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what's going on everybody
welcome to twenty twenty
five we are we are bringing
in the new year folks with
lunch with the Clydesdale
um man these are becoming
some fun shows for me
um yeah so it is twenty
twenty five happy new year
to all of you hope you have
a tremendous year coming up
and that you have set goals
for yourself uh to that you
can achieve um and if
you're not one of those
goal setters or um what are
they called uh
Whatever.
But anyway,
if you're one of those people to do that,
I hope you have so much success.
And if not,
I hope you just enjoy your
twenty twenty five.
And thank you very much to
both Jody and Judy for the
birthday wishes.
Yeah, it's been a great birthday.
I woke up, my wife slept in.
I got to watch my ESPN show
Get Up this morning with a
nice hot cup of coffee and
just hanging out,
savoring the Penn State
victory last night to start the new year,
which was really freaking awesome.
They did so well.
Their defense played so well,
especially the defensive line,
stopping the number one
running back in the country,
holding him to just a hundred yards,
which sounds like a lot.
But in his case,
he's never been held to just a hundred.
He's had more than one
hundred twenty five in
every game this year.
So they played really well last night,
ended up winning, I think,
thirty one to thirty one to ten.
So, yeah, super awesome.
But I woke up today,
enjoyed my birthday morning.
It's my birthday, Bruce.
My birthday.
um and so had my cup of
coffee watched get up my
wife got up and then she
gave me some gifts uh so uh
I got the new teddy swims
vinyl uh which I'm super
pumped for I love him um if
you don't know before I got
into all this stuff I love
singing I used to be in a
band back in the day
And Teddy swims is one of my
favorite singers out there today.
I love his voice.
And so she got me the new vinyl for that.
So I'll be listening to that
this afternoon.
And she also got me a mini,
I don't know if you can see
behind me right there.
That is soldier field.
That's a Chicago bear
stadium in little mini bricks.
She got me beaver stadium,
which is Penn state stadium
in many bricks as well to put together.
So that'll give me a long,
couple months uh work to put
that together so uh having
a great morning uh really
enjoying it and then after
this show we're going out
for chicken wings which I
love to death uh and it's a
new place that my best
friend found um and it's
actually pretty close to my
uh pretty close to my house
and they have both sauces
and dry rubs um so we're
gonna get like little mini
uh mini baskets to try some
different flavors
and have a lovely day that
way so and then the rest of
the day is going to be
college football probably
uh until tomorrow so that
is awesome and I'll be back
with you tomorrow thank you
everybody for the uh
the birthday wishes lex and
carolyn uh just called me
before the show saying a
beautiful rendition of
happy birthday to me uh
with the doodles on a nice
walk in california and um
I'm so glad that they're in
my life now they are such
good friends and uh
couldn't have that was just
awesome and thank you
meredith for the um well
well wishes and happy birthday
Carolyn with a happy birthday as well.
Bruce,
we all want to know when Soldier
Field is being replaced.
It's never being replaced.
If you don't know,
Soldier Field is actually a
historic monument in Chicago,
so it cannot be replaced.
They do want to build a new stadium,
but they cannot tear down
Soldier Field as it is a
historic landmark.
And it was built to
commemorate the soldiers
lost in World War I. It is that old.
And so, yeah, we have prop that we,
like I have any money at all in this.
The Bears have a land in
Arlington Heights where
they can build a stadium.
They're also in negotiations
with downtown Chicago on
the lakefront to build another stadium.
But there's no shovel in the ground,
and this has been going on for a while.
And if you're a Bears fan,
you're kind of sick of the
stadium talk as it's
heading nowhere fast.
Um, like Scott, you were in a band.
I was, yeah.
A long, long time ago.
Uh,
they said you were going to keep the
Memorial and tear down the stadium.
Um, that I have not heard.
Um, I have not heard, but, oh, sure.
There's been so many rumors
back and forth about this stadium.
I just, I really can't keep up anymore.
Uh, so, so anyway, um, this has been fun.
Um, what I want to do first,
before we kick into this,
the first person in the
chat that can name my age today,
what I turned today will
win one of our either coffee cups.
or uh drink bottles if I can
get it in screen there we
go first person in the chat
that can name my exact age
um bruce you're wrong I
will win one of those look
at you dude larry young
gets it so larry just tell
me which one you want you
want the coffee cup or the water bottle
I will send it to you and
get your DM me your address
and I'll send that off to you.
