The Sevan Podcast - CrossFit Games Update Show | European Semifinals Prediction Show

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

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Drinking chocolate milk is what it looks like. The old team. That's Spade's new drink. It's still in formulation. Is that dark chocolate? Why does it look so black? It's not, man. Mine's not black.

Dark chocolate, old team. Chase Ingram is flying over to europe to prepare for uh friday's presentation which for us is so what when do you watch that do i get up at do i get up friday at 3 45 a.m yeah friday tell me there's a stream on friday is we're gonna wake up at 345 to watch Chase's stream yeah I watched the Lone Ranger podcast today and it does appear that there is 720 720 Eastern which means it's at

420 Pacific and that's individual heat one of Europe I get to see Laura Hor horvat fucking go out there and just start kicking some ass all right what we're going to do today is we're going to go through um some predictions uh it's uh do we know how many people are going to the crossfit games from europe 10 10 less than last time. Correct. We're going to Asia instead.

Yeah. Oh, sorry. Really quick before we do that, before we go over the European. I wanted to see this. I hadn't seen this yet. I don't know if you noticed, have been following, but the shit. What is that? That's you in a little car.

Yeah, that's not supposed to be. Oh, Hillary. I invited Paul Sager on the podcast. I hope he comes. So there's been a little drama. I guess there were some Masters. I guess, you know, the Masters have their own event this year. It's like somewhere else separate from the CrossFit Games.

And it's like the CrossFit Games for Masters and the Adaptive are doing it too. And then when I say Masters, I'm thinking, is it eight? No, no, there's four CrossFit Games this year, right? There's the the CrossFit Games for Masters and the Adaptive are doing it too. And then when I say Masters, I'm thinking, is it eight? No, no, there's four CrossFit Games this year, right? There's the real CrossFit Games, then there's Adaptive, then there's Masters, and then there's Age Group. So there'll be four different locations, I think, on four different dates. Masters and Teens. Oh, Masters and Teens are on the same thing.

No, no, no, those are the two different. You said Masters and Age Group. They're called Legends, okay? They're Legends. Okay. And we're all Legends, really. You said master and age group. They're called legends. They're legends. Okay. And, um, we're all legends. Really?

I guess the story is, is that only four people knew the workouts, two of the guys who work over at legends and then, uh, Adrian Bosman and Heather, um, Heather. Shit.

I'm drawing a blank. Are you doing that on purpose? No. What's her last name? Lawrence. Yes. Heather Lawrence. Shit. The great Heather Lawrence. And you doing that on purpose? No. What's her last name? Lawrence. Yes, Heather Lawrence. Shit. The great Heather Lawrence.

And love you, Heather. And so those workouts somehow leaked. And then there was a kind of a – somehow they ended up in Taylor's hands. And Taylor said, hey, these leaked. Taylor's hand and Taylor said, Hey, um, these leaks. And so there's been like a little, and then they did a podcast where they like, um, uh, I guess they were upset that they leaked, even though they leaked from them. But then, so then they started like throwing some, you know, just some cheap shots at Taylor. So Andrew Hiller made this in, uh, in, uh, I was going to say in memory, but in celebration of the whole event,

he has made a song to celebrate the brawling between Taylor and these dudes who are running the Masters event. By the way, it's no big deal it leaked. It leaked, it leaked, it leaked. This would be cool, man. It's cool. Just get the judging right and we'll be cool. Here we go. in the small world of masters competitive fitness tour buddies bill and joe shared a love for

crossfit decided to host a friendly competition fueled by secret workout routines they owned over the years. But a podcaster named Taylor leaked their techniques to the public. They felt betrayed. Confronting Taylor, they accused him of tarnishing

the sport's integrity. Calling him a half-wit journalist Taylor defended himself but the damage was done amidst the tension they realized the true

cost of their competitive spirit their friendship in the end the real winner was Taylor. He was not a dirty little rat. A rat that Joe and Bill would have gladly welcomed into their home. A rat that oddly damn dude you need to see you need to do a uh a spotify list dude some people have been saying that it's funny hey um joe what's the guy's name joe and bob joe and bob hey joe bob listen everyone who who is friends with Taylor starts off in a fight. Listen,

we would be happy to promote, um, the master's competition on the kill Taylor show just to make it ironic. Anything you guys want us to promote, um, let us know. Uh, Taylor's a great guy. Uh, it's, it's, it's one love. It's one party. We all want to see you guys compete we all want to see everyone throw down we want to see everyone be successful we want to see people get at it and spread the good word um i hope this hasn't stressed anyone out too much uh you know taylor's our fucking superstar golden child so but he just is uh you know he's

like fucking a mexican gang dude you got to get jumped in to be friends with them. Um, it sounds like you guys have had some fun exchanges, but, but let us know. Um, I think Bob, I think I called you the other day and we,

we missed Joe. I called one of you guys. If there's anything we can do to help promote it, let us know. They're the same person. All right. All right, fine.

But anyway, all good. All good. We even got some masters dudes, uh, in like some dudes who could compete in masters on the show So, okay What we're gonna do

That got him a little bit It got him a little bit I think the first thing we need to tell you guys So 4.20am Pacific Standard Time You can start watching this event If you would like to It's gonna be amazing Let's just do this real quick Let's go through the athletes standard time you can start watching this event uh if you would like to it's going to be uh amazing let's just do this real quick let's go through the let's go through the athletes uh super quick

and then we'll go look at the workouts and we'll start just like just having fun and picking out who's going to win so the athletes and the men um if there's anyone you you guys want to stop and say something about uh let me know like if they're injured or you think they're going to win it or something then we'll we'll come back. Can we start with Colin Bosshard? Uh, no. Uh, Bjorkven, Bjorkven, uh, Carl Goodmanson, BKG. He'd been at it a long time, right? Yeah, he's all right. Uh, 10 years. This is 10th year.

Uh, well, I've been, I thought 10th was his last year. Wow. Okay. Okay. So number 11, uh, Nika, uh, Mazdrez, Harry Lightfoot, Harry Lightfoot. I've seen that name a lot. Any chance he's, has he ever made it to the games? He has not. He's a fan of the show, though. Okay, and I'd like to see him make it, because I just love dudes with weird names,

and I'd love to just fucking, just go all Native American on him. Oh, la, la, la, la, la, la. Georgis Lightfoot, right? You know he's- I never, I never made that connection, but now it makes sense. Oh, yeah, I love that.

Georgios Karavas, one of the only Greek athletes not to test positive. Good job. Viktor Helenshoff, Luka Vunhak, Henrik Hapalainen. Been to the games several times, correct? Mm-hmm. Is he going back? I think so. Bergeron no more, and's gonna be good oh what is he a comp train

athlete Hendrick Hapalainen formerly I just makes a jersey and where his last name should go should be Hapalappan Hapalappan that'd be cool Guillaume Brant Brion I when I think of his name, I think of the guy The guy who wins all the swim competitions, right? Is he the swimmer, the second Yonakoski? That's the man

He is the swimmer How many games? Is he going back? No He is not Miko Liliorg Mark Carmona Fabian Benito Fabian Benito. Fabian Benito, his claim to fame is there was something that happened in Dubai one year.

He slipped in. What was that story? He beat Fikowski. He won. Yeah, he won Dubai, and Fikowski was second. And they kind of came to a lunge off, and he beat him. And wasn't it somewhat controversial? There was some sort of rep count or something?

There was something controversial about it? I don't think so. Not that it wasn't big enough that it stood out. Okay. Alex? Wasn't he the guy who got a backfill? No, that was Raquelme, and that was in Brazil. Yeah, different controversy. Yeah, different controversy.

