
been. Is she not tell me I'm wrong?
I think you have to be fitter to be the most marketable athlete.
Look at Danny. Stop it right now, Tyler their.
Instagram accounts are a little different.
They're. Slightly different.
Look. Look, Erica.
Erica is the pink. Erica is the pink powerhouse,
OK? Danny is pink power lips.
And I'm not talking about the ones on her mouth, OK?
Oh. Man, that's getting they're.
Different. I'm going to take my leave.
It's different. It's different is all I'm
saying. Somebody clip it and show it to.
Her don't clip it, don't clip it.
Yeah, don't do that. All right, John 4th.
I think men are sick and I hate that she preys on them. 4th
place. My 4th place, Are we going to go
4th? Just 4th.
This breaks my heart is Sydney Wells.
I thought you were going to say. I know a lot of people want
Sydney to do great, but I have her 4th place.
OK, I have Sydney in 7th. That wouldn't get me cancelled,
would it? That right there.
He's yes, it would, John. He's.
Getting I can't say I can't say that.
No, you should have. Said it on this.
Shit, what is the difference? You tell me the difference
between pink power low and and. Booster the equator.
Booster seat Lydia and pink power lips.
If we have to explain it, John, we've already lost.
Yeah, it it actually, if it's below the clavicle, we're not
talking about it, men or women. I'm going to say thick legged
thing on one of these things. That's OK.
That, that'll pass. That's pass.
I'll just Carolyn will be OK with that.
All right, I. Don't.
I don't like how Danny Spiegel makes money.
I don't know how to make that noise here.
What we had no idea. All right, who gets the Tyler
Christopher Award? Tyler Christopher award goes
This also breaks my heart. He's not going to like it if
he's watching it. But Kyra, It's Kyra Milliken.
I have, I have Kyra. 3rd now, but now listen, listen, this is
it's not Tyler Christopher because I think she's going to
do amazing in the last event, possibly win the last event and
that's why she's third. Like I think she's going to be
like 6th place going into the last event.
And then she home runs the last event and and now it's a a A2
screen on if my second or my third place goes in and and it's
just enough. Kyra didn't do it right, but
she's the one who's going to make noise to even make it
happen. Samuel.
I hate the game too. I think men are dogs.
I hate it. I hate it so much.
OK, I hate, but I hate the players that play in the game.
I hate the whole thing. Now we're going to get off of
it, OK? It's making me mad.
All right, Top 2. I think I have the same as you
then, John. My top 2 is Carolyn Stanley and
Brooke Wells. I think Brooke Wells is.
Didn't you just say that Brooke? People playing Brooke first is
just crazy. I didn't say that.
I said a lot of people are are putting Brooke Wells and I'm
going to too, but it's not it's not because it's Brooke Wells
and she's like made the games a whole bunch.
That's not why. You think it's an uneducated
decision That's. No, I, I think Brooke Wells is
going to be top three and Isabel Sydney's not.
Like if you want to bring up like the twins and why they're
different, I think there are three events where there's a
huge gap between those two. And I think the snap the
Isabel's one of them. If you look up Brooks Isabel and
you look up Cindy's Isabel, it's like a whole freaking minute of
a difference. And I don't know how it's that
much, but it is that much. And that if that means
something, that means one's a lot stronger than the other.
I think she's going to do the same thing in the sandbags.
They're both bad at ring muscle UPS.
It's not like Sydney's better. We already know that, right?
So I think the if the last event there's going to be a gap and
Brooke Wells is still one of the best handstand walkers in the
game. People for like to forget that.
I understand guys, she doesn't know how to do a burpee, but one
of those judges know reps her. She'll get her chest to the
freaking ground. OK.
I just think I think a handstand walk, the last event and Isabel
are all going to be very, very good finishes for her.
I don't think general fit. I think the yoke run is a
possible win for her. She's a 400m runner in her past
life. Sydney might beat her in the 400
in the yoke run, but it doesn't matter because they're getting
gapped in those other 3, right? I don't see a place where Brooke
is bad. Her worst event might be the
2223, and I think a lot of women are going to struggle with that.
And it definitely ain't fine over Sidney, you know what I
mean? Like, I just think I think
Brooke's going to be very good throughout this whole
competition and it's going to be good for her.
It's going to be good for everybody.
Hitler's going to love it. Oliver reps are going to be so
pretty. Maybe the last snatch might not
be the prettiest, but you know, it's going to be fine.
It's going to be great. OK.
And then Carolyn Stanley, I think she's, I think she's
underrated. There's a lot of events that
Carolyn Stanley's going to be really, really, really good at.
Another person who could win the yoke run.