This weekend.
Larry Young was fast.
Second guess in.
So, nice.
Well,
a couple of things I want to talk about.
One is the amazing victory
last night by the Penn
State Nittany Lions.
We are in the final four,
which is awesome.
We are...
We're headed to the fun for
when we play you the winner
of Georgia and Notre Dame,
which happens tonight.
I'm picking Notre Dame in that game.
It's a Georgia's favored by one point,
which to me is just a pick
them game anyway then.
So I think Notre Dame wins outright.
We start off the day with
Texas and Arizona State.
As much as I love the story
of Arizona State,
I think Texas is going to
pull that off today.
And in the middle game is Ohio State,
Oregon.
And I'm really conflicted
because I would like
another chance to beat Ohio
State as Penn State would
play them in the national
championship game if both
made it that far.
But I really,
I have OSU fatigue from
living in Columbus for so long that
I think that if OSU plays their A game,
they win the game today.
And I'll have to listen to
the Buckeye fans gloat around about that,
including Judy Reed.
So I'll pick the Buckeyes to
win the middle game,
Texas to win the first game,
and Notre Dame to win the
last game of the day.
then hopefully the penn
state will have an
opportunity to play ohio
state in the national
championship game which
would be great for the big
ten um and maybe we get
revenge uh from the earlier
loss this year next thing
on my list is um emma carey um
for those of you who don't know, uh,
we actually,
we were the first podcast
that Emma Carey ever did.
And I don't know if you can
see that gray shirt right there.
That is the first shirt I
ever had sent to me,
signed by an athlete.
And that is Emma Carey.
She actually ran a
competition for the kids in her gym.
Um,
and that was the shirt that they gave
out to all the kids.
Um,
at that time.
And then her and her parents
sent me that shirt signed by her.
And so that is, uh,
that's the first shirt I
ever framed and hung.
And then now you see, like,
I have a lot more shirts
from athletes that have sent me them,
which is really cool,
but it kind of started a trend.
So I I've known Emma.
She's one of the first
interviews we ever did on like episode.
Thirty-two or thirty-three.
And we're,
we've done well over a thousand
episodes at this point.
So when I saw that she was
retiring from the sport,
it brought a little tear to my eye,
but I understand from a Larry, I saw,
I actually got the notifier
already that you sent me.
So I'll get that out to you this weekend.
And so it saddened me a
little bit that she was
retiring because when she was coming up,
I don't know if I ever saw
a young athlete retire.
as talented and driven as
she was mal o'brien and her
were almost mere images of
each other and um I thought
that we were going to have
this epic showdown for
years to come uh and I don't know
what happened and now we
don't have either one mal
o'brien has not made any
announcements that she's
never coming back but at
all in all intensive
purposes purposes we have
not seen her do anything
like that so my guess is
that uh she probably will
not be and emma carey has
made it clear that she has
found happiness in other
directions with her faith uh which
I I'm so happy for as a man of God,
I think that that is shows
a maturity that I probably
don't even have at.
Um,
that she wants to serve God and Christ
before serving CrossFit.
And, um,
and I was hoping that some way she
would find a way to be able to do both.
Um,
But in her mind,
it is clear that it is one or the other.
She doesn't get satisfaction
from CrossFit anymore if
you read what she wrote.
And she gets more
satisfaction after over-serving the Lord.
And so I have to respect that.
And I'm really happy for her
that she came to that
decision and she is...
And she's happy and content with that.
My hope is that I can get
her on the show and do a
show with her like I did
with Olivia Sulik,
who made the same decision
about two years ago.
I met both of them when they
were very young in the teen
division and have been
following them forever.
uh caro carolyn says emma
was definitely a workhorse
could she could suffer like
no other and super talented
she is so driven in
everything that she does
that I think that that may
have been one of the
downfalls of her early on
is she suffered injury like
a big back injury um at a
very young age because she
was so driven and in that
first episode we had with
her she talked about like
wanting to learn double
under so much that she
would spend eight hours
straight trying to learn
them and be all marked up
from the misses.
