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what's going on everybody
it's a cajun cooking week
wednesday with our friend
cory what's going on
everybody what a day man I
had to get up early because
we're still down to one car
I had to get my allergy
shots this morning and I
had my wife is back to the
office so I had to be back
in time for her to take the car to work
And they've implemented a
new policy that when you
get your allergy shots,
you have to sit in the
waiting room for twenty
five minutes just to make
sure you're not going to pass out.
Yeah, make sure nothing crazy happens.
Now,
I've been getting these shots for a
year and I have had zero
ill effects in a year.
But still,
you got to wait twenty five
minutes to find out that
you're not going to die on the way home.
I was just at this point, if I were you,
I'd be like, look,
I'm going to wait outside.
That's what the policy used to be.
But everybody just got in
their car and went home.
Yeah.
And I have my EpiPen.
Like if something goes wrong,
I'm ready to stick it in my thigh.
I got it.
Good to go.
Good to go.
One hand on the wheel,
one hand on the EpiPen.
When did we get in this
country to a point where
like instructions aren't enough?
We have to mandate that you
sit here and we have to babysit you.
Two words, trial lawyers.
Trial lawyers.
Same reason why, was it McDonald's,
had to start putting that
the coffee was hot on the
cup because apparently
people didn't know.
I burnt my legs with this coffee.
Well, yeah, it's coffee.
Do you remember when the
ruling first came down and
the cup that McDonald's
handed out said caution hot
like seventy-five times around the cup?
written all over it like
they're like you wanted
this here you go yeah five
percent five percent
careful what you ask for uh
charlie says they should I
should tell them to put
some real goodies in those
shots that good good stuff
I actually spent time with
three dogs a couple
weekends ago and did not
have trouble breathing.
So we're making some headway here.
Breathing is still some goodies for me.
That's the performance
enhancement I'm looking for.
I'm going to tell you right now, Scott,
breathing as a thing is
underrated in general.
And it shouldn't be.
and it should know it should
not be taken for granted as
much as it is but breathing
isn't is probably an
essential yeah I would say
it's still my top two
things to do today like
pretty much all day I'd
hate to see what number one
is if breathing fell to two um
One other thing before we dive in,
we started a little bit early today.
My apologies.
I have a meeting right at
one o'clock that I can't be late for.
And it's a,
it's actually an important one.
Um, so, uh,
we started a little bit early
today cause Corey and I can
never not shut up.
Um, but yesterday, uh,
Ken Walters was in the, in the,
in the chat and he was talking about, um,
about how Mrs. Leonard and I are now BFFs.
That was not Ken Walters.
That was Kat Scheer.
Yes, Kat.
Kat,
so I showed Jennifer the show Saturday,
and we laughed.
Jesus Christ, did we laugh.
And she said,
I feel like I need to be
friends with this woman.
And I was like, you absolutely should.
So she went searching for
her on Instagram.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
And if you want to see
episode two tonight at five
o'clock Eastern time,
I will have a cat live
talking about six first dates.
Six first dates.
Yeah.
I think she promised like
text messages that have
happened back and forth before, during,
after those six first dates.
I cannot imagine because
people are insane.
Well, if you didn't think they were insane,
go watch episode one.
That's sitting out there now.
And you'll learn that the
dating world is flat out insane.
She does not have any single
brother's cat.
Sorry.
So yeah, yesterday Ken was talking about,
he was having a shrimp
omelet with horseradish.
Nope.
And I made the statement
that horseradish is the
single most
underappreciated condiment in
the bag of condiments.
What I was thinking about last night,
because I think about this show a lot,
is truly, if I have a great sandwich,
a great sandwich,
I don't like any
traditional condiments on it.
No mustard, no mayo, no ketchup.
Now, like some tomato, some horseradish,
things like that.
Okay.
Great.
But if the sandwich is constructed so well,
I don't need to hide any of the flavors.
That's fair.
And I feel the same way about a burger.
Like if the burger is really, really good,
I want to taste the burger,
not any condiments I put on it.
it would have to be one hell
of a burger now I now I
would still put like cheese
tomato those types of
things on there onion um
but I do not want the
traditional condiment on it
it would have to be it has
to be one hell of a burger
and and the bread would
have to be also phenomenal
to go with it for me not to
add because what kind of
burgers are you eating that
do not live up to that story
if I'm making some for meal
prep that aren't necessarily, you know,
dripping with fat and, and, and whatnot.
