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what's going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the
Clydesdale we were having a
heck of a day with
technology but I am now on a new
area whatever trying to
figure this thing out um
stream yard tried to launch
it didn't it did then it
shut off and now we're over
here on a different feed
hopefully everybody finds
me um I know it's already
going to be wild because um
Rich Froning's on another
channel right now.
So I'm sure that is going to
take a lot of eyes.
But we're going to have some
fun here for forty five
minutes and maybe people
can catch up later.
So.
With all the technical stuff,
let's go with a simple dart toss.
And better, but not good enough.
All right.
So what's going on, guys?
What's going on?
Yesterday,
I had a lot of trainings to do at.
Work,
got those knocked out yesterday
afternoon.
Much better day today.
Now just trying to cruise
through and having these
weird internet issues today.
Andrew Sten, hola, back to normal life.
It'll take a few days for my
legs to recover after
averaging twenty K steps a day last week.
You were killing it, man.
I saw you everywhere at the
age group games.
Ah, hey,
but it's lunchtime with Clydesdale
loyalty.
There you go, Jay Birch.
you picked me over the goat
I've been flattered very
flattered um so yeah a lot
of you found the new feed
thank you uh for jumping
over here what's up jess um
meredith amanda I know
trent olive was over on the
other one hopefully he finds us over here
Um,
that's the only person I saw before
that the feed died.
But, um, anyway, fun stuff,
cut down day in the NFL,
watching my phone anxiously
to see who's going to get cut.
Um, it's exciting day.
Some people are going to
make their first NFL squads.
Some people are not.
Um, and that's a crazy day.
So also been fighting with
insurance today.
Aren't we to a point where
we need to like stop
fighting for insurance?
Like it used to be your
doctor would prescribe a medicine.
It would go through insurance.
They said yes or no.
And it's done.
No, I get an,
I am having this asthma issue.
I have a second inhaler,
which I have not had in about a month.
And I finally get a prescription.
It goes to the pharmacy.
It gets blocked because
there has to be a prior
authorization from the doctor.
But the doctor is the one
who prescribed it.
Why can I not understand?
I don't get it.
Why do I have to do all this
legwork to get my prescription?
That never used to be the case.
Now it's...
I got to do the legwork and
do your job for you.
And finally,
I think today it finally got approved.
Now I just got to wait for
it to get filled.
But good gravy.
Then you suffer for a week
in high allergy time.
It's just, God, so over it.
Shanna, some parts of medicine is broken.
I know, man.
I know.
I can't with insurance companies.
It took us three years for
my wife to get double knee
replacement approved.
Oh, my gosh.
It's just crazy.
Realizing I need to find a
way to have a career doing
CrossFit and not having a real job.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We talked last year, right, Brett,
that no matter what you did
at the CrossFit Games,
you come home and your boss
still has emails he wants answered.
There you are.
Having to wait a week when
it comes to asthma
situation is dangerous.
It felt dangerous a couple times,
but I think I've pushed through.
Hopefully,
hopefully we get some answers soon.
And yes, they do suck so much.
All right, before we get into too much,
I wanted to give a huge
shout out to Holly Dugan.
If you were watching the
Instagram this week,
she put out leaderboards for every event,
for every division at the
age group CrossFit Games.
And the reason she does that
is we want to give you guys
who are athletes, if you finish top five,
a way to share that with
your family and your friends.
It's in a nice,
pretty fashion and not like
just trying to like screen
grab a leaderboard or something.
Um,
and she absolutely kills it
every big competition she
put out leaderboards she
put out overall
leaderboards at the end of
the weekend she put out
overall leaderboards every
evening going into the next
day and the best thing she did was
consolidated the schedule
into a way that makes sense
so many people come up to
me and say they use her
schedule because it's
easier to read than what's
on competition corner or
what's been supplied by the
event she takes that and
puts it all into like a
neat little instagram post
and it has the men on one
screen the women on another
for event one then the men
and the women for event two
and so on and so forth
that was how I got around
all weekend to know who was up when.
