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you part of the fam.
It's lunch time.
and a friday it's definitely friday it's
another one of those weeks where i need
this friday more than i normally need a
friday understandable it'd be like that
sometimes bro yeah damn it's it's friday
that's a lot of a's there just only
two lives saying that uh so corey and
i were talking beforehand
I have a lot of addictions.
I don't do anything like one foot in.
Yeah, no, both feet all the way.
Yeah, deep end, head first, let's go.
Make it happen.
And I've become this big F-one fan, right?
And I am literally this morning watching
practice.
We talk about practice.
We talk about practice.
Not the game.
Not the game.
Practice.
Come on.
Yeah.
And so really,
I had to get some work done.
It's a nice background noise.
You know,
it just kind of lets me know,
does my team even have a shot this
week, right?
Yeah.
So I'm watching that,
and then we were discussing that Corey
used to watch NASCAR in the eighties.
When I lived in Tallahassee, Florida,
I watched NASCAR because if you didn't,
you had nothing to talk about with anybody
at the water cooler.
So take me back to Tallahassee,
mid-nineteen nineties.
I worked for the state of Florida.
I was bored a lot,
and I would call in to try to
win radio contests.
And sure enough,
I won a Daytona five hundred package.
Oh, shit.
From the radio station.
And now, granted, I lived in Florida.
So to get to Daytona,
we're talking two hours,
two and a half hours.
Not a point.
Right.
But they had a party bus that left
at four a.m.
Hop on, go over to Daytona,
spend all day in the hot sun,
get back on the party bus, come back.
So there were people that I think came
straight from the bar to the party bus.
Oh, I guarantee that they did.
Where my wife and I were like just
getting up and we weren't really in the
mood to hang on this party bus with
people that had been going for six hours.
You weren't really in the mood at four
in the morning for woo.
So we,
we get to Daytona and we go into
the stands and we noticed like all the
front row seats, there's nobody in them.
Like, like this is great.
I can,
I get a front row seat to this
thing.
And we're, we're, I think it's turn four,
the final turn to the finish line at
Daytona.
Car comes ripping around the last,
the last turn.
And there is a pileup where cars go
airborne.
They're flipping.
It is crazy.
And this, like,
gust of dirty air and car parts comes
whipping by our face.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm like, oh,
that's why nobody's sitting here.
Got it.
Got it.
Yeah.
Got it figured out now.
that was way closer to the action than
i really ever wanted to be that's
fantastic but it was a free daytona fi
and i've i've been to daytona now you
can say you have been to the daytona
um i want new kids on the block
ticket one new kids on the block tickets
to middle school best day of my whole
life
Yeah, I won Daytona.
I won the outfield.
Oh,
I just want to use your love tonight.
Another great story.
My wife and I get there.
We're right on the stage,
like right leaning on the stage watching
them.
And the bass player did not wear
underwear.
And my wife was like,
I can see more than I need to
see.
I won survivor tickets, Molly Hatchet.
Molly Hatchet.
Holy smokes.
You were in Florida when you won Molly
Hatchet tickets.
Oh, yeah.
Because anybody north of Georgia has no
idea who Molly Hatchet is.
It is.
That's a fact.
yeah and and we were flirting with
disaster man bro southern rock extreme
molly hatchet yes lord we uh bird was
out of the nest vicky yeah a hundred
percent i'm just doing a lot of dang
there's probably a lot of dangling bits
right there and you can't help like you're
looking up so like there's this dude with
no shorts on with shorts on i'm assuming
and nothing else and you're like oh
All right, yeah, there we go.
He was wearing the runner shorts.
Better.
Yeah.
Even better.
You didn't have to actually look up.
They were just dangling right there in
front of you.
The closer to the stage you got,
the better the show was, apparently.
Jesus Christ.
Also, my wife and I,
nothing ever goes off normal.
Yeah, clearly.
Clearly.
I would say...
I would say that you won Molly Hatchett
tickets.
It's probably like a,
it's probably like a stretch saying that
you like, you know what I mean?
Like most times when you win something,
you're like, shit.
Yeah.
Somebody's like, Hey man,
you just won Molly Hatchett tickets.
And I did, I did what?
Who?
Yeah.
You ever heard a song flirting with
disaster?
Yeah.
Okay.
They're going to sing that five times in
a row and they're going to get off
stage.
Basically what's up,
how that's going to go.
I want a one thousand dollar Reebok gift
card.
Best part was I had a fifty percent
Reebok coupon,
so I got two K worth of stuff.
Wow.
Dude,
that would have made my day life week.
One hundred percent.
I don't know right now if I could.
Let's just say thousand dollars with
Reebok better than the Molly Hatchet
tickets.
Absolutely.
I'd take a thousand.
I'd take ten dollars at Reebok before I
took Molly Hatcher tickets.
That is fantastic.
That's it.
Yeah.
Thanks, Romero.