Yeah.
Turkey burgers need.
Yeah.
Turkey burgers need condiments.
I'll give you that.
Or the really lean beef.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You got to give some moisture to the, the,
the story.
And it's not even so much for the burger.
It's for the bun.
Cause I cannot do dry bread.
Like I need something on it,
but maybe that's, I don't know.
Maybe that's just me.
jody lynn whoa way early
yeah we went fifteen
minutes early today um
again I have a big meeting
at one o'clock that I
cannot be late for us and
corey and I talk a lot so
um I decided to go a little
bit early so I didn't want
to cheat my time with my
friend from the south um so
I just went early so we
could chat a little bit
Uh, no time.
I mean,
I could change it to noon permanently.
I don't know.
I just,
the twelve fifteen kind of works
because my lunch hour hits at twelve.
It gives me time to kind of get down here,
get everything set up and everything.
Um, it's just today today.
And just to be transparent,
I'm my evaluation is at one o'clock.
My annual evaluation.
Yeah, that seems important.
Not the thing you want to
show up late for.
Not generally speaking.
Yeah.
Um, so I just moved it a little bit today,
so I'm not late for my yearly evaluation.
Fair point.
So that's that.
And because of what happened last week,
it was actually scheduled last Thursday,
um, which got bumped stroke.
So I've already pushed it.
Now I just need to,
I need to go and be there
on time and get it done.
so yeah um one quick uh
verification I found out in
the comments from the show
yesterday that the mayhem
athletes who did qualify
for the games were drug tested
cool good um brandon lueck
uh put into the the
comments that he was
actually one of the members
that escorted the athletes
to the drug testing area um
and that top five all got
drug tested so two
qualified and three backups
on each side even better
so better so we did get
confirmation that that did
happen at the mayhem
classic this weekend there
was drug testing involved
as there should not should
have been good so good deal
Just wanted to clear that up
and thank Judy Reed.
Confirm that Brandon Lewick
confirmed that.
So thank you to those guys
for jumping in the comments to do that.
I saw Judy's Instagram and I
was jealous as shit that
she was up there getting to
check him out.
She said she was actually
trying to get a picture
with Colton and was told
that you're not allowed to
touch him because he hasn't
been drug tested yet.
Hey, that's good, man.
They take it serious.
Good.
Good.
So much the better.
So much the better.
So thank you to those guys
for clearing that up
because we did not know yesterday.
And now we do.
I like to know.
Yeah.
The only thing Colton's
going to test positive for
is patriotism and probably pork,
if I had to guess.
Pig manure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Before we went on the air,
we were talking about this,
so I'm going to pull this
up so we can talk about it.
Jason Grubb made a post on
Instagram about the video
review process for the age
group online semi.
And I'll go down through these.
The first one is these are
the problems he is seeing
with the video review
process that's out there.
There's no comment or drop
down menu to identify violations for HQ,
which means they have to
watch the entire video to
figure out what's wrong.
That's kind of a gray area
as far as I'm concerned.
I get what they're saying,
but what are you going to do?
You'd have to have seventeen
hundred different options
because they didn't follow procedure.
They missed the rep.
And if they miss the rep,
what are you going to have?
They're going to miss the
rep at the beginning,
they're going to miss the
rep in the middle,
they're going to miss the rep at the end,
miscount it somewhere.
That could get very out of hand very,
very quickly.
So drop down, I think,
is out of the question.
That's not even possible.
There's just too many scenarios.
But a text box,
there used to be in the old
days when this was open before,
where there was a text box
and you could say at the
fifteen twenty three mark,
this happened.
Yeah.
And you, and if you were judging them,
you had to put that in the
comment section.
That would be fair.
I can see that one.
I think that is a needed
change because now it's not
thumbs up or thumbs down.
You actually have to say,
this is what went wrong.
And then it's not easy to do
some of these other things
that are going to be listed.
Right.
Right.
And that has to,
that also proves that you
actually watched the video
and judged it and not just
gave an answer.