Carolyn Stanley's worst event again is probably going to be
the two, probably the handstand walk event, but I think she'll
have enough gap that it's not going to matter at that much.
And I don't see her failing in a sandbag clean event.
She's a thick legged girl, she knows how to do it.
Thing. Tyler, I have the same.
What are your top 2 folo? I have Carolyn Stanley at 2nd, I
have Folo at 3rd, I have Brooke Wells at 4th.
And mostly. So I'll either be 100% right
about this or I'll be way wrong. It could be.
You tell me you're Ben Smith at second.
Doesn't make it. Well, John, I'll give you,
you're really good. I was, I was talking to Bill
about this and he was like, John's really good at stats.
He remembers everything just from his head about how the
athletes perform when when the the heat is on.
The one thing that I'm good about judging is the athletes
emotional stability more than you.
I won't, I won't, I won't deny it.
I and you're you're really good at knowing who's trash.
So with with Brooke, one or two things is going to happen.
One, either she is going to like she's going to come shot out of
a cannon to prove Hitler and everybody else wrong that she
deserves to go to the games. And she's it's going to be a
spite thing like watch me go. Or just the the heaviness of it
all is going to weigh heavy here and she's just going to come out
flat. Which is why I give her 4th.
So that means you have Kyra first.
Kyra Milligan at first place. So you don't think Kyra's going
to get hurt on the Yoke Run event at?
All. I think she'll be fine.
I think the.
What? What in history has told you
that she would be fine? Think she's going to win three
other events and she's going to what?
Events Is she going to win? I'm not going to tell you that I
can't. This is insider information,
John. Is it from Kiefer?
Because then it's biased. No, it is not from Kiefer.
Is it from? Is it from Taylor?
Because then it's wrong, no? No, I having done the run event
it is. Oh, you know the run event has
made you think. Yeah, dude, I'm not a good
runner and it the run is so short and I think her under the
yoke will make up a lot of difference there.
I know it's short and I know it's not a place that you can
make up a lot of time, but where you can make up the time is in
the transitions and your aggression into getting the yoke
off the ground. I think mostly that's where the
whole workout is made. Yeah, like your pace matters,
but I don't think she's going to fall back that far.
So I think she mitigates on that.
And then she wins three other events and I think.
She's what is your what is your over under on the on the yoke
repeater. For her.
That's a great prop bet. What do you should put it in the
props? That's a mean prop.
We try to stay away from mean props.
Why you might say she's top 10. Yeah, I think you're the most
positive out of all of us on this event for her. 18th It's
too low or too high. I think it's beautiful.
I'll take the worse is whatever, whichever way you want to call
that. The under or yeah.
Yeah, I don't know if it is the under, just kind of depends.
It's the down I'm. Going to take the worst.
I would have to like really evaluate the field. 18th is a
really good prop. What up Bryson?
What up Taylor? All right.
The only one in the top ten I don't you guys don't have or
John you don't have is Reese with Littlewood again another.
She's an up and coming teen athlete and I this is.
A professional show. I've said this about every teen
that is coming up in the ranks and doing the big girl
competitions or the big guy big boy competitions.
I will not put you somewhere until I until I see it and I
don't care about online at all. So until I actually see it in a
competition, I'm not going to put you that high, right, Ty
just beat the brakes off of a whole bunch of people that are
in this competition in the world fitness project.
I know, I know, I know, I know the weights are light and I and
you're absolutely right, heavier weights Jack does better 100%.
You're right. He just won Wadapalooza RX,
which is always the RX division, which it but RX division
Wadapalooza has always been like a stepping stone.
So you're going to make the games if it like either that
year or the next year. It's happened three different
times. Fair.
I mean it shows. Potential.
I just think when the weight gets heavier, at least for Ty,
he's going to get. You're not wrong.
We used to say the same about James.
Fair enough, Lee 999 super sticker really appreciate the
support that brings us. So you want to hear the heat one
shot caller pics TuneIn on Friday morning to the Sivan
podcast. We'll be there on the spawn
podcast. We'll keep everything in one
spot. You'll be doing a morning show
to kick that off. We will share those Let's move
the blind rankings. Move this thing along sitting
there. And no one should be asking.
You, man. Tell them to move, Tyler.
Yeah, tell them to get out of here.
Tell them there it's really bad. Who is who is it?
Who is talking? It's Wilson, so he gets a pass.
Tell Wilson that I said the move I.
Said the move Wilson. John, John politely asked you to
move and shut up. John.
He, he said you're talking too loud.
Don't give him any. He told you to go to hell.
He, he actually said that. Go to hell.
