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We got so much to talk about today,
and we're here with the
I love the chase and the hunt and
I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I want and I
always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to break up.
it's lunch time what is going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the clydesdale and
the cowboy we are here to have some
fun today seem is already calling us
losers man i take that the same way
that i take um
Colton calling everybody nerds or dorks.
Yeah.
Okay.
Term of infection.
I used to say all the time that
I'll hang out with the dumbest people on
the face of the planet,
but they're my best friends.
So what does that say about me?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Surrounding yourself with the right people
is,
is more important than an intellect is
only part of the equation.
Correct.
Um,
I got a question for you.
So my wife and I were just having
a discussion before I came down here
because we are still stranded in our
house.
Uh,
six cars have attempted to get out of
our development and they've all bogged
down right in front of our house.
Jesus Christ.
So, so we are stuck.
Uh,
Jaybird says you can't fly like an Eagle
when you're surrounded by turkeys.
Man's got a point.
So my wife has worked a lot of
shitty jobs in her life,
but she is now with like a great
company.
It is an employee owned company.
And like, and so she is,
and she's been there five years now and
in, and is killing it.
Right.
She puts all of her self-worth into the
yearly evaluation.
And because of the shitty jobs and,
That's the only time her bosses would talk
to her,
and that's why she feels that way now,
right?
And now that she's on a good job,
she's transporting that from her old jobs
to this, right?
And so it means everything.
And I'm trying to tell her,
why are you focused on one day of
the year and ignoring the three hundred
and sixty four?
Correct.
Right.
You're at a place where people tell you
how much they love you,
how much they want to be around you,
how appreciative they are of you all year
long.
That paper is filled out by someone who
is so freaking busy and they're just
trying to get it checked off and moved
on with their day.
Correct.
I was a supervisor over a huge unit
for a long time.
You do not have time to put into
that evaluation what it's truly intended
to be.
No.
And you were just trying to get it
done and get it off.
And I'm like, so that's the amount of,
that's the amount of effort they're
putting into it.
And you need to then realize that's how
much effort you need to put into
understanding what it is.
Cause it doesn't mean what you think it
does.
No, your energy should match that energy.
Mark Phillips,
emotions don't care about logic.
Yeah.
He's not wrong.
Oh, it's my yearly evaluation,
it's my yearly evaluation.
It's one day.
And generally speaking,
people are gonna remember a whole lot more
of, if everything else is going smooth,
then they have nothing to complain about,
then they have nothing to write about.
And then two things that go wrong, well,
those two times,
whenever whatever didn't happen,
they gonna go ahead and write that dumb
shit down instead of the nine hundred and
ninety-nine times that you got it right.
And she works for engineers, right?
So they're the ones,
they like come together and they fill out
everything that they think her evaluation
should have.
One guy kind of puts it together and
then they talk to her.
And here's the thing,
like their idea of what she should be
doing is not what her job description says
she should be doing, right?
They want her to do more of their
job
And when she doesn't,
because it's not really part of her job,
then they kind of ding her for it.
Well,
it's because you're not doing your job,
right?
So it's so messed up.
And I try to just keep encouraging her.
But she has so much PTSD from the
other jobs,
it's really hard to get her out of
this funk.
And she has a new supervisor now that
actually does what she does.
and so i'm hoping that the understanding
is better there this year and we'll have
just a better evaluation because she
understands the job better with any look
for sure uh mark phillips i just flamed
out in a workout i'm ready to join
orange theory see he's looking at one day
of workout instead of the
Dude,
I don't want to hear about flamed out
in the workout.
I am six weeks into my two K
row progression.
And believe me, you didn't flame up.
Trust me when I tell you.
I think this is a good segue into
the hopper video with the campaigns.
I need to watch that.
I've heard several different things about
it.
It's, it's a long, it's a long one,
man.
Kim Haynes' goal was to go like an
hour and I think they approached two.
Oh, good Lord.
And I listened to it on like hyperspeed
and still like it was long.
But he talks a lot and I've heard
him say this other places too.
Like he learned after going to Vermont
that
he needed to train intensity.
He didn't have intensity at the games.
And some days he goes into workout and
the intensity isn't there and he just
shuts it down because he's not,
he's not getting out of the way of
what he intended to get out of it
because not everybody has a great day
every day.
So I'll talk to you, Mark Phillips,
talking to you.
Maybe,
maybe this just wasn't your day and it's,
it was okay to shut it down.
Because you don't want it to affect
tomorrow and the next day and the next
day, right?
You want to just put it behind you
and come back the next day and get
after it again, right?
I know for me, if I don't,
I've gotten pretty good at identifying
when I should stop,
when I should push through.
when I should just shut it down completely
and call it a day.
Because if not, it can,
I won't say it will,
but it can definitely spiral into two
days,
into three days where it's just like shit
on top of shit on top of shit
until I take a break and reset and
then can come back and be really refocused
on it.
Yeah, it sucks.
