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Wadapalooza's over.
The Open's over.
What's next?
Let's find out.
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 so I can
make a better me.
It's lunch time!
what is going on everybody welcome to
lunch with the clydesdale and uh
Coming at you live for lunchtime.
Good to see you all.
We got Meredith in the chat saying, hey,
hey.
We got Helson saying,
coming from Lucy Show to Sevan's Lucy Show
to lunchtime.
What a beautiful day.
Joseph Ramirez learned how to count.
He did.
And Jody.
Jody,
apparently nobody's buying some cabinets
right now, so she can be with us.
And we got CrossFit asking how I'm
feeling.
I'm actually feeling really good today and
yesterday.
I've been feeling pretty good.
The weekend was, I'm not going to lie,
got a little depressed over the news last
week of the AFib stuff.
But cardiologist called me yesterday
and...
set me up an appointment for next Tuesday,
but said they're going to try to get
me a cancellation,
which happened right before we came on the
air today.
And so Thursday, speaking of Thursday,
we're going to go to the cardiologist at
two p.m.
Eastern time on Thursday to find out what
next steps are for everything that's going
on.
So that's where we're at.
Quick update.
And speaking of Thursday,
what better segue than Thursday Thursday
is to tell you that the open's over.
Now it's time to recover.
Time to relax, get some sleep,
get ready for quarterfinals.
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Nothing is accidental, Joseph.
Yeah.
Nothing is accidental, Joseph.
It's all intentional.
We don't believe in accidents around here,
Joseph.
Missed you too, Jay Birch.
Work just was insanity yesterday.
I was out Friday.
Had to come back to a buttload of
emails.
Had to update a ton of stuff.
Jody says, we're kidding.
She's quoting four huge kitchens as we
speak.
Multitasking.
Andrew Hiller claims nobody can multitask.
He can't multitask.
That dude is like a dog with a
car.
You understand?
I kind of agree with him though.
Like my wife cannot watch a movie without
a tablet or a phone in front of
her.
And I do not have any of that
in front of me when I'm watching a
movie.
I want to watch it and suck it
all in, right?
And she,
I feel like this is becoming the complain
about my wife thing,
but I love her to death.
But she then asks me, well,
why did they do that?
Well,
didn't you see like two scenes ago when
so-and-so did this to so-and-so?
Oh.
And so I'm like,
if you just put the tablet down,
you wouldn't have to ask me the plot
lines.
My wife isn't that bad with the tablets,
but she will.
Like last night,
we were watching the newest episode of
Paradise.
And she snuggled in next to me on
the couch and was out within the first
ten minutes of the episode.
It was fantastic.
And she wakes up and she looks at
me and she goes,
I have no idea what happened.
I'm like, I know.
Oh, that's me.
I'm on IMDb throughout the whole movie
sharing facts about the actors.
I will say that is me, Jody.
I will jump on my phone to IMDb
and say,
I know that person from somewhere.
Where the hell do I know them from?
And then I have to check on IMDb
to see
I'll do that a lot too.
Like I know I've seen this cat before
and I cannot figure out where it's from.
And it's going to bug the crap out
of me until I figure it out.
Yeah.
And one of my favorite people in the
whole wide world, Jess, what's going on?
We love you, Jess.
We miss you, Jess.
Glad to see you.
Yeah.
But other than IMDB,
I do not pick up my phone during...
during a movie or and then invariably my
daughter calls with five minutes left of
anything we're watching like right at the
climax of the movie television show
sporting event whatever it is it's like
she has a sensor says gotta call the
the parents right now
John Wick is fixing to do his last
murder-death-kill.
And then... Son of a... It is non-stop.
And it's always FaceTime.
So it's broadcast out for us all to
hear.
And I can't listen to both things going
on at the same time.
John McClane is about to drop Hans Gruber
off the thirty-second floor at Nakatomi
Plaza.
Exactly.
Exactly.
son of a...
Or it's a teenage movie and you've just
been sobbing.
Yeah.
I will remember the Titans.
Joseph, if my daughter calls,
my wife will never let it go to
voicemail.
Never, ever.
Straight to jail.
Straight to jail.
Mama bear will never let that happen.
Uh,
so a lot of people were asking Andrew
Sten about if he ever got dried off.
Because, man, Miami was awful.
Holy smokes.
I felt for them.
I can't imagine.
And, look,
they were talking about it yesterday or
today, whatever,
people asking for their money back because
half their event got rained out and
whatnot.
It's Miami.
It's Southern Florida in general, dude.
We went to the Keys last year for
a weekend,
and it rained on us five separate times
while we were down there.
No,
I'm supposed to try to get my money
back from a bicycle rental guy that I
ride bikes around?
No.
It rains.
When you're in business school,
like I was back when we were writing
on stone tablets,
you have to take business law.
And in that,
you learn about this theory of assumption
of risk.
Absolutely.
And if there is an assumption of risk,
it kind of gives the entity an out.
Like if you go to a baseball game,
there's an assumption of risk that you
could get hit with a baseball or a
bat, right?
Yeah.
If you've ever watched Waterpalooza on a
stream,
you know that there is an assumption of
risk that it is going to rain.
Pick a year, any year.