It's aggressive, Wilson. I didn't know Wilson could get
that. Exactly.
Wilson didn't say that I'm translating.
He just went. Tyler put you on the spot.
Do you know what time we kick off on Friday?
Hey, but also tell Wilson I appreciate everything that he
does. One minute, Sarah, I'll tell you
all. Right, blind rankings.
We're back with some blind rankings this week.
We're going to go to John's Gridley experience and do a top.
Wow. Blind rankings.
Oh. My.
Gosh, on John's grid. Oh man.
So 5 things from the Houston Bandits.
John's grid. I almost, I almost don't want to
relive it. It's.
Gonna be good. It'll be good.
Tyler, are you still over there checking his schedule?
Tentatively, 10:20 AM Eastern Time. 1020 Eastern.
OK. That's early.
For it call it call it 10:00. OK, I.
Thought I was going on at 9:00, no.
No, no chance. All right, John's grid blind
rankings. Here we go.
John, you should. You should nail this because you
were there. OK, we have to be at the venue
at 9 John. Gotcha, gotcha.
Here we go, first one John and the thruster ladder.
I don't know man, it was so easy.
Spin, I think you have to play for me.
Yeah, why Tyler didn't watch. Because I only watched.
Some of it. You're fine.
I know where they come out so I can't really rank them.
It's not. Fair.
I don't. It just depends.
Like are you putting negative things out there like me not
getting to do the heavy cleans at the end?
John, It's John's grid. OK, well I mean this is like, I
mean I did it fast, but like it's they weren't like super
heavy. I'd say 3. 3 Tyler, did you
watch John do his thrusters? I didn't see that so So what
happened on the thruster spin? I just did them all real.
He literally just went through them very easily.
Not a struggle. Few people on the team did
struggle. It wasn't like this big moment,
though. I don't really think I had a big
moment. I think Matt's handstand walk is
the biggest moment, even though it's my stuff.
This is John's grid though, so. Me watching Matt do the
handstand walk. That's not it, all right.
Next up, John's interview. That might be 1.
I mean, everybody liked it. I was real out of breath.
They wanted me to go right after I just did.
I just spritzed real hard. I I like.
Tacos alone it's. Number one, we got a lot of.
Tacos taking over the chat taking over when we take over
the chat, it's always fun. I actually ask yeah and and
thank you to you guys. You guys make this fun, but I
want to talk to the team and I was like, guys, we should come
up with a word to say all right, like like we should come over
with a phrase that we like have the chat say right where they.
Just lost. Well, I don't think people
really knew what I was talking about at first, but like like
then, then they then they started going, they started
coming up with some stuff, a lot of stuff I didn't understand the
meaning of, but but then there was a couple, there's a couple
like like bend overs, you know what I mean?
Stuff like that. But we're going to come up with
some stuff. OK, OK.
Probably not as good as tacos. Like like tacos was pretty good
tacos Taco emoji was everywhere. Maybe like a dildo or something
like that, Like you mix our name up with something.
Weird. That's that's John I I do want
to pause on the tacos. We're going to have to eat some
Taco Bell this weekend. I'm going to have to show you
how to do this properly. And you want to race.
It's like 1. It's two bites, Max John.
It's hard to chew when you do that, man.
The fastest way is just little by little.
We can race, man. We'll see you wins.
Listen, I'm on my grid. Speed everything.
You're going to lose, John. OK, we'll film it.
All right. You want to do 4 tacos?
First one done. John, I don't think you
understand. I am 365 lbs at heart.
That's fine, man. There we go.
We're going to raise some tacos. All right, Next up.
I'm actually so hyped to race you in eating tacos.
Spins like I would like to do the show.
Please stop talking about tacos. I do want to move on but I do
have a story I have to tell. There was a Co worker of mine
back in the day and he quickly realized that he was really good
at competitive eating and he was a he was a small guy.
He ended up going to a strip club and eating.
It was hard shell tacos, as many as hard shell tacos as you could
eat at a strip club. And he ended up winning and he
started just going to the local circuit eating any type of
eating competition. It was winning like gift cards
to everything $500. Like he was kind of a, you know,
kind of the talk of the town when it came to the eating
contest. And then he stopped doing it
because he was, he was actually massively overweight when he was
little and young and like young adult.
And then he lost a lot of weight after college.
He's like, I can't keep doing this.
I'm just going to get it all back.
But yeah, there's my Side Story. All right, Next up, the pistol.
No Rep for John. I did get a no Rep and it was
correctly called. I would say good on her.
I kind of tripped going out there and then it affected the
pistol step. I also am dealing with the
little knee thing, so like that's.
