Welcome to the spin. Little bit of a new background there. And a special guest was Abigail Domet, the second woman, I guess, officially to qualify for the 2025 CrossFit. Game, let's say first. Two first two, first two. Tied for points though. Yeah, so. I think I think Z score you'd be ahead because of your Isabel. I think that it was, I think that is the way it worked. P score. But yeah, she was. She was ahead. Do you know anything about Z scorer Abby?
P Score jog it did Z. Score or P score? One of ABC score, one of them now used to be Z. I did. I did think about that this weekend. For some reason. People started talking about it and we're like, are we, is it standard scoring? Are we going to use Z score, P score? And then we're like, oh, well, the field of 18, that would make a huge difference because there was some serious gaps on a lot of the events. So yeah. You would have gotten some more than. Others.
Really like, you know that. Yeah. He's the guy who made the It's his thing. Oh. Shoot, it's my thing. I don't know if. I like a random. Equation He. He made it, she. Goes. How do you know that? That was great. He's kind of a big deal. Wow. OK. I'll, I'll go to you for all my questions on that. Yeah, so if anybody like just kills an event like he's the guy to ask how far, how much are they at? OK. 'Cause it's like each second. It goes by how much you beat the middle person.
It's that's the easiest way to that's the easiest way to think about it. Like they take all the scores. The middle person gets 50, correct Tyler. And then however much you are ahead of that person is how many points you get. So you would get 102nd place gets like 83 because of how much you beat everybody by. But so if it's like a longer event where people are going to be minutes ahead versus a really short event and it's only a few seconds it. It it equals.
Out it's all the same. So like a long event's actually much harder to get a whole bunch of points on people because 20 minutes and 19 minutes is 95 versus 100 essentially. And you're not beating somebody by 5 minutes in a 20 minute workout where right where a 4 minute workout you do something in three in 350 and then the next second place is 4/30 percentage wise, that's 10%. You know what I'm? Saying makes sense. Maybe we should have did that We
we should have did. You should say that to Dave. Tyler Tyler will get so hard. I know that I know that Mayhem is not big fans of it. They're not. Not, not. Or are. No, I, they, I know that they are not they they talk shit about it on their podcast. It's fine. It's not for everybody, but all of a sudden when everybody. Decides they're like, not for everybody. We got a question here, we'll read it because pool boy paid us. Would Ebelgill rather be able to
do the Oh my God comma? Omaha, Oh man. Oh, Spit doesn't watch. It I do. Not have a or instant transmission. I was worried this was going to happen. I'm like. I was supposed to be knowledge. Since I was a child, I just know what some of the things are. I have no idea what that is. I think it would depend on who's Kamehameha we're talking about. Yeah. That's what you should have last event. I got you. I got. You yelled your hair vertically. That would have been the final,
the final form. Oh my gosh, if you would have made the freaking triangle hair. A little. Bit outrageous. Have like an orange. An orange. Oh man. Yeah, it has a little, little Japanese sign on the back, whatever that is. I had a Goku shirt not too long ago, like 3 years ago. Nice. Yeah, I'll, I'll text you guys. There's I promised you I had a shirt like that. Please do hurry. I believe it. I've been cancelling because I have no idea what you guys are talking about but.
It's Dragon Ball Z, man. That sure. OK, back to CrossFit. I know more about that than the. He didn't. He didn't he didn't hear your your interview, Abby, clearly. I'm sorry. I heard sorry that we're working. I was damaged about it. OK, go ahead. Go ahead. It's OK. It's. OK, you like Lauren Khalil when Tommy and Sean talk about movies? Oh. CrossFit. I I have no idea. CrossFit. Yeah. So it's CrossFit. That's a go. Wow. Go ahead, top it. Thanks, John.
Yeah, going into Mayhem like obviously like you got overlooked on World Fitness Project. So you just go straight in for CrossFit Games and like going into Mayhem like it's a strong field, right. And I, I know some of the women just dropped out, but like, we had talked about it before, like with all the competitions going on and like having to like plan schedules and like, if you didn't make it this one, you have to do like TFX and you get
to do the online semifinal. Was there any like thought of like maybe I don't do this when I go do TFX or the semifinals or? So like that, this was actually something I kind of talked about earlier with Be friendly. Actually, it was how who Brian and PC so like literally today.
So I feel like going in, like if you go into this competition, obviously it's like a month before everything else and then there's multiple options and you think like, Hey, if I if it's not there this weekend, if I'm not having a a good score, whatever, there's options AB and C later down the road. And I wasn't going to go in thinking that because the next option was the online. And to me, I'm like, I, I'm not doing the online, like absolutely not.
I'm I feel like I'm just not very good online. To me, that's like, no, if I'm going to my ticket to the games is going to be through an in person event and let's say I didn't have a good weekend and then I have to do the online because you'd be an idiot not to. They're taking 11, you don't do that. And then you have to wait for TFX or Norcal or whatever. So yeah, I just kind of went in with the mindset of like this is the only option and I'm getting my games ticket no matter what.
Like there was no other. And it's kind of like all the other years, right? Like you have one chance. And so I saw that this weekend did. Did you hear anybody talk about like, will I have other chances, like maybe coming in with a different mindset? Was that kind of discussed or heard anybody else discussing
that while you're in Cookeville? Kind of not really like not directly, but maybe more so in the weeks leading up to the competition, like people were were like getting excited because they're like, oh, confirm my invite for this, confirm my invite for that, which like I also confirmed mine for both Norcal and TFX. But I also did it like with the insurance of like, I'm probably not going to do this. So I'll get the refund later if I have to.
But yeah, even I feel like some of the people who were close to me when they started releasing some of the like the judges, standard stuff for the online and they're like, OK, well we need to make sure that you have two judges and have this and that. And I'm just like, no, I'm not going to do the online. So I don't need that. I mean, I think that's a great mindset to have though.
Like if you have a Plan B, like sometimes plan A doesn't come out like as well as it could be if you don't have Plan B. That's right. Which like, yeah, there are other options that could have happened, but I don't want to be going in already thinking that, you know, 'cause then you're just, you're just, how about? Propel. Your mind? Yeah. Right looked up these bee friendly people you're talking about and they ranked you at 8th.
It's a good thing you came on this show because I picked you to go to the games from Mayhem. So you, you, you know I'm your guy. And if we don't count Alexis, I also picked you to. Go to the game. Well, that's how that's how it worked out. Honestly, I I actually thought that it was going to be me and Alexis qualifying before the weekend started. Yeah, one of the things that I one of the things I noticed. You know. Saturday afternoon, the first event like it was hot in there. Yeah.
Like it was like, I would say probably what, 8085 humid. Humid. So muggy. And outside wasn't so bad, but I feel like, I mean, you're from Texas. Yeah. I feel like others who came from the North who haven't been in the heat for months may have had a little bit of an issue. Do you agree with that? I definitely thought that going into it and like, and we know, 'cause we're like Tennessee, it's, it's humid there. Like, you know, it's gonna be
how it was. And so leading up to it, like, or like seeing some of the people who, yeah, they're coming from up north and I'm like, like, are they prepared for this? Oh, oh, she went to worms. She went to bed. Look. At that look. At that. So yeah, not bad. In fact, before the event, I drank so much salts and electrolytes because I knew that it was it was going to be a rough, rough first event for
sure. I kind of mentioned it in my first question, but like the World Fitness project didn't extend you an invite. Was there maybe a little bit of a chip on your shoulder after you're going up against the quite a few of them that are there like you've been to the Games, what now? Three years? Is it 2 years? This will be my third. Yeah. I was pretty bitter about not getting an invite. I really was like, I'd like to do it, but I don't want to do these qualifiers.
And then they released their qualifier on like, a Wednesday. And then a couple days passed, and I was just like, should I be doing this? Like, maybe I should just try it? And like, at this time, my coach was out of town for a week. My husband's out of town. So I was like, maybe I should just do these workouts, like, why not? And so and then I realized it was the type of qualifier we have to like, weigh all the weights and weigh the barbells and the whole mess.
And so I was like, OK, like, let me bug some of my friends to come help me and stuff. And then by the time you're set up and I'm like, OK, like, do the workout. And then I did it. And I was like, I don't think that was good enough. But it just didn't feel worth it to try again, you know? And so I was like, man, like, should I even submit my scores? But then I was like, well, you never know. So put them in. And then they sent me my my Challenger invite.
And I was like. OK, it's kind of funny. Two of the four or three of the four right qualifiers did not get an invite for WFP. Yeah. Abby, Fee and Colton, three of the four people of the first four people that are going to the games, got their first ticket. And it's not like it's a field of people who don't who they don't have an invite either. And Austin only got it. Austin only got it because Saxon joined the the like team and is not competing, right.
So otherwise they've been all four. Yeah, it would have been if Saxon had stayed in. It would have been all four. Pretty wild. Yeah, that, that's pretty crazy, but I don't know, we just we're like, we'll do it. I mean, I should probably be doing some stuff for Mayhem because it was like a week later and then. Probably. Yeah, I feel like I just didn't have the right like mindset. I was like kind of sneaking them in and, you know, I and
something like that. You have to really want to do it. And I don't want to say I was like careless, but in a way, kind of. Yeah, Yeah. Going back to Mayhem, when the the workouts I guess were on the sheet there, did you try to like, do you like first of all, do you like doing any of the workouts ahead of time? Did you play the game of going through the rabbit hole of? Oh, she did Isabel about 37 times before. She went.
Out there. I I did do Isabel like on that Monday or Tuesday. Yeah, yeah, once. Well, when they first released the picture, I wasn't sure if that really was like, oh, these are the workouts. Like those are it. I thought that there was like one in there and then a few days later, whatever they, they message us and they're like, hey, can you guess which workouts they are? And then I was like, oh, OK, so
they're on the picture. And so then I broke them down into like little categories and was like, OK, well, these are all the ones with the GHDS. These are all the ones with Echo bike. These are all like these. But yeah, we, we did some. But yeah, I mean, you can't do them all. You can try, you know, and then we just try and practice like stuff that you know, is going to be there. I mean, they put on their social media the obstacle as a way, I think, to trick people.
And so then we're all like, Oh yeah, let's practice the obstacle. Or like, you know, a heavy rope. They do a lot of stuff like that, but there's certain things, you know? I mean, you know, there's going to be some sort of legless Rd. climb workout, you know? GHDS for sure. GHDS That was definitely a movement that going into the competition, I should have definitely done more of. And we knew, like me and my coach were like, I should be doing more of these.
But then it's already like time to go and it just went by so fast. I don't know, April came so quickly. We're like, all right, let's go compete, let's do it. I know, I know people say like it's mayhem kind of mayhem home cooking with the programming, but I feel like everybody knows what you're what you're going for. Like if you know you're going in the mayhem classic, you're like you what you just said, you're doing all that stuff too. It's I don't think it's mayhem
cooking. It's just what they like to do. Yeah. And that that was the thing, like even with some of like the weirder stuff, like the maybe not weird, but like a heavy jump rope, they like to do that a lot of their programming. And like the obstacle, it's like, yeah, they could make us do that. But are they? Would that make sense as far as getting the two people to go to the games? You know they'd rather put something else in.
Yeah. Did you like the first five workouts and then maybe the compressed schedule of not having a whole lot of time, not spreading out over the whole day? I, I really liked that actually it, it felt like literally 36 hours that we did the whole competition and just how we went and then we came back and we're like, all right, in an hour we're getting called again. So you just didn't have time to, you know, get too lost or cool off too much. And I I actually like that a
lot. Do you think the real fittest people come out in atmospheres like that because it tests your ability to recover so much and not just be fresh for everything? Maybe, yeah. Or I mean, maybe not even fittest, but the just the ability to endure. I, I feel like that's a staple of Mayhem competition because Rich was always great at that, right? It's not that he got better, he just didn't get worse and everybody else got worse.
