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what is going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the
clydesdale today is not a
work day so I'm a little
more cash about what my
workout my lunch hour is
but um it is freezing cold
here in ohio and it's only
supposed to get colder over
the next two days
I just took the dog out
right before I came down
here and the wind was
whipping through my pants.
Oh my gosh, so bad.
So just sipping on my coffee,
sitting in the basement,
hanging out with you guys.
Can't wait to chat today.
was thinking like man in the
first five years we've done
this podcast I maybe wore a
hat like five times I have
worn a hat like every show
in the last couple weeks uh
and just so you guys know
like I have not gotten a
haircut since well before christmas
Maybe even back to Thanksgiving.
So it is mangy up on top.
It takes a lot to get it to
even look somewhat decent.
But with everything going on
and my wife's surgery and everything,
it's just not been a priority.
So it has been Scott in the
hat day for a good couple of weeks.
So anyway,
uh there's that so I wanted
to talk real quick about
the football weekend uh
that just was incredible
football games for the most
part all coming down uh to
the end except for maybe
that lions game last friday
I made four picks and four
line picks and I went three
for four in my overall
picks uh only missing the
lions and commanders game I
picked the outright winners
in the other three
um and then on the lines I
went two for two for four uh I missed
I think the Texans-Chiefs game.
I missed that line.
I thought they would cover.
They just missed.
And then I missed the Lions outright.
And gosh,
they were giving away nine and a
half points.
Not only did they lose,
they lost bad and did not cover.
But I got yesterday's right
on the lines with the Rams covering.
and the uh buffalo bills
covering and winning uh so
yeah pretty exciting games
in the snow yesterday uh
what's up jose texans got
robbed man they were right
there like it just seems
like whenever whenever they
play whenever the chiefs
play they it's almost like
they're inviting you to
take the game knowing that
at any point they can pull it away
um cj stroud just looked
beaten up by the end of
that game too many hits too
many sacks which has been
the texans problem all year
um and the chiefs really
came with some pressure at
the end of the game but a
fun game to watch I will
say because the texans had
a shot at the end it just
just what didn't turn out their way um
The Lions really shit the bed.
I have no idea what happened there.
I said last night on the show,
Jamie's a big fan of the Lions,
her and her husband.
And I have been a Bears fan my whole life.
So the Lions have been in our division.
However, I wanted them to win.
They have never been to the Super Bowl.
I wanted just new blood in there.
And I was pretty gutted that
they lost to the Commanders.
Plus,
my Bears picked Caleb Williams over...
yeah sure the really good
quarterback for the the
commanders daniels um then
they picked caleb instead
of him and he is just
blowing it up and uh is
having the best rookie
season ever and uh damn it
like did we make the wrong
choice as we always do and
that's where the bears fans
always like their head goes
to is we had to have made
the wrong choice
so there's that and then the
snow games yesterday uh
philly and the rams man the
rams played tough in the
snow really got to give
them credit um they I
thought stafford was going
to pull it out the end when
they hit that long pass to
puka uh towards the end I
thought it was right there um
And they just couldn't pull it out.
And then I wanted the Bills
to win last night.
And when Jackson hit the
touchdown at the end of the game,
and then Andrews dropped
the two-point conversion,
I could not believe he dropped that pass.
could not believe it we had
just gotten off the air
watched that live on my
phone before I went
upstairs and carolyn I'd
like like I'm looking at
carolyn like how did he
drop that pass I I have no
idea mark andrews never
drops passes like that so
uh that game ended in a very
It was an awesome game.
Awesome game in the snow.
So next week we have Bill's Chiefs.
We have Commander's Eagles.
I'll make my picks later in the week.
But tonight we have the
National Championship game
with the Ohio State
Buckeyes taking on Notre
Dame Fighting Irish.
And the line on this game is
OSU by eight and a half.
That's a huge line for a
National Championship game
where you have had a
playoff to narrow it down
to the best two teams in the country.
Um,
And what I'm going to say,
my pick for tonight is
definitely a head pick, not a heart pick.
I want Notre Dame to win tonight,
and I've never rooted for
Notre Dame in my life.
But I live here in Columbus, Ohio.
I am not a Buckeye fan,
and I have to hear about the Buckeyes.
I'm a Buckeyes fan,
so I want them to lose.
Because I just don't want to
deal with another national
championship here.
It just gets to be awful here in Columbus.
so I'm picking but I am
picking them to win I do
think that OSU has the
better team um I think they
have the more explosive
weapons so I am picking OSU
tonight and I do believe
that they're going to cover
the eight and a half points as well um
I just think it's going to
be one of those where it's
close for about three
quarters and OSU will pull
away in the fourth and
probably make it a ten to
fourteen point win at the
end of the game.
So I will give away the
eight and a half and take
the Buckeyes on the line
and the Buckeyes to an outright.
As much as I don't want that to happen,
I do not want that to happen.
