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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
Dearly beloved,
we are gathered here today to talk about
this thing called CrossFit.
Let's go crazy.
I love the chase and the hunt,
and I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I'm wanting,
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.
what is going on everybody welcome to
lunch with the Clydesdale you now may be
seated if you guys could only hear us
prior to going live oh my word y'all
wouldn't i don't think they could handle
it be quite honest with you i could
barely handle it and i was part of
it so there's that
Oh, so much fun.
So much fun.
Absolutely.
It's funny because just to let you guys
in on the inside joke is Corey,
when he moves his mixer,
he sometimes bumps a button.
And so he came on and he had
reverb on and he sounded like Prince from
the Purple Rain album.
Just enough, though.
Just enough to sound like Prince.
Not enough to sound like Prince.
you know like it was a problem so
that took us down a rabbit hole and
i would i would contend that the purple
rain album is one of the top five
albums of all time
Oh, that's not even an argument.
That's not even an argument.
As a matter of fact,
there's two groups of thinking as far as
that's concerned.
Those who understand that Purple Rain is a
top five album of all time and people
who are wrong.
It is a cover-to-cover banger,
one after another album.
And I actually own it on vinyl.
I own it on vinyl.
There's not a whole lot of albums that
you can put on and just,
what are you listening to?
I'm just going to listen to Purple Rain.
And just let the whole thing play,
and it'd be fine.
Where you don't go, ah,
that one's kind of, whatever.
The whole thing, dude, it's perfectionist.
movie the movie you take the movie the
music out of the movie and it's complete
trash the only thing that saves the movie
are the concert scenes yeah by far right
by far but the music is good as
it gets as good as it gets so
Glad you could all be here today.
Sorry about our little... It's Cory and I.
We're going off the rails at some point.
We just decided to go start off the
rails.
Yeah.
I mean,
sometimes you got to lead from the front.
And it's funny because last night I was
watching a real where Kevin Smith was
talking about his,
his first encounter ever with Prince,
trying to get him to give them permission
to use most beautiful girl in the world
for Jay and silent Bob strikes back.
Yeah.
And Prince flipped it and wanted him to
do a documentary on him doing like a
live listen party at Paisley park.
And Kevin Smith could not follow the
conversation.
And it is hilarious.
If you,
if you ever see it out on YouTube,
you've got to, you've got to.
Kevin Smith is a fantastic storyteller
when it comes to stuff like that.
It is.
It's he's like, he'll,
he'll make you feel like you were there
and part of it.
It's fantastic.
But yeah, I can see that.
Well,
and the punchline is he agrees to do
the documentary for Prince.
And he says, oh, by the way,
I need most beautiful girl in the world
for my movie, Jay and Silent Bob.
And Prince goes, nope.
And then hangs up the phone.
No.
Mark Phillips with Thriller, Nevermind,
OK Computer.
Tons of great albums out there.
There are tons of great albums.
We used to do like a top five
show on here.
That we did.
And we did albums, I think.
And I think Purple Rain made my top
five in that one.
It wouldn't surprise me.
So what do we want to talk about
first?
Um, let's talk about Rob Orlando.
Rest in peace, Rob.
Dude.
Like for a Clydesdale, Rob was the guy.
A hundred percent.
It was ginormous, man.
And when I first got into CrossFit,
like my gym was trying to find the
molds to make the Atlas stones.
Right.
Now I'm sure like there are thousands of
affiliates out there with stones just
sitting outside, you know,
just getting rained on and snowed on.
And, but man, the dude was,
he was so.
He had so much energy and was so
fun to listen to.
Talk about great storytellers.
And his strength was unreal.
Willing to do anything for anybody.
Just a great, great dude.
We have Atlas Stones actually in the
weightlifting area at our gym as well.
I feel like you said a lot of
people have them.
They're just in a dusty corner somewhere
or sitting outside or whatever.
A lot of people have those,
and that's the direct result of him.
Rest in peace, man.
We have a bunch of those stones.
