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what's going on how y'all
are it's wednesday cooking
it up with cory I like the
justin wilson reference
that's all right right
there what's that uh oh he
froze oh no oh no he froze
up on me man I saw that oh
look at pk what up dan
So before we dive into too
much of the stuff and start
cooking up the Cajun yesterday,
I threw a dart and I said,
if you guys saw where it landed,
you'd be laughing your ass off.
So I did take a picture of it.
So you could see where it
actually landed yesterday.
And here it is.
So you see the dartboard is up here.
This is the shelf.
And I nailed the front edge.
What is that, like a sixteenth of an inch?
Dude,
I would consider that to be a
bullseye because that's
harder than actually hitting a bullseye.
Yeah.
Not my best attempt at hitting a bullseye,
which is way up here, right?
That's fantastic.
I stuck that son of a gun
right in the front edge of that shelf.
I don't ever quit on the dart throat.
I don't care if it takes you
eight years to get one.
I'll lose my mind when it finally happens.
I probably will too.
I'll probably just shut down the show.
Yeah, I'm calling it good.
Do the Costanza.
Do the Costanza.
Throw the hands up.
See you guys.
It's been great.
I'm out of here.
Oh, I love it.
Absolutely love it.
Sometimes I say references.
I have no idea if people
even know what I'm talking about.
You know what?
It's fine.
They either get them or they don't.
You either get them or they don't.
If you talk to me for more
than ten minutes at a time,
I am liable just to start
throwing out song lyrics
that are related to what we're saying.
And I don't care if you
don't know what song I'm
talking about or not.
I'll look at you like this for a second.
And if you don't get it,
we'll just move on.
It's fine.
I'm not going to break my heart.
All right.
For Dan Church.
Here we go, Dan.
You ready?
Oh!
That one was actually close.
That one was actually close.
We didn't hit the shelf.
About an inch and a half
from the bullseye.
Okay.
Getting close.
Getting close.
Bringing that one in.
It felt good coming out of the hand.
Felt good.
And I was like, oh,
and it just a tidge high.
Well,
it's like kicking a soccer ball or
throwing a baseball or
making contact with a bat.
Like, you know, right when it hits, like,
oh, that's going to be good.
I was waiting for that to be,
because it was for you, man.
It was, it was dedicated to Dan Church.
It was to Dan Church.
Garage gym fit, fitnesser in the,
in the space.
I do this very, very fit.
That is no question,
no question about that.
Well, speaking of Dan Church,
where I met him was at MFC.
The qualifiers for Masters
Fitness Championships were
just a week ago.
They think they closed up?
Well, Sunday, actually.
So about three days ago.
You did those qualifiers.
Yeah, I did.
Yeah, I did.
So was it two years ago?
Yeah.
You competed in the RX division.
In the RX division.
As it stands right now,
as long as I make it
through video review fine,
because the leaderboard is not final yet,
or at least I haven't
gotten an email that says that it is yet,
I will be competing in Elite.
I currently am in
seventeenth place as far as
that's concerned.
And the way they work at an
MFC is that everybody does
a qualifier the same.
Yep.
Top twenty go in the elite division.
Next twenty go into the RX division.
Correct.
Correct.
Correct.
So about that.
So I don't read instructions well.
We went over that last week.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, so following up from that,
you and Bill Leahy,
it must be something about the Bayou.
Oh, dude, here's the thing.
And it's my own fault, which I mean,
it's always my own fault,
but it's my own fault
because I just assume things, right?
I assume that if you're
going to program a two K
row into a hundred and
fifty burpees over the rower,
that the hundred and fifty
burpees over the rower is
the important part because
your tie break time is your row time,
right?
Well,
The row was worth sixteen
reps for some reason.
I've completely skipped over that.
Which to be fair, it wasn't just me.
But I feel like,
and I haven't asked if that
was in fact the case,
but I was the first person
to bring it to their
attention because after I
mentioned them on Instagram,
they put up a story like
ten minutes later saying, hey, if you,
you know,
if you miss this part on the score sheet,
email this to the scoring
people or whatever.
Well,
that's what they did for me initially,
right?
So, and when they did,
whoever's on the other end
of their Instagram, excuse me,
Literally sent me a link.
Hey,
this is the email address to send an
email to to get your score corrected.
So I did that.
And then I waited.
And then I waited.
And then I waited.
And I saw other people
moving around me on the scoreboard.
Like I went from twenty
fifth down to twenty eighth.
And I was like.
Something's not right.
And I got it in the meantime, Thursday,
I believe that was,
I got an email or a message
rather back from, uh,
from Gmail saying that, Hey,
we tried to deliver this email.
It didn't go through for whatever reason.
