what is going on everybody
welcome and good afternoon
to lunch with the
Clydesdale it's a monday uh
of daylight savings time
week uh feeling the effects
of that every single minute
this morning uh but we are
back at work we are
cruising we are doing uh
our thing and uh what's up
cat what's up cory um
Doing our thing here on a Monday,
getting a little break from
the work schedule.
And then we got a meeting
right after this.
So today's lunch has got to be quick,
but we'll get through that.
And we're going to talk a
little bit of the NFL
landscape and free agency,
the money that they are
throwing around and the
health of that sport and how, in contrast,
it looks for the fitness world, CrossFit,
whatever we're doing.
And then we will move into
taking a peek at where we
are on the leaderboard.
On one side,
last week's champ seems to
have posted up a score that
will make her a two-time
champ in the open.
And then we'll look at the men's side,
see where we're at.
Last week's champ has not
posted yet on that side.
So we'll see how that kind
of plays out as we move
through today's show.
What's going on, Andrew?
Did we save the daylight?
We sure did.
It was almost eight o'clock
here when the sun went down
last night and it, man,
it messes with me trying to fall asleep.
So Aaron Frazier says, no,
the daylight is lost forever.
Oh my gosh.
cat has a first date tonight
hiking state park should I
bring a firearm uh depends
on how much you know the
person and did you stick to
your rule that you had to
meet them in person to get
the date or you back on the
apps that's my question um
corey says stay strapped or
get clapped cat uh aaron
fraser always bring the firearm
So she's back on the apps.
Already breaking her own promises.
Always already breaking her own promises.
I'm looking at some breaking
news here from the NFL.
Sorry, guys.
The Chicago Bears just signed the center.
There we go.
We are revamping the
offensive line in a hurry
this year with two trades
last week and a brand new center today.
Yeah, that's pretty sweet.
So I woke up today and do
you ever get that song like
stuck in your head and you
don't know why it's that song and why
What's crazy is it's not a
song I even listen to very often,
but the song that's stuck
in my head is Whistle by Flo Rida.
Flo Rida.
Why would that song be stuck in my head?
And the biggest problem for
me is I don't even know the
words to the song except for whistle baby,
whistle baby.
And so that, so it keeps going through,
keeps going through my head
and I can't get it finished
cause I don't know the ride,
the words to get to the end of the song.
Um,
And so maybe I just need to
play the song fully out and
get it out of my head.
Do you, is that how you get a word,
an earworm out of your head?
Or if I play it,
will it then just get more
ingrained into my head and
I won't be able to get rid of it.
Uh, Kenneth,
I got pink pony club on
repeating my brain.
Oh, that's bad.
Uh,
Aaron says I need to get that whistle
blown.
Uh,
maybe maybe maybe that's
that's the answer to it all
uh yeah just put your lips
together thanks kat uh just
playing it all right I'm
gonna try after this show
I'm just gonna go jam do do
a dance in my dining room
to a little whistle and
then hopefully it's gone
from my head and I'll
update you guys tomorrow on how that is
I just got done watching.
I didn't get done with it.
I was in the middle of
watching the Fronk podcast.
Did you see that the barn roof of the barn,
the gym barn, got ripped off?
Half of it got ripped off
and sent across his field.
And they had standing water
inside the gym.
All that gym equipment
sitting in standing water.
That is...
that is insane to me so much,
so much expense.
And like,
I know my gym is super tiny
compared to his.
I know what I invested in my
gym and if it had standing water in it,
I would, I would be crying.
Um,
I just wonder what the insurance claim
is going to look like.
And if the insurance
adjuster is even going to
understand what the hell, uh,
those items are on the list
of things that were damaged in the storm.
I know when I go to the
doctor they don't even know
what crossfit is or any of
the stuff we do can you
imagine an insurance
adjuster coming out and
trying to figure out uh
what the hell an echo bike
is or um this an ohio bar
or all these things I think
that would be a funny
conversation to have with
an insurance broker so
I know the thumbnail said
NFL free agency frenzy.
That's already gone on.
I cannot believe the money
that the NFL is throwing around.
