The Sevan Podcast - #844 - CrossFit Quarterfinals Trolling the Leaderboard Day 2

Episode Date: March 19, 2023

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that's what it's for uh patrick clark next boxes in california uh patch i guess it's probably it's probably like stops global warming um uh patrick clark um thank you uh for watching the ufc with me today that was cool you're the only person um i mean there were a couple people at my house but you're the only person uh text buddy i, I mean, there were a couple of people at my house, but you were the only person, uh, text buddy. I watched it with, and I appreciate that. That was fun. Uh,

day, uh, number two is in the books for workouts are in the books. Um, let me just start with anything crazy yet. Like, uh, an Anika Greer situation,

like someone who we thought was going to go to the game says not got their workouts in. And we're like scratching our head. Like, Oh, this is weird. not not anything like that that i know of some injuries okay let's let's start there who who's out i saw on a barbell spin brian spins instagram account i saw someone who's out yeah con porter's out and then ben smith ben smith what happened to ben is he hurt or just

old or both he put out a post that um he he was only able to do nine reps on that um that snatch crossover uh test and then the way he did his workouts he actually did one in three first so his scores still look pretty good but he i don't i don't believe he did a an event for i mean a test for whatever you want to call it right um brian can you translate what halpin just said to me for someone with an iq of under? He did workouts one and three. Yeah. He placed 130th and 203rd on those two workouts. And so he's like, fuck that, I'm out.

Like he knew. I'm guessing he'd actually done workout four by that point also because he's 54th worldwide on workout four, 569 reps, which is a great score. And then he shows up on workout two and has nine reps, which is eight snatch score and then he shows up on rep workout two and has nine reps which is eight snatches and one lunge and so immediately you're thinking that's like that's strange like why would you do one even do one lunge um and basically he's just saying that uh what he did this after the fact i don't know the lunges was bothering his knee so he stopped he's

doing team he's going planning to go team this. So he's either just doing the quarterfinals workouts, maybe similarly to the way that I'm doing them, which is just to give feedback to the athletes that are actually in the competition and trying to advance that he works with coaches or trains at his gym. That's why you're doing them just to give feedback. That's why I'm doing this. So he might be doing them for that reason as well. He'd the workout and he'll say hey it's actually a little bit more grippy than we thought or that middle round of deadlifts or whatever the feedback he wants to give but um all i'm hearing is that he hurt his knee and he's out uh he made a post that said he wasn't gonna push it on his knee. Fuck this. I'm texting him.

There you go. Anyway, he's doing the team. He's intending to compete on a team this year. The only other reason he might have done these workouts is to get the points you get for signing up for the competition just in case he wants to go individual next year or so that he can still have and i quote material bearing on the strength of field allocation what would i ask him why did you not um enter your scores no no he did enter his scores you can ask him if he's okay okay um are you just are you okay hey ben comma nine reps are you nine reps to work out too are you okay or just oh should i put that okay nine just be kind of dick on it dick dick i'm a little down a little bit too nine reps okay

okay that's a little okay if i get a middle finger uh like sorry i was taking dictation from brian and then you'll get a different finger. Okay. Anyone else? Any girls? Why just boys are pulling out? Why two great boys, Ben Smith and Colin Porter? Any girls?

Any great girls? Not that I've seen. Okay. Vittorio, a way not to be a bitch and put that up yourself. Dude, I walked back and forth through the house carrying my drill like five times until my wife saw me and she's like oh what are you doing i'm oh oh funny you should ask just go and hang some shit up in the office just some man shit yeah just some man shit i got a drill bit and i have a fucking screw the this something you like over here yeah and the drill bit did you start like did you pull the trigger a few times make sure it worked yeah click the button that makes you go forward and backwards um if you all are ever in seattle says caden carpenter for ten dollars come to my affiliate q crossfit the only gym that's not woke

in the city wow if that's really your gym uh please dm me uh with your phone number and i'll text you and i'd love to have you on the show i'd love to know what it's like to run a gym in woketopia wow that's cool a wad zombie travis mayor made a post too but he we know he's been out for a while right yeah he didn't compete um there are look at people are already tattling uh john george bethany shadburn crossover she did 20 per round her judge messed up watch her video oh okay let's just establish something just off the bat here okay this competition the quarterfinal competition is entirely unmanageable there will be penalties assessed to specific athletes that are not going to be assessed to 99 or more of the athletes that are taking them regardless of if they did those things or not. And there will be a ton of athletes that did not do things to the standards whose videos will never

be looked at and they will just get away with it. So you, if you're competing in this competition, if you've signed up for this competition, if you're following this competition, you just have to know that, you know, and CrossFit has, has been, I mean, in my opinion, pretty clear about the fact that they're okay with that. They are reviewing some videos. They are assessing some penalties. But there's absolutely no chance that they can accurately and in totality manage this competition. One.

That would be zero. Zero. Oh, really? Yeah. I'm going to count them out loud so I know what's going on. Zero. Still zero. Because you still have to do one to get the buy-in? The first one is zero.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. How many was she supposed to do? 40. Oh, that's good. Did I ever tell you she has the most beautiful head? She has like a head as beautiful as Wonder Woman's Gal Gadots. Yep. Yeah, okay.

This month. That's the third time this month I've told you? Second time. Oh. Okay. This month. That's the third time this month. I've told you second time. Oh, okay. So, so, uh, so, uh, sorry, John, thank you for pointing that out to us. But, um, uh, the way that I count double crossovers and have always counted them, that would only be 20. The way that they are being counted for the CrossFit Games quarterfinals this year, that counts as 40. Uh, nine inches, uh, Tr trina different show different show come back tomorrow morning uh please she got 111th on that workout and she's currently sitting 63rd in the west

so she is right on the bubble uh thank you that was good helping we're starting to work like a fine-tune machine that was nice um uh brian going back to what you were saying does it matter if they does it matter if they're assessing penalties differently for different people and they're not looking at all the videos if they are doing it for, let's say, the top 300? And the reason why I say the top 300 is because yesterday you explained to me that after this, we go to seven semifinals in the top 300 athletes. Well, top 300 athletes based on their region, that's where they go. Uh-oh, now I kind of see the problem with what I said. There's a lot of problems. What do you see? Because it's not the top 300 athletes that go.

It's the top 60 in one region. The top guys who go to Africa might not even be in the top 1,000 for all we know. Yeah, so there's a couple of things. So first of all, flashback to yesterday's show. And we talked about the fact that there is a worldwide ranking for quarterfinals. The worldwide ranking matters for one reason. It matters because that's how your points are allocated for your quarterfinal placement. And then you add them into all the other points you

have, and that will affect the top 100 coming into this year's semifinals, where we'll have to do the allocation of spots using the method that CrossFit has chosen. Probably it's not going to have much of a difference because the quarterfinals points are basically all the same for all of the relevant athletes. However, at the cut line, there's going to be probably a small point margin. By the cut line, I mean 100 to 101. And we know, based on the information that the CrossFit Games team, specifically Dave Eubanks, has communicated to us, that one spot in the top 100 could make a difference for your competitive region, earning an extra spot in the top 100 could make a difference for your competitive region earning an extra spot to the CrossFit Games. So we should be knowing that CrossFit should,

in theory, have a high priority on making sure that the top 100 are actually the top 100. We know that they're not the top 100 fittest in the world, but they should at least be making sure that they're the top 100 based on the point system that they've allocated. Meaning that no one in that group should be earning points that are ill-rewarded, that are not actually reflective of what they've done in whatever competition they're earning points in. It's a lot easier to manage that at the games and semifinals, which is the reason why they've chosen to make the open and quarterfinals points basically negligent. Like you just sign up for the competition. And if you're good enough to be even flirting with the top 100, you're going to get 990 points in quarterfinals and 1980 points in semifinals.

I mean, in quarterfinals. So that's like pretty much a wash. And that's the only reason why the worldwide ranking for quarterfinals so that's like pretty much a wash and that's the only reason why the worldwide ranking for quarterfinals matters um uh listen asshole mr walters the alpaca workout was written wrong and i proved that i don't want to hear any more alpaca shit ephemeral ephemeral ephemeral basically the way you just explained it the quarterfinals they make a mockery out of the worldwide ranking points it's actually

impossible to do that they're basically admitting defeat even before they start the world even if they're not significant amount of points they will be inaccurate well they'll be significant like you said at the cutoff line at amount of points, they will be inaccurate. Well, they'll be significant, like you said, at the cutoff line. At the cutoff line, they will be significant. They're guaranteed to get the wrong two or three people in there every time. Basically, as far as the worldwide ranking points go,

if you're an athlete who's actually competing for a top 100 spot, which is the only thing that matters currently for the allocation of games qualifying spots, you're just buying 1,980 points. You're just paying $50 to get those points added to your total because you're not, you're going to do well enough to earn exactly that many points. Wow. So that, that's the, that's the worldwide ranking for quarterfinals. Obviously it's fun to look at it and it could be because that's a place where

we can say, Oh, all of these people did the test and Madera's fell in their corner. He also had the top five, you know, whatever that, that's a place where we can say, oh, all of these people did the test and Medeiros, Vellner, Cornwall, Leahy, Olsen are the top five. That's a fun thing to do, of course. Outside of the fun thing to do, there's nothing else there. You don't win any money for being first place worldwide. You don't get any special accolades or recognition as being the, you know. I guess there could be you might be the fittest person in your country,

but I don't know if they would pull that from the worldwide quarterfinals or the region quarterfinals when they're distributing that award nine months from now or whatever. So there's small things that matter, but they're really nothing that matters on the worldwide leaderboard that carries on throughout the rest of the season. What matters is the regional leaderboards, which is why it was frustrating that those weren't accessible on the website last night. They are now, and we can talk about those in a great amount of detail. And like I told you guys yesterday, now that four of the five workouts are done, what really we should be focusing in on, obviously we can celebrate great performances, is the cut line for every region. So I want to look at the last 10 or 20 athletes in and the next 10 or 20 athletes out

and then see if there's anything. And in my opinion, that's where the entirety of the effort of the review team should be going. It should not be going to the top 10 on the worldwide rankings overall, unless there's something that's completely ridiculous. But even in the case that there is something that's completely ridiculous. So Caleb, if you, for example, go to men's is something that's completely ridiculous. So Caleb, if you, for example, go to men's leaderboard worldwide rank and sort by workout one, we can immediately see someone who's in second place in this workout. That's named Richard Poveda, whose current ranking after four tests is 2,683, but he was second place worldwide on this workout. His subsequent performances are 4,600, 2,200, and 5,700.

This video must be reviewed because that's such a clear and distinct outlier from the rest. This is the example that you will find with quarterfinal workout number three from last year, and you'll find a dozen people in the top 30 worldwide that have things that look this ludicrous. And for me, it's like- Do you think that there's any way, Brian, that that won't be reviewed? Do you think there's any way? Well, I'll tell you a quick story. I know that there have been reviews for this particular workout for people who had scores under seven minutes.

I don't know if they have reviewed all of them, but it would be hard for me to imagine that you would review Jake Berman's workout, which was originally six 59. And you wouldn't review Richard Povetas who is six 23. So, and if this video was reviewed, Richard Povey does video was reviewed and approved by the CrossFit games team and his other performances are that bad. I then like, I'm completely baffled because the only way you could, you know what that test is,

that test is, is heavy, moderate volume, front squats, descending and weight and high skill gymnastics. Like if you were that good at that test, people do second worldwide, there's no way that you would be outside the top 2000, 4,000 and 5,000 on the other three tests. It's impossible. Unless you're, unless you're,

I, I, unless you were, maybe you were in, unless you were injured, look at his scores. Like he's actually doing scores. He's doing the workouts. You're not just going to be injured and do 11 clean and jerks at 275 pounds or whatever you did. Well, either way, whether you're right or wrong, that needs to be reviewed. How will we know if it's been reviewed? So, well, here's the thing. So Jake Berman had, like I said, had done this workout. He was, his time was 659, his video or 659, which was tied for 11th worldwide. And his video was reviewed. The interesting thing to note here is that Training Think Tank has hired judges, some of whom, many of whom, including his judge,

is a CrossFit Games judge, to come to their facility and judge their athletes to make sure that they're meeting the standards, that they're moving well, etc, etc. And his judge is standing a couple feet away from him and approved this workout. This is a judge that's hired by CrossFit every year to come to the CrossFit Games and judge workouts at the highest level for the best athletes with the most on the lot. So training think think is going out of their way to spend money to make sure that their athletes are doing it right and being judged by someone who's not biased, not one of their coaches. It's a cool thing that they're doing that providing for their athletes. His video was reviewed and he was assessed a one minute and two second penalty,

a major penalty for lack of extension on his front squats. What does that mean? Didn't stand up all the way. Yeah. I haven't seen the video, but I've spoken to some people who have, and they're basically training. Think,

think is outraged by this. Like, are you guys kidding me? Like, this is a guy that you hired to come there that we hired to come here to judge athletes just like this to make sure that this wouldn't happen. And he's standing feet away from him, giving him for the reps and you're reviewing a video from you know 30 feet away because it has to be far enough away to also see my handstand walking distance

and telling me i'm getting a major penalty on this and you're scrutinizing it for that my minutiae of detail but richard poveda's score is here on the leaderboard juan tobon is here on the leaderboard with a seven minute score i've never heard of these guys before. And you're telling me that you're reviewing everyone's workouts like this? The top women's score is also very wrong. And that's why I said it at the onset. One second, Brian. One second.

