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you part of the fam.
it's lunch time what is going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the clydesdale and
we must celebrate one of our favorite
athletes in the crossfit space that is
lito who is our member of our channel
for eleven months now almost a year almost
almost a year almost it's it was almost
a year ago i met her like in
person
She's hard to miss.
She is.
Got to meet her and her husband at
the Masters CrossFit Games last year.
She is.
She's a bright light in this space.
She's good people, man.
She's good people.
Any conversation I've ever had with her
has always been fun.
Let's put it at that.
Yeah.
Uh,
Papa Frank loves your voice on the intro.
It took us a long time to get
it mixed down.
Right.
To where it sounds like it does like,
uh,
to get it translated from Cajun to English
took some time, but we got there.
Yeah.
Trish was accident with AI music.
Of course not.
That is the Clydesdale singers.
We have a band obviously.
AI.
Why would we use AI music?
That doesn't even make sense.
Y'all know we don't like AI.
And Corey,
who's always good with the taglines under
his name, leave Stuart Litter.
Yeah, I can talk.
I do this for a living.
Corey,
leave Stuart Little out of your mouth.
Oh, I mean, out of your status.
I got news for you, man.
Stuart Little does not survive first
contact with Chuck E. Cheese.
That's just a hard fact.
I don't give a damn what anybody tells
you.
It's not going to end well.
So can I tell you one of my
worst experiences ever was at a Chuck E.
Cheese?
This is my shock phase.
So we went for a birthday party when
my daughter was young.
And this was like pre-CrossFit Scott,
like every bit five bills.
Yeah.
walking around Chuck E.
Cheese and they have the pizza and the
salad bar and all that stuff, right?
So I'm up trying to be healthy,
what I thought was healthy at the time.
You didn't know?
Big mound of lettuce and then six vats
of blue cheese dressing over the top.
Right.
All right.
You guys got any more blue cheese?
Then I'm walking back to my table and
this kid comes running by and just forearm
shivers the plate of salad and blue cheese
right into my chest.
Now you're wearing six packs of blue
cheese.
Correct.
Yeah.
Lettuce everywhere.
And now I've got to,
and we had just gotten to the birthday
party.
Unless I want you to take a crying
child home,
I have to sit there drenched in blue
cheese for the entire duration.
Soldier, soldier, absolutely.
So you'll sit here and just smell like
blue cheese for the next two hours while
I get back, get back to the house.
Yep.
Hey.
Pizza would not have made that mess.
You are correct, Joseph.
Pizza would not have done you like that.
No.
That is a fact.
He was trying to be healthy, Joseph.
Clearly CrossFit healthy.
Yeah, clearly had no idea what that meant,
but was trying.
I mean, give the man some, you know,
a little credit for trying.
Have you seen the thing that says Chuck
E.
Cheese uses old pizza to make new pizza?
I'm sure at some location they have done
that.
I will say, it's not terrible pizza.
Well... But pizza's like sex.
Correct.
When it's good, it's really, really good.
And when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
It's still not terrible.
Still, it's not terrible.
Just saying.
Oh, yeah, the Clydesdale Singers.
We, uh...
That's where you guys' membership money
goes,
is to keep them on track for when
we need a new song.
I don't know.
The interview process is rough.
It's terrible.
It's terrible.
Yeah.
It's not cheap.
Not in this economy.
That is for certain.
Yeah.
And, you know,
Corey's one of those dictator directors
and makes them work long hours.
You don't want me in a booth.
Do it again.
Um,
so before we dive into like the CrossFit
stuff,
I got to show you a couple of
videos.
Oh, please do.
Um,
and hopefully it works because before we
went live, I tried to show you,
it did not go well.
That did not end well at all.
We're going to try this, um, real quick.
The first one,
and these are just some saved Instagrams I
got.
Have you seen this?
Empire.
Now it's eight feet by twelve feet in
the corner of a Macy's.
This is embarrassing.
You don't browse Toys R Us.
