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How y'all are?
Welcome to another edition
of Cajun Wednesday on a Tuesday.
Sometimes it be like that.
Yeah, it's just spreading like a germ.
Look,
sometimes down here in South Louisiana,
we just got to do stuff as it comes,
like straight up CrossFit talk, right?
Unknown and unknowable.
Sometimes it just be like that.
Well, normally you hear on Wednesday,
I have no idea where on
this planet I will be tomorrow at noon.
Right.
So let's do it today when I
knew I was going to be
right here and I could pull
you in tomorrow.
I'm going to be somewhere,
hopefully in the state of
New York at noon tomorrow.
Hopefully I'm at least where
I can pull over and do this
show at least for fifteen
minutes to hang out with y'all.
That is kind of where we are this week.
Somewhere between Ohio and New York,
wherever that ends up.
I am not into New York by noon tomorrow.
As you told me,
one of your events went last weekend.
That means my shitty plan was done.
And I got a shitty result
from the shitty plan.
A hundred percent.
I had a terrible plan.
I executed it perfectly.
So Ohioans use you only on Cajun days.
Yeah, just today, Aaron.
Only on Cajun days.
I gave him permission.
It's fine.
Yeah, and if you go to Southern Ohio,
it is all y'all.
Yeah.
So one great thing that's
happening this week is I'm
actually losing my voice.
On Games Week, you know,
because timing has to be perfect.
You couldn't time that
better if you tried.
But I do have to start
today's show off sharing a
text I got from Carolyn Prevost.
Wow.
As she is already in Albany,
she's already getting geared up.
Sweet.
And I just had to share this.
Should only take me a second
to pull this up.
All right.
This is from Carolyn this morning.
I've had two conversations.
I've had conversations with
two different people since
arriving yesterday in Albany.
One asked if I was
volunteering at the games
and the other this morning
at breakfast told me
there's a fitness room in
the hotel and a CrossFit
gym nearby if I'm looking
to find a workout this weekend.
Plus a pool.
Nobody will ever think I
look like a games athlete.
F grade for life.
Oh, dude, you couldn't make that up.
You couldn't make that up.
You need to.
I hope Hiller sees that.
I really, really do.
Oh, my word.
That's funny.
Oh, there's a. Thanks.
Thanks.
Maybe if you're looking to
find a workout this weekend.
There's a CrossFit gym nearby.
It's like right down the street.
Dude.
Yeah.
That badass may be busy.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
That is really hilarious.
And she's too nice to just go, yeah, yeah,
I'm here for the actual CrossFit games.
I don't know if you've heard
of those or not,
but I'm going to compete in that.
No?
Okay.
Someone knew that.
They asked her if she was volunteering.
Are you volunteering?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, I am.
I am volunteering my time.
That is what's happening.
Dude.
I don't even know.
God bless her for that.
I love the fact that she
loves that this happens.
Yeah.
And then she says like, hey,
I got a body built to perform.
Correct.
Not for show.
All for go.
Go muscles, not show muscles.
A whole different thing.
Yep.
Not that anybody would ever
know the difference because
she's sporting oversized
t-shirts the entire time.
And God bless her for it.
I understand her reasoning
and I support it a thousand percent.
Good for her.
Good for her.
It is hilarious to think
that somebody asked her if
she was volunteering this
weekend or that she wanted
to get a workout in.
There's a CrossFit gym right
down the street.
Yeah.
Dude, that's good stuff right there.
She's like a turbocharged station wagon.
She's a...
Oh, that's good stuff right there.
I like that a little bit.
So I thought that'd be a fun
way to start off the show.
As Albany is thickened with
all the athletes getting there,
individual check-in is today.
You're doing all that kind of stuff.
And then I don't know if you
guys have seen it, but on Instagram,
they came out that there's
going to be a live demo and
announcement of event nine.
Yeah, noon.
At one o'clock Eastern, noon Central?
Yes, noon by time.
If we can hang on just long enough,
maybe we'll pop that up at the show.
That's good stuff right there.
Like when I go to a nail
salon and other customers push past me,
assuming I'm on break
outside or something.
They look at Judy and they're like,
do I have to get on a waiting list?
Who do I need to talk to?
And Judy's like, I have no idea.
I don't work here.
What color best fits my complexion?