Before free agency even started yesterday,
teams were signing their
own players or trading their players.
Yesterday alone...
Josh Allen got three hundred
and thirty million.
Miles Garrett got one
hundred and thirty million.
DK Metcalf got one hundred
and fifty million.
And I know I'm missing another one.
Oh,
Devante Adams got like twenty million a
year.
What a crazy, crazy day it was.
And then free agency,
the negotiating period
opened at noon today.
By like twelve or five,
there were already four signings.
The Bears made Jeff Dahlman
the second highest paid
center in the league.
Hassan Redick went to the Buccaneers.
Three hundred and thirty
million to play a game.
I have this argument with
people all the time.
The only reason he gets
three hundred and thirty
million to play a game
because millions and
millions of people watch every Sunday.
And the TV networks can sell
ads for those games that people watch,
and they can make a fortune.
So they are paying that
league billions and
billions of dollars to be
able to air those games.
And because of those TV contracts,
and to be competitive,
the players get their share
of it because they are an
attraction to the game.
That's why they get this money.
If people came to watch me
do my job and they paid so
much money to do that,
then my value would go up
and therefore I should make more money.
But that's why.
I ain't mad at him.
I just think it's wild.
Yeah, I'm not mad.
If someone's going to pay you the money,
you sign on a dotted line, right?
And maybe that's...
that's the attitude we
should take with this WFP thing.
They came in and offered twenty athletes,
forty athletes a chunk of
money to come and play a game,
play a sport,
whatever you want to call it.
Do fitness fast.
And they jumped at that opportunity,
right?
Which I would, most people would, um,
there were a Tia didn't maybe.
Um,
I don't know if anybody else had turned
them down.
Uh,
but if someone's going to offer you the
money to do it, you're going to do it.
But I think what,
what makes it tough right now is,
is that here we sit,
we're coming off of games that wasn't,
um,
that had a tragic event,
and we knew there was going
to be a dip in support for the sport.
Then we have this second
league come on who's
offering everybody money,
and now we have these two
competing seasons.
In a year where we need the
sport to come back,
we have a lot of things going against us.
And I don't hate on the WFP.
They can do whatever they want to do.
It's a free market.
And if they can make it work
with the way they do things,
that'll be interesting.
And maybe it helps grow the sport.
But right now, it just seems like
CrossFit is actually putting
on open announcements that are fun again,
that are emphasizing the community.
They're making the right steps.
I heard on Rich's podcast,
the Safety Advisory Council
had a meeting where they
talked about things.
especially like should
athletes know movements?
Should they not?
What does that do with the games?
Sounds like they're actually
doing things that need to be done.
And that has been a
criticism in the past that
the councils that have been formed have
uh don't necessarily do what
they were designed to do it
sounds like the safety
council is actually talking
about important things for
the upcoming season the
athlete council is putting
out statements and their
surveys and they're
answering the surveys and
they're doing things that
other councils have not
done in the past like we're
making headway
So it's just going to be interesting.
It's something I think
that's going to be fun to
watch how the season plays out.
I watched dense updates this morning.
And her theory is that, you know,
some of the athletes are
sandbagging the CrossFit
game season while doing the WFP.
I'm not sure I would go that
far in my conspiracy theory.
I think that, that athletes know that,
There was a lot of unknown
going into the open.
We didn't know what the
signups were going to be.
We don't know what the prize
payout's going to be.
We don't know all this stuff.
And so they were kind of
reserving the way to
examine what their options
were and kind of slow play it.
just like Justin Fields in the NFL, right?
He has offers from the Steelers.
He couldn't get other offers
from other teams till noon today.
He slow played it rather
than re-signing with them
to see whether or not other
teams would offer him more money.
And so...
So yeah.
So he is waiting to see what
kind of money he would make.
And, um, and so, yeah,
I think that's what the
athletes are doing now.
They don't know what the WFP
season is going to be like.
Um,
And so they're just slow
playing it to see they're
getting some guaranteed money.
They can slow play it,
see what it's going to look like,
how much effort they put
forth in any of these things,
whether BWFP or CrossFit is
anybody's guess.
And we'll have to wait and
see when they come up.