Mark Phillips, which Hopper video is this?
I missed it.
He did an interview with Cam Haynes.
And I'm getting an echo when I talk,
Corey.
So it's got to be something on the
mixer there.
But anyway, it's with Cam Haines.
They actually did a bunch of workouts
during the week and did some shooting and
some stuff like that.
And then after it was all over,
they sat down for this interview after Cam
got to know him.
And, um, it's really good.
It's really good.
And it's outside of it's outside of the
CrossFit space because cam is not a
CrossFitter.
He is a hunter.
He is a runner.
And, uh,
and so it's just a different perspective.
A new fee.
Sometimes I get in a funk and need
a workout.
I know I'll feel successful at to get
me out of the spiral.
That's a good one too.
Yep.
Yeah.
A lot of us aren't going to the
games.
We're just trying to get our,
our mood back to the neck to get
back to the next day.
A hundred percent.
I would want to do something that I
know I'm good at.
to snap myself out of it or something
I'm familiar with.
Not necessarily that I'm something that
I'm good at,
but even if it's something that I'm
familiar with that I know still needs
work,
that I can get a good amount of
work in, twenty, thirty minutes,
something along those lines,
feel good about myself after that and let
it carry on.
Absolutely.
While I really liked the video or the
podcast, it was enjoyable to listen to.
He talks about his faith.
He talks about his relationship with his
father, which I'd never heard before.
I wish it would have delved more into
the CrossFit community and CrossFit
affiliate kind of side.
And it really doesn't.
It really sticks to the sport and the
mindset of a competitive athlete.
I think when that's the piece we're
missing,
when these athletes get an opportunity to
go outside the space, to pay it forward.
Yeah.
And to pay it forward about the community,
about the affiliates, about all of that.
Because Jason started an affiliate
company.
And that's where he found out he was
good,
and that's why he made the choice to
pursue this as a career.
But it kind of got glossed over.
I think people,
when they get a chance to interview guys
like Hopper or anybody who's won the games
at that point,
especially if it's been recently,
they want to talk about that because it
just happened and kind of skip over the
part, like you said,
where –
Hey,
this is how I actually started or even
asking them.
I mean, anybody that Savan talks to, like,
or you talk to where did it all
begin?
Were you, you know,
were you always competitive?
Were you always,
were you in a gym and just working
out about whatever?
Um,
I think what Chattanooga is saying right
there to maybe some coaching on,
on how to get the,
whoever they're talking to, you know,
to kind of roll back over to that
side or even bring it up themselves.
None of this would be possible if I
hadn't stepped into the doors of JR's
place to begin with.
I would not be here today without any
of that,
with the guys at whatever class he was
taking at the time or whatever.
I don't think it was Crash that he
stepped into.
He was at Clemson.
He was using CrossFit as his workout in
addition to the football.
And that's where he decided to quit
football and move into the CrossFit space.
But there was a lot of great points,
and I don't want it lost.
It's a good interview,
and they did touch on some things.
And the one thing that I thought was
really cool is –
he broke a record by two minutes that
cam haynes has done with a lot of
athletes and it showed that like the
crossfit methodology
don't have to train that specific thing
that cam had them do and he still
crushed it like and cam kept saying like
your fitness level is at a level that
like i had to up my game testing
you because other people can't handle what
you can handle and that so it was
subtly there it just if they could have
just in that moment said yeah the
methodology is freaking awesome
And it just missed that one little tick,
right?
Wouldn't have taken much, right?
Wouldn't have taken much.
I mean, we've been saying it for years,
like especially around here.
We know a lot of people that run
a lot of races and stuff like that.
And if I had to,
I could run a half marathon this weekend.
Well, that's where they were talking.
Jason ran eighteen miles and he'd never
run over eight before.
Yeah.
And he did it because he does CrossFit.
And he was able to do it because
he does CrossFit.
And Cam Haynes says he doesn't usually
take people at eighteen miles because they
can't handle it.
Right.
But Jason could handle it.
Um...
So yeah, it was really good.
It was subtly there.
I wish that Jason could have just pushed
it a little bit over the edge.
I thought he did a great job.
And listen,
I've been interviewed on a podcast before.
It's hard.
The interviewee is hard.
You don't know what's coming at you.
And Cam Hain said he didn't plan anything.
It was just sit down and BS.
And this is kind of what came out,
right?
So it's not the easiest thing to do,
but it...
My wish and hope was there.
I'm not blaming Jason.
I'm not blaming Cam.
It just was so close.
I need to watch it.
I've heard, like I said,
I heard good things about it,
that it was pretty cool,
but I didn't realize it was that long.
Jesus Christ.
That's a long, that's a long thing.
It is.
I listened to it on one point two
five and it still sounded normal.
But yeah, it's still long,
even at one point two five,
just to let you know.
Ortega,
I understand the athletes get asked these
questions,
but they're not like other athletes where
they have PR training from CrossFit to be
able to promote the brand.
Again, I'm not blaming anybody.