Caleb, while we're talking about this, can you see if you can find this guy's – Okay, thanks, brother. Okay, go ahead, Brian. Sorry if I threw you off your train of thought. No, no, no. It's totally fine. That's why I said at the start of this conversation tonight that you just have to understand that stuff like that is going to happen.

Obviously, it's frustrating that it happens, but they're going to review certain videos. And what I mean by that is they'll review certain athletes' videos because they did really well on a certain workout. And they'll review other videos, likely, I think, that they'll ask for anyone who has the chance to qualify i think that you have to submit at least two to be reviewed and brian the only reason why we know any of this is because you're you're telling us like is this posted and this is just because you're this this is just you digging around this is just like from your instagram people talking to you you being friends with people at these different facilities yeah yeah this is fucking weird there's as far as

i know helping you can please tell me if i'm wrong cross it hasn't publicized published any lists of penalties i don't think that they will do that in the only chance time that i think they would do that is if the penalties are finalized what i wish wish that they would do is say, we are, you know, as always, we are reviewing videos online. Here's a website that will be kept up to date with the penalties as they're assessed. I think that would be a really helpful and useful resource to have. They did release that last year after it was over. Yeah, they released it afterwards with all of them them not like a rolling one that was continuously updating right yep correct yeah we we need to see um oh i want to do um what what workout is that that we're looking at right now workout one for pavetta i want to just have something uh it's the handstand push-up workout and i should go by men and he's second in the world in this

listed yeah okay uh can we just go to the end and see what his time is and he's second in the world in this? Listed, yeah. Okay. Can we just go to the end and see what his time is? Well, hold on. I mean, that's a no rep right there. His hand was on the tape. And the first kick up is out of the frame of the video. And I think he's about to walk out of the frame of the video again.

We're just going to do this live. We're going to assess him. His hand's on the tape again. It's a no rep. All of these are no reps. You're not allowed to have your hand on the tape? No's a no rep all of these are no reps you're not allowed to have your hand on the tape no now when you kick up your hand also doesn't have a judge visible in the video okay so his hand was on the tape okay let's go and see how long this is yeah that's we're doing hillar's job for him yeah his hands on the tape every time

thank you uh rich rich matthews i appreciate it. You can watch the rest of the show for free, Rich. Anthony, TPA, Brian, why are you so hostile on Saturday night? He's chill. This Richard guy could have gotten the bubble gut from Chipotle last night. It's real. Okay, we're at 401. He looks good. We're about to see the fastest hand sample let's go a little uh trevor gentry at this point when hq screws up regardless of what it has to do

with it's honestly not surprising at all i'm sadly not hopeful for improvement but i want to be wrong yeah the opening with the weights being wrong is really hard to come by okay so he should be done in two seconds whoa wait is that where it ends the video oh uh so it's 6 23 so oh and that's what it is okay so now someone would just need to go through and count his reps but but we do know that the handstand walk was was wrong right you know that put your hands on the tape we saw that at least three times yeah he's outside of the frame of the video which is an invalid video submission on its own uh brian is absolutely feet are outside the hands

during the handstand push-ups yeah what's that mean? The width of the feet. That means right now. He's asking what the abbreviation is. It means I'm a nurse. All right. Well, you and Cam, now we have two nurses on the show. That's cool. Male nurses.

Brian is absolutely cooking. I don't think cooking means he's on a roll, right? This is good. We're learning all sorts of shit. It's's weird that um well i do want to see all the penalties how long before we get to see all those has anyone talked to berman does he want to call in and explain to us what happened i'd love to know that would be great this is actually exactly what happened last year i remember him and noah knew that yeah and we talked to him about it remember that someone in the car? And they,

I think what Noah said was something like, well, yeah, just go, go as fast as you can flirt the lines and accept your penalty. You're still going to do better than most people. I mean, even with the penalty is like 50 something in the world on the workout.

But Berman is. Yeah. Yeah. I can get them on the, I can get them on here if you want. Sure. Yeah. It would be cool.

Let's find out what happened. Let's, let's see. Let's hear his, if, if, let's. Yeah, it would be cool. Let's find out what happened. Let's see if we can see the video. We will be the judge. While we do that, similar, but the woman that did it actually put out why hers is wrong. The top woman on Workout One stated that she incorrectly submitted her tiebreaker score as her final score. one stated that she incorrectly submitted her tiebreaker score as her final score so i would believe that crossfit is just gonna change that one but they haven't yet and it's and it's and then this is a like a case of um why haven't they changed it yet it's the top score for one of the workouts she's already owned up to the air like what are they doing over there how can they not be aware of that unless she's just putting it on her instagram and not telling crossfit but if she's i mean look

there were people that i know last year who emailed crossfit with regards to quarterfinal workout three and said hey i screwed that up you got to change my score it never changed never changed and that's that's gonna be a dinner right now seven maybe he'll come on after it's gonna be a piece we don't mind we don't tell him we don't mind what's up guys he might mind he might mind what's up dinner these fucking guys eat food out of a little plastic container that they put they keep stacked in their car in a cooler he's like on plastic container three for the day um okay let let's go what region do you want to start with uh earlier brian said he wanted to look at and i think it's a good idea one to look at uh the

the cut lines for these regions we only have one i sent you guys a screenshot that pulls out the bubble athletes in every uh region that i saw uh so basically there's only one workout left. A lot of athletes have already done it. Correct. Okay. But have they submitted their scores? Can they submit their scores? They can, but they're not on the leaderboard yet. Okay.

So all of this is, first of all, I mean, there's always a possibility that a penalty has changed a score or something. But these were from a couple hours ago. I pulled these. he has changed a score or something but these were from a little you know a couple hours ago i pulled these and these are just athletes that jumped off the page to me of athletes who are by region outside of the current cut line and and um and this are these all these aren't all european how are these divided the ones in red are from north america east like it says the ones oh north america west there's a lot of them from Europe. And I wasn't intending to do this, but it just became too obvious and I felt like I had to

do it. Why are there so many from Europe? Do you know, Savan, from spending enough time with me? Because there's so many good guys in Europe. Because there's just as many good athletes in Europe as there are in North America, but North America gets twice as many spots that are allowed to advance to the next round so you're gonna have just a ton of men and a ton of women that are 60 through 100 61 through 100 that that i believe are more than fit enough to be competing in the semi-final stage of competition if you're going to allow up to 120 total men and women in north america to also do that. Is John Young,

did John Young, is John Young killing it? Probably. He's, I'm sure he's done well on a couple of the workouts. He's going to the semifinals. Like, is he in the top 60?

No, he did really well today. He made up like a thousand spots today. And you put, so Willie Georges is out. Willie George is out. Well, not is out well not necessarily if we go oh john young is out as fuck ten thousand sorry john i love you ten thousand he's toast right with one workout left yeah john's not making the semi-final 338th in his region so yeah wait how could you be ten thousandth in in the world? Those are points. Those are points. He's 1,900 in the world.

Ah, okay. 338 in his region. Okay. That's not bad. But if you look at Willie George, and actually this would be a great time to look at Halpin's spreadsheet as well, you can see that, okay, that was a typo on my part. He's either 84th or 83rd. He's not 843rd.

Okay. So I mistyped that. And because it's a TH, I'm going to assume he should have either 84th or 83rd he's not 843 okay so i i mistyped that and because it's a th i'm gonna assume he should have been uh 84th um but he was like 183rd yesterday and so he he's moved up basically uh 50 spots with each workout since yesterday and if he's able to even move up half of that many tomorrow then he'll be right on the brink. I'm looking down all the way to see where he's on page two. Damn. Well, yeah, everyone on this, everyone on this,

except for the Australian or the oceanic guys will be on page two of their respective competitive regions leaderboard. But the, but for Willie, I would, I mean, Mike could show us by event that he's consistently climbing the charts. Who's Harry Lightfoot? Just a competitor in Europe. Have we ever seen him before? He's in sixth. He's in sixth place right now, Harry Lightfoot.

Crazy. Okay, so those are the bubble guys. I didn't see any too big a names in there. I mean, that's a great call by you, Savant. Harry Lightfoot is a name that I'm familiar with, but he's never done anything this good in a competitive competition. In quarterfinals the last two years, he was 251st and 129th in Europe. So to be sixth place worldwide in Europe right now is a remarkable improvement from anything we've seen from him previously.

You think he's gotten better this year? Probably. Oh, you think he's a Native American? You think he's an American, like a Native American competing in England? I mean, how the fuck is his name Harry Lightfoot? That seems like a very British name to me. Harry Lightfoot? Yeah. I feel like there's names like that all over the English Premier League. British.

Oh, no shit? Alright. Oh, he looks like Zach Tillander, kinda. Alright, he's a hoss. Where are you looking? Please tell me you're not looking at his games profile. No, I'm looking at his Instagram here. I'll show you guys. Sorry, I'm just being selfish over here. Here we go.

Here's Harry. Look, Amy Kringle follows him. And his scores were great. This isn't a fluke, right? All his scores were top 50. Yeah, top 42 on everything. Yeah, it's good. He's young. He's 24, so it's like... Look, he's in front of an American flag with a Rodman shirt.

I'm sticking with Native American, Brian. I got five on it. Look at Rodman jersey in front of American flag. Okay, go ahead. Sorry, one thing is what? The one thing that's potential, and I haven't checked to see this, is that maybe because he's younger, maybe he's new to the sport, maybe he was just getting hammered by the other total

and the four-rep max front squat the last two years, and it was offsetting some good performances on Metcons. But this year where there's still some heavy tests, but there's nothing that's you know one rep max test he might be able to avoid something like that and do a lot better i mean i would still say this is a an extremely notable improvement you can tell right there that brian friend crossfit is aware of harry lightfoot he liked his post he did? You saw it down there? And this is this year. And he was at, well, yeah, okay. On a team?

It looks like he's on a team. Yeah, he's on a team with Willie George. That makes sense because when I went to his games profile, I was like, I think this guy's a team athlete, but he doesn't have any team experience in the CrossFit Games season, but he did at Wadapalooza. Do we want to look at the individual leaderboards and like just scroll around i'd like to do that for the um men in north america not that i don't trust your list yeah definitely

there might be some names that jump off you to uh to you guys that didn't to me can we can we look at that like 50 the second page uh caleb of the men um after uh you know overall four workouts and by the way just to like just to give you one data point from europe over the past two years there was a guy that finished uh eighth at a european semi-final two years ago and then the following year he was uh one spot out of making it to the semis you know because he didn't he finished like 63rd or fourth or fifth or whatever the last cutoff was that didn't get a backfill invite to semis and it's like man like that guy's top 10 one year in semifinals he misses by a couple spots like who knows what happens if he makes it this year to the semis yeah look at

this guy's name could you rank them in order right after you click that guy's name yeah look at that selvan that guy spells his name fucking wrong okay uh and then just cruise us over to page two okay well let's look at this top 10 real quick uh jeffrey adler down pepper samwell corn why i know olsen tyler christopher jack farlow spencer panchick jason hopper roman krennikoff james sprague let's stop at sprague and talk about how he's doing okay so all the guys that i didn't know are gone these are the top 10 in north america only yeah these are all my homies okay yeah and basically North America only. Yeah. North America. Okay. Yeah. And basically we're expecting helping projections expect 12 spots. And so if you look at this leaderboard, everyone who's in the top 12,

like you would not be surprised if I said, these are the 12 that made it to the games. Yeah. These are all my friends, except for Jason Hopper. I know all these dudes. I know, but if you go,

you know, further down from there and, and you know, you see a bunch of other guys that if you, I told know, further down from there and, and you know, we see a bunch of other guys that if you, I told you they made the games, you wouldn't necessarily be that surprised. How old is Mark Kwan? I mean,

he has been around longer than me. Yeah. I mean this, well, I don't think that's true, but he's been competing for a long time. And when I look at, you know,

these are obviously incredible scores. I haven't seen anything from Mark Kand Jones in the last couple of years that would make me think that he's competitive in a semifinal to get to the games. It doesn't mean that he can't do it, but I think that there are a lot of other guys that will outperform him when the semifinals roll around. But,

but he's going to, but you're going to, he's going to, I mean, mathematically he's going to the semifinals pretty much. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.

No, no surprise about that. He's definitely one of the 60 best guys in his competitive region. It's just I would say he's more like 20th to 30th instead of 10th to 15th. Okay. Griffin Raleigh was on the demo team last year. Keep going. Let me know if you've seen a young guy.

