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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.
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.
What is going on everybody?
Welcome to Lunch with Clydesdale.
So freaking stoked to be here with you
today.
Lots of bears talking in the chat already.
Am I muted?
Am I muted?
Let me double check my audio real quick.
It says I'm good.
Okay.
So, um,
I was actually just lip syncing with the
pre-loaded sound, guys.
That's all.
So I probably threw you off.
Anyway.
So there it is.
Yeah, I was lip syncing.
I really threw you all off.
Anyway,
I'm so stoked to be here with you.
The Bears had one hell of a playoff
game this weekend.
So much fun to watch for the second
half.
The first half was painful.
And then as they have done six previous
times,
came back from a big deficit to end
up winning the game.
I cannot believe we're having the season
we're having.
The throws that Caleb made in that game
were mind-boggling.
The talent on this team is something I'm
not used to.
But what I wanted to talk about briefly,
I was kind of hoping Corey was going
to jump on today because I wanted a
little back and forth,
but we'll do it this way.
And that is, you know,
they have this miraculous comeback.
And if you're not a Bears fan or
a Packers fan,
it is the oldest rivalry in the NFL.
The towns are only...
...forty-five minutes apart.
It is insane.
Married couples are split.
It is just the oldest rivalry.
The owners of the Bears...
have said over and over again they really
don't care about the season as long as
they beat the peckers it is it is
like a college-esque rivalry so um so
anyway at the end of the game i'm
going to share my screen and there and
you know customarily uh the coaches come
to midfield and do a handshake and so
uh i'm going to share
this video with you guys I think this
is it okay so that is Matt LaFleur
you can see there he is the head
coach of the Green Bay Packers you'll see
Ben Ben Johnson come in and go to
shake his hand and I'm going to hit
play here and this is the fuss that
has gone on that's a very cursory
handshake oh love lost between these
So,
everybody's calling it the blow-by
handshake.
My question is, when did we care?
When did it become a mandate that we
had to go shake our opponents' hands after
a game?
I get it for like eight, nine,
ten-year-olds in Little League that it's
part of sportsmanship.
And at that age,
you shouldn't be taking things so
seriously.
But these guys are getting paid to beat
one another.
They have both admitted they do not like
one another.
They do not like the other team.
Why is it that we then have to
mandate that they actually come to the
middle of the field after sixty minutes of
battling each other out,
whooping each other's ass,
and then you have to come to the
middle of the field and have a handshake?
And then we read into, well,
he blew by.
They didn't stop and have a conversation.
They don't like each other.
Dick Vitale,
the longtime ESPN basketball analyst,
said that Ben Johnson ruined the magic of
the comeback by doing this blow-off
handshake and in a post-game locker room
celebration said, F the Packers.
I think Dick Vitale is way too old
to be in touch with what's going on
in the world.
It is pure insanity to me that we
put any relevance on any of this stuff.
I love that we hate the Packers.
I love that the Packers hate us.
It means more when we beat the Packers,
especially when we beat the Packers in the
playoffs and come back from a twenty one
to three deficit and come all the way
back to win the game.
I want my coach to say F the
Packers.
I want my coach to...
And I just got done watching his press
conference this morning,
and he is standing by it all.
He said he knows what this rivalry means.
He knows what it means to the city
of Chicago, and he hates that team.
And everything he does is about beating
that team.
it just boggles my mind that we treat
professional athletes who get paid like
they're an eight-year-old little nigger
that has to go to school with Tommy
tomorrow,
so let's go shake his hand and say
good game.
So I ask you, uh,
Chet Anufi, I see it on every level.
It's like the world wants to rid sports
of competition, battle,
healthy aggression, sad state of affairs.
Kenneth DeLapp, God forbid men be men.
Well, and here's this,
and I'm going to try to apply this
to like the CrossFit world.
I think one thing that the CrossFit space
is missing is
is good old-fashioned trash talking where
two competitors don't like one another.
And we came close to that, I think,
with Laura and Tia,
but it never came to full resolution
because of Tia's pregnancy and then Laura
boycotting the games.
And so I find that when the trash
talking is there and we have this sports
hate, it's not life hate,
it's sports hate for another team.
It actually adds intrigue and it adds
drama to the game that we're watching.
And it makes things way more exciting.
Way more exciting.
And I think that that's one thing that
CrossFit needs to add.
And Jody here is saying that I,
you know,
Scott wanted to see a cat fight typical
guy.