Yeah. I mean, you saw that like after the first event, there were people who did not recover, like they were done and they just could not perform after that. Was there was there a workout that surprised you on kind of how you felt afterwards? For me, like the hardest workout was the 4th one with the the GHDS and say walking all that, that one just I I needed like 20 minutes just to like not feel like I was going to throw up like my brain was over here.
I just. It's being inverted so much. Yeah. And just, I don't know, 'cause like the way you breathe differently on GHD is like at one point I like I smacked the pen out of my judge's hand and I'm like, and then you're going upside down and you're just constantly, it's hard not to start breath holding and just to keep your everything consistent. Yeah. And then go into the final event, Tyler's going to leave what? He he doesn't want to hear
about. The final, the, you know, those fast workouts you did, you have an idea of where you needed to be like where you did you have a game plan going into it like I need to just, you know, keep an eye on Emily or is it just run
your own race? Yeah, I mean, going into the last workout that was something like we're we're very aware of where the points are AT. And you also kind of know like who's going to win that event, you know, where this person's roughly going to end up. So it's it's pretty nerve wracking because you know, it's going to be so close.
And yeah, I mean, some people are, but like, as soon as it finishes, like you, you know what you got, you know, like they're like, oh, I have no idea where the standings are or whatever happens, happens. And I'm like, no, like you're telling me you weren't counting right now. Like you didn't just one 2-3 people to finish ahead of you or behind you. Like, come on, you know?
So you have that, you have that in your mind then as you're as you're going through it. Yeah, like obviously do the best you can, but you do have to just, you know, be aware of those things. Was there a moment of fear when you saw Emily get off 1st? I kind of knew she was probably going to win the event, so it kind. Of you don't really know where everybody else is at until until
you get off. Yeah, it matters more like where, like how I finish and then how many people finished behind or between me and Phi so. So you knew right away like you crossed the finish line. You're you're you're trying to run to the to the bopper there. You pretty much had an idea that
you were. Yeah, you kind of knew where things were, 'cause I knew from the first heat it was just Alexis's time, which hers was a few seconds behind mine, which meant Emily, Claudia and me, and then times after that. Yeah. I'm pretty sure Fee had no idea. She was just hoping. I think she was just going for it. Like. I think like. Please God, let it. Be enough like like I. Think even afterwards she's like, I have no idea where it it I ended up and I'm like fee, you
know you won. Like, come on. But. You all right there, Tyler? I'm having issues. It's fun. Well, now you have. Four months till the Games. It's a It's a long time to prep. Yeah, that's a long time. And I feel like it's really easy to kind of get too far gone and too far out of it. And so that's something we're talking about is like, should we do another competition from here to the Games just to stay fresh? So we might, we're just not sure yet. Well, I think you should do
Norcal just to have fun. Not because I'm like commentating and it's going to be more fun for me, but I just think Norcal would be a fun competition to do be in California. It's nice. No, I I agree that that was the one that we're like talking about 'cause it's also good timing. It's in June also. Has a $85,000 prize purse. Oh, really? Spin Spin just rocked her world. Like is that first place? I don't think they've put it down by, they don't think they're on the breakdown, but
it's. But Norcal's been known to give first place like. 20. 5% of the prize pool and then second place and 3rd get like 10 the next 10%. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. And I've, I've never done Norcal before, so it'd be cool to just, you know. Hattie's on team, Team N Cal. Yes, and I would see Hattie and all the girls got to do it, you know? Yes, I bet. Yes, I think yeah. I think first place last two years was like 25,000.
So. So yeah, it's a, it's a decent price purse, so. Not bad, not bad. You already have your ticket, you just go make some more extra money and. That's what Colton's going to do. Yeah, yeah, 'cause the other option was TFX, but it, it just didn't make sense time wise and all that. So I think we're all, we might go and hang out. I have some friends who are competing, but I think I I wanted to give my spot to somebody else. There he is. Very fun. OK, yeah, while we're at it,
let's. Just invite, you know, other games people that get their ticket too. Let's just make this a fun exhibition and we're just, we get basically a second games. Is the who's programming that event? I think the guy's running it right, yeah. So I think it's just Blair and Ben, yeah. Blair, Morrison and. They're the ones that did the traversing double unders and they did. What else do they do? I think. We hold the buckets. The bucket holds, yeah. Interesting, interesting events.
It's a very much an old school feel to it. Yeah, how good. Are you holding holding buckets, Abby? It was straight arms, yeah. Obviously. Well, pretty straight, yeah, unless you're a pool boy. And then you. Get a little. OK, I'll go practice after this. The bucket hold champ and then they ended up not counting it because. He's so, he's so proud of
himself. He like he beat, he ended up beating Colton and Taylor and this is just holding a bucket and he's just, he never lets anybody ever forget it. It's the weirdest thing to be good at. Wow. And then he dump it out. Or like maybe he's just holding an empty bucket. No, he's just got really strong, really strong forearms and delts. Just, you know, he practices at home a lot with it. You don't warm up with like bucket hold carries and stuff like that.
That's not something in your training. More of. The Barbara the. Farmers. Yeah, you might. You might need pool Boy as your coach. I don't think you're going to make it to the Games that way. Oh, wait. Oh my God, I'm imagining. You should do that at Norcal. That's what you should do. Like like. Please. While we have you like that's yeah, we could just have fun with that whole competition. It'd be great. We'll get somewhere. I'm signed up. I'm doing it. There you go.
Well, I appreciate you stopping by. Congratulations on punching your ticket to the Games and good luck in four months. Yeah, in. Four months, That's so far away. You know, come here before you know it, though, so that's. True, yeah. Well, go get some rest and. I guess, yeah. Watch the rest of the show, I'm sure John will have some great stuff. Yeah, I'm sure Anton's probably going to watch it right now. So stay tuned for the next mountain because it has been updated.
Oh, got a lot of climb the mountain. Yeah, yeah, stay tuned. It's a big deal. It's probably the bigger than the games honest. This is the most important thing you. Might say, climb up that mountain. All right, Abigail, I appreciate it and we'll chat a little bit later. Thank you so much. I'll see you later. Have a good one, Abby. Good job. See you, Tyler. Somebody moved me. Jesus Christ. Jeez, Miss Dummit. Going to the games. Good stuff. Told you.
There, there in the last event, I was like, I don't know. No, she, yeah. I. See, I didn't think that that Rolf was a shoe in to win that one. I didn't either. No, I think. I think she's in it, but not like, oh, Emily's going to win. This Yeah, I don't, I don't look at her and be like, oh, she's the the Echo Bite Queen. But I mean, like the girls, that might just be something there where like in a games field, we, we don't see Emily like that.
But in that field, they know Emily's the best biker. And we, and it's just, it's just, you know, I don't have Intel on everybody that was there. But like in a games field, we know who the best people are. It's really it's my fault that we didn't know. I'll be better. Sorry Crossfat, you're stuck with us. Just kind of the average of what happens on the show. First, you notice we have a new
layout. Second, go to the bottom, left, right below me, High ground beef chips, scan the QR code, 15% off beef chips. So it's three ingredients, I think. Dude, they're so good. I can't explain to the public how hard it is to point at the right thing. And it's the hardest. It's so hard. It's the opposite of where you are, but it's still like your finger just doesn't. Hurt. To. Get you have to remember don't point where I want to.
It's really, really difficult. But no high ground beef chips. I mean, I tell her you can't understand what they're like until you eat one. They're they chips. Is is the word for it. They're so good. Anyway, Con, you've had some, right? Yes. And you've cleaned four O 5 so. I I I ate them immediately before that I actually. Did you go? Attempted no listen I attempted four O 5 with free bird in the background. The song Free Bird and I I have video of. This during the slow portion I bet.
No, no, no, no, no. We. I let the whole thing play get in the mode because I was like, guys, I like kind of high poppy music. I lift the best of that. And they're like, no, you need like you're going to need to get amped up. I'm like, I don't lift good like that. And then I missed it. And then what we did, I decided to listen to the remainder of Free Bird and eat a bag of high ground beef chips and and then I put on no air. And then you see what happens and then and then and then magic
happens. And that's how you, that's how you Max out people. That's how you warm up. Yeah. That's how you do it, so that makes sense. No, seriously, what? Is going on. Go ahead. I appreciate. It at the same time, that's what's. Happening Avera Yes I've actually eaten them. I ate a whole bag in like 2 sittings. I just like I just slowed myself down. I would eaten the whole bag in one sitting. Jeanette got mad because I ate the whole thing without her even like having one chip.
I mean I think that's actually the hardest piece is to not eat the entire bag. Yes, this is like not this is not a salesy like joke that we're telling to sell high ground beef chips is for real. I don't know. I've never I've never eaten a bag of chips and didn't eat the whole bag. Like like like I, I feel like if I'm eating chips, I'm eating the bag of chips. Sites Y'all moderate your bag of chips. You have three chips and you put it away. Well, so like it's, I think it's like 50 grams.
I think it's like 50 grams of protein, right? And so the idea is like, I'll just eat half of this bag and then you start eating it and you're like, I've already passed halfway. I'm like 75%. I guess I'll just finish it off. Did you all put the honey on them? I have, yes. Yeah, I like it. It's like I was like, yeah. And then I tried 1 and I was like I felt bad because I waited towards the end of the bag and I was like I should have been
doing this the whole time. No, I'm not a big honey guy. I'm watching my figure. On me, that's good. That's the deciding factor of it. I know seriously guys, we appreciate high ground scan the QR code, the link in the description also 15% off use code spin. Yes Jose honey, they can send you honey with it. So definitely grab some and you will not be disappointed back to oh and also Frog grips. We got to meet the Frog Grips guys at Mayhem. How are they? Sean is awesome.
John, I hold on. I'll go get it. What? What is? It sounded like he was going to propose to me, didn't he, John? John I, I'll go get. It. You never know, he might have a ring coming back. I'm not sure what it Oh, here it comes. Is it a jersey? Oh wow. But it's that's awesome. There's a little added added benefit. Oh no, that's so. Great. And you guys got jerseys? Too. You got this. All three. Oh, that's awesome. Tyler has to send you his what? What?
What numbers are you guys? They're all 46. They're all 48484840. 6 Are you going to send? It, I think it's 40. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll send it to you. They're 48 I think. I think. Can I make it a weightlifting singlet and I'll go do a weightlifting meet in it? That would be. You can do whatever you want with it, John. Preferably wear it. What if I wore? It over my grid jersey just to make a statement. Yeah, that's a good. That's a. Good. Is that allowed? Is that allowed?
We have to talk about your grid team here in a minute, but first viewer comments. This is your reminder. Are we? Are we OK? OK. This is your reminder to subscribe. We're trying to we're trying to get the 10,000. What if like 400 some odd more to get there. And then also leave some comments down below for next week at M Telford 87. To your knowledge, have the WTFFP paid out their salaries and payments to athletes? If so, when does their year
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I, I really want to get like make enough money where I have like an assistant or something and I don't know what I'm doing to have an assistant but and be like, hey, I'll pay you quarterly and then just at the end then I just give him a bunch of quarters. Your scheduling, your podcast scheduling assistant? Yeah. Yeah, I can. Can I? Can I give a shout out to my new one? Your scheduling. Your new scheduling is to a. New new podcast or. Later on, later on, yeah, sure. OK, OK of. Course.
