what is going on everybody we are live
in san jose in a best western plus
hanging out i wanted to get on and
do a quick impromptu uh show uh just
to kind of talk about what i've seen
so far um which i'll be honest i
was on a plane a lot yesterday where
the wi-fi
did not really keep me up to date
with a lot of the stuff going on
so then i got here and tried to
take in as much content as i possibly
could for the day um and so i
got through some stuff but not all the
stuff so i don't know anyway i want
to start with
don't know i'll start with the individual
event i watched i did not see any
of it in person my photographer ishmael
was out at morgan hill he got some
great photos which you can see on our
instagram page he was out there all day
he's still editing today trying to get
through as much as he can some great
bike pictures are up there he got some
good pictures of the first event
They're up on our socials as well.
I want to give a huge shout out
to Holly Dugan, our stats and info person.
She's got all the schedules out.
She's got all the standings out from the
masters and the individuals.
So huge shout out to her.
last night or yesterday i got in because
i left my house at like four thirty
in the morning and i got and that
was eastern time and i got here uh
probably one o'clock one o'clockish
something like that um i went got to
the hotel dropped some stuff off finally
got some food for the first time during
the day went over to um
went over to the master's venue,
hung out there all day.
It looks really cool in there.
We've been dogging on them about making it
feel special.
And the vendor village was really nice.
You had to walk through vendor village to
get into the venue.
You even had to kind of walk through
a little bit of athlete village to get
into the venue.
But that's where everything kind of died
for me because if you've watched any of
the Masters games on the stream,
they're running the men and the women at
the very same time.
And as I was trying to fly in
and watch a little bit of Jamie and
Carolyn and other friends I have,
it was really,
really difficult because they would bounce
back and forth between the two.
The reality is,
even if you're in the venue,
you cannot focus on both.
It is truly impossible to focus on both
floors.
The races are amazing.
The fitness of these men and women are
unreal.
There's been some really awesome finishes.
But you could only watch one side or
the other.
My mind can't watch two sides at the
same time.
And in the thirty five to thirty nine,
you have Carolyn Prevost and Mackenzie
Riley, both multiple time games,
athletes going toe to toe,
throwing jab after jab.
And and I think a lot of that's
getting lost because on the other side of
the venue,
you have Noah Olson and Scott Pancheck and
Travis Mayer.
And so it's impossible to watch both of
those heats at the same time,
which is really, really disappointing.
Here you are trying to highlight your
event and just a simple schedule change of
not making the final heats go at the
same time could have solved a lot of
this.
You still broadcast both.
You still run both for the other heats
so that family members and friends can see
and do all that kind of stuff.
And if someone comes out of nowhere to
jump from those early heats up, they can.
But just don't put the main heats up
against each other.
It'd be like taking a network,
taking their best two TV shows and putting
them on at the exact same time.
You're just splitting the crowd.
And so it's really almost impossible to
watch one or the other.
And it's just been really difficult.
I haven't got to see any really of
Noah and Travis and Scott because I've
been focused on Carolyn.
And so it's disappointing for me because I
wanted to see that race in the thirty
five to thirty nine men.
You have these athletes from yesteryear
that we all know and we all cheered
for going toe to toe and I can't
even watch it.
So there's that.
The races are great.
Carolyn is killing it.
She has, I think.
A twenty-ish point lead going into the
final day with two events to go over
McKenzie Riley.
But the last event last night,
they both dove over the finish line at
the exact same time.
I still,
I haven't even checked the leaderboard.
I don't even know who won that event.
It was wild.
But the venue's really nice.
The setup's really nice.
There's bleachers.
What I will say is the vibe in
the building is pretty awesome.
While the stands are not completely full,
it shuffles in and out depending on the
age group.
And most of the fans there are family
members and gym goers,
way more community event.
And so when your person's out there,
there are these little pockets of insane
fandom
Uh, that happened throughout the day.
Um, and it,
and it comes and goes like your guys
done,
then you move off the spectator area and
another group come in and they root for
their person.
It is, um, it, it,
that part of it is really, really cool.
Um,
I got to sit with Larry young and
Shelly young yesterday for some time,
talk to them.