You accidentally walk through it on your
way to buy socks.
Toys R Us is now a little section
in Macy's and not like a store anymore.
They went belly up.
Toys R Us are now
Beside the sock section in Macy's.
Everything good is dead or dying.
My child is dying.
That's terrible.
I accidentally walked through a Toys R Us
going to get a pair of socks.
so the next two videos are what I
will call the twelve-year-old boy in us
videos that's my favorite okay the first
one in the middle of a tragedy something
awesome occurs and and again I don't want
to make light of the tragedy but something
awesome does occur things happen
Everyone's trying.
Carrying fireworks.
Carrying fireworks.
Caught on fire.
And blew up in the middle of
I-Seventy-Five.
Let me say this.
Normally, if I'm on I-Ten,
any interstate really,
traffic is backed up and I come upon
it and it's on the other side of
the interstate, but...
Our lane isn't slowing down.
I am beyond furious.
Right.
Cause I'm like, what are y'all doing?
I think that's the only way it would
be acceptable because I would probably
stop and check it out because I love
fireworks.
Yeah.
And then nobody got hurt.
So I just got a free firework show
for no good reason.
Sweet.
I am in like my first reaction would
be get out of my car,
open up my lawn chair and just start
going.
Ooh, absolutely.
Dude, it's all happening at once.
Like, you don't have to,
is that the end?
I'm not sure.
Is that the end?
Is that the end?
No, not yet.
Okay.
So then, so then in, uh,
Awesome fashion.
Someone took it to a new level.
Why do women live longer than men?
That explains it.
You may live longer, ladies,
but we die more awesomer.
i love him we would die more awesomer
yeah oh that's america right there that's
one hundred percent america yeah that is
full-fledged america america speaking of
which my mother-in-law yesterday
for whatever reason,
decided she wanted to have a happy
birthday America get together at her house
yesterday.
She didn't decide it yesterday.
She actually decided it sometime during
the week.
And my wife said, hey,
my mom wants to have a
like a happy birthday America party
Sunday.
And I said, I'm sorry, this Sunday?
She's like, yeah.
I said, June the whatever it is, seventh,
not July the fourth.
She's like, mm-hmm.
Well, June the fourteenth,
which is coming up this Sunday,
is flag day.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
That would make some sense.
Wouldn't end.
It was yesterday.
Hot dogs, hamburgers, apple pie.
You can celebrate America any day.
You're not wrong, man.
You're not wrong, man.
You're not wrong.
We had,
we straight up went over there and had
a little,
a little grilling session to go on.
I was like, I said, Ms.
Carlisle,
You don't need an excuse to grill dogs
and burgers.
You can just do that whenever.
It doesn't really matter.
I don't know if you know that or
not.
Jennifer says she thinks that she ran
across the America paper plates and
whatnot and just decided that she needed a
good reason to use them.
I was like,
so when she comes across the Christmas
ones at five below next time,
we're just going to have a Christmas in
July?
Is that what's going on?
Because, I mean, I'm in.
Is she one of those that can only
have a party if it has a theme?
No, not at all.
Oh,
that's the other reason why it was weird.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, David Johnson says, uh,
don't tell me when to celebrate my
America.
Oh, David, Justin.
I celebrate every day.
I celebrate every day.
How free are you on a scale of
zero to July four?
How free are you today?
I'm pretty damn free.
Anyway.
Extremely.
Yes.
I love it.
So the other thing I wanted to talk
to you about is my wife and I
sat down and watched the movie Send Help
this weekend.
Oh, yeah.
If you have not done that... No,
not yet.
Reframe.
Okay.
Do not.
Got it.
Those are two hours of my life that
I am never, ever getting back.
That's terrible.
It is...
Like, it had a good premise,
and it started down a road where I'm
like, oh, that's pretty good.
And then, like, an hour in,
it took a right turn into, like,
complete and utter garbage.
I hate that.
Complete and utter garbage.
Mark Phillips, finally, we agree, Scott.
Much like, finally,
we're on the same page.