I didn't,
I don't care if it's on the men's
side or the women's side.
i've said on the show over and over
again i want laura back in the games
i want this competition it sucks that tia
is pregnant and it sucks that probably
laura isn't going to compete this year in
the game season but i wanted that back
i want to see some kind of intrigue
and drama and trash talking between two
athletes
And we almost had it with Ricky and
Matt.
And then Ricky popped for steroids.
And now Ricky's come back a much gentler
and nicer Ricky.
So now we don't have that bad guy
to root for.
But the reason I kind of brought this
up is... And here's court.
Let me...
I can say with full chest F the
Falcons.
I also hope Liverpool lose every match
they play.
Right.
We have these things.
You know,
I can also say I root for two
college football teams.
I root for Penn State and whoever Ohio
State is playing.
I can do that too.
But
Last night,
we were doing the Sunday night show,
and we brought up a pencil, pen,
and sharpie about will Pat Vellner return
for the twenty-six CrossFit Games season.
And a lot of people said pencil.
A couple people said pen.
I said sharpie.
And it's probably more hopeful than
anything, right?
And Larry Young was in the chat and
he said that all the people that decided
not to do the twenty five CrossFit game
season,
he just doesn't care about anymore and
doesn't want to root for anymore.
And he's entitled to that opinion.
And that's a fine opinion.
I personally want everybody back together
so we have the best athletes in the
space going up against each other.
But I want to ask Larry this.
If you don't like Pat Vellner anymore
because he did that,
why not welcome him back and root against
him?
Rooting against somebody sometimes has
more passion than rooting for somebody.
And if you have someone that you really
like and someone that you think is
awesome,
you can root for that person to beat
the person you dislike.
Instead of saying,
let's not welcome them back,
why not welcome them back and root for
them to lose if that's the opinion you
have?
That's not necessarily my opinion.
I think that Pat has done so much
for this sport over his tenure that if
he had one week that made him one
year that he decided to do one thing,
I'm not going to discredit all the good
he's done for the sport.
And it's funny because Kenneth actually
brought up my next point.
Just make him a heel,
even if it's only in your mind.
Yeah,
like if you grew up like me watching
wrestling all the time,
when your favorite wrestler turned heel,
it was shocking.
It was shocking when they went heel,
and you had to make the choice,
do I now root for the bad guy
that's the heel,
or do I root against my old favorite
who turned heel and hope that he loses?
Either way,
it's generally a passionate decision.
And I think it adds intrigue to the
drama and the storyline of the event.
Larry Young says WWF versus WCW.
I think it's even more than that.
Like when Hulk Hogan went heel,
that was a huge dramatic thing in the
world of wrestling and probably sports.
Hulk Hogan, the all-American hero,
saying his prayers and eating his vitamins
and doing all that kind of stuff.
And when he turned heel,
the wrestling world lost its damn mind.
And if you watch the Vince McMahon
documentary,
it was the pivot point that actually made
WCW a viable contender to the WWE.
And so when these things happen,
you can capitalize on them and make things
more popular.
So Larry responds, I like Pat.
He was one of my favorites,
but when they change leagues,
it's like baseball.
I pay attention to my league.
And I'm not, again, like Larry,
I get why you feel the way you
do and it's fine.
I just ask you,
why not want him back so you can
then root against him?
I think that brings more and more passion
to the table.
And you're going to have people like
Ortega who still love Pat.
And that's what makes it great, right?
Then you have these discussions and these
debates and things on shows like this or
live in an event when you love someone
and they hate somebody and you're rooting
for and against the same person.
Chelsea Miller.
Honestly,
how great is it when fee beats Danielle
Brandon in a workout?
It makes so much,
it makes it so much better.
See, I think that's a great point,
Chelsea.
And it's one that I forgot to bring
up.
So thank you so much for that.
The fee Danielle thing is real.
Like fee is in the comments,
making her points.
And Fee is not the person I would
have suspected to be the antagonist with
Danielle Brandon.
But it's cool because they are polar
opposites from one another.
Fee is one of the nicest people you
will ever meet.
And her public persona matches that.
Danielle Brandon's public persona is let's
burn the house down.
And it is a perfect yin and yang
thing.
What would make it epic is if he
got to a point where she was with
competitive with Danielle on the regular.
What,
See,
what makes the rivalry even better is when
both teams are on the same level.
For years,
the Packers whooped up on the Bears.
We were the nail to their hammer,
and it was not a good rivalry.
The Bears have turned things around.
In the last five games,
they are up three to two,
and all five games have come down to
the final two minutes.
