Lunch with the Clydesdale - Coldplay Snuggle Gate!

 Everyday we take a breath from the busy work day to hang out with friends and talk about the world of Sports and Entertainment specifically CrossFit. Today we talk about what happened at a Coldplay Concert, the depleted women's side of the CrossFit Games, and I finished the Current season of the Bear! 

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Hey, it's lunchtime,

lunchtime with the Clydesdale.

What's going on everybody.

So glad you could all be here.

Super pumped to see everyone.

Um,

Yesterday was a great day.

We had five new members to the channel.

We had one happen right

after we went off the air

and so pumped about that.

You guys are the best.

It really does help

everything to help us

support this channel to be

able to get us on the air.

The software that

that helps us get there is not free.

So just that little bit

helps every single month.

So thank you so much to

everybody who donated yesterday.

That was awesome.

We've got Holly in the chat,

best stats and info person

in the business.

We got Helson.

We've got Jody Lynn.

The beeps on the intro

always shocks me with her headphones in.

Okay,

maybe I'll change that in the future.

um james says good morning

from the west coast corey

leonard trained to live or

trained olive however you

want to pronounce that and

then jay birch jay rich

what's going on um so jay

birch is asking what is on

your knee leg in the thumbnail um

So yesterday someone asked

like what all these metals

are hanging here.

And they were from just when

I was really in the heyday

of my weight loss journey,

I was running two days a

week and then doing five Ks, four milers,

five milers, quarter marathons, uh, to,

uh,

have something to shoot for

during the runs.

And that's where I collected those,

those metals.

And so what's on my,

my knee in that is that was

the end of the quarter mile

that I was running and,

or quarter marathon, sorry,

quarter marathon.

And that was rock tape.

So when I had chat GPT

convert the picture to a cartoon,

it didn't keep all the tape there.

So when I would run the longer distances,

being at Clydesdale,

I would do the RockTape X

on my knee to help kind of

give it a little bit of support.

underneath the kneecap as I was running,

and it seemed to help

reduce the shock on my legs when I ran.

It could have been all mental.

Who the hell knows?

But yeah, that was just,

it was a crisscross rock

tape that would go around my knee,

under the kneecap,

and then down the shin a little bit.

And whenever I ran those longer distances,

I always did that.

And quarter marathon is a

long distance for me,

just so you all know.

So that is the answer to your question.

Jay Birch.

We got pool boy here.

We got Bubba.

What's going on guys.

So it is Friday.

Yeah.

I'm, uh, I just got done packing.

I'm heading to Pennsylvania

right after the show.

Uh, check on my mom.

Uh,

As most of you know,

I've shared along the way

that she had a stroke a

couple months ago.

She's either at the doctors

or coming out of the doctors right now.

And then hopefully we get

some good news about the

side effects she has going on.

And then I just want to go

check on her for a couple days.

And then...

We'll be back Sunday.

I'll go to my concert on Sunday night.

And then Monday,

we're doing Sunday night

CrossFit on Monday night this week.

So make sure that you adjust

your calendars for that Monday night.

Carolyn Prevost, Jamie Latimer,

and myself will be doing

Monday night CrossFit talk this week.

See me rolling.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Holly sending good thoughts.

Yeah.

Thank you, guys.

She's doing well.

I talk to her every day just

to check in on her.

She's just having this

little side effect that's

making her tired.

And my mom is a go-getter.

She never, ever...

never ever slows down ever

ever ever and this has made

her slow down and so just

want to get her back to

moving and grooving like

she always has she turned

to eighty this year um I've

told her story on here a

million times she lost a

hundred and fifty pounds in

her sixties and then uh was

running she probably ran

fifty five k's in her

sixties and seventies and uh

And she has kept it off.

She is a mover and a groover now.

Tons of energy.

And this stroke has really

kind of limited her a little bit,

and we want to make sure

she's doing okay.

Thank you, Jody Lynn,

for the hugs from my mom.

She will appreciate that.

and Pool Boy No,

it was not a Coldplay concert.

But man,

you go to an event with eighty

thousand people and you

think you're just part of the crowd,

right?

And somehow, some way,

you end up on a kiss cam

for the whole world to see

that you're having an affair.

That is beyond wild to me.

Like how...

in a group of eighty

thousand people do you get

picked out especially at a

Coldplay concert like

people are snuggling all

over the place like there's

plenty to choose from and

out of the eighty thousand

choices that's that's who

gets picked Jody Lynn

that's what cheaters

deserve sorry to say I do

not disagree with you you

play with fire you're gonna get burnt

And that just shows you play with fire.

