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What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale and
the Cowboy.
We are heading into the weekend.
It's a Friday.
Thank you so much, Amanda,
for bringing up that we are on episode
fourteen hundred.
This is the episode one hundred
extravaganza.
In case y'all were wondering like this,
we had this plan the entire week since
I forgot it was until Amanda put it
in the chat.
Yeah.
Just so you know,
like it was never my intention to like
number every episode.
And in fact,
there were a bunch of episodes early on
that we didn't number.
If it wasn't like a normal show,
we didn't number them.
Right.
So truly,
because the one year we did the semifinal
interviews,
there was a hundred and eleven of them.
The first year we did that,
none of those are numbered.
Yeah.
So we're truly like up over fifteen
hundred, sixteen hundred,
somewhere in that.
And
And the only reason I number them today
is because people will ask me where,
what episode was that in?
Yeah.
And it's so much easier for me to
say, oh,
that was episode thirteen hundred and
twenty.
Then, you know,
the one with this picture on the thing
and whatever.
So that's the only reason I truly number
them anymore.
because other than that it doesn't really
mean a lot because it's not an accurate
number well even if it was an accurate
number like we're not stopping at any
given point so like why would you care
about what number you're on until that day
comes and you can look back and go
oh we did you know forty thousand episodes
or whatever the case may be
So I remember when we hit one hundred,
like we had balloons,
we had like the whole bit made a
cake.
Right.
And I don't think we celebrated any other
number after that.
No.
Why would you?
And so it is pretty cool.
Like when I started this thing,
I never thought I would get fourteen
hundred episodes in.
Well, you don't see that far ahead.
You worry about this one.
and then the next one that's about it
and maybe you got maybe a couple you
might have scheduled sometime in the
future but you don't you don't set into
this going we're gonna do two thousand
episodes let's go like or or do what
what uh what hillary did and like i'm
gonna make a video today every day for
three hundred and sixty five days can i
just say that isn't that is an impossible
task the fact that he pulled that off
That's ridiculous.
I mean,
I do a show six days a week,
and I've missed some,
but even six days a week has been
brutal at times.
And yours was six days a week live.
He did six days a week,
seven days a week post-production,
like putting stuff together and adding in
clips and graphics and all that other good
stuff.
That is ridiculously impressive.
Yeah.
I remember when I first went to a
daily show,
I was talking to Sivan and like,
I was like,
I didn't realize how hard it was to
have something new to say every single
day.
Ricky Bobby after he won the race.
Car ran pretty good.
Yeah.
Car ran pretty good.
Like you actually get into the hang of
it.
Like it's a whole different world.
Absolutely.
Meg says, Amanda,
they must not realize that we are the
ones that matter.
So let us have this moment.
You have the moment.
You can feel this moment if you want
to.
Sean in Oregon says that's eighty four
thousand hours.
Crazy.
Well, ten thousand hours is mastery,
so we should be well above that at
this point.
Oh man,
I can talk about anything to no end.
Well, honestly, you know,
CrossFitters talk about CrossFit all the
time, right?
We just put it on air.
Yeah.
oh dude i'm leaving pt this morning and
madeline the girl at the at the desk
there's a reception and whatnot was like i
said something about coming to my gym said
you have a gym i said what's not
my gym but i coach there you know
whatever and she's like what i said it's
crossfit well what's crossfit and i
literally gave her the definitions
constantly varied functional movements
executed high intensity i said you know
whatever
Tell me, I said,
I don't have time to tell you about
it.
I don't think you understand.
I have to go to work.
I can tell you about it.
I would be here all day and neither
one of us would get anything done.
So like,
here's the quick and dirty version.
This is when I coach.
Come check out a class.
Let's go.
Amanda,
it's impressive AF and we care like Meg
says.
And honestly, man.
I am proud when I started this thing
in night, the audio only with two friends,
we,
we had like our parents listened and that
was it.
Hey, I was actually one of the,
I listened to a lot of those early
episodes when I found them on, um,
Apple podcast, because it was,
there was a whole lot of one of
the six.
Well, here's the thing.
It was not a whole lot of stuff.
available to just listen to.
So like I was listening to chasing
excellence.
I was listening to the CrossFit podcast.
I was listening to, uh,
scale as needed and whatnot.
And then, you know,
you search CrossFit and y'all's came up.
So like,
I listened to that because it was there
and I was like, the closet,
I was like, that's a cool last name.
Let's check this out.
And that's,
I really did listen to those early ones.
Yeah.
Those were fun times.
it's i didn't mean for this to because
again i didn't even i forgot it was
fourteen hundred until amanda said
something in the chat um but it is
pretty cool like and maybe we'll do
something special at fifteen hundred oh
yeah balloons in a cake yeah maybe a
giveaway or something we could get away
you know it'd be fun to give away
Thirdsy.
Thirdsy?
Thirdsy.
Yeah.
Could talk to Thirdsy.
See if they'd be jazzy about doing a
little giveaway at fifteen hundred.
Because you can be jazzy too at checkout
and get fifteen percent off Thirdsy right
now.
So there it is.
Gotta love it.
