The Sevan Podcast - Shut Up & Scribble // Taylor Self and J.R. Howell Predict Games Qualifiers

Episode Date: January 5, 2025

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Casino gambling problem call 1-866-531-2600 visit connectsontario.ca All right ready and live. Give me a second. Give me a second before you before you start with your story. Let's just give people a moment to trickle in. Okay, give me a second. I got to post this to Instagram. Okay, real quick. One sec everybody. Oh God. You look horrible. You look you're all fires today. Yeah, you look

horrible in this picture because the mouse thing on my screen is right over your lips. Okay, all right. We're live. We're live. We are live. We are live. Beautiful Heywood Mall in Greenville, South Carolina. Taylor, you're gonna have kids, right? Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Well, when you have children, especially communication is key in any relationship, especially with children. My wife said, Hey, I want to take the kids to the mall. have children especially communication is key in any relationship especially with children my wife said hey I want to take the kids to the mall they've never like been to the mall and the last time we were in a mall was six years ago we were doing Lily's baby picture so I said cool let's go to the mall she said yeah

I want to take them to go build a bear I was like cool we can go do that sounds good so at four o'clock three oclock, we went to leave the house. And I was like, we'll be at the mall. We'll build a bear. We'll wait in line for an hour. We'll get back home. Good to go. And she was like, oh, we're going to Greenville. I said, OK, I have a show at five. And she said, oh, I'm so sorry. Like, I didn't even think about it. I was like, you don't like to be in the car for 20 minutes.

I would never assume that we were going to drive 45 minutes to take them to the mall. So anyway, just a good lesson. So that's why I'm doing the, uh, the podcast from outside the food court. Damn bro. Dedicated. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.

We didn't discuss a topic for today. So I decided that we were going to predict the games qualifiers. So let's get started, bro. Anything cool happen to you this week? I got my first unsubscriber today from WPTH after a whopping three day membership. Oh, dude. So you got the emails?

I got it today and I went, oh, so that's how that feels. And I was, of course I was like, that's cool. We probably just want to like see what it was about. And then he just canceled it. But you know, it's still last for the full 30 day cycle. So I'm thinking to myself, did he hate it that much that he just unsubscribed and is like, I've seen it for four days. I hate it.

I'm not even gonna look at it the rest of the time. Like, why not wait until the end of the 30 days then unsubscribe? This is a new feeling for me. And I know it's one you've probably felt before. So how should I... Oh, one I feel... How could I navigate this emotion right now?

Oh buddy, do I feel that? I keep those emails turned on because it keeps me motivated. Wow, this camera angle is horrible because it makes this mustache actually look like it's just falling off my face. Anyways, it keeps me motivated and I don't take it personally but whenever I see that, I'm like, what could I be doing better? How could my workouts be better?

How can my communication be better? How can my coaching be better? What? How could my workouts be better? How can my communication be better? How can my coaching be better? Brandon's really right, like logically speak Brandon LeCocq, everybody, just so you know, if you need a realtor, or if you need a community of realtors, or you need anything involved in buying or selling a house, reach out to the Ridgeline group. Real estate with Brandon LeCocq. Epic Realty. He's a great guy, army ranger, so you know he's cut from a very fine, a very rugged I would say, but finely woven cloth, just a great dude. But anyways, he said it right. He said you're overthinking it, they

weren't in it from the beginning. Yeah, you're really are overthinking it. Not that I don't overthink it, because I definitely do. What I just do when I get home is I'm gonna get on the messenger. I'm gonna be like, hey, dude, I saw you cancel your membership. Let me know if you had any trouble finding anything.

If... Just say, let me know if you have any feedback. I just wanna get better. And what I would do is I would set up a Zapier account and you'll be able to do that through fitter and you can connect an automated email. And whenever somebody cancels just say, Hey, this is Jr. Appreciate you taking a chance on WPTH eight. Thanks for the support. If you have any feedback, please shoot me a message.

I'm always trying to get better. I have that automated feedback message and because initially I was messaging people who canceled like really when I first started, I would personally message them and then, and then will was like, Hey dude, that's pretty awkward. Like sometimes people just cancel because like, you know, they have other shit going on and like getting a message from you kind of like, it's like your guilt tripping. And that's the last thing I want, but I do want any opportunity for feedback to get better.