I really don't know, but I don't know how you. Do this mini. Podcast, John, I don't either. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't think I think about it and then I just end up overwhelming myself. I think you can't. More than Sivan What'd? You say Tyler? You can say no. It feels wrong to say no, No, she was. She was so nice about it. She was like, I'll do everything. Kind of like I do. It's hard to say no to that. Yes, man, I just, it's not hard to do this show.
I just, I just sit here and talk trash about people. I have a blast doing it. Occasionally I get cancelled, but you know, that's, that's OK. That's the price you pay, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they do get paid every three months. I've heard they've gotten their first payment. I don't know how it works with somebody like Emma McQuaid, who then withdrew. Like, do they claw that back? I don't know. Yeah. Let me get that back. Yeah, HDR reel. It's my CBD reel. Advertisement. What?
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sort this friggin microphone. His sound on this show was so bad. I went back and listened. It was not that bad. I didn't think it was bad guys. I think people are. There's there's accustomed to the the sweet sound of the mic. Yeah, the high quality mic. Hell, I'm sitting here right now, I can't get my shit together way, Yeah. It doesn't matter if you're traveling or not. We were late because my Rd.
caster was acting up if. If y'all can listen to the God awful podcast that was Jason and Justin and Dallin's audio the other day like you that's. Exactly what I was thinking. That was hard listen to. I don't know what what program they use to do that because it's definitely different. Riverside. Oh, OK, don't know. That but shout out to Jason. Jason does have a legit mic or one of them down or Jason. Doesn't it's Jason but he was like the Yeti 1. Oh, is it the?
I think it's garbage. It sounds real canny. Yeah, but but he's trying. We all start somewhere and then actually I think that Justin has the best one, but his connection was bad or something. I had no microphone and no Internet and no laptop for the first like year that was on 7. It was just on my phone. And I and I had to go upstairs because that was where the best Wi-Fi was with my phone.
And it had to put it on a charger because my phone would die being on it. And I had to like, put pillows up to keep my phone in place. And yeah, and that's what I did for like a year. You go back and watch our old videos, they they're a little rough. So shout out to everybody who's made it this far. Little by little, we get a little more professional. That's right, just all other sports compete a lot more than 8 * a year. Stop whining.
Yes, every other sport is just like CrossFit, which is extremely demanding on your body. It's the exact same. Football plays what? It's 12 games in the regular season, John. 17. In not not NFL college. 15 if you go to the playoffs. Right, 15 And it's like they're not like that would be the most similar, but it's still very, very different. But I think like what UFC is like two or three times if
you're a top fighter. I mean, I I cycling only has like 8 times in the whole year, but one of those like a couple of those times it's like 21 straight days so. And think about like you, you have on average, let's say 6 events. We only had five at Mayhem. You got to warm up for 30 minutes, then go do a metcon that's going to last anywhere between on average 10 and 20 minutes and it's like, so you've played six football games in 2 days? I don't know if that math checks
out, but we'll just. It checks out. Don't, don't look. Out. We'll rock. We'll rock with it. No, I, I mean, I think the, I mean those guys with only five workouts, I think they still felt it right. Oh, no. I mean, I think they were rocked. The the yeah. We'll find out, Jason. Yeah, we'll play down the 1st. Jason was F dot. Yeah. We'll get to that here in a second. I, I mean, I think we'll find out what it's like in May when some of these guys are doing like 3 things back-to-back to
back, right? You do the in in affiliate semifinals, you go do the WFP or French Throwdown and then you may do the TFX like. And then grid. And grid. Just adjust your training and it'll be fine. Yeah, it'll be fine unless you're fitness privileged. Listen, listen, listen. I know it annoys him so badly. It's honestly the. Best running joke because it's it's it's just every single thing that's been tried to warn everybody about is coming to pass. I know he loves it.
He loves it. He he he hopes people get rundown in the dirt and like Danielle, Brandon withdraws from 8 competitions like he he. Loves my homie. He loves all of it, but I, I it's the greatest running line of just just adjust your training. Just adjust. It's. Easy. Well, did he? Did he not tell Danielle she's struggling right now? It's the hardest season of all time? Did anybody tell her to adjust her training?
When? He went when he went through, when he withdrew from the Mayhem Classic. Did you text him? Did Why did you adjust your training? I didn't think of it. I didn't think of it. I would 100% would have texted him that if I've got, but if I would have like thought of it right when he withdrew, yeah. Can you pull up Meredith's comment? Can you not? Meredith Vogel Thomas? The real ones?
We'll remember when Tyler hauled his computer to a coffee shop after a natural disaster just so he could be on the show. I don't even remember that. Yeah, I don't remember that either, but we'll rock with it. Yeah. Sounds good. We're dedicated to this. Guy, I'm so dedicated. At Kevin H Doyle, has John checked out what kind of mall Albany has? I have. We should go to the mall. It's, it's, it's not like Columbus, but I I think we could
still have a good time. It's just, it's just, it's good. No, I mean, it's it's like, where do you live, Tyler? Indiana. But like, what's what? Yeah, it's, it's like a Bloomington mall. Like it's, it's, it's a mall, but it's not like, let's go to the mall. Like, you know what I mean? There's not, there's not a, there's not a movie theater in it, you know? Food court's AB Plus maybe Yeah, yeah, their food court was. Actually really good looking I I haven't. Really looked into this.
But but the the rest of it was like, you know, it's I like the people watch man, you know. Makes sense at Peter Schlachter. Schlachterler. From the Terler. Family. It's old man Terler's boy. SCHACHTLER Schlachter. I live an hour and a half from Albany and it's a shit hole. There is no draw for anyone to come to Albany, NY. Man, we should put you ahead of the ticket sales department at that. CrossFit. It's great.
Really, really selling us. And last one at SA867 I don't think DB doesn't care about her fans she just doesn't want to share her why her life and her reasons why do like she do do like she went live to make some type of response even though it was hey none of your business. Brooke did nothing and gets less hate. Maybe hate is the wrong word. Less talk. Talk is good. I'm going to. I've never been in Danielle Brandon's position. I'm not going to act like I
have. But I do know for a fact not all talk is good. You know from personal experience, huh? From personal experience, not all par is good. Yeah, I mean, I thought it was a little odd. I think the biggest take away from that live was like I finally figured out why her tooth looked different. Why does it? It's a grill. It has, no, it has like she has like a butterfly thing on her tooth. I had no idea what was going on. And then she's there live.
I was like, oh, she answered somebody's question about her tooth. She had one of those at Waterpalooza last year. Was it a butterfly? It's like it's more like a single grill, 1 unit grill. Yeah, this is a 1 unit butterfly. So, oh, I saw this guy before John Yong Yong. There's. There's no way that's a real picture. Yes. That's that's amazing. I don't know how you like that's. There's no way that could be real. It looks like I'm eating YouTube. It's it's.
Appreciate the $5 appreciation donation. It's good. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, I think just, I think if you read it as hate, I think it's more that people wanted to see her compete. Yes, like it would have been a good weekend for her. That's why I want to talk about. I think she would have went. Well, that's why I wanted to say Mayhem recap. Does Daniel Brandon or Brooke Wells qualify given the the extent of the program and how everybody else competed? Danielle yes.
Brooke Wells, no. Why? Do you say that? The same reason I said Abigail Donut was going to Go vibes. Vibes OK, I I'm going to agree with Tyler. I think Danielle would go and I don't think Brooke would I think Danielle is a a power a more power athlete than strength athlete. I think like Alexis Raptis was third place in Isabel and I think Danielle Brandon would have been around that in Isabel.
I no, it's she has a good a decent enough snatch that she could just power most of them and I well, I mean power all of them, but at a a decent clip. And I don't think like she's more power than she is Max out. Does that make sense? Alex Kazan's the same way, but Daniel Brand's a little bit better at snatching out to stand. But same same way. I think she does fine and event one like I just think I there's no there's no hole in there.
And then I think she, I don't think she beats Haley because of the GHD pace and Haley murdered everybody. But I do think she had second pretty convincingly in the hands and walk workout. She's good at legless. Like there's just nothing she's bad at. And then the last event, yeah, I mean, there's just nothing. There's nothing she was going to be bad at. And there's 2 events that she would have murdered. Like Abby was not great at the handstand walk event.
I think she got ninth. Am I right or wrong? What that's been? Yeah, she was top ten and everything. But but 9th, 9th place in that in that field and I don't think Danielle Brandon has a 9th in that field does that. So I do think, I do think Danielle would have went. I think Brooke there would have been somewhere. I don't think she does as good as in Isabel. I don't think she does as good
in legless, the legless workout. And then I think she probably does as good only all the other stuff. That's two out of five that she doesn't do as good. So I think it would have been Danielle and it would have been up between Phi and Abby. Yeah, I guess it depends on how she middles one of them in a in a workout or. Two, but, and that's not saying it would have been Danielle and Phi, because if Danielle's in there, there are points being
taken and given away. You know, Danielle's not beating Abby and Isabel. That's another spot in between Abby and Fee, right. So and it would just go up tiebreakers between those two. I'm not going to do them. We it's possible to say because Danielle didn't do it, but I do think it would have been Danielle and then one of those. It could have been Emily because I mean, outside of outside of Isabel, Danielle probably doesn't beat her.
But that's another spot that Emily doesn't get any points or less points on. On the handstand walk, the legless Isabel. That's another spot in between for all of the ones that you're saying. You know what I mean it. Would just. All it takes is one spot in between. No, I'm saying another spot that Emily goes down like you can play that. Game oh on on Isabel, but I think I think. On legless too. On legless and on the the handstand walk event.
That would say that she beats her like she's means Daniel's second in each of those. Yeah, yes, yes, OK. She's a top ten games athlete, perennial. Yes. I don't think it would. Be but if she but if Emily beats her and takes she got Daniel get third. I know I don't see that happening. I don't see that happening at all. Like if we look at every game's workout, that doesn't happen, right?
Emily gets 12th place other than last year, like 10th to 12th place because girls like Danielle or Alex or like that Alexis. Typically that type of echelon always beats Emily in workouts like that. But Emily's always right there, right? That's why she always, and she just kills the cardio. One strength 1 kills her. That's why she always ends up where she ends up. I, I, I get what you're saying.
I still think it would have been between Abby and Fee because I think Danielle's just taking points from Emily everywhere and I don't think she's taking points away from Fee and Abby everywhere. That's fair. Tyler, you were there with me. What did you like? What did you think of the actual venue competition if for the in person spectator experience? The spectator experience, I thought it like we're where were they joking about vendor village
today or was it the other night? Would you have called it a vendor village? I wouldn't have called it a vendor village. It was like a a vendor outpost. Yeah, the the vendor area, like the four vendor area, literally vendor. Valley. That's so catchy. You could. You could literally stand and shop and watch at the same time. Yeah, it that, that setup was nice. There wasn't like you didn't feel overwhelmed by the shops. Frog Grips had the best location by far.
But I mean like so the floor was the bulk of the facility and then everywhere else was kind of roped off so you couldn't get to it. So it was it was a tight squeeze. It made it made it look like there was a lot of people there. And I don't think like we're not, you know, we're not ruining any or spoiling anything for mayhem. Like I don't think there was that many people there. I also don't think that they give a shit like they were running their competition. No. No, it was, but it felt.
Like, yeah, the whole thing around it had probably 3 deep at least around the entire floor, which I mean, I don't think you can go too much deeper and see anything if you're a little bit further back. But it got loud. It got loud at times especially if a mayhem athlete like when Austin started to overtake on the rope climb, when Colton, even when Colton started challenging for the the squats on the 1st event, like it definitely got loud in there.
