Dude, let's go live. Come. On you. Got to the right. What we got over there to the right is not what we're doing today. Spin's not here, so we can't have a real podcast, professional podcast. We're doing our best. He's the. Person. He's the only person I would. Consider a friend. But I also want to beat the go ahead, Tyler Taylor. We're we're live right now. I need you to be quiet. Oh, they're not like shut up. We're we're live from the the what are you calling this the
compound? Yeah, yeah. The The Semon podcast. California Hormones. Paper Street coffee Compound. What different room do you have to be where everybody is? No, I can drop off. Fuck it. All right, You, you handle the show. I'll. I'll come back. I'm just saying, man, like, jeez, you're supposed to be the host. Hey I I came to a separate room I know and this is my first time on the show. This is my debut. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Bryson. All right, to the right or what we're supposed to talk about is from last week. So I apologize guys. So we do have a show, we're going to do a viewer comments and then and then we're going to talk about next week. You drink Ovaltine and. Eat food on the. Show and you're complaining about 7. One Taylor camera. Shut the fuck up, John Taylor. Go. To your own show. Dude, no cursing on the spin.
Yeah, this is a church show. Tyler is supposed to be the host and it's most unprepared show I've ever shown up to. Him Oh, we we are so set, dude. Welcome to the Spin podcast. Brought to you by Go Wad. Hero Barbell. He's in the comments. Ask him if he sent it to you. Yeah, I feel like I'm letting him down. The show's the show's already going downhill. Yeah, so Bryson and I just got into California about an hour and a half ago. We ran to the grocery store, got
caffeine. Did you even get caffeine, Bryson? No, but I've already had two energy drinks today because all we, we woke up for the airport at three. Yeah, AM like Eastern Time. I got up at, I was up at 4:30. I don't know how you like they just sat at the airport for a while. Yeah, we were there for forever. And then I had to Sprint around the airport to find them seven drives past me in the loading zone. It was hilarious. So anyway, we're doing our best. John, do you have viewer
comments ready to go? We'll we'll do viewer. Comments. I don't have the viewer comments. Dude. Oh, OK, so I can travel at the same time. All right, Bryson Field time. I'll pull up comments. Well, what am I this? I'm a guest bro. I'm sorry, I'm a. Guest, this is ridiculous. This is ridiculous. Spin. You needed to prepare Tyler for this. I didn't know he was gonna show up and have nothing. We can pull up Maris's comment. This is correct.
I have glued hair to my upper lip but it's not from my head. I don't have back end abilities. Neither do I. Oh great. I literally show up and do my predictions and say what's going to happen, and that's my role on the show. I have them they're. A pretty hot take. I have a pretty hot take if we want to. Go ahead. Let's let's let's do viewer comments first. So first is we're we're going to do the Dave Castrum and I'm just going to flick and flick and read.
We got something here. This is Paper streak coffee, not alcohol. As an Aussie. This is from Katie Kathy Stan, 4379. As an Aussie, I love that Oceana got more spots, but I've no fucking idea how they got them. Plus this is the first year I'd say we probably don't need the extra spot for women. Oh boy, who's this? Yeah. Did you not send him the layout for this week? No, I did not make a layout. I told you. What are we doing, man? We're doing it it it fits.
Hey, somebody kicked pool boy out of the comments. Need me to call in and take over. What? Bro, we got it handled. Come on, let's get this back on track. I agree 100% Kathy Oceania does not need extra spots, but better late than never I guess. Spin, Where are you? I'm in West Yellowstone. West Yellowstone. There's there's the RV. Your internet's great man. Yeah, you have really good Internet. Yeah, I'm on 5G. It's terrible though in the park. So you're getting cancer?
Yes. That's fine, 100% worth it. Yellowstone Internet, it's worth it. It's weird nothing's changed, but you're you being here makes me feel more calm. Another comment, let's go with Augustus, our good boy Augustus. If John doesn't like it when people don't have their own picture on their profile, wait until he hears about Danielle Brandon. Yeah, Danielle Brandon doesn't have her own picture on. Her own What does she have? I don't know somebody. Knew the mustache. Yeah.
