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what's going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the
Clydesdale it's lunch hour
and we are here hanging out
together uh can't wait
today um man Corey Jeffrey Jody
You're the best.
You guys are here every day.
Love it, love it, love it.
Love hanging out with you guys.
We're going to talk a little
bit about Albany today,
what it has to offer,
why it's a good thing we're
going to Albany maybe.
We're going to look at some
of the WWFP or World
Fitness Project locations as well.
And then we're going to do a
little bit of CV talk.
um at the end of the show uh
wednesdays I'm going to
reserve for like my tv talk I think
Trying to come up with like a pattern,
a cadence of the week.
Like yesterday's top five
Tuesday went great.
I really enjoyed that.
What's up, Kenneth?
Corey jumping on with me,
talking about who we'd like
to have a drink with.
I actually got a couple comments.
One of the comments was we
forgot Kelsey Keel.
And I have to agree.
Kelsey Keel would be amazing
to have in a drink with.
When her and Colleen Fosh
were going after the bobsled,
I was so infatuated with that story.
I had both of them on a
couple times talking about that.
I thought that was super cool.
And...
She's just a really awesome
person to talk to.
And I believe that Kelsey
actually moved and is living in Columbus,
Ohio.
And if not yet soon,
but I don't have that definitive yet.
So maybe that is something
that potentially could really happen.
Um,
I'd love someday to have like guests
actually down here in the pod center, uh,
and hook it up and do some live shows.
Maybe we'll do that for the
masters CrossFit games.
Uh, that,
that would be really fun here in
Columbus.
Although I do live about, about, about,
about, about, about, about, about, about,
about, about, about, about, about,
If you haven't seen the
Hattie Cano video interview
from Monday night, that was awesome.
It's gotten a lot of views already.
Really, my first interview back,
it was a great one to have.
She was great to talk to,
super open and honest about
how the games went for her as a rookie.
When you have a dream and
you get there and this tragedy happens,
um what happens to your
dream how do you pivot how
do you get through that uh
we talk a lot about that we
talk about her days as a
wildfire fighter and um and
kind of how she went
through that and what they
must be going through in
california uh so we had
that make sure you check
that out um and then
sending that crossfit talk
I'm gonna put a reel out
later today from that show
because carolyn brought up
a really good point about
maybe for the online portion
of the qualification to the games,
we keep the three open
scores and add them to
however many workouts you
get for the online
semifinal or in affiliate semifinal,
and maybe combine those into one.
I'm going to make a real,
put that out today,
get your thoughts on that.
So, um,
So, yeah,
make sure to check that out on my
Instagram later today or go
back to Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
I think Holly actually chaptered that up,
so you can go right to that
topic in that episode.
Yeah, super,
super excited to be with you guys today.
Denise, good to see you.
And I cannot imagine.
It must be so scary in SoCal.
Those fires look awful and
so much devastation.
And I experienced them once
in Florida when I lived there.
We had some wildfires in the panhandle.
Yeah.
I don't want to ever be there again.
And Judy Reed says, hello.
All right.
We got the whole gang here.
Yeah,
Jay Burch is talking about the box
jumps that Carolyn did
online the other day.
I'm going to see if I can
pull those up really quick.
If you did not see it.
When I talk to Carolyn a lot,
we talk about how CrossFit
doesn't always...
doesn't always test
athleticism and that it
should be something that
you test whenever you're
doing a competition that
doesn't seem to be put in every time.
So this is something she was trying.
So we'll go ahead and show that.
Blow this up.
reverse burpee box jump and
her and I started talking
the other night like who
who in CrossFit could do
these and I think that
I think that there's a lot
of men that could probably do this.
Uh, Noah, um, Alex Smith for sure.
Um, a lot of those like very gymnastic, um,
type male athletes, but I could not, um,
Jeff J. Birch calling him
ninja box jumps.
Yeah.
That's,
that's probably more appropriate
than the reverse burpee box jump.
Um,
but yet ninja box jumps.
We were trying to think of
women that could probably do this.
And we came up with a list
of maybe Paige Semenza,
maybe Danny Spiegel,
and maybe Danielle Brandon,
because they have that like
athleticism where they
played a lot of sports younger.