That is a good rivalry.
That means something.
When you get someone,
and this is completely hypothetical,
I am not putting this out into the
universe, but just say,
Jason Hopper and Dallin Pepper have a
falling out.
And they're both on the same level,
and now they hate each other,
and it becomes this interesting,
dramatic moment
thing that happens in the sport.
What I loved about CrossFit when I first
came in is that it was a very
supportive community and very wholesome.
And fifteen years in, I'm like, man,
I just want a little bit of a
little bit of edge,
a little bit of an edge in the
sports side, not in the like,
I want to lose weight or I want
to get strong and I go to my
affiliate every single day.
In the sport,
I just want a little bit more of
that fee Danielle thing that happens.
So.
Joseph Ramirez,
I wanted Pat to win the games at
one point.
Now I hope he doesn't make it to
the games.
See, I want him back,
and I want him to make the games,
and I want him to be a disruptor.
Mark Phillips is still on the Uncle Pat
train.
See, we have all these differing opinions.
That's what makes this beautiful.
You guys are making my point so eloquently
in these comments.
I think it is awesome.
Larry says, but if Pat comes back,
I won't hope he does bad.
But yes,
I cheer for someone to beat Laura.
Chelsea brings up,
I think Laura and Gabby are the closest
we have to that.
That one I actually had in my mind
as a potential great rivalry.
But Laura has to compete in the game
season.
She has to to make it mean something.
Vicky, a little drama is good for sports.
I totally, totally agree.
Totally agree.
Corey says,
I still stand on Jeff Adler saying,
I don't give a shit who wins the
next event so long as it isn't him.
About and to Matt Frazier in the twenty
twenty CrossFit Games.
That's the kind of energy we need.
And I don't want it to be that
that's all the energy.
We just need some.
We just need some good energy.
That's when Jeff was cool.
Larry says you open.
Now I could get way fitter and it's
not to show if more people sign up
with it just being all light cardio.
Okay.
Um, so yeah.
Um,
That was like the main thing I wanted
to talk about.
The last thing on my bears,
the one thing that's blowing my mind is
I actually have a team with a quarterback
who has an it factor.
That has never been the case in my
lifetime.
Jim McMahon for a year or two,
but then he got broken down too much.
But other than that,
the Bears have never had a quarterback
with a nit factor.
And to watch Caleb Williams every week do
the stuff that he does is off the
chain amazing.
Um, and I just, I love it.
I love the, the bullish attitude,
you know, in his press conference,
speaking about what we did, you know,
he said the Packers wanted us.
They wanted us.
They kept saying they wanted us.
Well,
they got us and we're here to stay.
That's the quarterback I want.
Um,
Vicky,
every great movie needs a protagonist and
an antagonist.
Sometimes it's a full-on villain.
Sometimes it's not quite as in your face.
But both are needed for a great story.
Couldn't have said that better myself.
Corey,
just need someone with that kind of energy
to shake things up.
Someone to say, you know what?
F that guy.
Larry said,
Jeff was cool when talking shit in
Russian.
Here's what I think about Jeff.
We didn't get the real Jeff last year.
Jeff was hurt.
Jeff was working through some things,
and because of that,
he wasn't able to give everything he had
at last year's games.
I hope we get the Jeff from Rogue.
The Jeff from Rogue was talking smack.
He was getting some confidence back.
I hope that he gets whatever injuries he's
been working through healed in time for
the
Um,
because I think him added to the mix
right now, we have this group of guys,
uh,
the boys interrupted group that all hang
out together, that all support each other,
that all do all of that stuff, right?
Jeff doesn't hang out with them.
It's not that they hate each other.
It's not that they dislike each other.
He's just not part of that clique, right?
And at least it gives us that.
This guy that can disrupt what they have
going on over here, this group of four.
Because a group of four could dominate for
a while as a group unless somebody like
Jeff Adler or Colton Mertens or...
Ricky Garrard or Jay Crouch jump into that
mix and mess that up.
So maybe it's more of a disruptor to
the click than an individual versus
individual thing.
Yeah.
Chelsea said Jeff was fully checked out at
the games.
I think once the,
whatever he was going through went,
he just knew he didn't have it to
compete.
And he lost a lot of motivation that
weekend.
And it was sad to see, you know,
the one down thing of having the,
the full access in the warmup area.
I got to see him back there and
his demeanor changed dramatically from day
one to day two.
And.
That's why I was really hopeful at Rogue
when he won.