Jody, we had a lot of his stones.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He is.
Sousa did a show earlier,
showed some clips from the big sky event
where he was eating cheesecake and just
stepped up and joined a team to do
max snatch, max clean and jerk.
He just, just a fun guy, man.
Anytime you caught him in one of the
older documentaries or behind the scenes
or whatnot, dude,
like anytime they talked to him,
he was just gregarious.
Great on camera.
Just genuine dude.
Rob made grip strength.
Cool.
Yeah, he,
he actually did some announcing at some of
the events like mid teens.
He was great on the mic.
Oh, I bet.
Great on the mic.
Great storyteller.
The only thing I wanted to put out
there is Sam Briggs made a post that
her affiliate is doing a fundraiser for
the family.
Good.
And the fundraiser is, the workout is,
max out your deadlift.
And what a more appropriate...
There is not a more appropriate workout
for Rob Orlando than max out your
deadlift.
And what they're doing is,
ten cents for every pound you max out
with goes to the family.
And so I'm going to...
I think I'm going to try it.
I may not get very high,
but I'm going to do it for Rob.
And...
Give it a try.
So if you guys want to try it
and you take a video of it and
you tag us in it,
we'll post it on the story and they'll
all be for Rob.
Just max out your deadlift this week.
Take a video of it.
Tag Clydesdale underscore media on
Instagram and we'll share it on our story
and everyone will say this is for Rob.
So.
Hope you guys can participate.
I think that would be a fun,
fun endeavor.
So there it is.
Judy says, cool, Scott.
That's cool.
Yes.
I it's Sam Briggs idea.
I'm just kind of modifying it for the
show.
So.
What's up, Jason Bourne?
I always get a little chill when I
see Jason Bourne in the chat.
Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.
Like, every single time.
Yeah.
So,
I'll try to do it here in a
day or two.
The other thing I need to get out
is Tournament.
Blair Leadingham won both the men's
tournament and the women's tournament.
So Blair, if you reach out to me,
I'll get your address and I'll get you
your trophy sent to you.
Mostly we're just glad that Jamie didn't
win.
Right.
Vicky was tied with him going into the
last game.
Oh, all right.
Go ahead, Vic.
It all came down to last night.
He had Michigan winning.
So that separated the tie.
If Michigan would have lost,
they would have finished in a tie and
it would have came down to the tiebreaker.
So.
It's all right, Vicky.
You're still number one in our hearts.
Hey, Vicky killed me.
So yeah,
I did not do well at all this
year.
So now for the fun part of the
show, I say sarcastically.
Yeah, here we go.
So yesterday we talked about magic city
and legends and how the way they're
inviting people to the in-person semifinal
seemed a little chaotic.
Corey reached out to magic city.
heard that they were waiting on a list
from CrossFit to get emails and names to
invite people.
But before they got that,
they were searching for people online to
try to contact them any way possible.
What has transpired since then is this
chaos where people that are far ahead on
the leaderboard are seeing people far
behind on the leaderboard get invited.
And now it's causing pitchforks and
torches marching at Legends and Magic
City.
And what I'm here to tell you is
your anger is faced in the wrong
direction.
I think I know where you're going with
this.
Your anger should be pointed at CrossFit
HQ.
It is CrossFit's season.
It is CrossFit's games.
It is like the McDonald's franchise giving
you a franchise without a manual.
And you know what happens when that
happens?
The Golden Arches become the Golden Arcs.
The Big Mac becomes the Big Mic.
And the owners get to name it themselves,
and they call it McDowell's.
They got the golden arches.
We got the golden arches.
They got the Big Mac.
We got the Big Mac.
Two all-beef patties.
We both have two all-beef patties,
special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles.
But they have a sesame seed bun.
We don't have no sesame seeds.
We got no sesame seeds.
Holy smokes.
That's what's happened.
That's exactly what's happened.
They've left these third-party entities
out there to drown.
Yes.
They have not given them the tools to
be successful as part of this season.
They have a database where you must
register to take part in the season.
