Sevan Matossian (00:00):
You. I’m watching the, remember the crazy Hawaiian I had on the world heavyweight and the Power Slap competition? Oh yeah. Yeah. He’s going right now and it is fucking wild. It’s round three. They’ve each hit each other. He’s been hit three times and the Russians been hit. I think that’s a Russian bull dude. Whatever. Not American. Oh my
Tyler Watkins (00:20):
God.
Sevan Matossian (00:22):
They’ve each been slapped so hard three times. I can’t even, I can’t imagine getting slapped that hard. Oh my god. How many rounds is this? Shit. Welcome to the CrossFit Games update Show John Young in the Center. Well, it’s kind of, I don’t even know if it’s the CrossFit games update show. I was thinking the other day, if JR wouldn’t have come on today, it would just be the ripoff of the spin show. How many weeks have you guys done consecutively? Now
Tyler Watkins (00:43):
It’s over 52.
Sevan Matossian (00:44):
You guys are fucking what
Tyler Watkins (00:46):
For Spin? Spin?
Sevan Matossian (00:47):
Yeah, spin show.
Tyler Watkins (00:50):
We’ve never missed a week. We’ve never missed
Sevan Matossian (00:51):
A week. Wednesdays you can’t even say that. You can’t even say that about Kill Taylor Tyler.
Tyler Watkins (00:59):
You piece of shit
Sevan Matossian (01:01):
Down in the bottom of the red shirt, C Beaver, upper left hand corner. A Hoot Jr. Doesn’t even look like you. What’s going on? Where are you buddy?
JR Howell (01:08):
I’m in my office but we’ve had a lot of renovation done lately, so it’s a little bit disheveled in here.
Sevan Matossian (01:15):
Didn’t you normally work out in front of or do podcasts in front of a fireplace or a window or some shit?
Tyler Watkins (01:23):
Living room
JR Howell (01:25):
I have before. Yeah. I only do that for big shows like when Rich was on.
Sevan Matossian (01:30):
Okay. This is your more casual show,
JR Howell (01:34):
Correct.
Sevan Matossian (01:34):
Hopefully we’ll be firing this back up. We’ll be regular on Fridays. I have too many passion projects going, too many shows going tomorrow. 8:00 AM Kill Taylor, 8:00 AM Pacific standard time prize. Monday this week, 15 Ji Best live calling show we’ve ever done was this morning. Caleb and I did it absolutely amazing. We had Dalton,
Tyler Watkins (01:55):
It was pretty good.
Sevan Matossian (01:56):
We had Dalton Ross Tall and thank you Tyler. We had Dalton ROA on and Alex Gaza in the first bit of the show. Absolutely. Wild show. So fun. So many great topics and we got down. We really, I understand the demographic of the audience
Tyler Watkins (02:10):
Much better.
Sevan Matossian (02:12):
Caleb, do you feel like you don’t understand the demographic much better now?
Tyler Watkins (02:16):
Boy do I?
Sevan Matossian (02:17):
Yeah, we
Tyler Watkins (02:18):
Figured it out pretty quick.
Sevan Matossian (02:19):
They say you’re supposed to. I’ve completely alienated 50% of my fan base. Fucking at least that’s just the loud minority. Yeah, those are the ones that are willing to admit their relationship with the Cheerio.
Tyler Watkins (02:35):
That’s right. There were several times today I was in a coffee shop listening and I laughed out loud. I was that weirdo just giggling and I was like, wow, you know it’s good when you just go ahead and laugh anyway.
Sevan Matossian (02:46):
Oh my goodness.
JR Howell (02:48):
My dad wanted me to send him a link to a show, just a random show that he should listen to. If it was going to be his first one, should it be that one?
Sevan Matossian (02:54):
Yes. Yes. Oh absolutely. Yes. You should tell him to start at the 90 minute mark if he’s not into UFC in
JR Howell (03:01):
CrossFit.