But yeah,
Paige and Danielle have had back injuries,
and I'm not sure this is
the easiest thing after a back injury.
So, Corey says, I can tell you who can't.
That is me.
And Denise says,
I think I'd break my back.
Yeah.
It was so cool.
When I was in high school, like,
we all tried to do that, like,
kip up thing.
Ooh, that's a good one.
Judy Reed, Rebecca Fusilet.
Yeah, she could probably do that.
Yeah, I would give her the nod for sure.
She's very athletic, very gymnastic.
Yeah.
Maybe even an Ariel Loewen, maybe.
I don't know.
when I was in high school
this was like something as
a football team we all
tried to do we wanted to be
able to get up off the
ground uh that way um so uh
alexis johnson even though
she's retired uh sure I
would give her the nod she
probably could she's
already she's so low to the
ground anyway she doesn't
even have to keep up very far um
Ariel has cheerleading gymnastics,
so sure.
Yeah.
It'd be interesting to see.
Carolyn has gotten some
videos of people doing it.
So there are people out there.
Most of them are not names
that we recognize,
but are sending her videos
of them doing these.
So maybe it'll catch on.
Maybe it'll go a little viral,
and we'll get some more.
So...
Uh,
Denise Moore says I'm going to try it
on Friday.
If you do make sure you video it.
We want to see, we want to see if,
if we don't see it didn't happen.
Just kidding.
Uh, and Judy, yeah.
Rebecca F is a level ten gymnast.
Yeah.
I, when you said that immediately,
I thought, yeah,
she could probably do it.
So I would go with Rebecca for sure.
Yeah.
All for the Graham, Denise,
all for the Graham.
So cool.
Well, that was,
that was a fun video that
Carolyn put out.
And maybe she'll get more
videos by Sunday night and we'll,
we'll talk about it and maybe share,
share some of the other
videos of athletes who have done it.
Maybe some of the bigger
names will send her one as
well and tag her in it.
So maybe we'll talk about
that Sunday night on Sunday
night CrossFit talk.
So yeah, super pumped about that.
So yesterday,
right before we went live on this show,
it was announced that Albany,
New York is the home of the
twenty twenty five CrossFit Games.
We played the hype video
that CrossFit put out and
let you all see the
official announcement.
I've done a little bit of
digging into what Albany is, where it is.
And so I'm going to share a
couple of things with you.
Yeah.
I did an image search.
If you want to see, like,
it seems very much like a
mix of old and new.
Um,
you have like typical buildings like this,
and then you have like
buildings like this, uh,
that are very old, um, uh,
very intricate architecture.
Um,
these, you see a lot of that building,
whatever it is.
Um,
I think that is where the Capitol is
that where this like half,
half dome or partial dome is started.
Um,
they have a river that runs through the
town.
Um, and there you see kind of the skyline.
So, and again, I think this half,
whatever this is,
I think is where the Capitol resides.
Um,
and you can see the skyline
along the river there uh
there's a kind of a
nighttime view um but yeah
so that's that's albany
it's it's very much it
looks like a mixture of old
and new um but uh but
that's kind of where we're heading
I will tell you last night, I,
I booked an Airbnb.
I'm trying to get in as
quickly as possible.
I got a three bedroom Airbnb
apartment for about
fourteen hundred bucks for
Wednesday through Monday.
So I didn't think that was too bad.
In Madison,
that would probably be over two
grand for sure.
With
the pricing in Madison was
just through the roof.
So yeah.
And I guess that's the Hudson river.
We're on the Hudson river in Albany.
Um,
so when you see the pictures of the river,
that is the Hudson river
that flows all the way into
New York city.
So
I'm going to stop sharing that one.
And then I'm going to share this.
Now, this is the downtown Albany area.
And this is the census information.
You can kind of see this is
this downtown area of Albany.
the population of that area
is a hundred and one
thousand it's twenty one
point four square miles and
um but if you look at the
If you look at the metro area,
which we're going to look
at that data as well,
it's all of these little
suburbs around here, Voorheesville,
New Scotland, Sand Lake, Troy, Latham,
Cohoes.
All of those are actually
part of the metropolitan area,
which has way more
population than the one
hundred and one thousand.
So for the downtown area,
this is about as half as
big as Madison and much
smaller than Fort Worth.