We're going to try again for
the next twenty four hours or whatever.
And it didn't connect in my
brain that maybe I had the
wrong email address.
I had the wrong email address.
They sent me,
the one that they sent was
Masters Fitness Collective
and not MastersFitnessChampionship.com.
So I took a screenshot and
messaged them again and said, hey,
I got this background email
and I still haven't heard anything,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
And when I was on the other end,
I was like, oh yeah,
that's the wrong email.
My bad.
Here's the right one.
So that was,
I don't remember if it was
Thursday night or Friday morning,
whatever it was.
um sent a new email with the
correct address this time
and I still didn't hear
anything back okay now in
the meantime we got my son
graduating from high school
um I was just coming back
from being uh slightly
injured as far as I was
concerned during the week
um and just had a lot of
stuff going on and then
it's kind of at least it
was to me letting me get in
my head demoralizing watching people just
Go ahead of me and my score not moving.
I was getting frustrated.
I was getting aggravated.
Me and Dan were talking about it.
He was like, dude, just do it.
At that point,
I was so aggravated that my
score hadn't been fixed
when they told me it was
going to be fixed.
And I saw other people moving.
I just was going to not do the last two.
I didn't care at that point.
It was bothering me.
Dan Church convinced me, go ahead,
just do it.
It's a good training piece, nothing else.
Just do one of them.
Friday night, I get off work.
I go to the gym.
I do the three rounds of
dubs and thrusters, rest a minute,
and then three rounds of
toes and thrusters, rest a minute.
Toes and thrusters are twenty-one toes bar,
nine thrusters, one fifteen.
I was the only person in the gym
It was Friday afternoon,
I had a long day at work Friday, like,
what in the best headspace to begin with?
Did the first part, rested,
started the second part,
got to fifteen toes on the second set.
And I was thinking about, I was like,
your score hasn't changed.
Well, this hurts.
Why are you doing this?
Et cetera, et cetera.
So I just stopped, Scott.
flat out just cut it down.
I said, I got two more days to do this.
I'm aggravated, like annoyed, whatever.
So I shut it down.
Thankfully, I did not delete the video.
Okay, that's gonna come into play later.
That happens.
I go home Friday night.
I get an email from
whoever's on the other end
of the school ring thing and said, hey,
man, I am real sorry.
I've been traveling all day long.
This was at like seven thirty,
eight o'clock Friday night.
Been traveling all day.
Just got you just saw this email.
I fixed your score.
I went from twenty eighth to twenty first.
Now I'm one spot up,
which is about considering
where my scores were,
which is about where I should have been.
And I was like, oh, so now
Now my brain goes from, oh, you know,
from to hell with this.
I don't feel like doing this.
I guess I need to go ahead and do these.
Now, Sunday, this past Sunday,
we're having Brody's graduation party.
In my head,
and this is another thing me
and Dan were talking about,
I thought the qualifiers
ended on Monday the nineteenth.
So Saturday,
I went to the gym in the morning.
I snatched while Jennifer was doing class.
I got with one of my
partners that I normally
train with and whatnot.
We were supposed to go back
later that day and just train.
Because in my head, I was like,
I'm going to come do one of
them Sunday morning.
I'll do the other one Monday morning.
You know, it'll be what it'll be.
Thankfully, again,
Bernard texted me and said, hey,
they were leaving to go on vacation.
He had stuff to do around the house.
He wasn't going to come train.
So I went back to the gym and I said, well,
let me do this other one.
The lunge, handstand pushup, box jump over,
bar muscle up.
Let me go ahead and knock
this one out while I'm here.
It's not going to be that long.
It's all stuff that I'm pretty decent at,
whatever.
So I did that one, finished it, mind you,
got all the way through it.
Sunday rolls around.
Sunday,
we were at my wife's aunt's house
from nine thirty in the
morning till four o'clock
in the afternoon.
At some point, I check my phone,
check Instagram,
and I see a story from MFC that said, hey,
athletes,
make sure you get your scores
put in by eight p.m.
Eastern time tonight.
And I went, oh, they're due today.
Oh, damn.
Now what?
Because I can't, we can't just leave.
It's my son's graduation party.
Like if there's people still
lingering over there and we
have to pick all this stuff
up and whatnot,
like it was a whole thing.
So by the time I get home,
it's like five thirty.
Dan will tell you,
me and him texted again about it.
And I was like, holy shit, dude,
like I did not realize.
Like I had a swore on a
stack of Bibles that they
would do on the nineteenth,
not the eighteenth.
And he was like.
Well, you got time to do it.
And I'm like, I had an hour and a half.
No, I do not have time to do it.
Plus I've been sitting
around outside in the sun all day long.