That's a whole thing in and of itself.
We're going to get to that one.
Andrew Sten says you should
have to comment what you see,
just something like no reps
on X movement or didn't show clock,
et cetera.
Right.
um he says good or bad is
way too vague the next
thing is we can't see who's
marking the video so it's
tough to spot any patterns
so if one person is
flooding it with bads um
and and it's just the
people ahead of them or
their friend you can't
detect patterns so but we
don't know what they can
see on the back end this is
also true I'm going through
because I have gone through
and looked at stuff and
the number four keeps coming
to mind because on a lot of videos,
there's four downvotes,
like for this needs attention,
whatever you want to call it.
And it's four.
And you go look at the next
video and there's four.
And you go look at the next
video and there's four.
And I see a pattern there.
I mean,
that sounds like there's somebody or some,
which is going to get into that cadre,
if you will,
of people who are going through and just
for whatever conceivable reason.
So I don't know if you
necessarily need to.
And again, like you said,
I don't know what they can
see on the back half or on
their side of it, but that's definitely,
I would say that that's
definitely some sort of issue.
And that goes back or goes
along with the whole,
I don't have to watch the
video to judge it thing.
Yeah.
And that we can combine three and four.
Some athletes used friends
or judges to pre-populate
good reviews right at the start,
which may discourage others
from watching and critiquing.
And then there are reports
of organized network
downvoting other competitors.
Yeah.
So like I was telling,
like we were talking about before we,
before we came on Monday morning,
people had, you know,
and I don't remember exactly who it was,
but somebody in my age group had like,
good video votes come Monday morning.
like just call it Monday at lunchtime,
whatever it was, at eleven or twelve,
and the videos hadn't been
live for twelve hours.
That seemed like a bit excessive to me.
Like that's a red flag as
far as I'm concerned.
Like you mean to tell me
that's been up for a week?
Not even a week, excuse me,
not even a full twenty-four hours yet,
just because of how long it
took for everything to
actually be able to be viewable,
and now all of a sudden you've got eleven,
hey, these are good votes already?
Something about that that's not right.
Number five,
scores at the top and bottom
of qualifying spots are
getting reviewed way more
than those in the middle of
the leaderboard,
so videos aren't being
judged consistently.
Yeah,
the top of the leaderboard is way
more judged than any other
part of the leaderboard.
If you go down to the cut
line around there, there's a pickup,
again,
not quite as big as the top of the
leaderboard.
And then in the middle,
there's hardly any.
Yeah.
And like we were talking about again,
I almost feel like it's to
be expected because like I told you,
if I was in thirty second
place and I had way less
scruples and morals than I do,
it'd be real easy for me to
just go to the four or five
people above me and just
blanket say they're all they're all bad.
You know,
they're all bad or they all need
review or whatever.
just to try to get somebody
to look at it in case I
might be able to get bumped
up like it wouldn't be a
hard thing to do with the
way it's set up like it is
um the six and seven we've
already kind of talked
about you don't even have
to watch a video to submit
a judgment on it and down
vote should be visible at
hq on the back end uh to track patterns
So we've talked about those,
but I do think it sheds some light on,
we thought that this was a
really good step and it is
a good step to have video review publicly,
but I don't know how much
it helps HQ when there's no
information transferred to
them as to what's wrong with this video.
Yeah, a hundred percent,
a hundred percent.
I will say this too,
and somebody brought this up,
a couple of different
people brought this up as well.
One of the first comments
underneath there,
was saying that so you mean
to tell me that you made me
get two judges both of them
have to have another one
both of them have to have
the judges course both of
them have to have the
advanced judges course they
both have to be present
while I'm doing the
workouts this entire
weekend and now somebody
who is only has one camera
view one camera angle can
go back and review this and
tell me that the stuff that
I was already been judged
for is no longer good
Like I'll understand video reviews,
the thing I get that, but it, and I,
so I'm torn as far as that's concerned,
because I do like the fact
that everybody can see what
everybody's doing.
And, and,
but us judging ourselves at that
point seems a little bit suspect.
Um, KL layman says, I mean, I mean,
Charlie Odie says, if you're not cheating,
you're not trying.
Oh, that's good stuff.
I will say this.