I would rather be wrong on my pick.
than uh have to deal with
the buckeyes winning
another national
championship in this city
because it is awful last
night we turned off the nfl
game and immediately the
news was talking all about
the buckeyes it's just it
is non-stop stuff here so
With that, a little bit of CrossFit news.
I watched the Mayhem podcast this morning.
Last night,
a big topic on Sunday Night
CrossFit Talk was about the
qualification process for
the Mayhem Classic.
and how they are using
historical data to pick their athletes.
And Carolyn and Jamie
definitely had strong
feelings about that it
really should be about this
season and not historical data.
So what I did is I picked a
piece of their podcast I
want to show where they
actually discuss the
qualification process,
how they're doing it,
why they're doing it.
They actually have reasons
behind everything.
But I'm going to share that real quick.
And so here we go.
Here is Rich and Rory
talking about it in their podcast.
so many different things and
outliers and reasons why we
should do this one and not
that one and x and y and z
but uh we're gonna go with
the the rogue one um I just
think there's a propensity
to overthink it it's like
we want a history of
excellence and we want
recent performance to be
through the roof and rogue
is proven and they're
obviously tremendous they
don't proven they're they
don't they don't underdo
anything uh so I just think
So one of the arguments that
we had last night was that
it's historical data and
not current performance
qualifying you for this
in-person semifinal.
They state,
Rory states it very clear there,
that they were looking for
historical performance as
well as how they're
performing at this moment.
I'll let it play a little bit further,
and then I'll recap a little bit more.
just think it's it's safe
it's not the right word
it's just it's right the
hard work is paid off you
know look at you go that's
like the last two
references already yeah so
um yeah so we're gonna do
that we're gonna take the
eight uh first eighteen
that um like accept I guess
those will go out by the
time this podcast goes live yeah this one
And then we're going to do two wild cards.
Guess what?
Because it's our party and
we can invite who we want.
Don't care what you say.
So they are doing eighteen
invitations based on the rogue,
rogue leaderboard.
The first eighteen that
accept will be competitors
at the Mayhem Classic.
So that is they will
backfill until they get
eighteen men and eighteen
women for the Mayhem Classic.
And then they are holding two wild cards.
two men two women that they
can invite anybody who they
want uh to fill those two
spots as well as uh the
eighteen who qualify
through the rogue
leaderboard and you guys
you heard rich say it's
their party and they can
invite whoever they want so
they go on to say that
Really,
their goal of their in-person
semifinal was because they
are the first one up to get
as many of the top athletes
in and get a crack at
qualifying right at the
beginning of the in-person
semifinal round.
qualification process and be
done with it so they can
move on to either games
prep or WFP or any of those other things,
but to get it kind of
checked off the box early.
And that's why they wanted
the best of the best at
theirs to allow that
opportunity for the top
athletes to do that.
Again,
CrossFit has allowed the
semifinals to kind of make
up their own rules through this process.
And so they did that.
They are using the Rogue
Qualifier and they're doing it that way.
Again,
Carolyn and Jamie make good arguments.
And if you want to see those,
check out our show from last night.
And it's right in the
beginning part of the show.
They talk about why it
shouldn't be historical and
why it should be more current data.
They also said that they
will review this and look
at it in the future,
but right now they didn't
have a lot of lead time
going into this being the
first in-person semifinal event out there,
and that they kind of were
hamstrung this year.
So they're going to try this.
They're going to give it a whirl.
They'll evaluate it in the
offseason and see how things go.
Other than that, this is a great podcast.
There's questions about the WFP,
about the CrossFit game season.
Angelo asks Rich many
questions about if he were
a current athlete,
what would he do in these situations?
Would he compete in the WFP?
Would he compete in the game season?
How would he evaluate that
and look at it from
different perspectives?
And they admittedly say they
don't really know enough
about it at this point to
make super educated guesses
and to make that determination.
But these are some things he
would look at.
And what I found interesting
is we've been talking about
this the whole time that, you know,
athletes want more opportunities.
And Rich said when he was competing,
he tried to stay as fit as
he could throughout the
duration of the season.
maybe even at the expense of
his own longevity and durability.
But that was always his goal
was to be in top shape and
come to every competition
in the best shape he could be.
So I think that that is kind
of the mental attitude that
you have to have in this
new era of CrossFit going
on more than just a couple times a year.
They also talk about
mistakes they believe that
CrossFit has made and
things that need to be
changed to make it easier
to digest for the consumer.
They think that the reason
that the Mayhem Classic is
only going to be two days
is they think a three-day
investment on the weekend
is too much for a viewer,
that two days is an easier
digestible competition.
So that's why Mayhem Classic
will be two days instead of three.
and actually as they talked
about it I saw a lot of
validity in that and I
think that that is
definitely going to be this
discussion point that I
have with the ladies uh
sunday night on sunday
night crossfit talk uh so
make sure you uh tune into
that this week um
One other thing I wanted to
talk about is last Friday I
talked about buying followers,
that there was a report out
there that Christy
O'Connell and Patrick
O'Connell had bought followers.
I was actually corrected in
the comments about what this was.
I heard it being discussed
on a Sevan podcast last
week and it didn't have a lot of detail.
