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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
Apparently,
Corey thinks his kids are more important
than me in this show.
But we're going to have fun anyway.
I love the chase and the hunt and
I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I want and I
always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to break up so I can
make a better me.
It's lunch time.
what is going on everybody welcome to
lunch with the Clydesdale it's Clydesdale
right riding solo again today um so what's
going on I love this uh Mike DeVito
the stable is filling in yeah getting
ready for the start of the race
Quarterfinals go down at three p.m.
Eastern time today, noon Pacific.
If you're one of those people in the
central time zone, that's two p.m.
for you.
So there we go.
Daniel Arnson says Corey's finishing up
the workouts.
I'm telling you.
Well,
his story is that his kid had a
luncheon today at school,
like an Easter luncheon,
and he had to be in attendance for
that.
So... That's where he is today.
So, yeah.
So I...
struggling a little bit today guys
honestly like i already have quarterfinal
burnout and the workouts have not started
yet they don't start for another couple
hours and i'm already like i'm i'm already
like over it
I tuned into the Mayhem podcast this
morning, the Rich Froning podcast,
and it's all the same arguments.
It's all the same beef.
It's all the same stuff.
And I know that I'm part of this
media space, and we had our say too.
But good gravy, like,
are we ruining the sport?
by always being so critical of it.
And this goes back to the essay I
got last week and how newbies can kind
of feel like maybe they're not in the
open like everybody else, like we had,
because we're always bitching about it.
And it just feels like all week has
been bitching about quarterfinals,
bitching about quarterfinals.
And I'm just over it already.
It's only Thursday.
I just want to see some workouts,
which it looks like we're going to get
to see some this weekend.
I want to see scores.
I want to see what people can do.
I want to see amazing things that can
happen.
So it's...
I don't know.
Like, I feel like...
I feel like in other sports,
there's enough positive stuff talked
about.
Like the NFL,
you have one game a week,
and you have six days to talk about
it.
And yeah,
there's a lot of negativity about what
your team can or can't do,
but there's also positivity about the hope
and what they could do to win the
game coming up.
And it just seems like with CrossFit,
we're really focusing on how bad the
workouts are, how bad this is,
and not that there's these amazing
athletes that are going to crush this
workout or there's these amazing people
that are going to crush this one.
Who could come out of nowhere to kill
this workout?
Again, I said it two days ago.
It got featured on Dense Updates this
morning.
So thank you, Jenny, for that.
in all sports,
you are laid out in front of you
a season and you have to take on
whatever comes.
And in a lot of those sports,
you have to take on a different player,
a different team,
a different weather condition,
a different whatever.
And,
and then that season is based on how
you did based on who you faced,
what you faced during that week,
that year.
And so this year,
these are the workouts that CrossFit HQ
has put in front of you.
These are the workouts you have to do.
And it's now time to see,
are you prepared for whatever tests are
thrown at you this year?
And that can change next year.
And it may have been different in the
past.
But this year,
this is what is being thrown at you.
Are you prepared to do your best to
get to the end?
That's the essence of what CrossFit is.
It's the essence of what everyday workouts
are.
You don't know what the workout is going
into the week, generally,
unless you're a coach or a programmer.
You go to the gym,
you see something in front of you,
and you take it on.
So there it is.
I'm Mike DeVito.
I like the quarterfinal workouts.
Just do the workouts they throw at you.
If you are the fittest around,
you will advance.
Why do we bitch so much about this
as a community?
Well,
I think there is something innate about
when you go to the gym and there's
a workout on the board and you're like,
holy shit, that's going to be hard.
And then you go through it and you
commiserate together in this suffering and
what you took on.
And it's realistic to be like, wow,
that was a lot of thrusters or wow,
why did they do this?
But the pre-stuff,
the pre-stuff leading up to it is...
If they release the workouts,
then at least let them do the workouts
so we can see some results.
We can talk about performances,
things like that.
A week of just complaining about what was
released is... Man,
it's been a lot this week.
So...
If you have to rely on something super
heavy or super high skill to advance over
the field,
then you aren't as fit as you think.
Mike,
I am truly okay with if there's a
year where they decide we're going to add
and make it a little bit heavier.
That year, are you prepared for that?
And whoever takes on that gauntlet of that
year deserves the championship.
It's what was thrown at them.
If they decide to go no barbells and
all dumbbells like the year in twenty
seventeen,
I think it was where it was all
dumbbells throughout the open and the
regionals.
You didn't even see a barbell until late
into the games that season.
I'm OK with that.
It's whatever test is thrown at you.
Are you prepared for that test?
Curious if this would be the same case
for Xenon.
I think we have to see Xenon executed
before we can make any comparisons between
CrossFit's.
Twenty year history of a sport and
something that hasn't even run its first
event.