Like I have been just spot
checking some videos to see
like if especially ones
that have like huge numbers
of like down downvotes.
Dude, I was a judge for a long time.
I'm having a hard time
finding what they're seeing.
It really feels to me like on the,
on the good side that
knowing you have to post these videos,
people are not trying to
get away with a lot of shit.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
But on the bad side,
I think people are abusing
the fact that they get to
judge and they're just power trip,
mad power, hungry,
whatever you want to call it.
uh yeah if this is how the
age groups are going indie
semis is going to be lit
bro he ain't wrong
But again,
like I've spot checked some and I,
and I have not dove in like
a judge would dive in and done like.
Forty of these things.
Right.
I've just done a little bit
here and there to see if I
can find bad movement.
It's really hard, man.
It's really, really hard.
And I think it is.
I think that the video
submissions are forcing the athletes to,
to have good movement.
You kind of have to.
You kind of have to.
I mean,
you either have to or you have to
be absolutely delusional to
say that I'm just going to
post this video and post
this BS score and just put
it out there for everybody to see.
Like, that seems insane to me.
There's no way on God's green earth.
I'm bad enough in person
where I don't want somebody to see me.
I told you last weekend my
two major goals were to
leave everything on the
floor and not end up on an
Andrew Hiller video.
the two things I care about
you know I want to do as
well as I possibly can and
I do not want to end up on
an andrew hiller video
because I've watched those
videos and bruh like that's
got to be ridiculously
embarrassing to say that
somebody's sitting there
going look at it look at
this dude what is he doing
you know all that kind of
stuff what andrew says is
exactly what's gone through
my mind you have to wonder
if these people know how to
judge at all and know how
to review a video
and really understand the standards.
I'm going to say this too, Andrew,
to that point is that I
didn't take the advanced judges course,
but I took the regular judges course.
If you don't get the answers right,
you can just keep going
until you do and then move
on about with your day,
not caring whatsoever about
how people actually move.
or not knowing, not wanting to know.
Like if my,
my wife who does CrossFit and
has competed before,
but if she wanted to go
just sit down and take the
judges course for ten bucks
and like guess at answers
until she got them right, she could.
And then she could go and
watch these videos and just
download whoever and anybody could,
you know, so.
I trained to live a workout for women,
forty to forty four.
Top score had the athlete
doing rebounding box jumps.
Well,
that is not the standard and that
should be downvoted.
Again,
I was just spot checking all over
the place.
I was with no rhyme or reason.
I'm sure there are some bad
movements in there, but I, you know.
in the past we've seen like
train wrecks full of videos
that have been bad this
seems to like have cured
some of that um where now
you're just getting the
fine details right yeah I
mean I watched one
yesterday that had five or
six down votes and it was
uh one of the guys in my
age group it was them doing
isabelle and no I'm sorry not isabelle
scratch that the uh clean
muscle uh bar muscle up one
yep and I'm watching him go
and like everything looks
fine you know every once in
a while I'm counting where
his reps are making sure
he's looking okay the
elbows are coming through
and clean I'm trying to
figure out what is going on
and they don't know me I
couldn't see the clock and
so I'll start looking and
his clock I you not is about this big
I finally found it and it's
on a magnet and it's stuck
to the rig yep you can see
it right but it's that big
yep and I'm finally okay
that's probably what the
deal is that whoever looked
at it they couldn't see
they couldn't see a clock
which you have in the head
you know obviously it has
to be visible and it's not
even in bright colors it's like
light green and with white
numbers or whatever as it's
going it's hard to see yeah
you know he's not against
the rules did you know that
uh james newberry is part
of the company that
invented that I did not but
a little magnetic time
clock yeah oh just one of
those just interesting fun facts
I feel like James Newberry
probably has a lot of
interesting fun facts surrounding him.
Most of those Australian boys.
He's one of the most
interesting dudes ever.
I interviewed him one time
on this show and dude, we like,
he's building a house out
of a shipping containers.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
He's just one of those like, yeah,
exactly.
Andrew says,
the good thing is these
reviews don't affect
anything other than
triggering a possible review by HQ.
It is.
But here's the problem.
If it's not done legit,
it's not giving HQ the
right information it needs
to filter down to the right
videos to watch.
