Clydesdale Media Podcast

Every day we take a breath and get a break from the workday to hang out with friends to talk about Sports, Entertainment and specifically CrossFit. Today we talk about recovering from the weekend the top 5 memories from the Games weekend, People saying that Dave Castro doesn't know what he's doing. Some DB Tea, and what is going on in with the Sale.

What is Clydesdale Media Podcast?

We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.

what is going on everybody

welcome to lunchtime it is

lunch with the Clydesdale

what is going on man Savon

keeps doing these marathon

athlete interviews

running into my time.

What is going on?

This is my time, my house.

No, I'm just kidding.

Now, great interview with Dallin today.

Um, great interview with Jason on Monday.

Uh, he's killing it over there.

So, um, yeah, uh,

trying to check those out

before I come in on this, but man,

busy day at the workplace.

Um, I am jazzed to be here.

Um,

We've got Vicki.

We've got Paul.

We've got Corey.

Marat is jazzed to be here just like I am.

Morning all.

Hitchell Mooper.

Meredith Vicki.

Totally jazzed.

Plant Power Fitness.

Dinner with Clydesdale.

Greetings from Europe.

Loved your game stuff.

Thank you so much.

Took me three days to finish

the Hopper podcast.

And what is up, Lito?

I get to meet Lito in two weeks.

Cannot wait.

Masters CrossFit Games

coming up here in Columbus,

right around the corner.

If you have not seen already,

we have a t-shirt design.

I'm getting the final artwork today,

hopefully.

But I do have it approved.

trying to pull it up here

real quick here is the

final artwork for the

t-shirts that are going to

be made and it is get

jazzed if you can see that

we've got the Clydesdale

playing the saxophone the

way the shirt is going to look

Sorry,

it is really sensitive on the

blow-up feature here.

Clydesdale.

get jazzed, um, right there.

That'll be on the back of the shirt.

The front will be a pocketed

traditional logo.

That is a Clydesdale media

logo with the Clydesdale

with the barbell on the

front pocket and the back

will be the get jazzed.

Those are the shirts we're

going to be making.

I'll let you know color soon.

And, um,

Yeah, should be a fun shirt.

We'll do pre-orders.

I'm hoping to get some in by

the Masters games, but, man,

we are getting really tight.

But I'll ship to whoever wants them,

and we'll get those made as

quickly as possible.

But love the logo.

Love the logo.

Caitlin Walters made these up for me.

She is awesome.

She's also going to be my

videographer at the Masters

CrossFit Games.

So you'll be able to get to

meet her there.

She's the one that does all my designs,

all my logos, all that kind of stuff.

She is simply amazing.

But she'll be shooting for

me at the Masters CrossFit Games.

So those will be coming out soon.

So Arlene Smith,

are you going to Masters Games?

I am definitely going to

Masters CrossFit Games.

They're literally fifteen

minutes from my house.

Cannot wait for that.

Cannot wait to catch up with

all my people.

Love the Masters athletes.

Not sure how epic our behind

the scenes will be this year.

It may be something a little

bit smaller just because I

cannot get a crew hired in.

I'm really having trouble

with availability right now.

Do I have media credentials yet?

I have not heard back.

from the Masters team.

I talked to Joe a couple weeks ago.

He said I would be getting

media stuff within days.

I still have not received anything.

So hopefully we get something soon.

Yeah,

definitely come say hi to me if you

see me.

I'll have stickers.

I'll have a camera in my hand.

Can't wait to meet everybody.

Andrew Sten producing my show today.

The boys said Castro told

them in twenty twenty six

will be in Carson.

TTT podcast said Tia

deliberately dropped the

bar on last event to allow

Olivia finish ahead of her

to get on the podium.

Interesting.

I watched both of those.

I have heard the rumors that

the games will be in Carson next year.

I've never been there.

I'm kind of I'd be excited

for it to be there.

I just hope we sell more tickets.

I know when they went back

there for West Coast Classic,

the anticipation was the

venue would bring people in.

It did not.

And I'm just hoping that

with it being the games,

hopefully people will want

to go watch it one last time in Carson.