Part of that registration includes your
name and your email address.
I work with databases.
That means all that information is stored
in a table.
It is a simple query to run and
say,
I want all the names and the email
addresses of the athletes who have
registered for quarterfinals.
Once that comes into a spreadsheet,
maybe throw in age as well.
That probably would help, but yeah.
Then if you throw in age,
you can actually sort it.
and get a list.
Look at the leaderboard.
Now I have a directory.
I can look and get the contact information
and send you an invite.
Export from one to the other.
It is preposterous that they have let this
happen.
It's a really good word.
Yeah.
Dude, I...
I got added to another master's text group
this morning, quarterfinals test group,
text group.
And it's more of the same,
more of the same stuff that I was
dealing with,
more of the same stuff that friends of
mine that I know are dealing with.
And it's all over the leaderboard.
It's not just men.
It's men and women.
It's not just my age group.
It's several different age groups.
It's all this.
I mean,
Shannon just said she just got an invite
yesterday evening.
I got mine at nine thirty last night.
Where did Shanna finish?
Yeah, exactly.
Second.
Right.
Second.
Ridiculous.
But you know what would happen if CrossFit
actually did that?
You could get yourself so close.
That boy good.
He's happy.
That boy good.
Damn.
Oh, man.
I don't understand.
Wait, hold on.
Wait.
Agree on the lack of guidance,
but those event organizers can read a
leaderboard and generate a list of top
qualifiers.
One social media post asking for them to
contact the event is all it would take.
It is the Masters Divisions.
I tried to interview Masters athletes.
They ain't on Instagram.
Yeah, that's one of the guys.
Magic City is trying to find them through
Instagram.
They're doing that.
It is nearly impossible.
Plus,
you may have seventeen Corey Leonard's pop
up when you search on Instagram.
Right.
And which one is the one that did
the workouts?
They're missing information.
To Magic City's credit and to Legends'
credit, they both have made posts.
Legends even put up a Google Doc that
you could fill out if you were interested
in going to their semifinal and were in
a qualifying spot and said, hey,
fill this out.
But a lot of us do not have
either social media or maybe they have
Facebook and not Instagram or whatever the
case may be.
just don't have it or they didn't see
it it's it's really not that difficult to
miss only i got lucky and saw somebody
i know got one which is started the
whole thing for me where i started like
poking and prodding at it that was
saturday i messaged micah himself
yesterday morning he responded back to me
um during my daughter's softball game at
like
Seven thirty last night and then about two
and a half, about two hours later,
right before I went to bed,
I got I got my invite.
So in all fairness,
you were the squeaky wheel.
Correct.
Right.
How many people haven't like I've I've
taught I've talked to so many Masters
athletes.
That aren't that are afraid to be the
squeaky wheel.
They're filling out the little form on
Instagram, and they're just waiting.
No guidance of what's happening.
And you're also talking hundreds of
athletes.
The Games deals with a set of thirty
men, thirty women, or like Mayhem,
twenty and twenty.
Masters, you're talking about hundreds.
to come to these events.
It's not a quick fix.
Just because you contract people to do a
job for you doesn't mean you just walk
away and don't help and don't give tools
and don't have any oversight.
It's still your season.
Yeah.
And it's painting a shitty picture about
your season.
I'm going to address Doug's thing right
here.
So David Jackson, Mr. Reed,
why are they afraid?
It's not that we are afraid necessarily.
Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the
grease.
Sometimes it gets taken off the wheel
completely because ultimately,
even though Micah said, yes,
we are going down the list,
they are still at their leisure to invite
whoever the hell they want to invite,
just like Legends did.
just like Down Under did or whichever one
it is in Australia that had a qualifier
for it, just like French Throwdown did.
So sometimes it feels like you're imposing
on somebody, oh, please, sir,
may I have my spot or whatnot?
And you're worried that it's going to tell
you to get bent and go on about
your business.
So it's a, it's,
and I'm gonna tell you from my,
from my spot, I didn't want to be,
and they tell me, well,
I'm just not going to invite you.
