Lunch with the Clydesdale - What can CrossFit Learn from the Academy Awards

Everyday we take a breath from the work day to get a break from it all and hang out with friends. Today we talk about the Academy Awards making a significant change to their rules and how CrossFit can take a cue.  We will also be taking a look at this weekends semifinal and determine who will make it to the CrossFit Games.

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what is going on everybody

it is lunchtime lunch with

the Clydesdale we are here

what's up Jody what's up

Meredith Ken Walters my man

Ken and I had a nice chat

in the spin chat last night

um I didn't know he was a

card collector from long

ago um this used to be a

man cave where I do my

podcast and that wall

used to be all signed

football mini helmets.

that I got every one signed in person.

I went and acquired the

signature from the athlete,

and then I had a bunch of

football cards from when I was a kid.

And I'm a big Chicago Bears fan.

I grew up outside of Pittsburgh,

so I had two big frames.

One of them had every Walter

Payton card ever made by Topps,

chronologically from his

rookie year to even after he retired.

And it even included a box

bottom from the nineteen

eighty four eighty five set

that was pristine.

then I had a bunch of the

seventy steelers in a frame

uh all their rookie cards

framed up in a frame um I

ended up selling all of

that stuff off uh in order

to buy a really good camera

to be able to do behind the

scenes of the masters

crossfit games to be able

to take on the road with me

uh to do different things

live from events um

And it really came down to

my daughter didn't want any

of the stuff that I had.

I'm fifty five.

I can't take it with me.

And why not go ahead and

liquidate those assets in

order to do something

that's my passion right now,

which is to do this show,

to do things at events,

things of that nature.

And so that's what I did.

And I don't regret it one bit.

But it blew me away when Ken said,

if you ever want another

rookie Walter Payton,

I got seven of them.

And that's when you know

that Ken is a hardcore card collector.

So I thought that was really cool.

But we talked about that

during the spin podcast.

And I'm sure that people did

not care at all.

Seventeen of them.

Seventeen of them.

Oh, my gosh, Ken.

That is crazy.

As a, as a poor kid from Pennsylvania,

I actually acquired my

rookie Walter Payton

through a dice game at a County fair.

There was a card collector

there selling cards.

He had a game where you paid a dollar.

You got to roll the dice.

I think it was five dice.

And whatever number you got,

you got the card that was in that slot.

And the rookie, Walter Payton,

was in the thirty slot.

And I actually rolled five sixes.

And that's how I acquired

the card for a buck.

And...

So, yeah.

And then I ended up selling

it way under value.

My gosh.

I wish I would have known

Ken was in the business.

I would have talked to him

about like maybe some

better places to sell.

But I did all my selling on

eBay and I probably sold

the rookie Peyton for like

one sixty one seventy

something like that.

Um, and I know the, the, the value of it,

book value of it is, um, gosh,

I like three hundred and something.

I think Ken, am I right?

But, uh, I didn't have anything graded,

but I did keep them and they were framed,

um, and in pristine condition from, uh,

they were framed in the eighties, uh,

and never removed from the frame.

So, yeah.

Jody Lynn says,

I will never see the number

thirty four without

thinking of Walter Payton.

I agree with you.

He is my favorite athlete of all time.

Yeah.

probably the reason I became

a bears fan was Walter Payton.

Um, when I was young,

my parents were diehard Steeler fans.

I just got sick of it and I

wanted to rebel.

And so Walter Payton was my

favorite player.

And then, um,

and then um so I just picked

the bears and that was like

the early eighties so I

then I caught the wave as

they got better and better

and ended up winning the

super bowl in and then I

was hooked for life and

then it's been a horrible

horrible fandom in the last

twenty years but hopefully

we've switched all that

around um but I man

I used to get so either

hyped or depressed

depending on how the bears

were doing when they lost

in the super bowl to the

Colts in Oh six or Oh,

I think it was Oh six.

