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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 is going on, everybody?
Happy Fourth of July to all
you people here in the United States.
And I guess happy Friday to
everybody else in the world.
I know Lito's here.
She's over there in the UK.
We got Kenneth.
Glad you guys could be.
Shay's here for a live.
Love to see it when Shay can hop in.
Jody, lunchtime poolside.
So jealous.
Yeah,
Jamie's been sending me pictures of
her on the boat up on Lake Michigan.
Man,
I love being around water on days like
today.
Hopefully I can do something
like that this weekend.
I know my wife just took
Walter up to the lake and went swimming.
And so Walter got some swim
time this morning.
What's up, Craig?
Trained to live.
Uh, so yeah,
hoping to get around some
water later this weekend.
Um,
maybe we'll take Walter back up there
this weekend.
He loves, loves the water.
Um,
I hope I'm not interrupting anybody of
you who are tuning in to
see the Nathan's hot dog
eating contest over there
at the boardwalk.
Um, is there anybody that,
that truly enjoys watching this?
Like I can't believe the
ratings a hot dog eating
contest gets on TV.
That boggles my mind to this day.
The gluttony of just shoving
wet hot dog buns and raw hot dogs into,
um, into your mouth.
Just, I've watched it a few times.
I just can't, just can't anymore.
Um,
is joey chestnut still
around so this is his like
comeback year apparently
last year he claimed he was
vegan and because of that
the nathan's group kicked
him out of the hot dog
eating contest um and then
now he's back this year so
I don't know I trained to
live I thought you were
having your own hot dog
eating contest on the lunch
show today I am not
I've done eating contests in the past.
I was in a chicken-winning
eating contest once,
and I realized I just don't
eat that fast.
I don't eat that fast.
It was how many chicken
wings could you eat in fifteen minutes,
and then you took a five-minute rest,
and then you got a
two-minute lightning round.
And I ate, I think... It was...
like, I was sick.
Like, somewhere around thirty.
The guy who won ate eighty-three.
Like, I was nowhere even close.
And that was like twenty years ago.
But yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, Jody Lynn says America.
Um,
we're going to talk about America at
the end of the show today
and the five things that
make me feel America.
Uh, Kenneth to lap says,
hasn't been the same since
Kobayashi that we're
reminiscing about food eaters is crazy.
Uh,
trying to get to the gym in maybe heavy
or cardio.
It's such a tough choice.
Something tells me you're leaning heavy.
So there.
One funny thing that
happened today is this and
I'm going to share my
screen with you all.
So my L one expires at the
end of the year.
I got this email today from
CrossFit that we're just
reaching out to remind you
that your CrossFit level
one trainer CFOL one
credentials expire six
months in on December
thirty first twenty twenty five.
Do you remember a couple of
months ago when there was a
judge at Mayhem said I
didn't I didn't know my thing.
My credentials expired.
I didn't know.
I didn't know.
How could I know?
Well,
here I am six months out and I've got
a big,
bold email from CrossFit telling me
mine's going to expire in six months.
And then, and when the expiration date is,
and then these are my options.
I can do the level one.
I can do the level two.
Or I can do the online level one.
so I had this up ready
because of what happened a
few months ago and then I
saw a hillar post today
where he showed they
offered a one-year
extension for a hundred and
ninety nine dollars I did
not get that offer that
offer is not in this email
um and then I honestly I've
talked about this on the
show I don't know whether
I'm going to extend
My CrossFit level one,
I don't coach anymore.
I do the media thing.
I don't judge anymore.
That's really why I did the second one.
I coached for like four
years at my gym and then, and I loved it.
But the media thing just
takes over everything.
So I don't know whether I'm
going to keep my going or not.
I loved taking the course.
I've taken it both in person and online.
The online I think is way
harder than the in person.
The in person is much more stretched out.
You do a little bit here,
a little bit here, a little bit there.
The online, man,
it's crammed in and you're
doing a lot of moving in a couple hours.
