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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the CloudZone Media Roundtable.
It's the Scott and Amy show,
or the Amy and Scott show,
as she likes to call it.
Amy and Fink was the first
one in the chat.
I saw.
I was like, it's a race, and he won.
He did.
He won by a landslide.
Yeah.
By a landslide.
By a landslide.
Charlie's supposed to pop on at some point,
I know.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
So I got exciting things
going on this weekend.
Okay, let's hear it.
I'm going to the U S Olympic
swimming trials.
With who?
With my mom.
Oh, cool.
That's her mother's day birthday gift.
Where is it?
Indianapolis.
Oh, fun.
So they,
they built a pool in the football
stadium.
Stop it.
Yeah.
They're trying to set the
record for the biggest
crowd ever for a swimming event.
And I think the first day is
close to selling out.
And that's when we're going to be there.
And I saw the schedule today.
Katie Ledecky will be
swimming both the prelims
in the morning and the
finals at night to try to
make her fourth Olympic Games.
So...
that will be super cool uh
that we'll get to see that
in the freestyle yeah that
in indianapolis is fun I've
heard like I haven't been
for a long time like as an
adult but yeah well I think
like the whole town is
pretty much geared up for
this one event right so
like they've shut down one
of the streets uh lovely
the band is going to be
playing a concert like in
the streets for free
they're going to have uh
They're calling it swim up bars,
but it's on land.
Yeah.
In the street area.
And then the convention
center is like all
activations where you can
go like meet some of the Olympians,
some of the people competing,
different things like that.
And so like the whole town
is like surrounding this one event.
Yeah, sure.
So it should be fun.
Ooh.
Yeah.
So super excited about that.
Yeah, that will be a good time.
Were you at some lake this past weekend?
Were you at Kelly's Island or Lake Erie?
No.
Okay, Alum Creek.
I was just wondering where the water was.
That was all.
It was such a beautiful weekend.
It was.
We actually took Walter up to the dog park,
and it's right on the lake.
Oh, yeah.
Do you ever go to the swimming one?
We do,
but there were way too many big dogs
to take him down there this weekend,
so...
Um, but he loves the water.
Like, like that's where he wants to be.
Yeah.
Um, we just couldn't, it just,
it was packed.
Yeah.
That's where we,
it's not my favorite place
to take Murph swimming,
but it is the closest, like easiest,
but I love that,
that the dog park in general,
I just have favorite
swimming spot for him.
Yeah, yeah.
Most of the time we forget
to take towels anyway,
so that's why we don't go.
At least he's little.
I mean,
you could wrap him up in a T-shirt
or something if you had to.
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah.
But yeah,
the whole thing was packed this
weekend because it was 75, sunny,
nice breeze.
It couldn't be any more
perfect than it was this weekend.
Yeah.
I've had my air off for like a week.
Like just, yeah.
Well, I have some news on the Murph front.
The good news is Murph does
not have cancer.
I didn't even know that was a question.
well you know I
catastrophically go you
know think the worst things
possible right so you do I
do right that's just part
of who I am that's part of
my anxiety so um murph
loves to hike and will
never say no to any kind of
distance loves to go for
walks but I'll notice
sometimes he kind of has like a
limp or like you know a
little bit in his giddy up
and so I could I can feel
actually like a nodule
underneath his shoulder
blade and so and my mind
was like yep he's he's got
cancer he's gonna die um
like I'm so sad all this
stuff is happening and now
I knew I knew I was going
catastrophic that's that's
the at least the bonus part
is that I know when my
brain does doing this
But anyways,
he had just a regular checkup
and I brought it up and I was like,
I'm hoping you're going to
tell me it's a lipoma,
which is just a fatty
tissue and that it's not
going to affect his quality of life.
You know,
I just want to make sure I'm not
like overdoing it because
he'll never tell me now.
And so they put a needle in and checked,
checked it out and it's a lipoma.
So there you go.
He got an A plus from the vet yesterday.
So
You go locally or?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Healthy Pets.
My, well, Charlie,
I'm surprised he's not on
here because I love to go
to our vet's office because
there is a very handsome
vet that works there.
