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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to lunchtime.
It's lunchtime with the Clydesdale.
Yep, it is Thursday.
We're getting close to the
end of the week.
Gonna throw a dart.
Shouldn't have, but I did.
There it is.
All right, it is Thursday.
We're heading into the weekend.
Tomorrow,
we're gonna have a little bit of
a different show.
I'm gonna have...
uh, Debbie Wagner and Sandy fence on from,
uh, Ohio's public safety group, uh,
talking about what they're
doing to keep first
responders healthy and, uh,
tributing doing a tribute to the, uh,
victims of nine,
so we're gonna talk about that tomorrow.
It's not gonna be a normal lunchtime,
but we're still gonna have some fun, uh,
talking with those, uh, fine ladies.
um I do want I have a bunch
of updates but I wanted to
play one thing if I can
find it and of course I
cannot um let's try here
what's going on jay birch
amanda megan jeff craig
sarah cory meredith and trained olive
What's going on?
All right.
This came out yesterday.
Really like what CrossFit's
been doing lately.
So I wanted to play this for
you if you didn't see it.
Because of CrossFit,
I can... New campaign.
They made this at the games this year.
So I'm going to play that for you now.
Live an active and healthy lifestyle.
Do burpees.
Do pull-ups.
Move like a thirty year old.
Do what I love.
Feel like myself again.
Now at forty-five,
do the same things I used
to do at twenty-five.
I can jump on boxes that my
other seventy-year-old
friends admire me for being able to do.
Play with my grandchildren for hours.
Be a better mom and a better person.
Haul in all the groceries all at once.
Walk through life with confidence.
Be my best self in the world for my family,
my students and my friends.
I can speak.
I had a stroke January third
in the CrossFit box.
As we were warming up,
the coach recognized my symptoms,
called the ambulance.
They took me, treated me,
and the next day I was able
to get back in and speak again.
Because of CrossFit.
Yeah.
Jay Burch says,
and you can apparently make your own.
You can.
You can also...
You can also tag CrossFit
and hashtag because of CrossFit I can,
and they're going to play
some of those throughout
the next few weeks or so.
Brian Spinn said something
really interesting last
night that I really dug, and that was
That the key to all this
that's coming out with
CrossFit is it can't just be a campaign.
It has to be a culture.
And we have to get back to
where all of this stuff
becomes the culture of
CrossFit as opposed to just
a marketing campaign.
And so I think that people
are behind the recent
campaigns that CrossFit is putting out.
And they're really cool and
they really tell a great message.
But I think a lot of people
are also very hesitant to
jump all in until you see
that this starts becoming
the culture of CrossFit.
And I don't think we'll know
that for a fact until we
know who the new owners are
and that we know what
direction they're going to
take this whole thing.
So, yeah,
I wanted to give credit to Spin
for saying that.
It was a great, great quote.
A campaign is not a culture.
We've got to get it to a culture.
The campaign is just the first step.
let's hope that we can get
to the culture part of this
because that's what we
truly truly need I'm going
to go through a couple
quick updates first update
is that alex gazan has
announced that she is
withdrawing from the wfp tour stop two um
I've been saying for a
couple weeks that I don't
think she's going to do
tier Guadalupalooza SoCal.
I think her individual
career is too important to
risk anything in her rehab
over an invitational.
And she has enough points
from winning tour stop one
of WFP that tour stop two
is not going to prevent her
from making it to the finals.
So she withdraws there.
And I do believe that she'll
withdraw from SoCal as well
before it gets here.
So we'll see what happens for sure.
I know she's back to putting
some weight on the leg and
doing some things,
but her individual career
next year is going to be
way too important to mess
anything up by a hasty
decision this year.
so I think while we all want
to see her back on the
floor as quickly as
possible the best scenario
for her is to get that
rehabbed and come back next
year better and stronger
than ever and ready to kick
some ass um I've also been
working on my hattie
documentary uh hanging out
with her at the crossfit games
It is not going as quickly
as I had hoped because I
got so much footage.
Just going through all the footage.