Like, literally, we got, like...
twenty minutes past that my wife and i
are looking at each other like do we
even like tough this out or right what's
happening at this point right yeah i got
it well we've been jennifer i've done that
before like i don't remember what it was
but same thing forty five minutes into
something and we just kind of looked at
each other like what's happening right now
why are we even like i could be
sleeping or doing any one of a number
of other things yeah she uh
It was awful.
Awful.
I like Mark's... Mark's movie synopsis.
You should write that for IMDb.
Two horrible humans spend time together on
an island in the end.
I think he nailed it.
Two horrible people get stranded on an
island.
And that's not even the worst part.
Like the unrealisticness of...
Everything after that first hour is.
That sucks.
Oh, to answer, uh, yes, Joseph.
Uh, just,
if you have a bucket of popcorn,
you're invested.
Yup.
Uh, Meg it's I celebrate summer,
summer ween Halloween in the summertime.
Oh, is that what that is?
That's why Travis is like making Joseph
dress up doesn't count.
Yeah.
Got it.
I don't think she has to make Joseph
dress up.
I don't know if you've met that dude
or not,
but fairly certain he would be wearing
costume for no good reason.
Did you hear the strays that Joseph was
catching yesterday at the end of the
glintons with Jenny?
no i did not and but i did
uh because like yesterday i was uh i
had open gym i was over there all
day just doing stuff and whatnot but all
of a sudden in the text thread i'm
in with him all of a sudden like
he was getting all kinds of like he
was catching strays in our text group and
i was like what in the shit just
happened they were calling him elf on a
shelf oh
And then they were going to make like
a little gnome logo to go in the
upper corner of the stream yard.
And, uh, dude,
I would be in with a gnome logo.
Like absolutely.
Joseph is the gnome.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Dude, let me explain something to you.
I know I've said this before,
but like me and Joseph never been tall.
We have nothing to compare it to
whatsoever.
So like,
and he's a lot like I am, right?
Not a big deal.
Like I'm not getting any,
we're not getting any bigger.
I don't,
nobody's ever had a growth spurt at forty
nine years old.
That's just not a thing that happened.
So like, it's all right.
Make all your jokes that you want to.
It's cool.
Not a big deal.
Ramirez on Iraq.
If Joseph wasn't born in the right
generation,
he'd be like crying right now in the
corner.
Oh, hundred percent.
Hundred percent.
Corey on the console.
It's funny when I go to these events
and I feel like a giant.
Yeah,
I'm gonna tell you this and Travis Travis
knows because I know what a console is.
I used to have one.
Yeah,
I had a console TV and I had
an Atari twenty six hundred console.
Yep.
I had a stereo console.
Stereo console.
Big time.
It's the best.
Yeah, Trish,
it would have been a very small corner.
Hey,
I don't take up a lot of space.
Short people are the best people.
So anyway,
back on to let's get on to some
CrossFit.
I know that CrossFit is optional on this
show now.
If we get to it,
we get to it.
Seems like I've heard of CrossFit before.
But the team standings aren't out until
three at the very same time because
CrossFit, in its infinite wisdom,
wants to overlap itself,
is releasing the individual workouts at
the very same time.
Let's do all of the things.
Yeah,
let's do everything in the same minute of
the day when you have...
twenty four times sixty minutes to do it
there's the same they're the same people
who decided that putting the online
qualifier for the masters games in the
middle of the of the in-person qualifiers
for the mattress games was a really good
idea so yeah yeah uh crossfit needs a
scheduler badly badly badly um yeah
tristan i forget how tall i am until
i go to comps
Yeah.
Yeah,
Tristan's one of the few people I can
look at almost eye to eye.
Impressive.
I mean,
I get to look up at him.
Yeah.
Jay Burch,
it's always been optional to talk CrossFit
on here.
That's a fact.
Sounds like it's time for Clydesdale Media
to create a second channel.
No.
Nah.
We don't need two channels.
We'll do it all here.
Yeah.
