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What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to Lunchtime with the Clydesdale.
Today, I have a guest at the table.
My guy, my guy, Corey Leonard is here.
Mr. Fit Man, Mr. Masters Athlete.
We're going to get into a
little bit of that.
We're going to get into our
top five people we would
like to sit down and have a
drink with in the CrossFit community.
We're going to talk the master season.
We're going to talk a couple
other little subjects I
just want to bring up to him.
And then, but off the top,
we got a little breaking news.
Yes, we do.
Just came out in the last ten minutes.
So let's share the screen
and play this little ditty.
Are we ready?
Hit it.
The worst kept secret in CrossFit.
Absolutely.
The games are going to Albany, New York.
Albany.
Albany.
I'm glad it's Albany, New York,
and not Albany by my house,
because then they would be
selling meth pipes and whatnot.
So there's one around here
that's just straight
redneck country that nobody
wants to be in.
What I find interesting is
they show the arena,
which is in downtown Albany,
and it is surrounded by
skyscrapers and all that kind of stuff.
But in the promo video,
they're showing all these
outdoor shots of like sled
pushes and running out on
the outdoor field and the outdoor crowds.
There ain't no outdoor field
anywhere around that arena.
I know absolutely nothing
about upstate New York,
so I just know that it's there.
My aunt lives in upstate New York.
My best friend is from upstate New York.
My college roommate was from
upstate New York.
All I care is that it's drivable.
I don't think I've ever
actually been in Albany,
but I've been around.
Yeah.
I mean...
I'm glad they made an announcement.
It's about time.
Like you said,
Worst Kept Secret and CrossFit.
I mean, everybody,
Brian Spinn's been talking about it for,
what, two months now that that came out?
Yeah.
A member of our team had
good sources saying it came
down to Madison and Albany.
But I will let that person
talk about it on our show
if they feel the need to.
I understand.
But you and I were talking off air.
Madison was great for the time,
but it had definitely worn
out as welcome in my part.
And if we went back, to me,
that would be taking a step back.
The whole reason it left, right?
I mean,
there's only so long you can –
there's a reason the Super
Bowl was in a different
stadium every year.
There's a reason we were at
the ranch and in Carson and in Madison.
And then we've been in
Madison for quite some time.
decided texas was a good
idea which fyi I called it
right off the bat texas in
august yeah that's not a
good idea it's a thousand
degrees all the entire time
yeah so I'm glad it's going
somewhere um I would agree
with you one hundred
percent that going back to
madison's probably not a
great idea so let's try
somewhere new we got
kenneth to lap in the house
we got bruce wayne we got ken walters
We got Jeffrey Birchfield.
We got Denise Moore, fittest,
sixty five plus year old
woman in the world, in my opinion.
Jody Lynn.
And then Ken Walter says,
I'm being selfish because
it's drivable for me.
Listen,
I've paid out a lot of money to go
to these events and cover these events.
I'm so stoked that this year
I can get to a lot of things in my car.
And that it makes it so that
I can take more people and
I can do more coverage.
I mean,
the masters and teens is in your town.
Yeah.
Masters and teens is in my town.
I don't even have to take a car.
I could take an Uber.
Right.
Yeah.
Which is awesome.
Ken says, but Albany, nothing to do there.
When I'm at a CrossFit event,
I have no time to do
anything else anyway.
Dude, no,
I got back from Legends and like
my first day back to work,
my second day back to work,
one of my buddies came and asked me,
he's like, where were you?
And I said, oh,
I was in Tempe at a CrossFit competition.
He was like, man, do you like Tempe?
And I was like, I have absolutely no idea.
I saw ASU and or Airbnb and
like whatever the road we
traveled in between those
two and the grocery store.
Yep.
That's about it.
It's a great point.
Anything can be drivable.
That is true.
But I also have to factor in
time off from work.
How much can I manage with
that and everything?
And Ken asks,
did you fly to Minnesota when
I met you at Granite Games?
I did.
It was an awful flight
because there's no direct
flight from Columbus to Minnesota.
So I actually had to fly to
Detroit and then fly to Minnesota,
which is just stupid.
It's not even that far.
And so I will fly if I have to.
It's just if I don't have to,
it cuts my cost
dramatically and I can
bring more people with me.
I can pay for their rooms
and all that kind of stuff.
That's what I'm looking for.
Plane tickets ain't no joke.
Yeah.
Ken's saying right for the fan experience,
it's important to draw fans.
That's why WADA does so well.
when I went to waterpalooza
I didn't do anything else I
just did waterpalooza and
my airbnb yeah I understand
what he's saying we can't
say him but like I'm the
same way dude if I'm going
to a competition like
that's what I'm going to do
like that's the whole point
of being there you know
we're half a day and you
had like the evening to do
stuff I would see that
making more um sense and
things like that but i
I guess I get the argument.
I just don't know how much
the CrossFit game sells out every year.
They don't worry about that, right?
So we'll see.
Denise,
we walked around Tempe after the
last workout on Sunday,
tried hitting all the local Tempe bars.
There's a lot of places, man.
It's a nice little town.
I enjoyed it.
