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We are back and it is lunchtime.
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 I can
make a better me.
D-E-M-M-E!
It's lunch time.
what is going on everybody welcome to
lunch with the clydesdale we are back and
better than ever after three days off last
week finally good to be back in the
seat we did it last night with the
sunday night show but good to be back
at lunch time with all of you um
wow a lot of you already in the
chat we've got amanda we've got mike we've
got trent olive lido
joseph ramirez meredith jay birch so good
to see you all uh craig pasley vicky
so awesome to be here um i don't
have any notes for today i'm just here
we're gonna chat about some stuff
We'll see where it goes.
I was hoping Corey was going to be
here today because I wanted to bounce
something off of him,
but maybe we'll have to wait.
Oh, oh, speak of the cowboy.
He is in the backstage area and ready
to make an appearance.
Sorry I'm late.
all right i was afraid i was confusing
you with i had done all the shows
for the week i just was i just
was trying to get here that's all there
is to it okay no no speeding tickets
or anything right no no no no thank
goodness all right stuff off right quick
anyway hi everybody
standing ovation according to house he
just likes to be a little bit late
to get the extra special introduction if
you ask my wife she will tell you
i am one hundred percent full of drama
so i am uh i'm one of those
guys that cannot stand to be late no
i hate it i i realized the time
and i was trying to wrap some up
and like
gotta get there you're not talking about
you today and anything we you know we
were off a lot last week yeah and
uh it's just a thing like it's been
a fight in my thirty year marriage since
day one i am lucky blessed that my
wife hates being late as much as i
do i am not that blessed
I refuse to stand up and get ready
to go out the door until she is
like,
has the door open and one foot out.
Right.
Cause I'm just tired of false starts.
I'm tired of all of that stuff.
It's, it's ridiculous.
Um,
When we go to church,
I like to get there to get a
good seat, all that kind of stuff.
And she would always say, oh,
why do we have to always be there
before Jesus?
You can't get there before Jesus.
Yeah, I know.
That's just.
If you ain't early, you're late.
Yep, I agree.
Fifteen minutes early is on time.
On time is late.
That's how I was raised.
Wayne says that thumb ain't for sitting
on.
Everybody click it.
That means the like button and the
subscribe button.
Uh, Mike DeVito, Scott,
is it the same getting out of the
car?
My wife has to grab three bags,
two Stanley's last minute makeup.
Yes.
And she always,
I have to lock the door and we,
we have like a fob where you just
hit the button on the door handle,
but I can't do it until she gets
out and closes the door.
So I, so I just started to like,
just sit in the seat and she goes,
what are you going to get on your
phone?
No, just waiting.
Okay.
Because I'd rather sit here and wait than
wait for you standing by the door in
the rain, in the gusty wind,
whatever it is.
It actually has way less to do with
you than you would think.
Just being patient.
I'm comfortable in the waiting period.
A hundred percent.
she'll be like drop me off at the
store she's the only person that doesn't
have anything ready so I pull up to
the store like blocking traffic and I've
got to wait five minutes for her to
collect all of her belongings and go into
the store bless you it's great my mom
was here all weekend and she goes you
need to stop
bashing your wife on your show and I'm
like I'm not bashing her I love her
to death I mean we've been married for
thirty you know twenty nine years this May
right love her to death but she you
know it those are facts she is who
she is yeah I would say the same
thing dude my wife is who she is
and I love I love her for it
I love her for it my life would
be so less interesting without her in it
and all of the the
semi crazy stuff that she does.
So I'm grateful for.
Um, Trent Olive,
we need to have your wife on a
show, Scott.
I'm not sure I can handle that.
I am.
I am not sure.
We'd be a little more likely to get
mama's whites are on.
i'm not sure so we did a bible
study show a long time ago and my
wife participated and was on a few times
um so she has been on the show
a couple times and when we had christmas
abbott on a while ago my wife is
a huge big brother fan yeah she did
like come downstairs and hop on to say
hi to christmas abbott i see you on
tv
it's been a couple of times she's jumped
on, but, uh, uh,
I call it being stuck in traffic in
my parking spot.
Yeah.
It's a good way to put it.
We got Braden J.
Twenty one new listener from the seven
verse.
I have loved the content the past few
shows,
and I'm happy your surgery went smoothly.
Plan to stay.
Keep up the good work.
Awesome.
Appreciate it.
I wish the after part of the surgery
went better,
but
I mean, it is what it is.
We knew going in that there was going
to be a chance that we might have
to do this again.
So it's not like it's hopefully the best
plan for the world.
