Clydesdale Media Podcast

We use our lunch hour to have conversations about what is going on in the world and more specifically the CrossFit space. Today we talk about the 25.1 announcement. Today is the day to find out if I work from home going forward or return to the office and what are the plans for the weekend.

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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.

what is going on everybody

welcome to lunch with

Clydesdale glad to be

spending lunch with you all

um been watching the Arnold

strong woman competition

this morning as Corey's

been talking about in the

chat and I didn't really

have this on the agenda but

we saw something pretty

amazing at the end of the

women's deadlift and so I give you

A world record attempt at

six hundred and seventy one pounds.

Some of your top lists are

going to do that.

You know,

your body kind of gets a little chatter.

Well,

then it brings it out of that bar

even more.

And then it just kind of

didn't see where it just

started whipping her.

And then it popped her hips

out and then you're out of the way.

Pulls you down.

That's it.

It will just take you forward.

The Arnold is going on here

in Columbus all weekend long.

I used to be a part of this

as part of their security

team for the bodybuilders

and haven't been back in a few years.

But man, it is.

They have expanded the strong man,

strong woman area.

It is more seating and it is packed today.

So here we go.

World record attempt.

We're down to our final two women.

One pound.

Andrea Thompson and Lucy Underdown.

World record weight on the

bar right now at six

hundred seventy one pounds.

And this is just her second

of three attempts.

This is incredible.

Let's go, Andrea.

Come on.

Let's see this.

I have hip check Ric Flair

doing security at the Arnold.

And I put him in there.

Come on.

Let's see.

Look at this crowd getting out.

Look at this crowd.

It's all went to their feet right now.

And a new world record.

They want to see it.

Come on, Andrea.

Everyone on their feet here.

Oh, yeah.

This crowd.

Look at this.

Thousands of people packed.

All on their feet.

Cell phones in their hands.

They want to see it.

Come on, Andrea.

Make it happen.

Let's go.

Here we go.

Come on.

Dig in.

Let's go.

Big fight here.

Come on.

Big push.

There we go.

Easy.

Andrea Thompson,

a new world record at six

hundred seventy-one pounds.

Strap in.

This is going to get really good.

Game on.

Let's go.

How about that?

Six hundred seventy one pounds.

New world record at the

Arnold Strong Woman

competition this morning.

The men are about to take

the floor in a few minutes.

But dang.

What the heck?

It's funny because back in the day.

I watched this with the men,

and it used to be in the vendor area,

just in the back of the vendor area.

And it was kind of like a

few seats and then standing room only.

Now it has its own dedicated area,

and it's probably got five

times the crowd.

And this is for the women,

not even the men, and it is packed.

Okay.

Corey says, actually right here,

I'm going to pause it.

I was still running on my,

the next person actually

attempts five more pounds than she did.

So let's take a look at that.

six hundred seventy six

pounds which then would be

a brand new world record

Oh my goodness.

And now another new world record.

Six hundred seventy six pounds.

Damn.

I have never lifted anywhere

near that much.

My back hurts just watching this.

Good gravy.

what an amazing performance

uh from the strong women at

the arnold um just powerful

strong women damn and the

crowd is just electric

electric uh and corey says

the knurling on the bar was

so new it messed up her strap

I hate lifting with straps.

I really do.

Um, but I know they do it, uh,

through this all the time.

Um, so, but with that much weight,

I guess you need,

you'd need your grip

strength just couldn't handle.

And I know the men are going

like even bigger.

So that is amazing.

That is amazing.

Six hundred and seventy six pounds.

Insane.

Um, so yeah, that's,

that's the kickoff of the Arnold today.

Again, the metal be going in a little bit.

Uh, and I,

and I believe that Thor

Bjornsson is going for the

world record today, um, in this deadlift.

So we will, uh, we, so we will, uh,

see that maybe later today.

So, uh, pretty awesome,

pretty awesome stuff.

If you think about this,

in the two thousand sixteen

games where they went back

to the ranch and they did

the deadlift ladder,

it ended for the men at six

hundred pounds.

And Sam Dancer struggled

with that six hundred about

as much as she did with six seventy six.

Now I know she is more of a specialist.

Um, however,

Sam's pretty damn strong and

just in comparison, how crazy that is.

So, yeah.

So what'd you guys think

about the open announcement yesterday?