Correct.
Or it's taking away from
videos that might actually need
Because these will be up until Friday.
And then HQ says that the
leaderboard will be
finalized a week after that.
Yeah.
A little bit more than a week.
That's not a lot of time to
get through all those videos.
No.
And there's a lot of people.
Like a whole lot of people.
Charlie Odie says his swim
trunks are fantastic.
That's James Newberry and Corey Leonard.
I hear.
And I got jammers.
I got jammers.
Of course, from tomorrow morning,
as a matter of fact.
Got to get back in the booth, Scott.
So you had goals this year with the semis.
Yes, sir.
We have not talked online or
on this podcast since you did semis.
What was your improvement?
So last year I finished a
hundred and fifty seventh.
This year I was eighty fifth.
Nice jump.
You're older.
I'm a year older.
I always feel like a weirdo
talking about myself like this,
but it's fun for me to see
the progress because
progress is never linear.
The jumps that I'm making make
jumps that I'm making show
me that I'm on the right
I'm on the right track I'm
on the right path and I'm I
feel I'm pretty pumped
about that um I only got so
all of them ended up being
one and done uh I did and
that was that was due to
the judging requirements
that was due to the judging
requirements judging
requirements and I mean
regular family life stuff
like um I was gonna have
time for a redo on sunday
evening I was gonna do the almost love uh
clean one again or yeah,
clean my muscle up on again.
And then my head judge,
who's also my best friend, uh,
Bernard texted me Sunday morning.
Cause I'm assuming his wife, uh,
reminded him that they had
a wedding to attend on
Sunday afternoon and they
need to be going by three thirty.
And I was not going to, cause I did the,
uh, handstand walk,
pull up burpee to the bar
one Sunday morning.
And I wasn't gonna be recovered in time.
Like they do a proper redo
by the time they had to leave.
And so I was out of judging, period.
I would have liked to have
done one Thursday, two Friday,
two Saturday,
and then had Sunday for whatever redos.
But family stuff, man,
I brought my daughter to a
daddy-daughter dance Friday
night because apparently
Sorrento Primary doesn't
care about CrossFit age group semifinals.
Who knew?
Yeah.
So what you're saying is CrossFit works.
It's weird, Charlie.
You should try it.
So we haven't talked about this much,
but last year,
didn't you have like a full week?
Last year, almost.
Almost.
It was Thursday through Monday.
We had a whole extra day.
And this year, they clamped that down.
Yeah.
And you had all these extra requirements.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Last year, this year, they added hoops.
They shortened the time
frame and added several hoops, which,
I mean, it is what it is, dude.
Like, I want to compete.
So I'm going to do, yeah, it's called .com,
Charlie.
It's free to everybody.
Been like that since Jesus was a baby.
He'll do a two-week free
trial of anything that's out there.
Hey, Emomco's got a free trial,
but sign up.
We have several different
tracks to pick from.
But I'm going to compete.
I'm going to find a way
because I want to put myself to the test.
I want to hold myself to the standard.
So at the same time, it is very,
very hard for me
to ask my friends, ask my friends,
I didn't ask anybody,
ask my friends to sacrifice
their time and basically
most of their weekend to
come watch me suffer,
because that's exactly what they did.
Anyway,
and they loved me enough to where
they were happy to come and do it, but
I just, I, it was a bit much.
If you ask me, I mean, it really,
it really, really was.
I understand where they were coming from,
but at the same time, I think,
I think I can,
I think I can feel both ways about it.
Like I understand where they
can come in from.
I just think it was a little bit much.
Denise said they made it so
hard for some people to do the workouts.
I was pretty lucky that I
got the L one in December
and more ways than one.
Let me,
This kind of popped into my head, right?
Yeah.
So like age groups, you guys all have jobs,
right?
You're working, you have families,
you're doing all that stuff.
I can see an extra judge for the elites.
These people are, for the majority of them,
this is their livelihood.
This is what they're trying
to make money at.
to have them do that in the
in affiliate semis kind of
makes sense to extend that
to the age groups where you
have limited time, limited resources.
It maybe that's something
that needs to change is for
the age groups.
This isn't,
you aren't the elites of the elites,
you know,
until the masters games becomes
way more popular.