Yeah, different controversy. Alex, Koudelis, has he been to the games? Koudelis, yeah. Is he going back? No. Colin Bouchard. He was one spot off last time. Andrew, that's your buddy.

Yeah, but I don't think you said his name right. What do you call him? Boss Hard. Colin Boss Hard. All right, now we can carry on. Ballin' Boss Hard. Colin Boss Hard. Any chance of him going? Yeah, there's a good chance, but I don't think he will.

He's got as good a chance as anybody. A slightly less chance than everybody. Lucas Hughes, Jaime, Rosalind Gonzalez. No. Hey, Seve. Seve Serra. Does he have a chance?

No. Okay. Uldis Upanek. He's kind of screwed this year. I disagree. I don't agree. I think he gets in. He's not flashy, but he always does enough.

When he gets to the games, he'll do a lot better than in a semifinal. What is it? What's not there for him that he needs? His 255 snatch. There's a lot of guys in Europe that can't snatch. If he was in a different region, it would hurt him more, but a lot of guys in Europe that can't snatch. If he was in a different division, different region, it would hurt him more, but a lot of guys in Europe are weak.

I heard that you'd finish in the top seven in Europe on that snatch ladder. Top eight. Oh, okay. Was that set on the barbell spin today? What do you think? Over under. Yeah,

that was the line we set. Hey, are we going to set up a show where John does that? For a tv stand maybe what do you think killer uh over or under seven guys beat my time i bet you it was it was a 10 something 8 40 oh dude that's pretty good uh probably about 10th yeah I heard the line was at 8. What day is that workout? The last day. Sunday.

Can you do it Sunday after the event, John? I already did it. Oh, okay. Thank you for fucking up that bit. Jules Caster. Fernando Yainese Padillos. Jules Caster. Okay. Fernando Yainese Padillos. Tom

Kingdon. Spin's favorite athlete. Tom? No, he hates him. He hates Tom Kingdon. He's bothered that everybody's talking about him. He had a British girlfriend and this guy took him. I'm into this dude. Oh, he took a girlfriend

from... I was joking. Never mind. Never mind. Hey, listen. He's cool. He looks like he belongs in the adaptive class with that picture. He's a gymnast.

Okay, so he's weak too i don't think yeah most of them are pretty hey is this did this guy compete in the kiddie class i don't know tyler's the expert on him okay uh enrico zanoni uh hasn't been to the games but close, right? He's been there. He was there last year, I think. No, two years ago. He did really good in Echo Press that year. Most shredded athlete, aesthetic-looking male. He's a little like Victor Hoffer.

He's very pretty. Lean in the core. Lean in the core. Also doesn't snatch very much. You'll see this is a common theme throughout europe except for this guy europeans bronislaw uh olenko it's i don't touch very much master master's age and barely squeaked in last year yep last last one and this year or he wasn't the last one michael was the last one yeah i don't have

him making it i think he's the last one out for me jr i kind of like braun to get in i like him to take that last spot all right i think it'll be on the borderline up until the last event it'll come down on the last event i could see that yeah i could see him being a guy that's like, Hey, I got it. I can't put down the dumbbells to punch my ticket. And hopefully someone that's lunging next to me has to. So, so this is exciting, right? Bronislaw could be the guy to watch. If he's sitting around the bubble, you go to the last day and you got heavy workouts. You got the snatch ladder and you got Bronislaw who's a favorite to win it and could jump up the leaderboard dramatically.

Yeah. He, he will have a thunderous comeback whether he falls short or he gets in like event five and event six he should be really good at event five is almost a guaranteed win uh and which one is event five that's the snatch ladder yeah do you guys all agree yes said he was going to beat everybody by two minutes. I don't agree with that. I don't see that happening, but everybody. That's what he said. He's going to be good.

Who second bested the snatch ladder in Europe? Sam Dancer? In Europe? Sam Dancer's in America. Who second bested the snatch ladder? Sam Dancer will be on the show tomorrow. I'd probably say maybe Moritz Fiebig. Yeah, I was going to say, Moritz, Lazard,

they were all around 285, 280 last year. So last year, one of the events was an 800-meter run into a max snatch for load. Last year in Europe, 16 out of 58 competitors, 16 out of 58 snatched over 265. That's what the ladder ends at this year. Just for reference, in North America, East and West last year, 24 out of 60 snatched over 265 oh i thought that's a lot more than that just kind of puts it in in perspective a lot of guys were at 265 but not over yeah that would be a great win for lazar if he won the snatch ladder in europe or even second place that'd be a great

win there's no running and that's what he's known for right running yeah he's an endurance really good runner really good on machines too good at gymnastics i mean running? Yeah, he's an endurance guy. Yeah, he's a really good runner. Really good on machines, too. Good at gymnastics. I mean, he's good at pretty much everything. Him and Koski. I wouldn't be shocked if him or Koski got second in that event just because they're the fittest guys there. Wait a minute. Enola Kai, he can snatch.

Sorry. Keelan Henry can snatch, too. Just letting you know, Enola Kai. What can he snatch? 290 plus. God, well, Enola. We you know, Enola Kai. What can he snatch? 290 plus. God, well, Enola, have we ever mentioned Enola Kai? And again, that's last year too. Like that's a full year. So like look at someone like Victor Hoffer.

He snatched 265 last year. He's got beautiful technique. He moves great. He crushed the open workout last year that had snatch progression with with gymnastics so like you would imagine with a year um you know working with steve that he's he's snatching well over 265 now so like he's a guy that i'm interested in how he does on that workout because i think a lot of the other ones he'll do well on oh and and that could be a deal breaker for him no i think he's i think he's gonna be comfortable yeah and he was on the

demo team last year correct okay um uh mikhail smith uh from ireland uh has ireland ever had anyone go to the games oh he has yeah okay did um sam stewart ever make go to the games? He's been to the games. Oh, he has? Yeah. Okay. Did Sam Stewart ever make it to the games? No. No. Okay. He did. Team? That doesn't count. Nicholas Serralitos, Tobias Fox. Cool name.

Luka Jukic, a binge of the games once, right? Correct. 2021. And then hasn't made it back, but his brother keeps going. Correct. And he's basically a clone of Lazar, but just weaker? Used to be. He's lifted more than Lazar in a couple competitions.

I think he walks in this year comfortably. Wow. I don't think he's comfortable, but I think he makes it. What's comfortably john top six okay i say it takes like somewhere between six and eight uh and they're taking if only 10 spots go and you get eighth that's not you know i mean look at this run of guys so you guys think victor hoffer will make it more it's fee big will make it lazar jukic will make it annual akai is a guy on the line i think he'll be he'll be one of the last ones in or the last

ones out and john how is more so high at high volume legless how's moritz he's he's he's decent he's not he's not like the best one but he's not it's not a weakness either uh there was a legless rope climb in dubai that was very similar to this one um where you did a legless and then you had some stuff in a legless and some i think like some thrusters but it was 10 rounds and he was like fifth place in the competition john john today i was on the phone with hillar and i was telling him that all the all the stats guys are douche canoes Are you a stats guy? I don't know Okay Would you consider me a stats guy?

I didn't That was the wrong question John You're a stats guy who doesn't identify as a stats guy I was thinking you're more like Lazar Jukic You're just good at everything I like that Alright

So Enola Kai Did he go last year? No he's never been Lazar Jukic, you're just good at everything. I like that. All right. So Enola Kai, did he go last year? No, he's never been. Okay, but close. And he had a good performance also at Dubai, right? Correct. Does he go this year? Absolutely.

He's got as good a shot as anybody. I think he'll be one of the first ones out or last ones in. I have him projected to go 11th. Sailor Telf, John is number one stats guy. Well, that sucks. And also number one douche canoe. Mike Halpin says that's true. I don't know how you set that up so well. That was pretty darn good.