And if it is there,

I hope they're utilizing

both the soccer stadium and

the tennis stadium because

I'd like to see some outdoor events.

But we'll get into that in a minute.

And as for the TTT podcast

said Tia deliberately dropped the bar,

they said, is it possible?

Yes,

I think it would be possible that she

did that to allow Olivia to

get on the podium.

I don't think they said

definitively that happened.

I just think they believe...

I think they believe that it is possible.

I thought people said Carson

isn't a nice place to stay.

I have heard very bad things

about the hotels.

Abby Domet and Ariel Lowen

had horrible experiences

trying to find hotels around Carson.

So yeah, that's going to be a trip too.

Carson would be cool for nostalgia,

but it's a huge complex.

Look at a map where Carson is.

If you know anything about L.A.

County, you understand Carson is really,

really rough place.

Yeah, I've heard that very much so.

Twenty year anniversary, though,

I would think it would be packed.

I just don't know where we

are with everything.

It's one thing to kind of make these plans,

but we don't know where everything is.

We just don't.

Yesterday,

my monologue was about the

CrossFit this year went

back to fundamentals.

They know who they are.

They know who they want to be.

And they went back to the

basics and it gave a vibe at the games.

That was awesome.

Now,

do we leap out and get back over our

skis again and try to do

something wild and crazy

and move in a direction?

I just hope they sit back, think.

They have a great,

great start with the twenty

twenty five CrossFit Games

to build upon that.

I want them to build smart.

I want them to build logically.

I want them to build in a

way that makes sense for

realistic growth.

That's where we're at right now.

Don't go jumping headfirst

into the deep end again and

then get out over your skis

and have a hard time

maintaining all of this.

Yes,

the nostalgia of the twenty years

there would be awesome.

To see a berm run would be awesome.

To see them flip pigs in the

soccer stadium would be awesome.

All of that stuff.

But it needs to be a place

where people are going to

want to go and watch the event,

where they can gather

together as a community and

do fun things.

And we cannot lose the fact

that the athletes need to

shine and that the

programming should be

fundamentally sound.

The tennis stadium is small,

so the crowd would be crazy.

I've not been in it, so I don't know.

I just know West Coast

Classic two years ago, it looked empty,

and that was bad.

San Diego Fairgrounds would be way better.

Is that Del Mar, Denise?

So, yeah, those are interesting topics.

I just don't want to get too far ahead.

I don't want to get too far ahead.

Yeah, Denise says Del Mar.

San Diego's Del Mar.

Yeah, I would love to see Del Mar.

Would love to see Del Mar as an event.

That always looked cool on the stream.

Yeah.

speaking of streams like the

viewership this weekend was

over four million if you

add up the streams the live

streams of the events uh

that is freaking awesome

four million and the vibes

in the place were cool

they're they're it's just

what I said yesterday

And I got a comment from

Craig Pasley about how his

gym was setting up Running

Elizabeth to do in their gym.

And that's what's cool about

this year's games.

Like you can go back to your

affiliate this week and you

can try some of this stuff

that we did at the games

and try Running Elizabeth.

God, I would love to try that.

del mar I vote for that

shanna says I think del mar

would be amazing um so

dense updates it was good

to finally meet you in

person scott oh jenny was awesome um

I need to do a better job at

being present during the

events and not get into my

head about trying to create

content because I had a

blast when I went out into

vendor village to see everybody.

I need to be in the arena

more and I'm really going

to try to change my thought

process on all that for next year.

Alito tried running it, Isabel,

and it was humbling to say the least.

Bruce Wayne,

proven programming has all the

games workout scheduled for this week.

See,

I think that's what's kind of cool

about this year's CrossFit Games.

It's back to the fundamentals,

so all of them,

all of them have the ability

to be put back into the

affiliate and be a

participatory version of

the crossfit games and to

show what the tip of the

spear can do compared to us

judy it's okay you all have

jobs to do yeah but like

I think I got so enamored

with having enhanced access.

I wanted to use every bit of it.

And I was, I was really there.

I had,

I had a photographer there and there

was me and I was trying to

do all the interviewing

content on my own.

And I needed to just be a

little bit more present

with what was going on because I

my numbers show that being

in the stands and doing the

wrap up shows at the end of

the night or where all of

my numbers were.

