What's happening? Good evening, everybody.
It's Wednesday night, the number one show on of CrossFit on a
Wednesday night at 7:30 Eastern. It's the spin man.
That's a long week, long weekend, but it happened so
fast. Did you crash?
Do it again. I wasn't too bad.
I was not too bad. I drove in Monday morning, drove
back on Monday morning and then went to the office and got some
real work done. And yeah.
I'm glad to be. On.
I'm glad to be on paternity leave.
That is fair. Tyler, you, you and Spin, you're
both not going to North Cal, correct?
Correct, that is correct. I'll be watching a live stream
from home. All right.
I got sick as soon as I I got back.
I've surprisingly not gotten sick and I've travelled a lot.
If you don't, it'll be amazing as much as you're travelling.
I'm hoping I can hold off two more weeks.
All right, I get sick the weekend of grid league.
I'll be upset but. Yeah, that would suck.
Let's see who's who we got here. Keeping it real.
I love how love how to this day that's the only picture of John
or John are using on front covers.
Had the same problem I think. How about the thumbnail you see
the thumbnail I had to use like a photo from like 2 years ago,
John. Take a take a picture of me.
Get some head shots. Am I gonna pay for head shots,
man? The Sivan podcast number one.
Wednesday night show. Summer Vine, she was at
Syndicate Crown in her boot. In her boot.
You said she was doing some crazy workout.
She was doing the class workout, John, she was doing.
She was doing shuttle run. No, I didn't say she was doing a
crazy workout. I said she was doing something
she wasn't supposed to. The class workout shuttle runs.
Yeah, yeah. So don't do that.
Just follow what John says. L1 Mel.
Did anyone else get an e-mail from CrossFit that bought
tickets in the pre sale telling them that they have an
additional 2 tickets for free? What?
I've heard that. Because they paid full price and
there are still a lot of seats. Man 3000 or something like that
so. Could very well be a packed
house at this rate. That's crazy.
There are. I would.
Rather a packed house. Let's just give them out for
free, man. There are actually 20 less
tickets than there were because people won some tickets from
heat one from this past weekend. Shout out to I only play to win.
Who won? There we go, shot.
Caller. He only played for that reason.
That's. Right.
Jay Delotto, 2 Roll Dio. He's on there a lot.
Roll Dio. That's Tristan.
Right, Tristan Harrison. Is that Tristan?
I thought that's what he said in the chat one time.
And then Sup dorks coming in fourth, missing out on the
tickets. That sounds like Colton.
That does sound like Colton. I bet it's.
I bet it's Dallin. I think so.
I thought Dallon had his own. A regular user, yeah.
Dallon just has Dallon. I think he changed it so we
don't did, did he? Does he still have his name?
I thought he changed. And he doesn't say he said
what's up losers on his thing. Yeah, that's true.
He doesn't. He doesn't say dorks.
Jay Steranko in top ten number one and also Trunix, 24, tied
for first. Oh, tie for first gets in OK.
They both get tickets in. Yeah, they both get tickets. 3
for shot caller and two for top 10.
Nice. We will be reaching out shortly.
Look who was here. Congratulations, thanks to
everybody you played. Grant Griffin, the accountant,
is in the building. He told me he was in finance.
Is accounting not finance? It's very different.
It is not the same high ground made it the best beef, the best
beef chips out there. I had some beef chips this
weekend that got got me some protein.
Kevin Carrick got one of their fancy red barbell spin shirts
from Syndicate and got a new PR. There you go.
Let's see. Load up on some C and
electrolytes, Tyler. I blasted what?
What is that emergency? I've been blasting it the whole
time since I've been back. I'm on a cycle of emergency and
then some vitamin D It's. Too late.
If you're doing it, then it'll work.
Vindicate sold all kinds of stuff out there at the out there
at Syndicate. Did you get hailed on out there,
Travis? Which day?
I think it was Friday. There was a bit of hail.
Dude, I miss. I miss Tennessee rains.
No, there wasn't. Down.
Kale wasn't there. Kale.
Kale, not kale. Oh my bad.
My. Fault.
You know where Kale is, Paige and Kale.
Nobody knows for that. Nobody.
Knows for that Jonathan Ortega engineered nutrition
electrolytes. I met those guys, Good dudes.
I got a sample pack to try out so enjoying it so far.
Good stuff, doesn't taste salty, but there's plenty of
electrolytes. William Fultz.
I saw that name of the chat listening from Murfreesboro.
So there you go. I do want you to draw your
attention. If you are in the in the live
chat and you look at the, there's a new thing going on up
there in the top right, says community leaderboard.
So this if you're, if you're in the YouTube channel and you're
looking at the chat, there's a little crown up there, says
Community. The community we got to update.
Let me see if I can. Let me see if I can pull it up.
Let's go in in into Infinity mode here.
Let's see, I pulled up Instagram because I'm an addict.
So yeah, here it is. So up here it says Little Crown,
it says Community, and it's community leaderboard.
And so it tracks everything you do when you're interacting with
the channel now on a live stream.
Wow. And so basically every chat that
you send in, I think super chats and gifts and all those like
little fun, little, you know, sending us money gets counts
towards points. And since I'm one of the few
that has it now to the beta test, I'm going to give away 100
Australian dollars in gift card to frog grips to the to the
winner at the end of the show. So you can you can get points by
just chatting. You get points by sending in
super chats you get. Does it update in real time?
I think so. I think that's.
Awesome. Let's click on it right now.
I need to update my YouTube app. Jose said like 37 comments.
Awesome. Let's click on it right now.
Grant, Grant Griffin. I don't, I don't know what it's
like 37. Comments.
Awesome. Let's click on it right now.
I have no idea, Grant Griffin. I don't.
I don't know what it's like. 37 comments.
Awesome. Let's click on it.
What is going on? I have, man.
It's like getting crazy. Spin.
That was inception if I've ever heard it.
Good brief. I almost refreshed my computer
and I was like wow and. Then I was going on.
Tyler and Tyler was laughing. I was like, OK, OK, OK.
It's just. So you guys in the chat, you'll
see it on on there. It has like little crowns.
So whoever number one at the end you'll get a.
Grant already in the lead. In the lead.
So what if you stay in the chat? I have no idea.
What do it We love it anyway? Yeah, I have no idea how the
points actually work, but you're supposed to get all right.
Can we get off when we do it? Man, I'm getting like a
headache. Jordan Hayward asked.
Where did he go? We got a bunch of chats now,
Jordan. Hayward, you know him.
I do know he asked if I was going to frame the the Theo
Kemper jersey. I am definitely going to frame
that jersey. I'm up.
But I, I, I started looking at shadow boxes today, so we should
have that up on the wall, do you think?
Theo said he was going to. Yeah.
Theo said he was going to work on his running for next year.
I hope so. He's.
Going to show out and yeah, Summer Vine best B team in the
business 499. Thank you, Summer.
Thanks, Summer. Appreciate.
That. That's that's very kind of you.
Yeah, we'll, we'll get to that here in a second.
And Josh, a new high ground member.
There's also somebody new, I'm going to tell you in a little
bit who is a brand new member of the spin.
So I'll get to that in viewer comments.
Cliffhanger. Yeah, First up at house
Glendale, 1914 Young, it's John Young, looking like a very good
analyst here, predicted sterner top five and only after second
guessing said top 7 and literally said Ty is fitter than
everyone in the field. So.
There you go. Well, I'm generally He was 8th
in Isabel so I lost that bet but.
That was an amazing bet, that's how.
You very, very good bet you have to you know, if you lose, you
lose. Wasn't the first thing I lost
this weekend so. And that's how I'm funding the
fraud grips. You see, really, it's my money.
I did. Hey and you need to tell the
people I paid immediately, did I not?
You did in. Cash nonetheless.
If you were paying attention last week there was a little
debate on Isabel. What is George Sterner Place?
Now you did say not top 10 and then I like went way over on
the. Other you said he was, you said
he was going to be top five and then we kind of settled in the
middle and you said top 7 and that was the bet.
Sterner got 8th place. He missed out by 7th by what, 2
seconds? Less than two seconds.
It is what it is. It's a bad beat man.
You know what else is a bad beat?
I, I went and looked at at my Isabel time 'cause I was very
like, it's very anticlimactic cause Sam just wrecked shot
right. I had the 52nd fastest time in
the world in the entire world and then Sam in the N affiliate
semi final. Sam was just that good and I
don't think people understand. If I was in an 11th lane in heat
one, I win. If I'm in an 11th lane in heat
2, Mason beats me but I win. It depends on.
What gender you're racing against because Rebecca Devine
would smoke you in the 1st. Team, I'm not talking about
Rebecca Devine, I'm talking about.
I'm talking. Nearly twice.
When I am, I'm just saying Sam Demester, we people need to
understand how fast he went. He would have been fifth in the
competition and it was the 19th fastest time in the world.
He's crazy. Really took really took the
sales out of my challenge. So I appreciate that, Sam.
Shouldn't have invited. I don't even care that you beat
me. I just wish it wasn't by like so
much, you know what I mean? That way it would it would have
been interesting. But good on that guy.
William Fulds, a new member. Thank you, William.
Speaking of Murfreesboro, there is a zebra on the loose in
Murfreesboro right now. This is big news.
Yeah, William probably knows about it.
Where? Where do you even get one in
Murfreesboro? Had a zebra as a pet and the
zebra had escaped and it happened over the weekend and
zebra is still on the loose. Stay tuned folks to The Spin,
where we'll keep you up to date on the Zebra Escape.
On everything happening in Murfreesboro, Missus Spin.
I had so much fun at Syndicate. She was here watching Dan.
Sam, look at that. Sam is watching.
He knows. Cool hand Sam.
Yeah. All right, Sam, just
complimenting you. So if you know, you want to get
me on like the Froning podcast, that'd be cool.
It's just whatever. Also, this is a fitness test.
It does not mean anything. Can we Max snatch?
I beat everybody. It's a fitness test.
OK, But he did. He did his thing.
I think Sam Self admittedly doesn't have a great like one
Rep Max Snatch. Like 295 or something like.
I mean, obviously. It's still pretty good, no?
It's still pretty good but but amongst like, you know, people
who are doing his time, it's he might have the lowest snatch of
people doing his time, you know. I mean, isn't I, I, I didn't
recognize the name until I, I saw her out there, but I think
Barrett Kunz is like an Olympic weightlifter, like I think she
does Olympic weightlifting and she barely finished.