We saw that it was only you took it off after that.
Neither here nor there. That's the only thing that hurt.
I would say this is a 5. I think everything was a pretty
perfect run other than that. I would agree.
For me, I saw that and it was like I it was funny how diligent
you were being about your pistols, but I also knew about
your knee injury, so I was like, well.
It's not like I, I, I was doing it with like a reckless
abandoned and I and I was doing it on both legs and it's just,
it's unfortunate that it can be like, but it's fine.
I thought I adjusted quickly, lasted like half a second.
I don't think that's why we lost.
I was making up ground the kettle bells overhead, so I was
making up for it a little bit, but OK next.
Next up, sitting on the box between every race.
Did I sit on the box between every race?
I saw you do that. Over and over again.
We're not. I'm not doing.
Nothing. It was just very on I'm.
Not allowed to sit down. I'm not doing nothing.
I'm tired guys. I would give it a four.
It was you go out there and Sprint and then that's not do
nothing. It just, it just is fitting
after watching your semi final performances.
You know, we talked about it like is John going to sit in
between the races? And you sure did.
I'm going to do 10 snatches as fast as I can and sit down in
the weights in the middle of the floor.
I thought there weren't supposed to be boxes out there too.
And then I'll be damned if John wasn't sitting on a box.
I actually requested that they bring some boxes.
Out. It was your.
It was your weird request for. I'm just.
Kidding, I'm just. Kidding.
For talent, Yeah. All right #2 the last one, the
final race. No go.
Oh man, we messed this up big. What happened?
Have you not seen this Tyler? No, the the last one, remember
that's where everybody goes and then Matt rotate could not do
the 5th ring, whatever it was. And so basically the team just
got stuck midway through the race and in the interview John
was like just wait till you see my 3 cleans, then you'll know.
Well, they were like, they were like, it's kind of a rude
question, honestly, because they were like, hey, why does every
why is everybody hype on you? Why didn't Tyler didn't care?
He's done. Yeah.
Dang, that's what it felt like. Yeah, just don't really care.
Just. Something like that.
And then and I was like, This is why, This is why people are
hyped. And and then, Yep.
There it went, Grant. And I definitely felt very just,
it was just rough. I don't people, I'm super.
Excited for it, even if you guys lost just to watch you finish
the three cleans and be like, all right, that was fun to
watch. Dude and everybody else was
struggling. I was surprised the other
strength guys like weren't doing it easily and and they weren't,
but I know a lot of people wanted me to be mad at Matt.
And I mean, if he can't do it, he can't do it.
It's not like. AI was mad at Matt.
I was mad that nobody else could go out there and do it once a.
Muscle failure. Did you see the type of stuff
he's doing? It's a hard thing to do.
I definitely just need one more person.
You need to find one more gymnastic person.
Why don't you get that, Shawn Johnson that was going to buy
CrossFit to go do it? Hey, this is the hard judge I
was talking to you about. We, we, we had that guy.
Dude, the dude with crazy hair? Yeah, dude.
He's, he's dumb. He's brick shit house dude.
Dude, I love him though, but he's he's intense.
I actually like that he's out there.
What if you get that LSU gymnast come out and do some of that
ringed stuff? Yeah, LSU.
What's her name? The Asian one.
Oh, whatever that blonde is that stayed in the baseball player
Shawn Johnson. No, the LSU gym does.
I don't even know. Somebody in the comments can.
Tell why don't you reach out to her and tell her that we would
like to have her on the team. Yeah, yeah.
Something like that. Livy.
I don't know. Livy.
Yeah, get her out there. Think she'd do it?
I don't know, somebody reach out to her do.
You think grids? Do you think grids below that?
I, I, I think she would probably, you know, you have to
like spend some money to go out there and do it and stuff.
I don't know if. She, I bet she gets sponsors.
It'd be fine. All right, last up and then
we're going to go get ready to go to Knoxville.
How do we do? I was curious to know after 21
people have qualified for 21 men, 21 women have qualified for
the Games. How well have we done from our
predictions? Any guesses Tyler, on the men?
How many do we get right out of the 21 so far, 7 Out of the 21
men, John, that have qualified, how many have we predicted?
21. 21 out of 21? Yeah, that's not even close
either. Jesus out of 21, correct.
Only two rookies have qualified so far, Henrique Moreira and
Colin Bosar. Are the two man?
Brawny really screwed us. Braun, Caitlin.
Clemens, I don't think Braun screwed us.
I think the programming screwed us of whatever event he went to.
