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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdales.
A Monday after a three-day weekend,
back to work, back at it,
doing all the things.
Man.
Man.
I thought the cowboy was going to be
here today.
I have not seen the cowboy in, like,
days.
I'm starting to get a little jittery.
Like, that's my partner, that's my guy,
and...
I haven't even heard from him.
Man, I need to do a safety check,
wellness check at some point today.
Make sure he's still alive and doing well.
So I hope everybody's having a great
Monday after a wild, wild weekend.
He's watching, Siobhan.
There you go.
What's up, Joseph?
What's up, Vicky, Tessa?
Hope you guys are doing great.
Let's get some breaking news out of the
way.
I don't know if this is like,
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what's going on here,
but I got a media credential for the
Masters CrossFit Games like two minutes
before I went on air.
I don't know if this is the beginning
of repairing a relationship or what,
but I have an official media credential
for the masters CrossFit games.
So now I have a master's credential and
I have a elite credential.
See, they don't hate you.
It's just weird, Andrew.
I just don't understand it.
It's just like I've always tried to be
helpful.
I've always tried to abide by all the
rules, do all the things.
So I don't know.
Maybe it's just a weird misperception.
The bad thing is because I didn't know
they were going to be in the same
week when I reserved my hotel and my
flights and all that a year ago,
I reserved them like I'm going for the
elites only.
And so I don't get there until Wednesday
morning.
So I'll miss half of it,
but at least I'll get to go in.
I have media pit access,
so I'll be able to get some shots
and stuff.
So hopefully that is...
Uh, so hopefully that is still fun.
Still fun.
Hopefully,
because a lot of times like that first
and we'll find out workouts maybe today.
Um,
but usually that first workout is like a
long run off site, something like that.
I missed that.
Okay.
Um, oh my gosh, he's, he's okay.
I am okay.
Sorry, y'all work.
I was going to do a wellness check
later today because I haven't seen you
since Thursday.
I understand.
I understand.
I was getting jittery.
I was missing you.
Nature of my job.
Nature of my job.
Does this mean you're going early to cover
the Masters?
Nope.
Joseph, airfare is locked in.
If I changed my hotel reservation,
it upped the cost so much.
I just couldn't eat the difference.
So I'm just going to show up Wednesday
morning and cover what I can.
Hopefully,
Jamie and Carolyn don't go until the
afternoon.
A lot of times at the Masters games,
the older athletes go in the morning.
The younger athletes go in the evening,
go afternoon, evening.
So hopefully that's what happens.
But I don't know.
I don't have a schedule or anything.
But I mean, let's be honest here.
Are you actually going to get,
would you actually get access to the
Masters if you were going early anyway?
I just got them.
I just announced that.
I missed that.
Sorry.
It happened two minutes before airtime.
No shit.
Yeah.
Like actual access or did they just give
you a ticket to get in the door?
Like media pit access.
I know.
The new dawn is a new day.
Hey, you know what?
Good.
Yeah.
It's a step in the right direction.
A hundred percent.
Um, we looked at flying in on Tuesday.
It's ridiculous.
I know, man.
Yeah.
Any,
any change to my itinerary hotel or flight
was beyond ridiculous.
And I booked my hotel like literally the
day they announced they're going to San
Jose.
So I got like five nights for five
hundred bucks.
I remember when you say I remember you
saying that.
Yeah.
And so I can't change that.
No, that's insane.
So yeah, so that's big news.
I can get into the Masters.
I don't need to steal Shanna's coaching
pass.
I mean, you don't need to.
I just tried to drink my coffee out
of the back end.
Don't do that.
It's going to pour all over your face.
It's going to be a bad look.
Yeah, it might have been good for ratings,
though.
It couldn't hurt.
It couldn't hurt.
Well, it would hurt you,
depending on how hot it is, I guess.
Dude, congrats, man.
I mean... Yeah.
It's funny because...
And I don't mean to start the show
off... It's a Monday.
I don't mean to start off with a
downer.
