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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
We're back for another week.
Semifinals are done and dusted.
And moving on to the CrossFit Games.
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So how was your experience at syndicate?
So I,
I want to make sure I say this huge
shout out to the event organizers,
the night and day
difference from 22 when
they had the semifinals
there to this year,
like light years better.
Light years better.
And really cool.
They weren't so back-to-back, right?
Like where they had two
events so close together.
We're not at Miss Puffy Pants, Lex.
But the venue and, oh my gosh,
Wilson Pack and his crew,
the 12 Layers crew, put on a great show.
Last time we were there,
the media was in the hockey locker room.
And this year,
I'll bring in our other host.
This year,
we were actually in a main
concourse as the media room,
way much more breathing
room than we had in years past.
But it was upstairs.
So we had to go down the
stairs to the floor,
upstairs to the media room,
downstairs to the floor, which was fine.
It was cool.
Because we had way more room.
And the signage they put up,
They put a sign over the
whole back wall that was
that skull crown logo,
crown covering up all the
ugliness that was back there.
It looked freaking awesome.
And the stands were packed.
If you look at the thumbnail,
that was Friday afternoon.
During a work day, those were the stands.
And it got bigger and bigger
as the weekend went on.
So do you think it was because,
why do you think it was
more filled with spectators
versus West Coast Classic?
Do you think it was location
or do you think it was the
strength of the field?
Because we were there.
I don't know.
But I talked to so many
people who said now that
they've experienced semifinals,
they're not going to the games.
They're going to go to semis instead.
They had so much more fun at semifinals.
And I've been preaching that.
It is so much more fun to go
to semis than the games.
Yeah,
I would imagine Knoxville's a lot
more affordable than L.A.
For sure.
I was totally thinking that, too,
and easier to get to.
Yeah,
and more centralized than something
on the East Coast.
Like people from the Midwest
could get there.
People from, you know,
all over could get there more easily,
I think.
And mayhem's an hour away.
Yep.
Proven's right there.
Yeah, Proven's an hour, two hours away.
TTT is three or four hours away.
So you're four hours from Atlanta.
It's five and a half hours
from Columbus to Knoxville.
Yeah.
That's not a bad drive.
Right.
It's so centrally located.
You can get from anywhere.
And all the major camps in
the Midwest kind of are in
driving distance.
Mm-hmm.
And there were so many
mayhem athletes there.
So many mayhem athletes.
And they're an hour down the road.
That had to help, of course.
Because they could go home
and sleep in their own beds.
If they wanted, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, Rich was there all three days.
Yeah.
He competed in the community event.
Cool.
And I think the community event helped,
too.
Because Vendor Village was packed.
Every time I walked through it,
it was packed.
Yeah.
And Northern Spirit sold out
of stuff on Friday.
Hmm.
Wow.
So, yeah,
it was a much better experience
than the West, for sure.
Hmm.
But it was great.
We got really good access.
For the first time ever,
they gave us finish line access.
So in years past,
they had the elevated
finish line at Knoxville.
They did not put that in this year.
And then there was a gap
between the finish line and
the VIP family and friends section,
which was the end.
Yeah.
And media could be there.
There was just a red taped
area you had to be in to
stay out of the camera's view.
Yes.
I saw you several times.
Oh, yeah.
Last year, you had to jump up.
Yeah, you had to be up in the stand.
You were like a sniper up in the upper.
Yeah, I remember that.
That was the same menu then.
Okay.
Yep.
Yeah,
I remember when you were sitting in
the locker.
Didn't have to do that this year.
I remember, though,
I got some really cool
shots of wall balls at the end,
at the starting line.
Because they have that
balcony where you're right
over and seeing.
That was kind of cool.
You still had that balcony
access for the rig.
But on the opposite end, the finish line,
we had access now on the
floor to get finish line shots.
Very cool.
Um, so yeah, it was such a hard, I mean, I,
I was glued to the screen
this whole weekend, like,
cause I was available, you know,
I was literally glued and there was,
it was so exciting and so
heartbreaking on so many, you know,
different levels,
but you're excited for everybody,
but also you have,
you have to be disappointed
for somebody too, you know, like it's,
More we become friends with people,
the harder it is to be at
these events because like I
am emotionally invested.