But just the amount of confusion it would
create.
I mean,
Savant still gets confused because he
doesn't know what channel he's on half the
time.
So I don't think it's necessary.
So speaking of Savant,
he had Quinn Robinson on this morning.
Who's an amazing human being.
Well, that's what I want to talk about,
right?
The only reason you watch, well,
I shouldn't say the only reason.
It is very rare that a sport is
created in which it is so fascinating in
its design and development that you watch
it just for what happens on the field.
Sure.
Right.
There are very few of those in the
world.
Where sports that can't do all of that
have to make ground is by storytelling.
Yep.
If you look at American Ninja Warrior,
you're not watching to see people's
athleticism go through a maze or an
obstacle course.
You watch because the guy's wife has MS
and he's doing blah, blah, blah.
Or their kid was born with this and
they're overcoming it.
The guy lives in a van and eats
garbage to sustain himself.
Right.
And because they develop those characters,
year upon year,
you tune in to see how that person
is doing.
Absolutely.
The reason I dove headfirst into F-One is
because I watched Drive to Survive.
I know all the racers.
I know all their backstories.
And I know everything about them.
so now i'm invested when the race is
on because i don't like that guy but
i like this guy and i want him
to crash into the wall and i want
him to take the checkered flag right yep
so what's happened in crossfit is we have
stopped telling those stories or making a
season worth to making a season in which
you can tell stories
it becomes possible to yeah right because
i'm listening to quinn robinson's story
today and it had it all tears laughter
inspiration the whole bit right and now i
so want quinn to qualify this week
Dude, yes, by far.
I went and followed him in the middle
of all that because I hadn't followed him
before and I didn't know,
so I went and looked him up on
Instagram, gave him a follow,
looked at his stuff.
You talk about people being authentic and
being their real selves,
their full selves and whatnot,
or people being an open book,
and that dude...
unapologetic on you know oh well maybe not
you know just presenting all that stuff
the way he was talking about his sister
dude like i had tears in my eyes
like that was ins i want him to
qualify
I want him to qualify.
I want him to do well.
I want him to get there and, like,
and whoop up on some people.
Like, I keep throwing likes out there,
but that was one of the best shows
Savant's done as far as, you know,
interviewing people in quite some time.
He didn't have to work that hard because
Quinn just gave it all up.
Well,
and Quinn gained a lot of fans today.
Great show.
Yes.
Yes.
Great interview with Quinn.
Quinn was awesome.
Guy considered becoming a priest.
Yes.
Like all of that stuff.
And I even put a comment in like
every time I thought I was getting to
know this guy fully,
there was another branch to the river.
There was another thing.
Right.
And it just was spreading everywhere.
And I was more and more invested as
the time went by.
But what CrossFit has done and what they
don't see is because of the design of
the season,
for people who want to do interviews,
it's hard to schedule because this
person's doing four competitions.
And to get them in a time where
they can sit down and have that
conversation is harder and harder.
We famously interviewed...
In twenty twenty two,
one hundred and eleven semifinal athletes.
It was easy because there was a
leaderboard on CrossFit where they got
populated where you were going to go.
As you got the invites to Atlas or
Granite or West Coast or whatever,
it populated.
And what that allowed me to do is
go to that leaderboard and just start
inviting people.
And I knew the order they were going
to go in so I could start with
the earliest, get them out of the way,
and move through the process as the season
went on.
Now you can't do that.
You don't even know who's competing in the
semifinal until they show up.
And still might not then because of
last-minute dropouts and last-minute
pickups, and this one didn't make it here,
so now you've got to try to go
here.
There's so much of that, dude.
Yeah, it's really, this season especially,
I feel like it's super disjointed.
It's so disjointed.
And I hear, like,
I was listening to Saxon on Savan the
other day and him saying, like,
we just need to have the same season
twice.
I agree with that,
but if you copy this season,
we're screwed.
Yeah, maybe not this season twice.
Yeah, maybe not this one.