I've barely eaten anything
because there was fried chicken and said,
like, it's not,
I try to eat well all the time.
Like it's not going to end well.
And I said,
I do have my three quarters of
the workout score from Friday.
I guess I'll submit that.
And I did.
And I still managed to sneak
in into the elites.
So moral of the story, boys and girls,
read the instructions.
And don't get in your own
head over score adjustments.
Yeah.
I was telling Dan about that.
And I told a couple of
different people I talked to about it.
I was like, it was so stupid on my part.
just finish.
Like I had plenty of time to finish it,
to finish the actual workout.
And I was just letting
myself get aggravated
enough where I was like, this is stupid.
This hurts.
Why am I doing this?
Why am I hurting all this
much for no good reason in
my head at that point?
And I just was like, this is dumb.
And I stopped and actually just finished.
I had, I thought about it.
I did the math Scott the
other day and I said,
I literally had what was it
six plus nine and like I
had like twenty seven
burpees and eighteen
thrusters left to do and I
was like nah this is dumb
this is dumb I'll do it
I'll do I'll redo it later
for no good reason so
Yeah.
Two things we learned.
Three,
you need to read the directions better.
Read all the instructions.
Double check your,
and with that double check, the due date.
A hundred percent.
Two, Corey is a fit freaking dude.
And three, he might be a head case.
Oh, yeah.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
I am very, very driven, like, not very,
very, but like when I see,
like when the leaderboard
went live and I saw where I was,
I was like, oh, okay, cool.
We're good to go.
And then when I realized
that my score was actually
better than what it was supposed to be,
then I was like, oh, even better.
And then when it didn't get changed,
immediately, well, not immediately,
but over the course of a couple of days,
in which it was nobody's fault, like,
It wasn't their fault.
He just sent me the wrong email.
It wasn't malicious by any
stretch of the imagination.
But I didn't know any of that.
And so my brain immediately goes to, well,
these people are retarded
and I'm not doing this anymore.
And the reality is you
submitted the wrong score
and really needed to be
patient in them getting to fixing it.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
Oh, it's my own fault.
I'm well aware of that.
What's that?
They didn't have to fix it.
No.
They didn't have to fix anybody's.
They fixed everybody's, though.
I was pretty excited.
I was glad for that.
The only place that they
showed those sixteen reps
was on the scorecard.
Well, I did all these workouts by myself.
I didn't use the scorecard.
I never printed a scorecard.
I take that back.
The only one I did with somebody else,
I had Jeff there when I did
the snatch ladder.
because I couldn't see my
time on my phone to be able
to know when to stop and
when to start and all that
other good stuff.
So I had him there just to
kind of count it and to
keep track of my reps for
me because it was a minute for time,
two minutes for reps,
two minutes for reps,
and then three minutes for reps.
So there's that.
And they also, like those last two,
had some off-the-wall tie-break times.
Like if you have two...
got two pieces that you got
to do right two three round
things with a minute break
in between what do you what
would you think scott would
be the tie break I don't
know completion of the
first three rounds is three
rounds rest a minute three
rounds yeah sure yeah it's
not you know where their
leaderboard is housed uh
competition corner
How did Dan Church do?
Dan is in RX, and I think he's right on.
He might, if somebody else gets penalized,
I think he was telling me,
he might be able to sneak in.
Meh.
That dude, he's.
You want me to tell you what he told me?
Yeah, twenty-six.
You want me to tell you what he told me?
He said, I guess if I qualify to RX,
I have to go and win it
because I did pretty well
in Elite the last time I went.
Yeah.
I think Dan is a better
in-person competitor.
I think you're a better
in-person competitor.
This online stuff is just
not good for my friends.
I need people...
on either side of me.
Like I needed to be an actual race.
I need to see what's going on.
No to push or not to push
like I need all of that.
Did you see where Jamie finished?
And I didn't but I had a pretty good idea.
So yeah, that's what I figured.
Did you see to see who's in third?
Really?
That's a name I ain't seen in a while,
dude.
She's always at MFC.
Always.
Why did I think she was in my age group,
not in Jamie's?
She was.
So up until this year,
she was in thirty five to thirty nine.
OK.
But her mom does this event.
So they say her and her mom
were there whenever I went.
Yeah, I do remember that.
There's Kate Curie,
who is a star in our
behind-the-scenes at the games.
Autumn Spence, I recognize.
Just looking around a little bit here.
Russell, he was in our behind-the-scenes.
Austin Medford is a beast.
Thirty-five to thirty-nine.
Don't recognize a lot of
those people this year.
No.
There's Corey's division.
Yep.
I know Jason.
Mike Kern.