I was so sore at the end of
my online L-One.
but yeah.
Uh, Denise says,
I think you should ask for an extension.
Uh, I just,
I don't know what it means to me anymore.
I'm not coaching.
I'm not, I'm not judging.
I don't need the credentials.
So I just don't know.
I've always wanted to get my
L two just to see what it was to see what,
what was in it.
But,
is it worth a thousand
dollars for me to to just
see and be curious uh jody
says but what if there's a
judging emergency and they
need you uh I think they'll
be okay uh denise showing
she's better than all of us
she did three hours of
working out this morning on a holiday
And she is hot and tired.
What's up, Meredith?
So, yeah,
just to show that CrossFit does
actually notify you when
your L-I or L-II is going
to expire and gives you
fair warning to sign up for
another class to keep it going.
So some of the excuses that
were brought out back then
really don't hold a lot of water.
Jody Lynn,
Siobhan promoted your show when
he signed off.
I was there.
I heard it.
I love me some Tudor Magda.
Tudor has been one of my
favorite athletes for a very long time.
I met him when James
Townsend was coaching him.
Got to meet them at,
I think it was the MAC back
a few years ago and hung
out with them outside the
venue for a little bit.
Really been a big fan of Tudor ever since.
Next,
they need to release a list of all
media people that have
CrossFit certification.
Yeah.
Well, right now, me.
Right now, me.
Wanted to talk quickly.
You know,
I review all the documentaries
that come out.
So I watched the Fee,
Saga Fee documentary that Hiller did.
I don't think...
It is definitely my favorite
video of the year.
So I would give it an A+.
I think the highlights of
the video are in all of that time,
they never really talk
about this year's games.
They talk about her upbringing.
They talk about her being a violinist,
which that just warmed my
heart that she played the
violin for Hiller.
I've been begging for that in a video.
Charlie and I make a brief
appearance in the video.
Not that that's the highlight,
but it was cool to see that we made it.
What else?
The steroid talk I thought
was fascinating.
And then, of course, the end of the video.
And I don't want to put any
spoilers out if you have not seen it.
It gets really deep, really emotional.
And you get all the feels at
the end of that video.
And I thought Hiller
captured it amazingly.
And he should be commended for it.
I also thought the stuff in
the gym was not like about training.
it was like about the
relationships with Dallin and Jason and,
and I just, I,
the only part that I had a
hard time understanding was
Matt Torres's thought process.
And I was actually talking
to another coach last night
and he was like, Oh yeah, that's the,
that's the stuff I get into
like diving into Matt Torres's brain.
And I'm like, well, he,
that was way over my
capability as a coach.
So, uh, so it, but he loved it.
And I just, I, I,
I see your comments in here.
Uh, trained to live.
A fee doc was a hundred out of ten.
Uh, Jose,
best documentary in the amount of
time I've done CrossFit in my opinion.
Yeah, I,
it's definitely my favorite of the year.
I don't want to get caught
into like hyperbole and say
that it's the greatest of all time,
but it may be the greatest of all time.
Um,
And maybe that's something
we can talk about in the
future is going back through,
because I've probably
watched every documentary
that CrossFit has ever done.
I have not watched all the side stuff,
but I've watched every one
CrossFit has done.
And there's a couple that
may compete with it for different reasons,
but man, it's up there in the top five,
I think, for sure.
No, I don't think for sure.
It is a top five video all time.
It may be the best one ever.
It may be the best one ever.
Lito says, haven't seen it yet.
Saving it for tonight.
I will not give you any spoilers,
but it's really, it's really,
it grabs you right at the beginning.
It's pretty amazing.
Meredith says, excellent film.
Really, truly enjoyed it.
I know you've talked about it before,
and I think Fee's
personality and openness
and willingness to be
vulnerable made that video great.
I agree.
But it also takes the
interviewer or the person
doing the content,
it takes them working to
know a little bit about the
person's background to be
able to ask the right
questions to get you there.