Still waiting on the call today to find
out what the EKG said on Friday and
what the next steps are going to be.
But...
uh joseph ramirez christmas abbott
crossfit crush first crossfit crush i
think she was many many men's first
crossfit crush and probably some women too
uh i was gonna say a lot of
people um met christmas once took my
selfie and my friend photobombed the
background i still haven't forgiven him
you have a first crossfit crush corey or
you keep that to yourself oh wow uh
when i first started paying attention and
actually seeing everybody um i would say i
probably got two of them one of them
is actually yours you and i share one
uh okay yep and uh the other one
is uh camille lamar by his name
She was a lot of people's first CrossFit
crush, too.
Absolutely unreal.
Maybe even three.
Oh, goodness.
I know the girl's name.
Jamie Green.
Man.
I know that's a lot of people's as
well.
Jamie Absolute Green.
One hundred percent.
But that was Sam Dancer.
The one we share would be Miss Stacy
Tavor.
Yes.
She is my first CrossFit crush.
The fact that I've gotten to meet her
and nobody has ever made me nervous when
I was volunteering,
when I was doing media,
any of that kind of stuff,
except for her.
And I had to put together her five,
eleven vest and get it sized for the
was it the sixteen,
fifteen or sixteen regionals?
Where they had to wear the vest to
do strict.
One with the strict muscle up in the.
I'm going to say that's fifteen.
I know which one you're talking about.
I want to say that's fifteen.
It's a named workout.
I can't.
Yes.
If you wouldn't ask me,
I could have told you.
But I know which one you're talking about.
And I've gone to her gym.
I've worked out there.
Got to meet her there.
A whole bunch of stuff.
So.
She's wearing white shorts.
Crushed back in the day.
Kenneth Tlep, Lindsay Valenzuela.
Alessandra Pacelli.
She is.
I thought she was very attractive.
And then I met her in person.
I'm like, whoa,
that's at another level than I even
thought.
Can confirm.
How about that?
So stunning in person.
Margo.
Margo is the nicest.
She's got to be the number one all-time
nicest human being I've ever encountered
in the CrossFit space.
And I know that's not lip service because
this is not the first or second or
fifth time I've heard you say that.
The nicest person I have ever, ever met.
She's another one that I've never heard
anybody had a bad encounter with.
Never, never.
I've never heard the words.
I met Margo Alvarez and it sucked.
That's never been a, I've never,
never heard a thing.
Uh, Julie Foucher from ed AI.
Julie was my level one instructor.
The first time I got my level one.
Um, and I've gotten,
I got to know her over the years.
I actually did her podcast.
Gosh, maybe five years ago,
four years ago, something like that.
Now, I don't know.
It seems like forever, but, uh,
And I would actually consider Julie a
friend.
We've actually communicated outside of the
CrossFit space a few times.
Julie had one of the coolest rogue shirts
ever with her doing the handstand with the
boot on her foot.
It's behind that Lowen shirt right there.
Yeah.
That was insane.
They would never allow that nowadays, FYI.
That's how back in the day that was.
That would never fly today.
Dr. Matt Murphy,
Julie Foucher was my first CrossFit crush.
Ed's headed to the affiliate class,
but glad you're back.
Scott, thank you so much for that.
Kipping it real, Froning.
Froning was fantastic.
rich froning is to this day my favorite
male athlete all time to this day it
will take a lot to to overtake him
and talk about a kind human being he
is really kind he's one of the people
that you meet once and it you don't
like you don't forget it and it's not
because he's larger than life it's because
he's sincerely that genuine when you know
this much about him you meet him for
five minutes and he's a dude he's a
dude's dude it's an it's crazy uh jay
birch of course i'm uh pretty fond of
bethany flores uh as he went to her
affiliate for a while and bethany's
another one of those people where you
think they're attractive and then you see
them in person and you're like
You're like, oh yeah, confirmed.
It could get better and it really,
really does.
Corey is exactly right.
Sincerely, genuine, regular dude,
good dude.
Yeah.
I love the fact that every time he
sees me, he's like, hey, Rich Froning,
how you doing?
I know who you are, Rich.
He does that to people everywhere he goes.
It doesn't matter if they're,
if he's speaking somewhere,
if he's at whatever,
like I've multiple reports of those.
He introduces himself every single time as
if people in this space have no idea
who he is.
Like, unless you got here yesterday,
like unless you, you know, you signed up,
walked in off the street yesterday,
ninety nine percent chance, you know,
returning is.
And that is,
that tells you exactly who he is as
a human.