So yeah. My wife was, you know, eternal optimist and everything. Cause she, she was like, she was like, people are weird about their cards. Maybe they just put it in to pay for it and they canceled it and they're just going to pay for it monthly instead of letting it auto draft. I don't think, I don't think that's what happened. No, it's definitely not what happened. All right. So let's go to the games leader. Let's

go to the semifinals leaderboards. That's how we'll use this as a prediction show. Okay. We'll start with North America East, the best region in all the land, the fittest athletes, nobody else even compares. They're all trying to copy us. North America East. Okay. How many is the games taking from online semi-vinyls from the North America East region is it five people or four? So they haven't announced if they're doing, they have, they've announced the spots, they haven't announced if they're doing. They have. They've announced the spots.

They haven't announced if there are partitioning the spots. They've just announced that the leftover 30 spots from the in-person qualifying events are going to be allotted to the online. So my, my thought was that it's just going to be worldwide that the online spots are just going to go to places one through 14. It doesn't matter where they live. Um, hold on. Cross the games.

This is the calendar rogue points by the numbers roadmap to redemption. I'm looking on barbell spins website. They haven't, they haven't announced anything like that. We just know that if they're taking a minimum of 30, that the spots that aren't earned in person are going to be taken from the online semis. And that's like a worldwide situation. Dude, I'm pretty sure Spin had an article where it allotted spots to those online semis. We know the in-person spots are like basically twos all around and then one

for Asia and one for Africa. Wait, what are you talking about in-person? Are you talking about the online semifinal? Right. So in affiliate? The only thing that's actually called a semifinal is the in-affiliate. Yes, I know. The only thing that's actually called a semifinal is the in affiliate. Yes, I know.

And then the in-person qualifying events is what they're called, but they're what we would think of as semifinals. We know what spots are being taken for those. We know how many spots you get to the games from the in-person ones. And how many is that? So Syndicate gets two, Tx gets to mayhem gets to and then the two in Europe get to the one in Australia ten the one in Australia gets to that's 12 and then the

Rebel Africa gets one 13. It's one copa surrogate. Okay. So 16. And that's why I said the 14 are the online spots. Wow. Interesting. So as far as I know, the, the, the online thing is just going to be like, it doesn't

matter if they're all from North America. It doesn't matter if it's just, it's just the best of the best online. They get those game spots. Wow. It may come back and say, yeah, we're not going to do that. I don't think they will. I think it'll just be everyone's online. The playing field is, is level.

So if you do the best on those workouts, you get a game spot. It's top 14 worldwide. Sheesh. All right, then let's go spot. It's top 14 worldwide. Sheesh. All right. Then let's go through, let's start with North America East. Who is going to that competition? Do you think, and then who's going to take the two qualifying spots? To me, it's these two people.

It's not even a, it's not even an argument. I mean, you just, you have to be an East athlete. So there's, so there's so like, this is a good conversation to have, But what's also going to be interesting to me is how mayhem does their qualification process. It's a month before online semis and who goes to it? Because if if let's just take down and Jeff, because they're wanting to, if they decide, hey, I just want to get my ticket punched as early as possible and focus on my training leading up to the games. And they go to Mayhem and they take those two spots. Then everyone else either has to qualify online or they have to qualify at Syndicate.

That would be the North America East. But how many of those people are going to want to do that? Or how many people are going to be like, I don't want to travel. I'm just going to try to punch my ticket online. To go to Mayhem. Interesting. Okay. So you're thinking, so who do you think is qualified? So the mayhem is the first competition.

So that's who we need to start with. Yeah. Who's qualifying out of mayhem. You have to pick two people, two men. So if they, if they qualify to mayhem based on the open worldwide leaderboard, let's just say they use that, but it's only North American athletes. It's not everybody. So it's just this leaderboard and,

Oh, true. Real quick. Adler might not be doing the crossbow season because Dave is a terrorist. I forgot about that. I think he's definitely doing it. Jeff Adler is a pussy. Okay. Um,

Jeff Arthur's a pussy. Okay. Um, I dude, I, I think a lot of mayhem athletes that finish in the top 20 of the open, they will accept the invite because they're mayhem athletes because in cookville, because they have history training there there it's a good spot for them to go and compete whether they qualify or not it's just a good environment i don't know how many of the other athletes are gonna want to just say yeah i need to compete as soon as possible week one when the field is going to be loaded when they know someone like dalin knows he can qualify online do you think they're gonna do that i just i don think everyone's going to run to mayhem to do it. You don't think that.

No. Okay. So then I'm just going to say this. I think Austin Hatfield and Roman take the two spots at the mayhem. Classic. I like that prediction. All right. So we've got Roman Krennicoff and Austin Hatfield.

