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what is going on everybody
it is lunchtime lunch with
the Clydesdale so good to
be with you today we're
gonna throw a dart I don't
always remember to do this
we're gonna do it today man
I thought I had it cited in
Monday was optimistic and
we have lost all hope lost
all hope I went way right
way right tonight so
What's going on, Meredith, Jody,
Train to Live, Terry, Barry, man,
what's going on?
So Barry, what is for lunch?
So two nights ago,
I got some shaved ribeye.
And then I grilled some
peppers and onions.
And I made my own steak
sandwich with some keto bread.
And it is waiting for me to
heat up in my panini press
right after the show.
Finding the shaved ribeye was like key.
I cannot wait to sink my
teeth into that again.
It was so good.
So good.
Just seasoned with a little
Worcestershire sauce,
a little bit of liquid amino, garlic,
salt, pepper, and it's perfect.
It's perfect.
It tastes like a Philly cheesesteak,
only better.
It just is freaking amazing.
Barry says, ribeye is the best cut.
Trained to live.
That sounds delicious.
It was perfect.
Perfect.
And then I got some fresh black cherries.
I'm going to have a little bit of that.
And then I have some fresh
cut vegetables that I
always add at the end of my lunch.
So there we go.
Whoops.
Da Bears.
Never heard of shaved ribeye.
It must be new at the
butcher counter at the
grocery store here.
We have a grocery store called Meijer,
and they do this
occasionally where they shave beef.
and um and this time they
were shaving ribeye and I
was like well hell if they
have ribeye I'm going with
that and it I it could not
it could not have been any
better shaved ribeye
grilled onions and peppers
on a keto bun it was
freaking awesome man a lot
of people jumping in the
chat today uh vicky loving
I've been able to make this
part of my lunchtime
routine thank you scott
Uh, Jeremy eats word Bajan.
Cool.
The bears are not, uh, I love Tyson Bajan,
but I also love the bears.
So I know you're a Wisconsin guy,
so I'm assuming you're a
Packer fan and God will
forgive you for that.
Um, so I vindicate,
can't wait to get my Hattie shirts.
All right, man.
Twenty five dollars.
No, no, it was it was nowhere near that.
The shaved ribeye was, I want to say,
probably like in the eight
to nine dollar pound range.
That means it's old,
just like rotisserie chicken,
and they try to get rid of it.
Hey.
Hey.
Tasted good, Ken.
That's all I got to say.
And I don't have the
equipment to shave it down
like they do for the sandwich.
So the one thing I forgot,
I did put horseradish on it.
Every time I have like steak,
a dab of horseradish goes on that.
Best condiment in the world.
Most underrated condiment in the world.
All right.
So glad everybody is here.
There's a lot going on, man,
for being kind of three weeks out,
two weeks out to the games.
We've got a lot of news
circling around the space.
And if you guys,
this seems to be the clue
that everybody is jumping in on.
This was posted on Dave
Castro's Instagram last
night or yesterday afternoon.
It is just move.
There's a little tag down here.
Him and Jada Coons were in
New York city yesterday.
That is where Berkshire resides as well.
They have an office in New York city and,
It appears that they are in
the final steps or stages
of the sale of CrossFit.
The circumstantial evidence
is pointing to the B-Sport people,
Malik and company, buying CrossFit.
We don't have any official announcement.
It's a lot of circumstantial
stuff at this point.
But it appears that CrossFit
is on the verge of selling.
When I was watching Siobhan
and Matt talk about it last night,
I made the comment that my
bet is that there's an
agreement in principle in place.
And now they're trying to
figure out the details of the money.
And so money probably has
not changed hands,
but there is an agreement in principle,
meaning that all other bids
will be taken off the board for now.
And they will work solely on
this deal to try to bring it home.
So my guess is that is where they're at.
I heard Siobhan a little bit
ago say there could be an
announcement today.
So I guess we'll be watching
all the socials for that as
we move forward.
Um,
of course he would have way more inside
information than I do.
Um,
I just try to follow all the tea leaves.
I know that last night he was saying that,
uh,
that he thinks that the new company
will keep on Jay to Coons and, uh, Dave.
And, and then I've watched Amanda Hari.
She said she didn't think
they would keep Dave on, uh,
I talked about Dave being
like so important to the
current group of CrossFit
headquarters because he was
the scapegoat for everything.
And if you remove him from their equation,
then everything falls onto
the CEO and the board of directors.
And Dave has been the good
soldier to kind of take all
the slings and arrows that
have been sent to him.
Someone has to have some
respect for someone that's
willing to do that for the
company they work for.