She was programming for herself,
and if she had a goat,
she would program it every
day so that she could get better at it.
She was so driven for a young woman.
And you hear the same
stories about Mal going to
the edge like that.
Even Hayley Adams said,
Um,
so I'm sad that she's not going to be
in the sport.
I'm sad that we can't cover her anymore,
but I'm happy that she has
found happiness and peace
with the life that she has chosen, uh,
and where she's going.
And I wish her all the well, all well,
and I wish her wellness and
happiness for everything.
Sorry.
Can't talk on my birthday.
Um, so yeah.
So I wanted to get that out of the way.
And then what I'm going to
talk about a little bit is
some of my favorites from
twenty twenty four.
I was I just did some quick
math before coming on here.
And this channel has put out
at least three hundred and
twelve episodes in twenty twenty four.
Yeah, three hundred and twelve episodes.
We did a semifinal series.
We did a road to the game series.
We did the champions of legend series.
We did athletes of the
Masters CrossFit game series.
Um, in addition to that,
we sprinkled in things here and there, um,
throughout this season.
And it was such a rewarding,
rewarding experience, uh,
doing all those different
series and getting to know
as many of the athletes in
the space as possible.
And like Carolyn said, make sure you like,
and subscribe to the channel.
Yeah.
Hit that notifier just like Judy Reed.
So, you know,
when the episodes are coming on.
Um,
and so I went through like the list of
shows that we did and a
couple of things I just
want to point out some favorite moments,
um, of the year.
And one of those had to be, um,
it had to be that Emily Rolfe,
one of my dear friends,
podiumed at the games.
I wish it was under
different circumstances,
but I was so happy that she
was able to do that.
And she's always been so
gracious to us and
participated in so much of
what we do here that I was
so happy when she was on the podium.
And it's probably one of the
things that I took enjoyment
of in the weekend of the CrossFit Games,
which was a tough weekend this year.
In addition to that, earlier this year,
earlier in twenty four,
we brought on Carolyn
Prevost as a co-host to our
Sunday night CrossFit show.
which at the time was Thursday night,
we moved it to Sunday night.
And along with that, we got Lex.
And it has been such a good
friendship and partnership
to get the contributions
from the two of them for the show.
I think they've added so
much to what we do on this channel.
and I could not thank them
any more than that and it's
definitely one of the
highlights of twenty twenty
four for me um having uh
partnerships with with them
and their and them
constantly contributing to
what we do uh to our
rundowns um to letting us
know what news is going on
nobody follows the crossfit
space like uh lex um lex
and the barbell spin probably comb
Instagram and news more than
anybody in the space.
And so I thank them so much for that.
And then one last favorite
moment for me is my friend, Jamie Latimer,
after years of trying,
finally making it to the CrossFit Games.
To be there in Birmingham
for her first ever CrossFit
Games appearance was so
cool and so magical.
And I could not be happier for her.
She puts in so much effort
every year to do that.
And I, I think when she qualified,
I teared up because I knew
how much it meant to her and to watch her
I mean,
our relationship started with me
doing a documentary of her
at quarterfinals, I believe,
or semifinals.
And we've become such good friends.
And then to see her make the
CrossFit Games was so
awesome and definitely one
of the top highlights of the year.
Carolyn says, yeah,
Lex is the queen of knowing it all.
She, she, it's amazing what she knows.
Um, she's, she has so many connections and,
um, and she's added so much to,
to this channel and they're
just dear friends too.
I want to point, make that clear.
They are great friends first,
great partner second.
Um,
So I went through my list of
shows for the year and I
ranked them and it was really tough.
Like I said,
we did three hundred and
twelve shows this year.
And so what I did is my top
ten list is pretty much
athlete interviews.
And really what I was
looking at is things that.
like my favorite interviews
are when I start talking to
somebody and we go
completely off script and
we head down a rabbit hole
that I didn't even know was
going to happen.
And it just free flows.
I love when that happens during a podcast.