I thought they touched on aspects that if
you were listening,
you could transpose to.
That's what the methodology did.
It just wasn't like blatantly said.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's Jason,
so you should expect it to be long.
You know, Cam's a talker too,
so it's not just Jason's fault.
And I thought he held himself really,
really well.
He represented the athletes of CrossFit
very, very well.
But there's a really cool part about his
relationship with his father,
and that's why he pushes so hard.
And he calls it like running toward the
pain because his dad never gave him the
like kudos or the respect, I guess,
when he was growing up.
And he was always looking for that
approval.
And that's why he runs toward the pain.
It gave me a whole new perspective on
Jason, truly.
Especially that piece of it.
And if you're a Christian,
there's a great faith piece of it, too,
where him and Cam get into these
discussions.
And Jason takes Cam on a journey where
Cam's never went before with faith.
And it was really, really cool.
So, yeah.
And it's chaptered out, too.
So if there's pieces you just want to
check out,
you can scroll across the bottom and go
to like a specific piece.
I don't know about that,
but it'd definitely be a lot easier to
stop and come back to you later, like,
oh, I was right here.
Yeah.
Chattanoofy, I jumped.
I feel like if you have a goal
time and can meet...
They're talking about the qualifiers for
Magic City.
Gotcha.
Which,
to answer their question from earlier, no,
I am not doing those.
I'm fixing to do the...
monster games qualifiers that are coming
out Friday.
Black Dragon.
You need to choose on these big podcasts
to get CrossFit put out there with passion
info.
It'd be cool if there were roundtables and
it was a non-CrossFit person interviewing
the roundtable about the athletes,
about the methodology,
about and showed kind of the whole grand
picture.
That would be awesome.
I just don't know who you would get
to do that or who would agree to
do that at this point.
Or who would be good at doing that,
that you could get to do that.
Chad,
if you appreciate Jason being a bit
vulnerable in this interview,
in his interviews lately,
he did mention his dad on the Pedro
one too.
I got to catch up on the Pedro
ones.
He went bang, bang,
bang with like all the boys interrupted
and I didn't get all of it.
No, I mean, I started with Alan.
Shit,
that might be the only one I caught.
Who do you have?
He had somebody on yesterday.
I don't remember who it was.
I've watched some of that.
Yeah,
I got word that my job is going
to pick up some more.
I'm getting more duties,
which is going to make it a little
more difficult to get through some of the
podcasts.
The next thing I wanted to talk about
is, hey,
we're going to give away an open
registration.
If you have not signed up for the
open yet,
And the reason you're not signing up is
because the twenty dollars is too much.
We got you covered.
All you do is put I'm in in
the comments, not in the chat,
in the comments of this video.
I'm in.
And tomorrow I will put all those names
in a randomizer and one of you will
get a free registration to the CrossFit
Open.
It's that easy.
Piece of cake.
And we got more.
We're going to give away more.
But for right now, we're giving away one.
Put I'm in the comments of the YouTube
video and you will be entered in a
drawing to get a free registration to the
CrossFit Open.
You got to start somewhere.
Super, super simple.
Larry, you're already in.
We know.
Um, all right, cool.
So the next thing I want to talk
about is this viral thing that's going
around the space.
I couldn't find the original,
so I'm playing John Young's version of
this.
I'm not going to play it the whole
way through,
but I want to talk about this briefly.
This was when Hiller was interviewing
Brian friend.
Hmm.
And Hiller asks Brian Friend,
what happens if, and I'll play it.
What happens if he were to beat you?
Top hundred.
I don't know if John could go a
hundred deep.
It became personal with me.
He really focuses when he does his
research on the top competitions and the
top athletes.
I don't think he can go that deep,
bro.
All right, that's enough of that.
So it's a great reel if you want
to check it out.
But here's the deal.
Why do you need to go a hundred
deep?
Why is that even a thing?
How many people go to the CrossFit games?
Corey, answer that question for me.
This year, thirty men and thirty women,
individual.
Thirty women, thirty men.
And relevance to the CrossFit games,
people that will be competitive at
semifinals will be an additional...
Ten to fifteen?
Ten to fifteen.
That might make some noise at a semifinal.
Yeah.
So we're talking like...
And you probably already know those
people.
You're talking forty-five, fifty tops.
A hundred percent.
So why is it a badge of honor
to say you can't go to a hundred?
It doesn't make any sense.
It makes no sense.
It really, really doesn't.
Once you get out of the top fifty,
which is still a lot,
you're in a pool that is...
It's almost it's homogenous,
like it looks almost like you could stack
all those people up next to each other
and interchange any one of them at any
given point,
maybe down towards the bottom,
like towards the actual hundred or
whatnot.
There's some outliers that got it got into
that hundred because they were super good
at like one thing.
But anything past the top fifty,
I would say the fifty to eighty range
like you could plug and play any one
of those people.
And it's going to be that you're going
to get the same result.