She barely finished under the time cap in the, in your
challenge. So.
I mean, I'm thinking the guys like Ilya Moskalinko, and I know
people don't know who that is. He, he was an Olympic lifting.
I mean, he snatches like 3:30 for a Max and he like he does
CrossFit. It's not like Anton plus Noy,
right? He's the, he's like he's at,
he's, he's going to be at Norcal this year, but his time was like
525. You know what I mean?
It's not, it's a, it's a fitness people don't understand just
cause a lot of people can't do it.
They don't understand how much fitness is involved in it.
Even Jeff Adler. I don't think I've ever seen
Jeff Adler snatch 300 and he he just has the best battery out of
everybody by a lot. Yeah, yeah, Avera 9636 spin in
what otherwise was a Pooh Pooh broadcast.
She used the other word or he or whoever this is.
You are fantastic at Syndicate. OK.
Just you spin. Just me.
I know you have not actively pursued commentating gigs in the
CrossFit arena, but you should just get away from Sivan's
growing toxicity. Growing.
Is it like the the growing pit of despair?
Yes, getting bigger and bigger as.
Like a sinkhole. Yes, I I will not agree that the
that. Spin was very good at yes.
Exactly. That the stream was poo poo I or
or the commentary was poo poo like I loved how different
essentially every heat was the A-Team, the mixture of folks on
the A-Team or B team and then the A-Team was like, I loved the
back and forth of it. I I don't understand why some of
the comments. It's a hard contact to get.
The the feedback is just so all over the place and it's
contradictory to into itself. We wanted that shift for a
reason. Yes, I thought.
I thought like I I would agree wholeheartedly, though I was not
prepared for how much spin sounded like a baseball play by
play. It was incredible.
I was like, where the hell is this coming from?
It's like, yeah, I really thought, did you moonlight doing
this in college or something? Done absolutely none of this.
And when, to be honest, when I said thank.
You, Kevin, I take that as hate completely.
No offense, John. With.
All due respect. No, I've never done that.
When I sat on that very first, the only meeting that I was in
that we had like the whole group call and you went through and
you showed the spreadsheet and I was like and spins is going to
do the play by play. I was like, got it.
This is a problem. So you just listen to to
baseball games until the season start or until we went to
syndicate? Exactly.
Yep, Yep.
So yeah, stay away from Stephane's growing toxicity at
Lucas Urban. One hour and 56 minutes.
He's referring to last week's show.
You are crazy, man. These should be like 10 to 15
minute updates. We're 2 minutes over right now
so he hasn't what? Planet are you from?
Lucas. We're just gonna do 15 minute
shows. That's no, no, no.
No, not that we've been doing this for what, two years?
You're a. Little likes in the party.
Bro what are you talking about man?
I mean, if you listen, see, if you listen to the hour and 56
minutes and 15 minute intervals, you'll finish up on Tuesday or
maybe even Wednesday morning and then guess what?
Ready to go? Again, ready to go tonight.
So it's perfect timing for it. We'll start clipping it that
way. Yeah, yeah, just every 15
minutes that way. One every day.
I'll just drop 15 minutes in a replay at Sid R.E.M.
Tyler listens to Sivan in the shower, if you didn't catch
that. That's what he does.
Yeah, I do all every day basically.
And Sid, she listens to us y'all in the shower.
So there you go, John. All I've heard about Grid is
it's a lot of drama. How do you carry your faith with
you when competing in the league?
Oh, that. Was kind of a deep question.
I didn't you well you shifted topics without telling anybody
spending. That was Sid.
She's talking about listening to us in the shower and then asked
how you Oh. OK.
It's one just a stream of thought.
It's not hard. I carry my faith everywhere that
I go. I know.
I think people I don't know, I know I've gotten cancelled more
than anybody else in our little crew, including Stephon, which
is which is wild. But if you if you notice, I
don't ever cuss ever. Just out of principle.
When If I cuss? Tyler, Go ahead, tell me you've
never heard a cuss word you say. Things that are equivalent to
cussing. Fat for sure, for sure, yeah,
for sure. But a part of that is
controlling your having control over your tongue and those
things that I do say I just don't care to.
I don't think that's, I don't think that's as bad or I like
it's, it's a it's a control thing.
But and I started that right whenever I got saved, I was
like, I need to change. I need to change some of the
things that I do. And cussing was one of those
things. It with that, the things that I
have said have gotten me cancelled multiple times.
But carrying my faith with me is not hard.
If if you live with Jesus in your heart, it's not hard to go
anywhere without them. Like it's and people's people,
you will know people and where they stand by their fruits.
And I'm and I hope that I show my fruits wherever I go.
And if I don't then I need to work on it.
Wait, we probably just can't show that comment, but Brandon
Lecoq coming out of retirement to say thick guy's just way
worse. I haven't seen Brandon around in
months. I'm pretty sure that's what you
said, Tyler and one of the one of the.
I did say thick legged girl I I went ahead and quoted you John,
during one of the B stream. Oh, did you?
Streams I I called Rolf a thick legged thing.
Haley. She probably, she probably was
one. That's nothing.
That's a compliment. They they, they that we got
feedback that we were misogynistic and.
I was like, I, I'm not saying that cussing is like, like, not
like a bad thing. I was just using that as an
example as I try to control my tongue in that way.
Of course there are other words that people might not like me to
say, but it's not, it's not like I got carried away.
My thing did not go as well as I wanted it to.
Just go ahead. I was just saying that that.
Like a thing, Haley Roll. We got called out for being
misogynistic and for the life of me, I've watched the live stream
like all every day. I'm probably on my second run
through of, of watching it just like watching it from different
angles, taking notes on different things.
And like for the life of me, I can't find one place where we
said something misogynistic. I said I pointed out and I'll
double down here, that Emma Arving was one of the larger
athletes. And it's like, I'm not saying I
I said this on 7's behind the scenes like paid show.
Like I didn't say she was disgusting.
I think it's cool how like tall she is and how she can like go
with the. Harvard is an amazing person.
She's so. I love Emma Harvard.
She's amazing for sure. It was, but I can't get over how
people thought we were misogynistic and it's like we're
literally just talking about a sport that depends on how big or
small you are. Literally.
I I think some. Somewhat.
Some people saw Sivan was broadcasting it and first look
for it but also misinterpret what is said as hate when it's
not just because they say it's on Sivan's channel.
That's. It.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I think, and I also
think people, and I mean, I guess we're kind of blended into
the syndicate recap. I, I think people like, hold on
to the one, like the five things out of the whole entire weekend
that might have been off color. You know what I mean, 'cause I
thought we were rolled back a ton from like what the podcasts
are, but it's not. I mean, even the even the post
shows, I mean, the post shows were still a little bit wild, a
little wild, but like the broadcasts itself, the.
Post shows were not they were bad spin.
They were. The post shows were let's stick
to the broadcast that I. Don't.
Well, that's what I mean. It's like you compare the two,
you can tell that that it's way different.
Let's. See, we'll do the last comment,
then we'll move on to Syndicate Crown.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on.
Hold on, hold on. That's that's my point.
Grant Andrew did a 92nd compilation.
That's it. That he took everything.
Everything that was bad. There were over 21 hours of
content. It was .126% of time streamed
whether it was the forest or the actual competition.
It was less than .13% of the time had that content.
Because Andrew got them all. That's every single thing that
was there and there was 21 hours that we were recording and it
was 90 total seconds It also. Wasn't, I think, bombs.
People are shit bombs. Right, right.
It's whatever you think. I don't think I'm in that clip
once. So I, I don't think you think
you are that I've said. It was.
It was probably 60% Savon, 30% Pedro and 10% Caleb.
And what Andrew is saying is that Dick's lap is OK.
That's what Andrew is saying. You should you should visit
Knoxville. One of our newest members, Jeff
Baoko. That dude was hot and cold this
weekend. Sorry I missed our missed the
show. I have insomnia so watching it
now to help me get to sleep. So new member Jeff, I hope.
Thanks. Hey, I do that with the Predator
shows like Hanson versus Predator.
They those help me go to sleep listening to people who are
pedophiles go to jail. It helps me.
Oh, Chris Hanson. Is that your?
Is that? Your new member?
I just heard Predator like the movie, no?
Oh, that's not the surprise. New member, got it.
Yeah, Jeff Bianco was the surprise new member Kevin
Carrick. If I send a super chat can Tyler
call me a thick legged thing? I only speak the truth so we'll
see, but definitely send me a super chat at.
Least true Ben Smith is going to get second place.
Syndicate Crown. We kind of talked about it a
little bit that Souza. Nobody worried about the vulgar
halftime show during the Super Bowl, but everyone is so worried
about the broadcast. We didn't show any boobs in the
halftime show, so win there. Maybe a loss depending on who
you're asking. So Nicky Crown, I guess we'll
start off with the competition. Any major takeaways from you,
John, on the actual competition itself?
Ty Jenkins, I think is going to be here to stay.
I think it's just, this is the first of many CrossFit Games
that he's going to qualify for. And I'm really, and Tyler's no
better kid than Ty Jenkins. And like, I'm, I'm really
excited to see where he goes from here if he gets better or
if he, you know, this is the best he's gonna be.
And then like even he's just fringe every time.
Or if he makes a jump to like, oh, no, like he's one of those
guys that like potentially can push for the top ten.
That's my biggest take away. Along with that is is just like
Reece Littlewood. I know she didn't make it, but
she was she it was hers to lose and she just didn't really have
it on the back. I think Reece Littlewood's gonna
make it next year just because she's gonna take another jump
and her gymnastics abilities, like for her to in a handstand
walk workout where Brooke Wells gets 8th place and she's the
best out of all of the great handstand walkers.
Like I just think, I think the young, the young talent that's
coming to CrossFit, The biggest take away was that these like
we're going to have 3 or 4 new names that we're going to talk
about and that's not always the case.
A lot of times when people want to bring up teens, like I don't
care about them at all until they do it on the big stage
versus the big girls and big boys.
And like we've got 3 girls and one guy who punched his ticket.
You know, I think it's still like a year away from Miley Wade
and maybe 2 years for Elsie Larson.
But I agree, Littlewood's going to make it next year.
She's she was the most impressive to me.
And I mean, the Spencer Panchick story is fun.
Like, that's a fun thing, but I don't think I should take away
from what those guys did in this competition.
I go ahead. No, that's good.