Audrey Wayne in. Fuck off with the stats guy comment. Fair enough. I'll take that. All right. Why was she so mad about that? Who knows? Ludwig Janikowski.

God, it's got to say Janikowski, doesn't he? Ludwig Hansen. Hansen. Finland needs a new guy. He's too old to be Finland's new guy. A yellow hosta. Okay, now this jelly is like one of my favorites. Please tell me. I'm going to start at the bottom.

John Young, he going? Yes. But I think it's harder than it was last year. JR? How could it... Wait, Tyler, I'll come back to you, year. JR? How could it – wait. Oh, Tyler, I'll come back to you, John. Tyler? Confirmed.

Going. Mr. Hiller fit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's good. Do you think he's ever actually had jelly toast? I don't think that's a big thing over there. John, he barely made it last year.

He made it comfortably last year. He won three events. Okay, but what place did he take? Fourth. Oh, okay. He didn't make it into semis comfortably. That's what you're thinking. Right, yes.

But then he made it to the games easy. Did he make it into semis like as a fill-in or something? No, he was like 43rd out of 60 spots. Okay, okay. Fabian Hermans. Janikowski. What about him? Does he have a chance?

Yeah, the winner? Yep. Nice try, John. JR, winner? I think it's going to be really close between him and Lazar. I might almost pick Lazar just because of the events. That's right, John. Mr. Walker, if you were going to bet on the Heat 1 app,

who would you pick to win it? I'm such an asshole. It's like everybody's on the hype train with Koski, and that makes me apprehensive to it, but I want to. Don't get me wrong. I'm on the hype train of Koski in Europe. We get to the games, it won't be the same. That's what we're talking about.

That's why I'm on the hype train. The deepest. Why you come now i want to sleep with savon i have a really bad case of lice i'm really bad i mean that one doesn't sleep i'm really even my wife doesn't want to sleep with me right now i'm a really bad case of lice okay uh we'll come back to you on Nikoski. He'll get lots of love today. Mikhail Weslovski. Europe. These are all old dudes, man.

Europe's like senior citizen central. I say no. He made it last year. He did? Yeah, he was. I think that was the last guy in. Luis Kuljer. Cellular.

None of these guys are going. Svengins, Grisgård, Marekskowitz, Kevin Jurs. How about not Kevin Jurs? Nailed that name. No, I don't think Kevin Jurs. This goes to what Hitler said about the depth of the field. I just think there's too many guys that are good at the semifinal level for Kevin Jurs to make it.

Jarrett, anyone from Estonia ever been to the games? Maybe Kevin Juris the national champion year. 2019. Click on him. It'll say if he won. I don't know, but I would think maybe him. Man, if you hit on this,

that's going to be crazy. That's good context clues. Nope. He's new to the game. Oh, no, he's not new. James is at the bottom. Yeah, there was in a game section. You know what that means?

He just made the game. He's got as good a shot as any. That's right. 100%. Until the first event's over, they all got as good a shot as anybody. And then there's statistical differences between them. Where's Caleb when you need him? Okay.

So Kevin George, Caleb Clements. That guy sounds like as American as can be. He sounds like an STD. That too. Okay. Well done. I didn't expect that coming out of your mouth today. What's the line to say? I didn't see that on my bingo card.

He's all jacked up. He's got that chocolate milk. The women. What's the order of these? How do they put these? What's the order? Random. There's something on this spreadsheet. Alonzi Igazabel from Spain. She's not making it. The High Rocks gal, Miriam.

Yeah, she's in. I got her going. No. I think she's going to do it. I'm on the hype train. JR? He don't know. I don't know i i i don't like i want her to make it because i think it's a cool story and i think she took a lot of heat just by being an open athlete and then just a quarters athlete

but i think she's obviously really fit um i hope she does make it i i have her uh eighth or ninth 8th or 9th. I have one of the last people in. Two yes, one no, one I want her to. JR's very... There's a lot of emotional vernacular coming out of his mouth today. He's an emotional guy. Thurrah Helgedoter. Her 27th games appearance

if she makes it. No recognition. I say yes No recognition I think you might have known a guy who would have helped her With that at one point Elena Caratala Sanahua Nice job She's not making it either but nice job

Wait but she Really I thought she was kind of like Spain's like perennial fucking uh athlete yeah spain the only 20 to 40 oh one year 2022 and then look at the look at the ranking uh 38 okay a bubble athlete close she's gonna be warring was she injured or something last year i think she'll be like i think she'll be top 20 lucy mcgonigal ireland 17 needs another year john yeah tyler agreed what's the weekend what's the weekend? Gotta let her cook. Tyler, you are full of zingers tonight.

You are full. Especially when Sevan wants to get to a point and just derail. Sorry. Well done. No, no. We always need one derailer, Tyler. He would say she's going for sure, but I'm going to disagree with that. Another year of getting stronger and then just all around fitness.

I don't think she's fit enough yet, but obviously, you know, strength. But I just think she needs to get a little fitter. Who's the shortest female? Who's the shortest athlete ever to be in the CrossFit Games as an individual? Mikey Swoosh. That is Natalie. Natalie Newhart. Former natalie formerly natalie mcclain didn't she test positive for something sometime you would know that is that true though yeah did she test positive for growth hormone how tall was she you know what i think she went she was really short she wasn't like tori dyson short i don't think but she was she was really short. She wasn't like Tori Dyson short, I don't think.

But she was really short. Shorter than 5'3", you think? I think so. How tall is Rebecca Fuselier? 5'2". 5'1". Oh, dude. Natalie Newhart. I remember this chick. Damn. Mary Pierce is like 5'1". Yeah, you know, I think Natalie Newhart,

I think she was just like a normal girl, and then she went and trained at Louis Simmons and just came out just like... Got squished. Can I borrow this for a second, Simon? Please, please. I think she put on like 100 pounds on her deadlift or something crazy happened. Yeah, she did something. Yeah, she tested positive. Yeah, I think she tested... Oh, damn.

Is that her? So did she go in like... What? Did she go in like 2013 or 14? Dude, that's Carrie Pierce pierce photoshop my god it looked that it i too i thought it was that's not that's her that's natalie newhart all right i like uh marissa flowers never made the games as an individual but she was on it was she ever on Teams? No. Sarah Cox weighing in, CA Peptides. Bingo. All right, Sarah.

By the way, John, I want to tell you something, buddy. Within seconds of you getting that TV, so they told me that you were getting that TV. They text me and they said, hey, we're four minutes out. Eight minutes after that, Sarahx called me and she's like oh my god john's the sweetest man i go what i mean she goes he texts me took a picture and texts me as soon as the tv came and said thank you you know i always knew john sweet man why would i say thank you for that i don't know i just think you're a good dude i mean it's just fuck we're in an era of where people don't know how to say thank you i mean fuck i always thought of using entitled fuck i had no idea

well hey this this chick's new to the chat no she's not okay uh um i know he is so sweet so that girl's name you mentioned mel Melissa Flowers or whatever, by the way, that's the girl. Is that her name, Melissa Flowers? Marissa Flowers. Marissa Flowers. She holds the world record for fraying, right, out of men and women? Okay.

145. Yeah, crazy. Okay. She's 4'10". Crazy. Chiara Salandra. When I think of her, by the way, I think of the kind of Athletes that JR has at his

Gym just like kind of the weirdos Like Motley Crue like a pig you know what I mean Just a four foot ten chick who's really Good at Fran but can't make it to the games that's what I think Of CrossFit Crash I don't know why The whole community Yeah just the whole community Just specialists over there

To crash Chiara Salandra No Martina Barrino Emily Lundberg Oh this is a fucking specimen And she's not going She's not?

