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what's going on everybody
it's lunchtime lunch with
the Clydesdale today we're
cooking it up some cajun so
how y'all are not bad my
brother not bad it is
graduation week at uh the
learning residence so
We had a band-based
graduation or eighth-grade
graduation or actual senior graduation?
Senior, yes, sir.
So last night was the – well, actually,
let's back that up a little
bit even further.
So Sunday was Brody's
girlfriend's graduation
party this past Sunday.
Last night was the band banquet.
Tonight is just awards,
like senior awards in general,
and then graduation itself is –
Friday.
And then Sunday's Mother's Day.
This is your second graduation of a child?
Yep.
I had to go through it once, man.
Well, it's interesting.
It's interesting.
He's a good kid.
He's a great kid.
Got a couple awards last night.
Missed out on one.
I feel like he deserves...
just for all the work he's
done over the past four
years of being in the band.
But he is getting ready to
get started being a college student.
And where's he heading?
LSU.
Come on, dude.
Go Tigers.
It wasn't even a question for him.
He enjoyed messing with my
wife because he got –
Once you start getting close,
especially if you're in an
organization like the band,
you start getting letters
from all over the place.
He would get stuff from
Northern Illinois State or whatever.
He'd be telling Jennifer,
it's where I'm going right here.
She's like, no, you're not.
Answer Meredith's question.
No, he's not going to USL.
Excuse me,
ULL or USL whenever I was there
or whenever I was in college.
No, well, he's trying.
So the golden band from
Tiger Land is not exactly
like you don't just walk on.
There is an application process, tryouts,
I guess you could say.
And it goes over the course
of a couple of different
months or whatever.
But he is one hundred
percent going to give it his best shot.
Try it out.
he said even if not even if
he doesn't make it he's
gonna try to get into like
there's percussion groups
and stuff like that like at
lsu and uh just be able to
keep working on his craft
and try again next year so
yeah my daughter um she
played in band all through
high school went to ohio
university which is not the
buckeyes it's the actual
first ohio university in the state and uh
they they have what's called
the marching one ten that
do a lot of things
yesterday um and she was
gonna try out and then
realize the commitment um
during college and decided
that her dream was to be a
photographer not to be a
saxophone player and so she
uh she decided not to to
make that commitment brody
enjoys it um and I mean all
his friends are in the band like
know for the past four years
our lives have revolved
around him marching playing
at football games marching
season and then when they
started doing concert band
and then I mean last year
they played at carnegie
hall for christ sake with a
symphonic band which was
amazing um he just the
golden man tiger land is a
big deal at tiger stadium
uh so it would be you know
it would be awesome for him
to do I mean he's not going
to be saying he's not going
to be you know
growing up to be a drummer
by any stretch of the
imagination um he's getting
the college of business as
a matter of fact yeah as
far removed from a musician
as possible but gotta have
dreams gotta have stuff to
work towards so uh speaking
about my daughter I talked
to her last night she
started a new job a week
ago and last night she was
uh shooting bees
with a camera in both video
and photography fashion.
She works for,
sells beekeeper equipment as
one of their items.
And so she went out and they
were introducing bees to a new comb
yeah and she videoed the
process um and took
pictures of the process to
reintroduce bees to a new
comb um and that's going to
be out on their website
soon okay and I was like
that's really cool that is
cool yeah so um super proud
of her uh jody asked
lunchtime how was your fast
yesterday scotter did I
miss the show no show yesterday um
My wife had surgery
yesterday and there's
people asking about it in the chat,
Meredith and Jay Burch and everyone.
So I want to say that it went great.
We were at the hospital at five a.m.
So the four a.m.
wake up call drove her to
it's actually a surgery center,
not a hospital,
which was way nicer than
the hospital we did last time.
And we were home by eleven thirty.
So I could have done the show,
but I was exhausted.
Flat out exhausted.
The surgery went so well.
All the PT she did on the
first leg has paid off on
the second leg because her
new leg from January is strong now.
And so she's able to push off.
The only thing she can't get
up on her own from is the bed.
Everything else she can get up on her own.
So I just have to help her
out of the bed at night and
in the morning.
And when she lays down to
elevate everything.
Yeah, she's doing great.
She's already moving around
faster than before.
Today,
the nerve block was supposed to be done,
but she's still doing pretty good.
I tried to stay ahead on the
pain meds yesterday so that
when the nerve block let loose today,
she would still be.