I'm going to tell you in twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty three,
those two years I interviewed over one
hundred semifinal athletes.
I remember one hundred semifinal athletes.
I knew more about the semifinal athletes
than anybody else at those events.
Did it make me a better predictor as
to who was going to the games?
Not one tiny bit.
No.
In fact,
I would argue it gave me a bias
towards people that made me worse at
picking who was going on to the CrossFit
Games.
Because you got to know them.
right and now you're and now you're
friendly with them and now you're rooting
for them so now you're almost a homer
at that point because you're like oh no
dude this dude's great this dude's
fantastic he's gonna absolutely smash it i
was that way i i kid you not
i dove into that a minute immediately
right i knew i knew this person was
fighting an autoimmune disorder it was
going to be a great story and i
wanted them to go into the or this
person fought cancer and is coming back
and they're going to do it you know
and
Like it gave me biases that made me
terrible at predicting who was going to go
to the CrossFit games.
Terrible.
Yeah.
So I also want to look at it
from this perspective.
I think in our space,
the media is too close to the athletes,
right?
To be good predictors as to who's going
to go on to the CrossFit Games.
Now,
some people can kind of push those biases
a little bit to the side,
but we all have them.
I think last year at the Games,
I actually beat John.
for like the first time ever,
but it doesn't make me a better predictor
than him all the time.
It just meant that I was able to
push my biases away and my biases led
to, led to the people who won.
Sure.
Right.
We are all so close.
We all want these people to win.
We all want these people to do well.
Like I can point out that John was
riding the Austin Hatfield horse for,
Probably because of a bias.
Sure.
Right?
Sure.
And we all have that.
He got hung up on Hatfield and was
like, for whatever reason,
it's like a dog on a bone saying,
oh, this dude, he's the dude,
he's the dude.
And Hatfield made it through the games.
on him but he was already on that
trajectory and if you look at uh any
any kind of time anybody spent with him
leading up to when he actually made the
games he was on that path no matter
what but as soon as you get hooked
onto those people like that you're like oh
this is my guy he's going not only
is he going he's gonna finish top fifteen
he's gonna finish top ten he's gonna
finish top eight whatever the case may be
and you're like is he though
And then it's a big disappointment and
it's a letdown.
And there's also the point where you're
taking the risk, right?
You're like,
I want to be the first to say
this guy.
Right.
And I'm going to ride this horse.
And then when they fail,
when they succeed, you get to say,
look what I said,
look who was the first one to find
this guy.
Right.
Um,
I had that person locked in two years
ago.
I've been talking about them since then.
And they're going to be fantastic.
And it does.
It pays off whenever they actually make it
or they make some noise or they get
anywhere close.
But when they fail,
you get roasted for months on end.
And it's entertaining for us at the very
least, right?
Because then people go,
what about this dude, John?
What about your boy?
Where's your boy at?
Why is he not in there?
Why is your boy not in there?
It's entertainment.
Either way.
John's bias is towards people that play
Christian.
That could play a part in it.
Could play a part in it, of course.
I think he's also anti-mayhem,
which is weird with the Hatfield thing.
John has a bias,
and I think most people do,
to people that share the same worldview.
Yeah.
Right.
So Hadfield, Christian, Christian kid,
right.
Hard worker, blue collar roots.
I mean, he falls right in line.
So John's like, yep,
that's my dude right there.
Everybody's got personal biases towards
people who remind them of themselves.
I was a huge, which granted,
Frazier was winning all the time.
I was a huge Matt Frazier fan because
he and I are the exact same size.
Five foot six,
hundred ninety ish pounds somewhere right
right up in that area.
Both have a potty mouth.
Both are can probably considered to be
assholes depending on who you talk to.
But that was my dude.
And that was mostly why it wasn't
necessarily because he was winning.
It was because I identify identified with
him more than anything else.
Fantastic.
Oh, another bias.
He hates beautiful women.
Uh, yeah.
So I have a bias towards anybody that
agreed to do a mini documentary with me.
Yeah.
Right.
So like, uh,
I had the year where I went behind
the scenes with, with Kelly Baker.
I went behind the scenes with Emily Rolfe
and Alex Kazan.
they will always be in my top.
If I see them in a competition,
I'm going to be rooting for them and
I'm probably going to give them a higher
place than I think they,
they probably really deserve.
A hundred percent.
No matter what, because they,
they gave me a shot.
Exactly.
And you're not going to forget that.
Right.
And by and large,
most of us do that.
And that goes for the casual fan as
well, right?
If you meet somebody at the games or
at a competition or something like that,
and they are nice to you and have
a conversation with you,
whatever that might be, right?
Five minutes, ten seconds, whatever it is.
Holy shit.
I'm now a fan of that person.
And it goes the opposite way too.
If you go to try to shake somebody's
hand and they tell you to get bent
and walk off, you're like, well,
F that guy.
I'll hope he never wins anything again.
Yeah.
I will never root for Brooke Wells.
