Sevan Matossian (00:01):
Tomorrow morning Coffee Pods and Wads 7:00 AM Pedro will be having Brent Falkowski and Patrick Vellner on. That’ll be nice to hear their perspective on all things PFAA. It’ll be a great podcast. Pedro’s one of the best interviewers in the space, if not the best, and Brent and Pat are extremely articulate. It’ll be wonderful to hear some expansion in depth explanation of some of what I think is pretty vague in their demands, their choice of words, where they came from. It’s going to be good. It’s at 7:00 AM I also at 7:00 AM Have a guest on a competitor, Ross. I think it’s Ross Austin at 7:00 AM Also, I’m going to try to move him to 6:00 AM Pacific Standard Time so that I don’t cut into Pedro’s show or more like so he doesn’t cut into my show. So that is tomorrow. Oh yeah. I’ve Ross Austin on tomorrow at 7:00 AM He’s competitor. He will be in San Antonio from the 19th to the 22nd at the CrossFit Games. The adaptive division currently going on the team division. I saw some footage from that. It was beautiful Masters. Saw some footage from that. That was beautiful. Congratulations to all the athletes who’ve made it through. The first two days are done. Is that where we’re at with that?
Bill Grundler (01:26):
Yep. Two days done. Correct.
Sevan Matossian (01:29):
Bill Grundler in the center, CrossFit Inferno Broadcaster in the space. He will be. These are the two broadcasters who will be broadcasting, if that’s what you want to call it, from the Crash Crucible this year and things are heating up. Just to let you know how the drama’s developing today on Kill Taylor Tudor Magda. He needs a nickname, dude. He’s something else.
Bill Grundler (01:52):
Mag Magda?
Sevan Matossian (01:53):
Yeah, Magna Mag. Oh yeah, Magna Magda Tudor. Magna Magda. Wow. Tutor was at a bachelor party. He stopped, took a second break to come on to kill Taylor with James Sprague and dLAN Pepper and Senior Sprague and Dom. Dom the coach to take the $1,500 this morning, but it’s not done there. We will be going to the NorCal Classic. I do believe Bill Gruner will be there. I will be there. Colton Mertens will be there. Matt Sosa will be there amongst others, but so Will Taylor Self where he is planning to put it to tutor in Colton. So it’s going to be a showdown. We will be filming behind the scenes there and then a month later, the crew, I don’t know if Tudor’s making the journey also, but then we will be headed out to Crash Crucible for part two of that. What is ending up being a great rivalry? You like it guys? Bill, you like this whole thing between Tudor and Taylor and Colton?
Bill Grundler (02:58):
Yeah, I think it’s, well, super fun. I think that having Jason and dLAN and that crew all in the mix, watching those guys talk shit and poke at each other is almost more fun than watching the overall the games. You know what I mean? It just seems like it’s a bros of CrossFit. I dig it. I dig it.
Sevan Matossian (03:20):
Yeah. And don’t forget Jason Hopper.
Bill Grundler (03:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Sevan Matossian (03:26):
Are we in a new era? Have we ever had it quite like this before? They’re the most social media savvy bunch. They know how to talk shit on. I feel like we’re in a new era. I don’t feel like I’ve ever seen, I mean we’ve seen the bros before, right? Danny Rich, Dan Bailey Rich and Josh were always great. Didn’t talk shit on each other. They didn’t talk shit.
Bill Grundler (03:47):
All they did was it wasn’t social media time.
Sevan Matossian (03:51):
So we really are embarking kind of on a new fun era of the sport, I think with that.
Bill Grundler (03:59):
I think so. I think Kill Taylor has a lot to do with that whole show, that idea.
Bill Grundler (04:05):
I think Taylor versus the Quarterfinal, Taylor versus the world is what all of.
