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Well, it's Tuesday.
We got a lot to talk about,
but not sure really what we're going to
talk about.
But we're going to dive into it next.
Yeah, we always come back.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
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It's lunch time!
What's going on, everybody?
Um, yeah, Abba Frank's back with it's,
it's the Clydesdale singers, man.
They make it all happen.
Again,
where do you think your subscription money
goes to?
Uh, Chuckie cheese for lunch.
There's one actually not far from home.
Uh, I can't,
I cannot believe there's still a lot.
There's still, it is still not just like,
it's not just the building it's open.
It's open.
You pass by,
there'll be cars in the parking lot.
Hexy lover, hip hop, hooray, ho, hey, ho.
Yeah, everybody's all fired up.
Good to see everybody here.
So I went to the cardiologist this
morning.
You talked about you took your daughter to
the ENT.
I walked in, got weighed,
got hooked up to an EKG,
still in rhythm, see you in three months.
Peace out.
That's pretty close to my experience,
except I'm willing to bet your
cardiologist is not an hour and fifteen
minutes from your house.
uh it's every bit of a half an
hour and traffic on the way home was
every bit of forty five minutes yeah all
four five seven minute appointment no
jameson had the ear infection to end all
ear infections uh over the weekend
jennifer brought her to see a pediatrician
saturday got on some antibiotics and some
antibiotic ear drops but it was still
bothering her so or ent the fact that
we even have an ent is
Nothing in and of itself.
Anyway,
one of Jennifer's best friends from high
school is married to a dude who's an
ENT.
Brad, good guy.
Anyway,
but his office is an hour and fifteen
minutes away.
So they want to see her because they
are the ones that put the tubes in
her ears the last time and they actually
made him stay just in case it didn't
get any better.
Well,
it didn't seem like it was getting any
better.
We brought her over there and turns out
it's fine.
saturday they couldn't see through like
into her ear to see her eardrum because
of the you know inflammation and whatnot
she said i mean the doctor this morning
was like no it looks fine just keep
doing what you're doing it'll be all right
so that was three and a half or
so hours basically out of my morning for
them to go you guys are doing a
great job
Moving right along.
Yeah.
Everybody's saying it's awesome news.
It is awesome news.
Good news.
Great news that I'm back.
I'm still in rhythm.
But then I got this little,
this little cherry on top where I hopped
on the doctor scale and it read lighter
than my home scale.
Thirty minutes before.
And I was wearing shoes and had stuff
in my pockets.
Let's go.
And you just like when that happens,
just like.
Yeah, God bless Tuesday.
I saw a rainbow on Saturday,
and it must be shining on the house.
Gotta love it.
Gotta love it, gotta love it,
gotta love it.
That's when you bring that scale home.
Can I brawl this one at all?
It's one of those big, like,
where it has, like,
the handrails for the people that can't
stand, you know?
I don't even know if it would fit
in my car.
Eh.
Better gravity in the office.
Yeah.
Yeah.
um no no i sold i donated all
my football cards or sold them all off
a couple years ago so um
I want to get into the judging story
before we dive into all the stuff.
We've talked about how ridiculous it is
that people are posing as other people in
this whole judging thing.
And CrossFit seems like they are finally,
finally taking a stand and sanctioning
athletes who try to skirt the judging
requirement.
Or just blatantly lie.
Now,
we can debate how ridiculous those rules
are, but they are rules.
Correct.
And people are not abiding by them.
and so yesterday it was reported on the
barbell spin that three more athletes have
been sanctioned one is the infamous hillar
video with the guy who had someone pose
as someone else and um
I still,
that's still the athlete gets sanctioned,
but the person that posed as someone else
and the head judge all got sanctioned.
Everybody,
but the person they were supposed to be
impersonating.
Because she had no clue.
Yeah.
Cause they said night, nine,
nine percent chance.
She had no idea that was happening.
Uh,
there was a teen athlete that falsified a
birthday.
Which, again,
and that was in South America, right?
Yeah, Brazil.
Yeah,
there's a lot of that happening down
there.
It's happened for the Little League World
Series on several different occasions.
Yeah.
When that six-foot-four kid that's nine
years old in the Little League World
Series.
With a beard.
Yeah.
And a baby.
And then we had another edited video.
Which I did not know about until I
read that video yesterday.
I read that article yesterday.
Felipe Cabral got a four-year sanction for
editing a video during the age group
semifinals.