I'm going to make a, pull out an Apple note and I'm making this note real quick. Yeah. And while you're doing that, it's a good thing to remind people if you didn't listen to Dave when he went on Sevon show, there's not going to be any confusion with back fills and how that's done. The way that you qualify first is the way that you qualify to the games. So let's say that Austin and Roman qualify for mayhem, but they still do the online qualifier and they finish in the top 14, they would automatically go to

16 spots to fill because Austin and Roman already made it on in person. Does that make sense? Yep. All right. So we got Roman and down now. Let's go to Said Roman and Austin, right? Sorry Roman and Austin. Yeah, I have them written down Roman and Austin All right, we're gonna go to quarterfinals now we're gonna look at the worldwide But the breeding they're gonna be breeding bunnies in Tennessee, buddy.

All right. Okay, cool. Individual quarterfinals worldwide. So now we got to take 14 people. But you don't but you're asking about North America though. So you're asking about online now. Yeah, no, we just started with mayhem classic because that's the first chance. The next chance to get to the games is the online semifinal, correct?

Correct. So we'll take these 14 and then we'll go to the remaining competitions. Okay. All right. So Romans out, Hatfields out. They were top five in the world in quarterfinals. So safe, safe picks for the Mayhem Classic. Wow.

Victor Hoffer with a third place worldwide in quarterfinals. That's honestly very impressive. He's good online, man. He's good. So you think he's in? I would say he takes one of those spots. Yeah. Do you think Jeff Adler takes one of those spots?

Yes. Okay. So we got Jeffy, uh, Jeffy the Wokey. Sorry. I'll stop pretending I'm seven. Jeff Adler. Hoffer. Victor Hoffer.

I know he's French, but it just sounds like I just want to say it in Russian. Yannikovsky, you think he's out? Oh, I don't know. I can't give him a spot yet. Jay Crouch. That he's probably still competing this year, so. Oh, who don't know. I can't give him a spot yet. J crouch. That he's probably still competing this year. So. Oh, who said that?

I think Adrian Moonwiler said that he, he would expect Yana is still competing this year, but I'm not. Justin. Justin. Yes. J. Yes. Justin Medeiros. J. Kraouch. You're fucking can't. All right. J. Crouch. Ricky.

Yeah, this is gonna be Garrett. Yeah, this is gonna be tough to do. I know. All right. We got Ricky. We've got, we've got five taken out of, out of 14. So we have nine spots left. Yeah.

Gallon pepper. Oof. Yeah. Down. Oh, did he get a penalty? No, he just didn't that rope climb muscle out workout wasn't a good one. And neither was the wall ball. Burpee boxing, but one, wow. He tried to fuck it up like I did. But yeah. And for sure I would you think I was in for sure. Okay. Yeah. I don't know, down your 20th right here, buddy. All right. Uh, I don't think any of these guys, any lower are really worth looking at. Maybe tutor or Luca.

I just, I don't know. I don't know. Well, when you think about online though, so you look at that leaderboard and. Dude, I don't, I don't, I would never bet an amount of money that mattered to me against Colton online. He, he got a quarter finals draw of workouts that had two, um, pretty grip limiting workouts, right? The first workout with the step ups and then the rope climb workout.

I just don't think that happens often enough. And I'm sure he's closed that, that you don't think it happened. It'll happen in online semifinal. Think about the 2021 online semifinal programming. I don't think it's going to be that. I just don't think it's good. There's going to be two out of four that are that.

I think it'll be five or six workouts. Right. But I don't. Okay. But so you, so you're saying you think there's going to be three of them that, that target the same muscle stamina is what I'm saying. Like he got two out of four and in quarters. So if there are more workouts, I think it's even less likely.

So if it's, if it's the online semi-finals programming from 2021, does Colton make top 14 if it's the, uh, the one with the 60 muscle ups to start the one with the 60 muscle ups, the handstand walk, lunge workout with all the, uh, the one with the 60 muscle ups to start the one with the 60 muscle ups, the handstand walk lunge workout with all the double unders, the handstand, uh, the handstand walking, the, the GHD dumbbell workout, the snatch workout, was it friendly Fran as well? Troy, some of those though. Yeah. But destroying those is all good and well, but if you have a big

miss in an online format, you're fucked. What was the, um, what was the strength workout? It was the snatch. It was the same format as the clean and jerk from quarterfinals 10, 10, 10 max reps, same weights too. But yeah, if it were me, I would still not, I would still not bet on him online, but you wouldn't bet on him.

I wouldn't, I, I wouldn't bet on him to not qualify online. Okay, so you're gonna give a spot to Colton. Okay, all good. I'll ride with it. Travis, Travis bunghole sucker. That's what the B stands for actually. Travis back end huffer. Taylor, you should try and qualify online

since you're good at it, but choke in person. Hey, eat a fat one, nerd. I didn't choke anywhere, bro. The only choking going on here is you choking on me. Anyways, fuck you, Travis. All right. So we've got Jeff Adler, Victor Hoffer, Justin Maderas, Jay Crouch, Ricky Girad, Dallin Pepper, Colton. I think Jason's too good not to be able to qualify in any format. I don't know. I think he's going to take a real hit with Coach L.