I remember that story now.
When I texted Charlie, I said,
A plus from the vet.
And he goes, okay, but what about Murph?
Yeah.
We go up to green Meadows.
Yeah.
Our two houses.
And it's,
it's an old farmer doctor that like it,
the funniest thing is his
name is Dr. Frost.
And Julie always is like,
are you going to take
Walter up to Dr. Snow or
Christmas or like she,
every version of cold
something other than Dr. Frost.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Looks like Kat says that she says, hey,
friends,
just taking Els out to lunch for
her 19th birthday.
That's pretty cool.
Happy birthday, Els.
Kat's going viral.
She's getting too big for us.
You know why I think it
happened is because anytime
you post like something
that doesn't give away what
you're talking about,
that's going to get a bunch
of views because then people are like,
well, what is she talking about?
I have to go look.
Yeah, but it has like a ton of shares.
Yeah.
Like it,
Like I was saying in text last night,
we have a reel that I think
is really funny,
and it gets three likes and no shares.
And then something that I think, well,
I'll just put that up for a space saver,
gets 1.4 million views.
Right.
She shared, it was a TikTok that she made.
It was something about yesterday's Wordle.
And she said, hey,
New York Times people or
people who participate in that,
did anybody else have to
look up what that word was?
And I don't even know what the word was.
Maybe she can post it on here.
But so that's all she said.
And yeah, it's just gone.
Yeah, I think the first thing was,
is it a word?
Is this really a word?
Okay, yeah.
And then, of course,
I then looked it up because
I needed to know.
Okay.
Well, what is it?
So it was the word manga.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Is it like a Japanese drawing?
Yep.
Yep.
Okay.
So I knew that.
That is amazing that I knew that.
Yeah,
but it was approaching like 100,000
views or something last night.
Close to 80K.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
I knew what that was because
my kids are really into
anime for a while.
And my daughter would do a
lot of drawing and we would
get books that was was manga drawing.
So Andrew Sten missed that wordle.
Total crap.
Yeah, I I stopped playing like, man,
two years ago, maybe.
I just, I hated, I wanted to play more.
I, if I'm playing a game,
like I don't want it to be over.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then you can't play
again until tomorrow.
Yeah, I get that.
So that, that was weird.
But speaking of anime,
I've only ever watched one
anime show and it's been
within the last two months.
Okay.
What was it?
It was a Scott Pilgrim's sequel.
Oh, okay.
It was done anime style on Netflix.
Okay.
Yeah.
and they brought the
original cast back to do all the voices.
Um,
and if you've never seen Scott Pilgrim
versus the world,
there's a ton of stars in
it where they broke huge.
Um, and it was awesome.
It was, it was so good.
You forget it's a cartoon.
Yeah, that's good.
But yeah, I binge watched it.
It was only like six or seven episodes.
And so I just binge watched
it really fast and,
Yeah, but I,
Corey and I used to love that
movie and Julie hated it.
Hated it.
And so whenever like she was
away that we would watch that movie.
Yeah.
So it has a nice sentimental meaning too.
Oh, cute.
So anything going on this week?
Well, today's my hubby's birthday.
So thus the hair got washed.
You know,
it was a hair washing day and I
timed that up pretty good.
So that's a bonus.
But it's, you know,
tied with Father's Day.
So we got Scott a new set of
clubs because the last set
of golf clubs that he had
was from 25 years ago.
And so, you know, we thought technology's,
you know, upgraded.
Maybe we should upgrade some of these.
So the kids and I got him a
new set of golf clubs.
And then we went out Sunday to go
try them out.
And so we went and we got a
jumbo basket of golf balls to hit.
And listen, I made a lot of improvements.
I want you to know that.
But it is so hard for me to
not want to take that like
a baseball bat swing.
Like I'm just used to that kind of swing.
And so every time I would get up there,
I would, you know, I had a good grip on
on the golf ball.
But then my,
my back screen swing is just too far.
And then I just stopped my follow through.
Does your husband CrossFit?
He does.
Complicated.
Reluctantly.
Yeah.