Yeah, quite so bad.
Yeah.
But she's doing awesome.
I'm betting she's back upstairs in a week.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just because of how strong
the new leg is from all the
PT she's done.
And you know, when they PT,
they just like in CrossFit, you do,
you stay balanced, right?
So you do PT on the new leg,
but they were doing the old
trashed leg too.
So when they did the surgery,
that leg is stronger taking
the new let the new knee now.
Amazing.
But just like, like Rihanna,
she's titanium now.
So, um,
And she likes to remind me that,
that she is full of titanium.
Does that say she's got two titanium?
Let me ask you something.
All bullshit aside,
going through the airport metal detector.
She has a card.
Really?
She has to carry a card.
I don't know enough people
that have shit like that.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't think it matters in
the new version where you
have to do the... But if
you go through a metal detector,
you have to... In New Orleans,
once you actually get to
the security place or whatever,
they'll pull some people
aside and just hit them
with the wand and you can
just go on through.
Generally speaking,
because there's only one security area,
there's a whole lot of people there.
That's why I was wondering.
I was like,
if she got hit with a wand, if that,
if that team's going to go off,
I guess it will.
It's metal.
It makes sense.
Yeah.
She,
there's a medical card she'll carry
that it says she has metal parts.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
But I'm glad she's moving around, dude.
That's amazing.
Good shit.
Yeah.
She's killing it, man.
It's,
weird thing is my doubt my
dog gets squirrely whenever
this happens so like he
requires more assistance
than normal but yeah yeah
no more mris for her yep
that would be pretty awful
for that magnet to rip that
right out of there I don't
think about that that
sounds terrible if you
listen you go you can watch
what she had done
online just say total knee
replacement yeah it is
archaic how they do it they
like to say cut it open
it's not laparoscopic they
cut it open cut it open no
she's cut from probably two
inches above the knee to a
lot more below the knee uh
probably four or five inches below
and uh and it's all stapled
up uh we take the bandages
off tomorrow and then we
redress it and unless it's
done leaking if it's done
leaking then she's we just
give it open air but uh yep um
Ken Walters,
always the man of interesting facts.
My wife had the first
robotic knee surgery as a
trial ten years ago.
She was back to her job in
forty eight hours.
Local local news did a before,
during and after filming it.
I'm assuming it was like not
the total replacement surgery, though.
His total replacement,
they like they cut the bone.
then and attach the then the
metal to the existing part
of the bone and some of the
video you see like a hammer
just hammer and chill just
beating on it goodness so
I'm just reading birch's
car happens to me every
time I wear these sweats
usually that I have metal
keepers on the waistband
strings I always get wanded
I used to always get the pat down.
So when I went from like
five hundred pounds to two, whatever,
I had all this like extra skin.
And every time I'd go through the detector,
I'd get pulled aside and
get the pat down.
Well, you carried underneath there.
Nothing I wasn't born with.
One time I got pulled into the back room.
get out of here yeah it was
never had that it sucked
man and then I told my wife
that um antonio and I are
now married um yeah sorry
uh he did things to me that
we haven't done in years
it's amazing how that works
um seeing I get I don't do that I got
wanted, but it was,
and like trying to figure
out what I had on me.
Like I don't think it was in my pockets.
I don't know what it's picking up.
And there's no part of me that's metal.
So I don't know what that is.
But then last year I was flying,
actually flying the MFC last fall.
And I took,
I thought I had taken
everything out of my bag
that would have set it off.
Like the metal types of my backpack.
But at the time I still had my snips and,
that I kept in there if I
need to change my rope on my jump rope.
And so like,
I'm sitting there waiting for
my bag and I see him pull
it off to the side and I'm going,
what the shit is that?
Like, what's going on?
Not thinking at all.
Lady's looking through it.
She's going through every
single pocket trying to
figure out where it's at
because it's a big bear complex bag.
It's got eight hundred pockets on it.
And she finally, she pulls out the rope,
my jump rope that I thought
I had taken out
Cause I wasn't going to need it.
And I was like, ah, that's my jump rope.
Sorry.
And then she pulled out the
snips and she goes, well, what is this?
And I said,
that's actually a tool tool to
actually work on the jump rope that I,
yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Bomb making equipment.
And then with the, if you look at it,
cause it's all called up
every time I pick it up.
Right.
So you look at that through
a fricking X-raying like, yeah,
it looks like I'm fixing to
do some dumb shit.