And his profile has been deactivated on
the CrossFit Games website.
Shocking.
Um, so you can read,
if you want to know more details, uh,
the barbell spin has that up on their
website.
Go check that out there.
Everybody knows my stuff is always going
to be good.
If you've ever seen any one of my
reels on Instagram,
you know that I'm not that good at
editing.
Plus my scores aren't ever that aren't
ever that amazing or people will go,
this is dude is either on drugs or
he's editing his video.
Neither one.
Uh, Joseph Ramirez.
I had a beard and little leg,
but no baby though.
I didn't in little league.
By the time I got the senior little
league, like freshman year high school.
Yeah.
I'd like a beard.
Did you really?
Yeah.
If I shaved all of this off today,
it would take a month for it to
grow back.
Not saying that this is a real thick,
healthy looking facial hair or whatnot,
but I have a baby face.
If I shaved all of this off today,
it would take quite some time for it
to grow back to where it is right
now.
I did not need to actually start shaving
regularly like until I was probably twenty
six, twenty seven.
Yeah, I am.
I could shave today and by the end
of the week have a pretty good beard.
Shit, I wish.
You know how many razors I go through?
Like, whatever your dilemma is,
you always want the other side.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Right?
Just as mine grows back fast, yeah.
The old Robin Williams line,
I have five o'clock shadow at nine a.m.
At nine a.m., yeah.
Yeah.
It's one of those problems I've never had
and I wouldn't mind having necessarily
because my wife thinks I look fantastic,
but thinks I look really weird without a
beard, but good with one.
I started shaving in fourth grade because
I was that weird kid with facial hair
already.
Never even was close to being a problem.
I did have it.
um shana is pointing out that last year
there were these two she corrects the name
below also had all of her videos dq'd
last year because of judging issues that's
the name naria areiji it sounds like
something you'd order at a spanish uh
italian restaurant i thought it was a
sushi roll um
Listening to a brief in one ear and
Clydesdale in the other.
Well,
you better not get a no rep because
you didn't pay attention in the brief.
Pretty sure she means legal briefing.
Oh.
Okay.
That's not that important.
A legal brief isn't that important.
I mean, I could be wrong.
Yeah.
People have been...
The whole like forged birth certificate
thing, that's been happening for years.
People did it to get in the military.
People did it to play little league.
And then like addresses for high school
football.
Because you want to play for this school
instead of that school.
Well, I really live.
This address is my grandma's house,
but I can say that I live there
because I'm there all the time.
So, yeah.
Anyway, big crackdown.
And apparently they've been doing it for a
little while,
but it just seems like it's much more
aggressive this year.
As it should be.
Like you said, dude,
whether you believe in the rules or not,
or you think it's overkill for all the
judging and all the whatnot,
they are what they are.
Everybody's got to follow them.
Yes.
Does it suck?
It can.
Absolutely.
But
They're the rules.
I also think that it's ridiculous that
airline highway is sixty five miles an
hour.
But if I do seventy, seventy three,
seventy eight,
I'm probably going to get pulled over.
As I should be,
because those are the rules.
Yeah.
Well,
let's take a quick look at the team
leaderboard.
Yes, let's do that.
So the thing I dislike the most is
I wish CrossFit would put at least the
last names of the people on the team
underneath their name in the box.
So I posted that clip yesterday of us
Sunday night talking about how we can
change the teams up to make it more
interesting, right?
Yep.
And...
one of the things is I don't even
know who are on the teams and I
don't know the affiliates enough to care
which one gets in.
Cause I don't know who's on that team.
I can tell you,
I'm really glad about number two.
So I think, and Rafter Rafter ran,
he changed his name to an Allie,
you know,
the person that's married to Allie Scuds.
Got it.
Um,
commented that he thinks that the pro team
should be like one is Red Bull,
one is FitAid, one is whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
And then it may change a little bit
from year to year,
but then you have a team that you
can root for all the time.
Right.
I like that for name recognition.
I don't like it for the detachment from
affiliates.
Yeah, same.
I get it.
I understand where he's coming from.
It'd be a little bit easier to follow,
but then it just takes away from the
affiliates.
And the teams and affiliate club,
it should be more linked to the affiliates
than the amount of athletes that are
trained from training camps that are not
de-affiliated,
but not necessarily associated with an
affiliate.