And that's where the
difference between Hiller
and the road to the games are.
He did enough research going
to Fee's house that he knew
what to ask her.
And I know he did because
him and I actually talked
about it this week.
So he knew before he got to
her place a list of things
that he wanted to get to.
And that is like really key.
Like every interview I do for this podcast,
like I have a list of notes
of things that I want to
get to and how to kind of
set up the situation so
that the person does trust
me and the person does understand.
I think it's something that I have
By the games last year,
I was rolling in that
department of getting
people to that area.
Because a lot of the people we interview,
nobody's ever heard of.
We were doing semifinal athletes,
master's athletes, all of that stuff.
You have to do enough
research to know how to get
them there and then ask the
right questions.
been a little out of
practice and so I don't
think I'm as on my game as
I was last year and I'd
really like to get back to
that um just really hard to
get back on the horse um do
you think killer is doing
this to make a point about
the road to the games I think
I think that may have been a
small piece of the
motivation at one point in time,
but I think that he has
learned that he really loves doing this.
And I think that the product
that comes out at the end, he is very,
very proud of.
If that answers your question, Kenneth.
I do think part of that was
motivation at the beginning,
and then he realized he's
pretty good at this,
and I think he really likes doing it.
Do you think the issue with
Road to the Games is they
don't have enough time as
they're trying to cover a
large number of athletes in
a fairly short time?
I think that it doesn't take
that long to research a person.
Go back to when we were
doing a hundred semifinal
athletes in like six weeks
or last year when we did
fifty Masters athletes in four weeks.
You can still get a lot of
research done in that
amount of time to ask the
right questions.
Denise says,
you've had a lot going on this year.
Scott, give yourself some grace.
I have had a lot going on this year,
and I am giving myself some grace.
I just know that I really
prided myself on my interviewing ability,
and it has fallen off
because of my busyness this year.
And we'll get back there.
We'll get back there.
But I started this lunch
show and this has been
something different that
I've had to commit to and
had to get better at each day.
And I talked about that
earlier in the week.
Like just talking by myself
to a camera and seeing you
guys in the chat is a
different experience than
doing a show with Carolyn
and Jamie where we're
talking to each other.
And I just had to get better at this too.
But we'll get back to it.
Yeah.
I will,
I will talk about that another time.
So I, the fee documentary, a plus, uh,
I know some of you said,
go watch the tier videos.
They're really well done.
So I've watched Abby Domitz.
I've watched Romans.
I may have watched one other
this week and they,
I do think they're better
than road to the games, uh,
But I still think they rely
on the training scenes way
too much and not about the
personal stuff.
And that's the big
difference between what
Hiller's putting out and
what the others are putting out.
So I enjoyed the Abbey Dome
video and I enjoyed the Roman video.
quite a bit,
but they're not at the level
of Hip and Steel, Horvath, Hopper,
and Fee.
Those are a different tier.
Pardon the pun.
But tier does a pretty good job.
They're very well produced.
They look really nice.
But they're also trying to
promote a product.
So they want you to see the tier shoes,
the tier sports bra,
the tier shorts in action in the gym.
So their motivation may be a
little bit different than
Hiller who's just trying to
hear the story.
So I enjoyed the tier.
I don't think it's on the
Hiller or that Laura Horvat video thing.
But it's really good and entertaining.
Then I watched Road to the
Games last night with Harry Lightfoot,
Amy Kringle, and Callan Clemens.
And it may be the best one
that they've done so far.
I think my problem with Road
to the Games is it's almost
by accident that they do a good video.
Harry Lightfoot,
I've got to get him on the show.
That dude is hilarious.
His personality comes out,
and they did more –
they did more outside the
gym stuff with those three.
They talked about Amy
Kringle wanting to make a
granola company and they
went swimming with Kellen
Clements in the ocean and
Harry Lightfoot and his wife,
girlfriend fighting about
carrying the groceries up the stairs.
