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What's going on, everybody?
It is lunchtime.
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
We are here again another day.
Friday, Friday, Friday.
So excited for that.
What's going on, Andrew, Meredith, Jody,
Corey?
Glad you could all join us.
Again,
I'm down to that two-bar thing today,
but everything appears to be going okay.
Maybe this is just my life
now that my wife is back to work,
working from home and maybe
taking up some extra bandwidth.
But so far, so good.
Yesterday was fine.
We'll go with it today.
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I really appreciate that
thank you so much denise um
Man, I am.
I'm tired of going into the weekend.
I've been doing,
our local Goodwill has been
in need of people to help out.
So I've been going over
there doing a couple hours a night,
helping unload cars,
when people bring in donations,
sorting those donations,
getting them ready to ship out,
all of that stuff.
So yeah,
so doing that in the evenings a
little bit.
I'm actually really enjoying it,
really enjoying meeting the
people and doing a little
bit of that to help out.
So that's been fun.
Going to a concert this weekend.
Haven't been to a concert in a while.
A friend of mine called and
said he won tickets.
So we're going to see Buddy Guy,
a legendary blues guitarist
at a local venue.
It's about an hour outside
of Columbus towards Dayton.
So we're heading down there
to see Buddy Guy tomorrow night.
That should be fun.
Yeah.
Get away from the CrossFit
scene a little bit and enjoy a concert.
Haven't been to one in a while.
Buddy Guy is still alive.
I believe he's in his nineties.
And so not going to be many,
many years left to see Buddy.
So excited for the opportunity.
So what do I want to get into first?
Let's
Let's talk about the last
chance qualifier.
I keep refreshing my app to
see if more people have signed up.
There have been a handful, kind of handful,
of people who have signed up.
Yuko Sakayama from Japan has signed up.
Janie Chevrie from Canada.
Gemma Houck.
Andreas Olberg from Norway.
uh and lydia fish and lily
burkhead both from the u.s
have joined the names I
read yesterday um so that's
starting to stack up on the
women's side on the men's
side less new athletes have
signed up but we do have
luke de jong uh I believe
he's from australia um riley martin
And Nika Masarazzi,
I think those are the only
new names that have signed
up on the men's side.
Ah, Corey, I did not say Yu-Gi-Oh.
I did not.
It just sounded like that.
I say Yuko Sakiyama.
I hope I have that right.
So a lot of the young
athletes are signed up already.
I do believe Carolyn's going to do it,
but I don't know for sure.
But we did find out today,
if you listen to Facundo on
the Savant podcast, that, in fact,
Mayhem is kind of running
this last chance qualifier.
It was him and Angelo
DiCicco who curated all of
the workouts that came in.
made sure that they were all
tweaked and done to a way
that they all fit into one
test and those were the
workouts that were released
yesterday um I think I
think they're on instagram
let me see if I can pull
them up for you guys
Sorry, I should have had this one ready.
Last chance qualifier
workouts are right here.
If you have not seen them already.
It starts with workout one
picked by Rich Froning,
a hundred double unders,
ten clean and jerks,
a hundred double unders,
ten clean and jerks,
a hundred double unders,
ten clean and jerks,
a hundred double unders, time cap,
twelve minutes.
The weights are two oh five,
two twenty five,
two forty five for the men,
one forty five, one fifty five,
one sixty five for the women.
Uh, workout two is three rounds for time.
And this is these,
this was submitted by Mikel Izecardo, uh,
thirty four, forty two calorie row,
thirty burpee over rower,
eighteen alternating dumbbell snatches.
That's three rounds for time.
Fifty seventy on the, uh, dumbbell.
Workout three submitted by Alberto Nato.
Four time, nine, twelve, fifteen.
Ring muscle-ups, overhead squats.
And that is one twenty-five,
one eighty-five on the barbell.
Those three workouts will
have to be submitted by
Saturday night at midnight Pacific time.
And then these last two
workouts they have until Sunday night,
as many reps as possible in
seven minutes of one
hundred wall ball shots,
max legless rope climbs in
the remaining time.
We talked about it in our
chat with Jamie and Carolyn.