She always,
she always rejected my interviews at every
competition.
There you go.
I will never root for Brooke Wells.
Sorry.
It's a fact.
Yeah, there it is.
There it is.
Easy, easy day.
Easy day.
Yeah.
I just find it so funny because, like,
in that interview, like,
Brian is sticking his chest out like,
like,
John can't beat me down to a hundred.
Yeah.
Well, that's like saying, like,
you can't name a hundred Chicago Bears
when the roster has fifty-two.
Correct.
Or fifty-three.
Yeah.
Nobody cares about who number eighty three
is except his family and his his wife
or her or her husband,
whatever the case may be like their their
immediate family and friends.
I understand is always rooting against
Corey now.
I remembered you this year, Andrew.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, those are just facts.
Those are like people that have spurned
interviews for me and never do them.
I'd never root for.
Yeah.
And I know as media or journalists,
you're supposed to be unbiased.
We're more biased than anybody else.
Because we're that close to them.
Right.
Stephen A.
Smith is not that close to whatever sports
personality he's talking about at that
day.
He is removed from them in his own
little box.
Right.
He doesn't interact with them.
You know,
he doesn't have an opportunity to talk to
them on a regular basis or whatnot.
We do.
Our stars are a lot more accessible than,
I'm going to go ahead and say it,
professional athletes.
Yeah.
and it happens in all things.
Look at here's Larry.
When mayhem stepped up last year,
I got on their map, right?
Mayhem stepped up.
They held, they held the mayhem classic.
They held an open workout.
They were becoming active in the CrossFit
community.
Larry looks for a mayhem affiliate to go
to, uh, to sign up and join.
So when,
when people do things like you were saying
that share your life, um,
your life goals, your life, I don't know,
you said it better than I'm saying it
right now, but, um, then you feel in,
in tune with them and you want to
support them.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I know more about Brandon Luckett as a
person than I probably ever will as a
coach.
And that's
Because I know the kind of person that
he is.
I told him that not that long ago.
I was like,
if I knew nothing else about you,
that would be enough.
But you also happen to have gotten me
as fitter than I've ever been in my
entire life.
So like, I'm here.
I'm in.
I'm staying.
I'm not going anywhere else.
Period.
Alito says, correct.
However,
every now and then someone in the third
breaks through and then you can say, ha,
I told you so.
But ninety nine percent of the time you're
wrong.
Right.
And if you get that right,
it's a pure luck.
Yeah.
Because when you're down from from fifty
to one hundred,
it is literally put them all in a
hat and draw a name.
You'd probably you have a better chance of
getting it right if you put them all
on a hat and pick the name than
you would if you tried to look at
the list and pick one because you thought
they did something fantastic somewhere.
I would say the degree of fitness level
from fifty to one hundred is less than
it is from one to five.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
God, yeah, absolutely.
So by the time you get down to
fifty, nobody really knows.
No.
Because you saw them compete in
Kazakhstan.
Doesn't mean that all of a sudden,
you know,
they're going to make the CrossFit Games.
You don't.
And if you say you do, you're lying.
Right.
Or if you say, oh, I called it.
Show me the video evidence where you
called it.
Not, oh, well,
I told somebody off camera somewhere one
time, one thing, kind of,
sort of mentioned it,
that maybe they might be good.
No, no.
If you called it,
show me where you called it.
Because I can, nine,
nine percent guarantee you did not.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just find it funny that, like,
the whole analyst thing in CrossFit is
just absurd.
Yeah.
Cause we all think we're good at it
and we all have biases because we've all
connected with some of these athletes.
Sure.
And we, none of us can, um,
can detach ourselves from that long enough
to make an educated top five, top ten,
whatever.
Absolutely.
Jay Birch says if you use the Apollo
database you might well not anymore
because the Apollo database has not been
updated in like six months get on that
Barclay Barclay got a new job I guess
and he and he that is low on
his priority list and he has not updated
it so the Apollo world rankings Claire
don't forget I beat JY last year on
heat one for the games
Yeah, but I think I won, Claire.
Like,
you're the one that put up the standings.
I didn't even know I won until Claire
posted it.
That's hilarious.
From, like, the media members.
This may or may not have been repeatable,
but there's no reminding him for one year.
There's still...
Here's to reminding him for a year.
Absolutely, Claire.
I would never, I would never stop.
Like every Monday show they did with John
Oren, I would open it, Claire,
if I were you.
And by the way,
remember last year when I beat you?
Because I'm going to, if you didn't,
I'm reminding you right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When I was prepping for today and trying
to think of where it was that I
beat him,
I couldn't even remember if it was the
games or not because literally I didn't
know until Claire posted it.
That's fantastic.
Where is that?
Vicky is calling us the JY Slayers.
It should be a club.
We should start a club,
the John Young Slayers.
so she's she's going to to tfx and
jay birch is going to be there we're
also going to have uh joe valens is
our photographer he's going to be there
shooting for us he was in a chat
earlier he was and so we're we're going
to see some shots from him uh and
we'll be collaborating all weekend uh so
make sure you check all that out the
action from
TFX.
