Clydesdale Media Podcast

Every Day we take a breathe from our busy work day to hang out with friends and talk about the world of sports, entertainment and specifically CrossFit. Today we talk about Cory Qualifying for Legends... Maybe. Dave Castro's Reaction to Taylor Self being removed from the CAC, and Why do we get Media Credentials.

0:00 Welcome!
0:55 Catching Up with the Crew
3:09 Dave's WIR & Taylor Self on the CAC
25:03 Bringing Jazzed Back
29:11 (Unofficially) Qualified for Legends, Workouts, & Filming
42:35 Purpose of Media Passes
49:03 Focusing on the Games: Hattie & Vignettes
53:07 Lunch Show, Travel Plans, Registration, Twists
1:01:53 Back to Work!

What is Clydesdale Media Podcast?

We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.

what's going on everybody

welcome to lunchtime lunch

with the cladsdale it's

wednesday or it's not

wednesday it's tuesday we

have to cook up cajun today

instead of tomorrow because

cory had an appointment and

then he got a phone call

right before the show so

he's taking care of the

phone call and hopefully

he'll be in before lunch

gets too far into it but

what's going on man what's

going on everyone everyone

having a good day it's tuesday

Yeah, Trey and Olive,

we're going Cajun Tuesday

instead of Wednesday this week.

Jeremy,

anyone else oddly aroused by the

thumbnail?

I try to come up with famous

duos that I can get chat

GPT to change Corey and I's

picture into some famous duo.

Like last week was Shake and

Bake from Talladega Nights,

and this week was Top Gun.

But you have to kind of fool chat GPT.

If I say, make us Goose and Maverick,

it's like, due to copyright rules,

I can't make any changes, blah, blah,

blah.

but if I say put us in top gun costumes,

it'll do it.

It's crazy.

Um, so you just have to fake out, uh,

chat GPT to get what you want to do.

Um,

the one that Corey wants the most is

dumb and dumber.

Uh, I'm trying to figure that one out.

I have not been able to get around.

It's copyright thing on chat GPT.

So, uh,

Yeah, so that's where we're at with that.

We got Meredith.

We got Jody.

We got Denise.

Jay Burch is in the house.

Meredith, I do not want to be you.

Going on one week of solo

parenting for kids, four kids,

while the husband is out of

town just trying to survive

at this point.

Wow.

Huge kudos to you.

That has got to be a tough,

tough thing to do this week.

So...

first thing I want to talk

about I'm gonna throw a

dart forgot about that I'm

just picking it up and

twirling it um is this oh

my gosh another hole in the

wall oh terrible terrible

terrible terrible terrible

oh um I'm gonna have to get

some patch kits for that

lito's now with us terry shanna uh

so good to see you guys um

what I want to talk about

first is I want last night

on our show we were talking

about dave's week in review

and the fact that taylor

herself resigned from the

crossfit athlete council um

jamie wanted me to go watch

Wanted to go watch it and

wanted my opinions on this.

And so after watching it,

I do have some interesting

thoughts on this.

And what that is, is Dave talks about how

They had a meeting because

he tested positive for BPC.

All that I agree with.

If you are being suspended

from CrossFit for four years,

you shouldn't be on an athlete council.

Now,

what makes this complicated a little

bit is he's on the coaching

aspect of the council,

not the athlete piece of the council.

So, as I understand it,

But as the conversation came up,

people said they didn't

like the way he was talking

and representing the organization.

So the first part of that I

have an issue with is, one,

he was the only one talking

about the organization out

to the general public and

letting us know what they were doing,

what they were trying to accomplish,

what they were working on.

That's the only time...

That's the only time we got

any updates from the council.

I haven't heard from another

member of that council on

what they're doing,

what they're trying to

accomplish or anything like that.

However, uh, so Kenneth says,

so Ricky shouldn't be on

the athlete council.

He's not suspended anymore.

He's not on an active suspension.

Um,

where this takes a turn

where I don't understand it

is that when he,

they say he talks publicly

and Dave says at one point that he,

if it were up to him,

he gave them two pieces of advice.

If it were up to him, he would fire him.

Well,

Taylor is elected to that position and,

you don't fire an elected official,

you impeach an elected official.

So firing gives the

perception that Dave has

some kind of control over this.

The other thing that makes

this really confusing to me

is that when the CrossFit

Athlete Council was formed,

it was supposed to be

separate and apart from CrossFit HQ.

It was supposed to be an

elected board that looked

over what was happening with CrossFit.

And Gabe brought ideas, suggestions,

looked over things,

became the athlete's voice for CrossFit.

They created this to combat

what the PFA was demanding they got.

And they were doing this as

a way to have a third-party

entry into the system that

looked over what was

happening with CrossFit and

the CrossFit Games.