Oh, look, there's Nate Ackerman. How's he? That's the kid, right? Yeah, he's doing kid right great he's very young benoit boulanger is he we've talked about him a few times right above that that's um caroline lambre's coaches him she you know uh she also coaches jeff adler obviously and how long has she been coaching that dude years years he's been uh competing at wadapalooza he's been doing better and better in semifinals over the past two years i think that he is a top like a top 20 guy in this region for sure with outside chance to make the games nate ackerman this is a great performance for him 21st

year um he was something like 250th last year in north america remember they were combined they only took 120 so we could extrapolate this and say he's somewhere about 40th or something. So he's made it, you know, he's doing a lot better. Is he the youngest male who's doing great in the CrossFit space? Hold on.

I want to talk about Ben law real quick before you go. No. Who's the younger guy doing better? Who's the younger guy? Victor Hoffer is just as old as him and is doing remarkably better. Okay. By the way, just so you guys know, Benoit Boulanger is probably Jeffrey Adler's saving grace. His wife is his coach, and she's probably breathing down his fucking neck so hard all the time.

And Benoit is like, when she talks to Benoit, he's probably like, oh, fuck. Thank you. If you keep going down a couple more spots, you'll see Alexander Caron, perennial games athlete. Alex Smith, is he a serious contender, or is he a model who's trying to stay in shape? down a couple more spots you'll see alexander caron you know perennial games athlete alex smith is he serious contender or is he uh a model who's trying to stay in shape he's i think he's planning to compete on a team with ben this year so he you know so there's that i bet i bet they don't go something happens knocks them off well it's not i mean look it's not great they had to withdraw from wadapalooza because of an injury to Alec, and Ben's now pulling out of quarterfinals because of something that's bothering him.

Is Dane in the mix? Is he part of the team? He's on my bubble watch. I think he's in 62nd in the North America East right now. I don't know if he's the alternate on their team or not. It would make sense that he would be, unless it's just too difficult for him to compete with the job that he has. Dennis Samson off or is that does that mean he got the exemption because i see his name on there because he's not american right

he did get the exemption and you know he was one of the athletes who was unable to travel to europe last year so it makes a lot of sense that he would get the exemption this year to asia excuse free ellie we should start a free ellie uh where where did the liberals go? Change.org. Free Ellie. Anthony Vorachak. Don't know him. Good name. Strong name. Yeah. I mean, he's been around for a while as well.

Solid competitor. You know, make the semifinals. This Sevlon guy, is this someone I could get behind? Can I? Yeah, what the fuck is that? I don't know him at all. Oh, too old, too old, too old. Can't invest in him.

Skip past Luke Parker. He made up a lot of ground yesterday. He was in the 90s, and he jumped up in the 30s here. Oh, what's the workout tomorrow? Go ahead. Yeah, it's 21.59 of deadlifts at increasing weight and increasing difficulty of upper body pulling. 21 chest-to-bars, 15-bar muscle-up, and 9 rope climbs.

Is Luke going to take that? Well, he'll be fine on that. I mean, you look at his scores there, the 124th, you know, the high- high skill gymnastics, that's not like that bad of a score. 142nd, a lot of the mayhem athletes struggled with this workout relative to the other ones. You know, I don't know if that's just that they're all not that good at the sink crossovers or whatever, but 25th on the lifting workout yesterday, uh, and 27th on this. So the barbell is not going to be an issue. And I think that his upper body pulling will outperform his upper body pressing from the first workout. And no Dane is in 62nd and not their alternate.

I wonder who the third dude is on the team. I wonder if Ben takes me back. I might be able to tell you can sometimes tell who the alternates are. I'll look. Ben wrote back to me, are you spending some time on the leaderboard? Because I asked him nine reps. All right.

It doesn't sound like he's injured. So that's good. Okay, keep going down. Let's see. Keep going, keep going keep going we might have to we might just jump to page two here in a minute thank you uh georgiana brain uh ben sexton okay uh is he related to nate sexton the great uh frisbee golfer not that i know of okay uh next Next 50, Mr. Beaver. Halpin looks like Napoleon Dynamite's brother.

Oh. Okay. I don't recognize anyone's name in 50 through 58. Keep going a little more. Gary Jones is maybe a notable guy there. He won the Masters Fitness Collective 30-34 division last year. You don't care? I mean, I couldn't find it.

Dane Smith. There's Alex Vigneault. We saw him in 163rd yesterday. So very similarly to Willie George, he made up 100 spots in one day. Wow. It's weird to see a guy right like this on the bubble who at some point could have been considered a podium contender at the CrossFit Games. I don't know if he was ever a podium contender, but he was certainly a contender for top ten at the Games multiple years. All right.

Thanks for ruining my story. Please continue down, Beaver. alright thanks for ruining my story please continue down Beaver Jason Ray, Jeffrey Verdon Zane Benjamin alright good luck to all you guys down here I don't recognize a single one of you

I know a bunch of you guys alright can we cruise over to the ladies so so this is north america east yeah and and and that is the hardest uh spot for men and women in north america uh i would i think that the numbers show that it's a deeper field than north america west if that's what you're asking yes why. Why can't you say harder? For men or women? Because it might not, depending on the number of spots that are allocated, even though it's a deeper field, it might be easier to qualify.

You know, if they have 13 spots compared to eight, and the top end of the men's field in the West is extremely heavy, then you're going to have very, very little hope or room for error to get in. Whereas in North America East, even though it's a deep field with five or six extra spots to play for, we have to wait and see how that shakes out. If it ends up being 12 and 10, then I would say that it's harder in the East. Mallory O'Brien, Brooke Wells, Gabriella Magawa, Ariel Lowen, Laura Horvat, Annika Greer. Annika Greer, surprised to be up here in sixth? She submitted her scores.

I mean, look, she was doing great on the quarterfinals workouts last year that she did submit. I would say regardless of that, we're looking at the worldwide. Regardless of that, these performances are exceptional, yeah. She got wrecked at Wadapalooza, right? She didn't look so good?

Was she there? Where did we see her get wrecked? Or was that Dubai? Somewhere she got wrecked at uh wadapalooza right she didn't look so good was she there where did we start get wrecked or was that dubai somewhere she got wrecked rogue oh rogue she got wrecked there right yeah she didn't yeah she didn't do as well as uh a lot of people had thought okay uh so one more time uh north america east mal o'brien brookwell's annika greer third off man i, she's hanging with some bosses. Emma Lawson, Daniel Brandon, Alexis Raptus, Amanda Barnhart, Emma Carey, Fisa Goffey. I don't know who that is. Carolyn Stanley. We've talked about her.

I think I want to say that either Patrick or I wrote about her even as someone to watch this year. JR knows her well. The Fergie show, Annika Greer has a world-class dump truck. Oh, right. I was like, she's into cars. Kyra Milligan, Sydney Wells, McKenna Enslin. Someone sent me something about her today I don't know her either

I didn't know her either but I have a bunch of notes on her now we should get Annika Greer on the show she's one of the best guests we had you know she could be on here with us that was also wasn't that also this time last year but it was before the score submission issue

yeah Hiller brought her on without asking. That kind of pissed me off, but she kind of hit it out of the park. She's a go-getter and honest, right? What about McKenna Enslin, Brian? Follows Misfit Training. Trains with Paige Semenza on the weekends. Has not redone any of the workouts. Competitive gymnastics and cheerleading background.

She's currently in her last year of PT school. She drives back and forth 75 minutes to train at crossfit vertex five days a week vertex cross the dog uh uh let me see this um there was something in here that you guys need to see a comment uh-oh i hope this is just bullshit. Brian Halpin and Caleb, she a dance. She a beautiful... She... Thank you. She dance with her beautiful hair. Emma Lawson mentioned a shoulder injury. I hope she's okay.

Maybe, Beaver, we could go to her... Oh, Halpin, let me see your iPhone case. Oh, I thought we had the same one. Okay. I hope that's um i hope that's not true uh oh shit brian just corrected sebon's english only 72 times a show what do you mean oh shit uh okay oh caleb's already off onto that other uh search me too i didn't see anything on her instagram okay kaylor you are caleb you are truly remarkable at what you do by the way thanks you're welcome it's sorry you know what's up and so are you thank you shit how been you're going to be remarkable at what you do someday. I see it.

My spreadsheets are just waiting for their time. Your spreadsheets are money. They're far from remarkable. Caleb, where are we at? I still want to look at like 50 through 70 of the ladies in the East. I think we're doing good for time. I think we can do this for all the regions. Okay. Sidney Wells,, um, okay.

Uh, Sydney Wells, uh, Enslin, uh, Jordan, uh, Paige powers, but what's going on here?

We happy with this? She's got top five on three workouts there. She just, yeah, this is one of those situations that I was alluding to yesterday. And it doesn't look as obvious when you only have two tests, but when you have four tests, you can say like, okay, well, obviously there's something wrong with the second test like this is

not reflective of her fitness in the same way that the others are and so it's very much like what i think mike was talking about last night with tia at the games you're not going to look at her speed skill madly score and say oh my god she's losing it her touch like it was a executioner it was a nuance of that workout. That's kind of annoying that she didn't execute well. So she takes the worst finish she's had in however long. And we look at, you know, like I said, a lot of the mayhem athletes were struggling with this. I thought that they, the mayhem athlete scores, the ones that did it on site, there's so many of them were so bad relative to everything else that they did that I thought they might've miscounted

the crossover reps because I miscounted the reps and then I redid it and I did a full round better. And so if, you know, if they were miscounting them and they were all getting six plus rounds instead of five plus rounds, that would make a lot more sense. But it turns out they were just struggling with this movement for whatever

reason. Look at that name, everyone, Paige powers and look at that score fourth, first and third. If she would have taken 48th place on that second workout, she'd be best in the world right now. She'd be winning the fucking Open.

Well, that's not true. Ahead of Mal O'Brien. It is true. I did the math. This is not the Open, first of all. That's the first problem. The second problem is Mal has 16 total points. No, no.

I thought she had 59. These rankings are only for the North America East region. So in this region, Mal has 16. If we look at the worldwide rankings, Paige's scores will be a lot lower. Oh, God. You screwed up my whole story. I was just getting so high on my Paige Powers. Okay.

Let me – 16 points. So that's eight. Listen, people. Okay. Let me, let me, uh, 16 points. Uh, so that's a listen, people look at this name, page powers. If she would have done gotten seventh place, which would have been her worst workout in the first four quarterfinal workouts.

So good so far. Yep. If she would have gotten seventh in that, she'd be beating Mal O'Brien. Don't sleep on page, man. Don't sleep on page, man. Don't sleep on page. Yeah, I blame

her judge, too. He was her judge. Oh. No, it says Bailey Rail. Yeah, but you know. Oh, okay. Okay. Roran Scott doing great. Roran is the athlete with the most viral CrossFit video

in the history of the sport. Brilliant where the bar, I don't know. It's got to be seen again somewhere, but it's the one the bar fell. That was at semifinals last year. She almost put me to work. Yes, she did. Tori Dyson, been around forever. Former training partner of Katrin David's daughter.

I think she's over at Comp Train. She's the original muscle hamster. I think Brian and I met her together for the first time in Albany, maybe together. Maybe. Okay. Caleb, can you unblock Mark Moss? Who's that?

Yeah. Oh, shit, Caleb. Oh, shit. That's not even the lift I was talking about. She got one of those two in the bank. Here we go, go people 230 pounds god this chick's incredible we're gonna get in trouble for this where is this thank you good pause here we go people

most famous lift in crossfit games affiliate history here we go people most famous lift in crossfit games affiliate history here we go oh my god close sorry sorry close it's worth it it's worth it it's worth it oh they have, she's got a girl's motivation video. Oh, maybe they're not going to show it in the girl's motivation video. They need to. Nevermind. That's it. Oh,

um, I wish I knew what this was in reference to Cherish talks making fun of how someone talks reminds me of middle school we can do so much better than that yeah make fun of their nose or their size of their hog or something that their mom still dresses them okay let's go back to the list good job caleb

single-handedly people this is not easy what caleb's doing juggling juggling content pulling it up from the worldwide web the world's largest library our world's largest archive aurora's got any chance brian tell me about her any chance this one helping she can she go to the games she's never been to the games right no um she's not and does she have a chance i would say it's very small uh okay she hasn't shit the bed on any of these 90 seconds not bad right no it's for this region saying it's yeah but but nevertheless it's you know it's a workout that uh if i'm looking at this and i'm assessing her you know what she's done so far in the in the uh this competition that's the one that i would be okay with her having a like if it was

90 second i work out one or three or four it'd be more concerning to me about our chances to make the game than work out to jesse here i got something for you right here okay uh let's keep going i just unblocked mark moss by the way who is mark moss how did he get blocked some a wrench block he's about he's about to say something oh no that guy's cool the someone must have blocked him on accident that guy's a red he actually he he is a cool guy. Saban, I showed my black cock in the side chat we have. Bet you were, isn't it? Shut the fuck up. Please keep scrolling down.