He does.
There was a time where he
would do a lot of
competitions that he didn't
even know he was signed up for.
Yeah, that's true there.
That did happen that I know
better than that now,
but he's even going to the gym tonight.
So
There you go.
I'm surprised he didn't use
that as an excuse, to be honest with you.
So did you just go to like a
regular driving range?
Yeah, we just went to Westerville.
Yeah.
And, but it was fun.
I did.
Yeah.
I made a lot of improvements, but on that,
I cannot just do the follow through.
Like, I don't know what it is,
but I literally stopped
myself every time.
The last time I've swung a
golf club would have been
Aaron Heath's 50th birthday.
Well, Topgolf is a fun place.
But see, I don't... This is going to sound,
of course, inappropriate for me.
Listen,
I just want to whack that ball as
hard as I can.
I don't even care if I'm aiming it.
I just want to see how far it will go.
Because Scott will be like, well,
where are you aiming?
And I'm like, I don't know.
I don't care.
You're just all about whacking the ball.
Whack it.
Yeah, I that day,
it was like every third one
I could hit the back net.
Yeah.
And there was no aiming to it at all.
It was just rip it rip.
Yeah, it's such a technical,
such a technical game.
But when I was in college,
I used to play like four times a week.
Yeah.
And I was decent.
I would never say good.
And then,
and then I really just haven't
played enough to stay
consistent for the years.
And now like my club, I don't,
my clubs haven't been out
of my basement in 10 years.
I would did,
I did that one shred outing a while back,
but.
Thank God that was like a best ball.
And I,
I only needed to make at least one
or two good shots.
Yeah.
Every couple of holes to,
to just do my part, but yeah.
So, yeah, so that's kinda, that was,
so tonight we're just
probably gonna grill some
steaks and hang out at home and,
but I'll tell you what this, um,
I've been,
I think I've been sore for two
weeks straight or not just
like my body is just smoked
from the programming.
Still, wait.
Oh.
I need Topgolf explained to me.
Each game, Angry Birds is the best.
You know, we tried to play,
but the system was,
when we went this one time, Damien,
it was very new.
Our Topgolf was, like, just built.
Yeah.
And the screen in the pit I
was in kept going down.
Okay.
Get like halfway through a
game and it would like shut off.
So good.
Just got to be like,
just grip it and rip it.
See how far you can hit it.
Yeah.
That's just like,
sometimes when I go bowling, like, listen,
I'm just trying to just get
it down there and see the
speed of the ball that I put down there.
That's kind of your MO anyway.
I know.
Yeah.
um I heard you so you the
mayhem programming is
making you sore but
apparently it's building
your back muscles okay
charlie and I are not
fighting he did give me a
compliment so that yeah I
was what was I doing the
front squats this week
three rounds this was just
for the strength uh 10 front squats
At 65%.
That's a lot.
That's cardio.
It is cardio.
That's the worst part of it.
That percentage is high for
that number of reps.
Amy, I'm on my phone.
It's a pink tank top.
You look like you're shirtless.
It is a dusty rose tank top.
I think that's probably blending in.
um I don't even oh 10 so
it's 10 front squats so
anyways I'm doing my front
squats and charlie listen
charlie does the class at 6
15. i was working out 7 30.
he sticks around and just
talks and to to people and
all that so I was doing my
my front squats you know I
do my 10 reps and I put
down he goes oh look at
that look at those back
muscles and just like that
we weren't fighting anymore
Jodi,
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Hit the notifier.
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Yeah, we do.
You want to announce it?
Thursday, we have a doubleheader.
Alex?
12 o'clock noon Eastern time.
Alex Kazan.
Right into... Probably take
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And then right into James
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Eastern time.
So hit that notifier so you
know when those shows start.
You can jump in, hang out.
First time James Sprague has
been on the show by himself.
So super excited about that.
How old is he?
Is he like 20?
He and Dallin are the same age, so like 21,
22.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cause I'm pretty sure the
first time I met James,
like out at the games,
but just walking around, like, I was like,
I think he's a teenager.
Like, I think when I met him,
I remember him being a teenager.