That means if it's separate and apart,

then Dave shouldn't have

the option to fire or not

fire or impeach or whatever

that might be.

if there is a vote done or

there are charges brought

against him which I guess

you could say the ped use

is one of those and then

they threw in the part that

he didn't represent them

well and I guess that would

go to poor job performance

they could put it up for

vote again to see if he

could be impeached out of

the position and there he is

sorry impeached out of the

position but if this actual

athlete council is supposed

to be a third party

overlooking what crossfit

is doing then dave

shouldn't have a tiebreaker

vote he shouldn't have a

vote he shouldn't be

determining who is on it it

is supposed to be separate

and apart and overlooking

what crossfit is doing we

talk about the cat I am

because last night we talked

about it briefly that I

went and watched dave's

week in review last night

when Dave was saying that he would fire,

he would be the tiebreaker vote,

I think that's overstepping

his authority in this.

The council was founded to

be a separate voice of the athletes,

the coaches, the affiliates,

to give comments and

commentary to HQ on what they were doing.

And it was supposed to be

voted on by their peers,

not assigned by CrossFit.

If CrossFit steps in and fires someone,

they're in fact saying we

are determining who is on this council.

Yeah,

it's kind of a silly thing to appoint

an entire group of people

and then turn around and go, well,

I know we appointed them,

but we're also going to

unappoint them or just

overrule whatever it is that they say.

That's kind of...

I didn't get a chance to see

what he actually said

because I was hemmed up yesterday.

So I was actually getting

caught up on the last night

show this morning before

Haley went on Savant.

Last night a lot of people

were arguing like if he is,

should he have been or

shouldn't he have been?

I'm not here to debate that.

I don't think he should have

been fired by CrossFit.

I think it comes up to a vote of the peers,

and as they are the ones who voted him in,

they're the only ones that

can then determine he's not

upholding his obligation to that council,

or he is, right?

On Dave's Week in Review, he said,

I gave two pieces of advice

that he would fire him.

It's he's not an employee.

He can't be fired.

It's an elected official.

So you have to be impeached.

That means you have to go in

front of an impeachment hearing.

You have to write.

And I don't know.

I know Shannon is asking,

what do the bylaws?

I'd have to look at those.

I don't have access to that.

But Taylor was the one that

was saying that, like,

he doesn't get paid by them.

It's fully voluntary, the entire thing.

So, like,

how are you going to fire a volunteer?

Right.

Whether the council was created,

there is debate.

Was the council created to

protect them and just be a facade?

Or was it whatever you were doing?

But if CrossFit fires

someone from the council,

it is now blowing up the

optics that it is there for

safety of the athletes.

I would say so.

And they had said when they

put out the press release

that they were not going to

appoint anybody to this council.

They were going to be

elected by their peers.

And so if Dave says he's

going to fire someone,

that oversteps his authority, I believe,

in this council.

It doesn't mean it wouldn't happen.

I'm just saying you're

losing the optics that this

is someone that is not

under the control of CrossFit HQ or Dave.

I'd agree with that.

I think the entire reason

people wanted Taylor in

there to begin with is

because his voice is independent.

He calls it like he sees it.

Whether you think he's abrasive, brash,

rude, whatever,

he speaks from the heart

and he believes in what he says.

He's not a flip-flopper.

He's not a wishy-washy guy.

He stands up for people that

might necessarily be able

to stand up for themselves.

So Andrew Sten says, he literally says,

it's not my call.

But you're Dave Castro,

you're standing in front of the council,

and you say, I would fire him.

That is influence.

Two,

he says later in the week in review

that if it came down to a tie,

he would be the deciding vote.

I don't know how that happens.

That's not set up very well.

No.

There should be a different

tiebreaker than the guy

you're watching getting to

determine whether you're on or not.

It's like somebody being on

trial for murder and they

come back with a home jury

and then the guy who's on trial is like,

you know what?

I didn't do it.

I'm voting for me.

I'm going to go ahead and get out.

So I've missed a lot of the stuff on here.

I missed all of it.

It's the council removing him,

not the people who voted the council in.

He's also in it as a coach,

not an athlete.

Yeah, we talked about that off the top,

CrossFit.

Sorry you were in late.

The other piece of this is

that Taylor resigned.

So eventually it didn't come

down to Dave's decision.

But the way Dave was talking

about the week in review,

just kind of upset me that

you advertise this as

something that CrossFit is

not heavy-handed with.

It is elected by peers, all of that stuff.

If he would have been voted

out by the peers,

I would have been okay with it.

My cough drop juice went

down the wrong pipe.

I don't know.

The Craig says was

resounding was the best decision.

I'm assuming he means for Taylor.

I don't know if it was the best decision.

It was probably the smartest

decision because it removes

Taylor from having to worry

about it and worry about

all the people accused of

him being on steroids when

it's not actually steroids, when it's

all the shit that he was getting that,

quite frankly, he didn't deserve,

in my opinion.

It's probably the best decision for him,

not necessarily the best

decision for the CAC itself,

because I think he was

doing good stuff over there

from the little bit of

stuff that we got to see

what he actually did.

if this was all about the suspension,

like if that's the road and he suspended,

he shouldn't be a part of it.

I was, I'm off.

Then he's removed.

Fine.

Absolutely.

It's then when you, you,

you bring someone up on a

charge and then while

they're up on the charge, you went, Oh,

by the way, we don't like this, this,

and this.

Yeah.

It just seems a little bit

over the top for me.

Um, I, I,

So this is not me making a

statement about should he

have been or should he not

have been let go.