Carolyn has become such a good friend.
Yeah.
She had a bad weekend and it just was like,
there was nothing consoling
her right in that moment.
And other than Lex sent her
a blizzard and some cheese
curds and we love that.
So yeah,
Um, but she just was,
she just had a bad start to the weekend.
She got dizzy on the run.
She doesn't know why.
And then it, it just,
then it's an uphill climb from there.
Right.
Yeah.
Annika has the same bad
first event makes the climb
and then has that Tyler Christoffel end.
I didn't realize that she
wasn't going to make it either.
Like, I didn't realize it was that close.
I thought after that event,
even despite what happened,
that she was still safe.
only because Sean Woodland said, you know,
she sounds like she's still safe.
So I believe that.
And I wasn't thinking anything.
And then when they showed
her split screen at the end, I was like,
oh no, you can't,
this cannot be happening.
And that was the only time
that weekend that I visibly
like yelled at the TV.
That and two weeks prior was
when Colton Mertens touched and go,
did his touching.
I was like, let's go.
But that was, yeah,
that was heartbreaking.
Yeah.
The Anika thing is heartbreaking.
When Chloe Gavon David made it in,
that's when I started to worry.
Right.
She thought she was going to be number 10.
Right.
When she was number eight,
then it was like, oh, shit.
Yeah,
like she made such a large leap in
that last event.
Or nine, maybe it was.
She came from like 15.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She wasn't,
we weren't even talking about
her in that last event really.
Yeah.
And she's in a fun,
a phenomenal athlete who's
always gone team and
nobody's seen what she had and she showed,
she showed she's a really good athlete.
Yeah.
But on the, on the bright side,
I fell in love with Joey Piero.
I cannot get enough of that guy.
He's charismatic for sure.
was interviewing marquand
jones in the back and we
were walking out and um
marquand went up to him and
said how'd that go for you
joe and he's like well I
was I was bound and
determined to get dead last
I got a little bit of a
lead but then thank god I
got a no rep and then I
fell to dead last so I
solidified my position and
then he went touch and go
on the last bar of the
snatch complex and uh
And he said,
I knew just to salvage my weekend,
I had to pull that off.
Yeah.
And he made it look easy.
He didn't have the Colton
sideways shuffle.
Yeah.
But he is such a cool guy.
I want to hang out with him all the time.
He's Jersey boy too, right?
Yeah.
His Instagram is JerseyJP.
yeah he was one of the first
guys that I interviewed two
years two three years ago
when we started doing these
yeah I i watched it back
because I interviewed him
this year just to get what
you guys had talked about
and he was funny on that
one yes personality for
sure so I wanted to bring
this up because we had this
conversation at my house so
I was talking about paige
cementa and how every time
like she is a very consistent athlete
at a high level and she just
never gets the attention.
Right.
It's like invisible.
Right.
And then, then it'll be like, Oh,
where'd you come from?
And it's like, she's,
she's always been there.
Right.
And so I'm,
I'm bringing that up to my
family and here's their perspective.
And so I'm curious what you
guys think they were like,
she's not this flashy kind
of athlete though.
I think it's her temperament that she's
not a flashy athlete, but at the same time,
which I could hear that
like and see that like she
is kind of a more of a
reserved kind of person.
But why aren't they talking about her?
Okay, you got anything?
Because I'll go if you want me to,
but she have an agent.
No, she gets no media exposure.
No other than from us.
And I think she's freaking awesome.
Here's the thing.
She doesn't have any home runs.
Right?
Like,
she's going to finish higher than
Danny Spiegel,
but Danny Spiegel is going
to do something in that
weekend you're going to remember.
Paige is just going to be solid.
And if she was in the West,
maybe she hits a home run.
But in this region,
there's just too much talent.
for her to like stand out
and hit that home run.
But I mean, but same thing.