Yeah.
That's what stuck out to me.
Right.
We were there to see him speak and
he introduced himself to every single
person he talked to afterwards and got
their name and repeated it.
Like,
good job papa froning and mama froning
because that's man who was raised right
like that's what you do when you when
you meet people i'm terrible at it i
meet people for the first time and i
immediately forget their names a lauren
fisher and her long messy hair i remember
the first time i met her was at
rogue she was here doing the team
competition she looked like she was twelve
Yeah,
I've always thought she looks super young.
Even today, when you see pictures of her,
she still looks,
she's probably part vampire because I
don't think she ages.
There was something here from Winter about
Ben Smith's body.
Oh, she said Ben Smith's body,
but his face is okay.
If we're talking bodies,
Neil Maddox is the body I want my
head on.
Okay.
I'm trying to think of the last time
I actually saw a picture of Neomatics.
Neomatics is perfection.
Look, we can get back into that because,
and I know I've said this a hundred
times,
but that picture that I have of Rich,
the first thing my wife said was you
could see his abs through his shirt.
And I was like, yeah, you can.
Ricky, yes, dude.
Ricky has a ridiculous body.
Neil is too slender.
He was bigger than most of the people
on the floor.
Ricky Garrard,
Bailey Martin is well-built.
I was re-watching the Twenty-Five
documentary again last night,
and they showed Ricky doing toes to bar,
and I just, like, I want those abs.
Jesus H. Christ, dude.
Like, that is, he's absolutely insane.
Um,
my daughter thought she was in love with
Alex Smith.
I mean, he does have a,
he is a really well,
a good looking man ripped.
He's absolutely right.
Uh, Dan Bailey, Jr.
How.
And Lito says Enrico Zanoni has the best
body in CrossFit.
Lito with a hot take.
I would have to go take a picture
and look at Enrico Zanoni because I had
not seen that dude.
I couldn't pick him out of a lineup.
Like, I know the name.
I know who he is.
But couldn't I pick him out of a
lineup?
All right.
Enough of the...
Whatever that is.
I promise this was a no notes episode.
No votes for Marcus Philly.
He left CrossFit behind and trash talked
it.
Nope, not giving it to him.
Yep, and still.
Train all of Alex Anderson.
Alex Anderson's a good looking dude.
Alex Anderson is a ridiculously good
looking dude.
Volunteer time I had to escort him to
pee in a cup.
uh, he's a good looking dude.
I didn't,
I didn't watch the peeing in process.
Just got him from the room.
Yeah.
That wasn't, that wasn't part of your job.
Um,
so one thing I wanted to talk about
is,
and we talked about it briefly last night
on the show is masters getting to compete
in person for the first time.
Yeah.
And,
I've talked to a lot of my friends,
and the order in which people are being
invited is chaotic.
At its best.
And you see people being invited that
don't make any sense at all,
and people ahead of them on the
leaderboard not getting invites.
And I've talked to Jamie.
Jamie has not received...
Jamie finished eighteenth in the world in
her division.
She should be getting an invite from
everyone according to their things.
And she's received nothing.
I talked to you.
You finished fifty... Fourth.
Fourth in your division.
And if you listen to Micah on the
Jason Grubb podcast...
You would, you would,
you should be on the list because of
other invites or, um,
people around the world or whatever.
And it just doesn't make any sense.
Now Lito got one from magic city.
Lito was top three, top four.
I think top three.
Yeah.
So I would see her getting an early
invite.
That makes sense.
But there are other things going on that,
yeah, this is the stuff.
I think I saw an Eighty-Fourth get a
Magic City Games invite.
That makes no sense.
A dude that I competed with a couple
different times who was in my age group
who finished twenty spots or so below me
already accepted his invite.
And I am obsessively checking my email.
If you could wear out an email,
like I would probably have done that by
now.
I went from obsessively checking my
Instagram to obsessively checking my email
once I had a brief conversation with
whoever's running Magic City Games'
Instagram account.
So before we talk about that, Shanna,
second interage group, nothing yet.
There you go.
The leaderboard is final now, correct?
Well, there is no video review.
I mean,
unless they ask for the video review.
And all the affiliates had to verify the
scores by Wednesday of last week.
So they should be as final as they're
going to be.
These events are happening within a month.
Here's the thing.
For everybody who did quarterfinals,
if you go open up your app,
and you probably got an email about it
too,
it gives you a breakdown on how you
did during quarterfinals.
So like if it's telling you that, oh,
like mine,
you get a bunch of different little
prompts, pictures,
whatever you want to call them.