No But you are right she's a specimen Anyone who wants to see She look like she's made by AI? I'm just going to let Hitler say if they're going or not until I disagree with him. Did you just say Hitler? He did say Hitler.

You don't go. Yeah, but if you want to see it's worth just doing a show perusing this Emily Lundberg Instagram account. She's something else. Aya Wilkinson? I think it's Ella. I don't think she's Hispanic.

I don't think it's Aya. She's not going either. Erica Eklund? Sweden? Negative. Jasmine Gilardi. Look at this. She's bathing suits from like 1940.

What does that have to do with her? Yeah, it makes her less fit as well. Out. You're out. So many games. Pardon me? None of these people are going to go. What does that have to do with her? Yeah, it makes her less fit as well. Out. You're out. Do you play any games? Pardon me? None of these people are going to go. Silvia Garcia Izquierdo.

Doesn't Izquierdo mean something in Spanish? I think it means left. Sure, it does. It means like they go down the street. It means left. Oh, yeah, to the left. Siria Miha. What country is this?

Albania. Margot Missette. No. Georgia Davenport. No. What? That's not her name? It's Misset.

I think it's Misset. It's French, dude. You said the first name, Margot, not Margot's. You said the first name, Margo, not Margoaks. Bergros Bjornsdottir? No. No. Do you remember Bjork Odin's daughter?

Do you remember that name? Yes. Yes. She married... What's his name? The most explosive man ever to try CrossFit. Townsend? James Townsend? No.

No. Blair? Blaine? Blaine McConnell. Yeah. He's more explosive than Townsend? That's probably... That's a shot.

My brain... You know how old people's brains can remember milk prices from 1973? I'm like that with CrossFit from 2016. Really? He did. He had a

Ben Alderman call. That was ridiculous. They divorced. She got a new baby daddy. Oh, wow. Is this their kid? Is that what you're saying JR? I'm not saying that at all No 17 years old She is young though

Is this Iceland's new hope? No John that's my role I'm sorry go ahead Elisa Fuliano Oh yeah she's in I got her out a couple years ago she made the games on accident i thought like she's just some sort of adobe photoshop

fucking wizard sits behind a desk all day and now she's this will this be her third games that's alexis johnson dude she said that's this is arthritis girl right yep i thought that was sarah sigman's daughter she got a lot of stuff going on. I'm doing Arthritis Autoimmune Week, so if she wants to come on the show, I want to know JR's vote. Fuliano, JR. She's one of the first ones out for me. She's probably the first one in for me.

First. Because I think the handstand walk workout isn't going to be as skill limiting as people think it's going to be it's just going to be straight up speed or rowing capability i would say that the only one she really has to separate unless she can do the muscle-ups unbroken would be the legless workout so i think it's going to be tough i would have to agree more so with john and he's going to agree with the laura horath rowing workout too, just because he said that. Nobody's agreed with me so far, JR.

Maybe you don't. Maybe you disagree. We'll get there. Laura Horvath, sister of the great Christoph Horvath. I think she does alright. She's a lot. She might barely get in. Does she win? I think she wins

at least five. Five events? I said four. down i'm down with it with the cause i think she wins four events there's no way she wins five events no i think you should i think you should look at them closely let's go through them okay the first one's the only one she's not gonna win right jr first one's first one's a no first one's a no second workout you got front heavy front squats and a cross she's gonna win that she's the fittest person so just so you guys know the first workout they say she's gonna win is 800 meter run no no that's the one that she's not gonna win oh okay you ain't gonna win that one okay that's five rounds okay so not that one. Workout two. And we got to wait for you to scroll like this, everyone.

Okay, second one. This is a pure fitness test. It's heavy on the front squats, but it's all fitness the whole time. She's the fittest person there. It's not heavy for her on the front squats either. No. Okay, so she wins workout two. Workout three. heavy for her on the front squats either no okay so she wins workout two workout three she's seven

seven rounds for time 10 calorie echo bike one legless rope climb 10 box jump overs one legless rope climb seven rounds now i don't know if she wins she wins this one but uh the legless rope climb she's one of the best legless rope climbers out there she's imma tall i would say is the best legless rope climber but i think jr i think's just going to make that much time up on the bike. Yes. No, I agree. I think that the,

there's not going to be enough separation on the rope. I think she's going to be able to make up for him. The bike. I don't say she wins this one, but I think she'll be top three. And Jr. Says she wins this one. Okay.

Uh, event four of six. And now I'm 400 meter row, 96 foot handstand walk, 600 meter row, 120 foot handstand walk, 800 meter row, 72 foot handstand walk. Laura Horvath does not witness. But listen, listen, if this is just straight handstand walking, right? Just straight handstand walking. The row matters. It matters so much more than people think.

And like the entire matters. She's the fittest than people think. And the entire matters. She's the fittest person there, and she's the best rower there. If it's just handstand walk, there's not a Tudor Magda out there to just beat everybody in a race. How is that true if they're all going to pull within 10 seconds? They're not. Laura's going to pull 10 seconds faster than everybody else. On that last row.

That's what Tyler just said. How's it going to matter if it's it gonna matter yeah go ahead all right go ahead jr uh with these chunks of handstand walks and the there's not like a big unbroken requirement or anything like that as far as i know i think it's like the field of play is in 12s so it's like you got to go to at least 12 feet at time. And so that's going to be a non-issue. That last row, Laura's going to have plenty of time to catch anyone that's just been a little bit faster on their hands. And she's going to be able to pull away on the last round, I think. Why do you think it's a straight handstand walk, Jer?

Why do I think it's not a skill? Like over stairs and shit and parallel bars? And why do you think, why do you think it's just straight, straight shot? Well, a few reasons,

but the biggest reason being, this really reminds me of the 2022 last chance qualifier that Boz programmed. And it was an eight minute clock, two K row into a max distance handstand walk and if you look at the totality of the programming i think there are opportunities for you to mess up from a execution standpoint the last workout and then obviously the snatch workout and i would still say the legless workouts highly based on execution for a lot of people this is supposed

to just be yeah i know you can all walk, but show me who's willing to row harder. And then what about the element of save the obstacles for the games? That's the only time we've ever seen them since 2018, much to my chagrin. All right. Do you think they could throw in like a pirouette at a turn? Tyler, they could do a lot of things. I don't mean they're going to. I think they could, but I don't think they will.

I think that's really simple. I think this is meant to be intensity. I think it's meant to be who's going to race it. That's it. Workout five, Laura Horvath, does she win this? Karen Frey over. She wins this by more than Bronislaw wins. Three minutes.

Karen Frey over. Yeah, while Karen Frey may snatch more and like a rested one rep max i don't think she touches laura on this i think laura wins by a bigger gap than bron wins okay and then final the final workout uh like i always shifted gears event six uh 30 calories uh echo bike 15 muscle up 72 foot dumbbell walk lunge. This is just a straight sprint. Dude, she's going to mop it. Yeah, this is the Gavin Magala show.

You think Laura does the muscle-ups unbroken? No. I don't think she'll have to. She's going to definitely do the bike unbroken. I think she's going to get off the bike five cows before anyone else Who gets off the muscle-ups first thorough through a hell does do it. Oh, I think Laura it I think it'll still be Laura Elena Katara said oh, yeah Hmm and then she'll I don't think I don't think Laura puts the dumbbells down. No

All right back to the show guys great that's messed up dude i'm glad that you agree with me because they've been against me this whole time jr and what king of heat one has spoken will brandcenter oh what a handstand walk speed is important for sure but i think especially we're talking about five will in the women's field someone who can row paces really really close to a lot of competitive males is just really going to be able to pull away like i don't think anyone can come close to her power output wise on the machines you're talking about laura correct last year's champ yeah do we know anything about laura's status like how she feels?