Sevan Matossian (03:01):
Boy oh boy. It was a show about politics and human behavior. We had a poll. We had a poll going. The whole show was insane it and that was probably the tightest poll we’ve ever had. Tightest poll it. We had like 2000 live viewers by the end of the show. Did
JR Howell (03:18):
The poll have something to do with tightness? Yes,
Sevan Matossian (03:23):
It was comparing two things that what do you think is more gross? This or this and I thought it was like a shoe win. I was fucking 50 50. I was like, wow. It was contentious. It was contentious. I thought maybe Caleb and I was going to be the last show we did together because Caleb and I were on opposing sides. We went at it man. We went at yeah, shows that Republicans and Democrats can get along. That’s right. Which
JR Howell (03:52):
No one
Sevan Matossian (03:52):
Knows. I think I was definitely on the, God, it’s hard to say. It’s hard to
JR Howell (03:58):
Say. I think I know.
Sevan Matossian (04:03):
Okay, let’s start with the drugs first. People popped. Are we surprised? So four people have popped so far.
John Young (04:16):
Yep.
Sevan Matossian (04:17):
And just you guys so far. Good catch on that so far four people have popped so far. Okay, what do you mean by that? Tyler? Have they said that there’s more coming or that it’s not, they haven’t
John Young (04:25):
Said that South America hasn’t came in yet.
JR Howell (04:28):
Right,
Sevan Matossian (04:29):
Okay. And does anyone care? What are the implications? I personally don’t care other than outside the implications that it shuts people up who say that we don’t test, but I don’t judge these guys. Whatever you’re doing what you have to do to win and then after that do you care or not care? Is it weird that they’re from three of them or from the Asian continent or from the, I don’t even know if they’re from the Asian continent. They’re from the Asian semi-final Jr. Do you care that people are doing drugs or not? You’re kind of a purist, right? You’re a competitor. You don’t like ’em doing it.
JR Howell (05:00):
Well, I would never be so naive to think that whenever money and competition is involved that people won’t do what they can to get an edge.
Sevan Matossian (05:09):
Okay, so you don’t hate these people. They could still come to your house and have dinner and shit.
JR Howell (05:13):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (05:15):
But also do you think it’s important that they get caught or weeded out just to level the playing field?
JR Howell (05:21):
For sure. I think so. The show me and Taylor did about an hour ago.
Sevan Matossian (05:26):
You guys have a show.
JR Howell (05:28):
He said something about these athletes getting popped and I was like, are they going to send an invite to you and Seth because if so, I’m all for it.
Sevan Matossian (05:40):
Oh, okay. Taylor probably hates cheaters. He
JR Howell (05:44):
Does, he does, but he’s become a huge Ricky fan also, which I think is pretty cool.
Sevan Matossian (05:50):
Oh, interesting. Yeah, because I’ve heard him say one time it came up about whether someone cheated on their wife or not and Right. He just fucking hated the guy. Oh yeah, he doesn’t tolerate, he doesn’t like cheating in that realm at all. Okay. John Young, the guys that got caught surprised that they’re all from Asia and does it give you faith in the testing process?
John Young (06:18):
Well, I mean I think if we will see more pop drug tests, the fact that they’re all from Asia, I don’t think that’s a true statement. I think Asia’s are just the first to come out. They were the first semifinal that went weren’t they?
Sevan Matossian (06:33):
Maybe. But the conventional, the conventional wisdom. I don’t even know if that’s right. The popular line to say about drug testing is that the top guys don’t do it. Only the bottom guys do it and here we have the top three guys do it, but since they’re from Asia, they’re really the bottom 1000 guys. As a dear friend of mine says the Asian athletes are cocksuckers, meaning his vernacular. Lemme translate for you. They suck. Those aren’t your
John Young (07:03):
Words. I really don’t.