And they definitely had
thoughts on legless rope
climbs in an online
competition that that is very,
very difficult to judge,
especially in an online competition.
They thought it would be a
much better workout if it
was regular rope climbs.
And they think it's going to
be too close because a lot
of the women will,
especially on the women's side,
legless rope climbs will
clump them together.
so we'll see about that and
then workout five submitted
by liam mulligan uh fifty
toes to bar forty front
rack walking lunges thirty
strict handstand push-ups
facing out without a garden
pad under your head uh
fifty ghd sit-ups forty
back rack walking lunges
and thirty wall facing
strict handstand push-ups
Time cap, sixteen minutes, eighty pounds,
one fifteen on the barbell
for the lunges.
So those are your workouts
for the last chance qualifier.
The last two have to be
submitted by Sunday night at midnight.
Pacific Standard Time, that's three a.m.
Eastern Standard Time.
Andrew Stanton said, did you catch that,
Corey?
Subtle, but I'll allow it.
I have an alarm going off in my house.
I'm going to have to pause
the show for just one
second and I will be back.
Thank you.
Okay, guys, sorry about that.
My wife burned her lunch,
and the fire department are
probably on the way.
So, oh boy, what a day.
Okay, I've missed all your comments.
Hopefully you guys
entertained yourselves for a while.
I apologize for all of that.
But yeah,
you may hear the fire sirens coming.
so super awesome super
awesome way to start my
weekend ah this I think is
like this will be the
fourth time my wife has
burnt a dinner and we had
the fire department show up
at our house so yeah
that'll this is gonna be
fun day hopefully they
don't charge us but uh should be fun
So there's your last chance qualifier.
Those are the people taking
part in it this weekend.
Hopefully we'll see Carolyn in there.
I think she has a good chance.
Again, yesterday, Jody,
my kitchen is not on fire.
Just the food and it is out.
But the smoke lingered.
The smoke then set off all the alarms.
And here we go.
But I think I've got all the alarms off.
got it to stop so there's an
alarm right up my stairs
that one is that one we got
taken care of pretty quick
then there's one upstairs
and then the smoke wafted
up the stairs to the second
floor set that one off ah
corey jen forget she's
cooking scott kind of a lot yeah
It's only her second day back to work.
My guess is she put
something on the stove and
went back and was working
and forgot about what she
put on the stove.
And here we are.
So, yeah, always excitement.
You don't get this on every podcast.
So if you see flames behind me,
just make sure you let me
know so I can head out of here.
Um, what else do we have?
Um, I wanted to talk.
Okay.
So I want to talk about this real quick.
We'll go through some fun stuff here.
Um, I don't know if you guys saw this,
but CrossFit featured our
very own Carolyn Prevo, um,
in like an ad for the L one.
And there she is in her games gear, uh,
talking about the benefits of the L one.
And you can go through.
Um, see all that she had to say.
And so I thought that was really cool.
Our very own Carolyn Prevost
being featured in a
CrossFit ad for the CrossFit L one.
And it's,
it was shared by Carolyn and the
CrossFit games, Instagram account.
If you want to go check that out,
I believe Jamie and I both put it on our,
um, on our stories.
So you can see it there as well.
So super proud of her for that.
We also, in a quick bit, hit news.
We have word that there's
going to be a new American Gladiators.
New tagline,
lunch with the Clydesdale is on fire.
You know it.
So there's going to be a new
American Gladiators.
And if you look down here in
the lower right hand corner
is the one CrossFitter that
was selected to be on American Gladiators,
and that is Danny Spiegel.
I find that fascinating.
One, I was a huge,
huge American gladiators fan.
When the documentary came
out about a year ago, I watched that.
I realized that when I was
watching that I'd seen
every season of American
gladiators when I was growing up.
Um, and I love that show a lot.
What I will say is my
prediction is Danny Spiegel
is going to kick ass on that show.
The gladiators of the past
had all of the physique,
but not the athleticism.
Danny Spiegel has great athleticism,
and that is going to make
her very dominant as an
American gladiator.