And so I just want to give her all the,
all the do that she deserves.
And if you are running a competition,
you need to reach out to
this girl and hire her.
Like if you're running a
competition and you want
stuff to give to the athletes to share,
to make things easier,
she is the person to do that.
Like hire her, give her the logos to use,
have her make up those
shots and just send them
out all day long.
That girl needs hired by
competitions to do that.
Nobody does it better than her.
Period.
End of story.
And we are lucky, lucky to have her.
The next thing is I'm diving
back into the Hattie episode two,
starting to work on that
while playing around a
little bit with my stuff
from the age group games.
But I've got to get the Hattie one done.
first and then move into the
age group stuff but that
stuff will be coming out
over the next couple weeks
so look for that and I also
did release another members
only a raw and uncut
interview with caroline
klutz uh the winner of the
thirty five to thirty nine
and I think I'm gonna
release one more of those
and then save the rest for
the project that we're
working on to compile everything
So if you are a member,
go check out Caroline Klutz.
It was released late last night.
And I'm going to put one
more out probably today,
and then we'll end that for now.
And yeah, so there's that.
Big news, WFP is happening this week.
And I don't know if you guys
saw it's happening in the
Mesa Phoenix areas, Arizona area.
And did you see what rolled
in there yesterday?
The wall of dust.
Can you believe this?
Like it lasted, I guess,
like if you were in it, it was about.
Fifteen minutes long.
They talked to a woman who
was in a car and it kind of
like rolled over her.
She said it lasted about
fifteen minutes long,
shook the car the entire
time that like people in their homes,
the dust got in every crack and crevice.
But this happened on Monday,
and that's where the WFP is
going to happen this weekend.
So.
I guess it's like an unnaturally dry.
time in arizona right now
and this is like a front
coming in and somehow picks
up all the dust and moves
it forward and it's called
a haboob and uh yeah wow
crazy like that is like
biblical type stuff right
there I cannot believe
I think will morad was
driving in I think on his
instagram he actually
posted a picture of them
driving into it uh to get
to the venue uh yesterday
so uh crazy stuff man crazy
stuff uh that hubbub was
jazzed it was it had all
the jazz to it all the jazz
So anyway, other news from that,
Haley Adams announced her
withdrawal from the WFP.
So that now takes us down to
where Haley Adams has withdrawn,
Jeff Adler has withdrawn, Alex Kazan,
Emma McQuaid, and Bethany Flores.
So five of the athletes have
withdrawn at this point.
And they've all been backfilled already.
I think this is something
that we're probably going
to see more of in the busier times,
especially with this busy offseason.
You have Rogue, you have Wadapalooza SoCal,
and then you have
Copenhagen for the finals of the WFP.
And I think this could be a
trend more than just a one-off.
But who knows?
I could be all wrong.
I also heard a wild,
wild rumor this weekend at
the age group games.
I don't have confirmation on this.
So again, wild rumor.
I'm stating that over and over again.
Wild,
wild rumor that the WFP is going to
go exclusive next year.
And they are upping the
amount of money they are
offering the athletes to
pull as many of them away
from the CrossFit season as possible.
And that we could be left with two tracks.
People who stayed, people who left.
The people who left will be in the WFP.
People who stayed will be in CrossFit.
And you'll have two separate
tracks rolling down at the same time.
And the money from what I
understand is very substantial.
Um, possibly in the six figures.
And if you're offered that, that, I mean,
that is crazy.
I mean,
guaranteed six figures or take a
chance at maybe six figures.
Um,
it is insane now again wild
rumor no idea if this is
true no idea if this is
true but that is what I'm
hearing and you have it
exactly right john live
versus pga it is very much
that emeritus how much
money do these people have
that they can just throw it
around willy-nilly they
have that kind of money
So the people that you have met,
like Jackson and the board
with Will Morad and all of that,
it's not necessarily their money.
It's the parents' money.
And the parents have stupid money.