Sevan Matossian (07:06):
I really don’t care
John Young (07:06):
About anybody that popped. I just think that they’ve lost their right to have that many people be sent to the games you had. This is the most people they’ve ever gotten to send to the games. I don’t care what the method was to get there. This was the most people that they got to send to the games and they wasted that chance and I think there should be one person from Asia for the next four years and that should be the punishment because y’all can’t freaking get your stuff together. You’re
Sevan Matossian (07:38):
Fucking wild. You’re insane. You are wild. John Young.
John Young (07:43):
Why are you kidding
Sevan Matossian (07:44):
Me? You are wild.
John Young (07:47):
Tell me why.
Sevan Matossian (07:49):
I mean it’s a pretty big slap down. There’s a process in there. Those individuals, it’s like you want to punish the group for what the individuals did.
John Young (08:03):
The three of the top
Sevan Matossian (08:04):
Four very southern of you. Is that what you were going to say? No, it’s very North
John Young (08:07):
Korean.
Sevan Matossian (08:08):
The liberals do. That’s what the liberals do.
John Young (08:11):
If it was one person, if it was Ivan and that was it and he won, right? If it was one person then that’s fine. Give that guy a band, but the fact that it was already too many people you are, the reason he won is going to suck at the games and three of the top four guys, the person that Backfills two, we can’t even go to that person because heat popped two. It was the same way with the team. It was the same way. Whenever the top seven teams in South America popped, they lose their right to have a team then I don’t know where you want to make the line. I think you can go case by case if you’re CrossFit, they’ve done more weird things than that. I literally think Asian should get one spot and if three of the top four South Americans pop, which I’m guessing they’re going to, they should only get one spot too.
Sevan Matossian (09:05):
John, there’s a shaming component here you’re going for, lemme give you an example of where I see it play out my day-to-day life. My kid goes to tennis practice. There’s 10 kids in the class. If you show up late to tennis class, all the kids have to run lines and what that’s to do is it’s to put pressure on everyone to show up on time or if you talk while the teacher’s talking, he stops and everyone runs sprints. So what you’re saying is that as a continent they should all be punished, they should all be on the same team and be policing themselves. I’m trying to understand your rationale.
John Young (09:40):
I
Sevan Matossian (09:40):
Think let’s say your wife’s sister, let’s say your wife’s sister cheats on her husband and your husband has to slap her across the face and he’s like, John, you slap your wife too because she’s related to her. Wait a second, I disagree with that. You’d be like, wait a second wholeheartedly. All the girls in the family need to be slapped because sister A cheated.
John Young (09:59):
That’s way different.
Sevan Matossian (10:01):
Okay. Alright. But
Tyler Watkins (10:02):
Still same.
Sevan Matossian (10:04):
Thank you Tyler. Same. Okay, let’s not go too far into this. Tyler Watkins, what do we know? You were saying that all the tests haven’t been in, have they said either way? Are we just making an assumption or do we know if the test
Tyler Watkins (10:15):
We’re making an assumption based on time? John’s right. Asia was first. What I think is most telling, there’s two interesting parts of this for me is one that most of them pop for gw. It’s a cheap drug.
Sevan Matossian (10:30):
That’s the one that Ricky did. Is that the song in
John Young (10:32):
Your ball? Yes.
Sevan Matossian (10:33):
Yeah. Okay. Well
John Young (10:34):
Except Ivan. Ivan was on it
Tyler Watkins (10:35):
Sold as a
John Young (10:36):
Song, 18,000 drugs. Oh that’s awful. Whatever he got spiked with, it was like 18 different things that got spiked. His drink.
Sevan Matossian (10:43):
Did he have trend in his Hiller told me trend so strong that you could be in the room with your girlfriend for 24 hours and still accuser of cheating on you in the last 12. He says it’s just a fucking crazy drug.
Tyler Watkins (10:53):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (10:54):
Was he on trend?
Tyler Watkins (10:56):
I don’t know if he was on trend. He was on a lot more than everybody else. Okay.