Maybe go back a couple years and copy
that one.
Find something that is...
I want to say ideal because nothing's
going to be ideal for everybody, right?
Somebody's going to get left out.
Somebody's going to be able to do
something,
something along the lines that they don't.
But you have to find something that works
for the vast majority.
Obviously, you can't, you know,
pigeonhole people into this or that
because some people are going to be,
some people are just not going to work
for it, but that's their problem.
But you need to be able to fix
something for the majority of the people
and where
I'm in total agreement with you on this,
where you don't get seventeen chances to
make the games.
You just don't.
Because that part of it's ridiculous.
Oh, well, I didn't get to go here,
so now I'm going to go here.
I didn't go to here,
so now I'm going to be able to
go here.
I just don't understand that.
Ortega,
who's becoming our resident devil's
advocate, wants to push back.
Jonathan,
it's one thing to research and search and
have a list of athletes you want to
see.
I do that.
I try to know the up and comer
names,
but if I want to interview that person,
my research goes way deeper.
Yeah.
Right.
Because I am going to find out about
this person.
I'm going to be able to have conversation
points with this individual.
So I know what they've been through.
and um and just researching knowing who i
want to root for doesn't do anything for
the sport except for for me yep last
night we talked about how the design of
the season screws over the people doing
your work for you for free the syndicate
crown mayhem's the norcal classics
They can't – like I talked to Wilson,
and he talked about how they couldn't even
get a finalized lineup and having to go
backfill and invite more people and invite
more people.
And the stress that puts on them.
I'm telling you,
if you gave them and said, hey,
you have this region –
Go for it.
They would dive in even harder for you
than they do today.
Not that we dive in harder.
I'm smiling because you used the word
region.
It doesn't have to.
Yeah.
I don't mean it has to go to
regionals.
That's got its own problems.
No, no.
It did have its own problems.
But what you're...
What you're suggesting and what a lot of,
and that's not just you,
other people are suggesting as well,
is you're using,
we would be using the regionals format,
just using these competitions as the
regionals format.
So these people can go here.
These people can go here.
This is where you're going to go.
You live here?
Cool.
You're going to Mayhem.
You live here?
Cool.
You're going to Syndicate.
You live here?
Cool.
You're going to Northern California.
You're going to Legends.
Whatever.
Depending on what part of the country that
you live in.
Boom.
Easy.
Done.
It's over with.
And you take that off of the hands
of the event organizers.
And you get rid of that silly ass
invite shit.
No.
That is the dumbest thing ever.
And then you get to tell the story.
And if you're syndicated or you're mayhem
and you know who your lineup is,
you can promote your own event.
You could have your own media start
telling the stories before people get
there.
Before you ever get there.
You don't have to...
and then have to show up at every
single event to try to tell people tell
stories because you can have your own
people there or whoever crossfit that's
that's another well i'm just saying like
you can you can you can bring in
scott weiser to go to syndicate and hey
These are the people that's coming.
I'm going to follow these people.
Cool.
These are, these are my athletes.
You want to tell these stories.
This is where you tell your story.
I'm going to have you here doing this
and the entire weekend.
Awesome.
And that takes another layer off of them,
honestly,
to try to have somebody from CrossFit
media, which they still would do,
I'm sure, but it's less,
it's less off of them.
Yeah.
I, uh, yeah,
I think you and I are definitely in
agreement.
Um,
did watch and we talked about this last
night a little bit the tyler watkins seth
jump ship debate on the spin oh i
didn't get to see that i should apparently
um i think they thought they were on
different sides and as they talked they
actually came closer to the middle than
they initially thought um
Tyler does that a lot.
Tyler has like really super strong
opinions.
And then when he gets into it and
starts talking that he thinks are way
different than everybody else's and he
starts talking to people and he's like,
Oh yeah, no.
Where Seth let Tyler go first and Tyler
was going boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And Seth's like,
I think we're closer than you think we
are.
And then Seth just with,
he's so articulate, um,
pointed out different things.