Haley, get me that photo from the private chat, please. Jessica Kaligian, Armenian girl. Any chance she's going? I mean, I've heard she competed on Mayhem for the third team, Justice last year, and I heard that she's rounding into some pretty good form this season, so

she's one that I'm excited to see when semifinals come around. Paige Semenza, games athlete? Definitely. Definitely good chance to make it to games, yeah. Alrighty. I see Lexi Neely, Nicole Gibson-Burke. Shelby Neal, you like her, right? You mention her name every once in a while.

Yeah, definitely should keep an eye on her this year at semis. Carolyn Prevost. Yeah, but the cool thing about Carolyn Prevost is what's the thing that she's always been worst at? Double unders. Good memory. Okay, thank you. She's always struggling on double under workouts.

Well, she was 15th in her region on this crossover workout, so she's pretty happy about the different jump rope standard, I would say. All right, good on her. Carolyn Spencer? She's competing on a team this year, but otherwise she would be in the conversation for the games. It's Ben Smith's team. Adia Fish, Sarah Hogue, Calista Lang, Jordan Malm,

Ashley Schumacher. That's the Brute Strength Podcast guys, Jake? Yeah, but she's also going team this year. Kira Napoli, Logan Filolus, Allison Stahl. Allison, that's two l's please i could talk about number 43 okay let's do it matt oh uh we saw her somewhere she was at the semi-final two years ago it wasn't she wasn't somewhere soon uh more recently than that uh

wadapalooza or dubai No. And she trains with Mike Halpin. They're training partners, I think. She's a little too tall. She's a little too tall, Mike. She's a little too tall for a games athlete. I'll put myself on that level. Her coach is Sam Briggs. Oh.

She trains out of the affiliate that I've been kicking around for a little bit. Her and Ashley... I'm going to say her last name wrong. I think it's Giroux. Giroux. Yeah, there we go. She's up the list a little bit. Yeah, I've been watching both of them this week as they compete. Maggie's pretty excited to try to get back to semifinals here.

She missed last year because of some injuries. I wonder how that dude, Mark, if you get banned on accident, how you get back in, like, how do you find someone to unfuck you? It's the group chat.

Power of the group chat. Oh, uh, thoughts on Luke Parker's quarter, uh, final performance so far. Oh buddy, that was so fucking 15 minutes ago.

It's doing fine. All he needs to do is get to the semifinal. I would say that, based on what we've seen from Luke Parker at the Fittest Experience through the Open and the quarterfinals, that even if you asked him, I would think he hasn't performed as well as he was hoping to

do. But all that matters for him is that semifinal weekend and he's in a solid position to get there and then we'll see this girl looks young um she looks like you know who she kind of looks like uh she looks like a young michelle kinney you remember her yeah okay uh keep uh scrolling down here we go We're getting close to the bubble. That's where we want to be. We want to be on the bubble. We want... Okay, let's do it.

Page dos. Sorry, ladies, I'm not ignoring you, but we got a lot of people to go through. Daniel Peran. Oh, I recognize that name, too. Is that a different Peran? It's Dana Peran. Who?

No, it's not. Oh, it's not? This is Dana Paran, I think. Danny Haran is a lot older than 27. I think this is Dana Paran that we saw compete at Dubai this year, who has the Olympic weightlifting background. Yeah. And she did second to Cara Frey over on the strength tests there.

I get her. I mean, that's why you look at, look at her lifting their second place. And a three 46 is one of the best times in the world. And basically she's shown that she can compete with some of the best in the world on these, these types of tests.

Amanda Fisher, Jessica Schwartz. She was on some sort of, on one of my Tyler Watkins fitness even though every time I tell it to you you don't believe me but she was on one of my teams I picked her because of her last name and I don't recognize

any of these other people let me see take a stab at number 57 Nina what's her name? Vragovich that was pretty good Faith Stewart What's her name? Vragovic. Okay. That was pretty good. Faith Stewart. Bailey Bentley.

Yeah, but as we said, there's a lot of athletes, especially in this region that we've gone through, who will be not a lot, but probably a half dozen, at least a half a dozen that are competing on team. So presumably they won't be factored in or they will decline their invite uh north america west let's cruise over to the boys you good with this brian uh mike yeah i mean basically i don't how come we didn't see colton how come we didn't see colton because he's in the west

he doesn't live in georgia no iowa iowa that's right um no but basically i don't think that there are that many athletes in north america because of how many spots they get that would be relevant in the semi-final if they made it there they will miss the semi-final we obviously have one case study of the of that that not being the case with Bailey rail from two years ago, but outside of that, I think it's, it's pretty unlikely that you miss someone in North America because of how wide they're casting the net relative to the number of spots that you're

going to miss someone who would possibly make the games. I do think that there's a better chance of that happening in Europe. Oh, what about a Fusli here? Uh, Rebecca Fusli. We're on the men's leaderboard. Was she on the east or she west?

West. Oh, good. This is cool. People I like are still have a chance. Okay. Justin Medeiros. Dude, these are, this is, oh, second, first, second, first. This is just in this region, though.

This isn't the world. Patrick Belner. A guy I'd never heard of until Brian started throwing his name around recently. Bill. Bill Leahy. Yeah. Everything that I've seen from him, everything that I've heard from him, everyone I've spoken to makes me feel that this guy is the real deal. And I think that he will be well in contention for a game spot at the semifinal.

I mean, I still have him inside my top 40 in the worldwide rankings. Do you know what he did before CrossFit, what his sport is? We might have a note of it somewhere. I don't remember offhand, and I don't want to misspeak on his behalf. Nick Matthew, Cole Greyshaber. Greyshaber. Yep, him, Greyshaber. Jack Rosemaugh. uh nick matthew cole gray shaber grease saber yep him grease saber uh jack rosema uh mitchell stevenson do i know mitchell stevenson yeah for sure he was the fifth place in the 2018 uh uh regional in california that we were at there was pretty competitive and he snuck in

there at the last spot um you know he was very close to making it last year i can't remember if he finished maybe seventh uh eighth at the mid at the mid-atlantic no man bun eight and then six uh he has at some points in his career i'd longer hair scott tetlow chandler smith brent fikowski cole sager matt poolen uh louise oscar mora oh mexico is north america all right that makes sense uh philip Matt Poulin, Luis Oscar Mora. Oh, Mexico is North America. All right, that makes sense. Phillip Muscarella, Colton Mertens. There he is. All right, show's over.

Any concerns with Colton? Is Colton going to the games? So we're looking at North America West. I'm expecting nine or ten spots to go. So if you just look at all of the people ahead of him, basically all of the people in the top 10, I think that seven of those 10 will make it to the games. Cole Sager is probably eight.

So if Colton's going to make it, he's going to have to get one of the last two spots in. But when you start looking down the leaderboard a little bit further, you also see guys like Tudor Magda and Sam Quant. So it's going to be extremely challenging to make it, I think, this year. Because Sam Quant's going. I mean, he has this, Sam Quant has this pattern of being like, amazing, something happens, amazing, something happens. So he was obviously amazing last year.

I hope that he can start stringing some consistent years together, but yeah, when I'm looking at this leaderboard for, um, semifinals, I will have probably have Sam quant ranked fourth, third or fourth. Um, Ryan, uh,

nuts. And is that a real name? Probably. Uh, Knutson, uh, Seve, uh,

Colton isn't tall enough to ride the ride. That's pretty clever. Brian, how many workouts will be at the semifinals? Is that for sure? Yeah. And how do you know that? I don't know that that's confirmed. Okay.

He probably got it from the morning chalk up. He probably got it from the morning chalk up. It's going to be in Georgia and Alabama. Did you see the morning chalk? I've got a new editor. Your boy, Joe is not new. He's been there longer than anyone else who's been there.

Well, there's some sort of announcement there. He's in a, he's, he's in a role that he's been in before, but he had not been in two days ago. And now he is, which is basically that he's the editor of the newsletter, like the chief editor.

Is that the most senior position you can have there? Outside of like an owner, I think. Yeah. So he's the big dog now, this guy. Good God, Caleb. Managing editor, Joe Palawa. Joe Johnson Palawa. Why does he have a hyphenated name? You want to have him on the show and you can ask him? Joe Jeniton Palawa.

You think that's his wife's name and his name? I'm not sure. Caleb's saying no. We'll begin leading the Morning Chalk of Editorial Team as its managing editor, though his name may be new to some, our audience of our audience. Joe is all but new to our team. Okay. It's just what Brian said. Okay. Thank you, Brian. We should put together a panel. Maybe me, you, Patrick Clark and Lauren Khalil and come on the show and just talk about the

state of affairs of media and the CrossFit space. What do you think? I mean, I've specifically told you no. Can't you fake it a little bit? No one knows that. Can't you be like, well, it's what everyone knows. Let me see if we can get that. I had been privately contemplating changing my answer to yes, but now that you put me on the spot publicly, I'm punished.

Definitely yes. my answer to yes but now that you put me on the spot publicly i'm gonna i'm definitely yes uh uh chris uh besterfield fancy titties uh thank you it's the shirt um and uh mike uh seven's been hitting rails all day or what just on at the skate park uh just at the skate park okay um where were we before i got uh derailed isn't there supposed to be something on the screen that prompts me we were looking at uh west uh it is interesting let's go let's talk about quant being down there and tutor tutor magda um they they have to you're so sorry let's see the top seven again brian uh just to get catch you guys up where we were five minutes ago brian's saying about seven to eight seven or eight guys he thinks are going to make

it after the worldwide ranking figures out who's going to go from this region. Nine or ten. I think they'll get nine or ten spots. Okay. So we know Justin, Patrick, Nick, Matthew. We'll throw Billy in there. Let's throw Greyshaber in there. That's five.

I dropped on to Smith, Fikowski, and Sager. Okay. Chandler, Fikowski. Okay. Keep going. That's eight. And then if you throw Magda. No, that's seven, and Sager. Okay, Chandler, Fikowski. Okay, keep going. That's eight. And then if you throw Magda and Quant. No, that's seven. That's seven.

Sager also. Okay, Sager. Okay. Magda and Quant. Now you're at 10. And it's possible they won't get 10 spots. Okay, keep going a little bit. Keep going.

Let's see how far we go down to Tudor, Magda, and Quant. Okay. And then is there anyone else down below them that's fucking dangerous? Okay. So Colton's going to ward out with one of these ding-dongs at the bottom. Well, they could get 10 spots. That would be good for him. But what I have been saying and what I think is kind of well-known about the men's division,

specifically in the West, is it's very top-heavy. All of those people that I set, there's not a single one of those people that we listed off that you'd be like that guy doesn't belong at the games you'd be like no i want i want to see every one of those guys at the games let me i think uzman's done too by the way i think fucking he's toast i think he should just sail off somewhere oh my god did you watch the fight today holy shit holy shit you watched it no listen i i want you guys to know something brian please don't screw this up like you screwed up my um page powers i want you to know something about colton mertens look at the top 10 guys again look at those guys if you had good if you had money and you had to bet and the bet was pick anyone on this list that you're a hundred that I'm

going to give you a thousand dollars. And you can pick one guy who's going to take first place in one of the semifinal workouts. Your money has to go on Colton, not Justin Medeiros, not Patrick Vellner, not fucking Chandler Smith, not fucking any of these guys,

not Fikowski. It's Colton Merton. So on one hand, Brian's counting them out or saying he's going to be in the bubble. But remember, he's most likely to win an event out of all of these guys who will be at the

semifinals. Drew, are you ready? Do you want me to debunk that or do you want me to just let you get away with it? No, debunk that shit. You can't. He's a boss. I can't? No, he's guaranteed. There's going to be two workouts that are in You can't. He's a boss. I can't? No, he's fucking guaranteed. There's going to be two workouts that are in his wheelhouse. He's dangerous.

He's the only snake with true venom out of the group. I wish I had enough time to accurately debunk you here, but we'll try to do it in a quick manner. Look at Newtons in the house. Isn't't newton a guy that isn't that one of the guys we were just talking about well you you pronounced his name most likely incorrectly once and you've done it again i mean i'm not sure but i think it's knutson okay colton isn't a river in he's trying to make a denial joke no seven might be right about this in the last two years at semifinals colton merton says three event wins however this year the semifinal fields will be twice as competitive as they've been before

um so we'd have to go you know we'd have to check and see how what other people have three event wins over the last two years that are in that well you're saying any semifinal or just specifically his i'm just saying this this is it right here i don't even talk millennial talk but this is some twitter bullshit right here ryan oak says it short king brian is high colton for the win i think if he i think if he put colton for the win in the middle he could have a good haiku there i know what the fuck is that that is such okay here we go i'm open tetlow's greater than mertens don't block me zebby i know i'm i'm a fucking let me tell you if i if if i had to pick a tetlow's a bowling ball dude he's a fucking he's a freight train i'm game i love some tetlow i i would love to get on the tetlow train i hope he fucks shit up there yeah i just want to i want to invest wisely i mean i'd love to get behind the jew

scroll down the the gold bomb dude but i just don't think he's going to go back to like 20th place second i'd like to get behind that dude where oh yeah uh roldan gold bomb 19th fucking mexican jew i'd love that but i just can't invest the energy in him and then he fucking shits the bed did you read up about him on the morning chat? No. How's he doing? Is he good? Does he have a chance?