I'm really at the razor's edge of...
as to whether this may be my last
games really and not that i'm like giving
up on crossfit or watching crossfit or any
of that kind of stuff right it's just
they limit the access so much at the
games right and this year especially
Well,
this year and in years before last year,
so we went from like barely able to
even talk to any athlete to full access
where everybody was in the warm-up area.
And I heard Angelo DiCicco say on the
Froning podcast,
felt like an animal at the zoo last
year.
Which I think was way too much.
And now we're back to like very few
people get any kind of access at all.
I think they're only letting twenty pit
passes out.
I didn't think it was that many.
This isn't warm-up access.
This is to like around the floor.
Oh, that's just on the floor.
Yeah.
Got it.
Damn.
Damn.
Yeah.
So it's really restricted this year.
They seem to have a problem finding a
happy medium.
With anything?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
No, not just with that.
Just in general.
They seem to have a very difficult time.
It's either all the way one way or
all the way the other way.
And it's very little of, okay, well,
we don't need to have everybody in there,
but we should have a reasonable amount of
people in there.
Or nobody's coming.
We're going to have eight people and
that's it.
Yep.
It doesn't make it easy by any stretch
of the imagination.
So like we were talking after the show
last night and I was like,
unless there are significant changes to
the season, I just don't,
I think I can cover it as well
from my basement sitting here as I can
being there.
Sad but true.
You lose kind of the vibe, but like,
like the glintons have joseph and meg
going and they can get the vibe right
yeah you just you don't need to send
a crew anymore you just need to send
someone to be like on location like the
old days of espn like one person out
at the event with the the crowd and
the and the fans and doing the thing
to catch the vibe and everybody else
reporting back from the studio
live in person.
We go to Meg.
Right.
Right.
Meg's just standing there.
Hi.
It's pretty fun out here.
It's pretty good time.
And then you just roll out because
Joseph's definitely gonna be in charge of
the camera.
Scott,
are they protecting the athletes or
protecting CrossFit media content with all
the restrictions?
I honestly think they're protecting the...
I think there was too much...
There was way too much media last year
for the athletes.
The athletes were getting asked the same
question over and over and over.
There was... I mean,
there were so many people there
even to get to talk to an athlete,
you had to kind of like sit there
and wait because you didn't want to
interrupt,
but you were looking for that moment.
And, and it,
and it took me like a couple hours
other than like Hattie,
who I had an agreement with, it took,
Joseph says, bless you.
Um, it was actually coughing,
but thank you.
Um,
But it took me a while to like
to have sidebar conversations with the
athletes to like understand when they
wanted to be approached.
Right.
So like you had with Hattie,
if you don't have, you know,
an agreement going in, hey, look.
Come to me first, you know,
or I'm going to catch you first, whatever.
And then what, you know,
because I'm producing this content about
you for the entire weekend.
So we have an agreement, you know,
come to me first.
I'm going to get access to you,
you know, at whenever time, blah, blah,
whatever.
Basically,
we're going to hang out all weekend.
Because other than that, dude, you just,
it's a cattle line.
So like an example is with Lucy Campbell.
Like I had a sidebar conversation with her
just without a camera on, right?
And she goes, hey,
if I'm on the bike cooling down,
come talk to me.
I need my mind off stuff anyway.
Yeah.
And I'll talk to you as much as
you want if I'm over on the bike.
Okay.
I can respect that.
But I'm not sure everybody got that memo
that you should have those conversations
and figure that stuff out, right?
So when someone's over there cleaning,
there's a person with a camera and a
mic going, is that heavy?
Wow, that looks heavy.
Questions like, who are you dating?
Yeah,
you just came off the floor and you
just won your event or whatnot and be
like, so who are you dating?
I actually think the athletes would be
refreshed by that question.
I'm going to tell you what,
I thought Taylor did a fantastic job at
NorCal asking him like,
what people would consider to be silly
questions, but they seem to be,
they were engaging with him because he was
asking them stuff that,
and was being himself about it.
You know,
what's your favorite CrossFit workout
instead of going, wow,
you did it on broken.
Congratulations.
High five.
Everybody saw that.
Nobody needs to talk about it.
I did sideline stuff.
I tried to look at the,
the big picture storyline,
not the event storyline.
So you finish this event, yeah,
and stuff happened out there.