It shows you your place in and it'll
show your percentage.
And there's one of them that's like only
fifty percent of men,
forty five to forty nine can finish.
Thirty can do thirty straight handstand
pushups, like all that kind of stuff.
So it's telling you all of this stuff.
The lead boards finalized.
Because otherwise they're just sending out
shit just to sending out shit.
And that's not cool, right?
I understand that having to verify the
elite via video for the people that are
winning money, right?
Yep.
Lito says the breakdown has an asterisk
that it might still change.
Good catch, Lito.
I did not see that.
I don't know if you said it here
just a couple of seconds ago,
but in your communications with the social
media person from Magic City,
they said that they have not received the
email lists from CrossFit yet.
Correct.
If that is in fact the truth,
what the hell are you doing, CrossFit?
you've aligned with these companies to run
your semifinals for you,
and you can't get an email list out,
it's not that hard.
It's really not.
It's a list of name, email.
So you can contact the people on the
leaderboard to give them an invite.
The fact that
Magic City is saying they have to search
and find some of these people to get
invites out is crazy.
Yeah.
Mark already did that.
I'd message them my email and my placing.
No shame.
Yeah.
Corey did that.
I already did that Saturday.
That's how I ended up having the
conversation.
And the girl told me that yesterday.
uh hq has not given them an email
list at all if you go look on
on legends like they're getting in the
invites out the same way it looks like
uh last i checked on on in my
age group anyway there's only eight people
on their leaderboard so far magic city's
ones you can't see is still hidden alito
says a small team scott
It only takes one person to go to
the sort and say, women,
thirty five to thirty nine.
Here's a list of names and email
addresses.
You don't even have to send out the
placing.
They can then go to the leaderboard,
find the people they want to invite,
go to the list in the Excel spreadsheet,
search it for the name and at least
have the email to send it out.
Yeah.
If you were a Mariners athlete though,
I would check spam.
I would check all of your other folders
because these are email addresses that are
probably not in your, uh, God.
What they're sending is the,
the email part of anyway is, uh,
is a link to competition corner to sign
up.
So if you've already signed up for
something, chances are better than not,
you're going to get it from competition
corner.
Um,
and if not go to competition corner go
look at your invites and see if there's
anything in there like i've been dude i've
been down so many different roles i talked
to me and david johnston have been
messaging back and forth since thursday
thursday or friday about this in
particular because he didn't when they
messaged him on instagram he didn't see it
first because it was like i didn't get
an invite either he finished like third or
fourth something along those lines like
inside the top five i'm ninety nine
percent sure yeah probably your requested
folder on instagram because you're not you
know i don't know it's just weird
Yeah.
Ken says, email Dave.
The problem is CrossFit doesn't get to
invite you.
If they have contracted with these
third-party entities,
the invite has to come from them.
Correct.
So that's what I've done.
I've, like I said,
I had a fairly productive conversation.
This was Saturday afternoon with the lady
who was running their social media.
She was very, very like,
because I feel like a jackass doing that
every single time.
Right.
You know, where's my invite?
Right.
So I'm very,
very self-conscious about that kind of
stuff.
But at the same time,
when I see somebody, like I said,
who's twenty something spots behind me and
they've got one,
I'm not that hard to find on Instagram.
I'm really not.
I don't feel like I am.
I don't know.
I haven't ever had to search for myself.
Right.
But I don't know.
That's my handle.
I don't know if you search my name
if it comes up.
I have absolutely no idea.
I think so.
But I started tagging them and stuff since
then.
And then this morning,
I went ahead and just messaged Micah
directly after finishing up the Grubbs
podcast and listening to him talk because
he said he's been getting...
you know instagram messages basically
since last week of people stating their
case as to why they should be invited
and my case as to why i should
be invited is i'm inside the top people
on so like
Alito says, I got my invite on Instagram,
so they're clearly inviting people already
without emails.
It did go into my message request
initially, though.
Yeah, they actually told Corey that.
They said they are trying to find people
however they can.
But again,
you're inviting forty two people from.
Thirty five to forty four.
Then it's what,
twenty twenty twenty eight people from
whatever to fifty nine and then a little
bit less on up.
But that's a lot of people to look
up.
A lot of people to sort through.
It is.
And you have the right person on Instagram
on a worldwide database.
Right.
I'm trying to be as patient as I
can,
but that's part of the conversation I had
with that girl.
I said, I'm sorry.
I said,
CrossFitters aren't exactly known for
being super patient.
That's not a thing that we generally
possess as far as that kind of stuff
is concerned.