Mike Kern's been in it forever.
Paul Clark was actually in RX.
Yes, sir.
Paul Clark was in RX with me at...
Whenever I went in twenty-three good dude.
Christian we have known for a long time.
Fanny Campani.
I've seen that name before.
Yeah, it's a fun event man.
It's a it's a great venue.
My only beef with where it's
at is getting something to
eat afterwards is so hard.
But hotels are right there.
Venue's awesome.
Lots of space.
Great warm-up area.
Let's see what we got in the females here.
Oh, multiple network errors detected.
Oh.
We've got total shutdown now.
All right, there we go.
Let's get the heck out of there.
Do you watch the Ariel Lowen
video this week?
I have not.
She asks a lot of people in the video,
how often do you cry?
Oh Lord,
I cried this morning watching a
video on frigging Facebook.
Today I'm drinking my coffee
before I went to coach.
So I guess like Dylan cries
at every Disney movie and whatever.
And she,
and I guess she's like a once
every six months crier.
Emily Rolfe was like a once a month,
stuff like that.
But I was thinking when they
were going through this,
like I didn't cry a lot for a long time.
Then I had a baby girl.
And the minute I had a baby girl,
like everything changed.
Oh, yeah.
Then I became just a fountain of tears.
Like a greeting card
commercial and I'm like
sobbing in the corner.
I, you know,
you put your memories on Facebook.
Like,
apparently I shared a video last year,
year before last,
some dad coming home from service,
like literally getting,
getting back from being deployed.
And his son's at, uh,
whatever fighting school he's at.
And they got him doing blind boxing.
So he got a blindfold and a
blindfold on him.
And his dad comes in like to
spar with him or whatnot.
And his dad's talking to him
while they're doing it.
And he takes the kid a minute.
before he realizes his dad.
And like, he stops,
pulls one of them off and he pulls up.
And as soon as he pulls the
other one off and looks up,
he realizes his dad and he just taps.
And like,
I was sitting there drinking my
coffee going, stupid video.
And I will share that one
every single time I see it.
Like that, that kind of stuff gets to me,
like for real.
Yeah, Daniel Church,
he cries after he does this
tradition every year at MFC
by downing a whole
Giordano's deep dish by
himself at the event.
I could not do that.
There's no way.
I don't particularly care
for deep dish pizza to begin with,
but I wouldn't even know
where to start with whatever that is.
It sounds like a lot.
Well,
I like deep dish pizza when it's done.
When it's done right.
When you go to Chicago and
you go to the mom and pop
like little shit hole and
you get a really good deep dish pizza.
That's what I love.
The ones that have become a little more,
uh, commercial like Giordano's are okay.
They're not like what I love.
Right.
I like when, you know,
you're putting your foot in
it and it's homemade and
it's the family recipe from years ago.
And, you know,
Eugene's in the back still making it.
Yeah, that's right there.
He's still making it the
same way we've been doing
it since we opened the doors.
Got it.
Exactly.
Got it.
And, you know, Louisiana,
that's all you guys got.
yeah I I avoid places that I
don't say actively avoid
places that's not
necessarily true but I
avoid places that don't
have stuff like that going
on if I can help her yeah
my wife is a huge mexican
food fan she thinks she's
mexican for some reason
probably just because she's
got black hair um so like
we've been to almost
everyone around here and our favorite one
one of our,
our favorite one that's in town,
I should say, uh,
used to be a pizza hut at one place, uh,
at one time.
And like you walk in and it
feels kind of dirty.
Like when you walk in, it's not, it just,
because like, you know, the old pizza,
like the low, low ceilings and whatnot,
like, you know,
and you can barely see your
hand for your face.
Like, you know how short I am.
And like,
I can reach up and damn near
touch the ceiling.
That's our favorite place,
and it's because of that.
If you can reach up and touch the ceiling,
we're all in trouble.
You would have to duck your head.
Duck walk into the damn thing.
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Sten has never had a
Chicago-style deep dish pizza.
I've never had a real one.
The closest I've ever had to
deep dish pizza was
whatever Pizza Hut was
selling at the time.
but you're from the south
right like yeah chicago's a
six-hour drive right like
so it ain't no thing and
I'm a bears fan and I've
gone to games and all that
kind of stuff right so for
me like we've done it a
couple times um and they
used to send me there for
work and I would just take
my wife and kid with me and
we'd stay the weekend and
do like christmas shopping and stuff but
It's not the best,
but in Fort Wayne at night on a Sunday,
it does the job.
Last time, most of our group, our heat,
went out to BJ's Brewhouse,
and we shut the place down.
That place has good food.
For a chain restaurant,
that has really good food.
And it's got whatever you want.