Sevan Matossian (11:01):
He was on a 1 5, 1 6, A one five Andro stand. 1, 7, 1. He was on a three A hydroxy, two methyl. Oh, is that what you’re on? No,
John Young (11:12):
That’s the fourth place finisher. You got to go up for Ivan.
Sevan Matossian (11:14):
Oh, oh.
Tyler Watkins (11:17):
And then
John Young (11:19):
There Ivan was Sulfone, sulfoxide, Endur Ball, LGD, Dyl D and Metabolites. He’s on all the stuff you can get on.
Sevan Matossian (11:32):
He don’t give a fuck.
Tyler Watkins (11:34):
They’re all cheap drugs and so it’s like, yeah, you’re saying the low ones get caught using cheap drugs. If you could play devil’s advocate and say, well the top guys don’t get caught because they know how to play the game. They’re doing expensive drugs or they’re cycling off correctly. Different or a combination all that. I’m not saying
Sevan Matossian (11:55):
That. Or you could say we have a different culture here.
Tyler Watkins (11:57):
You could also say that
Sevan Matossian (12:00):
Of a higher integrity. Well, I don’t even think it’s higher integrity
John Young (12:02):
If you sign up to play for the sport, I don’t care what your culture is. I agree. The sport says you cannot take this. If you take it, you’re done. Your
Sevan Matossian (12:11):
Is done. But these countries, they’re selling this shit at seven 11.
John Young (12:14):
Yeah, they sell cocaine on the street in Detroit. That doesn’t mean I can just buy it.
Sevan Matossian (12:20):
Okay. Okay,
Tyler Watkins (12:22):
So the second thing that I think is interesting about this is Tyler Lee popping because he’s on a team that has mayhem in its name that would chop my ass a little bit and I would start putting restrictions on mayhem in the name
Sevan Matossian (12:42):
If you were rich.
Tyler Watkins (12:43):
Yeah, I’d be like
John Young (12:44):
For the team. For the team. How
Tyler Watkins (12:46):
Do you decide that
(12:47):
You pay for
Sevan Matossian (12:48):
Programming mean?
Tyler Watkins (12:50):
Yeah, but to me representing the programming and representing the gym are two different things. I would be a lot more restrictive on it if I were rich. I don’t want to tell him how to run his business. What
Sevan Matossian (13:01):
Do you do? You mean Tyler, they pop once now they can’t use the name Mayhem now
Tyler Watkins (13:05):
I feel like mayhem to apply use the name
John Young (13:08):
And it’s just not good publicity.
Tyler Watkins (13:12):
No, and you have to be vetted every time you want to apply to be a mayhem team.
(13:16):
Yeah, it’d be the same if I said that I worked for C four. It’s like I can’t just say that.
Sevan Matossian (13:26):
Am I supposed to talk
Tyler Watkins (13:28):
Jr? I was interested in what JR might think about this
Sevan Matossian (13:33):
Using the Mayhem name Jr.
JR Howell (13:35):
Yeah, I think it’s a cool point that you bring up where you have all these people tangentially who you’re kind of connected to. If any of them reached out and said, Hey, we want to come do games training at Mayhem, he would welcome ’em all with open arms, just not even knowing who they were and this I would say maybe more than anything else would call into question, should I be that way? Should I be so, should I be so welcoming? Should I be so carefree about anyone slapping my brand on their team name and not really knowing what kind of morals and how they’re made up ethically?
Sevan Matossian (14:17):
Does
Tyler Watkins (14:17):
That mean you need to bring the affiliate cup back?
Sevan Matossian (14:22):
I don’t think anyone’s taken us. Jeff Baco. How can all of you guys be so anti steroids? Are you really that soy? I don’t think anyone’s anti or pro steroids. I think everyone is pro rules.
