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You know what CrossFit needs?
A good dose of reality.
Reality TV, that is.
Let's talk about it next.
I love the chase and the hunt,
and I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I want,
and I always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to break up,
so why come back?
it's lunchtime what's going on everybody
lunch with the gladsdale good to see
everybody it is monday monday of a short
week if you work in the traditional
business work week sense um yeah
thanksgiving week i'm off half a day
wednesday through the weekend it's going
to be glorious glorious um
I want to talk about our sponsor, Thirdsy.
I want to reiterate that we have been
using Thirdsy for a couple months before
we ever signed with them and tried it
out.
And if you guys did not see what
Jamie posted last night,
I want to share that real quick.
This is from her stories,
and I'll blow this up so you can
kind of see.
You see the graph in her...
sleep before third Z and her sleep after
third Z and the numbers that she has
seen.
Her average sleep metric score has gone
from seventy six to eighty eight.
Her average overnight heart rate has gone
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Her average resting heart rate has gone
from forty seven to forty one.
And her average body battery change has
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But they have strawberry lemonade.
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I'm telling you, man,
this stuff has changed my life.
And when we get into the next thing,
you'll kind of see how that happened.
But Jamie is seeing results.
I am seeing,
I'm sleeping so much better than I did
before.
And yeah, as Corey said, use code Jazzy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
to find out where we're going with this
whole sinus thing.
And why Thirdsy is so important to me
is this has been a mess in my
life for four years.
These sinus issues.
Finally,
I feel like I'm with a doctor who
cares, who is taking the time.
And I'm going to show you...
I'm going to show you...
the CT scan of my sinuses.
So I don't know if you can see
all that there.
But there's a black arrow.
That black arrow is pointing to a dark
black spot in my sinus.
And you think what is that black spot?
The black spot is air.
All the gray around it is infection.
So if you look at the nose,
I have one nostril that is getting some
air.
I have another one that's getting very
little air.
And my one sinus,
it has just a little bit of air.
The rest of that gray is infection.
And that's why I've been suffering for so
long.
So,
It's been, it has been a horrid,
horrid four years.
Um,
and so what the next steps are is
I'm going to have surgery on January,
to clean all of that out.
Um,
And there are three different levels of
the sinus.
One that's really close to my brain.
They're going to go in with a balloon,
blow that up and try to pull that
out that way.
Then there's some near my eyes.
And that's where they hook a tool up
to my CAT scan so that they can
be guided through cleaning that up.
And then there's the lower cheek sinus
that she can kind of go crazy in
there and clear all that out.
The other thing is that I have a
bone spur or a spur on my septum.
They're going to remove that.
And so, yeah.
So January twenty ninth,
getting all of that cleaned up,
all of that cleared out and hopefully be
able to breathe and maybe even be able
to smell again.
Wouldn't that be awesome?
So in the meantime,
they are going to try to get me
an antibiotic wash to get me through the
holidays with a little bit more comfort.
And...
I just hope that, yeah, I can,
that'll help me get through.
It's been just hell working out these past
few months with all of that stuff up
in there, trying to breathe,
trying not to hack up along.
So super stoked.
Like Corey said,
sounds like instant relief and,
It's an outpatient surgery.
It'll be done on a Thursday.
They're going to pack it up.
They're going to stitch some tubes in to
allow it to drain.
And then on Monday,
they're going to pull all the packing out,
and then I'll go from there.
So hopefully we see some significant
difference after that.
And I can't wait to have that done.
Breathing while working out is an
underrated...
It, it, it is an underrated thing.
Uh, Shanna curious,
have they started you on any steroid nasal
spray?
Yes.
Yeah.
I, um,
I've been using that for a couple months
now, but it is so bad.
Like it's not even,
it helps me short term I would say,
but then,
then it just kind of goes away.
but yeah these last two weeks have been
really rough uh so i don't know i've
had to opt out of doing some things
these last couple weeks it's just been
pure misery just trying to get through day
to day um
So yeah, hoping to get that release,
get that relief, get back to normal,
all those things.