And so if I'm an outsider coming in,
looking at the situation
and looking at what Dave
did for the current group of CrossFit HQ,
standing in front of all
the bullets and the hate
and taking all of that on
while Don and the board of
directors got off scot-free
with everything that
happened with Lazar's death
and then after,
that's someone I want on my team.
If I am B-Sport and I am
looking at what exists now,
I want that guy who's
willing to stand out there
and take it all on and protect me.
Um, Larry Young says, I don't see a good,
I don't see a good reason
to announce it before the games.
Um, I, I am kind of in your camp, Larry.
If I'm the new company, I don't want to,
first of all,
I am tired of people sitting
in front of a microphone
and a camera giving me half fans,
half asked fluff answers.
am sick of that I would
rather have whoever the new
owner is take some time get
a plan in place and then
tell me the full response
as to what they want to do
not some kind of half-assed
word salad we've had enough
of that for the last few
years five years of that we
don't need any more
I think it would be more
beneficial for them to buy it, sit back,
take a look at what's going on,
put a plan in place, who's staying,
who's going, what are they going to do,
and then make the announcement,
here we are,
and give us what's going to happen.
trained to live,
and Dave knows the ins and
outs of running CrossFit
sport unless they are
trying to overhaul it completely.
He also knows the ins and
outs of the seminar staff,
the seminars themselves.
He has been over education
for much of his tenure with CrossFit,
and I think that is
actually more important
than his experience with the games.
That
That's what they need.
The seminars, the L ones, the L twos,
those are the moneymakers.
Those are the things you're
purchasing when you're
buying this company.
That's the expertise they need.
Barry McOchner.
Didn't they do that with Don?
Wasn't he introduced before the games?
Yes.
They hired him as CEO right
before the games.
They introduced him at the games.
And then we got this
half-assed fluff BS from
him instead of having a plan in place.
Uh, Rosa bought the company and then,
and it was around COVID.
And so his whole focus was just get, um,
just getting the games started,
which should not have been
the priority at that point in time.
The priority should have
been getting CrossFit
stabilized during that era
and the COVID time that's
going on and not about
putting on the games.
And that became his focus,
and that started to decline
right from there.
The Savant podcast, that's a great take.
I hadn't thought of.
He's great at taking public abuse.
That's what he's been used
for for the last nine months, Savant.
He had to be given a
directive from Don Fall and
the board of directors when
Lazar died to go out there
and be the public face of everything.
And then everybody just hated on him.
And that's why the letter
said fire Dave and not fire Don.
or not fire the board of
directors or sell the company.
Everybody thinks Dave's
responsible for everything.
He's the director of the games.
He's not the CEO.
He's not the board of directors.
And they got off scot-free
in this whole thing because
Dave took it all on.
The more I sit back and look
at this whole thing like,
it's almost like Dave should
be a hero for what he did
for the company instead of vilified.
Nobody's even looking behind the curtain.
Everybody's just aiming
their hate at Dave.
When you were interviewing
Ariel and she's talking
about how Luca got put on,
on the broadcast when he
didn't want to be Dave,
isn't the director of the broadcast.
Yet they're blaming Dave for that.
The people at CrossFit made
him the scapegoat and he
played the part well.
And he's the only one to
apologize for anything that
happened last year.
Yet you have all these
haters coming after him
when he was just a small
part of the whole thing.
It's insane.
It's insane.
So... I'm with you.
Um...
Larry,
that I don't think they should do it now.
I think that even if the purchase happens,
they don't announce it
until after the games are over.
Doug Reed, all true.
The weird part is that Don
was who cut the game's
budget yet received no venom.
He is the CEO of the company.
The final approval of
everything that happens
should go across his desk.
And he got no venom.
Jeremy eats world outrage.
Culture found its way into the one place.
You thought it wouldn't CrossFit.
Barry McOchner.
Have you ever,
have you seen the three
people who are Berkshire
partners for CrossFit?
They look like they have no
idea what they're doing.
Doug Reed, imagine if Dave was named CEO.
I want to see B-Friend's
face if that were to happen.
I don't know.
After watching what he did
these last nine months,
I think he's a viable option.
Larry Young.
What's funny,
I'm guilty of complaining about Dave.
Never for his character.
Just want weights, twenty percent heavier.
And I haven't changed for eighteen years.
We all complain about Dave.
That's been the character
he's played since the whole
thing started back in two thousand seven.
He's the one that put us all
through misery in the open.
He's a...
It's been that character,
but things got serious when
someone dies at the games.
And it wasn't just a character anymore.
It was,
here's this guy that was a Navy
SEAL for twelve years,
and they gave him a mission
to go out and take the heat.