Tyler Watkins (14:34):
Well
John Young (14:36):
In this book on my part, I would agree with that. I don’t care what you do. I remember Fraser, he said it in the documentary whenever they threw Ricky under the bus, I don’t care what you do, if you want to do all the steroids, the world go get it. The second you sign up for a competition that says you’re not allowed to do this, then you’re a bad person.
Sevan Matossian (15:01):
So these guys popped and more to come and there’s no one surprised that it came that it’s from Asia. Have we ever had top three of the top, these are three of the top four, right?
John Young (15:13):
South America had the top seven teams pop.
Tyler Watkins (15:17):
Oh shit,
John Young (15:19):
That’s the most we’ve ever seen. My God. On the teams, they had to go to the seventh place team to find a team that was somebody wasn’t on stuff.
Sevan Matossian (15:26):
All right. I bring this up just because people like to post right away about their issues and Jessica Collegian made this post. She says, when arriving to Athlete Check-in syndicate Crown, I was informed Northern Spirit. They did not have my registered information or my clothing questionnaire. Northern Spirit said they had several athletes that slipped through the cracks and would do the best they could for the uniforms for the weekend. I was told I would eventually receive the athlete tanks with my name or them on them just as the other athletes. I reached out to syndicate team a week ago and this was Kyle’s response and the response was our team reached out to Northern Spirit. Unfortunately they aren’t able to fill the requests. Requests, sorry, we weren’t able to make that happen for you. And then it says it’s your mess up. Just do what you say you’re going to do and fix it for fuck’s sake. Now
(16:18):
In the end, what we ended up finding out was that Jessica Collegian turned in her information late that there was a deadline for her to put in her shirt size or bra size or a cup size whatever, and she turned it in late and so that’s why it fell through the cracks and there are systems in place for these people, but this thing where people rush to post stuff, it was the same thing with Sean Woodland. I think it was premature. Even though I’m really disappointed and I still don’t believe that he’s actually not going to do the games. This rush to post, I think everyone should take a page out of Paige Powers book when she got that huge penalty for the step-ups and she held back, go ahead
Tyler Watkins (16:58):
And don’t talk about
Sevan Matossian (16:59):
It or just chill, just
Tyler Watkins (17:05):
She kept asking about it and they never, they said, sorry, can’t do anything about it. What are you supposed to do after that?
Sevan Matossian (17:13):
You mean besides just run out and post?
Tyler Watkins (17:15):
Yeah, you’re like, I tried to resolve the issue and they said that they won’t resolve the issue, so what do you want ’em to do? She went to professional route first outside with Caleb on this one,
Sevan Matossian (17:24):
But she was wrong. She misrepresented,
Tyler Watkins (17:27):
She asked for the solution to be provided and they said there would be no solution and so she said, okay, what the hell?
Sevan Matossian (17:35):
But the error was her fault.
Tyler Watkins (17:38):
She may have, but then yeah, sure.
Sevan Matossian (17:40):
I would say 50 50 anyway.
Tyler Watkins (17:42):
Yeah, she may have responded late and they didn’t get it to it right away, but
Sevan Matossian (17:47):
If your dog’s missing, go ahead and make an Instagram post about it. Put a picture of your
JR Howell (17:50):
Dog up.
Sevan Matossian (17:53):
You took 40th place at the semifinals. Just chill.
John Young (17:56):
If your wife, how long does your dog need to be missing before you post
Tyler Watkins (18:00):
Two days?
(18:02):
The
Sevan Matossian (18:02):
Number of coyotes. You’ve
JR Howell (18:03):
Got a responsibility
Sevan Matossian (18:05):
To your dog.
John Young (18:08):
You go out there and you find that dog.
Tyler Watkins (18:12):
Yeah, I’m combin the streets baby. I’m on
Sevan Matossian (18:14):
In the car. I got you Jr. Our dog at eight o’clock at night we noticed was missing at one in the morning. I got all of its bowls and shit together and it’s leashes and it’s food and I put it in a bag and I was getting ready to throw it away. I’m like, fuck the dog got out by
Tyler Watkins (18:29):
The Cote that fast,
Sevan Matossian (18:31):
Huh? Yeah, that fast. And then in the morning I went out and opened the car and the dog was in there shivering fucking mess for almost frozen to death. I fucking got locked in the car overnight. Dang. Have on,
Tyler Watkins (18:43):
You’re not allowed to tell dog stories ever again.