It is that I think that what

you tried to create,

you are destroying by the

way you're talking about it.

Yeah.

So.

Isn't that literally how the

Diddy trial went poorly?

Sure.

I haven't.

Yeah.

I could not tell you.

I could not have given less

of a shit about Diddy being on trial.

I dove into it.

I got sucked in.

What a mess.

Is it the athlete council or

the HQ council?

That's my point, Denise, exactly.

It should be the athlete council.

The decision should have

been all in the athlete's

hands or whoever made up

that group of people.

I guess he was a coach, not an athlete,

so it should have been the

coaches that made the call.

That's all I'm saying.

not saying it's right or

wrong but I was a bit

shocked to see ca peptides

ads on the syndicate

crownstream considering

that in the end steroids

are not they are banned

substances they also sell

unbanned substances

I was about to say, yeah,

they also sell stuff that

you can actually, you know,

as a competitive crossfitter,

actually use.

And for the people that are

watching that are casual

fans that are not actual

athletes themselves or not professional,

and I use that term lightly,

athletes themselves, you know,

guys like Rich who are

taking peptides to try to

repair his knee or the same

thing Taylor was doing and whatnot.

Like,

why wouldn't you want to sell or

advertise to the people who

are watching that kind of stuff?

You know, especially with

Injury levels in CrossFit being so high.

Here's some stuff that could

actually fix it.

Of course,

I am being ridiculously

sarcastic when I say injury

levels being so high.

But people who do have chronic knee, elbow,

tendonitis issues, all that good stuff,

peptides work.

Bottom line, they work.

So why wouldn't you want to

advertise on there?

Also, I don't give a damn who advertises.

If they're paying money for

the stream to be streamed

and for it to be live and whatnot,

I don't give a damn who is advertising.

Coca-Cola could go ahead on

and advertise all they want

for the CrossFit Games.

I would not care at all.

Their money folds and it

spins just like anybody else's.

CrossFit every sports

podcast league approved or

not seems to push Roman

hers GLP ones also ban

things yep where CrossFit

has always had the problem

is you're associated with

affiliates as well but if I

don't want to get into

because I don't know the

legal ease behind all the

peptides and everything I

just know it's a banned

substance but yeah

It is.

It is what?

Yeah.

He's got look right there.

Like monster to twenty twenty one games.

If I was drinking water out

of white monster cans.

Everybody flips out about that.

But how many athletes are

with rain right now,

which is the exact same thing?

A lot.

And you can take rain and

monster and interchange

them at any given point

because the exact same

chips in both of them.

Yeah, I don't.

When I go to my local affiliate,

you know how many people

use energy drinks as their pre-workout?

I got a case of C-IV right there.

I got another one coming in

tomorrow before I leave to go to Kansas.

Yeah, dude.

I have no less than, I'll say no less than,

I have at least four to six

hundred milligrams of

caffeine a day that comes in canned form,

depending on what I got going on.

So anyway, Denise,

I really enjoyed those cold

cans of monster water.

The water in cans is so much

colder than water in a bottle.

I don't know why.

I don't know what the whole

thing is with it, but damn, it is.

CrossFat,

twenty twenty four games didn't

have water, just Jocko stuff.

It made my teeth tingle.

Water was impossible to find.

The Jocko stuff is weird.

I've never had any of it, thank God.

I've seen it a couple places, but... Yeah,

they were handing it out

like water at the West

Semi-Final two years ago in Pasadena.

Yeah.

And at the end of the day,

I grabbed one because I was

really thirsty.

And it was weird.

I don't even know.

It's like nothing else I've ever had.

Turns out you weren't that thirsty.

It's...

Metal can water better.

Metal plate squats heavier.

That is a fact.

It's science.

The metal .

. .

Andrew Stanton.

Andrew Stanton's been ornery this week,

man.

Ornery.

He is.

I want to know if he's going.

He's come and judged me this

weekend at Monster Games.

The way he's been this week, man.

I'm going to worry about it.

You don't get him.

He's on a tear.

Good for him, man.

Stand up what you believe in.

I love it.

So.

you won't be a monster games

you're safe man I run into

him at the games man we're

going we're going toe to

toe we're having it out

getting over we're getting

over this this bitterness

we have for each other

apparently this week it's

just this week I know every

other week like we're

pretty cool this week he's

tornary man he's coming

he's coming for somebody's

skin I love him I absolutely love him

I actually,

the last thing I want to say

about the metal plates, but I actually,

I will squat with metal

plates just because I feel

like it's heavier.

It's not actually heavier.

I'm aware of that,

but I will squat with metal

plates just because I'm like,

put those metal ones on

there and get that extra.

Uh,

Standing up and that like metal wobble,

wobble,

wobble makes it a hundred pounds

heavier for the next rep.

So one of the things that the CAC did,

because people were asking

is they were told HQ is

going to require physical

exams to compete.

They backed off of it in a

subsequent CAC meeting.

Uh,

pay a lot of added expense

to have physicals for all the athletes.

Unless they're going to make

the athletes pay for it themselves.

That'd be a bold move, Cotton.

I'd like to see how that

pays off for them.