I'm just gonna skip you and just move
on.
And the world is full of rule followers.
Correct.
They're not going to step outside of the
normal course of action.
They fill out the little form.
They do all the stuff.
And they're just waiting.
And like Shanna says,
this whole thing is so nerve-wracking.
I'm afraid of missing an email when no
email has been sent.
Nothing from Legends yet.
Yep.
I would say to go on Competition Corner
and look on your profile just in case
and look at your invites because they're
also listed there.
Will the rest of us scrubs get an
invite for online semis?
Yes.
Yes.
Not until the leaderboard is finalized and
probably not until, or I say that,
you'll probably be able to sign up
beforehand,
but it'll probably be a lot closer to
it, Joseph, before that actually happens.
It would also help if we could see
the leaderboard and see how many have
registered.
I DMed them at Shana Bunsen.
My invite came last night.
Yeah.
Magic City equals them.
I don't think Jamie's gotten an invite
yet.
I meant to text her this morning.
I forgot.
Last I heard, she had not.
Vicky,
it's reinforcing the perception and
reality that age groups don't matter.
Bad luck, a hundred percent.
Well,
and who's going to want to work with
you, CrossFit, if you're not willing to?
That is a simple task.
I don't give a shit if you have
a two-person team to run one query of
the database you've been keeping for years
to get names and email addresses to the
two people you have partnered with,
allegedly partnered with.
And that's the other thing.
Jamie's been trying to make flight
arrangements and hotel arrangements.
And without an invite,
how do you make that step?
And the more they're filling up,
the more expensive it's getting.
Yeah.
My wife was looking at stuff this morning
as far as trying to book something for
us to stay at.
I mean,
I'm driving because it's like a six-hour
drive.
It's not terrible.
But I got buddies of mine that want
to come.
know oh we're gonna we're gonna come watch
and i'm like hold off like i don't
i'm not i'm not doing anything i'm not
cutting my chickens before they hatch i'm
not committing to anything before i
actually get an invite and i accept it
and pay my registration fee until such
time i'm not doing that and i'm certainly
not advising any of my friends to do
that like that might want to come to
watch so
You can stay in my basement, Corey.
Thanks, Mark.
Denise, congratulations to Corey.
Thanks, Denise.
I've talked to so many Masters athletes in
the last two days.
It's just mind-bending to me,
but I don't know.
I think the problem with what most of
us are seeing is that this was easily
preventable.
Easily preventable.
Hey, Micah, hey, Joe and Bob,
here are the names, email addresses,
and age groups of all the people that
qualified for quarterfinals.
Here's the file.
Here's the thirty five thirty nine women.
Here's thirty five thirty nine women.
And just on down the list.
Once you start, cause you know,
once your leaderboard gets moving around
and whatnot,
you want to start inviting people.
Here's their stuff before it's preemptive.
Here you go.
Do with this what you will.
Vicki,
I wonder if for some reason there's legal
concern with releasing email addresses.
Not that it makes sense to me,
but it only makes business reason,
the only business reason I can think of.
That is not personal identifying
information.
The handles on an email don't really tell
you who the person is.
No.
You know how many spam emails I get
a day?
Right.
Everybody gives away my email address.
A hundred percent.
As a matter of fact,
usually whenever you sign up to not give
your email address away is when somebody
is giving your email address away.
Lito says, sorry,
but the Torium Pro did it best.
If you're interested in doing the comp,
you sign up on Competition Corner and
submit your quarterfinal scores so it also
filters out irrelevant ones.
The problem is,
how do you tell the Masters community to
go sign up?
If they're not on social media,
there's just the basic premises.
CrossFit is running a season and they're
going hands-off for the Masters.
And probably the teens too.
I don't know because I'm not as close
to that community.
But they're just being like, not our bad.
We contracted with someone else to do
that.
Yeah.
But you collected the money and you
collected the information.
Again.
And I don't bring your logic, Corey.