It's it's a meme bro. Oh. It's Jimmy Fallon, right? It's Jimmy Fallon. Another comment Inga 6931 spin. I know you're on vacation, this is pertinent, but anyone watching Asia question mark every time CrossFit directs me to their lives semifinals, They're doing completely different workouts. What's going on? I saw you got a shout out on the live bit. What the heck are they doing? Blah blah blah is that? Better. So were they doing different workouts? I don't think they do. They weren't.
The run just looked a lot different. Oh the the airport loading zone run. Yeah. Yeah, that was. Good, but at least you can watch. At least you can watch them run. Yeah, you can. See them actually. There's something. To fit you said about that. Yeah, it's better than having them all lined up on air runners, not knowing where everyone is and then just someone gets off way before they should have because their air runner was fast. Lane 8 Why Jackie Dahlstrom's in right.
That's the only reason. Do you think that lady's a fan that that shouted you out? The announcement of the floor Lady I. Was I think. I was just being very positive and when you're very positive, you get, you know, you get special treatment. I know Dejuan Young is a fan and I'm a fan of her. That's all I need to know about Asia. Did you tell Taylor that? Well, I've. I've also heard of another. Keeper Listen, I know y'all like to suck up the Taylor because he's the fittest guy in the
chat. I don't care what Taylor does. Hey, I I know of another very positive and even said 1312 to 13 good things about HQ in the last calendar year. So that's pretty positive if you ask me. John, can you say for like? 5 seconds. Bryson, can you say that again? I was just saying I know another very positive figure in the space since Spin was talking about being positive, talking about Hitler, since he said 12 to 13 positive things about HQ in the last calendar year. They. Said spin is.
Nothing positive to hear about. Yeah, spin is probably the fastest and the most positive. I would probably say WAD. Zombie Dollar 99 Bryson Can you say if you ain't first, you're last? Me. I think I would say PC is the most positive because he thinks literally every single person he talks to is going to make the games. That's how I. Feel or Scott? Like Scott Switzer's pretty positive too. He's a positive guy in general. That's toxic positivity. Toxic. Toxic. I concur.
I concur. I there was back to the, the lane thing running through Asia this morning when I was getting on the plane, there was this guy, he had a cane, but he was just more ornery than he needed a cane. And there was no, I was in Louisville. So no, there's like nobody there, right? And it's like just Serpentine, right? And he just looks at it and he, he looked at his wife and he was like, are you serious? And he just would like not walk
through them. So he started ducking and then realized it was taking him longer to duck because he was old. And then he held up like 15 people. He just got way out of hand really fast. All right, that's enough for the comments. What's the next? What's the next section there? I think where I was right and where I was wrong. We're going to recap Europe real
quick. I'm going to say three things I was right about, three things I was wrong about and then you guys can give me your thoughts on on any of those or Bryson and takeaways. Bryson, you and Tyler, any takeaways you might have had about Europe that you didn't have previously? First, firstly, we're going to go where I was right and that is I retain my status as the number
one analyst in the space. I was first as shot caller in both regions out of anybody that calls themselves an analyst, 43rd in Europe and I think third in Asia. Is that Mister? That's a little, that's a little spin. Teeny weeny right there. Colton's showing his Wiener on the show. It's a she, right? Yeah. What's her name? Olive. Olive. Olive, Olive. A lot of old names. I like Olive, so I'm going to
say that's my first one. When I was right and big shout out to Dejuan Young. Nobody was saying she was going to make it and we did on the show. Doesn't matter because it was my it's my same name. That's the. One, I was legitimately surprised. I I can't believe like I thought it was a joke. Did you really know she was going to go or was it no, no. I knew I knew she was close, I knew she's around there, but she had not made it previously. I did not. I was picking her as a joke.
The wildest thing of it all is that she's a fan. I don't know if she is or not, I think somebody just gave her that cardboard, but. Just hold this thing and smile. Yeah, I really. I really. I really think that's the case, but if I meet her in Fort Worth I would definitely take a picture with her I have. To imagine it was PC, right? Yeah, I'd probably which takes the sails. Out of it alert. So what the the first one was what you're up just that?