I'll just throw it on them, Judy.
You should probably just go with brown.
I would put brown.
I don't know.
I have no idea what color nails...
What color nails are
supposed to look good and what aren't?
I don't, that's not a thing for me.
So.
Yeah.
You and I are probably like,
if it's not in the Crayola box of eight,
we have no clue.
Not a single one.
Not a single one.
The twelve or the sixteen or
good Lord to sixty four.
I'm totally.
I don't know how bad I
wanted the sixty four.
Like when I was in.
I don't know, whatever,
the kindergarten or whatever.
And, like, I knew other people that had it,
but my mom was too broke to
be able to buy it.
So, like, I had to make do with sixteen.
I didn't get sixteen, not eight.
So,
I was pretty excited about that
whenever that happened.
Well,
I wanted the sixty-four for the same
reason every kid wanted the sixty-four.
It had the built-in sharpener.
Yeah.
So,
you could twist it on the back and get
your crayons nice and crisp.
be done.
Yeah, look.
Make me a real sharp line around this one.
Yeah.
Aaron says,
will the announcement be on IG Live?
It's supposed to be both on
YouTube Live and IG Live.
Yeah, I think all the lives,
wherever they can go live,
it's probably they are going to go live.
We're going to try to hang
on and broadcast it here.
See what happens.
Provided Scott's voice
doesn't fall completely out
of his throat by the time
that actually comes on.
Just take your time, buddy.
Take your time.
No rush.
Gosh.
I'm actually looking forward
to getting out of here
because something we're
growing in this yard is killing me, man.
Just burn it all, Scott.
I heard fire is the ultimate cleanser.
If you just burn everything in the yard,
you'll probably be all right.
Are ROYGBIV the only colors?
Are the sharpener for sure?
Everybody wanted that shortbread.
That was the coolest thing
Crayola did back in the day.
Where has Kat been?
Did her new boyfriend lock her down?
Just talked to Kat this morning.
She's doing awesome,
but she's got a lot going
on in her life right now.
I bet she actually has her voice, though.
Probably does.
Jesus, man.
Yeah.
If it makes you feel any better,
so I would spend my weekend
in Kansas or in between Kansas,
between Missouri and Kansas,
because we were staying on
one side of the line and
Monster Games on the other
side of the line.
And starting Friday morning,
I had a dry hack and cough
the entire weekend and I
don't have allergies.
It's just that I'm so used
to drinking my air.
the entire time that the
humid air that they had up
there was just not real
conducive to what I was doing.
Your face is red, dude.
That doesn't look good at all.
Good now.
I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm good.
Super jazzed.
Super jazzed about losing my voice.
It's the best thing ever.
Oh, man.
Speaking of which,
I want to tell you this
because I know I texted it
to you the other day,
but before I forget about it,
I had the most interesting
Uber ride of my entire life
Thursday afternoon.
Yeah, last week, Thursday afternoon,
coming from the airport to
the venue for Monster Games.
Yeah.
My roommates for the weekend
were not getting in until later on.
So I was going to have to
catch myself an Uber from
the brand new Kansas City
airport to the Overland
Park Convention Center
where the Monster Games were being held.
So get off the plane, get my bag,
call for the Uber.
Dude finally shows up.
I say finally shows up
because there's two lanes at the airport.
There's one for if Scott was
going to pick me up from
the baggage claim.
And there's another lane, separate lane,
that's divided for buses, ride shares,
taxis, what have you.
So I'm there where I'm supposed to be.
And oh boy,
wheels up in this lane behind me.
I got a message on my thing
from Uber that said,
Hey, man, I'm here.
And I'm like, are you, though?
Because I surely don't see you anywhere.
And I had to turn around.
I was like, oh,
there's his orange Ford
EcoBoost behind me.
Let me go ahead and jump over there.
So I jump across the median.
He grabs my bag,
throws it in the back of his car.
And I didn't clock it at the time,
but all four windows were
down on his car.
Now, compared to where I came from,
Comparatively, comparatively speaking,
it wasn't that hot.
All right.
I go to I get in the back seat,
turns around or he gets in,
reaches over into a cooler
on the passenger seat,
grabs a bottle of water.
Out of the out of the cooler,
which is cold,
reaches back and hands it to me and says,
hey, man,
you're going to need this is a
hot one today.