Um, I mean, I was depressed forever.

It felt like months took me

to get over that game.

Um,

I have over two million cards,

probably about five hundred

thousand are common than

other eight thousand pieces

of memorabilia.

That is amazing.

That is amazing.

Have you ever watched?

I think it's called the

Golden Touch on Netflix, where.

The Golden Group get pieces

of memorabilia for auction.

It's it's produced by Peyton Manning.

It is.

I find it fascinating,

having been in the world of

collectibles for a while.

But I think they just got

bought out by a much bigger company.

So I'm wondering if the show

will survive or not.

Oh, my gosh.

A graded rookie ten patent

worth fifty K to seventy five K. Wow.

Yeah, and I sold mine for one sixty.

Mine wouldn't have graded a ten, though.

I'm pretty sure.

but it might have been like

an eight or a nine.

uh it is a great show it is

it's fun to watch it's fun

to watch them and how they

acquire the memorabilia to

put up for auction and the

promises they have to make

and it's not just sports

like though they there's

episodes where they find I

find a guy who has every

apple computer ever made uh

and then every iphone that

was ever made and he keeps

them in pristine condition

um like goofy stuff it's

amazing what people would

collect and I and I guess

it's like moved into purses

and like if you can find

gucci stuff or stuff like

that it um louis vuitton

and all of that is on this

show of collectibles so

it's not just um it's not

just sports collectibles

Grade nine, ten to fifteen K. Gosh, man,

don't say that.

Oh, my.

I got duped.

And Jody says, oh, my God,

that's a crazy amount of cards.

It is a crazy amount of

cards and a crazy amount of money.

What people will pay for a

piece of cardboard.

It is crazy.

Crazy.

um andrew stan or they get

duped when they x-ray a

sealed iphone that doesn't

actually have an iphone in

it I did see that episode

that that was crazy uh ken

is actually on his way uh

to look at a huge card card

collection uh and bought a

huge jersey collection last weekend

That is cool.

Now I really have to go to Minnesota.

I got to check this out.

Um, cause I would,

that would be so fun to look at.

Um,

Kat must be back from her work trip and

she just finished her workout.

So cool.

It was fun to hear Siobhan

give us some kudos and the

channel's growth this

morning and giving Kat some

kudos for her show,

but wondering if her family,

like her parents or her kids,

watch the show.

And she is so open and honest.

It is...

it's fun and then then to

know that her daughter and

her daughter's college

friends listen to the show

is freaking hilarious to me

um my wife actually brought

up the show to me today my

wife never listens to my

show and she's bringing up

stuff that cat talked about

so apparently she listens

to cat show cat's show but

not mine so there it is that's awesome

So one of the things I

wanted to talk about today

is it was recently announced.

Jody Lynn says, Kat,

you need to go on the show later, daters.

That sounds fun.

Ken says, it used to be a side hustle,

but when I lost my job in twenty twenty,

my wife was cool with

retiring and going full time.

Problem was is she thought I

would only be selling.

yeah there's a reason it's

called collectors and not

um yeah it's not called

buyers it's not it's not

called selling it's called

collecting um and

collectors have a hard time

getting rid of what they

buy that's what I learned

from these shows

Um, and I,

I'll tell you when I sold my stuff off,

I had a really hard time with it,

but at the end of the day, to me,

I had to like reconcile what,

what was I going to do with it?

I can't take it with me.

And at the end of the day,

it's just stuff.

Um, so yeah, but, but I love,

I still love looking at the stuff.

Um, I mean, as you can tell behind me,

like I love collecting stuff.

So like,

these signed CrossFit shirts

and jerseys and stuff is

really cool to me.

And I, so I still collect things,

but I just try to collect

things that are like more

important to me.

Uh,

Ken says I might be considered a

hoarder at this point.

It's a fine line there, dude.

Fine line.

Um,

So, yeah.

So,

I was reading the news and the Academy

Awards have actually changed a rule.