TFX.
I like this one from Lito, too.
And if you did see number eighty-three
compete in Kazakhstan and they were
phenomenal, doesn't mean they were clean.
Hope you all remember Pedro and Manwala's
story about the forgotten growth hormone
in the fridge.
Facts.
Facts.
Yes, indeed.
Yes, indeed.
Yeah, man.
TFX is going to be the frozen experience
this weekend.
Not so much the fittest experience.
Jay Bird said yesterday the weather is
supposed to clear out a little bit.
Yeah,
but it's still going to be like stupid
cold.
Like it's not going to be wet anymore
because they were given snow.
I got a buddy of mine going to
compete in Masters Division.
They were given snow and I think that
went away.
But it's still going to be because most
of it's outside.
Jenny says it's warming up.
It's warming up.
It's up to twenty-two.
So it was,
when I left the house this morning to
go to the gym, it was twenty-three.
Twenty-five.
Yeah,
twenty-five when I left this morning.
And then when I left to come to
work, it was still twenty-five.
Hour and a half later.
But it's going to be, yeah,
it's going to be fifty-five degrees here
in a little bit.
It's actually kind of nice outside.
When I let my dog out this morning,
it was one.
nope one and we are not going to
hit freezing for two weeks jesus christ we
are below freezing for two straight weeks
so all that snow we got is not
going anywhere for two weeks at least
jenny will be in many layers
unrecognizable even she's going to be a
ninja
Mm-hmm.
Look like the kid from Christmas Story.
I'm not built for it, dude.
I got to the gym yesterday evening and
it was still, it was in the forties,
but the wind was blowing like ninety miles
an hour.
And I'm walking in and a friend of
mine's walking out and trying to tell me
about something they just wrote on the
board.
And I said, hold on for a second.
And I stepped in the building and then
held the door open.
I was like,
you may continue speaking now because I am
not standing outside having a conversation
with you.
You are out of your mind.
uh then it turns dirty slushy snow gross
it ain't even going to turn to that
because it is not melting no literally
we've had like eight cars try to get
out of our neighborhood today and they are
they have bogged down in front of my
house will it uh is it going to
freeze altogether
It has to melt to be water to
freeze.
Like right now it's just this light,
fluffy snow and it's frozen that way.
So unless it would get above thirty two
to melt and then go back under and
freeze,
then it gets to be that icy stuff.
We're not even getting that.
So like the neighbor snow blowed and it
all went up in the air.
It's so light and fluffy.
It all flew over towards our house.
No, thank you.
And Denise with the rub in it's sixty
five here in SoCal.
It is currently forty in Austin.
It's probably about that here, too.
Yeah.
Forty one outside right now.
Yep.
Crazy.
Crazy.
Last time I was at TFX,
it was cold,
but it was cold because of the wind.
It was windy out there.
When the sun went down at all,
it got cold.
And I was coming from the north,
hanging out down there.
I haven't been in a couple of years
though.
Every year I say I'm going to do
the qualifiers, try to qualify and go.
And then every year it ends up like
that.
When they come out,
I'm usually training for the last two
years.
I've been in the middle of training for
legends or something along those lines.
And I'm like,
I don't have the mental capacity to try
to put it at that aside to try
to go do these qualifiers.
Same thing for fitness of the coast.
I really wanted to go do fitness of
the coast and then completely missed the
qualifiers because I was training.
Uh, at AI.
So global warming,
global warmings from going pretty good so
far.
Yeah.
Um,
I did do my workout wearing three layers,
gloves and a beanie, but hip depth.
Yeah.
Uh,
Thin layers.
Thin layers.
I did.
I brought my rower inside the lobby area
of our gym where there's actually heating
and air conditioning this morning and did
my rowing intervals in basically where our
pro shop is,
like where we hang the shirts and shit
like that,
because I was not doing it in twenty
five degrees inside the main area.
No, thank you.
Yeah.
Good luck to the,
the athletes will be warm, right?
At TFX.
Cause you're out there working out,
laying it all out there.
It's back to getting changed and all that
stuff that that's going to suck.
That's the problem.
That's the problem.
Like generally speaking in the morning
time,
I'll do like a monostructural piece and
I'll knock out a bunch of accessories.
Then I'll take my shot on and come
to work.
But like this morning I just, and yeah,
this morning I just, I did my row.
And then I took a shower and I
came to work because I'm not going out
there.
I just,
the thought of grabbing dumbbells or doing
whatever else we got to do for our
stuff, dude, is just,
I'm going to go do it this evening.
But like, it's just,
it's not built for it, dude.
It's just not,
I used to be not so much anymore.
You need to get yourself a pair of
those Mark Wahlberg bitch mittens.
So grab the dumbbells on these cold days.
I actually have some.
some soccer gloves I used to,
and I have no idea where they are,
that I bought specifically to run around.