Like if you look at Scott Pancheck, I mean,
he was pretty similar in that sense.
Right.
Where he was,
he's just like Mr. Consistent.
Yeah.
I think that was a different era.
Yeah.
I think until page, you know,
is consistently top five.
I don't think people are
going to pay attention.
or it doesn't seem like they
have up to this point.
And Lex and Carolyn talk
about this all the time.
Paige is just an athlete.
You can throw anything you
want at her and she's going
to be able to do it because
she's an athlete.
It doesn't mean that she's
going to hit a home run with it,
but it's not going to throw
her off her game.
When she was at Rogue,
when they threw the log
over under thing at her,
she made that look like child's play.
And that was a home run for her.
It just was, it was at Rogue, right?
Not at the games or not at whatever, but.
And I think she's better this year,
like way better.
It would not surprise me if
she doesn't approach the
top 10 at the games.
I think it's going to be
tough to get top 10,
but like approach in that
Emily Rolfe era or area.
And is she, is she with a training camp?
No, Misfit.
Sorry.
With Misfit.
Yeah.
Which doesn't have a location, right?
They're more, I mean, they might,
but they're all kind of spread across.
So their location is like Maine.
Right.
She's not there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think, you know,
when you think about the
people that we know and cover, they are,
they have agents they're with.
camps that are you know
really well known they are
putting themselves out
there on social media or
they're half naked in their
posts or you know whatever
unfortunately that's she's
just she flies under their
radar for sure and and she
might that might be her
preference too that might
be how she you know puts
her head down and does work because
I would imagine if she
wanted to stand out more,
she could talk to some
folks to figure out how to do that,
whether it's getting an agent or
One thing I've kind of
learned with Misfit is
they're kind of a self-contained entity.
Like they support their
athletes through product sales,
through like they're almost
like an agent.
So they own an apparel company,
they own a supplement company,
they own all this stuff.
And their athletes all pitch
that stuff too.
Right.
Right.
So it's kind of this
self-contained thing that
probably limits how big she can be.
Right.
Or you need someone like
Hiller or somebody like Dawad for time,
you know,
somebody who's making parodies
or doing something to sort
of highlight her in that way.
And then that will start to
rally people around her.
It's almost like you have to
manufacture that sometimes.
Well,
I'm just throwing it out there
because it bothers me that
she doesn't get what she earned.
No, that's a good topic for sure.
yeah and she looked great
this weekend yeah just
great um so super happy
with her but I do have a
one o'clock meeting so
there's one thing I do want
to touch on and that is
judging yes and and I know
a lot of judges and there
were there were a lot of
judges out there that I did
not know I didn't of the
the crew that I used to be with
They were not making these calls.
So I'm going to say that outright.
So understand doesn't like
jump down my throat.
Okay.
I don't know.
He was there.
Yes.
Yes.
A lot of my old judging
friends were there and we
talked during the entire event,
but there was so much
inconsistency on the judging.
And I know Hiller did some
stuff on it and it was really good.
But during the team event, this is,
this is the epitome of it all.
They switched from male to female on,
and it was a,
I think it was overhead squats,
overhead squats in the workout.
They had to do like a
hundred of them between the two of them.
I might be off on numbers,
but it was a lot.
Yeah.
So the one judge is in
between the two looking
male looking female.
Yeah.
The judge is looking male.
The female goes, she turns,
the female is already gone.
She calls a no rep on the
rep and never saw it.
Is she calling a no rep
because she didn't see it?
So I think there's an
assumption with some judges
that when you do the squat
snatch to start the overhead squat,
you're not getting deep enough.
And they were calling it on
every first rep.
So I remember a very
well-known judge person in
the space once out loud said,
you always no rep the first rep,
no matter what, just to set the tone.
But this was the first rep
on every attempt.
When I saw that,
when she wasn't even
looking at the athlete and
called the no rep, I almost lost my mind.
Yeah.
Um,
but it was happening all weekend on
depth on hip extension that I,
I felt like,
and whether the call was right or wrong,
it wasn't the same across the lanes.
That's the key.
Yeah.
