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What is going on, everybody?
It's lunchtime.
We're taking a break from
the workday to hang out,
talk about sports
entertainment in the world of CrossFit.
What is going on?
All right, guys.
It's been a minute.
we're going dart and I think
I've switched to lefty um I
pre right before the reese
interview I did last week I
was practicing waiting for
her to come on and I put a
lot of holes in my wall
because lefty it gets a
little wild but actually I
get closer to the bullseye
when I'm like close so
we're gonna go lefty for a
while and we're gonna take
the risk so here we go oh terrible
hit the wall not the
dartboard yeah lefty's a
lot more exciting that's
for sure what's going on
kenneth jay birch trained
to live jody lynn all here
I got got my regulars a
little bit of cory coming
in got some fun stuff to
talk to cory about tomorrow
And I can't wait to hear my
judges' take on Corey's
issues from the week.
Can't wait to hear what that is tomorrow.
What's up, Shea, Denise, Matthew?
What's going on?
Denise says,
close your eyes when you throw.
If I go right-handed,
I have to go over the mic
and over the monitor.
If I go left-handed,
I kind of clear all the obstacles,
but I don't have a lot of oomph on it.
I'm semi-ambidextrous.
I write left-handed.
I eat left-handed,
but I throw right-handed.
So I'm all messed up.
I don't really even know who I am anymore.
Corey said it's all been sorted,
but yesterday was a wild ride.
Yeah.
I want to,
I want to pose the question to
my judges in the audience
with your story tomorrow.
So we'll just preview that
and just kind of see their
take on the whole situation.
Glad it's been sorted.
Um, Aaron Frazier accuracy.
One of the ten general skills.
Yeah.
Like I'm pretty accurate
right-handed from like the
line in a straight thing
with nothing in my way.
But hey,
it'll build up my lefty shooting
for a while.
All right,
I'm going to take one more shot
left-handed.
All right, here we go.
Oh my gosh.
This will tell you the tale of two.
This is my lefty.
You just never know.
to get a picture of this all
right so uh my first one is
off the board down into the
right to the right and my
second one is almost a
bullseye I don't know if
you guys can see that so
yeah I missed the bullseye by about
A quarter of an inch.
It's coming.
It's coming.
The lefty, you just never know.
Going lefty,
it could be into the wall or
it could be into the bullseye.
You just never know.
Denise says, nice, Scott.
Corey Leonard, I like the template,
by the way.
TEF should have it by next week.
Yeah.
I actually liked the template better than,
um, what I had.
So we're good.
Uh,
the steak in the bottom corner looks
delicious.
Yeah, that is, that is my homage to, um,
to Ken, Ken Walters.
Um,
cause he always has a ribeye when we do
the lunch with the Gladstone show.
So, yeah,
that's my little homage to him
there in the corner.
Um,
My font is better today too.
Yeah,
I only do the wild ones like every
third or fourth show.
Really,
really just do it to see who's kind
of paying attention.
So, yeah.
But yeah, I actually,
if I were going to go to
with a permanent one,
it would be more in this range.
So, yeah.
to kind of move off of the
norcal stuff a little bit
we're going to talk about a
little bit but um but here
we go um dave's we can
review yesterday uh we'll
start off with the norcal
stuff there and then we'll
kind of get away from that
hopefully uh for the rest
of the week um dave talked
about the norcal
He went to it.
He talked about being there
and how awesome the
community was and how many
people were there and how
incredible that was.
And he liked it from a community event,
but from a qualifying event,
he was not a fan.
And he basically goes into
saying that he talked to
Blair and Ben and said that
basically they're setting
themselves up for failure
by trying all the new things.
instead of giving like a basic competition,
for the most part with
maybe a new thing or try
something new here,
too many new things was just too much.
And they're setting
themselves up for failure.
And he says that he met with them.
He told them that whether
they take that to heart or not,
I don't know.
But I think that that's very
telling that Dave went
public with his comments
about that qualifying event
because he doesn't
generally talk about
qualifying events that he's not running.
For him to step in and say those things,
I think is a big deal.
What that means in the long run,
I don't know.
But it does seem to be a
thing that he felt compelled to say that.
so I found that very very
interesting and then if you
watch the first wow if you
watch the first ten minutes
of boys interrupted uh
dallin held nothing back on
the competition as well
um and basically said
there's no way it should be
a qualifying event there
was there was something
wrong with every single
event and he held nothing
back so they're getting it
from all angles uh this
week media dave athletes uh pretty crazy
Sorry, guys.