They're going to find somehow,

some way in eighty thousand people,

they're going to find you.

Even then, if you're not displayed,

there's still a very high

chance that you'd run into someone,

you know, well,

they they were there with

people they work with,

like they were there with

people they know.

Like the whole company was in on it,

apparently.

I mean, wow.

Train Olive, Karma Baby, and Jody Lynn,

Best Karma Traint.

Now we've changed his name

completely to Traint.

How can we talk about this and not TB?

Because I didn't see the

video footage on a Jumbotron.

So everything else is just he said,

she said.

You know what I'm saying, Aaron?

A little bit of difference.

And we have talked about DB.

We've talked about her moving.

We've talked about the

effect on the people that

she left behind and the

effect of the people that

are going to be training

with her going forward.

We talked about the coaching changes.

We talked about all the

stuff that we know.

Shanna,

thank you so much for another super

sticker today.

Dollar ninety nine.

We appreciate that so much.

You are the best.

I want to know how the pole

vaulting is going.

That's what I want to know.

So, yeah,

it did appear like the whole

company knew that other

people from HR were there

sitting with them and that

that was going on.

And they kind of were laughing about it.

So maybe maybe it was a plant.

Maybe it was a setup.

Who knows?

I will say this, Aaron,

about the DB thing.

Now that we've seen the effect of it all,

something definitely happened.

There was something going on

in that house.

Someone saw it.

And the ramifications of

that are that she's no

longer a brute athlete.

We know that for a fact now.

And in every video she has put out now,

you can see the gooch in the background.

So go figure.

But it's really funny how

our eyes are better focused

now after the fact.

And we can see him in the

background of all the videos.

Crazy.

I do feel bad for Matt Torres.

Every time I've met him,

he's been nothing but...

He's been nothing but kind

to me and very forthright

with information.

He's been on the show before.

I met him when I first

became friends with Emma

Carey when she was just getting started,

and he was her coach.

He was awesome.

He was awesome to talk to about her.

Really, really appreciated him.

our conversations back then.

So I do feel horrible for him.

And if he was in love like that,

to do that is crazy.

George Wang,

how do you have an affair in a

suite with your coworkers?

I don't know.

That takes a lot of balls.

A lot of balls to have,

to take your side piece to

a concert in the...

they probably all know

anyway she works I mean

they work together I'm sure

it's known at work that

this is happening too um I

met matt torres at crossfit

tailwinds and he was super

nice and personable

above us at side piece well

I mean that's what it is

I've been married almost

thirty years like I

couldn't even think about

cheating on my wife she's

the love of my life we were

meant to be together I and

so anything other than that

I mean it's a side piece right uh

Brian Aldrich,

Bill Clinton was always

described as super nice and

personable too.

Okay.

But I don't think Matt cheated.

Matt was cheated on.

So there's a slight difference there.

I asked Shannon about her pole vaulting.

Pole vaulting is going,

getting better every day.

That is awesome.

I...

I was talking to Shannon

last year and doing the

behind the scenes of the

masters CrossFit games.

And she told me that she was

going to try to break the

record for pole vaulting

and had never pole vaulted before.

And now,

and then I saw videos of her like

learning the pole vaulting

and actually like getting

up and launching herself at

the pole and all that stuff.

And I'm, I'm, I'm just rooting for,

I love Shannon.

I just want her to have all

the success in the world.

So,

I just,

I think it's cool that you pick

something up at her age to,

and take something on and

go for a world record.

Bubba DBE is a ticking time bomb.

In my opinion, longer,

you hold it best of luck.

Well, earlier in the week,

we were talking about her

and this depleted women's field.

So just like off the top of my head,

the people that are missing

this year's CrossFit Games

that have finished in the

top ten are Gabby Magala, Laura Horvat,

Alex Kazan, Bethany Flores, Emily Rolfe,

um, page powers.

And then Emma tall finished eleventh.

So all those people were top

ten finishers and they're

all missing this year's

games and not all because of the boycott.

Some are missing it because of injury.

Um, like Gabby tore Achilles, Alex Kazan,

the car accident, Bethany Flores pregnant,

page powers pregnant coming back.

Um,

Man,

if there's a year that you don't want

to mess it up, mess things up,

this is the year.

This is your shot.

This is your year to podium,

especially if you're Danielle Brandon.

Why would you pick this year

to throw it all away three

weeks before the games?