That's a lot of nanos.
Good night.
Two thousand dollars.
That's like you could probably get at
least twenty pairs of nanos at that point.
You'd never have to buy a shoe the
rest of your life.
You could go quite some time without them,
especially if you run across.
They had the pair that you wanted in
the size that you wanted.
You just get one in every color or
three in every color.
Something along those lines.
Shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You could buy a Nano for every outfit
you were wearing to the gym.
You could buy Nano shorts and a shirt
all in the same color combinations.
You could roll up looking like one of
my friends from...
The internet land that was also competing
at Magic City Games just show up all
in one color.
Just get out there on the floor all
in purple.
He's a weird dude.
Listen, dude.
You could, for the rest of your life,
rock the CrossFit box like it's two
thousand fifteen.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Or earlier.
If they brought back the Nano sixes or
the Nano fours,
I would spend two thousand dollars on on
those two things easily.
Two of my favorite,
favorite pairs of shoes.
You know, I like I like the threes,
the fours.
The nines.
And I had eights did not have nines.
I don't know.
I did have nines.
I'm lying.
The tens were complete garbage.
They did not have tens.
No, for the same reason.
Everybody I know that had tens that liked
them was because they had the rich froning
tens.
Because they had the...
Because the tongue was gusseted in.
It wasn't just the tongue that would slide
down to one side.
That was the biggest difference between
the fronings.
don't need to wear high tops to crossfit
in they are a little on the tall
side and i'll give you that like three
quarter tops when i was back was a
thing when i was in high school so
it was weird i got a free pair
for volunteering at rogue right and uh
yeah they were trash
i had my the um thirteens what are
they on currently they want i have no
idea i couldn't i haven't bought a reebok
since the nines i haven't bought a reebok
i haven't bought nanos i want to say
to twelves or probably my last pair and
then i bought
I bought some twos, which I still have.
I mean, I still have all my nanos.
And I got, I went born primitive,
and now I am in strike movements.
Speaking of rocking the box,
if you want to rock the box like
it's twenty fifteen,
you need to sleep like you did in
twenty fifteen.
Get Thursday today and you can get it
for fifteen percent off with Coach Jazzy.
I don't know.
I don't know if Vicki is ever interested
in actually doing marketing,
but she should probably look into it.
She's just saying.
She is multi-talented.
That is fantastic.
Yeah.
And the best part about Thirdsy is it's
not just a sleep aid.
It is a recovery aid as well.
So not only does it help you fall
asleep,
but it helps you recover from your workout
or your housework or your projects you got
going on.
Because Lord knows I've got plenty of
those.
Say you're building a new deck in your
backyard.
Yeah.
One piece at a time.
I love how you're Johnny Cash-ing it,
by the way.
Just one piece at a time.
We got the post up.
We'll put the hose reel on,
and then we'll work on to the next
thing.
Well, I cleared some.
So we have two hibiscus trees in the
backyard.
They have cross-pollinated and dropped
seeds,
and other hibiscus were growing in the
middle.
Yep.
What's crazy is one is purple,
one is pink.
Yep.
But the ones in the middle are white.
White, yeah.
So earlier this week, I took my sawzall,
and I took them all out.
cleared those out.
I had a vine that grabbed a hold
of one of them,
cut that out of the tree,
all that stuff.
My dog is coming back today.
And so it was all laying where my
dog goes out.
And so this morning at eight thirty a.m.,
I am cutting them up into sticks and
I have a fire pit.
Put it all in the fire pit.
Burn it.
And I know Chuck Switzer is looking down
on me from heaven going.
I'm so disappointed in you because he
taught me how to build a fire when
I was a kid and he took pride
in how he built a fire.
Right.
Boy scout, boy scout.
I didn't have time cause I was doing
it on work hours.
Yeah.
So he was like double stacking and turning
and whatnot.
I learned the pyramid technique.
Yeah.
Pyramid technique.
Right.
I don't work too.
And, uh,
and so I was in a hurry.
So it took a little motor oil, uh,
Let's get this stuff gone.
Yeah.
Fuel baby.
Give me fuel.
Give me fire.
Give me that.
Whatever you need to do to get that
shit going.
Uh, just looked at the Reebok site.
They've partnered with F forty five now.
Interesting.
I do that with empty boxes in my
fire pit.
My, my makes my hubby crazy.
dude my fire pit gets empty boxes i
got some my wife bought new bar stools
and the old ones i have yet to
burn but they are out there with the
intent that i will burn them one at
a time in the fire pit even though
it's ninety degrees outside i do not care
like they it just needs to go and
i don't i'm not putting them one at
a time into my trash can for garbage
pickup once a week that's just it seems
like way too much work so they're they're
all going to end up getting burned yeah
i do burn what i can
i'm getting to the point where i'm gonna
have to dig out the pit because yeah
too much yeah there's too much ash in
there and understandable um but yeah i
love my fire pit it's i built it
years ago when my daughter was in high
school and uh and it's a nice stone
fire pit that came out really nice and
fancy hopefully eventually i'll i'll hook
it to my current whatever the new patio
that i'm when i'm done
No, Johnny Cash.
