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What is up, everybody?
Happy Monday to you all.
It is lunchtime,
lunch with the Clydesdale.
Good Monday afternoon.
Going to throw the dart.
Just an average throw.
Just an average throw today.
Nothing to write home about.
Nothing super bad.
All right.
So, yeah.
Good to be with you all today.
What's going on, Jody?
On time today.
Must not be having anybody
in the sales room today.
But hopefully you're selling
cabinets like mad today.
Anyway, so good to have you all here.
I'm super excited to be here.
Got a couple things I wanted
to talk about.
First of all, if you saw the thumbnail,
congratulations to the
Oklahoma City Thunder for
winning the NBA championship last night.
A little bit of a...
let down for the Pacers who
lost Tyrese Halliburton in
the first part of the game.
They showed the replay this
morning because I was live
on the air when it happened
and you could see his Achilles pop.
It made my stomach flip.
Are you guys,
do you guys look away when
there are injuries like
that in sports or are you
one of those people that want to see it,
see how it happened?
Yeah.
slow-mo at all of that kind
of stuff I don't know why
just seeing it the the
achilles pop inside the
skin just made my stomach
flip usually I'm not that
freaked out uh but it it
got me this morning it was
just because this first
thing when I saw it and uh
yeah so the pacers were
behind the eight ball for
the rest of the game and ended up that um
the Oklahoma City Thunder
won the championship.
Congratulations to them.
And yeah,
they're the youngest team in the NBA.
So look for them to be
successful for the next several years.
Jeffrey Birchfield,
just learned my son and
daughter-in-law are having number four.
Wow.
I barely could handle one.
But congratulations to them.
Lito, I can't watch.
I compete myself.
So that would definitely
make me scared of certain
movements in competition.
Yeah, you probably want to avoid that.
I think what I've learned in,
especially in basketball,
if you have a calf injury, woe it back.
too many times when people
have suffered a calf injury
and try to play through it,
this is what the next step is.
It's not a hundred percent, but man,
the chances are pretty good.
You weaken that calf and the
next thing to go is the Achilles.
So
Last night,
I promised you a story about my
car problems over the weekend.
So I'm going to bang through
that real quick.
We got my second car back
from my daughter when she
moved to Montana.
And then my wife immediately
had knee replacement surgery.
So it just kind of sat in
our driveway for a couple months.
And stupid me didn't go out and start it.
So...
My wife was going away
Friday night and wanted to
take that car because it
was easier on her knee.
And we went to start it up and nothing.
Like absolutely nothing.
So I hooked it up to the charger.
As soon as I hooked it up to the charger,
it got enough juice that it
locked the car and the keys
were in the ignition
because it's a special key.
It has some kind of magnetic
piece in it that once you
put it in the ignition and
there's no power,
you cannot get the keys out.
And that is the only key we
have for that car.
so then when I hooked up the
the jumper cables to charge
it it got just enough juice
and all of a sudden the car
locked itself so now I have
the keys inside the car the
car is locked we this is
like the fifth time it's
happened um and I've seen
when we had the locksmith
or triple a come out and do
it so I tried to do it
myself where I took a crowbar and i
pulled back a little bit on
the back corner of the door.
I did get a coat hanger through and,
and it was not stiff enough
to do what I needed to do.
I kept the charger on the
battery so that I could get
some power to unlock and powered or,
what ended up being power to the windows.
But so then I taped a shish
kebab skewer to the end of
the coat hanger, got it through the crack,
got it to finally rest on
one of the buttons for the
window and was able to give
enough pressure to roll
down one of the windows.
And then I could reach in and unlock it.
So that's how we got back in.
I charged the battery up
over fifty percent went to
start it still nothing and
then my charger read that
the battery was kaput so
so it was kaput that's what
I called the semperfi
mechanic which I talked
about last night um he is a
mobile mechanic he comes
right to my driveway he
brought a battery he
replaced it the car started
right up but huge shout out
to him uh semperfi mechanic
and he also is a youtuber
we talked about that a lot
while he was working but he
recorded the installation
and that's what he does for his youtube
He has close to fifty thousand subscribers,
but go check him out.
Semper Fi Mechanic.
If you have any car trouble,
he does have tips and trick
videos to show you how to
kind of do some of the stuff on your own.