Wait.
Hold on.
Clydesdale is the last name.
Yes.
His name is Scott Clydesdale.
One hundred percent.
Just roll what it is.
sure sure name is scott claudio my my
name is uh my last name is actually
arabian horse i was gonna say boy george
but okay we'll go arabian horse yeah um
uh kenneth wants us to bring back the
hot ones challenge that was a fun day
for me the original hot ones challenge lit
me the hell up it was
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Sure, Judy.
Games tickets.
We'll get right on that.
Says the person who won games tickets last
year from this show.
She's like, she wants to repeat.
She wants to run it back again.
That's fantastic.
Yeah.
Scott's got cause they all Corey Cowboy.
Yep.
Yep.
These are that's on our driver's license.
Cowboy and Scott Clydesdale.
It's actually in my wallet.
Yeah.
Ernie Garza, Corey Mustang.
That's hilarious because my high school
mascot is or the Mustangs.
Assumption Mustangs.
Yeah, our mind was really creative.
We were the Oilers, the Oil City Oilers.
The Oil City Oilers.
yeah julia gulia yeah yeah so i was
listening to the colton episode of
savannah yesterday last evening actually
and he brought up a question i think
it was to caleb about who are the
three people you want to see at the
games
That haven't made it yet or just in
Europe?
Just not even athlete-wise.
Oh, okay.
Anybody that you could possibly run into
at the games,
who are the three people you want to
see most?
I can't even narrow it down.
So this is just like anybody in the
space?
Is that what they were talking about?
I didn't get to see the Colton episode
at all.
Like Joseph and Meg are going to be
at the games.
I want to see them.
A hundred percent.
Right?
Yeah.
Amanda Harry's going to be at the games.
I want to see her.
We hang out at the games every single
year.
Gotcha.
If I was gone,
I'd want to see you because I haven't
seen you in three years.
Yeah.
I mean,
the fact that we hang out all day
long, like every day, it's not the same.
Wow.
And I only get a picture.
That's a good question, Tigger.
Oh, wow.
am I getting to hang out or just
run across?
I guess that's,
that's probably a good question too.
Well, it was, it was very open-ended.
It was like,
who are the people you want to see
at the games?
And like Siobhan said, like Taylor and,
and then he listed a couple of people
that he hasn't seen in a while or
that he only runs into like at the
games.
Yeah.
So I would like to see some of
the other people that are in,
like the my my my master's crew that
i run across actually at the games uh
my boy chris real who just uh made
it i would like to hang out with
see andrew johnson again oh excuse me
david johnson david johnson i don't know
why i just named him andrew he still
thinks i'm six feet tall so it's fine
um
I would love to see those guys again
because they'd be there,
they'd be competing,
and I could be there and throw in
support out as much as possible.
But just narrowing it down to three,
that for me would be extremely difficult
because there's a lot of people I know
that are probably going to be there that
I would love to go and be able
to see and hang out with.
Andrew Sten's going to be spectating at
the games over the weekend for the first
time since twenty sixteen.
And I'm guessing it's because he's judging
Masters.
Yeah.
Every time I see Stan, he's judging.
So like we never get to like hang
out.
I love running into Andrew.
And he only like,
he lives in my state.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Joseph, Meg.
I already said Joseph.
He just said he's going to be there.
Like, yeah.
Thanks Birch.
Judy Reed lives an hour away from me.
Not even like,
a Northern suburb of Columbus.
And I run into her more at the
games than I do here.
Oh, but it,
so it was really interesting thing because
like, I'm so different.
in love with the masters community that
like, that was a lot of,
that was a lot of my thought process.
Sure.
But then you have the elite side too,
which I have a lot of friends,
but like I just ran into CTP at
syndicate and he's one of my like good
friends at the games.
So like I eliminate him from my list
cause I just saw him.
Yeah.
But like Amanda Harry,
who's another one of like the little three
group that we hang out with,
I haven't seen her since last year's
games.
it's also be difficult for me because I've
never actually been to the games.
So there's that.
Um, but there's people that I,
I chat with, I text with, I,
you know, interact with on a daily basis,
almost that I have never actually met in
person,
but that list is pretty freaking long.
So that would be kind of difficult to,
to pull off.
You know what I mean?
Like George, I just say just an hour,
we're down to three,
but that's a great question.
I like that a lot.
Yeah, it was, uh,
It was a great question.
It made,
it really got me self-reflective as to
like, cause at Syndicate, I was,
it was really just my goal to get
my foot back in the water of going
to live events,
being on my feet for the whole weekend,
being able to run around and do all
the stuff I needed to do,
but I didn't really have a purpose.
And so like this made me think about,
okay,
who do I want to see and what
can I accomplish at the games?
Because the one thing I know,
and it got me really self-reflective,
is I love this show and I love
my Sunday night show.
And I wouldn't change those for a minute.
But when I'm in person,
I have evolved and changed so much since
when I first went with Morning Chalk Up
in twenty twenty one to where I am
today.
And I,
and I don't know what the next step
is.
What's learning.
It's learning like more about yourself.