And he did.
Because that's what they do.
That's what they do.
And he's done it for nine months.
Andrew Stan,
I wonder if they asked Dave to
bear the brunt of the
criticism or if he said he would do it.
He seems to be able to
handle just about anything,
though you have to wonder
how it affects him.
I think if you've watched
his demeanor over these last nine months,
this has affected him.
But he is born to be a soldier.
He is born to complete the mission.
Whether he was told to do it,
asked to do it, or volunteered to do it,
he went out and did it.
He faced those athletes by
himself out there on the floor,
did what he could do to
move the games forward,
and then took all the heat
that they all had for him.
And he keeps on doing it.
Ahem.
vindicate dave is the only
one on staff who could
handle it I don't disagree
with you at all on that I
think he's the only one
that could have gone out
there and he's the only
figure that has had this
reputation where it's
really easy to hate on him
he's the he's the dave is a
prick he is the guy who
built this reputation as
the guy who put us in pain
every year in the open and
we were we were
raised to hate him through
this right and so it's
really easy for people to
look at Dave and throw the
hate his way it was
actually whoever decided to
make him the face after the
death of Lazar was that was
a brilliant decision
because it was easy to
transfer all that hate onto
him and everybody else got off scot-free
um brock bazette bezet uh
dave said himself there's
no one better or more
qualified to be the ceo
trained to live echoes that
uh said with peter he
doesn't think anyone could
run crossfit better than
him and he was definitive
there was no hesitation in
his voice when he answered
that question no hesitation
Joseph Ramirez,
he accepts it and thrives
off all the hate.
I don't disagree with you,
especially in the early days.
I think this year is taking
somewhat of a toll.
But I think also what it's
made him is want to have
the opportunity to right
the ship in the way that he
knows it needs to be done best.
He made this sacrifice this
year to save everybody else's ass.
And now he wants to write
the ship and get CrossFit back on track.
Turns out Dave is a hero in this drama.
Isn't it funny how that works out?
That the guy at the
beginning of the story that
you think is the villain
somehow turns out to be the
hero in the end.
It's kind of awesome.
Especially if he pulls it all off.
I understand.
I think he's good at it
because he's able to keep
his professional life and
personal life so separated.
Agreed.
And that comes from twelve
years of training.
Those Navy SEALs had to keep
everything separate,
personal and private.
It's probably the only way
they make it through their day sometimes.
So, I'm anxious to hear what happens.
I know earlier in the chat,
it was flying by like a whirlwind.
I saw somewhere,
is B-Sport the Northern Spirit people?
Yes.
They are the Northern Spirit people.
All this goes back to the first...
Matt Sousa show where he got
out his ball of yarn and
all of the pictures and
connected all the dots.
It appears that that has
been the thing the whole time.
And that looks like the way they're going.
If Dave would have been fired,
there would have been no games this year,
and the athletes would have
been complaining.
I'm not sure that would be the case.
I just don't know how it would look.
Shanna Bunce,
I find it hard to call him or
anyone a hero in this
instance without the facts.
We don't have the facts.
I think we have a lot of facts,
and I think that when I say hero...
How do I want to say this?
A hero doesn't have to be a
hundred percent all good.
The hero is the person that
moves the story along.
And you have this tragic death.
and you wish it didn't happen,
and you learn a lot from that.
And as we've noticed this year,
like with what I talked about yesterday,
the athletes got the email,
and then it was released by
Hiller and Barbell Spin
that they got a letter
about safety protocols for
outdoor events at the games,
and there's only going to
be one outdoor event.
If you're learning from it
and you're changing from it
and you're making things
better because of it,
then I think you can twist
into the hero out of tragedy.
I still think some of those
facts have to be protected
until all legal matters are settled.
And I don't know where we
are with any of that stuff
in the background.
Judy Reed, look at David in the Bible.
Yeah, definitely not a perfect human being,
but ended up being a pretty big hero.
Larry Young, well,
I'm hoping after overpaying
for my tickets,
the vendor village is good.
Deadpool type hero.
There you go.
Deadpool, David,
kind of the one in the same.
So the next thing on my list
to talk about is we have
the WFP whose event is
coming up in late August.
Let me look this up real quick.
Um,
tour stop two is coming up and it is
trying to find the dates of
that dog on it.
Anyway, it's a couple of weeks after, um,
August, twenty nine to thirty first.
So you have the CrossFit Games,
August first through the third.
Then you have the World
Fitness Tour Stop two at
the end of the month.
And what did I say?
The twenty ninth through the thirty first.
So about four weeks apart.