Um,
It's a pretty good watch,
but I think a lot of us ingrained
in the everyday of this sport feel the
same way.
Oh, yeah.
We all feel what Daniel is typing, right?
Regional model is the only solution with
tiny tweaks.
Right.
Would this format have been fine if they
didn't allow invites?
Perhaps not perfect,
but fine enough to repeat.
I like the idea of having the top
people at the games.
I think you get the top people at
the games regardless of one and done or
not.
And no,
you could not do it without the invites
because the time between quarterfinals and
the first semifinal was too short to do
invites based on the season.
Yeah, I mean,
quarterfinals ended and Mayhem was, what,
two weeks later?
That's not enough time.
Yeah, it was less than a month.
I know that.
Yeah, it was either two or three weeks,
which is not enough time.
Right.
It just wouldn't work.
And this whole thing about giving people
multiple choices to get the best person
there,
why weren't you good enough to win on
your first shot?
You know,
I'll take my Chicago Bears as an example.
It is believed that they are in one
of the two best divisions in the league
because the Packers, the Vikings,
and the Lions are all good too.
That's the hand they're dealt.
They don't get to say, okay,
for this season,
because it's better for us,
we're going to go compete in the NFC
South.
God bless them.
They'd wipe the floor with everybody.
Right.
You just don't get to do that in
sport.
No, it's just not a thing.
Right.
The NBA playoffs,
everybody said the West is going to be
tougher to get out of.
The West is going to be tougher to
get out of.
It doesn't mean San Antonio gets to go,
well, okay, for this season,
because it's better for me,
I'm going to go play in the East.
Yeah.
That just doesn't happen in sport.
So for like all this,
like we got to be fair and got
to get the best.
No.
The best storylines ever in this sport
were when someone failed and came back the
next year and kicked ass.
Or when somebody kicked ass and came back
the next year and failed.
Both of those things were amazing stories.
Sam Briggs wins the games and can't
handstand walk.
And she made it back again.
Right.
Catherine couldn't climb a rope.
Comes back and wins the game twice.
Games twice.
Those are the great storylines.
You go all the way back to Rich
Fronin not being able to climb a rope.
I think when you give multiple options for
people to get somewhere,
it just makes it vanilla.
It waters it down.
It just makes it vanilla.
Absolutely.
I don't want vanilla.
No, it waters it down.
It waters down.
It's like, oh, okay, well,
he didn't get there.
So now he's going to come here.
Oh, well, he didn't get there.
And now he's going to come because there's
some people that have on their third
thing, which is a lot.
Joseph says,
Katrin should have only won one.
See, that's the problem, Joseph.
We don't hand out championships.
You earn it on the floor or you
don't with the rules that you are given.
I didn't.
She's the reason why we have minimum work
requirements now.
I don't disagree with that,
but she abided by the rules at the
time.
Absolutely.
No,
she scored the most points of any athlete.
She played the game.
I know exactly what he's talking about and
it drives me bananas too,
but she played the game and she is
now the reason we have minimum work
requirements.
Okay, they made a rule adjustment,
but she won by the rules of that.
And listen,
I am not the biggest Katrin fan.
No, no,
I'm not taking anything away from her as
far as that's concerned.
I just don't like it.
Like, yeah, she played by the rules.
She did exactly what she was supposed to
do, and she won.
Good for her.
The next year,
she was not going to be able to
do that.
And she won again.
So, congratulations.
It's just annoying to me that, like,
And maybe because I wouldn't, I just, my,
I'm not built that way or whatnot,
but like,
there's no way I'm just gonna go, well,
I have enough points.
I'm not even,
I'm just not even gonna try in that
way.
I can just go on to the next
thing and then do really good at that.
And then I'll probably still win.
Like,
I'm still gonna go out there and try
to do whatever it is I can do.
Maybe that makes me naive or stupid,
but like,
I can't see myself doing that kind of
stuff.
That's a whole nother tangent.
Sorry.