Is she injured? Is she good? Is she fitter? Who's the last person? Does she do interviews? Does anyone talk to her? What the fuck's going on with this? She's waiting on you to call her, interview her.

All right, I'll call her tomorrow. No, let's call her now. You're competing soon, right? Just checking. Linda Kiesman, Netherlands. How many events do you think you win this weekend? Gabriela Magawa Beat Laura in the quarterfinals

Yeah It's the quarterfinals Francisca Hoger Hyogar Amy Kringle I think she'll battle. I think she'll be in the battle, but she's one of the last ones I have out.

The battle for like 16th? No, for the last spot, man. I say Kringle goes. Julia Jacobson? No. Jacobson. Connie Easby? What?

He uses different Js. Connie Eesby. And here we have Jocelyn Jalstrom. Jocelyn Jalstrom. Is she going? Yeah, she's in. Jocelyn. And what place does Jocelyn take at the games?

She's going to take 22nd. Wow, okay. Rebecca Vitteson. She'll take 21st at the games. Vitteson. I'm with it. So listen, Vitteson had a struggle to get into the quarterfinals, correct? Yes, she was one of the lower ones.

But I think, did she get a penalty? I don't recall. I think she got a penalty. I might be wrong, but I thought she got a penalty. Holly. I thought she'd get one. So you guys all think Rebecca makes it? Yeah.

Holly Tienen? Claudia Gluck? I think Claudia Gluck will be in the mix. Manon Anganay, second place in the quarterfinals, right? Behind Laura Horvath. You think Claudia Gluck is in the mix? No, no, no. I don't think she'll make it.

I don't think she'll make it. I think she's in the mix. You said she's in the mix. She's in the mix, too. Let me ask you this. Why not Man on Angones for the snatch ladder, JR? She's stronger than Laura, isn't she? No.

No. No. The only one there who I think is just like absolute strength, pound for pound, weightlifting stronger possibly is Karen Frey. And I don't think she's stronger. There you go. She's in the ballpark. I'm trying to think which event it was, but I saw Manon Anganese doing touch and go

with a 100-pound D-ball when no one else did. I want to say, was it Rogue? Dubai. Dubai? Dubai? I think Dubai. It wasn't at Rogue because... What place do you think she takes it?

What place do you think she takes it? The snatch ladder. Fifth. Ninth. Sarah Sigmund's daughter is out. When did they post this list? Does anybody know? No.

Three months ago? It was within the last couple days. Well, Sarah, by the time they found out Sarah wasn't going, there's no time to replace her. I think they had to know by Sunday is what I heard. And she announced whatever two days ago, whatever two days ago is. Well, we marked her as withdrew on the Heat One app. Emma Tall, is she going?

David Strong's wife? There's John with me. She's in the mix. No, Emma Tall is going to be comfortable. The other chick, Amy, Imital. Imital's going to be comfortable. The other chick, Amy Kringle. Imital's going to be comfortable. Emma McQuaid? Yeah, she's in the mix.

Comfortable. You need to learn my terminology. Jennifer Muir, Aline Wurz. What about this bleaker, Noor? First name what? Noorjit. Amur, Aline Wurz. What about this bleaker, Nur? First name what?

Nurjit. No. Karen Frejova. Yeah, she'll be all right. Rika Larson. Emma DeGucci. Oh, does DeGucci go? All the rest of these girls don't go.

No DeGucci? Solberg, is she close, John? No. No, not this year. Has Solberg been before? I don't go no de gucci so better is she close john no no not this year been before i don't know why i'm just real anti-sober no she hasn't been before the gooch is 39 my god catherine uh eisel and uh andrea solberg has sober been before not in no i don't not individual maybe she's been on team before but not individual i just think like she's gonna be one of the last ones off the bike yes she'll do good in the legless rope climb workout but a lot of girls are gonna do good in the legless rope climb workout it's not like a guaranteed great you know event and then she's not going to be good in the snatch

workout i think the front squats are going to be heavy for her. I just think she's too weak. Too weak. Okay, let's take a look at the workouts. They're going to open the show. Chase will be covering with the gang. Wherever you're going, you better believe American Express will be right there

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Okay, so this is it for Friday. Five rounds for time, 800-meter run, 10 clean and jerks, time cap 30 minutes. There's got to be people in this mix who are going to, uh, outliers. And this, this looks like it's kind of an outlier workout, right? Yeah. Miriam Von Rohr and Victor Hoffer. Oh, what about yellow hosta? What about them?

They're going to win. I think yellow hosta can win this. I disagree. Yeah. And I'll say like, can you win the run of the games? No, no, not against yellow hosta against Host against Mirham Monroe and Victor Hoffer. Go ahead, JR. You go, John.

You go, John. I think Yellow Host is the best runner, but the man has a 300-pound cleaning jerk. I think the cleaning jerks are going to – they mean something. If you cannot cycle this barbell the same rate everybody else can you don't have to touch and go then but you have to be able to cycle it fast and i how long were the clean and jerks taking you 50 seconds i mean they were only taking me like a minute who's the who's the best runner in the group yellow okay and then who's the second and

then yannikoski has the big engine yana i think you probably got lazar you probably got lazar for running and luca you know lazar will say luca's a better runner than him i know we haven't seen it but he says so you know who cares what he says what have we seen yeah and you know i'm looking at this workout obviously there wasn't any running in quarter finals however they did do a lot of clean and jerks under fatigue this was the second weight of that i know it's a completely different workout everyone relax but workout to the wall ball burpee box jump over for most people right unless you just went lactic and your legs blew up is extremely aerobically limiting that being said

when i looked at the leaderboard i looked how many people from europe went sub 16 minutes on workout two and also clean and jerked at least 55 reps meaning they got 25 at 245 there are only four europe victor hoffer bkg lazar yanikovsky and the guy brian's been raving about for since he saw him in europe nika mazarazzi that's the 22 year old guy and apparently this guy is uh as good as he is aerobically on machines he's an even better runner so i think he would be a guy to for sure look out for in this what did jelly get on that workout jr did you just leave out victor hoffer on that list of four because he's he did those things he did the sub 16 and 55 reps so yeah he's the he's the fifth guy sorry there were five yeah he's gonna win like i said okay hey do you have it open hillar can you tell me what Jelly got on that? Jelly got –

I think he was over 16 on the burpee. He was a hard-working guy. He was 39 and 54, so just over and under. So, again, it's a comp. Yes, a running heavy workout. I know, everyone. It is not the same as wall balls and burpee box jumpers. I get it.

Let me ask you this. Go ahead, Jared, and then I'll ask. To do that well in both you should be in the you should be in the mix for this workout um of these guys you mentioned uh bkg lazar jukic jonikovsky nika uh um and victor hoffer victor hoffer and i'm gonna throw jelly in there just for my own uh essential pleasures who has best engine? I know that's pretty big, but who has the best engine? Who's the best.

I'm going to say Lazar. Yeah, I can go with Lazar. The best engine for this workout. Yeah. But the best engine I would, you could definitely argue for what he's done all year in the opening quarters.

Yana. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's what I, that's what I was thinking too. Okay.

Those two are comparable. I, if you were going to pick anybody, I would pick Lazar or Yona. Okay, then now let me ask you this. Let's put it and live in a world where Bronislaw has been doing, just running all year. No shot. Can he be far behind? No shot?

No shot. It's like. No shot? No shot. It'd be like Jake Douglas. I mean, it's not quite that extreme, but it's a similar sort of thing. Boy. Does anyone agree with that? Is it like Jake Douglas? I mean, I know Tyler said it's not as extreme, but Jake Douglas is... It's like Shaquille O'Neal, dude.