It's like you have, you know,
20 home plate umpires
calling balls and strikes and
It's like, how is it?
It's never going to be fair.
That's the thing.
Like when you have humans.
Impossibly fair, non-fair.
That's true.
I see, like I said,
there's a lot of suspect squat snatches.
On this particular case that
I'm talking about,
this athlete's butt was
almost on the floor.
Yeah, you're talking about the team ones.
This was team.
You might have been talking
about the individual.
But it was the one instance
where I saw the lady,
the judge was not even
looking at the athlete.
Yeah.
And she called the no rep.
Yeah.
Now, when I was texting you guys about the,
my question, it really was a question.
Like I just didn't know.
So we were talking offline about, um,
the box get overs or jump overs.
They were jump offers.
Right.
And,
I understand the way to
making it more efficient.
Kat,
you were saying it's a short person's
way to kind of go across it,
but how the trailing leg
was not crossing over the
center of the box.
So I really was like,
what is the standard?
Is that a standard?
And Scott was saying it
apparently was not a standard.
Is that correct?
Or just they weren't calling?
I did talk to a judge who
was standing beside me.
Okay.
That judge and Jamie
actually got into a
shouting match during that event.
Okay.
And they weren't hearing each other,
so it just kept going back and forth.
But from what I'm told,
they were told the trailing
leg didn't matter.
Okay.
Okay.
And then he,
this judge was saying very
specifically that it was, you had to jump,
you had to stay between the
lines the whole time.
Right.
Until you had to go out and
around the box to run to the finish line.
Right.
Or to go back to whatever.
So they were really concerned.
It didn't matter if you went
over the side or the middle
or the top or whatever,
as long as you stayed
between the lines on the box over.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm just going from my
perspective of if I was
coaching that movement,
I would never allow that or
I would coach it to go over the center.
And Jamie said that she felt
the lead legs were actually
not even getting they were
kind of going around the
side and up onto the box.
And she's probably right in
some in some cases.
I mean,
at least they didn't like turn it
like on its side, like a diamond.
Like I do.
I do stuff.
Yeah.
That's what I was just about to say.
That's a way that we, we,
I don't want to say cheat it, but we,
we take that extra step of over, right.
Because we're the shorter athletes,
but they have changed that standard.
Yeah.
That you can't do that because of.
Well,
these are wide rogue soft boxes that like,
it's much harder to like
clear the top of if you're
a shorter athlete.
Yeah.
Hiller actually made an
argument that that's maybe
why the step down actually
is why Bill Leahy tore his
Achilles because of the
spin and the twist on the
Achilles every time.
As opposed to the rebounding.
Correct.
He said, if you don't want the rebound,
put a burpee on each side of the box.
Yeah.
Or just like let the
athletes choose how they
want to most efficiently do the movement,
you know?
And if you're short and you
have to step down, like step down.
But yeah.
To me,
if you're doing it to level the
playing field for shorter athletes,
then let's talk about wall
balls and rowing.
You know what I mean?
And I'm not saying that's the reason why,
but if you're doing it for
that reason because some
people can't do it,
then there's other things
we could talk about.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm all for safety of athletes,
but at some point, just –
running is dangerous right
like you can't and it's
your own responsibility to
be safe like you shouldn't
be stupid with it but yeah
uh oh cory's getting fired up
How dare you suggest we
leave it up to the athlete's cat?
You know,
we don't know what's best for us.
This is true.
I mean, we wouldn't be doing any of this,
right?
So they were not allowed to
like flip their boxes, right?
They had to literally pick
them up and carry them to the next spot,
right?
Correct.
Because they were 30 and 24.
So the thirties had the
extra piece on top.
So you could, yeah.
Okay.
Got it.
Um,
So other things from this weekend.
Anybody ever going to beat Tia?
I mean, he's just a force, man.
Yeah.
You know, baby, it doesn't matter.
She could be pregnant right now.
Probably wouldn't matter.
Nope.
Yeah,
I think it was keeping for real
posted a thing where they
put the Terminator skin on
her like half off half Terminator.