It's people's dreams, man.

Look, I get it.

I'm one of them, but God, no.

Cost.

Just cost alone.

I mean, how much is a...

You got all the men, all the women,

and all the teams.

Halpin,

I'm saying HQ backed off after CAC

members said it was a good idea.

Anyway.

Yeah, when I was in high school,

I had to get a physical for

every sport three times a year.

Yeah, I did too.

And then I watched that Ohio

State documentary and I'm like, was I?

No.

I haven't watched it yet.

I did watch,

which I think you would enjoy

if you get a chance to yet, Facing Nolan.

I've heard it's good.

Dude, it's real good.

His entire story from him

being a kid all the way up and through,

you know, seven new hitters.

from our resident pediatrician.

No HIPAA,

just a note from the doctor

saying okay to compete.

Just bring a note from your doctor.

My primary care physician is my PT.

Does that count?

I could just get a note from

Jeremy and be like, hey,

Jeremy said I'm good to go.

I mean,

technically he is a doctor and he

is a freaking physical therapist.

So...

And then back, one last metal plate.

But why do metal plate

deadlifts feel better?

Because you're lifting heavier weight.

Because it's heavier, yeah,

a hundred percent.

You've accomplished more.

Hard facts.

The one thing I want to talk

to you off the top,

and then you weren't here for this,

is there was a video

yesterday that Hiller did on me.

I don't want to get into the whole video,

but we did that last night.

I don't know why I said the word jazzed.

I don't think I've ever, ever,

ever said I'm jazzed.

You one hundred percent said it.

Yeah, I know.

It's right there on video.

Like, so jazzed.

Who says that?

The best part about it is

that everybody else has picked up on it.

So if you go look like every

comment is like every comment,

I'm also jazzed.

I'm jazzed for you, Scott.

I'm bringing it back from

nineteen thirties lingo.

I love it.

I absolutely love it.

I'm so jazzed.

It's a beautiful thing.

Everybody's jazzed.

Scott is one hundred percent

the kind of guy to say jazzed.

Apparently.

Snaps and hands for Scott.

Bop boobity bop bop.

And I love that word.

jazz hands scott's a cool

mama jama know what I mean

hey all you cool cats yeah

that's fantastic dude I

have shown you guys I do

not do notes like when I go

off and I tell my stories

and I do my monologues it's

just all straight off the

top of my head out of my

heart and sometimes like I

finish and I don't even

realize what I've said

It's very much like old

school where Will Ferrell

goes into like the long

dissertation and then he

kind of like comes to what just happened.

I don't understand what just happened.

That's kind of what happens.

And then when it's shown to

you that I'm jazzed.

You're just sitting there going,

did I say I was jazzed?

Did I say that?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Gotta make jazz a regular

part of your vernacular now.

You gotta own it, right?

It's my identity now.

Absolutely.

You're gonna show up

tomorrow with a beret on

and some little John Lennon sunglasses.

Cigarette holders.

That swell.

That swell doesn't have this connotation.

You know, the jazz hands.

Jazz hands.

Jazzy fingers.

The spontaneous banter is

one of the things I love

about your podcast.

Scott saying jazz better or

worse than some athletes

saying frigging or gosh or golly gee.

Next thing you'll be saying

is the bee's knees.

So for real,

I used to joke that I wanted

to bring back a catchphrase

and I would say everything

was the cat's pajamas.

Everything's the cat's pajamas.

I love it.

Jazz goes with cat's pajamas.

I feel like

Those two things could be in

the same vernacular, like,

one hundred percent.

Damn, you fired me.

But I've never said jazzed.

You have.

You said it yesterday.

Now I have.

That is fantastic.

Absolutely fantastic.

I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

I mean...

Heavy metal.

The cat's pajamas, dude.

Come on, Stan.

All right.

So I just had to get that out.

I just had to get that out.

On a scale of one to ten, Scott,

how jazzed are you for the games?

I am ten jazz fingers ready for the games.

All of them.

He's definitely not a dweeb or a zapper.

So back to you.

Now,

I'm going to cautiously walk into this

because we've been down this road before.

You qualified for Legends.

Yes.

You are above the cut line.

Unofficially.

We have been unofficially

above the cut line before.

Well, not for this one.

Last year, I was... Just weeks ago,

we were above a cut line

and something happened.

And then you were still above the cut line,

but they changed the rule.

That point, I still will not get over.

That right there.

No, we did not cheat and complain again,

Grossman.

Yeah.

So now,

did you have someone review your videos,

make sure they're clean?

No,

I went through them before I uploaded

them.

You read all the rules six times?

Dude, I printed the rules.

You know what I threw them away?

Yesterday.

All right.

I literally threw them away

yesterday afternoon when I

got back to the gym.

They were sitting in my box.

I brought them with me.

Yeah, just waiting on video review.

That's it.

I don't think he's saying, yeah,

all we're doing is waiting on video.

He's saying, wait on video review.

It is a little menacing sounding.

Yeah.

Thanks, Lito.

Andrew Sten in this week of

his crankiness is like,

I have a certain set of skills.

I mean, he does.

He does.

I like that.

He's looking for it.