Yeah, I am on the juice.
Nasal juice, lung juice, all of that.
Frida asks,
will they give you something to prevent
the inflammation from coming back,
or will it just be checkups?
Well...
There's scar tissue, there is infection,
there is liquid in there that they have
to all get out.
And then I'm sure that it'll be some
series of antibiotics.
There will be frequent checkups
afterwards.
But right now we're talking pre-op,
not post-op.
So I don't really know what the post-op
plan is quite yet.
Just really focused on the pre-op process
right now.
Hope that works and you get back to
somewhat normal.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
I'm really excited to just be able to
breathe again.
CrossFit says I'm banned.
I am, you know,
and Jason Hopper and Jeff Adler called and
thanked me for admitting so that they
don't have to take me on next season.
So there it is.
Yeah,
there's a sigh of relief all over the
elite division that I have been banned
from next season.
So there is that.
Just wanted to update you.
And I still have a voice box CT
tomorrow.
But my ear, nose,
and throat thinks that the problem in my
voice box is the drainage from these
sinuses as bad as they are.
So probably just see that it's okay.
Just have to get these sinuses taken care
of.
But we'll find out more tomorrow for sure.
So, yeah.
It is November twenty-fourth.
And the Chicago Bears are still,
still in first place.
That just baffles my mind.
No way in a million years did I
think going into this season the Bears
would be vying for a playoff spot.
I just wanted to see improvement at the
quarterback position.
I wanted to see improvement in the way
the team was run.
I've gotten to see all that and this
bonus of, holy cow,
they're eight and three.
They're leading the NFC North and they're
in the playoff hunt.
That is amazing.
I can't even describe it.
Not even just in the hunt.
I know CrossFit.
It's crazy.
It's like they are legit in.
I saw a stat yesterday on ESPN that
if they won yesterday's game,
they would have a seventy seven percent
chance of making the playoffs.
That is amazing.
Kipping it real,
I'm here to reject my Steelers and defect
to my birthright, the Bears.
There you go.
We take all comers onto the bandwagon.
Trish,
thanks for beating the Steelers for us.
Sincerely, a Ravens fan.
There you go.
The beauty of this CrossFit is that it's
not college football.
It is not up for debate.
Your win-loss record gets you in,
and that is it.
There you go.
So super stoked about that.
The last thing that I wanted to talk
about is that I really think,
and we talked about this a little bit
last night, I really think that...
CrossFit needs a reality show.
They need a big pot at the end
reality show.
And I think the WFP is the perfect
place to do it.
Do a two week, one tour stop event.
that has eliminations with hour-long
episodes where you compete in CrossFit
events and there's an elimination every
episode until you get to the end with
a big million-dollar pot at the end.
And it doesn't have to be restricted to
just CrossFitters.
Let's show what CrossFitters can do
against everybody else in the world.
Open it up.
We're going to do this fitness
competition.
Anybody can come,
whether you're a football player,
whether you're a track athlete,
whether you do swimming, whatever it is.
And then you go up against these
CrossFitters and is CrossFit truly the
expression of the fittest people on earth?
And you can do tours all around the
world and use their topography to have
events.
Like you go to the Alps and you
do a rock through the mountains,
things like that.
And because you watch these reality shows
that are on like American Ninja Warrior,
there are people standing in line for days
trying to get on that show.
and nobody gets paid when they compete on
that show except the winner that's it and
look at the attendance they get for that
make it a two-week event huge pot i'm
saying a million maybe it's five hundred
thousand and you have like two hundred
thousand for second place so the final two
win and it's all out
Winner takes,
or you make it winner takes all.
I don't even care.
But it is this elimination style event
that as you go along,
people get booted because they lost that
event and you keep moving on and moving
on.
CrossFat says they also have those corn
ball vignettes to fill dead air on
American Ninja Warrior.
I would argue that that's why people
watch.