But if you say so, I'll give him in. No way. Oh, he's taking a hit, buddy. Watch. You just watch. You think he's placing higher than fourth at the games this year? What do you want to bet on it? Do what? What's the question? You think he's going to place higher than fourth at the games this year? I think he could podium. Oh, fuck off. I bet his ass ain't even top eight.

You want to make a bet on it? Yeah, we can bet top eight for sure. How much money? How much money trying to lose? One month, one month of your mortgage and one month of my mortgage. What's one month of your mortgage? Doesn't matter. No, it does matter, bro. If you're confident, you're confident. Fuck you. Oh my God, fuck you.

I really don't know though about Moritz and Anil. I don't know. Yeah, that's a big no-no. Moritz and Anil ain't getting in. in Yonacoski if he's competing I'm giving him in I still think he's too good online. Yeah, I think he's good Okay, so we have one two, three, four five six seven eight nine. We need five more spots to give out. We got Yanni Jason Colton down Ricky J. Justin Victor Jeff Do you had a hat is still making it for sure.

Oh, Velner. He's not even on it. Oh, it's because he got the penalty. Ah, penalty Pat. Alright, I'll give penalty Pat a vote. Wow. Travis Mayer. I still think, I think guys like Saxon are still going to crush online. Yeah, he's 50th here. Let me pull him up. Travis Mayer. I still think, I think guys like Saxon are still going to crush on Long.

Yeah, he's 50th here. Let me pull him up. James, what do you think? Here's Saxon. What did he struggle with? Oh, the clean and jerk workout and the first workout. That's surprising. Does it surprise you that much because the row mattered a lot?

Does that surprise you a lot? No, it doesn't surprise me that much that he didn't do that great in that workout because he is smaller. Like he just doesn't have the body mass to be like a great rower. And same thing with the clean and jerks, I suppose. That doesn't surprise me too much. It's like really high power output stuff where his saxon is like, I would say as an athlete, anything super high power output is not his wheelhouse.

He's pretty good at going long and he's really good at like fucking crazy, intense efforts. It just can't be with something super heavy or on a machine. He also is wildly skilled, like so good at gymnastics volume, muscle ups, pistols, rope climbs, GHDs, handstand pushups, handstand walking. Yeah. Um, Like to your point about online, having one mess up can really, really hurt. Right. Execution. Let's just say there, let's say there are five.

I mean, I hope there are like six events, but let's say there are five. If you're really, really well-rounded like Saxon is, I think that helps a lot because the chances of someone else getting a hole exposed is probably a lot higher than his. All right, Saxon's in. Do we think James Sprague is in? I don't think. I mean, I know that typically online formats aren't built for someone of his build, but I think he's fit enough to where it can gonna, it's, it's can still take him into a qualifying spot.

Fitness on earth, but the flop is dong out. Um, Bailey Martin, he's someone who did really well at the games came back and got his ass cheeks plowed. Tutor Magda has done historically in the past, really great in some online settings, but I don't think a six event online competition bodes well for him. And like your ghost caravans, like think about people who, who can qualify online for rogue, like those are really, really good online. Bill Leahy.

Dude, I, depending on what the programming is, like, I don't think it would be far fetched at all that he can qualify. There's two spots left. Are you giving one of them to him? what the programming is, like I don't think it would be far fetched at all that he could qualify. There's two spots left. Are you giving one of them to him? Can we keep going down the leaderboard so I can look at? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's keep going.

We're on page two now. Ben Smith, Maximilian Krieg. All right. These are the slap dicks now. Yeah, like I think he is built for in person I don't think I don't think yeah like fine is a place where You know if there's a max lift though, and he can win a workout like that's a completely different story. Oh Wilmore at he's out Colton

There he is um I think I think guys like Luke are built to compete on in person. He's out Just gonna keep my mouth shut there Tyler Christofel dude if Todd if if Tyler's competing this year, I think he could I think he could crush online He's not making it dude. Get the fuck out of town Tyler Christofel is fucking out um oh josey hamming um born primitive titty girl oh dylan sorry um oh there's penalty pat

did i do better did i beat pat in quarterfinals sheesh what up um willy george's She's one of us Really good days And you know to though like We're going through looking at all these names that we know But like you know, there's gonna be one or two just huh that qualify for the games because they just get the best set Of workouts and they're amazing online. Yeah. I want to forget.