So yeah,
going to point out first a
couple people that I I have
on the show regularly and I
kind of omitted them from
this list because I've had
them on so many times that
it kind of blurred together
which time um I they were
here and what we talked
about but anytime I have
ariel owen emily rolf
hattie canyo bethany flores
saxon pancheck tristan
um oh my gosh I'm just
totally brain farted uh
tristan patrick uh justin
kotler or rebecca fusile on
uh those shows are awesome
uh we have all those people
I consider friends and we
have great conversations um
and they're always off
script um what I love is
that we're to the point in
the relationship where they
turn the questions around
on me um and we just have
great back and forth conversations
So all of those people I
love every time they're on,
but I didn't put them in my top ten.
A couple honorable mentions
that I just didn't have space for,
but I loved was Mike Beamer,
who was episode nine twenty one.
Mike Beamer was in the sixty
to sixty four year old
division at the Masters CrossFit Games.
The man can do like ten
consecutive muscle ups.
He is a complete beast.
uh,
was a military man who found CrossFit
afterwards and blew it up.
Great guy.
Great interview.
Learned so much from him.
Uh,
another honorable mention was Ryan Redkey,
uh,
eight nineties episode eight ninety six.
With that, uh,
Ryan competed in the forty
five to forty nine year old division.
He said he talked about, um,
taking a Mercedes and making
it run on vegetable oil.
And that was one of his hobbies.
He was also on Fear Factor
and won an episode of Fear Factor.
Those are things that I
didn't know going into that
interview that we had a
tremendous time talking
about and was really good.
I can't even read some of my own writing.
Another one was Tristan Harrison.
Um,
Tristan Harrison was a semifinal athlete.
It's episode eight, twenty nine.
What's crazy about him is he
had kind of accidentally
qualified for semifinals.
He was super stoked about it,
but he was starting a new
job right after semifinals.
Um,
and in addition to that he
ended up on kill taylor uh
where he did he almost
killed taylor but fell just
short um and now you see
him I think he was at crash
I think he's done some
other events so I think he
was about ready to retire
but ended up not uh and
that's a great interview uh
eight twenty nine uh lacy
true love nine oh four uh
thirty five to thirty nine year old um
Just great backstory about
some of the stuff she went
through and how she has
fought to make it to the CrossFit Games.
That was great.
Jen Dieter, episode seven, forty two.
She was a Jacksonville
Jaguar cheerleader who is
now competing in the
Masters CrossFit Games.
We learned a lot about her.
That was a great episode.
And then Chloe Gavin David
was a surprise to me.
She is so fun to talk to.
I really thought she'd be in my top ten.
I just was running out of space.
So, yeah,
Chloe Gavin David was a great interview.
That is episode eight forty two.
Then let's do our top ten.
So my tenth favorite episode
was episode eight fifty nine.
It was Hattie Cano after she
qualified for the CrossFit Games.
What was awesome about that
is Hattie had actually had
a show on my channel where
we went live every
Wednesday night and she was
in Bali training and she
would show us around Bali,
different things she would do there.
And so her and I became
friends over the course of that series.
And then to watch her come
where nobody expected her to do this,
come out of nowhere and
qualify for the CrossFit Games.
And not only that,
but tie for third at the
West Semi-Final with Ariel Lowen.
And really,
she was leading going into the last event,
but that last event got her
and she fell back to a tie for third.
That was a fun episode to
kind of talk to her right
after she had reached all of her goals.
And that was fun because we
did all that leading up to it.
Number nine was Paige Semenza,
episode eight, thirty four.
Paige Semenza.
This was she had kind of
started talking about.
having a bad year the year
before suffering through a
back injury and that she
had made a lot of changes
in her life and she was
heading in a different
direction and was starting
to find happiness in
crossfit again um that got
a lot deeper than I ever
anticipated it to go and um
and that show was really
really fun uh jody lynn
says I love those bali shows
I did, too.
They were a lot of fun.
And Larry Young asked New
Year's resolution.
I haven't really sat down
and done any goal setting yet.
I have.
We'll talk about that after
I get through the top ten.
But but I haven't really sat
down and done that yet.
Number eight is Tammy Saunders.
She's known as Coach Tam Tam on Instagram.
Her episode is nine thirty five.
She was a master's athlete
who has overcome a lot in
her life to then become a
gym owner and and now an
athlete that qualified for
the CrossFit Games.
Her coach is Bill Grundler.
which was fascinating and I
didn't know going into it.
So we got to learn a little
bit more about Bill as a coach.
We got to learn about her as
an athlete and all the
stuff she's overcome.