Yeah.
She put them back in my bag
and sent me on my way.
The rope and the cutters.
I said, yeah, that's the tool.
If the rope breaks,
I need it to cut the cable
and put anyone on.
And she just kind of giggled.
She's like, I put it back in the bag,
zipped it back up for me,
handed me my bag and went
on down to the terminal.
Back in the day, man,
I always had blender
bottles in my bag for protein shakes,
for whatever I was doing at the time,
right?
And those spring balls said
that they didn't know what
to do when that first happened.
I mean,
I got my bag pulled all the time
for those spring balls in
the blender bottles.
It's as non-dangerous as you
could possibly imagine, right?
Yeah.
All right, man.
So I want to get your opinion on this.
Yesterday I was at the
surgery center pulling up
my Instagram and I see this
and I know other people are
talking about it now.
Corey told me before we went live,
but I have not been on
anything CrossFit in twenty four hours.
So I don't know what people have said,
but I think this is it here.
Yeah.
Matt Torres sent an open
letter to CrossFit athletes
who competed in the online
semifinal event.
Starts off great.
And listen,
Matt's one of the best coaches
in the business.
His athletes are so successful.
So successful.
But this past weekend,
you put it all on the line, your hopes,
your dreams, months of relentless work,
all condensed into five
challenging workouts.
When it was over,
the questions started creeping in.
Was it enough?
Should I have trained differently?
Did I execute the right strategy?
Am I good enough?
Then just when you thought
the hard part was over,
now comes public scrutiny,
the noise from those who
don't understand the fans
that became critics,
but also cheer when you win
and swiftly turn on you on
it for a cheap laugh or a
moment of attention.
CrossFit tried to create a
system of public judging
that is supposed to be helpful,
but instead it's become a
playground for people to
behind keyboards and mics.
Those people are quick to
criticize with zero
accountability and say that
it's the best of the sport.
But here's the truth.
You guys get so effortlessly
judged and you keep showing up.
You're taking the mental and
emotional beating and you're still...
you still walk back into
work to get better.
You don't get to hide behind
a screen or a microphone.
You stand in the fire exposed and real.
Here's what I know.
You don't owe those voices a
single second of your energy.
Lean on the people who are
truly in your corner,
the ones who have seen the
tears after the toughest days,
the ones who've pushed you
to get back up and when you
wanted to quit,
the ones who tell you the
hard truth because they believe in you.
This sport isn't just about
who is the fittest.
It's about showing up when it's hard,
when it hurts,
and when things don't go your way.
You accomplished a lot this weekend.
Hold your head high.
The work continues.
Matt Torres.
So, first of all,
Masters athletes already
went through this process, right?
And they didn't have the comment section,
so it was real freewheeling
on the Masters side.
It was the straight-up Wild West, dude.
What I want to say is,
if you want to be a professional athlete,
you are going to be judged.
When I watch a Chicago Bears game,
and my number one wide
receiver drops the ball in the end zone,
damn well I'm going to be
bitching at him through the TV.
I might say something on Twitter.
I might say something on
Instagram about how poorly
that guy played.
You...
in eighty million bears fans
right it happens in hockey
it happens in baseball it
happens in tennis it
happens in golf how many
meltdowns have you seen on
the eighteenth hole of a
golf tournament and then
that person is on sports
center for a week
Scott, I am a huge soccer fan.
Huge, huge soccer fan.
They will make up a song and
sing a song about you to
you while you're still on
the field if you do some dumb stuff.
I've seen it happen.
When did professional
athletes become so soft?
Social media.
Period.
He knows that there's a real
easy solution.
Turn it off.
Or be Justin or be Matt and
keep a file of everything
that was said about you.
Make it be the fire that makes you better.
I understand.
Before social media,
Michael Jordan used to make
up stories in his head
about somebody that said
something about him or
about his mama or about
whatever was going on in the meantime.
That's a thing that happened.
Yeah.
To try to,
to try to generate something
like to make an emotional response,
to make him better on the field,
on the court.
Excuse me.
The fact of the matter is
there are standards that
are being implemented
At least take into the line,
if not trying to get over the line,
to be as competitive as you can be.
And if you're going to waver on that line,
then you've got to be
willing to take the
criticism when you don't
meet the standard.
Every time.
It just...
I saw this yesterday and it
just pissed me off.
That's what sports is about.
That's why these other
sports are popular because
people talk about them all week long.