And then rolled out with all
four windows still down on the car.
Thirty five minutes, Scott,
on the interstate in
probably ninety degree heat.
And we were rolling like it
was I was in high school in
my truck back in nineteen ninety,
nineteen ninety four.
Once the air conditioning
broke and I just rolled
with the two windows down
at the two fifty five air
conditioner and did not
address it the entire time.
The upgraded four seventy air conditioner,
though.
He almost took a wrong turn
down the off ramp to the interstate.
When I say down the off ramp
to the interstate, you know,
if you cross over the
interstate and then their
off ramp is coming up.
Once you get acclimated to
heat for the comp.
No, Kevin.
Yeah.
He's following ways or
trying to follow ways to
say to tell him to make a right.
And he almost made a right
onto the off ramp as in
oncoming traffic to the
point where I had to go, hey, man,
you can't turn down there.
He went, oh, shit.
And then went a little bit
further where we were
actually supposed to turn.
We got on the interstate at
seventy miles an hour with
all four windows down.
Thank God it wasn't that bad, like hot,
but never said anything.
Hey,
you want me to roll the windows up and
turn this air on?
Hey, sorry, my air, you know,
the air in my car is broken.
I got to get it fixed like
tomorrow when I just went
out earlier today, you know,
when I woke up.
Not a single word.
Oh, Clarence, that was his name.
informed me right before we
got on the interstate that,
because I asked him, I said,
is it really thirty-five
minutes from here to where we're going?
And he's like, yeah, man,
it looks like it.
I could probably get us
there a little faster if
you're okay with some fast driving.
I'm from New York City.
And I went, hmm,
how about we just get there?
And he didn't say another
word until we pulled up to the venue.
Bro.
Yeah,
I've had some – I've actually had
pretty good luck with Uber or Lyft.
I've had worse luck with taxis.
Up until that point,
I've had a fantastic track
record with Uber.
Even when we were in Fort
Wayne and there's only like
five guys that drive for
Uber in the entire town,
and I know that because we
got the same guy three
different times in one day,
those guys were still good.
The dude that picked me up
in Phoenix at the airport
for Legends was awesome.
We talked about baseball and
football and whatnot the
entire way there.
This dude did not say a word.
I was a little concerned
because he handed me the bottle of water.
There was already a bottle
of water that was partially
drank sitting in the pocket
behind the seat.
I'm sitting in the back.
That was already half drunk,
and I was like, cool.
OK, that's a thing, I guess.
And then we rolled out all
the way there and wherever he's at,
I hope he's doing OK.
God bless him.
I tipped him mostly because
I didn't want him to hunt
me down and stab me at any given point.
But that was bizarre.
Like, how are you not going to address it,
Scott?
It's a hundred degrees or ninety degrees,
whatever.
And you're just going to
hand me a bottle of cold water.
Here, man, you're going to need this.
Hang tight.
Let's go.
I can drive fast if you want to.
I'm like, no, let's not do that.
Please, I do.
Let's just get there safely.
I want to address this.
CrossFit said,
where'd you get that games tee?
People to Cairo, probably.
Yeah, pretty much.
Vendor Village.
Pretty much.
Vendor Village.
Yeah, I picked one up early.
I know somebody over there.
They brought me one.
All right,
so you went to Monster Games
last weekend.
I did.
Big competition in Missouri every year.
Kind of the first form headquarters,
am I right?
I mean, first form was all over it.
That is for certain.
I don't know if that's where
their stuff certainly is,
but there was not a hundred
athletes there.
And we all got three first form shirts.
And they had two separate
first-form booths set up
where they were handing out
protein and their energy drinks.
It was very,
very similar to Legends as far
as that kind of aspect is concerned.
So you had a good weekend.
Finished seventh.
Finished seventh.
Had two top-five finishes
that both of them probably, if I...
Once my mental game goes a
little bit better, well, I say that.
For one,
I'm sure just believing in myself
a little bit more.
It's probably two first-place finishes.
The second, fourth-place finish,
I was on track to actually
either win or come out
second between me and my buddy Jason.
I missed the bar muscle-up
at the very end.
Normally, nine times out of ten,
I can tell if I'm fixing to fail one,
and this one just hit me
out of left field to a
point where I did my fifth one.