He's never going to even be able to come close on one of those runs. Yeah. Do you think Bronislaw finishes in the top 10 in this? I think if he finishes in the top 10 in this workout, then he's going to go to the games. I'll say after event one. What did Bronislaw finish in the run last year at the games? What did he finish in?

Dead last. Oh, shit. No, I thought that was Douglas. No, Douglas got cut before the run saved damn good call uh and and then how do we see the boys um uh tackling this one uh jr what do you see uh it's um it's it's not touching it's just onesies drop from the top yeah everyone's doing singles if there's a race at the end they'll try to hang on and do like a cluster of five and then five singles to try to really but hillary i apologize he was he was 15 49 and i just missed it my bad thank you i i got you did she fukowski trying to bait people with his touch and go on instagram today

no i didn't see it he said he was just testing things out, and he ran to a 185 bar and just touched and go until the video ended. Is that in his story or it's a post? No, but also, too, just with anything. Maybe he was doing intervals. Maybe he just did three rounds at a 90% effort, and he's like hey on round three act like it's round five and you're racing come back in and hold on for touch and go just train it very true very true

did you do this in running shoes john yeah i did too i i have never done the snatch workout in running shoes tyler i've never done cleaning jerks like that and running shoes so running shoes yeah hey so this is a two and a half mile run yeah it's a lot and and do they do it on the runner nope no they're on an outside and what are the implications for this for day one do you remember that was it last year at the games there was a year at the games where they got on the bikes first and everyone pushed so hard and everyone's like wow that took more out of them than they thought will this have a similar effect people are going to go hard on the run they're going to have some feedback to the body that they're not used to it's the only thing they're doing friday you have no choice but to really empty it if you knew you had to do the front squat workout later this day i

think a lot of people would pull back but because that's all that you're doing and you got what close to probably 24 hours recovery until the next workout everyone's gonna sell out i don't think it has that effect that the bike had though do you that 40 minute bike at the games there's no way no probably not but also a big factor with the effect of the bike was the quick turnaround into the pig workout yeah um uh mike alpin outside question mark we don't i feel like you're not like i've i've never been to the california um venue but i've been to knoxville and i feel like they have to go outside to knoxville um uh jeffrey birchfield i did the clean injurics and sketchers did you do it with those ones that make your butt firmer jeffrey you know the with the allegedly with the with the slope uh jr saves this whole show by uh presenting us with those stats those were some pretty

incredible stats i'm not a stats guy but i i know it's i know's like, I know it's really tough when you see a workout like this for everyone to just say, Oh, who's the best runner they're going to win. But really like, there's a lot more to it. There's there, there is a lot of weightlifting here. Like the amount of reps, if it was 30 reps and it was just like, uh, run a mile, do grace at one 85 and then run a mile. Like that's a completely different workout so i just tried to find something from recent data and when you look at the burpee workout everyone would agree it was just a pure engine test and then the clean and jerk cycling workout was just hey who can move loads when they're tired so i'm gonna go over to the uh quarterfinals i'm gonna go to uh women and then i'm gonna hit uh what are we doing we're

doing europe and what workout was that what workout was that this this one right here is one which no uh the one from um they were workout two and four the workout from quarterfinals which was the one where you had to do all the all oh, it was four. Okay, four. So in Europe, to use those same stats – Probably more like 60. We'd probably want to go at least 60, yeah. 55 for the guys was a pretty good cutoff because you saw some guys drop off. So for the women over 60, Taylor Howe, Linda Kissman – oh, they didn't even make it amy kringle

yeah and when i say you're a liano emma tall laura horvat emma mcquade man on anganese not a good runner uh karen freyova uh gabriella magawa oh man this has laura's name all over it huh i think gabby is gonna win this workout gabby's been ranked higher on both who isn't laura better runner than gabby no gabby's an elite runner no she's not what what why do you say that don't defend it what is a what is elite she's come first or second in just about every single running event. She's elite amongst the CrossFitters. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. She's an elite runner in the CrossFit world. Okay. Then you can have that. Yeah. But you got Miriam Bonro in the field now. She's better than Miriam Bonro at running.

No, she's not. How did- I will bet you $1,000 she beats Miriam Bonro in this workout. She's a better runner. It just means she's better at this workout. How did Von Rohr do on the clean and jerk ladder? 57. Okay.

JR, do you have five or six names for us that you have that you had for the men that you also have for the women? I do not because the conversation for me kind of stopped at McGowan Horvat. I apologize. Okay. Thank you. have for the women i do not because the conversation for me kind of stopped at uh at magawa and horvat i apologize okay uh thank you uh he comes out strong but he finishes uh soft and fast thank you um okay uh let's talk about the women uh so let's throw out the names who who are the the the big five laura gabby that. There's a big two, and then we can talk about everybody else. No shit, it's like that? It's like that.

Is it the strength piece? They're just fitter. They're that much fitter than everybody else there. Yeah, he's right about that. What happened in Europe? Why is Europe dragging so far behind? All the Icelandics left. And so we don't have Katrin and... got old dude.

Well, you know, you know, left in their own way. John Hill or Tyler, Annie doesn't have a second child. Where do you rank her with these workouts? Um,

second or third, fourth. I, I would say I'd still, I'd say third. I don't think she's as fit as gabby i say i just think it's important to notice that she's not in the mix she could be and she's still in her brain she's got it does europe not deserve 10 women i don't know about deserve but they what do they earn all right is that not the same thing?

Oh, John. That's a trigger word for me. Deserve? You deserve nothing, John. I'm not a fan of that word either. I apologize. Strike that from the record, ladies and gentlemen. It's like fair. Okay.

I got you. They deserve one. They've earned the other nine. That's what you're saying, yeah? No They deserve one. They've earned the other nine. That's what you're saying, yeah? No, that's not what I'm saying. No one deserves one. Okay, I'm lost. Any dark horses in this...

Here's the reason why I don't think there can be any dark horses. Unfuck me if you want anyone. For there to be a dark horse, the runs would have to be 200 meters with the same amount of clean and jerks or the clean and jerks would have to be taken down to like five but basically there's so many clean and jerks that it just eliminates anyone who's just an epic runner no no i think you would have to go 135 95 to get the outlier that could possibly be

out there for running. Like just that that's that much better of a runner. The way it would have to be would have to be between that and just reducing the number of cleaning jerks. What if you just cut the cleaning jerks in half? There are no dark horses in this. What's that? Right.

Let's agree. It's Taylor Nordstrom. We're a bum roar is the dark horse. You know, it's too many. You can't have a dark horse with 50 cleaning jerks at one 25 or 50 cleaning jerks at one 85. You just can't.

And you can't agree with Hiller though. I don't think a lot of people are thinking about her to win this workout. That's a good, that's a good, this shit runs a thousand meter repeats for sets of 10 at the stupid high watch she's not gonna win this workout and she puts up a time that's only like seven minutes short of hunter's time i guess i'm confused because seven set up is weird you're you're miss tell me like misaligned on like the workout is a running centric workout, but it's heavy enough with enough clean and jerks.

So, so basically you could take a really good runner. Like if you reduce that to five, how many, like, let's say you took out all the clean and jerks, Lauren, Gabby don't win this,

right? It's like two and a half mile. Right. Gabby still wins it. John. Wow. Elite for time. And Gabby wins it.

Wow. In this field? Elite, dude. You're kicked off. You're no longer the number one analyst. In this field. No. Wow.