I did a profile of him. Oh. I'll go over there. I'll go over there. I could get brainwashed and start liking him on accident. Okay, keep going. I saw some names down there I want to talk about. Let's keep going a little bit.

Daniel. Wait, wait. That guy Daniel on 21st is interesting uh to me chrissy bar is a little interesting to me young guys you should separate that guy's name a little bit more you shouldn't say it so fast which 24 you it's not like you said chrissy barra like it's a girl chris yeah yeah that's good. Yeah. Drake Lewis.

31st. Leonel Franco. 33rd. Also guys. Interesting to me. Logan, Logan Ewing, 36 guys. I'm training with Roman.

Wait a second. Leonel Franco is a fucking American. Yeah. He was in Dubai. We covered him at the Zalos games. Oh, I hope he doesn't make it. His name is so hard for me to say.

Leonel. Anthony Davis is in this region as well he's down in 48th he's probably got scores all over the board actually he's only got one bad score which is on the first workout anthony davis you know he's in 48th but i hope he makes it i hope he makes it i mean it's you know the problem for is it him is that it's so you know it being as competitive as it is specifically, it's somewhat depending on the programming. Like there are things that could pop up that would just eliminate him because he's going to take such a low finish on him. But on like 90% of things, he's probably good enough to compete. And he is another guy that would be worth betting on to win one event at the semifinal.

I agree. I agree. Something. Probably more likely than Colton a semifinal. I agree. I agree. Something probably more, probably more likely than Colton. Easy, easy. Not true. Hey,

and he could do some weird shit. Like Anthony Davis got pull-ups and he's fucking a giant. Yeah. Muscle ups, pull-ups. I mean, he can, it's the inverted stuff.

So you see him take him hit on that. And I can almost guarantee you, I think he's been working on his handstand walking. I'm sure he gave away a lot of time on the handstand walking relative to the best in the world, but I'm guessing that he really got hung up on those last 20 handstand pushups. Don't turn Anthony Davis upside down. Okay. Before you go to the next page, I want to go back. Didn't forget you, Logan, Logan Ewing. This is Roman Krennikoff's training partner, injured at the Zellos Games. What's the deal here? Mayhem athlete, what's the deal here?

This guy... Once again, my score is on that jump rope workout. He's showing some good strength there, being able to move a heavy barbell well, and I would expect he'll probably do well on workout five. The other scores are okay, but

okay is not going to get it done in this region if you want to go to the games. All right. Let's check out the fifth page too, por favor. Anthony Davis doesn't stand a chance against Colton in pull-ups. Fair. But Anthony Davis is special. I mean, for a big guy, he does some kind of some just remarkable big guy shit before we get

off of it you know the interesting thing about logan ewing he's competing he lives in cookville tennessee he's competing in the west because he has uh uh his family lives in colorado okay and we know that there are some athletes that have kind of played this game of trying to decide which whether north america east or west is going to be more favorable to them yeah And in this case, I'm not sure he's made the right choice. We just talked about how difficult it's going to be to get in in the West and that the East might have three or four extra spots. And even though it is competitive and it is deep, I'm not sure that the top 10 in North America East are better than the top 10 in North America West.

Mike, there's someone in the window back there helping. Back there behind you. Oh you oh no they're gone they went they went around the side of the house they were carrying something oh good okay um alessandro nico uh rankin stewart greg gross clay jason zobot parker justin doing Stewart, Greg Gross, Clay, Jason Zobot, Parker, Justin Dewey. You're going to find one. Oh, Sean Sweeney. There he is. Is that our guy? And he is retired. But, you know,

maybe not. Maybe he's coming back. When does the Roids talk start becoming relevant? Different show. Different show. We got a different guy for Roy. There's a guy for that? You know a guy for that? Yeah, we have a guy.

One of your good friends is an 88. Who's that? Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Oh, Ryan Jevney. Wow, look at that. One of the original people who helped me with the

with the uh podcast good job ryan holy shit i mean he's been uh he's been in a similar spot before just missing just outside of a semi-final um last year he went team made the semi-finals with his team i thought he looked very good relative to his teammates at the workouts that he did there and i asked him if he was going to go individual this year. He said yes. It's not impossible for him to make up this ground, but it's going to be tough. That first workout, not

great. Then he had another poor one on the fourth one. It seems like you can really only afford one. That's not that great. What about who was I going to say? There was some boy I was going to say. Jordy Camerillian?

No. Oh, Jorge Fernandez. So here's the thing. I know he's going team, but are you telling me that if he doesn't do the – he's not going to get worldwide ranking points because he's going team and he won't get points for doing the quarterfinals even though he could kick ass in them? How does that work? Yeah, I don't think he signed up. Helping can verify for sure.

So team people are kind of fucked. Well, no. They just have a choice to make. They can pay $50 to get 1,980 points and do the workouts at 80%, 90% speed, or they could forego those points and focus on their pursuit for the season. When's the next thing that the team's people do? Two weeks. No, one week.

Let me see what Jorge Fernandez is doing. Can we see that? I don't think he's doing anything. I don't think he's participating. At all? I don't think he has any scores on the don't think he's participating. At all? I don't think he has any scores on the board. Oh, I just want to see if he signed up. I want to see if he paid the $50 to get to...

Yeah, I'm saying I don't think he has. He's not listed. Oh, he is doing them? Hitting the Indy queue this week in my voice, but I haven't seen him on the leaderboards. I don't see him on the leaderboard. He sent me a picture of the gym where he's doing the quarterfinals at. Actually, I don't know for sure if he's doing it.

No, he grew up in a border town, and there's a CrossFit gym there. They didn't have a rope in the gym, so they pulled, I don't know, what are those things called? They're like cherry pickers or whatever. It's like one of those machines that like, it's like an accordion underneath, and it goes up high. Yeah. They tied a rope to it, and it's outside in front of the gym, so people can do.

Katie, do you have a bell that goes off as soon as seven mentions you i did not mention her not make her head any bigger than it is katie gannon barely get to a doorway okay oh it's what it's uh look at patrick he knows everything it's his home gym in texas texas he's not doing quarterfinals there uh he's at Invictus. Oh, Scissor Lift. Thank you. Thank you, Scissor Lift. Okay.

Ryan Knutson. I owned an affiliate for eight years and qualified for regionals in 2017. Concerned on V-ups and crossovers being our next step. That's like short talk, millennial Twitter talk. Okay. step some that's like short talk millennial twitter talk um okay i would like to i think we have the women to do in um north america and then uh it looks like we're gonna have time to get this all done pretty quickly here then we'll cruise over to europe where we will see a little more contentious and heated uh brian um because he knows that there's people over there who deserve to go that might not make it deserve. What the fuck does that mean? Okay.

In the West, one of the podcast's all-time favorite human beings, Ariel Lowen, second place. Also love the great Alex Gazan. Kelly Baker. God, that is awesome. Danny Spiegel, another favorite of the podcast. Rebecca Fuseli, another favorite. Faya Moosebruger, we didn't make it out of the honeymoon phase.

Emily Rolfe, fucking legend. Christine Kohlenbrander, savage. Zelos Games had her on the podcast, a true lady. Lauren Fisher, been around since the dawn of time. Olivia Kerstetter, breaks.

Lauren Fisher's not even 30 yet. She's been competing in the sport for a long time. She's got miles. Olivia Kerstetter, what's the deal here? What is she doing? She's doing great. If you look at this, this is exactly what you'd expect

from her. Very gymnastics dense workout. Not that great. Strength workout, number three. Amazing. Second place in her region in the fourth workout. Very impressive. 16th place on the jump rope.

Not bad. But is she going adult, or is she going a child? We'd have to ask her. I think she's going to show up to the semifinals for the adults. And does that mean she's made a decision or no? Yeah, if she does, at that point, I think. I don't even know, man. They changed the rules for that.

She could still do the age group next weekend. Yeah, but if she shows up for semifinals. Oh, yeah, that's it. I think after quarterfinals you have to decide you can't do the online semifinals and uh you can't accept you can't accept an invite to both right you can or can't you cannot i don't think i think by at that's the point you have to decide uh jesse uh mosqueda um i just want everyone to know that jesus did not walk on water. Okay, well, thank you, Jesse.

I always thought that that part was true in the book. I didn't know, but thank you. Okay. There are several firsthand accounts of it. I know, but he's saying you can't take it literally. Another guy actually went out there with him. Oh, that's weird. He has another post here that says Brian takes things too literally. Well, that's why you think

that, Brian. Oh, shit. Halpin, go ahead. I know you, Brian takes things too literally. Well, that's why you think that, Brian. Oh, shit. Halpin, go ahead. I know you have to defend. Go ahead. Did he, Halpin? I said, mention Jesus, and Halpin got all fucking puffy-chested,

pointing his nipples up in the air. Go ahead. Tell us. Did he or did he not walk on water? I'm just saying, there was another guy that also walked on water right next to him. Seriously?

He fell in, though. It's part of the firsthand account. Oh, right. That's the line, he of little faith hand account. Oh, right. That's the like, cause, and that's the line. He of little faith. Yeah. God, that book has some incredible lines in it. It's a top selling book worldwide.

Shit that will last the test of time. Uh, seven, uh, the people need another aerial podcast. Okay. The thing is, uh, I, I'll tell you guys off the air why I can't have Ariel on here too much. I really like her. She's awesome. I like her too much. Just so you know, we're still on there. Oh, shit. Okay.

Allison Weiss, thank you. Allison Scudds, Bailey Rail. Oh, okay. We have another East Coast young lady participating in the West Coast. Okay, before we go any further, I want to go back up to the top. Important to mention, Cindy McElishan. And we're going to play this little game again here. Brian, do the men and the women get the same amount of qualifiers?

There's no guarantee of that, but it will likely be very close. Okay. And you understand why, right? Because it's all predicated on what happened the last two seasons, and those are the regions that had the most opportunity. So they're going to get nine or ten spots. Okay. Right.

And I get why, because it's worldwide ranking and the points are different. And it was, it was kind of a stupid question. I'll take it. I appreciate you being, maybe people who are not clear about that. So it's fine. There might be other dumb people is what you're saying.

I appreciate you being gentle with me. Well, it's not, it's if you don't, if you're not clear what's going on with the worldwide ranking or the strength of field or the allocation of game spots, you are not dumb. Okay. it's just that the system is not is not that easy to understand unless you listen to like us talk about it or spend some time sitting with it and don't if you

don't get it don't worry because it's not going to be here for very long it's not going to be here for very long. It's not going to be here. In some capacity, but it would be, I would be surprised if it wasn't notably different in a few ways next year. Kelly Baker, you should go to her Instagram and see her. Kelly Baker has not been, she hasn't really been trying to compete to make the games for the last couple of years.

She's been competing in CrossFit for the last couple years she's uh been competing in crossfit for a long time she's had some great team accomplishments she frequently competes in guadalupalooza she won the fittest experience this year but she has um in the last several years she's gotten married she's moved and now she's kind of rededicated herself to making this pursuit and i think that she's a great has a great opportunity to make the games this year i think she has a great opportunity to make the games too she could be fucking wonder woman they should make a tv show wonder woman she should be the wonder woman the galga adult can can be the uh movie one and this chick could be the uh tv one who's kelly

baker that post where she's doing the inverted handstand push up there with her hands on the wall. What is that? When is that from? I'm going to use the bathroom while you look at this. What's the date on this? Can we see it three weeks ago? Oh,

she's doing a handstand hold, but why is that? Is that a 10 inch line there? Who knew to have a 10 inch line there three weeks ago? Is this during the open? Must be right. She did. She had just done.

Oh, actually she had just done 23.1 so that's before that was announced anyway just because it seemed to be far back in her feed it caught my eye i think that what uh seven was getting at here is to look at the top 10 from the women's field in the west and to talk about what's the likelihood or how difficult is it going to be to qualify here for these women. And so, you know, we're just going to assume he was going to ask that and go down the list. Lowen, Gazan, Baker, Spiegel, I would say have definitely a good chance to make the games. There are some athletes in this division that I think have better chances than the ones that are currently in the top 10 to make it i mean i would say emily rolf is a great bet um but fusile moose broyer colin brander fisher curse setter all of those are going to have to

contend with women like bailey rail sydney mccallish who's currently in 17th kat Catherine David's daughter who's currently in 19th. If you're coaching Olivia and you see there's only nine spots in the West, do you think you tell her to go give it a go and possibly not compete at the games this year? I think you have to, you know, I think

the first question is you'd have to ask her is she'll get like 10th. Well, if she gets 10th, we don't know I think the first question is you'd have to ask her. She'll get like 10th. If she gets 10th, we don't know that they're getting 10 spots. So I think that Fusile has a chance to make it, but I think she's going to be, like I said, one or two in or one or two out. Anyway, so for Kirsten, I think you'd have to, like, what's the most important thing for you this year? Is it to compete at the games anyway?