But overall on the weekend,
this is what you came in with.
This is what you're trying to accomplish.
Where are we in the big picture?
So don't ask chicken or fish.
Sure.
I mean,
there was that guy in the early teens
that asked really silly questions in
between his serious questions.
And it was funny.
And the athletes had fun with it, right?
And I think that's fine.
I know everybody makes a joke like,
what's your favorite color?
And nobody wants a whole interview with
what's your favorite color.
I think that's the point of making fun
of that because that's what the show ended
up being.
But if you say like,
what's your favorite Sesame Street
character in the middle of a serious
interview, it breaks the ice.
It's funny for the audience.
It catches the athlete off guard.
When he asked Julie Foucher, hey,
did you going faster help you win that
race?
Yeah.
Right, like...
It's a dumb question that we all know
the answer to,
but it makes the athlete feel more
comfortable.
We were talking about it over the weekend
because it's been three years,
I want to say,
since Jameson got the tubes out of her
ears.
When they gave her the Versad and she
started getting loopy, she asked Brad,
the ENT, Dr. Brad,
what's your favorite dinosaur?
And like stuff like that.
And he answered her, but like,
while you're, like you said,
while you're in the middle of it,
you know, Hey, congratulations.
That was super cool.
Um, you know, you know, blah, blah,
whatever.
And then you just throw that kind of
in there.
It's like, and, uh,
so what's your favorite dinosaur?
Cause it's going to throw them off track
and it's going to make them stop and
make them go, oh, you're not just like,
you're not just asking me, you know, oh,
did you win because you went faster?
Like, you know, right.
Halftime coach interviews are just as
dumb.
You know,
Ben Johnson got hammered last year because
a reporter was asking, hey,
you didn't play well in the first half.
What are you going to do to get
better?
And he's like, we need to play better.
And everybody bashed him for being curt.
What else are you supposed to say?
I would say what we're not going to
do is what we did in the first
half.
Yeah.
That approach didn't work,
so we're going to try.
The coach for the Boston Celtics gives the
absolute best halftime and postgame
interviews.
And if you don't believe me,
go look it up on Instagram.
He's got clips for days because he answers
stupid questions with stupid answers.
Like,
if you're going to ask me something
ridiculous,
I'm going to give you something ridiculous
back.
But does it straight face?
Like, mm-hmm.
And just tell them something stupid,
and then just kind of look at them.
And, yeah, it's fantastic.
Yeah, I – Bill Belichick.
Anyway, we're off on – well,
we're always off on a tangent,
but – It's fine.
I just – and the more and more
I think about, like, the game – like,
I threw out that proposal to make the
games better with only ten people making
it.
Of course,
that means a season that makes sense with
drama throughout the season.
Now I'm to the point where maybe,
just maybe, it should be an every-two,
every-four-year event.
And let the Wadapaloozas, the Rogues,
the Metconrushes,
and the Crash Crucibles have...
couple years where they just get to be
the the fun events that everybody goes to
to train in the meantime right or to
try to win prize money in the meantime
and maybe absence would make the heart
grow fonder again but you can't can't come
back with the slop we had this year
as a season if that's what you're going
to do you know what i mean no
i know exactly what you mean sorry i
was reading john young's hairline
uh uh don't think i disagree with someone
more besides sporty beth are you
disagreeing with me it would seem to be
probably about the the ten person field i
think every two years would probably be a
better option every four years it's not
the olympics um
there's not enough fanfare.
Does that make sense?
Like for enough buildups to go, Ooh, yeah.
Every, you know, every four years now, um,
if it was going to do something like
that, but again,
it would have to have a whole lot
of buildup, um, all,
all the way up to it.
Um, I just,
it would have to make a whole lot
more sense, especially then what,
like one out of two things would happen.
People like rogue or, um,
WFP or Wadapalooza,
step up and get better.
And because CrossFit isn't there every
year,
CrossFit actually loses its relevance as
the main sport.
CrossFit will never lose its relevance as
a methodology.
Right.
I firmly believe that.
But as a sport, it's time.
I think we're at the time where it
is shit or get off the pot.
They've got to figure it.