I ran into Shanna Bunce.
She regretfully had to withdraw.
I will get into that in a second.
Of course, I ran into Carolyn and Jamie.
I ran into Claire Bays,
ran into Brandon Luckett,
a lot of people at the Masters event.
And
got got to see lito um got to
talk to her for a little bit um
lito's doing it crushing it she's top ten
um so yeah really the the bad thing
is the two things that i just hate
is that both are going at the same
time and that
the events are things you would see at
a local local throwdown a local yokel
throughout the throwdown um the races are
still good because these are the best in
the world at what they do and um
and so it's still been a fun watch
i just wish they got to play with
some like cooler tools
um i have not seen ken walters yet
i did not get out to morgan hill
i only had one media credential for morgan
hill i gave that to ishmael uh he
captures if you want to see her pictures
um go go check those out he did
an awesome job really total yeah train
local yokel um
Vicky, thank you.
Marissa first, Mackenzie second,
Carolyn third on the thruster workout.
You could not tell in the venue who
won.
It was pure insanity how close those three
women were.
Carolyn got no rep on one of her
thrusters on the final round,
or it could have been different.
But what a wild finish.
So crazy.
It had to be less than a second.
Masters did start outside train.
But then they've been inside the rest of
the event.
So, friends of the show,
Lito's doing great.
Shanna had to withdraw.
Trying to think what else.
Rudy Berger's crushing it on his.
Jamie got hurt, just so you guys,
I don't know how much she's put out.
I think she put out a story yesterday.
On the opening run with the med ball,
they had men and women go at the
same time.
And she was coming in on the final
lap.
And two of the men were kind of
like pinching her off because there wasn't
a lot of room and she got pushed
to the outside because she couldn't see
with the med ball on her shoulder.
She ran into a lamp post and it
cut her open pretty good.
Yeah, Jamie posted a picture.
Thank you, Pastor Craig.
And she finished.
I wasn't here.
Her co-owner of her gym said she came
in covered in blood.
The cut's pretty bad.
Thankfully, Shanna's here.
Shanna's an MD.
Shanna's super glued it up.
And she's still trying to get through
everything.
but she's definitely limited in what she
can do.
Um,
that first event was pretty dangerous for
the women.
They, I think like women got hurt.
That's the, what I'm hearing, uh,
from people behind the scenes, um,
that running with the med ball did not
go well.
It took out Shanna.
It took, she almost took Jamie out,
but she's still there.
Um,
It's we called that out last week that
that was not a good idea to run
with a med ball at the CrossFit Games.
And it played out just as we feared.
So.
I don't know.
Train has run into a telephone pole when
I was a kid before and jacked my
neck up for years.
Yeah.
Well, she was running with her elbow out,
right?
So the elbow's out because she's holding
the ball.
She can't see.
And then ran, bam.
And so the cut's like down her arm.
Yeah.
But she's, I mean, she's Jamie.
She's still going to go out there and
do her best.
Yeah.
As for the individual athletes,
the open division,
I've caught up on most everything that I
can through the stream.
Man, carnage day one.
Carnage day one.
Yeah, I saw a train.
I saw all the bike accidents.
Saw people get carried off from the swim.
Saw Lexus Raptors fall down a hill.
Wow, what carnage, man.
What I'll say about the stream is,
from Masters and Elites, like,
can you show the heat number and the
right age group if you're in Masters to
know where we are in day?
Running clock was in and out on the
Masters stream.
I think it was running pretty well on
the Elite individuals.
But man, they missed finishes on the run.
They're back to those like single shots of
athletes where you can't see what's going
on in the race.
All you can see is one person running
down a hill.
Two people were racing to the finish and
the camera went up the hill to catch
someone just coming down.
I was so pissed off when that happened.
Like, I want to see who finishes first.
I like that we don't have information on
the screen.
It's like being at a box and not
knowing who is who.
That's right, Jake.
You got it.
It's early form of getting you ready for
your dementia later in life.
It is a comedy of errors.
My friend Abby,
she's apparently from Italy and never left
America.
So that's interesting.
I hope it gets better when they go
inside the arena.
But I guess a lot of it's outside,
Helson.