And what's crazy is Hattie
is so open and raw and
blunt about so many things
that as I'm... My first
pass through is editing it
down to what I'm going to use.
And after watching Hiller's
critique of the WFP video,
I'd like the way he like
led us into the way his
mind works in looking at these things.
Cause I really like his day
in the life videos with athletes.
And I'm really trying to
like cut out all of the
stuff that doesn't feed
into telling the story.
So, um,
So I'm going through that
phase right now where I'm
taking all this footage and
I'm cutting it down to what
really tells the story of
hanging out with a CrossFit
Games athlete the weekend
of the CrossFit Games.
And there's a lot of content left.
So I'll do one pass.
I'll start putting it together.
And I'm already kind of compiling it now.
and I'll go through it again
probably make another edit
pass make sure everything's
in the right order and then
hopefully we'll have it out
in a few weeks my first
thought was that I could
have this out before the
masters crossfit games I
don't think that is
possible because there's so
much good stuff um
both had interest in gave me
that it's going to take me
a little bit of time uh to
kind of weed it down to
what what I need and make
it usable and make it a
story but super excited
about it because some of
the stuff that uh came out
in just basic conversation
is really really good stuff
so um and speak of the devil
she is in the comments
there she is um yeah really
excited about it um and
I'll keep you guys updated
where I'm at uh for all of that um
The last thing I'm going to
say is last night I did get
my media credentials for
the Masters CrossFit Games,
the age group CrossFit Games.
And I've been told yes for a
couple months.
I just wasn't given any
details or any information
about it or how much I
could do or not do at the games.
And so I have them and it does get me in.
It is far less access than I
had last year.
I'm somewhat disappointed in that because
I'm not allowed in the warmup area.
I'm not allowed on the floor.
Last year we had two people on the floor,
two people in the warmup
area to do the full behind the scenes.
And this year I'm not
allowed anybody on the
floor and I'm not allowed
anybody in any of the warmup areas.
So I will have to do it all.
like out in amongst the crowd.
And I'm going to have to
figure out different mics
this year because my boom mic,
it'll be too loud in the
arena to get what I'm trying to get.
So I've got to figure all that out.
But I've decided,
and I want you guys to be
the first to know,
that last year I did eleven
and eleven episode behind
the scenes of the masters
crossfit games I'm not
going to be able to do that
with the limited access I
have this year so this year
will be more of like a four
or five episode behind the
scenes and that's if I can
even get the stuff I need
to get to do it um
it's not even going to be
really behind the scenes because I'm not,
I don't have access to
anything behind the scenes.
It's going to be like out on the floor,
just talking to athletes,
kind of compiling that together.
Um,
so it's going to be a lot more limited
this year than it was last year,
which really bums me out.
Um,
But Scott,
this year you can just enjoy watching us.
I would enjoy that very, very much.
This is where I'm disappointed,
and it's probably my
monologue for the day.
And that is that...
Draw your dagger.
Yeah, rub that salt, buddy.
It must be because there's
so much media coverage for
the age groupers that they
don't need your help.
I think it is.
This is what sucks.
We talk about Masters
athletes year round on this channel.
We're the only channel that
really does that.
And that's because Jamie is
a Masters athlete.
She is affected by a lot of
these decisions.
But I've always been close
with the Masters athletes.
And I love those people.
Lito actually makes a great point.
Do you think it's because of
all the minors this year?
Could be.
Could be last year I had
access to the warmup area,
but they had a gate around
the actual like warmup area.
And so I was outside that fence,
but I was still allowed to
like hang out there and I
could call people over to
the fence and was able to do that.
Plus it's all depending on
the scheduling and there's
four different floors and I
guess four different warmup areas.
one for each of the different floors.
So I could avoid the teens
if that's what they wanted from me.
Um, uh, Megan,
this is the only place that
has good masters interviews and news.
You guys are the best.
Um,
so so this is what's
disappointing last year I
did an eleven episode
behind the scenes promoting
that event I also did
several interviews leading
up to the games
with Masters athletes.
I put out a blanket thing on
Instagram and said,
anybody who wants to be interviewed,
notify me and I will do my
best to interview everybody
I can from the Masters group.