Stop with the Band-Aids.
The season needs to be fixed if you're
going to stay a sport and run it
from CrossFit.
And I know we're celebrating twenty years
and it's only twenty years.
I don't know what Avera said here about
twenty years.
I was asking how do we get twenty
years into the games and need a complete
reset because because in two thousand
eighteen we scrapped the thing that was
working that just cost too much and
instead of looking at it and find how
do we do this more economically we threw
it in the trash and we tried something
new and then after a year of that
the world shut down.
So that got thrown in the trash.
And then even with just every year since
then, it's been let's try something new.
But that's the problem, but not new,
right?
It's the same general format with a
tweaking of this and that.
And I think we're getting further away
from what used to work.
Then we are getting closer to what used
to work.
You're not wrong.
There's no consistency.
no consistency on how to get there there's
no consistency on what it looks like when
you get there there's no consistency on or
very little consistency as far as when you
get there but how you get there is
definitely not the same as it's been any
year and i know this isn't going to
be a popular a popular i'm good at
saying things that aren't popular lately
crossfit was owned by a guy that didn't
care about the sport yeah
It wasn't private equity that sent us down
this rabbit hole.
It was Greg saying,
regionals cost too much,
we're throwing it in the garbage,
and we're gonna go to this sanctional
thing,
and we're gonna take people from the open.
And not only are we gonna take people
from the open,
we're gonna take one from every country in
the world.
We wanna spread the message of CrossFit to
the globe.
And I don't care about the sport.
I care about spreading the message.
And because of that,
we've never been back on track.
Just like this show.
Now,
private equity coming in two years later
definitely didn't help the cause.
And probably threw a couple more nails in
the sport coffin.
think maybe Greg did that knowing it might
cause the games to crash out.
I don't think that was his premise behind
it.
I truly thought he wanted it to be
a global experience and spread CrossFit to
those countries that didn't really have it
and give some incentive to open a box
in Uzbekistan.
You know,
All the people you saw on the floor
for the workout or two they got to
do at the games that would not
necessarily,
they get to call themselves a games
athlete for the rest of their lives,
first of all, because you made it.
Doesn't matter about how the process has
changed.
They made it that year because that's what
it was that year.
And to a man,
if you watched it live,
you watched the people in documentary and
whatnot,
they all enjoyed the shit out of
themselves.
As they should have.
The vast majority of them were taking it
in and going, holy shit,
I'm on the floor for this thing.
The opening ceremony is when they brought
everybody in with all the flags and stuff.
First of all,
it took about eight and a half hours.
At least that's what it felt like.
But that was something to see.
that was a hell of a spectacle i
don't even disagree that that that would
have that may have worked i think there
were way too many sanctionals and way too
many like if then else statements for well
because these three people already
qualified for the games fourth place gets
to go and then trying to explain that
every week as another sanction one-off was
difficult
But I think with a little bit of
refinement, that idea may have been okay.
But it just was the precursor to
everything going down the rabbit hole of
getting away from a season that made
sense.
Because that season,
as Pat Belner said it best,
I think I qualified through,
like he wasn't even real sure because of
how convoluted it was that year.
Princess says,
this season really hasn't been that bad.
We have one of the strongest fields in
years.
The end doesn't justify the means.
Just because we have one of the strongest
fields at the games doesn't mean the
season wasn't bad.
It's...
It's just a mess.
It's not even so much that the season
itself was bad.
It was a mess.
You had people doing multiple, multiple
Over, over consecutive weekends going, oh,
I'm gonna, I can't do this one.
So I'm gonna go to that one or
no, I didn't make it here.
So I'm gonna go here instead.
Uh, and whatnot,
which is pushing some other people who may
have had an opportunity to go out and
it just made it.
It's been incredibly, oh,
well this person, do they qualify here?
No, they didn't qualify there.
And they went to the one after that
and qualify there.
What about this?
Nope.
They didn't make it there.
They made it online right here at the
end.
It's not so much that it's been bad.
It's been a mess.
And it's mostly a mess for us that
have to try to make sense of it
and report on it to everybody else who
might also be having problems trying to
follow it.