If an NFL team screws up, listen,
the Bears screwed up a lot last year.
The botched
Hail Mary, the blocked extra or field goal,
all the stuff that they messed up,
that got talked about for
seven days afterwards.
But that's why the sport's popular.
That's why there's eighteen
shows on the Chicago Bears, plus ESPN,
plus Fox Sports.
They're still talking about
Seattle not running the ball.
And that was, what, six, seven years ago?
Yeah.
Like people are still.
It's probably like ten, fifteen years ago.
We get old.
But you know what I'm saying?
They're still talking about
stuff like that today.
Yeah.
And it's you're going to get
criticized no matter what
about whatever goes on.
Period.
End of story.
It doesn't matter if you're
a professional athlete.
If you're just at your job,
your regular everyday job,
not being a professional athlete,
if you do something stupid,
somebody's going to call you out on it.
If you do something right,
somebody might still call
you out on it because they
didn't think it was right enough.
It's a fact of life.
Let's go down through some
of these comments.
D. Reed,
considering CrossFit has certified
judges to look at videos online,
it's not surprising that
judges judge the videos.
Good point.
In the simplest terms,
the judges are judging.
Yeah,
it's like... Welcome to being called
a professional athlete.
Talk to anyone.
Exactly.
Aaron Frazier,
those closest to you should
be the ones that challenge
you and hold you accountable.
I cannot stress that part enough.
When I do anything online
that requires like the last two years,
you know,
semifinal type stuff and whatnot,
I know that the people that
are judging me in person
are there to hold me to the standards.
To make sure.
In everyday class,
if you're not meeting the
standard of a movement,
your coach should be the one telling you,
you are not doing it right.
Yeah.
You need to do better.
And I've even had a coach, which is,
I actually found this awesome, not, ooh.
But anyway,
take a video of me not doing it
right to point out to me, see,
this is where your hip crease is.
This is where it needs to be.
Yeah.
Last Saturday,
I was coaching a friend of
mine for Saturday morning class.
And he thanked me when he
was done because he was doing thrusters.
And I was like, hey, man,
I need you to slow down
because the first two,
you are riding that line.
And then once you kind of
get into your rhythm,
you actually go all the way
down and come back up.
Afterwards, he was like, thank you.
He said, once I made the correction,
I said, first of all, your feet got flat.
Now you're not on your toes.
He said, yeah.
I felt like my ass was
dragging the ground on the
bottom of every squat.
I was like, well, yeah.
Because it was.
Because you were actually
doing it correctly.
Andrew Sten says,
soccer fans are the best.
Love soccer chants during games.
By the way, welcome to Wrexham.
Season four is coming out in a week.
That story is absolutely
something off of the FIFA
video game that they've
been promoted in like, what is it?
Three consecutive years.
Don't say any spoilers, man.
And that part, no,
that part of it's on that
part of it's everywhere.
It's like part of the story now.
D Reed says do not
participate or do not
participate in online
events where you have to
submit videos for the public to judge.
Yeah.
Don't play.
Scott, I told you,
one of my goals for this
past CrossFit season was to
not end up on a Hillary video.
Period.
I did not want to go log into my YouTube,
look at my videos,
and see bats in the comment section.
We say that, but we're such a niche sport.
It's such a small amount of
the population that even sees those.
Talk about an NFL player or
a Major League Baseball
player or a soccer player
making the not top ten on ESPN.
They take the ten best
screw-ups of the week and
make a top ten list.
And everybody loves it.
Yeah.
And I am willing to bet that
most of those guys,
if they do end up on a not top ten list,
are probably laughing about
it because they can look at
it and look at themselves and go, yeah,
that was ridiculous.
I can't believe I did that.
Or, yeah, that was funny.
Ken Walters, if you're an elite athlete,
even identified as at a young age,
someone always wants you to
fail or critique you.
It was the hardest thing we
had to do as parents during
our son's success in his hockey career.
would take it a step further
I when my daughter played
soccer at eight there were
parents yelling from the
sidelines like it is just
american sports at and I
think it's even crazier in
europe um if you look at
the the things that happen
um in the soccer matches
over there but like
People,
the parents are the worst in youth
sports at judging others
and yelling and screaming
from the sidelines.
So my daughter played travel
golf three years and or two
years rather and played at
her high school all four years.
And after the first year,
I went into it assuming that.
which is probably a bad
assumption on my fault,
that if you're a parent and
your kid has been doing something,
this activity, a sport,
for like once you get to high school,
it's probably been, you know, ten,
twelve years at that point,
that you would know
something about the sport.