And I came back up to do the sixth one,
and I got right here, and I went, oh, no.
Like, I just knew it was happening.
It felt like it was
happening in slow motion.
And it hit me like right here,
and I just couldn't get all the way over.
But, yeah, I mean, it was fun, dude.
Well run, like the entire comp.
Everything ran on time.
They did have to pivot, so we had the –
They called it Project One
was the name of the actual workout,
but it's basically a fake
high rocks where we had to do a rut.
We started with a ruck run
and then did a sled drag, then a run,
then a skier, then a run, then a lunge,
and then ended on a run.
And it was...
it was going to be raining
and possibly
thunderstorming on Friday morning.
And they were doing that in the pool,
the swim event that the
elites and the RX had kind
of at the same time at the same place.
And they didn't want that to
end up like running super, super late.
So they just switched
everything from that was
supposed to be Saturday and
put Friday and put Fridays,
everything on Saturday.
But even that went relatively smooth.
Like once everything got
loaded back up on competition corner, um,
The seating wasn't
necessarily right again.
So like I should have been
in the second heat.
I ended up in the first heat.
People that were supposed to
be like that kind of got messed up.
But then once that day passed,
it was fine.
Like no big deal.
Everybody got reseated on
Saturday morning.
That was supposed to be where it was.
Ended right up.
Or got there correctly,
if that makes sense.
Denise asks,
did you like all the workouts?
Aside from the...
The wannabe high rocks thing, yes.
And that's just me, personal preference.
I used to be a really good runner,
and I'm not a really good runner anymore.
And I was telling one of my
friends this morning,
I told my buddy Gareth this
over the weekend, like at one point,
I really sounded,
I really in my head was just thinking,
I just don't want to be out here.
I just don't want to be doing this.
Like if I wanted to do a high rocks thing,
I would go sign up for a High Rocks,
like an actual High Rocks,
which FYI are also inside,
not on turf outside when it's, you know,
ninety two, ninety three degrees.
It was hot.
You go look at their videos
and whatnot that they're putting up.
You see any of those from
the outside event.
You see people dumping water on them.
You see volunteers dumping
water on people that were
participating and whatnot.
It's because like it was
It was pretty miserable on the field.
Outside of it, like that turf,
it holds heat.
It holds heat pretty well.
To fail sounds like Bobby
Boucher doing CrossFit.
I gave you that one, CrossFit.
I gave you that one.
But aside from that, all the rest of them.
Speaking of Bobby Boucher,
turf is the devil.
Turf is the devil.
Even in Wisconsin,
that turf would get unbearably hot.
I didn't know because I have
spent this much time on turf.
This first one,
try to evangelize everyone.
We did have a prayer before
or at opening ceremonies.
I will say that they did.
Whoever was the people I was talking,
we're talking about their faith.
I'm a believer,
so that doesn't bother me whatsoever.
And I think if it bothers other people,
then maybe you're in the
wrong business because it's
very easy to just not listen.
Yeah, they're flying now, dude.
Yeah, I see that.
Anyway,
always on grass with the wind is down.
Yeah, more or less, dude.
The other one,
I won't say I didn't like it.
I would say that,
like I was telling you earlier,
I had a really, really bad plan,
and I executed it perfectly.
And I got the exact results
I should have gotten for
having such a terrible plan.
And that was the former
carry slash gymnastics event.
I was good right up until I wasn't.
Once my grip went away,
there was no coming back.
My forearms are still...
Like if I do that,
this part right here and
that part right here is still sore,
like still hurts from that
former carry one.
And it's just because I
didn't think I was going to
have to break up the
gymnastics as much as I should have.
And it cost me big time.
That was my accident.
We had twenty people qualify,
sixteen people showed up.
I finished fifteenth on that one.
Not great.
Not a
Not a great thing, but, I mean,
it is what it is.
I ain't that mad at it.
All in all, dude, I had a blast.
Brett Owsley, fellow Bears fan.
I did monster games a few years ago,
and my truck registered
one-twelve degrees outside.
Gets a little hot in those rhinos.
We did a four-hundred-meter
sprint into GHDs and
sandbag cleans on the field.
it's in a different spot now
so all the that was the
only outdoor event that we
did um it used to be in
joplin now it's uh
reference I got it I missed
that sorry brett um
And now it's in Overland Park,
the Overland Park Convention Center.