I think it's bad because you have eleven
organizations all writing their own book.
Yeah.
Okay,
so you have one person writing a book
for the Open and Quarterfinals.
Then after that, you say, okay,
you eleven people,
you write your own version of what the
middle of this book is going to look
like.
with eleven different writings and
different styles.
And now we're coming back to, okay,
now the first author is going to take
over and finish this off.
So,
and the piece you let the eleven people
write,
was the piece getting to the climax of
the season?
It's convoluted.
That's the most important part of a book
from what I understand,
because I don't read anymore.
But I hear that that's like getting to
the climax is the most important thing in
a lot of things, including writing a book.
As it turns out,
as another Clydesdale top tip, y'all.
Yeah.
Don't mess with the climax.
Don't mess with the climax.
It's pretty darn important.
Um, personally,
I knew at least a couple of people
who discovered they had obscure
citizenship from another country and
managed to go to the games that year.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it's still,
I do get the point where it gave
the incentive for people from that country
to look and go, Ooh,
if I can just beat them,
I know I can be our representative.
Right.
That's what she said.
True word, Scott.
Yep.
Don't mess with the climax.
That's the theme of today.
Oh, one in nineteen.
Once again,
if you have find yourself with some time
after the show is over with,
go back and watch the first heat of
first cut and watch Ben Smith just wading
through the mass of humanity.
That was that was that workout.
And just that's your that's the opposite.
of what we've been talking about with one
lane for like one regular guy and then
ten lanes for everybody else it's the it's
the it was ten lanes of regular and
one former games champion yeah
One Ben Smith just,
just that's my buddy Aaron described it as
him just waiting through a massive
humanity.
Just, you know,
while putting a smack down,
everybody was there, but they would get,
people get stopped at the,
like at the squat snatches or they
couldn't do, you know,
more than one legless rope climb or
whatnot.
And Ben's just running through the entire
thing.
Good night.
That was fantastic.
I was there in twenty nineteen on the
field judging.
It was painful to watch.
I'm not saying that is my ideal approach
to getting back to a sports season.
I'll tell you what, though,
like a cut after every event was pretty
wild.
Cutting half the field after the first
event, which I mean, granted,
you were going from one hundred and fifty
males, just males.
And like now we're going to cut it
to seventy five, which is still what?
Two and a half times the games field,
generally speaking.
Like, that's still a lot.
There's still a whole lot of people out
there because people are bitching.
Oh,
they might come down here and only get
to do one event.
Yeah.
And then there's still seventy five people
doing the second one and they go cut
again and they go cut again before they
actually get down to the field size that
they actually wanted to try to accommodate
people.
It was like American Idol on CrossFit.
They would bring them into a room and
put them in the bleachers.
Okay, if your name's called,
you've been cut.
Because there were so many people you
couldn't tell when you finished your heat,
whether you were top-seventy-five or
bottom-seventy-five.
So they put them in a set of
bleachers and said, all right,
we're going to start reading names off.
Now,
I'm sure the guy that couldn't do the
first rope climb knew he was getting cut.
A hundred percent.
Right.
And I bet he didn't care.
Whatever.
I got to do a workout on the
floor at the games as a games athlete.
And some countries, like,
sent there as a representative.
Like, it wasn't all bad.
I would take that over the last couple
seasons.
Yeah.
Now,
a lot of people got cut that we,
you know, everybody's like, yeah,
but what if Justin didn't make the games
this year?
And what if blah, blah, blah.
Hell, Sarah got cut.
Sam Briggs got cut.
Brooke Wells got cut.
It was savage.
A lot of people did not make the
finals, the final finals, the last day,
whatever you want to call it.
A lot of people.
It was a great workout, Larry.
It was fun to watch.
It had cool elements.
It was really fun to watch.
Hell yeah.
I think recognizing national champions is
a good thing, but like the Olympics,
if you don't meet the A standard,
you don't qualify.
Yeah, I get that.
I get that.
And yes, Vicky, it should be savage.
Sport is savage.
problem the only problem with what he's
saying as far as meeting the a standard
is what is the a standard right right
because with crossfit being the nature of
what it is like what what you're gonna
say oh if you have a if you
have a two-minute friend you got a
two-thirty friend
And how do you judge it?