That's what gets me is my hands get
cold.
I don't feel like touching anything.
know where they are i really do wish
i could find them um because i have
no problem no qualms about going in there
and like doing you know some dumbbell bent
over rows or whatever the case may be
with my gloves on so i don't have
to touch anything stupid cold not uh i'm
with larry i'm naturally layered
Amanda, ours is ice.
You can go outside and stand on top
of what looks like a foot of snow
and not sink.
The dog is sliding everywhere.
Trying to take a poop.
Yeah, my dog is so confused.
We dug him out a path for him
to poop,
but he doesn't like to poop on the
path because that's where he walks.
He's trying to go into the snow and
he goes into the snow and all you
can see is the top of his head.
That's funny.
So, yeah, fun stuff.
All right.
Anything else going on, man?
Doing Monster Games qualifiers start this
weekend.
Trying to go back to Kansas.
I had fun last year.
So we're trying to do that again.
Other than that, dude, just training.
I did figure something out this morning.
So one of the things my coaches tasked
me with is doing our two K rope
progression.
So I've been on that.
We're on week six,
day two was today and this morning.
It dawned on me that when God was
making my legs, he was like, all right,
cool.
They're going to be strong legs,
like really strong.
Like you're going to be able to clean
upwards of three hundred pounds,
snatch well over your body weight,
put up squat numbers.
They're going to be ridiculous for
somebody your size, whatever.
But when it comes to rowing,
it's going to feel like you're going
uphill against the current.
Yeah, enjoy that if you like.
and uh love you bye and it's just
like rolled out because in rapids that's
what i said in rapids uphill against the
current every single time it was
absolutely minor short mark believe me i'm
telling you i'm five foot six dog i
got a thirty inch inseam yeah but marks
are weak and short um lito's got french
throwdown qualifiers this thursday wish
her luck
We wish you all luck because she has
rechargeable hand warmers and I stick foot
warmers to my socks too.
I'm so over winter.
Rechargeable hand warmers.
I am going to get on Amazon as
soon as we get off this show.
Yeah.
They have like,
you can charge up gloves that actually
have heat inside the glove.
You hit a button and they warm up.
I can use those to run.
I won't run outside if it's cold and
the wind's blowing at all.
I just won't run outside.
And it's because my hands get numb.
Like I'll be out there for forty five
minutes, an hour or whatever.
I don't have an air runner.
If I did, it wouldn't be an issue.
But yeah, my hands are getting numb,
like my face, whatever I can layer up.
That's not a big deal.
But these things right here,
I can't do it.
But if I can get some electric hand
warmers, I'm just saying.
Well, Jay Birch says, where's it at?
Shit.
Oh, don't eat the yellow snow.
You know what you should eat or drink
is curdsie.
Get that good night's sleep.
Get that good night's sleep.
I slept so hard last night.
I needed every bit of it, too,
to get through today.
I feel so good today after that.
I actually just re-upped last night.
Surgey.com backslash Jazzy.
Did you go there?
I did.
Fifteen percent off.
Did you get the fifteen percent?
Absolutely, I did.
I even bought two packs because anything
over a hundred bucks gets you free
shipping.
So I got two containers of the strawberry
lemonade because we ain't got no more of
the, uh, the other one should be here.
They actually gave me an estimated
shipping date already of Saturday.
So by Saturday I should be re-upped and
that'll be ten.
That's another two months worth of, uh,
good sleep.
I just picked up.
So.
Yeah.
Uh, train all of,
I couldn't see the salted caramel.
Yeah.
They're out.
They're out.
And it's a big bummer for a lot
of people.
So all there is a strawberry lemonade,
but I got two bags of it coming.
So I hope it's good.
Scott said it's good.
So I believe him.
Listen,
I've taken a lot of supplements in my
life and a lot of them have tasted
like ass.
A lot.
Absolutely.
I've still done them because I wanted the
benefits of them.
So my bar is not real high.
But this actually tastes like a Kool-Aid
fruit punchy type thing.
I'm a big fan of strawberry lemonade.
Not mine at all.
Yeah,
I'm a big fan of strawberry lemonade to
begin with.
So it would be hard for them to
mess it up.
Yeah.
It is good.
It is good.
But when I hear people like, oh,
I can't drink that.
My God, I've drank some shit.
Same.
Oh, I need this creatine.
It tastes like ass.
Sure.
I'm going to knock it down.
I'm going to knock it down.
Dude,
when I think back to one of these
kids and like Robitussin.
Oh, yeah.
It was disgusting,
but it made me feel better afterwards,
so I knocked it down.
I just went on about my business.
Are you old enough to remember back in
the day they used to sell these pink
wafers, and they called them candy?
Oh, yeah.
Freaking Pepto-Bismol.
Necco wafers.
Yeah, but they were pink,
and they tasted like Pepto.
Yeah.
Who said, we want to make a candy,
and we're going to flavor it like
Pepto-Bismol?