I did all of that free of charge.
I didn't get paid by Legends.
I didn't get paid by the
Masters CrossFit Games.
I did those things on my own dime.
my own dime I was respectful
of every rule that I was
given I followed the rules
I did everything I was
supposed to do and I put
out this content free of
charge on everything I put
out I also tagged legends
and the crossfit games they
shared none of it
None of it.
It was all out there for
free of charge for them to do.
I made a trailer for every episode.
I tagged them on every one
of them and none of them were shared.
Nobody else is showcasing
the Masters athletes.
Nobody.
And the fact that I have to
scratch and claw to just
get in the building is
really freaking frustrating.
And now I'm allowed in the building,
but really I only have spectator access.
So I can't even give you a
behind-the-scenes look
because I'm not allowed
behind the scenes of anything.
you can go back and watch
last year's behind the
scenes and you'll see that
I am behind a fence I am
calling people over to me
and if you choose to not
come talk to me you don't
have to come over I only
did it if I could get your
attention I tried to stay
out of people's way I was
very respectful of people
getting ready for their
events I only talked to
people who are willing to
talk to me and through
those eleven episodes
I would say ninety eight
percent of it was positive
promotion of that event.
The only thing that was not
positive were the three
people that popped for steroids or PEDs.
Excuse me.
And I had interviewed them
before and all I did was show how.
what big con artists they
were by what they said to
me before they knew they
were going to pop.
And then when they popped,
I showed it to show how
shitty they looked.
Um, that, so that, that hurts.
It sucks.
And this world of like media.
And I think people don't get it.
I think it's weird.
People like Savan get it.
When they went to Syndicate Crown,
it was a partnership
between them and Syndicate Crown.
They're promoting the event.
The event promotes them.
It's a mutual agreement between the two.
Most events look at media,
third-party media,
as this outside thing that
has nothing to do with their event,
and they don't want to do
anything to help them.
truly I am there to promote
the masters athletes I I
follow them they're my
friends I've become
entrenched in this culture
of masters athletes and I
want to promote the event
and them but I want but I
am given nothing of that in
return I'm barely given
access none of the content is shared
And the people running the
Masters CrossFit Games are
missing out because they
don't understand the
relationship between media
and their event.
And maybe some media people
abused that in the past,
but I have a track record
of being very respectful
and following every rule
and doing what I'm told to
highlight the athletes and
the event when I'm there covering it.
So what they've decided to
do is just complete
disrespect for everything
I've tried to do to promote their event.
And it hurts, it sucks, it pisses me off.
Draw your dagger.
I'm a nobody in this space,
and I see companies, channels, entities,
events,
used media I have made without
ever even talking to me about it.
There's obviously a
disconnect between the media and others.
There is.
I mean,
draw your dagger is a hardworking
photographer, videographer.
I've been in the pits with him.
Guy busts his ass,
and he's there probably free of charge.
probably on his own dime uh
doing what he can for
everybody else so um who
let the cats out meow uh
scott looking from the
outside it doesn't seem
like legends have much of a
grasp of anything when it
comes to crossfit
competitions not just media
I mean,
I don't want to get into complete
negativity and lose what I have.
And it's not just legends.
There are other event
organizers who do not
understand the relationship with media.
That if used right,
and you weed out the bad,
if used right with the
media that are there for good intentions,
there should be a
partnership that promotes
what you do and your event.
I have such a good
relationship with Syndicate
Crown that they actually
email before their events
because they know the
minute I get on the grounds,
I'm going to be putting up content,
tagging them constantly
throughout the weekend.
They understand that.
So they actually reach out
to see if I'm coming
instead of me having to
reach out to them.
And Dry Your Dagger just nailed it.
Wilson with Syndicate is a
great example of someone
who does it right.
He understands the
relationship that media can
help him sell tickets.
Media helps him promote the event.
The more content they can
put out about their event,
the better it is for their event.
And I'm there free to them to do that.
The only thing I get in return is access.
That is my payment.
That is Dry Your Dagger's payment.
It's the access.