That is a great episode to
go back and check out.
That's nine thirty five.
Number seven is Will Morad.
I interviewed him before the
syndicate crown.
What was great about that is
Will was crushing both
qualifying events up to the
semifinal and in the Masters.
And we really talked about
him trying to do the double,
making it to the CrossFit
Games and making it to the
Masters CrossFit Games.
was a great conversation um
we got into a lot of things
around the sport we it was
almost a mini preview of
what was to come my guess
is he knew he had some
plans on in his mind um but
was not ready to divulge
those and so if you go back
and listen to it you can kind of detect
that there was something in
the planning stages that he
wasn't ready to divulge to us.
But it was a great conversation.
Regretfully,
he got hurt at the Syndicate
Crown and was not able to
make the elite CrossFit Games,
but did go on to win the
Masters CrossFit Games in
the thirty five to thirty nine.
Number six was Claudia Ragsdale,
episode nine, twenty seven.
She again was a master's athlete.
She is coached by Coach L with Brute.
It's so funny.
We became fast friends with
this interview and then
subsequently at the Masters
CrossFit Games.
She said that we are spirit
animals that were kind of
the same athlete.
We like to lift heavy weights,
don't like the cardio as much.
So we just became fast friends.
But in the interview itself,
we went into a topic that I
never thought I would talk about,
and that is how menopause
affects training.
And she was very open and
honest about how the
hormonal change really
affected how she trained
and how she needed and
different things she was
using and doing to make
that easier on herself.
Didn't expect to go down that path,
but when the athlete or the
guest wants to do that,
we're going to go where they want to go.
And so we dove down that rabbit hole.
Fascinating conversation.
I learned more about
menopause than I ever
thought I would know.
But yeah, that was a great conversation.
Number five was James Sprague.
I've had James Sprague on
the show a couple of times,
but it was always in a group.
So early on in, in our evolution as a show,
we used to have what we
called the brute teens on,
and that was Dallin, Emma, James,
maybe even tutor.
And then Matt Torres.
So we would have them on as
a group early on in, in,
in this podcast history uh
and that this was the first
time I had james on as an
individual and I I've known
james outside because I go
to so many different
masters events and his dad
competes in the masters
event I would always see
him and chat with him we
just could never connect
for uh like a one-on-one show
But what's awesome is this
interview went so well.
He gave me his phone number.
So now we can text,
we can chat back and forth.
Getting him on the show will
be much easier in the future.
And I've loved his dad forever.
He's just one of the nicest
guys in the world.
And to watch his son cheer
him on is how I got to know
James really well first.
And then to see James as an
athlete this year and have
that conversation with him was great.
So yeah,
That is number five.
Number four is Brandon Luckett.
I'd never had Brandon
Luckett on the show before.
There was all this hoopla
about him being washed up
and John Young telling him
he was washed up,
but he was killing the
qualifiers getting into semifinals.
Uh,
so we talked to him right before
semifinals and his background and his,
what he does for a living
and his imam group and the
Southland group.
Uh,
it was just a really fun conversation
about the crew he hangs out
with about the crew.
He helps coach, um,
which he would never say
that's what he does, but he does, uh,
as I've talked to many of them,
like our very own Corey Leonard, um,
It was just a really good conversation,
a really down to earth dude
who has a very big brain
about a lot of things.
And it was just fun to dig
into that and learn more
about Brandon and kind of
his philosophies.
And he's someone that I
would want on the show on a
regular basis.
He was he was so good.
Number three best interview
of the year was Jamie Hygieia.
For those who didn't know,
Jamie was a CrossFit OG,
was in the games back in, I think,
twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen,
twenty sixteen because it was in Carson.
She.
At the age of thirty nine,
qualified for the West semifinals.
So in our semifinal series,
we had her on and got and
basically she was playing
with house money at the time.
And what was cool is her gym
was like fifteen minutes from Carson.
So not only did she get to
go experience her semifinal
in front of her home crowd,
she also got to be kind of
the host for everybody
traveling in as they were
looking for places to drop in.
Her gym was the obvious
choice being so close to the stadium.
Yeah,
Carolyn said she just moved to Hawaii.
She did.