Like,
You're at where you're at, right?
Yeah.
You're going to have to show
up for work every Monday morning.
Yeah.
Like Brett Owsley said
behind the scenes last year,
I'm going to go,
no matter if I win this
weekend or not at the CrossFit Games,
I have to go to work Monday
and my boss still wants all
the emails answered.
Correct.
Same.
And so for the age groups,
this two-judge thing is just ridiculous.
Yeah.
And here's the thing.
So I get the idea of having a head judge.
If you have five athletes going,
I was the only person that
made semis at my gym.
So what did I need?
What did I need?
Like my,
my buddy Jeff is one of the few
people I will let judge me
because I know he will hold
me to the standard.
I know that he's going to be
fair and he's going to call
me out if I do something stupid,
which he does all the time.
Um,
what was bernard there for
other than to be in my
videos and act at full
because that's what they
did whenever they had to do
the introductions things
like for one of them but
orange sitting there
curling with one of the
dumbbells and jeff no reps
him right before I we I
entered you know we
introduced them like
another one they were doing
push-ups because they
because what else are they
there for you know
Jeff has to be in the video
because he is the floor judge.
I understand that.
Hey,
this dude's here the entire time
holding me to standard.
But literally,
Bernard could have showed up.
He'd help us because that's what we did.
We all marked everything out
that needed to be marked
out with tape and all that good shit.
And then after the video,
when he was introduced,
he could have left because
what difference does it make?
And if it was already,
like we used the same,
so I marked off five feet
from the rig and in a
fifteen foot section
because I needed that for
the handstand walk and for the lunge.
And then the five feet I also used for the,
because the bar had to be
five feet from the rig for
the bar muscle up clean one.
So I just used the same tape
line all weekend, more or less.
I needed one more for the
row shoulder overhead.
But like other than that,
Like that's already in there.
Everything's measured.
Everything's taped down.
So he's there for what exactly after that?
I don't get it.
And then when you go,
this is another thing too.
So you have to list,
when you go to put your score in,
you have to put a YouTube link.
Where was that?
So when you put in,
when I put in CrossFit Birders,
CrossFit Birders populates, right?
Yep, select that.
Normally for the open,
if I put in Scott Switzer,
Scott Switzer's name comes
up and I can select him as my judge.
Well, it ain't the case.
Like I go put in Benoit.
I got to type Benoit's name out,
type Jeff's name with a comma,
type Jeff's name out.
And it doesn't populate that
either one of them even
took the judge's course or
the advanced judge's course.
So I'm just putting names in
at that point.
Yeah.
That seems kind of off.
as compared to what we had
to do for the open.
So I don't know.
I don't know what that was
about because what are you
going to do if somebody
challenges it or what,
here's the name is now let
me go run a cross check
myself instead of verifying it right.
Whenever it gets on there.
Thank you, Denise.
Yeah.
It's, it's funny.
You talk about how like
Bernard was flexing to the
camera and all that stuff.
I don't know if you,
I made so many friends with
behind the scenes last year
and doing all the
interviews prior to the
games with the Masters
athletes that I was out
bouncing around on every
leaderboard trying to see
if all the people I met and
became friends with made it back, right?
I think it was Kate McKee
who had Travis Mayer as her head judge.
And he was a goofball in
every single... She
actually made a reel of the
introductions and Travis coming in,
introducing himself.
One,
he had his shirt pulled up and just
his face showing out.
They're hilarious.
Yeah.
Because why not?
Yeah.
One, I love it because this should be fun.
We're celebrating what you
all can do at these more
advanced stages of life.
Like Denise getting her
first bar muscle up.
That should be celebrated.
And so we should be having fun.
We should be doing goofy
stuff on the videos.
Anything to make them more
popular for people to come
watch to see what you guys can pull off.
um I just love it I but it
also shows like like that
having all of these extra
requirements for these age
group athletes is dumb it's
just it's just overkill I
was talking so me and my
wife were talking about it
the other night and shout
out to her as well because
she was there for all of
them except one um she went
there friday because they
uh brody had orientation lsu um
She got cussed out by me twice,
once Thursday night,
right before Isabelle started,
and then once Saturday
morning because got my back to the line,
standing there.