And with that,
when you sign up and you pay the
entry fee,
there's an assumption of risk that it's
going to rain.
And there is a chance that it could
cancel some of your events as it has
done in years past.
So you have to know that when you
sign up for that.
I'm sure it's in the paperwork that
everybody glosses over,
scrolls through just to get to the bottom
so you can accept it.
It's written in there somewhere.
I can promise you it is.
Most of them nowadays also have an option
for like two dollars and fifty cents to
get your money back if something happens.
But that's before.
But you have to figure that out before
you actually go.
Hey,
if I can't show up because I'm hurt,
I'm injured,
my plane exploded before I take off,
whatever,
I'm going to get my registration feedback.
But you have to do that beforehand.
Jesus Christ, Jess is saying in there,
it could be worse.
It could have been thirty inches of snow
from a blizzard passing through.
Rain?
It's wet and it's windy.
Okay, cool.
You're still in South Beach.
I can't even imagine just getting thirty
inches of snow.
We got an inch and I was pissed.
Right.
Like, it's supposed to be over, people.
Chattanooga asked,
think the open was ever hosted again at
Waterpalooza?
Not that it's their fault.
It just made it a bit more difficult
for people doing it.
And Stan came back and said, never.
That screwed up so much because of the
number of people needed to run that stage.
And with all the delays,
all those heat times had to get screwed
up.
And then you add in the fifty dollar
drop in fees.
Like, good Lord, people.
The fifty dollar drop in fee I thought
was absolutely bananas.
And I get it.
They don't want just anybody coming in,
so they're going to jack it up because
I'm sure it's not that when Waterpalooza
is not going on and the Open is
not that weekend,
it's probably not a fifty dollar fee.
So they're trying to knock down just a
sheer amount of people that be coming in
there.
Right.
It's like,
what do we do to keep a lot
of people out?
Make it fifty bucks for the weekend.
People were probably complaining,
thinking it was an opportunistic thing.
Oh,
we're going to make money off these
people.
But I think the opposite is true,
is that they were trying to keep just
a ridiculous amount of people just from
just coming and banging on in through the
door.
So Andrew asked,
who charged fifty dollars?
I don't know the gym.
It's in Lucy Campbell's behind the scenes.
She got charged fifty dollars to drop in.
The same place Taylor and Bryson went.
And eventually they did refund her money.
But the crazy thing about that is if
Lucy Campbell drops into your gym,
the photos you can get to promote your
gym is worth more than the fifty dollars
she paid.
Just have to be smart, people.
Yeah.
Just go ahead and get her to stand
in front of your logo somewhere and take
a couple of pictures.
Ortega,
the fees were waived if you went to
do twenty six point three on Sunday.
This happened before Wadapalooza kicked
off.
She had dropped into train like right
before it happened.
Um.
Yes, I am assuming people are smart.
I'm not assuming that, David Reed.
I am not.
I work for the state of Ohio.
I know people are not smart.
I deal with the public every day.
I'm not even talking about the public.
I'm talking about my coworkers.
No, I know.
I got a couple like that too,
but for the most part,
I deal with the public every day,
and they are blindingly stupid.
I hate to say that because I'm part
of the public, but it's a fact.
Anyway.
So there was that.
Waterpalooza went off this week.
We also had.
Twenty six point three finishing up.
Yes, sir.
You sent me something that showed your
vast improvement from twenty six point one
to twenty six point three.
Yeah.
I'm going to try to pull it up
real quick.
See if you can show it.
So while you're doing that,
as far as twenty six point three is
concerned,
shout out to Joseph Ramirez and Will
Plummer for doing theirs live on Glinton's
channel.
And I got to be there for both
of them, actually.
And Joseph beat me on this on his
initial.
And I went back and did it again
last night after watching him go and
watching Will go and had a better strategy
and got a better result.
If you can do better, do better.
This is wild,
if anybody's looking at this.
Walk us through.
This is wild work.
So,
this is our first in a very long
time.
We did intramural open at the gym.
Everybody got drafted on the teams.
And as a part of that,
doing Friday Night Lights,
we did –
uh head-to-head coaches versus coaches
right so the first week i went against
brent and i got sucked into a race
with him very very early on and did
not run my race i am better than
that by a fair margin
the what sucks is that because of that
because you know intensity level i got
blah blah whatever you know pick a thing
that i messed up on there's plenty of
them uh my chronically tight it bands went
to pull it on my knee and it
was just too much you know i wasn't
gonna have a chance to hurt myself worse
to to redo it so my score was
my score whatever
Move on to twenty six point two.
I also did I did I did do
that one twice.
Did second worst on my second try.
So we roll with the first one.
Wasn't mad about that one.
That's just where I am wondering muscle
ups under fatigue right now.
It's getting it's a hell of a lot
better than it was three years ago.
So I got that and then went ahead
and did twenty six point three again head
to head Friday.
me and Aaron were going he and I
were very very close as far as fitness
levels are concerned um and I was ahead
of him about six or seven reps the
whole time and just kind of I don't
want to say put it on cruise control
but like I was content with that because
in my head I'm like yes I should
be beating this guy as far as this
you know so throw us a workout looked
at it feel pretty good about it actually
Friday after I got done and then as
the weekend went on I was like
So I texted Brandon and said,
am I crazy to think about doing this
again?