And she said, neither are we.
She said,
which is why we're doing what we're doing
now,
because
With no email list from HQ,
they're literally just hunting in the dark
at this point.
Right.
And being on how big their team is,
that's doing that.
And it was a holiday weekend.
Right.
So I'm trying to give them a little
bit of slack for that.
But at the same time, I'm like,
you found all these other people.
I just gave you all of my stuff.
Here is my name.
Here is my placement.
Here is my age group.
Here is my email.
And it's eleven forty three on Monday
morning.
I still don't have anything.
So that part's frustrating for me.
So.
If they're taking this long in the
master's world,
are they taking the same amount of time
in the elite world?
Like.
It just seems to be a mess.
You knew this was coming.
You planned it out.
Right.
Why didn't you say, Hey,
here's everybody registered their names
and emails in this age group and give
it to magic city or, Hey,
here's everybody in the world that's
registered.
And here you go.
You can search this database of people.
It's just the name and email.
I mean,
I reference it with the leaderboard to do
your invites.
Yeah,
to compile a list of people that signed
up for quarterfinals,
which is way less than what's on for
the actual open, shouldn't be that.
I wouldn't think it'd be that difficult.
I don't work in IT,
but my wife does spreadsheets on a regular
basis,
and she said it shouldn't be that hard
to do.
Not at all.
There is a table behind their website
where you register.
I'm sure it stores all this information,
and you just have to query that database
to pull those two fields, name, email.
Amanda says,
I saw thirty-sixth place of thirty-five to
thirty-nine and thirty-seventh place forty
to forty-four posted as registered today.
That's what's happening too is Magic City
is posting all these people who are saying
that they're registered now and they're
sharing it and it's just adding to the
chaos because you're like, wait a minute,
I finished twenty-eighth.
Why did they get theirs before I got
mine?
And there's no explanation as to how it's
being done.
Yeah.
That's why my wife said, well,
how do you know the Seventy whatever
place?
And I said, because I know him.
And he posted something on his Instagram
and I saw it and like he's twenty
something spots below me.
So now I have a question because clearly
you skipped over me and a whole bunch
of other people.
To send this dude an invite, which is,
I don't know what their process is.
But if you listen to Micah on the
Jason Grubb podcast,
they're starting with one and going down
the list.
I get that.
And they're going to keep backfilling
until it's full.
So that's why it makes no sense that
someone at seventy whatever.
Right.
Gets an invite.
I don't know.
I don't.
I just don't know.
Anyway.
So that's that.
It looks like you have a pretty good
shot to get an invite.
Yeah.
Like theoretically.
Are you excited to get to compete at
a semifinal level in person?
Yeah.
Well, last year,
whenever they announced all of this,
which me and David Downston also had this
conversation the other day.
I got super excited because I like to
compete in person.
There's not a whole lot of competitions
out there for
elite level masters athletes to compete
they just aren't there's legends there's
mfc there's a couple other ones where some
of the top guys will go to here
and there but like to have a full
field of you know the highest level it's
really not it's not common whatsoever um
so i made that my goal i wanted
to put myself in the best possible
position i could to get an opportunity to
be able to compete in person and i
did so
again yeah oh folks absolutely um so yeah
i am super stoked to be able to
go do it in person you know six
events three days uh and put it all
out there and see where the chips fall
i mean why not what i was when
one thing me and david was talking about
is that we we are both
I don't say hoping,
but kind of torn between like,
how many people are going to sign up
from the tippity top to go actually and
compete in person after saying that they
wanted to, right?
Oh, this is a great thing.
And then they show up because they're only
taking top two, like in my age group,
it's top two from all five and the
rest of them online or as opposed to,
well i'm just going to do the online
because it's in my gym and it's you
know way more in my comfort level and
blah blah whatever instead of putting
yourself to out there on the floor like
i want to be on the floor i
want to line up next to the david
johnstons and the you know whoever else
brandon fontenot and like all these
absolute animals mike uh paget that i know
I want to lie next to him and
see what I got,
see what my training has been doing,
you know?
And if I, uh,
if I make it awesome, if not,
I got more experience on the competition
floor.
I was going to do a high level
comp no matter what,
why not do this one?
Yeah.
I hope,
I hope we get some answers soon.
Hopefully the email lists get over
quickly.
Um,
i think i think the other thing the
factor to this that is messing things up
big time so we don't really know who's
going to do live is the online or
right at the same time it is the
if you do magic city if you do
legends you got a week and a half
ish if you do magic city you get
about four or five days
And Jamie talked last night that with
coming off the surgery with her hip,
to go back-to-back weeks is less likely
for her.