Don't forget. Don't forget this guy right here. Look at this fucking insane engine. Look at this. He won't even commit to doing competition. So I don't even want to think about it. I'm not. I'm not chill.

I'm not. All right. So I got something to ask you. Did you watch the interview with Dave? Did you watch that? No, he didn't respond to my DM. So why the fuck would I watch his stupid interview? That's a great reason.

He says, he says in there when I think Sevan prods him a little bit about the judging and how quarterfinals was a mess, and he basically says we had a call with Dow and a few athletes about turns and how we're going to go about doing online. And he basically brushed it off and said, this year, it's not going to be an issue. Trust me. What we've decided on is going to make it to where it's not an issue.

What do you think is possible that they're going to do for the in-person semifinal? I mean, in affiliate semifinal from a judging standpoint. That's a good question. I have no idea where to even begin with that. I would imagine they just are very, very particular with the movement selection, but also with the standards. Okay. This is, this is what I think is going to happen. It sounds crazy.

I think since they're making it more difficult to be a judge, you have to do the judges course, you have to do the enhanced judges course, you have to have your level one. I think they're gonna move in the direction of the athlete that's being judged by the judge in person makes the call. So you have to video all your workouts and you have to send them. But if Caroline Thomas is your judge and she says, nope, at real speed, he's hitting depth,

he's opening up hips, they are not gonna go with the online video review. They're gonna go with what the in-person judge says. They're going to scrub the leaderboard. They're going to look for outliers of people they've never heard of, or they're going to look for scores that are so outlandishly good that they're going to basically flag them. And then that's going to cue the online team to dig in. I really think that they're going to go more so in the direction of what the in-person judge says That's wild to me. And if they do that cool

I'm not a fucking fan of it and I hate to say it because I know athletes no offense like fucking Jason will cheat with a judge who's fucking screaming in his ear. Anyways, dude, he's done it on so many workouts He didn't on the open workout with the box jump over step down. He didn't step down his last rep and he still counted it. He did it on the deadlift workout that we went to head to head on. He tried to count his last rep. It wasn't a fucking rep and he got off his rower early to begin with. I mean, look, you're going to, and I'm just using him as an example because it's a hot

topic and it gets your blood boiled. But listen, athletes do that and judges, no matter who they are, are scared to know rep people, especially when the stakes are high. But the thing, like those two instances that you're saying are like the last rep of workouts, trying to get it in before the buzzer or trying to, or not thinking, you know. Dude, go back and watch that head-to-head workout

and watch his deadlifts. I know, just, but what I'm saying is, yeah, but dude, that movement at 185, you know, was a mess anyway. So. Okay, but he still didn't move to standard. That's all I'm saying. I'm just saying, no, no, no, I'm not, I'm just using that movement as like,

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Gambling Palm, call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca. Trying to get a rep in at the last second and counting it is one thing. Having none of your squats go to depth and you know it and you're just hoping your judge won't call you on it is completely different. It makes me nervous because there are Bill Leahy's out there and there are Jason Hoppers and I hate to lump them into the same basket pro but Bill Leahy got off his rower 40 meters early. Pour into it.

Yeah, that's the thing. You know, it just, it's crazy. It's like that guy, Jace, today trying to do step ups but couldn't even get his ass over top's the thing. You know, it just, uh, it's crazy. It's like that guy Jace today trying to do step ups, but, uh, couldn't even get his ass over top of the box. He was fucking so inflection. It's crazy. Um, I gotta go back to the first page because I'm going to have to give yellow host a, and maybe I know yellow is not like an online athlete, but Luke, Like, Luca Vujac always does well online.

He's someone that he's- My top 14 well? Uh, yeah. I don't know. Like I think some of these guys knowing what's at stake, God, I mean even Luca. I gotta give a spot to Luca. I wonder how they're gonna do it too. So like-

Do you think he'll compete for the CrossFit season? Oh, I don't think he is actually, sorry. He's not every fucking light food. This is a Benoit has it. I'll give a spot to Benoit. This is another question too, though. So we don't really know how they're going to do the video review.

We've been told that they're going to lock the leaderboard the next day. So that's another reason that I really don't think they're going to dig into videos as much. They said they're going to lock videos like that next day, like the leaderboard is going to be done because a lot of in-person qualifying events are probably going to use the online in affiliate to invite to their competition. Yeah. So they need, they need to know who hasn't made it and who has made it.