And he didn't even answer that.
He just said, do it again.
And I said, okay.
So went back yesterday afternoon.
Friday,
I did all my thrusters unbroken as long
as I could.
Both sets of ninety five, I did unbroken.
The first set of one fifteen,
I did unbroken.
And then the second set of one fifteen,
I broke either seven five or eight four.
I really don't remember.
And then only got through the first set
of cleans at one thirty five.
So yesterday I went back and broke the
thrusters from the get go.
Seven five the entire way.
The second weight change and the third
weight change I did change one plate six
burpees change one plate six burpees Just
to kind of help keep my heart rate
down a little bit that plus,
you know Holding the thrusters unbroken
and I was a little bit more disciplined
on the cleans and I got thirteen more
reps.
So It was pretty sweet.
I was pretty excited about that one I
watched my so I put my score in
Friday and like,
you know Friday not a people don't put
their scores in blah blah,
whatever and
they hold on joan jenkins tuning in had
to tune in since we have ty on
the thumbnail today yeah ty killed it at
water palooza last week yeah that's him
he's on the come yeah he's moving uh
anyway yeah
Was a little bit more disciplined on the
cleans.
Still did singles the whole way through.
Seven and five on the thrusters.
And was able to keep my burpees at
the same pace where I didn't, you know,
I dropped off a whole lot less and
made it all the way through the burpees
and got one thruster at a one thirty
five with
I think I had ten seconds whenever I
picked the barbell up,
got up to be able to pick the
barbell up.
So if I'd had two more seconds,
I probably could have got a mellow
thruster, but it is what it is.
I'm not mad at it.
Friday, I put it in initially.
It was good for thirtieth,
and then just kind of watched it tumble
down the leaderboard over the weekend and
then redid it last night,
and now it's good for thirty-fourth.
So, yeah.
Were he satisfied with that?
Yes, Jenny.
So for you people younger than me,
I know it sounds bad,
but we used to say when there was
a young athlete on his way up,
you would say they're on the come.
Like they're on the come up.
But yeah,
so it was meant in that vein.
Translation to the younger generation.
Let me answer this one, Mr.
Doug Reed there.
Doug says,
why redo if you're going to make quarters
regardless?
Because Will Plummer put it pretty
eloquently yesterday is that this is the
one time of year where you get a
five-day window basically from Thursday
all the way through Monday.
To test and then maybe retest and to
see if a better strategy is going to
work better or if that's really where
you're at.
And, you know, as far as that's concerned,
I'm not the guy that's going to do
them four times over a weekend because I'm
not completely insane,
but my coach feels the same way.
Like,
Yeah,
I know I was going to make quarters
regardless.
I could have done a lot less, honestly,
and still make quarterfinals,
but I'm not here for that.
I'm here to put myself to the test
and see exactly what I'm capable of,
and I need to keep proving that to
myself, not to anybody else,
to get my mindset ready for when I
do hit quarters next weekend and be able
to put my best foot forward and try
to qualify for a spot to compete in
person because that's what I really want
to do this year.
At least John George has my back.
It's also on a craps table.
It's a good bet.
So with that,
let's go to the overall leaderboard.
So here we have the top of the
open leaderboard unofficially.
Colton Mertens will get the win.
He has a big lead.
It would take something catastrophic.
for him to fall out of that.
Peter Ellis with the second place.
Jeff Adler, third.
Yonikoski in a tie for fourth with Nika
Maserati?
Maserazzi?
Click on that.
Let me see.
That's what I think that is.
Can I get his picture up?
What's that?
Click on his little down arrow.
Yeah.
Okay, that's not who I thought it was.
There's some guy in there that everybody's
saying that he's on drugs.
I don't remember if that was him.
Good job on Saxon, man.
Yeah, he did.
And then the women, uh,
Lucy Campbell and Miriam Von Rohr tight
race for the win on the,
and that's fifteen grand people.
Yeah, it is fifteen grand, uh, tight,
tight.
Um,
And then Leah Storen, Emma Lawson,
nice comeback after a year off.
Morgan Theisens, Var Thurman Moe,
Claudia Gluck,
and our very own Carolyn Prevost with a
top ten finish in the open as a
Masters athlete.
She's an animal, dude.
I love it.
Taylor Howe and Rebecca Fusile.
Rebecca.
In the top ten.
Big Becca.
Rebecca.
so yeah carolyn killed it she loves the
open like i think of all the the
points in the season she loves the open
more than anything she loves doing it with
her community she loves the the strategic
part of it if you listen to us
on sunday night she talks about she always
does it friday and monday
Every week.
Same thing.
The strategery.
Yep.
She loves the strategery of it all.
I have a love-hate relationship with the
Open.
I love it when it comes around because
it marks the beginning of the season.
Let's see where we're at and whatnot.
My son did his first Open in two
years, three years this year,
which is another love-hate thing because I
love that he's doing it,
but it's so stressful watching him go,
dude,
because like
I want so much for him.
You know what I mean?
But it was good to see him get
after it himself.
Andrew Sten asks,
will Carolyn do both Masters and Elite
Indy?