I mean that the two rope climbs at the end were Hatfield, like the second Hatfield jumped up on that second row, you could hear. Whoa. Like like what's happening? What they could have done is after the run event, they could have brought in some like high school baseball bleachers and put them on that backside. That might have helped with it. Like the whole visual arrangement because like Judy was just saying like she couldn't hardly see anything. She's short. It was tough for me to see
anything. I spent most of the time up by the the camera and the production crew because it was up on their mezzanine and so I could see much better up there. But that wasn't available to everybody. It was cool that basically everyone working there was from Mayhem or had gone to Mayhem and been a member there for years. It was and that created a whole different feel and it felt a lot like Crash because everybody working at Crash is from Crash.
And so they you could tell that everybody cared a lot about it. They were all making jokes with us, like you guys like you guys can't, can't be up here. Y'all are, you know, bad folks and that so that was fun and it I mean they would just let us up there anyway, but they that you could tell everybody that was there was very passionate about it. So that was cool. Alright guys, I need 5 minutes, OK? I'm going to attempt to feed
Abby while we're talking, OK? But I got to get the bottle set up and everything, so I'm going to be right back and then we'll talk for like 8 minutes and then I need 5 minutes to get her ready for that and then and then we're good to go, OK. Then you're perfect. Yes, yes, I'm just letting you know what the next like 15 minutes is going to look like.
So like it's been depending on what like conversations like, you know, get into the Tyler stuff before we get into the me stuff and then you know what I'm saying? I'm just, I just want to hit it at the right time. It's all it's. All anywhere where John would sleep. That's where you insert. Yes, yes, Like we talked. You know, if you want to jump to the WFP right now, like, like that's a great idea. But you know, you do you. All right, I'm gonna be right.
Back what do you What did you think? Like like I'm almost back to work watching from a remote location. I liked it. I I mean, we'll see what syndicate is like. And I know that I've never been there, but I've heard, you know, it's a, it's a pretty good atmosphere, atmosphere. But I mean, I look at other, you know, when they, when they've tried to do it at the different convention centers and such, like, it falls flat, like Orlando was a dud. West Coast Classic last year was a dud.
I think there's an opportunity for more gyms like this to host these types of competitions where it's more, you know, smaller venue like, you know, obviously Mayhem doesn't have to pay a a rental fee to go get us this place, you know, has the crash feel to it, right? Like the crash Crucible. I'm just wondering, I think there's an option to do those,
like do more of them. Like I think Dave Castro said in this week in review this week that, you know, it, this could be a similar format going forward. Like maybe have more competitions. We're almost, I think online semifinals goes away if you start getting more of those. What I don't like about that is it's acknowledging defeat. I think. I mean, I, I'm spoiled in that I went to regionals back in the day and I know what that felt like. And I know that we can have that back.
And so for me, when, when Dave says, hey, this could be the move going forward, I'm like, oh, shit, like we're just walking backwards. Is it, is it sustainable from like a, an economic standpoint? Sure, but I don't think that that's what we need. We need to put more money back into this and and open up. I mean, I don't want to get into it again, but open up the competition so that more people can compete and care to compete so that they do sell out.
I just think it's bad that there's an easy move to make and we won't make it because we're like, oh, you know, we're just not going to do that right now. Yeah, I mean, I can see, I can see your point. Yes, if we went to a more regional model and had people going to all of these things that had a more festival feel. We talked about it last week, right, with the games, like should it be outdoors? Should it be, you know, more all the age groups come back and
like it is a festival feel. It's not in an arena. I think that does help drive it. Speaking of which, Syndicate Crown still has community events available. It does. Everybody should sign up it that's going to be so I don't think a lot of people know about this. Apparently not. It sounds like there's still some spots open, so. So #1 you should go to syndicate regardless but there. Is we'll all be there. I'll be there. I think everybody will be there. Yes.
So the fun that you saw that was happening behind the scenes, that's going to be tuned up #1 'cause we're running the broadcast, so that's going to be tuned up a lot. But we're going to put like, we're putting a ton of work into it. I've been on calls for several weeks. But if you want to go there and actually do some stuff, you can compete in the community division. And it's male, female pairs. So like, you don't have to search out for three, you know,
three other teammates. John and I are playing with the idea of maybe doing the community division, just playing with the idea what did what. Are we doing? The community event at at Syndicate. Are we're a male, male team? Male, female. So we'd have to find females. John, we have to find females. Yes, but just one. OK, can I find anybody? Anybody. Can they be way fitter than me? Yes. Cool. You got somebody in mind? Yeah, I'm going to give give Tia
a ring, just see what she's. Doing right down the road. See what she's about, you know? But the workouts are cool. Should have asked Abby Dolman if she wanted to. Try good dude. Oh man, maybe dude. If he has nothing to do, he's probably going to be up there supporting. I'm going to get. I'm going to ask Gabby, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, if there's any barbell at all, I'm going to do everything in my power to bury them before they bury me.
Like, like, like just to make it uncomfortable slightly and then and then 'cause then I'll just, you know, die the rest of the workout. But just just just to throw a wrench into things, it'd be fun. Yeah. Tabby is asking where is it? It's in Knoxville, TN. The Knoxville Civic Coliseum. Yeah. Who's your Who's your female? I'll find one. I know some females. OK.
I'm excited, I'm excited. Oh, dude, if Alexis did qualified in person, you and Alexis versus me and Abby, I think I'm or me and fee and we we just we could just we could have a real we could actually have really a lot of fun with it. John and I just out of breath watching the girls workout. Yeah, yeah. And we'll take our turn. I mean, what I've what I've heard is that it's not going to overlap with the individual competition. No. Is it true that you get a ticket if you sign up for it?
If you sign up you'll get ticket. So yeah, so you go. Sign up for this community event. In the morning and you get to go, go inside, inside and watch. And Josh from High Ground Meat will be thrown in. So much damn meat. Yeah, no. And like and like while you're working out, just meat will be thrown at you. Well, you don't want your protein levels to get low, so you need to refeed while you're working out.
Yeah, to feed on that meat. Yeah, code spin 15% off your next high ground beef chip order new sponsor. How much is it? It is dollars. I know that you did get a discount code if you sign up through this. There's a few links out there. I know that Savon has one on his we we have one somewhere, but we will. Get it on the next show. The next show, we'll get it and we'll and we'll bring it back up. We'll bring it back.
Up, I'll talk to I'll talk to Wilson, the Wilson and try to get one for us. It is divisions, the prices on it. Hey can I identify as a female and just mean you can be a team? But you gotta wear a wig. That's fine. It is five, let's see, teams of four. If you do want to do that, it is 250 a person. If it is a pairs it is 500 total, so 250 a person, so $250. But that comes with a free ticket. This helps with the future
you're doing you're doing. It's basically you're paying for your ticket and the community cop or the community division like you're, it's like you're getting both of them. So just think of it like you're paying for both of them. I know that that Sentinel is going to try to send some some of their folks out. If you were in the Spin Open or the proven community and division, maybe you could go out and sponsor our or be be one of our teams.
Show out for us. Here, here, I'll I'll tell you what I have some shirts, the old from the the games, the spin shirts, the spin shirts. If you guys are are loyal watchers of the show and you do sign up. I'll I'll get I'll meet you there. I'll give you guys AT shirt. And I will give you Ajy barbell T-shirt What just so you. Have some left. Or six. No, no, I actually put some away for this event, believe it or not, so. Did you order more? You ordered more. Did. You sign up.
If you sign up under what do we what? What? Just call your team, team Ovaltine or team Meetspin like we you'll get or or Tyler's trash. If you sign up under those, one of those yeah, Abby's excited. OK, so if you sign up, if you sign up under one of those, we will get you get a spin shirt, you get Ajy barbell shirt. Tyler, what are they getting from you? I'll get you a hat. We will give you, we will give you a. Something from all of us, along with your free ticket to
syndicate. So it's kind of like you're not even paying anything. It's it's almost free. Almost. Yeah. Let's go do that. How much is it just to be a spectator man? Tappy has all the questions. Yeah, Tappy, you need to. I don't. Understand why you're asking so many questions. Just. Go to the. Syndicate, Syndicate, syndicate. Crown.com. And they'll have it all. That's. Yeah, Syndicate. crown.com. I will.
Let's see. Listen, when I when I worked at these things, when I go to these things to work, I don't know anything about that event at all. I just know what I'm supposed to do. Here we go, three day pass $90.00 plus Ticketmaster fees plus taxes. So what do you think? That's like 150 when you're. Here, Yeah, I, I think it's 1125 or something like that. Yeah. So it's half of your, half of your cost. Look at that. Austin Hatfield high ground has the best meat. That is your Mayhem champion
telling you that. Wendy's just has the beef. You guys got the best beef. The best one? I thought, who has the beef that's. That's what it is. You need to drop that shirt you had on at Mayhem Vindicate. You can make that happen. Do you see that, Tyler? You see that shirt? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I apologize to nobody. I don't know, maybe you should do something like that for for
syndicate. Yeah. So basically half your half of your cost if you go do the Community Cup is covered because you get a free ticket. It's going to be such a dope event. Oh, Speaking of which, I know we're talking about Mayhem, but it's about as good a time as I need to talk about Syndicate Crown. The rosters from the Open have been confirmed. I want to start with the women first. Wait till John gets back before. I know the stuff. John doesn't have to speak on
everything. There's a reason I want to wait for John to speak about the women. That's generally more so than. OK, it's getting ready to say it's generally a good call when John speaks about the women. Yeah, John Women confirmed. These are the 20 women confirmed for syndicate crown, all Danielle Brandon. Alexis. Raptors will be there because
she did not qualify. Erica Fola, Brooke Wells, Sydney Wells, Lydia Fish, Kyra Milligan, Lexi Neely, Annika Greer, Reece with Littlewood, the Brittlewood. She was the teenage champion last year. Oh, there she is. Caitlin Saunders, Millie. Mary Helen. Is it Sanders or Saunders? Saunders. Saunders. They're both Saunders and Shelby Neal. And then 10 more, 10 more will qualify. So like Hayley, Adams will probably qualify out of in affiliate semifinals if she doesn't make it in there.
I think it's going to be more stacked than people assume it's going to be. What's crazy? This, I mean, the Caitlin Sanders, Saunders, Saunders. She. Her qualifying to get to this is awesome because she was the one that missed out. Like she had that spot at TFX and then they didn't, they revoked it and so she qualified for this straight up. She's going to be a sleeper pick for me for sure. Yeah, pretty good field. And then you liked it. You liked it? I I'm on the post, so I guess I
can. On the men's side, Dallin Pepper, Jeff Adler, the Kale Layman himself, John, your grid lead teammate, Jason Hopper, Roman Krenikov, George Sterner. Who else we got there? Ty Jenkins, Jack Rosimo. Now I think Dallan, I think Dallan, Jeff and Jason and Roman probably won't be there. I think Roman will qualify through Wadlands. I do too. I think Dallan and Jeff will definitely be online and I think Jason has a good shot at it. You say Definitely.
Yeah. Definitely. Probably like I feel 100% very good that they will. Do you think that the N affiliate semifinals will be the same level workouts as say last year's quarterfinals? That's what I've assumed. I think they'll be a little bit harder than that. In what? How harder? Like how would it be harder? I feel like watching Taylor versus the World last year, they were hard enough. Yeah. No, I don't. I don't think like, I mean I think it'll be harder volume wise.