All right. So we've got 16 out of 30 so far. We've got Austin Hatfield, Roman Crenney, Jeff Adler, Victor Hoffer, Justin Maderas, Jay Crouch, Ricky Gerard, Dallin Pepper, Colton Mertens, Jason Hopper, Yannick Oski, Pat Villaner, Saxon, Patrick, James Sprague. I've got Ben Wall, Bollinger taking the last spot online. I think training with Jeff for another year. I think he's going to make the leap.

Uh, and I think Cornier Sam Cornier, Cornier Cornley. I think he'll take an online spot because historically he's very good online. Is he retired? Is he still competing? Oh, I didn't know. Is he retired? I, I don't know. That's why I'm asking you.

All right. Then I'm taking a fucking spot away. Who do you have on this list? Colg didn't know. Is he retired? I, I don't know. That's why I'm asking you. All right. Then I'm taking a fucking spot away. Who do you have on this list? Colgrey Schaber. Is he still proven? Sam quant Sam quant. Yeah, I'd be fine with that. All right.

All right. Let's go to NA East now and look at these, uh, slap dicks. Hey, so I think too, this is something like, I think we're talking about at least that competition is the first through the fourth, but the next weekend is French throw down. Okay. So the next one is French. They're on, so let's go to that.

So if you're European athlete, are you going to be like, you know what, I'm going to let all them beat their heads in in affiliate and I'm going to see if I can just go in person fresh and qualify. Like people are going to have to do the online if they don't want to. So there's going to be four at large spots out of Europe, two from each European semi-final. All right. So there's going to be four at-large spots out of Europe, two from each European semi-final. Alright, so Yellow's getting one of those, without a doubt. Because I didn't give him an online spot. Who's next?

Wow, Heinrich. Oh, he tours Achilles, he's out. I think Anjol. Really? Yeah. Anil, my phone auto corrected your name to Snoop. Did you give Victor a spot online? Yeah, I gave Victor an online spot. I think BKG qualifies in person again if he wants to. Like if he's competing. Is he competing? I'm going to assume he is. I haven't heard that he's not all right BKG. We got one more spot Moon viola the comeback. Oh, he's coming back think so

Wow That'd be awesome. All right The old wily German moon the by lad Adrian moon by lad All right, Or Moritz. Which one? Fiebig. You think Moritz is... no I'm saying which one, Moritz or Moundweiler? Oh we only have one. You said yellow for sure. Yeah yellow for sure, BKG I can get behind those. Ah, I Feel like I like more it's over moon whiler. That's fine. That's a Yeah, and more it's could take an online spot Okay

Alright, so now we've got to go to let's do okay. Let's go to let's go to Australia actually the ocean. Let's go to the ocean Ocean uh Let's go to Australia, actually. The ocean. Let's go to the ocean. Ocean. OK, Ricky Garrett's got a spot. Jay Crouch has got a spot online. So really, Bailey Martin. Wow. And Pete Ellis. Yeah, if those two qualify online,

it's probably going to open. I mean, Pete could make it back to back years. But someone else like John could be any of those younger guys from Australia. Also too though, Torian is allowing anyone to come. So it'd be cool if someone not from Australia went to compete and took one of those spots. For sake of this, let's give it to Bailey and Peter Ellis. Okay. Luke DeJong has been knocking on the door forever. I just don't think he's going to do it.

Sorry, bud. All right, we're going to China next. China. I don't even know. Also letting anyone come, but they get one spot. Only one. Morteza said that guy's the guy who popped for every PED in the book, right? I thought it was Ivan.

Let's go Arthur Semenov. We know he's qualified out of there before. How hilarious would it be if one of the bigger names in the sport, like down pepper, for example, just went to Asia. That'd be funny. Um, okay. We're going to go to South America. We're gonna go to South America. Man, I don't think he's gonna be. Oh man, I don't know.

Geeze making it. Okay. All right. All right, bro. Two spots they get. Yeah. And I like, I like Marin's to make it. Bruno Marin's over Kailin Souza has been to the games twice and you're picking up Marins over somebody in the somebody in the somebody in the chat will Correct me or something, but I feel like one of those guys Really high up just came back from a PD suspension I may be misremembering this but I PD suspension. I may be misremembering this but

I don't know. Oh Marins could compete in Africa. He'll definitely go to Africa and he's not beating Kaylee and Sousa anyways dude. He's got two he's got two games but uh parents is under his belt. He's he's yours today. Let's go with one and two then. All right let's go to Africa. Africa, South Africa. I'm I'm rolling with Polkgeist unless there's someone else going there Ruan port guide What about the little guy? What about Keelin? Now you think he's done no, I think I think it goes through rule on now All right, I Think he's wrong. I think he's the new Jason Smith. Wow. Hopefully a clean Jason Smith.