What what WFP did to the
French throwdown is now
being done back to them.
in this case you're going to
have people putting it all
on the line for ten eleven
twelve events in the
crossfit games and then
have to turn around and do
the the tour stop two in three weeks
are we going to get subpar
performances from those
people who just beat up
their bodies at the
crossfit games now
competing at tour stop two
And does that mean that it's
inevitable that these
athletes that skip the
CrossFit game season will
have a very distinct
advantage at tour stop two for WFP?
And is it going to be
compelling to watch because
you have people that's
bodies are beat up from the
CrossFit games,
trying to compete with
these rested individuals.
And,
and I think that that's where the
world fitness project has
made a big miss.
the key to competition is
having a level playing
field for everybody.
And that is not going to happen.
And that is not going to
happen with what's going on in August,
because you're going to
have over half the field
that is completely beat up
because the games do that
to an individual.
They really beat them up and
it takes them weeks to recover.
They're just going to be
coming out of that and then
have to compete again.
This is where I think there
is a distinct problem with
the way that the WFP scheduled.
So Jody is looking for tickets.
Larry,
I was just looking at prices this
morning.
And I know she lives just
like an hour away from the
CrossFit games.
So she's trying to get there.
Sarah Cooper,
they will have all just shown
themselves at the games on
a hopefully free YouTube live stream.
No one will care about WFP.
That is really my, my, my thought here,
Sarah is how good is it or
how compelling is it going
to be to watch when people
are just not competitive
because they're coming off
the CrossFit games where it
truly does beat up a body and
There will be a few people
probably not competing.
Or will WFP athletes that
are out of it after a day
or two at the games take
the foot off the gas and
water down the games?
Could be that way, too.
I thought about that, too, Ken.
Well, I'm out of this one.
Might as well back it off
and rest my body for World
Fitness Project.
Tristan Patrick is selling a
ticket if anyone needs one.
Hector Trinta is someone
going to not give it all at
the games to save their
best for the WFP tour stop too?
I don't think so.
I think the way it's going
to happen is they're going
to give their all, not be competitive,
and then take their foot off the gas.
I think that's how it's going to go down.
Hattie does have a, a percent off code.
It's a Hattie.
And I,
and she has an E at the end of her name,
H a T T I E at checkout.
I trained to live.
I get the dilemma when
there's potential money-making involved.
many people at the games are
actually doing both you'd
be surprised there's a lot
of women signed up for both
the men is less so uh
joseph ramirez wt uh
athletes already got paid
but they just need to show
up and give fifteen percent
effort well they do have a
chance to win more money
Just saying.
So, uh,
I did want to pull up the
qualifiers real quick,
just because I was really
surprised at how many women,
how deep the women's field is for this.
And then the men,
nobody signed up for nobody.
Um,
So here is the women's field.
And if you look at the challengers,
now because of injury and pregnancy,
I think eleven women get into the pros.
And so you have Jamie Simmons,
Annika Greer, Ota Ludikvam,
Andrea Solberg, Jennifer Muir,
Sydney McElishan, Ella Wilkinson,
Kyra Milligan, Hannah Black,
Elena Karatala, and Var Thurman-Mo.
Just outside, you have Lydia Fish,
Linda Kiesman, Mathilde Garnes,
Ingrid Tondell, Janie Chevry,
Trista Smith, Lexi Neely, Emily Rethwell,
Paige Powers,
it's so deep the amount of
women that signed up for this qualifier.
And this is all prior to video review.
Um, train to train to live.
Did Jamie end up doing the qualifier?
She did,
but she was coming off a fourth of
July weekend.
That probably wasn't ideal
to then do these workouts.
Uh, so she finished in the fifties.
I think if we go down here, um,
Sure.
There she is.
Fifty eight.
Again, she if you look at the video,
you can see it's definitely
not the best of Jamie Latimer.
She was on a boat all
weekend out in Lake Michigan.
Then if you look on the men's side.
You have Nick Matthew, Tudor Magda,
Enola Kai, Colin Bossard, Miko, Lily Orge,
Jack Farlow, Nate Ackerman, Ty Jenkins,
Julius Kaiser.
And then when you get down
into what would be the challenger piece,
not a lot of names down here.
Fabian Benito, Danny Camacho, Sam Zerlich,
Nicholas Bedden, Roldan Goldbaum,
Tola Morakunyo, Brionne Guillaume,
Thomas O'Pierre, Chris Ibarra.
I mean, there's some names,
but it is definitely not as
deep as the women's field at all.
So.
It's going to be interesting to see.
We're going to see how the
attrition affects all this.