Whereas the teams...
ones that are playing closer to the rules
actually are even though you can make a
team out of whoever um I tell you
Solidarity CrossFit base camp I know two
people on that team let's go Hannah Hardy
and uh rather good to my uh to
my people
um uh crossfit body blueprint no idea took
took the win uh solidary crossfit took
second q-twenty-one crossfit uh crossfit
eleven twenty-four i saw at syndicate
crown okay uh crossfit reiki vic crossfit
reiki vic a name so nice you got
to say it twice uh crossfit fort van
gover and ar-one crossfit ar-one team
Those are the preliminary qualifiers for
the CrossFit Games.
The leaderboard is now locked.
And video review is beginning.
Underway, yeah.
We should have some kind of answer in
the next week or two.
Solidarity just missed out.
They were also at Seneca.
Yeah.
I saw Hannah there, so...
But anyway, again,
it's really hard to get very emotional
about all this when you don't even know
who's on the team unless you are connected
to it.
Yeah.
And that's another thing we've lost with
regionals.
When you would go to regionals back in
the day,
because all the teams were from your
region...
You knew the big gyms.
Like here in Columbus,
I knew CrossFit Grandview,
and I knew CrossFit Polaris,
and I knew Friendship.
And then you had Mayhem,
and you had all those teams that it
was pretty obvious who they were.
Yeah,
whereas this is just like we got some
people.
They're on a team.
Yay.
The point spread is wild.
Yeah,
it's thirty six points to forty seven
points first through seventh.
Wow.
Yeah.
Eleven points.
Tight race.
I don't think the story is lost if
you actually follow the teams.
Most people nowadays say F teams.
What I'm saying, Ortega,
is less people follow the teams because
they don't know who it is.
I think the people that do follow teams
like me,
I follow the team that I know people
on.
And I would probably care a lot more
about the other teams if I knew who
was on the team.
The only other team that I give a
damn about that is qualified right now
is...
Allison Scud's team because she has been
working for so long to try to make
the games as an individual and finally
made it at, you know,
been on the demo team, what, twice,
three times, something like that.
I don't know if it's that much.
And finally made it.
So, like,
big shout out to her because that's kind
of a big deal.
Everybody,
I think everybody in this space has been
rooting for Allison Scud to make the games
for quite some time.
But other than that, dude, like,
I couldn't tell you who's on the team.
The fact that
I know that Mayhem does not have...
Good Lord, what's his name?
Angelo.
Angelo.
That's kind of wild in and of itself
for me.
There's a Mayhem team,
and Angelo DiCicco is on a team,
but he's not on the Mayhem team.
That's about the only other thing.
That's maybe three things that I know
about teams.
The team that I care about...
The fact that Allison Scott's made it and
the fact that Angelo DiCicco is on a
team.
That's not the mayhem team That's it.
So
I have friends in the space.
Caroline Klutz is a huge friend of mine.
So I was rooting for her and the
Mayhem crew.
Taylor Blaz,
I interviewed way back in the day,
who's on her team with her.
I love Jack Rosamund to death.
He's on that team with them.
I've tried to interview Stevie Dellinger,
but can't get a response on Instagram.
CrossFit whip.
I actually took their team picture after
syndicate crown.
Nice.
So I got that connection there with
Angelo, Molly and the sure.
The married couple.
Yeah.
Got it.
Mr. Demeester's Zoe and Sam Demeester.
And then of course,
Alison scuds and RAF have been on this
show as experts in the past.
And yeah, it's Tanner.
I'm sorry.
We'll take it.
Yeah.
Had to be up early to get to
the doctor this morning.
Oh, dude, it's been a whole day.
It's been an entire day.
I get it.
But again,
I think there's a lot of connection lost
because of the way the season is
structured now.
And it's one of those reasons you have
to look at how the season is structured
again if you want it to succeed at
all.
Oh, don't worry.
They'll look at how it's structured,
and they'll change it again next year.
There's one thing we can count on.
My fear is the one year they decide
to run it back again will be the
year I hated the most.
Yeah,
we had dinner with some friends of ours
Saturday night and sitting there talking
to Bernard and talking about next year and
qualifying for the games and whatnot.
And he's like, you do it online.
They're taking however many more people
than from in person.
I said, B,
we have absolutely no idea what they're
going to do next year.
We know what they did this year.
I said from talking to Boz and a
couple people at Magic City, yeah,
we're still doing in-person for us next
year.
But when is it going to be?
How many people are they going to take?
When is online going to be in relation
to in-person?
No idea.
I feel like we'll find out sometime in
the middle of football season.