And in the process,
you could tell there was more confidence
in whatever body part was hurt,
that he was able to get through that
pain-free at the time.
Chelsea also says, personally,
I think the boys interrupted group may
save Justin's career.
I do not disagree with that statement
whatsoever.
But I do think that all the amazing
things they are doing for the sport,
and it's a lot.
It is a lot.
They are really going OG.
James and Dallin and Jason doing all these
videos and going with Dave to different
events and all of that stuff.
And Justin doing the tour of the
affiliates on the way to Waterpalooza
SoCal.
And I think they're doing so much for
the sport.
But anytime you get that much attention,
there's going to be content fatigue.
So then there's going to be a group
that want someone like a Jeff Adler or
a Colton Mertens or a Jay Crouch to
interrupt what's going on there.
I don't know if it's going to happen
this year.
I don't know if it's going to happen
next year.
But at some point,
people are going to start rooting for
someone to kind of take that away from
them.
It's just the way sports are.
When the Patriots won their first Super
Bowl, I wanted them to win so bad.
They had been bad for so long.
And then they won their second.
And then they won their third.
And then I just wanted anybody to beat
the Patriots.
Um, and so that happens all the time.
Same thing happened with the chiefs.
The chiefs had been so bad for so
long.
I wanted them to win a super bowl
and then they start winning a lot.
And you're like, okay,
now it's been enough.
Now I need someone to come in and
stop you from doing this.
And I think because the boys interrupted
all hang out together,
we'd lump them together.
So they have won four of the last
five CrossFit games.
Is there going to be a point where
now we look at them as a group
and say,
I want somebody to disrupt this group of
four from continuing to win?
I think it's all how we look at
it from certain perspectives.
I'm a huge Dallin Pepper fan.
I've picked him to win the games this
year.
I think that's my pick,
and that's who I'm rooting for for this
season.
I hope that happens.
But at some point,
I just wonder if the fatigue of that
group hits people and they start rooting
against them instead of for them.
And maybe that won't happen.
You have people like Rich Froning who
people never got tired of.
Never got tired of.
You have people like Matt Fraser who
people got tired of.
People loved his brashness at the
beginning.
And then they just wanted somebody to
compete with him.
Ortega says,
I've never thought of them as a group.
I just see them as dudes with a
podcast like cars and comedians.
I disagree with you because I think they
train together when they can.
They go hang out together when they can.
And I think they truly are friends outside
of the podcast.
if you watch behind the scenes there in
the warmup areas together, they're doing,
I mean,
and then three of them are brute athletes.
They all are coached by the same people.
Justin is different.
He's coached by somebody else.
So I, I do,
I do think there will be a large
section of the CrossFit community that
look at them as,
as a group of four.
Mike DeVito,
they're the three amigos of CrossFit.
I would say the quattro amigos of
CrossFit.
But the plus side of this is,
and if you're a fan of them,
I think their friendship,
partnership has made them all better.
I think all four of them are better
athletes because of that friendship
relationship.
So I am sure it's doing them way
more good than bad.
I'm just saying there is a natural desire
for drama in sports.
And I think that any reason to dislike
somebody, to root against them,
you will find.
Wayne says,
I was surprised that the other three
didn't show up to support James's event
this weekend.
If you've watched any of their stuff
lately, they are so freaking busy.
I want to say one of them said
they're not even going to be home for
like three or four weeks.
Like the insanity of their schedules right
now with sponsors and stuff they're doing
for CrossFit and things like that is pure
insanity.
Chris Love,
the boys interrupted could be like the
four horsemen from WCW.
Very good analogy.
Very good analogy.
Mark Phillips,
we kind of had this with Olsen Smith
Mayer.
That would have been a good podcast team,
perhaps.
Possibly.
I don't know if they would be as
forthcoming as what these four have been.
These four have truly given us a peek
into what it's like to be an athlete
and what is required of athletes.
Way more than I think those three would
have led us into.
The Ortega,
Dallin and Jason were in Austin.
Justin is in California,
then doing stuff with CrossFit.
Yeah,
their schedules are like super crazy.
I mean,
James didn't even go watch his dad at
the Masters CrossFit Games because he had
a commitment to a friend's wedding.
Their schedules are so tight that they
have to make difficult decisions
sometimes.
I'm happy that CrossFit is actually
utilizing them.
That brings up a great point, Vicky.
I am so glad that CrossFit is utilizing
them.
I just wish CrossFit would do more
utilization of things that are going on.
You know,
we talked about it last night that this
week the U.S.
government flipped the food pyramid and is
waging war on added sugars and processed
carbohydrates.