And he's a really nice guy.
So huge shout out to Semper Fi Mechanic.
Go check out his YouTube
channel if you have any car
needs and you're trying to
fix it yourself.
So that was a fun Friday for me.
And then my wife went on
just a short little like
twenty four hour vacation
with her family and I
stayed with the dog.
But that gave me an
opportunity to watch some
stuff that I don't normally get to watch.
And so I'm going to do a
quick review of some
CrossFit content that came
out this weekend.
The first thing is Road to
the Games with Ricky Garrard, Matty Sturt,
and Jay Crouch came out this weekend.
I will say, in my opinion,
that may be the best Road
to the Games they've done this year.
I hope it's because they're
digging a little deeper and
they just didn't get it by
accident because of the
personalities of the
athletes that they were talking to.
But when we get to see the
inside of Ricky's old van
and that he has a mattress
in there because he kept
getting kicked out of his
house and he tells that story,
I would have liked them to
dig a little deeper there
as to why that might be happening.
But that was funny.
And he had a bike in there.
He had like lawn equipment,
anything you would need in
this two thousand eighteen minivan.
I thought that was really
quirky and funny.
Um,
and then the relationship between
Maddie Sturt and Jay Crouch
was really cool to see, uh,
the way they work together,
the way they live together, um,
how they divvy up things.
I thought that was really,
I learned a lot about them.
So I would give that one an a minus,
not the best videos I've seen this year.
Um,
maybe a couple of small steps down,
but really,
really enjoyable and highly recommend.
Um,
I learned a lot about those
athletes in this video.
Again,
I hope it's a trend that they
continue on moving forward
and not just something that
accidentally happened.
But I was really excited to
see a little more in-depth
storyline and not just them
training themselves.
getting ricky out on a bike
course that's always funny
so good at that and to talk
about how he's never lost a
bike race um at the
crossfit games that was um
that was really good uh
lito I enjoyed that one too
but I do think a big part
of it was their personalities
Yeah, I'm afraid that's the problem,
but I hope, I hope,
hope that they're learning
from this and seeing where
they can get a little more
depth into the storyline.
The next one that came out
this weekend that I wanted
to talk about was Hiller's
video with Tyson Bajan and Erica Folo.
And this is documenting...
Tyson's buddy's birthday workout,
which was, I believe,
a seventy four minute AMRAP
of just absurd stuff.
They had to jump up on this
wall and jump back down.
There were it was burpees and.
kettlebell snatches or
dumbbell snatches whichever
you had one partner would
do the snatches one would
do the burpees when both
are completely done you
could do the wall jumps and
alternate and then it was
an eight hundred meter run
half of the way was a
partner run half of the way
was a partner carry um and
it turned out that erica
folo and her partner who was a um
Spartan racer did really well.
They took second in that one.
I won't tell you where Tyson finished.
Let you find that for your own.
But it looked like the
leaders got somewhere in
the neighborhood of three
rounds of that in.
Seventy four minutes.
If I saw seventy four minutes.
I think I think I would just.
Not want to.
But I would probably enjoy
it because I like once you
get into those type of workouts,
it's just kind of keep moving.
The intensity isn't as high
because you're going for so long.
And so that's interesting.
But I found the most
interesting parts were them
sitting around the Bajent
table and Travis Bajent
talking about his old arm
wrestling days and Erica Folo reacting to
Tyson's dad and all of that kind of stuff.
I thought that was interesting.
They also take Erica out on
a football field to play
catch with Tyson and she
shows pretty good athleticism.
I was really impressed with all that.
So really good video, really fun to watch.
I've said on this show that
it actually is going to be
my two worlds colliding.
And at the very opening of this video,
Mark Carman,
who is on the podcast I watch
for the Chicago Bears,
is in the video
interviewing Tyson in his garage,
and Hiller picks that up
and calls him out for
working on the CHGO podcast.
And so that's super, super cool.
And then I was watching CHGO on Friday,
and they actually –
They're going to do a video, too,
that comes out this Friday.
But last Friday,
they shouted out Hiller on
their podcast for the fun
they had in West Virginia
with Tyson and crew.
So it's wild that like the
both both of my worlds are
colliding and they're
calling out each other and
I sent a text to Hiller with
that shout out,
and he just kind of laughed about it.
