Lunch with the Clydesdale - Week 1 of the Open almost in the books

Every day we take our lunch hour to come together, hang out and discuss what is going on in the world. Today we discuss last night Academy Awards, The 25.1 Workout and the close of Week 1 of the CrossFit Open.  Where are the numbers at right now?

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what's going on everybody

welcome to lunch with the

Clydesdale my name is Scott

Switzer I am the Clydesdale

and we got Corey and Jay

Birch already in the chat

uh talking about twenty

four twenty five point one

uh we'll talk about that a

little bit today talk a

little Oscars to kick it

off and then just kind of

randomly go around the

world of CrossFit what's

going on Holly um

watched right after I got

off last night of the show

um I went upstairs to make

the audio version of the

show to be able to post up

on spotify and itunes and

amazon music and google

play and all those kinds of

things and what's going on

craig and um and I was

watching the end of the

oscars and I was like I

have not seen any of these movies like

Do the Academy Awards even matter anymore?

Do they influence what

movies you go watch?

Does it tell you anything

about what you should or

should not be watching in

the world of cinema?

I remember back in the day

that it was a big catapult

to any movie that won a

major award that their

ticket sales would then go skyrocketing.

But the best picture was a

film called Enora.

Never even heard of it.

It also won Best Director,

Best Actress for Mikey... I

can't even read my own writing.

But yeah,

the lead actress in Anora won for

Best Actress.

Adrienne Brody won for Best

Actor in The Brutalist.

Haven't heard of that one.

Zoe Zaldana won for Amelia Perez.

I have heard of that one,

only because of the scuttle

of its lead actress and

some tweets she made.

And then Kieran Caulklin won

for A Real Pain for Best

Supporting Actor.

That is the one movie out of

this whole group that I

have actually viewed and watched.

And that one I would say is a good movie.

It was... It was...

It was slow to me,

but it's about two cousins

who go back to pay homage

to their grandmother.

and where she grew up in Poland.

It kind of meanders through

the Polish countryside,

and then they go to one of

the Holocaust camps and

kind of walk through there.

And so it's very much a kind

of a historic view as to

what was going on with some

comedic things happening

with Michael Cera and Karen

Coughlin along the way, the two cousins.

So it was good.

I wouldn't put it in the great.

I would put Kieran Calkins

performance in the.

I mean,

it was a typical Kieran Calkins

performance,

kind of the same part he

played in succession,

only with less money.

and not to take anything away from him,

but it just seems odd.

And so I just wanted to pose the question,

does it really,

really even matter to you

as a viewer to then search

these movies out and see if

they are good or not?

Or does it not even matter these days?

Holly said,

is it really a major award

without winning a leg-shaped lamp?

Yeah,

that is the true major award of cinema.

They apparently used AI and

the Brutalist to make the

Hungarian accents more believable.

That is crazy to me.

Crazy.

And Jay Birch is a chameleon

when it comes to accents.

I mean,

if you have not seen some of the

videos that I've seen,

The man defies what the

human voice range can be.

Corey, I love watching movies.

Couldn't give less of a damn

about the Oscars.

Yeah, man,

it used to be like back when my

wife and I lived in Florida,

she worked for a college.

And if they had a good week,

one of the bonuses was that

she would get free movie tickets.

And every year we would go

watch like all the Oscar

nominated movies.

So then when we watched the Oscars,

we could have like a sense

of what was good and what

was bad and who to root for

and who not to root for.

but man I I don't even know

where I would go to watch

these movies I don't I

don't even think they're

they're around here for jay

birch it does raise his

curiosity yeah yeah I guess

and then when we were doing

that when we were going to

watch the oscar nominee

movies they kept getting

worse and worse and worse

over time and maybe it's

just because I'm I'm

getting older and uh don't

appreciate it as much

plus I'm I'm a guy now that

when I watch a movie I want

to escape from what's going

on in life um I want it to

take me away and kind of

transcend me to a different

place um and that's why I

watch movies I watch it for

the fun like like I watch

reacher for the explosions

and the fight scenes and um

the funny dialogue that's

why I watch it not

Not because it has serious

content that I have to

think about for the rest of my evening.

