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what is going on everybody
it is lunchtime lunch with
the Clydesdale whoo I just
realized I didn't get the
show set up very early
today I got it set up about
five minutes ago um
one of the people I work
with uh ended up calling
off sick today so I had to
cover a bunch of meetings
this morning and uh was
right up against start time
to get in here um but I
would not miss a lunch with
you guys if I can prevent
it so we are having lunch
today corey leonard we are
having lunch uh what's
going on denise kenneth
Man, two of my newest members right there.
Kenneth DeLapp, Denise Moore,
just joined the channel.
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maybe some of the other
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awesome so um keep it all
coming we ready for a
left-handed dart shot we're
gonna go quick today we're
gonna go ready fire aim
ready oh I'm doing it not
even on the dartboard
thought maybe if I gave it
like a really hard push, we would get it.
Denise, I'm back at work.
So may not be able to chat too much.
How'd the coaching go?
Did you enjoy your first day
of coaching classes?
I remember my first day coaching,
standing up at the whiteboard,
getting ready to talk to
the class and like just a
lump in my throat.
Oh my gosh.
And I, and I,
I used to speak publicly like
all the time.
I was the trainer of
trainers for most of my
career with the state.
And all I did was go from
county to county doing presentations.
But man,
first time you get up in front of
a class to coach whole
different ball game,
whole different subject matter.
But then it becomes second nature again.
You just get used to it.
So, yeah.
What do we want to talk about today?
Yes, the members were so nice to me.
I kept forgetting the word cycle.
we all have those days where
we forget words.
I think I have at least
daily something that I
forgot to say or a word.
I forgot what it was until I
I'm on the air and you guys help me out.
So yeah, it's cool that you kind of,
it's cool that you're going
to coach where you work out
and you have friends there
that just want you to succeed.
So that helps out a lot.
So one thing that I have
not... I keep forgetting to
show you guys.
We talked about it briefly
on Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
And that is that Daniel
Brandon jumped into the
United Grid League this weekend.
And...
And her team went up against
Kelsey Keel's team.
And so Kelsey Keel actually
posted her and Daniel
Brandon doing the sandbag
clean over a yoke.
And I wanted to just share
that to show that like
CrossFitters can do this
grid leg thing and they can
do it pretty well.
um sure there we go here we
go there you go
Let's hear it for him.
so that was um daniel
brandon and kelsey keel
doing grid leg over the weekend.
Kelsey Keel clearing the
last sandbag over the yoke.
I would say that Kelsey Keel
had the advantage going into this.
She is more of a strength
specialist than Danielle Brandon.
But the whole match is on
YouTube if you want to go watch it.
Um, again,
I was watching because Lauren
Olson is a friend of mine.
She is on the Houston team
with John Young and I was
watching to support her.
And then all of a sudden
this one pops up and I've
had Kelsey on the show a
handful of times and she's amazing.
We actually sponsored her team.
Uh,
the only time Clydesdale media ever
sponsored a team was her Christine best.
And, um,
See, Denise, names forget.
They just... Wozni.
Oh, gosh.
Allison Alley.
No.
Oh, well.
Wozni.
She was a teammate of Kelsey...
Uh,
when they were Joey tutorial on a team
and Ashley was me, Ashley was new.
There it is.
It all came back to me,
but it was actually was the
Kelsey keel and Christine best.
We sponsored a team at an
event in Philadelphia or I'm sorry,
Delaware.
And, uh, got to know them really well.
And so I watched a little
bit of this match as well, but loved,
love this event.
I love throwing the sandbags
over the yoke.
I just think it's a fun event to watch.
She's at TTT now.
Yeah, Ashley is at TTT now.
She's been there for a couple years.
She crushed the snatch
ladder last year at
semifinals and almost made
a comeback to get into
contention for the games.
She was really making a run
at it the last day.
Just had too much to overcome.
what's up Meredith uh Larry
Young says John Young
should have done the ring
touch yeah Houston came out
on fire and then it just I
think they're still
experimenting with the
lineup and where to put people um
hopefully they get it,
they get it together here.
Um, but again,
fan of John fan of Lauren Olson,
really excited to see
Lauren do some body weight stuff.