Because if that's the case, we've got to go teenager and just lock it up because there's no guarantee in the individual field. If she goes, no, I've done teenager three years, and I want to take the risk, then you support her in that. Okay. Guys, we're going to get the show back on track. I'm sorry about Mike Halpin and Brian. They do that when I pee. We were picking up where you left off. We were going over if the top, who would be the cut line for the games

if there's only nine or 10 spots. Well, now we have to do it again because I'm here. By the way, I don't really have to pee that often. I just have really bad athletes who wouldn't have to pee on my foot every hour, 24 hours a day. So that's why I do that. Okay, let's scroll back up

and let's count these down, please. We're going to count. We're going to assume assume i think that 10 10 people are gonna go and we're gonna pick the ones that are guaranteed to go so we can see how far down this leaderboard has a chance uh ariel lowen mm-hmm kazan yeah kelly baker i think so yeah oh come on really what i don't think she does you just said she did. No, I really like her, but I'm not blurred by my emotion. Okay, then we won't count her. Danny Spiegel? Yes.

Fuselier? Not guaranteed. Freya Moosebruger? Not guaranteed. Emily Rolfe? I think yes. Christine Kohlenbrander? No.

Lauren Fisher? No. I disagree. Olivia Kerstetter? No. Alison Weer? No. Lauren Fisher? No. I disagree. Olivia Kerstetter? No. Allison Weiss? No. I think she might be going on a team.

Allison Scuds? No. Bailey Rayl? More likely than some of the ones you just said. No, we're not giving it to her? No, the only other one I would give a guarantee, in my opinion, is Mickalyshyn. Everyone else, there's a bunch of other women that I think are in contention. But if you count McElishan, is that five that I said?

Yeah. So I think that in this case, Baker, Fuseli, Mooseburger, Colin Brander, Fisher, Kerstetter, Rail, David's daughter, however many that is. Keep going. What? Caleb, I want him to keep scrolling oh you you you don't think katrin david's daughter's number six come on dude really what she hasn't proved i because she i mean look at her scores i mean there's nothing impressive here a 10th place is her best finish against this field like hard work pays off brian hard work pays off yeah i mean she's got a

couple a month or six weeks or whatever to tighten up the the bolts and yeah she i mean she should have a great chance to make it but all of those other women that i said which was one two three four five six seven eight eight women likely competing for four spots. Abigail Domet, who is that? She did great in the Open also. And this is not including people like Zoe Warren, like Abigail Domet, who've had great seasons so far. This is not including someone like Trista Smith,

who's 17 years old and on this list. This is not including people like Hattie Cagno, who was a last chance qualifier last year. There's some people that could potentially play together as well. Oh, Kelly Clark. Kelly Clark. Oh, yeah. I think that Chloe Wilson's down here too somewhere. What about Kelly Clark? How's she doing? Kelly Clark's 31st. You could add her to that group of eight women that have a chance on the outside. Chloe Wilson has barely missed the games three times in the last two years. China Cho.

Is she going for it? She'll go masters, but this is, you know, this is like, this is what I'm saying. Why would she do this? If she's going masters,

Brian, I don't know. She's done it the last couple of years. Maybe. I mean, she might, she might choose to go to the semifinal, but I don't think so.

I think she's just doing it for fun. Hasloe wilson been to the games no she's been incredibly close like and she's 42nd year so now we're up to potentially like 10 women legit like legitimately 10 women who are going to be competing for the last four game spots it's tough even though it looks soft it's tough the West is going to be fucking amazing. It's going to be a war. A star could be born in the West. It's possible. I hope Kelly Clark makes it.

Yeah, that'd be cool. Remember, she missed it by one point last year. I remember. Keep going all the way down. Sorry, Caleb. I want to to see go all the way down to 50 good on china cho what a savage okay let's go to 51 through uh 70 take a quick peek if there's anyone in there that uh tickles our fancy hey that was cool when we were looking at that instagram account you saw her on the wall doing those handstand uh push-ups and that caught your eye. That gave us an insight into how you do research. What was the date

on that? Okay. Natalie Thompson, Claire, Rachel, Alina Ward, Madison, Samantha Petrick, Allie Thompson, Taylor, Julia Holm, Grace Strawchan,

Hannah Hall. Oh, there she is bethany shadburn 63 what's she doing she falling why is she falling around down there i mean i just don't think she's feeling a hundred percent she obviously had a great score on the first workout relative to the other three i would expect that she'll have a good workout on the last one and that she'll get inside the top 60. But as good as we know that she can be right now, it doesn't look like she has all, you know, she's not firing on all cylinders. And it's like we just talked about. There's opportunity here, but there's also a decent amount of competition. If it wasn't for the ridiculous COVID restrictions at the CrossFit Games, she may have been a top 10 CrossFit Games finisher. Yeah, and who knows what direction her career goes if that were to happen.

Stacey Tovar, 68. That's pretty incredible. Wow. It is incredible, but this happens all the time. We didn't look at it on the East Coast. No, it's on the West Coast also. Jen Ryan's here. Jen Ryan is 43 years old and she's one spot below her. Like there's just these women that have been good for a long time are still able to do stuff like this. And you have people like Ben Smith that,

that can't do this in the men's field. The depth of field is, is so drastically different. Dude. Jen Ryan is tiny. 82 Rebecca Voigter as well no shit this i thought i thought i heard on chase's podcast um that uh stacy tovar said that like she hadn't touched a 50 pound dumbbell in ages right and she's still able to be you know within

a stone's throw of making it to the semifinals in north america while at the same time you have legitimately competitive women that won't make the semifinal over there uh patrick clark uh no shadburn no i mean no i mean no uh oh wait what uh maybe... Anyway, Shadburn was legit sick. She couldn't move. Nah, she could move. She was like frozen like concrete. Oh, does he mean at the games? He doesn't mean now.

No, yeah. He means... Maybe she... He means... Next, he's going to tell us she has long COVID. Okay. Janelle Winston. Hi.

Because... No. Brian's not saying that brian's not saying because women get that second wind in their late 30s he's saying it because your field sucks he's saying because the women's field isn't as developed and well i but it's weird it's not as developed but i i but i do think also women get stronger faster in that 17 to 19. I don't think that's, I don't think those chicks are making that jump from the kiddie division to the big girl division because the field isn't deep. I think just girls develop faster. I may be a combination.

Okay, fine. Okay. Pretty cool. That's, I think that's going to be a fun one to watch. We of course will be covering it until we can't, until we get kicked out. Until our eyeballs bleed. Yeah, we'll be covering the semifinals crazy, and we'll be doubling down on our West coverage.

That's going to be good. Do you know where you're going, Brian? I have an idea, but not confirmed yet. Are you more sure of where you're going or that you're going to do the show with Lauren Khalil and Patrick and I on the State of Affairs of CrossFit Media Space? Hardest question you've asked me tonight. All right. Okay, let's go over to Europe before Mike Halpin turns into a pumpkin. It goes on into a pumpkin. It goes as long as you like.

That's what I said. I think we have two hours, one hour and 55 minutes until that. Okay. We are looking at the men. So there's only one region here? Yeah. A very, very stacked competitive field. Fabian Benito.

Let's just start off doing the 20 thing. Let's talk about how many are they going to get from this region? 11 or 12. 11 or 12 you're projecting for the men? Yeah. I think it's going to be 10 or 11, but 10 to 12 we'll say. Let's just say 11. Okay, good.

Fabian Benito. I'm going to only say yes. I'm going to only say yes if I think they're a guarantee. So no. Björgvin Carl Gudmundsson. Yes. Victor Hoffer. No. Lazar Jukic. Yes. Reggie Fossa.

No. Harry Lightfoot. No. Enrico Zanoni. No. Look at my boy Enola Kai. no going team oh no that's i'm thinking of somebody else sorry uh bronislaw olin kowiznichick bronislaw lankovich no so i said uh janikoski yes uh daniel tie no hey what's that guy look like what kind of last name is that i'm not sure i'm not i i don't know who knows someone someone someone i feel like i've seen him with a spanish flag next to his name somewhere before but i i can pull it up to uh caleb so you don't have to

leave this page let me see if i can find this cat. Daniel. It appears to be a white male. Daniel Tai. And, of course, the first guy that pops up is an Asian dance instructor. His profile on his games page says he's an ex-professional rugby player who retired in 2017 due to injuries. I'll show you who, um, this is, uh, this is who I got, uh, keeping it funky fresh. He's a lawyer by day dancer by night, but not, but not the exotic kind for money or fame, but for the people in the community. I don't believe that's him. Well, let's just see.

Definitely him. God, you don't even want to get me started on this guy's fucking account. Okay. Let's keep going. Sorry, Caleb. I didn't mean to. We did not want to get you started on it, but it happened anyway. Two dollars making you holler. Oh, yeah. You know, more than that.

It was supposed to be two dollars for every half hour. I haven't seen you in a while. Ullis Upenix. Are we still counting people? I'm going to basically say no to everyone else except for Henry Kapolainen. Really? Not Ullis or Moritz? That is guaranteed. No. This is a super stacked region.

And I would say that there's about 20, 20 guys for the remaining seven or eight spots. They're outstanding who I think have a chance to get one of them. Uh, so Alchama is going home. Alchama is going to compete with Invictus on a team. He's just doing this to prove that he's still got it. Hey, here's the thing. You say this is stacked. I disagree with you. I don't think that there's a bunch of dudes in here who are ass and that they're lucky that they get 10 spots. Well, that's why I've done studies regarding this.

In case people like me pop off. I think Colton can come over here and win this. No chance. Are you fucking kidding me he could be top three he'll be up there it'll be uh lazar um janikoski and then and then colton you look yeah dude that fabian benito guy ain't got nothing for colton that's i'm just telling you and what i'm telling you is that recently the men's performance in europe has been improving relative to the north americans

but is still not on par with them while the women in europe have been in have been outperforming relatively outperforming the north american women since at least 2015 and have never once been rewarded for it i rest my case but we were talking about the men and these men i know none of none of these men have done anything lazar's done something but he shit the bed in his last three outings none of these men have done anything well yannikovsky has done something but other than that tell me who else g has like okay bkg sorry there's eight games and eight straight top tens or something like that but who else i don't know you have guys like enrico zanoni and guillermo and henry capolini

that are coming along they're coming along but I'm just saying these guys got enough this is a close competition but this isn't a this is a close competition but it's not heated these aren't like great guys

no man from Europe who deserves to go to the games is not going to go. The bottom three guys that go from Europe are kind of like a gimme. They're like Africa. Yes or no? I mean, I've written and studied this extensively. What I can tell you is the North American men are still by far the best in the world, but the European men are closing the gap.

I agree. men are still by far the best in the world, but the European men are closing the gap. I agree. Right now, the European men are getting basically half the number of spots as the North American men. I don't necessarily think there's a problem with the number of spots that the European men are getting. Maybe they could earn one or two more, but I do still think that the North American men are getting slighted the same way that I think the European women are getting slighted. And I've tried to study this with three and five year, um, perspective, but then also

year to year, just take a look at how the fields are shifting and shaping and where if they are getting more debt, more deeper, more competitive, the worldwide, the worldwide ranking and strength of field is meant to account for that. But the way that it is currently designed, it cannot account for that. Okay, I think we closed the gap there. Let me try one more time. Brian does not need any help. Quiet, pipe down there.

Did Uldis really win an event at the Games? Yeah, we've talked about this several times. So he chose to to go for it and he told me he was going to do this before the event happened on the shuttle to overhead part a and just run as fast as he can knowing that he wasn't going to lift very many weights at 300 pounds anyway for the the part b so he just he did that and he ended up with 104 or 106 points cumulatively, which actually scores pretty well and better than athletes who finished like 20th and 20th on those two events. Maggie Kerrigan, is that a girl you think? We Drunk.

And that's like an Irish name? We Drunk. Let us call in. God, I would love to just quit the show and come over to your house, turn the radio up and rage play a game of quarters that's what the game where you bounce the quarter and it goes in the cup and if you make it you tell someone else to drink for those you don't know uh so brian you agree with me that the the that any any guy from north america you could take those two regions of north america and take the bottom five guys in each of the region, and they could come to Europe and qualify.

Okay, bottom three. I'll meet you halfway. Bottom three. Bottom three games qualifiers? Yeah, they would push out the European guys. Or maybe the first three that don't make the games in North America. Okay, yeah, even better. Thank you for helping me with my argument.

three that don't make the games in North America. Okay. Yeah. Even better. Thank you for helping me with my argument. Yes. So I would say that the two or three guys that don't make it in North America, East and North America,

West are very comparable to the last two or three guys who do make it in Europe. And that all of them are better than most of the qualifiers that are coming from other parts of the world. Okay. So, so we're happy with men. We've met. I think I can say conclusively, we're happy with the number that are going to go

from men's European qualifiers. Yeah, I don't think... Who's that? Dan Tai. Who? Dan Tai. Oh, no shit? Yeah.