Stupid money.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
As a parent,
you want to do everything you
can for your kid, right?
Everything you can for your kid.
And I could see a parent
wanting their kid to be
successful and putting,
if they have that kind of money,
putting whatever they want
wanted at them to make them successful.
they must really want to
stick it to CrossFit.
If it's true, again,
I have no confirmation on this.
I just, it is something that I have heard,
but I cannot get
confirmation on it from anybody reliable.
So if that happens, it's going to be wild.
And I've talked to people
who say if the money's good enough, like,
and it can support them,
they're probably going to
go for the money.
To be able to do what they
love and get supported to do it,
they're probably going to
take... It's just like Liv and the PGA.
Some people took the money.
Some people decided to rest
on the morals of what they believed in.
And Liv had some other things to it,
right?
That money came from a culture that...
they call it blood money I
mean it is um they called
the the moving that into
sport whitewashing what
they had done it it's a
crazy if you have not
looked into the live thing
we don't have that with wfp
and they're not trying to
whitewash anything they're
trying to um just spend money
Meredith says,
it makes me think that
someone in the organization
really has a beef with
someone in CrossFit to want
to stick it to them so badly.
It's also a parent wanting
their kid to be successful
and giving them as much
money as they need to do that.
I think that has a lot of
power to it that if you're not a parent,
you don't understand.
If you are a parent,
you do have an understanding of that.
The WFP doesn't have any revenue streams.
That's the problem.
They're not paying for this
with revenue streams, though.
They're paying for this with
their other businesses that
they've made a billion
dollars in and that they
have this spare change
laying around that they can
help their kids be successful.
So...
And I don't know,
I've not seen their checking account.
I don't know how much stupid
money they have.
I've just heard from a lot
of people that it is stupid,
stupid money that they can
just kind of throw this
money to their kids to help
them be successful.
I think the idea is that
they keep it running long
enough where people leave
CrossFit and come to their organization.
Then the revenue streams
will follow after.
The people running the WFP
are the kids of very wealthy people.
jay birch so jackson terry
is a kid him and his wife
they are the children of
very very successful people
with a lot a lot of money
and I don't think they care
about revenue streams right
now but I also think that
they've made a lot of mistakes
And this is not the time to
try to throw your weight
around because I'm not
saying it's the right
choice to all you guys
arguing with this point.
I'm not supporting what they're doing.
I don't necessarily think
it's the best avenue to go.
I just know that I'm just
hearing it's happening.
I don't think it's the best way to go.
I don't think it's the best
way to build a business.
I've said that several times on here.
I'm just telling you what
I'm hearing from some of
the people are very close
to the situation.
Yeah, they are doubling down.
They're doubling down to try
to build interest.
If they can be the only
people with X number of
athletes and they're the top athletes,
they think that that will
then turn into an
exclusivity that makes
people want to watch them.
But I am a casual golf fan.
I have never watched a live
event in my life.
I watched the masters and I
watched the British open
and I watched the U S open.
If I watch golf at all in a season,
but they're just doubling down,
trying this thing.
And I'm not,
I'm not judging their success.
I'm telling you what they're
thinking of trying to do.
I, at the end of the day,
I think that we as a
CrossFit community and
culture will watch the
CrossFit game season
regardless of the athletes
that are in it.
It's been around too long
for us that do this every day.
If athletes have to choose,
I think the WFP will lose.
They will get has-beens and
the ones on their way out
of CrossFit already,
along with a select few who
exited because of Lazar.
I think you're wrong.
I think if you go back and
watch what happened with Liv and the PGA,
that's what people thought there.
And then they got,
was it Bryson DeChambeau and...
couple of the big hitters
and then it made it okay
for others to go if it's
six figures there is
nothing in the crossfit
game season other than
rogue and the games and the
games only the only six
figure the the game's only
six figure uh payout is the
winner everything below
that now is like sixty grand and less
And if you're guaranteed six figures, man,
that's, and I'm supporting a family.