I think, I think it'll be harder like amount of workouts you have to do with them allotted time. I think no, no. How many days do they have? I think it's. 4 so they have 4. Days like I wouldn't doubt, like I wouldn't put it past them to do like 6 workouts in four days. Like stuff like that where the fittest, like really will rise. Do you think so? That many. Yeah, I do. It's. Just so limited in what they can do in a gym. Not really. You can run back and forth on 15 foot segments.
Like I see a whole bunch guarantee I see a whole bunch of GHDSI see like a whole bunch of rope climbs. I just think it, I just think it'll be harder workouts. Do you remember that workout where it was like 5040354543504030 rope climbs, GHDS and pistols like that workout, workout, like workout's like that. OK. And if Jason and Dallin are doing them together, like if they're doing together, I don't know if they're going live or not, but if they're doing them
together, oh, he's on here. The mountains. Not today, man. I wanted it to be. So you're tuning in for nothing. I'm sorry. If you fixed your sound, maybe they would. That's on you, Jason. Yeah, I could see workouts like that, like that difficulty is what I'm saying. And that wasn't quarterfinals last year? So you've seen the age group workouts for some I've. Done. I've done 4/4 of them.
So no rope climbs, no GHDS like. Scaled snatches no. Squatting. I think this will be everything you want it to be. I really, really do. Why do you think it? Why do you think the the age group was so different? Because they're old man, They're also doing Isabel at 2:15. That's really, really, really hard for old people. It's just the 35 year old. That's best in. The world I do, that's hard for old people, man. I hear you. I just don't, I, I keep thinking it's just to be the same as what
quarterfinals were. Jason's only watching because he thinks I moved him down the mountain a whole bunch. He needs some. He needs some of that material to get ready for his. He needs he needs motivation for the online saving. He's hate. He's hate watching. We understand what you're doing. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, I didn't want to hurt his feelings, but he's probably off the mountain. He should be moving up the mountain. What? Part of your performance would
make you go up the mountain. What a good attitude I do. I do appreciate your the way you the way you are competing and like your attitude towards it. It's it's much better. I like I'm. I'm so happy that you're having fun, but you need more than fun to get up the mountain, my friend. Jason Hopper, the only man from the South who seemed to struggle with the heat. Yeah, I don't think he struggled with the heat. I think he just. I think, I think he.
Was just the squats. Yeah, I think he was hurting, Yeah. Those are a lot of squats. We got a. We got a oh. No. Battle going on, right? Funny Hill, did you hear that? He's not breeding? He's not breeding rabbits anymore. He's a full time profit. You got to pick a lane, man. He said he think I, I don't think he knew this before. And I told him, Austin, how much money do you make reading rabbits? And you know, he's told me how much money he was making. Then you said is it $50,000?
Did you Did you know if you won? The game. You, you win $300,000. And he was like, oh man, I had no idea. And then he's like, I'll just go full time now. That's that's what's happening. That's what he's. Doing John Young manager. That's the athlete manager. Yeah, so he's, you know, I guess that $15,000 for Mayhem Classic paid off. Yeah. What was I talking about before? Jason has an underrated comment. Can we bring this up please?
Austin 2025 Hype Is Jason 2021. That is, that is a, that is a. Brilliant comment. If y'all don't know, Jason Hopper came on the scene and nobody knew who he was and he won the Mack very convincingly. And the analysts at the time, I don't know who they were, but they at the time were like, no, no, no, this was this was me and Brian. I was joking. I was like. I'm going to put him second for the games.
Dude, he was freaking amazing like 'cause I think Justin was the champ at the time, you know what I mean? And and gosh man, he looks so good, but it was just everything he was good at and we didn't know a lot about him. And so that's why this is a very underrated comment. This is AAI. Don't think that's the case. By the way, Austin, I'm Team Austin, just so you know. But you know, if you let me down the way Jason did, I will, for you're off the mountain. I can't.
Help. I just want to say, Jason, I, I ranked you to win the games. So all this reverse hate, this retaliation hate you've been giving me is unfair. You made me spit on happy. I mean, we looked at the men, we said the top five. They ended up being the top five, just slightly different order than what John had said or I guess pretty much any of us had said. Are there any takeaways from it, John, that you have of of that or is it just Austin and Colton were better this weekend?
I, I don't think anybody's worse. I don't think like, it doesn't put any doubt in my mind that like, Jason can win, I can't win the games. I think he's definitely in the running to win the games. I think James is in the running to win the games. I think Dallon, even though he didn't compete, it doesn't change that at all for me. All it does is just puts Colton in the conversation, where Colton I, for me at least, had stuff to prove. And he's proven.
No pun, no pun intended. That's what I wanted to ask you, John. I'm glad, I'm glad to see Austin put it together. You know, 'cause he, he had like he kind of did she's. Checking on you, John. Dude, dude, if you could see what I got going on here, this is I am MacGyver right now. What what, what I got going on here. I I, I would try to tip my laptop so you can see, but I don't I don't have a way. I don't have a way to do that but. I, I wanted to ask you, John, go ahead.
People could make the case now that Mayhem was well programmed for Colton and Austin. Would you agree with that? Yeah, I would. That doesn't take away from what they did. It favored them. I, I think the first work, I think if the first workout was the last workout, they still go, but I think everybody after that, it would have looked a lot different.
Does that make sense? I think the first workout effed up so many people that they were like just couldn't get it together after that or were like maybe 10% less than what they could have been on the other workouts. It doesn't matter. I still think Colton would have gone. I obviously Austin would have gone. Colton still got second in the legless rope climb workout, which was the question mark for
him. He went out freaking unbroken and honestly, if it wasn't for Austin, you know we would be talking about this was the the biggest statement when that we've seen in a long time, right? And then he gets 4th, 3rd or 4th, 4th right in the bike workout. You know what I mean? I don't care how sore your legs are. You got to hurt for 30 seconds and then you go on like just because your legs are sore doesn't take like I don't think it takes away from your power output that much.
Clearly didn't for Roman. Roman still had some power output, I would say. So I, I do think that that first I, I don't even think the programming favored them at all. I think that first workout, No, no, no, no, no. The first workout, I think that first workout rocked people and they handled that first workout so like much better than the rest of the field that it showed the rest of the competition. Were you surprised to see the the sandbag squats rock them
that much? It's just high volume at an intense like I think you can do that workout at 5% less intensity and feel a crazy amount better. Like the intensity is something you can't simulate in practice. And I think that's, I think that I do, I think it played a role, but I don't think it I don't think it would have changed the result. It just wouldn't be as convincing. Like I think it would have came down to the wire and not like all Colton won easily, you know
what I mean? The we talked about Danielle probably would have or had a very good chance of qualifying had she competed. Same with Dallon. I think Dallon would have got third. 3rd. Because I think I Here's the thing, Dallon being there changes nothing from what Colton did. Where is Dallin beating Colton? You don't think he's ever going to Middle Colton? Not so. The only place where he would would be Isabel.
And walking GHTS. And there was Yeah, no, no, no, Yeah. But the other guys beat him, too. I'm saying. I'm saying, what would Dallin have done that was different from what Roman and Jason and James did? And I don't. And the only thing would be Isabel. I think it would have made a better Isabel time because they got caught in that bottleneck and seven guys beat all three of them, right? That made an enormous difference. I think Down's in the middle of that pack and like 5 like 4
guys, right? Four guys. So it's three spots, right? So add 15 points to Roman and what do you get? You're still behind, right? You're still, you're still behind. And I think that's what Dallon would have been. Not to mention, I don't think down. I think Dallon is behind Roman and Jason on the first workout, not or James, not by a lot. I think he's right next to them, but I think he's the last one out of that group finishing that workout. Does that make sense?
So it in a way it evens, yeah. I think Dallon's better at burpees than them. Yeah, but I don't think the burbies made a big. Deal. I don't. Think they I think it's squat speed that made the biggest deal you. Don't think he's not the fastest squad. I think he's still a big guy. I I just think and I and I know Jason's a better runner than him. I know Roman is a better runner than him. I know James is a better runner than him. He's been improving. He's going to get there.
I I believe he's going to get there. And when he's a the same runner as him. So you think he's better? Yeah, I do. And he I think he takes 6th on that one, but I think he takes 6th and Isabel and I think that balances out where he would be in relation to like Jason, Roman and James. I think he's the best of the big guys, but still behind Colton and Austin and Danielle. Brandon I think is I think is I think she gets a spot. Gotcha. I think it's easy to say. I think Down would have got a
spot. I don't think he would like Dallin is very, very close and fit even even if you want to say he's the best one, and I'll say he, I'll say it like I think he's the best one out of the big guys. It's all around fitness, all around fitness. I think he's the best one out of the big guys. But in this competition, I do not think he would have beat Colton. No, that doesn't mean. That doesn't mean. I don't think he would have.
That was pretty good. That doesn't mean I don't think he'll beat Colton at the games, right? It doesn't mean like, I don't think he's out of like, I don't I I think he's in the running to win the games. The games is a different thing. Austin has to execute across 15 workouts, and Lord knows that's going to be a challenge, right? Yeah, but there was. Did he? Did he make one mistake? No, dude, he ran a perfect race. And if he runs a perfect race, that's what he looks like.
He looks Fraser esque, right? Not Froning esque where? You're no. No, no, not from. I know he wants to be froning esque. Fraser was better, all right. He looked Fraser esque. I did notice I felt like Austin's bar muscle UPS looked eerily similar to Rich. Nah. He's not built like Matt, but I'm saying as.
Far as like his technique, how he did them look like Rich and we had heard a story that Richard helped him on the bike like the Echo bike like if Rich is helping you with your Echo bike technique, he believes in you. Yeah. Right. I mean, I think it's kind of hard not to believe in him. I think Rich would take the page out of my book. I believed in him two years ago. Where were you in? Rich. That's what Rich generally does.
Rich, where were you in he? Waits to he must have caught up on the on our shows from two years ago and it's like, Oh yeah, this Austin guy must be pretty good, John said. So, no, I mean, I think, I mean, Rich is always there, obviously, right? And I'm sure he's helped other guys, but I, I, I get a sense that Rich sees something in Austin possibly more than the others. Should. Right, like. I think Rich sees what he could be and, and you know, why would
you not invest? And he's a Mayhem guy. Mayhem pride, you know what I mean? Bleed wanted to bleed. Mayhem like all about it. Damn tattoo all of. It's great. All of it's great, you know what I mean? Why would he not? I did think the tattoo was pretty cool. I, I, I said this to spin while we were up there. It's like, I don't know why more athletes don't wear more tattoos for the brands that they represent. It was such an easy move. And it looked cool. I mean, yeah.
NASCAR yourself up. Yeah. That's amazing. Like, I mean it, it was a statement like that. I mean the frog grip uniforms, the jerseys, like those were seen everywhere. But like the tattoo, especially for the guys like that's you need to think hard about doing that more often if. You're a girls, do you want to take your shirt off for the tattoos? I mean, I don't think anybody's going to have a problem with it. Some might Clooney's Austin or Jeff. I mean, I'm an Austin guy.
I'm going to say Austin. That's a ridiculous. I will say though, I we talked about this when semifinals became a thing, especially the Super semifinals where it was like just two of them versus the four smaller ones. Who? Who? Who the freak are you talking to, Christy? Probably at, at me, at me directed. At me. She got she got on me while we were down there, man, She said. Hey. That's funny. I love Austin's folks.
They're they're a bunch of fun. Yeah, no, like, I think when it went to just two semifinals in North America, we talked about it on several shows that you see the same athletes competing against each other multiple times. Oh, there she is. This is how I'm doing this whole podcast like this right now. It's pretty amazing, huh? It is until she starts to meltdown one time and then it's it's all over. No, I got to I'm I'm actively trying to figure out how I'm going to burp her during this.