The menu is this thick.
It's like a phone book.
I brought my wife there twice.
Twice.
And the first time we went, she was like,
this is too much menu.
I can't like, there's too much,
there's too much.
Like it was, it was,
she was overstimulated at points.
It was too much stuff to pick,
to pick and choose from the
second time we went,
it's just because it was
the only place or the best
place available to us at the time.
So we just ended up going there, but, um,
I'm a creature of habit.
I ordered, I ordered the same thing.
At each restaurant, I have my thing.
So it could be the encyclopedia,
and it wouldn't matter to me.
Well,
so I don't know if Corey decided to
actually go to MFC.
We need to convince him to do it.
So the last time I talked to him about it,
I said I wasn't sure if I was going yet.
Were you still in your, were you still?
No, this was, this was Monday.
Sunday night after Sunday night,
after he got like their
leaderboard went live.
So I put my,
my three quarter score in and I just,
we were watching the season
finale of American Idol.
Cause a boy was from, you know,
right here by the house and whatnot.
And I guess about seven, forty-five,
I went and looked,
nothing had came up yet.
And in about eight thirty,
I went looked again and holy shit,
I'm in seventeenth.
And then I went to bed at ten o'clock,
like I hadn't put much thought into it.
Here's my thing.
And this is this is real stuff right here.
The last time we went, we had I mean,
you know,
we had a contingent of people
from my area that we knew.
This time it would just be me.
Like Brandon Fontenot did
the first two workouts and
then he brought his daughter to New York.
So he didn't do the last two.
So he's not going.
I do know,
I know people that are going to be there.
You know, I mean,
obviously Dan's going to be there.
My boy Luke is going to be there.
You know,
people I've competed with are
going to be there.
Jamie's going to be there.
Jamie wants me to go to.
Her and I had that
conversation the other day.
I'll probably go up.
I'm sure.
Yeah.
Well, that's what Dan said.
He said, you know,
Scott and Jamie's going
like you need to go.
So I am.
We are leaving Saturday to
go on Brody's senior trip.
Alaskan cruise flying to Seattle Saturday.
We cruise on all week and whatnot.
Get back on the following Sunday.
Yeah.
And then I'll be home the
Monday after that.
So I got time to figure it out.
kind of want to go now um
for reasons I will tell you
about not on camera um yeah
but is it because you're
keeping receipts a hundred
percent okay that's a
hundred hundred percent um
speaking of other
leaderboards uh one went
final this week as well and
that is the uh semi-finals
for the elites went final um
No real change on the men's side.
Adler wins.
Jay Crouch second.
Dallin Pepper third.
Tudor Magda doesn't get penalized.
Wow.
So he is going to the CrossFit Games.
Jason Hopper, James Sprague, Ricky Garrard,
Justin Medeiros, Enrico Zanoni,
Colin Bossard, and Harry Lightfoot.
So those are your eleven men.
And then Chris Ibarra just used TFX to go.
So really the top twelve are all going,
meaning that Yonah Koski
was one spot out again.
I feel like Yonah Koski is a
hundred and five years old.
He's not.
We looked it up.
Remember?
I do I know I just every
time I see I just feel like
he's been around forever
like he's I think I feel
like he's been on every
single documentary I've
ever watched and I know he
hasn't been because he
ain't he wasn't on the on
the first one don't you on
the women's side we're
final now with sierra meha
alexis raptus ariel lowen
annika greer finally going
to the crop games
Maddie Sturt, Danielle Brandon,
Haley Adams, Gracie Walton, Amy Kringle,
Miriam Von Rohrer,
after passing out at French Throwdown,
actually punches her ticket here.
And we see McGonigal,
who qualified through the
French Throwdown,
so that it takes precedence
over this leaderboard,
meaning Jennifer Muir gets
the eleventh spot.
and Caroline Stanley on the
outside looking in,
who was in the top ten,
got penalized for her muscle-ups,
and fell out of the top ten.
So,
and then the next two actually
qualified out of TFX.
So, I would say, yeah.
So, Stanley had one more chance.
who's that Caroline so
she'll she'll be at
Syndicate and if we talked
about before we went kind
of live on the show looking
at the lineup at Syndicate
I I have hers a favorite I
don't know why you wouldn't
who else is going uh the
well sisters um I think
have a shot um gosh now I'm
trying to think but it's
just the top two right yep
Oh, you have Shelby Neal there.
You have the well sisters.
You have Caroline Stanley.
I feel like I thought there
was like five that I could come up with.
It had like a legit shot.
I, uh, if I'm thinking with my heart,
I'm going, I'm going with, uh, Shelby,
Shelby.
Love that girl.
She's awesome.
A big fan of hers.