All right. So now the fun. NA East, NA West. We've got all but, we've got 26 spots out of the men taken. Let's start with North America West. Okay, drug these guys. Justin's in, Brent's not competing, James is in, Villanar's in, Sam Kwant's in, Chris Ibarra's not in, Brandon Luckett's not in,

Cole Sager I think tore his Achilles as well, so he's out. Cole Gray-Shaper's not in, Tudor's not in, Colton is in, Tristan Harrison's a slapdick, just kidding, Tristan's not in,haber's not in, Tudor's not in, Colton is in, Tristan Harrison's a slapstick, just kidding. Tristan's not in, John Wood's not in, Drake Lewis is not in, and down the line, they are all not in. So this is really where we start. Chris Ibarra, Brandon Luckett,

Colt Gray-Shaber, Tudor Magda. Who's getting the spots? I don't even know if, I don't even know if Brandon and Cole are friendly competing this year, say. Oh, Brandon. No, I know Cole's not, he towards Achilles. Okay, there you go, sorry. But Brandon Luckett, you don't think he is?

I just don't know, I don't know. Ooh, that's tough. It is tough. I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with what people like Brandon and Scott Tetlo and all these people say and I'm gonna

say that Chris Ibarra and Bill take the two spots. Oh god dude Billy you love that you love he also tore his Achilles JR. Yeah, do you not remember he's gonna be 100% though. Oh God he's washed That's not true. I think it looks listen John Young James Sprague will 100% earn his ticket online And I'll bet the I'll bet some shit on it, too, bro Like maybe I'll bet a diet on it like for 30 days

You can't eat fucking McDonald's or Ovaltine you diet on it like for 30 days you can't eat fucking McDonald's or Ovaltine you fat fuck and then for 30 days I'll fucking maybe I'll put sparkling water on the shelf maybe we'll have a good wager. You're so extreme. What dude? There's no way we're not even entertaining that that that bill makes it so just stop. Chris and I bar up for sure I can get on on board with as much as I, I would say as much as I like to pretend that I don't like him. Yeah. No, listen, I think if Brandon's competing,

I would pick six and seven though. Honestly, John Young, go get a DEXA scan. I'll bet you $5,000. You have a higher body fat percentage than me right now. Five gray, five grand. DEXA scan on it. Tubby shut up. Um, so what'd you say?

I would go with Chris and Brandon if brands compete. Okay. Let's give it to Brandon. Like it. Brandon, like that. All right. North America East. This is the last two spots. This is going to be crazy. Jeff Outters in. Dallin Peppers in. Roman Cranes in. Jason Hopper's in. Corn eye is not competing. Saxon's in. Hatfield's in. Rosamah is not in. Carone is not in. Travis Mayer is not in. Luke Parker is not in. Seth Stilwell is not in. Rosamah is not in. Carone is not in. Travis Mayer is not in. Luke Parker is not in. Seth Stovall is not in. This guy's a slap dick. I'm not competing. Wow. I don't think Luke

Parker's competing, is he? Really? I don't know. Maybe he is is Travis Mayer still competing. I don't know. Geez, dude. You're like fucking 48. Hang it up, buddy Caron I I'm gonna say Jack and I'm gonna say Seth breaks through I Was John keyword was you can't eat McDonald's here for the past year and say yeah last year I was a 9.9 so you think Caron's in no okay think Jack Rosam is in yes that I think I think Jack and I think Seth Seth Stovall. I think he breaks through. Wow, I like that pick. It's time. Seth Stovall and Jack Rosema. Alright, so here's our list. We've got 30 people. Mayhem Classic. Austin Hatfield wins. He gives Roman Krenikoff the dong.

Those are our two athletes out of there. Online semifinals, Jeff Adler, Victor Hoffer, Justin Maderas, Jay Crouch, Ricky Garrard, Dallin Pepper, Colton Mertens, Jason Hopper, Yannikovsky, Pat Valner, Saxon Pancic, James Sprague, Benoit Boulanger. He's the rookie qualifying in Sam Kwan. So those 16 people, it's like a who's who of top 20 at the games essentially, other than Benoit. Yeah.

A very esteemed list. Then we'll go to Europe, Yellow Hostay, also top 20 at the games twice. BKG, a perennial annual Akai. What is this? His third fourth games appearance this past year. Third or fourth, third or fourth, maybe third Moritz Phoebe. I think also his third or fourth games appearance. Um, so again, all in good company. Now we're at 20 athletes and we've got 10 to go.