If she makes both,
that would be a long week.
If she was allowed, she would do it.
The rumor is you're not going to be
able to do both.
Probably because of the limited spots this
year, if I had to guess.
It's I don't think it's about spots.
I think it's about timing.
And I think it's about that Thursday that,
that the elites may go to the ranch
as the rumored thing.
The ranch.
Yeah.
I think there's might be a small overlap,
which will prevent because the elites that
are on teams have been told they can't
do both.
Okay.
They can't do masters and elite teams.
Yeah.
If that is,
and I've not seen it anywhere where you
can't do elite and masters individual,
but Mike,
the thought process would be the same as
teams, I would think.
But who knows?
so that's what we have there um and
don't forget people we every year we do
the ncaa bracket challenge on the
clydesdale media youtube channel it's free
it's fun it's on espn you just go
to clydesdale media jazz fest that is the
group
And the code is Jazzy.
We try to keep it simple.
Oddly enough.
You can sign up for both the men's
tournament bracket and the women's
tournament bracket.
We give prize for both brackets
separately.
We already have a good chunk of people
signed up.
And it's free.
And Jamie always wins the awards,
the trophies, the rings,
whatever it might be.
Ganging up to try to stop her from
winning another trophy.
We must stop Jamie's reign of terror.
She is impossible to be around when she
keeps winning.
That's a fact.
Here's why.
It's because she won't let you forget it.
Oh, no.
Like, you'll wear the... Like,
fantasy football was a ring.
Yeah.
Basketball last year was a ring and a
trophy.
Yeah,
she won the Tyson Bajan jersey from
Hiller.
She'll wear the shit around you.
It's role-playing.
So...
So, yeah, it's free.
ESPN.com.
Sign up for the Men's Bracket Challenge.
Again,
the group that we are in is Clydesdale
Media Jazz Fest.
And the code is Jazzy.
And the link is actually in the
description of this show.
So you can just click the link there,
too.
Even better.
So did you see Dave on Coffee Pods
and Wads?
I did for the forty five seconds he
was on air.
So I'm a quality guy, right?
Right.
If the quality of the thirty forty five
seconds was great.
Then I'm cool with it.
And it was great.
No, it was a percent.
And I know a lot of the media
attention is, hypothetically,
if they offered you the CEO tomorrow,
would you take it, right?
But what got me fired up is,
we've been talking about this on the
Sunday show a ton.
Should you carry the open scores over to
quarterfinals?
And he said, not only yes, we should,
but we will in the near future.
And Dave's near future usually means next
year.
But we have some things in limbo like
no CEO, possible sale, all that stuff,
right?
The next piece, though,
as he talks about it and the way
he talks about it tells me we're going
back to a regional type setup.
I like the way he spoke longingly of
regionals.
He hates invites to the events.
And he's not wrong.
So do I.
He doesn't care about popularity.
He doesn't care about ticket sales.
He wants to find the fittest this year.
End of story.
And the only way to do what he
is saying is to at least regionalize it
or assign people to a semifinal.
Yeah.
And...
What I love is they even talked about
carrying over the open to the
quarterfinals to the semifinals,
and then you would have like a twelve
event test to determine who goes to the
games.
Yeah.
Twelve to fourteen,
depending on what you get.
We had, I want to say,
five events for semifinals last year.
Well, if you're in-person semis,
it's almost always six.
Yeah.
So you're at the elite level, right?
Right.
Online, we had five last year.
I want to say for quarterfinals,
there was four.
So six and four plus three is thirteen.
That's probably at a minimum.
Chance of a better night,
we'll have five workouts next weekend for
quarterfinals.
And then maybe six for online semis or
six for in-person semis.
Like,
I like the way he spoke of it.
I will say this.
I was watching a little bit of CJ
and them.
Well,
just CJ at this point because they bailed
on him last night.
He brought up a good point as far
as like he said, you know,
he thinks it's a terrible idea,
adding all the scores together.
And I hadn't thought about it like this.
But his main reason is it's a judging
nightmare.
Because accountability at that point,
because look how many,
how many scores on the,
in the open right now are hot garbage
nonsense.
Not even just the fact that, you know,
and maybe it's a couple of reps
questionable here and there and yonder.
There was a dude in my age group
that did not put a score in for
point one,
did not put a score in for point
two.
And I recognize his name because he did
the same thing last year.
And all of a sudden puts in like
a twelve thirty or some crazy shit like
that for point three.
Well, here's how you fix that.
You ready?
If you don't make quarters,
you don't get your score carried over.
Okay, but to make quarters,
I can just go put in whatever three
scores I want to make quarters.
It's a lot harder to do.
Well, quarters are judged.
Quarters require more judging.
They do require more some video review.
They go out to the public.
So does open,
but only if you actually video it,
if without requiring video.
And they've said that.
That's what I'm getting at.
So now if you're adding the open to
quarters,
now you really going to have to be
judged or you're going to have to submit
video one or the two.
That's the only way it's going to be
anywhere close to being fair.
And that's still a big ask for doing
twenty five percent from open to quarters.
to get people who actually belong there,
belong there.
Everybody has to submit videos and
everybody has to watch those videos to
make sure that people are not doing it.