Bill Grundler (04:09):
Yeah, yeah. And what it is is it’s allowing everyone to, I mean at the end of the day, it’s about being competitive. It’s about getting out there and winning, but they’re having fun doing it and they’re making everybody laugh as they go by talking so much shit. And it’s fun. They all talk shit and they all smile at the same time. It’s just fun. It’s really
Sevan Matossian (04:32):
Fun. I do think a lot of credit has to be given to Taylor because the shit talking in Colton, the shit talking bar has been set so high by them of what’s crass and inappropriate. That stuff that used to be crass and inappropriate is now tame. And so everyone’s skin has gotten a little bit thicker. Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean by that?
Bill Grundler (04:52):
Totally.
Bill Grundler (04:53):
But when you back it up, you can keep on going with it. I think somebody like Taylor talks the most crap in the world, but when he sets a world record against Dallen on the very first Taylor versus anybody, it’s like y’all don’t know who you’re messing with and then it grows. And then Colton, the same thing when Colton talks trash. People need to be scared when Colton talks trash because if he’s, he’s talking trash. He’s the best one in the world.
Sevan Matossian (05:25):
Yeah. Hey, another thing is too, as hard as it is for what Taylor does every week, the fact that he, I mean, I’m not taking anything away from how great he is, but the fact that he puts it on the line every week is kind of enough, right? He’s letting you come take a shot at him so you can just, as long as you’re letting people take shots at you, I feel like you can almost talk as much shit as you want.
Bill Grundler (05:49):
I think you totally can. Yeah. One of the things that I’ve noticed, and this is over the years, is the elite level athletes are so hidden. They don’t want people to see what they do. They don’t want people to see how they perform. They don’t want people to know how they eat. They don’t want people to know what sort of things they’re doing because, and they don’t want to take any extra chances. I’m not going to use a knife because something bad might happen. But what Taylor does is he’s just like, I love the fact that he just throws it out there. He doesn’t care. He’s like, I’m good enough to say bring it. And that right there, the skin that you get on that, whether you win or you lose, doesn’t even matter anymore. So many athletes are afraid to lose. He’s just like, line up man, let’s go. And honestly, that’s scary. That’s scary.
Bill Grundler (06:43):
And it makes me a fan of the guys that will put themselves out there. Not just Taylor, but dLAN, Colton and Jason and then Tudor and then, I mean even Sean Pointy, I know he couldn’t come through with it, but yeah, yellow Hosta was one of the most VA things I’ve ever seen from
Bill Grundler (07:01):
Yellow Hosta. That was step one of, oh dang, he’s actually really cool. Oh dude, he’s not super quiet. Whatever. And the workout that he did was nuts. Duke nuts.
Sevan Matossian (07:17):
The rope climb on
Bill Grundler (07:18):
Crazy. Yes, the bike rope climb one and I’m thinking of it makes me like those guys more and then I think Jeff Adler would never do this.
Bill Grundler (07:28):
No,
Bill Grundler (07:31):
And I agree with you guys. It creates characters, you know what I mean?
Sevan Matossian (07:38):
And it puts money in the pocket. Hey, Tyler does that giant W behind you stand for white?
Tyler Watkins (07:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sevan Matossian (07:47):
So we don’t forget. Forget straight from Hickville on starlink from the white capital of the world. Tyler Watkins from the Heat one app in case anyone concern Tyler’s the most liberal out of all of us. Sorry Tyler. It’s true. It’s true.
Tyler Watkins (08:05):
I think it’s a little bit of both.
Sevan Matossian (08:07):
Yeah, well I’m just saying people want to say I’m the most liberal. I’m going to say it’s you. Yours as infected as I am. I think,
Bill Grundler (08:19):
Hey, do you ever,
Sevan Matossian (08:19):
No comment from Tyler, but you have family in the room? No,
Tyler Watkins (08:23):
It’s these stupid dogs. My dad’s nice wife. She adopts these dogs and they all suck. Every last one of ’em suck.
Sevan Matossian (08:34):
Well, it’s okay. It’s worth having you here. We’ll take some dog barking to have you here. Go ahead. Were you going to say something Bill?