Oh, she, and a Bailey Martin is a two time games athlete. Peter Ellis was a rookie last year. We're giving them the spots. Guy Marais perennial. It's a no brainer. Kalin, Kaylee and Susa three time games athlete. Also, I think a no brainer in my opinion, Africa we gave to ruin pot guide her, but if Marins competes in Africa, Bruno Marins, let's

say him. Okay. China, we're giving to Arthur Simonoff. North America West, Chris Ibarra, Brandon Luckett. North America East, Seth Stovall, Jack Rosema. Those are our 30 guys. Yeah, we probably listed like five or six people, people like Travis Mayer, people like Caron, people like that we don't know 100% if they're still planning on competing or

not. I would say once everything gets going, it would be a lot easier for most people. They sign up for the open. It means they're probably competing um what did Travis say Travis is rage baiting i'm going in you know somebody's gonna rage bait the fat that John Young carries on his breasts alone outweighs all the fat on my body bro i am freezing cold out here okay get out of Jr. Get out of here with your 9.9% body fat titty boy Get the fuck off of me, dude Time I beat you up for what you did. Okay, give you a little ass pounding live on the show for what you did John Young

fucking John 9.9 more like one nine point nine Damn bro, you send you a fucking bottle of GLP ones, dude. How about with that fucking breast milk you're producing? Okay. I'm done. Oh God. John Young, how much money do you think you've spent at the arches this past

year? And secondly, what's your order at McDonald's? Oh God, I can't stop laughing. I'm done. Okay. That's our prediction for the 30 men. We'll probably come back in a year or two. We'll do the women when we decide that we think they're relevant.

And then we'll go from there. Just kidding. Just kidding. We'll do the women soon. Ha, it's good having you guys. And then we'll go from there. Just kidding. Just kidding. We'll do the women's in Ha it's good having you guys Oh Peep this sponsor elevate concrete Roland's apollo great dude. It's Crossfitter from Spartan Berg

Hooked me up with some concrete they're doing doing, he did the platform, the concrete slab that we're installing our, catty can yo, little shit. I was kidding, I was kidding. Listen, the only reason I make these jokes is because I get really butt hurt about losing to girls. And so I have to be mean and bully them to make myself feel better.

Anyways, Roland hooked me up with concrete slab that we're putting our garage gym on. Super stoked. You guys maybe have seen it on Instagram. My dog ran through it while they were smoothing it. Classic. Oh, this is fucking, wow, this cuts deep. How Taylor go from the most mentally tough athlete to being unable to compete because

he has to pay two bedrooms at his house. Travis, you're from Canada, dude. Shut up. Oh yeah, true. If you haven't done your Sentinel call yet, uh, you're from Virginia. I think that says, uh, but yeah, if you're on Sentinel, please sign up for one of the 30 minute video calls

with me and Bryson. One of the group calls, it'll be fun, it'll be sick. All right guys, I'm out of here. I'm done talking shit. John Young, you're in big trouble buddy. Oh, the next show with McCoy, great question. It'll be Thursday, likely. I'm gonna film a class Monday or Tuesday. Let's look at the

programming for the gym next week. I'll let you guys know what it is. And in the comments, you can tell me which class I should get evaluated on. Let you guys be a part of this journey. I got to go back a little while to my whiteboard picture with Uh oh, where is it? Where is it? Oh, here we go. All right. Oh, Monday.

This is a crazy workout. 100 GHD sit ups for time at the 10 minute mark every four minutes for five rounds, 10 overhead walking lunges with a barbell for load. Wow. That's a stinker. Tuesday is four time, 50 calorie, I go by 50 kettlebell swings and we'll have a skilled development session of strict handstand pushups. Wednesday is going to be strict and heavy dumbbell Fran.

So 21, 15, nine dumbbell thrusters with fifties and then dumbbell strict pull-ups with one of your dumbbells. Thursday, we can't do Thursday. So we've either got to do, we're choosing Monday through Wednesday essentially. Yeah, the GHD sit up and overhead walking lunge. I feel like that's the workout that should be evaluated, teaching the GHD up and overhead walking lunge. I feel like that's the, I feel like that's the

workout that should be evaluated teaching the GHD and the overhead walking lunge. I feel like it'd be really good. Awesome. Yep. I'll be in Arizona when I do this. Oh, Susan's doing a beta version. What version of this workout Susan are are you doing 10 row climbs? Dumbbell step ups, dumbbell snatches and row climbs in the middle. Street. Yeah, it's a hard workout. It's a sick workout from the vault. I think the YouTube video is Greg Glassman coaching rich through it, which is pretty cool.

Awesome. All right guys, I'm out deuces. See you. Love you. Deuces. See ya. Love ya. Peace and blessings.