I get the self-policing system thing that
we got going on right now because I've
looked at people's videos and either said
good, not good, or needs review, whatever.
But you are asking,
that's a huge task for as many people
as they're bringing it.
Yeah,
I think it'll all level itself out as
you get into those higher-scale
quarterfinal workouts.
And as it drops down,
I think it can work.
It's better than what we have today.
I don't disagree.
And check the stuff for the Open.
And look,
you're talking to somebody who like the
more events I get,
the better I am because I have more
of a chance to show off what I
can actually do.
Anytime you get into a specialty event,
I'm not necessarily going to be great at
it unless it's a hundred foot handstand
walk for time or some crazy,
you know what I'm saying?
It had to be super specialized.
So the more events, the better for me,
for sure.
I want more.
My only concern,
and I'm glad CJ brought it up so
I can have something else to kind of
noodle on it about,
is it's a big ass to go from
there to there.
And I get it.
I don't understand what you're saying
about once you get to quarterfinals,
it'll kind of wash itself out.
But to get the right people to
quarterfinals,
because now people are like, well,
I'm just going to put whatever I got
in there and
Joe Bob at the gym is going to
sign off on it,
and we're going to call it good and
move on right along,
and I'm going to get in the quarterfinals.
And if it's enough people that do that,
I'm not saying that the majority of
CrossFitters are cheaters,
but I know enough shady-ass people that
would do stuff like that just to be
able to say I made it.
David Reed,
ultimately it's up to the affiliate.
They should be the gatekeepers and hold
standards.
I agree with you,
but we all know that
that is done.
They just don't.
Willy nilly.
Peter Benoit would just require anyone
that advances to send me to produce their
open videos.
I think what they should do is say,
you have to video all your workouts and
we can request anything from the season at
any point to determine your scores.
You need to video all three open workouts.
You need to video all four quarterfinal
workouts and we can request any of them
at any time.
How many go to semis?
I mean, that would,
all this is all hypothetical because we
don't know how many regions there would
be.
We don't know how many per region.
We don't know any of that stuff at
this point.
And if you had in-person semis and you
see even the age groups are starting to
get semis that are more
that are coming in more and more and
more.
And if you have that in-person event to
get to the games,
and it happened even in the early days,
people showed up and couldn't even do the
workouts.
It was like Kale Lehman, Kale Lehman,
Kale's big brother.
You know,
bail Lehman showed up to regionals and
they couldn't even do a rope climb.
So a solution at a check market
registration,
if you say you're looking to be in
consideration,
then you have to upload videos.
I don't, I don't hate that idea either.
Or at least if not have to upload
them, like Scott said,
you have to have them,
you have to have them put them on
YouTube, whatever the case may be.
That way, if, if somebody needs to go,
but there's a question,
Oh,
Corey did got two hundred twenty nine reps
on point three.
Let's see, because I'm going to right now.
I didn't video last night.
Absolutely not, because I did not have to.
I'm going to do everything for
quarterfinals.
But for the open, like it's a lot.
It really, really is.
Yeah,
I don't think everybody has to film counts
CrossFit.
I think it's just those who are looking
to go to quarters and looking to go
to semis.
I would say that ninety shit,
maybe ninety five percent of people who
are wants to open starts, you know,
or you have a pretty good idea if
you're going to make quarterfinals or if
you're going to be a semifinals type type
athlete,
especially those in the open division.
I know the guys in the Masters division,
the guys that I know,
the guys I compete with,
we know before before season starts, like,
yep.
i am going to be able to like
i don't necessarily need to do a whole
lot during the open to make quarterfinals
quarterfinals and when it matters i'll
probably make semis i would like to be
able to qualify high enough to get to
an in-person semi you already know you
know before the open even starts if not
you're delusional one way or the other
yeah i think um
just the ones who think they will advance.
If you have a hundred members,
there's likely only a handful of them that
will advance.
It's like Dave said, like of the,
the not a hundred people at a gym,
there's really only two that had maybe
have a legit shot at semis.
And unless you are like a really
competitive gym with really high end
talent, we got to,
I can think of offhand.
So that's for desk for masters semis,
not even for, not for the open.
Amanda says in the open,
anyone can judge you.
They'd have to change that to require the
judge's course at a minimum.
I don't disagree.
And again,
this was just Dave talking about what he
wants.
Yeah.
Right.
It doesn't.
And if they do go to this new
way, that means all new rules,
all new requirements.
It wouldn't,
you would hope they wouldn't just slap it
on top of what is there.
No.
I do think that the way he was
talking about it,
it sounds like there's already been
discussions about it.
So maybe they already have some sort of
groundwork kind of laid out.
They're just trying to work out the
details of what the best way forward is
going to be.
I like the carryover idea,
but on top of the people that do
the workouts, we have that many watching.
Trying to keep them out of the camera
area would be tough.
The affiliate I went to, both affiliates,
coned off with yellow tape the athlete
area and the spectator area.
And the two shall not cross.
And they were very adamant about it.
Very adamant.
And when it came down to it,
athlete gets the floor space before the
spectator.
Yeah, we tell people, we too,
with the lunges,
like we were getting ready to start actual
heats that Friday night.