She just announced she moved to Hawaii,
and Carolyn says she loves Jamie.
but it was one of the
coolest conversations.
So laid back, so easy to talk to.
We talked about each other's goals.
You can tell that she's a coach too,
just by the way she talks.
And I'd never,
I'd never had the
opportunity to sit down and
talk with her in the past.
We have bumped elbows before
at different events when
she was doing sideline reporting.
But yeah,
Yeah,
it was my first time to actually get
down and sit down and have
a conversation.
And I could have done that
for a couple of hours.
It was so easy.
My number two episode from
twenty twenty four was Zoe
and Ashley Fiala.
If you didn't know their story,
Zoe qualified for the team
CrossFit Games.
Ashley qualified for the
Masters CrossFit Games,
and they were both on the same weekend,
and they had to split and
go separate ways.
And Ashley, as a mom,
did not want to do that.
She wanted to go watch Zoe
and support her in her
effort at the CrossFit Games.
But Zoe was having none of
that and knew that her mom
had been trying to do this for many,
many years.
And the fact that she got in, she said,
listen,
if you don't go to your CrossFit Games,
I'm not going to mine.
Put her foot down.
They talk about that on the show,
about the back and forth,
how they were going to handle it.
And they're just two great people.
And that is episode eight eighty nine.
That is Zoe and Ashley Fiala.
Great, great story.
Great,
great human beings and a great episode.
But my number one episode of
the year is Denise Moore.
Denise Moore, episode seven fifty one.
I got to meet Denise at the
Legends event last December.
So two Decembers ago,
Denise came on the show as
she had won the sixty five plus division.
And I had all the champions
on the show after Legends
and in through January.
And what I learned is that
she is one badass woman.
What we found out was that
she was a breast cancer survivor,
that after the breast cancer,
she had implants put in.
She was actually...
um being poisoned by the
implants um which made her
training suffer and then
she made the choice to have
those implants removed and
since then has felt so much
better um and is back to training and
What an amazing woman.
And what's awesome is she's
become a big listener of the show.
She's in the chats all the time.
I would consider her a friend now.
She is just an amazing woman.
And that is episode.
Seven fifty one.
It is a great,
great episode and by far
stands out above the rest
because of the hurdles she overcame.
um and the setback she had
um and how she was trying
to figure all that out um
just just a really cool
awesome badass woman um and
so for that she gets the
number one spot uh on the
twenty twenty four episode
uh best episodes of the
year those and just so you
know like when I try to have people on
I love talking about CrossFit,
but if we get through an
episode where I don't say
the word CrossFit and we
just talk about what
happened personally in
their life and what they
overcame to get where they're going,
those are my favorite episodes.
Those are the ones that like
really resonate with me and hit home.
Uh,
I love telling stories and the more I
can do that.
And I've really missed it
because since the games, you know,
I have not done a lot of
interviews other than masters athletes.
and um and part of that is
masters have the coolest
stories they've just they
have more life experience
um and it it just was
easier after everything
that happened at the games
now it's time, you know,
we're in twenty twenty five.
Now it's time to ramp back up,
get back into the habit of
doing some in-person
interviews with people as
we get into this,
as we know more about the
different seasons that are
happening this year,
directions people are taking,
all of that stuff and get
back to the storytelling
that I love to do so much.
We have been doing this now.
I didn't even make a big deal about it,
but we hit our five-year
anniversary in November.
So we've been doing this for
over five years now.
And bringing on Carolyn and Lex,
bringing on Jamie last year,
getting Kat back this year.
She'd been through some stuff.
She came back this year, which is awesome.
Just makes us stronger, and I love...
Love that this channel is
growing and getting better
and better each year.
Larry asks about New Year's resolutions.
I guess personally,
I don't have a lot of
resolutions because I've
got to have a procedure on
Friday with my heart.
My wife has to have a total
knee replacement on Monday.
Those are the things that I
have in my forethought of
things going on.
And they're kind of taking
precedence over the rest of
twenty twenty five.
I just want to get my wife
back to where she can walk,
where she can do the things
she loves to do and is not
in constant pain.
That is like the thing that
I want more than anything
this year is I want her
back out in the garage,
working out with me,
doing the stuff she loves to do.
And she hasn't been able to
do that for three years
because insurance denied her for so long.