Yeah.
She's I mean,
she took first in how many events?
I mean,
the first three I know she took
third and the fourth event.
Which was like a career low for her.
Right?
In a semi final.
She tied her third.
Look at what Corey just said.
Tia was a lot more fun to
watch when she was still humble.
Well, I did request an interview with her.
And she did deny you or what?
She did deny me.
If she said yes,
you probably would have
seen it somewhere.
No.
Did she deny everybody or just you?
Lauren has one out there with her.
Okay.
Good to know.
Thanks.
yeah um who else so haley
haley yeah sorry yeah she
looked she just looked
happy I know um and that
was awesome and she even
though she took dead last
in that one heat I mean she
did not take dead last in
the snatch ladder no
I will say I was worried
after event two as to how
that would affect her.
It was definitely a test for
her to see how she was
going to come back from that.
She did.
Yeah, she did great.
She passed the test.
It was the most loose I saw
her before an event was
before that event too.
Almost like she knew I'm
just here to have fun on
this one because these
front squats are going to get heavy.
Although,
did I forward you guys the TikTok,
the video that I took from
the Syndicate Crown,
the year Jason Hopper won?
So two years ago,
back when it was like a
sanctional or something,
and it was Hailey and Fi
Sagafi coming into the talk
dance behind the scenes,
like before one of the events.
I thought that was cute.
Corey says, Haley was awesome.
And can we talk about my girl?
I love it.
I love it that she came in
there and was proved that she's not just,
you know, a one hit wonder that she,
she's there.
Yeah.
And we,
we actually got an interview with her,
but the audio did not work.
uh so bummed we actually
lost interview with her and
uh taylor self and one
other person where the
audio just did just clunked
out on us you know I've
been thinking about how
much better we've been
since I was thinking about
our ben smith interview and
how he did this whole
interview and have three
minutes I was like man we
haven't really had any blunders lately
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jamie tried a new mic system.
And yeah, we've got to figure that out.
Yeah.
So the other people, Sam corn,
why a had an amazing love it.
That was when he got his sword.
Yes, Corey, in case you're asking.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Sam Cornway had a great weekend.
He looked all fired up.
That was awesome.
Who else had really good weekends?
Dal and pepper.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's going to be a moment
where he took the sport.
Right.
Where he, what did he become?
He came in second place.
He did.
Yeah.
Here's the best part about
Dallin and the lunge workout.
We're watching it live.
And I literally,
who was ahead of him about to cross?
Someone was ahead of him.
And I was like, this is Dallas.
This is Dallas.
And finally,
I got respect for my family
that I know what I'm talking about.
Isn't that fun when you're
watching and you make a statement,
you say something smart and
then like Sean or somebody
on the broadcast says like
the same thing or something
else and you're like, see,
I knew what you were talking about.
Mm-hmm.
Well,
my smart call was Jack Rosema is the
dark horse to make the games.
He freaking killed it.
With all those big guys.
Yeah.
And I love that guy.
And I can't believe Amy's
not all over him.
He was an OSU wrestler.
I'll give him some Buckeye props.
Yeah, he's going to the games.
He called top five at the
games on our interview.
He called it?
He called it.
We've had that happen before,
and it's worked out.
He said he just wants a free
trip to Scotland to get to Rogue.
Whatever it takes.
Yeah.
Perfect time for Rogue to
announce they're doing a
new qualifying system to
get people to their invitational event.
Right in the middle of the
end of semifinals when
nobody's paying attention.
Right.
And then I love it.
They're like,
this is the system we're going to use.
But just know we reserve the
right to invite anybody who we want.
We can do whatever we want
to because we're rogue.
Right.
And we are in charge here.
So all these formulas and
stuff we've thrown out here.
Yeah,
that's how we're going to kind of
start the process.
But at the end of the day,
we're going to pick who we pick.
We're going to pick our favorites.
um gosh austin hatfield had
a great weekend he is he is
a slightly taller version
than colton colton mertens
of that style athlete yeah
but I but like that 30 inch
box didn't affect him as
much because of those
couple inches yeah agreed I
forget did travis make it
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
I thought so,
but all of a sudden... Barely.