Let me see his whole account. Look at this fucking guy. He only has a Facebook account. It's fucking European fucking... It's European Jeffrey Adler. Wait, let me see. Go up. He's got a black dude in the...

Wow, look it. He's got that inclusive shit. He's got the... That's like the gay flag thing. And then he's got like... That's not a black dude. That's an indie dude, right? If you have straight hair and you're dark-skinned you're indian i know my ethnicities i'm a fuck i'm like i used to work in national geographic

he's a fitness model okay fucking a he's he's uh wow. Okay. Good luck. That's good. Good. Fine, dude. Uh, Kenneth the lap, uh, on a completely tangent, he has unvaccinated sperm. If anyone, um, are you kidding me? No. Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here we go.

Um, okay. Uh, let's go over to the uh european women where uh get ready people it's gonna get heated in here it's good yeah it's great this is uh this is the present and the past and the future wait no this is the past the present and the future of uh crossfit games except for mal o'b, who will go down in history as the greatest CrossFitter ever lived. She's going to win seven. Gabriela Magawa, Laura Horvat, Emma Tall, Manon Angonese, Helga Dotter. Let's just do this game.

You ready? Gabriela, how many are we going 10 or 11 Brian 11 Gabrielle Amagawa Laura Horvat Emma Tall yep really Emma Tall

close right Manon Anganese no did she go last year no she had the same problem as annika greer or a similar problem as annika greer oh my goodness uh uh helga daughter yeah how many games has helga daughter been to six i think seven but we have to check uh oyhana moya no no okay uh no no does not mean they're out. Right.

No, it just doesn't mean I'm not. I know this is a hard call that you're, you're, you're, you're betting the bank on them. Elise Fuliano. No,

but I want to say yes. Yeah, me too. Uh, Annie Thor's daughter. Yes. Uh, Andrea Solberg.

No, no. Uh, Karen Freya. Yes. Uh, Claudia Gluck. No.

Oh, I didn't want to ask this next one. I'm going to say yes. Okay. Sarah Sigmunds daughter. I'm going to say yes. Wow. So you are an emotional man. You make some emotional scores are good enough. The only thing that could potentially trip her up is the same thing that tripped her up last year, which is going for too much on a heavy complex or one rep max. If that test shows up, any kind of strength test that's isolated like that, she just needs to take her medicine,

16th, 20th, whatever it is, don't hurt yourself, and do your stuff on every other workout, and you'll make it back to the games. Damn, you're a good dude. I like it. Solvig Sigurdsdóttir. Yeah.

Nicole Hare. No. Eowonger. That's a great name. No. Matilda Garns. Yes. We're at nine.

Amy Kringle. No. Ingrid. Team. Elena. No. Taylor Howe. No. Oh, shit. nine amy kringle no ingrid team uh elena no taylor how no oh shit uh 24 i'm going straight down to 24 jacqueline dalstrom yes we're at 10 let's get one more uh emma mcquade yes okay we're at 11 holy shit it's gonna be a war and a lot of the women that I said no to are good enough to be at the games, including Manu Nangonis, Elisa

Fuliano, Claudia Gluck. The other ones I'm not as sure about. Elena Caratala was there last year and didn't do very well, but she also had not the greatest lead up to the games. I don't know about Camila Solomons and Hellman. We've seen her at the games before, but she had a baby.

She's back competing. So, you know, too much information missing there. And then there's, you know, as there always are, there are other women coming up that could be good, but, you know, we don't know how good they'll be yet. Okay. Either way, there's 11 women that I think are guaranteed to go to the games and 11 spots available.

Probably not all 11 of them will go. Things always happen. There should be 14 spots for women in Europe at a minimum. Let me ask you this. This is going to be tough for you and Mike Halpin. Good luck with this. There's this girl. I think she's from Europe.

She's really good. I want to say she was at Europe. She's really good. I want to say she was at Rogue. She's strong. She's kind of like a mix between Emily Rolfe and Ellie Turner. I want to say her name is Amanda Anderson or Hannah. You're thinking of Hannah Carlson

and she was in Dubai, not Rogue. What happened to her? How come I didn't see her name? She's good, right? I think she's doing team. I think she's doing team. I think she's doing team. Did you know who I was talking about, Halpin? That's pretty good. You did know?

You got that. The Amanda Anderson was a great clue. I wasn't fucking around. I was really trying to remember her name. It was Pam Anderson you were thinking of. Right, thank you. Half the chat's too young to even know who that is that's a great reference do people know who paris hilton is i heard recently

she came out with a book i'm like i don't think anyone even knows who she is anymore right anyone can we pull up the uh bubble athletes? The name that you made? The list that you made? Yeah, just for women. Just to talk about someone in particular and some stuff. Okay, so here's for the women.

Oh, is that our Kate Gordon? That used to be on the show? Yeah. What a badass. Holy shit. Go Kate. I put her on there just for you. Thank you. That's awesome.

She's 17 spots out of making it right now, but probably a good test for the last one. So we'll see. Wow. So obviously the majority of this list is Europe. And a lot of these names are not necessarily earth shattering names. and probably a lot of the others that I'm less familiar with, would have a chance to make a name for themselves, to do something notable, to get some recognition, to get some experience, and to earn some points at semifinals

that could be valuable not just for themselves but for their competitive region going forward, but they don't have the chance to. And they won't, most of them, have the chance to because the system still doesn't allow for it. It still heavily favors North America because of the number of spots allocated relative to their performance. So in particular, you look at someone like Leah Storen.

Leah Storen is 19 years old. She's training in Norway. Kristen Holta is coaching her. She's there training with the Oslo team, Matilda Garns, all these great athletes in Norway. And she has more or less the same hole as all of them. If we look at her scores from quarterfinals, she was so far in Europe. She's been third, ninth, and 25th, third, ninth, and 25th against this killer lineup of European women.

And she's 414th on the heavy lifting event, which is fine. You know, like you said, yes, women adapt. You know, they can get strong young. She hasn't gotten strong young yet. Historically, the Norwegians are much better at everything else than they are at the strength stuff. Until the Garns being the exception. And what makes me sad about this is if she doesn't make it through this year, it's like she's just not getting the competition experience at the semifinal that a similar athlete in North America would get. She's not getting the opportunity

to earn points. And she would earn some points that would be to her favor and her competitive region's favor going forward. And it didn't have to be this way. Like I personally have done studies and been publishing this information for years. And I know that other people in the space have been doing the same and CrossFit could take advantage of the fact that that stuff is known and and do something about it to give the the women in particular in europe the similar opportunity uh that the north american women have and they have chosen not to do it again that is an amazing move uh this kick up is amazing i don't know if you've seen it, Brian. And on top of what Brian's saying, or he said it in there,

if you can't make it to the games, then you can't get the points to get people to the games. That's the part that you really have to understand. The way you get people from your region to go to the games is through an allocation of points. Unfortunately, all those points come from the games. That's why Africa will never be sending more than one person.

Never. Ever, ever, ever. Well, in this current model, they won't. Yeah. But, you know, I'm looking at this and I'm saying, wow, this girl's in 72nd, but she has two top 10 finishes. Well, obviously she's not strong enough to make the CrossFit Games. But she's definitely good enough to be at the semifinals.

I want to see her lift something heavy. God, she looks like she's 12. How old is this girl? 19. Even though it sucks not getting to do 100-plus burpees every day. Damn. All right. Is she – how tall – how big is this girl? She looks tiny.

Yeah, she is. Smaller than Fusli? I mean, hers is in centimeters and kilograms. I'm not looking at Rebecca's right now, but I would say they're probably a similar size. Okay. All right. i'm not looking at rebecca's right now but i would say they're probably a similar size okay all right um uh anything anyway do we want to go look down at the bubble is there anyone is there anyone in europe where you're like uh-oh uh that's not good no i mean i look at stuff like this i um you know we got to see my galati compete in dubai She did okay there. Viticen's been competing for a while. Actually, a lot of the women on this list that I pulled out,

they're just more recognizable to me because they've been competing, and they're a little bit older with the exception of Leah. I'm guessing that there are some young women in the 61 through 90 range in Europe that I don't know a lot about because they've never gotten these same opportunities to go and show their stuff. that I don't know a lot about because they've never gotten these same opportunities to go and show their stuff. Athlete like that. Lucy McGonigal is 16 years old and she's 57 right now.

Wow. From Ireland. Yeah. And she's, you know, if she makes it through, she'll have to make the same decision as Olivia. And I think that she would be better suited going in the teenage route because there's no chance of making it in Europe.

Right. And she'll be able to have the same choice next year if she's only 16 now. Hey, did we – Depends when she turns 17. Just really quick, when we were in North America, I didn't see – did we see Roman's name? Did we talk about Roman? Yeah, he was like 9th or 10th in North America East. Okay.

And what about Emma Carey? Did we talk about Roman? Yeah, he was like ninth or 10th in North America East. Okay. And what about Emma Carey? Did we see her name? Similarly in North America East, I think. Okay. So we just buzzed him. And then what about James Sprague? He's like one spot away from Fikowski. Oh no, he's in the East.

His worldwide ranking is very similar to Fikowski. He's like 10th or something. Do you think he's going to the games? Sprague? Well, we didn't do this game with the men in north america east it is why didn't we we just hadn't got we hadn't figured this game out yeah okay let's do this game really quick let's do this game about it and i basically told you that if everyone in the top 12 made the games you wouldn't be surprised by it i don't think everyone in the top 12 is a lock to make the games though but they got a problem here. Wow. Okay. Okay. Let's just

do this really quick here. We got to do this. Jeffrey Adler. Yeah. Down Pepper. Yeah. Samuel Conway. Yeah. Noah Olsen. Yeah. Tyler Christofal. He should make the games, but I don't know in this region. I don't know. Jack Farlow.

No. Spencer Panchik. And I would love to say yes, the games but i don't know in this region i don't know jack farlow no spencer panchick and i would love to say yes but no jason hopper yes roman krennikoff yes james sprague no saxon panchick no probably no to everyone else holy shit how many was that six i know but the reason i'm saying no to so many of these guys is because it's so tight. I hear you. So the guys, did I say yes or no to Christoffel? I gave him a no. Right.

Since you were on the edge, I just pushed him into the no pile. Christoffel, Farlow, Spencer, Sprague, Morad, Berman, Raleigh. Did you say Morad? Yeah, I said him. Alexander Caron, who's in 25th right now. Any one of those guys at the games is fine. They're not out of place at the games. And again, there could always be some others that we don't know quite enough about yet.

Like Alexander Majors, Evan Rogers. These are guys that I'm curious about because they've been doing so well so far. How much, you know, has Nate Ackerman made the leap? Seth Stovall has done really well this year. There's guys like Peter Mason that we know we know can be, can be decent. But what is Katie saying here? If, if it were the top 40, no matter what we wouldn't know winners in real time takes away from the event. Was she saying that we can't know the winners of the quarterfinals, even at noon tomorrow, we winners in real time takes away from the event. Was she saying that we can't know the winners of the quarter

finals even at noon tomorrow? We won't know that takes away from the event. Is that what she's referencing or we're not sure yet? I think she's talking about semifinals. I think she's talking about semifinals and she's saying if you hosted all the semifinals

live in their regions and then waited for the results to come in, you wouldn't have the drama of calling it on the floor, holding the athletes there. And what I would push back on that is, I don't think that it's a problem having semifinals. And I don't think it's a problem having a specific number of spots there. And I think it's a great idea to have a system that allocates the spots based on the best approximation of how competitive the field is this season the problem is that the system that they have put in place doesn't do that my phone started ringing uh okay uh let's do um oceana i think that's the next that's the biggest

one right that's uh tia's that's australia and new zealand yeah uh oceania yeah what i say oceana when you're friends with her you call her oceana i created some graphics for the smaller regions i didn't i didn't i didn't get to do the bigger regions yet but caleb has them if he wants to use them so guys this i think only three how many go from here three they're guaranteed three there's a possibility that they'll get one additional okay let's stick with these guys i don't think it's looking very good i think they're gonna get three okay uh ricky garrett yep uh jay crouch yes everyone else no okay scroll down a little bit no james newberry no luke fowler what about our tall dude with the fro who was on the show i don't think he's doing

uh i don't think he's doing it this year luke deon yeah luke deon he was cool and i mean so everyone else is fighting for that last spot, basically. The guys who I think are most likely to get it are Peter Ellis, Jake Douglas, Luke Fowler, or Bailey Martin. Luke Douglas, Bailey Martin, or who? Peter Ellis. Oh. Jake Douglas. Uh-huh.