We do things the hard way.
You know that.
I do know that, unfortunately.
It just would have been easily
preventable.
It really, really would have.
Lito says, Scott,
that info on Touring Pro has been out
since last year.
That's literally their qualifier.
That's what everyone should have done,
plus video review.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm sure word of mouth would get to...
some of the older athletes who don't have
social media maybe honestly i mean she has
a point she absolutely has a point i
i want to believe that and i like
that compared to what's going on now oh
absolutely that would have been that have
been the move to go to but
That's not what happened.
And we knew that wasn't going to be
what happened.
I didn't think it was going to be
this messy, to be quite honest with you.
But here we are.
What are we still finalizing on the
leaderboard?
That's what I'm trying to figure out at
this point.
I know I talked about it yesterday,
but I still don't understand.
I went from fifty seven to fifty four
to fifty six.
I moved three different times,
three spots and then back down to fifty
And I have no idea what happened because
it ain't nothing that I did.
It's people ahead of me.
I assume when I moved up,
it's because other people scores didn't
get validated, whatever,
by their affiliate manager.
But why did I go back down two
spots?
The validation window is closed.
So why did I go down two spots?
I don't get it.
Unless there's some video review.
I know there was a video option for
people not at a thing that you had
to get judges and all that kind of
stuff.
So maybe that.
But there's no kind of clarity on it
whatsoever.
I'm
I'm over it because I got mine,
but it's still a huge problem for
everybody else that has not yet.
Uh, Craig Selizer, uh,
didn't realize your procedure was last
week.
Glad to know you're on the mend.
Uh, yeah, it didn't go perfect.
Um, I just actually,
right before we went on the air scheduled
the next attempt to get my heart back
into rhythm for April.
So Monday, April.
Um,
I'm going to a special lab to have
a special version of the cardio version
done.
And hopefully that does the trick.
Super special.
But the ablation is done.
If they can get me back into rhythm,
the ablation will work.
It's just getting me back into rhythm.
That part will work as advertising.
We just got to get back into rhythm.
Yeah.
So I can dance again.
Let's go crazy.
You know what freaked me out though?
Craig Zelizer.
Yeah.
On my Bears podcast,
there's a guy that is the Craigulator.
And every time he comes in,
the hosts are like,
it's time for the Craigulator.
It's time for the Craigulator.
And I was like, wait,
did he follow me over here?
Probably.
Once invite started,
it was the beginning of the end.
You placed top fifty.
Here's your invite done.
Once event organizer said,
but I want Roman to be at my
comp downhill.
Preaching to the choir, buddy.
Preaching to the choir.
We've been saying that for years.
Invites...
for something that is a direct qualifier
to the CrossFit Games,
if you just get an invite just because
they want you to be there,
is bananas crazy to me.
It's just flat-out bullshit,
in my opinion.
It's not sports.
Ed AI says they just need to update
your heart with a factory reset and reset
it.
Yeah, that's it.
Actually, Scott, it's me, Catalina.
I use my husband's account.
My husband is into pickleball.
I'm the CrossFit.
Gotcha.
You could always try David Johnson's.
Whoops.
Where did that go?
Nope.
Nope.
My mouse died.
Yeah.
I always tried David Johnson's echo bike
sprint that he used to fix his AFib.
Dude, I'm about to,
if this one doesn't work,
that's what we're going to do.
Well, I got some echo bike sprints.
That's what we, that's what we live on.
That kind of stuff on, on,
on email company.
Not a problem.
I'll send you one.
Something's going to happen.
Either you get back into rhythm,
something will happen.
I promise you that much.
Either it goes back into rhythm or I'm
laying in a puddle.
A hundred percent.
Underneath.
Get up and try again.
Did you try turning it off and turning
it back on?
Was that the first thing they did?
I hope that's the first thing they did.
Unplug it and plug it back in.
Or with Corey, did you plug it in?
Yeah,
or did you plug it in at all?
Yes.
I did now.
Yeah, Lito.
Control-Alt-Delete.