The first time I met him was at the games,
probably the same time you did.
Yeah.
And he was talking to decks a lot.
He was, uh,
he was there supporting Emma Carey.
Okay.
And I don't think Dallin
made it that year either.
I think they were just there
supporting Emma because
they were all with brute at the time.
Right.
and uh and he would like run
down to the the barricade
or whatever and just yell
at emma over and over again
it was really it was really
cool to see the support
they were giving each other
at that time yeah um I do
have one crossfit question
for you yes or not so
patrick clark did an
interview with dave castro
backstage at syndicate
crown okay and during that interview
Dave said that he didn't
like the format of the
semifinals the way it was.
He didn't like that it
qualified 10 people.
It seemed anticlimactic.
And that the low crowd at
West Coast made them want
to reconsider maybe what they do.
And that he thinks they got
away from the regional
aspect of that level of the games.
like that gyms didn't pack
up and go support their athletes anymore.
So they are either going to
tweak what they have or
they have some ideas for
radical changes for what's to come.
Any thoughts on what that
should be or what that could be?
Well,
I guess I'm most comfortable with the
regional aspect because we
know what that looks like and we know
Like, we've implemented that before,
and that's the known.
So, of course, to me,
that's the more comfortable position.
More of the radical change, while,
you know,
I think radical change is good
for the growth of the sport,
it also leaves room for a
lot of error and
frustration if it's not done, you know,
in a clearly communicated way.
But I couldn't articulate to
you what those changes would look like.
I don't even know what a
radical change means.
Yeah,
like every avenue I go down just
seems to have so many flaws
with it that it's not as
good as what we have.
I think the problem is the
allocation of spots for the games.
Yeah, sure.
That's the bigger problem.
no matter what you do
semifinals are going to the
drama is going to be at the
cut line not at who wins it
because it's just the phase
to move on right so whether
you take five people or 10
people or 20 people the
drama is at the cut line
the other issue I have is
there are so many camps in the east
Right?
You have TTT.
You have AM.
You have HWPO.
Proven.
They're all in the East.
So the East is just
stockpiled with talent.
And there's no way to
distribute them and keep
the regional format.
But I mean...
Don't you remember in the back of the day,
like central east was one
of the stacked regionals, right?
It was.
Yeah.
So, I mean,
I think that that is a part of
a part of that.
And I get what you're saying too.
Like, yeah,
it is kind of anticlimactic
that you're like, okay, great.
This is a stacked field,
but 11 people are making it through.
Like that's, you know, like it's,
it is just down to the few people.
And then it is, you know, that like, oh no,
are they going to make it through?
Or, you know,
which is more of the viewer
experience versus which
athletes are making it through.
So I don't know.
Damien says,
make it like American Ninja
Warrior where you have to
sell your personality and skills.
I know this is a joke,
but what American Warrior
does so beautifully is tell
the stories of all of their athletes.
That you want them to
succeed because their wife
has cancer or their wife
has MS or their kid is on
the spectrum or one of those things.
And then you want them to succeed.
So you root for that individual.
CrossFit stopped telling those stories.
And so we don't get those
unless you're one of the top three.
Yeah.
And so, well, I thought,
I think you were trying to joke with us.
It actually is a great
marketing plan that
CrossFit needs to kind of lean into.
Yeah.
Mayhem will or can dominate
men's East for many years.
You know, sure.
They just dominate by sheer numbers.
Right?
They have two formats.
You can come to Cookville
and you can work out there.
You can do it remote and
just come into camps.
But they just have so many athletes.
Like,
they had more athletes qualify for
the games than some camps
even have athletes.
Correct.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know,
I've become really close with
Jamie's coach and Kelly
Baker's coach and Hattie Cano's coach,
and that's Tristan Patrick.
Like,
he doesn't want more than a couple
athletes.
It's beyond his bandwidth to
have more than a couple.
And he would rather give
that more boutique style of
coaching than the mass
style of coaching like Mayhem does.
So it's hard to compare camp to camp.
Yeah, I do think that.
But I do think that, like we were saying,
though, that certain regions,
certain areas are going to
be more stacked because of
that type of thing, though.