Jody Lynn says.
Who cares?
The CrossFit competition is
going to be awesome no
matter who it is in it.
I don't disagree with you on this.
And I think the unknown fact
of who's going to win even
makes it more interesting.
What I kind of disagree with
is I care to see how it plays out.
That's why we have these shows, right?
I care to see how I want to
see how both play out.
I want to see how they both
attack things to be different,
how they look at revenue streams.
That's something I kind of
wanted to talk about last
night on the show,
but we ran out of time is I
don't think CrossFit over
the years has capitalized
on revenue streams that
they could access to help
make more money and to make
the sport more profitable.
I think they rely on the
stuff that has been done
before and they're not
being innovative about how
to bring in additional money.
And I think part of that is
that they don't look
outside their own house as
to how other people are
doing some things that are
actually really good ideas.
And so what's going to be
interesting to me is if the
WFP does something that is
of value and brings value to the sport,
Will CrossFit be humble enough to say, hey,
that was a good idea,
we should implement it?
Because none of that stuff
can be trademarked or
copyrighted other than CrossFit the name.
I guess WFP could be copyrighted as a name,
but you can't copyright revenue streams,
things of that nature through the sport.
So that's what I want to see.
This is the exact example.
I was thinking of Kenneth DeLapp.
Doing a tailgate stream like
Rogue did is such an easy
way to make some dough.
I completely agree.
When you do it as well as Rogue did it,
people are willing to pay
twenty five bucks for a
full weekend of getting
different camera angles,
getting a different studio show,
getting different stuff like that.
That is a way to make money
that CrossFit is not taking advantage of.
I also think that another
one that I've brought up is
CrossFit has never done
Jersey sales well.
They've never delivered on time.
They've never delivered in a good way.
If you go to any other sporting event,
there are T-shirts or
jerseys or whatever
polluting the audience.
I went to the Olympic swimming trials.
T-shirts for different
swimmers were being worn by
tons of people in the
audience or in the crowd.
You go to a baseball game, a football game,
a basketball game,
jerseys are being worn everywhere.
The only thing that CrossFit
sells in their store
typically are things that say CrossFit.
You have that copyright.
You're the only one that can
do a CrossFit Games jersey
because it has CrossFit in it.
They could do jersey sales
and give a percentage to
the athlete just like they
do in the other sports.
And that is a way to make
money for those athletes and for you,
the big entity.
But it takes too long for them to do it.
And maybe if this B-to-CrossFit,
whatever it is,
over near buys them and has
an apparel company,
they can be more equipped
to do things like this,
capitalize on a different revenue stream.
And that's one thing I don't
think the WFP is doing awesome with.
Their merchandise right now is just WFP.
They've known who their
signed athletes are for a while.
They could have done Jersey sales,
things like that for the
people to do that.
That could have been written
into their contracts.
And all that you see are WFP merchandise.
They could have put the WFP
logo on a Jersey with Emily
Rolfe or with James Sprague
or whoever their signed athletes are.
And it would be easy because
you know who they are so
far in advance and you
already have a contract with them.
Craig says,
really good quality replica jerseys,
top-bottom compression shorts,
and socks would be cool.
Yes, so much so.
I completely agree.
And people would buy those.
When Christy owned our gym
and she made her shirts for a competition,
she would sell the hell out of them.
And everybody wore Christy
jerseys throughout the gym.
So, yeah.
Emily Rolfe is a boss.
She sure is.
Emily Rolfe is really cool.
Did you guys see the Emily Rolfe?
She only drinks in the off season, but,
and then her chugging, what,
what is that called?
Smirnoff ice after the
twenty two point two twenty
five point two announcement in the middle,
like in a lunge in the
middle of the comp floor.
It was freaking awesome.
yeah I have a jamie shirt
too they came out well that
was thick boy thick boy did
that um made a really nice
replica-ish uh type jersey
it was really cool uh yeah
she probably got iced she
did it was cool and she
chugged it like a boss too so
I will buy Jamie's t-shirt
this season to Fofford.
Well, you'll hear it here first, Craig,
you're always here.
You'll know if we offer another one.