And Harry Lightfoot's dad is hilarious.
Yes.
All of that was hilarious.
much better than in the gym
stuff I think but I don't
know again if it's by
accident or or just
circumstances made it so
that they did more of that
but that's the stuff I want
to see that's the stuff I
want to see and I thought
it was it was much better I
would give that an a minus
that road to the games it's
probably the best one of the year
And what's crazy is the week
before was a D with the
Lucys that I thought was
the worst one of the year.
So there's some good content
out for this weekend.
If you have not seen it,
the most recent Road to the
Games is actually pretty good.
The tier stuff out there is pretty good.
And then the fee thing is
just knock your socks off good.
Lito said it was so funny,
but it was definitely due
to their personalities.
I agree.
I agree.
I think Harry Lightfoot stole the show.
I thought Callan Clements
was kind of funny that he
has to park down around the
block from his apartment
because he can't find a parking spot.
And it's almost a workout
getting from his apartment to the car.
I thought that was pretty funny.
But I loved when like him
and his buddies were
swimming in the ocean.
I thought that was super cool.
And a really like
lighthearted way to look at
things in their personal life.
And then when the Kringle
Lightfoot thing ended at
the restaurant and the
contradiction between
Lightfoot needing to count
every single one of his
macros and Amy Kringle not caring at all.
Kenneth says,
Frogrips put some good ones out too.
Yeah,
I think the only problem that these
companies putting them out
is their agenda is that
they have to show their product.
So that's going to mean that
they're going to rely more
on the training scenes than
the personal stories behind everything.
His girlfriend buying him a woman's razor.
Yeah, that was great.
Because Harry has no hair on his legs.
Harry is the wrong first
name for that guy.
So there you go.
So that is my reviews for
the week on the CrossFit content.
I also watched Coffee Pods
and Wads yesterday with Dave Castro.
I thought it was a really good interview.
I thought Dave was more
relaxed than I'd seen him
in a long time during an interview.
I thought the question of the episode was,
with everything that happened,
do you ever feel like you
just want to say F off and go away?
And the long pause that Dave
took before he said, let's move on.
was more telling than if he
actually answered the question.
Because I do think he's been
through a lot.
And I was thinking about it.
I've thought a lot about last year.
Being at those games was really hard.
I think that he has been through a lot.
And...
I think that when Peter
pointed out that him and Boz had talked,
that Boz says that if it wasn't for Dave,
they wouldn't have made it through,
or Dave was the only person
that could get them through
the games last year.
I actually had lots of
conversations with Boz at
the games last year, and he was cracked,
and he was a shell of himself.
And because of that,
I do believe he was right.
I think that people
nitpicking about what Dave
said in a moment of crisis
is completely unfair
because I don't know how I
would have handled it any better.
It's easy to take shots at
people in those moments of weakness.
But if I put myself in those shoes,
I don't,
I don't know if I could do any better.
I don't know if I could
remember everything,
every word that I used,
every word that was said to
a T in a crisis situation
to then convey to other
people as I'm probably
going through a grieving process myself.
I don't know.
I think that's really hard.
And the expectations that
some people had during that
time I think is completely unfair.
CrossFit says,
you have to think how many
times Dave had to have
those brutal talks and thoughts.
He was bound to misspeak or slip up.
I agree.
Nobody under that situation, I guess,
take a step back and ask yourself,
if I was in that situation at that time,
how would I have handled it differently?
And if you don't have an
answer after six months or nine months,
Think about he had.
Sixty minutes, two hours.
That's when when Ben
Bergeron came out and said
he would have done things the right way,
but he couldn't explain
what the right way was.
I was like that dude's off
his freaking rocker.
Anyway.
thought it was a great
interview um but I thought
that part of the interview
was the best in the
highlight and uh told a lot
I guess I'm ready to make
an announcement um I've had
meetings with the person
that I'm going to follow at
this year's crossfit games
and their coach we had a
long meeting last night
talking about ground rules
And I've talked about it
this week that Savan
already does a behind the scenes and then,
um,
buttery bros tried to do their version
of behind the scenes.