As Jamie and I were talking

about that last night.

But just wanted to kind of

get your opinions on that.

So, yeah.

yeah so again I've seen one

of the major I've seen dune

two and I saw a real pain

those are the only two

movies of the group that

I've seen um and yeah

that's that's about it uh

corey thank you for the

compliment last night was good stuff cool

Yeah, Dune II was outstanding.

It's probably the best of

the two movies I saw.

I would probably give it the

highest star rating of the

ones that I saw.

So let's jump into a little

bit of CrossFit stuff.

I saw Corey and Jay Birch

talking as I was coming on

that Corey's score is

plummeting down the

leaderboard because weird scoring and...

more people posting.

And I think that's,

we kind of foresaw that

coming into this season

while we have all these good feelings of,

of rich and ripping off

their tearaway pants and

the Rocky shorts and,

and the crowds at mayhem.

One of the missteps I think

we all talked about early

on was that there really

were no judging

requirements for this level of the open.

It's kind of the Wild West.

And, yeah, some people have posted videos,

but I don't think it's

required for the open.

And so we're not going to see a true,

like –

getting rid of the bad

scores until we get to the

in affiliate semifinals

right now though you're

just trying to be if you're

in the elite division

trying to be top one

percent or um twelve

hundred whatever is greater

um I did I missed that in

the rule book until I read

that last night or this

morning I can't remember which

And currently,

twelve hundred is greater

than what the one percent

would be for both men and women.

Men are really close to that.

Women are quite a bit away at this point.

But to be top twelve hundred

gets you to the next level.

Jaybert says,

if you don't go to an affiliate,

you have to submit a video

to submit a score.

OK.

um currently we sit at the

women registered at ninety

one thousand four hundred

uh men we have a hundred

and fourteen thousand two

hundred and fifty with for

a total of two hundred and

five thousand six hundred

and fifty last year I think

we had three hundred and

sixty or eighty thousand

registrants from the open

and this year we are at two oh five

So quite a dip from last season.

But people can still sign up

through eight p.m.

Eastern time, five p.m.

Pacific today.

The last few years,

it didn't matter to me so

much because it would shake

out in quarters.

This year, it's direct to semis,

which means the BS scores

are effing the leaderboard up.

So how many I'd have to see.

So age groups is top two

percent or a minimum of two

hundred people per age group.

Are you still in the top two hundred,

Corey?

uh kenneth says only if you

care about your placing I

can do the workout just

submit the score no film or

affiliate it will just get

invalidated no big deal to

me um and yes he is in uh

the top two hundred

So Dave Erskine says, uh,

when judging video,

I wish I could indicate why

the score needs modification.

So I did not take the judges

course this year.

I do have my L one.

Um, I don't know why I didn't take it.

Um, cause I kind of retired from judging.

Um,

but back in the day you used to be able

to put a note in, um,

So that's interesting.

So you just say modification

or pass or major penalty

and then you move on.

You can't even say like at

this minute mark this

happened or that's kind of crazy.

Holly finally signed up this morning.

There you go.

Awesome job, Holly.

Proud of you.

Dave says, no place for notes anymore.

Man, that sucks.

My bet is that CrossFit

doesn't even look at the

videos for the Open.

They're going to wait until

semifinals before they

really take action on that.

Just a guess, though.

Don't have any facts to back that up.

So for the workout itself,

who had a good workout?

Who did what they wanted to do?

I talked about it last night

on the Sunday night show

with Carolyn and Jamie.

They did way better than I did, of course.

Um,

Carolyn was debating whether she was

going to be doing it again today.

Um, she said,

usually she wakes up in the morning,

gets mad at her score and then, um,

and then decide she's going to do a redo.