Go ahead. I was going to say I apologize
for not respecting your or not yeah, respecting your take on Ty
earlier, but I. Don't think anybody.
I think, well, the problem is John is too close to the sun on
that one, right? Like you're a good like you've
done podcasts with Ty. That's fair.
Yeah, great part does not control my real keeping it.
Real also is too close to Ty about that so like.
Oh, you can't trust Grant at all, But I'm saying we'll get
to. That we'll get to that in Norcal
Classic, OK. OK, OK, OK, OK.
But yeah, no, it it's just like when when Tyler's like, oh,
Tanner blahs is. You know you're never going.
To believe it just just because Tanner.
Is. Good friends with Tyler like
John has a lot. More discern about his opinion,
even though he's friends with people.
I will say that, but I you couldn't know like we hadn't
really seen Ty at that sort of capacity yet and man, was I
impressed. Like the dude is totally
changed. He's got that killer instinct,
like he'll look adversity right in the eye and go and put the
pedal down. I was I was totally impressed.
He's got a great like family unit, great support system like
this dudes. This dude's on a high trajectory
for sure. Yeah, I, I.
Was waiting for Ty on that final event to like get to the sandbag
and just like struggle. He's not George Sterner, man.
And it was. He made it look made it look
good. Dude I think George Sterner if
he just put 10 lbs of muscle on he might be untouchable.
George Sterner is so fit but man he is small.
Like if you stand next to him you're like how do you do the
things you do? Like it makes sense the ones
that he wins but it it almost doesn't make sense that he can
compete with the fittest in the world in in strength stuff.
It just doesn't. Kevin Kerry, time to pay up,
Tyler, 199. Show me them legs, DM me, DM me
of them legs. I'll I'll make an.
An assessment? Hang on, let's see.
I don't know. Be the What do you call that
guy? The guy who goes out?
Property assessor. Yeah, I.
Don't. I'm the leg assessor.
I don't. I don't know what, what what,
what his legs look like. I do want to go.
I think we had one I missed. I thought you were looking for
his legs. I no, I'm not looking José José.
I used one of his photos, the K Layman photo today.
Testing to be on top. If not, I need my refund so
we'll find out. I have no idea.
You should guys check out the community leaderboard and see.
It's like I'm going to pay whoever's at the top.
I. Don't know.
I don't. I don't run it.
Try everything and we'll see what happens.
I'm sure the more money you throw at it the better your
odds. That's all I know.
Keeping it real $5. My picks were Ty Jenkins and
Jack Rosema and never wavered because of my expertise and
nothing else. He already told me Ty Jenkins is
going to be top ten at the games.
Ben Smith would have been second had he not had popcorn before
every single event, so didn't really shouldn't have that
popcorn. Ben Smith, 2nd place did not
happen. Tyler.
No, but it would. It would have been cool.
Oh man, it would have been awesome.
I don't remember where I had, I think I had a 9th spin.
Where do you end up? He was right, right there.
He's top ten. He's 9th because Matthews was
10th. How about that?
Yeah, the the young women. I was really impressed by Miley
Wade, Right. Like obviously reasonable would
turn it on the last day, right. And and really took it.
But like Miley, Wade is little, and she was able to move the
barbell pretty well. She could handle all of the
heavy implements. She can run faster than almost
everybody. Give her 2A year or two years
and she's dangerous. Also, a standout performance
that kind of probably would have gone overlooked was Lydia on the
sandbag. Like she had a top.
I think it was like a top ten time or something like that.
I think it was 8. But it was like, yeah, it was
like on the sandbag workout and I was like, she dude, she's
right there. And it's like, like I was
talking to her coach after and it's like she basically quoted
John and she's like, we got to get 15 lbs of muscle on her.
And I was like, you got to be kidding me.
JY Barbell. When I say that, I'm not lying,
it's the truth. And then if you can do it,
you'll be awesome. And if you can't, you'll be
probably around the same thing every year.
It was crazy, like Brian putting Seth Stovall as a qualifier.
I mean like I was hype on Seth and I think I still put him in
like 5th. I think I might have had him
second. I think most people, I think
most people had Seth in a. Qualify.
That's insane. I think, I think I was in the
very small majority of having Ty Jenkins qualify and I think most
people had Seth Stovall qualify. Do you think?
I think what we're what we're seeing and it makes sense and
you talk about it until you make your picks is there's something
way different in finishing 10th or 11th to qualify for a spot
versus top 2. Even when the field is a a
different like all those guys in the front go away, you expect
everybody just kind of filter up and move up.
But when you're sitting in first or second, that's a way
different feeling than sitting there in 11th place fighting for
that last spot than you are in second place fighting for that
last spot. Like like Seth in a in a way
better field might still finish 7th.
Right. It's weird, isn't it?
But but it's because he doesn't really have any holes.
He's just pretty decent at everything.
And then, you know, Ty Jenkins, Isabel, I keep bringing him up.
We could say somebody else's name.
George Turner sandbag event. Now that's a 40th place because
you have Jeff Adler, Dallin, you know, Hopper like and all these
like so many else else, good guys are going to be ahead and
make any bad event much, much worse.
Where Seth doesn't really have bad events.
He's just kind of decent at everything, but he's not really
great at anything. And so he's just middle of the
pack, but the he's middle of the pack no matter what field it is
because everybody's got their home runs.
And you look at Rebel Renegade games, Sarah Sigmund's daughter
won four of the 9 events and had several 2nd place finishes and
did not qualify. She did not win it, right?
Like she was third or 4th, something like that.
Like she was not even in the top two and only one went.
And that, I mean, that's kind of like what happened to guy that
one year at Copa Sewer where one bad event, like if it would have
been semifinals of last year, Serra probably is fighting for
the 10th spotted women in Europe, right?
But when you're trying to fight for that one spot or top two,
you you can't you have to be solid every single time.
And I I think that's it makes it tough when it's only two spots.
Non syndicate related. Natalie Fleming.
Why is Gee even competing? No, no cash money, baby.
Beats me girl, I wish you wouldn't, but I mean like like
he's his own man. He didn't do what he wants.
But you know, I he is an influencer.
Yeah, I mean. The best thing that I can say
about. It yeah.
I'm not sure what the reason was, but my guess has had
something to do with Torian and and Frog Grips bringing him out
there. He's a Frog Grips athlete.
Probably brought him out there. I will say Torian Pro looked
ridiculously awesome. It did.
It always does man. They kill it every time.
You know, I, I think about like what if Syndicate, like the, the
Civic Coliseum had been completely packed, even just
even the half that was being used for the, the elite field,
like how crazy that would be. And you think about Torian, that
was bigger and completely full. Yep.
Like nuts Josh Josh $2.00 it was $2.00 of nice to see you see it
all in person. It was a good time.
I I do think it was it was a fun competition to be at the
programming. Do you think J Rs programming
was too difficult? Difficult.
How 'cause people got capped? Because athlete like I looked at
like the races, right? Like if if the races are close,
like if the program is simple and it's just a matter of who
moves faster, you're gonna see a lot of really tight races.
But J Rs programming, it requires skill.
It requires like perfect execution.
And you saw athletes sometimes in the first heat that did
really well. You had even the first or second
heat. We had a lot that did very well
because that was like their wheelhouse.
Which I loved. It made commentating fun.
Yeah, it definitely did. But there weren't like in the
same heat, the the heat of the the final heat, you'd expect
everybody kind of come in there close like there weren't a whole
lot of like super close races. And I'm wondering is that just a
just because of the field, because of, you know, the
programming, like is it just an anomaly or is it or am I?
What do you what do you mean there wasn't close races?
I mean like Ty barely won in the hundreds.
Him and George went back and forth in the hundreds.
George Cerner, smiling as he's Hawking Connor, bolts down in
the 6th. There were a couple.
I'm not saying there weren't a. Couple Isabel is you know awash
the bag event was pure chaos for the men and the women you know
Lexi Neely and Kyra Milligan were racing until the end even
the handstand walk there was. Handstand walk was madness.
There was a yes, chaos, you know, and we I.
Don't know about chaos? The two 2-3 intervals is the
only one. There wasn't much racing because
you know, there were a couple that could do it in three.
And then like that one is probably the hardest of the
events and there was a lot of spread out there spread there.
But I feel like every other event had a ton of races, so I
don't. I don't buy that it didn't have
races. I don't think it's too hard
because most of the field could do every single event and not
get capped. You know, if you the
programming's too hard, people can't do it.
I would say he's he Jr. tests for the games and he's testing
for the best and at the games like you have to have that
execution, you have to have this skill and so like.
I think what a different way of phrasing what you're saying is
there were like there were home run hitters essentially in every
single event and they were often not in the the top heat because
of the way that the the programming was lined up.
It's all it, it was always complimentary, right?
He never did like a strength event and then a a metcon.
That was strength bias, right? It would always be kind of
polar. Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, I did
the correlation analysis. First of all, the, I think it
was metal March was the number one was correlated for both men
and women. But between events there were
not any super highly correlated events.
And that was the case for crash as well.
Right. Yeah.
So like they weren't so similar, were the same people were always
winning in the same, in the kind of the same order.
And so you saw that like it was jostling up and down and people
are moving up. Like, you know, day one Sydney's
in 17th place and she ends up whatever 7th or 5th or whatever.
Same with Spencer. And I mean, I heard, I heard
Scott say that after day one, he's like, hey, it's just a
matter of the order, order of events.
Sure. I would say like also like to
add color to your simple. I mean like the yoke workout,
super simple, yoke repeater, super simple.
I don't think any of them are particularly complicated other
than metal marches. A little weird with the 2223,
but besides that, like I think it's very simple programming.
It just elicits specific a specific response with skill,
which I I like. Like, I think you should give
the people who can hit homers the opportunity to do so.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying I didn't.
I didn't enjoy it. I first of all, I really liked
learning about meeting a lot of the new athletes that we hadn't
seen there before. But I also wish that we would be
able to see Dallin and Jason and Jeff Roman all throw down and
take on that programming. Because yes, there were races,
but I feel like a lot of those guys would have been right there
on top of each other. Like the margin of the gap
between those guys is so similar that it would have been like
some really, really like 3 or 4 people coming down the finish
line at the same time. One of the things that I want to
figure out, I'm not sure how to analyze it.
So I ran Peace Corps for Syndicate yesterday, did a
little post on my store on my Instagram about it.
Reese. I mean, the highlight was Reese
kind of was the one thing that made a difference.
She should have gotten the tickets to the game store.