And then Craig Ritchie tried
to do their version of behind the scenes.
And I just,
I don't want to do another just
basic behind the scenes.
Cause it's already being done.
And I don't think I could do
any better than the Savan
crew does already.
So what I'm going to do is
I'm going to follow one athlete,
one athlete from beginning to end.
And actually, prior to the games,
we're going to talk to this
athlete and their coach and
get some footage.
And then we'll get it as
they arrive and through check-in.
as they prepare the days
before the games his
check-ins on tuesday the
games don't start till
friday and there's all that
time in between and how you
handle that and then we're
going to be with them the
entire weekend I have asked
for enhanced coverage uh
media access to be behind
the scenes in the warm-up
area with them um and do
some other stuff on there as well
I have not heard back on that.
Hopefully I can get that.
If not, we have a plan B for all of that.
And it's all been agreed to
by the athlete and the coach.
And I'm going to highlight
the coach more than it's
been done in the past.
And their process through
this whole thing as well.
And I'm going to tell you
who it is right now.
Everybody's asking for a hint.
It's not a Lucy.
It had to be someone.
I've never done this before.
I'm setting up a proof of
concept for the future,
and it had to be somebody
that I trust implicitly and
who trusts me.
And that person is what
Train to Live said.
It is Hattie Canio.
So we are going to follow
Hattie Canio from now up
until the games until
And through the games and
we're going to have a
conversation after the games.
Um,
I got a whole hotel room in the same
hotel as her.
So we are going to be in
close proximity and we're
going to have those
conversations and it's
going to be amazing.
Uh, so I'm really psyched for that.
Um,
I think,
and she has promised me tons of
dance parties and lots of
pasta is how she calls it.
Uh,
so we're going to be staying in the
same hotel room.
We're going to be able to, um,
be with each, uh, be with each other.
If need be.
Um,
and we set the ground rules and it's
going to be awesome.
So this is awesome.
I think we've talked about this last night,
Jose,
that you would be taking some
pictures for her.
So I want to be able to work
with you as well.
And we'll credit you in the
documentary and maybe do
some stills as part of the documentary.
CrossFit says,
bring some ketchup chips for Hattie.
There you go.
Or how do you bring them?
So yeah, we're super excited for that.
We had a long meeting last night.
All the ground rules are set.
We're ready to go.
But I cannot wait to do this.
It's something new for me.
It's going to expand me
outside of my comfort zone.
But I think that we can do a
really cool job.
I did this kind of once
before with Jamie before
she became a co-host.
I did a documentary with her
during quarterfinals.
I think it was quarterfinals
when she was in the thirty
five to thirty nine year old division.
And I spent the entire
weekend with her and her
family and we captured all of that.
And and so now I now that
I've learned some things,
I want to do something even better.
Uh, James W he's a few minutes behind,
but another comment on Dave is, uh,
we have no idea what orders
he was getting from Don
fall and the board of directors.
He probably did the best he
could under the circumstances.
I would even go a step
further and say that he was
put out there to be the
shield for the board and
Don foul Don fall.
Uh, so.
think he was put out there
to be the scapegoat uh
trained to live would you
do the same thing for
carolyn at matt for masters
right now I'm trying to do
an overall behind the
scenes because the masters
community doesn't get that
like they the elite
athletes do so I'd like to
do like a more overall
behind the scenes of the
masters including all of them
And that would include like
Lito and Jamie and Rudy
burger and like all of them, Denise,
all the people that are in
the chat that are just
freaking awesome athletes.
Um, yeah, we're, we'll do,
we're going to do some
behind the scenes stuff.
I still don't have like the final,
final approval on that,
but I think we're getting it.
Um,
And if we don't,
we're going to do something else.
We're going to,
we're getting in the
building and we're going to do something.