If you were going to podium

any year of your career,

this is the one let then

let's factor in the next

rumor if tia is pregnant if

she truly is pregnant we

don't know how far along

that is and if you haven't

seen that she did a story

the other day and had

willow uh with a shirt on

that said sister it would

be odd to have wear a shirt

that says sister if a sister

if another child is not coming,

but if she is a weakened

Tia because of that,

and we don't know how her

body is going to respond to

pregnancy if she is in fact pregnant, man,

this is a wild year that

you could make so much

headway and podium.

Yeah.

Tristan said, dude,

she was pregnant with

Willow and she destroyed the field.

That is not true.

If you listen to her story,

she was celebrating her

game's win when she became

pregnant with Willow.

Craig, who said anything about sex?

Tia isn't pregnant,

especially long enough for

a pregnancy to determine sex.

Whether it's a boy or a girl,

Willow would still be a sister.

Right.

Willow is still the sister,

whether it's a boy or a girl.

Unless she's shopping at the Goodwill,

says Jody.

Ryan says,

or maybe because it's such a weak field.

She's like, well,

this is the best year to.

I have no idea what that means.

Oh, F around and find out.

Okay.

I think that's right.

Did I get that?

Celebrating her win.

Is that what the kids are

calling it nowadays?

That's what she called it.

So Mark Phillips,

my wife announced it to me

with my son wearing I'm a

big brother t-shirt.

That's kind of what I'm saying.

So if that's the case,

I just think it's a weird

year to mess it up like Danielle has.

She legit could have

podiumed this year with as

weak as this field is because of injury.

And ten years from now,

nobody's going to remember all of that.

They're just going to

remember you podiumed.

And even if Tia isn't pregnant,

the rest of the field has

depleted enough to give you

a legit shot at podium finishing.

A legit shot.

Just to bring that chaos in

three weeks before the

games is just so foolish.

train all of last time DB

changed coaches right

before the game she got

fourth okay let's go back

to twenty twenty three

right twenty twenty three

went twenty twenty two

twenty twenty two when she

left underdogs and went to

the games she crushed the

Mac that year I believe it

was the Mac or the or the

syndicate there was two in

the same place she won it by a landslide

She was as fit as I've ever seen her.

I don't know.

I don't see a repeat of that.

Maybe in her head,

maybe that's the good luck charm.

I don't know.

A CEO has to be sacrificed

every summer now.

Some people prefer chaos.

Well,

you're willing to take her on as a coach.

So I got to lump you in with

the chaos lovers too.

I would argue,

I would also say the field

was arguably stronger that

year just playing devil's advocate.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Jay Burch says it the best so far.

Maybe she needs that

friction to light the fire.

Fueled by hate.

So.

Also could be less chaotic

not being a part of the

camp that your ex runs.

True.

And Helson with the Gooch friction.

There you go.

We prefer the hate.

There it is.

There it is.

All right.

So the people that are at the games,

what are they actually going to see?

They're going to see event four,

which we got a glimpse of yesterday.

And here it is in all its glory.

Five rounds for time,

three hundred meter run, twelve deadlifts,

hundred foot handstand walk.

Um.

back on the danielle thing

the only reason she's not a

part of that campus because

she made him her ex uh and

ryan ryan aldrich loves the

chaos too because it makes

it more interesting love

some side stories all right

so ie four is five rounds

for time three hundred

meter run twelve deadlifts

one hundred foot handstand walk

Then again,

CrossFit puts out a video showing them.

Yes, I'm moving on, Jay Birch,

because I have a trip that

I have to go to.

I've got a four-hour drive to PA tonight.

Then there was a video put out behind this,

and I love that they're doing this.

I love that they're showing

the evolution of the

workout and how it started, how it ended,

why they're doing what they're doing.

The only thing that... So

immediately this comes out.

And if you guys know... If you guys know,

my co-host on Sunday nights,

Carolyn Prevost,

is the best deadlifter in the world.

So she sees deadlifts and

gets all excited.

And then she sees two-twenty

and she deflates.

To go three-fifty to two-twenty,

she just does not understand that.

And you can see in the comments,

she's the first one.

Two-twenty versus

three-fifty for the men with a little,

huh?

She had an advantage.

She had an advantage by the deadlift.

Now,

we didn't know it was Axel Barr when

she first was talking about this,

and she'll be on Monday

night to talk about it in more depth.

But what I want to ask you is,

now that we have these

videos out that are showing

us the evolution, you have Ben Smith,

one of the strongest

athletes in CrossFit.

And then Allison Scudds.

And Ben does it unbroken at three fifty.