I shouldn't say should have, but you know what I'm saying, She.
Would have gotten the. She would have under P score,
but the men's side was actually interesting.
There were essentially no changes.
Even though there was a tie for a second.
And I like really, I've never seen that before where it's like
basically almost 100% the same for the top 15.
Like that's, that's wild. And I I'm I can't help but think
it's got it has to do something with the way Jr. programs. 100
cause Crash was the same way. Colton won four events and we
all thought peace score was going to be like when him and
Hatfield, 'cause I remember the first time we saw Austin,
everybody wanted to wait for the peace score because they thought
that Austin, like Colton, would have won because he won the last
four events. But Austin was second in all of
those events. That one, that one's an outlier
because. I'm just, I'm just I'm just
saying Austin still won in the score.
And so like the what, what you're saying, I'm saying I
think that's just you're I agree.
Yeah, you're agreeing. That JRS the way he programs,
makes the actual order and P score the same or more similar
than other competitions. I don't know if that's a good or
a bad thing, but like it, it tends to correlate.
Well, I think it's a good thing this Jr. thinks about
programming. It's such a different level.
And I'm not saying that like, Dave isn't responsible for his
programming, but like Jr. oh, like writes these, writes them
again, test three different versions.
Why am I testing what I'm testing?
What am I trying to elicit? Like he goes through 18
different analysis on one event. And my point with Peace Corps,
one of the points of Peace Corps is to make the the programmer
very responsible for the way that they program, what the time
caps are, how you know what the structure of the events are,
what implements are used, all those things super matter.
And J Rs, the only one who have who seems to have gone through
that sort of process of like, hey, we think about this at this
level. He's he's.
Absolutely antithetical to lazy when it comes to programming and
I think that that's why why it shakes out that way.
I will. Say it's not, it's not a
straight line, though it's definitely it correlates more
with the men than the women because last I remember, like
you already said, Reese would have changed.
I also remember, like, Kyra was fourth and she would have been
second at Crash Crucible. And that's kind of a big swing,
you know? So the men correlate much, much
more than the women do. And I don't know what the reason
is for that, but it's interesting.
I feel like the women's leaderboard was like, well,
Crash. It was nuts.
Like the leaderboard, the women's leaderboard was all over
the place. The men's wasn't.
Yeah. And I think maybe even the
women's was like that more, too. Like, Ty, Jack, George, Luke, it
kind of helped the top four, most part.
The women's leaderboard. I mean, Reese was #1 going into
the final event, yeah. Like it moved a lot.
Choose. Choose second.
Miley was second at one point, right?
Like there there were a lot of people that's out too.
Yeah. Oh, that's right.
Yeah, the whole time. Yeah, Reese was in second.
Yeah. The reason?
The women tend to juggle like that, John is because the the
disparity of skill and strength is so much higher where all the
men are like basically very close in skill and strength,
whereas the women like some of them are just not as strong as
the other. And so you'll get this huge
swing. Same thing with skill like rope
climbs, rope climbs a murder on on girl events, period.
And then you put you put P score into the into the mix on that
and it drastically changes it so.
I think amongst the games field though you would you would more
similar to the men because a semi final field you're going to
get that gap so much for the women way more than you would
than men. Larry Young, 499 Not too
difficult, Good, but didn't test top end.
Strength. I will say they.
Paid $5 to say that. I mean, JRJR, definitely he
wants to test strength in a fitness capacity.
What I was going to say even before this was I'd really like,
we've always seen Jr. program a, a semifinal level competition,
right? Six events generally.
I'd really be curious to see what he would do in a 9 to 12,
right? Like a games style where it's 9
to 12 events or more. We've never seen it.
Right. We've never seen that where he
has the ability to throw in a a top end strength event, a super,
super long event, like how all that would work if we had, if he
had a competition where he could program it like that.
Double high rocks one event that day.
I've talked Jr. and I've talked about this to no end of like
what? What do you program when I don't
think top end strength should be tested Semifinals you should
elicit. It's something that that
responds well to the the guys who are super strong.
But like a one Rep Max itself should not ever be tested at
semifinals. You're not there yet.
You haven't. You haven't earned the right to
be able to showcase that because you're still trying to weed out
people who aren't fit. Likewise, a run should not be
programmed. A straight run should just
straight. Run.
Absolutely, yeah. Like the 800 meter 10 cleaning
direction, 185 is a beautiful endurance event.
Do you think Yoker Peter was? You think you think Yoker Peter
was really close to that though? But it's just enough that like,
if you're a bad runner, you could beat a bad runner who's
not as strong as you. Yes.
Like I, I bet. Here here.
Here's here's what I'm saying. I think if me and Tyler did that
work out, we'd be really close and I might kick it up if we do
a straight run. I I'm 2 minutes.
You think so? Yeah, because I cannot hesitate
at all and just go as fast as I can and I'm picking up maybe 6
seconds every single time on the yoke repeater and he never can
really get the top speed. It's not just an open run.
I think there was plenty of room for open like there's 8.
Turns. It was a lot of turn.
It's way out, but outside, outside you have plenty of room
like there was, other than the people.
Really. Weren't Cameron?
No, they were not. I went out there for the women's
heats. I think it was the third heat
for the women. And I stood out there right
underneath the drone. And yeah, it was, there was,
there was no sprinting. Like you did not look at it and
go, wow. I mean, even Sydney, when she
was beating everybody, you're like, great, she's moving pretty
good. But she was not.
I know she can runway faster, right?
Like nobody was really limited by that in my opinion.
Right. I would say it was just enough
to make it not in a straight aerobic test.
It's like the sand, the sandbag event, the sandbag event, those
9 sandbags is where it was 1, but you have this gymnastics in
the middle that makes you out just enough where it's not just
a strength test. Yeah, I'd love to be able to
look back at the the wide angle for the yoke repeater and see
how much time was on each of the yokes.
Sure. I really think even the best to
the last maybe 30 seconds difference between the 8 rounds
maybe. Right.
It's not just the yolk dose, man.
It's like what it does to your heart rate.
Like it? Yeah.
Dude, what it does to your legs. Yeah, but I don't there's
there's nobody that you would look at that was really strong
on the yolk who like couldn't run, but they're just so strong
on the yoke that you're like, wow, they got 5th place.
They were. Two butters shout out the yoke.
It's still a running. It's still a running workout.
That's why I asked was it too
close to? You're saying you shouldn't be a
single modality running event like I'm asking?
Is that too close of 1? I think if that's your endurance
test, which it was in this case, then no.
Could you have made it slightly heavier and it divert off that?
I think I, I do honestly think, 'cause when I did, I finish it
in 1725 here at the house in which, oh, we just different.
We. We.
Yeah, we did. You know, I did this in 1725 and
I even I. Thought I don't want to save my
time. It's going to make No, no, not,
not for the reason you think. Did you beat me?
Say It 15 No, you didn't do. That was 1723.
No, you. She was freaking lying.
That's hilarious, but did you think?
Of my 400 meters is not like it's not like the greatest 350
like it's it's there's you have to turn around though, like it's
not like a. Straight, yeah, we have.
We have to do like a straight turn down and back.
That's why I trusted it as far as like a good, like a good
tester, because I was like, I have to do a hard stop and turn.
But even I thought I was like, I think it can be slightly heavier
to weed out anybody who's just like not strong at all.
And it's like, it's not even that you have.
To you just don't want Rachel Klausen to win that event.
Yeah, that's why. Rachel Klausen is going to win
that event unless you added £50 to it.
Like there's nobody close. Like I noticed it in round
seven, like her pace started picking up around the back of
the arena. It was like, wow, she's actually
moving fast and nobody else looked like that.
In heat one time, we're ready for it to go all right.
We're going to get fast now. Nope.
That's the fastest we were going to see.
Is that right there? Yeah, let's see.
Aaron Harner, new YouTube member.
Thank you, Aaron. Welcome.
Aaron the final event, both were super close, which was awesome
from both the commentary standpoint, a spectator
standpoint. I mean, I, I assume the athletes
enjoyed it, other than some who didn't, you know, fell out.
But having now everything come down to that final event, I
can't remember who it was. It came in from the back, the
warm up area and they're like, dude, it is intense back there.
I bet like nobody's talking super quiet.
Three points apart. Yeah, Yeah, That was because I
had, I had my paper out. I was doing John math while you
were commentating to try to get a sense of who was going to end
up on the men's side and kind of had all the math and had all the
times that we're going to play a role on like middling people.
And it didn't matter because they were way faster than
everybody else. Not hardly any touch and goat
was there like Clegg did one right at the end, but he was in
last. I thought Luke was going to.
He tried to touch and go the last nine and I thought he was
going to do it. And then his second one was like
the end. The end of all sandbags.
I was staying in the next. Year Touch and code, Spencer
Touch and Goad. Clegg started out, I think,
touch and go and then it. Yeah, it devolved quickly.
Yeah, I was surprised that there weren't more, but I guess I
mean. None of the women touch and go.
None. None of them.
I mean, because Taylor tested those workouts over a weekend,
so he also had the fatigue of doing that 6th workout in three
days. Yes.
I don't. Know how?
I don't know how he did it like I don't know how he went touch
and go like that. Nobody else entered.
I would love to know where Taylor.
Did it though. What?
But nobody, like very like almost nobody else did it.
Spencer did it the exact same way Taylor did it.
He did 6 and then three. I he touch and go the last up
until the three and then I think it was 3 singles.
He might have touched me, I don't remember.
He was touch and going on the second-half though too, and he
was like 505 and Taylor was 444. Like it it.
Makes but nobody else though like.
Luke Parker did to Jack Rosenman try.
As opposed to 6. Yeah, Taylor's really thick
guys. Taylor, all he does, you know,
he doesn't lift real weights. All he does is that.
Do you know where Taylor would have been?
Really good at that. Do you know Taylor where Taylor
would have been had he done it? Like if he.
Had competed this weekend, I mean the hundreds slots would
have took him out alone. I don't think it.
No, I don't think anybody. Are you saying his times?
Like no, his overall standings, yeah, if we took his his times
from testing and put them in the.
Lead the hundreds. The hundreds would have.
Rocked hundreds it. Would have rocked him for the
rest of it. Like what?
It's not just, you know what I mean?
Because he does not squat. So like, it would, it would have
this compounding effect that he did not feel during that because
he did step ups. And that's like, I mean, yeah,
it's hurting him. He feels all the stuff, but it
just doesn't affect him as much. Yeah.
