what is going on everybody
happy monday to you all it
is lunch time it is lunch
with the clydesdale good to
see you all what's up corey
what's up craig yeah fun
times today I am what's up holly um
Yeah,
so this weekend I went back to
Pennsylvania to see my mom.
She was in the hospital a few weeks ago,
just wanted to go back, check on her,
see how she's doing.
And so we went Friday, came back Sunday,
and it was a good trip.
But when I'm at my mom's house,
I do not sleep well.
Man, after last night's show,
I hit the hay, and man, I was out cold.
And I am having a very,
very hard time waking up today.
Do you ever have that where, like,
Like you are sleeping so
good and so solid that when
you wake up the next morning,
you just cannot get awake.
And that's kind of where I am today.
I am on the struggle bus at work today,
just trying to get through meetings,
trying to get through emails.
Yeah, and nothing is going easy, of course,
on a Monday because it's a Monday.
But we're here with you.
I'm glad to be here with you.
So good to see you all.
Mama Schweitzer is the GOAT.
She sure is.
Kenneth says,
just dead to the world for
about four hours.
Yeah.
Corey,
I was just at the part of last
night's show where you said
you didn't want to turn
this into a steroid show.
Yeah.
Yep.
The last night's show was so good.
You guys in the chat,
just turn it into whatever it becomes,
right?
We just talk about whatever
kind of comes up in the chat.
We have a rundown.
It's just a basic outline as
to what's going on.
But really, whatever comes out of...
from you guys we kind of get into.
And what was great about last night,
because we're kind of in
the in-between of a couple things,
we opened it up to Q&A for
Jamie and Carolyn, and that was a blast.
You guys had a lot of great questions,
and we'll probably do that
periodically every couple weeks.
I'll let them answer some
questions and just let you
guys pick what you want to hear about.
So that was awesome.
we got a lot of you in here
what's up helson john john
jenkins welcome to the show
uh jay birch what's going
on yeah uh sounds like
someone has a case of the
mondays scott hopefully not
I have a case of the
mondays but if I can just
get through if I can just
get through today I should
be fine I get another good
night's sleep tonight in my
own bed and then back on
back on the winning ways tomorrow.
So, uh,
cat is thinking about Tuesday or
Wednesday nights for her dating pod, uh,
catching cats.
yeah we put that out last
week uh for you to a vote
on whether you wanted to
see cat do that um as a
permanent show uh she is
working on that now and
watch for that if if that
is something you are
interested in um should be
fun yeah corey I was
watching uh I was watching
savan and grubb got the
email this morning about
getting drug tested today
I don't know if testing
masters athletes outside
gay after out of competition is new.
It's always been allowed.
I think that the only way
that it happened in the
past is if someone filed
something about that
athlete and suspected or
had some evidence or something like that,
then they would do it
outside of the traditional games season.
But I think it is very, very rare.
And I'm glad, I mean,
I hope Jason passes and
everything is fine with him,
but I'm glad they're doing it.
I think that it is way, way,
way too rampant in the
Masters space to just make
it an IQ test that they
know they have to be off
the half-life before the games,
essentially.
Yeah.
And we saw last year,
especially with the behind the scenes,
all those people I
interviewed and the way
they talked about how they
worked so hard and did all
this stuff and then come to
light that they were using
some of them for multiple
times and had to give up
their podium finishes at
the games due to steroid
abuse or whatever,
performance enhancing drugs.
Kenneth says,
may I propose the title Cat
Scratch Fever?
And then we have Aaron
saying Cat on the Prowl.
And I think I actually got
that from Dex in a text as
well as a proposed title.
uh the problem is what if I
start seeing someone format
may change a bit yeah I
think what you'll find cat
is once you start doing the
show you'll just start
talking about other things
and it'll probably become
more varied than you think
just just through that's my
experience like I had plans
for this show to be
different things and really
it's just now me talking
into a microphone reading
the comments and we talk
about whatever's on our mind and
I think that you would
actually do well in that format.
So it may start as a dating
show and just may turn into
something different.
Yeah, Corey,
I work so hard to be able to
buy these PEDs.
Yeah.
Um,
I don't want to make accusations on the
show about other people.
So I'll let you guys talk
about that in the comments.
Um,
one thing I talked about really at the
end of last night's show, and I wanted,
I wanted to revisit it a little bit.