Those cornball vignettes are what make the
audience care whether this person succeeds
in accomplishing getting through that
obstacle.
Because their wife has MS or because their
daughter was born with leukemia and
they're fighting through it.
Whatever that story is makes people care
about them succeeding in that moment.
And you could do the same thing with
this.
Everybody has a backstory.
Talk about the backstories that make
people care.
I agree.
We waste so much time in CrossFit with
coming up heat to women for fourteen
minutes.
So much time.
So much time.
Q Tom Rinaldi sob story.
My wife and I were watching NFL pregame
yesterday,
and Jeremy Schaap did a thing on Bernie
Kosar, the former Browns quarterback,
getting a kidney transplant or liver
transplant.
We were sobbing.
We were sobbing on that story.
And then it makes you care about Bernie
Kosar.
I have never liked the Browns.
I have never liked Bernie Kosar.
But because of this story,
now I care that he got this liver
and he gets a second chance at life.
Like, if those are done right,
they make you care about that person and
make you root for that person in that
moment.
And that's what this would allow.
The key is, though,
if you're going to do this,
it has to be an airtight NDA.
Like if you release information,
you are fined.
You are sued.
You're not eligible for prize money
because these things have to be
post-production.
You have to know what the storylines are
going to be so you can create the
vignettes to amp up the story as you
go through the season or this two-week
event, whatever it is.
You know it's going to be brutal and
sad, but you watch the whole way through.
Exactly.
Game day does one every week.
NFL Sunday countdown does one every week.
Every one of them makes you cry,
but it makes you care about the people
involved in the story.
But I don't think CrossFit should put
their...
they should be the ones backing this
reality show.
Let somebody else do it.
Partner,
let them use the CrossFit name throughout
the broadcast.
Let them talk about the methodology and
why these are the events that have been
picked,
why there's a definition of fitness,
why nobody else has come up with the
definition of fitness.
Do all those things,
but have somebody else run it, like WFP.
They have these event organizers.
They can gather the stuff together.
They can put together the rosters,
and they can go through this process.
But make it an open call so you
can get basketball players and football
players and soccer players,
and you can see who truly is the
fittest of these athletes.
I think it gets eyeballs on what they
do.
I think it gets eyeballs on the sport.
And then in the following season,
when the CrossFit game season happens,
people understand more about why this
tests fitness.
And then when you're watching the CrossFit
game season, it makes more sense.
And that's how you can kind of grow
the sport.
And maybe, just maybe,
when people watch these reality shows and
they see that you can go to a
local affiliate and learn how to do this
fitness stuff so you can be awesome,
maybe that translates to that as well.
I think Titan Games couldn't call athletes
CrossFitters.
I know they could not.
I know that was, I've interviewed Margo,
interviewed Matt Chan after he won.
They could not.
They could not use the term CrossFit.
But I think that's where CrossFit,
with all of their more recent
partnerships,
allow them to use the name CrossFit.
But give them an education on,
this is why we test it this way.
This is where it came up from.
World Fitness Sport Contender.
There you go.
Or call it the WFP Contender Series.
Isn't that what UFC has?
Where they develop these people that are
up-and-comers and they're eventually going
to go into the UFC as one of
their big draws?
Something like that.
I like that too.
World Fitness Sports Contender.
Sport Contender.
Doesn't make a good acronym, but yeah,
I like the name.
And you could do vignettes on like where
the methodology came from,
all those kinds of things in a good
partnership.
I just,
I don't know where we are with all
that, but man,
I've heard people say like drive to
survive and full swing,
like those kinds of documentary shows are
what CrossFit needs to get into.
But the more and the more I think
about it, I like the reality type show.
And if you travel from location to
location and it's a two week thing and
you're all together,
film that off the field stuff.
Because I think,
I think all of that is what makes
people bring eyes to it.