Grant Griffin Mason did the first half, then exploded.
His his. I mean, he'd be up there.
His Isabelle would have hurt him though.
Yeah, he'd been top 10 for sure. He.
Was like, oh dude, I think he'd be up there with, I think he'd
be top five. I just, I don't think he's
cracking the top 2, but I think he'd be right there trying to.
I think with the full thing of training with the healthy knee.
OK, well 4th if I had Matt Fraser's lungs, I would like no
I. No, I'm saying like a year ago
right if. He's so I get ridiculous John.
I'm saying a year ago he probably ends up being 4th.
Yeah, I think he could be that now I just he would be in the
mix of it because there was a six like a 50 point drop off to
Spencer. Spencer was fourth place and
then Luke and Jack were tied and Ty was first and then there was
like a 50 point drop off and then it was Spencer because
sterner got almost last place in the sandbag event, right.
I I think Taylor can get 4th right now in his current
situation, but I don't know how. Yeah, I think he he comes top
five in metal March. He wins the last event.
He's probably top five in Yoker, Peter Isabel.
He gets hurt like he gets hurt in Isabel no matter what.
But and then what's the? What's the other minimum?
Regional's revenge? Regional's revenge.
He, I mean, probably like what Spencer Panchik did.
And then in athletes and then athletes only.
Where Spencer was but. Right.
Like I think he'd be around Spencer in different ways of
getting there, but I think he'd be around around where Spencer
was. And that's fourth place, so he'd
be 4th to 5th right now. Yeah, Kevin Carrick thinks he
would have been fifth top five, hypothetically speaking.
Me too. Kevin Carrick's super fit,
though, He's really good at those things.
I hear he's a thick legged thing.
Before we move on, anything else you guys want to talk about on
Sonica? Crown Yeah, The main thing, the
main. I got the, I got the the benefit
of being on the B team and doing the first two heats and by the
second day it was it. It was interesting because there
was always somebody who is setting a record in the first
two heats or close to, but generally the athletes who were
in those heats belonged in those heats.
And I drove back the night, Sunday night, and talked to
Hitler for two straight hours. And I had a long time to just
think about what had happened. Probably the best way to do it
'cause like you can really go through.
And I thought about Brian and how Brian's always talking about
like, John, you're like, only cover the best athletes, right?
And it's like, well, actually you only cover the best athletes
stats. And that's the thing that Brian
gets pissed that we do or we don't do is we don't cover the
bottom athlete stats. We don't care because guess
what? You're not producing stats that
anybody really gives a shit about because you're a lower
level athlete. But we highlighted probably
every single athlete who. Was hitting the.
Bottom 2 heats We did it differently.
We made a story about you. Theo Kemper, Josh Hayward, any
of the girls. Emma, Harvey, Rachel.
Blouse. Ryan, Rachel.
Blouse Girl. Yeah.
The the Nadia Somalis that. Yes, I I actually wouldn't talk
to her in the back. What is?
How do you?
Say your name. What is she?
Somalis. Yeah, Iranian.
She's not. Iranian Is she Russian?
I have no idea. Someone who needs to let us know
what Nadia is. I'm sure she's watching.
But. I JRJR told me it was funny.
He goes, I think that might be the top time.
And then from Nadia and or or or he goes, somebody already beat
Taylor's time. And I was like, really?
And he's like, yeah, this that girl.
And I was like, and I go, I could have told you that.
And he goes, you know who she is?
I'm like, no, but look at her. That's generous.
I have no idea. She's always competed in the
United States, so that doesn't help.
She's a little bitty man. She's she's very small.
She's like Lydia Fish like 4 years ago little.
Yeah, dude, yeah, dude. I want Lydia Fish to be good so
bad. Like 4th place with a 29th in
the first event like. Lydia, which just.
Eat it right away, Lydia. Eat everything.
Insight every single meal that you have.
You should hurt yourself. Ten piece chicken nugget.
Every day, No no spin, 20 piece chicken nugget, large fry, large
doctor pepper, sweet and sour sauce.
Five days a week, Lydia and you will make the game.
You might have to like, you know, do some a hard cut a month
before to get your fitness back. But I like girl, please, like
you're so amazing. You just need to hurt your
stomach every single time you eat.
Parents tell her, tell her. Some high ground beef.
Chips and some high ground beef chips.
You need protein, protein. Thanks Josh.
And it's got no carbs in it. You get some high ground beef
chips in you. Lydia, please, I want you to be
good so bad A. 20 piece chicken nugget and a pack.
Of look, Matt used to coach Lexi Neely and she was a tiny little
girl just like you miss Lydia, and then she ate her life away
and now look at her just eating sandbags for breakfast.
Josh is like, I've never worked so hard for a sponsorship my
entire life. If I just get it in my
vernacular jobs, I'll be able to do it real smooth.
I just got to, just got to get in my vernacular.
But the point was, is that like, you know, the the athletes that
that we kind of covered would come up to me and spin
afterwards and be like, thank you guys.
Like my gym's like noticing that you're talking about us, even if
we are like kind of cheating on them just a little bit.
Like we really did want to highlight.
They were fun to watch Josh Hayward taking off his grips.
Like it was it was it was awesome.
And it's like that's the shit that matters, dude.
No one cares about the stats. They care about who the person
is and that there from Murfreesboro.
I just thought about that now, like I've never, at least I've
never seen athletes take clips of what we said and put them in
their stories of other broadcasts.
And there were multiple that did that because we were having fun.
We were telling their story, like putting something behind it
versus, you know, there they go. They're just moving down the
field. Like we tried to have fun with
it. And I mean, I saw Luke Burns
downtown on Sunday night and like he was with Ohio, by the
way, that that shirt on that that he had was Duffy.
What was his name? From.
The the old CrossFit guy. Dumb ugly freaking fat fat
friend. No, no, I want to forget the
name again. He used to be a.
Crossfitter, Luke. Luke Burns.
Jordan. Sorry, Jordan.
He is boys with Nelson from WAD Prep.
I don't know if he's a WAD Prep athlete, he might be, but shout
out to them. Yeah, but we were joking about
his, how he, he like sprinted that first round and like passed
everybody and like those types of things were just fun to talk
to him about and, and highlight and kind of.
Yeah. Connor Dudley, that's what it
was. Yeah.
Connor they were. They were downtown so.
The the thing that I walked away this weekend with, there's
always some like underlying story that I, I tend to pick up
on was, you know, there are athletes.
You OK, John? Yeah, why?
What's going? On is burp or something?
You know, I'm, I'm having some stuff going on.
It's good. We're fine.
I actually haven't eaten very I'm about to cut.
I'm on the opposite train of what I need Lydia to be on.
I haven't eaten any. I ate at 11:00 and I've been
cycling a lot and I'm a little, you know, we're not all there
right now, but we're, we're fine.
The, the, the over or the underlying narrative that came
away with was that they're athletes, like it's like the,
the younger and the newer athletes or the athletes who
like even George Sterner, who's been around for a little while,
but like they, they're dying for CrossFit to succeed.
And that old regionals feel of like we really care about this.
We really want this. That's all there.
And like the Griffin brothers, man, they were playing ball with
us the whole weekend, like winking at us from the, from the
floor while you're doing GHC sit ups.
You did it for your mom, but you also looked at me while you did
it. Yeah, I love Grant.
He he walked up to me. He goes, hey, if I don't beat
Mason in this running workout, I'm just not going to do
CrossFit anymore. He didn't say it like that, but
he said something to that extent.
It was very funny. But they're, they're dying for
CrossFit to succeed despite everything it's been through
over the past couple years. And I almost feel like if you're
like, we're going through all this shit, like we're focusing
on all the wrong narratives, We're focusing on all the wrong
people. And it's like, man, like if we
could just take a step back and realize who, who we do this for
and why we do this. And that's why the saying like
for the for the fans by the fans mattered so much because it's
like the stories that existed behind the scenes were just so
amazing. And so I came away actually
really hopeful for the future because of the, the, the, the
middle, like, even like Reese, like she's the higher level
athlete and she was still itching to like interact with us
and do all this stuff. And it's like that that made
everything feel worth it. Is that that spirit is still
there? Get with the programming $2.00
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You never know good chances any moving on to the Norcal Classic,
this Norcal Classic two days away.
Oh, we got a question here first before we move on Hoardy and
Eford $5. Thank you.
Do you think the criticism of the broadcast was fair camera
angles, interviews, not put the camera on the event leader,
etcetera, Tyler. Criticism fairs where you show
pigs. Criticism's always good.
I enjoyed listening to the Clydesdale podcast.
But for instance, if we go through this line by line camera
angles, we had both the wide in the in the 1st 2 heats and then
we did more of like the follow the athletes stuff in the last
two heats and it got bitched about both ways.
You guys followed the athletes too much.
You guys should have had the steel Cam.
We had the steel Cam. You didn't notice or the steel
cams, you know, not good enough. We want to see the athletes.
Too far away. Yeah, the.
Cameras should be down on the field and it's like, what do you
want? We can't do both.
Now. What we could have done is put a
camera on each corner and I think that would have gotten us
closer. We didn't know.
We've never done this before so definitely learned lessons on.
That with to do what? Put a camera on each corner and
then we could just cycle between left and right and that way
we're closer to the athletes. We were a little far away.
That was basically the best vantage point we had though, to
get the whole field. Yeah, we we cut off like the
very corners of the finish line because otherwise we'd be so far
back that it was right. Now Norcal will be all outside,
so it's going to be a complete different.
Totally different. Piece What's this lot?
Because I don't I I don't even know what we're doing.
I don't think we have Internet. I don't know.
We definitely the one thing we will have is Internet power is
questionable interviews. I don't think we received any
criticism on the interviews. I know the interviews got a lot
of love like. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, yeah, the people that were on that joined on.
I think we did a good job, at least when the B team was on.
I felt like we did a pretty good job of balancing.
Keeping track of what was happening is also giving them
some love and let them talk and stuff like that, which the Visit
Knoxville guy Savan threw on there at the very last minute.
And Tyler did a great job of asking questions because I was
like, I don't know what to ask this dude.
And I'm still trying to keep track of what the heck's going
on because that was that was the handstand walk event where we
could not see the cards of what round they were on.
And so and, and because the Rep scheme got shorter, they would
go to round four and five like super fast.
So if you weren't keeping track of where they were, next thing
you know they'd finish and you'd like.
So Tyler did a really good job of.