And how do you judge that?
And what else do you add to it?
Oh,
if you got a five hundred pound deadlift.
Event one.
The reason I paused is because event one
got us who the A standard was after
event one.
Right.
Right.
Everybody in that top seventy five could
do workouts.
Sure.
Right.
I mean,
Matt Fraser famously said that was a
perfect workout.
Yeah.
Don't get me started on standards, Corey.
Settle down, Jude.
Settle down.
Lita says,
great conversation with the girls
yesterday, Scott,
that the Masters doesn't feel like the
games, but like just another comp,
same feelings.
I've had that for a while now.
I know a lot of athletes that feel
that way.
They just want it to feel like they're
a part of the games,
and right now it feels very separate.
And we're going to get into that later.
Because next week will pretty much be
preview.
Well, maybe the end of this week,
beginning of next week will be Masters.
And then we'll get into the Elite after
that.
As hopefully we know more events.
Because I think some events, one or more,
are getting released today for the
Masters.
Supposedly today, yeah.
Matter of fact, you said that earlier.
People should at least know in advance
that they could get cut after one event
because letting them know after they
bought their tickets seemed like a low
blow to me.
They had to.
I get what you're saying, Lito.
I get it.
Just like they should have told the
Masters they have tickets for the whole
weekend before they bought new ones.
That would have been a nice...
thing to do too um but you had
to know if you were one of a
hundred and seventy or a hundred and fifty
you weren't making it too many events i
don't think you had much i don't think
a realistic human being
can look at it and go,
they're sending a hundred and fifty of us
there for a thing that lasts.
What was it that year?
Four days, five days, something like that.
And we're going to be there all weekend
because I am, you know,
I am the representative from wherever,
you know, pick a country.
And I am not Matt Fraser, Pat Vellner,
Scott Pancheck, whoever.
I'm just some dude,
and I got to come because I'm the
best crossfitter in my small,
obscure country.
I am not going to be here all
weekend.
You'd have to have that conversation,
at least with yourself,
if you're being any sort of realistic.
You're not going there thinking,
wipe the floor with these fools.
I'm going to be here all, you know.
I don't see that.
You know what never gets cut?
thirdsy from my nighttime routine very
nice dude last night nine hours of sleep
working hard all weekend on the patio
doing the outdoor work um went to a
cookout on saturday it was awesome last
night after we went late last night
because um carolyn is in california now
So I chugged my Thirdsy, went to bed,
off I went.
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Speaking of Jazzy, speaking of Jazzy,
these came in the mail just an hour
ago.
Let me see here.
Ba-bam.
What?
Stickers.
Yes, sir.
New stickers for the games.
Love it.
Clydesdale getting jazzed.
The manging on that horse is like,
that is some flow right there.
It is, man.
You got it built on for some reason.
I like that.
yeah that's that's old school like joe
dirt flow going that's nice in the back
that is nice stuff right there um so
if you see me at the games and
you want one just let me know i'll
hand one out and if you order a
shirt once they come in please lord make
it be soon i'll throw one of those
in your shirt
or more if you want more just tell
me so this dude here oh here we
go is third z pet friendly asking for
research purposes i don't know joseph but
i know you're a dog he is a
dog that is a fact
uh old lito oh and by the way
legends have already missed one of their
deadlines as they told us in an email
we were supposed to have the total number
of events before july six scott you know
what date it is today uh listen they
gave me media credentials and i'm trying
to patch relationships so i'll let let you
and lito have this conversation just
saying my buddy chris told me the same
thing not the same thing was i'm similarly
said it'll probably be late tonight
Yeah.
Look, from past experience,
I've been there twice,
and it's par for the course.
This is on brand.
Joseph,
I will sign one for you if that's
what you need.
There you go.
Legends are fantastic.
Lito, huh?
Legends are fantastic.
Lito knows what side the bread is buttered
on before she puts it in the toaster.
It's fine.
Jacob says, Joseph has that dog in him.
That's why he's asking.
Joseph does have that dog in him.
He does.
Dude's fit, man.