And I was horribly wrong
when it came to that
because they don't know
they don't they just don't
they don't know they don't
understand how the game
works they don't and this
was soccer specific right
so I'm sitting there and
I'm hearing these parents
just yell yeah kick the
ball well yeah of course
kick the ball it's soccer
you should be kicking the
ball you use your hand
that's probably a bad idea
but that's all they know they just think
kick it up and then
somebody's gonna take a
shot and that's not how it works.
Like that's, there's,
it's so much more than that.
So like after Simone's freshman year,
I had to, and me and my now ex wife,
like we had, we had a whole,
we had a whole ass
conversation where I just went,
would go and sit by myself
for the most part during her games,
because I couldn't stand the parents.
Yep.
Like it, it, it drove me that insane.
How about Spike Lee and
Reggie Miller did it during a game?
Yeah.
I think people in CrossFit
think it should be
different because the
athletes are much closer to
regular people in the gym.
People can relate to them
more than professional
athletes in other sports.
I think we're getting away from that.
These athletes don't train
in a community gym anymore.
They're training in their garages.
They're training in their own facilities.
It's getting just like I can
go out and throw the
football with Corey and I'm
not Joe Montana.
Right.
Right.
Like it, that it just isn't the same.
Well, and even if they're at an affiliate,
they're not in a class.
They're not interacting with
the average everyday CrossFitter, right?
They're on the other side of the gym.
They come in during off
hours and do all their stuff,
whatever it is,
because they don't want to
be distracted by the people in the class.
Like, you can't get fitter in a class.
It's such a false logic.
Like,
I am one of the fitter people at my gym.
and I make it a point to go
get in class at least once
a week sometimes twice
depending on what I got
going on because I love my
community and I want to go
in there and I am pushed
when somebody's in there
with me like I want to beat
everybody I want to beat
everybody in class I want
to go as far as I can well
it's kind of hard to do
that by myself sometimes
doing my own programming so
I'll go get in class I was
in class monday afternoon
as a matter of fact
And going against some, you know,
some other people that are
in there and just trying to be, you know,
trying to push on myself
because there's other people in there.
Hey, I want to beat all these dudes.
I want to beat the pants off of them.
And to think that you can't
go take a class because you're elite,
because it's somehow going
to interrupt your training
is absolute bananas to me.
Like, I don't understand that.
I understand you need to do extra that.
Of course you do.
And you probably need a
coach and you need your own
program and whatnot.
But to not be a part of your
community or any community
and then wonder why you're so soft.
Like,
I think the two things go hand in hand.
Not to change the subject too much.
And we'll come back to this whole topic.
But did you see The
Unbreakable with Trista
Smith and Nick Matthew?
No, I did not.
I haven't watched any of those.
So I'm terrible at grading
these things because I'm
very picky about what I
want in my CrossFit content.
But in that video,
and I'll talk about that
video later this week and
my thoughts on it, but in that video,
Nick Matthew talks about he
doesn't like to work out alone anymore.
He wants to work out with the class.
So he takes his programming,
and because he's the
general manager of his gym
and he does the programming,
he puts his pieces into the
class workout.
So he works out with the
classes and then do his
accessory work on the side.
But that way he gets to work
out with the class every day.
How awesome is that?
If I dropped into Nick
Matthews' gym and I am now
having to be in the class
that he's not coaching,
that he's actually in, hell yes,
I'm going against Nick Matthews.
Let's go.
Let's see what happens.
I mean, when Christian jumped in with us,
the class got really pumped up, man.
Now,
she was done with her workout like
twenty minutes before we were,
but for those ten minutes,
it was really cool.
Yeah.
You get to see somebody who
is miles above your ability
level just smashing the same,
doing the same thing you are,
which is what drove us to
being competitors in the first place.
Right.
Seeing guys do stuff that
you didn't think was
necessarily possible or
just outside of the realm
of the norm for damn sure.
Andrew Sten says,
I'm hoping to go to a
Wrexham game when I'm over
there for Rogue this year.
And Jody Lynn says, good goal.
No, it's this, Jody.
Good goal!
You need some more O's and A's.
A bunch of L's.
Yeah,
parents try to live vicariously
through their children.
Yeah.