Um, it was at mayhem.

It was very nostalgic.

Uh,

I really thought that they

did a good job with the community, um,

high-fiving the community

as they came out, um,

letting these athletes who

work out at mayhem get to

be with their community

during that event.

Um,

I think that is what needs to start

being showcased more than

just the athletes.

Um, and then,

I I will admit I may have

like put on a great show

I've been to two open

announcements myself um I

was at both at Rogue um and

I felt like this and they

were both very very

exciting two thousand I was

there for the Christie and

uh Carrie Pierce doing

I want to say, eighteen point one,

eighteen point two, maybe one of those.

Uh, and then I was there for, uh,

Laura Horvat and Emmett

Lawson and Saxon Panchik

and Justin Medeiros for twenty,

twenty-two point something, maybe.

Um,

So I really, really enjoyed this one.

I thought that was the one yesterday.

They did a great job in

highlighting the community,

highlighting the people,

getting the crowd involved.

And then with Rich jumping

in on the workout,

as cheesy as it could seem,

and the Rocky Balboa shorts,

I was in one hundred

percent for all of it.

I love Rich.

I'm a big Rich fan.

I've been critical about

Mayhem being too involved.

in this year's games but in

the moment in the hype I

wanted all of it I wanted

the balboa shorts I wanted

him to rip off his shirt I

wanted all that stuff and

then currently he's sitting

seventh on the leaderboard

which is pretty damn

impressive for a master's athlete

Um, I, I, I hear you guys on the sound.

The sound was, my sound was okay.

Um,

I know I was talking to Charlie

yesterday.

His was horrible.

Um,

so I think depending on what you were

listening to or through,

it was better or worse.

Um, but yeah, I,

Yeah, I get it.

The sound was not great.

Um, but if they could get that nailed in,

um,

the bar is set high for next week in

Arizona.

It'll be interesting to see

what they do there.

Um,

hopefully they take a note and it make

it very community driven.

Um, and I think that is,

that's the way to go with

this going forward.

Um,

cory says rocky balboa short

sales are up three hundred

percent I know when I was

watching the post show with

mayhem uh they're looking

into sourcing those shorts

because the demand was

pretty high um and it did

have a mayhem logo on it so

I think they're gonna try

to do that aaron frazier

says rich needs to be the

face of crossfit he needs a role at hq

Well,

I think whether he wants to be or not,

I think he is.

Anytime he gets involved,

he becomes the face of CrossFit.

The man has done everything

from affiliate ownership to

a media team to being an

athlete in every aspect of the games.

All of that,

I think he is a person that

needs to be involved for sure.

What that role is, I don't know.

But

I do think he needs to have some say.

And it seems like he is kind

of poking around the rumors

or he's slightly around the

rumors of everything going on.

So who knows?

We may get our wish when the

next group comes in to buy

that he is a part of that.

trained to live, love the announcement,

would have loved another

elite female going with Haley.

Yeah,

we talked about that Sunday night

on... Carolyn was very adamant about...

that we need to have elite

males and females at every announcement.

But I do agree.

Haley kind of got lost in a

shuffle because of the race

between the three men.

She just kind of became an afterthought.

And I think if she would

have been able to race another female,

that would have been

something to watch and then

given more highlight to that.

And then it tells us like

what an elite female is

capable of in this workout.

And then like this week,

we're getting two females and no males.

So we won't have any male

perspective on this week's workout.

And I think Carolyn said

that very eloquently on

Sunday night show about that,

that it's good to see what

the elite athletes can do

and kind of where you are.

Back to the rich topic.

He's one of the few who

understand what CrossFit

and the community has given

to him and is doing what he

can to give back.

God bless the man.

I hear this a lot,

like what CrossFit has

given you and that you need to give back.

I don't necessarily agree with all that.

There are opportunities out

there for everybody,

and he took advantage of

those opportunities.

And then he himself built a

business with a good business plan.

It wasn't because he owed

CrossFit anything.

It's because he loved what it was.

He loved the methodology.

He took advantage of that

opportunity and he moved

forward with that.

I'm kind of one of these

people like the world

doesn't owe us anything.

You take advantage of

opportunities where you can,

but we're not owed anything.

And maybe I'm in the minority on this,

but I do agree with you

that he is the right person

for the job because he did

take advantage of those opportunities.