It's also learning about what you,
what you want to do,
what you don't want to do,
what you will put up with,
what you won't put up with.
But I also,
I don't want to spend two thousand dollars
to go to the games and not have
a purpose.
A hundred percent.
Right.
Well, because you feel like you,
you need to,
because you're going there instead of just
going to enjoy the experience.
Correct.
You want to be able to, to,
to bring something back that you can,
we can talk about here or y'all can
talk about Sunday night or,
or whatever the case may be.
Like I get that.
I get that.
And, and, and I,
and what I'm going to say now isn't
like a slight on anybody,
but like it in twenty twenty one,
I started doing off.
the floor interviews right after the
events.
Yup.
And I didn't, I didn't,
I didn't want to be like Nikki Bray,
Nikki,
nikki brazier right we know what you're
talking about whatever um or any of those
i didn't want to do what they were
doing i wanted it to be different and
because i had done so many semi-final
interviews i knew the backstory of all
these athletes so the questions weren't
about that specific moment it was about
how did it how did it culminate to
this or what did your backstory bring you
to this
sure well after i did that for like
a year and a half everybody was lined
up to do the after event interviews and
then you have people doing them that are
like talking to the athlete for five six
minutes they ain't got time for that and
then they just got frustrated and they got
And so I pivoted off of that, right?
So then the next games I did,
I followed four people at the games,
Emily Rolfe, Alex Kazan, Kelly Baker,
and Rudy Berger.
And so that was a really fun thing,
but I had no access.
I was doing it all in hotel lobbies,
hotel rooms,
in the corridors at the arena.
Like wherever I could get them, right?
And then the next year, uh, twenty,
twenty four,
Lazar dies and I just shut down.
Yeah, that's fair.
You were there to experience it.
Everybody deals with it differently.
No idea what to do after that.
No.
And why would you?
And then last year I went and I
did the behind the scenes with Hattie,
which was awesome.
But I'm probably not going to get that
access again.
And I don't know...
With the changes this year,
who knows what kind of access you're going
to get.
Right.
So it's really trying to figure out what
can I do that's different?
Because I had this conversation with
Hiller the other night.
We have to stop treating media like we're
playing with Monopoly money.
And we need to keep elevating it.
Because the better it gets,
the better it elevates the sport,
the better it elevates CrossFit,
and then the more opportunities we all
get.
Yup.
Right?
So what can I do new and unique
and bring something to the table
worthwhile with the access and the
finances I have?
That's an excellent question.
And that one question from Ortega during
that podcast,
sent all of that flooding through my mind
good job ortega so it's been and then
i actually lost i i should have taken
a double dose of thirdsy last night
because i was literally up at three a.m
going what should i what should i do
um i'm gonna tell you what i normally
do in situations like that is that i
try to get my mind off of it
and let it come to me naturally
Cause if I spent too much time,
I'll do the same thing you did.
Like I'll wake up at two o'clock in
the morning and it's in the back of
my head.
And like,
now I can't sleep because it's just
running, right.
Running, running, running, running,
running.
And if I can find some sort of
way to just deflect and do something else
and go look at something else and go
focus on something else that usually ends
up helping me to focus back in,
you know,
it'll come back around naturally.
Hey, I'm going to do this.
Or if I can narrow it down to
a couple of different options, like, okay,
I can either do it this way or
I can do it this way and just
kind of see which direction it goes in,
then it becomes just a choice.
You can almost flip a coin at that
point and go, I'm doing this,
and this is what I'm doing.
This is the plan.
This is the situation I'm putting myself
in, and I'm not deviating from it.
It all wiggles aside as needed,
but for the most part,
we plow right along through there.
Or I was just talking about this yesterday
with the guy from Primal Mobility, too.
This is crazy.
Yeah, I just... There's a big part,
and we'll get off this because this is
just... Yeah.
I don't know.
This is for me, but...
there's a big part of me that wants
to dive into the masters community,
but my relationship with Joe and Bob is,
has gotten so bad that I just don't
see that even being a possibility.
Right.
So the last thing I'll say before we
get off of that is that it is
wild to me that all you've ever done
is try to help them and showcase the
athletes that they are trying to showcase.
And it was,
and your relationship with them is what it
is.
I will never understand that.
Hexie Lover keeps singing WKRP in
Cincinnati.
She's singing WKRP in Cincinnati.
I used to watch that show.
I love that show.
Ortega says it's your podcast.
Let it ride.
This is a good conversation.
It is a good conversation,
but we don't need to take up the
whole show with it.
We can keep letting it evolve over the
next...
We're not going to table it and then
leave it on the table.
That's not going to happen.
They brought back WKRP for radio.
Oh,
I guess in Cincinnati is actually a
station.
That's cool.
Andrew lives in Cincinnati.
So I would only,
if you're going to hand out WKRP as
call letters, it better be in Cincinnati.
Yeah.
WKRP and Baton Rouge wouldn't make the
same.
That wouldn't sound the same at all.
No.
WKRP LA.
Not, not a good.
No.
Oh, uh, I miss TV theme.