Yeah.
and most parents are
delusional on how good
actually bad their kids are
in sports um what what I'll
say is and it's kind of
this is kind of in the
subtext of all that's going
on in the chat is I've
brought up that like this
full swing on netflix and
how it is doing promoting
the pga tour and it's
because the golfers are
letting netflix show their warts
When I see a letter like this,
that's never going to
happen in the CrossFit
space because they don't
want anybody to see
anything bad that's going
on in their life.
And that's one of my
criticisms with this unbreakable thing,
and I guess I'm – is you
have Nick Matthew, who's a single dad,
working full-time as a GM for a gym,
and he's a full-time athlete.
I want to know how do you
balance being a single dad –
with those other
responsibilities and show
me like running your daughter to school,
how you have to pick her up after school,
how you have to do none of
that got shown.
That's to me what makes it
relatable and more human.
And all they did was they
kind of focused on the
qualifier workouts for WFP.
I've seen that before.
Yeah.
And I'm not saying it wasn't done well.
I mean, it was well produced.
It told a story.
I don't think it's the lead
story that I wanted to know about,
but... I would go back to the...
Oh,
Fittest in History documentary about
Rich winning four in a row
when they showed them going
through the adoption phase,
like trying to get, you know,
his daughter for the first
time and picking them up
and like all of that stuff.
Right.
Not just, hey, he's winning.
Here's him training, montage, blah, blah,
whatever.
Like that's a well-produced documentary.
show.
He's a kid at heart.
They showed him on the four
runners and blowing stuff
up in his backyard and
doing all the stuff like a
twelve-year-old would do to
make him more relatable as a human.
I don't need to see all the
barn footage over and over again.
There's a road to the games
that I just... One quote,
he said that it was him, Matt...
I want to say Dan Bailey,
a couple of whoever other people.
And at one point he go, all right,
let's go do some bench press.
So everybody can see how bad we are at it.
That line just in,
in and of itself right there.
Like, yep.
I want to watch more of this dude.
Like,
because he's saying stuff that I
would say that's let's just
go see how terrible we actually are.
Ken Walter says Nick's gym
is here in Minnesota.
I can vouch whenever I have been there,
he works out with the classes.
That's really cool.
And he also says,
my strength coach also
trains and coaches at Nick's Box.
Jay Birch says,
I haven't seen any of those WFP videos.
Are they good?
The Laura Horvat one is awesome.
It is one of the best pieces
of content I've seen in a long time.
The Adler one is very good.
And then this one,
I don't think it's their best work.
I think of the three that are out,
the long-form documentary videos,
this one falls a little bit
behind the other two.
But the Laura one went where
nobody else has gone before.
They went back to her childhood schools.
They showed the sports she
played and why she got into
rock climbing and all of
that kind of stuff.
It was really, really cool.
Speaking of Adler, did you see...
his tongue for heavy as well.
It's insane.
And then Olivia Kerstetter said,
hold my beer.
Yeah.
Well, that was going to happen.
Um,
Yeah, Kenneth says,
I watched the Adler one
before it got taken down for copyright.
They changed it up, I guess.
And so it had more like of
him hanging out with Carolyn in the gym,
training and talking more
because they weren't
allowed to use the CrossFit footage.
So I think I didn't get to
see the original,
but I heard it was a little
bit more storytelling oriented.
the laura one though is like
what I want my documentary
to be it is a throwback to
the road to the games era
oh speaking of did you see
that they're doing road to
the games this year I did
not see that crossfit media
is doing road to the games
this year okay we'll see
I reserve judgment,
just like I see the storytelling, though.
I don't want like workout porn.
I want storytelling.
I'm with you.
I am cautiously optimistic
just because of the content
that they've been putting
out here lately and how
good it's actually been.
So I'm with you, a hundred percent.
I get it.
Like, I'm the same way.
I don't just want to see, you know,
Brooke Wells doing
muscle-ups or whatever.
Like, I don't really care about that.
We know she can do that.
That's fine.
I want to see, like, the old ones were,
you know, at their house in the morning,
making breakfast,
and they're talking about
how bad they're hurting,
whatever the case may be.
I want to see an actual story.
But I'm just excited that
they're even doing it at this point.
Because there's a void, right,
between now and then.
You're going to have WFP stuff.
You're going to have a
couple of comps and whatnot
in between here and there.
But for the most part,
there's not going to be a
whole lot of stuff to put
out CrossFit-wise,
like straight CrossFit-wise.
So good for them for, you know what,
let's do it again and see what we can do.