Thanks, Drew.

I appreciate that.

yeah like this one's whoops

this is gonna age like milk

it's gonna be fantastic

it's gonna turn into cheese

uh I printed all of it we

went over it seventeen

different times uh before

we even started any of them

thanks jeremy holy cracker jacks yes

yeah margot alvarez gets to

have holy cracker jacks why

don't I get jazzed I

commented on that and I was

like I'm gonna add holy

cracker jacks to my uh to

my vocabulary and she

commented back and she was

like I use it way more

often than I ever should so

I know that like last year

you went to legends

You beat Jason Grubb on one

event in that major weekend.

It did.

What are your goals this year?

I'm going to be more

competitive this year.

So, full disclosure,

I did all these workouts once.

Like, one and done.

Got it done.

Got it on video.

Let me qualify that a little bit.

I practiced a round or so of

each one before I committed

it in the video.

Okay?

Okay.

committed them to video,

did them all at once.

Like,

I was still training for Monster

Games just coming up this weekend.

Just trying to get my

regular training done.

And I did not want them...

Because you know how Masters athletes are,

right?

We had a twenty-day window

to get them all done.

And I guarantee you there's

people that did them four and five times.

I just know there is.

I just know how Masters...

And I didn't want to be that guy.

So, I went...

Not this past weekend,

the weekend before last,

me and my buddy Gareth got

together and did three of them,

two on Saturday, one on Sunday.

And then I went and did the last one,

the one I did the best on,

on the following Tuesday.

Got them all uploaded, got them all done.

Was actually playing around

with doing one of them,

the roll burpee and snatch one again.

Actually,

Gave another shot at it,

but didn't do as well as I did before,

so I wasn't that concerned about it.

But I still had time.

And then they gave another

extra day to turn stuff in

because people were having

trouble uploading their

videos or whatnot.

But you had three weeks.

Yeah.

Like it started on July

first and it ended on July,

and then they got an email

late Sunday night that said

from Joe saying that

because people having

trouble uploading scores and videos,

they won't give them until

when it'd be in seven

o'clock yesterday afternoon,

which I don't care personally.

Like my stuff was already done.

It's already in.

I'm not that worried about it.

I just think it's kind of

crazy to think that people

had three weeks

A buddy of mine in our email

group and our email company

masters group did all of

them last weekend.

Literally like either Friday

and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday,

he did all four of them and

just got them all done and uploaded.

Like it's not that hard to do.

It's really, really not.

So the fact that people were

having that much trouble

with them is mind blowing to me.

But when you had that much time, Well,

I think the key for you is

that you did all of all of

the workouts this time,

instead of half a one.

Yes.

So that may help you out a

little bit more this time.

Oh, no.

The one that I had circled

was the front rack, double dumbbell,

walking lunge, and bar muscle-up one.

And I knew I was going to be

able to do good on that one.

So I kind of had it circled

on my calendar as far as I'm concerned.

I wanted to make sure I optimized it,

I guess you could say.

And I was so amped up, hyped up,

whatever you want to call

it before I did.

Like I almost threw up before I started,

like just knowing what was

fixing to happen is got to

the point where it was just like,

the only way this is going

to go away is if I just

start the clock and go.

And, uh,

and I'm getting fourth on that one

altogether,

which probably helped me out

just even to get,

make sure that I was above the cut line,

but good stuff.

Yeah.

Um,

CrossFit says I'd watch Margo say

anything.

I got to tell you, man,

I met Margo at the Arnold

and here in Columbus,

the Arnold is five billion

people all in one.

It's going to be where the

Masters CrossFit Games is.

And I met her there,

came back the following year.

She remembered not only my name,

but my wife's name.

And we had met a year prior

at a major event.

This was prior to me being a

part of media.

This was just being a volunteer at places.

And to this day,

she still remembers my name.

It absolutely blows my mind.

I have never heard anyone have a bad,

you know what I mean?

Like encounter with her,

experience with her.

I've never heard anybody go say, you know,

and I've met several people at this point,

but I've never heard

anybody had an interaction

with Margo and they said,

know when it came away going

she was kind of a you know

whatever it was always she

was so nice she was so

gracious she was so all of

the all the things all the

positive things yeah she

came on to our show early

on probably like three

times uh sent me bottles of

wine to try uh she's just

like she is um she gets me jazzed

It's fantastic.

That's absolutely fantastic.

Yeah, she's great.

I say she's great.

I assume she's great.

Never heard anything bad about it.

I'm going to be one and done, Corey,

unless I really effed up a workout.

I don't redo ever.

That's it.

If I know...

And I went back and looked at him.

I'm like, okay,

I couldn't have gone any faster here.

I couldn't have gone.

The only one I was going to redo,

because I thought I could snatch,

do the snatch complex more,

was the first one.

And I was just like, eh.

I got a decent score.

I got a decent snatch in there.

Whatever.

And I go back and look at

everybody's scores now.

I'm like, yeah,

I probably could have done that one.

Save myself a couple of,

bump myself up a couple of spots,

but it ain't that big a deal.

Margo's a dime.

Love Margo.

She's the cat's pajamas.

She's fantastic.