When we look at the metropolitan area,
it's actually bigger than Madison.
And so when you look at that census data,
the metropolitan area that
includes all those areas we
talked about is nine
hundred and four thousand.
The metropolitan area of.
The metro, Corey, man,
you're you're messing up my groove,
making me think Friday the thirteenth.
The metropolitan area of
Madison is about six
hundred and fifty thousand.
So the metropolitan area of
Albany is nine hundred and four thousand.
Which is a little bit bigger than Madison.
So while the downtown area is smaller,
the actual metro area is
bigger and much more populated.
And I think what that has
done is made the airport a
little bit better.
We talked about that a
little bit yesterday.
So I'm going to share some
info from the airport.
Sure, I will.
There we go.
So here is some information
from the airport.
It has two runways.
That does not give me a lot of hope.
One north-south, one crosswind runway.
Average daily commercial flight arrivals,
But here is the list of
commercial airlines
available at the Albany
International Airport.
Allegiant, American, Delta.
JetBlue, Southwest, and United.
So they have all the big
hitters as well as
Southwest and JetBlue and
Allegiant for some cheaper options.
So that's not too bad for a
smaller airport to at least
have those options.
I know my friend Amanda Hari
who was looking from
Northern California to
Albany and there are direct
flights and she got one for
She got one for like for
four hundred bucks for
fifty somewhere in there.
So not too bad.
That seems to be better than
the pricing that you could
get into Madison.
When we were going to Madison,
a lot of people would fly
to Chicago and rent a car
and drive up because it was
cheaper than flying
directly into Madison.
So this seems to have a lot
more options and a lot more
direct flights than Madison did.
So.
Yeah.
So JetBlue, the dollar tree of the sky.
I have never flown JetBlue
ever in my life.
I have flown Spirit, hated it.
I've flown Southwest.
Eh, meh.
I am a name brand Delta.
I love Delta.
Delta and United.
Those are the two I like to fly.
And American if I have to.
Judy asks, would you drive?
Sorry.
If you already said I had to step away.
I have not said, um, I drove to Madison.
I looked at it at this.
It's actually more miles
from here to Albany than it
was to Madison,
but I don't have to go through Chicago.
So the time is almost identical.
Um,
so I am I would drive um
having my car there with me
with all that equipment is
such an advantage that if I
can pull it off I would
definitely definitely drive
if I could I drove to
birmingham last year I've
drove driven to all the
tennessee locations um so
yeah I anytime I can drive I will
Dude, Southwest is badass.
Delta's poop.
I have not tried Southwest
since they've changed their boarding.
I hate the cattle call.
Hate the cattle call so much.
I want my seat reserved and
I just walk to it and get in it.
When's the best time to buy
the flight coming?
I am not an expert in when to buy tickets.
I've heard like Tuesday night late.
Wednesday night late is sometimes good.
But yeah, I just keep checking.
denise says united is good
jet blue is better in
spirit yet spirit like they
they suck you in with this
cheap price and then you
have to pay for everything
and when you're taking as
much equipment as I am like
cameras and computers and
um extension cords and all
that kind of stuff I have
to I have to carry on I not
carry on I have to check
bags and man when they
start upping the check bag
fees it's just ridiculous
Jody Lynn,
I'm a two-hour drive from Albany.
That is awesome.
That's going to be fun.
You better be there, Jody.
You better be there.
Uh, Denise drove to Tempe in December.
It's so good to have your own car,
but parking at the venue every day,
it gotten, it gotten expensive.
You know, a lot of times I'll drive.
And then when I go to the venue,
I just Uber it's cheaper
than paying for parking.
Um, or I catch a ride with somebody and,
but then I have my car in
the evenings to go do stuff.
If I need to like just get
food or go to the grocery
store or anything like that.
Um,
Denise, we park street every day.
Yeah.
I know when I went with
Jamie two years ago,
we were in the parking garage and it was,
it was pretty steep.
But that was nice.
I got to ride with them in every day.
So there's that.
So that is the airport.