He saw what it could do for him,

not only as an athlete,

but as a business owner.

And he took advantage of

those opportunities and he

aligned himself with the

methodology and he believes

it works and he's pushing it forward.

And I think that's why he's

the right person for the job.

I do get all of that.

I get it.

But I'm not in agreement

that just because you were

successful that you owe something back.

That's all.

And I agree.

He didn't forget where he came from.

He didn't forget how he came

up through the system.

And that's why he's successful.

But he's not owed anything.

He doesn't owe that back to anybody.

He just took advantage of

his opportunities.

That's all I'm saying.

He has taken advantage of

even more opportunities

because he understands what

it did for him.

Just not the owing thing is

a term that I don't agree with.

Um,

Craig asked,

how much involvement did Froning Sr.

have in the development of Mayhem Nation?

I don't think,

other than he is the resident fix-it man,

I think that's it.

I think it was Rich and

Darren kind of putting it

all together along with

some of his very close

friends that built Mayhem

to what it is today.

I do agree with this.

I don't think he,

he does not think he's

bigger than the sport.

I don't think he,

I think he isn't bigger

than the methodology either.

That's, that's a key.

Rich knows the community is

more important than the sport.

I do.

I do agree with you on this, Andrew.

Completely.

Um,

trained to live.

I think what's most

impressive is that Rich did what he,

what we did when other

athletes weren't all about

it for the money sponsorship, et cetera.

And he continues to build.

Well, and even he said it himself, like,

and I think maybe it was

him or Facundo on Coffee

Pods and Wads who said, like,

it's okay to want to make money.

It's okay to want to make money.

And we've got to get away from this.

We're like being brutal

towards people about

wanting to make money.

Affiliates have to make money to survive.

HQ has to make money to survive.

The athletes want to make

money because people come watch them.

All that is fine.

But you have to do it with

the right mindset.

So I really thoroughly,

thoroughly enjoyed yesterday a lot.

But another thing I wanted to bring up,

and I'm going to,

pull this up real quick.

I was looking at the

leaderboard today and one

of my other favorite

athletes popped out to me

when I was looking at the leaderboard.

really I I was doing this

because uh hillar put out a

video of george sterner

doing his open workout

which if you haven't seen

is hilarious uh there's a

guy in a gym just kind of

walking around him as he's

doing the open workout like

just kind of staring at him

and uh it's just insanity

and really really funny so

go check that out if you

have a few minutes it's

really really short um so

anyway I was looking at the

leaderboards this morning

because of that to see if

george was still number one

and I went over to the

women's and who's number

one on the women's side kristen holta

Kristen Holta,

and she put up a score of three.

I think that's like second

on the men's leaderboard.

That beats Hatfield's score, Taylor Self,

all of them.

Dang.

And she's, what, thirty-seven,

thirty-eight at this point?

And she's still, like,

just knocking it out.

She is one of the most

impressive athletes I've ever met,

ever got a chance to speak to.

Um, Kristen is, is freaking awesome.

And the fact that every year

in her retirement, she goes in,

does the open and kills it

every single year.

It just is,

just blows me away and is so impressive.

So impressive.

And it goes back to,

if you were watching

yesterday's announcement right before,

they showed this video that

I talked about a few weeks

ago with Becca Voigt

talking about how your

CrossFit career should never be done.

and that she hopes that

someday she is doing the

seventy plus division.

And the reason she goes to

the games every year is

because that's just what

she's always done.

And there are things that

she can't do today that she

could do years ago,

but she's still going in, training it,

doing all this stuff, um,

and then putting her scores

out there in the open because that's what,

that's what she does.

Uh,

when she coaches every day

and she owns an affiliate

like Becca Voight's another one that, uh,

is very much like rich on

the female side.

Affiliate owner has expanded

her gym tremendously over the years.

Um, has been to the game.

Um,

And she is freaking phenomenal.

If you did not see the video

before yesterday's announcement,

they showed it twice.

It's out on YouTube.

It is awesome.

and uh corey's right she did

say uh I do not plan on

stopping competing anytime

soon and she talks about

being right across in the

corral from the seventy

plus athletes and them

saying we're so glad we get

to come and show people

what our bodies can do at

seventy plus years old uh

through the magic of

crossfit and she said

that's the stuff that

inspires her uh to keep

going and keep doing it um

So yeah, I think Rich is awesome,

but there are a lot of

people in this space that

have done very similar things to Rich.