And if it's something like more of a,
like exclusive access with
Jamie and Carolyn,
maybe that's what it is
because we'll all be here.
I don't know,
but you're going to get
something from the masters
games for sure.
Um, that, that, those are my people.
All right.
I'm so excited to do this, guys.
Thank you so much for the comments.
Denise is like, nice.
Lito's nice.
Tringle is super pumped for that.
Fellow Canadian, let's go.
Very exciting.
Yeah, so really excited about this one.
And then back on the Dave thing,
CrossFit says he was being
the villain for the brand by design.
That is said better than I
could have said it.
Denise, I'll do anything for you, Scott.
Thank you.
Denise was a highlight in
last year's behind the scenes.
My favorite part is when I
snuck up behind her and she
didn't see me and turned
around and was startled.
And I got to capture that on camera.
That was one of my favorite moments.
She was just trying to get
some post-workout or pre-workout in.
I snuck up on her.
All right.
We are going to talk about
the five things that make
me feel proud about America.
America.
Not America.
America.
And so the first thing on my list,
and this is no particular order.
These are just the five
things that make me feel America.
And my first one is...
Rocky Balboa, red, white, and blue shorts.
Rocky IV, great movie.
Rocky is my favorite movie of all time.
And Rocky in the red, white,
and blue taking on the Russians,
that makes me feel America.
But you know what elevates this even more?
You know what that is?
It's when someone so iconic
as Rich Froning...
Oh, no.
Is it gone?
I lost it.
Oh, no.
I had it.
I think I lost it.
Oh, no, here we go.
When someone like Rich Froning
wears the rocky balboa
shorts in an open workout
the icon himself that when
he ripped off the
basketball pants to reveal
the rocky balboa shorts
that's america that's
america right there the
next thing on my list is
and this is going to have a
little bit of a riff in it um
clear out some of these tabs
is I love me some fireworks.
Fireworks make me feel like America.
I love the booms.
I love the explosions.
And here in Columbus,
we have a massive fireworks
display downtown.
It is supposed to be the
largest fireworks display in the Midwest.
And it takes up most of downtown.
And I love me some fireworks.
But last night,
they opened the show with
something that doesn't make
me feel America.
And I'm already over it.
And that is... I think it's this one.
Is this the drone shows?
What the hell is this?
They did a drone show for like,
fifteen minutes prior to the fireworks,
and it made no sense to me.
There's no sounds, there's no booms,
there's no echoes,
there's no... It's just...
you get little shapes in the
sky all done by computer
and I guess it's kind of
cool for a couple minutes
but fifteen minutes not not
nice not nice at all give
me my fireworks leave the
drones alone all right so
fireworks america drones not america
Then the next thing is,
and I meant to bring down
the album to show you,
the album is Nothing Makes
Me Feel America More Than
When Ray Charles Sings
America the Beautiful.
When he sings America the Beautiful,
he does it in a way that
just makes me have goosebumps.
Nobody else can do it.
And I don't care how many
years in a row I've heard that song.
It never grates on my nerves.
Just give me some Ray
Charles singing America the Beautiful.
Denise,
drone shows and three-D movies get
the same meh for me.
I hear you.
I hear you.
Yeah.
The three D movie thing.
I'm over that too.
Just let me enjoy the movie.
So Ray Charles, America, the beautiful, uh,
the next thing on my list for America is
Bald eagles.
Nothing gives you a goose
bump more than seeing a
bald eagle in the wild.
Where I live in Western Pennsylvania,
there's a couple areas
around where I live where
there are eagle's nests.
And one of them is on the
way to get back here to
Columbus from my mom's
house in Pennsylvania.
My wife and I were driving down this road.
It's like a freeway.
It goes down from one
mountaintop and into a
valley and then up into the
other side of the mountaintop.
We hit the valley one time
and an eagle literally came
by flying right beside the window.
Talk about one freaking you out,
two majestic and beautiful
and three goosebumps from hell.
Man, that's America right there.