And that is this week.
Uh,
we had two episodes of behind the
scenes come out.
Uh, the first one was episode four, uh,
earlier in the week.
And then I think Friday night, uh,
episode five came out.
What a great set of episodes.
Episode four was really the
first time in this behind
the scenes where we hear
athletes talk about really
not wanting to be there.
And other athletes saying
they really did want to be there.
So you start to see the
divide and why things went
down the way they did afterwards.
And one thing that's been really,
really hard for me is I
never understood the whys
behind all that.
And I may never completely understand it.
But then episode five came out and...
It starts with a very
powerful discussion with
Luke Parker and about his
faith and his relationship
with Lazar and why he felt
that he needed to continue
on in the competition,
going a hundred percent to
do the best he could.
And that was awesome.
But the part of episode five
on a serious note that was really,
really powerful to me was
there is footage of Dawn
Fall giving an apology to the athletes.
where he is saying that they
are sorry for putting the
athletes in this position,
that it was a no-win situation for them,
that they should have done
better to guard them from this,
that they put them in this situation.
And he just kept saying, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
And while I think that that
was a very powerful piece
and something that had to be done,
I think that if...
And I should ask Siobhan this,
but if that truly happened
in the timeline that we're
going by in these behind the scenes,
and that did not happen
until Saturday night,
I think that was a big miss for CrossFit.
Now, granted, I've said all along,
I've never been in that situation.
I don't know how I would act
in that situation.
I don't know how I would
make decisions in that situation.
But to make the apology on Saturday night,
almost...
what,
thirty-six hours after everything
went down, I think was way, way too late.
And so, and Aaron kind of says it,
it seems like he did it in retrospect.
Like he saw what happened
and then he reacted with the apology.
When those athletes deserve
the apology up front.
Because by Saturday night,
a good chunk of the
athletes that withdrew had
already withdrawn and had
already gone home.
So the most upset people
about the situation didn't
even hear the apology.
So I think that.
So, Denise,
it was not an apology for the death.
It was an apology for the
position that they, CrossFit,
put the athletes in with like,
do we go forward?
Do we not go forward?
You have the choice to do this.
You have the choice to do that.
That's what he was
apologizing for in that moment.
And it was a very good apology.
And it was done well.
I think it was just done late.
That's all I'm saying.
D read.
No one knows how they would
react to that situation.
Grace should be the rule
because it's awful.
Some of the athletes forgot that.
I don't disagree with that.
I do not disagree with that.
Sarah, I think it's weird.
We didn't see Don at all on
any open announcements or
posts or anything.
Not that I saw anyway.
Yeah, I'm sure that was calculated.
I think with the sale and everything else,
Don is probably on his way
out as a CEO once the company sells.
And really, he is the CEO of CrossFit,
not the CrossFit Games.
So I think it's fine the way they did it.
We said last night, overall,
our feelings of this year's
Open have been very positive.
And we think that CrossFit
has taken at least baby
steps in the right
direction to kind of right
the ship of what the Open was.
But it just,
it's going to get crazy with the sale.
And where do we go from there?
Andrew Sten says,
also thinking about when he
was allowed to give an
apology by the owners.
Sure, but he didn't say anything.
He didn't admit anything in that apology.
He just apologized for the
situation that they were in
and the position that they
were in to answer for
either staying or going and
things like that.
I don't know.
No, Denise,
it's about the position he put
the athletes in.
It was not about the
decisions that were made or
anything like that.
It's just all those athletes
had to then answer for why
they stayed or why they
left or why they weren't
performing like they normally did.
Really, it's just that.
So for me, for me,
and I said this last night,
I'll echo it again.
These pieces that I got to
see now help me finish a
couple puzzle pieces and
truly allow me to move on,
to move forward.
I've had a very hard time
trying to do athlete
interviews because I just
don't know where to start.
I don't know what to talk about.
And I've resolved that in my own head now.
after seeing some of this stuff,
and I'm really truly ready
to do some more stuff like that.
On a little bit different subject,
Denise says,
my affiliate just started
getting charged monthly for
their affiliate fees.
Out of the blue,
normally his affiliate fees
are due in December.
So...
The new affiliate fees,
you have the choice to do
monthly or do yearly.