Bill Grundler (08:39):
I was going to say, could you ever even imagine Pat Vellner hopping on Kill Taylor? He’s doing that thing right now where he is like, Hey, give me a workout and then I’ll do it and just show you how it goes. But there’s nothing $500 on the line. No, that is gutsy and I can’t see any of the best of the best hopping up and doing that.
Sevan Matossian (09:07):
Do you think that that’s good that they don’t do it? That they’re protecting or No, it’s bad
Bill Grundler (09:12):
Because of this new swing? I think for them it could end up being, I mean those guys, they have the reputation. I mean everyone knows who they are already. They don’t
Bill Grundler (09:20):
Have to and technically they don’t have to.
Bill Grundler (09:23):
They don’t have to. But the thing is that I think that there’s a swing now where they will end up swinging out of camera and everybody else wants to see them swing into frame. You know what I mean?
Sevan Matossian (09:34):
Well, I can
Bill Grundler (09:35):
Understand why they,
Bill Grundler (09:35):
I want want Ricky in. I want Ricky on one of these
Bill Grundler (09:38):
Right now. Host is the fittest guy
Sevan Matossian (09:40):
That’s done it, right?
Bill Grundler (09:42):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (09:43):
Earlier today, Susa Tyler and Caleb couldn’t make it because they were at the Retard convention. I guess Tyler got out faster than Susan. Did you hear that comment, Tyler?
Tyler Watkins (09:54):
They had to let me go early.
Sevan Matossian (09:57):
You weren’t dumb enough.
Tyler Watkins (09:58):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (10:02):
What’s interesting too is it it is good for everyone If you come on the show, whether you like us or not, it’s good for everyone. Retard conventions,
(10:12):
Those two retard conventions too. But also just think about how fun that is. Think of how much shit Taylor has talked about Tutor. I mean he’s been just outright abusive and Taylor and Tutor showed up this morning, did the workout had down and the fittest and second fittest man on the planet around had one of the greatest coaches in the CrossFit space and just fucking took the money. Thank you for the 1500. Thank you. Peace’s out. So good. Hey, let me ask you this about Kill Taylor. He gets to do the workout, he gets to, he does the workout first so everyone gets to see it. Does that put him at a significant disadvantage? A
Bill Grundler (10:54):
Hundred percent. I think doing it in an apartment puts him at a disadvantage.
Sevan Matossian (11:00):
I mean today was the first, what’d you say? Doing it in an apartment? Yeah, that does. But today was the first time that I really thought it because they had that giant brain there, Dom, and so he got to see where the issues were and Tudor had the issues at the same places, but they mitigated that by putting in breaks. Right?
Bill Grundler (11:19):
No, it’s always easier to beat a time than to set a time.
Sevan Matossian (11:23):
Yeah. Alright.
Bill Grundler (11:25):
You don’t know how fast. I mean the plus on Taylor’s side is that he knows his body well enough and he’s intelligent enough to, he knows where to hit the throttle, but when you’re not racing anybody, the throttle only goes to where you think it needs to go. I mean you’re only racing yourself. Everybody else goes, okay, you mess up here. This is a sticking point. Oh, he went like on the swim workout, the swim burpee one. It’s like, oh, he went out way too fast here. Okay, I’ll bring it down a little bit and then I’ll be able to help that. And it’s a massive, massive learning curve
Bill Grundler (11:59):
To play. Devil’s advocate though, he also knows the workout.
Bill Grundler (12:03):
I get it, but he didn’t do it,
Bill Grundler (12:05):
But he makes it.
Bill Grundler (12:06):
But did
Bill Grundler (12:07):
He does make it. Yeah, yeah,
Sevan Matossian (12:08):
Yeah.
Bill Grundler (12:09):
That
Bill Grundler (12:10):
A lot of workout too. And I know what I think it should do until all of a sudden I get out there and I do it and I’m like, oh
Sevan Matossian (12:16):
Sure.