And you're never going to

believe what this is.

When I read it, I was like,

you've got to be kidding me.

They are just like CrossFit.

So the rule passed this year,

not for the Academy Awards

we just watched,

but for the upcoming year,

is that in order to vote on

the nominees for Best Picture, Best Actor,

Best Actress, Supporting,

all the big ones,

you actually have to have

watched the movie.

Before this year,

you could vote on all of

that stuff and never have

watched the movies.

but they have now made it a

rule that in order to vote on these,

you have to have watched the movie.

One that boggles my mind

that that was never a rule in the past.

Now let's fast forward that

to the CrossFit world when

you can judge a video

online and not even have watched it.

So we have the same rule in CrossFit.

As the Academy Awards had to

vote for best picture.

So I don't know is are we in good company?

Are we in bad company?

Now,

the Academy Awards have made that rule

change.

And Dave said on his weekend review now,

in order to give a thumbs

up or thumbs down,

you have to give a comment.

And I can't wait to see if

this weekend during the individuals,

they've made that change or

if they're waiting until

the twenty six season to do so.

I am hoping, hoping beyond hope that.

One,

I think it's going to make life a

whole lot easier for

CrossFit when you get legit

thumbs up and thumbs down

because they have to give a

comment as to why.

It will allow them to sort

through the rubble that is

the no rep accusations much

quicker when you actually

see a reason and people

just can't go in there and hit a button.

think we all are clamoring

for this and thankfully it

looks like crossfit is

listening I just want to

see how fast they're going

to react to it so but

apparently it took the

academy awards about a

hundred years to decide

that they wanted people to

watch the movie that they

were voting for best picture

And as I've told you,

of movies I've seen this

year that were nominated,

the one that won is not

what I would have picked

for best picture.

And it makes me question the

validity of a best picture

when the voters didn't even

have to watch the movie to vote for it.

Because the premise...

I think it was Anon.

I don't even remember the

name of the movie anymore.

The premise I liked,

the execution of the movie was not good,

in my opinion.

Where something like A Complete Unknown,

I thought was executed much

better for what it was.

Anora.

Thank you, Jay Birch.

Anora.

Yeah,

Anora was not executed at a level

that satisfied me.

So where A Complete Unknown

was artistically done very,

very well and gave a good

impression of what those

early years of Bob Dylan

would have been like.

And I really enjoyed that movie much,

much more.

so so yeah so and I think

that crossfit now can take

a step forward and

hopefully let's see this

weekend that happen so uh I

also filled out my heat app

for the weekend um two's gonna qualify

so I'm going to reveal what

those are it's hard eleven

is not very many spots so

when we look at the um

women's division I've gone

in the heat one app and I

encourage you guys to do

the same thing I try to

beat my picks as you can

see I made my heat one app

picks right there uh I have

ariel lowen taking first

alex kazan taking second

Alexis Raptus, third.

Danielle Brandon, fourth.

Olivia Kerstetter, fifth.

Annika Greer, sixth.

Amy Kringle, seventh.

Paige Semenza, eighth.

Miriam Von Rohr, ninth.

Emily Rolfe, tenth.

And Carolyn Prevost in eleventh.

I have missing out notables Grace Walton,

Brooke Wells, Haley Adams, Maddie Sturt.

I don't think Tia Toomey is doing it.

Claudia Gluck.

Shelby Neal, Hattie Cano.

So that's who I have for my women.

On the men's side, I have Adler first,

Dallin Pepper second, Hopper third,

Ricky Garrard fourth, Jay Crouch fifth,

Justin Madera sixth,

Bailey Martin seventh, Sam Kwan eighth,

BKG ninth, James Sprague tenth,

and Jack Rosema eleventh.

missing is yonikoski uh

anola kai luke parker

george sterner travis

mayard uh chris ibarra and

I don't think rich froning

is going to do the workout

so I did not pick him

either if he did them I

probably would pick them

pick him but I don't think he is

So those are my eleven on the men's side.