Cause she's their strength specialist too.
Uh, but they had her do rope climbs, uh,
this weekend, which was fun to watch.
Um, I'm actually like,
I used to not like grid at all.
Um,
but now I'm actually kind of
enjoying it they're super
quick matches they're done
fast um so um so yeah so
that was uh DB DB doing
some grid League along with
some other people we know so pretty cool
uh wfp put out a new
unbreakable show this
weekend I think maybe
yesterday featuring pat
velner and danielle brandon
I watched that yesterday
afternoon I I really found
it boring I hope I'm not
offending anybody um
But I try to give my opinion
on these content creation
things because there's so
many of them coming out.
And I want them to be so good.
I want them to be good storytelling.
And what I felt this one was,
was it was all at the WFP Tour Event One.
So it very much had the
format of a games
documentary that the Buddy Bros have done,
what, six, seven, eight times.
This was a Buttery Bros production.
It was the two of them going
through all the events at
the WFP tour stop one.
And to me,
there's not enough drama from a
tour stop with no climax at the end.
You're just getting points
to move to the next level.
There's not enough drama
there for it alone to be a great story.
And so I think you have to
bring some other stuff in.
What they vaguely brought in
with Pat Vellner was he was
not performing well.
And Michelle LaTondra was
there talking about how
they want him to be ready
for the last event where
it's double points.
And that means more.
And so they're giving up
some of his fitness at the
beginning of the season.
I wanted more into that.
I wanted to understand that more,
how that training looked
and why they were doing that.
And then there was one piece,
and it was just a split
second with Danielle,
where they show her
high-fiving Justin Kotler.
And I wanted to know more.
We all know that they had a
breakup a few years ago.
We know that she said in an
interview in her
documentary that she liked
the way that Justin coached her.
and I know that it was not
an amicable split and to
see them high-fiving each
other at a world fitness
project event what where
are we now are they back on
speaking terms are they
back to at least being
cordial with each other I
wanted to to see where that
was and there was nothing
they gave me nothing in that direction
And maybe neither one would
speak about it.
But man, when I saw the high five,
I was like,
there's a story there and
that's what I want to know.
And that's what I'm looking
for in all these documentaries,
these things that happen,
these little tidbits that
can lead to a bigger story.
And I feel like lately the
people creating the content
are just missing out on those signals,
those signs to give me more of a story.
that's what I want to see um
I I know all about
danielle's prowess on her
hands I know about um all
this the other stuff that
they talked about in this
this film or whatever you
want to call it it was long
it was forty seven minutes
long um and frankly I I got bored
um, which is very rare for me to,
in a CrossFit type documentary, I,
I don't get bored.
Um, even if it's repeated information, um,
I usually can hang pretty well, but man,
yesterday afternoon,
I struggled just getting
through this one.
I'm,
I'm anxious to hear your thoughts and
to see if you thought it
was any better than what I think.
Um,
Um, because I said earlier, like,
I think what WFP did with, uh,
Laura Horvat was one of the
best pieces of content all year.
Um, this one, I'd give a C, uh,
which is probably my lowest
grade of any of the road to the games.
Any of the WFP stuff,
any of the Hiller stuff,
lowest grade of the season
would be this last one that
just came out.
I just thought it was blah.
and really hard to watch.
So all of the commentary,
all of the commentary was
Tommy Marquez and the buttery bros,
which also left me a little bit flat.
Um,
and didn't have a lot of depth to the
storytelling.
So
And I can say, keeping it real,
I can say that WFP does
have good content because they do.
Um, and I know you said, just kidding,
but that Laura Horvat video
was freaking awesome.
It is one of the best things
put out this year.
Um, and I will,
I will pound that rock all
year long until something beats it.
Um,
Hiller has tied it with a couple videos,
but, uh,
And so, yeah,
I think right now I have
three in that upper echelon
and that is Laura Horvath
and that is the Jason
Hopper video that Hiller
did and the Hip and Steel
video that Hopper did.
And I think he's getting
really close to having
maybe something even more
epic than all of them with Erica follow,
but it's coming together in pieces.
Um,
and we need to have the climax to the
story.
And if that happens,
he is set up where that
story will be huge.