I know Spin did a big thing
about how many people
didn't do this qualifier
that did do the first one
and the drop-off and the
percentages and all of that
if you wanted to check that out.
A trained to live wants to
know where the gooch fell.
Um...
I'm not sure I know how to spell it right.
Shoot.
I am looking.
Gooch, Gooch, Gucci, Gooch, Goo.
He didn't do well.
I must have hit something though.
Ah, vindicate.
Gooch fell in a very good position.
Know what I'm saying?
Oh my gosh, you guys.
Where did Gooch finish?
In Danielle Brandon.
Okay.
Cha-ching.
Do I have the rim?
Oh, I do.
Gooch with a pooch smooching the cooch.
Gooch was distracted.
I knew that was coming all
right I am looking now for
the gooch there we go he
actually finished fifty
second fifty second
He had a forty six fit place finish,
a fifty five fifth place
finish and a fifty first place finish.
OMG, the sound effects.
I've had these all along.
Suze is really good at I
don't even I forget they're there.
Uh.
Okay, there's a lot here.
Where is it at?
The lunch brand is changing slowly.
Yes.
And then Train to Live says
she was sorry for asking.
And Judy reads this.
No, you're not.
All right.
I don't know.
My cheek's red now.
There we go.
So hopefully we've answered
all things Gooch.
And we're coming up on my
time to get back to work.
So the last thing I wanted to,
two quick things.
And that is that Sean
Woodland announced on
Talking Elite Fitness that
he is not going to be doing
the games again this year.
But it is not because of
CrossFit this year.
He was actually asked to do the games,
but he has a scheduling
conflict and will not be
announcing the games.
And so I believe Chase
Ingram is doing the games again.
That was announced on
Talking Elite Fitness.
Just wanted to share that with you.
I'm a big fan of Sean
Woodland as an announcer.
I think he does a great job,
but he will not be doing
the games this year.
It will be chase again.
And then the last thing,
just a little thing.
I'm watching the bear season four,
trying to get through that.
We just watched the wedding
episode last night.
And if you love the first
couple of seasons of the
bear and you get to that wedding episode,
it is everything you love the bear about.
And I had a tough, tough time.
I had a tough,
tough time with season three of The Bear,
but I am really,
really excited now that
we're getting into season
four of The Bear.
The wedding episode is a lot
like the Forks episode from
season two with less drama at the end,
but really, really good.
Daniel Church is on season three of Bluey.
Good luck with that, buddy.
Good luck.
Uh, Shauna Bunce, uh, no Sean bummer.
Uh, Joseph Ramirez, sick show.
I'm starting tonight.
And is mama Clydesdale watching?
She may think she's on the wrong podcast.
Uh, yeah, she is.
Yeah, she is.
Um, hopefully not watching.
She hasn't been watching as much lately.
She's going through some stuff.
She had that stroke a few months ago,
and I really need her to
get into the doctor.
I may have to go home this
weekend and force some things to happen.
So I don't know.
We'll see about that.
Dense updates.
Wow.
Congrats, Chase.
Yay about Chase from Judy Reed.
Yeah, Chase is great.
I like alternative broadcast stuff,
but I like Chase too.
I just like having the alternative,
both options available.
I know that CrossFit will
never do that with the
financial place they are right now,
but I love when Monday
Night Football gives me two
options for announcers.
Because if I'm watching my
Chicago Bears and I just want the details,
I watch Troy and Joe.
And if I'm watching another
team and I don't really
care about the details,
I watch Peyton and Eli.
That's the way it is.
Joseph Vermeer says,
Sean may have talked his
way out of commentating for
the games again.
From what I understand,
he is being hired by
CrossFit to do
post-production stuff is
what he said on Talking Elite Fitness.
This is all from him.
And that they had a great
conversation and there was
actually a lot of apologies
about last year and he is
going to be doing some stuff for them.
It's just not during the
weekend because he has a
scheduling conflict.
And Jenny says scheduling conflict.
Hmm.
So investigative reporter,
Jenny dense updates is on the case.
All right, guys.
Well, I need to get back to work.
I just got handed a big
project before this show.
So, uh, I've got to hit that pretty hard.
And maybe that's a, for a conversation.
Uh,
Haha, I'm not in restrictive.
I train to live.
Enjoy your steak sandwich, Scott.
I am going to enjoy every
bite of the steak sandwich.
Yes, I will.
Shaved ribeye is coming into
my mouth and then into my belly.
Not an investigative reporter.
I'm going to call you that
until you stop figuring all
this shit out.
With that, you know, go ahead.
Let's get back to work to.
I will see everybody next
time on Lunch with the Clydesdale.