It was, I don't know if you all have ever noticed, like when we
have people on our show to interview them, I'm always
silent. I don't like I don't ever know
how to do what spin does and like interviews these people.
During that one, it was like I came out was like I've been
shooting threes my entire life. It's the greatest performance
for of an interview I'll probably ever have.
I. With the sports commissioner of
Visit Knoxville. We just talked about the venue
the whole time. But I mean, like Taylor killed
it. I mean like he made every on
floor interviewer ever look like they had no idea what they were
doing. Like his questions were next
level. None of them felt forced except
for Spencer, which like Spencer, I got to hand it to you man.
You just should have played ball like you really took what Scott
did in making that real about John and like what he said and
you just threw it in the trash can.
It could have been a lot better. It could have.
Been it could have been so much better and the and the the
Internet you that you gave of like talking about the
community. We've heard that interview 1000
times. It doesn't mean anything
anymore. Like make the sport entertaining
and just like shit back on John. He shit on your family.
Just shit right back on it like that was the only.
Interview Yeah, Spencer. And and John wanted you cheered
for Spencer after he showed you up.
Do it. It was an amazing moment.
It was amazing. Somebody goes, you suck, and in
the very next event you beat everybody and do something Jr.
said. Was impossible for a guy to do.
Taylor couldn't do it. And Taylor was convinced he's
the best person in the world at this workout.
And no, it's an it's an amazing moment.
I was happy. I'm happy for him.
It was I. I think when people when we do
our predictions, I think people in in comment.
First of all, I don't think we remember what we say half the
time, no. Second of all, there's there's
two things that can go really well.
You're you're perfect, right, like your predictions, you nail
it right, like so John picking tie at the top and getting
that's that's awesome. But then when somebody comes out
and proves you wrong and like, shows you up, it's just, it's
just as good, right, like. And now it's much, much more
good for you than me, obviously. But the moment like that, that
moment would not have been there if it wasn't for that
interaction. Well, so this brings up a point
that I thought a lot about on the ride home, the general, the
general scheme. And I'm going to shoot on Chase
just a little bit, but it's only because, like, he's a buddy.
Suck a chase. They just like they just talk
about the splits these guys are holding, what the movement does
to people, all of that stuff. And it's like it's generally
like just kind of the straight, straight same talk.
Like it's broadcast sports talk the entire time, but like the
the element that we insert into this whole thing, not to pat
ourselves on the back, but I'm going to a little bit is that
like we're in it and like we're talking shit about the athletes
regularly. We know the athletes, we're
friends with some of the athletes and we have some
storylines going with one of these prime example being
Spencer. And so like when when somebody
shows up or wins or does something, it means so much more
because there's a storyline associated with it as opposed to
hey, so and so got first in this event that like is another
event. I mean, I joked as the, the, the
competition went on, I was like, you know, what I'd do is I'd
just stop with the kettle bells down, right?
Or go faster on the rope climbs and the, and the, and the double
unders. That would never fly on a
CrossFit Games broadcast, right? Or like that's being simulcast
to the ESPN. Like people be like, what are
you talking about? Like that's, that's ridiculous.
And we had the freedom and the flexibility to do that.
And I thought I enjoyed just making those jokes.
It would those those shows are those like when we get to do the
beanie team stuff, like I haven't had that much fun and I
have never broadcasted before. Not like that.
And like spin held his played his part and he freaking
murdered it and gave me and Pedro and Jenny just all the
room to do whatever we felt. And I felt like for you, John,
that was the same thing. Like you just got to talk about
what you want to talk about. And there was not this, there
was not this control on like you have to stay within this box.
It was like generally like don't say crazy, terrible shit, but
like you have this wide range of area that you can fill and you
got to just be yourself. I never like thought, Oh, I need
to like tighten it up or be like just talked.
And it was so it was so much fun.
And I, I felt like people could feel that who like just don't
avidly hate us, could feel that on the stream itself.
And so I thought it was like, can we do this at the games?
Probably not. But like in the semifinals
context, I think for damn sure. I think, yeah, I mean, I think
if it was for the games, we would be under rules and like we
would, we would need to practice with said rules.
Yeah, Speaking of Chase, Vicki figured it out, $1.99 super
sticker. Thank you, Vicki Barry, MC
Cochner, $5 span. You should broadcast more
events. I don't.
I can't.
Afford him, he's $150,000, a whole lot that.
Would be cool. What about the games like the
first two heats is kind of like what we do and then the last two
heats are? Are I'll tell you, I'll tell you
what. Chase and Bill, you know what I
mean? Like.
It would be amazing. I like I would.
Watch more Yeah, that's true. It's like the XFL does like two
quarters and then you got the NFL game.
Or let us just do the spin cast. Let's just let us do a dual cast
and see how how we pull. The three of us will do the spin
cast. 2B team members and a team member.
I think we could do pretty well. So anyway, Norcal Classic, we
don't know any of the events except is there a truck pull
coming up? Is there well, is it safe?
I would. I think I would think of
something else. Would you?
Just like the the 100 elites would go through it and it would
be like a less than a minute effort.
Could you OK it will be done just like the the 100 elites
would go. Zooming in.
Truck hole. I think he wrote that just for
you, Spin. It will be done.
You think so? Just like terrible, the 100
elites would go through it and it would be like a less than a
minute effort. Could you?
Oh, OK, I don't. Know what do you think you think
You think it's just literally a troll.
I don't think it's a troll. I just don't think you.
I don't think it's what you think it is.
I with the heats though, that that's the whole thing that sets
it off because you can like what are you going to have two
trucks? What are you going?
To do for three minute. Heats, not that.
Why? Why, John, why can't they have a
truck pull? Because they have one that they
have one. That's wrong, man.
I just think, yeah, that you're right.
I think it won't be that. What do you think it's going to
be, John I? Don't know.
I, I I. It's because John does know.
I have 0 idea. I don't I We'll see.
I just don't give. A fuck.
I just don't think it's a truck pool, OK?
Tyler, you don't. Know I I think a truck of some
sorts will be involved. There you go.
Truck of some sort is involved. OK.
All right. Fair enough.
You try to wiggle out. That was an.
Impressive. I'm warming up the JY.
Look at that. And Tyler is so nice.
Just say what it is. I don't know what it is.
First of all, I don't like being told those types of things.
I'd rather find it and share it. What do you mean?
Like if somebody told me that, like if if somebody had told me
syndicate workouts ahead of time, right?
And then there's something that's kind of sneaky or or not
sneaky, but you have to do some sleuthing to find it.
I'd feel bad for posting it even though I found it publicly.
Oh, you post stuff all the time that you find.
Yeah, what I'm saying, but it's not like if Jr. gave.
It to work for it. I want to work for it and find
it and share it for sure. I don't want to.
I don't want somebody to give me the inside information because
I'm friends with Jr. or whatever, right?
You don't want to kill a rabbit that has 2 broken.
Legs. Yeah.
No, but you like the chase? You like the chase A?
Lot and we'll get to that here at the last segment.
Sure. You're like the best one at it.
So like, but yeah. Yeah, it's obviously a truck
push. Obviously it's not a truck pull,
it's a truck push. Either way, it's going to be a
one minute workout. Yeah, very short, just kind of
funky thing. Are they going to get shit for
it? I don't think so.
It's just OK. 1. Of eight scored workouts.
Yeah, they they have actually like a lot of workouts.
So this is just one of them. It let's play make believe and
just assume that it's a truck pool.
I I like that as an event. I said we're playing make
believe. I I just have a cold man.
I like it, I think it's fun. It'll be it'll make crazy reels
and go viral if it's in a boatload of tests.
That makes a difference because it's like you can't, you kind of
can't do that if you don't have like a lot of tests to weed that
out and. So.
Boatload. Is it a boat?
Pull it drunk with a boat. Maybe so.
Oh, that got me. All right.
Go go, keep going. Go with your make believe thing.
Nothing, just that I think I think it wouldn't be a terrible
event. A boat pull or a truck pull.
Well, you pick. Either one.
Did you see the weather? No, it's gonna be like. 57 at
night in high of 92 in the afternoon.
The equipment will not overheat at all.
I live in that now do. Not everybody does though.
John are. We doing my top 10?
Is that what we're doing might be able to indicate?
We'll do top five. OK, why not ten?
It's already 8:00 and we were told 10 to 15 minutes Max is all
we got. Blind.
Rankings. We still got blind rankings.
And what's you doing? All right, all right, all right,
fine, all. Right.
If you're not top five, it doesn't matter.
Tier was doing. It'll find out the full rankings
tomorrow when I post it early tomorrow morning.
OK, you want to go 5 through 1 or one through 5?
I want. To do 5 through.
I got in trouble when I started the top of the mountain, John.
OK, so. 5-4 and then you go 3 and.
Then my we'll go men first, OK? My 5:00 and 4:00 is Nate
Ackerman and Jorge Fernandez. Nate Ackerman and Jorge
Fernandez. Yeah, I think I'm going to.
I'm think I'm going to flip you off for a loop when you hear
these, All right. And then my 3 and my number 3.
There you go. Is Maximilian Creek.
We created him in a in a semifinal, yet have we?
We have not. He was not.
We haven't seen. I don't have Ibarra because he
he has informed me that he will not be there.
Grandson he was sick dude. Be friendly podcast.
No dude, just you'll be fine. By the way there.
And then my, my #2 who's going to, it's going to be his first
time that he qualifies for the games.
And I don't know if he's watching, but get your whatever
you get out Hitler, because Billiam Leahy the 4th is going
to be my #2. #2 he's qualifying for the games.
He's qualifying for the Games and I know every single
competition he does he messes up the first event and then just
sucks on day one and then after day one he's good.
He's good. He always like climbs back to
like 5th place but he just sucks all the time.
At day 1A. Lot, a lot, yeah.
Something happens, tears his Achilles, whatever.
Same same situation. He messes up somehow, so.
Who's third again? 3rd is Max Krieg and 2 is.
So Bill that he's going to the CrossFit Games and who's number
one? Number one's Colton.
So Colton, I can't go because he already qualified.
So that means Max Krieg. Is going to the.
Game bill he is going to. That's who I've predicted.
Wow. Now if you if I will say, I
think I think Jorge, I think 2 through 7, two through 7,
honestly have a shot at getting those top 2 spots.
So are the two tickets to the game.
So we're just going to act like Colton wins.
