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what is going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the
cladsdale it is friday
we're heading into that weekend
had a little holiday yesterday,
got a day off and then had
to come back to work today.
Gosh,
what an awful way to do the work week.
You get a day off and you
think I can relax.
Nope.
Right back to work for a day.
And here we are.
Uh, but I shouldn't complain too much.
I get to work from home.
Uh,
but I'm going to throw my dart and then
we're going to talk.
So here we go.
Oh gosh.
Into the wall.
All right.
That was bad.
Nah,
What's going on, Kenneth Helson?
Good to see you guys.
So yeah, so today, in a couple hours,
my wife is heading up to
Put-In-Bay to spend time
with her family here in
Ohio on Lake Erie.
There's an island called Put-In-Bay.
It's only accessible by boat.
They're going up there
tonight to hang out for the night,
and then she'll be back tomorrow evening.
but since she's had her knee
replacement surgery we have
not started her car one
time and so when we went to
do it this week uh it did
not start the battery is
completely dead so I have a
guy coming at one o'clock
to put a new battery in um
So I'll have to cut the show
a little bit short.
I worked yesterday trying to
charge a battery.
I'm trying to jumpstart the
car to no avail.
The meter on my battery
charger said that the battery is bad.
Yeah.
So I took it at its word and
called to have a guy bring a new one out.
So hopefully she can take that car.
If not,
I'll just be carless for the next
two days,
hanging out here doing some yard
work and all of that kind of stuff.
But got to get that stuff done anyway.
So maybe it's a sign that I
need to get that stuff done.
If you did not see,
the last chance qualifiers
have come to an end and
they are official.
And they posted on Instagram today.
The winners of the last chance qualifier.
No big surprise.
Yonikoski on the men.
Lydia Fish on the female side.
There you see the winners.
What I found interesting is...
If I go to my Hustle Up app,
they actually have a spot.
Let me stop sharing my screen.
All of a sudden, they have a spot.
I don't know if you can see
that video unavailable for
where a video can go.
Now, on the Yonikoski, and I'll go to that,
four of his are unavailable,
but one you can see.
So it does have the ability
to have the videos right
there in the app.
And here we go.
Workout three for you on a coast.
You can see that the video
is available on the app,
but we didn't get to see this all week.
These just came available today.
If they are under public,
if they are listed as private,
then we get the video
unavailable at this time.
But it is something that
they are able to do.
I actually like the app for
its functionality, but man,
it makes it hard as a
podcaster to be able to
share anything with you guys on that.
I'd have to like sign it in
as a separate person and pull it up.
And it just, man,
it'd be nice if there was a
leaderboard somewhere
accessible on the web where
we could actually grab it and show.
But I just found it
interesting that all of a
sudden everything's final and now
They did put the video links in,
but you can't see them all.
So there we go.
So congratulations, Lydia Fish.
Congratulations, Yonikoski.
You are going to the CrossFit Games.
Apparently the PFAA is still around.
They put out an announcement yesterday.
And I can never find them on Instagram.
There we go.
So I think it's this one.
Here we go.
They put out what they're
calling a white paper on
heat training for
competition and preparation.
Haven't heard from PFAA and
ever since the please do
this or we're all gone letter.
So here we are heat training
for competition and preparation.
They brought in Chloe Farneman,
Jeremy Reardon, and Gomer, Gomer,
the Houston, uh, to talk about this.
And you can see they
actually did a podcast.
Um,
I think it's available on the PFAA
YouTube channel,
but if you are interested in that, um,
go for it.
Go check it out.
I think it's kind of common
sense that you should train
in the heat if you're going
to work out in the heat and
compete in the heat.
That just kind of makes sense to me,
but apparently we need a white paper.
And the word white paper
just gives me like the
I don't know.
And I and so I looked it up
like what the definition of
a white paper was.
Because why does it give me
the and I found out why.
Sorry,
I've got my phone ringer on just in
case the guy with my battery comes.
So definition of a white paper is
I'll blow this up.
It is a government or other
authoritative report giving
information or proposals on an issue.
Why they keep calling it a white paper.
it doesn't it makes no sense
to me I have had been asked
to write white papers a ton
with the government with
the state government that I
work for and now I know why
it gives me the
heebie-jeebies because I
hate writing them they're
stupid they're just little
one-pagers that um
supposed to be quick hitters
you can just hand to
somebody so the pfa brent
always calls what they put
out a white paper and so it
just doesn't I don't know I
guess are they an
authoritative report
they're not government the
pfa is not government
But are they authoritative?