And when you sign up, you choose that.
So I think that's something
that he can correct.
He can still choose to pay yearly,
but because of the increase,
CrossFit gave them the
ability to move to a
monthly charge as opposed
to a once a year charge.
And that was spelled out
when the price increase came.
So I don't know if your
owner got flipped and
didn't know it or flipped
it and didn't know he did it or what,
but it is an option.
You can pay one way or the other.
Correct, Kenneth.
It is a choice to pay
monthly or to pay once a year.
Dee Reed says,
we clearly saw a division in
how athletes cope with the awful.
Those with faith were better prepared.
I do not disagree with that
statement at all.
So the last thing I'm going
to say about the BTS is,
While all that was good for
me to move on and for me to
be able to get back to
doing interviews again and
stuff like that,
I do want to say there was
still a lot of fun pieces in it.
They really honed in on
Alexis Raptus miscounting
her laps on the mile and
the reactions from the
other athletes when they saw her kick in.
So...
So early and Brooke Wells thinking,
oh my gosh,
she must have a lot in the tank.
If she's kicking now,
I can't keep up with this.
So she backed off.
And then to come to realize
that Alexis had thought she
was on lap four when really
she was only on lap three.
But she went on to win that heat.
And so it made for a really
cool behind the scenes
moment with her coach,
with Alexis and with Brooke Wells.
And then there's some really
cool stuff where they were
prepping for the sled drags.
And they didn't have sled
drag sleds in the warmup area, uh,
to warm up on.
So coaches were like
grabbing onto the rope and
having their athletes drag
the coaches across the floor, um,
to warm up the sled pools,
which was just some, it's,
those are those little
things that you get to see
and how they adapt in the
moment to warm up for
something that you don't
always get to see broadcast.
Um,
So yeah, those are the best parts, right?
Um, Kenneth says, Scott,
why do you think they're
getting pushed back on the
releasing the BTS?
I think that none of us know
what's pending in the behind the scenes,
if there's still litigation
going on or stuff like that.
Um,
And so that could be why I
think that if you're selling CrossFit,
there's probably things
that you don't want to get
out to the general public
for them to see before they
buy or that could drive the price down.
So I am sure that Berkshire
is not happy with these
being released at all.
But I'm glad they are.
And hopefully...
hopefully they,
they can go to a more wide
release at some point
because I do think there's
a lot of value in what I've
seen in these.
If you don't have the membership, uh,
to the Savon channel, um, I've,
I've chosen to spend that
money because and support
him for making them because
I really enjoy watching those things.
Uh,
immensely and uh he puts a
lot of effort into that and
it's a big team and so I
pay for the membership to
be able to watch those and
thank goodness because this
year that's about the only
way you can see it at this
point but hopefully
hopefully once it's all out
there and everybody has
seen it and everybody's
talked about it people
realize it's not that that
big of a thing at this
point um and that they let
it go for a wide release
D Reed talks about the
unknown and the unknowable
with the sled drags.
Yeah, that's, it's perfect.
It's a perfect illustration
of how you adapt to the
unknown and unknowable in a
situation to do things.
And it's really fun to see that.
Corey says he's been out of
the loop all weekend.
Does anybody know when the
leaderboard is supposed to
be finalized and online
semifinals supposed to be sent out?
I think I want to say that
for the age group divisions,
Carolyn and Jamie have
already received emails about semifinals.
Please do not quote me on that.
Just updating about what to expect from
um, through that.
So I don't know if that
means that the leaderboard
is final in their, their opinion.
Um, Corey, Jamie is out of the country,
so you may have a hard time texting her.
Jamie left for Cancun early this morning.
So she is enjoying her week,
spring break with her son
in his senior year with an
all-inclusive vacation to Cancun, Mexico.
But I can dig around.
I'll see what I can find out for sure.
So yeah,
I want to talk about that a little
bit and then...
I wanted to pull up the
qualifier leaderboard for the WFP.
I believe it closes tonight or tomorrow.
I saw a post on Instagram,
but I couldn't tell when it was posted.
So I'm going to share that real quick.
Still,
we have nobody of significance on
the men's side that have
posted their scores yet.
um these these gentlemen I I
am not aware of and I live
a lot in the semi-final
world so these I don't know
who these people are we
have a lot more scores but
we don't have any of like
the big hitters there all
the way at the bottom but
they got a lot of people to
sign up uh brian spin is posted
A score.