Yeah.
it's dropping me bananas that's what this
show this show should be called the
tangent show it is never a straight line
no um nfc south gets a spot even
with sub-five hundred record yes and then
you know the term any given sunday was
derived because then once you get there
Yeah,
you got in with a seven and nine
record, but if you beat the next guy,
you still get to move on.
Yeah.
Yes, I think Vicky just read my mind.
The test on that day,
if I get my degree because the test
had harder questions versus the person
last year in the same program got an
easier test, doesn't matter.
That's the beauty of sport.
Yep.
It's the beauty of sports.
Any given Sunday,
anybody can win any given year.
Anybody can win whatever the test is,
right?
Whether you're playing in a snow storm in
the middle of January or playing in a
dome, it doesn't matter.
You have to,
you were presented with that test that
day, the rat run pyre feed or something.
No, I was trying to blow my nose.
I didn't want to hit the mic.
News on WFP Master.
I am not into WFP yet, Larry.
I got to get through semifinals first.
Yeah.
So anyway,
it goes back to the whole thing is
storytelling.
And Quinn's story was awesome.
If you didn't get to see that,
please go check out Savan's show this
morning.
It was phenomenal.
Quinn is a phenomenal human.
And gosh,
I want him to win so bad this
weekend now.
Or at least finish top seven.
I just want to see him at the
games.
Whatever that ends up looking at.
I just want him to see his sister
in Madison.
Yeah.
He lives a whole lot of life for
not being very old as of yet and
deserves a shot.
So I say deserves a shot.
Everybody says that,
but he's an amazing human being.
So I'm pulling for him for sure.
Ortega is confident he's going to the
games.
I like it.
I like where your head's at, John.
I'm not so confident that he's going to
the games.
I just want him to go.
We'll find out.
I mean,
that lineup of people going this weekend
are pipe hitters, man.
Colton, Spencer, him, Yona.
Justin.
Justin.
I mean, I'll give you his top seven.
I have three that are definites,
and after that, I don't.
Yeah, no.
My three definites are Justin, Colton,
Yona.
Yeah.
And then the rest of it is a
roll the dice.
Or pick a name.
Spencer's great online.
And Spencer's great at classic CrossFit.
And when you're doing online,
it's pretty much classic CrossFit.
Generally.
So I put him in a very high
likelihood.
And then the next three,
put them all in a hat.
pipe hitters or pipe fitters birds
whatever same thing pipe hitters uh nate i
i don't have him guaranteed i would like
to see it i went i'd like to
see it and i saw what you meant
about him like just laying on the floor
in the hallway good night dude
I worry about his emotional maturity.
How old is Nate?
Nineteen?
Twenty?
I don't even know.
He's young.
I know he's young.
I like him.
I want him to do well.
I just don't want him to do well.
But there's only so many spots.
And there's even less spots this year
because they're only taking twenty.
Because it's his twenty year anniversary.
So...
Uh, taller,
heavier athletes typically have a harder
time online.
Ask me how I know.
That's why I said,
Spencer has a good shot.
Carolyn made a great point last night that
these online semis,
if you're part of a camp,
it is such a huge advantage because you
have people that can test workouts for
you.
You have people that can be rabbits for
you.
And it is such a huge advantage.
And so you kind of have to look
at that too.
And when I heard Saxon say he was
going to test the workouts for Spencer,
I was like, damn,
you have someone that's probably even a
little bit better than you to test the
workouts and to tell you how it feels,
and it's your twin brother.
I cannot fathom a more ideal situation.
Like I can't.
So let me get this straight.
Your twin brother who's been doing
CrossFit the exact same amount of time
that you have and is your twin brother
who is already qualified,
has nothing else to do this weekend,
can help you out by testing these workouts
for you.
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Jacob says,
I'm curious to know if the hype Castro
has about these games and the general poor
feedback from the opening quarterfinals
will bleed into this year's semis and they
become the hardest yet.
I think you believe Castro is affected by
the comments more than I do.
I don't think he gives two shits.