I thought I could get away
with it without a cough drop today,
and it is not happening.
So, Train to Live,
Boys Interrupted went in on NorCal.
They really did.
They went on a lot of the
same stuff we've been
talking about for a couple days.
About not measuring the cones,
cones not being straight,
rings being different sizes,
rings being placed further
and closer apart from each other.
Lots of stuff.
The row not being consistent, the gator,
you name it, they've talked about it all.
So I think it's going to be
a hard road to hoe for them
to do this as a qualifying
event next year.
Or they're going to have to
really tighten up the ship.
Really tighten up the ship.
So...
The other thing Dave talked
about yesterday was that
they came to a decision or
a non-decision on the K.L.
Lehman situation that
basically they didn't get
the proof they were looking
for that the scores were valid,
but they didn't get enough
evidence to prove that it wasn't.
So therefore, they were making no decision,
which I think is...
a pretty big cop out.
I think if you're a
competition and you tell
the participants they need
to videotape their events
in case CrossFit asks and
they cannot supply those,
then the decision has to go
that it's not valid.
because they are not
adhering to those rules.
Now,
I don't know what they got or what got
put together for them,
what it was the lack of or the,
I don't know.
Trained to live,
either he did the work and
has video proof or he didn't,
seems pretty obvious.
Don't know how a top five
finisher gets away with not having videos,
says Andrew Sten.
What part of he wasn't on
the gym cameras doing
workouts isn't proof.
So, Lito,
I don't know if CrossFit has that.
That's something that
Kipping at Real had or stated he had.
Yeah.
Again, that's the part that's confusing.
You have a lot of stories out there.
I don't know what evidence
CrossFit got or didn't get
in this situation because
they didn't say.
But fact of the matter is,
his open finish stays as a
top five finish.
And that's it.
And we'll see if he signs up
for the last chance qualifier.
Anyone in the top one hundred hell,
everyone in the top one
hundred should have a video.
You would think.
So then.
I heard this yesterday when
Dave was talking.
I'm going to play it for you guys.
And then I figured it out
with a release that came
out just a few minutes ago.
But the way Dave talks about
the last chance qualifier was very,
very weird.
Hi Dave,
will the last chance qualifier use
the same video review process as,
or he might be a photographer,
as in affiliate semifinals,
all public videos,
public review and voting by
certified judges, et cetera.
If yes,
is there a date when that will be
completed after the last
chance qualifier?
So the last chance qualifier
will not have the same
video process as the in
affiliate semifinals.
They're running it on their
own and they're gonna have
their own standards and
they're gonna have their
own way of running it.
We've been giving them a
little advice and guidance,
but it is not adhering to
our standards for execution
So who the hell is they Who
is they they are running it
we are consulting them
we're giving them advice who is they Well,
it appears it appears
from a release from the
barbell spin just a few
minutes ago that the they
is crossfit mayhem the
hustle app is going to be
used for the scorecard um
and they're calling it the
mayhem golden ticket I
think um it seems weird
If you do sign up and you are not eligible,
it will not allow you to sign up.
Brian's been tried to do
that and was told you are
not eligible for the last
chance qualifier.
But it seems as though it
seems as though I don't
have confirmation on this,
but it does seem that
mayhem is running the last
chance qualifier.
And we asked that as a
factor fiction a couple weeks ago,
is Mayhem controlling CrossFit?
They programmed almost every semifinal,
and here we are with the
last chance qualifier,
and they're running it?
Just seems to be.
So I don't know.
It just is mind-boggling that...
their hands are that far into it again.
And the fact that CrossFit
is still hands off on as
much as they can be hands
off of this season, they are hands off.
And that is crazy to me.
plausible deniability on HQ's part.
Yeah,
because when they're asked about
video review and all that stuff, hey,
not us.
Our hands are clean.
I don't know.
It's wild.
Aaron Frazier, Nate has a chance then.
He does.
Maybe Luke will sign up now.
I don't think Mayhem is
going to buy CrossFit.
but
Just crazy.
And I'm not saying they
won't do a good job of it
or that they're not trying
to keep it as fair as possible,
but they're just biases.
There are people that are
doing their programming.
It's just natural.
I do think they try to be
ethical in what they do and
they try to be on the up
and up with everything that they do,
but they're just natural
biases that occur
Because you know this person
or you want this person to succeed.