So when you nickel and dime on the access,
you're nickeling and diming
on the one thing that got me there.
Denise Moore,
do you think it might be
something to do with
photography packages
they're selling to athletes?
They don't want people
stepping on each other just
wondering if there's a connection.
If that's it,
it's very short-sighted
because those photo
packages aren't doing
anything to promote their event.
It's just short-term cash in the moment,
not long-term benefit.
And I will tell you this,
last year with the access we were given,
every day my two
videographer photographers
downloaded everything we
had and gave it to the
people selling the photo packages.
As part of our agreement to
be allowed that access,
legends got a copy of everything we did.
And most people in the photography world,
which my daughter is a professional in,
would never give up their raw pictures.
But to get that access,
we literally downloaded
every piece of video and
every picture we took and
gave it to the company and
legends that were doing the
photo packages.
So I ask you,
what is the downfall of me
coming and taking pictures
and video if we're going to
give it all to you only so
we can make this
documentary on the backside?
It's literally freaking ridiculous.
So now instead of being in
the warm-up area where it's semi-quiet,
all you have is some barbells banging,
some stuff like that,
I have to be out on the
public floor where everybody's talking,
all the music's blaring,
all the MCs are talking,
and that's where I have to do interviews.
I just hope I can put
something together because
so many of you are...
So many of you are friends
of mine and I want to
highlight you guys and I
want to give you a product
that you're proud of that
you'll be able to look at
for years to come and show
your kids what you
accomplished at some point.
Looks like you can highlight
Jamie and Carolyn.
That would be awesome.
would love to do that but I
have so many other friends
so many people in this chat
are part of this masters
community denise and shanna
and um lido and like so
many of you guys I don't
know I'm just really I'm
really disgusted by it all
Lana, Lana, Lana, man,
Lana is more than a friend.
She actually worked for me
at masters fitness championships,
helping me do vignettes on
athletes up there one year.
Nobody loves the masters
community like Lana does.
Vicki, your integrity is awesome.
Scott, your heart is so big.
It comes through the YT verse.
Well, I hope so.
Like I really love these people.
And I'm going to do my best.
It's going to be just me and
my friend Caitlin Walters.
She's going to be my videographer.
We're going to do the best
we can with what we have.
So we'll try to get something.
Corey,
Lana took more videos and pics of me
than the people who were
paid to take pics of me.
Yeah, Lana loves her people.
Gosh, Scott,
you will find a way and people
know who you are.
So do the best you can.
I will do the best I can.
Thanks, Scott.
We'll be there to try to help you out.
Lana always helps, man.
She's freaking awesome.
Yeah, last year, originally,
we were allowed full access
to the warm-up area.
People tried to stop me.
Lana is half my size.
Lana had my back, blocked the door,
let me go do what I was
allowed to do on that first day.
Then I was talked to by Joe
and said I had to stay out
on the fence line.
And I did that for the rest
of the weekend.
The rest of the weekend,
I followed the rules.
But if you tell me I'm
allowed in the warmup area,
I'm going to go in the warmup area.
And Lana working security was a treat.
A treat.
Lana wasn't breaking rules.
I was allowed.
I was told I was allowed the first day.
That only changed after the first day.
Who's their BTS?
I have no idea, Jenny.
I'm the only one that put
one out last year.
I don't think they have a BTS.
I think they're just not going to have one,
but it's all right.
And you know, I don't need talk anymore.
I live here in Columbus.
I get to sleep in my own bed.
I just get to go downtown a
couple days this week or
next week and see my friends.
I'll do that.
I'll do the best I can with what I got.
I do have lav mics that I'll
use to get better sound in
the crowded area.
I'll do what I can.
I think the biggest...
The last thing I'm going to
say is because they're here in Columbus,
I did reach out to them and say,
if you need any help, I'll help you.
I hooked them up to give
them connections with a
local media school to get
interns to help them out
with stuff where they
wouldn't have to pay for anything.
And I think they're using that.
I don't know.
Jenny seems odd not to give
it to Scott since he made
so much media for it last year.
I know.
I thought I had proven myself.