Kenneth says, I think it's Zoe.
Well,
when I told her to say cheese and
I called her Zoe, she answered to it.
Sure,
she's probably been dealing with that for
most of her adult life.
Actually,
probably most of her life in general.
And I think I'm right, actually, Kenneth.
And I'll be able to prove it because
one of the Mrs.
Clydesdale interviews is with her mom.
I am so curious to see.
And I think she calls her Zoe in
the interview.
I have it all downloaded.
I just have to do some final edits
to it.
Not a big deal.
That's one of the things I will patiently
wait for is to see the Mrs. Clydesdale.
Yeah.
The Mrs. Clydesdale interviews are.
Yeah.
Cause she's,
she's over there looking for Ben Smith
and.
She doesn't even,
she wouldn't know Ben Smith if he kissed
her on the cheek.
My wife does not know anybody.
So she just went up and talked to
everybody.
Just fantastic.
Can I, that's even better.
So she,
she talked to Haley Adams grandparents.
Sure.
They, they actually refused her interview.
on what grounds they said that they were
not allowed to talk to any media at
all so i wonder if the switching of
camps what like everybody was on lockdown
and i'm thinking if they only knew that
my wife has no idea what a camp
is no not at all what
Anything is.
Was she wearing like a Clydesdale Media
shirt?
She was.
Okay, that's probably why.
Because other than that,
she'd have just been like, hey,
I want to talk to these people.
And probably would have been more than
happy to talk to her not knowing that
for the weekend she was technically
Clydesdale Media.
She was.
J.Y.
was correcting Tyler on weekend to Zoe.
Like Scott is saying,
I don't know who is right.
Truly,
I have footage of her mom saying her
name.
And I would,
since she is the person that named her.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with that.
I would go with her pronunciation.
That would be my first instinct is to
go with her mother calls her.
I'm going to tell you who's this thing
I'm not going to go with.
Tyler Watkins.
That dude mispronounced stuff the entire
weekend.
Just saying,
just making up words as he went along.
Love him to death.
But Jesus Christ,
he was just saying stuff.
And then you would hear John Young be
like, that's not how you say that.
Jason Bourne says Haley wasn't on the
mayhem behind the scenes.
Cause she went to brute like four weeks
before.
Yes.
That's there's a solid reason for that.
All right.
So let's, I'm going to preface this with,
I don't,
I don't get into programming like a lot
of people,
so I'm not going to analyze this stuff
at all.
I don't care.
And my opinion is when you play sport,
you're given a test,
and whatever that test is in front of
you, you have to complete it.
Whether you like it, hate it,
or what not.
Or indifferent.
Good, bad, or indifferent.
The test is what the test is.
Yep.
So here are the events for the individual
elite semifinals for this weekend.
And it starts with event one,
which is eight team, fifteen, twelve,
nine, six, three of hand cleans with one,
two, three, four, five,
six reps of rope climbs.
I like the inverted rev scheme.
Big fan of that.
Always have been.
What's the weight on the hand cleans?
I think you asked me this three times
yesterday.
No.
Probably.
It's eighty five one thirty five.
Eighty five one thirty five.
All right.
My only my only beef with this one
is the minute I saw hand cleans,
I was like,
did you not watch the video review process
of the age groups?
Negative.
But that.
I hope my hope is that people with
terrible moving quality get
get you know whatever called out for it
stand your cleans up stand your cleans up
it's real easy to get your elbows through
get your elbows through finish your reps
because it is super easy to get going
with these these are light hand cleans
it's super easy to get going with these
and just end up you know finishing still
standing in a partial squat instead of
going all the way up and through
Um,
event two is thirty lateral burpee box
jump overs, forty calorie row,
thirty deadlifts, forty calorie row,
thirty lateral burpee box jump overs.
The deadlift is two twenty five three
fifteen.
don't understand the point of putting
lateral in there i really really don't
like do they need to did you do
you need really need to differentiate
between box facing and not because if
you're doing box facing you're going to be
on a most people are going to be
in a angle that gets close to the
box anyway now you're just saying now
you're just forcing them to stand next to
it is there a step down
I think it is.
I think I saw somewhere it is a
step down.
But I think what the other piece is,
it's about clearing the hips on the
burpees, right?
Maybe I'm wrong.
When it's box facing,
is the standard different?
That's the only thing I could think of
at all.