So if you want depth,
the buttery bros are not the place to go.
Typically now,
I mean, if you want fun, that's fine.
And yeah, we'll see.
We need a Bill Leahy climax.
Yeah,
that's another one that he has set up
through years of interviews
and visits and all of that,
that if Bill Leahy goes to
the games and does something amazing,
he has put it together in pieces,
and it'll be cool to see
what that climax looks like.
Yeah, I would look forward to seeing that.
this thing the wfp just put
out is not not on it is my
lowest rated video of the
year and I thought the one
road to the games with fee
and abby was about as bad
as it could get because
there just was nothing new
put in those and they were
just basic training day videos
um with nothing extra and
interviewing both of them I
know they have a lot extra
to share and nothing was
nothing was shared that was
just a really felt like a
thrown together quickly
video hattie and I talked
about it last night she's
hoping she gets a road to
the games video now that she's qualified
There's so much story with her.
If they screw that pooch, man,
if they even do it, who knows?
We'll find out.
um who is doing road to the
games videos it's ian
wittenberg I believe is the
person behind it who used
to work for savan on the
media team he's very
talented in what he does um
but I don't think he's
great at finding the story
he's great at the video
part of it and great at the
editing but not great at
finding the story and
pulling that out of the athletes um
And actually Hiller and I
have talked about it a
little bit behind the scenes.
Um,
and Hiller's talked to the people at
CrossFit are doing the road
to the games and, um, but they're,
they're just falling short on,
on all of that.
And it's sad.
Cause I,
I used to love road to the games
used to love road to the games.
so there's that um kenneth
says maybe the athletes are
just boring um kenneth I I
just told you I've
interviewed abby and phi
they are not boring people
they're they have so much
to talk about they're just
not they're just not
pulling it out of the athletes
And you can't,
when you have Danielle Brandon in a video,
you can't say that she's boring.
That would be the last thing
on earth you would say she is.
You just, but you can't just,
you can't show workout porn
videos and expect it to
like carry it every single time.
You have to tell a story.
And it's the creator not doing that,
not finding the story behind it all.
Um, so yeah, a lot,
some of the other thing, Corey,
you can get workout porn on IG all day.
You can all day long.
That's it right there
outside the gym coverage.
Do you read Vellner boring DBE?
Definitely not exactly.
And I even pointed out
examples where this one
could have been better.
There was,
there was this piece with
Michelle LaTondra and Pat
Vellner and him not doing
well at WFP and why and how
she has to work with him
mentally and why he's not doing well.
There's a reason behind it.
And then again,
when you see Justin Kotler
and Daniel Brandon giving
each other a high five and
you don't follow up with it, that's you,
the creator's fault.
Cause there is a story there.
I guarantee it.
Um,
Dave's week in review
yesterday was pretty flat.
Nothing really new coming out of that.
He's testing workouts.
He said that most of the
stuff coming out for the
CrossFit Games is CrossFit style.
Nothing outside the box.
And that worries me.
You know,
I hear people say that Dave's
workouts are uninspired.
He's kind of becoming repetitive.
And when I hear him say that
these are just straight
down the road CrossFit
style workouts with nothing
outside the box,
is that what we're getting now is...
None of the cool toys,
none of the cool apparatus.
Is there a fear of liability?
Because CrossFit has been so
hands-off this year with everything.
putting the liability onto
third parties and taking it
off of themselves.
Are we going to get a very
generic right down the
fairway CrossFit games
because of this fear now?
I, I, I hope not.
And so when he said that I would,
as much as I love like
basic CrossFit workouts in testing people,
it scares me that that is going to be the,
the,
pretty much what we're
getting now at the crossfit
games clock says I'll say
it dave's programming for
the games last year was
lame it feels like dave's
just dialing it in at this
point uh fluffy fit he
probably was told to simmer it down
Larry Young, very repetitive,
so I expect the same as usual.
Normally, he hypes it up huge,
and it's the same.
Yeah.
Kenneth DeLapp phoning it in.
I hope not.
That's not what I want,
and I don't think that's
what the athletes want,
and I don't think it's what
the fans want.