And I yelled at six people that I
consider to be really good friends to get
the F out the way before y'all get
run over with a dumbbell.
Like, why are y'all standing right there?
Y'all know better than that.
Amanda says, yeah, same Scott.
No one is walking in front of cameras.
Yeah.
Well, my first affiliate,
there was no games athletes there.
There were not even semifinal athletes
there.
And then my second gym was Christy Aramo
O'Connell.
And like,
if you walked in front of her camera,
I mean, that's death sentence.
No, she would never do that.
She's too nice.
But it was definitely coned off and you
were not to go past an area.
As a coach,
I've learned you sometimes have to treat
members like children,
tell them where they can and can't go.
There are no excuses.
That's a fact.
Hey, man, don't do that.
Right.
I don't know if you saw this new
event that Xenom added.
I didn't see a single Xenom event.
I followed them, but for whatever reason,
they're not popping up in my feed.
Have you seen this?
You have to throw as many human bodies
as you can for time.
Nice.
Have you seen this?
No, I have not, but I am in.
This is actually an official Guinness Book
of World Records.
Dude, why wouldn't it be?
So let me ask you this.
Is there just a big long line,
or are those guys just making a circle
and coming back and throwing them again?
I think they circle around and get thrown
again.
Yes.
Yep, there they go.
You know what this woman would be good
at?
Throwing people out that cross the yellow
line when you're recording an open
workout.
A hundred percent.
I'd hire her for that.
Dude, that looks fun as shit.
Yeah.
And she gets some sugar after.
So what did you do today?
I got tossed by a German woman.
You did what?
You heard me.
How many times?
I love the cautionary signs in the back.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
That is fantastic.
This looks like,
I understand that this is actual Guinness
thing, but it looks like a game show.
It looks like something they would do like
on physical one hundred or something like
that.
And next up on a physical one hundred.
Well,
I want to like for the Guinness Book
of World Records,
does each person have to weigh between one
twenty, one forty or?
They have to have some sort of weight
category.
Like you have to, it's probably,
it's probably just a minimum.
Right.
So yeah, you take an average,
you want to make it like right at
the minimum, right?
I want to throw a hundred, uh, uh,
Rebecca fuselage.
Like that's, that's where that's wrong.
That's where I'm at right now.
Or, Oh, what's that?
Uh,
the one that did the world record Fran,
like of all time, uh, Marissa flowers.
I want to throw.
Yeah.
How many, how,
how fast can I throw a hundred Marissa
flowers?
I've seen bouncers on Bourbon Street do
that.
Yeah.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
She could be the Royal Rumble winner.
I love how prepared she was too.
Elbow wraps, belt, et cetera.
And she did it purely for the love
of the game.
Mike,
that was not her first time doing that,
brother.
I'm going to tell you that right now.
That was not, that was not a,
that's not a one-off.
She didn't like roll up that name.
Like,
you know what I feel like doing today?
How many dudes we got over here that
weigh, hmm,
about a hundred and twenty-five pounds?
Can you imagine the Craigslist ad?
Woman seeking man,
ten men at one hundred and twenty-five
pounds.
Between one twenty-five and one hundred
and thirty-five pounds.
No weirdos.
In for a good time.
Yeah.
No weirdos.
And no, even better.
Woman seeking ten men between one hundred
twenty five hundred thirty five pounds for
Guinness World Record attempt.
No weirdos, please.
Some people pay a lot of money to
have that done to them.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yeah,
that's that's another building on Bourbon
Street.
It is.
It's it's on one side of the of
the street.
Oh, one side of the quarter.
I should say not the other one.
Oh, that is fantastic, baby.
Imagine her in any situation then in
public,
just constantly sizing up bystanders.
Like, yeah,
all you would get yeeted nicely.
I get yeet every single one of y'all
quick too.
Holy smokes.
That's fantastic.
I dove down the biggest rabbit hole I've
ever dove down yesterday and
After watching that video,
I can understand how you would.
Totally different.
This was bad.
Segway bags.
Do you know who Jim or say is,
Oh, that name sounds so familiar.
So he was the owner of the Indianapolis
Colts.
Okay.
And he passed away last in twenty twenty
five.
He had like the world's biggest private
collection of pop culture memorabilia.
And he spent his money.
And he was a big music fan.
He was in a band, played guitar,
all the stuff was kids.
Didn't need to keep all this stuff that
he had collected over the years.
So they put it all up for auction.
So I watched day one of this three
day auction and I'll probably watch the
other two.
The stuff this guy had and the amount
of money that was paid for it was
blowing my mind.
I can't even.
And basically what I was doing was playing
Price is Right.
Like they would put the item up and
I'd go, oh, that's going for three mil.
That's a three million dollar price.
And I was really,
really bad at the game.
Dude, that sounds amazing,
if I'm being honest.
And they had like...
Was it a Mecham auction or just a
private type deal?
It was Christie's Auction House in New
York City.
Okay, that makes sense.
And so, yeah,
nobody got the one dollar bid.
No, not a single...
What I also learned in this whole thing
is the haves have a lot.
Oh, yeah.
And us have-nots really have nothing.
Yeah,
when they're standing there with that
paddle and they just...