I don't know.
It would, it'd be hard.
Trent Olive,
I think the athletes that are
looking to make money from
sport will continue into WFP.
I think if it's stupid money
and you don't have that
opportunity anywhere else, why not?
I don't know.
If you watch Full Swing on Netflix,
Rory McIlroy fought off Liv.
stood up against Liv.
Then, a year after he did all that,
he got hosed by the PGA
when they said they're
going to merge with Liv.
Now, that merger still hasn't happened,
but gosh,
he put his reputation on the
line for all of this stuff,
and then right after the fact,
they go ahead and merge?
It's crazy.
It's just... There are parallels there,
and...
I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see what happens.
I won't ever pay to attend the WFP event,
yet I've paid to go to the
games ten times.
I don't disagree with you.
Again,
I'm only reporting what I think is
happening.
I think that it proved this
year that a good chunk of
people will continue to watch CrossFit,
to go to CrossFit,
as long as they put together
a season that makes sense
and gets us from point A to
point B to find the fittest on earth,
regardless of who those athletes are.
But we have ownership in limbo.
We have no guarantee what
the season's going to look
like next year.
If you're going to try to double down,
it's probably the year to do it.
but you better have deep
pockets to even take a shot at it.
Take CrossFit out of it.
You're being offered
essentially the exact same job,
but you're guaranteed more money.
Americans every day leave
their jobs for more money,
go to the other company for more money.
To not expect the athletes
to do the same is, I think, naive.
I think john again I think
he says I think they need
to figure out how to get
people to their event I
think that is not their
primary concern I think
their primary concern are
to get eyeballs on their
sport and they're trying
everything they can do to
do that even the highest
elite athletes in the sport
doesn't guarantee people
are going to attend that's
what we learned from their last event
Right,
but if it becomes exclusive and it's
the only place you can see them,
we haven't seen that tested yet.
That's what they're going to
test next year.
If Jason Hopper signs with
them or Dallin Pepper signs with them,
Alex Kazan signs with them,
and that's the only place
you can see them,
then we'll see a true test.
And they're doubling it down
to see what will happen
when that happens.
And again, this is a rumor.
We're talking a lot about a rumor.
I don't know that this is to be true.
So, I did watch your latest video,
The Unbreakable,
with Emma Lawson and Jack Farlow.
Uh, and I think that it was okay.
It was okay.
Um,
I thought it was better than some of
their others.
It seems the ones that buttery bros do.
And then when they get into
more conversational pieces, it gets,
it takes a little bit of an uptick.
Um,
Cause I just don't want to
see people work out anymore.
I've seen that enough.
Um, I thought,
I think Jack Farlow is going
to be a star.
Uh, he is really dry, funny, really,
really enjoyed him a lot.
Um,
Emma,
I thought her talking about the back
injury and how, uh,
taking some time off this
season and just doing WFP
actually helped her.
That also is another thing
that helps them in their
recruitment of athletes.
Um,
it gave her time to kind of get
everything back in place, uh,
and heal the right way.
So that was interesting.
Uh, all in all, I probably give it a B,
um,
but nothing earth-shattering,
nothing I haven't seen before,
but better than some of
their other... I did want
to address something yesterday.
We talked about how the
Dreamers are forced to pay...
for their dream in the
crossfit game season
especially the age group
athletes are charged every
step of the way and then
their families are forced
to pay these large ticket
prices to get in the door
and I got a comment saying
that if you're doing local
comps you still have to pay
and I get that and I and I guess
My thing was that wasn't my point.
My point was that CrossFit
only looks at a linear revenue path.
And I wish they would look
outside that linear revenue
path because people like
John and Hurt Athletics,
if you get people in the
door to where they want to
come buy some stuff,
That helps the vendors get
excited about being there.
The more vendors that are there,
the more people will want to come shop.
The more people want to come shop,
the more vendors we add on to that.
And then we actually have something,
an ecosystem at these
events that actually starts
paying for things outside
of just a flat revenue source.