The lower one goes to her hometown.
Kristoff is a big part of it.
and I think that that made
her more comfortable and
more open to talk about
things and kristen added um
details to the stories
because he was the older
brother during the times
most of the stuff was going
on um it had the
storytelling that I want to
see so much um that that's
all and I don't care who
puts it out um I just I've
The best example in the chat
that I've seen is Colton
lets everybody in on everything, right?
And because of that,
he's the most popular
athlete in the sport right now.
And it's not because he wins.
It's because, and I haven't seen it yet,
from what I hear,
he actually made the Tia...
channel exciting to watch.
I have not seen it either,
but you're the second
person I've heard to say that.
He made that fun to watch.
Again, I have not watched it.
I have not given my... This
is not the Scott rating of that video.
I've just read that it made
it interesting because...
basically Tia says I know
you're the king of talking
and we're gonna go at it
and and then someone said
that Tia and Tim Paulson
had the same hairdo and I
have seen that clip is
Colton obsessed so I don't
he said he watched it and
didn't get enough Colton
but it's Colton obsessed.
Yes.
I'm not sure.
I'm not good.
That's going to be stuck in
my head for the rest of the
week at this point.
I didn't realize that
Paulson got his haircut.
He got long hair chopped.
So he has the, he has the mom do.
That's fantastic.
That is absolutely fantastic.
Now,
that is enough reason for me to go
watch right there.
A hundred percent, just to go see that.
Yeah,
I'll watch that this afternoon and
kind of give my take on it tomorrow.
And I love Tim Paulson.
Like, Paulson is just,
he never takes himself seriously.
No, which is why he's awesome.
Yeah.
Speaking of...
this is going to be a little
bit off topic as well but I
got I got it stuck in my
head now um did you have a
chance to watch dave's
weekend review I did I
actually have it on my list
okay okay good good did you
see that he said that they
are talking about in-person
qualifying events for
masters next year I did
that he has some partners
wanting to do those yeah I would
I don't normally go comment on those,
but I went ahead and
commented on that to see if
I could get him to say
something about it on his
next week's weekend review.
Did you also see him admit
that the teams didn't
really get video reviewed
and it's just an experiment
they were doing?
A hundred percent.
Why would you even say that?
Because he's Dave and he
doesn't give a shit.
I heard that and I was like,
what the hell are you talking about?
Like, why?
The only,
he's the only dude I know that
can say something like that.
And just,
and like as nonchalant as humanly
possible.
It was like, yeah,
it was more of an
experiment than anything else.
We looked at the top list,
figured those are the right
people that were supposed to get there.
And we just let it, we just let it roll.
And I was – I had it on
driving home yesterday,
like that last part of it
where he said – or whatever
part it was when he said that.
I put it in my Jeep,
and I was at a red light,
and I stopped and actually looked.
And I was like, he,
he really just said that
out loud where other people
could hear it.
Like he didn't, he'd use the.
And he said it after Hillard
already put out video
showing that people didn't
meet the standards.
Yes.
And if I made today CrossFit, I've, I'm,
I've lost my mind.
Oh, I'm screaming at this point.
Yeah.
Screaming at this point.
Sitting one point out of twentieth place.
And you did no video review.
And knowing that there's
people that's inside there
that didn't measure stuff,
didn't do stuff to standard
or whatever the case may be.
So, I mean, it's a bold strategy, cotton.
The teams didn't have video review.
They didn't have to post
their videos and they
didn't do a video review.
And they just let the scores go forward.
I am just dumbfounded.
At least in the past,
they faked like they did video review.
Right.
I know what I say, our team,
the email company team,
I know what links that they
went through to make sure
that everything they did was on point.
So like to, for them to do all that,
make sure to go through all
the extra steps, get the extra judges,
get the, I mean,
Brandon ran with them on
the eight hundred holding a
camera to make sure that, you know,
went above and beyond and
then nobody ever looked at it.
Aaron Frazier corrects me.
Thank you, Aaron, for that.
eighth eighth days and
twentieth mayhem
hendersonville is one out
at twenty one uh so yeah I
know I I I've gotten to be
not not close but closer
with the eighth day crew
because uh it's close to
where jamie lives um and
when I've gone up there for
some comps um that crew
compete at those competitions um
so yeah um just a little bit
closer with them um and we
always watch them jamie
always wants to be out
there when they're going so
but yeah um that's about
all I have for today man
that was a lot um like we
covered a bunch of ground
the only thing I've left is
just a personal thing um
while my wife was sleeping
yesterday after her surgery
I worked on my my delorean
And added a light kit.