And it's up to like two hundred fifty
grand and it's going.
I love that you use a Theragun as
your paddle.
I mean,
it's the only thing I had handy.
But you know what I'm saying?
That just goes to two hundred grand.
Yeah.
No, I'm going to need that.
And it's probably something ridiculous.
Right.
Right.
So they had David Gilmour's guitar from
Pink Floyd.
And it is the most expensive guitar in
the world.
Whenever it goes to auction,
it has a crazy story behind it where
Pink Floyd's gear got stolen and this was
the guitar he bought.
So like his first guitar after his stuff
got stolen and Fender repainted it for him
and the old paint bled through so it
has this weird look to it.
Twelve point one million dollars.
for a guitar that they're not going to
play let's be honest they might they
probably won't even display it it's going
to be in a safe somewhere why because
it's twelve point five million dollars our
resident collector was sweating more
watching than a crossfit workout knowing i
didn't have a chance yeah ken wasn't in
the back with the two with the two
fifty going
So he had the drum head from the
bass drum of Ringo Starr's drum kit from
the night they played on Ed Sullivan for
the first time in their first appearance
in America.
Jesus Christ.
But here's the one I wanted.
He has the handwritten script for Rocky.
Oh, wow.
It is in a Mead ring-bound notebook,
and it was Stallone's handwritten script
for the first Rocky.
Is it legible?
I always wonder about stuff like that.
What does Stallone's handwriting look
like?
They did not open it up to show
you.
I think that would have been dangerous,
like losing pages or...
I'm sure someone has looked to verify it
all.
But on the TV,
they did not show it.
But they showed the cover.
And it looks like someone in sixth grade's
notebook that's all ratty on the edges.
Yeah,
because I could just hold up this and
be like, hey,
I got this script for Rocky II right
here.
It looks like that only in red.
Yeah.
I got this script for Rocky II right
here.
And I'll take five million dollars for it.
How about that?
Well,
I thought it would go for a lot
more than it did.
It only went for four hundred grand.
Really?
Like I should have jumped in.
You should have.
You should have.
Ken was probably chomping at the bit at
that point.
He had the robe that Muhammad Ali wore
the first time he was Muhammad Ali.
After he changed his name from Cassius
Clay to Muhammad Ali,
the robe he wore the first fight publicly,
everything had a story to it.
It was this unique thing.
He had the handwritten lyrics from Bob
Dylan's These Times They Are Changing.
You need the handwritten lyrics because
you can't understand a word Bob's saying,
so that's fair.
Like a Gretzky jersey from when he
clinched the Stanley Cup in game seven and
when he was with the Edmonton Oilers.
Where do they get that stuff?
Like,
how does that end up in somebody's
collection?
The funniest story was there was a Clapton
guitar that was hand-painted to look like
it had been done by a Dutch impressionist.
They call it the Fool.
And he played it when he was with
Cream.
somehow it went from him to todd rungren
who played it on his albums and then
eventually in this guy's collection let me
get that guitar off you todd the crazy
part about that kind of stuff is like
it's probably somebody's like todd rungren
just that was the last person who had
it right and then somebody probably got it
from him because he didn't need it anymore
because he's got god only knows how many
guitars right and he's like yeah whatever
i got this from
And it just went, I got, yeah,
I got this from Eric and probably insane.
And then six months later, Hey,
when you said you got this from Eric,
did you meet Eric Clapton?
It was like, yeah,
because they don't think of people in
that.
Like if you were friends with Eric
Clapton,
you don't think of him necessarily as Eric
Clapton.
You think of him as Eric.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
And at the time he probably,
he was not as legendary as he is
now.
So it was probably even less of a
thing.
And just over time,
as that builds up now,
all of a sudden you got Eric Clapton's
guitar.
Yeah.
So funny off off subject story,
Eric Clapton has a house here in Columbus.
His wife is a native of Columbus, Ohio.
When we were having my daughter is when
his wife was pregnant with their child.
we had Lamaze on Wednesday night.
They had it on Tuesday night.
We were that close to having Lamaze class
with Eric Clapton.
Yeah.
I've never met him.
It just was like, it could have, if,
you know, if y'all had been like, Oh,
let's do it on Tuesday instead of doing
it on Wednesday.
Also you walk in, he's like, is that,
Eric Clapton?
Yeah.
Oh, I was just working out with Dick.
Oh, sorry.
You probably only know him as Rich
Froning.
My bad.
Yeah.
If you've never met Rich Froning,
I met him one time.
He's the nicest guy on the planet.
He really is.
He really is.
The one time, and this was forever ago,
he came speak at a church that I
was going to at the time.
And what struck me the most is that
he introduced himself.
He didn't take for granted everybody knew
who he was.
Hey, man, I'm Rich.
And he was like, no,
you say your name.
He said that to me, and I'm like,
yeah, I know who you are.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Yeah, dude, I know who you are.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, like,
you are coached by Brandon Luckett.
And you don't even think of him as,
like,
games athlete Brandon Luckett anymore,
right?
It's just Brandon.
It's just Brandon.
When I worked out with Christy every day,
it was, it's just Christy.
It's not.
Speaking of my coach, right quick, like,
why would you mention that?