If she goes to the games, I am sure that,
that we will do another shirt for her.
But I do know that her
priorities this year are
more about her son's senior
year in high school.
So she's got to get through
that and get him into college.
And,
But hopefully she is able to
do both this season.
But her priority is really
her son this year.
And she said that on our show,
I think a couple weeks ago.
But she took sixth in the
first open workout in our division.
I'm sure she's going to do fine this week.
She'll make it to the next
round where she will do better.
um and hopefully she
qualifies and we'll see her
here in columbus if not
hopefully she comes to
columbus and hangs out with
me and we do our coverage
down here when all that's
going on so so I just think
that that everything's kind
of at a crossroads and it
and crossroads means not
that it's going to be bad
from here on out
It could be good.
We could have an uptick of
things with everything going on this year,
or we could have a downturn.
I think it's the time.
It's a crucial time where
CrossFit has to take
advantage of what's out
there and make those
changes to get that uptick for the sport.
And it's going to be fun to watch.
Fun to watch for sure.
So let's take a look at the
leaderboard and where we
stand at the current moment
with twenty five point two.
On a side note, Scott,
my wife was hit by the
return to office policy in Texas,
so it looks like we are
moving back to Austin.
That sucks, dude.
Do you still have your house there?
I hope so.
And how much longer does she
have till retirement age?
I'll tell you what it's done
for me has made me really
kind of look at all the
retirement options I have.
And you don't have the house.
Oh man.
What it's made me do is
really look at retirement options.
What are my options?
When can I make, when can I make the jump?
Fifteen years.
Oh, that's brutal.
See, I know like in the state of Ohio,
as long as I'm working from home,
I just have to be within
the border of the state to
continue to work my job.
I could move anywhere in the
state of Ohio.
But if I return to the office,
it has to be here in Columbus.
And I'm assuming that that's
the same for your wife.
And that is just, that's just brutal.
tell her I feel her pain so much.
Cause I know like I made it
through this phase of the, the,
the problem, but it is going to,
it's going to come back and
bite me at some point.
I know that I'm going back at some point,
um,
because the momentum is just too great
at this point.
Uh, and it kind of,
Cause my daughter lives in Pennsylvania.
My, my mom lives in Pennsylvania.
We thought about moving back
there since I worked from home, but it,
I'm not allowed to be
outside the Ohio border and
they have actually busted
people here for doing that.
Um,
because they can tell from your IP
address,
if you are in the state or out of
the state.
And, uh, yeah,
we had some people move out of state,
try to work,
continue for the state and
they were promptly fired.
So I hope you find a good solution,
Jay Birch, man.
So on the women's side,
I'm going to refresh this
since we are on the final day.
Um, Heidi says to Jay Birch,
wouldn't it be better just
to get a new job?
Um, yeah,
it depends on how many years you
have and how close you are to retirement.
Those are the things that I
had to look for.
Uh,
uh denise my husband had
back surgery february tenth
and I've been working from
home to be his caregiver
yeah we're not even in for
my job if they find out
you're a caregiver you are
not allowed to work from
home you actually have to
take fmla or be off for
that um thank goodness when
my wife had knee surgery my
boss was like listen
You're not going to need to
take care of her twenty four seven.
Just kind of tell me when
you need to do stuff and
take leave just on the
times you need to do that.
And he was super cool with
me and kind of like under
the table allowed me to to
get away with that.
So.
Yeah.
They're really strict here
about that stuff, and I don't know.
I don't know why.
They're so not friendly, so.
We look at the leaderboard
as it stands right now.
Miriam Von Rohrer, as predicted,
is sitting in first already with a .
So she won the first week.
There's a lot predicted that
she would pull the double.
Right now,
she's sitting at four eighteen
with a gosh,
what a twelve second lead
over Anika Greer at four twenty nine.
Fisa Goffey, four thirty.
Daniel Brandon, four thirty five.
Maddie Sturt, four thirty six.
Claudia Gluck, four thirty seven.
And those are tight.
Alex Kazan, four forty one.
Andrea Solberg, four forty two.