But really, really enjoyed that video.
I like it because it's not
straight down the middle CrossFit.
It's a little bit of like,
how would a football player do?
How would a Spartan racer do
with this CrossFit thing?
Erica Folo is going to be a star.
She's really,
really fun to watch and
really fun to listen to.
She has a great personality.
And when she makes the games,
Hiller's videos are going
to skyrocket because he's
going to have the whole
story from beginning to end.
And that's going to be an amazing,
amazing set of videos that go together.
So that one, I give an A on that one.
I really, really enjoyed that one.
And you learn at the very
end that it is just a part one,
but part two is coming.
And that will dive more into
the last chance qualifier, it appears.
And Tyson being her rabbit.
So it'll be interesting to
see what happens with that.
So road to the games, I give an A minus.
Hiller's video,
I give an A. And Lito
brings up a great point.
Castro's little cameo was funny, too.
It really was.
They were FaceTiming with
Castro and Erica saying she
didn't like the programming
and Castro saying that
he'll talk to her once she
becomes a games qualifier.
So I thought that was funny.
Very, very funny.
The last video I'm going to talk about,
I talked about last night,
and that is the Lydia Fish
documentary about the last
chance qualifier.
Um, gosh, it was so well done.
So well done.
Uh, they talk,
what it shows is that like
the directions changed from
one point to another with
the workouts on the sheets
and parent had to reread them every time.
And that was a very key piece to that.
Um, and.
other part is like this this
girl has the dog in her the
fact that she keeps she
kept coming back doing that
legless rope climb event
and the last time was at
nearly midnight uh to get
that done and in uh and
probably that is what got
her into uh the crossfit games
CTP did an amazing job producing it.
The music is fire in that video.
It's just banger after banger.
Lydia is charming.
She's funny.
When they talk about Halo
and how they relax with Halo,
how she works as a server
at a supper club,
all of that is super fun.
It's called Official.
Check that one out.
That's really good too.
Probably give that one an A+.
That goes up into the upper
echelon of videos that
we've had this year.
They did a great job with that one.
So super,
super stoked when I got to see that one.
It was a pleasant surprise.
And I've known CTP for a long time,
ever since I've been on the
road with regionals.
He is just a great, great dude.
And I shouldn't be surprised
that he would put together
something like that.
Just caught up with, Shay says,
just caught up with last night's show.
Was a great one.
Really enjoyed Raph.
Yeah, Raph's the best.
And if you weren't with us last night,
Raph actually did
commentary for us for the
twenty two CrossFit Games.
And we put we brought him on.
We bought Mitch McClure,
who is Carrie Pierce's husband.
We brought on Lex and
Carolyn Prevo back then
before Carolyn was a part of the show.
And that really started the
relationship we had with
Carolyn and Lex and turned
into her being a part of
the show that twenty two season.
So it's fun to bring Raph back,
talk about teams last night,
and that's actually a
perfect segue into the next
thing I wanted to talk about.
Last night on the show,
when we were talking about
what could we change with
teams to make it more
relevant and more fan-friendly,
and one of the things that
we brought up was that,
or that Raph brought up was...
that have like a team
sponsor that they can build
a team and keep it going year over year.
So like hypothetically fit
at fit aid has a team, um,
Yeti has a team.
Frogrips has a team.
And then you recruit the
people to that team and you
keep it and you grow and
you either sign new
athletes on or people leave
and go individual,
whatever that might be.
But it's a way that like you
can then get like loyalty
to a team because that same
team name will appear year over year.
Now with that,
you'd have to get rid of the
affiliate cup and it would
just be called like the
team championship.
It was an idea he had.
And while I was laying in bed last night,
I thought about, man,
if the WFP took that, it could make their,
their season even better
because I've been watching
this drive to survive about F one racing.
And there are teams with
multiple drivers throughout that.
And they earn points just
like the WFP to go for the
championship at the end of the year.
How about if the WFP had
teams like Team Red Bull, Team Adidas,
Team Rolex, Team FitAid,
whatever it might be, right?
And then you as WFP say that
each team has four members.
So that gives you ten teams.
And each team has two men and two women.
And as they compete throughout the season,
they're earning their
individual points to go for
an individual championship.