That is the one I would not
want to go up against on this show.
um but I think that's cool
that it's coming um and
it's going to be on it
looks like gladiators
tv.com so it looks like
it's going to be a stream
show um other countries
have brought it back sooner
this looks like the first
time we will uh we'll have
this back in america
honestly this sounds
perfect for her happy for her
I'm into it.
Love American Gladiators.
I love American Gladiators.
And I know that she has
become the poster child for no reps,
but she is freaking athletic, man.
So athletic.
And she's really good.
Now I've never seen,
now I know in Europe they
did this and the
CrossFitters that went to
do that in there and in
Australia all left the CrossFit scene.
It was the end of their CrossFit career.
So Lito makes a great point.
Is she still doing teams at
the games this year?
I think she probably could
do teams and be fine.
I think her individual
career is over if this
becomes a full-time gig.
And again,
we don't really know the schedule.
It could be like a
six-episode midsummer thing
that they tape in the winter.
Like, who knows?
I think it all depends on the schedule,
but I think she's going to
kick ass in this.
She's going to be better at
this than she was at CrossFit,
and she was pretty damn good at CrossFit.
But you take the fitness
level and the athleticism
that she has outside of
this realm that we're in,
and she's going to be so
much better than some of
these people coming in.
I think they tried bringing
it back from the original,
but it didn't take off.
I know that there was like, it was out.
It went away for a brief minute.
It came back for like a year
or two and then went away.
And I don't know if they've
ever tried to come out again.
Zach George from the UK
dropped out of his team last minute,
and they didn't know
anything when he was
announced for Gladiators a
couple years ago.
Yeah, I know that was a big stink.
And then in Australia,
Con Porter was named, Alethea Boone.
So there have been
CrossFitters that have done this before.
Corey said,
I would imagine they taped them
all pretty close together,
spend a fair amount of time
editing and adding graphics and whatnot,
and then release.
And if you see this picture,
there's a lot of gladiators being shown.
They can rotate those people
through where you're only
doing a couple shows a year.
So it'll be interesting to
see how that goes.
But I, for one,
am super excited to see it
come back again.
And hopefully it's like they
do it as a pretty good
event and not just a parody of itself,
but an actual like athletic
event where you take these people on.
I think that would be awesome.
It looks like the Wall
Street weightlifter on the
poster above Danny.
I don't think that's who it is,
but don't... Yeah,
they don't tag anybody in this one.
They just tag... Yeah,
it looks like that guy is
Eric Bugenhagen.
Eric Bukenhagen,
that is not the Wall Street weightlifter.
But yeah, I get where you saw that.
All right.
So Spiegel doing American Gladiator.
A surprise Hunter McIntyre is on there.
Yeah, he tries to do everything.
Dude's getting old now though.
Um, all right.
So we got that.
We got Carolyn.
If you guys did not see, uh,
Dave's interview with Ben Smith,
that was really, really good.
Really good.
Um,
just one of those walk down
memory lanes how ben got
his gym started uh the
mistakes he made when he
did what he wishes he did
different when he built the
new gym um and I just love
the fact that those og
crossfitters were so
connected to the whole
thing as coaches gym owners
affiliate owners athletes um
and it,
and it looks like Ben is in the
reds at the ranch when they
do the interview.
So I'm wondering if, um,
Dave had been test some
stuff for him after Dave
saw him at syndicate crown.
Uh, dude,
I watched Ben Smith interview
right before this great stuff.
Yeah.
It's only, it's only minutes.
Um, but really fun.
They laugh a lot.
Uh,
There's a great story about
mentorship and Ben's kind
of first question about
owning an affiliate to guys
that he was competing with.
If you haven't seen it,
you need to check that out.
Um, Facundo,
in addition to talking about
the last chance qualifier
and curating the workouts for mayhem,
I think that's where we
were when the fire alarm went off, uh,
talked about him and Angelo curating them,
modifying them to make them
fit as one test.
That's what they put together.
They may him is then running
this event for CrossFit, um,
through the hustle up app, um,
And he has said that he's
going to be on Savan next
Monday when it's all over
to kind of break down all of the stuff.
So there's all that.