There's been nothing posted by CrossFit
about that.
How can you not take advantage of the
media that is out about that right now?
The thing you've been fighting for since
the inception of this methodology is you
got a government agency to admit that it's
been right all along and nothing, nothing,
nothing on the CrossFit site
that I do think that the efforts with
the CrossFit media department have been
moving in the right direction,
but that's a big miss.
There it is right there.
Okay.
So Chattanooga,
he said they did post something today,
but when was that announced?
That was what Tuesday or Wednesday of last
week.
Tuesday or Wednesday of last week,
and it's taken you a week to get
something up?
It's just awful.
Ken Walters,
a private equity group before sale doesn't
want something possibly political
connected to it.
politically or there's,
there's so much political around the
CrossFit and what it is and who,
what it stands for.
You can't avoid it.
So why play dumb?
Playing dumb just is,
is not the way to, I don't know.
I'm,
Personally,
I just wanted to see a big I
told you so banner on their website.
Chattanooga agreed.
They're not a nimble team on socials and
it's unfortunate.
And I am sure that what Ken is
saying is partly correct,
that they are a private equity firm and
the levels of approval to get something
posted are probably something we cannot
understand.
I work for government.
I work for state government.
For me to post something publicly,
I have to get eighteen signatures on it
before I can do it.
It's so stupid.
And I'm sure that the private equity firm
is doing the same thing to them,
handcuffing them in what they can post.
But this has been like the North Star
of this company forever.
to then not even acknowledge that you got
one of the biggest wins you could ever
get should have been exempted in all of
that sign-off shit.
All of it.
I'm Mike DeVito.
This is the HQ staff that did literally
nothing with the decision in the courts
proving NSCA lied.
They collected the settlement money.
They did that part.
Mike.
Vicki agreed.
They need to embrace it.
Yeah.
Everyone went gaga over the new marketing
lady at HQ,
but she's been AWOL on everything.
I wouldn't say AWOL on everything, Jody.
They are posting stuff.
And this has been kind of my thing
for the last couple weeks on the shows
is that I do think it's heading in
a direction that is positive.
Do I think it's fast enough?
No.
Do I think it is accurate enough?
No.
Do I think it's getting the job done
fully?
No.
I do think it's missing parts.
I do think it can be tweaked in
a better way.
But they're like in the last week after
I bitched about no marketing for the open
in the last week,
they've been blowing up socials with the
open stuff.
Um,
so they are doing stuff and they are
creating stuff.
It's just taking more time than I would
like.
And it's not necessarily exactly what I
would want it to be.
Vicky sums it up better than I did
a better than it was not as good
as it could be.
Yeah.
Just another example,
the buyer's having no clue what CrossFit
is.
Chattanoofy,
there's also a post on Instagram about a
newborn only being comforted by being held
while doing air squats because the mom did
CrossFit through her pregnancy.
I'm okay with that stuff being out there,
but there's also important stuff that's
being missed.
I am sure that is not the case,
Ken Walters.
I am sure.
I'm sure it was just timing.
This isn't the CrossFit of old where it
was owned by one person.
I know.
And that's why I'm saying, Ortega,
that like I work for government,
which is a big entity and everything is
political that we talk about.
Everything takes eighteen levels of
approval.
And I'm sure the board of directors at
CrossFit want the same thing that I deal
with every day.
Chattanooga Wasted is a big pop culture
page.
I'm saying CrossFit HQ should have
reshared it.
That's the stuff that really kind of gets
me.
And I think Hiller's brought it up in
the past.
They want to recreate,
like the Tyson Bajent thing when he went
to his press conference talking about
CrossFit.
About when he retires from the NFL,
he wants to be a CrossFit coach and
become jacked.
They went and they scheduled a meeting
with them.
They scheduled a shoot.
They did all this stuff.
It took like three months to get it
out.
They could have just reshared that video.
And they never did.
They never did.
Could have just reshared this.
Tagged it with a little phrase,
reshared it.
And they don't.
They don't.
They waste their time trying to polish
everything up.
And when it could just be a simple
reshare.
When that came out,
they should have just shared the clip of
saying,
we are waging war on processed sugar and
on new added sugar and processed
carbohydrates.
Just that clip.
Post it.
Don't need to add anything to it.
Don't need to polish it.
Just post that clip of those eight words
or whatever it is.
We are waging war against added sugar and
processed carbohydrates.
That's it.
Eight seconds.