And Denise Margo is an

amazing human being.

Yeah.

There's nobody that I've

ever heard say a bad word about Margo.

I mean, when you're attractive, super fit,

intelligent, and you make your own wine.

Yeah.

I mean,

she's a home run all the way around.

CrossFit says,

how many videos do Masters

athletes mess up filming?

And Andrew goes, quickly,

it's not just Masters

athletes who screw up videos.

Yeah.

Crazy.

I've had a couple of them

where I went to go film and

stuff and I got everything

else done specifically with dumbbells.

And like, here's my tape line.

Here's my mark.

Here's a whatever, you know, Corey,

forty five, forty nine, blah, blah,

whatever.

I go set up my camera and

I'm going to go start it.

And I stop and I go and grab

this thing one more time.

Hey, these are my fifty pound dumbbells.

See what it says?

Fifty right there.

Because it's an easy thing to overlook.

didn't put a label on them

and say they were your

fifty pound dumbbells I

should have should have put

a freaking uh do not touch

yeah cory's fifty pound

dumbbell do not touch the

level of arrogance that

that that accompanies that

is beyond my level of

comprehension yeah i

Let me tell you something.

One of my best friends has,

actually a couple different

people I know have barbell,

their own barbell.

They brought their own barbell to the gym,

right?

But at no point did Bernard ever write,

Bernard's barbell, do not touch.

Aiden never wrote Aiden's barbell.

Do not touch.

Roy doesn't have Roy's barbell.

As a matter of fact,

whenever I went and did

semifinals over at Roy's

place in Mandeville, he was like, hey,

do you want to use my barbell?

And I was like, yes, thank you.

Because it's a good barbell.

I just don't understand that.

I film for my coach every day,

and at least one time a week,

I crop off my head, half my body.

So there's that.

Over-fifty don't judge me.

I understand, Vinny.

Every time,

I usually just put it with the

camera facing me.

Right.

So I make sure it's good and set up.

I can see what I want to see.

Cause I don't like looking back at myself.

So I'll set it up and then

start and then go walk around.

And like,

I got my face right here in the camera.

And I'm like, Corey, that's just four,

five, four, you know, it's just work out.

Whatever it is.

Like looking through the drain hole.

Yeah.

Like I'm knocking on

somebody's door and I'm

trying to look at somebody

looking at people.

Yeah.

we have a rack for those

folks at my affiliate,

but a barbell isn't a runner.

It is not.

One hole in the rack.

Yeah.

It's not a roller or a skier.

We have one skier at our gym.

One.

And I cannot fathom.

And look,

I'm one of the only people that

uses it on a regular basis.

So I can't imagine just like

taking one of my sticky notes over here

And just going right,

this is Corey's skier and

put that on there.

Like as if that would make a

difference to anybody.

Let me tell you something.

Me personally,

if I'm at the gym and somebody's got,

this is whoever's like,

the first thing I'm going

to do is use that one.

That's the first thing I'm going to do.

It's a, it's a machine.

You can't hurt it unless you

intentionally hurt it.

Oh, that's annoying.

Oh, come on, Lito.

I never, ever speak to the camera.

I just write everything on a whiteboard,

too self-conscious.

As you can tell, we do this.

We don't really care.

No, not at all.

So the last thing I wanted to talk about,

and it kind of stems from

the Hiller video.

Cause again,

you watch back and then I

remember what I said,

cause I didn't remember at

the time what I said and

we're past jazzed,

but I think people forget

why you're given a media pass.

Oh, absolutely.

Right.

And that is that, um,

That is that the event is

inviting you in so that you

do media from that event to

get eyes on that event and

the participants at the event.

You're not given the media

pass for you to go hang out

with your friends and take selfies.

You are not the story.

You were there to show the event.

and promote.

So when I said that, like I said,

the hell with this,

I'm going to park myself

outside the tunnel and take

video and do interviews of

everybody coming off the floor,

heat after heat after heat,

and try to get up on IG as

quickly as possible.

I know that Wilson wants

promoted with his event promoted.

So you throw up an interview

with an athlete coming off

the floor and then you tag the

Syndicate Crown or Mac in it,

they start sharing it too.

And then you are mutually

benefiting each other

because you're getting content up there.

They're getting content up

there without having to do it themselves.

And it promotes the event.

That is the piece that some

of the people in this vein

have forgotten about.

Or actively ignored.

Yeah.

Because you can't have

forgotten about it unless

you're unless I feel like

it's a willful ignorance

thing at this point.

Like, oh,

I got enhanced media access so I

can be there.

Yeah,

you can be there to go do what they

want you to do.

The only reason they ask you

to come there is because

you have a platform and you

can reach people and you

can cover their event.

Not so that you can cover

you at their event.

Nobody's following you

around at their event.

You were supposed to be

talking about the event, the athletes,

God forbid, the equipment, whatever.

You know what I mean?

All of those things.

Not because I'm here.

Good.

Good for you.

Yeah, we know you're there.

We don't care that you're there.

We care that the people are there,

that the event's happening.

Um, Anderson,

what does enhanced access give you?

Well,

and this is more than just an

enhanced access.