Yep.
One piece at a time, baby.
All right.
Hey, when you self, self-build,
I guess you could say.
DIY.
DIY and your stuff, bro.
I mean, I saw Johnny build that Cadillac.
Just saying, what you got to do?
All right.
So the heart medicine they had me on
makes me sensitive to the sun and heat.
Mm-hmm.
And I can feel it so much.
And we have had feels like over a
hundred degrees this week.
Sure.
So that really limits the time I have
to execute things in the backyard,
in the blazing sun with no shade.
Sure.
So I am working on it and there
is stuff getting done,
but I'm a one man crew and I've
got that going on.
But hey, three months ago,
I couldn't do any of that shit.
hundred percent right so we're making
progress forward progress good progress i
might add yep yep and my garage is
getting really far so uh ninety degrees
outside it's a hundred and nine here no
fires allowed
Okay, yes, it's ninety degrees here,
and it's probably eighty-five percent
relative humidity.
So you can take a hundred and nine
with no moisture in there,
and I hope you enjoy it.
Yeah, we're humid,
because the feels like is over a hundred.
We're at ninety, ninety-two,
and the feels like is way up over
a hundred because of the humidity.
It's been oppressive the last couple days
here, but...
you know you we had snow for months
and i bitched about that like i remember
you couldn't leave your house so what
leave your street you gotta you gotta pick
one right pick your battles baby milwaukee
makes a battery operated fan that strong
saves me millie walkie um all right so
This morning,
I checked out Hiller's behind the scenes
of day one of the online semis because,
you know,
it is the most exciting time in the
CrossFit Games season that none of us can
see unless you want to watch Jacob Marlowe
or see a post-produced Andrew Hiller with
Alexis Raptus, Fisa Goffey,
Janice Chevery, or Josh Felix.
Yes.
No real head-to-head, no competition,
none of that stuff.
But it was a very entertaining half hour.
Feast of Goffey is hilarious.
FYI.
The oversharing that her and Alexis did in
this thing.
I was about to say,
between her and Alexis, just,
that time I pooped my pants,
and then I pooped my pants,
and then I just kind of kept happening.
The workout had five rounds,
and in three of them,
I pooped my pants.
And then Alexa's talking about the stuff
that her acupuncturist had her lighting on
fire and putting the smoke all over
herself.
And it smells like weed and looks like
weed, but it's not weed.
The best part was that she told Bethany
Flores about it,
who did it at the games and got
in trouble.
bethany said oh yeah i use that stuff
too i got in trouble with the games
because they thought i was actually
smoking weed oh yeah moxa smoke moxa yes
and androsic is in there like right there
towards the end jessica yeah which is
Dude, it's again, what he,
I love it when he does stuff like
that because they talk to him like,
and they are, yeah.
Okay.
This is just what we're going to talk
about, whatever.
And he puts it in there and apparently
they're good with it.
It's fantastic.
When apparently you need to put a dog
collar with a zapper on it on your
hand to get the buy in from them.
And then they'll tell you whatever you
want.
And I tell you whatever you want.
He was like, he's like, turn it up.
Turn it up.
How high does it go?
Yeah.
Well, they only went to seven.
It goes to a hundred.
Yeah.
Ernie guards,
I need to find me some of that
moxa stuff.
can point you towards a couple of gas
stations around here you could probably go
buy some moxa moxa i i am telling
you man i i cannot stand the smell
of weed and if that stuff smells like
weed i'd be in a lot i couldn't
use it i just couldn't don't go to
uh key west go ahead and put that
out in the air right now oh dude
that we we have hippie cities in ohio
Yellow Springs,
Ohio is nothing but a bunch of hippies.
We just,
we were walking from the restaurant to go
get the car, me and Bernard,
to go back and get the girls.
And Bernard's going, bro, where is that?
And I said, it's that dude right there.
He was four steps in front of us.
And just, I mean,
he had a joint this long.
It was just on the street,
no big deal.
And it was everywhere.
David Johnson agrees with me,
and so does Amanda.
Oh, Mr. David Johnson.
David Johnson told me I need to move
to Augusta, FYI.
Augusta, Georgia?
Yeah, where he's from.
So he and I can train together.
And go watch the Masters?
I said I forgot you live in Gulfland.
That's the only thing I know about
Augusta.
Apparently it's about the size of Baton
Rouge, according to the Google.
Read this poor man's.
Weed is the poor man's lavender.
I don't even know what that means, Jacob.
But all right.
Oh, man,
we have to close our bay doors at
the gym because the smell from the people
next door comes in our gym.
So the street that our gym is on.