That's what I was saying.
We need to look at more
creative ways to get people in the door.
Like,
Wadapalooza has their free day Thursdays,
and they have the biggest
vendor village of any
competition I've ever been to.
That works.
You get butts in the seats.
And Wadapalooza's biggest
problem is not having enough seating,
right?
And that is a great problem to have.
Most competitions don't have that problem.
But they do.
It helps that they're in Miami in January.
Now that they're moving to
March or whatever it is,
I hope that they still have that draw.
But that...
Just to address that one
comment that we got back,
that was my point,
not about that I don't
think people should pay their way.
It's that we need to look at
other revenue sources.
Well, that's just creative marketing.
They throw a fitness festival.
That's my point.
That's my point.
make it bigger than just
coming to watch people work
out and then vendors come
and then people will come
and then ticket prices can
be lowered and and then it
becomes like a big festival
and everybody hanging out
that's what you want
And we keep eliminating the
festival aspects of all of
these events that CrossFit holds.
And because of that,
we're diminishing the crowds we are...
Like when we were in Madison
and there was a campground
and there was outdoor
events with a cheap
festival ticket that you
could come hang out with
your buddies watching on a
big screen in a beer garden
or out at the outdoor
events or go camping at the RV,
all of those things,
those were butts in the vendor village.
All of that goes to like
help with the funding of
everything that goes on.
Yes, Amy.
CrossFit events are so much
more fun when there's a
festival atmosphere.
Right.
We've got to find a way to
bring that back.
Not just the games,
but also with the age group
CrossFit games and other events around.
Even...
Even Rogue doesn't have that
for a vendor village.
So we're running late.
I wanted to do a top five
events that I like to
appear in person and go to,
and I'm going to count them down.
My honorable mention for this is Rogue.
When Rogue was in Columbus,
it was one of my favorite
events to ever attend.
Then Rogue went to Round Rock in Texas,
and it was boxed into a
baseball stadium with no festival feel.
So it just became an
honorable mention for me on this.
And now I've not been to Scotland for it.
I don't know what they're
doing over there.
It seems to be cool.
I've heard good things,
but I haven't seen it for
myself to be able to move
it back into the top five.
Number five for me on the list is Legends.
Legends in Arizona is a
great place to watch a CrossFit event.
Two moving floors,
lots of cool places to
watch the events from.
outdoor olympic swimming
pool where you have a
swimming event right
outside the door and
everything is contained
closely so you can kind of
get to everything and there
are tents and booths
everywhere around all the
floors great place to go
hang out it's on arizona
state campus lots of fun
Number four, Guadalupalooza, Miami.
Guadalupalooza,
Miami is a great place to go.
I used to call it the
CrossFit family reunion.
When you go there,
you seem to see everybody
you've met in the space over the years.
Lots of vendors,
lots of shopping you can do.
three moving floors again
moving around to different
locales right on the water
january in in florida is
way better than january in
ohio um it's a fun place to
get to my only drawback to
to water palooza miami is
it is a lot of stimulation
in a short amount of time
and sometimes it's just
good to go back to the
airbnb or the hotel and
just decompress for a little bit
Cause it's a lot of music, a lot of, um,
a lot of interaction with
people and a lot in a short
amount of time.
Yes, I know now it's in March,
but I'm basing this on where I've been.
So maybe it'll move off the
list in the future.
Number three is the CrossFit games.
Um,
It's always been down at
about the number three spot for me.
I know it's the pinnacle of the sport,
but it's the least kind of
like fun place to be to watch the sport.
Now, Madison was better than Albany,
which was better than Fort Worth.
But I...
You have no access to athletes.
You have no access to coaches, really.
It's very tightly secured.
Things are just a little bit different.
It's a little more edgy.
Everybody's on edge, I should say.
And even though I had a
great time there this year,
it only comes up to number
three on my list.
Number two for me.
would be the syndicate crown
or us semifinals.
Cause I've not been to the European ones.