Because you've got the
numbers over here of the athletes.
And, yeah.
Yeah.
And, I mean,
the East almost needs two
semifinals themselves, right?
Yeah, sure.
That's what I was thinking
about when you were saying,
Dave was saying,
changing the format to be
more regional-esque.
Then, yeah,
we need to have more so that
you're breaking that up.
It's not necessarily, you know,
like we had, I don't know,
what did we have?
Central East.
Then it became Central, right?
Right.
Okay.
Yeah.
So it was like from Ohio to
the upper Midwest.
And then there was the Atlantic.
Yeah.
Um, which was,
I think just the East it became,
and that was pretty much
Florida all the way up to Canada.
But like Pat Vellner just
moved to the East.
Yeah.
It's not even getting thinner.
It's getting heavier with,
where did he move though?
What's that?
Where did he move?
Um, I don't know the exact location.
I just know he moved.
Okay.
Um, his wife was from Western Canada.
Okay.
Eastern Canada.
Okay.
And where they live,
they didn't have a lot of
support family and yeah.
Help out with the kids and
all that kind of stuff.
And I think she's like a doctor, right?
Like, I don't know.
I don't have that information.
um and so they were moving
closer to family got it uh
in the east uh to be able
to help out with kids um
and I think just to get to
just to be around family
more yeah for sure yeah
especially because at some
point I hope it's not soon
but at some point he is
going to retire right right
from competing and will need to
you know,
maybe make a different career
decision and for, to support and provide.
So we've been talking about mayhem.
I have a question for you.
Yeah.
You've been doing,
you've been doing mayhem for a while now.
Do you feel fitter at doing that every,
every day in the gym or,
or is it the same as everything else?
I, I, let me just say this.
I don't think there are,
is any perfect programming.
Like I get frustrated
coaching a lot of the mayhem programming,
because I will tell you from my opinion,
I feel that sometimes they
don't think about the types
of affiliates that might be
utilizing their programming,
meaning equipment,
Um, you know,
like not everybody has 18 skiers or,
you know,
all the sandbags and that kind of thing.
So I think that there is
some aspect of that.
I will say,
I don't think necessarily that
I'm getting any fitter.
I don't think I'm losing any fitness,
but I do feel sometimes.
more fatigued.
But at the same time, I am older now,
right?
I mean, I know I look in my 20s,
but I know I'm not.
And it's interesting that
you bring this up because I
was talking about like,
I haven't PR'd a weight for a long time.
The only PR that I... I did
just get this new PR of a strict press,
okay?
But any of my other ones,
I haven't had a PR.
I can't necessarily blame
the programming for that.
I'm just stating that.
Yeah.
I'm just curious because
they are the most popular programming...
in probably in the United States for, uh,
games at Ford athletes, I guess,
is what I'm trying to say.
And I was just curious what
your thoughts were.
Yeah.
It's harder for me to just say, like,
to give you a definitive, I,
I think I have two
different decisions because
of being a coach, if that makes sense of.
Denise Moore says older.
He, he, he just wait.
She's our games athlete.
Yes.
Denise, here's the thing.
I'm in this for the long game though.
I really am.
So I, while I joke about being older,
like I want to continue to,
to do this for a long time.
Well, speaking of older,
I saw Lana Marcin in the comments.
Yes.
Huge,
huge news from her I got the other
night is that enough people
signed up that the 70-plus
will be represented at the
Legends CrossFit Games.
They all got their invites
just a couple days ago.
And so, um, so for the first time ever,
there will be a 70 plus division.
I don't think it's
officially going to be
recognized by CrossFit,
but they'll get the play.
That's awesome.
Um, and so that's, that's really special.
And I know Lana has been
working very hard on that.
And the fact that she got
that is pretty amazing.
And Denise Moore is in there,
and I need to send out a
huge thank you to her.
I made a plea Sunday night
that we wanted to do the
behind the scenes of the
Masters CrossFit Games that
I sent out a message to Joe Linton,
one of the co-directors of that,
and did not hear back.