So if it's a step down and you're
forcing them to go lateral...
so jeremy says they're not forcing you to
go lateral either way is fine lateral
facing it just doesn't seem to make a
difference to me like saying lateral
saying box facing whatever if you're going
to force a step down well if it's
box facing remember that remember the line
that like half of your body had to
be on each side of the line oh
yeah like by saying lateral you get rid
of that standard
so maybe that's it i don't know i
don't know i'm just trying to think of
oh and it's thirty inch and it's step
down dude we had for age group semi-finals
two years ago we had those stupid step
down off the box from a thirty inch
box jump
I don't know if you've met me or
not,
but I have a thirty inch inseam like
the top of my hips or not at
the top of the box are pretty close
one way or another.
And it's the most awkward thing I've ever
done in CrossFit that I can honestly say
it just it feels so weird.
come all the way up, jump,
and then it were box jumps.
So you had to stand all the way
up at the very top and then figure
out a way to spin my hips and
step down without actually hopping down.
So I didn't get a no rep.
It's so silly.
Yeah, it's, um,
I have a twenty-eight inch inseam.
I'm five eleven with super short legs.
Um,
That is insane to me.
But you know how you can fix that?
Carolyn's coming out with plyo by Prevo
this fall.
Plyo by Prevo.
Okay.
And that will condition your ankles and
Achilles to be able to handle jumping down
off of a box.
I would love that.
Jumping down is fine.
Stepping down is the problem.
I know.
That's what I'm saying.
We could avoid these injuries if you do
plyo by Prevo.
Got it.
Got it.
I love it.
Plyo by Prevo.
It's also very, very catchy sounding.
Good job, Carolyn.
Yeah, I like that a lot.
Coming out this fall.
Be on the lookout, folks.
As he said on Sunday night,
she doesn't have anything else to do, so.
I like that.
Lord knows she ain't got nothing else to
do.
Three seconds on a Tuesday,
she decided to create a new program.
A hundred percent.
Lord knows she's not busy enough.
She's going to come out with some
programming.
That is fantastic.
um all right so workout three three rounds
of thirty wall ball shots a hundred foot
handstand walk one hundred double unders
then three rounds of fifteen wall ball
shots fifty foot handstand walk and fifty
double unders I like that and it's a
thirty pound wall ball it's a thirty pound
wall ball twenty pound for the women yup
good
Good.
It should be.
And the fact that everybody's throwing to
a ten foot target,
it makes me happy as well.
Yep.
Not a fan of double scaling.
Sorry, ladies.
Not sorry.
Double scaling is stupid.
Carolyn would fight you on that because I
got into one with her about it,
just so you know.
That's fine.
We can have that discussion.
I ain't scared of Carolyn,
mostly because she's in Canada and really
far away from me.
You can be as cool as Carolyn by
doing Playa by Prevo.
A hundred percent.
A ten-foot target for the women, too?
Yep.
Corey, you're no longer my little brother.
It happened.
Sorry, Big.
It's ridiculous to scale it twice.
Event four.
Five, four, three, two,
one reps of snatches.
Five shuttle runs,
fifty feet after each set.
It's going to be quick.
So this is really, really front loaded,
right?
Five, four, three, two, one.
Super front loaded.
As soon as you get past the three,
the speed is going to be super fast.
People are going to be flying through
there.
I get that you have to test running
in some shape or form.
This is kind of a weird way to
do it.
Yeah, it is, I guess.
This is kind of a weird way to
do it.
This is not necessarily I would have done
it,
but this is also why I'm not in
charge of any kind of programming as far
as that's concerned.
But all this is,
is the shuttle runs are in the way
of the snatches.
Because what is it, two twenty five?
Yep.
One fifty five to two twenty five.
That's going to be super fast.
People are going to be flying through
that.
And then the final workout,
twelve nine six thrusters, muscle ups.
And if you listen to the CrossFit
Sportive Fitness podcast yesterday,
Boz actually wanted to bring back the last
chance qualifier workout from twenty
twenty two.
Yep.
Where it was intervals with like ten
muscle ups into max thrusters and then
some number of thrusters into max muscle
ups.
It was bar back then.
Which Dave told him to keep it simple.
Yeah.
And I thought that was simple.
That sounds so simple, dude.
And it was fun to watch when people
posted the video.
Well,
because people are going to fall apart.
Because it's a short window.
It's like, what, two minutes?
Get as many as you can?
Have as many bar muscle-ups and then
finish your thrusters and you have like a
two-minute break and then go again for two
minutes?