Lito,
they have literally outsourced
everything this year.
This isn't a surprise, really.
I agree with you to some extent,
but I was shocked that they
outsourced the last chance qualifier.
I just never thought that
was a possibility.
But apparently...
apparently it's it's it is a
possibility so there it is
why didn't mayhem do the
review of kale that is a
very excellent question
that part wasn't outsourced
jody says mayhem should
stay away from buying
crossfit I don't understand
that statement
Um, I think if mayhem bought CrossFit,
we'd be in a better spot.
I don't think they have the
money to buy CrossFit
unless they had investors behind them.
Um, like the hustle up people,
which has been rumored to
be a part of the package of
someone who wants to buy CrossFit.
But I, you know,
I haven't heard much more than that.
So.
I think CrossFit's still a
good buy if you know what
you're doing and you're in
it for the long haul and
not a short-term flip.
But that's just me.
So...
So yeah,
so that's what I have on the
Dave's Weekend Review.
But when I heard that they,
I was really conflicted and
confused and confounded.
And then to just, like I said,
minutes before we went on the air,
the spin released that
they're not using the
CrossFit leaderboard,
they're using Hustle Up,
and they're calling it the
Mayhem Golden Ticket, apparently.
So very, very, very interesting.
Interesting.
one other thing I wanted to
get to today is, um, Liz,
this weekend we had another
road to the games and with
Dallin and Jason.
And what I will say is it is,
it is much better than the
fee and Abby one,
because I believe that the
personalities of Jason and
Dallin carry it.
Um,
and it was very humorous and it was it.
And the wives really lent
themselves to be the stars of this, uh,
documentary.
I also had,
we had the NorCal classic going
on with Hiller releasing
behind the scenes all weekend long.
I absolutely loved the
Hiller behind the scenes videos.
Um,
he's just in a total groove
with storytelling right now.
And even the short,
quick bursts that he does
in behind the scenes, what I,
what I love about his
version of it and what made
Savan so good is none of
the behind the scenes was about them.
it's not about Hiller story
or anything like that.
It's about the people he's talking to,
and it's about them telling their story.
And I think that that is
where Hiller has figured it out.
Um, his last couple visits with the people,
like the twenty four hours
or forty eight hours with,
which I think he's calling
road to the games now, which is hilarious,
um, are awesome.
and when these behind the
scenes I actually was like
refreshing youtube every
morning so that I could
watch them before that
day's event I was that
excited to see the next
iteration they did so good
with that so um if you have
not watched the behind the scenes of uh
NorCal, totally worth watching.
I would give it... I would
put it up in that A-plus
range of the stuff from the year.
This last road to the games
with Dallin and Jason,
I would give it an A. It's
probably their best outing
of the year for road to the games.
So some good content there.
Again,
kind of hidden in what happened at
NorCal.
So...
CrossFit not really hitting
the home runs on the release times.
I mean, there's nothing going on today,
tomorrow.
They would have been perfect
times to release this kind of stuff.
Aaron says,
you mean it's not like the Buttery Bros?
It is not.
Yeah, it's not about Hiller and...
know last year he included
some of the spiegel stuff
with him and spiegel that
was more like toward what
his channel was about this
year is more just about the
people that were there
participating in the event
having a good time at the
event the community that's
going on this year was I
thought a plus material uh
nothing going on tomorrow
I'm kind of offended scott
Well, of course, Corey,
you're going to be on the show.
That's why we pick Wednesdays,
because there's not a lot
going on in the CrossFit space overall.
So you and I can just sit
and chat about whatever comes up,
and we're good to go.
Shay says his content was
the only content I watched from NorCal.
So good.
I actually enjoyed the broadcast.
This weekend,
I thought that they took to
heart a couple of the tips
that that I tips.
I guess we were critical of
them last Sunday night.
They did more wide shots of the floor.
And when I say wide shots,
I do not mean ten wide.
A lot of people think I mean
ten wide where you can't
really tell who the people are.
I do not.
I just want them back a
couple steps so I can see
two or three lanes at a time.
You can focus on the person
in the middle if you want,
but at least let me see the
people beside them to see
are they close or not.
It just adds more to the storytelling.
And I can still see the
person in the middle really
well to watch that close-up if I want to.
And I thought they did
really well with all of that.
I think the only misses of
the weekend were wrong names of people.