Denise pushed a couple buttons,
and I have a meeting with
Joe on Thursday afternoon.
talk about possibly doing
the behind the scenes for
the masters divisions and
I've I'm already assembling
a team with the hopes that he says yes so
Trying to get,
I think I have the best
videographer in the business.
Rosie View Photography is
willing to come back and do that with us.
And then I actually have a
local semifinal athlete
from Birmingham that we can
do some stuff leading up to
that she can give us some
tours of what Birmingham
has to offer and all of
those kinds of things and
then help with interviews
and stuff at the event.
That's
that's the last week of
august isn't it it's a
labor day weekend oh it's
labor day weekend okay both
the teens and the masters
go that weekend and I think
that is just a crying shame
that um that they have to
compete against each other
that weekend for eyeballs
because both will be streamed yeah
But I think that either they
should combine as one event
or have separate weekends
to do their events.
And thank you, Denise.
My pleasure to help.
Scott,
you've been so supportive of the Masters,
just trying to pay back all your efforts.
That's very thoughtful.
And just to clarify the 70 plus,
it's a trial division.
Okay.
so but lana I know you've
worked so hard for this and
I'm just so happy that you
you got that and she texted
me the other night like can
you imagine being 70 plus
years old and you're a
crossfit games athlete for
the first time in your life
no like how cool that would
be that's that's super cool
my dad will actually be
happy to hear that although
he's almost in in the 80 in
the next division
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lana, I think she said, I don't,
I don't want to age her at all,
but I think she's pushing
for a 75 plus is what she would be in.
Okay.
Um, and she's trying to,
and she's waiting to
compete until she gets to
an appropriate age group.
She says they're, they are very excited.
So yeah,
huge news around the master's division.
And, uh,
What's coming up and can't
wait to support them.
And then we've got the
elites going to Fort worth.
I actually looked at the
prices of plane tickets,
direct flight Columbus to
Fort worth on spirit $90 round trip.
That's pretty good.
Now I know spirit charges
you for everything
breathing oxygen on the plane.
Yeah.
but I was like, you gotta be kidding me.
That's the best flights I've
ever seen to try to get to an event.
That is pretty good.
But, uh, so I don't know,
I don't know what I'm doing
for the main games.
I really was going to not go, um,
and just go to masters.
Um, yeah,
that's the one part for us that
sucks like that.
It's too separate.
I mean, for a lot of people it might suck,
but, um,
just the extra traveling and yeah.
And any hope but the only
the big part is any hotel
downtown Fort Worth is so expensive.
Yeah.
Now if you stay in the suburbs,
get a good deal.
But then you got to pay Uber
or rent a car.
Yep.
Or do one of those things.
And then all those costs come back up.
Yep.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So exciting week.
Yeah.
Again,
going to the Olympic trials this weekend.
That's going to be super fun with my mom.
It's Father's Day weekend.
Have you already done and
dusted that for Scott?
Or does he get like a dinner
out or something this weekend?
I mean,
the presents are combined because
of how much it was.
But we are actually going to have...
the in-laws and my parents
over for dinner.
So we will be grilling up
some food then as well.
Have you had a fire yet this year?
No, I need to, but my new project,
I'm going to be starting it soon.
Project number one for the
summer is already done.
Project number two, you ready for it?
Wait, before you get to number two,
did you start and complete
one or did you start it and
Scott have to come in and finish one?
Scott helped me.
If I remember the text string correctly,
this is what Scott came home to.
And then you showed me the
finished product.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, it was definitely okay.
I didn't think I was going
to need this help.
And this is what had happened.
What happened was I went to the store.
They had some really cute
peel and stick wallpaper
that I thought would just
make this whole thing look amazing.
And so I was like,
it was on clearance and I was like, babe,
I got this.
Do you think it will work?
And he's like, I don't know.
Am I work?
And I was,
I go up there and I try to do
one by myself.
And then I was like, Hey, can you help me?
So it ended up being more,
but that wasn't a have to for the project,
but it looks amazing.
So you did it all,
but the peel and stick wallpaper.
Yes.
Yes.
Swear on Murph.