Bill Grundler (12:17):
I may have misread that one just a little bit.
Sevan Matossian (12:18):
He does get to make the workout and Larry Young says that’s where it evens out. But the problem is it’s open to then the whole world to beat him. There’s always going to be a cohort who can beat them.
Bill Grundler (12:31):
That’s the beauty of the show, man.
Sevan Matossian (12:33):
Yeah, yeah. You just got to be able to get in. I was really excited at how many people we had entered the show so quickly today. That was fantastic. Soon as they saw Blood in the Water, he, as soon as they saw him take a break too, they were like, okay, I’m fucking in.
Bill Grundler (12:48):
I mean as soon as I saw him doing it between his bed and his drawer, if I was great at those movements, I’m like, if I’m in an open space, I have a shot.
Tyler Watkins (12:58):
I was just listening to you guys, but I could tell in your voices vs. Are one of those things, if you slow down you’ll lose. And I could tell in your voices, I was like, oh no, it’s going to be close.
Sevan Matossian (13:11):
Tudor was going back and forth at first. He was keeping it close, keeping it close, and then at the last round, Dom’s Brain, the way Dom organized it was badass. Bryson Ante was also on the show today. Just because he makes it doesn’t mean it’s not a wheelhouse workout for someone else too and they get to watch him do it first. Yeah, that’s what we’re saying.
Bill Grundler (13:31):
Yeah. That was that Matt guy.
Sevan Matossian (13:34):
Matt, Matt
Bill Grundler (13:36):
Matthias. Yeah. He’s like, who are you and you’re in some barn somewhere doing whatever and he just smashes it
Bill Grundler (13:41):
Again though. That’s the point.
Bill Grundler (13:43):
No, I know. Makes us feel great.
Bill Grundler (13:45):
Taylor’s one of the fittest guys in the world. One of, I know he didn’t make the games. He’s still one of the fittest guys in the world. For him to make wheelhouse workouts for himself and then see who can beat him, he made it $3,000 before Mattias did. It took a Navy swimmer to do it. Think about it. The only people that have beaten him other than Matthew in Pennsylvania, the only people that have beaten him were either like crazy elite at that one discipline or games athlete. Those are the only people. Matthew is God bless Matthew, right? Because that guy out of nowhere, nobody thought he could do that and he freaking did it. Other than him, everybody else has made the games or an elite level swimmer.
Sevan Matossian (14:40):
I don’t agree with you Lance. Also, it isn’t his own money, so ultimately it isn’t a huge deal. Nothing to lose. If that were the case, then every athlete who only has something to gain would come on and do it. Then it would just be games athletes pouring in. There’s something more at stake than the money and that’s the reason why we don’t see more people challenging them.
Bill Grundler (15:01):
It’s reputation.
Sevan Matossian (15:02):
Yeah.
Bill Grundler (15:05):
Alright.
Sevan Matossian (15:07):
What’s the
Bill Grundler (15:09):
Go ahead.
Sevan Matossian (15:09):
No, you go ahead. Go ahead.
Bill Grundler (15:10):
Have you guys ever seen Stump the Schwab?
Sevan Matossian (15:14):
No.
Bill Grundler (15:15):
Okay, well then nevermind. That’s lost on you guys. What is it? You got to ask a guy question. Of
Tyler Watkins (15:20):
Course I’ve seen it.
Bill Grundler (15:22):
It’s just a sports show. This guy knows every single thing there is to know about sports and they have three people on every week, once a week and then they do different sports category questions and he’s like a genius. He’s kind of like Ken Jennings from Jeopardy, but sports, he knows everything, but every once in a while, one out of 10 shows somebody beats him, but he’s that good that he beats everybody except that show Kill Taylor is very similar to that. Just fitness. But if you ever seen the show, it’s not going to hit you
Sevan Matossian (15:53):
Stump the Schwab any sport. Huh?
Bill Grundler (15:55):
Any sport guy was just nuts.