Yeah,
not to mention getting an invite after a
four-year drug ban.
What the hell, man?
That still pisses me off.
That's not cool.
Make sure you have a defibrillator
standing by.
Actually, Denise, that is the next step.
They are going to put two defibrillators
on me and give me the max voltage
to see if that will zap it back
in.
Okay.
So instead of the two-person paddle,
it's going to be a four.
So I should feel real sore the next
day.
Or you'll feel like a million bucks,
one of the two.
It is for sure an older model.
So maybe I do need to update the
firmware.
Update the firmware.
Hit him again.
Thanks, Shanna.
I appreciate that heads up, Shanna.
Thanks for reinforcing that for me.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
You're going to be super sore.
Oh, good.
So here's the bonus of it all.
So I work from home.
Yep.
I hate going into the office.
Yep.
We are having an in-person mandatory
meeting the day after this procedure.
I got a doctor's excuse now not to
come.
Let's go.
That may have made me happier than
anything in the world.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I'm not gonna be able to make that
meeting.
Yeah, no,
I got a procedure the day before and
doctor says I shouldn't leave the house.
Yeah.
Scott turns into the Hulk after
defibrillation.
Beaten on your chest.
Cool to be that Red Hulk like Harrison
Ford.
Damn it.
I mean, it will be four twenty.
You can have a special THC gummy bear
afterwards to relax.
I'll I'll reach out to Alex Kazan if
I can get a couple.
Oh,
quite the extra effort avoiding a meeting.
You don't know the half of it, Denise.
If it's an in-person meeting, one,
I hate meetings, period.
I hate meetings that should be an email.
I hate meetings, period.
But in person,
I will move hell and earth to find
a way out.
So what are you going to do instead
of going to this meeting?
Well, it's funny you should ask.
I'm going to get double defibrillated.
I'm going to hook a couple electrodes to
my chest, hook those to a car battery,
and we're going to find out what happens.
I plan all my doctor and dentist visits
for all staff meeting days.
I only have to attend like once a
month if I do it that way.
Seema, you're my spirit animal.
Seema's a genius.
I am the same way.
Like I will schedule all of my doctor's
appointments on days that I have to go
into the office.
One, I have to go downtown.
That means I have to fight traffic.
Then I have to pay to park.
All those kind of things.
I'm saving money.
Gross.
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Yeah.
I finally got to take Thirdsy again last
night.
Finally got some sleep.
It's the best stuff in the world if
you need to get your sleep.
Get your recovery up.
Get your HRV elevated.
It is semifinal season, boys and girls.
All the way up to the thick of
it.
Get your training in.
Get your good sleep.
Sleep is a superpower.
Thirdsy will help you get there.
And the best part of it,
you'll be so recovered,
you'll be able to fight harder for your
invite from Magic City and Legends.
I need to go check the last time
I read.
You will be a better squeaky wheel.
Yes.
Take thirdsy.
You can be that.
Sleep all night.
And then you'll be refreshed and ready to
kick ass in being the squeaky wheel.
And I want to know if he can
tell his kids to let him sleep.
Unfortunately,
that is the two point O version they're
still working on.
So last thing I want to talk about
is I don't know if you got a
chance to see this,
but Hiller and Brian Friend did.
It looks like another long one,
but they cut a piece.
It's like I saw the eighteen minute
version this morning.
Yeah.
So I watched that and they talk about
should Dave be the CEO, the CEO?
None of that was of interest to me.
I know how Brian Friend feels about Dave
being CEO.
And if you didn't,
you can watch that eighteen minute video
and he just reinforces it again.
They bring up Matt Souza and whether he
should be CEO.
And Brian was actually more open to that.
I think Matt Souza is a great choice
because he is an affiliate owner.
He does know the sport.
He knows all the aspects of it.
He's big into the education.
I think he is a decent selection.
I personally don't think it matters
because as long as that board is in
that place,
you are limited in your power anyway.
Absolutely.