Even if you are just given a media pass,

it gets you free admission

into the venue.

You gives you the right to

bring a camera in and take

photos and videos and all

of that kind of stuff.

But you're being brought

there to help promote the

event in return for you

getting free pass into the venue.

That is what you are to then

give back to the event.

As a partnership.

Not a competition.

You're not competing against people.

It's a partnership to help

promote the event.

Now,

what Enhanced gives you at the

CrossFit Games is it allows

you back in the warm-up

area with the athletes and

the volunteers to get

additional coverage that

you would not be able to

get with a regular pass.

And that's what we'll be able to do.

But the media contract is

much more stringent and

much more on the lines of

being respectful of

athletes that are there to

compete and to not mess up

that aspect of everything.

But that's why you're given a media pass,

period,

in any sport or event or

entertainment piece.

Yeah.

Like you said,

you're not there to hang out.

right get in the way make a

nuisance of yourself you

dare to literally cover the

event and give them

something it's a something

that you can use and

something that they can use

right I hate to use that

word because it sounds

funky but it's a symbiotic

partnership right you're

getting something you get

access you get to put out

stories do interviews blah

blah whatever it goes on

your channel to promote

your stuff and it's also

promoting their stuff

And the fact that they trust

you enough to promote their

stuff and do it correctly.

And in a good, uh,

what's the word I'm looking for?

Not educational, but, um, respectful,

I guess you could say entertaining way.

That's also going to, you know,

show the athlete, show the event,

show all that stuff in a good light,

in a real light.

And you don't take.

You don't take advantage of that.

Just to use it to promote

yourself at that point.

What's good for me?

What's good for you is the

fact that you got there and

you're going to get yours.

You know what I've never seen you do?

This.

Go start an interview like this.

Hi,

this is Scott and here is Colton Mertens.

My goal is to never appear on camera.

Exactly.

Because it's not about you.

It's about the athletes.

Right.

And everybody has their own style,

and it is what it is.

But you have to remember

just the main fact.

You are there to help the event.

That's why you're given a free pass.

That's why you're given

access to different areas.

That's why you're given

access to a workroom.

Things like that, right?

Off of the floor and out of

the stands to go in and do things, edit,

cut,

do all that kind of stuff to get

things up quickly.

And usually,

high-speed internet to help you do that.

Any speed internet would be great.

A big one from the Bayou, Symbiotic.

We're not as backwards as

people think we are.

I wanted to show this.

Vicky,

become a member and get early access

to the vignettes during the games.

Yes,

the two things we are really focusing

on at the games this year

are we have a deal with

Hattie Cano to be embedded

with her in her camp for

the entire CrossFit Games

before and after.

And that means we'll be at the dinners.

We'll be at lunches.

We'll be at the hotel room talking.

We will be in the car going to the venue,

going in the car from the venue.

We're going to capture all of that stuff.

Now that we have enhanced access,

we can also then add in the

flavor of her and her coach

talking back in the warm-up areas,

things like that,

getting ready for the event.

You're going to have a lot

of Tristan on camera.

Probably.

Yes.

With that,

Hattie is only one part of the day,

right?

So in the other time that

she's not there doing those

things and she needs to

rest and go do what she needs to do,

we're going to go do

vignettes with other athletes.

Short little talks, conversations,

and those will be released.

The vignettes I'm going to

try to get out during the weekend.

If you're a member,

you will get it immediately

as it goes up.

If you are not a member,

you'll get it twenty four hours after.

you hear that folks like

subscribe and make sure

your notifications are set to all and on

I'm looking at doing,

and I'm so pumped to do that.

I'm really excited for this Hattie thing.

It's something new that

we're doing that we've never done before.

I kind of did it with Jamie

in my first documentary

where I was embedded with

her for a whole quarterfinals weekend.

And that's how we got close

and became good friends and

how Jamie became a member

of this channel.

So Hattie's already been a

member of this channel and

we're just extending our

friendship a little bit more.

Pull up Judy's comment.

I'm so far behind on comments.

Scott does not eat all day at events.

He's working too hard.

So if you see him,

buy him a snack and make him eat.

That is a solid, hard fact.

I can confirm that from

being at an event with Scott.

He gets embedded,

he gets to do what he's doing,

and he forgets to eat, which...

I don't know how anybody forgets to eat,

but the man needs to eat.

So yes,

if you see him and you see him

running around in the games,

buy him a protein bar and

sit there until he eats it

at the very least.

If not, get him something,

a plate of something from

somebody for the love of God,

because the man will go all

day without eating.

Yeah.

Corey used to text me if he

knew I was in an event.

Hey, have you eaten today?

Judy has literally bought me

like a Caesar salad and

plopped it in front of my

face and sat there until I ate it.

Judy's the best.

And I do, I do, I do.

I am going to be at a hotel

with a kitchen.

So I am going to take stuff

with me to the venue each

day to be able to, to do that.

That's good.

Eat it.

Don't just take it with you.

Yeah,

that's step two that I have the hard

time with.

Kat used to do that too.

She'd just show up in the

media room with like a rice

bowl and do those kind of things.

So, yeah.

For real, Denise, I'm not kidding.