It actually has sound and light.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
I didn't realize it had the hook on it.
Yep.
Yeah,
you can make it either that one or
the one with Mr. Fusion on the back.
Yeah.
Or the original with the plutonium.
With just the regular plutonium, yeah.
Yeah.
But it actually, like,
the sound effects make it,
when it hits ADA, this turns blue.
There it goes.
Yep.
And then everything starts blinking,
and it goes back in time.
But yeah,
it was so much harder to do the
light kit than it was to build the car.
And the lights that I'm
putting in there are like a
millimeter wide.
So you put in like tweezers?
Yeah, I use tweezers for the whole thing.
Yeah.
Now, like the blue underneath there,
that's a replacement brick.
It is a clear brick that the
LEDs are already in it and
you just replace what's there.
But like the headlights,
I had to insert the LED
into the glass bricks that are there.
Did you have to take it
apart to then put the stuff
in and put it back together?
Let me tell you something.
You got way more patients
than I've ever had in forty
eight years because there's
no way I've started several
models like when I was a
kid because I love I'm a huge car guy.
And I probably finished three of them.
I built one airplane, a B-B.
I built a fifty.
What is it?
It was a first year vet.
Fifty six.
Something like that.
Yeah, somewhere there.
Built one of those.
And then, like, I think I did, like,
a Lamborghini at one point
or something like that.
But I could, I had no patience.
So, like, and it was glued together stuff.
So, like.
Yep.
And then try to not get glue everywhere.
Nope.
So, for you to go in there and be like, oh,
yeah, I know these.
I got these LEDs that you can hardly see.
Put them in the headlight.
Bless you for that, dude.
No way.
So this is a Lego.
That is a Lego set.
It is Legos.
Calm me down.
There's something about like
clicking that the blocks
together that just give me
like this sense of peace.
Right.
And now the light kit was
less a sense of peace than
the building of the car.
I will admit.
Yeah, there was much more,
much more cursing.
And yeah,
that putting it together but
when it was done and it
looked the way it did it
was worth every bit of that
um it was such a sense of
accomplishment um the only
kind of meticulous like
that I can do that actually
like gets me in that knot
like you hand me like a
ball of string that's just
all tied up into in this
Hey, Ron,
I need you to make this back into
one string.
I'll sit there for two hours
and just figuring out how
everything's done and just
undoing it and having to go
back and redo it and whatnot.
That is about it.
But Legos,
I used to build the shit out of
Legos when I was a kid,
but I made whatever I wanted to make.
I didn't usually make what was in a box.
I just built stuff.
A whole different thing.
So, like, if I have a lot of aggression,
my calm down is to go lift
a barbell or to throw a
sandbag or whatever, right?
But sometimes I just need that, like,
that real touch kind of
point in together.
And it just, I don't know.
That's it.
It's a tactile thing that's
making you focus at that point.
Like,
the rest of the world kind of drops away.
The old glues together stuff
made a whole generation of glue sniffers.
True story.
Definitely your own, yeah.
Aaron asks, Scott,
when do you eat lunch if
you're here for your lunch?
So I work from home.
I just go upstairs and I eat
at my desk as I go back,
as long as I'm not in a meeting.
And so I either just try to figure out,
before I come down here or after,
depending on my meeting schedules,
and I just eat at my desk for that.
So Jason Bourne,
as you would guess Jason Bourne would do,
would go to a gun range to calm down.
Yeah.
He also knows how fast he
can run flat out at this
elevation before his hands
start to shake.
One point twenty one gigawatts.
That is right.
Helping.
That is flipping sweet.
I knew he'd like it because
his old Instagram handle
used to be eighty eight miles per hour.
Yeah, I think something like that.
But yeah.
Yeah.
So I. My wife works from
home and then she has
dinner or lunch waiting for
me when I go upstairs.
But with her knee surgery,
that ain't happening today.
Probably not so much today, but generally.
Yeah.
So with that, guys, time for – oh,
I didn't do a dart today.
Nope.
Yeah.
Didn't even aim.
Just tossed it.
Missed low.
Missed the board.
Went into the wall.
With that,
it's time for you knuckleheads
to get back to work.
I need to go take care of my wife.
With that,
we will see everybody tomorrow
on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.