Sevan Matossian (15:58):
By the way, I watched the World Championships for the beer mile the other day. Have you guys ever seen this show?
Bill Grundler (16:03):
Probably not that sport, but
Tyler Watkins (16:04):
I didn’t know they had world championships for that
Sevan Matossian (16:07):
Dude. The champion fucking, when you subtract his beer drinking time, fucking go sub four. You chug a beer, you run 400, you chug a beer run 404 times. I mean he is, it’s insane.
Tyler Watkins (16:22):
What are the rules on the pretty
Sevan Matossian (16:23):
Big dude?
Tyler Watkins (16:26):
Can you pick up the glass and drink while you’re running or do you have to down?
Sevan Matossian (16:30):
There’s a zone. There’s a zone. They say go and then you grab your bottle and your opener or it’s a twist top. You get to choose your beer. It has to be 5% alcohol or more. It has to be 12 ounces or more. There can’t be more than four ounces left in the bottom of the beer or something like that. They have these rules they were explaining and then there’s a zone. So everyone starts at the beginning of the zone, it’s like 20 feet and they crack it and they start walking towards the starting line while they’re drinking it and then they hit the starting line and they go, but the Dooo wins. It’s unreal.
Bill Grundler (17:06):
You can run like a four 30 mile straight up.
Sevan Matossian (17:09):
Yeah, no, he ran a sub four minute mile when you subtracted the beer drinking time, he ran a 3 57.
Tyler Watkins (17:16):
I would do nine percenters just to flex on everybody.
Sevan Matossian (17:19):
That’s a good point Larry Young. I’m training for it.
Bill Grundler (17:24):
You got to do beer gone bad
Sevan Matossian (17:27):
Beer gone bad.
Bill Grundler (17:29):
That’s a beer. Before you start fight gone bad. And then on the minute break you have to chug a beer and then at the end, after the last five minute, you have one minute to finish another beer. So that’s same thing. Four beers and you can’t throw up. You got to keep it down. I rather do the bare mile.
Bill Grundler (17:43):
I challenge y’all to Dr. Pepper gone
Sevan Matossian (17:45):
Bad. I bet I everybody, Hey, can you shotgun it? Well it’s interesting. I don’t think so, but some years you have to use a can and some years you have to use a bottle. The year I watched they had to use a bottle.
Bill Grundler (17:57):
Whoa.
Sevan Matossian (17:58):
Yeah, so it is pretty impressive. Okay. Most impressive thing you’ve seen done by any CrossFit games athlete. Not CrossFit related.
Bill Grundler (18:12):
That’s a hard question
Tyler Watkins (18:14):
Savon.
Sevan Matossian (18:15):
Well
Tyler Watkins (18:15):
I wish you would’ve asked that today. So we thought about,
Sevan Matossian (18:19):
I give you a two day, lemme tell you what I found while scrolling deep, deep, deep into the 2008 CrossFit Games Champions Instagram feed. Have you guys seen this before? No. Alright. Bill Henneger might have the coolest wife in the world. She won the CrossFit games and she did this. This is absolutely, oh, Kara car Sounders. Having that baby was pretty wild.
Bill Grundler (18:46):
That was pretty crazy. That’s right.
Sevan Matossian (18:47):
That was pretty wild car. Saunders’s birthing video. Good point. Good point.
Bill Grundler (18:51):
I mean Adam Clinks 500, five minute, some five minute mile has to be up there I think. Does that count as CrossFit?
Tyler Watkins (18:58):
I would consider that CrossFit.