He just won the games four

times as an individual and what,

six times as a team.

Becca Voigt has been to the

game sixteen times.

She's an affiliate owner.

She's a coach.

She lives and breathes what she preaches.

And it's beautiful to watch.

And she's one of the kindest people

human beings you will ever meet.

Um, so yeah, if you didn't check that out,

please check that out.

But yeah, Kristen Holta killing it,

killing it in the first

workout of the open.

Uh, any thoughts about the workout itself?

Um,

I think Jamie is going to

crush this workout too.

I think both of my co-hosts

from Sunday night will

crush this workout.

This is right down both of

their wheelhouses.

I cannot wait to see what

they do this week.

I think Jamie will be able to

go dark longer because of

her endurance and carolyn

is an absolute burpee beast

and her lunges are so fast

um and that that dumbbell

is not going to slow

carolyn down at all uh so I

think both of them are

going to crush it I would

actually put a little bit

of money on carolyn beating jamie

but I think it's going to be close,

like super close.

going to reach out to them

and see if they're both

going to video it and maybe

on sunday night we can do a

side by side of how it goes

and let them talk about

like where it got tough for

them what they were

thinking in these moments

um but carolyn is super

secretive about her score

until close so I don't know

if we'll get that from her

but it I think this if I

were to pick a workout for

them to be evenly matched

it would be this one

So that's going to be interesting.

Train to Live says,

should we make bets on their reps?

I think both are over three.

But I don't know how far

over three they would be.

Yeah.

Kenneth says thirty six.

You think three thirty six

or you think round of thirty six?

I would think they're both going to be.

Three twenty to three thirty

somewhere in there.

Oh, I don't think round of thirty six.

That would be insanity.

What?

Austin Taylor Rich made it

to the round of thirty.

To get another round of

thirty three and then a

round of thirty six.

I don't know.

It's trying to live and I

are in the same ballpark.

I said, three, twenty to three thirty.

He says three fifteen to

three thirty or she.

I'm sorry, trying to live, I don't know.

It's hard to see in your profile,

so I apologize if I misgendered you.

Yeah,

but I think right in the same in the

same ballpark.

But yeah,

I'll talk to them today and see

if they're willing to videotape.

And we could do a

side-by-side with them talking about it.

I'm kind of with Jody Lynn.

Please, dear God,

don't let me get to the

round of thirty-three.

Yeah.

I'm telling you right now,

I have not pushed intensity

that hard this winter.

So I'm just hoping to survive.

This is definitely not a

Clydesdale workout for sure.

For sure.

But I think it's a good workout.

I think it's a good test for

the open opening part of the weekend.

Uh, it's a good high rep,

high volume workout that

should separate itself

enough on the leaderboard.

Um,

I'm with you, Slater.

Slow and steady, that's for sure.

Yep.

That's where we're going.

Slow and steady.

The dumbbell for me is not

going to be hard because I

am now fifty five.

So the RX is thirty five.

And that should be pretty easy.

It's the burpees are just

going to wreck the hell out of me.

So, yeah, there's all that.

Craig says it canceled out

some of the open workout

repeat predictions.

Yeah, big time.

Corey getting inside baseball information.

Jamie just told me she's

usually right around where Rich is,

so that's what she's aiming for.

I wish once in my life I

could say that I was right

around where Rich was.

Just one time.

Just once in my life.

Yeah.

So on another note, away from CrossFit,

I know so many of you have

been waiting for this news,

but today is the day that

we found out if we were

going back to the office or not.

If we were in the first phase,

our governor signed an

executive order sending all

state employees back to the office.

but there were some

exceptions and one of those

being that if you no longer

have a building due to cost

savings you could be exempt

my building was their lease

was not renewed so I had a

chance to make the

exception and I did I made

the exception in the first

phase so I am not going

back to work in the fir

going back to the office in

the first phase

of this return to office

initiative so I've I've

staved off returning to the

office for a couple more

months probably until there

is another budget that can

allocate money to get

another building or

something like that um so

again they have to have the

money to do it and that's

all that's been the problem all along is

Our governor touted all the

cost savings by getting rid

of these buildings.