This might have been off the air,
that if she does go to Magic City,
she's actually thinking about staying
somewhere close so she doesn't make the
big, long drive.
If she has to do online,
she can do it somewhere locally where
she's not
where she can recover and not have the
long drive back.
Yeah, it makes sense.
I mean,
especially for her to like her shoulder is
barely held on at this point.
Like she's super glue inducted.
She said it's about the same as two
years ago.
And two years ago,
she took fourth at the games.
I was about there this morning.
I was getting caught up whenever she was
like, I mean,
I've been like eighty percent and did
pretty well.
It's like by pretty well, you mean fourth.
Yeah.
OK, that's I guess it's pretty well.
Right.
Right.
So I don't know.
It's going to be interesting to see how
it all plays out.
I know Carolyn is like.
really wanting to not have to do online
right right because she's trying to pack
so much in that not having to do
that online makes her life so much easier
but it's a risk when you're only getting
like three spots right or whatever it is
for those and uh cal is doing uh
norcal right
She signed up for NorCal for the elite
qualification.
She signed up at Del Mar for the
Masters.
Right.
That's a lot, dude.
In a relatively short period of time.
A lot on central nervous system,
a lot on fitness.
Yeah.
Carolyn will not have to do the online.
You just never know.
You never know what happens that weekend.
Correct.
Anything could happen.
right that's that's a crazy crazy part of
it all which is part of why i
like doing in person because anything can
happen well and you if you want to
be prepared to go to the games at
some point you're not going to be able
to control variables there either you
start you start used to that right
Yeah.
Your start time is your start time.
The order you're going to do them in
is the order they say you're going to
do them in.
Like there's not a, you don't get a,
well,
I'm going to do this one first and
then I'm going to turn around and do
that one later and whatever.
No, bro.
Like this is how we're going.
You don't get a redo.
You don't get a,
like you need to be prepared.
That's another reason why I want to go
in person.
Howie's on a huge delay and happily
married, but Amy Kringle is a smoke show.
He is not wrong.
He is not.
She pushed me right over a box.
She sure did.
Lita says,
I hate online and nerve-wracking process
of the video review.
Well, we, and we talked about it.
Well, tight,
tight Jenkins talked about it in his,
he was on with the girls on filter
doing commentary that he took an extra
pause at the top of every overhead squat
to make sure he didn't get a no
rep.
So when you're doing online,
you lose a freedom of movement, right?
When you're in person,
someone's going to tell you right away and
you can react and make that change where
when you're doing it online,
you don't have that freedom.
You don't have that freedom to cut it
loose and trust that someone's going to be
right in their judging decision.
Speaking of David Jones.
You say his name three times and he
shows up.
Don't even have to look in the mirror.
It's fantastic.
So that's...
That's pretty much everything I want to
talk about CrossFit today.
But I did want to talk about this
one thing with you and I wanted to
bounce this off you because I want to
get, it fascinates me.
So, you know,
I've been down and out all weekend with
everything health wise.
Yeah.
And so I've been watching a lot of
like obscure YouTube stuff.
There's this show called the Mount
Rushmore.
Okay.
And basically it's these two guys,
they pick a topic and they bring two
either famous people from that topic or
who are important in that topic some way.
And they count their Mount Rushmore of a
variety of things.
Like right now of like the Mount Rushmore
of nineties music.
But the first one I watched and the
one that I want to bounce off you
is it was the Mount Rushmore of standup
comedians.
And here's my question to you.
And I'm going to preface this with,
when I was a kid,
I went through my parents' record
collection and I listened to a lot of
stuff.
And they had Bill Cosby albums.
And to this day,
I would say the Bill Cosby albums I
listened to in my childhood are some of
the best comedy,
maybe the best comedy I have ever heard
in my life.
But at seventy eight years old,
he gets busted for doing some horrible
things.
Horrible things.
Does he belong on the Mount Rushmore or
do you have to take him down because
of what he did?
That we didn't know about until he was
seventy eight.
That is a fantastic question.
Because they put Richard Pryor on the
mountain.
But the man set himself on fire doing
drugs.
He did a whole bunch of drugs.
He didn't force his drugs on anybody else.
And he only hurt himself.
Yeah.
I think the more you find out about
people who are famous, especially actors,
comedians, rock stars, all that stuff,
the less you know about their personal
lives, the better.
Yeah.
And last night we talked about why do
we want to know about all these
CrossFitters?