CrossFit actually makes a great point.
Albany, not a great airport city.
I'd have to check and see,
do they even have an
international airport?
So, yeah.
That's an excellent question.
Cheap direct flights help.
They do.
Denise can't lie.
I stood on the podium a little tipsy.
Hey, when you make the podium,
you're allowed to be a little tipsy,
Denise.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
Good for you.
Today of athletes that we
would want to sit down and
have a beer with or have a drink with.
And man,
I should have added Denise to my list.
She just made mine.
I didn't know that she was this much fun.
I knew she was a serious athlete.
I didn't know she was this much fun.
She just made my list for sure.
Uh, so yeah,
so we have that announcement off the top.
We'll get into more details
about that at our round
table and Sunday night
CrossFit talk for sure.
Um, and see what that impact that makes.
And I'll,
I'll think about what Ken's saying.
Cause now I'm,
I'm getting what he's saying.
Um, we don't have, um,
the big games experience we
used to have with all the teens, masters,
adapters there.
So maybe we do need to look
at things to do around the
venue when the action isn't going on.
I tell you what would be fun
would be to do something
like Masters did this year
and include a community
event at the games to kind
of fill that gap.
Since teams are going to be somewhere else,
the Masters teams are going
to be somewhere else,
why not have another event
while you're there?
You're already going to have
a whole bunch of people.
It seems like it wouldn't be
that hard to put together.
Bruce says Albany International Airport.
CrossFit says it's because Canada, Bruce,
makes it international.
I'll do some deep dive into
the airport in...
into what the flights are
like in and out of Albany.
CrossFit says, yeah, Games Gauntlet.
We've talked about that on
our shows coming up with a
one-hour waterfall-style
workout that everybody can
do to test and compare
results in the community
and making it a traveling show.
Why not have one at the
CrossFit Games as well?
That window behind you is tiny.
It is.
Jake also says,
Corey looks like Ace
Ventura if he was Polish.
So one thing I wanted to talk to you about,
and these are surprise.
Yes, Jody Lynn,
the games are going to be in Albany.
It was announced.
We played the CrossFit Games
announcement right off the
top of the show.
It will be in Albany.
It is official.
It's official.
Yeah, CrossFit themselves put it out.
Yeah,
this is we played the announcement
from CrossFit Games
Instagram account right off
the top of the show.
So if you want to rewind and see it,
you can or just go to their
Instagram account and check it out.
It's a thirty second reel, maybe.
If that.
um so one thing I wanted to
talk to you about and you
don't know these things I'm
going to hit you but with
so my gym this month has
decided to do a blackout
month like as in bingo like
show up every day um like
no like nobody gets to see
what the workout is until
you show up at the gym
It's not even entered into
Wattify until after the
day's classes are over for
you to then type in your
results at the end of the month.
Wow.
A whole month where you have
no idea what you're walking into.
So just the coaches know?
I would assume, yes, the coaches know.
I mean, as a coach,
it would be kind of crappy if we didn't.
As a coach, I love that idea.
I really do.
As an athlete, I would hate.
And not just because I don't want to,
you know,
I don't want to cherry pick stuff.
I just,
I wouldn't want to be in there and
have absolutely no idea
what to expect before I got there.
That would be terrifying.
Right.
So when I first started CrossFit in
we didn't have Wattify.
We didn't have apps to enter our stuff in.
So nobody knew unless your
buddy went to the earlier
class and texted you what
was on the board.
And a lot of times we would
walk in and the coach is
writing the workout as we're walking in.
And all of us are like, Ooh, Oh, no burp,
no burpee.
Oh, no burpees.
You know, he's writing it like, Ooh, ah,
ah, Ooh.
Um,
so that's how I started and
I never missed any class
because you never cherry
pick because you never know
yeah you just show up right
uh when they first went to
like we went with beyond
the whiteboard it was
anxiety riddled for me to
then know the workout the
night before I lost sleep
over workouts I when I
first started I did that I
did that a lot I'd be
looking at stuff the night before and
like going over it in my
head and trying to figure
out and I didn't know
anything at that time right
I was just showing up in my
head I'm like oh I could
probably do you know this
part unbroken and in that
and that never usually
worked out very well so um
so now going back to it at
the very beginning of the
month I was like oh this
sucks yeah but now I'm like
no big deal you just show
up and you do what's there yeah
We've had, so if you're a drop-in,
you know, if you're dropping in,
if you don't, if you just figure out,
okay, this place is right here.
I mean, I've done that a couple of times.
I have absolutely no idea
where the workout was going
to be until I got there.
You know,
we went to Orange Beach year before last,
and I went and dropped in
at a place for three days,
and I found out when I got there.
The first day, it was kind of scary,
but after that, it was like, shit,
who cares?
I'll just do whatever they
got on the board.
It's all CrossFit.
Ken Walters,
true definition of unknown and
unknowable.
CrossFab brings up a great
point as far as you're
going to have to have faith in your gem,
like whoever's writing the programming.
Yeah,
this dude's been writing our
programming for years, right?
Right.
And so you know...
The reason I go to that gym
is that the programming is good.