He's big dog.
Not little dog.
There's one thing on this planet.
I love dogs.
Big fan of dogs.
Big, big fan of dogs.
If your dog yips,
I don't want it anywhere near me.
Mine is smaller, but does not yip.
I don't give a shit how big it
is,
but if it just goes bananas when you
walk in the house and just all of
that.
No, thank you.
It would have been awesome if they had
planned the Masters podium ceremony to
happen during the Friday opening ceremony.
I get the sentiment,
and I like the sentiment because that
would feel like you're part of the thing.
In the past, when it was at Madison,
they brought all the Masters podium people
out on the floor when they did the
podium for the elites and the teams.
They got to get twenty events in in
four days.
Yeah.
I am betting this will be one of
the shortest opening ceremonies you have
ever seen.
And they've got to draw balls out of
a hopper and show what those balls are
going to be by when they put them
in.
It's mostly why I made sure I came
on today was for the ball talk.
It's all about climax and balls, man.
Climax and ball talk, baby.
That's what we do here on Clyzeo.
I'll say one last thing.
Last year when they partnered with Pitt,
communication was at least fantastic.
We even had a group chat.
Again,
I just got media credentials about twenty
five minutes ago.
And try not to get revoked.
Yeah.
And not to get revoked.
That's all there is to it.
So I'm going to,
I'm on a moratorium for the next two
and a half weeks ish.
And I'll probably blow that in a day
or two,
but it depends on what happens for now.
It depends on what happens the next twenty
four hours from being completely honest
here.
I mean, I may just say, hey,
I'll just take Shanna's coaching badge and
screw it and blow it out in a
week or two.
You have to have a backup plan.
Always a plan B.
Always got to have a plan B.
I don't give a damn what Savant says.
How about no plan B?
No, no, no.
We got a plan B.
It's a contingency plan.
Let's call it that.
We don't call it plan B. Fine.
Contingency plan.
soon as the proverbial it's the proverbial
fan then all of a sudden i'm shanna's
coach no big deal moving on moving on
my life uh damn that's a lot of
ball handling yeah you know it yeah but
when you show the balls and you throw
them in and you pull them out
That gets us to the climax of the
Hopper event later that night.
Ginny is definitely clipping that.
Right?
Yeah.
I'm just stating facts.
It is.
How you interpret those facts,
that's on you.
Dave said there will be more than five
events on Wednesday.
More than five scores for sure.
I was about to say, yeah,
if he's got some of the five,
you know,
the fifty point things going on and
whatnot, then, yeah, I could see that.
Keep people moving.
Hey, we got to go.
We got to go.
We got to go.
We're going to run through.
We're going to run through all of this
stuff.
Oh, yeah.
And we drink from the back end by
accident.
That's that's bad, too.
Oh.
It's fine.
Avera,
what I will say about bashing CrossFit for
Masters is why does everybody, well,
I don't know.
We'll talk about that later.
I have issues with CrossFit and Masters.
It should be a seamless story from open
to games,
no matter what division you're in.
And we don't have that.
And that's where that responsibility is on
CrossFit.
to come up with a plan to give
a seamless story.
And the example I used last night,
you don't start reading the Martian and
halfway through flip to project Hail Mary.
Oh God, no, please don't do that.
Project Hail Mary was so good.
the martian was so good but you know
but the half and half together would be
utterly terrible well it would be two
different things completely that you tried
to match together and it would not work
because it's two separate stories so
that's where crossfit needs to step in and
say we are telling this story for the
season and it needs to be a story
That's the main component we've lost since
twenty eighteen.
CrossFit does not control the story.
Because they've handed it off, right?
They've handed it off.
And the problem with that is,
as I'm thinking about it right now,
is that once you hand it off and
you say, okay, well, you guys do this,
y'all do that, whatever the case may be,
is that they're handing it off without
saying, and this is how it should go.
This is what you need to focus on
at this point so that when we get
to this point that we take the wheel
back,
that it's not going to be so disjointed.
And it's going to make sense and the
right people are going to make it.
And, oh, you know,
and I say the right people to make
it,
the fittest people are going to make it
for the most part.