Bill Grundler (19:00):
Was he a games
Sevan Matossian (19:00):
Athlete? He’s never made the games. Oh no. Then he didn’t get to enter, but that is impressive. Eat beef or what up boys? Hey, what’s up dude? By the way, Dave Castro is at the masters CrossFit games this weekend. He’s there today. I keep seeing pictures and stuff. We’ll take a look at his Instagram in a second. Okay, here it is from Bill ER’s Instagram. Oh, it was Bill’s Instagram that I was trolling. My wife is pretty cool. Here we go. That is a deer and that is the 2008 CrossFit Games champion. The deer is caught in the fence. We will get Bill as a firefighter. I’m sure he is rescued many a cat from a tree. If this is the correct protocol that he would do if he was called to a deer caught in a fence. That looks dangerous to me. What she’s doing. Do deer bite?
Bill Grundler (20:00):
No, they just kick real hard.
Tyler Watkins (20:03):
You have to be careful. They’ll break their own back if you rough ’em too much.
Sevan Matossian (20:10):
How much do you think that weighs? One 50?
Bill Grundler (20:13):
No, I would say a hundred. Wow,
Sevan Matossian (20:17):
That’s pretty impressive.
Bill Grundler (20:18):
Wow.
Sevan Matossian (20:22):
Katie Henneger, owner of Rogue 2008 cross the games champion Bill. What do you do? You get a call. You ever been called a deer stuck in a fence.
Bill Grundler (20:31):
We’ve done horses that are stuck in mud bogs and stuff like that. Those take some time to get out. I’m surprised
Bill Grundler (20:39):
You got to put a rope around a horse though and pull them out. You’re not putting your body out there. No. Carried it out. Shut up John.
Bill Grundler (20:46):
On my back. I just threw him on and pulled him out.
Sevan Matossian (20:49):
Do you have a mural
Bill Grundler (20:50):
Bill? Back the fence and then grabbed
Sevan Matossian (20:53):
Leg. I just picked his leg
Bill Grundler (20:54):
Up.
Bill Grundler (20:54):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (20:55):
Katie’s all muscle. No brain. Katie’s all muscle. No brain. She’s all no brain.
Bill Grundler (21:03):
I like how Shows us this awesome thing and Bill goes, man, she was kind of dumb though, right? She’s not a professional. Bill’s just an animal lover.
Bill Grundler (21:16):
You know what I did see? I saw Jason Hopper was on the first form, did this fitness archery thing and he was amazing with a bow dude, so if it was him, Luke Quin that Yeah. Yeah, it was awesome. I mean he’s got a great shot too and I think he would’ve done the whole thing different instead of Katie going and picking the whole thing up, trying to unhook it that way. Jason just would’ve went.
Sevan Matossian (21:48):
Done Venison.
Bill Grundler (21:50):
Venison, right. Dinner done.
Bill Grundler (21:53):
Yeah. Look at Heidi Cream. I would make venison. Jason’s four 20 watts on a biker for 20 minutes. That’s so silly. That’s probably up there with one of the most crazier things a CrossFitter is capable of.
Bill Grundler (22:09):
Oh, what about this one? What about Brola doing his two 50 or 2 75 whatever, like hands
Bill Grundler (22:19):
Together? No, I put Jasons over that. I can get close to that.
Bill Grundler (22:23):
Can you do that? Yeah,
Bill Grundler (22:25):
Whatever. Yeah, I can do 2 25 like that. 2 25 cross hands, but like this. Okay.
Bill Grundler (22:34):
Yeah.
Bill Grundler (22:35):
I five like that cold
Bill Grundler (22:39):
Snatch
Bill Grundler (22:39):
Just clowning
Bill Grundler (22:40):
Around. Yeah. Squat Snatch.
Bill Grundler (22:42):
Yeah. Wow. 2 75 is nut. It is, but I’m saying I think Jason’s the only person who can do that and I think multiple people can do what Brasad did.
Sevan Matossian (22:54):
Jason Hopper?
Bill Grundler (22:55):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (22:55):
What did he do exactly?
Bill Grundler (22:58):
He held 420 watts on a biker. Oh, it
Sevan Matossian (23:01):
Means nothing to me. I don’t own a biker. That’s
Bill Grundler (23:03):
A, Hey, it’s a 1 32. It’s a 1 32 pace for 20 minutes.