Hard to remember.
Right, you're right.
Was he number 11?
Yeah.
10 or 11.
Yeah, he was 10.
Okay.
11 was Luke Parker.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
You're right.
Yeah, it was between Luke and... Seth.
Seth.
I wanted Seth to make it so bad.
Seth was fun to talk to all weekend, too.
Him and Dre were like the
fun couple in the back.
Thank you, Dre and Garty.
Caron.
It was Caron.
I was like,
who was it that had to put the
dumbbells down?
And he made a fight too.
Mm-hmm.
I think Caron was a big surprise.
He's had that pec tear for the last year.
And he had to withdraw from
last year's semis,
last year's Waterpalooza.
And to get through that last
event with the 15
muscle-ups and still do okay.
Yeah.
Were we surprised that Alex
Vigneault didn't make it?
Or is he on his way out?
I feel like with that field,
if he would have been – I
feel like that field was too stacked.
And there's a lot of people
right on the cusp, like Seth, Dre,
if Dre keeps going.
I feel like if I had to
choose Alex or Caron from
the very beginning,
I would have picked Alex
Vigneault to make it if one
of them were going to make it.
So it was just surprising to me.
And Vigneault had a great
start to the weekend.
It just –
And sad because he's adorable.
I know.
He is.
He's real easy on the eyes.
He reminds me of Old Blue Eyes.
Who's our friend?
Paul Tremblay.
Yeah.
Those damn Canadians.
You can have the Canadians.
I'll take the Australian.
Paul qualified for the Masters Games.
Okay, good.
We'll see him.
Well, maybe we won't.
We'll see him in Birmingham.
Yeah.
One of my coaches made it to
the CrossFit Games, Mark Peters.
Cool.
For what division?
He's either 60 to 65 or 65 plus.
He was there last year too.
So he got to go to the
actual CrossFit Games in Madison,
which is really cool.
And now he'll go to Birmingham.
We're excited for him.
And then there was another
local guy too at the gym I
used to work at in Kennett Square,
55 to 59, Kevin McVay, who also made it.
Nice.
Two people I know.
One other guy who made the
Masters games but didn't
make it through the weekend
was Will Morad.
I know.
He looked jacked.
Like really jacked.
He is jacked.
Yeah.
That was sad.
Yeah.
I think I swallowed a bug.
Oh, great.
Oh, boy.
So the sad part about Will
was he had a great first event.
Second event fell apart in
an event I picked him to do really well.
I come off the floor, go around the corner,
and he's laying on the
floor with medical.
And I was like, well, that's why.
And then his lane was
completely empty the next event.
Yeah.
Oh, he ended up withdrawing.
Is that why we didn't see him again?
Oh, that stinks.
So I talked to him Sunday.
He had an MRI last night.
Don't know what the outcome of that was,
but that will be dependent
on whether he can compete
at the masters games or not.
Oh, okay.
Well, it was a hip issue.
Ah, okay.
Okay.
He's got an extra month, you know,
games versus Masters.
Yeah, he was with his wife and he's like,
you know, it's just, is it going to,
he goes,
it depends on what the prize money is.
If it's the same as last year,
it might be worth strapping it up again.
Because I think the 35 to 39
is 25 grand to win.
And if he wins that,
if that is a possibility,
it may be worth strapping
it up again to go.
If the prize money is not great,
then it may not be, is what he told us.
So my weekend did start off
rough just because it's me.
We're walking to the venue.
What did you forget?
In a giant hole.
Oh, you stepped in a hole?
And it just jarred
everything down my back.
And made it pretty awful
weekend with back pain.
But we made it through.
But why?
Why would there be a big hole there?
Why?
Why?
Did you forget anything?
Did you forget any cords or chargers?
No meds.
Nope.
Had all that stuff.
Okay.
All right.
We're making progress and
you didn't have to worry about sunscreen.
I was sunny there for the first two days.
Sunday was pouring down rain.
Um,
But it rained before the event.