We finally got that resolved.
We're finally going to get
her fixed and back to normal,
doing the things she loves doing,
and we get to do it together.
And that's what I'm most
excited about for twenty twenty five.
What I will say is Carolyn says,
let's hit three to five
thousand subscribers.
I would love to do that.
would love to do that um I
just want to put the best
content I can out every
single week and um and do
that um carolyn says I can
recall each of these
interviews you named good
shows yeah it was tough it
was tough like I said we
did over three hundred
shows this year so to
narrow it down to the top
ten was really tough and I
appreciate every athlete
that takes the time to come
on the show um
And every one of them has
something great to offer.
Uh, but yeah, so, so for me, like.
Twenty twenty five is about
getting my wife back,
getting the channel rolling again,
figuring out a direction as
a group and as a team where, um.
where we're going to go,
what we're going to cover,
what we're going to do as a
team so that we can be
precise and make a plan and
make it effective and do
the things we love to do.
And then personally,
I've done a lot in the last year.
I just want to keep that going.
I really just want to keep that going.
Uh, Jake Chapman says, uh,
best show was when the one
you listed the top five Arnold films.
Yeah.
I missed that.
I wanted,
I want that to be kind of bring
that stuff back as part of my lunch show.
Um, but I love doing that with Charlie.
Um,
Charlie and I have debates about this
stuff all the time on text.
Um,
and I'm hoping that he'll be able to
drop in on some of these
lunches where we can do
some top five goofy lists.
Um, like we did in the past.
Those were a lot of fun.
Jeffrey Birchfield says,
I prefer goals as opposed to resolutions.
I agree.
I agree.
Right now, though,
my goal doesn't have to be January first.
I need to get through this stuff.
And maybe my goal setting
happens with like in the
fifteenth of January when I
know kind of where we're at.
Goofy, this is deadly serious stuff.
Yeah,
the top five Arnold films are
definitely serious stuff.
Sorry, I should not have trivialized that,
Jake.
My bad.
My bad.
Goals without a plan are just dreams.
I agree.
Completely.
And I am going to sit down
with the team here and try
to figure out what we're
going to do next.
with this channel going
forward for the year,
what we're going to cover,
what we're going to look at.
I have some ideas in my mind.
I want to bounce them off
Jamie and Carolyn and Lex
and Kat and Amy and Charlie
to see if it's something
that they believe in and
can we make it work.
But just have to get through
these next couple days and
then we'll set those goals
up both professionally and personally.
Jake Chapman says, are you going to Waza?
I am not.
My wife is off work for six weeks.
She's going to need constant
care for at least the first couple weeks.
So I was not able to commit
to anything in January as
I'm going to be her primary
caretaker for the next few weeks.
what we have on the docket
now is getting all the
Christmas decorations down,
getting a bed on our first
floor so she can sleep on a,
the main floor of the house.
Um,
I've got to do all that this weekend and,
uh, have her all prepped and ready to go.
And then her surgery is
early morning Monday and we will, uh,
Yeah.
Hopefully everything goes
well and we can get the bed
out of the living room and back upstairs.
But she needs a place where
she can get her leg up on
the main floor of the house.
Carolyn, I hope they have a good feed.
The rosters look great.
Yeah.
I hope that...
From the layout, it's hard to tell.
I think that thirty lane rig,
thirty lane floor is too
hard to get a good feed
because all you really see
is the center few lanes.
And if you're not in the center few lanes,
you kind of miss it all.
But I don't know what the
new setup is like in South Beach.
So we'll see if they do a
thirty person floor when
they do the feeds from what
used to be the barge.
On that stage,
it was much better because
it's a ten person floor.
That was much easier to watch.
But we'll see what they have
going on in South Beach.
I'm kind of sad because I
wanted to see the new location.
I wanted to see what was
going on down there.
But regretfully,
I'll just have to get
feedback from others who are there.
Jake Chapman,
my wife is coaching her mom
in the sixty five plus again.
That is awesome.
I love hearing those stories.
I love the Masters athletes so much.
Their stories are so good.
It's a bit nuts.
The Masters don't get a
coach's pass to go to the warm-up areas,
but the teens and the indies do.
That has been an issue for
the last couple of years.