So the only outdoor event we
had was the fake high rocks and the,
you know,
Elites and RX had the swim rope climb one,
which was wild, wild to go into here.
Like,
I knew a couple people that were in
both Elite and RX, and they were like,
dude,
people are struggling to get a rope
climb coming out of the pool once.
I think it was four rounds
or something like that five
rounds whatever it was I
was like wow okay you
didn't get to do that one
no old people did not get
to swim so it was at uh
like a jewish uh center
type deal like a fitness I
don't know what the I
forget what exactly they
call it but the pool they
had was only eight lanes
And they just weren't going
to be able to run all of us through it.
Like it just wasn't going to happen.
Uh,
so we got to do the project one thing
instead.
And like I was saying, dude, I just,
I found myself out there
just not wanting to be out
there and doing it.
Yes.
Like a Jewish community
center type deal across that.
Yeah.
It was, it was, it was a nice place,
like really, really nice place.
Yeah,
so apparently where the ropes were on
that end of the pool,
me and one of my buddies,
the guy that finished in
third place in my division, Jason,
was talking about it.
We had talked to different people,
and he said that he and I,
we'd have had to go down to
hit the bottom and jump off of it.
to be able to grab onto the rope.
The rope was hanging in the water,
but like, I wouldn't be able to,
I was either tread water or
go down the bottom,
try to spring off the top
and then grab a hold and
then see if you could do a climb.
If you weren't so tall, you know,
as tall as tall enough, I should say.
So that probably hindered a lot of people,
like just trying to get to
the rope and then maybe see
if they could just climb up it.
Cause rope was already wet
from being in the water.
It had rained the day before
and they were all just kind
of sitting out there.
that rope in the water thing
is that's like second year
they've done that oh I have
no idea believe it or not
not a clue I just uh I just
know that it look it look fun but then
And it was any kind of rope
climb you wanted to do,
but if you're in the pool
and you don't have shoes on
because you're swimming,
nobody's trying to foot
clamp a rope barefooted.
That seems like a terrible idea.
Try to find it.
Yeah, at least a glimpse of it.
One of the reels that they
put up here recently has
just a highlight of people coming up.
Yep, there you go.
But there you're in the
water and there's a rope
hanging above the water.
Now they've passed that already.
Yeah, it's pretty.
They got quick cuts types of.
That lady, Miss Karen, the head judge,
her right there.
Dude, she is awesome.
She's OG.
I used to judge with her.
Oh, yeah.
I saw her at the little
after party they had Sunday night,
and I went and thanked her,
shook her hand,
gave her a hug and whatnot.
The first time I really
encountered her was at Legends last year,
and that was whenever she
went and flew on to one of
the other judges because
instead of no repping them
or the person in question or whatnot,
she said, I told him to go lower.
And she was like, you don't tell them.
We watched her.
I mean, it's a pretty serious competition.
And I told her that.
And I was like,
I just want to thank y'all.
I said, I couldn't do what you do.
And I can't, dude.
I am not a good judge at all.
Not for something like that.
Not having to do it all day long.
Like for the Open, at my box,
for people that I know doing semifinals,
whatnot, sure.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But for that,
and having to do it all day
and in multiple days, I'd lose my mind.
There's no way.
CrossFat just told the
longest joke in podcast history.
Yes, way back, like, ten minutes ago.
Why are alligators so ornery?
It was waiting for me to answer.
Alligators are ornery
because they got on them
teeth and no toothbrush.
No toothbrush.
Yeah, so I'm actually...
I'm working on possibly
interviewing the AFJ at the
games this week as one of the vignettes.
And I want to dive into like,
how do you recruit new
people to do this with all
of the criticism and all of the,
especially now, right?
How do you get new people to
want to come on and volunteer for this?
I was, I hope you get to, I really,
cause I would love to know
the answer to that question.
That is, that's, that's,
that's an excellent.
I also want to ask them
about how can you keep
stepping on your own toes,
trying to get this thing launched?
Like a couple of careless errors, man.
And you're like starting at
squares square one again.
And it's.
For them,
what seems like something that
might be kind of small and
overlooked ends up blowing
up in their face like horribly.
Like the thing at Mayhem, dude,
like that was a big deal.