Um,

so my guess is Carolyn will redo it

today.

Yeah.

Jamie killed it.

Um,

Uh, Kenneth says,

Jamie did better than

Sydney Wells on the workout.

Jamie just is like, and I bet you,

if she did it again,

she'd get even better.

The more she does it,

the more she learns her pacing.

Um, but she's just, uh,

her cardio never ends.

She just goes better.

She, wow.

Yeah.

jimmy did great I think her

score was what three oh

three um for a forty one

year old that's really damn

good uh craig did better

than uh predicted kind of

says and she did better

than olivia kerstetter that

does not surprise me at all

I think that um

One of the most shocking

scores was Mano Anganese.

And we'll look at the

leaderboard here in a second.

But I did the workout yesterday.

I really just wanted to get

to the fifteens.

My burpees are so, so slow right now.

Coming off the AFib in January.

So I was able to do the dumbbell unbroken.

I was able to do the lunges

fairly quickly for me.

Um, I thought really good actually.

And then the,

the burpees just were so dang slow.

Um,

And then I actually got into

the fifteens and I saw that

I had a chance to finish them.

So I tried to pick up the

pace and I finished with w

w fifteen feet of lunge and

couldn't get the second

fifteen done before the clock expired, uh,

to finish it.

So I ended up with ninety nine,

ninety nine problems in the

bitch ain't one.

So, um, that's what I ended up with.

Uh, one shy of one hundred.

Would have been nice to have the hundred,

but I didn't quite make it.

Um, Kenneth says Tia score, uh,

has to be a red herring.

Uh, Tia is scores.

The most shocking Tia

doesn't care at this point.

Like she just doesn't need

to win the open.

And she did a high rocks this weekend, uh,

that she did care about.

She wanted to crush with,

with her partner.

So I think that, um,

I think she just did good

enough to get a score that

would move her on to the next round.

I haven't seen what her score is.

I will pull up the leaderboard now.

Two twenty nine.

Wow.

Is that good enough?

I'm going to share my screen.

so yeah she has till later

tonight to to correct that

my search has been the

search on this is terrible

there we go yeah she's at

six thousand five hundred

and eighty three that is

not going to cut it that

will not be in uh the top

that will not be in the top

one percent or twelve hundred for sure.

So I'm wondering if she just

put in a score and she'll redo it today.

Maybe that was just a pacing one.

They entered it.

I agree, Corey,

the search bar needs a lot of work.

So, yeah,

I can't believe that's going to

be a real score.

But we'll see at the end of the day,

right?

So if I X that out.

Kristen Holta dropped to

third from last night.

Fee Sagafi in second place

with three hundred and forty three reps.

And then.

Al-Azni Ejiazabal is in

first place with three

hundred and forty five.

So I don't know who that is.

That is interesting.

She is from Spain.

She's thirty one years old.

Pretty impressive.

Still no Iron Hog score.

That is correct, the last time I looked.

How great would it be if Tia

was just trolling everybody?

I think that's what it is.

I think she just,

she probably did like a

walkthrough to kind of see the pacing,

posted that score just so

they had it there,

and then she'll redo it today.

so yeah we have Mano

anganese in fourth place um

I texted Jamie this morning

I'm like man for a strong

girl that's that's a really

good placing for her but

her point was that um that

she would the dumbbell

would just be easy for her

and that that's why Dallin

and Jason are doing so well um so yeah

have lucy campbell uh coming

in in eighth that's pretty

awesome for her marissa flowers man that

One of my favorite athletes

in all of the space.

She's four foot, ten inches tall.

And she killed it at this workout.

This is right up her alley, though.

Three hundred and twenty eight reps.

She's not a young lady either.

Thirty four years old.

Just killed it.

But just the cutest bundle of joy, man.

She is full of energy.

She's full of piss and vinegar.

She is hilarious.

Here is her video.