But I just feel like it's playing it safe,
which is very
counterculture to what CrossFit is.
I don't know.
Clark says, you say potato, I say potato.
No.
The other thing that Dave
said in the Week in Review
that was wild to me is that
the Community Cup was a success.
I'd like to know the numbers
because I don't know a lot
of people who did it.
I know a handful of gyms
that programmed it into
their week's programming.
But I don't...
But I don't think that I've
heard a lot of people like
super excited or... And I
think the big miss was over
fifty percent of your
athletes are masters aged athletes.
And when you don't include
age groups into the
equation of what area
you're in to compete,
you've lost half of the open population.
Then you hold it in the
summertime when all
families are out on vacations,
school is out,
their schedules are
disrupted because kids are
at home instead of at school.
People have to work out at
different times during the day,
and it complicates things.
I think the timing was bad with it,
and I think not including
the age groups was a huge,
huge miss because I know that people –
Sixty five up, seventy up.
We're having to do like
advanced workouts that they
just could not could not do.
Amanda Harry did it.
That's about it.
And even her, if you watch her videos,
chose not to redo some reps
that she thought were
questionable because it
didn't matter in the end.
And I think that's very
telling as to what this meant.
Meredith,
how does he measure that success?
That's what I want to know.
Do they have numbers of
people who signed up?
Has Dave just become a yes man?
I don't know if Dave would
ever become a full yes man,
but I think that what
happened at the games last
year with Lazar Jukic has affected him.
So, I don't know.
Larry Young,
no one wants to train for
mediocrity quarters as a
goal either percentage.
Yeah, I think I'm with you on that.
I think that CrossFit tried
to go from taking twenty
five percent or ten percent
the year before.
that were the quarterfinals
where a lot of those people signed up.
It wasn't a hundred percent,
but a good chunk of them
signed up and they tried to
make it all inclusive to
the entire community.
The quarterfinals had a goal to it.
People wanted to make it.
People wanted to say they
were a quarter finalist.
It meant something.
If everybody gets to do it
at the community cup,
it doesn't have any meaning to it.
And you've already established your level.
So you're not getting a new
level by doing the community cup.
So timing,
the meaning behind it and the
age group stuff,
I think all now we're just
getting tons of things that
may have been the problem.
But who knows?
We'll have new owners by the
end of the year,
and I'm sure it'll all be
different next year.
Had a fun time with Hattie
Canyo last night.
If you missed that,
make sure to go back and check that out.
We talked about her being injured,
how that affects her season,
how she had to kind of wait
until the last minute to try to qualify.
We talked about NorCal.
We talked about going
through that whole experience.
and the mental stress that put on her.
And then it was a great evening.
We went off the air and
talked for another thirty minutes.
I just adore her.
We've been friends for a
while now and can't wait
for her to get back to the
games and have a good
experience this year
because last year was a
rookie year and anybody who
was a rookie last year and
that being your first games
had to feel cheated.
We talk about that.
And now she can go back and
maybe have an experience
that she was looking
forward to in her rookie season,
may get it in her sophomore season.
And that goes for the Austin Halfields,
the Lexi Neelys,
the people that were
rookies last year and did
get to punch their ticket a
second straight year and
now get to kind of wipe the
slate clean and hopefully
have a good clean run at
the games this year.
um the winner of my contest
from yesterday which was
last week I put out four
thumbnails monday tuesday
thursday friday where I had
a chat gpt make me into a
famous painting and if
someone could name the
artists on all four
paintings and be the first
one to do so I would send
them out a prize pack
And the winner is Beth,
who her screen name is AtMazePhase,
that is M-A-Z-E-F-A-Z-E,
you have won the prize pack.
And the answers were last
Monday was Edward Munch,
last Tuesday was Pablo Picasso,
last Thursday was Andy Warhol,
and last Friday was Vincent Van Gogh.
So Beth,
if you could just shoot onto
Instagram and shoot me your
address and email address,
and I will be able to get
something out to you in the
next day or so.
So you win the prize that is yours.
So.
Um, Kenneth DeLapp says,
you're not a Dolly guy, huh?
I actually, Dolly's actually my favorite.
Uh,
I've been to the Salvador Dolly museum
in St.