He's the world right now.
That's pretty cool.
considering his wife made him,
Kristen made him sign up.
He's like,
I guess I'm doing these workouts.
Kristen made me sign up for the opening.
Forty-first in the world.
It's ridiculous.
Ken,
I think I'm a big shot when I
sell a big item of mine,
like the signed Kendall Gill Supersonics
warm-up jacket last month for seven point
three grand.
Then you get these items.
It's crazy.
Yeah,
I sold off all of my signed helmets
and a lot of my stuff to pay
for a camera to be a media guy
in CrossFit.
And I didn't get anything like even what
Ken's talking about.
Sacrifices we make.
Yeah.
Mike DeVito met him at a meet and
greet with Rich,
so it wasn't random or anything,
but he legit seemed very authentic.
Not an Eagles, though.
He's not an Eagles fan.
Eagles fan, though, but I let it slide.
Go, birds.
So what vote do we give the open?
Sorry if you've already talked about that.
I give it an A.
I could be real nitpicky if I wanted
to be, right?
If you really want to get in.
But is he open about being nitpicky?
But that's going to be my next point.
It's really not.
It's really not.
It served its purpose.
It did.
And it was very, very much like...
opens of the past it would similar style
workout similar like can't breathe workout
similar like and i thought the
announcements were all great yeah the
lineups they had other than dave stumbling
over this last workout and confusing the
world that was funny but again it's it's
a memorable piece because you can talk
about it and even though it was a
mess up it's a mess up that makes
it memorable
Yeah.
I gave myself Fran long Friday night.
Probably not going to forget that anytime
soon.
They are what they are.
Dave said yesterday,
that was one of the things he said
on the show.
He's like, if I'm not pissing people off,
I'm really not doing my job.
And it's the open.
And like he said,
ninety eight percent of the people aren't
moving on to to be a games athlete
of any kind.
Right.
And this is for the affiliates and it's
for them to do.
It's for them to do it as a
community.
It's not for the big athletes at this
point.
Right.
And I think with that perspective,
it was a great open.
Yeah, I would agree to that.
I know from my experience in my affiliate,
everybody had fun.
It felt like the old open.
Everybody bitched about the workout before
it started, got it done,
slapped some hands, did some high fives.
We had people,
a real good friend of mine is actually
a member of the month right now.
He's only been here two years.
He was able to RX all three of
them.
Right.
And that's kind of a big deal.
Like, Holy smokes.
Did he just RX all three workouts?
Like that's, that's pretty fantastic.
Um, so that's an accomplishment.
Right.
And it was actually his first open ever.
Um,
it felt like it did when I first
started.
And I think that's a special thing in
and of itself.
Mark Phillips, twelve minutes,
fifteen minutes,
sixteen minutes would have liked a shorter
or longer for one of those.
But it was fine.
I don't think you can go longer than
that and make it a class workout and
shorter.
You only get three weeks.
If it was a five week open,
you could do a short workout.
But I think with a three week workout,
you have to keep it in that range.
I think they were all very different
aerobic tests.
because of just the skills that are
required.
That lunge workout with the increasing
gymnastics,
if you sprinted that and you weren't an
elite athlete,
you were just going to stand there and
stare at rings.
It had to be paced differently,
where the first one was more of a,
let's sprint and see where we can get
to.
And the last one was,
let's pace it or we're going to die.
So I think even though they were all
similar minutes,
they all took a different strategic look
for the common gym goer.
For the common gym goer and for the
higher level athletes,
they're different workouts.
For the elites, the elite elites,
twenty six point two was how fast can
you do twenty ring muscle ups for time?
That's what that's what it comes down to
for the rest of us.
It's do I have ring muscle ups?
Do I have them when I'm tired?
How many can I do when I'm tired?
Can I maybe finish this in, you know,
twelve to fifteen minutes somewhere up in
that in that window?
The last one too,
how much do I know about pacing?
How much do I know about myself to
know where I can get,
how I can pace this out,
be smart about it?
I said it on Friday after I got
announced that this was more of a mental
thing than it was physical at that point.
Everybody can do thrusters.
Everybody can do burpees.
Even on the heavier side of the thrusters,
most people can get at least or at
least do one or two set reps at
that higher weight.
Can you do it when you're tired?
Can you get there?
to do it can you get there with
enough energy to do it like uh lito
says everyone at our affiliate felt like
it was hard and challenging as it should
be and i haven't heard any complaints from
the vast majority of people doing it there
you go same um cows and crossfit we
had a lot of people do rx this
year up until the point they couldn't do
anymore our gym liked it yeah
yeah i think it's um yeah and peter
benoit is asking if quarters have to be
done in affiliates yes yes they do um
so daniel arnson are y'all going to
syndicate my plan is to go to syndicate
um i just have to
My wife wants to go see my daughter.
I want to go see my daughter.
We just have to figure out when we're
going to do that in conjunction with that.
I mean,
you could get a ride to syndicate at
this point.
A good dude that runs it lives down
the street from your house.
Yeah,
but my guess is he's going to be
there a lot longer than I want to
be there.
Probably so.
Probably so.
But yeah,
my hope is to go this year to
that.
It's drivable.
So, yeah.
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