That's people going to the games.
That's not just, you know,
and I understand nobody
gives a damn about us Masters athletes.
I get that, but we do.
You know?
We damn sure care about it.
So for something to blow up like that,
like I said, dude,
something that was easily overlooked,
easily missed, whatever the case may be.
And yeah,
how do you keep going after that?
That would be a fantastic interview.
My boy Brett here was
affected by that whole thing at Mayhem.
So like it's real.
So we're in talks.
We'll see what happens.
Hopefully we can get
something put together.
Speaking of which,
aside from me failing a bar
muscle-up and failing a handstand walk,
I move well.
It's got no no reps the rest of the time.
No burpees, no squat depth,
no none of that.
Failed bar muscle-up, which, yeah,
obviously.
Even pull-ups, total bar, all of that,
good to go the entire time.
Pretty excited about that
because that means I'm
moving like I'm supposed to.
I like this.
I need to check this out.
I have not.
Speaking of no reps,
anyone see WOD Science
video on the difference in
energy expended doing a no
rep wall ball versus real wall balls?
Pretty interesting.
Basically says no reppers are cheating.
And that's, I think,
what Hiller's been pushing.
These people that get away
with like the GHD.
If you're in front of the GHD,
it is so much easier than
being on the back of the GHD.
just have to come up with
which I think the syndicate
crown did a great job of
the line that was perfect
um so uh good lord under
the man's name jr jr credit
jr for that um just
simplifying it and going
look hey I'm gonna put a
line right here you need to
be on this side of it
Well,
and even like the muscle up not
having to come to full lockout,
like when you're throwing
yourself away backwards or whatever,
like it's huge.
The energy expended is huge.
Yeah.
I'm going to test that just
knowing that like when I
first started doing muscle
ups and when I actually
started getting better at them,
when my form started
getting better and having
to go looking back at the
videos of me doing them and going,
I need to make sure that
I'm here before I come here
because I don't need to
waste that energy.
First of all,
getting no rep to any
competition and having to go do it again.
But oh my God,
the difference that it makes between
just trying to do them so
fluid to take a half an
extra half a second, whatever it is,
and make sure you're good.
And then now you've got to
go back and do it again.
It's not the same workout.
And less cycle time, obviously.
Yes.
One hundred percent.
One hundred percent.
A couple of things I wanted
to touch on before they
announced event nine and
we'll go live with that.
Yep.
Is first of all, thank you, Ani Shoup,
a new member, super stoked about that.
We've been killing it on the
memberships over the last little bit.
And Denise Moore,
ten dollars for snacks for the trip.
Here we go.
Denise, you're the best.
Thank you.
Super important.
All right.
So Pedro put an article out
in Barbell Spin about media.
Is it toxic or not?
need to read the whole thing
I didn't have a chance to
yesterday because I thought
but I saw the I saw it I
saw I guess saw instagram
whatever like what the
title was and whatnot and
and knowing not that I know
I have many conversations
with pedro but I'm willing
to bet I can almost recite
what that what that's about
well basically what it says
is he basically
touts all the the coverage
that their crew does
between savon hiller him
and the barbell spin it
gets you your news it gets
your athlete interviews it
gets you your um
maintaining integrity in
the sport it gets your day
in the life's it covers
programming cover I mean pick a thing
but he said with all of the
media out there in this space,
if you want tactical games,
you have an option.
If you want straight down,
just not really huge opinions, but just,
but you have that available to you.
If you have,
and it basically like
everything that you would
want is available to you in this,
in this space,
it's up to you to choose
who to turn on and who to turn off.
Yeah.
And that has always been my belief.
When I grew up,
we had a channel flipper
that you would flip through the channels.
We didn't stream back then.
And you would go through the channels.
If something was on,
I didn't like you turn the channel.
It's not that hard to do.
Right.
But we're in a society and
it's been this way for a long time.
It's just more pronounced
now because everybody has a
vehicle to speak and
In the Howard Stern movie,
it said the people that
loved Howard Stern listened
to him for an hour a day.
The people that hated Howard
Stern listened for two.
Because they were looking
for something to complain about.
I don't know when we became,
at what point in society we
became a nation of
complainers or almost a
damn planet full of them.
It blows my absolute mind.