The drama, the crazy thing, right?
cross fat we are so much alike there
was a phenomenal boxing reality show
called the contender with sugar ray
leonard i remember it it was you're right
stallone hosted it sugar ray leonard was
like a big mentor um and it was
getting the big contenders in the boxing
world and i thought it was a great
show jeremy that's from last night and
it's the stuffing's in the butt
stuff it in the butt.
That's,
that's what she liked or he liked
whatever.
So yeah, I,
I really think like it could,
it could be something.
And if you made it like a big
cash prize at the end,
people are going to sign up.
People are going to do it for the
exposure.
If Netflix is paying for this Asian one
hundred,
why wouldn't they do something similar to
that with American celebrity stars,
sports stars, things like that?
I think it could work.
And I think there's enough streaming
services you can get picked up by one
of them.
I mean,
Netflix is finding that event TV is doing
better than scripted TV right now.
That's why they're trying to get into the
NFL.
That's why they're trying to get into
boxing.
That's why they're trying to get into all
the other stuff because event TV is what
is making the world go round on the
streaming services.
It would probably be a healthier example
than the biggest loser was.
Exactly.
Show the tip of the spear.
Live appointment television is the only
thing these days, and sport is that.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But again,
if you're going to film it in a
two-week period,
because where this comes from is we have
to give an off-season to these athletes.
We're learning that they just cannot go
year-round.
With all the withdrawals for Copenhagen
and the WFP, they need time off.
They need time off to let their bodies
rest.
They need times to go through cycles of
different lifting, cycles of different...
They need to work on those things.
And when you're competing so often
throughout the season,
it's not giving you any time to do
that.
Frida says,
we have a show like that here with
retired top athletes competing in various
ways.
I think that...
that's good.
I think this is,
you make the events CrossFit style events
very specific and you have athletes
compete in it.
And I think it would be really good.
Corey Leonard says,
be super easy to be better than the
biggest loser.
Listen, I was the biggest loser addict.
We can say hindsight is twenty twenty.
We can say what we will about it.
The documentary was crazy, but.
But I was addicted.
I mean,
I was tuned in every week for biggest
loser.
A purse like this would also allow
athletes to become breakthrough stars.
Suddenly someone from it becomes the Miz.
Yeah.
The Miz goes from real world to real
world,
real world road rules challenge to the
challenge to WWE superstar.
All through the reality TV world and then
becomes a WWE superstar.
biggest loser in the eyes of the early
two thousands, it was crack.
A lot of reality shows were crack when
it first came out,
came out and people thought it truly was
reality.
We were all tuned in.
I mean,
I'm old enough to remember when real world
one came out and how different it was
and how crazy it was.
And I was tuned in every week on
MTV.
That was pretty much the end of the
music videos on MTV when they started
coming out with the real world and the
road rules and all of that.
But I remember it and it was like
crack.
Me and all of my friends were watching
real world back then.
I really think this is the best way
to promote music.
what CrossFit is and get eyes on,
but you've got to have the drama.
You've got to have the thing that sucks
people in that aren't CrossFit sycophants.
You have to have that drama to bring
in others to see it, to know it,
to grow it.
They got Rulon Gardner on The Biggest
Loser.
They did.
They also got Holly Mangold,
whose brother Nick just passed away,
former New York Jet.
Holly Mangold was on there.
Um, I, she actually is,
they're both from here in Columbus area.
I got to meet Holly and I,
and she answered all the questions I had
about biggest loser behind the scenes.
And she really put a big old pin
in my balloon, um,
about what it's really like.
Um,
cause it was nothing what they show on
TV.
And that was really like my first foray
into figuring out that this reality stuff
is not real.
So there.
Yeah, he,
she said like the Bob and Jillian,
you'd only saw them like once a week
for an hour.
to film the footage um they weren't there
all week training them there were other
training trainers who weren't celebrities
that trained them most of the time and
the show depicted that her and bob had
this really good relationship when she
said like she actually had a better
relationship with jillian than she did
with bob um and she barely saw bob
um so yeah
Jeremy says,
my friend was dating Melinda from the real
world, Austin.