Sevan Matossian (18:47):
South Dakota, at least I didn’t shoot my dog,
JR Howell (18:51):
But you did have to ride with him dead in the car for a really, really long period of time. Oh, oh, it’s
Sevan Matossian (18:56):
Worse. Yeah. Yeah,
Tyler Watkins (18:57):
I think about that
John Young (18:59):
Awful dude, that story. That’s ridiculous. It is ridiculous
Sevan Matossian (19:03):
And about two hours after the dog died, it dropped to just a big runny deuce on my wife’s lap because she was holding it in the car.
John Young (19:11):
I’ve had one of my dogs die in my hands and I watched his eyes fade and it was traumatic. I would much rather do that 10 more times than have to go through what you went through with your talk.
Sevan Matossian (19:22):
Hey, and it’s a seven hour car ride home and the kids are like, he’s got to spend one more night in the room with us. Oh
John Young (19:30):
My. I’m
Sevan Matossian (19:30):
Like,
Tyler Watkins (19:30):
Goodness cry.
Sevan Matossian (19:33):
Okay, Friday night, 8:00 PM Farrington Field, the free workout on Friday night. I have questions. Is this the first workout of the CrossFit games?
John Young (19:46):
It’s not said that it’s the first event and I don’t think it will be.
JR Howell (19:51):
No.
Sevan Matossian (19:52):
Do the games start on Thursday JR. Or Friday?
John Young (19:58):
Friday for individuals, correct?
JR Howell (20:00):
Yeah,
John Young (20:02):
For teams
JR Howell (20:03):
They’ve been advertising the eighth through the 11th. I mean that doesn’t mean individuals have to start. I would be shocked if this was the first scored event of the 2024 CrossFit games.
Sevan Matossian (20:13):
August 8th is a Thursday.
John Young (20:16):
I think it’ll be
Tyler Watkins (20:17):
The That would be so you think they’ll have two events before we go out on the first day? They’ll have three.
John Young (20:26):
I think it’ll be the, actually you know what? I think the swim is going to be first and then they’ll have two scored events during this workout.
Tyler Watkins (20:38):
The alleged swim.
Sevan Matossian (20:40):
Okay. How many events are going to be at the CrossFit games this year? Bare minimum. Let’s agree on a number. Bare minimum. 12. 12. 12. Okay, so you’re saying that if the games don’t start until Friday there’ll be four, four and four. Four and Friday four and Saturday, four and Sunday?
JR Howell (20:55):
Not necessarily.
John Young (20:57):
I would say like 3, 5, 4.
JR Howell (21:00):
I think there’ll be at least one time where they take the floor and get scored for two events. Right.
John Young (21:06):
That five
JR Howell (21:06):
Being maybe only one.
Sevan Matossian (21:08):
Why are you guys so sure there won’t be an event on Thursday?
JR Howell (21:11):
I think there will be on Thursday. Oh, okay. So that
Sevan Matossian (21:15):
Gives us four days the
JR Howell (21:16):
First, yeah, I don’t think Friday will be the first day of competition.
Sevan Matossian (21:19):
Okay, so you think there’ll be a competition on the eighth and then there’ll be a competition? Ninth. Okay, so do we agree that won’t be the first competition, first event?
John Young (21:28):
Yes.
Sevan Matossian (21:29):
Okay. Then my next question is this. If they’re going to have all these people come out here to an offsite venue,
John Young (21:37):
It’s going to be a spectacle
Sevan Matossian (21:39):
And it’s going to be free.
JR Howell (21:41):
Oh, it’s not John.