Big fan of Caroline.
she's young, right?
Like how old is Caroline?
Yeah.
She's young, like early twenties,
early twenties.
Yeah.
She, she's always,
she's never turned me down
for an interview.
Um, she's just a fun person to,
to hang around with.
Uh,
and now she's being coached by Joey
Tutora, who's a Columbus guy.
Um, so even better stoked for that.
Um,
And she's got Colton in her corner, man.
He talked her up so much on
the Savant podcast with
them sharing the same coach.
They must be doing some
training stuff together and
comparing scores and stuff.
Colton's such a good dude, man.
So, yeah, I...
I think I'll have to look at it again,
and Friday I'll make my official picks,
but I think I have Caroline
Stanley as the number one
pick for Syndicate for sure.
Well, I don't need to do it Friday.
It's another week away,
a couple weeks away,
whatever the hell it is.
Yeah,
I probably won't even be able to keep
up with any of it because I
probably won't have service on the boat.
Yeah.
The Wi-Fi on Norwegian is
ridiculously expensive.
Never done a cruise in my life.
We've been, we've been,
me and my wife have been
like looking at all the
various things and whatnot.
I'll probably use my phone
for like an MP three player
and a timer whenever I go work out.
Uh, but other than that,
probably using it for much just because
like to have access to the
wifi is stupid expensive.
And you only get like,
it's like an old school roaming plan.
Like you only get so many minutes.
Settle yourself for the entire seven days.
Oh my gosh.
When we first got cell
phones and like my daughter,
we got her a cell phone, gosh,
at like thirteen or
fourteen because she
actually got home from
school before we could get here.
Yeah.
And we didn't have a landline.
So, like,
the only way for her to get a
hold of us was a cell phone.
And our data plan,
she blew up every stinking month.
And that was when they first
came out with Unlimited.
And I'm like,
what she's costing us in overage fees,
like, I'm just Unlimited.
Now everything's Unlimited.
But we did the same thing.
Well, pretty much same thing for Brody.
Like whenever he was going
to be somewhere where we
didn't know where he was
going to be necessarily or,
or didn't have a landline,
but not like that's when he got a phone.
He didn't even want to report that.
They dealt with my oldest dude.
You want to hear what's
crazy is my mom where she lives.
If I go to her house, if I'm not on wifi,
I get no cell service.
That's how far in the woods my mom lives.
So she can't have a cell phone only.
She has to have a landline
or she cannot get phone
calls unless someone's
FaceTiming her or using an Apple device,
right?
And so I was there when she
had the stroke and everything.
Her phone bill for that landline,
that phone company ought to
be taken to jail for what
they are charged.
Because you know the only
people they're getting with
this are the elderly.
Oh, a hundred percent.
or people like my mom who
are in the middle of
nowhere and have no option
but a landline.
Absolutely.
That phone bill for that one
landline was over a hundred
dollars a month.
Dude, that's robbery.
Isn't that insane?
That's flat out robbery.
That is like,
you just going to be stealing
stuff from somebody that is
bananas crazy.
And you know, they're,
they are taking advantage
of the elderly and people
who have no choice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, you have to have it.
Oh, man.
So sorry to hear that.
When I got rid of mine,
it was like a part of a
package of like the internet, phone,
whatever.
All the things.
All that.
And it was like nineteen bucks.
Yeah.
Which is okay.
That'll make sense.
I saw like a hundred and
nine dollars and I about
shit myself right there.
I would imagine so.
When we moved into our new house, um,
we had one internet service
provider and it wasn't working.
It wasn't working well enough.
My wife, my wife works from home.
So we ended up switching
back to one of the more
main ones around here,
I guess you would say.
And they asked like,
do y'all need a landline?
where are I it's like six
bucks a month I'm like I do
not need anything making
noise at my house that does
not absolutely need to make
noise appreciate it but no
thanks what's happening
scott I wouldn't even know
where to buy a phone right
right amazon oh I'm sure
everything I am yeah but or
or you could plug in your
princess phone from oh
You're laughing,
but I'm pretty sure
somewhere in the attic
there's an actual old school, like,
with the antenna.
I know my mom still has hers,
and she don't throw nothing away.
It's probably in her attic.
Oh, the cordless with the – With the big,
yeah, antenna you pull out.
Zack Morris-looking thing.
What's up, y'all?
Absolutely.
That's awesome.
It's funny,
like when you watch old
episodes of friends or Seinfeld or,
and they pull out like the old, like,
do you think you got any
better signal by pulling that thing up?
Or was it just, was it the placebo effect?
At no point did I pull it
out and it was like, Oh, hold on.
Oh yeah.
That's way better.
I can hear you now.