What did Miriam Von Roar do to you to get you all up on her? She opened wall balls in 39 minutes. That's cool. Has she made the CrossFit games games yet she didn't get a shot she tried before pool boy doesn't even think it's uh pool boy said this is interesting too pool boy says it's it's uh you'd have to make the load heavier to take out the outlier yeah i think it's plenty heavy enough so okay so so i'm underestimating the strength of the athletes it's like the 185 is like a check it's like you're not you're not

bad at this yeah okay but 50 yeah i think like if you took the weight up yeah he's right it would it would cut out a dark horse okay oh do you guys have any dark horse picks then for let's start with the women go ahead andrew hiller i i've spoken my case i'm the dark horse and the darkest of horses apparently how's how's thurga's daughter at uh running sure she's a good runner and how's her strength how's her strength i know i know that was her a limiting factor in the past she is strong enough she'll cycle this fine she has elite technique um she's just not she's small hillary elite technique yeah she was an icelandic weightlifter almost went to the olympics yeah jr i was just gonna say the the fact that they're all doing real running really helps someone like

tori because she is a smaller athlete and she's not banking on the body weight pulling the belt of an air runner which really really helps the bigger not as good of runners because they're just able to move it like other machines are so i think that the fact that it's like real running it really i think it really helps people like her you know who else is a smaller athlete? Pillar. In the 5K last year. The 5K last year. Yeah, what?

Who was the highest European? Probably Gabby. She was fifth place. You know who the next highest was? Miriam wasn't there. Laurel Horvath. By like 40 seconds back. That's not that far.

Well, it was two and a half miles. High Rocks people run 10Ks, John. That's twice as far. And Miriam would beat her by three minutes. Dude, you're so wrong on this. I'm convinced, Gabby. Okay, let's go to the boys. Who's the outlier for the boys? Are you guys going to be flabbergasted if Jelly wins this?

No, I won't be. I'll be happy for you because you called it. BKG, how's his tank? How's his running? He's not the best one, but he's fine. How do you think his back feels? It'll be fine on this. But for me... My back was fine, Tylerler he's got a better back than i do uh

any any any outlet i guess the outlier is this nika guy yeah i would say he's the dark horse yeah he's somebody that we don't know about um any any crazy passing on this any place where someone would implode and let me pose this to you. The last 800-meter run, I can't remember what year it was, but at one of the CrossFit games one year, we saw Sam Briggs take a big lead, and then I want to say we basically saw her form completely collapse. And was it Emily Rolf who passed her?

Someone passed her in the run. And Sam had a huge lead, and then we just started watching her do the head waggle we see something like that here um you're thinking of the totobar workout that i just remember them running outside along the fence it was the years i think panchuk was there that you know the people were running with him yeah but one of the women had a huge lead and then she just imploded yeah it was sam she took it out really hot though she if you remember she was on the cut line and she needed to win that workout to not get cut so

she just went for it and sent it and then emily caught her emily is you know the one of the best runners in the crossfit field um and so yeah it's sam didn't blow up like that badly she still got like third but we saw her we saw her whole form breakdown so so 40 clean and jerks in heavy but i don't know if you'd say heavy but i'd say heavy 40 clean and jerks in and then uh and then running your last 800 meters uh are we gonna see passing there that's a really good question because this is the kind of workout that i'm really curious are we going to see passing there? That's a really good question because this is the kind of workout that I'm really curious of in how many regions does the leader after round one hold? Or is it just one of those workouts where,

Oh, there actually is a lot of movement late because a lot of people do come out too hot and they end up just really slowing down on the barbell like it's like is it a hey if you get a five rep clean and jerk lead on someone do you relinquish that lead or is it a workout where there is a lot more back and forth i i do think that uh long run when i look at these names, because of how many rounds it is, that Jelly will do well and Janikowski will do well. I see them as having strong end games. I feel like I've seen BKG and Lazar in these longer workouts

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God, I want to wear this around my town. This shirt is so crazy. But I want to get that shirt. I want to have the Kill Taylor shirt for people who participate to have that shirt. And it just says Kill Taylor where it says patriotic.

Or where it said Thug Life on Tupac. It has 12,000 reviews. If I were Taylor, I might get kill Taylor tattooed on my body. Oh, for like, let him go a year episode. Wait a minute.

365. It's just a cool idea. Or 52 episode 52. Like constantly trying to take out who you are and like all the things that you like are bad about yourself kill taylor hey this this is totally off subject here but jr let me ask you what are your thoughts about him uh losing like there's no way anyone could stay undefeated it's not the nature of our sport right i mean it's no and here's the deal broken clock's right twice a day man there's gonna be a wheelhouse workout

that everybody has that's gonna be really really hard to beat them at and if they're really generally fit like that guy was there aren't many people in the world that can do 40 ghts in a minute repeatedly period so like there's there's to be a workout out there like that. I bet there's a workout. I think all of us are broken clocks. I think sometimes. So, basically, you're saying every week there is a guy out there who can beat anyone. Like, even if we had Matt Fraser as the guy, every week there's a guy out there who can win. I think so.

Yeah. Yeah. Nobody can beat Colton Burns on the rogue invitational workout with the deadlifts and the overhead squats. There's not a soul on earth who can do that. I agree. You know the workout? Yes. 21-15-9.

Deadlift, overhead squat. Deadlifts are 275, and the overhead squats are 185. Yeah, nobody can beat him, I bet. Nobody's beaten me at Robin yet. I'm waiting on anybody. Wow. I think there's i think there's like uh especially in in a workout like when taylor was asking me about the workout i was like

hey dude why don't you make it three rounds of 30 and 30 he's like i think it'll probably have the same result i said okay why don't you just make it a 70 and but like he's training for semis like he's he's gonna do a lot more training that day and the day before so it's like before that he trained before yeah so it's like hey do i make it a 70 and just like i'm gonna be feeling that or do i just let it be a 50 like who knows that change may have been the only change that needed to be made and that guy would have even come close 100 you know what i mean and that's a and that's a that's a you know it's a minor change but it's a major change too and hey that would have been the week a girl could have beat him too

with that 35 pound dumbbell right possibly yeah but yeah how mad would he how mad would he have been if uh justin madaris came on and beat him in that? I think he'd have been pumped. I think he'd have been pumped if that happened. He'd be mad if Leo Franco came on and beat him. No matter what Taylor says, tongue in cheek, he really, like game recognized game, he really appreciates the people who are are really fit period he doesn't care

like he he's the kind of guy that that's that's going to talk to you but then afterwards he's going to also fist bump you like he's he's recognizes the work people are putting in yeah yeah yeah all right um so you guys have uh you guys see our picks for event one we'll try to uh i don't know how we're gonna do europe we don't have anything scheduled right now i don't So you guys have you guys see our picks for event one we'll try to Know how we're gonna do Europe. We don't have anything scheduled right now. I don't know if I'm getting up Shaved our heads Somebody's gonna have cancer for me to shave my head man. They do it liberate. Liberate yourself. Dude, I'm already going to go bald in five years. I'm keeping this as long as I can.

I had two years left, and I just said, fuck it. Oh, you mean you had two more years of hair left? Mm-hmm. And you just said, fuck it, I'm going for it? I could see it in all I would do every day. I would just be like, look at this. I'm going bald. Who told you that?

What are you, a tree? Huh? On the rings on the tree. Yeah, he had two circles left so yeah got two years i don't even i don't even notice when people are bald my kids were naming off all the people we know who are bald and i'm like those people are bald i didn't even know i don't even think of you eric rosa tyler did i know you when you have tyler did i know no they did not you knew me when you had the lost episode i had hair down here oh you had long hair oh. The lost episode? I had hair down to here.

Oh, you had long hair. The lost episode. The only show that was never aired. Do you still have it, Sevan? Probably somewhere. Sousa said he has it somewhere. Oh my god. She just posted.