What are you going to make this taste
like?
Well, let's see.
One thing kids cannot stand.
Let's see if they'll eat it as a
candy.
A hundred percent.
I still can't do Pepto-Bismol.
I can do a lot of things.
I cannot do Pepto.
They have a cherry flavored Pepto-Bismol.
Is it real cherry?
I can drink it out of the bottle
if my stomach is messed up enough.
Okay.
Okay.
I'll take your word on it.
Kool-Aid strawberry lemonade and country
crock strawberry.
I don't think it's country crock.
I think that's the margarine.
But country time, strawberry lemonade.
Yeah.
If country crock is making strawberry
lemonade,
I don't know if I want any of
it because it's going to be buttery.
spread it on toast maybe i'm not real
sure no thank you i was asking someone
do they even sell margarine anymore like
everybody's gone back to straight butter
and like i don't even see like country
crock in the store maybe i'm just not
looking for it i'll probably yeah i think
i fall in the same category i'm just
not looking for it i'll buy butter
Actually, I don't buy butter.
My mother-in-law came to my house one day,
this was like three years ago,
to watch Jameson for something or another
while me and Jennifer were going,
and we didn't have any butter.
So the next time she went to Sam's,
she bought us a five-pack of the butter
sticks.
And so...
So we used it obviously,
and we ran out and she bought more.
So like,
I haven't bought butter in three years or
so because every once in a while,
Jennifer,
if we'll go over to my mother-in-law's
house, she'd be like, mom,
we're out of butter.
And she'd be like, okay.
And like two days later,
an entire five pack of butter just shows
up at my house.
It's fantastic.
There's a store here,
like a little shack and they sell like
fresh vegetables in the summertime.
Probably not right now.
They make the, or they don't make,
they go get fresh butter from the Amish
and they sell it as like a big
roll.
Dude, that stuff.
Mark Phillips.
Yeah.
Butter's winning the war by far.
As it should be.
Yeah.
For the discerning palate,
does it taste like ass?
That's the one I want.
That's Scott's endorsement thing.
Hey, it doesn't taste like ass.
It's not an endorsement.
It's really good flavoring.
I'm just saying that with other
supplements I've taken,
I've really pinched the nose and guzzled
it down.
A lot of stuff over the years.
That's a fact.
When I was with Advocare,
we did a fiber drink.
It was chunky.
It had zero flavor.
If you can get that,
it's like taking lawn clippings and
throwing it in some water and shaking it
up.
Hold on.
Let me stir this grass up a little
bit for you.
It'll be better once it's moving.
No, it will not.
It still tastes like, oh,
it tastes like loincloth.
Look, I'm good.
You have to know what ass tastes like
for it to taste like ass.
Just saying.
Well, in my former life.
You know what kind of life we live?
Travis.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've drank some really... Amanda,
Advacare Fiber Drink,
you got ten seconds before it's solid.
And she ain't lying.
She is not lying.
Literally like shake, shake, shake,
guzzle till it's gone.
Because if not,
it's just going solidified.
Then you're just chewing, man.
No, thank you.
It was so nasty.
No, thank you.
Leave in the comments what supplement you
thought was the hardest to get down.
There it is.
Bring it on, folks.
Well, guys,
I got to get back to work.
Time for you knuckleheads to get back to
work, too.
We'll be back tomorrow for another show,
and then I'm out the rest of the
week.
As long as I can get my car
out of this neighborhood,
I have surgery on Thursday and until
Monday morning.
I need a flamethrower.
Just walk down the street.
You can buy one from Elon Musk.
Can you just picture me walking down the
street with a flamethrower?
Yes, I can.
I would love for you to get a
flamethrower.
A hundred percent.
There's that Schweitzer guy out there
flame throwing his driveway again.
I don't need the, my driveway is clear.
It's the damn street.
I've literally got to walk down the street
flame throwing.
Even better.
See, you're getting me.
And what's,
I think the reason we're not getting
plowed is because people park their car on
the damn street instead of their driveway.
And now the plow can't get through.
I have a pet peeve with people parking
on the street in my neighborhood.
And then parking in front of their own
house and there's nothing in the driveway.
What the... Oh,
there's a guy down my street that parks
a car on each side of the street
right beside each other and you have one
narrow path to get through.
And there's no way a plow can get
between those two cars.
And now we're all stuck in here.
Drives me bananas.
Yeah, I think we all live with that.
That's just disrespectful, man.
You don't own the damn street.
We live in a community.
You have a driveway.
Every house in my neighborhood,
every single house in my neighborhood has
at a minimum a two-car garage that is
attached to a driveway that goes all the
way down to the street.
I know from experience I can park two
cars in the garage and another four,
maybe five,
if they're small enough in interest in the
driveway,
might as well do some shuffling to get
them out,
depending on who's leaving first,
but it will keep them out of the
street.
Yup.
Yup.
I just don't care.
Horrible man.
There's a special place in hell for those
people.
A hundred percent.
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