Adler, Pepper, Hopper, Gerrard, Crouch,

Medeiros, Martin, Quant, BKG, Sprague,

and Rosema.

And on the women's side, Lohan, Gazan,

Raptus, Brandon, Kerstetter, Greer,

Kringle, Zemenza, Rohr, Rolfe,

and Prevost.

So those are my picks for the top eleven.

So join in and try to try to beat me.

Did you see the Apollo one

hundred rankings?

I did not.

And those are Barkley's

Barkley Dale's rankings.

I have I like Barkley.

I like Barkley a lot.

And I think numbers are important.

But I think sometimes

Barkley's position is the

numbers are more important

than what you see in performance.

And I'm not sure of the

weight of the event,

depending on when it

happens during the season.

And so he's made claims on

some shows that I

completely disagree with.

So I guess I haven't dove

into like his stuff yet and

maybe I need to, um,

over the course of the next few days,

just kind of see what he has out there.

Um,

I'd love to see what the makeup of it.

So hopefully I can kind of

do some research on all of

that in the coming days.

I have to head home to

Pennsylvania this weekend

to celebrate my mom's birthday.

It's actually today.

So happy birthday to Mama Schweitzer.

She turns eighty today.

She is an inspiration to so many people.

My mom was completely out of

shape a few years ago.

Um, and struggled to get around.

She lost a hundred and fifty

pounds and ended up doing

five K after five K after

five K started doing some four milers.

Um,

she's probably done fifty or sixty of

those.

Um, since then, um,

she lives in a small town

where there is no CrossFit,

but every time she would come to visit,

she would drop in and do CrossFit with,

with us here.

Um.

she's just such an

inspiration and uh so glad

to have her in my life and

um she is she's an amazing

amazing woman so happy

eightieth birthday to my

mom and we are headed home

to see her this weekend and

throw a party for her on

saturday and then I'll be

back hopefully in time well

I will be back in time to

do the sunday night show um so

Uh, that'll, that'll be the weekend.

And then my wife goes in for

her second knee surgery on Tuesday.

So yeah, it should be fun.

That not fun.

Uh, but we'll, we'll get through it.

And then once she gets through this one,

we'll be able to go do some stuff.

Um, together as a family and like maybe,

uh,

go to Montana to see our

daughter and actually hike

up into the mountains and

different things like that.

Now that she's going to be

all repaired and ready to go.

Uh, Meredith.

Wow.

That's incredible.

Congrats to your mom.

She is an incredible woman.

That's awesome.

Happy birthday.

Jay Burch's mother-in-law's

birthday is today as well.

And Ken Walters.

Hell yeah.

Mama Switzer.

That's some boss stuff.

It is.

So, um,

can I get so tired of people saying

I'm too old to start that stuff?

You're right.

I mean, my mom was in her,

when she started that she

would have been mid sixties.

So, sixty five,

probably when she started

her fitness journey.

And here she is at eighty,

still going strong.

We had the stroke a couple of weeks ago,

but she's bounced back from that.

She's back to doing her

thing like nothing ever happened,

just on a blood thinner to

make sure it doesn't happen again.

So there's that.

What else?

There were some Q&As that came out.

The Barbell Spin posted

about the in-person or

in-affiliate semifinals this weekend.

They allowed the athletes to ask questions,

and they answered the

frequently asked ones back

in written form.

And so two, I want to highlight,

the barbell spin has

highlighted these as well.

Can you explain the backfill

process between the

in-affiliate semis and

in-person qualifying events?

And where this gets tricky

is the in-person affiliate

events are this weekend,

yet the leaderboard does

not finalize until May,

so that's where things get tricky.

so the french throwdown

which is held from may

ninth to the eleventh and

the fittest experience from

may sixteenth to the

eighteenth actually come

first chronologically in

getting spots to the games

so if you go to tfx and you

get one of the spots to the

games and then the in

affiliate semi-final you

finish in the top eleven

your spot will be backfilled

in the in-affiliate

semifinal because that

leaderboard came after TFX.