Dude, that is simple.
And to me,
that sounds like don't get me wrong.
This is fun.
I will probably do this this weekend.
Thrusters and muscle ups all day long.
I'm not going to do the what is
the what's the men's weight?
One eighty five.
One eighty five.
Yeah,
I'll probably scale it out to one fifty
five and do the master's version of it
that nobody asked for.
But I just gave you.
But.
Because this looks super fun.
But what Boz was saying, dude, like,
I wish he would have fought back a
little bit because that one sounds like a
whole lot more fun, a lot more exciting.
People are going to blow up.
People would also post some ridiculous
scores.
The judging aspect, I kind of get,
you know,
people watching videos and now we're
counting in, well, was that a good rep?
Was that a bad rep?
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
But the one that he ended up going
with, I mean,
you're still doing thrusters and
muscle-ups,
and now that's ring muscle-ups.
which there's going to be people fading
away all day long,
people not locking out at the top all
day long.
So like,
you're going to have judging issues in one
way or another.
Why not go with the one that's going
to be probably more exciting to watch and
faster.
David Johnston says, don't scale Corey.
Let's compare times.
You've got range of motion on him.
I do have range of motion on him.
He also has forty pounds of muscle on
me.
Have you ever met David Johnson in person?
I have.
He looks like an action figure.
I have.
He looks like he was carved.
He could have been He-Man in the new
movie that just came out and it would
have been,
nobody would have batted an eye and be
like, oh yeah,
that's what that guy looks like.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
He has a better haircut than He-Man,
I will say that.
Yeah.
Um,
I don't want to sound like a Dave
defender,
but you are really handcuffed with online
workouts.
Sure.
And I can't use some elements because it
creates a judging nightmare.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You can't program a five K for your
run inside of an online qualifier.
It's just not going to happen.
Right.
I just feel like the shuttle runs were
just kind of thrown in there instead of
like,
It was like, oh,
should we make them roll a certain amount
of calories?
Oh, no, let's make them run.
Okay, well,
what kind of run you want to do?
Let's do five shuttle runs and then five
snatches, and then we'll go down five,
four, three, two, one on the snatches.
Make the snatches do twenty-five.
Like, I could have came up with that.
But just because you can come up with
it doesn't mean it's not like he's
superhuman.
No, no.
I get it.
It's a simple workout.
It is going to be effective.
It is going to be brutal.
It's going to be faster than people.
You're going to have to run faster than
you want to get back to the bar
because it's a weight that all those
elites are going to snatch if you don't
run quickly.
Especially once you get past the three,
then you're really going to have to pick
up the pace on the back end.
So David Johnson says,
what about let JR program the games that's
being floated around?
Won't happen.
I think if JR starts programming the
games,
people are going to be critical of him.
Wouldn't matter who programs the games.
We are CrossFitters.
We love to bitch about whoever is doing
what does not matter.
Micah could program the games, uh,
Because I'm telling you, at Syndicate,
I hated semifinal Chad.
It was horrible to watch as a spectator.
Which one?
Semifinal Nate.
Nate.
Yeah.
Everything's in the rig.
The only thing you saw were double
kettlebell snatches.
Right.
Everything else is hidden inside the rig.
It was a shitty workout to watch.
It's a great test for the athletes.
But that's where you're caught in this
conundrum.
Right?
How do you make a good test that's
pleasing to the eye for the spectator and
pleasing to watch on the stream?
And is also a good test.
Right.
Because there's stuff that would be fun to
watch that is not a good test.
I give you the softball throw from was
that twelve, thirteen, whatever.
I would have enjoyed watching that live.
If for no other reason than to watch
people who can never clearly never thrown
a ball before who are like these Titans
of fitness, they strong, super fast,
whatever.
And the ball goes to feet in the
wrong direction because they've never
thrown the ball before,
but it's not a good test.
It's literally just how far can you throw
us off ball?
Well, and,
And it could have been the design of
the rig, too.
Like,
if we could find a way to get
the handstand push-up plexiglass on the
outside of the rig,
that's what we were actually seeing.
But they were inside the rig.
So everything was inside the rig.
yeah we did need at magic city and
on the rings stepped out in our plexiglass
was right there to do our handstand
push-ups again and you just advanced our
your dumbbell down down so same type
except instead of everybody being inside
the rig doing handstand push-ups we were
outside the rig where people could see
them doing their handstand push-ups here
here's the problem clock is that dave said
i don't care
And he was talking about his own reaction
to a question and now it's been clipped
and Hiller puts it after everything.