Sevan Matossian (21:45):
Okay, we will go start with you Jr. What are the implications of that? Does that mean it’s going to be for sure a 30 minute workout or it’s going to be two 10 minute
JR Howell (21:52):
Workouts? I think the idea that they’re going to open it up to a huge crowd and do it for free, that because of that it’s going to be something crazy like sexy and cool I think is not simple. You don’t know the games if you think that.
John Young (22:09):
Yeah, but I don’t think would What’s JR
Sevan Matossian (22:10):
Talking about? What do you mean then? I don’t know the games. Why not? You’re not going to
JR Howell (22:14):
Do your, Dave has doubled and tripled and quadrupled down on this idea, especially in the last few years because he is been a lot more forthcoming with information and he’s been much more willing to talk about things that it is not about the things in the event that he wants to focus on or that ever should be the focus. It’s the athletes and their performance that will make the show what it is. So they could run a mile on that track and they could do it in three or four heats and it could just be run a mile for time and that would be as exciting as some crazy amount of workouts.
John Young (22:52):
But that’s what I mean by spectacle. I’m saying whatever they
JR Howell (22:55):
Do. Is that what you mean by spectacle? That it’s going to be really simple? Whatever
John Young (22:57):
They do, I think it’s going to be awesome. That’s what
Sevan Matossian (22:59):
I’m saying it. It’s going to be a crowd pleaser though. It’s going to be a crowd pleaser. They’re not going to do broad jump.
JR Howell (23:06):
I think it will be really, really, really exciting and fun to watch, but I don’t think that that means that it won’t be really simple.
Sevan Matossian (23:12):
What’s
John Young (23:13):
The definition of a spectacle
Sevan Matossian (23:15):
Where we get to see them basically some sort of good climax. We’re going to see a foot race at the end. It’s going to be tight. There’ll be a mass start, there’ll be opportunity for them to make contact. Just things like that where there’s every seat in the house is a good seat. There’s people there who, this will be their only chance to see CrossFit live at the highest level because it’s free and so there has to be some sort of tension. Tension spectacle. There’ll be observable tension and easy to follow.
John Young (23:44):
What if it was an elimination style bracket of the Oklahoma drill? No, they all get pads and we just let ’em go. Well, our Fort Worth
JR Howell (23:56):
Community will love
John Young (23:57):
It and that’s about it. Listen that whatever video that comes on YouTube, we have the most views out of any CrossFit event ever if they ever post it.
Sevan Matossian (24:08):
Good point. Caleb Jr. Do you have a prediction for this event? Do you have to assume that the track will be used, the 400 meter track?
JR Howell (24:15):
I don’t think you have to assume that, but one of my predictions is that there would be a hill or stairs used at the games this year and I mean this venue makes that very possible. Having stairs. It would also and could also be a way to get the fans a little bit more up close and personal with the athletes. I know being at West coast seeing them exit the floor, going up the steps and being able to high five the fans was really cool experience for them in years past. We had the berm so they would have to run in between the fans getting up and out of wherever they were going to go to run the berm. That would be a scenario where they could have the athletes working out really, really close to the spectators. But no, in general I think this workout will be very simple. I could see it being a rounds of Cindy slash Murph, whatever style, possibly with a ruck where it’s like it’s very, very easy to watch. You could have a progression down the field, but I could also see them doing something really, really simple like pyramid Double Helen type workout where they use the track and it’s just pull-ups and kettlebell swings, something like that. I could see it just being really simple.
John Young (25:35):
You think they could do a track triplet 2.0?
JR Howell (25:38):
Yeah. I think Brian Spin has said that he could kind of see that being revisited. I think that would be awesome. Something like that would be really, really cool. I mean as far as moments go at the game, Seon probably remembers filming it to finish between Speer and Holmberg where they basically dove across the finish line and I mean that was one of the most memorable finishes ever in an event.