And again, I gave them all of my content.
They downloaded every
picture and every piece of video I had.
And their crew that gave out
photo packages were allowed
to use our stuff as part of
their packages.
Judy Reed, I wonder how ticket sales are.
I'm still holding off.
Even though I'm definitely going,
it's expensive.
I don't understand that at all.
Charging two hundred eighty
dollars for the weekend is ludicrous.
That is gouging family
members to come see their
people compete and.
God,
you could sell way more quantity if
you lowered the ticket prices.
Maybe fill it up,
get people into CrossFit
gyms doing CrossFit because
they saw these sixty five
year olds doing amazing things.
But no,
we've got to price ourselves like a
freaking college football game.
It's ridiculous.
Judy Reed,
I'm grateful I don't need a hotel.
I know.
Amen.
Sister.
I want this to be such a success.
I want the games to come to Columbus.
We have so many amenities here.
All right.
jody lynn oh thank goodness
maddie reed treated me to
ticks at the games yep that
maddie reed is an awesome
girl all right one more
update uh yesterday if you
saw my reel about my tyson
bajan encounter ish with hiller um
It turns out that Hiller did
send my goofy ass video on
to Tyson Bajent.
I am embarrassed.
I don't know what he is thinking,
but I'm probably never
going to meet him now as I
am the fifty five year old
make a wish child.
That sent a goofy ass video
through Hiller to Tyson Bajent.
She recognized you right away, Scott.
Let's get a picket master.
Sure thing.
That story had me howling, Scott.
The thumbs up.
Oh, I know.
Yep.
That's crazy.
Granite game semifinals are
only like twenty bucks a day.
I know.
I don't I don't understand
who's making the price point here.
You could sell way more
tickets at twenty bucks and
actually fill the place up
and maybe make more money.
Columbus's local comps draw crowds.
If they have the opportunity
to see the Masters at a
price that's reasonable,
you'll fill that place up.
Ryan,
I actually said what I would say
yesterday on the show.
Jody asked the same question.
So, yeah.
I'm going to leave you guys with this,
and then I need to get back to work.
I've been watching the...
Oh,
there is a small discount for affiliate
owners if you buy ten tickets.
I just finished up the
quarterback documentary on Netflix.
It was really good.
I really like the style that
they do that in.
I'm trying to watch those
types of things so that I
can make mine better as I
kind of see how they do it.
And then by watching Netflix
and the way they do things... Sorry,
I got distracted by Jenny's comment.
No chance Tommy and Shawnee
being involved is why you
don't have full access.
They were involved last year
and I had full access.
So I don't know if... I
don't believe that is why.
But anyway...
They followed Joe Burrow
from the Cincinnati Bengals.
They followed Jared Goff from the Lions.
And they followed Kirk
Cousins from the Atlanta Falcons.
None of whose seasons ended
the way they wanted them to.
But the story that fascinated.
But last year you didn't call out Lauren.
Maybe that's it.
Maybe this lunch show's
popularity has effed me for
ever getting full access again.
During the show,
they talk about Joe Burrow
getting robbed.
Last year, if you don't remember,
there was a criminal group
that waited for
professional athletes to go
and play games live in primetime.
And then they would go find
their homes and rob them.
And this actually happened
while they were filming for quarterback.
And so you get to see kind of
it happened live and that
Joe burrow actually like
almost hid where his house was forever.
And,
and this robbery almost forced him to
sell his home and moved somewhere else.
So the people did not know where he lived.
And he had bought the
Batmobile earlier in the
season and canceled that
because his priority
shifted after being robbed.
It's really a cool story
that I thought they did a
great job covering.
But I love the style that they do it with.
And that's what I tried to
bring to this Hattie
documentary by watching that kind of
doc to see if I could do
some of that storytelling
um so hopefully it comes
across like that you guys
are killing me uh corey
says better to die on your
principles than to live
without any uh true that
I was so bummed that he
ended up not getting the
Batmobile because of that.
I know.
But, you know,
priorities shift all the time, right?
You would think the athletes
would be wealthy,
would have high security systems,
and even gated.