So if you are an athlete who

gets their spot either at

the French Throwdown or at

the Fittest Experience,

that is where your

qualifying event will be.

And then if it turns out you

finished in the top eleven

in the affiliate semifinal,

that spot will get

backfilled because before

the leaderboard finalized,

you already got your spot to the games.

I hope that makes sense.

Because, yeah,

that that can be a little bit confusing.

And like I said to Carolyn this morning,

I get the concept.

But man,

it's just another thing we have to

explain in this process of this season.

And I think that that makes

things way harder for us to

grow the sport, the methodology,

everything because of all of that.

The other big question was

that overhead walking ledge

with the dumbbells and them

not being able to touch.

And the question was

actually asked during the

overhead walking lunges,

if the dumbbells make

contact with each other accidentally,

is it a no rep?

And the answer from CrossFit was no.

As long as the dumbbells are

not held together,

brief incidental contact

will not be penalized.

Brief incidental contact is

when the dumbbells make

contact either with one or

both heads and then are separated.

If the dumbbells remain touching,

the reps will not count.

So that's been a big

question because the

standard and the overhead

walking dumbbell lunge is

the dumbbells can't come together.

Well, they can come together like that,

but they can't come together and hold.

So I'm trying to get it

where you can see it,

but they can come together.

They can come together and

bounce and that's fine.

If they come together and hold no good.

So those were the two big

questions going into the weekend.

I'm glad that CrossFit in

writing has answered those

so that everybody is on the same page.

And I believe they get to

start the workouts today, um,

five PM maybe.

Um, I don't know.

That's usually when stuff happens.

But the workouts were out

earlier this weekend.

They got the answers to these questions,

and it starts sometime

today where they'll be able

to go ahead and start

putting some stuff together.

I thought...

And then yesterday we talked

about Metfix a little bit

and Greg did talk about it

somewhat yesterday on the Savant show.

I went back to listen to

that after I was advised by

people in the chat that

Greg had talked about

Metfix and the competition stuff.

And I get it.

I think he believes,

this is my summation of what he said.

I think he believes that

CrossFit has lost its way

as being a health and fitness company.

And it's geared more now

towards the sport than it

is to the health and

wellness of the everyday

athlete and the affiliate goer.

And what MedFix is trying to

do is fill that gap

that CrossFit has lost his way on.

And Greg even said that he

believes it started to lose

its way under his direction,

under his ownership.

Um, and so he wasn't blaming anybody else.

I think he was just,

he was blaming everybody

involved that he let it get out of it,

out of

let it lose its way and lose

and get off track.

And I think now he has just,

he has tried this med fix

is trying to get everything

back on track as to where

it was at one time.

And if you look at the website for med fix,

it's very obvious that they

are trying very hard to align the,

mind body and um and

wellness with um the belly

part um and I think that

there's no mention of sport

on the medfix website it is

all about everyday gym

goers getting healthy and

fit again um and I think

the way he said it was uh

pretty well done yesterday so

Yeah, it was a good listen.

I had to run a couple

errands yesterday afternoon

and that part of the

interview filled my time

enough to go do all of those.

So that was pretty nice.

And thank you, Aaron Frazier,

for pointing me in that

direction because it did

answer some of the

questions I had yesterday.

So I think with that,

that's about all I have.

I did not throw my dart today.

here we go and I didn't even

aim and you can tell

because I missed the

dartboard altogether but I

did hit the cork board

around the dartboard so

there it is pretty big dud

to end the week on I'm not

even ending the week we

have one more day to go tomorrow

But with that, that's my show for today.

I've got to get back to work.

You knuckleheads get back to work,

and we'll see everybody

tomorrow on Lunch with the Clydesdale.

Bye, guys.