But Andrew Hiller actually
sent me some stuff where it
was not on their YouTube
channel and it was not on
their personal account.
It was on the IBEX training
account that there seemed
to be a purchase of
followers and it's their
IBEX Instagram account
where that happened.
I shared a story where I got
sucked into a situation
back when we first started this podcast.
Um,
it would have been about three and a
half years ago now, um,
where I got duped by some
people and thought it was a
legit marketing company.
But in fact,
they were just helping us with
subscribers, uh,
through what appeared to be
bots or people in Russia or
the Ukraine or things like that.
Um,
and how we had to kind of
disconnect from that.
But man, we were duped big time early on.
And if you want to hear that story,
you can go back to Friday's
Lunch with the Clydesdale
and check that out.
I did want to correct uh
what I was saying about
christy's account and for
those who don't know um I
was a member of her gym
until I'm still a member of
that gym but I was a member
of that gym until they sold
it to some community
members a couple um gosh
probably a couple months ago now um
And so that really hit close to home.
And I just was kind of
addressing it from a
different perspective.
So people knew that there
are like vultures out there
that are looking for people
to do things like that too.
And it on the surface,
it may not appear to be
something intentional by the user,
but just being duped by somebody else.
So.
The last thing I'm going to
touch on is there's a push right now,
and I'm going to start
watching some of this stuff.
I know Boz has been on with
some people over the last
couple days talking about
the Community Cup.
And the more that the
Community Cup kind of sits with me,
the more I am inclined to
really like where CrossFit
is going with this.
Really giving everybody an
opportunity to compete a
second time in the season.
Getting levels that mean something.
I hope that at some point
those levels are going to
be transitioned into local
comps where you are a level eight.
That means you're an RX athlete.
You are a level five.
That means you go in the
scale division and you don't have
sandbaggers or cherry
pickers going in and trying
to win the scale divisions,
even though they're like a
level eight or level nine
in the CrossFit Open.
But I really think that I
like the way that they're
doing the breakdown by
percentages into the levels
and that the second time through in June,
you'll get to compete
against people just in your
division with a workout
that is scaled appropriately for you.
I think that is a really great idea.
I just hope that...
crossfit decides to stick
with this for more than
just a year or two and
really give it a good
opportunity to kind of
catch on um because I think
it it could be something
special if they really uh
devote some time and stick
to it for a little while so
with that today's going to
be kind of a short show
we're here on Martin Luther
King Jr day so I know a lot
of people aren't at work
and they're not on their
normal schedule and I
wasn't sure what kind of an
audience we would see today um
And it does look like we're
down a little bit on today,
but we'll be back tomorrow.
We have top five Tuesday
tomorrow with my guy, Jay Birch,
who's in the chat now,
Jeffrey Birchfield.
We're going to count down
the top five television
shows of all time.
These are hour-long
miniseries or network or streaming series,
not sitcoms.
So these will be the top five dramas,
for lack of a better term,
in the history of television.
We'll be doing that
countdown tomorrow
afternoon with Jay Birch.
And we'll talk about some
other stuff that we'll
probably talk about a
national championship game
that just ended.
We'll probably talk more
CrossFit stuff as it
appears in the new space.
And yeah.
We had a great show last night.
We did our Waterpalooza
preview on Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
Make sure to go check that
out if you haven't already.
Carolyn and Jamie were on
fire in the way they viewed things.
I'll make a comment about the preview.
One thing that I really
enjoy about the people that
are on my show with me is
they give the athlete
perspective and they give
it pretty quickly.
I looked at those workouts
at Waterpalooza for the
team and the individual and thought, man,
that is going to beat some people up.
Twelve workouts in four days,
a lot of repetition,
a lot of the same muscle group.
How would the athletes view that?
And Carolyn immediately said
that because of the large
payouts at Waterpalooza,
The athletes are going to
continue to do that,
and they're going to
continue to beat themselves up,
and they're going to
continue to tolerate that
type of programming because
it's one of the few places
they can make money during the season.
Even though we have more opportunities,
there is money being cut
from the game season that
is not the winner.
There's money maybe not as
much as we thought in the WFP.
So...
These are rogues and the
water paloozas are places
where you can actually kind
of cash in as an athlete.
And so because of that,
the athletes will endure
more of those beatdowns for
the opportunity to compete there.
And I found that fascinating
because I did not think of
it that way at all.
I just looked at it from the
consumer or the, I guess,
media or the spectator thinking, man,
that's going to be a beat
down and people are not
going to want to put
themselves through that year after year.
And she immediately,
immediately corrected me on that.
So love that perspective
from an active athlete.
So with that,
I think that's pretty much it for today.
Hope everybody has a great,
if you're not working today,
hope you're having a great day off.
Martin Luther King day.
Hopefully wherever you're at,
it's not as cold as it is
here in the Midwest.
Stay warm and we will be back tomorrow.
Top five Tuesday.
And we will see you then as
we get back to our regular
lunch schedule with that guys.
See you then.
Bye.