That's it.
uh vicky asks is it me or does
it feel does it sometimes feel like there
are two different trains riding on the
same track when it comes to crossfit
socials uh i chattanooga agrees with you
um uh vicky says social media sometimes
feels bipolar it doesn't feel like things
are being stated from one entity
Well,
I do think that there's a sports side.
There is a training and methodology side
that don't always go hand in hand,
but they should be at least like on
parallel tracks.
I think that I hear what you're saying
about the political thing.
But the nutrition aspect of this,
you have been fighting as an entity for
twenty five years.
And you won.
You got a win that nobody ever thought
would happen.
Just share it.
It's not political.
It's just something that happened that
agrees with what you have posted your
theory of nutrition to be.
You know what?
It doesn't matter what you post, Andrew.
You're going to piss somebody off
regardless.
You can put out the most benign post
ever and it is going to piss somebody
off.
So fear of pissing people off is a
very bad way to go about things.
If you're worried about pissing people
off, you're going to speak to no one.
You say it was Greg fighting,
not the current owners,
but they are still posting.
They made shirts just at last year's games
about the meat and veggies,
and it's on a shirt saying,
eat meat and vegetables.
They still post the fitness in a hundred
words,
which starts with the nutrition piece.
So you can say it was Greg,
but they are standing by it in other
ways.
Why wouldn't you take this win?
That would be the biggest marketing ploy
ever.
We've had the answer for twenty five
years.
People are finally following suit.
Come check it out at our box.
I can rant all I want,
but that's the nature of business.
Well,
I rant because that's why I do a
podcast.
And yes,
there are a lot of companies that fail.
But there are also a lot of companies
that don't.
And we've talked about this in the past.
If you don't have a North Star or
you don't have that thing to fight for,
you're not going to matter.
You're not going to matter.
Nobody's going to give a shit what you
have to say if you stand for nothing.
If you want to stand by the affiliates
and you want to give them the marketing
they deserve being a part of your
affiliate system,
you need to stand for something.
And the thing you have stood for for
twenty five years was agreed to by a
government agency.
And if there was any time at all
where you were going to then stand for
something,
you could have shared that post.
You didn't make the post.
You just shared the post.
And if you piss off somebody,
so be it.
But there are a ton of people out
there looking for answers.
And those answers came in that statement.
And how to get those answers every day
is to go to an affiliate and learn
more.
And there it was.
It was all out there for you.
And you let it go by.
Or you waited a week for it to
go by.
I still haven't seen what they put out
today.
I'll have to go look for it.
But again, they just waited too damn long.
Vicky says exactly.
Scott PE is very scared of pissing people
off instead of just embracing the history
and methodology and letting that story
ring true.
And I'll just end it with,
if you don't stand for anything,
nobody's going to give a shit.
Larry says, Andrew,
after almost every podcast,
I think I just need to stop commenting,
but I'm like,
someone needs to say this after,
after I'm like, Larry, no one cares.
Just be quiet.
Listen, Larry.
You motivated this podcast today about
having rivalries and wanting to root
against people because of a comment you
made last night.
Don't think that it doesn't make an
impact.
It made an impact.
I literally was laying in bed last night
like,
that's what I need to do the show
on.
I need to do it on that.
Of course,
there was the handshake that kind of added
to that and the whole Pat Vellner
discussion.
But your comments, actually,
I listen to them all.
And I think about them in the evening.
And I think about them when I'm creating
these shows and coming up with topics for
us to talk about.
So never,
ever feel like nobody cares or nobody's
listening.
You inspired what we did today on this
show.
Just with your comments last night about
not liking the athletes that sat out last
year.
I appreciate all your comments.
But we're a hangout show.
We're going to have differing opinions.
And I love that we get to hang
out and discuss them right here on the
show each and every day.
Half of the stuff we talked about today
wasn't even in a note.
I've got notes that we never even touched.
But I love this because we talked about
the stuff you guys wanted to talk about.
So.
Thank you for participating.
Continue to participate.
And Andrew Sten knows that I just like
to talk about him.
I talk about stuff with him.
Uh, I've known Andrew for a long time.
We have the same debates and discussions
in person that we do in this chat.
I appreciate his opinion and he's probably
right in most cases with companies not
doing what they should do.
Um,
But anyway, it is what it is.
You guys are the best.
I love hanging out with you guys each
and every day.
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With that, have a great day, guys.
I'm going to get back to work.
You knuckleheads get back to work too.
We'll see you tomorrow on Lunch with the
Cloud.