Do you remember the first cell phone?
Well, not the first,
but like one of the early
cell phones where only the
speaking piece flipped down
and they had like a little
plastic antenna that was like this much.
Did you pull up?
And it was plastic.
It couldn't conduct anything.
No.
Oh, yeah.
But look,
every single time until I got the Nokia,
whatever it was, thirty three, eighty,
whatever the indestructible one.
That one had a hard plastic thing on it.
You couldn't pull that out.
The cover was to protect the
ground if you drop it.
Yeah.
When we first got a cell phone,
we shared it.
My wife and I shared it.
I was in school at the time.
I would take it to school
with me to be able to have to call her.
If she would go,
she would take it to the store with her.
We only had one and we would
share it back and forth.
Yeah.
Yeah,
cordless phones used to have an antenna.
Yeah.
Like the old walkie-talkie.
So maybe out about six feet.
My barbershop has a landline.
Yes, Dan,
the battery was three times the
size of the phone.
Absolutely.
My barbershop has a landline
and they have an old
Green, like, receiver sits on the cradle,
got the big, long,
curly thing plugged into it and whatnot.
And not every time I'm there,
but almost every time I'm there,
somebody calls.
And it scares the shit out
of me every single time
because it's louder than you remember.
I promise you that much.
And every single time, without fail,
it's the same conversation.
Because it's right by where
my barber's chair is.
Like, Jonathan owns the place.
He turns around, picks it up.
Barbershop.
Yeah, we're open.
No, we don't take appointments.
Yeah,
we'll be here until five o'clock this
afternoon.
Okay.
And it hangs up.
Without fail.
It's the same conversation
every single time.
Back then,
you could drop it from a
five-story building, barely a scratch.
Dude,
I had a NexTel that I called the brick.
It was about this big, roughly.
After a while,
I would try and see if I could, in fact,
break it because it was so
damn thick and heavy and whatnot.
It was practically indestructible.
You could drop it.
The battery would fall off.
Click it back on there.
Beep,
call whoever you need to
call and go on about your business.
Do you remember when Nextel
first came out with the
walkie talkie feature?
Like on your,
and you'd hear that like every,
I would get so pissed if
people kept hitting me.
Oh my gosh.
It was awful.
I was working construction at the time.
So like,
it don't know me at one point that
construction workers are the only people.
I say the only people,
some of the only people on
the planet would call each other
at five something in the
morning and fully expect to
have a coherent
conversation with the
person on the other end of the line.
And that was in, when was that?
Two thousand eight, something like that.
I guess that was somewhere around there.
When Nextels were like a
thing and we'd be driving
to work and you'd hear and
then they'd just start
talking because you didn't
have to wait for anybody.
It wasn't like you had to answer it.
You could just beep and go to talking.
And it was great and it was
not great because who knows
what they were saying.
I don't know if you ever met me,
but like most of my friends
at the time were just like
I am right now where you're
not real sure exactly where
this conversation is going.
Yeah.
It's just funny that, gosh, man,
how phones have changed
just in the last twenty years.
Oh, yeah.
I think what the iPhone was
invented in two thousand eight, six,
eight, somewhere in there.
Oh, I don't even know.
yeah I started to hate those
next tells uh because I was
in an office setting and
people would use those
right yeah uh jay birch hey
fellas I've been listening
but driving hope y'all
having a good day hope it's
as good as yours brother
absolutely I saw jeff on tv
last weekend I did too he
was uh he was uh no rep and
olivia kerstetter I think I saw
I don't know if she got no ripped.
I'm just giving him.
It doesn't matter if you cheat or not.
We're going to go ahead and say he did.
He was cursed at her at TFX.
We got, we got,
we got this vocal platform
and he's just listening
while you're driving.
So, uh, net say Milano.
I remember someone screaming
something at me while I was in church.
Yeah.
That's what I'm getting at.
Like next tail was,
that was a dangerous idea.
You didn't have to answer the phone.
People, you just go to talking.
Yep.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
We are so damn old.
Getting there.
Getting there.
But if you keep waking up, Scott,
eventually you're going to
get old sooner or later.
Yeah.
Man, those are good times.
My daughter still like the
first phone we got her was
the something slide.
The LG LG slide.
It like slid up and you had
the full keyboard.
That's the, uh, the matrix phone.
Did it slide open to get the, uh, yeah.
So it was like a phone,
like a brick phone.
And then you slid it and it
had a full keyboard.
Oh yeah.
Turned sideways and you would do, do, do,
do, do.
This dude here.
Oh, officially.
Yeah.
He's in that baby masters
division right now.
That only the MFC has, I think,
which is the third or fourth.
Legends does not.