I don't think Brent and the
PFAA are experts on heat training.
They brought in experts to do this.
But regardless, I guess that's what it is.
That's what they put out.
And I just find it
interesting that that's the
hill that they're willing
to die on at this point in time.
After the threats went
unanswered and then they
kind of went away for a
while and their first thing
back is coming back with
training in the heat.
I don't know.
They are experts in their own head.
uh, Kenneth DeLapp,
the head of the Marine
Corps personal message to
the force has been referred
to as a white letter.
So I don't,
I don't know if a white letter
is something different.
Um, but I,
I have been asked to write a
white paper a lot in my job.
Well,
my former job when I was up a couple
pay grades and over to over people, but,
um,
But it was usually just used
for like my director going
into a meeting.
So he had kind of like a
high level look at or an
overarching look at a topic.
So he could speak on it in
the meeting with some view of authority.
I just find it weird that
the PFAA is using white paper.
But okay, that's just my little hiccup.
The other thing that came
out since we talked
yesterday is the barbell
spin got out his detective
glasses and found where
event one most likely will
be for the CrossFit Games.
In the PFAA's case, it means toilet paper.
I am sure that the
information in it is fine.
We're not in Texas anymore.
Why would you pick that to
be the next thing other
than you want to highlight
Lazar's death from last year again?
That is what is confounding
to me is that we're now in New York.
We're in new Albany.
Can it get hot there?
Sure.
It's summertime.
It can get hot anywhere in
the U S during the summertime,
but we're not in Fort worth
anymore where heat is a
major factor to the CrossFit games.
We're also in a very large
arena where most of the
events will happen indoors and
Why a paper on heat this year, this time,
unless you want to bring
back to the forefront that
a person died last year at
the CrossFit Games during
an extremely warm morning of day one.
That's what my fear is with this,
that they don't want that
to die and they want that
to stay in the forefront for everybody.
Because it doesn't make as
much sense this year when
you're in upstate New York.
Just my little opinion on that.
So...
This does not help Lazar's legacy.
I completely agree.
So, all right.
So Spin is out doing his
detective work again.
He is so good at this.
Finding where things are going to be.
So here's a picture of a running trail.
I guess it's a really long one.
It's called the Empire State
Running Trail.
It is very long in the state of New York.
And he has found where this
could be actually like
where the run happens,
where they could actually put the rowers.
And so I think he has a map.
Here it is.
So he has like a Google map
of this is the running trail.
And then here is the start finish.
Here is mile one and mile five.
Here is mile two and mile four,
where you would put the rowers.
Then you run out and you do
a turnaround and you would
come the whole way back.
So the last leg is four miles, um,
two miles to the rowers,
four miles all the way back
to the start line.
Um,
if you want more information
on this he has a full
article on the
barbellspin.com um but he
always seems to figure this
stuff out um and he I don't
know how he does it and how
he gets access to like
public records for all this
stuff but he figures it out
and he's so good at it I
just wanted to highlight
that it appears this is
where the first event will
be for the crossfit games
so then now you know um I
did want to talk about I
watched the in the box
office uh podcast last
night and I think enough
people have like said their
piece about it I find that it's
I find it weird that... I
don't even know how to say it.
You have these people on
there that have decided
that they didn't want to
participate in the CrossFit game season.
And they talk about it openly,
as it's been said on other
shows and things.
They didn't give a lot of examples.
Um,
but they just felt like they wanted to
do that though.
Um, I think her name is, uh, Mesa, uh,
Mesa said she's opening a gym.
It's going to be a WFP
affiliate as opposed to a
CrossFit affiliate.
They love the community,
but they just can't
tolerate what CrossFit has
done as a sport since then.
And I really have a hard
time understanding why
you're blaming the sport
for what you do in the affiliates.
And because the affiliates
and the sport are two different things,
as much as we want to try
to bring them together,
ninety percent of the
people in the affiliates
have no idea the sport exists.
Ninety percent.
And CrossFit has done an
amazing job at creating a
great community inside the affiliates.
and uh so I I just don't get
it I to blame the sport for
why you don't aren't
involved in the community
of crossfit anymore sounds
counter-intuitive to me
nothing that happened at
the games last year should
have taken anything away
from your community at your
affiliate nothing
So I'm just really confounded by that.
The other thing I'll say is
I do give them kudos to go
on a channel like Be
Friendly as your first
podcast and to have,
I think they had a couple
hundred viewers last night
on this podcast.
When I started mine,
nobody knew who I was.
I had like three people in the audience.