There you go.
And then after him,
nobody has posted a score.
So all of your, like,
Caden Hogan and Bruno Marans,
none of them have posted a score yet.
Uh...
Challenger female, Fisa Goffey,
still the only really big
name athlete that has posted any scores.
She posted all of them.
I got to tell you, man,
I love Fisa's attitude this year,
both in the open and in these qualifiers.
Like she's posted her score early and like,
come get me.
And you got to love that attitude.
She's not hiding anything.
She's as fit as she's going to be.
She posts the scores.
But here you can see even at number,
they only have eleven
people that have posted any
scores at all.
There's Jesse Smith.
There's Jennifer Muir.
There's Dana Peran.
And none of them have Matilde Garnes.
None of them have posted to Grace Lochner.
None of them have posted any
scores at this point.
I'm surprised Jamie hasn't
posted her scores because
she did all of these workouts,
and hopefully she can do it
from the plane or from Cancun.
Oh, there she did.
She posted her scores.
She's sitting in eighth.
So there we go.
Well, she posted one of her scores.
Okay.
But she's done all of them,
and all of her videos are
out there if you want to see them.
But yeah,
all like the games athletes on a
career that none of them
have posting scores.
So, yeah,
we are still waiting on that to
finish up a little bit better.
Holly comes in with official
invitation sent to athletes March.
And the workouts will be released.
I know you're getting them like the month.
Is that the Monday?
Let me look at my calendar.
That is Monday before you
can start doing the workouts.
You will get the actual workouts.
We talked about that a
little bit and whether they like that,
Jamie and Carolyn last night,
whether they like getting
them on a Monday and having
some time to think about it
before it actually goes live.
And then are they going to
do passwords to make sure
nobody does it before the
start of semifinals?
So that'll be interesting to see.
Holly said cut lines are posted.
So that's cool.
And just as I was messing around,
breaking news from two minutes ago,
the barbell spin.
While I'm there, uh,
twenty twenty five tier
waterpalooza SoCal returned
September nineteenth
through the twenty first.
So we will have another
water or tier waterpalooza SoCal.
Uh, and I thought that was a good time.
Um.
And it will be returning
with the Tier Cup again.
So again,
we will have an all-star team or
two or three going up
against each other in the
Tier Waterpalooza SoCal.
So fun stuff there.
And humble brag by Corey.
I'm inside the cut line.
I just didn't know the last
thing you said.
You rock, Holly.
So, fun stuff.
Well, that's pretty much, you know,
we got into a lot of stuff
last night on the show.
If you missed it, go back and watch it.
It was a great show.
We got to talk with the chat
a lot and got through a lot
of information last night.
And then we finished with
some quick hit stuff.
Last thing I'm going to hit today,
and then I have a couple
meetings this afternoon, is that...
Man, this has been the best year for TV.
I've talked a bunch of times
about Landman and High
Potential being amazing
shows that I've gotten into this year.
And now recently,
The Pit and Reacher are both amazing.
If you are not watching The
Pit and you have the stomach to do so,
it is one of the best shows I've ever,
ever seen on television.
the realism of working in an
ER and what they have to go
through in a day is amazing.
And now they're to a point
where there's a real life.
I don't want to say real life.
It's fiction.
There is a massive trauma
event that happens.
And then they talk about,
and they talk about how it,
They have to get the ER
prepped for that and get
rid of all of the unessential machines,
all of that kind of stuff,
and prep for this trauma.
And then how they go through
the triage part of that
with slap bands and assessing like,
Is the person going to die
within five minutes?
Is the person going to die within an hour?
And those are different colored bands.
They just slap on the wrists
of these people.
And there's no charting.
They just have like a tag on
them that they write down all the stuff.
It was insane.
And it was so intense this
last episode that I could
not catch my breath.
Thank goodness there are
three more episodes for
this year because I thought
that it ended at episode twelve,
but they are going to fifteen.
So because there are no
answers at the end of this
episode at all.
And I'm really excited for
this week to see how that turns out.
Yes, Denise, the pit is great.
It has really become one of
my my favorite shows of all time.
And Helston says, please watch From.
It's amazing.
I don't know what From is.
I'll have to look that up.