They're doing a lot out there in that
park.
on Barack Obama so it's going to be
a little bit of that I did not
follow with the live stream chat I know
I heard about the girlfriend of the drone
operator basically telling everybody what
went wrong and why it went wrong and
her trying to defend her boyfriend and
and so i did see that what a
wild concept man uh jabs has been fired
says yawn um yeah nothing like someone out
there telling you all the secrets of why
everything is a show live on a chat
uh
I had a mini episode of Cops on
Barbell Spins livestream.
I heard about that.
I was talking to Larry and Shelly Young,
John's parents, yesterday.
Shelly came down to get her DoorDash while
that was all going on.
So, crazy.
Tessa, all negative.
I've had some positive experiences at the
Masters.
Now,
I've been secluded over there with the
Masters because I don't have,
I only have one credential to get around
to the outdoor events.
And I gave that to my photographer to
make sure we could get some good shots.
So.
But the races have been fun to watch
at the Masters.
Carolyn is doing so good,
and her and Mackenzie are just throwing
jabs at each other.
And Marissa's in there trying like hell as
well.
It's crazy.
So that's been really fun to watch.
The Masters athletes, like,
I posted on my story yesterday,
the
depth was better than the elite athletes.
Seventy plus.
Those are the things we need to be
highlighting.
My God, like, at seventy plus,
they're still out there doing their thing.
It was so fun to watch.
I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see what happens today.
After six plus hours on a plane yesterday
and sitting on metal bleachers at the
Masters games,
my back locked up overnight.
So I'm trying to get it loosened up
enough to get over there to at least
see the finish of the day.
They're going to start here in about
twelve, eleven minutes, maybe.
Twelve minutes with the DT,
and it's only the two younger age groups.
The thirty five to thirty nine and forty
to forty four will be doing a form
of DT in ten minutes.
So if you want, go check that out.
If you have your flow subscription,
you can do that.
Should be an interesting and fun watch,
but you'll have to pick one side or
the other.
Train Olive, honestly,
I've never been more invested in Masters
as this year.
A large part is thanks to Clydesdale.
Well, thank you.
I hope you brought muscle relaxers.
I so wish, Jody.
I so wish.
I've been laying with a Theragun on my
back for about an hour,
just trying to figure that out.
Opening ceremony should be cool.
That's tomorrow morning.
I should be in the arena for that.
So I have more to say on those
things.
Tonight is the block party and hopefully
my brush with Tyson Bajent and getting an
autograph from him or I got my Bears
hat with me for him to sign.
Hoping for that later tonight.
Jamie wants to go over to that,
so I think we'll do that sometime this
evening.
I'm going to try to get on tonight,
but if it's like last night where I
didn't even get back to the hotel till
nine Pacific,
I'll probably just do an early morning one
again tomorrow before all the action gets
started.
Because this seems a lot easier.
I've been up for a while now because
I'm still on East Coast time.
So, yeah,
today was breakfast with the Clydesdale.
I've run into a lot of people that
listen to the show.
I will say that I'm going to leave
you guys with this story.
I'm sitting at the Masters Games and a
guy comes up to me and shakes my
hand and just said,
I want to tell you,
I listen to your podcast every day on
the way home from work.
And I listen to it on Spotify.
and I listen to you and Corey every
single day.
It's what gets me home in the afternoon.
But I then watched you on YouTube and
I was shocked when I found out that
Corey wasn't Black.
That guy couldn't have made my day any
more than he did with that comment.
I have laughed about that all night and
through today.
He's not black.
Oh, you guys are the best.
You guys are the best.
Yeah, he's decent.
He is.
The guy then was,
I think he was like, well,
should I have said that?
And then he, you know,
with the Cajun accent and the Southern
draw and all that, I just,
by just listening, I thought,
I just thought that he was black.
So anyway, is this true?
Oh, anyway.
Sorry about the low...
Vindicate says I'm streaming from a
potato.
I'm in hotel wifi hell.
At the Best Western Plus in Alameda.
Avera,
do you have behind the scenes access for
individuals over the weekend?
It's tricky, Avera.
We have one lanyard,
and we have to rotate it between me
and my photographer.