So I have, uh,
dude we could do a whole show on
the greatest tv theme songs making your
way in the world today takes everything
you got i mean come on dude like
i know several of them off the top
of my head wouldn't you like to get
away yeah uh joseph wants to go four
more hours because he's in the office uh
Thank you for being a friend.
Traveling down the road and back again.
Yes, indeed.
Vicki's all for that special edition
Clydesdale.
Absolutely.
There we go.
So back to CrossFit,
because yesterday we worked completely off
the rails.
So the issue...
Not issue.
I was listening to Hiller and Sousa this
morning.
I only caught the end of it,
but yeah.
And they were talking about event
organizers and how they're spending their
money.
And is it the best allocation of the
funds?
So like when you have NorCal and they're
handing out twenty grand to the winners.
Is that more of an attraction for
spectators and getting athletes there?
Or is it the games ticket that gets
the athletes there?
And should they take some of that money
and invest it into media?
And some of the ideas were that they
could actually bring in a cell tower for
that event for fifty grand.
I say that's how much, I mean,
that's half of what it costs for that
prize money stuff.
Well, you have men and women,
twenty grand each.
That's forty grand.
That's forty.
And that's just that was just a winner,
right?
Yeah, that's just the winner.
So that's probably your fifty grand right
there.
And now you have way better.
And let me not say way better coverage.
You have way better service.
So it's not choppy and it doesn't look
like they're underwater,
which I was not complaining about there in
the stream because we had a stream like
they're dealing with what they're dealing
with.
But yeah, one hundred percent.
And they even had the ideas of maybe
invest it more into post-production and
not the cell tower like.
Have guys at the end of five different
lanes just film one athlete from beginning
to end.
The athlete can use that to make whatever
they want.
You can make reels and stuff out of
it.
And then you just start pumping out
post-production stuff.
And I like that idea because if you
give it to the athlete,
now you're leveraging their audience on
top of your audience to not only promote
the event, but promote what CrossFit is.
Yeah.
So some of the independent media guys at
the comps I've been to,
you can buy raw footage off of them
or they'll make you a reel.
I've had a couple of them or several
of them, matter of fact, three or four,
make me reels from the raw footage and
they'll send me the raw footage so I
can do that or I can just take
their reel from it and whatnot and then
put it out on my stuff.
And it tags the
The event, it promotes you.
It promotes the person,
the media person that's doing it all.
And it's kind of pricey on the individual
side.
But for me,
I enjoy it because I like to look
at stuff like that.
I like to remember all the cool shit
that I did while I was there and
whatnot.
And then it gets more exposure and it
gets stuff out and it gets other people
seeing what what people are capable of as
well.
I really enjoy that.
That's I like that idea.
When was the biggest growth in CrossFit
when media was a priority?
Absolutely.
So I'll tell you,
we were a media company.
And maybe the prize money isn't as high
for the athletes,
but the exposure and the,
and the awareness would grow for those
individuals for other opportunities.
Sure.
hundred percent it's the entire purpose of
that kind of stuff is to get more
eyes on what you are doing it's not
just eyes of regular people it's eyes of
people who may have opportunities for you
sponsorship opportunities endorsement
opportunities whatever whatever whatever
that ends up looking at you know for
the guys that are trying to make this
into a career and it's hard to do
that if you don't have good like the
the the people who are doing all these
sponsorships they're not going scouting
people
at events, right?
There's not a tier scout walking around
NorCal going,
that guy looks like a tier athlete.
We should probably sign him.
No,
you get exposure on the socials and that
brings more eyes to your stuff and then
maybe you might be able to get a
deal off of that.
I like it.
A very large game of whack-a-mole.
Is that going to be the first event?
Is that going to be the first event
at the games?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry.
But no, she's right.
But there's facts behind this thought
process.
Yeah.
The largest growth of the games was
fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen.
Media was huge.
Go back and look,
you can still find all of that stuff
and there is a ton of it.
A ton of it.
Search games.
I mean the road to the games,
the behind the scenes Saban did from the
games, the games, documentaries, the,
all the little stuff in between there that
they did.
It's all still out there.
The internet is forever.
I don't know if anybody ever told y'all
that or not.
Don't send those nudes.
Internet is forever.
It's like highlight reels for scouts and
other sports.
Yeah.
And it goes back to Hiller's other idea
where he said,
instead of just blanketly giving media
access to people at the games,
give them three athletes to cover or five
athletes to cover.
It's almost like someone else said that.
Well,
Hiller said that like weeks ago and then
we talked about it.
I don't want to take his idea because
it was his on the Glintons podcast.
Yep.
Then you're there with a purpose, right?
It comes back to our initial conversation.
Then when the media has a purpose and
it's an opportunity for them to show what
they can do,
they're trying to up their game and then
the athletes trying to up their game and
then we kind of start building on
something right now it all that crossfit
does is throw spaghetti at the wall and
hope something sticks which is not really
a great way to run a media company
now jenna has made some changes where
there seems to be plans but the plans
are very similar to what's happened in the
past
Yeah.
And it needs to evolve.
Right.
It needs to evolve as the landscape
changes, because also socials in thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen,
sixteen were blowing up at the time.