I I was first in shot cholera on both regions amongst every everybody. I even beat the great Will Branstetter and he's he's, he's had that title for a little bit, dude. Will Will fell hard on in in Europe. No, he didn't do great, but he did win the last one in Water Palooza, so we got to give him props for that. And then first one that I was wrong. Are we going to alternate? Yeah, I was going to alternate. Europe is has gotten stronger.
You know, nobody really batted an eye when I was like, I think 7 to 10 guys are going to. That's how many are going to beat my time. And I don't think half the field will finish. Everybody was kind of on the same page with me and I think the whole field finished or or like only five of them didn't finish. It was. Some some, some didn't finish. Yeah, I think more than half the field beat my time though. I think that's. What it was one of the top.
Guys 20 to 22 guys. Yeah, one of the top guys almost missed the cut off to the final barbell. Harry Lightfoot, 8 seconds, 2:45. He had eight seconds. Hit that with eight seconds left and and that's ultimately what got that guy to the games. So Congrats to Harry Lightfoot. I almost completely forgot about that little time cap they had because everybody was just flying past it. Dude that time cap do.
You think that hard? If you do the event, if you actually do it, I was right up against every single time cap until 2:45. Yeah. Do you think that he was confident in that in the moment or do you think he was like panicking about that? Or do you think he just knew where he was and he was like, yeah, I know I can make a snatch. He. Missed it before that I think he was panicking I think hardcore. If he missed twice before that, he was 100% panicking. And then came, just came clutch
at the right moment. Yeah, what? Am I? Looking at John Jake. Tell me savvy looking yoked back there, Thank. You. He says thank you, Jake. He. Doesn't care, Tyler all his head on sitting down. All right, next one, next one where I was right. A lot of people were hiring these guys. I don't remember if you guys had them picked, but people had Bronislaw going and Colin Beauchard going and I said both of them would not go.
And I think that was a bit of a controversial statement as far as the lower guys go at the time. It's obviously not now, but at the time everybody had one of them going and I said they were both going to miss. Dude the the amount that like it paid to be a bigger, like longer, more powerful guy just became super evident halfway through the weekend. Well. Bron ended up like 20th place and took two essentially last
place in the 1st 2 events. I wasn't, I knew I, I didn't figure he was going to go, but like, I didn't think it was going to be that bad. Did you all? Like. Almost last place. Yeah, I don't, I don't think I thought that. But I mean, as soon as event one happened and you kind of then you start to think that you're like, wow, this is extremely embarrassing. Yeah. Like like he had. He hadn't improved. He hadn't improved his running at all, Do.
You think? Doing the masters semi finals the week before had a had a had any type of impact. No shot. No shot man, I think. The first How many events was the Masters? It was only four. And I and I did. Three of them. And they weren't, they weren't very like taxing like as far as like. You know work. He was also fifth in the world in his. Age group.
He's from my. Show right now I'm gonna watch this yeah he he also doesn't but he he can be fifth in the world in that age group with those workouts I would assume with treating them as like training pieces one. 100%. Like I don't think he feels like he does after like 1/4 finals weekend for individuals where like you have to, you know? Dedicate a lot of effort. To those to make it. Yeah, and Tyler, I know you're saying he did like horrible, but
he's still ended up 20th place. I think people don't realize how high he ended up because of how low he was. And if you take that last event, that last event, he kind of, he went for it, dropped the dumbbells, wasted like 30 seconds putting you back. Yeah, not 1/4 of the workout. Not. 1/4 of. The workout did did but like say he makes that lunch. He's he's 15th place, you know what I mean? And you're like, I I had him.
I think I had him 12th and. Then I should tell, I should tell people that because they don't know what we're talking about. So I mean, you sort of do if you've been watching like my Tyler, if you drop the barbell, whatever lunge implement you have, if you drop it in the last second, you quit. To me, you quit. You're a quitter now, I think. Most of the time, I mean, you went for it and just didn't have it at the end. It's a little bit different. Who was it?
Moritz. I'm quitting right now so I got to run. See you good. Luck. Thanks dude, you got me back on track. See you spen. But was it Moritz that dropped it at the last second?