So, yeah, a hundred percent.
Yeah.
I got to figure out what I'm
doing the rest of this year.
The only thing I know I'm
doing for sure is the Masters.
Yeah.
This is driving downtown.
That's just...
I get up,
I have some breakfast and I'm
going to head on down there.
My own bed.
Do that.
I'm trying to like,
and I was talking to Corey
about this before I came on.
Like I look at the syndicate
crown roster and like, is it,
is it worth paying the
money to go down and have a hotel?
And if I'm thinking that as
a CrossFit nerd and someone
who covers this stuff in the space,
what are the spectators
thinking about it?
And I, and I think, um,
Dan brought it up earlier in the chat.
And I talked about it yesterday.
Hiller's idea of putting the
online in affiliate semis
last makes the most sense.
It makes the only sense as
far as I'm concerned.
Why wouldn't you do it that way?
After them,
now we're getting just depleted
rosters at these events.
Why do...
That in the middle, still have live events,
and then still have a last
chance qualifier.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
Let's do all the in-person stuff.
And the last chance
qualifier is your in-person.
Or eleven spots or twelve
spots or whatever it is.
Whatever it is, right.
That is your, whatever it is,
whatever you want to call it,
that's your last chance event.
Because CrossFit is putting
out fires instead of preventing them.
Where I used to work,
we were in a place where
our system was not keeping
up with what we needed from
a program standpoint.
And we used to compare that to,
we're putting out fires
while people are throwing
Molotov cocktails into the joint.
And there's no way to keep ahead of that.
No, you can't.
Physically cannot.
Fifty five masters, no muscle ups,
no legless and thirty five
pound dumbbell.
I did legless.
I did muscle ups Monday and
legless rope yesterday.
That's how I Rx to two
workouts in the open.
Here's the problem with that
thirty five pound dumbbell
is that that's light.
So now you can go real fast.
And Doug Reed.
That's only for the open.
As soon as you get past the open,
you get muscle ups again.
Craig says, and we'll talk about this.
I don't have a lot of time,
but we'll talk about it briefly.
Because of the issues with
the affiliate judging and penalties,
online affiliate semis should be first.
If you put it online in
affiliate semis first,
nobody will be at the in-person events,
and you're screwing over
the event organizers who
have stepped up to take on
the burden of qualifying
people in person for you.
It has to be the other way.
It has to be the other way around.
It has to be the other way around.
Look at what you got now, dude.
Like you just said.
Look at who's going.
Yeah.
I mean,
five or six people tops on each side.
And on the men's side, I think it's worse.
It's worse on the men's side.
I mean,
you're looking at like the Stovall's,
the Luke Parker's, Spencer Pancheck.
Spencer Pancheck, Stovall, and...
bachelor luke parker I think
that's the only three names
that I was like oh yeah I
know who those guys are
there might have been a
couple of them that like
you know you yeah I think
I've seen that name before
somewhere something along
those lines and no
disrespect to them dude I'm
sure they are really super
fit but like by the time
they get to that it's so
watered down like this this
is luke parker's fourth attempt
Which is insane, by the way.
Right.
Todd Jenkins.
I hope he shows up.
I hope he shows up.
Speaking of not making sense,
people complained about the
WFP being like Rogue and it
being more of the same.
CrossFit was like, hold my beer.
Here's another run something
run variation of event one.
I had that on the list.
We didn't get to it today
because we were talking
about cell phones.
Yeah.
And the MFC.
But, yeah,
we'll talk about that this week for sure.
That guy's, man, we went long.
The boss is going to be pissed.
Yeah.
Let me say this before we go off.
As far as I understand,
talking about Cale Layman,
because I hope he shows up
and I hope he blows everybody away.
Truly.
That would be awesome.
That would be awesome.
Wouldn't that be cool if he
like ended up winning it?
Yeah.
And he's like, there, there's my answer.
There's my answer.
A hundred percent.
And he gets popped for a drug test,
like within three hours of taking it.
Dude,
we had this happy ending and you had
to like come in and blow that up.
Well,
this is what I have to do the rest of
the afternoon.
I was late on my, um,
doing training for work and
I have to do a training on
AI and how I can use it
professionally in the workplace.
It is so long and so boring and I'm old.
Like I don't want to use AI.
I went to school to learn
how to write what the hell.
Right.
But so I got to do that this afternoon.
and do a couple more meetings.
But with that,
we're going to prayers up
for kale layman.
He comes in, blows out of the water.
And then, uh, you got through this bad.
Oh my goodness.
You guys are awful to the poor guy.
I hope he comes in and blows
it out of the water with that.
We'll see everybody tomorrow
on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
See everybody then, guys.
Bye.