I know I'm really good
friends with Rudy Berger and his wife,
Lynette.
And Lynette is the wife,
and she can't ever get a
coach's pass to coach him,
help him warm up at Wadapalooza.
Um,
luckily I think she is also the coach
of Max Krieg and I know
he's at least on a team.
So maybe she has a coach's
pass for that and can go back,
but it really stinks for
people like your wife who don't have that,
that alternative.
Um, but I,
but I don't even know what the war,
the old warmup area was massive.
I don't even understand why
more people couldn't have a coach's pass,
but I don't know what the
new warmup area looks like at all.
So, um, with all of that,
so I don't know if you guys
have been seeing the news,
the stuff that happened in, um,
new Orleans has been crazy this morning,
but I just got an update
from ESPN that Caesar
superdome in new Orleans
was on lockdown Wednesday
for security sweeps.
Um,
no immediate word sugar bowl might be
delayed.
So the Notre Dame-Georgia
game at the Sugar Bowl
tonight might be delayed.
If you didn't see, a man drove into...
A crowd of people at the
corner of Canal and Bourbon
this morning killing ten
people and injuring at least thirty five.
The suspect was shot at
police and then was shot
himself and killed.
But it has put everything
around the Sugar Bowl in
New Orleans in up up in the air.
So, man,
waking up to that on your birthday
is not what you want to see.
So bummed about that.
And like Carolyn said,
there are awful humans out there, so,
so sad.
Jay Birch,
we're headed there in March for St.
Patrick's Day.
Well, the last time I was in New Orleans,
I actually stayed in the
Les Meridien Hotel right
where this incident happened,
right across the street.
It was...
Like,
looking out my hotel window would
have been Canal and Bourbon.
And I was there for work.
But that Canal is not a small street.
Like, that is a big, busy street.
And then Bourbon, of course,
is the big tourist attraction.
Just all,
I can't even believe that's happened.
Thank you, Jay Birch,
for the birthday wishes.
back on CrossFit stuff,
masters carry the open,
but get the least
consideration just doesn't
make sense to me.
I guess they know the
masters will continue to show up.
I do agree with you for the most part,
Larry, my beef with the masters is they,
they, and I,
they are the athletes I love
more than anything.
I want to cover them.
I love getting stuff out about them.
They don't share the stuff that the,
that content that people create for them,
they don't share.
If they want to become more popular,
you need to take the
grassroots approach of you
share so other people will
share and more people will
share to get the word out
of what these amazing athletes can do.
I do an eleven part
documentary about the
Masters CrossFit Games and
it doesn't get shared by that community.
That is frustrating.
So frustrating.
Why in the...
And that was all free of charge.
All they had to do is hit a
share button on their Instagram,
add it to their Facebook,
whatever social media, just add links,
add, you know,
and I put stuff out there like that.
I tagged legends in every
single one of my posts and
they didn't share a single one.
That is the frustrating thing.
When people do try to give
them what they deserve,
it's just not getting
shared with anybody.
Karen says, that is true, Scott.
They have to share more.
They have to.
That's how CrossFit grew in
the first place.
It was people posting videos
and it getting shared and
getting shared again and
getting shared again and going viral.
The Masters community does not do that.
And that is a shame.
But with that,
we're going to call it a day
because I'm going to go get
some chicken wings.
I'm so excited about this place.
They have dry rubs.
They have Cheetos flavor.
They have flaming hot Cheetos flavor.
Uh,
they have like a barbecue potato chip
flavor of dry rub.
And then they have the traditional,
like Buffalo sauce, Buffalo garlic.
Um,
mango jalapeno mango
habanero all of that stuff
um so we're going to get a
bunch of little baskets to
try a bunch of different
flavors and I'm super
stoked because chicken
wings are the greatest food
on the earth um and it's my
birthday and I am going to
partake in my favorite thing in the world
But I still kept New Year's Eve sober.
I watched Penn State win.
And now I'm going to go eat
some chicken wings and
probably have a water or a Diet Coke.
With that, guys, happy New Year.
Enjoy twenty twenty five.
It's going to be awesome.
So glad you guys are here with us.
Can't wait to hang out with
you all through twenty twenty five.
And we'll be back tomorrow
with another show.
Thank you so much.
And we'll see you soon.
Bye.