I like the stuff.
I've been there for years.
Not too bad.
It's not been bad.
It's the same stuff we did before,
just I don't know what it
is when I walk in.
I'm just not really sure
what's going to happen
until you get there.
I will say my duffel bag is
much more full.
Well, yeah, because you had all the things,
which you don't know.
Right.
Because I don't get to say, oh,
I just need this,
this and this today or this,
this and that.
Now I have to like it's all in there.
My bag stays like that.
But we also we got cubbies
at our gym that you can let
people come and go or whatnot.
So like I have a bunch of
stuff in there and then my
rope and my grips and
whatnot stay in my bag.
So I always have stuff for that.
I currently my box has that.
Wrist wraps that I never use
about seven or eight rolls
of tape and like just
various things like that
are sitting in there.
So as far as that goes, as a coach,
I would like that because I
think that it's a whole lot better.
People aren't going to have their, well,
I'll say that one or two
things are going to happen.
You can have people coming
in with way more anxiety
than they need to,
or people coming in and
just curious and seeing, Hey, what's,
what are we doing today?
Instead of showing up going, ah,
this all day long like
you're talking about just
you know agonizing over it
I think that'd be fun to do
like because then you
really when I'm doing my
whiteboard brief at that
point I'm this is the first
time anybody's hearing
about it as opposed to I've
been looking at it on
beyond the whiteboard since
you know sunday whenever it
all went in I don't know
that sounds interesting I
like the concept so two
days ago we got an email
It came and it said, dear athlete.
And then everything was big announcement.
Then everything was redacted.
Signed, Professor Polaris.
I love it.
Are we having fun with blackout month?
How's attendance been?
Like same as it always is?
Yeah.
a good sign that means you
got a good well one it's
january right so that's the
month where everybody shows
up anyway so if you're
going to try something like
this that's the moment to
kind of do it right and get
everybody used to it so uh
that's it I mean that's a
good sign to your
Owners head coach, you know,
whatever y'all got going on
there has it has built
something that is that
people trust and believe in right?
We had a. This was like three years ago.
Cecil had programmed
something into beyond the
whiteboard and it was.
It was for a Saturday morning workout.
I'll never forget it.
But like the first thing was going to take,
because he typed something in wrong.
So like the first thing was
going to take probably the
majority of the thirty
minutes for the Saturday
morning thing and people still showed up.
And like he's writing it on
the board and we were like, oh yeah,
that makes a whole lot more sense.
Like we'll actually get to the next thing.
I looked around and I was like,
that's a testament to what
you built here is that
people saw that on beyond
the whiteboard still came and were like,
I guess that's what we're doing.
Let's go.
Yeah.
The one Saturday I went and
it was Hidalgo.
I knew like it was going to be a long day.
Do people try to guess and
cherry pick anyway?
So I will say that typically
like we have like every
Thursday is our long like
chipper or endurance type workout.
Yeah.
Um,
they have changed that up in this
blackout month.
So they've moved that to
different days of the week
instead of always making it
a Thursday workout.
Um,
just because people were trying to do
that and they were cherry
picking that Thursday.
I actually love those.
I love like just the slow
methodical get through the stuff.
Um, I found to be a relief in the week.
I like I love a big chipper
because it's like you focus
on this thing.
And then once you're done with that thing,
it's done.
Move on,
get on to the next thing and then
so forth and so on until you get done.
Like I like a big chipper.
Yeah.
For someone who likes to
lift and not really do cardio.
I really do like the long chippers.
I'd like to just
methodically move through a day.
And I think at my age,
like you can pace that better and,
and the body heals up through that.
Exactly.
Can, can hits.
I love tippers because my cardio.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is counterintuitive kind of,
but yeah.
Um, but yeah, I love it.
Just because it,
if it's a big one trip or like that,
you can just kind of take
your time moving through stuff.
You're not, you're not like,
you're not necessarily
pushing the intensity up to that level.
Yeah.
Right.
I understand that.
Unless you're Jamie or you, um,
doing that crazy stuff.
Depends on what it is.
So let's,
let's briefly look at the twenty
five CrossFit game season.
Um, you are shooting for twenty six,
right?
So I am going to be forty eight this year.
So I got forty eight,
forty nine left over.
But I mean, I'm not not trying to make it.
Scott, does that make sense?
Right.
If it happens, it happens.
If it happens, it happens.
But no,
when I turn fifty and make and make
your run.
Yeah.
Then it's all chips on the table.
Like, you know, the way I mean,
not being intentional with
my training now,
but like I feel like I
should have the fitness by then.
To really be able to make that push,
you know, once you get to that,
move to that next age group.
I don't say it's easier,
but the first year in that new age group,
you're coming in,
a lot of people are going out.
It's usually a little bit better odds,
I guess you would say.
So last year,
your goal was to make it to legends.
Yep.
The first year was MFC, which you did.
Then you made it to legends.
What was the experience like at legends?
Did you feel like you had
stepped up a level?
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Look, I got,
I qualified in either
eighteenth or nineteenth
coming out to qualify and I
finished it thirtieth in person because I
I got there thinking, Oh yeah,
I finished the nineteenth.