Tyler has great facial structure. He looks good bald. I don't know. That's because you're only seeing the front. He looks good bald. Yeah. I can't even. You just. I don't know. That's because you're only seeing the front. You're not seeing the back. I got a lumpy ass head. Okay. So the goal is, guys, to cover European semifinals.

I don't know how we're going to do it. And to do prediction shows before all the events. So the goal would be friday for us to come back on uh hopefully i can gather this group together but if not we have uh backups you get get stuck with pedro or something and then we will or or grundler or chase or whoever um did i forget get anyone i don't know who's in this table um but um but that's the goal that's the goal uh and uh we probably won't cover asia it's too we don't have time for that does anyone have anything they want to say about asia you know i got time for that yeah they deserve less spots someone sent me a picture of some outrageously hot chick who's competing in asia have you guys

seen that picture going around outrageous maybe there's a lot of people are wondering about like some of the other venues like how they'll do event one i think in carson everyone assumes that they're going to be actually running whether it's at a track or whether it's like a road course kind of like europe but i think whatever if the asia venue is comparable to knoxville whatever asia does that might be what knoxville is doing i don't know how they're going to do it in carson didn't they use that track for the pyramid double helen could they use that track you think it's too small you mean You mean to just take the whole thing outside?

Right. Sorry, sorry. By that I mean I picture everything happening in the tennis stadium. So if they were to have running, they would run outside of the tennis stadium. But I don't – there's only one entrance in and out of that tennis stadium, and it's kind of wonky. Basically, it would just take you over to the soccer field, and I'm assuming that they don't have the ability to use that

because that would have doubled the cost. You know what I mean? So where would they go? Around the soccer field? Come out and run around the walkway? Do we know for sure? would they ever mix it would they ever have some people do it on air runners and some people do it uh running no i don't know though like it they they came out and said hey we're doing real running but just to let everyone know the courses are going to be slightly different and the distances may vary

and i think honestly they have to say that they have to say that. They have to say that. With the cross-regional comparison, like, guys, anyone that knows knows that with more time to prepare, times get faster. You see guys do times, you know it can be done, so you go faster.

And that just happens every week, and the fastest times are always in the last week. All the athletes will watch European finals, semi-finals, you think? Like, everyone watches. Or their coaches. Yeah. Shuttle runs.

All right. I'm going to say eight 100-meter circles. What is the layout? What is the schedule? So, Friday, they do event one, and then Saturday, they do how many events two two and then the last day they do three yep okay so the shows will get more and more crazy more and more hectic so just i guess just stay tuned to the youtube stay tuned to uh barbell

spin uh to spot the schedule well so event two starts at 3 a.m our time which is like still late for you but that's that's midnight your time and then the next one event three starts at 8 50 a.m on saturday so so let me let me so the first tomorrow friday it's 4 20 a.m and then when saturday fuck i might as well write this down. Saturday would be midnight your time. Okay. And then event three on Saturday would be 5.50 a.m. your time. Okay.

Asia's happening this weekend? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Asia's happening, yep. I'm going to go with Jong Yong Kim. Okay, so here's what I'm thinking, guys. Let me tell you also this, who's coming on the show. Arthur Semenov. Those are the winners.

Oh, thank you. We summed that up quick. Did you just mention him? He's strong as shit, so yeah, he's going to win. Tomorrow, Patrick Vellner and Sam Dancer are coming on. Shut Up and Scribble has a show at 1030 a.m. She'll win and then

on Friday I have Nicole Christensen coming on level 4 trainer for CrossFit owner of CrossFit Roots maybe I'll also have some other athletes on Friday but then okay so that Friday so then after that show Friday.

Okay, so after that show. So Friday we'll do a CrossFit Games Update show. Friday evening. We need to do one to prep for Saturday. Talk about who won, what we saw. So we're not going live? Oh, what do you mean? On Friday.

No, we'll go live Friday, Friday night Oh, you mean while they're going? Yeah, yeah I thought Chase was streaming He'll go live You think we should go live at the same time and steal their stream? Who's he? Chase

Oh, yeah, let's steal it I thought that's what That didn't play out badly I'm just confirming what we are doing Like, do you want to go on air at 6 are doing like no this is 20 no this is what i oh why how long is the workout going to be you think it's going to be uh two heats 30 minutes of pop so two hours for men and women no i'll let me do uh let me know let me do let me do let me do the show with nicole christiansen so just an update show on Friday night.

And then we'll figure it out. Or maybe someday. God, maybe Friday. Maybe Friday at 9 a.m. Let me figure it out. Since my whole family has lice, our whole schedule has changed. Do you really have lice? I had lice.

I mean, I didn't see any lice, but my kids had lice. So I just figured, fuck, I'll just shave it all off. Burn the house down. Whatever. I don't even care. My kids don't care. I didn't see any lice, but my kids had lice. So I just figured, fuck, I'll just shave it all off. Burn the house down. Whatever. I don't even care. My kids don't care. I don't care. My wife's tripping.

What are you going to do if one of them starts collecting them in a little tin? In an Altoid container? Oh, no. All right, guys. Love you guys. Enjoy. Talk to you soon. J.R. Howell, thank you.

Tyler. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa. Go ahead, guys. Love you guys. Enjoy. Talk to you soon. J.R. Howell, thank you. Tyler. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Whoa. Go ahead, Tyler. Heat One app is fired up for semifinals. And there's big prize money now. Yes. $15,000 a week. Shut up. No, $1,500.

$1,500 a week. $15,000. Every week. Except for week two, Oceana is going to get $500 on its own. So all the major regions are getting $1,500. Oceania gets $500. Also, for a total of how much? How much money are you giving away during semifinals?

$5,000. So I'm on your app right now. Where do I go? Leagues? I'm on the app. Picks? Go to Europe. Go go to i don't see europe i just see picks on the top left there's a europe button oh europe yep got it thank you go to europe and then go to europe shot caller and that's no i just see your picks no my so i have to go to europe and

then there was something else there was something else i had to pick before i go to europe shot callers. What's Europe top 12? Do I want to play that too? Yeah, you can win. If you get top five in that, you'll win an air wave. Okay, look, guys. You hit this button here in the lower left.

It says leagues. And then from there, you hit Europe in the upper left. And then you're going to hit something else. I forget what it was. Europe shot caller. And then there's two choices and i can play both of these for free yep are they you can also make your own leagues so if you want to make your own leagues with your own friends and all that shit you can do that okay miriam von roar within the top five on the first event. Fuck yeah. Hey, so these are in a list of pretty... It says draft number one.

Yeah, top 12. Did you put these in a list of who you think is the best? Because you got all the best guys at the top. So they're sorted. The draft position. So everybody that's played, that ADP number is the average drafted position it updates live guys are at the top yeah okay and then um 11 uh and then there's this uh 11 returning games men how many qualify again

there's that game yes okay and which one which one do i win the money which one do i so once i plug all this in i don't have to play i don't have to go back to it again until Sunday to see who won? But we will alert you before events start, or we'll try to remind you. So please turn your notifications on. We'll also alert you if athletes pull out or we have any other information. Okay. And Thursday, maybe we'll do a show Thursday. Are you around tomorrow?

Yep. Okay, maybe we'll do a show Thursday, and we'll tomorrow? Yep. Okay, maybe we'll do a show Thursday and we'll make picks. Have you picked yours yet, John? I have. JR, have you done yours? Not yet. Have you done yours, Hiller? I have not. Okay. JR hasn't

said a word since the Trump shirt. He's just bummed that there's not a JR patriotic gangster shirt. JR has deep, deep jealousy issues Okay guys Love you guys talk to you guys soon Bye bye