But I also know that people
were switching lanes without notice.
And if you...
if you did not get the
updated lane assignments
with the right people in it
and it's a twenty five lane
field they were they were
at a a very big
disadvantage trying to do
all of that with not the
most updated information
but I actually enjoyed the
broadcast I actually
I thought the video, the footage was good.
They had to,
because they could not live
stream it and they had to
take it back and upload it,
there was a delay to it,
but that is what they had to do.
They talked about what it
would have cost to do that.
They actually invested like
thousands and thousands of
dollars to try to get it to
work as a live stream and
nothing they tried worked.
they tried they even bought
like a starlink that had at
t and t five g and verizon
five g all in the same
component to use all three
bandwidths to get stuff in
and they could not get that
to work so I think what
they did was the best we
could get for where they were
and I applaud them for the
coverage this weekend
because I got to watch it
and I got to see a lot and
there was a lot to talk
about from it so we got a
lot of content from it so
that was pretty pretty
awesome imagine the behind
the scenes of that that
would have been crazy them
trying to figure it all out
aaron frazier says cj with
wad prep had great recaps each day too
Okay, cool.
I did not see those.
I'll have to go check those out.
They showed up in my queue,
just didn't have a lot of
time to get that in.
A train to live,
besides the fact that it
wasn't live streamed,
I think it was pretty good.
I agree.
I thought it was better than
the week before,
and that's all you can ask
is them getting better.
And if they can do it more
economically and we can see
more of the events, then I'm all for it.
Shay had a question for me.
So for the last chance
qualifier is mayhem doing
the programming or how does that work?
So they announced this a
while ago that they were
going to get five coaches
from around the world to
each come up with a workout
and then they would put
those workouts together and
that becomes the last chance qualifier.
They announced who those
coaches were today.
Let me see if I can find that.
One of them is rich surprise, surprise.
Um, but it's not all rich.
Um, so here we go.
I will share my screen.
This is from the barbell spin.
It just went out.
It's on Instagram somewhere,
but I didn't want to like
search for every little piece.
Uh, there'll be five workouts for the LCQ.
Um,
have been programmed by five
different individuals from
around the world.
Rich Froning from North America,
Mikel Izquierdo from Europe,
Liam Mulligan from Oceania,
Alberto Nadeau from South America,
and Max Ma from Asia.
Each person listed above has
programmed one workout that
will be completed during the LCQ.
Um, so, and then just, if you want to know,
um,
there's only been a handful of people
that have signed up, but, uh, Thursday,
the workouts will be revealed.
Saturday registration closes.
Um,
Saturday submission deadline for the
first three workouts is at
eleven fifty nine Pacific time.
And then Sunday at eleven
fifty nine Pacific time
submission deadline for the
last two workouts.
June seventeenth to the twentieth,
the leaderboard will be finalized.
So that is your last chance qualifier.
I do know Carolyn is trying to do it,
but I will tell you,
because they're not
releasing the workouts till Thursday,
she is in a very,
very precarious situation
because you still have to
have the two judges.
And trying to find judges
and places to do a fifteen
foot rope climb.
She'd have to go to another gym.
She has to make all these arrangements.
And with the workouts not
being released until Thursday,
that makes it very difficult on her.
So I hope that answers your question,
Shay.
I may have went a little
further than you asked,
but that's what's going on.
Then Kevin Doyle says,
who's going to title
sponsor this year's games?
I haven't seen GORUCK
attached to anything lately.
More than that,
I've seen GORUCK unattached
from things like they're no
longer sponsoring Tia Claire Toomey.
They're no longer sponsoring Emily Rolfe.
And I'm just taking that
from because Emily is not
wearing their stuff anymore.
So I'm assuming they're out
of that business of
sponsoring athletes even.
So I doubt they will be a
title sponsor of the games.
Yeah.
I saw she wore grit yeah I I
saw that as well again I
don't know if she even has
a sponsor at this point or
if so just could be that
but who knows uh go rock
apparently is a sponsor for
the monster games just
released another workout
Yeah,
I don't know how the company's...
Maybe they're just diving
into these go-ruck races
and things like that and
sponsoring them and those
athletes and kind of
getting out of the CrossFit space.
I think with the pending sale,
it would be really hard to
be a sponsor of the
CrossFit Games this year.
So... I don't know.
Like, gosh...