I think so all the way down to my 7th I think has a shot to
make it. I'll go ahead and say their
names just real quick because 6 I have Spencer Panczyk and then
seven I have Mathias Porter and we haven't seen Mathias Porter
in a long time. I don't think he did online semi
finals but Mathias Porter is a home run hitter.
And I just he can mess this up. I think he's going to hit some
home runs, that's all I'm saying.
Nice. So keeping it real, I like
appreciate the $2.00 this is wrong.
What's the call in number? Don't got one?
Not today, but thank you for the $2.00.
That's $100 deposit there. That's right.
And that's, that's my thing. So, yeah.
And then for the women. Why?
Why not Spencer Panschek? After what you saw this week?
There's no heavy Isabel. There is heavy Elizabeth.
Oh, there is, that's right, there is heavy visible.
Next gotcha on that one. Sorry.
Sorry, Spencer. I'm sorry.
I wanted it before you pivot to the women.
I do think I understand the truck pool event.
It will be an actual truck pool where you have to bring your
truck and pull like at the fair, in which case Trista Smith is
going to the games. Anyway, the reason why I have
Spencer at six is because 1, he just won three events.
He won three events and still was fourth place, right?
Like I just like he it went about as well as it could have
gone and he still wasn't good enough.
And I understand that he had bad events too.
I just don't think he's going to win three events again.
Do you think the men's field is stronger or weaker than
Syndicate? I would say probably.
Weaker. You hear that, Grant?
OK, next women. For the women, my #5 is Carolyn
Prevo. OK.
My number 4 is Sydney Wells. Damn dude.
Just shy of it again, OK. And then my number 3 is Hattie
Canyon. Now I understand Hattie's been
like dealing with some stuff. And like if that shoulder.
Injury, right And like if her shoulder injury is bad, then
then you know this is a toss up. This is it's a toss up, right?
If she can't do some stuff, then she can't do some stuff, right,
but she's still competing. She is going to be.
There for. Sure, so I don't think she would
compete if she didn't think she had a shot to to be OK.
But if it's, if it's bad, you know, then it's bad and she will
not be in it. But I have her number 3 and
that's just if it's OK now #2 and she will be going to the
CrossFit Games, That's Kristen Halti.
Kristen Halti, you smoking? You smoking some pot over there?
You look like you just hit something you've never hit
before. I wish I had, it wouldn't be as
hard, right? Kristen.
Holt, the the South African. Queen herself Kristen Holtz is
going to go to the crossword. Wow, that's amazing.
And I'm going to say she accepts it. 100%, I think she's a Ben
Smith. She's going to go out there.
And the only difference is there's a challenge for her.
She's going to. She's going to do it.
She was seventh in the Open this year, and she did the workout
immediately after it was announced, like in the middle of
the night. She wants to see if she's still
got it and if I hurt Hattie Kanyo and Sydney Wells is her
toughest competition. I mean, come on now.
So who wins that? Alex Kazan, I think wins it
pretty convincingly. I'll be.
HC Kazan just crushes. It, you know, it's it's, it's
all good. She feels great.
I mean, she's on whatever Tyler's on right now.
Not enough. I think a great prop bet it
would be who wins by more Colton or Alex.
I think it would be a great. Problem I think Alex.
I I don't have Emily Rolfe there because I don't think she will
be participating. She had an Instagram post of her
doing a wicked imam in her words.
I don't think she'd be doing that the day before a
competition or two days before the competition.
She also had an elbow sleeve, so she looks like she's dealing
with something. It might have been new or old.
I'm not sure he's talking about it.
I know, I'm just speculating. I don't, I don't know.
I don't know anything but this is October, October 7th.
Get that going. Ready, spin.
We're halfway there. Whoa, spin.
Thank you, Lee. Looking at good grief, what?
He's just pulling up public information here.
Look at that. It's so fast I can't pause it.
But you see that on her our elbow.
Anyway, I don't want to harp on it.
It just looks like she has an injury of some kind.
I don't know if she does. I'm not saying that I I'm
neither confirming nor deny that she probably definitely suffered
an injury at the World Fitness Project.
I don't know at all. I just, this is just what I
think and then so I don't have her if she were competing, and I
think people should take notes on this, if she were competing,
was competing, she would be 5th place in this competition.
So she's not. Probably good she's not going
then. Now there is a huge, huge like
kind of thing I just said, and if anybody hits on it then
you'll you'll, you know, you'll know some stuff, but that's it.
OK, all right, on to the next 1/5.
Don't understand 5th place OK. That's what I would say.
I would say she would come in 5th.
And I know when you post it tomorrow, I have a little
asterisk that says if Emily Rolf is competing 5th place and I
want you to put. That in Where's Trista?
Not in the top five. Trista's going to the games.
Trista Smith is 8th place. Is Trista Smith a Seth Stovall?
No, she's different. She's different.
No, the same the same thing is like she just missed it, just
like Seth did last year. But it's tough to be top two.
It's easier to be 11th. 100 percent, 100, That's what I
meant by that. Yes, yes, yes, yes, 100%.
That's the case with Trista Smith.
Mark it down good, Frazier. Look at this 4999 man.
Thank you, Lee. Thank you, Lee.
Tyler So Trista Smith, your Ben Smith pick.
No, no, no. You tell us.
Can you tell us who will be the Tyler Christafel?
Dude he was on fire with his bad picks this weekend.
He dude, he has a freaking gift, I'm telling you right now.
If you are competing this weekend and.
Can I say your name? Just go.
Just withdraw. I, I don't know, I'll have to
look at that. I'll I'll post my my Tyler
Christopher pick after probably the next couple days.
Speaking of Tyler Christopher, his wife Bailey Rail is doing
like a vlog series on the CrossFit YouTube channel if you
want to check that out. So there you go, Norcal Classic,
check that out. Is the women's field stronger or
weaker than Syndicate? The women's fields.
Grant says it's like the toughest field of any semi
final. Yeah, he's absolutely insane
too, so there's. That, I mean, like Hattie Carano
is pretty much like Carolyn Stanley equivalent Kristen
Halter. I know she's a master.
Is he talking about like with Bailey Bailey, because because
he he didn't and CrossFit Bailey Bailey's beautiful.
Like see, that's great. But I I think I think Norcal is
a weaker field overall than than Syndicate.
I do want to make this note, I think I went full trash panda by
accident at the syndicate ground.
We we said who's going to win the who's going to do well in
this heat? He literally picks a name and
the guy just like bombs it well. I was I was talking about me
literally podcasting from a trash can.
Yes. You were and I, I didn't put two
and two together until I reposted it yesterday and I was
like Oh my God, I've become a meme of myself.
I guess we should be on the blind rankings.
We're getting getting out of time.
Let's see, here we go. Tyler, I think you should like
make little reels and like go to your trash can and be like and
then like get little pieces of paper and then you pick up the
piece of paper out of the trash can and then reveal a name and
that's who's going to stuck in this event.
And then you just do it for every competition, every event,
dude, I think everybody would love it.
You don't say. I'll do that from home for
every. Event right, right, and then
just want a piece of paper and put it in the trash and then
take a or have a have Jeanette take a picture of you or a video
of you and then you just pull it out and like uncrinkle it and
then reveal whatever name is going to be terrible in the
event. Let's see where's right there it
is get with the programming 500 watching smash and like that
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That's right, get on the leaderboard.
We'll have to check out after blind rankings how close we're
getting. All right, the blind rankings
this week, what are the Norcal storylines we're going to be
talking about next week? What will we talk about?
Any guesses? I have no Holton.
No clue. Yeah, South African Queen.
First one is not Grant being number, Grant being right.
That's not, don't, don't count on that one.
We're going to talk about who qualifies.
Yeah, 3 the most important one. But if we're talking about that,
is that the most? Is that the number one storyline
next week? Oh, I would say 2, dude, it's
the most important thing. We talked about Reese
Littlewood. That's who qualifies.
We're talking about Ty Jenkins. He qualified.
We talked about George Strunner dying at the end.
That's who, Chris. Didn't.
Qualify no, but like that she didn't like she was going fine
thing and then she didn't. Like who's going to let John
know? I will, I will, I will concede
to three. I just.
Think. Well, hear me out, Hear me out.
You can make your decision. I will concede to three.
I just think if we're honest with ourselves, we will talk
about who qualifies probably more than everything else.
I think you're saying that because you, you're someone who
that like you, you really care about that.
But I think and and likewise, my bias is that I care about all
the other storylines other than like, if this is like if Sydney
qualifies, like that's a big deal.
She's been like she's been in the trenches for this for a
minute. And so that's a big deal.
I'll give you, I'll give it a two.
I will see the two all. Right #2.
His seating was harder than my seating.
Yeah, Tyler spoke too soon. All right, Next up, the odd
events like a truck pull. Maybe they're a boat pull.
She's made the games before. Because she this season in
particular, like, it kind of looks like she's not going to
make it. It would be fun that the well
sisters are in the games together.
That would be cool. A big deal.
That'd be cool. I mean, the Pantex did it.
It wasn't anything crazy, so. Yeah, what about the odd events
like a boat? Three.
OK, 4. Oh wow, I'm not going to talk
about a boat. Boat pull.
We already talked about it all. Right.
Like if it's crazy. Crazy.
What if there's a bucket hold again and pool boy wins and he
goes to the games? I hope there's no bucket hold.
Pool Boy would not go to the games.
He won that event. He won that event.
He's not competing. Yeah, he is, bum, elbow and all.
Really. Yeah, him and Addie, that's.
Right Next up, the live stream 2 point O.
Which is big. This is big.
Probably #1 because every it's, it's the second week that all
the trolls are going to get their moments to troll.
And so it'll be the hottest talked about thing for sure.
It also gives us a chance to improve.
Yes. Or or deep or regress under 1.
Yeah, under, under, under proof. The circumstances are much
harder this this go, I think. Yeah, I agree.
Like and people might not understand that we don't know.
We don't have a plug in. Hey so I've heard there's a lot
of homeless encampments around there.
I have too. If you use the homeless are the
last thing that we're worried about first.
First of all, first, if you're out there and it gets a little
bit dark, just be careful. Like there are homeless
encampments. I saw something that somebody
had collected like a whole bunch of needles from the area.
Like there's a a, it's right next to the river and right down
the way there was like somebody's been collecting
needles in that area and like they have all these jugs of like
ridiculous amounts of needles, so.
So if you cleaned up, if you pop, you could just say it's one
from more homelessness. You could.