And then you can see Lucy
McGonigal and Rebecca Fuseli,
Lucy Campbell, Marissa Flowers,
Ariel Lowen, Alexis Raptus.
Spiegel, Wells, Kristen Holta,
Kyra Milligan,
Sarah Sigmundsdottir having
a pretty good performance
this year in the open.
Elena Caratalla, Trista Smith,
Sydney Wells, Olivia Kerstetter,
Christine Best, Emily Rolfe,
Alison Scuds.
Shelby Neal, Caitlin Sanders, Amy Kringle.
So that is your top fifty
with highlighting some of
the women on the women on
twenty five point two.
So then we look at the men
and this is where things
get a little bit.
Oh, they've already they've removed them.
So there was a two minutes
and eighteen second person.
And in the time since we've
started the show, that has been removed.
So Austin Hatfield now sits
in first with a four sixteen.
Jace Peck with a four
eighteen and Colin Bossard
with a four nineteen.
Then it's a jump to Jeff
Adler at four twenty six.
Tied with William Rios at four twenty six.
Kale Lehman, Peter Ellis, Dallin Pepper.
Fabian Benito, Jay Crouch, Jonah Koski,
Justin Medeiros, Jason Hopper,
Ricky Garrard, Harry Lightfoot,
Caden Hogan, nineteen-year-old, uh,
really having a good open, um,
Bruno Marins, uh, Leonel Franco,
Sam Cornway, a oldest Supanix,
Scott Pancheck,
the old man sitting in
there with a sub five, a Nola Kai,
Seth Stovall, Roman Krennikoff,
George Sterner, uh,
no MMA guy in the video this week.
Such a disappointment.
Uh, Ben Fowler, uh,
Jack Rosema, Tanner Balazs,
William Leahy IV,
and Enrico Zanoni round up
your top fifty.
Um,
same for me just doing the kin care
hours for when I need to help him.
Yeah.
I'm glad they're letting you do that.
A good two, isn't physically possible.
I don't give a damn how fit you are.
Yeah.
Denise,
I'm glad they are looking at those
odds scores.
Me too.
And they're quickly removing them.
Like that has never been a thing, uh,
in the past that I remember
where it went up and down
within an hour or two.
Um,
Denise says the top score in
sixty five to sixty nine
seems implausible.
Well, let's look at that.
So if I go age group.
Sixty five to sixty nine women.
A six oh five.
And the next score is ten fourteen.
And there sits our Denise
and fourth at ten twenty one.
Yeah, that that doesn't seem plausible.
That there's someone four
minutes faster than everybody else.
They'd have to be a really, really fit.
Really, really fit.
Sixty five year old to whip
out a six or five.
That actually beats Jamie's score.
I know if you haven't seen it,
it's out on YouTube.
You can check it out.
I don't see a sixty five
year old being as fit as
Jamie in a workout like this.
But congratulations, Denise,
that's a great score.
I'm thinking it was their tie break time.
That is entirely possible.
that's way better than my tie break time.
So, so yeah,
so that is the leaderboard
where we stand today.
Um,
It's going to be interesting
to see how it all plays out.
I know everybody's waiting
for the Colton Merton score
to come in and see if he
wins two weeks in a row.
I think that is completely possible.
But I also think it's just
as possible that someone is
going to have a hell of a
weekend and be able to beat it.
There's just too many fit
people in the world.
um and that's what makes um
mirham von rohr so
impressive that right now
she's sitting in position
to win two in a row um I
think that is insane and if
she pulls it off if colton
pulls it off wow that's
something then I think the
question becomes later in the week
Is programming diverse
enough to find the fittest to move on?
If the same people are
winning the workout week after week,
have we programmed it right
to find the fittest to move forward?
And that has been the crux
and the issue with the Open for a while.
So I will wait and see what
happens tonight.
But after that,
we can talk about are we
doing the best to find the
right people to move
forward on to semifinals?
Because taking that
quarterfinal step away from the season,
I think the Open is more
important on who gets to semis.
So that is going to be fascinating to see.
Well, with that,
I do have a one o'clock meeting today.
So you hooligans get back to work.
This has been lunch with the Clydesdale.
We will see you tomorrow.
Bye guys.