And I could enjoy myself a

little bit more watching the event.

Um, and not so much the, uh,

the vignettes and maybe more

just off air conversations

so that my knowledge base

is better I don't something

like just I've got to think

about it in this off season

uh jody lynn late again but

sold a big kitchen what's

up all my lunch friends

congratulations jody

Bruce Wayne, completely agree, Scott,

especially with adequate

scaling options for all members.

I was talking with Taylor Self in the back,

and on Sentinel, they did the same thing.

He put out all of the

workouts with three scaling

options for all of the

workouts for his group to

be able to do these workouts,

which I thought was super cool.

Super cool.

Ah, Shannon.

Well, now you know, Scott,

it's all learning experience.

Yeah.

And I had fun.

I had fun.

I just, I missed getting to see a lot of,

I didn't get to see Jody.

I didn't get to see some of

the people in the chat.

Um, I wish I,

I just wish I could have seen

more people.

Jeff Baco calling at lunch

with the Clydesdale is

discriminatory against all

of us in different time

zones or having breakfast,

brunch or dinner.

I'm sorry.

It's my lunchtime.

I'm having lunch.

So you get to have lunch with me.

This is my show.

My show.

Anyway.

A couple things I did hear

over the weekend was I

heard people in the space

talk about how the more

they looked at the programming,

the more they felt like

Dave didn't know what he was doing.

And I think that is the

dumbest comment I've ever heard.

And the reason I say that...

is that that would be like

going up to John Naismith,

the inventor of basketball,

and saying that because he

picked ten feet for the

hoop and ninety feet for the court,

that he didn't know what he

was talking about.

Dave invented the CrossFit Games.

This is his test.

He gets to make it up.

So to say he doesn't know

what he's doing is idiotic.

It's his world.

He gets to do whatever he wants.

He invented the damn thing.

We're just here to play.

Now, if you want to come in and say, hey,

the test wasn't balanced, or hey,

I wish they would have been

in a different order, or hey, blah, blah,

blah, all of that is fine.

But to say that Dave doesn't

know what he's doing is just idiotic.

The guy invented the sport.

He invented the test.

It's his world.

We're just living in it.

It'd be like going to the NFL and saying,

I think you should use a

round ball instead of an oblong ball.

You don't know what you guys are doing.

They invented it.

It can be whatever ball they

want it to be.

It's, again,

it doesn't take away from

people like Chase and Bill

and Taylor and JR doing an

analysis of the programming

and determining its balance

or could this be tweaked or

could that be tweaked?

It's the statement that he

doesn't know what he's doing.

He does know what he's doing

because he invented it.

Without him, we don't have it.

And because he invented it,

he can make it whatever the

hell he wants it to be.

And the beauty of get with

the programming and shut up

and scribble is that we can

look at it from a,

an objective point of view

and say that it's not

balanced or I would have

tweaked this or tweak that.

I think this would have been a better test,

but to flat out say that

Dave doesn't know what he's

doing is ridiculous.

And there are people that know that,

I'll tell you primarily who

I heard that from were coaches.

The names that are coming up

in the chat are not the

people who said that to me.

They were actually coaches.

They were actually people that I respect,

but I think they just,

they overthink things on games weekend.

And so this comes out and

one of the coaches knew

this was going to be a

topic for me this week.

And he said he went back and

watched all the behind the

scenes of creating the,

the games workouts and

actually rethought what he had said.

And I heard it from multiple coaches.

Honestly, Joseph,

it was not about whether

their athletes were doing well or not.

It just is.

I think they overthink

everything about the sport

and they get so emotional

about it that they just blurt things out.

And I think I just called him on it.

And so he went back and

reviewed some stuff and

came back and said, you know,

you're right.

And he didn't know what I

was going to say.

He didn't know it was going

to be because the guy

invented the thing and it's

his world and he can do

anything he wants to do.

He actually went back and thought,

you know what?

The guy does know what he's

doing as I'm watching him

create these things.

His statement came from

that watching him create it,

it felt like more of a team

thing than a Dave thing.

And I don't think there's

anything wrong with that either.