Allison Scudds needs to break it up.

But Allison Scudds has never

been known as a strength athlete.

So.

The separation between the

weights just seems bizarre to me,

and I am no programming expert.

I don't want to get into

this into detail because

this is not my forte.

I'll let the athletes talk

about it when we talk Monday night.

But it just does seem like such a gap.

Now,

I've heard from other people that have

been analyzing this that the axle bar,

once you add that in,

is a bigger disadvantage

for the women than it is for the men.

Because everybody's using

the same size bar now

instead of the men using a thicker bar,

the women using a thinner bar.

And now you have...

everybody using this axle

bar and that actually gives

a bigger disadvantage to the women.

So I'm anxious to hear what

Carolyn has to say about that on, uh,

Monday night.

So tune in for that and

we'll see what's going on.

Um, and CJ says it is, but not that much.

Yeah.

I'm sure that Carolyn's

going to say the same thing.

Um,

But I think that Carolyn

likes this workout.

She's good on her hands.

It's not a long run.

And the deadlifts are like her jam.

So she's super pumped about this.

But

What I want to commend

CrossFit for is the video

that comes out after.

I think that is new, that it's creative,

that's allowing us to see

how the sausage is made.

And it gives us a better

understanding of what they're thinking.

And so I think that they

need to keep doing that bit by bit.

Now,

how many of these are going to release

before the games is going

to be interesting.

But I do like this approach

that they're doing with the

ones they do release.

These behind-the-scenes

videos are super cool,

but they show two things.

How the testing athletes are

probably not the right ones

and how out-of-touch Castro

is with athletes can do these days.

Yeah.

Maybe, maybe.

Uh...

Corey Leonard agreed.

Tristan, the test is the test.

Here it is.

Now line up and let's see

who can run it best.

Oh, it did.

Athletes or coaches

complaining before is just

not productive and sets you

up for decrease in performance.

Whether the weight is right or wrong,

it doesn't matter.

I think here's the question

that I have as a spectator,

not a coach or an athlete,

as a spectator.

Do you think the stimulus of

the tests needs to be the

same for both men and women?

Or because all the women are

doing the same stimulus and

all the men are doing the same stimulus,

that is fine?

I think that's the big

question on this overall.

Because in my mind, I don't care.

If I get a good race on both sides,

do I care that for the men

this was a deadlift workout

and for the women this is a

run workout or vice versa?

I really don't as a spectator.

I just want a good race at the end.

Now,

I know there are programming geeks

that talk about this until

they're blue in the face,

and I listen to them and I

try to understand it,

but it's just not my thing.

I just want to see a good race.

I want to know a good story.

That's what I want out of

this whole thing.

Okay.

I missed something here.

The right athletes have

already qualified for the games though.

That is correct.

It's very rare that you have

someone retire that is

capable of the same things

that the game that the

athletes who are at the games are doing.

Only matters with your competitors.

Aaron Fraser,

if this is supposed to be heavy test,

it is important for the test of fitness.

Tristan Patrick,

ideally globally across the

games as a whole, you want that?

Yes.

So you're saying that it is

important that the men and

women get the same stimulus

out of every event.

And speaking to the out of touch,

Lito says,

it's an issue if you think that

it's going to be a twenty

minute workout and it ends

up being thirteen and then

you don't have a twenty minute workout.

I hear what you're saying

and I hear what their

arguments have been made about that,

Lito.

But when was the last time

that Dave programmed an

event that ended

considerably different than

what it was expected to be?

I think at this point,

it's just a prediction, right?

Craig, agree.

Good race, good story.

Uh...

It's also hard to judge the

events individually without

the entire picture.

I agree with that, Trent.

Ryan, one hundred percent right.

Dave is pretty good track

record when it comes to programming.

Uh.

Twenty twenty one games.

TDC underprogrammed the yoke workout.

He's even admitted that, though.

That's like one of his his regrets.

And I think besides that,

he's pretty spot on.

Exactly.

So I think criticize him

over our predictions.

He has a better track record

than I do in programming.

So at this point,

I have to say he's he's

better at predicting this stuff than me.

Aaron makes any only for Tia.

Yeah.

That's a tough one.

Cause Tia was so much better

than the field in that workout.

Did he really under program

it or the Tia just break it?

So yeah.

Anyway,

That's the workout.

Again,

we'll get into it a lot more with

Carolyn and Jamie.

I know Jamie's trying to do

some of these for Carolyn.

So she should have some

input as to how they go.

So we should have some like

test results in the discussion.