So, yeah,
let's put out all this content because
people are eating it up.
Right.
And as socials change and as how the
way people interact with each other
change,
then the way that the content is put
out also needs to change.
Hill is a fantastic example of that.
Like he went out and made three hundred
sixty five videos in three hundred sixty
five days.
And then we went from that to doing
well,
I'm going to do some of this long
form stuff from a spend, you know,
forty eight hours with Hayley Adams or
whatever, whatever it was.
And then people started eating it up like,
oh, I didn't know he could do this.
And then he went from that to,
I'm going to do somebody's, you know,
pop on and go live.
And now he's got his little studio where
he just brings people in like Sousa this
morning and they have a long form
conversation or whatnot.
And it's evolving because it needs to
evolve because if not,
he'll just be the guy doing, you know,
no rep videos for the rest of his
life.
And let's be honest,
that behind the scenes he did was as
good as anything that's been out there.
I would,
I would put it on the same level
as that.
Yes.
Now,
he completely lucked out on the storylines
at Syndicate.
He got massive storylines,
but he was the one hustling his ass
off to capture it all.
Exactly.
And you don't know unless you try.
I mean,
there probably was also some massive
storylines at NorCal.
He wasn't at NorCal.
And nobody was doing that at NorCal.
They were busy broadcasting it.
Well, and here's the problem with this,
right?
So at that same event, Syndicate,
Ian Wittenberg is there for CrossFit doing
his thing.
Now we're going to get a road to
the game, Syndicate Crown,
that we've already seen.
Yeah.
Right?
And that's when I made the statement that
I have boys interrupted fatigue, right?
I have Boys Interrupted Fatigue not
because of the boys,
but because they did their quarterfinal
weekend on their channel.
And then Ian went and did another road
to the games of the exact same weekend.
It's like the same shots,
just from different angles.
If Ian would have been at NorCal...
While Hiller's at Syndicate.
Well,
here's also the other difference too is
that Hiller's turnaround time is insane.
It is Buttery Rose level turnaround time.
Like I'm just going to do this.
I'm going to edit it all night and
then I'm going to put it out in
the morning.
So I will tell you,
the first documentary I ever did was with
Jamie.
Doing her semifinal weekend or
quarterfinal, whenever it was.
It was semifinal.
And I turned it around every single night.
Yeah.
It can be done.
It takes like you have to be dedicated
on the editing and work until the wee
hours of the morning and basically drink
seven hundred C fours or gorilla mines to
get you through the weekend.
Which is what he did.
I'm certain of that.
But then this goes back to the other
thing we talked about a couple days ago.
With CrossFit handing all of the stuff off
to other people,
they have no control who gets media access
at these events and who does what.
So now you get these willy-nilly media
things being thrown out there that are
great, but if it was coordinated better...
We could get a road to the games
at NorCal,
a behind the scenes from Hilliard
Syndicate, Peter over at Madfest.
I'm just throwing names out.
That would have been wild, by the way.
I did watch him in Monday yesterday.
Holy smokes, dude.
Yeah.
It's hard to argue with their points.
Like it's really,
really like the way Monday was describing
it and the way everybody else has seemed
to be like,
or a couple of people that have confirmed
what he said.
And just look at the points on the
leaderboard.
Holy smokes.
It is hard to ignore it.
It really, really is.
From a fan perspective,
there's no reason to care too much about
any one person unless they make a name
for themselves through their own content
or whatnot.
Hence why folks follow Spiegel.
But I think that because you have
different athletes, Dan,
and this is my conversation I have with
Hiller too, is like you have T.O.
that will tell you how good he is
and he'll make his own content, right?
Then you'll have like Barry Sanders who
hands the ball to the ref and lets
everybody else say how great he is.
You have athletes out there that will
never go out and brag and make the
content themselves.
That are awesome individuals with awesome
personality who need assistance in
elevating their personality and profile.
Yeah.
So...
That's where I think there needs to be
a more organized approach.
And, and I,
and it comes back to like when stuff
is handed out the games, right?
Athletes have their own,
like Justin Medeiros has Jess,
is it Dallas?
That does his content, right?
He wants media credentials.
The mayhem crew have their own people that
do their stuff.
Because so many of the athletes have that
there's no room in the media pit.
There's no room in the warmup area.
Especially when you get to the, the,
the guys like Justin, who are,
I won't say mostly independent,
but they're not part of a giant camp,
right?
The proven people are going to have their
own team, not going to be one person,
not sending one person mayhems,
not sending one person.
they go in at least two.
And that's just adding up after a while.
So then there's no room for the
independent media that aren't attached to
a who are giving you the basically
unedited version of the of the weekend.
what's the it's the wider shot instead of
the more focused shot right yeah instead
of ctp in there following all the the
ttt athletes around right you know and
just going okay i'm watching this watching
this guy i'm watching this guy i'm
watching this guy and to hell with
everybody else because they're and and
rightly so i'm not down on them for
that because that is their athletes that's
what they're there to do but there's only
so much room to go around i disagree
with vicky
I will say on the floor in the
pit,
there should only be CrossFit media and
broadcasting.
No.