So it's a lot easier to kind
of like roll out what
you're going to be and what
you're going to do when you
roll out your first podcast
to hundreds of people,
as opposed to like two people,
it's a lot harder to do
what they're doing.
I didn't know what I wanted
to be until like episode.
So like,
Kudos to them for putting
themselves out on a channel like that.
They get that advantage of
having an already created listener base.
But man,
you are building your podcast under fire.
And that is crazy.
Crazy.
Because I was terrible at my
first handful of podcasts.
Hell, maybe the first couple hundred.
Like,
I think I'm just really finding a
groove now.
And that's a thousand episodes in.
It's taken a long time to
kind of get beat up and get
the constructive criticism
and walk through stuff and
what you believe and where it'll be.
And it's just really hard.
And, you know, so many people,
Corey and I talked about
this on Wednesday,
like so many athletes
haven't even made it to episode five.
It's really hard.
And when you're an athlete
like that and you already
have a built-in audience,
you're out there talking to
a lot of people to start
off and you have no wiggle
room to try to figure it out.
And so...
When I first got into this,
I researched it.
Most podcasts don't make it to ten.
Now, Sousa said today, like,
ninety percent don't make it to five.
And then from that,
another big chunk don't make it to eight.
My my view was just keep
plugging and just outlast.
And I heard a guy say that
just keep going and outlast
everything and eventually
you'll figure it out as you go.
Uh,
so first Aaron says that's more than
Brian gets live.
Uh, Aaron said, then says,
so Vaughn talking about
them helps get views.
They could lean into it.
They could,
but I don't think they knew who
they are yet.
They're trying to figure
this out on the fly.
And that's,
If I was to talk to somebody
starting a new podcast,
you need to jump in both
feet and figure it out on the fly.
It's the only way you're
going to know if you're
doing it right or wrong.
But you better have some
damn thick skin when you jump in,
having a couple hundred
viewers right off the get-go.
And if Savant's talking
about you need to get more,
then you better have some
really deep skin or thick skin because...
You're going to get hammered in comments.
You're going to get hammered in chats.
And you better be ready for all of that.
My NFL podcast idea didn't
even make it to one episode.
A lot of people are like
paralysis by analysis.
You overthink everything.
And my advice to anybody who
wants to do a podcast is
jump in feet first,
usually you have nobody
listening at the beginning
so you can work it all out
for a good handful or more
of episodes and what's
funny is when I started
this one I started another
one about craft beer my
craft beer one was actually
bigger off the get-go and I
probably learned more from
it than I did from this one
because it got big really fast
but it wasn't beneficial to my health.
So I gave that one up and
ended up coming over to this.
Kenneth, I missed the Bible show,
but I get it.
It's still something that I
feel called to do, Kenneth.
I just don't know where I'm
going to fit it into my week.
And I think...
at some time there are
sometimes especially when I
when I stopped doing that
um I needed I needed to
sort some things out
privately myself to figure
it out so uh jeffrey
birchfield dang I missed it um
Yeah, that's what we're talking about,
Jody, the Bible in a year pod.
Jay Birch, I love some craft beer.
I used to,
but I haven't drank in eighteen months.
So I wouldn't be a good host
of a podcast about craft
beer now that I've quit drinking.
So Jay Birch Bible show is good, too.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it.
It's the Bible shows a lot
more work than any of the
other shows I do.
I will say that.
And it takes a lot more mentally.
So.
Kenneth says sip and spit.
Yeah, yes.
It was a fun show.
Maybe some episode I'll tell
you guys about it.
We did some really fun.
We used to go to we used to
set up the podcast at breweries.
and talk to the brewers um
and do all that kind of
stuff and then um we had
hot we had shows in my
basement here where
everybody would bring a
sample of something and we
would sample around the
table um and then give our
reviews of the beers we
went but it was fun it was
a fun show for sure so well um
Good luck to Kate and Mesa
on their endeavor.
I think they were getting
hit pretty hard last night.
Hopefully, they're back for a few more.
At least they're open to
talk about what they feel,
and not everybody is.
It's just going to be
interesting to see if
they're able to take it a
little bit more moving forward.
The last thing I wanted to
talk about today is I got a
chance to watch the Brett
Favre documentary last night.
And I will preface this with
I'm a Chicago Bear fan.
I have never liked Brett Favre,
but it was just because he
was on the rival team.
What I learned about last
night in that documentary
is that Brett Favre is a total scumbag.
Um, if you have not seen the documentary,
um, it is really rough, uh,
especially for people like
Helson who are Packers fan.
Uh, it's a rough podcast.
It's a rough documentary.