Then they got into the sale of CrossFit.
And there's a lot of rumors
out there that the sale is close.
The sale is imminent.
The sale money's already changed hands.
All this kind of back and forth.
But Facundo does seem to be
close to the situation.
He would not give any details about that.
But he said that Matt Souza
was on the right track and
that he believes that the
sale will be done this calendar year.
So sometime before twenty twenty six,
he believes the sale will be done.
And once we get that and and
my my guess is.
Because the Sousa.
The Sousa dive into did involve hustle up,
the app did involve the owners of B Sport,
which own hustle up,
which own some apparel companies,
some other things like that.
To me,
it sounds like that's the direction
they're going to go,
which means that that is
the group that is close with Froning,
and they are close with Facundo then,
and they are close to Daniel Chaffee,
who is the organizer of the
French throwdown.
Those are the names that
have been kind of thrown
out there as possibly
executive people that may
be involved with this group.
But it sounds like it's imminent.
And I can't wait for that to
happen because I think the
sooner that happens,
the more we know about what
is to come with the
CrossFit game season for next year.
We've all said what we
didn't like about this year.
It would be really nice to
know that we're getting
something next year.
So,
and it'd be nice to get it in a timely
manner for a change.
And hopefully the new owners do do that.
But we'll see.
I also,
I wanted to go back to this NorCal thing.
And I think like,
I don't want NorCal to
think that I'm picking on them.
And that went by when saying
they should not ever be a
qualifying event for the CrossFit games.
Uh, Corey says, I just said, do,
do I actually just watched
that episode of friends the other night?
Um, yes I did.
And when I said it,
I actually thought that just so you know,
we're on the same.
What I want to say is that
just as bad as NorCal has
been Wadapalooza.
Wadapalooza has been the same cluster,
the same shit show that NorCal has been.
The only big difference is
that it hasn't been
qualifying someone to the
CrossFit Games for the past few years.
Some of the things they did
in the weather and the rain
was pure insanity at Waterpalooza.
By making the beach floor,
by doing it on the beach,
now at the new location,
there was some crazy stuff last year.
I think they are just as
outside-the-box crazy.
as NorCal, and it's a huge community event,
and they get huge
attendance at the place.
So I don't want to say that
they shouldn't be doing it.
We seem to forgive them more
because they're not the
qualifier to the CrossFit Games.
Where NorCal did the exact same stuff,
but because of those tickets to the games,
we got butthurt a lot more
about what they did there.
And I do believe that's rightfully so.
I want them to exist.
I do think they're fun to watch.
But I don't want them
deciding the qualifiers for the games.
I think when we've been trashing NorCal,
we've just been
specifically talking about them.
There are other events in
the space that do the same
crazy stuff and we don't say much about
But it's because they're not
the qualifier.
And I just want to make sure
that I iterate that out
there that they're not
alone in my criticism.
They're just the only ones
that had qualifications to the games.
So.
The issues are NorCal where
we're accentuated because
of what happened to Nate.
The same stuff happens at Wadapalooza.
All the time.
If you remember the team of
Hopper and Dallin and Ricky did extra...
stuff in the one event
because their ref didn't
count right um brent
fukowski was hitting his
head off of the stands
because of where his rower
was placed I mean it's been
a show and screwed up
events and screwed up
points for events it's just
nobody was qualifying for
the games they were just
playing for money
But Nate should be going to the game,
slightly different scenario.
But I think you could say
that about a lot of events
that have come down to a
judging call to... I mean,
I would say on the same
side on the women...
you could you could argue
that carolyn should be
going to the games that the
cap was not appropriate for
the last event we never got
to see hattie or carolyn
lift that last bar to
determine who went to the
games it just was stupid
that a box jump decided that so
I stand on the ground that
NorCal should not be a
qualifier for the CrossFit Games.
I just wanted to make
everybody aware that there
are other competitions that
are just as bad as them
that don't have that qualification,
so we don't say anything about it.
Wadapalooza used to give
tickets to the games.
They just don't anymore.