So that that is what it is.
Larry young Mike I agree,
but if that knocks you out,
are you really that fit.
But I do agree,
this is the test it's what we have.
The first thing in the box each day
this week is getting fatiguing.
All I hear is how bad quarterfinals are
or they should do this.
It's not that never knew we had so
many games programmers and our scaled
athletes.
Yeah, it's become the thing to do.
It's just become the thing to do.
Mike DeVito agrees with me.
I like when people agree with me.
I like when people don't agree with me.
So then Joseph brings this up and I
wanted to talk about this a little bit
more at length too.
Apparently we have a lot of athletes that
are going to film live stream their
workouts this weekend.
It appears that the boys interrupted are
going to do all four of their workouts
on a live stream.
It appears that Fisa Goffey and Alexis
Raptus are going to do all their workouts
live streamed with Girls Unfiltered.
And that airs tonight.
We'll get to see more about that whenever
their podcast launches.
So that sounds cool.
But I want to give a huge shout
out to the Glintons.
One thing that made the Open super special
for me this year was the fact that
I could wake up on a Saturday morning
and I could turn on YouTube and there's
Joseph Ramirez doing the Open workout live
streamed.
Joseph isn't a games athlete.
Joseph's just an average Joe like the rest
of us.
Out there putting it on the line,
giving his all, miscounting reps,
doing the wrong rep scheme,
but he's still out there giving it his
all.
And I love the fact that they did
that with him and Will Plummer and Meg
and Colleen.
And we got to see like a glimpse
of that.
For someone like me who currently is not
associated with an affiliate because of
the medical things I'm going through,
it gave me that touch,
that feel of being back an affiliate and
rooting for people that I know.
Rooting for the people in our chat who
come in here every day and I got
to root for Joseph on Saturday mornings or
got to root for Colleen or got to
root for Will Plummer on a Monday.
Like that was fun.
The fact that they opened up their
platform to do that was such a cool
idea,
and they deserve all the kudos in the
world.
Truly.
Truly.
Jake says, honestly,
I haven't heard a single complaint at the
gym.
It's only online.
You see,
I'm not in a gym right now,
so I don't know what's happening at the
gym.
when I did the noon class at Polaris,
the people there, they watched the sport.
They, you know,
because Christie owned the gym at the
time, they knew about the sport,
all that stuff, but it wasn't,
it wasn't like it was all consuming.
And yes,
I know us in the chats and in
doing the podcasts and doing all the stuff
we, we talk about it all the time.
Cause that's what we do.
And we're kind of in it, but,
Mark Phillips, Joseph Ramirez right now,
one K signed up in your group.
So, forty percent advance, good odds.
It just has to make sure he does
everything in the right order this time,
so he doesn't have to redo a workout
on a four-workout weekend.
Jody's working hard.
Joseph,
I guess I'll never live that one down.
You won't, but hey,
you got to be known for something, right?
Shanna Bunce,
congrats to Christy on her pregnancy too.
Yeah, that's awesome.
They moved to Oregon after they left the
gym.
So it's, you don't really get,
I haven't seen them in a long time.
So I see what you guys see now.
And it's really cool.
I know that that was a big part
of why she stepped away from CrossFit is
they wanted to start a family.
And that whole like Aramo O'Connell
family, they all worked out at the gym.
Her sister was there with her kids.
Her mom and dad worked out there.
Um, it's a big family thing.
And so the fact that she got to
expand her family or gets to expand her
family and that they are going to have
their first child is super awesome.
And I could not be happier for them.
Yeah, that is a good point,
Daniel on workout too.
Uh, Joseph, you don't have to,
you can do it however you want.
You don't even have to follow anything.
So you're safe on that one.
Maybe,
maybe start with that one just to get
you in the groove.
So yeah, huge shout out to the gluttons.
I love what they're doing over there on
the channel.
Um,
I love that they were doing this for
the community and the community could sign
in and do their workouts live online.
I think that was a really special thing
that they did.
So with that,
there should be plenty of options.
I know on the podcast with Chase...
colton said that he may be streaming his
from proven but he needs to get their
permission first uh so we'll see what
happens there but there should be at least
some content to watch post three o'clock
this afternoon and hopefully we'll see
some stuff um out there and get um
get that going so
Grant says that he saw a three PM
on Sivan.
I think, um, I don't know.
I, my work week has been crazy today.
Crazy all week.
I should say.
Um,
Yeah, I see something with Colton.
What's going on here?
Live Colton Mertens at four p.m.
Eastern time today.
Four p.m.
Eastern on the CrossFit Network.
CF Network.
So there you go.
Four p.m.
Eastern.
So not too bad.
It's something to get to watch something
today.
Pretty cool.