It's only an hour long.
It's one of the untold series on Netflix.
My wife came in about
halfway through the
documentary and she was so
pulled into it.
She's going to go back and
watch the first half.
So it's a quick watch.
I think her name is Jen.
They go into two big deals
in his life that were really scumbag ish.
And one is there was a
pregame reporter with the
New York Jets named Jen.
I don't want to mess her name up.
Steger.
Jen Stelger Stelger.
I know I'm messing it up.
Anyway,
the Jets had hired her the same
year Brett Favre went to the Jets.
Sturger.
Jen Sturger.
That is it.
Thank you, Helson.
Basically, Brett Favre stalks her.
And she's the one that paid
the price for that.
Not him.
And it is a travesty.
remember it when it happened
and I can tell you the
mainstream media did not
tell the full story that
this documentary tells
because my feelings at the
time were very different
than what I saw last night
and how I felt last night
what he did to her is
ridiculous and then they go into
the allegations where he
stole TANF money or welfare
money from the state of
Mississippi to pay for a
volleyball center at
Mississippi State where his
daughter was playing and his alma mater,
and that they were writing
checks personally to Brett
Favre himself and companies that he held.
When you're stealing welfare
money from the people in Mississippi,
you are a total scumbag.
You're a former NFL
quarterback who made millions of dollars,
and you're stealing welfare
money from the state of Mississippi.
Now,
I knew about that going into the
documentary.
The details of it, I did not know.
And it really, really paints that picture.
So...
I highly recommend it.
It's really well done.
Brett Favre did not
interview for this documentary.
He elected not to the New
York jets did not make a
statement or interview for
this documentary.
Um, but there were a lot of reporters,
a lot of people around the scenes.
There were some people from
the Packers that did speak.
Um,
And so I highly recommend it.
It's really good.
Really good.
I'm hoping while my wife's away tonight,
I'm going to watch
Surviving Ohio State as I
live here in Columbus.
I know how that new story broke.
I am interested to see what
goes on with this because...
Well, once I watch it,
I'll talk about it with
everybody next week.
But I think that's my next
documentary that I'm going
to watch is Surviving Ohio State.
So,
because I've got to get a new battery
in my car,
I'm going to call it quits right now.
But Corey, if you're still in the chat,
LSU, I know they're in the finals.
Did they play yet?
And they got to the finals in a wacky,
wacky, bizarre way.
Uh,
Dateline had a two hour special on
Karen Reed last night.
If anyone is interested, uh,
that's from train to live.
Um, I,
people were talking about this at
work through our chat.
I don't really even know
anything about it.
I try to avoid everything
true crime because my wife
watches so much of it.
Um,
She was accused of killing
her cop boyfriend, the husband,
something like that, correct?
And I don't know the significance of it.
If you can say it in a one-line chat,
train to live, that'd be awesome.
If not,
I'll go look it up and figure it
out later.
But I know everybody at work
is talking about that one.
And LSU plays tomorrow night,
College World Series, six p.m.
Central.
If people didn't see it,
they were down by two runs
in the bottom of the ninth
or bottom of the seventh,
whatever they play.
And came back in the bottom
of that inning because
Arkansas could not catch a
ball to save their life.
ninth inning yeah uh they
said there was a cover-up
by the police basically
dang said she didn't know
he was there okay yeah
again like I've just been
smacked with so much true
crime stuff I I just try to
avoid it um when I can
because that's all my wife watches.
That, and she's into, like, go-shows.
Yeah.
Corey,
Arkansas couldn't get out of their
own way.
They had us.
Much respect to their team.
They had you,
and then they apparently
forgot how to catch a ball
in the ninth inning.
It was...
They had an easy double play.
They just got the lead runner,
leaving one out available.
And then the outfielder
tripped when he was going
to catch the ball.
It went all the way to the wall.
It was insane.
So.
With that, guys,
we'll keep it short today.
Enjoy your weekend.
It is supposed to be a
flat-out scorcher here in
Ohio this weekend.
We're looking at ninety-five
the next two days.
So hopefully I can get out
and get some yard work done
and not melt away.
I hope you guys have a great
weekend with that.
So glad you could join me today for lunch.
As always,
you guys are the best in the
chat and I will see
everybody Sunday night for Sunday night.
CrossFit talk.
Don't forget.
We have Ralph Duran coming
on to talk about team.
And then Carolyn,
Jamie and I will talk about
all this stuff going on in
the CrossFit space.
We'll see everybody next
time on Lunch with Clydesdale.
And you knuckleheads, get back to work.
Bye, guys.