So the last thing I want to
kind of send you guys off with,
as I can still smell the
smoke from my wife's dinner or lunch,
is I decided to break down
season structures that CrossFit has used,
and I made my own top five
of what I think the best
season structures have been in the past.
So number five.
Number five would have been,
and when I say a year,
it's because back in the day,
we actually did like a
couple years the same way.
So a lot of times the year
I'm using is the last year
it was in place.
So number five is the two,
two thousand ten sectional
regional games.
Back then there was no open.
So you had to go to a local
event that qualified you for regionals.
Then you'd go to regionals
and that qualified you for the games.
And it was very Norcal ish.
The sectionals were very Norcal ish.
They were out in the middle of a field.
There was like just
equipment thrown down and
it qualified you to the
next level to go to
regionals and then onto the
CrossFit games.
Number four, the two thousand nineteen.
Open country winners sanctional season.
And that is when we opened
it up to the entire world
where the open was done.
If you won your country,
you got a ticket to the games.
And then there were like
thirty sanctionals.
And if you were the top
finisher that didn't
already have a ticket to the games,
you got an additional ticket.
And we got like one hundred
and fifty people in.
men, hundred and fifty women.
And it started off with this
big event that did like cut in half.
And then we went on with the
weekend doing cuts pretty
regularly through the weekend.
I did not agree with the
cuts at the games being
done so soon where we had
two days of just ten athletes.
But other than that,
I I didn't mind the season.
when there was something
charming about the Olympic
style of the event,
I don't think that is very
sustainable Europe year over year,
but I think it would be a
cool country winter
derivation to do like every four years.
Um,
number three um I'm gonna
say the twenty three twenty
four seasons that went from
open to quarters to
semifinals to the games
with crossfit running the
semifinals um in that last
iteration all of the
workouts were the same in
twenty four so every
semi-final event had the same workouts
then depending on the world rankings,
the people at those
semifinals either got one, two, ten,
twelve,
seven people to the games
depending on world rankings.
I didn't care for the world
ranking aspect of that too much,
but I did like the way the
season played out because
it was a very systematic
open to quarterfinals, to semifinals,
to the games.
Very easy to understand,
very easy to get there.
My number two structure would be like,
which included like,
That was Open Super
Regionals CrossFit Games.
I really liked that format.
I thought it was good.
I thought there were more
people in attendance at
those events because it was
done in a systematic way.
The teams were involved.
Affiliates showed up in droves.
I know I was at all of the
ones that happened in Nashville,
and they were packed.
They were packed for the teams.
They were packed for the individual.
It was a really good event, and I really,
really enjoyed that.
And it actually was a
derivation of slight
derivation from my number one structure,
which were like the previous three years.
And I think that was like twelve, thirteen,
fourteen.
And that was where we went
from open to regionals to
the CrossFit Games.
Now, regionals, there were way more of.
There were like twice as
many regionals as there
were super regionals.
Super regionals combined two
regionals all over the world.
And so like there used to be
a NorCal region and a SoCal region.
They combined that into a
super regional of just California.
There was a like a northeast
and a Canadian east.
Those got combined into one.
Northwest, Canada west combined into one.
So I really,
my favorite of all time were
the smaller regionals that
were much closer.
The regionals were smaller.
the affiliates could really
come in droves to support
their teams and their
individual athletes to those events.
And I think at those events,
you only got two or three
to qualify to the games.
It was tight competition.
It was hard fought.
Lots of people in attendance.
Really, really good.
So my top five.
Number five, sectional regional games.
Number four,
two thousand nineteen open
country winners, sanctionals games.
Number three,
twenty three and twenty four
open quarter semifinals games.
Number two is twenty
eighteen super regionals games,
open super regionals games.
And number one is like two thousand twelve,
thirteen, fourteen,
which was open regionals games.
Those were my favorite season structures.
If no money was.
If money was not an object.
Then.
The number one should be the
way that we went.
Now,
I know that money probably is an
object and is why we're not
doing those things anymore,
but that was such a great
way for the season to unfold.
And it also lent itself to
better streaming continuity
with other networks.
Like in ESPN,
they could actually follow the season.
They used to broadcast some
of the regionals or super
regionals before we got to the games.