Like I should be somewhere, you know,
middle of the pack, you know,
fighting to my,
if I had a goal at all for
the entire weekend, it was going to be to,
to be able to not get cut,
to be able to work,
do the last two workouts on Sunday.
And I got cut and I couldn't
see workouts on Sunday
because there are some
ridiculously fit people there.
But at no point,
did I feel like I didn't
belong amongst them I knew
you know I something that
brandon says to us a whole
lot and that I I've tried
to incorporate as much as I
can like it's all data
points you know I got
buried by that thirty pound
wall ball well guess what
the goal this year is to
make the thirty pound feel
like the twenty pounder so
that so that don't happen
again I can't swim well I
can't swim I don't swim
There's a difference.
I told him,
you and I have had that conversation.
Like I can swim, but I don't swim.
I got my,
that swim event was absolutely
terrible for me.
I didn't finish last in it,
but I was bringing up the
rear of the pack pretty good.
Like I basically had an
anchor on me the entire time.
So that's another, you know,
another weakness I need to address.
And then a couple other
things that I took away
from it for myself in
general was that I need to
be more confident in the
abilities that I absolutely
have instead of going, oh, no,
I need to take an extra
couple of breaths before I
jump up and do these muscle
ups or I need to steady
myself before I kick up to
do these handstand walks
and whatnot like that.
I wouldn't do it at home.
Why was I doing it?
Because I was scared to go
out too hot and then burn up or fall over,
whereas I need to just be
more confident in my
fitness and trust that my
body knows what to do and
just let it roll.
The experience itself was phenomenal.
It was awesome.
It really was.
They took care of us.
Arizona State University is
absolutely beautiful.
That place is insanely nice.
All my competitors were, and still are,
I assume, great people.
Everything ran on time.
As far as I could tell,
we didn't know any different.
Warm-up area was nice.
Nobody was struggling as far
as trying to find any
equipment or anything like that.
It was top-notch.
It was everything I hoped it would be,
I'll put it to you like that.
Yeah, I went the year before.
The facility is unmatched in the sport.
I would even say better than
some of the game sites.
Everything is brand new.
Two floors, a pool right outside.
Just a great facility.
So let's talk about this season.
They cut the field from forty to thirty.
Yep.
Disheartening or just another obstacle?
No, I don't think so.
And here's why, Scott,
if you were going to finish,
I'm going to finish where I finish.
It doesn't matter what the,
what the number is.
You know, I got to think about it.
When I saw that and was
thinking back to when my boy,
when Roy VJ made it and it
was just the top,
they took the top ten that year.
Well, that's what they're taking.
So if you want to be in that number,
that's where you need to be.
So I don't think it's
necessarily disheartening.
I don't think it's – I don't
really think anything of it,
if you really want to know
the truth about it,
because just get better.
That's all I need to do.
G. Reed says, nothing phases, Corey.
I wouldn't say nothing phases me,
but I would definitely say
that I don't see the point
in worrying about it
because it's going to be what it is.
whether they take thirty,
whether they take twenty five, whatever,
I need to be in that number.
Like if nothing else,
it gives me another thing to aim for.
OK, so I got to be top thirty.
Cool.
Moving right along.
Ken Walters asks,
does that change how much
harder you train?
No, not at all.
Not at all.
Still do my two sessions a day.
Still ramping up the intensity to,
you know, eleven,
probably three days a week.
Like it's really not going
to change a whole lot about
what I do because it's
worked to this point.
Like you go back and look at
my open finishes in my in
quarterfinals and all that other stuff.
I even as I've aged up,
I've gotten better every single year.
So it's just a matter of
keeping that trajectory going.
right so in addition to that
they've announced this wfp
it does have a master's
division in it and luckily
for you the second division
is plus so on the same
trajectory as your your
game's goals would go it
would seem that you have a
shot when that when you
turn fifty for that one as well um
You've got children.
I do.
You take a big priority.
In your life,
do you have time for two
different competitions?
No.
I'm going to tell you that right now.
I don't.
I got... So every... The
past couple of years...
Right around this time, you know,
between December and January,
I kind of lay out what my
season is going to look like,
like what comps I want to
try to qualify for,
what comps I want to credit.
Not counting the couple of little, like,
local type comps that are
around me that I like to go
do because my friends are
there and I just want to go compete.
So, like, this year it's Monster Games,
Legends, and then, of course, you know,
if I can make the games.
I there's no way I mean my
youngest is seven dude like
she is getting into all
kinds of stuff I mean the
older she gets the more
stuff there's gonna be my
oldest is or excuse me my
middle child Brody he's
gonna graduate high school
he's going on LSU he's
gonna be trying out for the
band so if he makes the
golden band for Tigerland
guess where I'm gonna be
every Saturday during football season
Right.
My wife and I already told
me we're getting season tickets.
So like that's going to cut
into my competition thing.
So it's going to be for me.
It's one or the other.
There's no way I could do both.
Now,
if they'd manage us to become a
successful thing and become
everything that we wanted to be.
Awesome.