Sevan Matossian (26:01):
I agree. That was wild. Heidi Krum lamp fund, is that for JR
JR Howell (26:07):
Peter’s not on the show. Oh, it’s for me. Thank you.
Sevan Matossian (26:10):
Very kind of you, Heidi. Oh okay. A mass art event. Boys and girls together?
John Young (26:16):
I don’t think so.
JR Howell (26:18):
So it’s starting at nine Eastern, correct? Yeah. Do you think that’s more to get? Yes. Do you think that’s more to get? Because I’m interested what you guys think about this. Is that more a hey let’s get it as cool as possible for the athletes or What I think it is is it is going to be a mass start. Either all the guys and all the girls together or all the guys in one heat, all the girls in another
Sevan Matossian (26:42):
Heat. I think the temperature does play a big role in it.
John Young (26:45):
It could be both. If it’s a long event you think it’s going to be like a Murph Cindy style and it’s 30 minutes of them doing working out on the field, it might be a ma star and they wanted to wait for it to be cool.
Tyler Watkins (26:59):
The first thing I think about when you have a venue this big as Watchability though, so if you have a mass start with 80 athletes, it needs to be perfect to where all the fans can see what’s going on and I think that’s hard
Sevan Matossian (27:14):
At that venue.
Tyler Watkins (27:15):
Yeah,
Sevan Matossian (27:16):
Really I think that venue’s going to offer great visibility
Tyler Watkins (27:21):
Just with that many athletes is all I’m saying with the stands, it’s perfect, but it gets jumbled when there’s that many athletes. You can’t track anyone.
Sevan Matossian (27:30):
Time, domain, story, time, domain. I think it’s going to be long.
John Young (27:39):
20 to 30.
Sevan Matossian (27:40):
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking.
JR Howell (27:42):
If I had to bet, I would say long, but also I think the shorter, the more fun it is to watch as a spectator.
Sevan Matossian (27:51):
I
Tyler Watkins (27:51):
Think you could see multiple short events.
John Young (27:54):
Oh, multiple. I mean I would like that two scored events, but they’re just shorter and then they stack on top of each other. However you end up doing it
Sevan Matossian (28:04):
With the cost cut saving measures with just the logistics. We don’t expect to show up there in the field to look any different. Right. We’ve ruled out anything besides boxes or some slugs or piggies or whatever. We don’t expect any rigs. We don’t expect pull up bars, things of that nature.
John Young (28:28):
I think you could see that stuff. Why wouldn’t you be able to
Sevan Matossian (28:30):
Just because it’s going to be a one-time event. It’s going to be there. That seems like a lot of extra work and cost to get that over there or no, it’s nothing for Rogue. They just load up a semi and drive it
John Young (28:40):
Over there. I think Rogue has done more for less. They made a whole obstacle course for an elimination two minute event,
Tyler Watkins (28:48):
But they owned that entire facility for that weekend at that
John Young (28:51):
Time. But as far as work power and stuff, I think them putting stuff on the field is not going to be that hard to do. Especially if they take it off.
Tyler Watkins (29:02):
This is on a Friday night.
Sevan Matossian (29:06):
And then what about maybe, what about this being the event where they introduce a new piece of equipment like a snail,
John Young (29:16):
They
Tyler Watkins (29:16):
Usually wait until later in the weekend to unveil new equipment, right?
Sevan Matossian (29:22):
Is there a norm to that?
JR Howell (29:26):
Yeah, they typically don’t do it on one of the first two days.
John Young (29:29):
It’s usually on Saturday where they do something new, not wild Sunday’s usually CrossFit and Saturday’s usually like
JR Howell (29:36):
We’re going to do
John Young (29:37):
Unique stuff. If
JR Howell (29:38):
They use the field as a way to tell story, which I’m sure that they will, the chances of seeing them use it lengthwise is a lot lower than Widthwise. I think that view that you just showed, there’s a lot more likely scenario that you have that split into 20 lanes or even more. Right.
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