Again,

people say that Dave has too much power,

and then he shows that he

actually lets a team help

him come up with the stuff,

and we dog him for that.

Like, you can't have it both ways.

Again, it's really simple.

The man invented it so it

can be whatever he wants it to be.

And we have to kind of

figure our way around it.

And it doesn't mean we can't be critical,

but just saying he doesn't

know what he's doing is stupid.

I hope that makes sense.

Again,

I think you're being harder on them

than I intended this to be.

I think it's just they have

a lot riding on a weekend.

They're looking at the

programming as a whole.

They're overthinking it.

They have an education in

coaching and maybe strength

building and stuff like that.

And they're looking at it in

a way that I would never look at it.

And when I called him out, he really did

And it wasn't just one coach,

but the one coach I've had

multiple conversations with went back,

looked at everything,

and kind of recanted his statement.

People just like to complain,

doesn't even have to complain about Dave.

It's just that he's the current topic.

Again,

These are men,

because the coaches I talked to were men.

These are men that this is their life,

and they look at this stuff

in a very detailed way and

try to figure things out.

And so, again,

I think it's just they get

caught up in the emotion of everything.

so again I see people with

names in the I I don't name

names it's it's just not

that doesn't get me

anywhere um just doesn't

get me anywhere sarah says

time to switch back to

hitting on wfp uh so they

put they put out a video

While the games are going on.

I think I talked about that

earlier in the week.

What a stupid time to put

out a video promoting your event,

but it was a behind the

scenes of tour stop one.

And it was really kind of

narrated by Lauren Smith.

Again, I don't think there's anything new.

I thought it was well-produced.

I thought it was well done.

They kind of went through

the events step-by-step.

They talked to the athletes.

It was all okay.

It was okay.

I don't think it was anything...

it did not meet the criteria

I was looking for to

promote athletes or to meet

the promise they made to be

new and creative in ways of

promoting their athletes.

It didn't do any of that stuff.

Jenny says, yeah,

they were writing the

coattails of the games to

boost their numbers.

Lame.

I think it probably had the

exact opposite effect.

I didn't even watch it till

this week because I wanted

to watch game stuff.

I put it to the side.

I was watching the Sevan wrap-up stuff.

I was watching Barbell Spin stuff.

I wanted to get all the

different opinions of what

was going on that weekend

to help with my own show.

It was...

Um,

I think I just thought it was a stupid

move.

You had months to be the

only content out there.

There were,

there were dead periods during

the week of when you could

have put stuff out there and you didn't.

And then you put it out on a

weekend where there's a

billion pieces of content to, uh,

to watch and take in.

And it got pushed in my queue to the side.

I don't think their

priorities are the athletes anymore.

They're in desperation mode.

Well, here's the thing.

If you listen to my rant yesterday,

it is that they have no

foundation to build on.

Their foundation has been for the athletes,

by the athletes, or by the athletes,

for the athletes,

whichever direction that thing goes.

And that's a...

That's like a Nike slogan.

It's a marketing campaign.

It's not a foundation to

build a company on.

So unlike CrossFit,

they don't have a North Star.

They have nothing to point

to to bring everybody

together on the same page

and to row the boat in the

same direction.

They don't have that.

And because they don't have that,

they're never going to succeed.

They had an opportunity,

and they've really blown it.

biggest slap in the face was

Will posting a pic of the

games floor and promoting WFP.

I love Will, but that was a bad decision.

And I think that he was

trying to show the empty seats,

but he took the picture

after the day was over.

There wasn't even anything

going on on the floor.

Like, you're not even good at being bad.

so every post they tag is at

a crossfit gym and ig

handle and it doesn't look

like the athletes are ever

joining the gyms I always

felt like they created it

to sell it I think they

they just saw an opportunity

They were going in one direction.

A guy died at the CrossFit Games.

People were pissed off and they said,

here's our opportunity.

Let's move all the money

over here and let's try to

compete and take the sport away.

And they didn't build a foundation.

They didn't

didn't take time to organize

it they just went and ran

and now they're sitting out

here floating in the ether

trying to put it together

and it's it's falling apart

I talked to athletes about

it this weekend I asked

them what their opinion of

of the wfp was and the only

good comment I got in the

good direction is the money's good

That's what I heard.