And that way, years down the road,
when I do have time for that.
Sure.
Why not?
But right now, it's one or the other.
And right now.
And even within the next three years,
I'd say it is way more
important to me to be a
games athlete than it would
be to be a WFP athlete.
CrossFit lets you know that
the WFP is grip inclusive.
They don't ban grips.
We'll get into that for a second.
I got I got I got thirty seconds for that.
Can I trust you to be thirty seconds?
One hundred percent.
OK, that sounds like Corey and that's OK.
Powered marching bands are the best.
He's going to try to walk on.
I understand what Boz is saying,
but at the same time, where does it stop?
Where does it stop?
Okay,
so nobody's wearing a belt anymore
because that's going to
help you lock up your core
to be able to lift stronger and heavier.
So I'm just going to throw
them out the window.
Everybody's got to use the
same jump rope from now until forever.
That's it.
No more.
Everybody's using RPMs or
everybody's using the R-Smart.
You can't have your own
anymore because one of them
might spin a little bit
faster than the other.
I think that's a ridiculous rule,
and it's just a rule for
making up rules sake.
I'm kind of with you because
everybody has access to the
same kind of grips.
And why would you cut off
any kind of sponsorship
possibilities by banning certain grips?
Because you and I can go buy
a pair of frog grips tomorrow.
I got two pair in my bag right now.
And let me tell you
something else about them.
I have not ripped, Scott,
since I got them.
Haven't used chalk,
haven't ripped one time
since I've had them.
So I don't understand what the,
it's ridiculous.
I don't use a lot of extra stuff.
I have a pair of grips.
I have a pair of wrist wraps
because my wrists are kind of weak,
but I don't wear knee sleeves.
I don't wear lifters.
I don't do any of that.
I don't own lifters.
I have two belts I never use.
I have wrist wraps that are
just sitting in my box that
I bought whenever I first
started thinking I was
going to need that for something.
I don't use any of that stuff.
I don't own a pair of lifters.
I don't own a pair of knee sleeves.
I don't have any of that kind of shit.
and that's fine for me but
if somebody else is going
to use them I'm not gonna
I'm not discounting them uh
because of it it just
doesn't anyway so kenneth
the lab says corey only
measures time by three
second intervals that is
wrong that is wrong I was
his roommate at mfc the man
knows how to talk and his
talking intervals are
usually six to eight minutes at least
so that's why I asked if he
promised to keep it to
thirty because we got to
get this other stuff in um
yeah Bruce doesn't think
grips have ever should have
been allowed he's been on
that bandwagon for a long
time kids comment my area
of the box looks like a
damn yard sale when the workouts
And, look,
I would agree with what Bruce says.
If you're going to ban grips,
all of them is gone.
Yeah.
All of them is gone.
Because all they did is said
you can't have frog grips
because those are all rubber.
That's the ones I got.
And you can't have the
brand-new victory grips,
which are rubber.
Those are all gone.
sky hill same thing can't
have it can't have those at
all so just get rid of all
of them if that's what
you're going to do I don't
know I think it's
ridiculous but you have to
have product to sell
because if you can't sell
products you're not getting
sponsors true story so uh
and denise goes yeah but
now we got this band-aid sponsorship
Because everybody's going to rip.
Yeah.
Band-Aid, the liquid bandage, Denise.
Liquid bandage.
AKA burn the crap out of
your hands whenever you got
a giant hole in them.
Yeah.
CrossFat starting a new hand
balm company next week.
I'm in.
I will be your first investor.
Yeah, we used to Winnie's Rip Fix.
I used to use that all the
time when I first started.
Same.
I got hand care stuff in the
thing on my desk that I
have not had to use since I
got my programs.
So it is what it is.
Like I said,
I think the whole thing is insane.
That's another thing.
I'll deal with it when I'm
on the floor at the games.
Yeah.
It's going to be banned at semis too.
So anything CrossFit season-wise.
Well, they said in-person events.
For us, there's only one in-person event.
Which means you can use
whatever you've been using
all the way through the
online semifinals until you
get to the games.
And it's like, no, no, no.
Can't bring that over here.
Yep.
It is so dry in my basement right now.
Man.
All right.
So let's do our top five.
Top five CrossFitters you'd
want to have a drink with.
I'm going to let you start,
and you start with number five,
and we'll go down the list.
All right.
Well,
I didn't put it on in necessarily any
particular order,
but I will start with the
one I actually have written
down as number five,
and that is Chase Ingram.
love chase to death that
dude makes me laugh every
time I I'd say him he's
extremely knowledgeable and
I'm willing to bet he has
some stories and you can
only get out of him if he's
had a couple drinks yeah I
get I could see that yeah
and he's a storyteller and
he is a fantastic
storyteller absolutely one
hundred percent so yeah uh
definitely on my list mr mr
the one the only the I
guess new voice of the
crossfit games is how they
sad as that is but um mr
chasing uh my first one is
stacy tovar this is a
personal thing uh I met her
in and she became my
favorite crossfitter in the
early days of crossfit um
so I would love to talk to
her about the old days yeah
I got that I like that and uh
Why the white booty shorts?