But then you take their
points and you add them together.
And.
And then whatever the total points are,
are the team points going
into the next event.
So not only are you getting
an individual competition,
but there's a team aspect
to it that you're trying to
put together points as a team.
I think that would be add
more excitement to the
overall piece without adding another,
another competition to the floor.
Right.
And maybe you can do it by camp,
but the camps are so
unevenly distributed with people.
I don't know if that is possible.
But maybe you say like, okay, TTT,
you get to draft four
people and underdogs,
you get to draft four people and mayhem,
you got to pick four people
and so on and so forth.
Proven you've got four people.
And then maybe you get a
major sponsor to take the team name.
So you have like proven frog
grips and they're a team
with four people.
And then the people who
really mess it up are the
challengers who aren't in
that top-twenty pro card area on a team,
and they're just messing up
the points all over,
not only for the individual race,
but for the team race as well.
And they're kind of the outlaws.
And I think that would be a
very cool concept in a way
to get brand loyalty and
or athlete loyalty or team
loyalty to an aspect of
your competition which
would make it more fun to
watch for spectators I
don't I don't know if
everybody is understanding
what I'm saying because you
have to like watch
Formula One racing or
something like that to kind
of understand the point
thing that I'm talking about.
And I know that the points
for individuals is already hard enough.
Then you add this in it.
It just makes things more complicated.
But like Kenneth says, team pups and suds.
There you go.
Or mutts and cuts.
Name that movie.
Uh, so yeah,
I thought that would be like a
cool way if I'm WFP to gain
more interest in my
competition is to add a
team element to it.
where two men,
two women is a team and they
have a corporate
sponsorship for that team
and maybe they offset the
cost to the events and WFP
then saves that money for other things.
Yes, Corey, you nailed it.
Dumb and dumber, mutts and cuts.
I don't know.
I just think that that would be...
that would make it more
interesting on the backend
rooting for the overall
team as well as the individual athletes.
Just a thought.
One of those like half
asleep thoughts that you
get in the middle of the
night and you don't know if
it's a great idea or a terrible idea,
but you're just going to
throw it out there anyway.
That's kind of what happened there.
So
It's Monday.
We don't have a lot going on.
Last thing is,
yesterday I watched the
movie The Accountant II.
I was really excited about
this movie coming out.
I was a huge, huge,
huge fan of The Accountant.
If people have not seen it,
it's a Ben Affleck movie
where he plays an autistic accountant and
And I love that movie.
He's kind of an antihero
where he is super smart
when it comes to accounting.
He can see like where criminals are,
are utilizing the system to
get ahead of things.
And yeah,
And what I will say is for
The Accountant two,
it veers off that a little
bit because it brings his
brother in who is played by
John Barenthal,
who is a great actor as well.
And John Barenthal, I think,
steals a little bit of this
of this movie.
I mean,
it's almost more about him than it
is about the Ben Affleck
accountant character.
And there's less of the
diagnostic accounting and
him going through all that
stuff and more about them
working together and
building a relationship as brothers.
Um,
While it's very different
than the first one,
I did enjoy this movie.
I enjoyed it a lot.
And I would recommend it if
you like the first one.
But a lot of the reviews say
that it did veer off too
much for some of those people.
um when I went back and
looked at it after it
because I saw it was a six
point eight out of ten on
internet movie database and
then after I watched I went
back to see why they said
that and they do say it
kind of veers away from the
first one too much um with
it going into the brother
story more than the
accounting and the
accountant puzzle solving
piece um but I did enjoy it
I thought that it was very
fast moving action-packed
Um, sometimes funny,
sometimes endearing movie, um,
that kind of went in a
different direction.
So I would give the
accountant to a four out of five stars.
That's my opinion.
Um, the first accountant,
I would give a five out of five, this one,
a four out of five.
um lito I would love it if
the team's comp was a
little more like grid where
you had a bit more choice
on who does what and how
much uh christian kettler
you know scott is old when
he calls imdb by its full
name I was going to call it imdb but
that was dumb.
I was just going to say, I'm D I am DB.
And I'm thought, well,
maybe someone doesn't know what that is,
but that's just dumb.
And that's why I'm old.
So you have pointed that out properly.
Uh, back to Lito.