I'm like, all right, start the music.
I start the music, and it's just on random,
but it's my playlists,
and one of my favorite
workout songs immediately started,
and I was like, I'm kind of grooving,
you know?
I'm like...
put my finger in there as a
side flip in order to start the clock.
So he's giving me a ten second countdown,
turn around, grab the dumbbell,
start lunging.
I get one step from the
turnaround and the music changes.
And I, oh yeah, yeah.
And so, and look, dude, you know me,
like I'm as laid back as they come.
I came unhinged, Scott.
I didn't stop, but I said, who the,
change the music.
And Jennifer said, well,
she made Brody do it.
She made my son do it
because she didn't like that song.
And I said, she said,
I didn't like that song.
And I'm sitting there and
you can see it in the video.
I'm lunging back.
I said, are you serious right now?
Like lost my mind.
Thursday night, I was already nervous.
I was doing Isabel.
Like I had just did a
practice of it earlier during the week,
which was fine, but like,
getting time right and it's
my first one so like I am
I'm wound up like an eight
day cloud and I warmed up
to it warmed up to it I did
like two at one eighty five
I had to go use the
restroom I came back I'm
like all right and I went
to go hit it again and I
missed and everybody's talking
Like these two were talking
to each other and I got
people that's fixing to go
do the five thirty class.
And they're sitting down
watching me getting warmed
up and trying to figure out
what I'm fixing to do and
like all this stuff.
And it was just overload.
And I just sat up and I said,
I need everybody to shut up
and go that way for a minute.
And then gather myself,
hit it another time for the warm up.
I was like, all right,
we can go ahead and start now.
she put up with my
shenanigans all weekend
long and her and I were
talking about it um I
forget where I was where I
even started with that but
she was awesome all weekend
so just wanted to make sure
that she is showing some
appreciation denise says
never have the foo fighters
in your videos I had so
many copyright issues on
youtube with their songs
I got,
so three out of my five videos have
copyright issues,
like are not shown in whatever countries.
I don't think it's any
countries that matter at this point.
And I will say this too.
It doesn't really matter at
this point anyway,
because I'm in the eighty-fifth spot.
Ain't nobody going to look
at my videos to begin with.
Jay Birch says,
that's why you should do no
music sometimes.
I will tell you what.
I had to judge the Rogue
Invitational the year they
went online because of
covid and they said that the
athletes could play no
music because of the
copyright issues and they
were broadcasting live and
uh judging an elite athlete
hearing him breathe on
every single rep was wild I
can't even imagine dude wild
Because usually they can't hear you.
You can't hear them.
You're making the big
signals of no rep or
whatever because they can't hear you.
And wow.
Wild.
It's not that I don't have.
So I will work out with different music,
like not necessarily stuff that's real,
you know, whatever.
Like yesterday morning,
I went and just did thirty
five minutes alternate between machines.
And I had basically like.
bluesy rock, you know,
but slower type stuff going on is the,
my entire thing with that
is that I was grooving
whenever my stuff came on.
Ten seconds.
Okay.
Yeah, let's go.
I got this.
And then all of a sudden it
abruptly changes, bro.
I can't like, and I, I told my,
on my train report, I said,
if it had happened three minutes later,
I wouldn't even notice.
Because I would have been in
it by that point.
But it was literally,
I didn't even make it.
Seven-forty-two, Aaron.
Aaron asked what his heavy Isabel time is.
I know it's lower than Denise's.
Seven-forty-two.
I am probably going to do that one again,
maybe Sunday, as a matter of fact.
Because I'm pretty sure I can go faster.
And I want to just try it out.
I think Denise went two-something.
Shut up.
What was her?
Denise, what was your weight?
Denise never met a barbell
she didn't like.
I love that.
I love that.
Oh, my God.
That's like my regular Isabelle time.
Andrew Sten, just an FYI,
registration is open for
anyone who wants to
volunteer at the age group games.
So basically Denise could
have done heavy as about
twice and I still wouldn't
have been finished.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And just remember the age
group games are here in Columbus.
There,
there may or may not be a barbecue
that week at someone's house.
Just saying, just saying that's fantastic.
I got to reach out and see
if I can do behind the
scenes again this year.