The pit is there for third-party media as
well.
The problem is you have people making
individualized content promoting
themselves.
Then you have people trying to report on
the whole thing as a whole.
Those types of news people in every sport
get access to a media pit.
Yeah.
right but like i don't think jalen brunson
has his own cameraman in the media area
at the nba finals probably not he doesn't
need one right now the floor i don't
think anybody should be on nope period
i've said that one billion times
That is my pet peeve.
Just like the guy that pulled the gun
on the person's fee,
heating up some fish in the microwave.
A hundred percent.
Well, it, it,
it becomes a problem when like at, uh,
when was that for the open announcement?
Whenever that chick almost ran,
ran into Lucy or dude, whoever that was.
I don't remember.
Lucy.
Yeah, no, I know it was Lucy.
I don't know if it was a guy
or girl.
It was a girl.
Yeah.
That was a problem.
yep that's when there's too many too many
chiefs not enough indians all right a
couple other things before we go uh jason
ainsley was named the president of the wfp
oh good on jason man i like that
dude if you've never met jason he is
a sincere humble individual and he is
sharp as a tag i really like jason
a lot
He has been the most eloquent spokesman
for WFP for the last year.
And that is a very, very smart decision.
What being president means,
I have no idea.
But he was head of global event
organization.
Yep.
And he's been promoted to president.
If you've never been to one of his
events,
and I've only been to one so far,
and that was Monster Games.
I'm going back this July.
It is well run.
It is organized.
It is on time.
It is – I mean,
you say what you want about the program,
and he puts that in Hefner's hands,
but whatever –
um but it is a high quality event
all the way through start to finish i
have nothing but good things to say about
that dude so good on him i'm happy
for him uh proof that my phone listens
to me uh i just got a notifier
that kelly baker made a post i haven't
uttered her name in weeks and there it
is yeah um
It's funny.
I went to hang out with my best
friend last night.
We were just sitting outside.
He used to be diehard CrossFit,
got a promotion.
We haven't talked really CrossFit.
I had to explain to him what WFP
was last night.
How did that go?
It was hard.
I imagine it was.
It was really, really hard.
I imagine it was.
It was a lot harder than I thought
it would have been.
Trying to explain it and like, okay,
so this happened.
Right.
And then all these elite athletes,
but now they don't have all the elite
athletes,
but it's probably a better fit for what
they should be.
Right.
They still have some of the elite
athletes,
but not as many as they had initially.
And that's probably actually a better
thing.
Like trying to explain somebody why not
having the best athletes they could
possibly have is probably actually better
for them than what they had going on.
I can't.
God bless you.
Yeah.
It just was, it was pretty interesting.
Um,
So yeah, Vicki,
what is wrong with these people is wrong
with these people.
Um, it's CrossFit,
but not really CrossFit,
but people doing CrossFit,
but not really yet.
You kind of go down that, that path,
but, but to be honest,
I would have a hard time explaining, like,
thankfully he still knows like the
CrossFit game season ish.
Yeah.
But if the person didn't know the game
season, I couldn't explain what.
Does anybody really know the game season
anymore?
It changes every year.
I can't remember where.
I think it was on the Hill or
Sousa.
They talked about that maybe we should
have the same game season two years in
a row.
Because Lydia Fish says she's never had
the same season twice.
Matt Fraser said the same thing.
And, uh, and I wrote in the chat,
like, that's fine, but please, dear God,
don't let it be this season.
We repeat.
No, let's go back and go like,
let's repeat that one.
It's better than that's for sure.
let's start with let's do the online
qualifier for the masters at the end of
all the live ones can we do that
can we start right there that'd be good
i'm not even getting into age groups dude
i'm just the elites is hard enough like
i would like the handbook like like what
what daniel's saying um for the handbook
to come out and it'd be minor changes
from last year
Like the way they could just change the
year on it,
like from twenty twenty five handbook to
twenty twenty six handbook.
And they're like,
we've added one thing in here that's
changed.
Here you go.
Moving right along.
The one thing I did appreciate is Matt
calling Hiller out that Dave probably
doesn't have as much control as you think
he does.
Oh, yeah.
And he's right.
That there are money factors,
there are board factors,
there are safety factors that have all
been thrown into the equation over the
last few years.
I cannot imagine a level of calm and
inner peace that Dave has to have to
be able to continually put out and work.
do the thing that he absolutely loves to
do that he created every year on you
know without in and to now have way
less say in how it actually ends up
going because he still has now yet you
know answering to people now because
before it was just greg and he's like
i'm sure i don't say greg greg didn't
give him carte blanche necessarily but it
was way less than what he has to
deal with now
And that to me, like,
this is my baby.
This is my thing.
This is the thing I'll spend all year
mapping out, working on this, that,
and whatever.
And in some boardroom with twelve people
who've never done a thruster in their
entire life is like,
we don't want to do it like that.
You say that,
but Greg is the one that said,
let's get rid of the media team.
Let's do a world broadcast and let's
invite someone from every country in the
world.
We're going to have a hundred and forty
individual males and a hundred and ten
individual females.
Right.
And Greg has had CEOs in the past.