Oh, go ahead.
The street that our gym is on is
a straight shot from one of the main
drags in Gonzales to basically a
residential neighborhood.
There's actually a fire station at the
very end of it.
But people walk through it all day long.
And by people, I mean...
Like people who clearly have their job is
probably smelling or selling the shit that
they smoke in because we'll be on runs
like four hundred, eight hundred,
six hundred or whatever.
And you'll pass by people at any given
point in the day and they'll come in
from like, did you smell that?
We've smelled it from people walking by
the gym while we were still in the
building.
And like they're on the street smoking it,
walking down the street like, good night,
that is terrible.
We did get a free microwave.
With popcorn already inside.
With popcorn already, unpopped.
Unpopped.
Oh my gosh.
My gym is next to a cremation place.
Had no idea until it caught on fire
because they burned someone with too much
body fat that it caught.
Lovely as it's near our running route.
That's got to be horrid.
Bruh.
Sounds terrible.
Uh, Corey,
a girl from our gym is moving to
Baton Rouge at the end of the month.
Any recommendations?
Andrew?
Yes.
Tell her not to move.
messed up vicky um let's see it's as
bad if it's baton rouge proper then i
would probably say uh either oh no not
red stick i would say um go go
crossfit good people over there and i got
a brand new uh a brand new building
that actually used to be uh i think
it was a
like a wedding reception place or whatnot,
it's ginormous.
They just redid the whole thing.
That place is good.
That place is good.
Go Athletics.
uh wedding reception place good cremation
place bad bad yeah no not the same
definitely not on the same level um if
they are moving to the baton rouge area
and they're going to be closer to us
because we're like twenty minutes from
baton rouge i would tell you to send
them directly to us so crossfit burtis
they can get coached by me and what
better draw than the cowboy
Do you understand how cool I think I
am?
He's going to make you hard to kill.
I will make you hard to kill.
She's transferring to Homa in three weeks.
Amanda, does she do CrossFit?
I can tell.
I can one hundred percent tell where to
go in Homa.
Those people are amazing and they do e-mom
company programming at that box.
So if she does CrossFit, let me know.
I can tell her where to go.
Um,
So the other thing,
because we're not a travel show,
but we just play one on TV.
As it turns out.
But I was watching some stuff and I
had something just kind of bug me.
And I know we can get negative sometimes
on this show.
And so I fully admit that we go
down paths sometimes that I'm not.
Sometimes you have to be negative.
Sometimes you have to be constructive.
Sometimes you just have to be.
But I've heard people talk about the
twenty events at the CrossFit Games and
how cool that could be.
But does that mean we're just setting
ourselves up for disappointment the
following year when it can't do that?
And I'm just thinking,
when did we lose the idea to live
in the moment?
Because we're not guaranteed a CrossFit
Games next year.
No, we're not.
Right?
And so why not look at this celebration
that's going to happen and celebrate that
we get to go and we get to
check it out and hopefully it is freaking
awesome.
If we're already worried about twenty
twenty seven and the effects it's going to
have on that,
we're sorely missing the what CrossFit's
all about.
You're missing the forest for the trees,
right?
Or you're missing the trees for the,
for the forest,
however you want to look at it.
Because if you're like a dude,
I get on a soapbox about that.
Like why,
why the thing hasn't happened yet.
And you're already worried about next
year.
That's insane thought to me.
Like, worry about what's in front of you.
That's all you need to do is worry
about what's in front of you.
The game is in a month and a
half.
We're going to celebrate your fiftieth
birthday, right?
Big landmark.
You've made it fifty years.
You're healthier than I'll get out.
Do you go, I don't know,
because that'll just make the fifty first
birthday seem so lame.
why would I want to do something cool
for my fiftieth birthday when I'm going to
have a fifty-first after that?
And then it's going to be a letdown
because my fifty-first won't be as good as
my fiftieth.
So insane, dude.
I do not... It angers me.
Irrationally so.
Well,
and I think it's more common in the
CrossFit space because we're looking for
the next shoe to drop.
And we're missing what's in front of us.
Yep.
so uh sounds like a miserable way to
live and i'm not saying these people live
that way i'm saying that they're in the
crossfit space and sometimes there's a
tendency to again look for that shoe to
drop you're over analyzing at that point
like and you're just waiting for something
you're just waiting for something and
you're just waiting for something and they
probably do live at least part of their
life like that
just being miserable just to be miserable.
It's the same people that bitch just to
be bitching.
They're not happy unless they're bitching
about something.
So let's go ahead and say that.
Oh, twenty events this year.
What are we going to do next year?
Who cares?
That is a year from now.
Any one of a number of things could
happen.
The games could go away completely.
People who don't think that's on the table
don't live in reality.
George Wang, devil's advocate.
The problem with twenty events is a lot
will be mathematically eliminated with a
lot of events left.
People get mathematically eliminated every
single year.