During the Mayhem podcast,
I saw something today I thought was really
funny.
And that is Scott Vandersloot.
The CrossFit podcast was just a lot of
what has been run through the rest of
the week.
But there was a point where Scott
Vandersloot was talking about the Mayhem
Classic.
and how he is diving full into propaganda
to make people talk, to start rumors,
to get people to speculate.
And he's just taking pictures of wild
stuff to make people wonder and guess at
what the workouts are going to be.
He is trying to throw people off.
And I love that.
I think that has been something that
CrossFit should have done a long time ago.
Cause then you can't tell what's a leak
and what is real.
So, um, I really dig that.
Uh, so Ken's in the central time zone.
So three PM, uh,
sponsored by be born primitive and hog
scrub.
Yeah, I need to try that hog scrub.
So.
And here, there you go.
Um, but anyway,
Scott was talking about how he was taking
pictures of like the old trail signs.
And I don't think they're,
they're current.
I think they're from an old event and,
uh,
but they were still up in the woods
or maybe they're new.
I don't know.
They're,
they're leaving it out there for you to
speculate and guess.
Um, which I think is pretty awesome.
But in addition to that,
This did pop up on my Instagram today,
and that is that Mayhem already has their
first withdrawal.
Ariel Lohan, yes, speak well.
Lohan has withdrawn from the Mayhem
Classic,
and Maddie Fouts has received her invite.
I think this is going to happen all
over the place.
People don't know how their bodies are
going to feel after certain phases of the
season.
And as it gets into it,
they're going to be like,
I can't do that one and that one.
And they're going to start making
decisions.
And so already we have one dropout from
the Mayhem Classic.
And they're the first semifinal.
And we already have a dropout.
What's going to happen to places like
Syndicate and...
NorCal Classic,
which are later in the season,
it's going to be wild just to see
who is going to decide not to show
up and do those.
So I don't know if it doesn't really
say...
say why she's withdrawing um but there it
is uh ken so the hog scrub has
a soap sack i back in the day
gosh not that far back uh dollar shave
club used to sell their soap with a
soap sack i i can't live without a
soap sack now
how did we live so long scrubbing with
just soap?
And then they come out with this beautiful
thing where you put the sack, the bat,
the soap in the sack,
and then it gets all lathery and sudsy.
And,
and then you can like exfoliate with that
as well.
I mean, it's pretty freaking awesome.
Um,
the dollar shave club soap sacks had two
different sides.
They had like a rough side and a
smooth side.
Um,
It made showering a completely different
experience for me.
The women have their loofah,
and us men have our soap sacks.
It's awesome.
Jody,
I love my soap sack for all the
leftover small pieces.
I put the whole bar in there, man.
It's really, really awesome.
Jay Birch, old school,
I got two hands and a wash rag.
I don't need a soap sack.
Hey,
if you want to live in the eighteen
hundreds, buddy, you go right ahead.
But if someone invents something that
makes my life easier,
especially in the shower,
I'm going to take them up on it.
So Hexy Lover, what a great idea.
So I need to come up with a
soap sack that I can sell along with
Colton Soap,
and we can call it the horse and
the hog.
There you go.
There it is.
There's my business idea.
That's to get me out of my permanent
job and just podcasting and making soap
sacks.
Can Jody,
if you put the whole bar in the
soap sack, it lasts longer?
It does.
That's facts.
That would be a great collab.
Yeah,
I'm not sure Colton would work with me
after I said a couple weeks ago that
he couldn't win the games.
I don't know.
If he wins the games,
he can put the soap in the sack
and he can beat me with it.
How about that?
Okay.
Yes, Kenneth,
I take a sack in the shower.
I do.
Mike DeVito,
Jay Burch got an icebox instead of a
refrigerator too, I bet.
Yeah.
And he harvests his ice from the North
Pole.
Yeah.
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The Clydesdale scrub brush.
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There you go.
Clydesdale Clove.
Yeah, I like Soapsack, but that's just me.
I'm a simple man.
I'm a simple man.
Ken wants me to get them to have
my pool and make them do salted caramel
all year, not just seasonal.
I have let them know that there's a
demand for the salted caramel.
I will tell you that.
I have let them know that this chat
has vehemently made it clear that they
would like salted caramel year-round.
Clydesdale Hoof Wash Limited Run.
That's tough.
The plural of hoof.
To say that hoof wash is hard.
So there you go.
There you go.
Last thing I want to leave you with
today is I'm sure you guys have seen
this.
Jamie and I talk about this show all
the time on the Sunday night show.
Her and I are big fans of Reacher.
I know this is a little bit old
news,
but did you see the guy that tried
to stop Reacher from riding his motorcycle
in his neighborhood yesterday?
Alan Richson, who plays Reacher,
was riding a motorcycle in his
neighborhood.