Yep, and I got through five,
I got rid of five bags of extra clothes,
put all the furniture together by myself.
Okay, so now there's project number two.
Okay,
so that project is completely done though,
right?
Project number two.
A couple years ago,
we have a huge deck outside
that used to have wraparound seating.
Yeah, deck.
I'll send you a picture of our,
I'll send you some deck pics later.
OK.
In our private chat.
And I used to have wraparound seating.
And so we took all that down
and then replaced a bunch of old boards.
Well, when we did that the last time,
we didn't replace all of
the boards because they didn't need it.
But now it's been about five years.
So I'm going to replace several boards.
And I am going to need help
on this because I haven't
used one of the tools.
so I need some help with a
tool but I am going to do
use the crowbar I'm going
to remove all the wood
pieces and I'm I'm going to
buy all the pieces I have
all the deck screws I just
need help about how to use
the saw okay okay I'll use
this so he'll help me with
the saw I've done all the
measuring I i can install
them all that and then I'm
going to paint it
Okay.
Okay.
So those are my,
and I'll show everybody my
deck picks once that's, that's happened.
So this last weekend I actually, you know,
I ripped my deck off.
Yeah.
You can't believe you ripped
your whole deck off.
I just, I ripped it off.
It was leaning a lot, wasn't it?
It wasn't really leaning.
It's that boards underneath were rotting.
Oh, so you had a rotten deck.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh,
and so I ripped that off and then it's
big,
it's going to be my diddle project is
what I'm calling it for the summer.
Like I work a little bit here and there.
Yeah.
And so the water,
I'm going to diddle my deck.
Yeah.
So I, uh, the water,
the rain washed away a big gully,
like from my house and then
it like humps back up.
Yeah.
So I need to get all that
level to make a patio.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I took 25,
50-pound bags of topsoil to
my backyard and put all in
that gully to get all that leveled out.
Okay.
Here's a question.
You're going to need a set of stairs.
Yes.
Because otherwise,
is there a drop-off right from your... Oh,
there's no way out the back
door right now.
Yeah, okay.
Because you were elevated out there, so...
But what's crazy is the
water washed so much dirt away,
like I had to get that
level before I could build.
Sure.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it wouldn't go down
to the proper level.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So now I've got that leveled up.
I want to rent a rototiller
and then like soften
everything up and get it
all like super level.
Yeah.
And then I'm going to put
the stairs in and then
start working on the pavers
and the gravel and all that
stuff to finish out the
patio and build the gas fire pit,
which is going to be the
highlight of this thing.
Obviously.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Although the pipe coming out
of my house is,
looks scary rusty I'm hoping
where the gas comes out
yeah I'm hoping that like
it's okay well that's not
something you should you
should definitely get some
professional advice it's
fine you just need to get
one of those orange hoses
hooked to it buried under
the gravel springs he's a
union guy like you know oh
yeah springs okay yeah yeah
that'll be fine
He said, it's fine.
Just dust it off and put the
orange hose on and you'll be fine.
Okay.
Again, it's not his house, but sure.
Well,
we'll just have to keep updating
about our, our projects.
Yeah.
The good thing about Julie
being kind of incapacitated
at the moment is she's not
starting projects for me to finish.
Yeah.
I can just work on the stuff I want to.
But I did plant her two
azalea bushes and a rose
bush last weekend too.
That was very thoughtful.
She probably told you to do it,
but that was also very thoughtful.
She did.
I did it.
Well,
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Yeah.
I think they're bankrupt right now.
So getting a sponsorship
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Yeah.
I don't even know why I went there.
Why didn't I go like the DIY
network or what's the other one?
HGTV.
HGTV.
There we go.
Yeah.
We need HGTV.
Yes.
That's what we want.
Well, with that,
we're going to let you all go.
Enjoy this little respite in
the CrossFit game season that we have.
And, yeah, don't forget Alex Kazan,
Thursday noon.
James Sprague, 1 p.m.
Thursday.
And I got some other people locked in.
I just don't have exact times yet,
but we'll get those out as well.
And we will see you next
time on the Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
Bye, guys.