And then the last thing I'm
going to show for Albany is a MVP arena,
which is where the games will be held.
and this is um a picture of
the layout for monster
trucks um I thought it was
the best view that would
tell you what the games
would be like because it's
the floor open and not with
a court or a concert or
anything like that um one
thing that is not as nice
as fort worth is it's back
to the small jumbotron up
here if you can my pointer
is not showing on this but okay
a very small, um, uh,
jumbotron that the arena
actually holds more people
than either Fort worth or Madison.
Um, but it looks, it looks fairly new.
Um,
depending on where you look on the
outside,
it looks newer than in some
different angles.
Uh,
my biggest beef with Madison
was always that place was
old and it was not really
geared for sports.
It was all it,
the C some of the seats were broken.
Um,
it wasn't the most comfortable place to
sit.
Fort worth was awesome.
That arena was top notch
state of the art seats were comfortable.
Um, super nice.
Um, and, uh, yeah.
jose v yeah the jumbo tri
tron size sucks yeah in
fort worth it was a massive
jumbotron and it had inner
tvs and outer tvs so if you
were directly under it you
could look up into the
inner part of it um it was
it was massive this is back
to like the legion entered
a lion energy center in
madison with a much smaller
uh jumbotron might even be
smaller than one in madison
But the arena actually holds
about a thousand more
people than Fort Worth did.
And that was like a few
thousand more than the
Alliant Energy Center.
So this is actually getting bigger,
not smaller by going to Albany.
What is the comparison
between the floor space in
Albany versus the other two?
That I did not see.
By looking at it,
I would say that the floor
space is bigger than Alliant,
smaller than Fort Worth.
Fort worth was built to be
able to host the big rodeos.
Um, and because of that, it,
the floor looked really, really big.
And the one end was very
open where they could,
that's where they went out and ran laps,
um,
which made that very nice to be able
to run instead of like shuttle.
Um,
and that was a fun event to watch
because of that.
Uh,
But I'll do some more
research and find out like
floor size between the three.
But Fort Worth was way
bigger than the Alliant Energy Center.
This one looks to be about in between,
but we can find out.
And sometimes this bottom
row of seats that you see covered here,
sometimes you can fold those up.
and make the floor bigger,
sometimes you can't.
So I don't know if they have
the ability to do that in this case.
Of course, it's bring your own Jumbotron.
Yeah, I don't think that's possible.
Jose V might be the media pit.
True,
the media pit in Fort Worth was very...
Very small.
And then they gave media the
first two rows on the side
to sit in and you could get
shots from those areas.
So hopefully there's
something similar to that
in Albany for the media as well.
But that's that's pretty
much Albany in a nutshell.
Like I said,
we got our I got an Airbnb last night,
reserved it for about
fourteen hundred three,
three bedroom kitchenette
living room space, two bathrooms,
I think.
Um, but yeah, so really,
really excited about that,
that I was able to get that
at a much cheaper price
than I could get in, um,
in Madison for sure.
Jay Birch says from Texas,
four to five hundred on
round trip from Houston to Albany.
Yeah.
And yesterday,
Bruce Wayne got a quote at
four fifty from Miami to Albany.
I know Amanda Hari on her
channel last night was
talking about Albany and
she got a flight in the four fifty range.
So it looks like that seems
to be the going rate for a
round trip flight to Albany.
Yeah, I got lucky.
Someone gave me their seats
last day to take some good shots.
Yeah, they were great shots.
I was front row.
I got a ton of shots.
I have a ton still need editing,
but I've had been busy with other things.
So there.
So that's Albany.
If you have any questions,
shoot them to me.
I'll see what I can find out
and let you guys know in
the next few days.
But that's what I found out about Albany.
So I'm going to break up the
CrossFit talk with just my
little TV talk and TV rant for the week,
and then we'll get back
into the WFP locations,
which are very different.
I looked at the venues for
the WFP tour events.
Very different concept than
what we've seen in CrossFit,
and I'll show you some pictures of that,
and it'll give you a quick
idea as to what that is.
So season finale of Landman
happened this week.
I've been talking about it for weeks.
Jody and I are arguing about
whether a character is a wuss or not.
But beyond that,
the season finale did not disappoint.
But the one thing I do want
to say is you have an
actress like Demi Moore in
this thing who's had about
seven lines the entire season.
Finally, finally, she gets some breakout.