We also obviously with your syndicate, you have the list on
the right. Those are guys that we had
picked to go to the games. Is there anybody outside of
Rosamore Ty that you would say has a good chance of making it
I. Think Bailey.
Bailey, Peter. Bruno is competing.
Is he from hoodie and renegade? Bruno, I don't think so.
I think he's hurt bad. I thought he lived in UAE.
OK, San Juan is surprising. Jack.
BKG is a big name, but I mean, he's been.
I don't think he's going to do it.
Toby Bucklin should come out of Rebel Renegade Games.
Yeah, Fiona or Audio or anybody have a shot at the last chance.
Do they do the last chance? No chance.
Last chance is there's only one guy, right?
Yes. I don't, I don't know.
Last chance is so it's so like, I don't know.
It's just I don't know what to think about.
Last chance I'm not going to think about until it happens.
That's fair. We won't be able to, we won't be
able to predict who comes out of last chance.
I think it's going to be too hard, OK.
I'll probably say Yonah Koski. I'd pick Ben Smith.
Yes. I'd pick Ben Smith.
All right, the women's side, we've gotten 13 out of 21
correct. You didn't let me guess.
Because you were so bad the first.
Oh, hey. Miriam made it.
So did Amy Kringle. We didn't pick predict them to
make them. Oh, oh, oh, I thought I
predicted Miriam to make. Them that was not our combined
list. They did not qualify.
I want to we could ask JRI. John coming out of your own.
Jr. It's our show that we.
Did I told Jr. that Mir him is going to make the games an
online game? You might have you.
Changed your mind? But we did not agree on it.
We missed everybody in South America.
We did not get Maria or Louisa. Monica Greer made it.
Nobody. You're telling me I didn't
predict Syria? I'm almost positive I said
Syria. Mayhaw was going to make the
games beginning of the year. John No, Amy Kringle, Jennifer
Muir. So we've got all the ones that
we thought 6 rookies on the women's side, only two on the
men, so quite a bit different story on the women's side.
Sarah Sigmund's daughter is out there at Africa for the Rebel
Renegade Games doing all nine competitions.
You got Alex and Emily out there at Norcal, Tia Toomey still out
there. Emily Deroy possibly both in the
running for that out there. Let's see Brooke.
Sidney Trista Hattie has the shoulder injury, so we don't
know about her at Norcal TBD. Paige Simmons, I don't even know
what she's doing so. Chilling.
Guys, the 1st through 4th place in the games last year have not
qualified for the games. On the inside.
How crazy is that? That is nuts.
I don't think 4th place will. I can't believe we agreed to
Sarah. No, we didn't.
We predicted the Oh no, Sarah's competing in Africa.
Yeah, that's the only way. We thought she was going to.
She was supposed to compete at Wadland.
She could have qualified at Wadland.
That's why we that makes more sense.
Yeah. And I think she would have had a
good shot at it. We had Michelle in Africa.
Now I think it's more Sarah's to win so.
The names. The names it's crazy.
It's crazy, yo, the women's field is wild right now.
That's that's Campbell might win the CrossFit Games, nobody else.
It's. Going to start out well with her
for the first event. So yeah, there you go.
We're we're keeping track of how well we did.
I think we're we're doing OK, not bad.
That's really not bad. 13 out of 21 and 15 out of 21.
Yeah, for a season that you don't know how it's all going to
shake out, who's going to compete where things.
Are and you have some interference from WFP?
Yeah. I mean, our predictions were
that Danielle was going to be at Mayhem.
Yeah, that didn't happen. We thought that Emily was going
to be at TFX. That didn't happen.
Like all those things have like. I don't think Emily would have
gone from TFX even if she did win go, not with those events.
She's way fitter than Sydney though.
Dude, I don't think she's making the last clean.
I think she fails the last clean a million times.
Like Hannah? Yeah, maybe a lot of people.
Failed the last clean. She's not freaking strong.
And then they had Isabelle on top of it, which is already a
bottom of the pack finish. We know it's a bottom of the
pack finish. No, she is much fitter.
The programming dude. It doesn't matter if the
programming is what it was. Clock Where did Mirham qualify?
Last I saw she crashed out at the French Throwdown hard.
She. Didn't crash.
She cramped. Cramped.
It was a cramp and then she came back and qualified in the in
affiliate semifinal. Hope we don't see another cramp
this weekend. Pedro will be.
Pedro will be on it. If there is.
All right, guys, that is it. I am making my way to Syndicate
Crown in Knoxville tomorrow, John.
We'll see you there. If you are in Knoxville, come
say hi. We'll be on the street on the
broadcast all weekend long. And so check out the Savant
podcast. They're going to be doing a show
right after this. And then we'll catch you there
Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And Tyler?
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