So only one of us can possess it
at a time.
We do have access, I think,
to the warm-up area, the corrals.
We have access to two small pits at
the finish line.
And then we both have a band to
get us in and into seats in the
arena,
but we have to pass the lanyard back
and forth, which I get.
I like the fact that they're kind of
reducing the numbers down a little bit.
So it's not like everybody's just all over
the athletes while they're getting ready
to go out on the floor.
So I'm cool with that.
Vindicate says Corey's told me he is
black, but it's from the waist down.
I'm not sure why he needed to tell
me that.
Anyway, with that, guys, it's been real.
I just want to do a quick catch
up today.
Today,
hopefully I can catch up on everything as
the elite individuals are not going today.
So finish up with the Masters.
We got the block party.
And then tomorrow,
hopefully we can hit the ground running.
I did see,
I think it was Hexy Lover maybe,
asked if I was going to do Clydesdale
interviews.
I'm going to try to.
It was so loud in the venue yesterday.
I'd have to do it outside the venue
or not outside the venue,
but outside the area where they're
cranking music.
The best thing about Masters CrossFit
Games is you get to see people recording
where people,
their friends working out with their
iPads,
which I never see at a regular CrossFit
event.
And that it's the only place I've ever
heard a James Brown Led Zeppelin mashup.
So that should be fun.
At least the music is cool.
His knees were quite ashy,
if I remember correctly.
I'll podcast with Carolyn and Jamie
tonight for Masters Recap.
I will try.
jamie with her injury is um i just
don't know where she's at with all this
um carolyn's in good spirits because she's
in the first place um but we'll see
how it goes today and then i can
i don't want to like take their their
mind off of what they're doing i want
them to go do their thing and then
um and then we'll talk about it when
it's all done so um
My eyes are getting bad.
I might have to start using my iPad
for content.
I'm with you.
I'm going without glasses today and I'm
still able to read.
The crazy thing about California where one
last little thing is my allergies are
gone.
It's been awesome.
I can breathe so easily here.
It is amazing.
Amazing.
I may have to move to California,
but the taxes are way too high.
What did Jamie injure?
Because you were late to the party, dude.
We talked about it.
She got hurt on the first event running
with the wall ball.
Two men were with her at the same
time because they ran the men and the
women at the same time.
She got pinched a little bit and she
couldn't see to her right.
And so because she was holding the wall
ball like this.
And so she got pinched to the side
and she ran into a lamppost.
And it cut open her arm really bad.
And thankfully for Shanna Bunce,
who is in our chat all the time
and was competing in the sixty to sixty
five and is an M.D.,
she super glued her shut.
so she's trying to compete jamie's trying
to finish the weekend but she is
definitely at limited capacity uh with
that gash on her arm for sure but
she's about to go in the next i
think her heat is at eight twelve local
time so eleven twelve eastern uh first
heat is at eight she's in the second
heat
And she's really working her way up the
leaderboard.
She'd fallen all the way to sixteenth.
Last I checked, she was about eleventh.
But I didn't see anything after the last
event.
I was so tired last night.
My head hit the pillow and I was
out like a...
Did it leave a mark on them beautiful
arms?
There's a mark there now.
I don't know if it's staying forever,
but it's a pretty good gash.
Vindicate,
I didn't even realize Jamie was competing
this weekend.
She just competed in podium last weekend
in Michigan.
Beast.
She won Fresh Coast with her team last
week, Vindicate.
And, yeah,
she was bored getting ready for the games.
And she was also upset that they only
got six or seven events here at the
games.
So she wanted to up her volume to
make sure she got enough in.
I'm not saying I believe in everything
that she says, but that is her belief.
And that's, that's who Jamie is.
All right, guys, I'm going to hop on.
I'm going to hop off this.
I'm going to hop over to flow to
watch the, the,
The event that only two age groups get
to do, that's the DT event.
It starts in one minute.
So with that,
hope everybody has a great day.
We'll check in either tonight or tomorrow
morning with more information live from
San Jose.
Hope everybody has a great day and we'll
see you then.
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
room to jazz me up.
I'm already jazzy.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
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saddle.
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