Yeah, he lived in the middle of nowhere.
I think he thought that was
going to be safe enough.
I guess it was like an hour
outside of Cincinnati.
And if you go east at all from Cincinnati,
the populations of those
counties in Ohio are so small.
Vicky says the Cowboy One comes out soon.
Yeah,
but it's actually done by the Cowboys.
So that doesn't interest me as much.
The Kansas City Chiefs one
comes out on Disney ESPN tonight at nine.
That might be interesting to me.
I became a big Cousins fan from that.
He was great in the first
season of quarterback and
he was even better in this
season when things were
going bad in his mindset.
It was really fascinating to watch.
that was like and how his
kids handled the move from
minnesota to atlanta uh was
really interesting as well
so they he just did such a
good job netflix does that
one they do full swing
which is was amazing I'm
I'm part way through drive
to survive all of those
documentaries are so good
I try to do that to get
better at what I'm trying
to do in the moment.
I watch all different kinds
of people interview so that
I'm better when I interview an athlete.
I watch documentaries to try
to do better at filming documentaries.
I'm trying to do all of that.
Ryan Aldrich, as a lifelong Vikings fan,
I love and hate Kirk,
but that documentary sealed
the love side.
As a Chicago Bears fan,
I never understood the hate
for Kirk because we would
have taken a Kirk Cousins
in a heartbeat with the
quarterbacks we've had.
Speaking of documentaries,
did you watch WFP one on tour?
Stop one.
I did.
I did not like it.
I thought it was too late to the game.
I thought it,
I know Hiller did a critique of it.
I agreed with much, much of what he said,
but it also was way too late to the game.
They treated it like it was
the CrossFit games and it was not that.
And there was no tension.
There was no, nothing to build on.
It was just flat bad.
It was flat bad.
The Billy Joel one was really good.
I'm glad you liked it, Jay Birch.
I love that documentary.
HBO is another one who does
a great job with documentaries.
As an old fart, I love Billy Joel,
and I love that documentary.
I haven't made it fully
through a single video of theirs,
and I'm assuming you're talking to WFP.
It was so bad.
So bad.
They don't know how to tell
a story at all.
And then the last thing,
just because we do talk
entertainment on here,
I watched the movie The
Amateur the other night
with Rami Malek and Lawrence Fishburne.
Really good movie.
Really good movie.
In my opinion, I would give it a...
an eighty-eight maybe an
eighty-eight out of a
hundred uh the amateur uh
it's about a guy uh trying
to avenge his wife's death
it's got some nice twists
and turns in it um I I
really really really
enjoyed it um and it's free
if you have hulu uh to
watch highly recommend it um the amateur
The guy is good at one thing
and they just kind of... It
was well done.
Mark Phillips says,
I would have said
seventies-ish on amateur, so we're close.
Yeah,
I thought it was a little slow at
times for like an action.
The tension was there,
but the action was slow at times.
And that's why I brought it down somewhat.
But yeah,
I like the overall story arc and
the way it was executed.
I just think it was a little
slow at times.
Corey Leonard,
I watched Love Hurts with
Keihoi Kuang and Marshawn
Lynch on the plane Monday.
Fun, fun film.
So much fun.
I would not put it in a great category.
It's not going to win any
Academy awards or anything like that.
But if you like old
fashioned Jackie Chan type movies,
like the old fashioned ones
before they were Americanized.
So freaking fun.
So freaking fun.
Really, really enjoyed that movie.
Well, with that guys,
I need to get back to work.
Um,
Got lots to do.
Again,
tomorrow we're going to have two
ladies on to talk about the
climb event here in
Columbus where they honor
the victims of nine eleven.
And it's all about getting
first responders healthy so
that they can do their jobs.
Can't wait to have them on.
debbie was on with savan on
monday um and they had andy
wilson on I have a
different member of public
safety on with debbie
tomorrow and we're going to
talk through that event and
some of the other things
they have going on with uh
with all of that so tune in
tomorrow to be a little bit
different but something to
kind of get us into the weekend
With that,
I'll see everybody next time on
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.