Why the white booty shorts?
Why not the white booty shorts?
Have you seen her in those?
All right, moving right along.
So like I said,
mine aren't necessarily in
a specific order,
but since I got this down as number four,
the man, the myth, the legend,
the four times individual
champ and six time team champ.
Is that right?
the father of the Mayhem Nation,
Mr. Richard Froning Jr.
For the same reasons that
you want to talk to Stacy,
because I'm sure he's got
some stories about the early days,
about whenever he first started.
I would like to point out
the fact that on one of the
behind the scenes episodes
that Sivan shot forever ago,
whenever he was a very
young man at the games,
he still had his thick Tennessee accent.
And I would like to point
that out and ask him what
happened to that thing,
because that's no longer a thing anymore.
Just stuff like that.
And just talk to him about that,
talking about what it's like being,
you know, a dad to an adopted,
they got three,
three adopted children and whatnot.
And I just think,
I think Richard would be a good,
a good one to have a,
a good long conversation
over a glass of whiskey.
Yeah.
I, uh,
he made my honorable mention.
Um,
he is my favorite CrossFitter of all
time.
Um, and I, and I was going to put them on,
but I have had conversations with them.
So that, that one advantage, uh, because I,
I have met some of these people.
Right.
He would be great.
Uh, but I,
I kind of guessed you would go
with him as well.
So I would just want to be different.
A hundred percent.
So my number four is, uh, Katie Henniger.
Oh, that's a good one.
Because one,
I think she could keep up in a
drinking fest.
Absolutely.
She was there at the beginning,
two thousand eight CrossFit
Games champion.
And then to to move over to Rogue.
And then all the stuff she's done.
Plus here in Columbus,
she's an Ohio State legend.
Her jersey hangs in the
rafters at the
Schottenstein Center here
in town because she was
such a great basketball player.
I'd love to pick her brain
about all of that and her
way up and where women's
basketball has gone.
shot up to yeah there's so
many different avenues you
could go down with her uh
that I think it would be a
great great uh night at a
table with a few drinks I
like that idea I like that
idea all right moving right
along uh number three might
come as a little bit of a
an oddball one because I
don't I don't think he
drinks I'm not real sure to
be honest with you but jacob hepner
Reason being is that dude is
absolutely hilarious.
Every time I see him post about something,
I laugh at ninety percent of his stuff.
I still have the reels he made
before reels were a thing about, oh,
what's her name?
The fitness woman that was like having,
that took a shot at CrossFit.
What's that?
Jillian Michaels, yes.
I still have those two saved
in my favorites on my
Instagram because he's just
sitting there watching the video of her
she had a bunch of people
doing kettlebell swings and
they would bend all the way
down through their legs and
go all the way back up.
And he was just making these
faces and eating a rice cake.
And it's two of the funniest
things I've ever seen in my entire life.
I still haven't.
And I just think that I get
a couple of drinks in that
dude and I would be,
I'd be useless for the rest
of the night just because
of the stuff that would
come out of his mouth.
Yeah.
That'd be a great one.
Uh, I did not put him down.
Uh,
he actually put one, uh, uh,
post out that he wants to buy, um,
water five.
Yes.
And just so he can post, uh,
critic criticisms of other companies.
Yes.
Like, like, um, for example,
and then he went after sugar wad,
like bam, bam, bam.
Cause it, uh, who does that?
Wendy's does that.
Yeah.
He was like, just like Wendy's though.
I said, I think that would be fantastic.
So whenever y'all are ready to sell,
let me know.
I saw that the other day.
Yeah.
That kind of stuff.
Yeah.
Three,
three on one office for the athletes,
not for your servers.
Yeah, it, it is awesome.
Uh, and if it's on his Instagram,
go check it out.
Hilarious.
Absolutely.
My number three is Margo Alvarez.
Um, I had her down.
I met her at the Arnold one year.
The following year,
she remembered me and my name.
stupid like this before I
was even in media or
anything like that um she
knew me and my wife um plus
she makes her own wine and
I love people who are
passionate about something
like that and I would love
to hear like why she got
into that and go into
detail about how she makes
her wine why she makes it
the way she does all of
that stuff and you know if
she's making it she's able
to drink it one percent she
ain't making it she ain't
making it because she doesn't like it
Right.
And she she actually came to
a comp here in Ohio,
that they used to hold up in Cleveland.
She brought wine.
Let everybody partake.
And everybody just sat
around drinking wine one
night of her wine and having a good time.
And she's really, really cool.
One hundred percent.
Yeah, no, she was actually,
I threw her name around for
the same reasons.
Well,
not because I met her and she
remembered my name,
but just because she seems
like a real genuine person.
Every time I've seen anything about her,
anybody's interactions with
her and whatnot,
and then the whole winemaking thing.
Absolutely.
All right.
Moving right along.
This is also a games champion,
past games champion.
Only won once.
the muscle up queen herself, Sam Briggs.
I would love to have a drink
with Sam Briggs.
If for no other reason than
to hear her rehash the
story of her passing the
professor on the run at the, at the,
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If somebody's going to do
something like that,
whenever there's absolutely
no reason for her to do it,
that's somebody I want to
have a drink with her.