A guy stepped right in front of him
and made him wreck his bike.
The guy...
Alan got off the ground and shoved him.
Now,
if I'm a dude and I see Alan
Richson, the guy who plays Reacher,
a very large man, coming down the street,
that is not the person I would pick,
that I would pick to jump in front
of and make him wreck his motorcycle.
Then Alan tries to leave,
and Alan has all this on body cam,
which is wild.
Allen tries to leave,
and the guy jumps in front of him
again and doesn't allow him to ride off
and leave.
So Allen gets off his bike again,
and then he punches the guy three times.
All on body cam footage.
I just don't know.
The guy had to have a death wish.
He was looking for a payout.
That's the only explanation I could come
up with.
But I saw this on Instagram today that
the guy has a new plan.
The guy who stepped in front of Reacher
has a new plan.
And I don't know if you guys saw
this.
Guy who pushed over Reacher's motorcycle
announces plan to shoot John Wick's dog.
That is how dumb this dude is.
He would pick to,
I know this is a farce,
I know this is parody,
but it takes the same number of brain
cells to push over a moving motorcycle
with a large man on it as it
would to shoot John Wick's dog.
The insanity.
The insanity.
The insanity.
It's almost as bad as the amputee that
we've talked about all week.
And I actually saw another piece on this,
and I don't know if it's true because
the story is so bizarre to begin with
that it's taken me a while to verify
that that one was true.
But now he is claiming that they can't
prove he shot the guy because there are
no fingerprints.
Now, there were two guys in the backseat,
and this could be parody as well.
I cannot verify that he actually said it,
but it did not read as a parody.
It was reading as actual news.
So, yeah,
news of the weird all week long.
All week long.
So there it is.
Yeah, Mark, I did see that.
Mr.
Richson's actions were found to be in
self-defense,
although a potential reckless endangerment
charge was considered.
Mr. Richson declined to pursue charges.
No further action will be taken.
Yeah,
what's crazy is the reckless endangerment
wasn't him for punching the guy.
It was the guy for jumping in front
of his moving motorcycle.
And Alan Richson,
the guy who plays Reacher,
decided not to press charges.
In today's world,
people have forgotten what it's like to be
punched in the face.
I do not disagree with you, David Reed.
And we're still talking about the plural
of hoof to hooves.
And Jody wants to know why it's not
roofs from roof.
And now we're talking about deer and
deers.
Wow.
Larry Young says that Alan Richson is a
beast,
but I bet the open would smoke him.
I am sure.
Meredith says,
no fingerprints almost sounds like a joke.
Of course, there aren't any fingerprints.
I know it sounds like a joke,
but the whole thing sounded like a joke,
Meredith, and it was real.
It was real.
I saw a sports talk show talking about
how the guy let him shoot him.
Here's a guy with no arms and no
legs.
He got out a gun.
He loaded it, adjusted himself,
and shot the guy.
Jody had it right yesterday.
The guy had to be blind.
Hooves like Hoover minus the R. Yeah,
hooves.
And the dad joke of the week.
They say he can't be guilty because he
was unarmed.
Ah, Ken, Ken.
Coming in with the hot one right at
the end.
Well,
apparently back in the eighteen hundreds
where Jay Birch lives, it's roofs.
But I think that what he spelled is.
The the roofs shingles fell off.
But if you're talking about multiple roof,
the roofs shingles fell off.
The crazy Hey,
at least we're not talking about
quarterfinal workouts.
I'll take dad jokes and grammar all day
long today.
But it's been fun.
I'm going to get back to work.
We have some workouts happening today.
Colton, four p.m.
Eastern, three p.m.
Central.
Check that out today.
He's going to hit one or two.
The boys interrupted all weekend.
Joseph Ramirez from our very own chat is
going to do Saturday and Sunday morning
live on the glintons.
Girls unfiltered fee and Alexis are doing
some workouts live.
We get,
we can check that out this weekend.
So at least starting today,
we can actually watch some action and not
just talk.
So hopefully tomorrow we'll have some
stuff that we've looked at and we can
talk about people's performances and how
they're doing in the open and bring your
dad jokes tomorrow.
We'll make it a dad joke Friday.
Jay Burch.
The standard and most common plural of
roof in English words is roofs.
While roofs was historically used and is
still listed as an alternative,
in some dictionaries it's considered
outdated,
says the guy who will not use a
soap sack.
So consider the source.
There we go.
All right.
With that,
we'll see everybody tomorrow on Lunch with
the Clydesdale.
Hopefully,
we get the cowboy back tomorrow.
But if not, we'll come in here.
We'll hang out.
We'll have some fun and get through a
Friday and get to the weekend because we
need it bad this week.
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
Bye, guys.