So last night, um,
we talked about it with
Raph about the possibility
of a six person team, um,
for team series or whatever
for the teams.
And, um,
And then you substitute in,
you could only play four per event.
And you had to have where
everybody has to do at
least X number of events.
So you can't hide anybody
and you do do substitution,
but not like grid where
you're changing midstream.
If that makes sense.
So still kind of keep it
truer to the CrossFit piece
where it's just the four on
the floor are competing.
not changing midstream but
um but then you can
substitute someone out for
the next event or if
someone gets hurt you have
a backup and don't have to
withdraw uh jay birch I
actually didn't know what
that that was an acronym
thanks for the save man
Um, Corey,
did you already mention the
mighty LSU tigers winning
the natty yesterday?
I didn't cause I was going
to save that for Wednesday.
Cause I knew you'd want to
talk about that briefly.
Um, but I did see that.
Congratulations to the LSU
tigers winning the college world series.
Alito says, yes, that was a great idea.
We've got a local event
called Send Them In,
which is exactly that.
And there are events for two, three,
or four people.
Yeah.
I think that Waterpalooza
SoCal got it kind of right.
that's more of like an
all-star thing but like one
event had three people one
event had the whole team
one event had maybe that's
too confusing and you just
have four per event um but
but I don't know and leader
says out of a team of six
yeah yeah I think as long
as you cap it at four
I would not want any events
with more than four people on the floor.
It's already too crowded as
it is with some of the events.
I would rather have less
than more on the floor.
But I think you could take
some stuff from SoCal and
learn from it and maybe
apply some of that to the
team competition.
For sure.
I think what CrossFit's bad
at is not looking outside
their own walls for ideas to change.
Rogue has done some innovative things.
Wadapalooza has done some
innovative things.
They should look outside
their walls at what's going
on at other competitions
and maybe pull some of that stuff in.
But, but yeah.
So the last thing I had on my list,
and this just kind of
popped up in the chat last night,
and it happened as we were on the air,
so I wasn't able to really look into it.
But if you did not know, Maddie Rogers,
the Olympic weightlifter,
she's here on her story.
You can go to Maddie Rogers
Ollie and see this post.
She had a TIA or a mini
stroke in training on
Friday and spent the
weekend in the hospital
getting tests and whatnot.
While I'm still awaiting answers,
luckily I don't really have
any deficits lingering and
I'm feeling mostly normal today.
And then she goes into a
piece on the American health system,
which I've had my own issues with.
But I hope that she is okay.
She is an amazing Olympic lifter.
And hopefully she's not down
and out for too long.
But man, mini stroke.
My mom just had that stroke
a couple months ago.
They're scary.
So glad that she's doing
okay and up and around with
no real deficiencies.
So there is that.
I also talked about my AFib
issues on Friday's show,
and I got a lot of direct
messages on Instagram.
And I want to thank
everybody for sending me
what research they know of
and about the correlation between
between COVID and AFib or
the COVID vaccine and AFib,
whatever that may be.
I just thank everybody for
what they've seen and other
contributors that can play
a part in AFib.
So that is...
That was very helpful,
and I appreciate it so much.
I didn't have time to send
responses to everybody who
sent me feedback,
but I do want to thank
everybody for reaching out on that.
Corey, gee, glad she's okay.
I just saw a video of her hang snatching.
Two-fifty-seven, Maddie, not your mom,
Scott.
Have you seen my mom snatch?
Just saying.
Just kidding.
My mom loves to deadlift,
loves to deadlift,
but her deadlift isn't even
two fifty seven.
So.
At eighty years old,
she's still triple digits on her deadlift,
and I'm very proud of her for that.
I'm sure USA Olympics is no help either.
Have you been following the
Lolo Jones story?
I am I following it?
No.
Have I seen it?
Yes.
I know she said some things
and got kicked out of, um,
got kicked out of the
Olympic training center.
And now there are people
saying that that was too
harsh of a penalty,
but I don't really know
what she said exactly.
Um,
but I'll look into that Jay Burch just
so I can be more educated on that.
Um, I,
I lost interest in Lolo
Jones a couple of years ago,
but when she started doing
the reality TV circuit, I just,
I don't know.
She's she's weird,
but aren't we all right.