And now to get the people

back into the office,

they have to rent out or buy buildings.

And it would be very, very,

very hard to do that under

the current budget constraints.

So, uh,

Jody says it would be hard to pod

at a government building.

It's funny you say that

because I actually had made

plans on how I would do it.

Um,

And if the weather was nice,

I could just go outside.

the building they're in right now is

downtown Columbus,

right across the street

from the state Capitol.

And the state Capitol has a

beautiful outdoor lawn.

Um,

and I was just going to go down and sit

in the state house lawn.

And I, um,

was going to purchase an iPad to

be able to run the show

from and do it right there

live on the state house lawn, uh,

for my lunch with the Clydesdales.

Uh, uh,

But thankfully,

I don't have to do that yet.

And if I do go back,

maybe I am in a different

building that's not

downtown and maybe has some

convenient ways for me to

go out to lunch and do the

show real quick.

So we will see.

But I had made plans to keep it going.

But right now,

I just don't have to

implement them at this time.

So, I don't know if you guys heard,

but at the NFL scouting combine,

two media members got into

a fight at a Starbucks restaurant.

And the funniest,

and they both were NFL insiders,

meaning the guys who kind

of get wind of the

information that is happening,

like a trade or a signing,

and they break the news to

Twitter or to ESPN or to Fox or whatever.

One of these reporters is

actually the son of the

owner of Starbucks.

The other one is a longtime NFL insider.

The son of the Starbucks

owner was releasing

information about a player,

and the other guy was

refuting it as soon as he released it.

They get to a Starbucks and

I guess have a heated

exchange in the middle of

this Starbucks because the

guy is refuting his stories

back and forth.

And it comes to blows to a

point where NFL security

had to be called and

they're doing an investigation.

Why I find this funny is in

the CrossFit media space,

while I don't think anything

has ever come to blows,

there has been stuff like

this behind the scenes that

just cracked me up.

And I,

and I am not exempt from being a

part of it.

I am sometimes quick to temper and I don't,

I don't always show this on this show,

but that like when people

mess with me or my people,

I get really pissy.

And, um,

and there's one person in particular, man,

that every time I take

anybody female with me to an event,

they treat the females like shit.

And it really pisses me off.

And when that person gets a

preferential treatment or gets, uh,

extra stuff,

I just get livid and I start

going off on people.

Um, and so, um,

It was amusing to me to see

that in the NFL, this big,

massive media market, this big,

massive sport,

they get into these tussles

at a local Starbucks to the

point where NFL security

had to be involved.

I thought it was hilarious.

no punches were thrown, nothing like that.

But, uh, he did exchange for sure.

And the one guy was like the

owner of the son of the

owner of Starbucks is six, four.

The other guy's like five, five.

So it wasn't even going to

be like a fair fight.

It was, but,

and that would be kind of

similar to what would

happen at a CrossFit thing

with me because the person

I always get pissed at is

way smaller than me.

Um,

but nobody can get under my

skin faster than this person.

And I know there's been

public stuff around the

media in CrossFit with the

Savant podcast and Talking

Elite Fitness and Morning Chalk Up and

know everybody the spin all

that stuff there's all this

kind of back and forth

stuff brian friend and

hiller there's always these

like things but there's

more behind the scenes that

people don't have a clue

about and uh it's it's

really really hilarious

And it's actually probably

gotten to the point where

this year I'm re-examining

what it is of what kind of

content I should be putting out.

And do I need to go fight

those fights or do I just

need to move on to something different?

So it's upsetting because

I was the first guy at

semifinals to interview

athletes as they came off the floor,

other than whoever the

broadcast had hired to do

it from the stream.

I'm the one in the dark

hallway interviewing

Rebecca Fusile or Ariel

Loewen or Christy Aramo or

Justin Medeiros.

and throwing those up on

instagram as soon as I can

I did it at syndicate crown

I did it at granite games I

did it at west coast

classic I was doing that

like before anybody was

doing that and now like

everybody's doing it and

now it's like this like

fight to get this person or that person

and people feeling that

they're entitled to get

this person over you or whatever.

And when I've taken like

either Jamie or Kat or

Cheryl with me to those events,

and they're treated like

crap every time they try to

get an interview,

it just really freaking upsets me.

And it's made me,

and I think that I am going

to do things differently this year.

I think I'm going to focus

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