That's when things were really good.
And when we got to two thousand eighteen,
when it was super regionals,
they were doing it even more.
CBS was actually in talks to
do a regional super
regional lead up to the games,
one big broadcast,
and it would have been
freaking phenomenal.
But then we got rid of our
media department.
We got rid of everything
else and ended up where we are today.
So.
Hopefully,
the sale that is supposedly
imminent happens soon and
we get an idea of what
upcoming seasons may be and
what kind of support the
new ownership will put
behind the competitive
season and what their
support for the affiliates
looks like as well.
barry mccauchner says did
you watch the high rocks
broadcast last night really
good I've heard good things
I've been dm'd by a handful
of people uh this morning
to go watch it so I'm gonna
go check out the see if I
can see it on youtube uh in
the rebroadcast I've heard
they did a really good job
highlighting the athletes um
But we'll see.
I've heard great things.
We'll see how it goes.
And I will let you know
Monday or Tuesday next week,
depending on how much time
the last chance qualifier
is going to take on Monday.
Barry says it's on YouTube.
They show the splits on the
screen for row and ski.
Nice.
You know,
a lot of people were dogging
Rebel Renegade games for their broadcast,
and most of it centers
around the controversy in
the last event with Evie
Hollis' handstand push-ups,
and that they didn't focus on that.
But I watched a lot of the
Rebel Renegade games,
and I thought it was one of
the better broadcasts.
When they did the row,
they had the pictures of
the boats in every lane.
You saw where everybody stood.
You saw the row paces.
That made that much more
enjoyable to me than some
of these other broadcasts.
I heard on Around the
Whiteboard them dog the
Rebel Renegade games and
say it was on the same
level as the French throwdown.
There was not even a
comparison between the two.
Rebel Renegade Games was so
much better than French Throwdown.
So much better.
And it was a nice, intimate floor.
It was easy to see the field.
You knew who was who.
It just didn't have as many
big names as some of the other ones.
But I thought it was great.
The actual quality of the
broadcast was great.
Craig says the High Rocks
Elite races were great.
Yeah, I'll go back and check it out.
Alito says,
I thought the Rebel Renegade
games had an amazing broadcast.
I agree.
Craig said the same thing.
So.
Glad someone's in agreement with me,
but yeah.
Caleb said,
is that a full sugar Dr. Pepper?
It is not.
It is zero sugar Dr. Pepper.
Peter,
English stream of French Throwdown
was incredibly shit, truly.
I don't disagree.
I think you did the best you
could with that, Peter.
But what they gave you was not awesome.
Having to watch on a TV set
and try to commentate.
Dubai tried that for years and it never,
ever worked out.
I caleb I don't even drink
soda that often but I'm
having some uh allergy
stuff with my throat and I
just needed the bubbles to
kind of break it up so yeah
zero zero sugar dr pepper I
can't do the c-four stuff
anymore because it uh it
messes with that heart
thing I have with the afib so
See ya.
Well, with that, guys,
next year I'm going to
commentate it with my eyes
closed so it's easier.
I can see that.
Just make it up as you go.
um yeah caleb said make tea
I if I would have had time
I just got out of a work
meeting um came down to do
this uh so I just could
grab what I I could um yeah
I'm pro I'll probably even
throw out the last half of
this and do do something
like tea this afternoon
because I think all my my
meetings got canceled for
this afternoon so I have
some time to go up and just kind of chill
All right, guys.
It's time for you
knuckleheads to get back to work.
I'm going to do the same.
Um,
I will talk to you guys all Sunday
night for Sunday night CrossFit talk.
I will break down the last
chance to qualify what we
know up until that point.
Um,
we will see what if Carolyn is going to
do it and how she's doing through it.
Um,
We also have Jamie's MRI
results on her hip.
We'll probably talk about
that a little bit.
And then we'll talk about
this impending sale or
whatever else is going on
and whatever else may come
up this weekend.
With that, guys.
I'm going to go up and make
sure my house is still
intact and not still smoke-ridden.
Thank you for being patient
through the fire alarm.
We'll see everybody next
time on Lunch with Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.