If I see something I don't like,
I just don't look at it anymore.
It's not that hard to do.
It doesn't bother me that it exists.
Right.
I can just move on with my day.
Like, oh, that's dumb.
I'm not watching that again.
This perfect example right here.
And now he's not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Here's what I'll say about Howard Stern.
As an interviewer, he is very, very good.
Oh yeah.
When,
and so what I do is I curate his
YouTube interviews because
I try to learn.
Yeah.
I think he is so good at
asking the question into
the followup question that
Now, the rest of the stuff,
I'm too old for that shit now.
You were probably too old
for it when you first started doing it,
so it's fine.
But as an interviewer, he is very good,
and he's somebody that I can learn from.
Sure.
And that's just me.
That's just a peek behind the curtain.
I listen to people that help
me get better at what I'm trying to do.
Scott, when I...
We've had a discussion before,
and you're the same way.
I don't like horror movies.
Not a fan.
Never have been, right?
A very long time ago,
my now ex-wife talked me into watching,
what was it?
The Ring, okay?
Just her and I. My oldest was asleep.
Turn off all lights in the house.
We're going to sit here and
watch her and watch this scary movie.
About halfway through,
I looked at her and I said,
we can turn this off
whenever you feel the need to.
Because I was done with it.
And it's the same thing if I
start watching somebody's podcast,
somebody's recording of a podcast,
somebody's content,
I can get five minutes into
it and decide whether or
not I want to watch it or not.
And if Scott wants to watch it,
Good for Scott.
I'm not going to.
And it's not going to get
any more of my time or attention.
Why?
Because I have free will.
And because I don't let
things bother me that are
beyond my level of control.
I can turn it off, dude.
Real easy.
Look, click, done.
Moving on to the next thing.
I'm going to go watch
something that I want to watch.
You son of a bitch.
I listen to Imus.
He's that old.
Oh, Don Imus.
I know who he is, is I'm that old.
Yeah.
So I know who Don Imus is.
Just to let you know,
I didn't even listen to Stern back then.
I grew up in such a rural area.
We didn't have a lot of
options for our entertainment back then.
We were very much like,
I grew up in the woods.
I had one TV channel.
And I had limited radio.
So you got what you got.
And maybe that's why I
believe that choices are good.
And you just choose what you
want to watch or what you
don't want to watch, right?
Because I grew up, I didn't have choice.
Yeah, I'm glad people have choices.
I've seen more episodes of
Gunsmoke because it was my only option.
Dude, when I would come home,
go to my grandma's house,
she had twelve channels.
Whereas at my mom's house, we had three.
So TBS was normally what I would turn on.
And guess what was on when I
got home from school?
The Brady Bunch.
And there's a reruns of the Brady Bunch.
Oh, yeah.
I wasn't watching the original Gunsmoke,
dude.
Correct.
That's what I'm talking about.
But that's what was on.
So if I wanted to watch something,
it was that or Andy Griffith.
God forbid I was home during the day,
Matlock.
you know, whatever the case may be.
Cause we didn't have it.
We have everything.
And as society has progressed,
you've got more choices to
turn stuff on or turn stuff
off or just change the damn channel.
And the fact that people
can't do that and instead
insist that it shouldn't
even exist because I don't
like it is such a backward
way of thinking to me that
blows my mind completely.
Um, um,
I want to get to this last
thing real quick because
WFP did put out a new
Unbreakable episode.
Okay.
James Sprague.
It's a little over thirty minutes.
What I'm going to say is it
is one of the best ones I've done.
It actually was very touching.
It was endearing.
It made me like James even more.
And it went all the way back
to his childhood where he
fought being overweight and
not fitting in all the way
to where we are today, right?
Great, great episode.
Why in the hell do you
release it Games Week?
You had four months of nothing.
Maybe three months of nothing.
Okay.
Maybe I'm overstating it.
I would say three months.
But we, I mean, you definitely,
and you know, it happens every year.
There's always a drought
where there's nothing
coming up because there's
nothing really happening.
And you wait till four days
before the CrossFit games to put it out.
So now it's a mixed message, right?
Yeah.
James is the defending
fittest man on earth.
You're putting out a video
four days before your competitors,
big event where he is one
of the favorites to podium, if not win.
And now it's a mixed message.