Plus, she's a fireman,
so I'm sure she's got some
crazy stories to tell when
it comes to that.
And she has been forever.
That's been a very, very long time thing.
She's always seemed so
positive and just on the up
and up about stuff.
Sam is somebody I would
definitely like to sit down
and have a couple of drinks with.
And she is known legendarily
as a person who could put them,
put them down.
I have no doubt in my,
there's no doubt in my mind.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, I, God, I love that woman.
I, I,
I don't know if you ever heard the story,
but yes, Sam is in Ohio right now.
She lives in Cincinnati.
Um,
she came up to CrossFit Polaris to do
an open workout and I was
doing it before she started
and I wanted to give up.
It was a deadlift burpee
over the bar workout.
And she comes over and just
starts yelling at me right beside me,
like just yelling with
everything she had.
That bar is not going to lift itself.
And I'm like, all right, Sam says go.
Sam says I got to get up.
She was brutal.
But, yeah,
she'd be a fun one to have a drink with.
A hundred percent.
So my number two is Con Porter.
I know.
Because who the hell knows
what route we would go down
in conversation.
It could go any way of
thirty different directions.
And the dude is Australian
famous for how much he can drink.
Yeah, he's Australian and he loves IPAs.
So we could taste some IPAs
and go to town.
I think that would be a blast.
And he's completely out of his mind.
In the best way possible.
Like you said,
who knows what you're going
to end up with.
Absolutely, dude.
That's another one I had
thrown around as far as I
was concerned as well.
I like Khan.
That's a good pick.
He's not necessarily my number one,
but he's definitely number
one on my list.
The man's a legend.
He hates being called the
oldest in the field.
He hates being called the
shortest in the field.
Navy SEAL, Mr. Josh Bridges.
That's a good one.
We did not match any.
No, that's amazing.
That's amazing.
Josh Bridges was actually
the first person I wrote
down because of when they
were all getting their tickets,
whenever they're bringing
them out in twenty sixteen,
you're going to bring them
to the ranch and like
nobody knew where they were going.
He was like, let's go to Vegas.
He said,
free drinks as long as you're playing.
Right.
He said, I ain't scared.
He's a Navy SEAL, right?
So I know he's got stories.
Aside from the same type of
stories that Rich Froning
would have about early days, old days,
games, events, regional events,
et cetera.
He's a good dude.
He's got a couple of sons
he's raising and whatnot.
I think Josh Bridges would
be a fantastic guy to have
a couple of drinks with.
My number one is for selfish reasons.
Mine is Patrick Vellner.
The guy is famous for
celebrating with some beers
after the games.
Uncle Pat is strong.
And I just want him to get
enough in him to tell me
the truth as to what the
conversations were between
him and Brent and the
secret meetings and all
that stuff with the PFAA
and what were their true
intentions going on.
That's what I want to know.
I want to get him Ripper and
drunk so that he opens up
and tells me all the stuff that happened.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I like, I like that idea.
That's another one I had
kind of thrown around
because I'd heard the same
things about him getting, you know,
several beers in him after the games and,
and having,
I've also heard a story where
his brother got thrown out
of a bar in Madison.
I don't know if that's true or not,
but it is true.
uh so you know that kind of
stuff would probably be
probably well worth it the
time and effort I think
you're right about that um
let's go back through a
couple of these uh dylan
lowen uh by and I actually
had him on my honorable
mention list so I have
ariel slash dylan on my and
it's for the same reason
for the same reason I I don't know
Yeah, Ariel would be there,
but Dylan is definitely
somebody I feel like you
definitely wouldn't have a
couple drinks with.
And another one,
who knows what you'd end up
talking about.
Ken Walters had one with
Annie at an after party in Madison.
Pretty boring.
Had one, maybe two,
with DB at Granite Games after party.
She's grumpy.
Had several dozen with
Sevenista in Dallas-Fort
Worth good times.
and he had one with me uh
ken and I actually shared a
drink in granite games a
couple years back that's
where I met ken uh before
yeah and we had a good time
we had a good time that
night um this is in
response to margo she makes
wine would definitely drink
with people uh and echoed by cross fat
uh ken walters loves margot
um her goat wine is
fantastic I actually have a
bottle right behind that
picture there's two bottles
I don't know if you can see
one of the goat and one is
the celeste aging that up
so it's it's even better uh
denise met her as well and
she remembered her name uh
sam will bury you that I believe
Con might get you to do
mushrooms at a minimum of shooey.
And I know an athlete or two
who's been carried out of facilities.
So my other.
Yes, you did.
My other honorable mention
on there is Ricky Mack.
Okay.
Okay.
Because he's another insane Australian who,
I mean,
he had to miss an entire season
because he wrecked his mountain bike.
Like, the dude does not,
he's just kind of zipping
on through life there, you know,
as it happens to be a
professional CrossFit athlete.
Anyway,
I think Ricky Mack would get a
couple in him and, you know,
tell him what's going to happen.