But she's a tiny little thing.

I'm going to fast forward it a little bit.

That's her four foot ten.

You see how everybody kind

of towers over her,

but she can flat out move.

And she does the two foot takeoff,

two foot land throughout this thing,

which is pretty impressive.

But her range of motion is tiny.

And so this is like right up her alley.

She had to take six steps per lunge length,

which I know like Jamie, who's five, two,

did it in five.

So an extra step on every

single lunge because of her

diminutive size.

Scott, didn't you ever?

She's been on the show a couple times,

and I've interviewed her

after events because she'll

have a couple really good

events at the semifinals

that she just crushes.

She holds the world record

in Fran for females at like

a minute forty-five.

So she's something.

She's just a great person

and love that she's killing it.

Uh,

so apparently Tia only did coming back

and getting grants posts here.

Uh, she only did twelve minutes.

Uh,

and I think she used a fifty pound

dumbbell.

Um,

Corey says apparently Tia started three

minutes late and got to twenty nine.

Uh,

she gave Shane a three minute head start.

Uh,

leads me to believe she isn't competing

for the game season.

She's just messing around.

Uh, we'll see.

Um, uh, we'll see.

Um,

we'll see if she leaves it stand or if

she does it again.

I think that'll be very telling.

Um,

And hopefully she does redo it,

because if she's going to do it,

let's do it.

The messing around thing, I don't get,

but okay.

It'd be a weird way to go out.

That's all.

If you're going out,

why not officially retire

and do it in a way that makes sense?

But anyway.

And Grant, I always get to the comments.

I just got to finish my thought.

That's all.

Can't do everything all at once.

So that was the women's side.

We kind of look through the top ten.

I did want to point out,

I'm going to share this again.

So many buttons, so little time.

All right.

So we talked about Lucy

Campbell and Marissa.

Bethany Flores up there in the top.

Alexis wrapped us now.

I didn't see her earlier.

Elena buds, great athlete, uh, area low.

And I know that Craig said

something about that earlier in the show.

Uh, I are alone post a score.

I know that was in question.

Um, but we have her score here and, uh,

she,

two hundred and three hundred and

twenty reps, twenty seventh place.

Amy Kringle, Gracie Walton, Lucy McGonigal,

Lindsay Lane,

starting to get some of the bigger names,

Rebecca Fusile, Hope Cicero,

Lauren Weeks.

Uh, yeah.

If you're right, uh, Corey, Hannah Hardy,

uh, jumping up there.

Um,

Uh, email company, athlete, doctor,

and all around good dude.

So did she leave misfit Corey?

And now she's hanging out with you,

you Louisiana people

getting a little taste of the Cajun.

So,

so that's the women's side of the

leaderboard.

We're getting a lot more, um,

of the big names in let's

look at the men's side real quick.

Dallin still holding the

lead over George Sterner at

three forty eight to three forty one.

Oldest Supanix is there.

Austin Hatfield still hanging strong.

Jason Hopper.

Justin Medeiros.

And that means that James

Sprague will have finished

last in the penalty open.

So he is the one that will

have to get an aggressive spray tan.

Dark, dark, like Ross on Friends spray tan,

as they said on their podcast.

And Corey clarifies that

she's on the Franco's EMOM

team with Josh Matz, Jordan Kerr,

and Sam Pugh.

Cool.

That's awesome.

They said aggressive.

They said aggressive.

And if you're a Friends fan,

I think that's two twos for

a four and then another

four for an eight.

That's what we're looking for.

Jay Crouch, Taylor Self, Sestoval.

Ben Gerard, Ty Jenkins, Ant Haynes,

Guillaume Briand.

Yeah, that Enrico Zanoni.

So that's your top fifty on

the men's side.

Again, getting a few more bigger names.

Sam Cornier.

Sam Cornier, can I say something?

Cornway A.

And Carolyn and I were

texting back and forth

about this yesterday.