Sevan Matossian (23:08):
Yeah, I don’t own one of those so I don’t know that stuff. I know it’s a across the games update show, but it’s my show. What did he do on the assault bike? I know Salt bike.
Bill Grundler (23:17):
It’s like 90 RPMs on our,
Sevan Matossian (23:19):
And that’s CrossFit stuff. I like this that there’s a deer involved.
Bill Grundler (23:21):
Okay, well I don’t know what you, okay,
Sevan Matossian (23:26):
You need the animal, something outside of the
Bill Grundler (23:28):
State. I mean Ners tactical games was up there. Then he’s like the three time tactical games champ just because he went out and wanted to do it, took
Bill Grundler (23:44):
Bits. Seventh is one of the tactical games. Jason Khalifa is going to be in this one. You know who else is going to be in this one? Avon.
Sevan Matossian (23:52):
Who?
Bill Grundler (23:52):
Justin Judkins.
Sevan Matossian (23:54):
Oh no shit.
Bill Grundler (23:55):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (23:56):
Wow. Look at him.
Bill Grundler (23:58):
Jacob always been like a hunter guy and he hit me up. It was funny. He hit me up two weeks ago and he is like, Hey, how did you get ready the week of regionals? What was your training like? The week of regionals? I’m like, why? What are you talking about? He’s like, well, I’m going to do the tactical game. He’s like, oh sweet. That’s cool. A lot of people.
Sevan Matossian (24:14):
Is Jacob going against Jason?
Bill Grundler (24:18):
I don’t know how they do that. I don’t. I
Sevan Matossian (24:19):
Think
Bill Grundler (24:20):
Jacob’s the
Sevan Matossian (24:21):
National
Bill Grundler (24:21):
Champion.
Bill Grundler (24:23):
Yeah. I think this is just like a competition. I don’t think it’s the nationals. I mean, I might be wrong. I don’t know. Who knows?
Sevan Matossian (24:30):
Someone said Savon getting Turkish getup. I don’t know where that video is, but Max Mormont did in the early days. Turkish getup me. I was probably 155 pounds then. That was pretty wild. I was scared. I thought I was going to snap his arm off. I don’t know where that video
Bill Grundler (24:50):
Is. Colton’s 365 for 30. That’s probably up there
Sevan Matossian (24:56):
For 30. What
Bill Grundler (24:57):
Reps? He did 365 squatted. 30 reps.
Sevan Matossian (25:01):
Without putting the bar down.
Bill Grundler (25:02):
Without putting the bar down. That’s probably up there. Chandler’s 500 for 10. Deadlift is up there. Paid power.
Tyler Watkins (25:13):
You ask for cross or not CrossFit and all we can give is CrossFit answer.
Bill Grundler (25:17):
Wow. That’s just a single thing though. It’s not cross. It’s lifting weights.
Sevan Matossian (25:21):
Savon not finishing the open. Yeah, that was pretty impressive. Thank you. Barry. CrossFit games athlete. Paige Powers is about to do something impressive. She too is going to push out a baby. Paige Powers reveals she’s pregnant. I almost was like, is she even old enough to, how old is Paige? I guess? I guess it’s the South. Paige Powers will not be competing in the 2025 CrossFit game season. You don’t know that.
Tyler Watkins (25:42):
She’s from Michigan.
Sevan Matossian (25:45):
The reason the two-time individual CrossFit games athlete, two-time teenage CrossFit games athlete announced that she’s pregnant. Power shared the news on our YouTube channel, so congratulations to her. That’s crazy. John, does she come back and compete again?
Bill Grundler (25:58):
Yeah, she’s young. I think she’s 23, 23, 24.
Sevan Matossian (26:05):
So she’s going to be the youngest one to do it.
Bill Grundler (26:09):
Yes. Yeah. But no, for sure. I think she comes back. I don’t know how good she will be, but I think she’ll make the games again and continue to compete.