So it's all kind of melding together.
A hundred percent.
Uh, I will, I will,
the first comedy special I ever saw was
Bill Cosby himself.
Classic.
On HBO back in the day.
That's how much I remember what it was
called.
And I think the next one I saw,
which I probably wasn't supposed to at the
time, was Eddie, Delirious.
Again, and in Raw, right?
Those are probably my top three stand-up
comedy moments as far as that's concerned.
Eddie turns out, Eddie's a good dude.
Bill's in prison.
Terry says, I have to take him down.
Well, they did.
They did not put him on the mountain
because of...
And Jay Leno was one of the people
they brought in to talk about it.
And he's like, what...
He wouldn't put anybody alive on because
he wants a whole body of work.
And bill Cosby's the example of the man
was only, only had ten minutes left.
Yeah.
Right.
And he would have been considered a
genius.
And then he,
it all went up in flames and now
he's in prison.
Rightfully so.
Right.
And so, it was funny.
So, Joseph Ramirez, George Carlin,
Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Eddie Murphy.
Two of those made the mount.
Carlin and Pryor, I'd imagine.
Correct.
Yeah.
Although,
Eddie Murphy is freaking amazing.
Like, to me,
Eddie Murphy delirious is the,
the stand-up comedy routine ever.
Clock cutter.
My dad had an old vinyl record of
early Bill Cosby from like early sixties
or something.
It was amazing.
His old stuff was so funny.
Yeah.
Alito says George Carlin,
a Hexie lover says Richard Pryor,
Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy,
and top is George Carlin.
I've listened to every single thing,
every single standup George Carlin,
but that I could find that he's done
like that dude was on a whole nother
level,
just the way he thought about stuff.
Uh, Mark Phillips,
my first cause he was picture pages
kangaroo kangaroo, baby.
Extreme from picture pages to drugging
women to have sex with them.
Yeah.
I remember at least the first part of
the little song picture pages,
picture pages, your picture pages,
goodness.
Never meet your heroes.
Unless their name is Rich Ronan.
Yep.
And Eddie Murphy did it in a red
leather outfit under those hot ass lights.
And then a purple.
Yeah, for Raw was purple.
Raw was purple.
Under those hot ass lights.
So the reason Eddie didn't make it is
because he didn't write all of his
material.
Okay, that's fair.
And that's what happens when you have...
So they had Judd Apatow and Jay Leno
as the celebrities.
Yep.
And that was their criteria.
So their Mount Rushmore was Carlin, Pryor,
Rodney Dangerfield,
and then Jerry Seinfeld.
I would argue about the Jerry Seinfeld
thing.
But that's just personal preference.
I don't...
I think the way that Jerry Seinfeld's mind
works fascinates me.
And if you've never seen the documentary
Comedian,
he takes you behind his thought process
and how he works jokes out and shows
himself fail on stage and how he now
has to rework the joke to get it
to work.
Yeah.
I'm sticking with this.
I know there's something here.
I just need to figure it out.
Shannon says,
do we judge body of work on or
on ethics?
In medicine,
you would not take a drug or a
technique off the market for those
reasons.
Yeah.
why can I not remember think of his
name he just died not that long ago
uh Joseph remastered Dave Chappelle should
be on the current Mount Rushmore but who
else who writes their own stuff now um
it was interesting because they brought up
Chappelle Chappelle did make one of the
lists so all four give their own four
and then they condense it into one four
And Jay Leno made a great point about
Chappelle,
and that is that he considers him more
an orator than a comedian because it's not
always to be funny.
Sometimes Chappelle is to hit you between
the eyes with some.
But I would say the same thing about
Carlin.
Carlin was that same way.
Carlin was very, very cerebral, extremely.
So, and like,
if you weren't sharp enough to pay
attention and keep up with him,
like I've had to re-listen to some of
his stuff.
So I'm like,
I don't understand what he's saying.
And then go back and like,
after time you're like, oh, okay.
Yeah, I got that now.
Um, David Johnson,
you're rating the comedian,
not the person, right?
Can you,
I guess the question to them was,
can you separate the two?
Right.
Not an easy thing to do.
No women is interesting.
There were a couple women mentioned in the
individual four.
But I'll be honest with you.
The one that got mentioned late,
I didn't even know her.
And I think she was early on and
it was more about her influence on other
things.
And straight stand-up, dude.
There are some funny women out there, but
I don't want to say they're few and
far between.
That sounds so terrible.
But the ones that get the recognition,
there's only like three or four of them
and they're relatively new.
Or I feel like that anyway.