I hate when you post an

Instagram video to tell

people to go to your

YouTube channel and then

your YouTube video is like

two minutes long.

If you're doing short form...

Don't make me jump from one

app to another app.

Just tell me what you're going to say.

Just say you're in, say you're out.

Don't make me go from

Instagram to YouTube to

find out the end of the story.

I hate that.

I know you're trying to push

people to your YouTube

channel and get more interaction there,

but all you're doing is

pissing me off and I probably won't go.

I hate that.

For me, Andrew, though,

it doesn't make me go click.

It makes me pissed off and I

like out of principle will

not go look and I'll just

wait for somebody to tell me.

It's ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

Now, if it was like an hour long video,

that makes sense.

That's sending me over to a

long form piece of content

that I can watch and learn about.

That makes sense.

Don't send me over there for

a ninety second video.

I'm with Kenneth.

I want that ninety eight seconds back.

Yes.

So yeah, the, um,

the leaderboard shaken up pretty good.

Uh, we're getting some,

some decent people in here.

We're getting some answers

to who's in and who's out.

Um,

Corey said, Alexis is living the dream.

Just saw her at a camp a few weeks ago.

Grant says, can't believe Ariel is in.

I was really fifty fifty on

this one because she has

publicly said she didn't

agree with the PFAA and the

way they handled things.

And she didn't agree with

the way CrossFit handled things.

and so with both of those

things being at like polar

opposites um I was I was

curious to see which

direction she was going to

take that with those two

public thoughts um and

apparently she's in um

And that brings me to

something else I was going to talk about.

I just watched her live at

the Arnold this weekend.

And her and Dylan competing

at all the different booths.

Really fun video.

She's getting really good at

doing the fun stuff.

And Dylan is such a character that it...

that it's really fun to watch and he is,

he's becoming as much a

part of that channel as she is.

Um,

I loved his garage door analysis of the

rogue, um, the rogue headquarters, um,

that the doors were great,

but the installation was a

bar that he could do better.

Um, and I've been,

if you haven't been there,

it is a massive,

massive place with massive gym doors,

massive garage, gym doors, all glass, um,

beautiful, beautiful place.

Um, uh, Kenneth,

I thought corn YA retired

after a spilled almond milk incident.

Yeah.

He did announce a retirement

a few months ago that he

was done with individual competition.

And now here we see him back in the open.

So yeah, crazy.

It's a crazy year.

We just don't know what's going on.

Tia gives up three minutes of her workout.

Sam Cornway comes out of retirement.

He wasn't even gone long

enough for us to miss him.

What a wacky season it has been.

But yeah,

if you're bored and you want to

check out a fun video,

the Ariel stuff is good.

I'm curious to know who's

editing her stuff now

because they're doing an awesome job,

and it may be her.

Tristan Patrick,

people in CrossFit love fake retirements.

Therefore,

while everybody was doing the

fake retirement in sports,

I think CrossFit just is

about ten years too late.

We had the Brett Farr fake retirements.

We had the Mike Tyson fake retirements.

We had the Evander Holyfield

fake retirements.

Yeah,

everybody was fake retiring and then

coming back.

So, yeah,

I think CrossFit's just a little

late to the party,

but they're catching on and

they're doing it really well now.

Uh,

so anything else I want to talk about

today?

I think that's about it.

Uh,

short monday if you didn't

catch last night's show

sunday night crossfit talk

as always great

conversation with carolyn

and jamie um we got into

some really cool stuff the

chat was really involved um

that show just keeps

growing and growing and

growing and I thank you

guys so much for supporting

it if you haven't seen it

already check it out today

it's still sitting out

there um uh other than that

uh we'll we'll get

Let you get back to it today.

And we'll be back tomorrow

to do some more lunch with

the Clydesdale.

So with that, get back to work,

you hooligans.

There's more stuff to be done.

And we will see you tomorrow

on lunch with the Clydesdale.

Bye, guys.