So, yeah.
The pit's great.
And then we have Reacher,
which is really a short season.
There's only one more episode left.
And everything is building
to that climactic thing
like every Reacher season does.
And now we're ready for the showdown.
And that will happen this Thursday night.
Cannot wait to see the end of that.
But yeah.
Great television right now.
Fun stuff to watch.
So...
uh, Kenneth says from his horror gory.
If you can handle that,
I don't mind it like gory.
The pit is gory because the, the,
the stuff you see in the CR is,
is insane.
I've never been a horror guy and,
and it's not that like I
get scared of it or anything like that.
When I was in college,
I had a roommate that
watched horror movies all the time.
And there were so many bad
horror movies that you had
to get through like ten bad
horror movies to get to one
good horror movie.
And I just, to me,
the juice just wasn't worth
the squeeze anymore.
So I just stopped watching
horror movies altogether.
Because some of them were so, so bad.
It just was like a waste of my time.
And, and I really,
if I waste my time on a movie or a show,
I get really irritated, really irritated.
Cause I'm a busy guy doing this podcast,
working full time, having a family,
like I don't have time to waste on crap.
So, um, so yeah.
Uh,
cat is swiping left to four movies are
in the profile.
amen to that uh helston says
it's not as horror as it is
suspenseful it's not scary
okay maybe maybe I'll check
it out um I don't mind
suspense suspense is fine
um just the horror genre as
a whole just I think
I don't know.
I don't even know.
I don't know.
I think one of the most
irritated times I've ever
had in a horror movie is I
watched The Blair Witch Project.
And to me,
that was very realistic because
it was very much like the
woods behind my parents'
house that they're running
through the whole time.
the end of that movie is so
damn dumb I like I was like
I've wasted I have wasted
two hours to get to this
point and this is the
payoff you're gonna give me
like I just can't I just
can't I just can't um
Kenneth had to turn it off
after the first episode.
It was too much.
Oh, I,
if there's things happening to the kids,
I have a hard time with that too.
Being a father now, I just, I know.
And yeah, the,
the pit even got me on this a little bit.
But yeah.
Yeah.
There is an episode of the
pit where kids are in danger and it,
it was tough, tough on me.
I understand the buildup for Blair,
which was made.
The buildup was awesome.
The movie was, it had me,
it had me for two hours,
but that ending was just dumb.
dumb it didn't it didn't
even as real as everything
else was because of the way
they they did it with the
the the handy cams or the
video cameras and and then
at the end it just didn't
look real it just looked
like a stick and a piece of
cloth in the corner oh my
gosh it was so dumb and
holly says it's a classic
Corey said, Blair,
which was the least scary
movie I've ever seen.
Horror movie I've ever seen.
The running through the woods.
Like I get that.
Like we did that all the time.
And at times there's sounds
in those woods that you
just don't normally hear.
That was awesome.
Andrew,
I know it was a person in the corner,
but they made it.
It was such a bad
representation of the person.
It looked like a stick in a cloth.
Like it didn't even look scary.
so bad so bad man you're
getting me riffing on the
damn blair wit blair witch
today I've heard I heard
this a lot denise says I
got super dizzy so I
couldn't really watch it I
heard a lot of people say
that and for cat it was
actually a jump scare there
you go yeah to each his own
That's why there's so many
different genres.
That's why there's so many
different things on TV,
because we all like different things.
Right.
And if you like that stuff,
like more power to you, man,
it's awesome.
But for me,
that's just something I don't do anymore.
So, yeah.
Well, that's all I really have today.
Mondays are tough because we
come off that show on Sunday nights.
But those are the things I
wanted to talk about today.
And it really was fun to talk to you guys.
I need to call Jay Burch and
I need to get in touch with
Jay Burch and Andrew,
if you're both still on here.
If you guys are up for doing
the Top Five Tuesday
tomorrow with judging movements,
I'd really, really like to do that still.
And I can send you a link
for tomorrow's show.
And we can have you guys on
as elite judges talking about, uh,
the hardest movements to
judge both online and in person.
So, um,
So, yeah.
So, you guys,
I'll reach out to you after the show.
It's good hanging out with everybody today,
but I got to get back to work.
So, you hooligans,
you go back to work too.
We'll see everybody next
time on Lunch with Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.