You might, you're going to have some,
some weird shit going on from,
from time to time.
I'm sure.
But without that middle part of
communication, Hey, look, this is what,
this is how the,
this is how the entire season is going
to go.
If you're handing it off to those people,
you give that part away from it.
I have a one-thirty meeting and I need
to eat lunch,
so I'm going to head out,
but I want to leave with this.
I've been complaining about, you know,
I am a former swimmer.
The no dive, no flip turn has been,
has hurt my heart a lot.
Hey,
if you want to hurt it even more,
I have a video of me practicing a
flip turn and I can send that to
you.
Anyway,
I've been trying to explain why my heart
hurts about it.
And it was said much better on the
Rich Froning podcast today.
So I want to play that real quick.
Sure.
And I'm probably a really poor diver.
But if you're not going to allow flip
turns and dives,
we should all have a single speed bike.
Yeah.
It's the same idea.
Do we have to know how to shift
gears on a bike?
Is that something that's going to be
important for us?
That's a great question.
I don't know the model.
I know the type,
but I don't know the exact model.
It's probably going to have,
you're probably going to have to have some
basic knowledge on how to shift.
We can do that.
Yes.
So taking that away from someone who has
worked on those skills is like taking that
away from a cyclist who is,
who knows how to shift gears.
My bike analogy finally, I'm vindicated.
Yeah.
I just, and that was by Andrew Hillers.
I want to give the right credit out.
Um,
but it was clipped from a Dave interview
with Rachel Noel and the rich running
podcast.
Um,
I cannot fathom who doesn't know how to
shift gears.
Lito,
you would be surprised if you come to
Birmingham,
they had a whole thing like before people
got, whenever you got there checking,
you could go sit on the bike and
they had people that would take you
through it.
Okay, look,
press this one and it upshifts.
And if you press this other one,
it go back and downshift.
If it upshifts,
they had a whole thing about it.
I didn't do it because it's a newer
model of the exact same bike I've been
riding for the past three years.
But you would be surprised.
How many people hadn't even ridden a bike?
Yeah, look, there you go.
Shelly did two days before Magic Games.
There it is.
And listen, like you,
you have a background.
CrossFit is about this multiple aspect
fitness competition.
And people come from different
backgrounds.
People were gymnasts,
which for them doing a bar muscle up
or a ring muscle up is a piece
of cake.
They shouldn't be put at a disadvantage
because of their background.
That's my only point.
It's valid, though.
The one thing...
It's more about the reason that Dave gave
that it's a competitive advantage.
If they said,
can't dive because of safety or something
like that... Yeah, it's a three-foot pool.
Sorry, you can't dive.
Makes sense to me.
But a flip turn is just...
It's not dangerous.
is when i do it not to anybody
not to anybody else but me let me
go ahead and clarify that and angelo said
like i can do one but air's too
important to me and i want to stop
and get a good deep breath before i
go i don't it just is dumb man
it's just i i will not be okay
with this and the and the explanation ever
There is no good explanation.
It's like they said.
It's like you've been riding bikes all
your life, and you ride mountain bikes,
and you do it.
Ricky, perfect example.
We talked about it the other day.
Ricky is also a really good high-level
mountain biker.
Sorry, Rick.
We're going to give you a single speed
bike because you'd be too fast on one
with gears.
Sorry.
Just got to add to that.
Johnny is allergic to peanuts,
so nobody can bring in treats for the
class on their birthday.
Yeah.
All right.
Good point of error.
Now my Gen X is just going to
start showing.
Yeah.
Nobody in the eighth grade was allergic to
fucking peanuts.
I'm sorry.
That's a whole different thing.
Larry Young.
I've hit so many home runs,
dunked basketballs,
and all would be considered advantages.
We will never see anything like that,
but running seems fair game.
Just kidding.
Yeah.
All right.
With that, guys,
I need to go get something to eat.
I hope you guys have a great rest
of your day.
We will be back tomorrow.
Maybe.
I will be.
Scott will do it.
Definitely will be.
I'm fifty fifty at this point.
Depends on if I got to work all
I got to take.
All right, guys.
Hope to see you then.
Have a great rest of your day and
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