Then we have a new character brought in,
a new character brought in, last minute,
last seven minutes of the damn season,
and it's a legendary actor
coming in to play this role
that turns next season on its head.
if there is a next season,
they have not been officially renewed,
but I did see where they're
getting million views a week.
And just to give you perspective,
a good network TV show gets
about three to four.
Jody says, I mean,
the kid needs some muscle.
Am I right?
I mean, he is a little skinny.
I will give you that.
But Jeff says,
muscle don't make you a bad-ass.
He's wiry been fighting this
Ohio dry air for so long.
Um,
He's not easy on the eyes.
He's not easy on the eyes
because he gets the shit
kicked out of him almost every week.
So I get what you're saying.
But... But I'm so, so super excited.
And the end of the episode
ends with a stare down with
Billy Bob Thornton and a coyote.
And I've...
I've seen some interviews to
kind of figure out what
that means and what perspective is that.
Is Billy Bob the coyote or
is he the hunter?
And Billy Bob thinks that
he's the coyote and it's
him looking in the mirror.
Doesn't give anything away, Jay Birch,
but so there you go.
not giving anything away jay
birch there's way more to
the story than that um high
potential is another one of
my favorite shows watched
it last night that show
just gets better and better
every time out it does look
like they're reducing the
cast uh to just the
essentials uh which will um
will be interesting I think
that it's streamlining uh
the characters and making
it where they can develop
those a little bit better
than others and then um I
said a couple weeks ago
that I was a lover of the
diplomat season one and
season two I wasn't a big
fan of I've gotten a little
bit further and season two
is worth the watch
I will say is season one
ends with an explosive
event where you don't know
who's gonna live and who's
gonna die and the chaos
that ensues after that for
the beginning of season two
is really hard to follow
you have to be super
attentive to follow the
storyline for the first couple episodes
Once you get past that and
you download all that information,
the season two then picks
up and is better in season two.
And I knew I couldn't
remember the girl's name a
couple weeks ago when I mentioned this,
and it's Keri Russell.
Keri Russell plays the diplomat.
the whole premise of the
show is she has been a
diplomat to other areas of the world,
less refined than the UK, like Kabul,
like Afghanistan, like Iraq.
And they want, they are,
picking her to possibly be
the next vice president.
And they want to see if she
can be juiced up by making
her the ambassador to the UK.
But when she gets there,
all hell breaks loose and
she has to like jump into
action in more than just a
formal kind of way.
And she actually has to get
her hands dirty.
And so the whole process of
making her a vice president
kind of takes a back seat.
And in season two,
it's finally resurfaced again.
Like we got to get,
we have to find out if
she's the right pick or not.
so uh it's another good show
to watch and I have I have
started sons of anarchy jay
birch uh so I'm plowing
through that as fast as I
can uh when I have the time
uh but that has turned that
has me addicted now too uh
so thanks for that now
let's back to some crossfit
talk with the wfp
Um, they announced yesterday on Instagram,
uh, their full season schedule.
Uh,
I know people have been clamoring for
that.
And so on Instagram, they posted this.
If you are a signed pro athlete,
all you have to attend is
tour one tour two and the
world fitness finals.
If you are a challenger
trying to get into those
competitions and earn a pro card, uh,
you have to do the online qualifiers.
The first one will be March
nineteenth to the twenty fifth.
Registration is from January
twenty ninth to the March twenty fifth.
And then if you make it in
to the top ten or.
You make it into the
challenge challenger
competition at the event,
then that happens to our
one Grand Park Sports
campus in Indianapolis, Indiana.
So what I'm going to show
you is grand park sports
complex in Indiana,
because it is very
different than anything
that I've seen in the, uh,
CrossFit space.
So, uh, I'm going to, this was a video.
It must've stopped because
I've been on it too long.
So I'm going to refresh it
and see if we'll get her started again.
There we go.
So it does have some indoor facilities,
as you can see here.
But the majority of the park
is all outdoors,
as you'll start seeing here.
There are a ton of outdoor soccer fields.
There are a ton of
basketball courts that are
multi-sport complex,
as you can kind of see with
this drone flyover.
So my question now with the WFP is,
are these tour events going
to be inside or outside?
This will be in August in Indianapolis.
I'm sorry, May in Indianapolis.