They are the most amazing,
beautiful birds you could ever imagine.
And to see them in the wild
is just amazing.
So my final,
final America thing is going to be this.
And I am going to be very specific.
And it is hot dogs.
This is my favorite kind of hot dog.
And that is the Chicago style hot dog.
But every Fourth of July,
I got to have a hot dog.
Some years we do the footlong.
Some years we do regular dogs.
But we always have hot dogs
on the Fourth of July.
That is what my wife and I do.
This is the Chicago dog.
It has got tomatoes on it.
It's got peppers.
It's got pickle and mustard
and the green relish,
the bright green relish on
a poppy seed bun.
And you got to get that.
It's like a red snap hot dog.
It is freaking amazing.
If I can't get a Chicago hot
dog made the way I want it made,
then I just like ketchup, onion,
and nacho cheese.
Nacho cheese.
That's what I want.
So either Chicago style hot dog or ketchup,
onion, nacho cheese.
What do you like on your hot dog?
Oh, cross fat says cat ketchup.
Gasp.
Yeah.
My wife is a mustard fiend.
We have to buy like mustard
by the keg as much as she puts on stuff.
It's funny because like on the Chicago dog,
I would never put ketchup.
Like it's got to be mustard.
But man, if I'm just, I don't know,
getting a plain dog, I just want ketchup,
onion, nacho cheese.
It's the ketchup and nacho cheese.
That's the mix I like.
That's the mix I like.
It's the nacho.
If it wasn't nacho cheese,
then I would not want ketchup.
I'd want mustard.
But it's a nacho cheese and
ketchup mixture,
which is awesome on fries, by the way,
too.
I don't even know what to
think about this.
Mayo is sneaky good on a dog.
Duke's mayo.
Oh.
I don't know.
Can't handle that.
Plain hot dog for me.
That's Denise.
Well, that's a shame.
That's just not even fun.
and then Jody Lynn
Portillo's hot dogs growing
up was a staple.
I've only had Portillo's one time and it,
it did not go well in my stomach.
I will just say that Jody Lynn,
it was not enough.
It was a Portillo's in Fort Wayne,
Indiana.
So it was not an authentic
Chicago Portillo's.
So I,
I don't want to judge them based on a
franchise that may have
screwed the pooch.
Um,
wiener circle there you go
uh denise says how about a
pretzel bun I I like a
pretzel bun if it's toasted
you gotta toast it if you
don't toast it it's just it
just gets a little bit
harder and um uh and it's
harder to eat so that's my
thing uh cross fat uh
wriggly dogs never been to wriggly field
been to soldier field,
never been to Wrigley field,
but I'll have to try that out sometime.
Uh,
I actually have a friend who I judged
with and he's moved up to judge ranks.
He's like head judge at
major comps through the CrossFit world.
Uh, and he lives in Wrigleyville and, uh,
maybe go see him sometime and, uh,
get some authentic Chicago dogs, uh,
for sure um denise says I'd
rather have a brat brought
to um I like italian
sausage better than brought
um but I I see where you're
at um for me if I'm going
to make a brat I want it to be like
Uncooked in the casing,
I boil it in beer and then
throw it on the grill just
to give it some flavor.
But I prefer Italian sausage,
hot Italian sausage.
That's me.
But if you're in Columbus, Denise,
when you come,
there's a store here called Schmitz,
and they have every kind of
worst and sausage you can imagine.
It's Schmitz in the German village.
They are authentic.
They're as authentic as authentic can be,
and they have German potato salad.
They have all the kinds of kraut,
the purple kraut, the yellow kraut,
everything you can imagine German-wise.
It's a great place to go and
check out when you're here in Columbus.
So there you go.
George Wang watching Joey
Chestnut win the Coney
Island contest on July fourth.
Yeah.
We talked about the top of the show.
I don't like eating wet,
soggy buns and plain hot
dogs just doesn't catch my
interest anymore.
That's why we're doing the show.
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