There were people mathematically
eliminated two events in.
In twenty twenty,
some people didn't even make it to the
ranch because they only took five people
and you got mathematically eliminated
before you even had a chance to compete
in person.
It'll be all right.
Yeah.
And the five that went were mathematically
eliminated except for Matt Fraser when he
showed up.
One hundred percent.
He had enough points to win first, second,
and third.
I need people,
I need people to understand that about,
about twenty, twenty,
he amassed enough points to win all three
podium positions.
It's insane.
Uh, and a shoop.
So some negative,
some so negative all the time,
no matter what it gets old.
I just want to be excited no matter
what,
and be that and be every bit of
that dude.
As a competitor,
I get excited every comp I'm going to,
no matter who else is there.
I don't give a shit that I competed
twice against or once, excuse me,
against whatever his name is, Jason Grubb.
I don't care that he's won six times
in a row.
I'm excited to be there and to put
myself to it.
And who knows if I'm going to get
another chance.
I get hit by a bus tomorrow.
I can break my leg and have steel
pins put in and not be able to
do half the things that I can do.
So why not appreciate it while you have
the opportunity to appreciate it?
It seems so short-sighted to me.
Listen,
we bitch about CrossFit all the time.
Releasing that there's going to be twenty
events has everybody intrigued.
everybody's talking about holy cow there's
twenty events what does that mean how is
it even possible how are they gonna pull
it off yeah that's that we have been
that they don't advertise and that they
don't get you excited about things ahead
of time and here they've done it and
people have found a way to about that
percent the same people do oh this steak
is entirely too good
medium rare how dare they yeah it's it's
it's it's absolutely insane this drink is
entirely too tasty i don't know why they
made it this good because i won't be
able to appreciate the next one as much
like that that's mind-blowing to me hey
gratitude my wife is way too hot i
don't even know what i'm gonna do with
myself when i get home because she's
entirely too attractive
And when she divorces me,
I'm going to get let down by the
next woman because there's no way she's
going to be as hot as this one.
How could she possibly do that?
That's insane to me.
It's CrossFit.
Got to bitch about something.
Yeah.
And look,
what David's saying right here is I set
expectations of myself too high to enjoy
competing until the comp is over.
I understand that.
I get that.
But up until that point,
like getting there and being there and
being in the moment and like seeing these
animals I get to compete against is
fantastic.
I absolutely love it.
Do I want to beat the brakes off
all of them?
Absolutely.
Do I get upset with myself and I
don't?
Sure.
And I let it ride off and I
get on to the next thing.
But at no point am I like,
I won't ever be able to top this.
my god what am i gonna be doing
the next one so in like i went
to a restaurant in omaha nebraska and i
had chicken and waffles for the first time
in my life in omaha nebraska in omaha
nebraska and it was one of the greatest
things i ever ever had in my life
ladies and gentlemen scott schweitzer so
from that point forward every time i tried
chicken and waffles they paled in
comparison to that one time you know but
it didn't stop me from ordering chicken
and waffles i was on the search for
another version that was as good as that
first version absolutely
And a couple of weeks ago on my
twenty ninth wedding anniversary,
we went to a place called the House
of Creole.
And I had for the first time chicken
and waffles that were as good as that
first time.
And only took you nineteen years.
Sure.
But but sometimes like the quest is the
fun part of it.
yeah right absolutely when you pr your
snatch right and then for the next couple
months you can't hit that again do you
just stop snatching or is there a pursuit
and a quest to hit it again i
had a i had a whole ass conversation
along this vein with my mental performance
coach earlier this week as a matter of
fact about
How long do I are about letting myself
actually enjoy the fact that I did a
thing?
how long i can do that like when
i as soon as as soon as in
person was announced i want to qualify for
and compete in person after quarterfinals
i'm sitting there looking at the
leaderboard looking at the leaderboard
looking at the leaderboard leaderboard
finally gets finalized okay i'm in a spot
i should be able to go compete in
person i wasn't i don't feel like i
was as excited as i should have been
or let myself be excited because it just
felt like it was
was what I said I was gonna do
and here we are and I did it
and it's I feel like this is the
same thing like your people have been
bitchin well what they only had this many
events last year they only had this many
events the year before that and now
they're like hey we're gonna have twenty
and you're like well how we're ever gonna
do what we're gonna do next year enjoy
it while it's there
Because how hard is that?
A lot of people feel twenty fourteen was
the best program games ever.
Sure.
I would argue it was twenty seventeen.
OK.
But regardless,
when you hit those like great years,
Dave doesn't stop there.
He wants to be better.
And we've talked about this in the past.
I'm sure he's handcuffed in some ways by
equipment, by budget, by location,
by all these things.
Right.
But his quest is still,
can I figure out a way to be
better than I was those two years when
I was considered great.
Yep.
So he said it himself,
this is his art form.
And he works every day at being better
at it.