But then something happened at the very
last second of the video.
where they talked about what Dave said at
the end of the clip and in his
week in review when asked if he's not
given the CEO what's next.
And Dave said,
I've been thinking about that a lot,
but I'm not ready to talk about that
now.
And Hiller says,
do you think Dave is connected with Xenon?
And Brian says, yes, I do.
And the video cuts off.
Xenom is partnering with CrossFit.
It makes sense to me.
I feel like most of that shit is
edited just enough to make you want to
pay attention to the next thing that comes
up without really saying anything of
substance.
I don't think they know, but damn,
it makes sense.
Right.
And of the whole eighteen minutes,
you could have skipped the first seventeen
thirty.
And that last little bit made my ear
just go.
Yeah.
Shanna says,
I'm surprised Dave would want to be CEO
with that board.
I would think the only reason he would
want to be is that he thinks that
he would actually have influence as CEO,
even with the board.
He's not a stupid man by any stretch
of the imagination.
He's very, very clever.
He thinks things out.
He's a strategist, right?
So for him to actually think he would
do a good job, I think he would.
He's calculated.
I don't think he does anything by
accident.
I still contend,
and I've talked about this a lot,
that whole group made Dave to be the
scapegoat of the twenty four games.
One percent.
They let him be the sacrificial lamb for
everybody to beat the shit out of after
Lazar died at the games.
And he did it and he survived it.
And maybe they make him CEO because of
that,
because they think they can get away with
more because Dave's able to survive the
slings and arrows of everybody as stuff's
coming down.
But Dave would have to be in agreement
with the board to carry out what they
want to carry out.
And I just don't think that's a good
mesh or match.
And it's more on the board's part than
on Dave's part.
Yeah.
It's not going to happen more.
I wonder if they would consider selling
the company to the employees,
set up an ESOP, reasonable stock,
repurchase from Berkshire, blah, blah,
blah.
I'm not sure all the employees at CrossFit
are on the same page.
No.
I think if Dave CEO,
he gets rid of a handful of people
quickly.
So I don't know.
Yeah, I think that's my point.
Exactly.
Ed is that it's a super tight leash
with that board, whoever,
no matter who gets put in that position.
I do not mention this man's name on
my show.
Not if we can help it.
The board is the problem.
Well, Berkshire is the problem,
but the board supported Berkshire.
That's where the problem was.
Yeah.
It never,
like we are in a position that we
never envisioned being in,
that we never should have gotten ourselves
in.
It was,
duped, wool pulled over your eyes,
like pick a euphemism.
That's what ended up happening when
basically when they forced Greg out.
And now we're here.
I get what you're saying.
I believe that... Gosh,
this is going to get me murdered.
When Greg got rid of the media department,
that was the first part of the problem.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'll...
That's where it started.
Yeah.
CrossFit lost its North star.
It was a media company.
They called themselves a media company.
And when you get rid of the thing
that you say you are,
then everything starts to slide.
And then,
so then you start to slide and then
the one rudder you had sells off and
walks away.
Now you're a rudderless ship and you'd
have no identity.
And that is a problem.
That is a legit,
one hundred percent actual real problem.
Uh, based on execution,
many could be let go.
I agree.
Private equity just wants the bottom line
to be in the positive.
They don't care about how it happens.
Yes and no.
Yes,
they want the bottom line to be positive.
The problem is that they think that they
have something that they don't actually
have.
They still don't have any idea what they
have.
Because if they did,
we wouldn't have just a figurehead for a
CEO that just goes, yeah,
thirty million CrossFitters, sure,
that's a good thing, let's do that.
Because if they did,
then we wouldn't be in the mess that
we are right now.
Period.
If they would back off and just let
us do.
I mean,
there's a reason they gave Greg two
hundred twenty million dollars.
Ed says, fine,
we'll crank down the defibrillators down
one notch for the smart comment.
Awesome.
Well,
one more thing and then I got to
get out of here.
Yes.
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Yeah.
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There we go.
I think that's all I got.
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Like the stream.
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