Not even one.
He reads that stuff,
reads those comments and whatnot,
and he laughs about it,
and then as soon as he says whatever
he's got to say about it,
it's out of his brain and gone,
and he's on to the next thing.
If the Indy workouts are similar to team
semi-workouts, they'll be dumb,
but whatever.
there's so much bitching about that.
And I hate it.
I hate it.
Because when you're going online,
you are very,
your palate is much more limited than it
is at an in person competition.
Yeah.
And why if this is ever going to
survive,
we have to find a way to keep
in person competition,
in person competitions earlier in the
season as a part of that season.
Got to make them profitable.
But everybody wants to say that Dave is
repeating this and repeating that.
There's only so many things you can do.
There are so many things you can't judge
well online.
There are so many things you can't video
online.
And it takes away all of that from
his palate.
Teams ran last year for online.
Do y'all remember that?
Y'all remember how well that went over?
I do.
I wasn't even judge them because I watched
the mom company team run and like they
did everything they could to make sure
that if somebody asked for the video,
we're going to have video from all
possible angles of them actually running.
Um,
but a lot of teams did and just
didn't care.
Uh, here's the question.
Sure.
He care.
No.
No.
I don't know.
Listen,
sport is about you are presented with a
test and you take it on and you
win or you lose.
He can't care.
Look,
if Castro started giving a damn about the
eight hundred and eighty five million
people on the planet who were like,
fire Dave Castro, Castro stupid man,
That jet black hair of his would be
full white by now,
and he's my age if he were to
let himself care.
He cannot listen to outside voices.
He cannot listen to outside stuff like
that because he has this vision in his
brain that he works on all year long
to make the games whatever they are going
to end up being.
So no, he should not care.
She'll not care.
Isn't the listening to the peanut gallery
part of the reason we're even in the
position we are now?
Yes.
Yes.
To a degree.
To a degree.
I think that they...
Every once in a while,
they'll listen to said peanut gallery
because the peanut gallery actually has a
good idea,
and then they'll take that good idea,
and they will...
morph it change it make it a not
great idea and then kind of add that
part of it in in there every once
in a while they do listen to the
peanut gallery and we get a good thing
good good result out of it but nine
times out of ten it does not end
well because they don't listen to the
right part of the peanut gallery squeaky
obvious degrees the the the peanut gallery
they're listening to are the vocal
minority correct and that's the problem
No, Larry,
because we don't know any better.
No.
No.
There are so many reasons butts aren't in
the seats other than the programming.
I would say eight hundred dollar a seat
tickets to the games is one of the
main reasons why butts aren't in the
seats.
I'm not spending eight hundred dollars to
go to the games.
I haven't not to go not to go
watch.
That's insane.
Not having a season that is worth
following or understanding or whatever is
a reason butts aren't in the seats.
Not knowing who's going to show up at
an event is why butts aren't in the
seats.
And yes,
I know the game started in California,
but California is freaking expensive.
And only getting more so.
So being able to afford the hotels along
with those eight hundred dollar seats and
the transportation to and from is
ridiculous.
Yep.
Anyway.
Well.
We've got a lot going on today.
We've got the new workouts coming out for
the individual semis.
We've got the results for the teams and
their leaderboard to go live both at three
o'clock Eastern this afternoon,
noon Pacific, and for Corey, two-ish.
Because in Central, they just ish it all.
Hey, bro.
It's the largest, I should say.
time zone and the only one that's
important.
I don't know if it's actually the largest.
I just made that up,
but I feel like it is.
Okay, we'll agree to disagree on that one.
But with that,
I'm going to get back to work.
It's time for you knuckleheads to get back
to work as well.
And we'll be back tomorrow when we know
some of the answers to all this.
We'll be able to discuss all of this
instead of a bunch of hypotheticals.
And we'll do all that tomorrow on Lunch
with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
room to jazz me up.
I'm already jazzy.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
Talking reps realize strength in the
battle.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
Midday motivation every time we press
call.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.