He has.
That did have say in what happened.
I just think there's a whole lot more
oversight now than what there was before.
And, and Matt did also point out like,
and Dave also has to deal with permits
and venues and things that are out of
his control as well.
I really enjoy him say, join him.
I'm really enjoying him mentioning Barack
Obama Avenue every time we see him on
a video now.
Yeah.
going to come out here and just run
across barack obama and i'm like every
time he says it like it takes me
a second to realize that he's talking
about the street not barack obama with
that um i'm gonna play one video uh
we talked about it earlier in the week
about my lego addiction yes um and so
i saw this online i just wanted to
share because it's very much uh what i
am right now
This guy is hilarious.
You know what?
I now realize that Lego is a gateway
drug.
They should stand outside the Lego crack
store and give out free samples.
It's bourbon chicken or something.
You think you're going to have a little
puff.
I think you're going to have a little
bit of Lego weed.
And then two weeks go by and you're
doing heroin off of a homeless person's
chest in the back of a Costco.
You're getting hardcore shit.
Okay.
Do me a favor.
If somebody gifts you a Lego set and
you've never built Lego before,
remove that person from your life.
They don't like you.
They want you to become an addict.
They want you to become a hoarder of
instruction manuals and boxes.
You open that box and you're done.
You're going to end up like me.
I'm about to go and purchase half of
middle earth and plastic.
And then I got donkey Kong coming plastic
crack.
Son of a, you know what?
I got half of middle earth coming and
then don't dude.
I can't even imagine in plastic.
Yeah.
No, my wife would murder me.
I have enough hobbies as it is.
I don't need to add anything else to
it.
I can't imagine trying to build something.
She did the painting,
the paint by numbers thing,
but we're going to frame that,
put it up on the wall.
When she's going to do another one,
we're going to frame that one.
There's two spaces on either side of my
fireplace,
but that's just bare wall on either side.
We've been wanting to put something there,
had absolutely no idea.
Now she's going to put one of those
up, do another one,
we'll put the other one up.
But like,
I would put a Lego thing together and
she'd be like,
what are you going to do with that?
Well,
you're not putting it up on my mantle.
You're not putting it here.
You're not putting it there.
I would get a long list of you're
not doing this with it.
I'm currently working on a Dodge
Challenger Hellcat.
It's pretty damn sweet.
but mark phillips says don't go down the
mini bricks and figs star wars lego set
wormhole i tried to because i wanted to
know what the big deal was and i
have to read for work and that was
way too much reading for me to figure
out what the hell that was all about
six hundred dollars for lord of the ring
legos
Yeah, Ernie,
so tempted to drop six hundred for Lord
of the Rings Legos.
Stupidest purchase for sure, but admit,
damn, it's cool.
Hey, bro,
I talked about the other day that Iron
Man mask that comes down.
Like if I had four hundred dollars to
burn on something like that,
I would one hundred percent burn four
hundred dollars on that.
I have no problem with that.
And I don't want a my own like
real adults,
like good barbell for the gym.
And like that would get way more use
out of that.
But the Iron Man helmet is like way
cooler.
Some of these Lego sets are a car
payment now.
You speak of the Iron Man thing.
My wife is watching Parks and Rec right
now.
And there's a scene where Adam Scott is
playing.
He plays,
I got like an intern or something.
And it's a day where most of the
office goes out and does something.
And the people left behind go and it's
their day to spend money on themselves.
like some stupid purchase.
And Adam Scott,
they call him a nerd all the time
and all this stuff.
And like,
you need to spend money on yourself.
And he's like, well, I bought some socks.
You're like, no, no, no.
You've got to buy something for yourself.
And he walks out of the dressing room
in a full Batman costume.
And not like a kid's one,
like the full rubber mask, like cape,
the whole bit.
And every time he walks around the corner,
he does that flip with the cape like
Batman does.
That's outstanding.
It was so freaking funny.
Okay, last question.
If you were going to buy a Batman
suit, which Batman suit would you get?
And we can go Adam West.
We can go...
So the best suit was the worst movie.
With the nipples?
The George Clooney suit?
Oh, yeah.
I got to rub something.
I want the...
It might be the Alicia Silverstone wearing
the Batgirl that is really what is
enticing me to that one.
They put nipples on the wrong suit.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you, Joseph Ramirez.
I wouldn't want the Michael Keaton.
I can't turn my head.
I got to do like this to turn
Batman outfit with the yellow,
the bright yellow bat symbol in the middle
of it.
Vicky says,
I got my husband a Goonies Lego set.
It's funny you say that, Vicky.
We actually had a conversation yesterday
before we went on the air.
If Corey tells a story using the Goonies
as a reference and they don't get the
reference, they're cut out of his life.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
If I say, hey, you guys,
or we talk about the truffle shuffle and
you don't know what I'm talking about,
I'm not talking to you anymore.
uh christian bale's suit is iconic but the
ben affleck one is badass looking until
they put that stupid mechanical thing over
them in batman versus superman oh yeah but
i'm not that was so stupid you could
probably buy that one but holy shit i
can't imagine how expensive that one must
be like sean says i gotta rub something's
getting clipped
Somebody's going to put,
I got to rub something and then clip
me saying that they put nipples on the
wrong Batman costume,
on the wrong costume for that movie.