I can see they're great on, on the stream,
but the semifinals are more
fun to me than the games.
People were fighting for a
position at the CrossFit games, uh,
Everybody is, is accessible.
You can talk to people.
Um,
and syndicate crown does it really well.
Like this year they added the, um,
John young and the heavy
Isabel to the race.
They did a kill Taylor lat
the year before they had an
outdoor competition on the, um,
like the walk up to the venue.
There was an outdoor
competition going on out
there with a pretty big
vendor village and a lot of
people just hanging out,
having a good time.
Syndicate Crown is a blast.
If you've ever...
not gone to a competition
live and you want to do it
in a more affordable
fashion I tell you go to
semifinals I had people
come up to me there say
that they heard me say that
before and they were so
glad that I told them they
had way more fun at semis
than they did at the games
and my number one place to
go see a crossfit
competition is the age
group crossfit games
It is the best community.
It is the most pleasant community.
You can hang out with everybody.
And when it was here in Columbus,
I got to sleep in my own
bed and you walk out the
door of the venue.
There are five hundred plus
restaurants to just walk to.
It was the best placed event
that I have seen in my time in CrossFit.
And I'm not just saying that
because I live in Columbus.
But it literally was right
in the hub of all the cool
stuff we have here in town.
You walk out the door and in
walking distance,
five hundred restaurants.
I kid you not.
It was so much fun and the
athletes are just hanging out.
And you can walk up to them,
and they're willing to take pictures.
They're willing to sign autographs.
They're willing to just sit and talk.
You can approach Boz.
You can approach Dave.
You can approach people that
you would never have that
opportunity to at other events.
It is really,
really a fun and good time at
the H Group CrossFit Games.
And this year, every floor was packed.
Every floor was packed.
I think their biggest issue,
if they hold it here next year,
is to get more stands
around every floor because
it was jam-packed on every
floor for every event.
And that was fun to see.
I looked at some pictures
today from Rudy Berger when
they was at Madison and how
little the crowds were in
the stands at the Coliseum
when the Masters were on the floor.
There were way more people
in Columbus for this than
there were at that CrossFit
Games in Madison.
So cool to see.
First time being at the Cross...
CrossFit Games, age group,
it was an awesome experience.
What I loved is all the support family,
friends showed to them over the weekend.
Brett Owsley, competitor at the Games,
really enjoyed Columbus.
Great location, great food.
Zoo, museum,
kept the family entertained
while I rested.
See, we have it all.
We have it all.
And as long as you don't stay in the hood,
you're good to go.
And Rogue is five minutes down the street.
five minutes down the street.
Um,
so if you have the wrong clips for your
axle bars,
if you really wanted to keep them,
you could go buy some new clips.
Just saying.
So with that, that's been the fun thing.
I have a very,
very funny story from this last weekend.
Um,
I told you guys that I am
the most awkwardly social
podcaster in the space in
this um and this story is
going to prove that to you
in a big way but I want to
wait until corey is on with
me tomorrow uh so I can
tell the story to him you
guys can listen in and uh
yeah it's gonna be a good
one really really good one
Andrew Sten,
I'm really surprised Rogue
didn't have a presence at the event.
Me too.
Even if it was just a small signage to say,
hey, go down Fifth Street or Fifth Avenue,
and we're down the street five minutes,
and come check out our showroom.
Just something as simple as that.
All the equipment was Rogue.
Just a sign to say, hey,
come visit us at our
location on Fifth Avenue.
So,
but I have other thoughts on Rogue as
well that I'll have to keep to myself.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was shocked.
Yeah, me too.
I thought they would have a
booth there for sure.
But why make a booth when
you're just down the street, though?
You know?
I mean, their showroom is massive.
Just go down there and check it out.
Well, with that, guys,
I have to get back to work.
Time for you knuckleheads to
get back to work as well.
We will see everybody
tomorrow for my funny story
about how I'm socially awkward.
We'll see everybody tomorrow, guys.
Back to work.
I'm out of here.