It's not my fault. But like, I don't know how you
guys move equipment between the stages.
You can't just leave it plugged in all night because I'm not
sure it's the safest to do that. So good luck.
So sorry Susa, Next up, who doesn't qualify what?
This is stupid. It's been I'm we're putting that
in what? Who qualifies?
It's not. Those are different people.
Three, it's the same thing. I would say it's a 5 actually,
because I think who qualifies is very much more important than
who doesn't qual, unless unless somebody loses the last event
and they had like a sure shot. What?
What if Alex Gazan does not qualify?
You think that we'll talk about that more than we talk about who
qualifies. We can we can play the if game
all we want to. Man, if a frog had wings.
He wouldn't bump his butt when he jumps.
His. Butt.
Got it. Butt jumps at his Butt bumps the
ground every time he jumps. Give it to John.
Give him the three. No, no, no, I'm good.
Let's go 55 it up. I don't want to be cornered into
a hole. I want.
Him Colt powers event 4 Wrestling the Homeless.
That'd be a good event. That would be good.
And the last one, when we talk about the heat, we have some
Burt houses. I told you, John.
Was A5. You said 5 originally.
I seeded to you. I seeded.
To you. First, yeah, but you seeded
harder the first time, so I wanted to match your seeding.
And then now we're our list is dumb.
You the seed, the the most, the most last seed gets the trump.
And you screwed that up, John. You don't even know what you
just said. We talked about the heat last
year. It was in the 90s.
There were dudes like Sanson was going to the hospital because he
was having a heat stroke. Nobody had water.
They're all dying out there. Like it could be a storyline.
The storyline, I will. I will care about that.
Storyline, though. This storyline is is hugely
important is if Brian Friends goes and then understands that
Dave Castro will be there and then leaves, that's the
storyline that I care about. I.
Thought Dave was going, I thought.
I'm pretty sure he is. I No, no, no, I'm serious.
I am serious. OK, I.
He went last year for a day. Yeah, I don't.
I think he's coming just for a day.
I don't think he's coming the whole time.
Somebody put a camera on Brian. What if they do like a Fraser
Froning handshake? Don't be.
Gay. That won't happen, but that's
cool. There you go.
Look at this. Vicky Blind Rankings is probably
my favorite part of any of the podcasts.
Wow, thank. You on on a Wednesday night at
7:30. That's right.
What's it doing? What's it doing?
Dear, what's it doing? Speaking of me finding things
tier. Tier wasn't that's that took me
a minute. That took me a minute.
You're you guys are welcome. The elite divisions at Tier
Water Palooza Miami Beach next March 2026.
We're going to have less athletes.
So previously the top 20 men and women from the online qualifier,
you know, got to go. And then like everybody that
went to the Games and previous Water Palooza podium finishers
and winners and Games winners could just accept their invites.
The rule book said that there would be a smaller field.
Only 5 athletes per the rule book as of yesterday said the
top five of the OC qualifier plus 15 invites for the criteria
will go 20. Athletes will go much smaller
field and the teams of three will be limited to just a
handful. Do you like the smaller field in
Wadapalooza? No, I.
OK. I, I think, I think they have
Waza Socal and that's, that's your showcase and then of just
the pros, right? And I would think that when
actually that went really, really well.
And I think Wadapalooza should stay like big time community and
have all the people go and celebrate and party and work out
and all that stuff. I think you're messing with it
and I don't think it's going to go well.
Well, you're not. You're not cutting out the
community, though. You're keeping the community.
You're just cutting the pros. They're actually adding a bunch
of pairs divisions. So lots of pairs.
OK, never mind. I I thought you said they were
going down the teams a lot. That's what I thought you.
Said the pair the teams of three to limit the 30 elite.
OK, I thought, I thought you were saying that team.
Looks like they're going to add pairs.
General registration, no qualifier leaderboard, just 20
RX, 40 intermediate and 20 open of a male female pair.
A male male pair and it's female female pair.
So a lots of pair competition. That's my fault.
I I I thought you were saying like in total but from but.
From our standpoint where we were following the elite
athletes, do we like having a smaller field or do we like it
when basically anybody that was at the Games can go compete?
Why? Why do you I think this?
This looks like more like a rogue type style field maybe?
I think Waterpalooza is pivoting to this athlete highlight and
making it a showcase of, of, of of the pro athletes.
In which case you'll have an easier time doing that with the
elite male and elite and females.
The the thing that I'm thinking here is that they didn't bump
down the elite teams of three, correct?
They are down a little bit. I think last year they had like
40 teams like like. That so.
It's a little bit it's, it's not too bad because you know the
bottom of the teams, the teams are three.
They were. They weren't not competitive.
Do you think that they'll get more of a, more of the elites
will want to do that the team competition and they're, they're
kind of just go ahead and get it out in front of it and saying,
Hey, we're only going to take the top 20 because like that's
kind of probably who's going to show up.
And then hopefully anybody who doesn't do that competition will
do like more of the elites will do the team competition.
Because I could very well see that being the case.
And which think I, I think it's a smart pivot, especially
considering WFP and all that stuff.
Yeah, I just think the individuals also doing team is
like the best thing that water Palooza has going for it.
Now I get what you're saying completely Tyler, and maybe it's
a good thing and maybe it works out and more, more of the elites
will do the team competition because of that fact, right.
Maybe I just think when you can do individual comp and it's 2
days and then you can do team comp and it's two days.
I like, I like how they, it's different than anything and they
found a way to make that work. And now I don't know if they're
making money off of it, but it's very entertaining.
We enjoy talking about it every single year.
And it's not like we come down from the individual's side.
Like we're just as pumped up for the team side, especially if
we're invested. I think we're more invested like
2 years ago than this last year. But that part of it's very fun
and I just think they have it down.
It works for them. If you mess with it, it's got a
chance of not working, but maybe it works better.
Yeah, I think, I think two years ago, I think the team
competition was really good. This year it was good.
It was good. They had, you know, four or five
teams I think on both sides, but it wasn't as stacked as it had
been. I also.
Think it was coming down from the Lucy Campbell High and the
teams just wasn't as entertaining because that you
know, that was one of the craziest things that happened
all year. And so we were we were coming
down from that high and then the teams were a little
underwhelming for last last the year previous that had not
happened and it was just as. Entertaining because yeah, the
women's individual field two years ago was not very strong.
Three years ago was even weaker, right?
That's when Paige and Danny were on the podium with somebody
else. So like, yeah, it keeps swinging
back and forth and I, I don't know what they'll do with it,
right? Like a smaller field.
Why? Why do you think they're
pivoting? I mean, go ahead, I don't want.
To I think my guess is seeing that there's a whole bunch of
pairs, they're running out like if you have super open and
there's they have 5 heats. I think it was last year and one
of the, I think it was the women or the men, you don't have time.
And so if you can cycle those field of 20 athletes through one
heat, you know, one men's heat and then whatever or two men's
seats. If if there's in the smaller
field, you have more time for the, the community stuff.
I guess that's probably why. I I mean like, I can't help but
think like last year the the field was weak, much weaker at
the bottom and just chopping that off is is just a better
play 'cause they. Don't have to worry about it,
yeah. Yeah, I mean, the first teats
were rough compared to what, the top of the the top of the field,
right? Also, go ahead.
No. Well, I was.
I was just going to say that somebody tall who should be on
this team if it's. What if do you think if I was on
a team of Colton and Austin that we could be top 10?
No. You don't think they're fit in
areas and I can just lift when I need to lift.
I think back to some of the workouts.
That require the run, row swim. That'd be the only bad one.
What was it 2 years ago where they had the the burpees over
the worm and then one person had to go swim and come back like
you had to you you had to hustle on the.
Alton would swim twice. That's what we would do.
I don't think you can do that. Well, we're we're special.
So yeah, you just make those guys do all the work.
No, I'm doing as much work as I can.
They're just obviously doing more.
Because. Because they would do the
because that was also the trail run.
Yeah, I'd run the trail. I mean, I'm hurting us bad on
these events, but. You're going to have fun doing.
But but I think we can be, I think we can beat top ten in
like a CrossFit workout, you know what I mean?
They just do more work and I would do what I can.
And then a lifting workout. We might win.
We probably will win whatever the lifting thing is.
We got me and Austin Colton's. Colton's our worst lifter.
I think we'll be fine, you know what I'm saying?
I just, I'm curious what that experiment would look like.
I would sell my soul, guys, and I know I'm I'm the anchor, the
biggest anchor anybody's ever seen, but I would sell.
My they can do it. They could do that right?
Because generally in the past the teams it was 2 two games
athletes and 1/3. I'm just saying just awesome as
far as. You don't think that would be
amazing to cover? Just watch me die or work out.
It'd be amazing. Come on, John.
Like, like just be upset that we have 100 burpees left and I
can't do any of them Like like. I want to see it.
I, I, it would be fun. I I think if Austin and Colton
did the individual competition and then did the team
competition, they'd be. Like, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, just for fun. I think that would be awesome
actually. Yeah, I think, I think it'd be
pretty sweet too. All right.
I know. I know.
Colton's watching. Christie's probably watching.
Tell Austin to do that and. We will have to stay tuned for
this. Thomas the JY put Tia back on
the mountain. She's somewhere.
We will see. Oh, I think it will surprise you
what's coming. I can't wait to find out.
I think we have to wait till after.
Last. Chance Last chance qualifier.
To know Oh. Yeah, till the games.
So yeah, that's it. I don't, you know, we'll find
out what they actually do with with that, but it's in March, so
a. Little bit later, Chase, you
were definitely not first. Let's see.
Yep, before we before we speak. To Ian.
An hour 52. We are right on that 10 to 15
minute range. Let's see, let's find out who
the winner is. Who is the winner of the
leaderboard this week? Drum roll.
Let's see community. Times are getting tired.
It's been. I have no idea how this works,
but I don't know what the tiebreaker is.
Grant Griffin. Are you kidding me?
Goodness. Grant Griffin.
Where is. The most money he's won all
week? Is he tied with somebody?
Everybody. Oh, this is not what?
Ben, You can't do that. I think you can do it.
They're all tied. What am I supposed to do, John?
What am I supposed? To no, it says crown #1 the XP
doesn't matter. Yeah, I have no idea, I said.
Whoever was #1 based off of. What does the XP not matter
really? I don't think so.
I've been. It's rounding.
I have no idea. Yeah, Tyler might be right if
everybody's got it. It put him him in first for a
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