That's it.

That's the only good thing they would say.

Jeff, you apparently know more than I do.

I am really confused as to

where we are with the sale.

Denise,

the only reason the athletes are in

the WFP is for the money.

It makes them have a more

comfortable training season

to get that money.

Sarah,

I would like to hear about Saxon's exit.

I talked to Saxon, gosh,

probably twenty minutes.

really good conversation he

says he would he says he's

going to come on the show

um we had a really good

heart-to-heart I um

I think I heard Jenny say

this morning that he signed an NDA.

He did not tell me that in

my conversation with him.

And I said that I just

approached him and said, hey,

we need to talk.

If people know,

I've been friends with

Saxon since twenty sixteen.

I was his judge for Rogue in

twenty twenty.

I know him.

I know his family.

And, um, I said,

we need to talk whether it's,

whether it's on air or not.

I just, I need to know what's going on.

And he talked to me for

minutes and he told me the reasons, uh,

that he's no longer there.

I'll re I'll respect that.

I want him to tell that

story and I want him to come on to do it.

And he said he would.

Um,

I just don't know how long it's going

to take for him to be able

to come on and do that.

Um,

But I will tell you,

he told me that his heart

was always with CrossFit.

His whole goal was just to

get athletes back in the

gyms at the affiliate level.

And that's what he was

trying to accomplish.

He used to come to my gym and...

Because he lived outside of Cleveland.

I live in Columbus.

One of his best friends went to my gym.

Him and Spencer would come

down and work out with us on Saturdays.

And the gym would just light

up when they were in the gym.

And I told him that that was

some of the best times when

they would come do that.

And he said that's what he

was trying to create on a bigger level.

Maybe he told me that so he

didn't have to tell me anything.

Facundo and Plummer were with me.

That could be too.

Yeah,

it was just him and I. So I got a

pretty unedited,

unfiltered response to everything.

Everything he told me was

very believable and very

easy to understand.

I will say that.

Patrick Clark says he did not sign an NDA.

There you go.

So he said he was going to

come on the show.

I'm hoping to get him on soon.

I will definitely promote

that once he does.

But we had a great, great conversation.

I will say that.

And so we're in the tea business today,

I guess.

I did hear some tea.

I don't know if Jenny's heard this,

but from a very reliable source,

a very reliable source,

Sunday night after the

games at a local pub in Albany, New York,

it appears that

One Miss Danielle Brandon

and one Mr. Matt Torres

both appeared at the same

pub in Albany and had a

very public disagreement,

I'll say at the least.

Very public disagreement.

that is a very reliable

source that told me that uh

they confronted each other

and were very loud in this

pub as to what had

transpired in the last few

months um I wish I was

there to report exactly

what was said but um I

guess it got pretty crazy

so uh I don't know if jenny

had heard that but it was wild

From what I hear.

Did she bite him?

No, I think her dog did, but.

Why is she doing this stuff in public?

She may have been there

first and Matt came in second.

I don't know how it all transpired.

They just happened to be.

the person I heard this from

was at this pub.

They both showed up separately,

ended up seeing each other.

And that's what happened.

Um,

Scott,

thank you for pronouncing it correctly.

Everybody started saying it the other way.

I have, my aunt lives in upstate New York.

It has been Albany my entire life.

I was wild when people

started pronouncing it differently.

I never understood why.

Um,

just the old fifty

five-year-old screaming at

the clouds and life changes

around me and I was like

maybe it's changed after

all these years I talked to

family members you know

like hell no it hasn't

changed it's still Albany

so there it is I also

watched the first two

episodes of the reboot of

King of the Hill last night

and oh my gosh if a show

has hit me in the heart

more than that show it is so

freaking funny hank hill

went to to um the middle

east to sell propane and

propane accessories and

they moved back to the

states and everything has

changed and he can't

believe and it is so much

the old man yelling at the clouds show

that I love it tremendously so far.

It was so freaking good.

I'm two episodes into ten.

Cannot wait to watch this.

If you have not watched it

and you're an old man like me,

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