Oh, Joe and them still putting it on?
I think so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just got it.
It is about twice in thirty
minutes because I called on
myself the first time.
Bro.
So her second attempt in
thirty minutes was to forty to forty.
I will say this.
What I did learn.
So every big comp I do,
a very good friend of mine
got me doing this after MFC,
as a matter of fact,
is I go back and write down
takeaways from the weekend.
Right.
From what I learned, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera.
And the biggest thing,
one of the bigger things I
should say is that
From a grand perspective, forward progress,
like any progress is still progress,
no matter how slow.
And I made a big jump this year,
like going from one hundred
fifty seventh to now a fifth.
That's kind of a big deal.
Right.
So I'm on I'm on the right path.
The other thing was this is
way more specific to what we did.
I put all the stuff that I
was going to be fairly
short or I thought I was
going to be good at first.
And then took the stuff that
I thought was going to suck
and going to hurt and
whatnot and save that for last.
Bad idea.
Bad idea.
By the time Sunday morning
rolled around and it was
time to do the handstand walk, pull up,
burpee, I was wasted.
I was completely done.
I didn't even want to, Scott.
Like I had no urge whatsoever.
And I told Brandon, you know,
I was talking about it Sunday afternoon.
I said,
As bad as I didn't want to do it,
the pain of the twenty
minutes that I was going to
experience in that twenty
minutes was going to be
nothing compared to how bad
it would have hurt if I
just would have skipped it
and not known where I
actually would have ended up.
So like that's a big takeaway for me.
And then maybe next year we
do the stuff that I'm not
so great at or the longer
type stuff and whatnot or
stuff that might hurt a
little bit more because the sprinty stuff,
I can do that four times in
a day if I need to.
That's not a big deal.
But the longer,
more grinding stuff that I
might not be so fantastic at,
we might want to go ahead
and put that first and get
it out the way and then do
the fun stuff later.
Yeah.
Yeah,
there's probably a blend of that that
makes the most sense.
But I see what you're saying
in like its simplest form.
Yeah, I thought I had a blend of that.
But I ended up.
I ended up doing the row
shoulder overhead Saturday
afternoon and then Sunday
morning did the other
twenty minute workout and
that probably wasn't a great idea.
Although the row shoulder overhead,
which I thought was going
to be damage control one
hundred percent because I
am not built to row,
ended up being my best
finish of the entire weekend.
Denise did Isabelle first,
then three rounds of
thirties last because I was
going to rip and I did rip
on that workout.
That's why I love my frog grips.
I had a real frog grips.
I have not ripped in... Shit.
Eight months, at least.
At least that long.
Nice.
Yeah.
Well, I hate to cut this short.
No, dude, you gotta go get evaluated.
Yeah, I gotta go get my annual evaluation.
Uh...
See if I can make it another
year further to retirement.
I think you got it in the bag.
So don't forget tonight at
five o'clock p.m.
Eastern Standard Time, Catching Feelings.
Kat Shears' new show about
dating where she is going
to talk about six first
dates she went on.
And she's going to share
some of the text messages
that happened before, after,
and during those.
The first show blew up, man.
It was our biggest premiere show ever.
Dude, I'm telling you,
I got to laughing about it because I saw,
I don't know if it came up
on like a short for the
reels or something like that.
Anyway,
I just sit at the house that
afternoon and Jeff said,
what are you laughing at?
I was like, oh,
we watch it on TV at the house.
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, tonight at five o'clock,
gather the family.
Well, maybe don't gather the family.
And I think the permanent
resting time for that is
going to be Tuesday nights going forward.
But I'm not sure.
But it's still fluid at this point.
We're trying to figure it all out.
But tonight at five p.m.
Yeah, that's what it'll be.
Scott, you're doing great.
But actually,
I've been killing it lately
and I've been the go to guy
for the last few months.
So I'm hoping this is just a
quick and easy evaluation
and get the hell out of there.
Pretty much.
We've been doing qualifiers
in our classes the last two
days and I am so sore.
Qualifiers suck, man.
All right, guys.
It's time for me to go get my evaluation.
It's time for you
knuckleheads to get back to work.
We'll see everybody next
time on Lunch with Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.