So whatever that ends up looking like,
some years he nails it,
some years some things come off weird,
and he's aware of that.
And we make adjustments as needed and
still working within the confines of
whatever he's allowed basically to do or
can do.
I won't say allowed to do,
but allowed to do within the confines of
all the things you just mentioned.
Yes.
Uh, Vicki one day,
not enough tested next day,
too many tests next day,
too easy next day,
too hard Goldilocks syndrome.
I can't wait till after it's done, dude.
Cause that's going to be a lot of
that from a lot of people.
Well, day one was so easy.
And then, I mean,
day two was like just absolutely
ridiculous.
And then day three,
but there's going to be so much of
that going on instead of going,
we had events.
Yeah.
Like,
we got to see these people go through
four days and twenty events,
putting themselves well past human,
you know,
what's expected to be human limits as far
as that kind of stuff is concerned when
it comes to fitness.
And instead of going,
whether you liked it or not,
acknowledging the fact that that's an
amazing feat in and of itself,
people are going to be just like she
said.
Oh, well, day one was so stupid,
and then day two was blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
And some of that's going to be somewhat
relevant criticism.
Absolutely.
I get that part of it.
But at no point did those people just
stop and go,
this was absolutely a phenomenal
accomplishment.
Did I like all of it?
No.
But overall, what we got to see,
it's going to be ridiculous in a good
way.
Uh,
Jeff did not seem excited about the
events.
Here's the point.
Grace's is CrossFit.
Isn't doesn't care if he's excited or not,
but he talked about it.
He brought it up to Dave and questioned
it.
Yeah.
That's what they were doing with this.
We don't know if three of these events
are sixty seconds long.
Correct.
Like one could be max broad jump.
It could be anything.
And that's the fun of it.
Like everybody's speculating.
How do you fit it all in the
schedule?
How do you,
how do you not kill the athletes?
How do you, it can be done.
We just don't know how it's going to
be done.
So it's created this big,
like curiosity as to what he has up
his sleeve.
And there hasn't been a lot of that
in recent, in recent memory.
Right.
The most fun of the games was the
little leaks, the little like clues.
Yeah.
You know,
when he walked into the dinner with those
long boards, right?
But didn't say what it was going to
be used for.
People didn't know if it was a stand-up
paddleboard.
People didn't know if it was a lay-down
paddleboard.
People didn't know,
are we even going to use it?
Whenever he walked in to the dinner the
night before and was like, hey,
we're going to test you like this and
like this.
And if you feel some type of way
about it,
just tell us and we'll pull you aside
and we'll make you comfortable.
And then left.
Just left him sitting with that.
That was cool.
This is along those kinds of lines.
Like, hey, man, we're doing twenty events.
You're going to do stuff you've never seen
before.
You're going to touch and implement you've
never touched before.
I'm excited.
I really am.
This is way over the line.
John Young's hairline.
Because Jeff is a bitch,
athletes will excel.
That is the definition of an athlete.
You can handle anything thrown at them
better than anyone else.
Just because Jeff is consistently one of
the fittest men in the world.
Consistently.
He is very analytical.
Very analytical.
Very analytical.
This is his job.
This is how he makes money.
And he is going to look at things
in a way in that respect.
It doesn't make him a bitch because half
of these athletes are not going to beat
him at the games.
Not even half.
Out of the thirty,
he's going to beat twenty-five of them.
So, it is what it is.
The test of the test.
You don't get to pick it.
i don't think that and vicky's saying he's
a bit of a whiner i've known jeff
for a long time i don't think he's
a whiner i think he's just very analytical
and he doesn't get emotional like a lot
of the other athletes in this celebration
part of it and and and that was
advocate he does come off that way
I don't know.
But it comes off him.
It sounds like he's whining about stuff.
And maybe that's just how he talks.
I don't know.
I don't really care,
to be quite honest with you,
because at the end of the day,
he's going to have to do the same
twenty tests that everybody else does.
Whether he's whining about it or it sounds
like he's whining about it or not,
he's going to show up and he's going
to do them all.
just like everybody else will.
So there's that.
The only time I have seen him not
confident in himself is when he was hurt
last year.
Yeah, and that's to be expected.
Vicky comes off as a full-on bitch,
so there's that.
No, you don't.
Yeah, no.
Except for when you're fighting with me.
No, I'm just kidding.
five seconds before the show starts right
he's just a little awkward he's a good
dude underneath in my opinion dude like he
is always super friendly to me whenever i
run into him um him and caroline both
i think they're awesome people uh so yeah
so i'm gonna leave you with a couple
of fun things i found on the gram
So back in the day,
I switched to being like a five a.m.
person, right?
Well,
one of our favorite Instagram
personalities is Nerds Who Teach,
and she switched to six a.m.
And I thought this was funny.
It's day three.
Yeah, I saw that.
Day of six a.m.