I think I'd like to be
around a drunk Jason Hopper
as I'm learning all the
dumb things he did in his
youth that came back and bit him.
I'd want to know more and more stories.
I didn't have an,
it don't know me after I
wrote most of this now is
that I didn't have a lot of
the younger athletes on there,
mostly because they were a
lot of the younger athletes, you know,
like I don't,
I think you're right.
I think it'd be fantastic to
see what Jason Haber would
look like after he had
three or four in him.
But Jesus Christ, he's also what,
twenty four.
Like,
I think that's just that's not a
greatest idea in the whole world.
When I think like the
younger athletes have been
training for so long and
like you don't look at them
as someone who would have a few.
Right.
Right.
But maybe they need to learn
to do that a little bit.
I mean, just relax every now and then.
That's really all you got to do.
I have one a week, Scott.
I'm saying this and I
haven't drank in a year.
Yeah.
Other than a cocktail night
with my wife on her birthday.
I had a couple sips of
cocktails that night.
Other than that,
it's been nothing for a year for me.
But man,
if I had the opportunity to sit down,
I would sit down with these
people and have a drink.
Chris G.,
I've seen Brooke Wells trashed at
Granite Games.
Does not surprise me.
Can I just say, like,
I'm not the biggest Brooke
Wells fan in the world.
Love Sydney.
Sydney's been, we did her first podcast.
She's awesome.
Their mom is one of the
coolest people I've ever
met in the space.
Lisa Wells is a complete rock star.
She is one of the coolest
people I've ever met.
Just wanted to say that.
Okay.
Nothing wrong with that.
I feel like a drink with
Ricky and his brother would
be a little wrassly.
I can see that.
Yeah.
I can see that.
Yeah.
A little physical after a while.
Sure.
A little Benny,
a little Ricky going at it.
They're both intense dudes on top of that.
So, yeah,
I can see where that could go a
little crazy.
Let me tell you somebody
else who actually made my
short list that ended up
not putting on there.
Probably should be on the
honorable mention is Sarah Sigmundsdorf.
Because she is also out there.
Like,
she's one of them ones that just says
shit whenever it comes to her brain.
Doesn't matter what else is going on.
And I would like to see what
happens after a couple of drinks in her.
And one of the friendliest
people I've ever met, too.
Yes.
Without a doubt.
um so yeah well that's our
first ever top five I like
we're going to do these top
fives every tuesday we're
looking for subjects go
ahead and throw those in
the comments uh to this ig
or to this uh oh my gosh
carolyn stanley would have
you drinking shine I bet
first time I wouldn't so I
grew up in the north right
my wife has family in the
south we went to a family
reunion they brought out
the moonshine I'm like I'd
like to try that so I took
a plastic cup and I poured
the moonshine in it it went
right through the bottom of
the plastic crazy cory just
say it it's because she's hot yeah
sarah's hot I will I will
admit it I'm gonna say
she's not but that's not
why I won't have a drink
with her I just really like
every everything I've ever
seen her on she just seemed
goofy as she's friendly as
all hell and like that's
either gonna get elevated
or she's gonna be sad and
crying by the time she's
had three drinks like I
feel like there's there's
not a whole lot of in
between there so when I met
her so I was working security at the
When she was in Cookville,
the regional when she was in Cookville,
I was working security.
I asked her for a selfie.
She grabbed my camera,
took her own picture without me.
That is how fun she is.
Right.
She's the kind of person
that if she would take your group picture,
she would flip the camera
around and take a bunch of
pictures of herself and
then hand it back to you.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, she's just a funny, friendly person.
She shared her gummy bears
with the security guards.
Like, she just was a fun person.
Fantastic.
So, yeah.
So really fun.
But this was our first ever top five.
throw ideas you have for
subjects for this in the
comments below uh so we can
look at that and I'll
invite someone else on when
we do this we'll rotate
some people through to do
different top fives uh so I
may be reaching out to you
guys to come on the show
and do that uh so we can
get to meet all the
audience members too and
the people in the chat
Uh, so yeah.
Uh, so make sure you do that.
Don't forget.
We launched it at the very
top of the show official
from CrossFit games.
We're going to Albany,
New York for the CrossFit
games this year.
Um, that became official today and, uh,
we will be doing a round
table show on Thursday
lunches all week and yeah.
And if you didn't check out
the Hattie Cano interview from last night,
it's a great interview.
It was my first one back
from after the games with
an elite athlete.
And we went through the ups
and downs she had as a
rookie at the CrossFit Games this year.
And, yeah.
I bet you Greg Laskerman can
put them down.
Not sure if that would be
fun or like school.
That's a great point.
That's another thought that
went through my head, right, was coach.
Why not coach?
Why not Coach Glassman?
I thought the same thing.
I'm not real sure if that
would be absolutely
hilarious or if he would
start going on about
p-values and how science is
broken and whatnot.
I'm not real sure how that would end up,
but I think that would be a
good one to have a couple
with Coach for damn sure.
Awesome, guys.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you, Corey,
for taking your lunch hour with me today.
Time to get back to work, you hooligans.
We're done here.
With that, we'll see you all soon.
Bye guys.