Lunch with the Clydesdale - Happy New Year!!! (Birthday Show)

We take out lunch break with all of you to hang out and talk about a variety of topics of the day.  In today's episode we talk about Emma Cary calling it a career. How did Penn State do in their playoff game and pick the winners of today's games, finally we will count down the top 10 episodes of 2024 on Clydesdale Media.

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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.