CrossFit classes.
It's fine.
It's to when I go normally,
I will say there are a lot of
hours in the day after this more than
I thought there were.
I didn't know it was so much time
for activities.
What activities?
I guess I can hang out with my
kid.
Okay.
napping although before the six a.m
classes i was still napping even after
sleeping in um i don't know really fun
things like spending forty minutes just
watching different clips from the nineteen
ninety six movie the mirror has two faces
starring barbara and jeff bridges and
crying a little bit it's all in before
I couldn't fit this all in before.
When I would go to the five a.m.
class,
I could not believe like at eleven a.m.
I was like ready for bed.
It's a whole different world when you get
up before the sun and you get your
stuff done.
i'm gonna tell you from my perspective
anyway i get up when i'm doing two
days which i'm getting back to you next
week i get up and i do my
first session and i go to work and
i go and i go back and do
another session so like i've seen both
sides of it which is super exciting by
the way and you find out all the
things that are going on in the gym
it's ridiculous um
So the other thing I found is this,
and now that I've clicked on it,
I get like a new one every couple
hours.
And this is a woman that I'll just
let it play itself.
I'm making a deadlift from scratch.
The deadlift is the foundation of
weightlifting.
We're making it from scratch because you
deserve to know exactly what's in it.
We'll start by walking up to the bar
and letting our shins make contact.
Just a gentle introduction,
the bar and the shins getting acquainted.
Now we'll take our hands just outside our
legs and imagine breaking the bar in half.
A satisfying sensation of power you've
forgotten was always yours.
This activates the muscles of the upper
back and creates an exquisite tension
through the shoulders.
Finally, we brace our TVA,
our deepest abdominal muscle,
as if we're preparing for something
important.
Because we are.
Only lift what you can set down with
control.
Now that you know the basics,
we're going to add more weight.
But first,
we summon our inner beast with a primal
scream.
Look inward for something that's been
pissing you off.
You won't have to go very far,
as your deepest self is probably very
angry at something in the world.
This will help to not only relieve the
pressure and...
oh that's good stuff right there oh it's
like it's like this vetty balls uh girls
on npr on senate live teaching how to
do a deadlift in a in a era
dress in hairstyle like that is phenomenal
that's good stuff oh it's so good and
now like i said because i've clicked on
it once it's now it's in my algorithm
I heard Joseph talking on Glintons the
other day about that there's a way you
can see what your algorithm actually is on
Instagram.
Really?
And so they asked him,
what is your algorithm?
And he's like, oh, fitness and nutrition.
And I'm thinking, gosh,
I wish mine was fitness and nutrition.
Yeah.
I don't know how to look at it
specifically,
but I can tell you mine is fitness,
comedians, various comedians.
Not a lot of nutrition going on.
I'm going to be completely honest with you
here.
Random rednecks doing redneck shit.
There's a whole lot of that going on
in my stuff because I apparently look at
that a whole bunch.
But I need to go.
I need to text Joseph and get him
how to look.
Mark Phillips, just look to us.
Settings, what you see,
content preferences, your algorithm.
So I have not looked.
But I can just imagine it sitting there
going,
what the hell do we do with this
dude?
Legos, Rednecks, F-One, CrossFit,
comedians.
In between, it'll show me like,
Three different reels of three different
comedians doing a bit from their act.
And then I'll get Kobe Bryant reciting the
letter that he wrote after he tore his
Achilles.
And then it'll be something about being a
good dad.
And then it'll be some redneck doing the
twenty-four hours of lemons and talking
about it.
Like,
there's no rhyme or reason whatsoever.
And then it'll go to, like,
somebody snatching two hundred ninety five
pounds.
Like, and it's back to back like that.
It's insane, dude.
Exactly.
Algorithm ADHD.
Yeah.
One hundred percent.
Because mine is throw a bucket of
fireworks on a bonfire.
So I just read Stan's comment.
Corey, my friend,
said Virtus is the closest gym to where
she is moving,
so I'm sure she and her husband will
be showing up.
Bring it.
Love to have them.
Love to have them.
Tell them I hope they like it hot
because we got a metal building,
South Louisiana heat, and a bunch of fans,
and that's about where it stops.
Grant says, one time,
then they started hitting me with a bunch
of that stuff.
It wasn't me, man.
right yeah you got to be careful you
got to be careful click on some dude
and you watch it all the way through
that's a wrap yeah it's uh it's pretty
fun last thing i'm gonna leave you with
i i started a new i'm running out
of shows to watch like because because um
shows are only ten ten episodes a season
now yeah right eight ten six whatever so
it doesn't take you long to get through
a season
and uh we started watching ponies last
night i'm sorry what ponies yeah i got
it from grant's algorithm my little or no
no it's um it is persons of no
interest
and so so you know so it's these
two women that were married to um members
of the cia and their husbands were persons
of interest right and it's this late
seventies in fact in fact it is broadcast
in the old square not letterbox
To make it look seventies.