But we're, we're going to, we're going to, we're going. To do that, we don't, we don't see them compete all the time against each other, right? And so the Games leads to that excitement. It's in stark contrast of what the World Fitness Project is of the same people competing against the same people over and over and over again. Right, Imagine WFP event #2 we're like, OK, we're going to do some analysis, what do you think?
And it's like, OK, I might change my spots to one or two of them, but they're going to be relatively the same. And then #3 what are we going to do the same? I'm going. To I'm going to, I'm going to be like, I don't care. Yeah, well, definitely time to talk about that. Anything else on Mayhem, John? Takeaways from it. Fee looks really good. I'm glad Fee came through and I I'm not just saying she looks good because I wanted her to be good.
Like she she genuinely looks like this is the the fittest she's ever been. And I I think I think that fee could make a jump in her like in the CrossFit games, can make a jump in a tears. I think she can. I'm interested to see what a full games looks like, but it I think she could jump into the like that 10th through 15th tier. Not, not, not the perennial top 10s, not the Danielle Brandon, Alex Kazan, Brooke Wells on a Goodyear tier, but like that Gracie Walton tier, You know
what I mean? Typically Emily Rolf. Right, 10 to 15. Yeah, that 10 to 15, honestly, Abby Dolman, I and she last last time she was at the game, she was not, she was, she was she's a games athlete, but I think she can make a jump and and her her fitness relative to the others. It looks it looks like that. Whatever fitness she's she, she's made a ton of fitness gains and she you can tell the work she's been putting in. It was a suit very different fee
than I've ever seen. I I didn't feel like I was watching the same athlete we had always seen. Smart. Yeah. Yeah. All right, man, I got all kinds of laptops and stuff moving around. It's crazy. Like, I feel for you, man, you. Guys want to do some blind rankings? Yeah, let's do it all. Right, here we go. Let's see, let me see, get this all. Best best part of Mayhem was going to Outback Steakhouse and spent paying for my steak. That was the best part, right?
Heck yeah. By the way, by the way, I'm have I'm, I'm really happy for you, Tyler, that you got to work out in the barn. I know that was probably a a really cool experience. Ben, did you go? I did. That was awesome. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm jealous but happy for you guys. I yeah, I felt bad rubbing. By the way, I think I think Rich has gotten soft. Soft. Yeah. How do you figure? Yeah, you used to have to be fit
to work out in the barn. You used to have to be like, you know, you're, you're pretty dangerous to work out in the barn. Now they just let Tyler spin in the barn like I. Just wait, who? Who got? Higher in the open, John. You want to do semi finals and see what happens, You want to do. You want to do the games and see what happens, You want to do. You want to do anything but the open and see what happens. I'll beat you in every single thing week. Every one of them. No, I look. Aim.
I think. Let's go. I think, I think Rich just wants some people to work out with him. He made a comment that it was like since he built the athlete area at the at CrossFit Mayhem, people don't come out there as often. Dude, I would never train anywhere else. I remember Haley said that she used to train out there all the time. Like she's like, I'd rather go out to the barn. I can see why.
I think I'd rather work out in the barn and not, not even if it if it wasn't like a thing, I think I'd rather work out in the. Barn, I mean, yeah, because they put up all the the doors and it's like you just look outside one and it's like bison just like roaming. That was crazy. It's just so awesome. It's quiet, like it is a great place and there were a lot more athletes there on Saturday because they couldn't, you know, because of the competition and you can see why they are so fit.
Like they literally just out there. I think some of them did 3 workouts and it was by by noon, like legit workouts. And it's like, OK, somebody's doing a workout. You just jump in there and. I was getting so jealous because Spin was working out. Of course we were. We had already like we, it was where they were doing the show and we kept thinking somebody else might call in and Rich might hop off.
So we were kind of getting ready and then they just kept going and then spin was like, all right, I'm working out. And I, I kept being like, should I wait? Should I, should I work out? And so I, I wanted to do more fitness. It was. Hiller Hiller wrote me and I worked at a partner workout with Alexis. So that was cool. All right, blind rankings. This week's topic is road tripping. Who would you want to most go on
a road trip? Tyler, you were on the road a lot heading up into this weekend. I was. So which games athlete would you want to go do some Rd. tripping on a six hour drive from Bloomington down to Cookeville, TN? That is the question. We're not going to agree. We'll. Just, you know, I might surprise you here. That's right. I'll probably pick whoever's the quietest. You know what? I think me and Roman would have
a great road trip. He can listen to his Russian dance music in his ears, and I'll listen to whatever I'm listening to. And we'll just, you know, you know, you got to pee. No. All right. Me either. Let's go. All right. And then, like, that's it. Food, he said. No, no, no pee, no pee. No pee. OK. Me neither. Yeah. Yeah. Like I think me. Yeah. You know now Romans, my pick for number one. OK, I. Think me and Roman. Rosa has to come with me. And Roman?
No, no translation, no translation. Part of the fun is me figuring out what he's trying to say. I will say I haven't seen her around. Like, is he now like fluent enough in English that. I think his wife is she made a post the other day I had it happened to scroll across my my feet or whatever. I don't even follow her and she I think she's learning English or is at least pretty good at it at this point. His wife. Yeah. Fair enough. All right.
First one Pat Velner. That does not fit John's being quiet. OK, can we let's just analyze what this would be like. OK, let's walk through a Canadian lane. I think Pat would be quiet. You think? I think Pat's would be like a grumpy old man and I would match his grumpy old man in it, you know? What I mean the the boys said he's the fun it like they would hang out with him.
Yeah, no, he's duty. Super funny, I know, like we I disagree on certain things, but like he disagrees with, you know, a group of people, right, But the I I don't, I don't I don't think he would be bad at all. Dude, I I I would say too. I'm I'm pushing back. I have nothing against Pat. I've been around him enough. I think you have something against Pat. No, I don't. I really don't. I just we're, we're not going to be boys. There's there's people that you don't.
I got you, I got you, I got you. I don't think we would be boys. I think I got to be boys. We're forced to go on this road. Trip together, I think it'd be worse. Well, this is like a You're choosing to go on a road trip together. Oh. John Welborn says it best you need. Friends like John Welborn. Yeah, because he has some killer quotes. Say what you will about him, he's got fucking great quotes. One thing he says is you need
friends. Like like dogs, they're either ready to party or they're going to sleep. I need to hype me. That's what I love about Matt Souza. He's ready to fucking party or he's ready to go to sleep. And the sleep I think is on the on the lesser side for Souza. Path owner Souza. Just feels like he's on a 24 hour coke binge like 24/7. Do his energy I've never had. That much never stops. No, I'm. We were up till like 2 in the morning. Grumpy on road trips dude.
I don't like it. I don't like traveling. I, I I. But you're the problem. Pat's not the. Problem. You're not going to like anybody on this point. It is a problem. It is a problem. But I feel like Pat would match my vibe is what I'm saying. But I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. You got to be boys. Let's go 4. All right, 4 is good. But you're, you're right, we're going to be have completely different mindsets about this.
I think we need to come at it with a compromisable like we need to be ready to compromise. Tyler's looking for the one that has the most conspiracy theories that he can. Oh, I'm looking at the one that's just not going to talk the most. You sound like a a blast to go on a road trip with. I dude, I stay in my lane. If I went on a road trip. If I went on a road trip with you, you'd never know I was there. I'm just going to sit in the back seat and listen to my stuff. That's it.
I need I needed a a road trip buddy on the way back I left early. I was trying to leave early and then I left way late. An hour and a half after you said you're leaving early. And so I was listening. I had like the phone. I had the phone in my hand, I had the thread up watching what you guys were saying. And then I also had in the background the Mayhem playing and I was so I was like, I think Austin and Colton were like head to head in that last minute and I was watching that.
I look up and this white truck, this like F-250 is dead stopped and I'm headed right for I'm going to eat that tailgate as hard. As I do not listen. I told her as soon as I got home. I start to jerk in the other lane, there's a truck behind me and then he slams on his brakes because I'm jerking and then I just whip it in and out of the lane. He that guy drives past me after I get past that white truck and I just went sorry. Oh, jeez.
All right, next one con Porter. Also, John's not favorite. See, see, like Tyler's like, oh man, it'd be a blast. We would get into get into all kinds of stuff. Like this would be my least favorite. This would be like, why? Let's just get to point A to point B and do what we're doing. Just John's the yeah and Jeanette Scar. John's the worst Rd. tripper. Dude, I'm not. I'm just. I have an old man's soul, OK? OK, John, give me your You see, you say he's a 5. He would be my five, yeah.
He would be a 2 for me. Think about all the stories he'd been all over the world. I don't. Need stories, Tyler? What stories do you need? Is life not entertaining enough for you? You know what I have, Tyler. I have Jesus. He has the window of the season, the landscape. When you have Jesus, Jesus. Is John, it's an opportunity for you to preach the word to this, this lost soul here. He's partying all the time. Do you not love Jesus, John?
John would. Jesus would want you to talk to Colin. I don't think Connor would be about it. That's not, it's not about. He's just not about he's. Australian, they're they're religiously attuned. Let's just speak for it. Sounds right. I'll, I'll compromise that, John. All right. Three. All right, here we go. I'm strong ornament John into this. It's AI mean we just have wildly different. I want to see. The two of you on a road trip together. We're we're. Fine. We're fine.
We've never driven anywhere. We went in the middle of a forest to some Random House where we almost got killed. Oh yeah, we did. What are you talking about? We're miles in the middle of a forest and then some dude in underwear opens the door waiting for us to come inside. This is true. He waved his, waved his, waved his sin Whitey tighties. Gross. 40 year old man. It was the last. Day Weird. It looked. Really weird. And and I think we were on the way back to the House.
It was me, Bill and John and Bill and I talked the entire time and John was in the back. And this is in, this is in my prelude. And the back of that prelude is small, and John's back there. And, and I'm just chilling, man. I'm just not saying a word. I thought he was mad. No, no, I'm just chilling. I'm just, I'm just on my phone. I'm I'm having a good time. Listen, Tyler and Bill are talking are they're having like deep heart to heart. Talks like. Like like man, I just felt
spiritual out there today, man. Like just just, they don't even know what they're trying to say, but they're but they're talking to each other. They're feeling it. And and I'm sitting here, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm probably just like playing some weird game. I don't I don't have like AI got I got this like car sorter game I like to play now. So I like. Let's let's just say like let's. Just say I'm playing this that game, OK? And then I'm just, you know, I'm
just letting them be them, man. You know, they don't hear they, you don't even know I'm there. And then we're in the middle of the forest randomly. We're in the Forbidden Forest and Voldemort's coming out to play. And it's not, I'm not about it. I'm like, get us out of here right now. If we're a scary movie. Tyler has 0 instincts. He's like, let's go up to the house and see what's happening. In my defense, we were supposed to stay in that house. We were just a day early because
you didn't know. You. I don't. I never know anything. Tyler, you can't. You can't. You can't say that to me. No, it it, it, it was the house we were supposed to be in, but it was somebody else was there and man, it just it had I had so sketchy, so sketchy. Sketchy. And then you like when we actually stayed. That was the nicest place we ever stayed. Yeah, the place was fine it. Was it was gorgeous. Anyway, who's next? And then they left JY at the house the next morning.