She broke up with him to go on
that show.
Wow.
CrossFit couldn't get enough of Bob until
he had his heart attack.
Yeah, my biggest,
Bob became this superstar and at the,
which one was it?
Was it twenty fourteen open with the box
jumps or box step ups and the increasing
deadlift?
That was my best ever open workout.
I think it was twenty fourteen.
I'm terrible with the open numbers.
But I. I either.
I almost beat Bob and that like made
my day.
it was like one rep one rep difference
i was either one rep ahead or one
rip behind i can't remember it's been ten
years uh fourteen point three r.i.p
achilles yeah fourteen three um my
deadlift has always sucked i was i'm a
terrible deadlifter because my back is
just and for some reason that day i
was just crushing the deadlift
and uh it was my best open finish
ever like when i finished the entire gym
like jumped on me like i was a
pitcher at the world series it was like
the coolest experience of my crossfit
career well one of them i've had a
lot of cool ones but that was like
that was my best finish ever of an
open workout and when the whole gym is
jumping on top of you it is it's
a glorious feeling and
I wish there was a way we could
capture that magic on video where people
understood what it was like.
But I, I, you know, I don't,
I don't know how, I don't know how,
but anyway, um,
think that's going to be it for today
i'm going to do a short show i
missed most of the morning because of the
doctor's appointment and the sinuses um
and so i probably should get back to
work a little bit today jeremy says
affiliate contest yeah i maybe
maybe maybe like the thing that the end
of Chase's new podcast maybe like during
the open like you you send in you
know like SportsCenter does top ten plays
maybe like top ten reactions from the open
and do like a top ten list uh
so yeah I don't know maybe
That is true.
The doctor has confirmed that Scott does
have ears, a nose, and a throat.
Yeah.
The nose just doesn't work.
And because the nose doesn't work,
the throat is full of schmutz.
But yeah, I have them.
And Negative Corey says people would stage
reactions.
They probably would.
But I think we know what's authentic and
what's made to be staged.
You've seen people get their first muscle
up and the way they act.
You can tell what's genuine and what's
faked.
I think.
I think you can.
Maybe I'm being naive.
I mean,
if you've been in a gym long enough,
and you've been doing CrossFit long
enough,
you know when it's an authentic reaction.
You've seen enough of them.
Because it happens all the time.
People also thought the biggest loser was
real.
Well, maybe, but...
but that's different.
The,
the reaction to like getting your first
muscle up or your first double under or
your first box jump.
Like we've seen that and it's,
that stuff can't be faked.
I hope it can't be faked.
I mean,
we're in this world of like everything
being AI and everything being pseudo real.
Like I hope, I mean,
I want to believe that that is the
one thing we cannot fake.
is first muscle up first rope climb first
double under whatever it is deadlift pr
clean jerk pr all that stuff jeremy asks
is it cold louisiana corey you grump thank
you
Freda, I love seeing those first.
I think we all do.
Alligators are ornery because they got all
those teeth and no way to brush them.
I think that speaks for all of us.
Because Corey's a cynic when it comes to
that stuff.
I know how I flipped out when I
got my first ring muscle up.
I happened to video it.
Well, you say you did,
or did you just fake it?
Maybe it was really your fourth ring
muscle up.
How do we know?
I can turn the tables.
We just got to take your word for
it.
With that,
I'm going to head back to work.
I also know that as soon as you
attach it to a prize being featured on
a CrossFit reel, they will make shit up,
but hopefully we can detect that.
All right, guys, I'm heading back to work.
You know, go ahead.
You get back to work too.
We'll see everybody.
I probably won't be here tomorrow.
but I'll be back Wednesday with Micah
Shoemaker and talking about the magic city
games and how to qualify for the masters
or H group CrossFit games.
We're going to talk about that Wednesday
with him.
Thank you everybody for being here.
Love you all.
See you all next time on lunch with
the Clydesdale.
Bye guys.