I think there's just a lot
out there pending,
which makes it really hard
to finalize deals like that
or to commit to CrossFit
when you don't know who the
leadership's going to be.
Do you want to put your name
on the CrossFit Games when
you don't know if the
leadership is or isn't
going to be somebody?
I don't know.
Kevin says, first, no bull, now go ruck,
not looking good for sponsors.
I don't disagree,
but I think last year was an anomaly.
But I don't know.
I don't know.
I know last year was not a
great experience for some
of the sponsors because of
the Lazar Jukic death.
I know that sponsors didn't
get the... I mean,
Vendor Village was closed on Friday.
Um...
So they lost a full day there.
I don't think people got the
return they expected.
So I think the overall
sponsors and vendor village
are going to be hard
pressed to match that this
year or like they did in past years.
But I don't know.
Again,
I think everything depends on the sale.
And I think it all depends
on who takes over and
whether you can attract new
sponsors to it, bring back old sponsors,
things of that nature.
But with everything pending,
it's going to be very, very, very hard.
Off topic, Train to Live says,
will you be getting Hattie on again soon?
I've started reaching out to
some more athletes.
When I interviewed Reese last week,
I realized that I have not
been doing these frequently enough,
and I don't have my total
groove on for interviewing.
So I need to get some reps in,
get back to doing that.
So yeah, I'll...
I can reach out to Hattie.
Of course, she's just one of my favorites.
She's a friend.
We can get her back on.
But I also want to start
reaching out to some
Masters athletes that are
going to the games here in Columbus.
So I want to do some of that.
Sprinkle some of that in as well.
And I know Train to Live,
you have actually sent me
the name of a teen athlete.
I'm trying to decide how I
want to handle those.
But we'll figure it out.
I just got to get back to
doing some interviews just
so I can get back into the
groove of things again and
get ready to do a behind
the scenes of the Masters CrossFit Games.
And I want to get to the
games this year and be able
to do some interviews
around and about the games
with athletes this year as well, too.
So...
Denise,
I still don't think the Masters
games have a sponsor yet.
Yeah, I don't know either.
Looking forward to Columbus.
Me too, Denise.
Yeah, I don't know if you saw,
they released,
they do have a featured
hotel for the Masters CrossFit Games,
which is the downtown
Hilton here in Columbus,
which is gorgeous.
It's actually attached to the event for
of facility um and if you go
out the back side of it
there's a lot there's a
there's the arena district
and the north market which
has a lot of food and uh
food options things like
that um which is so easy to
get to and if you go out
the front and just up a
block you're into the short
north which is another uh
big chunk of stuff to go uh
eat and hang out with so
Shannon ended up winning at NorCal,
so congratulations to you, Shannon,
on that.
Denise wishes you congratulations,
and we do as well.
Good job.
So, yeah, super excited for Columbus.
Andrew Sten,
sponsors will be announced in
the future for the Masters games.
And he would know.
So with that, guys,
we don't have really much else.
Tomorrow we have Corey on here,
and we're going to have
story time with Corey and
reading your workout notes
before you do the workout
and making sure that you
follow all the rules.
what happens when you don't
and you are in video
dispute of those rules and
how it all comes to a climactic end.
And I can't wait to get
Andrew and Jay Burch's
feedback on what Corey did
and how he should have been treated.
All these people in here
bragging about retiring.
Shannon, I retire in May.
Um, I retire in January.
Every time I get my
retirement statement now,
it does tell me how much I
would earn per month if I retired today.
And, um,
I retire in March of twenty forty five.
I'm not that far out.
I'm not that far.
I'm only like I think eight years away.
So what would that twenty
thirty three if I want full retirement?
Shannon,
I am almost as old as you guys are.
Jay Birch, I already bragged.
Kevin, I love a climactic end.
Well, when you're friends with Corey,
you get a lot of climactic ends.
I swear, like,
they need to print the
scorecards in Cajun so that
he and Bill Leahy can learn
how to read them better
before they submit their videos.
But Bill Leahy's going to the games, guys.
Two years ago,
he couldn't get a workout
right to save his life,
and now he's going to the CrossFit Games.
Pretty impressive.
So maybe this year,
Corey can't get a workout right,
and in two years,
he'll be going to the CrossFit Games.
Just maybe.
I think that's the goal.
With that, it's been fun, guys.
But time to get back to work.
So you knuckleheads,
you get back to work too.
We'll see everybody next
time on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.