Then it cleared up just
cloudy so the community
event could go on because
it was all outside.
And then when everything was over,
it started pouring again.
Perfect.
How is my back now?
It's still sore.
And it's on the good side of my back.
So I don't know.
Jamie said it looked horrible.
Like the way it jarred me.
Oh my gosh.
Draw your dagger.
That's pretty good.
It's probably sore from
putting CrossFit media scene on his back.
I don't know about all that,
but try your daggers.
Awesome.
He, uh,
and he takes all the pictures for misfit.
Oh, cool.
Good.
So he's pretty awesome.
Yeah,
my allergies are horrible in the hotel.
The hotel was just... Lex,
he needs to walk around in
a padded outfit pretty much.
Funny thing is I said that
to Lex about six months ago
because every time I looked
on her Instagram,
she was having another surgery.
And now it's me.
We're going to, you know what?
The duct tape that you use
to duct tape your car back together.
I think we're going to start
doing that to you.
We're going to duct tape you
back together.
It's probably a solid choice.
I think it is.
Gorilla tape.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I couldn't believe it though.
Literally walking in the first day.
I can.
I've been, I've traveled with you enough.
He's waiting to hear something.
So yeah.
So you can totally believe it.
Yeah.
What did you guys think of the run,
the run up that ramp to start?
Well, I don't like, yeah,
I didn't have to do it.
So the cool thing was we
didn't go down to the floor
for that event because where the media,
where the media, uh,
place was where like we
could chill the media room
was all glass windows to
the outside and the running
path went right by it and
so the right around the
corner was the ramp so you
could run out the door
catch them coming up the
ramp go around and then run
back into the arena and
then catch them coming in
watch them do the clean
jerks run back out catch
them coming up the ramp and out
And it was because of where
the media access was or our
little area was,
it made it really easy to
run in and out super fast
and get more of the action
than just the clean and jerks.
But so many people look so
labored coming up that ramp
on the later rounds.
Yeah.
Yeah.
On the teams,
you saw like people with
their arms or hands in the
back of their teammates,
like trying to help them up the,
like Noah was doing that to
Matilde up the ramp.
Then he was doing it to Tola.
Oh, man.
I've been loving the memes
with Tola's face.
I'm here for it.
Got to meet Matilde for the first time.
Did you braid her hair?
I did not braid her hair,
but I did get a hug.
She seems so happy.
The pressure of the black,
less pressure being on a
team than the individual stuff, I think.
And she seemed to be having a blast.
Yeah.
Speaking of braided hair,
did you see Dave Castro?
I did.
He actually approached me,
which blew my mind.
Very nice.
Did he say hi, Scott?
Did he ask about me?
He did not call me by name.
He did not ask about you, Kat.
He just said, hey,
are you getting everything
you need to get?
Is there anything we can do for you?
Blah, blah, blah.
I was watching Weekend
Review and he was saying
something about he had to
go get a drink of water or something.
He's like,
now if I had someone editing this for me,
I would probably edit out
that part.
But since I don't have
anyone doing that for me,
I'm just going to,
I'm going to leave it in.
And I'm thinking how many
times has he asked me to
edit stuff out of that weekend review?
Because he didn't like the
way it turned out.
I thought it was funny.
Yeah.
And that's the first time in
my life he's ever approached me.
I was really, I was flattered really.
And he was very nice and very cordial.
Shook my hand.
Yeah.
It always reminds me of that time.
We did those stupid
questions with him at the,
Yeah.
Talk to him.
Yeah.
He did make comments to like
Amy and I at the press
conference last year that
we were like the only media
entity that were at all the
press conferences.
Maybe I think that's where
he remembered it from.
Yeah, I think so too.
Because that's pretty small.
And we were like, right up there.
Yeah, asking stuff.
Yeah.
Carrying the conference.
Yeah.
Scott, you got your thing.
I know.
So I got to jump off.
I have a meeting in one.
So we will see you all next time.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks to everybody in the
chat for being here.
We'll see you all next week
on the Clydesdale media round table.
Bye guys.
See ya.