Luke Fowler. Uh-huh. Or Bailey Martin. Bailey Martin's in 14th right now. What about Sam Stewart? That's Ireland? or Bailey Martin. Bailey Martin's in 14th right now. What about Sam Stewart? That's Ireland? Sam Stewart is from Ireland and he's competing on a team this year.

That sucks. I kind of like him and Jay Crouch. To me, they're kind of like the same people. If you like them and think they're similarly, I think that's pretty good criteria to consider them to have the same citizenship. We should be in the government brian me and you we should like hold like like it's uh i would be homeland security you're from where you don't look like it we're putting you over here uh brian do you have kids what do you have kids no that was weird that's going on i can't believe i've never asked him

some of the people in the chat have owned up to being drunk tonight i think we're just going to assign that to ken okay uh what is this mr help and are we looking at? So this is the day one and day two comparison. I was only able to do it for the smaller region so far. But it shows any athletes that made jumps from day one to day two and how big of a move they made. So like Peter Ellis, who's highlighted right there, he jumps eight spots in the last day, looking at the first two workouts and then the next two workouts.

Um, so it's just another way of looking at similar data, what we're looking at. If you scroll all the way down, you'll see where the cut line is as well. That Zane Healy guy shit the bed. Oh, look at that.

Johan Roberts up 19. This is cool. I like this. Uh, yep. This is cool. I like this. Yep. I don't recognize any of these guys' names, Brian. None. Oh, Z Grove. I know that name, right?

Yeah. I mean, and honestly, there are a lot of guys that are in this top 30 that are regulars competing in that region. They're just never competing for a game spot in that region. And there are also a decent amount of names on here that I have not seen before. All right. How are you with this, with these three guys going?

I know it's a different show, but are you, do you think they deserve five spots? Yeah, no, I think that, I think that with the current field of competitors, which is missing Royce Dunn, it's missing Baden Brown, it's missing Con Porter.

I apologize if I'm missing anyone else, but that three is appropriate for them. Okay, right, Royce Dunn, he's going team? Royce is going team, Baden's taking the year off, Con is injured. Okay, and I don't know if Royce is going to be able to make it. On the team? No, into the country. Oh. I haven't looked at the details,

but I think that there's been a hiccup in what passed in the house. Okay. I met people from Pete Ellis' gym at Duck. Do you see? That must be something in Australia. Founder Championship. Okay. Thank you.

They said he surprised himself at how well he did at Torian last year, so he quit his day job to train full time and now lives in a cardboard box outside the gym. Fuck. That's dedicated. He got the idea from Fikowski. Right. All the cool dudes are doing it. Okay. Box. Whatever. Women. right all the cool dudes are doing it okay uh box whatever uh women let's check it out

did you see uh tia's um you see tia jumping around uh with that belly i did that shit is fucking incredible i would like to see the views on that. That's the kind of thing that no one in their right mind only watches once. Sorry, I got it. Where is it? If you guys haven't seen this, if you haven't seen Tia's account, you got to see this. This is just fucking nuts. I hear this one.

My goodness. Does this show how she did the burpees for this workout? I love the way that she did the burpees for this workout i i love the way that she did the burpees for this like on top of some weights no she so she you know she says she's doing the workouts as prescribed in the case of the burpee i excuse her for not doing them as prescribed but it says you have to have your thighs and your chest on the ground well to get her chest on the ground is obviously very challenging because there's or how big her stomach is right now so she like does her knees on the ground and she like goes all the way down to make sure her

chest touches the ground so it's actually more difficult than just doing a regular burpee but i like the fact that she emphasizes the chest touching the ground because there's a lot of athletes that skirt the line on that standard and the video for this i don't know who set up her uh her box there but it was set at 20 and she flips it and does it to 24 yeah it was awesome oh like she recognizes it's wrong yeah or like somebody scaled it for and she's she put it right back to rx wow uh knees and n Yeah. One million views so far. It's crazy. Ladies and gentlemen, don't try that shit at home.

There it is. Yeah. Oh, I don't think so. Look at Shane. Oh, go back. I want to see Shane's face when she does that. Go back. I want to see. It had to be him that set that up.

I think she's going to be blocking it, unfortunately. You just see ass. Look at, he looks around. Look at, he looks around. Look at, look at that shitty grin on his face. God. That's his child inside there getting jumped around. Oh shit.

That burpee is crazy, dude. She's getting the chest done. Oh my God. I guess she She's getting the chest done. Oh, my God. I guess she is getting thighs and chest down. I'm the GOAT. No scaling. How much is that right there? How much weight is that?

185. Oh, yeah. It says up top. My God. I did this workout with the women's weight, too. It was much more fun than the men's weight. I tried the women's weight, and then I scaled it from there. Okay. I tried the women's weight and then I scaled it from there Okay, let's look at the women in North

Oceania Yeah, North Oceania It's going to be basically the same as the men's Yeah Oh, look at Van Zyl Fucking kicking ass That's not how you say it But but it's such a hard name. Someone sent me the pronunciation for it.

I apologize. Van Zyl. Caitlin Van Zyl. Jamie Simmons. Grace Walton. I don't know who that is, but she's scaring me up there. Ellie Turner. Grace, you're going to have to move aside and let Ellie get in there, please.

Look at Ellie's scores. 41st, 1st, 1st. Yeah. Savage. I think she's going to be just fine. Where's Maddie? Where's my girl Maddie? She's moved all the way up to 12th from 32nd.

Okay. Basically, she can't do the jump rope it's negligible if you're asking me who's making the games here it's actually really difficult keep in mind that tia and car are not in this field and there are a few others that are doing team as well that could that have top 10 potential but um they could i guess and i don't know i don't know if they'll get an extra spot or not but uh ellie turner madeline cert jamie simmons calvin van zill laura clifton are probably I don't know if they'll get an extra spot or not, but Ellie Turner, Madeline Sturt, Jamie Simmons, Katlin Van Zyl, Laura Clifton are probably the top five favorites here. There are another five women outside of those that I do think has a chance to –

if they get three spots, I don't think that any of the others have a chance. But if they get a fourth spot, maybe. So you think that the top three, if they only get three uh maddie sturt and that other chick are out the grossman the chick who's in third now what's her name is it grossman what's her name if they only get three grace walton if they only get three i would say it's going to be between i think ellie gets one for sure and then i think jamie caitlin and maddie sturt will get two of the other three. All right. Laura Clifton probably taking fifth.

Because Tia didn't register for the quarterfinals, they will likely only get three. I hope Fouchelier can make it so Brian can eat his words. I mean, he does. What words? The fact that she's one of the eight women that's competing for four spots? I hope she makes it two, but not for that. I've said that consistently, Rebecca has impressed me, but she's not strong enough compared to some of the other women.

And if there's the right tests that come out, it's going to be hard for her to make it. Patrick Clark, Grace Walton, remember that name. She's potentially going to be hard for her to make it uh patrick clark grace walton remember that name she's potentially going to be better than ellie uh interesting thing about uh ellie and madaris they both took first right worldwide in a workout together side by side yeah that's crazy that's uh that's pretty crazy okay uh and any other regions we're talking about? Do we care about Africa or Asia or what other ones are there? Well, I mean, look, some of the stuff we've been focusing on tonight. Not don't care, but it's getting late. Right. But some of the stuff we've been focusing on tonight is the cut line. And if there are any significant athletes that need to do work tomorrow to get inside the cut line.

And in those competitive regions there's not like all of the athletes that are contending for or will be contending for game spots are well within the cut line in their region which region is going to have the feelings hurt the most uh by what tomorrow tomorrow when we come on the show we're gonna be like oh that they got their feelings hurt which region yeah is it european women like there's gonna be like a pile up like someone's gonna get booted like is there a chance katrin david's daughter's in 19th now is there a chance she falls below uh drops 41 places 42 places it's the top 60 it's the top it's the top 60 that go right no right so there's there's women that are fairly insulated from the next event that okay their scores for their region are so the feelings aren't going to get hurt yet they could the feelings aren't going to get hurt yet

okay what what will happen in the next week that will hurt a lot of feelings and I'll have the data probably, well, at least once CrossFit gives a somewhat, um, verified result on these workouts is, is the worldwide ranking and that strength of field. That'll, that'll then push a lot of conversations that we just had about how many tickets will be at each one of these semifinals for these athletes.

Uh, Pat. Thank you. And I look forward to seeing that Patrick Clark brings up a good point. Yeah. Bethany Shadman. What? She was like an 84th or something. I think it's closer than that. I think she was 63rd.

I can name an athlete out of Asia. A song, song, young joy. Oh, no, you're, you're right.

You're correct. Matthew stripling. Okay. Thank you You're correct. Matthew, uh, stripling. Okay. Thank you. Top 60 to semifinal. All right. Uh, tomorrow, uh, um, 4. 4 PM tomorrow, the quarterfinals end. And then, uh, yeah, three, four hours after that, we'll, we'll we'll come back take a look see who made it see who didn't make it uh jv team 1499 loving all these bonus quarterfinal shows this weekend you're

welcome um they're not bonus but i but i do i'm glad you think of them as bonus that's cool um when do we find out how many spots i think halpin is going to have that's what halpin was just saying i think tomorrow we're going to get a peak and be able to make some. No, I can, I can give a peak tomorrow. Okay. So tomorrow we'll get it. CrossFit doesn't actually have to validate these scores for like another week almost. So Katie Gannon trying to get Brian to stay on for another 20 minutes.

We, one topic that we haven't talked about that we started talking about yesterday and hopefully we'll have time tomorrow and I think we will, is we will go back and review a men's and women's registration for the Open. We'll just look at it and see how that's going. Open or quarterfinals?

Sorry, for quarterfinals. And Halpin has some cool numbers on that that I cut him short yesterday, but I think it'll be fitting tomorrow. Okay. Thank you. cool numbers on that that i cut them short yesterday but i think it'll be fitting tomorrow okay uh thank you it's is it 4 p.m tomorrow pacific time that's the time where we uh i think agreed on earlier today yeah okay and tomorrow uh morning at 7 a.m i'll be doing a live calling call-in show. Think of it more as like church. It's like church.

The live call-in show has become like church. Is that okay to say that, Halpin? I'll be at church for you. It's not as good as the church Halpin goes to, but it's a kind of church. I do a sermon. I'll be at the gym. Okay. Which is also like church.

Okay. Will you be here tomorrow morning I might be around I'm calling you while I'm at church that's fine evening Hugh asshole good evening people of the

seven let's do Brian let's do this you can call and ask brian or help in one question if you want just because who had their cards set up behind them first brian or savant uh brian well i had them set up first but mine weren't visible so i'm gonna um hey these are fucking pain in ass. These things will fall over so easy. If you just touch one, they all fall over.

Are yours like that? Yes. They're like drunk kids. They're like drunk people. If I were just like to reach over and like rub the Emily Rolfe one, they'd all fall over. Do you do that often? No, but I'm just saying if I did. I appreciate everyone who didn't call in.

Is that the end of the show? Oh, so how, how are, so on Monday we have a Frisbee show, correct? Oh yeah. And this,

this tournament is crazy. I'll send you the links around to tomorrow. Okay. Brand new course. They never played it before. Okay. And they're in Austin. Okay.

All right, guys. Um, there in Austin. Okay. All right, guys. I appreciate you all calling in and making me feel so popular.

This is the drunk girl. Hey, girlfriend. Hello. I was losing my butt. What's up? You know just hanging out Just enjoying the company Mike Halpin, Brian Friend and Caleb Beaver Do you have any questions pertinent to

Great to see you guys Great to see you too Do you have any questions? Yeah we were enjoying What's your question? Oh Brian's address 1324 No you know us green street okay chicago you have a question okay go ahead what can i do every day to become your friend like

hillar did oh name three things i can do every day to work on being their friend. Wow. That's a thousand burpees a day. You just got to call into every live call in show. Yeah, but I'm not going to be the annoying one either. So I'm going to keep it short, but I know we would be good friends. I can't like I'm gay. Okay. Perfect. I'm gay too. That's awesome. Um, we agree with all the shit you say good

you're the best is your wife there? she's right here how long have you guys been married? 5 years 5 years together over 10 good luck making it over the 7 year mark

we heard your thing last thing I'll say we do want to have kids, and we heard your show where you were telling Sousa you think you just need to bang it out the natural way. Yeah, yeah. Hey, call in tomorrow. Let's figure that shit out. Let's figure that out.

I want to know. I'll try anything, Warren. Yeah, okay, Call in tomorrow. I would really appreciate that. That is a topic I'm hugely interested in. Thank you. All right. Love you guys.

Have a good night. Okay, I love you too. You have a great voice. I think we would be friends. Bye-bye. Could be friends. All right. Tomorrow morning,

should gay people still fornicate in order to make babies? That will be a topic of discussion. I will be arguing that they should in order to summon the correct spirit that turns into the zygote. I have no evidence for that. It's just some shit I've concocted. All right. Halpin, thank you.

Mr. Friend, thank you. Mr. Beaver, peace and love. Bye-bye.