So, yeah, with that, tomorrow,
hopefully we'll have some
more CrossFit stuff to talk about.
And I just finished watching
Surviving Ohio State.
And I do want to talk about that.
But I just finished it.
and I'm still taken aback at
everything that I saw so as
I sort that out over the
next hours I do want to
talk about that a little
bit tomorrow it's a it's a
new documentary on hbo max
or max sorry christian
just max now the hip young
way to say it surviving
Ohio State about a doctor
who abused athletes at Ohio
State and then it got worse
it got worse than just
abusing athletes hard to believe but
yeah,
I'll talk about that tomorrow a
little bit.
And maybe some of the other
documentaries I've been
watching this weekend since
my wife was away,
I got to watch those without,
and anybody tell me that they're boring.
Um, Jody never heard of Lolo Jones.
So she is an Olympic,
she was an Olympic hurdler.
And then she tried to be an
Olympic bobsledder.
And then she tried to be a model.
She tried to be a reality TV star.
Um,
But I don't think she was ever successful,
truly successful at any of those things.
Fell short at like every
single one along the way.
Lito, speaking of documentaries,
I really enjoyed the one on
the Titan submersible.
I don't know if I could watch that.
the one that imploded right
like gosh that that's like
my biggest fear being under
dirt underwater under
whatever and not being able
to breathe like the thought
of being buried alive just
makes me want to vomit and
then to be that far down
into the ocean and
everything just implode at
least to be done quick I guess but
Yeah,
I don't know if I can watch that one.
Jody Lynn saw that and liked it as well.
It wasn't so much on the disaster itself,
Scott,
just kind of the culture and the
company that led to it.
Very interesting.
All right, maybe I'll take a look at it.
Watching all the things that
went wrong with the
submersible would be hard to watch,
says Meredith.
Corey,
your biggest fear is being in a
carbon fiber submersible that implodes?
That's so specific.
No, it's more about the claustrophobic,
not being able to have air thing.
That's more my biggest fear.
I just pushed all that on to
being in a submersible.
That's more it, not that specific thing,
but more claustrophobic, no air,
no breathing.
If it makes me feel any better,
when it imploded, they all died instantly,
more or less vaporized.
Yeah,
I think I would have the fear before
the implosion.
Just being in the
submersible that far down,
I would have a hard time.
So, I'm not really claustrophobic,
but I am.
Yeah,
I'm really making a lot of sense today.
Meredith,
there's no way you'd catch her
going that deep in the ocean,
and she's not even claustrophobic.
Also, they're literally bolted in.
It cannot be opened from the inside.
Yeah, that's the ringer right there.
Lock me into something where
I can't get out.
Have any of you went up in the St.
Louis Arch?
That about killed me.
You get into a little egg
shaped thing that is kind
of like a weird Ferris
wheel inside the arch that
kind of clicks its way up.
It is awful.
And you are locked in there
till you get to the top.
And then you got to hop back
in to get the way on the way down.
I can't believe I did it once.
Never do that again.
So I got to say I was in it one time,
and that will be the only
time this guy is ever in the St.
Louis Arch.
I used to be a daredevil as a kid, but,
man,
I've lost all of that now that I'm older.
I've bungee jumped when I was younger,
done those kinds of things.
Now I just don't want to do
any of that stuff.
Lido, the St.
Louis arch.
It's in St.
Louis, Missouri in the United States.
It's the gateway arch.
It's a big silver arch in
the middle of St.
Louis.
And it is considered the
gateway to the West.
If you're going East to West
and it's right on the Mississippi river.
So when you're up there,
you're overlooking the
Mississippi river in St.
Louis, Missouri.
So,
Jay Burch, bungee jump, hell no.
I did it a long time ago.
It was really fun.
But I would not do it now at fifty five.
Those days are past me for sure.
All right, guys.
Well, thanks for being here.
Tomorrow we'll do Surviving
Ohio State and hopefully
some more CrossFit news
breaks or something
releases that we can talk
about or I'll try to come
up with a topic we can talk about.
Maybe we'll do a top five Tuesday.
Who knows?
It's all up in the air right now.
I'll come up with something tomorrow.
With that, guys,
I got to get back to work.
It's time for you
knuckleheads to get back to work.
We'll see everybody tomorrow
on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.