I've seen it happen.

Tons of snacks.

Jose, who's actually Hattie's photographer,

videographer.

He's got snacks in his bag.

We're going to be working

with him during the weekend

to make sure we can get

every bit of coverage we can of Hattie.

Judy just wanted an excuse

to chat with me.

I hope I delivered on a good chat.

That was a fun weekend, dude.

We're at first time here live.

What time do you usually go live?

We go twelve fifteen eastern time.

It's usually forty five minutes.

But whenever Corey's on,

we talk too long and I risk

getting in trouble at work

because it's this is just my lunch hour.

That's why it's lunch with the Clydesdale.

I stop working.

I come down here.

I fire it up.

We go from twelve fifteen to

one o'clock generally

eastern time and just chat

about all things sports

entertainment and specifically CrossFit.

Keeping it real, what day?

I'm currently scheduled to

get there Wednesday.

I'm debating trying to get

there Tuesday if I can swing it.

I'd love to be at

registration with Hattie.

I didn't know they were

doing that so early.

Why they're doing it four

days before the event starts,

that makes no sense to me.

But I might try to get there on Tuesday.

Depends on how early her

registration time is.

Where's the dating show gone?

I think someone found love.

Yeah, I think that's good.

And I've been trying to talk

her into... She could still

do a talk show about all

that stuff without actually

taking part in it and

having conversations.

Um...

keeping it real.

I wanted to get there for warmup.

It costs an extra thousand dollars.

I'm not flying.

I'm driving.

Um,

so it's just driving early and one more

day in the hotel for me.

He meant registration.

Uh,

I just don't know what I would do for

two more days.

I mean, we could,

I could go to the gym with Hattie.

I could do in the thriving metropolis.

That is Albany, New York.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's been speculation.

Would there be like an event

one on Thursday?

I think you could do an event zero.

It wouldn't be out of

character for Dave to do

something like that,

like to throw something else at somebody.

And that would be a clue, right?

Oh, no,

you need to be here Tuesday to register.

Oh, do we now?

you know,

make sure everybody's registering and,

and all that good stuff because,

because why?

Well, because we said so that's why, like,

and just being coy about it

and not even saying anything.

And then all of a sudden the

night before at the,

like have an athlete dinner

Wednesday night.

Oh, by the way, tomorrow we're doing this.

I could go to the affiliate

coach summit and talk to

affiliate donors.

That's something I could do.

Not a terrible idea.

Um,

Yeah.

Well, that's our show today.

We are almost at an hour.

Did you talk to him about

mentioning... Did you...

Mentioning twists yet?

I don't know what I got out of that.

He said like the weirdest

apparatus would probably be the axle bar.

That's not much of a weird apparatus.

No.

And the pegboard...

I don't know.

I mean, it's tall.

It's a tall pig boy.

I don't know.

I didn't get a lot out of that.

I'm about to go watch it this afternoon.

I didn't get a chance to see it.

Yeah, it was weird.

I bet it's either double

scores or a weight vest.

He did say even the ones

that are announced could

have additional twists.

But you know how Dave talks.

Either it could have twists

or even the ones that

aren't announced could have twists.

And even the one I did last

year at the games could have had a twist.

A man is really,

really good at being vague.

And non-committal.

Exactly.

So...

Dave seems to be back on OG CrossFit.

That being the point,

he is making no weird stuff.

I just hope it's good races.

I just want to see good races.

I think they will be.

Just from the stuff that's already put out,

I think you're going to get

some good races.

He said the pegboard workout

could be one of the hardest

ever at the CrossFit Games

and that it might stop some

people in their tracksuit.

He's going to make them wear tracksuits.

It's going to look like Run

DMC from the from the eighties.

My Adidas walked through

plastic doors and they

stole all over Coliseum floors.

That's right.

I was I was going to do.

Oh, yeah.

Look, I agree with CrossFab right there.

I will be so jazzed if we

don't see it coming.

I am stuck with jazz forever.

It's going to be at least

the next week or so.

I can promise you that.

If one of your first

interviews or whatever with

Hattie and she just doesn't turn around,

you're going to go,

I am so jazzed to be here.

I'm going to be upset.

Sabrina Seymour.

Anyone else catch when he

said the run after the first row?

I mean the run after the row

in the interview with Ty.

I didn't even see the interview with Ty.

I think the quote he

actually said we can review was,

I'm going to jazz these wads up a bit.

Don't think that I won't

jazz these wads up.

Uh, Shannon,

we need a jazz t-shirt with Scott on it.

Uh, wow.

And we'll see Travis in two days.

I can get,

I bet you I can get him to make you one.

Oh, you seen or no dude.

Um, the lost boys.

Yep.

With the dude playing a saxophone.

Yep.

Only is Scott playing the saxophone.

He just says jazzed.

I got one in my daughter's bedroom.

She played saxophone all

through high school, man.

That is fantastic.

They're going to throw on a

ruck for the last run of event one.

I've heard that since they

announced the run, row, run,

that part of that was going to be a ruck.

Run, row, ruck.

Sounds like something

Scooby-Doo would say.

We need some Clydesdale apparel.

We do.

I got to figure it out.

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