It doesn't mean Dave said,
I don't care to everything Hiller has
mentioned.
It's just the soundbite that gets played
after everything.
So now we've confused what Dave cares
about and what he doesn't care about.
Yeah.
Yeah, there you go, Mark.
It's the same as oh well.
Or is this true?
Right.
We don't even remember the original
context of what it was being said for.
Not at all.
Not at all.
I know it's funny.
I want it as a gift.
Like I really,
really wanted to be able to send people
whenever they give me some news and I
can just send them a picture of Brian
Friend going, is this true?
Like I really want that to be a
thing.
Right.
Clock, it's okay.
It's a joke.
It's just a talking point.
We're a live show just hanging out.
It's just a thruster.
I still love you, Clock.
I still love you.
Keep them coming.
It's just a thruster and everyone knows
what that is.
Right.
The fact that he got her to say
it's just a piece of pizza...
It was outstanding.
What's that?
On one of Hiller's videos,
he got her to say, it's just pizza.
Oh, yeah.
It's just a pizza.
Everyone knows what that is.
The best clip of the week came from
you yesterday.
I cannot believe that's the thing that got
clipped.
Which one?
A dense clip that pizzas like sex.
Oh, yeah, I did see that.
Here's the thing.
That's accurate.
I mean, fine.
Clip it.
Put it out there.
But it's true.
Unless you don't like pizza.
You know who doesn't like pizza?
Communists.
That's it.
Full stop.
It's the only people that don't like
pizza.
So I was watching something where Siobhan
was talking about that Jenny clipped him.
And when he heard it back,
he was like, man,
that is not how I wanted that to
come out.
But, like,
do I contact Jenny and talk about it,
or do I just let it roll or
do whatever?
Yeah.
And I'm thinking, well,
welcome to the club, because...
And here's what the reaction is to me
every time we get clipped.
It's never in context, right?
No.
Because you can't fit context in a
ninety-second reel.
No.
You just can't.
Or fifteen seconds.
At the end of the day,
did I say what she clipped?
I did.
So I said what she clipped.
How can I now be pissed that someone
clipped it?
uh kenneth the lab says you're supposed to
make five response videos well he needs to
make a response video and then jenny has
to make a response video and like it
needs to go back and forth like go
up to the elm creek beach and make
another response video with my microphone
yeah or you can fly to hawaii and
do it i mean whatever if you want
you want to make it uh accurate as
far as that as far as that goes
Oh, that is fantastic.
Yeah.
And again,
and we've said this a million times,
engagement is engagement.
don't care if,
if Scott gets clipped or if I get
clipped saying something ridiculous, good.
If it brings more people over here and
gets more people involved in what we do
over here every single day.
Good.
You know, the one that, when,
when I said the boys interrupted,
I had boys interrupted fatigue.
Oh God.
That gets, that gets clipped short and,
And I was actually bitching about
CrossFit, not The Boys Interrupted.
And The Boys Interrupted don't watch the
show.
I know they don't.
And it's fine that they don't.
Doesn't matter.
But I wasn't mad at them.
I'm not fatigued by them.
I'm fatigued by them being used by
CrossFit.
It's just like Hiller put out this amazing
behind the scenes at Syndicate Crown,
right?
And there's Ian over there filming.
And I know we're going to get behind
this road to the games, Syndicate Crown.
And what is he going to show that
I haven't already seen?
I'm super curious for when it comes out.
I'll put it to you like that.
I cannot wait to see what actually is
on there.
And if it's just,
if it's like a different camera angle of
what Hiller already showed us.
Yeah, it's going to be, yeah,
it's going to be interesting.
Sten is right.
People don't care about context.
I know.
That is a sad reality because it's
headlines and fifteen-second clips.
And it's no wonder the world's fighting
because all you get to hear is fifteen
seconds of a thirty-minute conversation.
And media people, not us,
actual media people,
know that and therefore put out stuff that
doesn't matter what's in that article,
whether or not it's real or not, right?
It's clickbait.
And people love it.
The more wild, crazy,
sensational it sounds,
the more people are going to want to
read it.
The more people are going to want to
see it.
And the idea of the clip is that
it makes enough interest that you want to
see more.
And then you go watch the full thing.
But that never happens.
I mean, it probably does happen,
but not in the way that it's intended.
Not as often.
Not as often.