Yeah.
oh yeah uh batman isn't a superhero he's
a rich guy hero maybe not super come
on man dan he said it by the
league of assassins batfleck himself said
it whenever he recruited flash because
flash asked him what's your superpower
again he said i'm rich they just drove
off
But people forget he was trained in Nepal
with the League of Assassins.
And then burnt down their house.
I don't know.
That's savage, dude.
Yeah.
That is the Batman movie that gets lost
in the shuffle that is a great Batman.
It's a fantastic movie.
Batman Returns with Christian Bale,
the first one, before Dark Knight.
Before Dark Knight Rises,
that first Batman movie is epic.
That trilogy is the best superhero trilogy
of all time.
Better than anything Marvel ever put out.
Come at me.
The last one,
I feel like there was just too much
shit going on with the Bane one.
Although Tom Hardy's Bane was outstanding.
It's Batman Begins, not Returns.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Batman Returns is the second Keaton movie
where Danny DeVito is the penguin and is
driving around in a giant rubber duck,
which is priceless in and of itself.
Yeah.
OMG,
I'm just now seeing Corey's tag on the
stream.
Well,
cause Debbie was saying something this
morning about somebody, you know,
you shouldn't do a podcast high.
Like somebody,
apparently somebody was doing a CrossFit
podcast and they were clearly on drugs of
some way, same shape, form or another.
And I was like, I said,
the last thing I didn't get to get
it in before they went off.
I was like,
I got a cortisone shot in my knee
yesterday.
Does that count as being on drugs?
And I was like,
I'm not actually on drugs.
I know we talk about a bunch of
wacky shit on here from day in and
day out, but I, for sure,
and I'm assuming Scott isn't either,
we are not on drugs.
I'm on a heart pill.
Yeah.
To keep my rhythm.
Keep that rhythm in.
Yeah, that's one thing.
I'm sketchy, dude.
I barely take like ibuprofen.
I take my Thursday at night and create
it in the morning.
And that's about where it starts and ends.
I have this
I have this, tell me if I'm crazy.
So like I don't take ibuprofen unless the
pain gets really bad.
Same.
Because when I take it,
I want it to work.
Correct.
And I don't want to take it so
much that I get used to it or
tolerant to it.
Correct.
So like it is reserved for when I'm
really freaking hurting.
Yeah.
For me to take ibuprofen,
like my wife's like, what's wrong?
If I'm going to look for it,
she's like, what are you doing?
I'm getting ibuprofen out.
What's wrong?
Because I just,
and I'm scared to death to take too
much of it.
Like over time.
Because when I do take a dose,
it's usually like six hundred to eight
hundred milligrams at a time.
Because that's how bad my shit's amped up
at that point.
Just let's test that theory.
One gummy each.
I wish somebody would drug test me.
It's like the ultimate compliment for a
Masters athlete is like, oh,
you want to drug test me?
Cool.
P.S.
Scott,
I become an official Clydesdale this
weekend doing my first triathlon.
That's where the Clydesdale division
started.
That's where the name came from.
Triathlons, five Ks, marathons.
But I'll have that Clydesdale division.
I think it's going to be like the
juggernaut out there on the run.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom.
Running through people.
As you get that pee cup in the
mail this weekend.
Send me one.
Please, somebody send me one.
You're going to find maybe some leftover
ibuprofen from two days ago.
The cortisone shot.
I got my knee yesterday.
Ibuprofen and whatever's in thirds,
magnesium and whatever else.
And a whole lot of gumbo.
And no, I haven't even,
I don't even know how,
I always carry a urine sample.
Is it yours, Joseph,
or somebody else's urine sample?
Like who's urine sample are you running
around with?
I'm kind of curious at this point.
Well, if you're running around with it,
it's probably somebody else's.
Yeah.
I think it's because I always carry a
urine sample with me.
Joseph,
just remember you got to keep it warm
or they won't believe you.
Dude, there's a thing you can buy.
I know this from my old construction days.
I've seen people actually get it,
that it attaches to your leg,
and it keeps it at body temperature,
and it's right there.
So you go to pee,
and even if somebody's in the room,
they're not going to be looking directly
at you.
They're just going to be watching you do
stuff, and you pull it out.
Isn't it called the Whizinator?
I think an athlete got caught with one.
I believe that's correct.
The Whizinator.
Yeah.
which also sounds like a B movie of
some sort variety.
All right, guys,
I got to get back to work.
You knuckleheads time to get back to work
too.
We'll be with you Sunday night for Sunday
night, CrossFit talk and next week,
lunch with the Clydesdale all week.
Never know what you're going to get when
you open this box with that.
See you guys next time.
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
room to jazz me up.
I'm already jazzy.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
Talking to reps,
real life strength in the battle.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
Midday motivation every time we press
call.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
heat.
Crossfit, movies, music on repeat.
Half hour hustle, yeah,
we building that brand.
Grab a plate, shoot it,
now you're part of the fam.