This is actually where the
Indianapolis Colts hold
training camp as well.
So they have outdoor
football fields and indoor
football fields.
So they can do things indoor or outdoor.
So that leads to a very big question,
whether the WFP is going to
use these outdoor fields to
do their events or are they
going to use the indoor fields?
If you look at the campus map,
You'll see they have a four
hundred acre campus,
thirty one sports fields,
twenty six diamonds,
three indoor facilities.
And this is the campus here
with a lot of multipurpose
stuff in this area over
here to the left and then
to the right of the baseball diamonds.
And then up here in the
front are the indoor
facilities where they have
three different event centers.
And what makes this
interesting is then the second tour event,
which the Instagram post
has as August twenty ninth
through the thirty first is
going to be held at the
Atlanta Athletic Grounds.
And.
What it looks like.
is very similar to the
Indianapolis location.
Lots of outdoor multipurpose fields,
but they do also have some
indoor fields as well.
Forty-one pickleball courts.
Can you believe that?
Beach volleyball.
There's the indoor facilities.
Sixteen indoor basketball courts.
Fifty volleyball courts.
Performance centers.
So you can see they can hold
just about anything, even dance.
But now the questions are,
now that we've seen these locations,
are we going to get indoor
or outdoor events?
Yes.
They did have a map too,
and I don't remember how I got to it,
but I did.
Grounds maps.
Let's try that.
There we go.
So here you can see they
have a festival field over here,
like a big field.
They have these three big
indoor facilities right
here in the middle.
They have all these
multi-purpose fields down
here on the bottom.
it's going to be interesting
what is the wfp going to
use the indoor or the
outdoor stuff arizona in
august that is correct late
august it's okay jay birch
it's a dry heat yeah i
don't know it actually gives
them some flexibility they
could do some inside some outside uh
Judy,
Judy Reed says Indianapolis has some
really nice suburbs.
Even the high schools have
incredible sports facilities.
Indianapolis is great.
It's an easy drive to from here.
So I definitely,
I think I'm going to plan
on going to the first tour
event to check it out,
see what they're doing over there,
get a firsthand look as to
what's going on and kind of
how these things are going
to be laid out.
And it'll give us an idea
going forward for sure.
But yeah,
so that is some of the new
information out from the WFP.
And then, of course,
they finish up the season
with the finals in Denmark, I believe.
So I'll go ahead and share
that one last time.
Uh, so Arizona is August, to the, uh,
just to verify that Jay
Birch and then the, uh,
the world fitness finals at
the Bella center are
December eighteenth through
the and that is in Copenhagen, Denmark.
So, um,
I don't know.
Let me see if I can find
Bella Center while I'm
sitting here with you guys.
And I will share that.
Let's see if it looks like the other two.
The Bella Center Copenhagen.
It's asking me questions in
a language I don't understand.
I think it's something about cookies.
We'll try that one.
There we go.
So welcome to Copenhagen.
Trying to find.
Everything is in another language.
So they have different halls
inside auditoriums.
That was not what they used.
okay so it looks like the
bella center is definitely
inside it would definitely
be one of these inside
halls um as they don't see
uh it doesn't appear they
have anything outdoors in
copenhagen so people have
asked this and I I think
that the deal is that hey
we're giving you money
And with that money,
you can use it to pay for your travel.
You're guaranteed this money
and it takes away all that,
offsets all the cost for
the athlete for their season.
I that's my guess.
My goal is to get a couple
athletes who have signed in
the next couple of weeks on
the show and maybe get some
more details as to what
those contracts look like.
So that's what I'm hoping to
do in the next couple of weeks.
So look out for those.
But yeah.
it doesn't look like the
copenhagen bella center has
any outside um fields or uh
places to go so yeah but
anything I would just be
guessing at this point anyway
So there you go.
So we looked at Albany, New York,
where we're going for the CrossFit Games.
We looked at the World
Fitness Project and what
they're doing in Indianapolis, Arizona,
and Copenhagen to see what it looks like.
So now we know a little bit
more than we did at the
beginning of the day.
And we talked a little bit of TV,
but it's about lunchtime over.
So you know what that means.
Time to get back to work.
You hooligans talk to you next time.
Bye guys.