David Johnson,
let's do a master's road to the games.
You can watch me drink a latte,
then take a nap.
People can relate to that, right?
I'm going to tell you this much,
David Johnson.
I can't because I just drank that ghost
and I can go to sleep right now
if I needed to.
Yeah.
Mark Phillips,
that's why I like platforms that sometimes
have a little AI fact checker or summary.
AI is a whole other ballgame.
Oh, yeah.
I'm not getting into that.
Yeah.
I wish I could take a nap.
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And it's third party tested and it's got
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Help you recover and help your hair and
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protein mostly does for me is get my
nails to where I got to clip them
like once every once every week.
It's insane.
Uh, Jacob says I'm not parched.
I'm third Z. Ah, there it is.
If Jacob doesn't have kids, he should,
because that is a dad is a world-class
dad joke right there.
Uh,
pizza would help put you to sleep too.
Yeah.
The comparison of pizza puts me right to
sleep.
It depends on how much pizza we talking
about, Joseph.
Yeah.
Like one slice is not gonna put me
to sleep.
that's all that's all i have in me
these days is one slice of pizza yeah
the days of the sixteen inch large with
extra toppings is way over dude the the
pizza joint that we frequent um down here
like you order your own right it's like
a twelve inch or sixteen inch by the
way i wasn't talking about pizza i'm aware
okay
uh is fantastic and that's it that's an
entire i'll eat the whole thing i don't
i have no shame whatsoever i will eat
that before we leave the restaurant it's
it's rare that i'll be like i'm gonna
bring two pieces home my wife looks at
me like i just broke my leg while
we were sitting at the table for some
reason uh geez
I'm trying to get Jeremy.
Caffeine no longer works for me.
Is this when I pivot to cocaine?
Maybe you want to find something in
between.
I'm just saying.
Maybe you want to find something in
between.
Papa Frank wants pizza now.
Good old New York style slice.
Dude, people say they have New York style.
Unless you're in New York City,
you ain't getting the real thing.
I've never had a slice of New York
pizza like I had in New York City.
That's fair.
And you can wash down the pizza with
some thirdsy.
Now that'll get you to sleep.
Yeah.
A quick, a quick, a quick, a quick,
a quick, a quick, a quick, a quick,
a quick, a quick, a quick, a quick,
a quick, a quick,
Do you really?
Yeah.
No, we have, oh, what's it?
It went from malls to gas stations.
Moving on up in the world.
If I wasn't trying to remember it,
but like gas station pizza around here,
it's all toppings, no extra charge.
And like it's in damn near every gas
station you run across down here.
It's hilarious.
It's all, oh yeah,
that is an office reference.
um i felt like that's how some of
the game stocks became back in the day
too though just a bunch of road to
the games clipped into the games workouts
yeah it they found a formula and they
just kept doing it the one from i
think it's twenty fifteen that starts off
with uh
Jesus Christ,
a little Canadian girl that won a year
before.
Camille LeBlanc.
That starts off with Camille pushing a
sled up in the side of a mountain
somewhere.
That one feels like that.
That one feels like they just took a
bunch of road to the game stuff and
then put in workouts in it.
And then as they something brothers.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Thank you, Amanda.
Anyway, and then as they went, you know,
they kind of refined their process a
little bit and made it more,
I won't say watchable,
but more of what you expect to see
now.
See, I'm the opposite.
I like that raw.
Oh, I enjoy it.
I don't know.
It is what it is.
That's the redeemed and indominant, right?
That's when Ricky popped.
No, that's seventeen.
I think that's when it kind of jumped.
I don't know.
I enjoyed that one just because like
as they are going they're talking about
steroids performance enhancing drugs and
whatnot and then halfway through the thing
they're like oh yeah by the way this
dude didn't actually do what he said he
or like that was pretty great uh meg
i think the answer is pizza yep um
Anyway, I had some other stuff for you,
but it wasn't CrossFit related,
so we'll save it for another day.
Yeah,
because Lord knows we can't get off the
rails around here.
Yeah.
With that,
I got to get back to work.
You knuckleheads get back to work too.
And we'll be back tomorrow for another
episode of Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Keep it jazzy.
I wouldn't wait to get to the editing
room to jazz me up.
I'm already jazzy.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
Talking to reps,
real life strength in the battle.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
Midday motivation every time we press
call.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
heat.
CrossFit, movies, music on repeat.
Half hour hustle, yeah,
we building that brand.
Rebel.