Yeah, no. Well, that's another. That's another. All right, next one, Sam Dancer 5. John was ready to say two. Wow, why? Are you really? I don't. I don't. I don't know. I don't know what I was about to say. Well, why 5? I mean mate, like I could see he I'm split on him. He would be a good three or or 4 because when he's in a good mood, I've seen him like Jabron. He's probably got a bunch of crazy stories. He's strong. He's a religious he's. Strong. That's yeah. Like if he, Why does that
matter? Because he used to train with the conjugate people. I guess that's what I'm not saying by saying that he used to train with the conjugate people. And you know, he's got fucking crazy stories of conjugate. And so I would just want to dig in on that. Stories, dude. Yeah, dude, life is stories. But I've also seen him when he's not in a good mood and he's real, not talkative. Perfect for John. Yeah, I don't know. I'm feeling Sam right now. I don't know. I feel like he likes to talk a
lot, though. When he's coming. I'll go with five. You. You want 5? I'll go. Do we? Agree on this. Yeah, I'll go 5. Sorry, Sam. All right, one and two, you guys are? We're risking it. Here's the thing. I can't like enforce anything on Sam. You know, I get mad enough and Pat, I'll be like, that's enough. We're going to fight. If it's not this Sam, I can't really do that. That's enough if you're OK with it if.
You don't mind? So I'm not trying to have a confrontation, so can we please just. Not. Like here we go, Jason Hopper. I'm fine with Jason. I know some. I know. Listen, I know that. He's gonna be quiet. No, he's not. But I've, I've been, but with Jason, when Jason and I've talked before, I'm like, all right, I'm done. Like he's he's good about all. Right, I'm done. He's, he respects it. I'm telling you, I'm telling you. I me, I think me and Jason would
get along. I know, I know for some people he's a bit much. I think we, I think me and him would get along fine. Before you say what number, I would love to road trip with Jason. There's going to be a point where I'm like, shut the fuck up, I'm done, shut the fuck up. Apparently he listens when you do that. And that's why. This could be the difference between me and Tyler. I don't know if he would be quiet for Tyler like. He wouldn't. I know he.
Wouldn't that's amazing. And The thing is, you know, what really would set me off is he's touchy. He would want to just sit there. See, he's not. He's not with me. Oh, he's so touchy on me. He's driving me fucking nuts, dude. He tries to manhandle me every time we're around each other. I gave him one hard push. I think I pushed. Him into you. I think I pushed him into you. He. Knocked my ass out. He wasn't touchy anymore. That's why he's 2 for me. That's fine. He's that's fine.
Let's just, let's just ruin it with somebody. Let's just do. You think this goes in his phone? Tyler said. I was at #2 draft. Only if Dallon's number one. It's not Dallon, damn it. Somebody had a good guess up here. Where was it? It's been to get hit with that Horvath pick. Oh, no, actually. Sean will be all about it. I depend who it is. I think me and Laura would get along better than me and Kristoff. Laura's there. Kristoff is with her. We got both of them. It is not.
Either it's not either, but if if if it was Laura, it would also be with Kristoff. They don't go. Anywhere I would like riding with Laura. And and Kristoff, dude, they're doing it in the back of your prelude while you're driving. That's what you're that's. What you're doing? That's why I drive a small car. Nobody doing it back there. I. I would just try that star. She would. She would be so annoyed with me by the end, but I would just.
I would slowly eat away. Tyler knows that he's he's the problem with the road trips. Yes. So he's fine with it because he's having a good time being the problem. I want to know her psyche so bad. I would just. I would just, it would be slow at first. You know, I'd be like, hey, Laura, how you doing? Do you help those pyramids? Into a Bucky's. Let's let's go in this Bucky's. How about those pyramids?
Aliens, right? By by hours 5 I'm into pyramids I'm getting I'm trying to get her into pyramids I'm finding. Whatever. Show our five here in JFK. You're going to Sev on podcast this Laura road trip, that's what you're going to do. Oh my God, we just started a new road. We just started a new podcast, US Road Tripping with Athletes. We need a better title than that. Tyler just just, he just said what? You, I didn't come up with that. Title. We could figure that out later.
Last one, James Newberry. Not a bad pick. I, I feel like he'd be, I feel like he'd be the most chill guy out of all of them. I think I think he'd be good for actually, I think this is probably like between me and John. This would be good because I do think James is pretty like chill but he's also buddies with Con Porter so like. Yeah, but I think. I think. Yeah, but but like, I think he just knows how to like. Be to The Who he's with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like there's, there's a
method to that. You know what I mean? Like for instance, Taylor, you know what I mean? I would consider myself friends with Taylor. He talks more than anybody I know. Anybody you know John You. Know what I'm saying? But I'm I'm. I'm who? Who else I? Don't know, just look in the mirror. When I'm around people, I talk a lot less. I. Feel you do you do. Well, there you go. James Newberry, Jason Hopper, Con Porter, Pat Villner, Sam Dancer. Any last minute changes?
I don't. Mind. My my my setup would be Jason Con Pat, Newberry Dancer. So I think, I think my setup, I think I honestly would just pick Jason because I'm closest to him out of all these guys. Just kind of like, kind of like Tyler, like we need to like we need to be boys. I'm closest. I'm like way closer to Jason than I am any of these guys. Pat, I've said one word to and he looked like he didn't want to talk to him. James, I've. Only I put him 5 for you, that would not be good.
Well, I'm not. But he liked, but you ranked him so high. If there was a mountain back in the day, he'd be like #1 dude. For like. Years and years and years. He'd be, he'd be #2 because he could never finish and I would I yeah, I would have been mean about him being 2, but he probably wouldn't leave 2 forever. He's just solidify A2 spot. James. I've only talked to him on podcast Sam. I've talked to him in person. But like Tyler said, I think you could either be like.
He was on our show at the Games. Right. Yeah, I know. I think it could either be like really good or not good. I think it's like a 5050 toss up pull up a. Comment real quick. No wrong Dave. Dave, not David. Dave Tan. You know what the issue is? None of us even thought about that until you said it next. And and Khan's Australian. Yeah, he's not even really white. I'm pretty sure Sam Dancers he's tan so. Yeah, Sam, Sam some. There's some Samoan DP Who who? Should I include in that in the
list that's DIDEI? Chandler. I don't. Know and and and men Shelby Neil and men. Yeah, you can't you can't include any women in there. Spin. What a sexist. It's freaking sexist show. I'm about to be done with it. That's next week. You got to get to next week to do the women. Yeah. We can get in trouble with the women, I think. I think if we did it all women, we, we, we would be, we could get I, I, I would get in trouble. I don't think. Probably means, probably means we should do it.
I don't know. Dude, Danny Spiegel just asked to stop at every gas station while we're on the way. Every single exit. I I would be so locked in dude, I would be digging. I would really, really analyze how it was going to go. You'd have. To prep. No, not prep, but like in the moment, really think it out, you know what I'm saying? Keep your mouth shut, John. Don't say that, John. I got AI got AI got a bone to pick with this person.
Look, this is supposed to be my Co host and she's just talking trash right now. What is? This. No, he's not the most hated. He's the most hated man outside of CrossFit. Yeah, I'm only hated by people who don't do CrossFit. I've managed to piss off two different communities. That's. Right, the CrossFit community defended you last one World fitness project, WFP or FTD. We knew it was coming. Athletes are making their choices after the Challenger qualifier.
It looks like Colin Bossard. Who else is there? On the women's side, there's a bunch that are now saying Andrea Solberg, Ella Wilkinson, there's Linda Kiesman, all of them qualified for World Fitness Project. They also were on the leaderboard for French Throwdown. They all are going to the World Fitness Project. Because it would violate their contract. Will they sign? No, these are challengers. These are the challengers that qualified. And they're going to go there.
And I think Aniol might have been. He also probably will qualify through Aniol's. The only one that makes sense. But they're all going to forgo the French Throwdown, which the field of the French Throwdown is getting extremely weak. Like Claudia Gluck can probably compete with one arm and still qualify at this point. Dude. Lynn Linda can make it to the games. All three of those women were very much in the running for one of the spots.
Dude, half the European mediocre women because now you got a shot. Yeah, now's your time to shine. Like it is. Hey, is Lucy Mcgonagall on the French slowdown? She is. I do. I think she'll be good. Then I think this is it Lucy, this is this is how you make the games. She's been on her way up anyway, but this definitely don't hurt nothing. No, but I'm saying this is, I kind of think you're going to get wrecked at the games, but this is how you make it.
Respectfully, Lucy, with all due respect. Yeah, let's look at the women's field for French Throwdown. All right, we. Were. Andrea Moistus, Andrea Valenciano, Toledano, Andrea Solberg's out. Celia Gerard, Kiara Salandra, Claudia Gluck, Connie Easby, Elena Caratala Sanahua. She's also going to WFP. Elisa Fuliano's not competing for a spot. Ella Wilkinson's out. Emily Lundberg, She missed the the Games by one spot last year. Emma Fosher Row, Erica Eklund, Eklund, Henna.
Taylor Montebello, Holly Tynan, Ingrid Tondol, Jennifer Muir. She's in the challenger division if I recall, so she may also may not be competing. Joanna Skandaj, Julia. Blazowski, Karen. Blazowska. Blazowska close. Come on, Blaze. Jowska Blazowski, you straight Monster inkters, man it. Happens. Karen Fryova can't compete. Katharina Azalei? I don't know. Laura Mongnier I don't. Who are these people? Laura Plaza Gonzalez, Lena. Kisman, Lisa.
Janine, Lucia Borjani, Lucy Mcgonigal, Mataline. Person, Marco. Martellian. Martin Verini. Is this the year that. Yeah, this is as good of a year as any Morgane Tysons. Norta signed up. He's going. Norta is going to she's going to World Fitness project. ODA is going to World Fitness product. ODA Lunda, Vecom Rica Larson, Rox Cruz Shelton, Sarah Mossini, and Sophia Bernsen. There you go. That is, That is the field for the French throwdown for the
women. Dude I love Mirhim's name, I just feel like you could put some like behind. Me you Don't you like your version of Mirhim's name? I think just to start using my version of. Her name? Too. Jeez. Ben Wass signed up for World Fitness Project, but you got Brion, you got Bronus Law. Caleb also qualified. Colin qualified for World Fitness Project. How do you think you say that name? George Zurich. George Zurich. No, no, no. It's like like yodeling yodeling. Derrick got it. Derrick.
Fabian Benito, who was at Mayhem, he also signed up and has accepted his invite for World Fitness Project. Just because they've accepted it doesn't mean they'll actually compete. But they're they've, they've accepted. What if it's all a misdirection? What if everybody who says they're going to go to WFP? And they changed their mind. Well, what about Jan Finkenberg? Huh. He will be there dude. He's Thinkenberg. He's really strong, like really strong. And he's, he's fit.
He's not as he's not as fit as he is strong. But Moritz, I mean, that looks like a easy one for him. Reggie. Told his Golden World Fitness project. Oldest, Oldest. Oldest. So an oldest might make it online maybe? Yeah, good. He does, I think. I think he's, I'm not, he's not definite at all. But I think he could be in the running, yeah. He doesn't. I bet he can. He has a good shot there too. 24 quarterfinals. Kowski, Adler, Roman won't have to Austin doesn't have to. BKG, Moritz.
Crouch, Ricky. J might, Ricky might. I think Jay and Ricky will. I don't think Moritz will. I don't think BKG will. In an online semifinal, Yeah. Why? I don't spin you it's not a one to one correlative because the games are not online. It's the game. The games are on the line. I think I just, it's way, way, way different, I think, Justin. Went online. But you you cannot say that Hopper did not go as hard as he absolutely could last time.
It's difference, man. How you don't think that Jason, Dallin, Colton and and Taylor last year put out as much or more effort than anybody else out here? I think if you have them do those workouts again, they'll beat Victor Hopper. Why? Because a game spots on the line and everything. I, I understand what you're saying. We watch them go as hard as they can. I get it. I understand what you're saying. I'm telling you it's going to be different.