Shanna says,
would you take down a building designed by
a bad person?
But the building doesn't have a face of
the person on it.
It was, is the one big difference.
Yeah.
What about Nate Borgazzi?
He's new,
but one of the best out there right
now.
Again,
there was this big thing about it needed
to be like a pretty large collection of
work or body of work to get to
that part.
So...
I think there's a lot more modern women.
Like old, like classic women.
You have Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers.
Joan Rivers.
Elaine Boosler was back in the day.
Oh, man.
And Whoopi Goldberg.
I don't even know if I would call
Whoopi stand-up.
Because she was like more one woman plays
with lots of characters all played by her.
But one that didn't get mentioned was
Robin Williams,
and I thought he was one of the
best ever.
Wow.
And I guess there's just a lot of
people out there that when you think about
the subject that.
Norm Macdonald.
That's what I was trying to think of.
Norm MacDonald.
And mostly the reason being is because,
again,
he's another one that you really have to
pay attention to what he's saying because
he'll just take you on this ridiculous
ride.
And then the punchline comes out of
nowhere.
I think it was the Conan O'Brien show.
The person who was supposed to be after
him didn't show up.
so like they were like can you do
another eight minutes and he was like sure
he's like well we need you to stretch
it and he told a joke that somebody
else had told him but he turned it
into like this rome this russian tragedy
thing and it was it's one of the
best eight minutes on television anybody's
ever seen and he just did it off
the top of his head rest in peace
norm mcdonald yeah
Yeah, Norm is one of those,
it's like a Chinese restaurant.
Either you love it or you hate it.
And you don't really know who's going to
love it and who's going to hate it.
Yeah.
I never, for the longest time,
I did not understand his stuff.
And then he's another one that you have
to kind of like, oh, okay, got it.
Um,
the other thing that Leno made a comment
of is he thinks the best comedians come
close to the line,
but don't go over it because it creates
a tension between you and the audience.
Like is, are they, are,
and he said a lot of comedians make
the mistake of now going over the line
to shock you,
but then that shock goes away.
Yeah.
Well, it's,
Reacting off of emotion at that point,
right?
There's only so much of that you can
actually do and still get people excited
or whatnot.
We're riding the line.
You keep the tension with you in the
audience and they're wondering,
how far is he going to go?
Is he going to take another step?
Or she?
A hundred percent.
I liked Margaret back in the day a
little.
I'm also a big fan of Nikki Glaser.
Nikki is obviously newer,
but neither have the body of work yet,
at least in my opinion.
You never knew what you'd get with Rob
Williams, but it was always hysterical.
You never knew.
You ad-libbed so much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
manic i'd like most so uh the original
uh what's the animated movie here's the
genie
jesus christ aladdin aladdin thank you
most of his stuff was just him yeah
like none of that like the vast majority
of that stuff was not written down on
paper and it was take after take after
take after take of him just doing
different stuff with it and he does that
for he did that for apparently a lot
of his comedic roles where it was just
they give him basically a scenario he'd be
like cool and then run with it and
see what happens
And what's funny is I watched a thing
with Matt Damon talking about Goodwill
hunting.
Yeah.
You know,
the scene where he comes home or there's
a note in his, on his door.
Yes.
Damon has left and the letter and he
reads it out loud.
And the,
in the last line is Rob Williams going,
he stole my line.
He stole my line.
That was not written.
That was all Rob Williams.
So he did it in more than just
comedy.
Yeah.
It was brilliant.
Joseph Riemann's Norm MacDonald's Reynolds
impersonation was classic.
Louis C.K.
crosses or rides the line.
That was the actual example they were
using.
Oh, I bet.
Jay Leno felt like when he rode the
line, he was a much better comic,
but he's slipped over the line more times
and he's not as funny as he used
to be.
Cause one of the guys actually had Louis
CK as a top four.
Yeah, I can see that.
Louis CK is pretty funny.
And I would also,
I would also agree with the fact that
like sometimes he just,
and you gotta go pretty far for to
go too far for me.
Right.
Right.
Well, that was a fun conversation.
you want to know about crossfit crushes
about rush more of comedians or masters
trying to get their invites to
competitions today was your show today we
got all we got the whole gamut and
tomorrow who knows what we'll talk about
but i am going to hit that justin
madaris uh youtube video with uh the
relish
He did a thing for charity.
I think where he visited like boxes on
the way to a competition or to California.
Okay.
Something.
I don't know.
I heard it's good.
I heard it's really heartwarming and
really good.
So I'm going to check that out this
afternoon.
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