It'll be interesting to see

what we learn there.

We also do not know what he

wants to be the linchpin or

if there are twists.

The other thing from the

video is if you notice like

Ben did it on the runner,

but scuds on the last right

before the video ended,

she finished and ran out the door.

So are they running a loop

or are they running on a runner?

Because that changes the workout too.

CJ,

has there ever been a twist truly that

we didn't know until game time?

It used to happen all the time.

I know when I was

volunteering in Seventeen,

we hid the strongman's fear

elements back in a barn and tested it.

It was tested back there

where no athletes were ever

going to see it and all of

that kind of stuff.

I also know chaos was a big

shock to athletes.

Who's Carolyn giving her coaches pass to?

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

The ranch loop was a big

twist nobody knew about.

Herd.

um so yeah thank you savon

for the like and subscribe

yeah so that's that um I

don't have much left for

this because I do have to

hit the road again I have

four hour trip to

pennsylvania um but we will monday night

Carolyn and Jamie will break

this workout down and event too.

And we'll hear more about that then.

The last thing I have is I'm

a huge fan of the bear.

If people have not watched the bear,

it's one of the best shows on TV.

I finished season four last night.

It was so good.

I really didn't like season

three of the bear very much.

I love season one and two a lot.

And this season was back to

seasons one and two quality.

And if Jamie Lee Curtis

doesn't win best guest

performance by an actress, I don't know.

Episode nine, freaking amazing.

She was off the chain good.

And Jeremy Allen White,

the star of The Bear,

his performance in the last

few episodes was completely

blew me away this year.

um so loved it loved the

whole end of the season

mark phillips asks if you

could only pick one the

bear or better call saul I

haven't seen either oh gosh

that's a tough choice loved both um

Better Call Saul starts really slow.

It takes a couple seasons to

get into a groove,

and then it's freaking fantastic.

But you have to know

Breaking Bad to watch Better Call Saul.

So I would say that if you

have not watched Breaking Bad,

go with the bear.

Know that Better Call Saul

starts really slow.

And the bear starts off...

firing right from the get-go

with the bear.

Just know that, um, season three is a,

is like a transition from

season two to season four.

And you just have to, um,

you have to get through that season,

but everything else is amazing.

So I would go with the bear

just knowing the better

call Saul is a slow start.

But once you get past, um,

the first two seasons of Better Call Saul.

And it's essential.

You have to know the

backstories of all these

people because it's not

only backstories of Better Call Saul,

but backstories of Breaking Bad.

And then once you get past that,

then it's freaking fantastic.

There it is.

Awesome.

I'm going to leave you guys with this.

I watched James Sprague on

Savant this morning.

I'm a Christian man.

I love Jesus with all my heart.

He is my Lord and Savior.

That twenty-three-year-old

kid can talk about his

faith in a way that blows me away,

and I wish I had what he

has to talk about it in that way.

What a fantastic young man.

I have been rooting for him

ever since he won the games,

and everybody dogged him

because they said he only

won it because of the

tragedy and because of the programming.

And then he won Waterpalooza,

which was fantastic.

He took second at WFP,

and he has been very

competitive throughout this

qualification season.

I want nothing more than

that kid to blow it up and

kill it at the games this year.

He has worked his ass off to

get from where he was to

where he is physically,

and I think that he has all the tools,

and he's finally showing it.

But man,

his talk on Savant this morning

was A-plus viewing,

and I wish I had what he

has to be able to talk

about my faith like he talks about his.

Freaking outstanding.

um ryan aldrich I'm not

super religious but that

man does a great job of

speaking about it in a way

that isn't ick or

aggressive seems like a

great guy I agree

completely he was um he was

great if you haven't

watched that uh I encourage

you to do so um he is not

afraid to talk about his faith

And he took a lot of hits

last year from talking

about it at the games after

Lazar's death.

I'm telling you, I was there.

I was deep in my faith

fields during that games.

And sometimes that's what

gets you through.

and he explained that well

too that lazar had become a

believer right before his

death and that that helped

him get through that whole

thing and why he continued

on with the games but it's

a great conversation please

go check that out uh if you

haven't already done so

with that guys I'm gonna

head into my car I'm gonna

head to pennsylvania take

care of mama for a couple

days the rest of you it's

probably time to get back to work

So you go ahead and do that.

And then we'll see you

Monday for lunch with the collides Dale.

And then Monday night,

CrossFit talk one day late

this week with Carolyn

Prevo and Jamie Latimer.

Thanks guys.

And we will see you soon.