Make it look seventies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they, they are in the first,
this is the first part of the show.
The two husbands are killed in action and
the wives have nothing to do,
but they want to know what happened to
their husbands.
And so the,
the director of the Russian embassy thinks
that they keep getting nabbed by the KGB,
trying to like spy on people.
But,
but he comes up with this idea that
two women are,
The KGB won't even think twice because
they're women.
Because they're women.
And it's the seventies.
And so instead of being persons of
interest,
they are persons of no interest and they
think that they can infiltrate.
And I've only seen the first episode,
but I, it so far so good.
Persons.
It's actually called ponies.
Persons of no interest.
It's on Peacock.
It's on Peacock.
All right.
Wayne says this is an awesome show.
That's hilarious.
Sean in Oregon says read a book.
Listen, I am done with books.
Somebody's going to clip that.
You can book shame me all you want.
Somebody's going to clip that.
In my master's degree,
I had to read so much.
And I had to take an English course
where I had to read six novels in
six weeks.
Whoa.
And after I was done with that,
I said, I will never read again.
That's aggressive.
Six novels in six weeks.
Jeez.
Yeah.
I was like, I don't,
Jenny is one hundred percent made into a
movie.
I don't give a shit anymore.
Jenny is one hundred percent clipping
that.
I am done with books.
I am done with books.
Totally done.
Totally a useless media for this dude.
Oh, that is so good.
Yeah.
Make it into a podcast.
I'm all in.
You want to talk about no context clips?
She just needs to clip.
Scott just going, I am done with books.
And just put that out there with no
other context whatsoever.
Jacob says, in my CrossFit class,
I had to squat so much,
I will never squat again.
Come on.
That doesn't make sense.
Reading is a choice.
CrossFit and squats are essential to life.
I thought effort was a choice,
but apparently reading is a choice.
Got it.
I was not aware of that.
That's new.
That's a new one on me.
It used to be fundamental.
It is no longer fun.
Reading is not fundamental.
I don't need it.
Got it.
I am fifty six years old.
I've read a lot.
I don't need to read anymore.
Scott Switzer, ladies and gentlemen,
not an advocate of reading.
I have filled the brain to the rim.
This is all I got.
I got it.
Finish with,
I don't need new stuff in there.
Oh my word.
Aren't you reading this chat?
Chat is not reading.
That is scrolling.
That's a different thing.
Oh my God.
Give me a book.
I am not.
What is audible off the table?
I have done audible.
I will admit that.
I will let somebody else read to me.
Scott Schweitzer will be read to.
I like this.
Having fun isn't hard when you've got a
library card.
I feel like Holly wrote that for her
local library.
For those of people that don't know,
Holly is a librarian.
Makes sense.
She probably read that off of something at
the library and looked over to the side
and was like, there it is right there.
Sean says Scott's reading rainbow is
grayscale.
That is true.
Vicki, that's a secret.
Yeah, hold on.
No, no, this right here.
And that is not reading.
Yeah, Ernie's talking about,
I'm just picturing Scott reading a book
last night, shutting and be like, yep,
that's enough of that.
That was essentially,
when they handed me the diploma,
I was like,
all books are off the table.
I am done.
Yes, reading trauma.
Scott's got reading trauma.
Now, Joe,
because you can't even spell my name,
reading is still fundamental for you.
Just kidding.
Reading is fundamental.
That is fantastic.
Where is the... Someone said... Oh,
where was it at?
I lost it.
Someone said,
we all need to start sending Scott books.
right start starting mailing scott just
random books uh for you my friend uh
can you call in late for a couple
more hours of this too much fun i
wish i could but yeah so anyway pony's
a good show
I'm not reading ever again.
What did we learn today?
Ponies is a good show.
How do you know about the future when
you haven't even lived in the present?
A hundred percent.
And Scott hates books.
That is the stuff we... Oh, shoot.
If I go to the games,
I'm going to gift you a blank book.
There we go.
I'll read a blank book.
Let's send them an AOL CD.
Oh, gosh.
Thirty-six free hours.
All right, guys.
That was a fun way to...
We are now online.
Let's go.
man anyway i had a bad joke in
my head i'm gonna keep that to myself
for now maybe on a later episode it's
fine yeah this is the lunch show um
with that guys i'm gonna get back to
work time for you to get back to
work as well i won't call you knuckleheads
because i'm the one that doesn't read
anymore
With that,
I will catch you all Sunday night for
Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
And then next week, we will be back,
the cowboy and myself,
to do lunch with the Clydesdale and the
cowboy.
Then hope you all have a great weekend,
and we'll talk to you all soon.
Stay jazzy.
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 reps,
real life strength in the battle.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
Midday motivation every time you press
call.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
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CrossFit, movies, music on repeat.
Half hour hustle, yeah,
we building that brand.