Sevan Matossian (26:18):
I think they all come back better. They
Tyler Watkins (26:21):
Seems like it.
Bill Grundler (26:23):
We’ve only had two, we’ve had three and all three of ’em are some of the greatest CrossFitters to ever do it.
Sevan Matossian (26:31):
I think Andy Sakamoto came back in the day.
Tyler Watkins (26:35):
Hell, Ariel didn’t even have a career until she had a baby. I don’t
Bill Grundler (26:38):
Make sure better. Yeah, but I’m talking about people who were competing and then had a baby and then came back. The three,
Sevan Matossian (26:44):
Who are they? Valerie V.
Bill Grundler (26:46):
Well, no, I’m thinking of Annie, Cara and Tia and those
Sevan Matossian (26:51):
Women. I think Valerie got on the podium too. I mean, I know that’s old school, but
Bill Grundler (26:55):
Did she have a kid and then come back or did she already have a
Sevan Matossian (26:58):
Kid? She had a kid.
Bill Grundler (27:00):
You
Sevan Matossian (27:00):
See what I’m saying?
Bill Grundler (27:01):
I think it’s the other way around. Think it’s the other way around. He got on the podium first I think so that would’ve been what, 13 12th?
Sevan Matossian (27:12):
I know she competed after. I remember she qualified for the games through, so through the Delmar Regional. I remember interviewing her there and I said, Hey, so what kind of music you listen to? And she goes, A lot of kids songs like A, B, C and Sesame Street. And I was like, okay, good answer.
Tyler Watkins (27:32):
She got third or whatever in 13.
Bill Grundler (27:34):
13. That’s what it
Sevan Matossian (27:35):
Was at the games.
Tyler Watkins (27:36):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (27:37):
Yeah, dude, I think she was a mom.
Tyler Watkins (27:40):
Yeah, she was.
Sevan Matossian (27:41):
I think she had the baby the year before. Paige is 21.
Tyler Watkins (27:46):
Jesus.
Bill Grundler (27:48):
Wow. Plenty of time to come
Tyler Watkins (27:49):
Back. Wow. You weren’t in Knoxville, were you? I got seven. I remember walking around down in the bottom, maybe I shouldn’t say this, but I was down in the bottoms and her and boyfriend or whatever where gig just around each other the whole weekend and it’s like no two people existed in their universe. You could tell them standing like three feet away from each other. It was like, you two are the only people that exist in your universe this
Sevan Matossian (28:22):
Weekend. Oh, so they’re just madly in love. They’re
Tyler Watkins (28:24):
Just
Sevan Matossian (28:24):
Coiling snakes.
Tyler Watkins (28:26):
It was like, I didn’t even know he was her boyfriend. And I was like, oh yeah, whatever’s going on there is going to be a thing. And just kept walking.
Sevan Matossian (28:35):
Heidi crew and Billy Grundler is so smart. I agree. A non-sequitur. Okay. I dunno if I’ve told you guys this story.
Tyler Watkins (28:48):
Good story.
Sevan Matossian (28:49):
No, it’s not good. It’s ruthless. It’s ruthless. It’s ruthless.
Tyler Watkins (28:55):
I hadn’t stopped you in the
Sevan Matossian (29:00):
Past. I’m standing by Dave at event number one, lazars girlfriend. Runs up Anya. I can’t find Lazar. You guys know the rest of the story. Dave then says he hasn’t come in yet. She says, yes, he should have. He was right at the buoy. Dave turns to someone and says, Hey, has Lazar come in? They said his chip timers come in. He says it to her. She says, oh my God, I’m so sorry she’s crying. I give her a hug. I said, dude, being concerned about your dude is not something you should be sorry about. And then Dave turns to someone right after and says, I want get a visual of every single fucking athlete that’s come in. I turn around and I immediately just turn around and start walking towards the ice barrels and I say to an athlete, have you seen Lazar? And this athlete says to me, he’s probably at the bottom of the lake.
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