And this is one of them things is I've spent, I promise you, this is one of them things. You just need to trust me, it's going to be different. Trust you. I'm dude when I'm confident about something, I'm never wrong. But don't all these guys go even harder too, though? Like I, I get like, OK, Hopper's gonna go even harder than you did before, But doesn't Jay Crouch? No, I think Jay will make it. Moritz. No. He doesn't go even harder than he did before. He was just. No, the workouts.
The workouts will be different spin. They're they're going to be. It's to get people to the game. I promise you it's going to be. How much do you want to bet? I could just make it different. How much different could it be? Making me mad that you're like, not understanding. How much Don't make it mad spin. Swear Abby's going to turn the Queen anytime here. What, what else are they going to do to make it more difficult? I'm. Compared to last year's quarterfinals.
I'm done talking about it. It's going to be different. The the problem is we'll never be able to measure this. We will in online semis. Hardness of this of the semi final. No, that that the names that I said will not make it are not going to make. It let's say they're all like, it's not going to be the. Exact same. The exact names that I said aren't going to make and aren't going to make. It who? Moritz. Moritz is not going to make it. Jay Crouch is going to.
Ricky Might keep going. BKG is not going to. Victor's not going to. I know he's not competing, but he's not going to go out with the other two. Toddler and Koski. They're going to make it online. How about the women? The women are great. Let's go to the women. Alexis. Alexis Online. Madeline Sturt I think has an exceptional shot to make it online. Danielle Brandon will make it online. I don't think Mannin will, and she always does good online. There you go. There you go.
There you freaking go, somebody. Right along, President. 'S. Different been a game spots on the line man. It's not going to make it online. This these are the people I'm talking about. Judy, take notes. We need. We need the. Receipts here. Auditor Emma Tall's not competing. Emma Mcquaid's not competing. Lisa Fuliano's not competing. Karen Freyov is not competing. Caitlin Van Hill's not competing.
What the hell? Yeah, if we go down the line, maybe she makes it online because there's a lot of people, there's a lot of names. So, I mean, the women's field is a lot different, right? But. No, I mean if you you read all the names that aren't doing it, Yeah, man in my man in probably makes it. I don't think it's that much different. Like again, I think if you put them in said the games is on the line, I don't think you see that much difference.
I think you do go to 2020 and see who the top 20 were. 2020, That's five years ago. I know, but we know who the online warriors were. 20/20 What are we doing? Because the top 20 names went to the games. Yeah, and they're all retired. No, but you see like look like, no, no, no, you got to go to the online board. I mean, I guess they're in this. Is it's all. I just don't have the. Right. That scores up, yeah. But look like you look at the
caliber of the names. You don't get the random names that like you've never heard of. Never heard of Molina Rodriguez? Dude, Molina Rodriguez is the beast. Christine Best. Beast. OK, OK, sure. After that, though, that's it. That's it, Yes. Sure. To the men? No. There was another name, all right. But like, I want you to pay attention to like, who's at the, who's at the top here? Baden Brown. Baden Brown's a three time Games athlete, dude. Not in 2020. Hefner, Krinikov, Pawson.
Games at Fukowski. Yeah, who even is Scott Tettler? Scott Tettlow made it, made it in. After that, it's it's, it's two people. 2. People, it's top 22 people. Yeah, but look at 2:00. People, no, let's hear me out. Hear me out. Two people on the men and women are names that you wouldn't think, oh, these are like perennial games athletes. Two people at a top 20 and this is the top 11 and you're telling me four of these names are going to be people that like?
The top of this list are all Games athletes. No, I don't. I put more, I don't put more spievic on the level of the athletes that we just saw. These are all Games athletes. I don't put Manon on the same category of the athletes that we just saw. Manon's the only one on the list of the top 11 men or women that did not qualify for the Games last year. She's been to the games too. I'm but I don't I don't put her on the level of the people that we just saw.
I'm telling when the games are on the line, the bigger names are going to be at the top. It does. It makes a difference and you it I. Can't explain. I can't explain why, but it just does. OK. Have you done? Have you looked at any of the age group video review stuff yet? No, but my I have an athlete that was 36th. Oh. I've got some stories about this. About set athlete. No, not not your athlete, but just this whole thing in general. And I'm really, really.
And she moves beautifully. She'd make Taylor cry. Who should we look at? Let's look at Katie Canning's third workout. And I really need like six people to drop out, so. 5 have been good, two need review. Kylie, what story do you have? I mean, Kyle Ruth posted about this and then I've got, I've talked to several other people who are known people that are getting bad reviews and I think
it's a similar situation. I mean, it's not the exact same thing that happened to John, but like, it is a good story. It's like. If. People know you, they're going to watch your video and they're not going to watch other people's video who probably need to be watched. And I think there's like some volleying going on for like, hey, go downvote this person 'cause I need to get in, right? Well, that yeah.
Well I mean like even hip and steel he probably does move a little bit like shit but like I bet people are watching his video because it's his. It's hip and steal. He also hip and steal has had over 30 on all. Of that I I agree, Tyler, but then like the people and then people are like not. People are going to slip in that aren't getting reviewed. But they're and but they're they're like too many people are being like this workout is bad. They're trying to be killer whenever they're not.
Rod Wilson has had 6/6. Are there anywhere where there's good doesn't outweigh bad? We've not seen one yet. Well, let's see. Let's see if Tom Patch moves well 2 to 0. Oh, nice, Tom. Thanks. But he has two hip and steel has over 30 every single time. Way to move. Well, Tom. Any other famous names? Steve Anderson. Is what about the Kevin Kevin Keister? Yeah, go down to like the 30 to 35 or 35 to 40. I think he's 55. I see how many people have looked at Pan Chick 11 to 2, two
of them. But the fact that two people said that he reviewed, I guarantee you we watch this and we're like, what are you watching? 29 to 0. You know what I mean? No, of the two people that said he needs reviewed, I I think, I think you're 100% ridiculous. One person says he needs to review his like that's. That one person should not watch videos. It's a test. It hits, but like, well, one test. You see, like I get annoyed with that, you know what I mean?
When you when something and like it's just somebody that thinks they're Hitler and they're not can. Can we pause real quick, Dave? No one's talking about politics but you. You're bringing all that mess in here. You're the the origin of all of that crap. I wish that my computer freaking worked because I'd wrench you right now, but like just stop. Oh, he's just been telling we we picked up. We picked all white men, so we didn't even realize.
It's like, no, we didn't know until you said anything. It's just a game. You're seeing everything through that, and now you're. Making I'm going to tell you right now so much worse than you want to hear. Like, it's not the, it's not the show for you if you're, if it's like. Whoa, Aunt Hanes. Let's let's watch it. Then sorry, let's watch. Sorry. It's 433 for everybody. Says he's bad. Let's watch it. God he's jacked as hell. How is he not in movies?
I assume he's going to do all of the movements, the measurements, right? He should be a body double for Mamoa. So this is the lunges, dumbbell snatch, and box jump overs. Yep. There we go, 4 minutes and 33 seconds. We'll finish after this. Magnus let them get a Magnus. That first one was a little bad. These are fine. That was bad. Where do you see the knee? The hip is not extending. It's his hips. Like I feel like his hips. They're saying, they're saying,
they're saying. That he's not standing up all the. Way yeah look 'cause he's he's like kind of weird bent in the middle yeah I kind of get I kind of get this I think it's. Just there. Yeah, that. The first step is always worse than all the rest of them. Is lockout, is that mandatory? I mean we've. Not read it above your head. No, I mean like of the hip. Yes, Tyler. Yes. The first step he the first step's always way worse than the others. Yeah, but he's not. He's not blocking out.
I I I get that one. Yeah, I get that one. Sorry. Yeah. I think my lunges were better on our video Tyler. And you got naked anyway. Not for my reps apparently. I edited it spin. This might be like anatomical for him, This might just be a hard position for him. But I mean, still that's the the standard is the. Standard he's extended at the top of the last one. One, these are good. Yeah, no, it's just for the. Lunge, man, I think it has to be the lunge, yeah.
Let's see the box real quick because a lot of people were cheating the box. So my understanding of all of this though is that just because it has down votes does not mean you get penalized. It's just no, somebody at HQ has to review it. I think HQ is already going to review like they're kind of standard procedure, but then they're going to add to it. On this, this is good. These are good. Yeah, there's nothing you can do wrong on this. You can't really fail these.
It's just, it's just the lunge. No, no, no, people, people are jumping off. You're not allowed to jump off. Like there are people who are like cheating the standard a little bit. Well, like they put 1 foot on it like they're not jumping, but like it's. They sort of slide it. Off. Yeah, they're like blurring the line really, really badly. So Kyle can't. He's TTT, right? Daisy, I'm not sure. That's Kyle Ruth. Same but different. Yeah, look up Kyle Ruth, James East. Norman Woodring.
Got knocked. It might be a that That picture might be the. Rowing, I imagine he's done fine. He's look fine. He's facing away from the camera. That makes it hard to judge. Dude, he's extending. That's good. Yeah. These are good. Let's go. Yeah. Not watch rowing because that's boring. No Rep. Yeah, he's good. It's locking out. Dude I mean I think this is not worth 18 down votes.
No, it's not. I could see if you didn't know how to judge, if you would think that that would be a no Rep, but you're. Trying. You're trying to do too much. Here we go. Here's the heavy Yeah. You're good. Is there a no step rule? No, it's it's split so he's fine. Maybe they're calling him for lockout of the elbows, but I'm giving it to him. I think it's just because he's not facing. All of these look fine to me man. Yeah, they look fine to me. Tyler, I did this workout.
It was a fun workout if you want to do it. I bet you. There you go. Because. There's rowing in it. You said we would do the age group semifinals. I did not say the age group semifinals. I said semifinals, semifinals. Oh. OK, well I did this one if you want to do it. So not that one. All right, that's it for the week. Next week, preview of Wadland, all 90 athletes. I think we'll we'll preview. John, are you going to do rankings for all 90? I'm not going to rank this competition.
OK, yeah, so Wadland says Robin Kronikov, Aniolakai, Lucy Campbell will be there, so. Do you want to do a pole if we should do the mountain or not, John? Really wants to do the mountain. We've only had one competition, John. I don't want anything to change what I have now and I want to do one at like I don't want to do another one until after all the semis. All of them. What?
Why do 1? Now. Because this is the only semi final where we will have an elite field to hold like the whole way down. It's the best talented of the field, like the best in the world. We're at this semi final. We will not have another semi final like that. We won't we won't there'll be two good people and everybody else doesn't matter. You know this is true. It's it's like this is the only. I understand why you're saying is true in person. Semi finals is not going to
change. Methodology. In person semi finals will not change one. I'm telling you right now. No I I'll speak to the creator of the mountain. I'm pretty sure I could trust what he says. You'd be surprised. You'd be surprised. I want to show the world. I think we should do a poll and see what they say. Maybe we'll do that. We'll see. Spin doesn't. Why? I don't know why you're against it right now. John, people can't handle too much mountain.
They're. Not going to get another one to the end of semi finals, I'm telling you right, I'm not going to make one. What if there's a reason to? There is not one. There's one all of a sudden right now. Patience is a virtue. Phil doesn't think we need a mountain. Pull it, then see what happens. I'll go, I'll go on Instagram and I'll put a poll up. I have to get all my fake accounts to go vote again. Yeah. All right, we'll see you guys next Wednesday. I apologize to absolutely nobody.