Petersburg, Florida.
Um, and I actually did one with Dolly,
but I think that chat GPT
really cheated on it.
So, uh,
to explain the picture was me doing, uh,
a wall walk, uh,
And basically they took the
wall where I was doing the
handstand and around it,
they put trees with melting clocks.
That's how they made it a Salvador Dali.
And I just thought it was cheesy.
I thought it would be cooler
if they'd like made the
stilt legs like on the
elephants up my legs doing
the wall walk or something like that.
But they didn't do that.
So, but Salvador Dali is my favorite.
And I actually like his
later stuff even more where
he got religious and he did
some crucifixion paintings.
His famous painting, The Bullfighter,
this was like after his
surrealist time and when he
really got into doing
massive paintings with more
meaning to it.
And The Bullfighter is about
how he met his wife.
And I really liked that one as well,
but I got to see that one
live in his museum in St.
Petersburg, Florida.
And I got to see the crucifixion one,
which is gorgeous in person.
It's actually a,
a view from God looking
down at the crucifixion and it's,
it's amazing.
Um,
What I'm going to leave you
with now is you guys all
know that like lately,
the thing that calms me
down is doing Legos.
But I've found something
that gives me frustration with it,
and that is I've been
buying the light kits to go
with my Legos.
So you can light up the Lego
like my DeLorean lights up, headlights,
the flux capacitor, the tubes,
all that kind of stuff.
That one went amazing.
I did the uphouse and did
the light kit for it.
and clipped a wire on the
last damn wire and um and
now the inside lights don't
work but the rest of it
lights up and I was cool
with it I'm now doing the
nintendo I have it all done
and again the last wire
trying to plug it in to
these and they're teeny
tiny like I can't even describe
like a sixteenth of an inch,
like wide maybe.
And you have to plug them
into this socket to get it
all together into this transformer.
And I clipped the wire at the end.
And this is a long wire that
goes down through the TV set.
And so I don't know what's
not going to light up.
I have,
I don't have AAA batteries to be
able to light it up to see
what I lost in that little wire clip.
But it is a lot,
it is so much more work
doing the lighting kit than
it is to actually do the
Legos and you have to tear
it apart to do it.
And so now if I,
if I even can get a
replacement wire for that,
I have to feed it back
through the TV and try again.
And if,
just frustrated I'm really
disappointed because it lit
up the screen and it lit up
some of the like question
mark boxes I know I'm
losing those or I gotta
find this wire somewhere
else where I can replace it
and start that part over
again but it is it is all it is awful
I wish I wouldn't have got
into the light kits,
although it makes the
DeLorean like ten times better.
It makes the uphouse better.
This one,
like it even lights up the
Nintendo power button,
different things like that.
So I'm going to reach out to
the company and say, hey,
the wire got clipped.
Can I get a replacement?
Because I think I'm losing
too much stuff with this one.
but very, very frustrated.
Um, Kenneth, the lab,
I'll have to check those out.
Never heard of a lighting kits.
Yeah.
It's I'll,
I'll DM you the name of the company.
Um, they, they have a kit for every Lego,
uh,
and it so it can light up
meredith the delorean is
fantastic the delorean is
my favorite thing so far um
I really like the nintendo
too and I'm actually going
to put it right here when
I'm done with it because
it's big enough that you'll
actually kind of be able to
see it um the stadiums I
have back there are so tiny
like there's penn state and
there's the there's the bears
And so they're too small.
So I'm going to put them up
on the shelf down here and
I'll just put the Nintendo back there.
But yeah,
that's my frustration because it
was so calming putting
together that Nintendo and
getting it all put together.
And it was like a twenty three bag.
Three thousand piece Lego
set and then to have the
one wire clip is the last
thing to plug in.
Just so frustrating.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Well, guys, again,
if you are Beth Maze Phase Ninety-Nine,
make sure you DM me on
Instagram with your email
address and your address,
and I'll get a prize kit out to you.
We'll do some other fun stuff, too,
in the near future.
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With that, guys,
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I'm going to get back to
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everybody tomorrow.
for lunch with the Clydesdale,
cooking it Cajun style with
Corey Leonard.
Bye, guys.