If I'm watching this other
than the WFP logo at the very beginning,
I don't know.
It's WFP.
No, no,
Are you promoting CrossFit?
Are you promoting WFP?
So this goes back to what I
was complaining about last week.
The strategy,
the promises of the content
and what they're trying to
do have no freaking plan.
And they are executing the new plan.
They had a shitty plan and
are executing it perfectly.
Executing it perfectly.
I think, yeah.
Yep, that one right there.
Hoping for push-through
suggestions and autoplay views.
Then put your freaking logo on it.
In the corner.
Something.
It shows up at the very beginning.
And at the end,
it doesn't say WFP production.
It says Buttery Bros production.
But it's on WFP's channel?
Correct.
That's a three-card money deal.
That's a moving the cups type deal.
Hey, where's the ball at?
Where's the ball at?
Where's the ball at?
Oh, it's right here.
No, it's not.
That's interesting, dude.
That is interesting.
I didn't get to see anything this weekend,
obviously,
because I was busy running
around freaking Kansas City.
That's because they're too
busy tanning on the beach.
All right, guys.
They are live.
Pull it up.
Let's see.
Shell game.
Thanks, CrossFat.
That's what I was trying to remember.
We are looking live in Albany,
New York at the CrossFit Games.
Announcement for event number nine.
With the demo team.
I was looking majestic.
I like that blue CrossFit shirt.
That's nice.
This is Instagram live CrossFit games.
Moyo.
Moyo.
Moyo.
Maybe don't go live until
you're ready to make the announcement.
You're actually ready to go?
Yeah.
Don't round that parade, Scott.
Oh, I forgot.
Now that I have an enhanced access,
I'm not allowed to be
critical of CrossFit.
Welcome, everybody,
to the live announcement of
individual event number
nine coming your way
directly from the MVP Arena
competition floor.
We've got the demo team ready,
and they're going to hit this in.
Thirty seconds.
You guys will be the first to see it.
All right.
Team, starting in three, two, one, go.
Can we get out of the way, boss?
Number nine is five rounds, four times.
Start with a two hundred
foot run and follow that
with six snatches.
The men are going to use one
hundred and fifty five pounds.
Looks like a
two-hundred-foot run after the snatches.
Yep.
Now we're back on more snatches.
That's it?
Five rounds?
Two-hundred-foot run and six snatches?
Bruh.
That's going to be quick, dude.
Is that the whole thing?
Surely there's more.
Don't call me Shirley, Lito.
Is that the whole thing?
So just so you guys know,
my Get Jazzed sticker is in today.
So I'll have them with me this week.
Come say hi.
You can get a Get Jazzed sticker.
And the feed died.
I say the internet's working
pretty good up there.
If you didn't see,
the barbell spin did
announce there are ten scored events.
Ten scored events.
There is a back-to-backer event,
I think it's six and seven
on Saturday night.
And then you go eight, nine,
and ten on Sunday.
So this is just a flat sprint, Dean?
Well, we think so.
I mean, from what we've seen of it so far.
The feed is dead.
Dave's giving away yet another event.
So much for the unknown and unknowable.
Seems like the PFAA and the athletes won.
Come on, man.
I wouldn't say giving away
another event on Tuesday,
especially not this,
is going to make a huge
difference for whenever this happens.
I mean, and it ended.
Dude.
Setting it up to you for a
knockout of the park.
I'm assuming he means a home run.
Yeah.
It was a wreck and five deadlifts.
Yeah, I remember that one.
That run was a lot longer.
Yeah.
But either way, dude, what was that,
six rounds?
Yep, six rounds.
So,
twelve hundred meter run or twenty
snatches.
Dude.
Another form of Isabel?
Yep, I got running Isabel.
Couple extra reps.
Alright, well there you have it.
Stickers are going to be
available this week.
I hate to run,
but I did go over to be able to show that
tantalizing event I am so
jazzed so jazzed with that
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we have blown up over four
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With that, come see me, say hi,
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I've been doing packing this
morning and throughout the afternoon,
and I'll be heading up
tonight and tomorrow and
see everybody there.
I'm hoping to do a show
tomorrow if I can stop my
car somewhere in New York to do that.
With that, guys, you know,
go ahead and get back to
work too because we got to,
and we'll see everybody
next time on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye.