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what's going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the
crew uh we call it the
round table but pretty much
now it's just lunch every
thursday with the crew uh
cat is having a sofa
delivered and she'll be
joining us whenever that
gets completed what was
that charlie I said I like
that lunch with the crew
yeah it's a little break in
my day uh found out today I
dropped the ball on a project um
but I've been given a lot of
projects in the last three
weeks and yeah.
Aren't you doing like four
people's jobs at once?
I'm doing a lot this last couple of weeks,
man.
It's been rough.
It's been rough.
But the funny thing is the
thing I was supposed to
have done like two weeks ago,
we didn't even get part of
it fixed until last week on
another project.
So I couldn't have done it anyway.
There you go.
You can't take the blame for that.
We'll have a two o'clock
meeting to discuss it,
so we'll see how that goes.
Have you gone to Vegas yet?
I did last week.
How was that?
Pretty boring.
I barely saw Vegas.
I was in a conference room
the entire time in the Palms,
which is not on the Strip,
so there's that also.
It is not.
And I feel like I was in the
plane longer than I was
actually in Vegas.
Wow.
Did they close early every
night or something?
Just kidding.
Might as well have.
Yeah.
I hate those business trips.
I spent a week in Minnesota
where I never left the
hotel because of their tube structure.
To get to the conference,
I went through the tube to
get to the conference,
and I never went outside.
I did not want to go outside
because it was winter in Minnesota,
but I never did go outside
the entire time I was there
other than to get the cab
to the airport when I was done.
Yeah, that's basically what was with me.
I was at the palms
conferences in the palms
stayed in the palms.
Yeah,
those off-strip places like where
they held the West Regional or whatever,
Sanctional, I don't know.
It was a semifinal.
Yeah.
In West Coast Classic, they were, whatever,
they had it in the Orleans,
and it was off the strip.
And you might as well be in
Timbuktu because it's forever.
You need to rent a car or
something just to get to anything.
right that's what I said we
could have had this in
idaho and been the same
save their body money yeah
get all excited do you have
a conference in vegas and
then yeah I didn't lose any
money so there's that that
helps true there you go
well cat and I when we were
there for that west coast
classic we made it to the
strip one night we went to
the buttery bros beach or
rooftop oh yeah yeah I remember that
And then we went to bet in
that hotel and the minimum
bets were so high.
We were like,
now let's go back to the
Orleans and we can bet for two bucks.
We can play left hand, right hand.
Yeah.
There you go.
And still only be about a
tenth of what the minimum
ham was where we're at.
So, so yeah.
Yeah.
This cheap ass doesn't
probably can't afford this trip anyway.
Right.
Right.
Well,
we have the Rogue Invitational coming
up this weekend.
And I want to say, like,
whoever is doing their
Instagram social media
marketing is killing it.
If you have not been
following it this week,
they're doing all these
rapid-fire questions with...
the athletes uh danielle
brandon and ariel lowen
have one together where
it's kind of a competition
of rapid fire questions uh
sydney and brooke wells do
it like a twin contest noah
chandler and noah chandler
noah olsen and chandler
smith do like a best
friends quiz as like but it's
So they're doing like an awesome job.
Not,
not to mention just showing like the
athletes showing up, getting their kilts,
uh, doing the drive, the golf simulator,
um, and trying to outdrive everybody.
And I found it funny.
Um,
I'm going to share my screen for a
couple of things.
Uh, yeah, thanks man.
Noah Chandler does sound right.
Doesn't it?
Uh,
There's a couple of cool things here.
One is the official beer of
the Rogue Invitational is BrewDog.
And an interesting tidbit
that I was telling Charlie
before we went on the air
is the only American
brewery of BrewDog is here in Columbus.
It's actually south of the city.
And they actually have a dog
hotel with a dog park.
It's a dog-friendly brewery.
It's pretty cool.
But its origins are in Scotland.
That's interesting.
And they picked Ohio.
See?
And they picked Ohio.
Yep.
It's a place to be.
So that's one little
interesting tidbit that I
found fascinating.
But this is what I wanted to
ask Charlie about, and you, the audience,
as well.
Pat Vellner is asked to put
together The Perfect Athlete.
And I'm going to play that,
and then I want to get your
impressions or your...
your thoughts on what you
would build with this concept, so.
Is this the CrossFit athlete?
I'll take Jeff Adler's endurance.
Guima Heros' weightlifting.
BKG's gymnastics.
I would take my athletics.
I'll give Brent intelligence.
I could take mine,
but I'll give him something.
I'll keep my personality.
Ooh, who's got good style?
Chandler Smith, Chandler Smith style.
We're gonna build the
perfect CrossFit athlete.
I'll take Jeff Adler's endurance,
Guima Haros' weightlifting,
BKG's gymnastics.
So endurance, weightlifting, gymnastics,
athleticism, intelligence, personality,
and style.
Hmm.
And he did the men,
so we'll start with the men.
Hmm.
Rich Froning.
Next question.
You're saying Rich Froning
is the perfect CrossFit athlete?
Listen, the guy doesn't lose.
What do you want from him?
He walked on the triple three.
Yeah.
But he made up for that.
He got better at running.
I'm going to have to agree
with Maharis because his
weightlifting is ridiculous.
So, okay, that's the given.
Let's go to endurance.
Let's go through this step by step.
Okay.
He picked Jeff Adler for endurance.
I'll take James Sprague.
You're going to take James Sprague.
Add a little new life to this.
Jody, your troning comment.
I'm going to say.
um oh who was no I can't
think of his name we saw
him at the hotel he was had
he had a couple yonakoski
yonakoski so you got
yonakoski's endurance I
have james sprague we both
have gima heroes for
weightlifting yep
gymnastics I'm gonna say no
That's who I was going to say.
So we match up on that one.
Kind of take no Olsen's gymnastics.
Athleticism?
Athleticism, I'm going to say.
I think he's a freak athlete.
Is it all present?
I don't think there are any rules,
but sure, present.
Okay.
I'm taking Jason Hopper, just so you know.
Hopper?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm going to say my guy, Marquand.
Okay.
Going deep, deep track.
Hey, college football athlete.
And he'll tell you he
actually played where Hopper didn't.
Correct.
And he is correct.
So then we go to personality?
Intelligence.
The professor.
It's got to be.
Yeah, I'll go Fikowski.
He's retiring.
We'll give him one on the way out.
Yeah.
And then personality.
Personality.
Personality's got to be Chandler.
I got to go Pat.
Pat's really freaking funny.
And he brings a lot to the table.
And then style.
James Newberry.
Okay.
Shoot.
I'm not a fashionista by any
stretch of the means, but style,
I will go Con Porter.
Basically the same person.
Yep.
Yeah.
I like bridge.
See bridges.
Yes.
Bridges would be bridges.
My all time favorite.
So yeah.
So let's, let's do the women.
So women endurance.
or are you just gonna say
tia toomey for the whole
thing I mean I would
because she ever lost at
anything um I might oh
that's a good one and we
can't say sam so because
we're not taking we're
taking current people I
mean is she still competing
No, she's not.
Are we sure?
She didn't compete last season,
so we're counting her out.
We can't use somebody twice.
I didn't say that,
but we're just starting with women.
We haven't used any.
I know it.
I like Emma Lawson,
but I might need her later.
I take Emily Rolfe.
Endurance.
Endurance.
Weightlifting.
Weightlifting is Corvette.
I take Spiegel.
Over Corvette?
Yep.
Okay.
I mean,
we're not talking about handstand
push-ups.
We're talking about weightlifting.
We're talking about weightlifting.
Okay.
Yep.
Then we talk about gymnastics.
Okay.
is handstand walks
considered gymnastic move
you know talking all rig
stuff gymnastics is
handstand walks handstand
push-ups there's nobody
better than her I'm gonna
take his hand she's got the
upper body pulling stuff like the
chest to bar, rope climb, muscle up.
Danielle's really good at
muscle ups though.
Yes.
And then we go to, what was it?
Athleticism.
Athleticism.
I'm going to take Rolf on there.
I'm going to take Paige Domenza.
Although I want to say Fi too.
Fi's pretty athletic.
I'm going to go Emily.
Yeah, I'm sticking with Zemenza.
The way she did the duel last year,
the over-under the log,
her and Danny Spiegel both
really impressed me with
their athleticism.
Then we go to Intelligence.
I'm going to say Tia because
I haven't used her yet.
Yeah, I'll go to you.
And then personality.
Ooh.
Personality.
Ooh.
It was a good time.
Fee's a good time.
I'll use fee.
It's a personality.
I'll take Ariel.
I knew you were going to do that.
And then style.
Style.
Style.
Okay.
I'll go Danny Spiegel there.
I'll go Daniel Brandon there.
There you go.
I wouldn't use her,
but I can use her again.
Corey says,
Guy's weightlifting is a given.
Ricky's endurance, actually a great pick.
Pepper's athleticism.
Noah's gymnastics.
Luckett's brain.
Bridge's personality.
Dancer's style.
He can't say Luckett's brain.
That's not fair.
That's just,
it's because there's a connection.
That's a Homer pick.
Yeah.
Homer pick.
It's because he makes you fit.
It actually is a pretty good pick.
It's a Homer pick.
It is.
He does know what he's doing.
Yeah.
I enjoy talking to Brandon.
He, uh, he knows a lot about the sport.
His workouts are good.
If I actually did them,
I'd probably be fit.
Yeah.
So it starts in less than
twenty four hours.
we have the uh what do they
call that the iron games
premiere package you can
pay twenty five bucks get
whatever camera angle you
want you get to direct it
the show yourself uh you
get the alternate broadcast
um that's uh like the
tailgate party where they
bring in special guests um
and they're they said
they're adding a lot more
features this year
Last year it was worth the
twenty five bucks.
I had I had like four
screens running all at one time.
It was awesome.
And.
Yeah, super,
super stoked to use that again this year.
What can you can you watch
it without the package?
Yes,
there's a free live stream on YouTube.
Yep.
Yep.
Do you think they will honor
Brent in any some way?
Is he a Rogue athlete?
I doubt they do.
So,
Carrie Pierce did her final competition
at Rogue.
She did take the shoes off,
put them on the finishing
mat on the last event, and walked away.
Will Brent do that?
I don't know.
He doesn't seem to be that kind of guy,
but
But Carrie was the, you could say,
the greatest U.S.
athlete at that point in time.
You could say that.
I wouldn't, but you could.
Well,
who nobody's ranked higher than her
in any event.
uh julie foucher is the
greatest american athlete
that's a whole I think he
meant at the time at the
time she was no I know what
he meant I'm I'm answering
his question I've known him
for a long time I know what
he's trying to do in your
buttons I know I can't wait
I'm are you gonna wake up
at like two a.m to start watching
We don't have to get up that early.
It's five a.m., I think, on Saturday.
It's seven thirty a.m.
on Friday.
Oh, not too bad.
OK, good.
I'll play it at the gym then.
You can watch it during the
seven forty five class.
Yeah,
so I think it's it's not the nice
thing is it's we're done
with the day and then we
can go do stuff with like our family.
Yeah, true.
Like it'll be done by one or
two o'clock in the afternoon.
And then we can go about
watching college football
or whatever we want to do
the rest of the day.
Yeah.
So Saturday I'm going to have to,
I'm going to a local
competition to just visit
friends and things.
So I won't be able to watch that live.
I'll have to catch up with
that on Saturday afternoon,
but I have no other plans this weekend.
So I'll be good.
Are you competing?
No, no.
This is the one that Colleen
and I did for like three
years in a row though.
And the first year we competed,
against women that were
definitely taking PEDs and
we got second place.
And then we won the next two
subsequent years.
That was probably back in like,
twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one.
So if we were going back,
we would be trying to defend our title.
But she had shoulder surgery
a couple of months ago and
I'm clearly not in competition.
You know how you get
competition real quick.
I know I got to start just working out.
Oh, oh, and that too.
Yeah.
Well, I'm already, I'm already doing that.
So that part,
that's the reason why I'm not
completely falling off with
my physique is because I'm
doing other things.
But yeah.
Yeah.
Charlie just shows up at
competitions prepared or not.
Like he doesn't even care.
What are you going to do?
Best videos ever.
I have to get into that
mindset of being able to do a competition,
knowing that I'm not going
to win and not like not trying to win.
But I have a hard,
really hard time doing that.
Oh, I'm mentally trying to win.
Yeah.
But I'm like,
I'm like pissed off if I'm not winning,
you know what I mean?
Like I'm expecting myself to
win a hundred thousand
percent when I compete.
I think I'm to the point in
my life where I'm never
going to compete again.
Not even in like the fun division,
not even in like the.
We're supposed to be doing a
four of us supposed to be doing a comp.
Yeah.
I still, I still would love to do that.
That would be really fun.
If I were to do one, it would be for fun.
But if it was a team competition, I,
I can't do those for fun.
I just can't.
Like,
I feel like I would let somebody down
and then I would probably
end up throwing up behind
the building and.
my back would need traction
and six more procedures.
And I think that's it.
Like,
like I've learned that in my workout now,
I'm finally to the point
where mentally I'm in a
place where I'm okay with
doing what I'm capable of
in that moment and deciding that day,
like, okay, I'm having a good day,
a good back day.
I can add some intensity and,
Or, hey, this is not a great day for me.
Just going to move through the process.
And like with a competition,
you have to kind of shut all that off.
And I just don't think my
body can handle that anymore.
Maybe if I get a little bit
smaller than I am today,
which I'm getting smaller every day,
that'll go away.
But at this point,
like I finally found what's
working for me and I'm able
to show up every day.
That's important, right?
If you can just be
consistent and maintain that consistency,
that's where I'm at right now.
I'm trying to get to that
consistency point.
Where it took me years to
shut off the competition part and,
and I just was getting hurt
nickel and dimed all the
time to where I just
couldn't make it back the next day.
Yeah, that's frustrating.
What couch you got?
I just got a little like
sage green leather loveseat, actually.
I am new slash.
I am in a one bedroom apartment.
Yes.
As of a week ago.
So you see this live on the air.
My background is different.
I thought I told you guys
until you guys did not tell us.
Sorry.
I thought we were friends.
I'm in another city, like, well,
the same city I grew up in, but, like,
I'm about forty-five
minutes away from where I
used to live in Maryland,
and I am by myself in a
one-bedroom apartment.
It's very noisy, and it's very,
very small.
Huge adjustment for me.
This is too early in the
podcast to be dropping stuff like this.
Yes, no dogs live with me.
Very sad.
I am getting Jojo's coming
to visit me this weekend though.
Cause Kristen and his
girlfriend are going away
for the weekend.
So I'm picking up Jojo in a
couple hours and I'm going
to sneak her in here for a few days.
So that'll be fun.
I'm gonna let her jump all
over the furniture and be a dog.
Very excited.
Okay.
Well, is your apartment pet friendly?
People are allowed to own pets here.
Yes.
If you pay a pet deposit and
do all the things.
So I'm going to,
if she ends up becoming
like a regular visitor,
I will pay the pet deposit
and sign the addendum or whatever,
but if I can just.
But my question was how long
before you get another dog?
I don't know.
I think I'm going to wait
until I get a proper yard
and things like that.
I'm not a big fan of having.
dogs in apartments.
It's really tough to do
unless I find some really
awesome trails around here
that I can take said dog to off leash,
like on a regular basis.
But I think for now,
I'm just going to have to
have a visiting dog every
once in a while.
Three months is the over under.
You think?
Yeah, I don't know.
I will take the under on that.
I'll take the under on that too.
Well, like it was summer for sure.
I've traveled with you.
I can't go five feet without
seeing and loving on a dog.
I know.
Right.
I know we talk about your,
your dog addiction.
Right.
Like until you see it, it is real.
Yeah.
Well,
there are some dogs that live in my
complex, so maybe I could just be like,
you know,
auntie cat to lots of different dogs,
but not have the
responsibility of having to feed them,
pay for them,
pay for their vet visits and
brush them and vacuum after them.
Auntie cats are making me laugh.
It can be auntie cat to a dog.
Yeah.
We'll see.
We'll see what happens.
My big purchase lately was I
got this big giant wagon to
like wheel my groceries and
stuff because I'm on the third floor.
And on Friday,
I got twenty seven thousand
steps because I was like
moving stuff from my car to
the apartment and then back
down to the apartment and
then back up to the car.
And this girl in the parking
lot had a wagon.
I was like, oh, you got the right idea.
And she's like, oh, yeah, Amazon,
you have to get one.
So I got one.
So now I'm
Auntie cat, the dog wagon lady.
Do you have an elevator?
Yeah, there's an elevator.
Okay.
I was going to say like
wagons only good to the steps and then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, it's one of those.
It's like an apartment.
Um,
it's one of those retail slash
apartments.
So retail on the first floor
and then apartment five
floors of apartments on top.
It's like mixed use space.
So I'm on top of El Camino, which is a, um,
uh, Mexican restaurant.
But my window is also right
outside the dumpster and
the loading zone for said restaurant.
And so every day, all day,
there are trucks backing up
and dumpsters being unloaded.
And it's very, very noisy.
And I work here all day.
So I used to live in an
apartment in college that
was over the dumpster.
I would just open the window
and toss my trash right
into the dumpster.
That's a good idea.
Walk it all the way down and around.
Cause it was in the back of the building.
So I had to walk like the
whole way to the front of the building,
down the steps to get out.
And then I would have to
walk all the way around to the back.
And I would just open my
window and right into the dumpster.
That is an interesting strategy.
I'm luckily very close to
the trash chute on my floor
and the stairs.
So yeah.
when I moved out I chucked a
TV in there too from the
window the thing is it's
not I don't think that well
A those dumpsters have
covers on them and B
they're for the Mexican
restaurant they're not for
me so there'd be lots of
problems always leave the
covers open yeah well I
hope not because that's not
what I want to see on my
deck on my balcony yeah
just telling you in the
heat of the summer that
gets a good waft I'm sure I can't wait
Short-term, guys.
This is a nine-month lease,
so we're just making moves
and seeing what's going to happen next.
So stay tuned.
Okay.
Well,
Charlotte and I were talking about
the perfect CrossFit athlete.
We gave ours,
and Corey is giving his female.
Kara Saunders, weightlifting.
Phoebe East, gymnastics.
Tia's, athleticism.
Emily Rolfe, endurance.
Ariel's, brain.
Haley Adams, style.
And Alexis Johnson, personality.
So this stems from an
interview that Rogue did
with Pat Vellner.
And he put together his,
which was Adler's endurance,
Guy's weightlifting, BKG's gymnastics,
his athleticism, Brent's brain.
And then he finished with
Chandler's style and his own personality.
Oh, cool.
That's personality.
I love it.
Um,
and this is based on who's at rogue or
this is just in general.
No current current athletes.
Got it.
Okay.
Are you wanting me to give,
give you mine right off the
top of my head?
If you can, if not, we can move on.
Um, boys first boys first, uh,
weightlifting Adler.
Gymnastics.
Who's really good at gymnastics?
Belner.
Athletics.
Yeah.
Athleticism.
Ricky.
Endurance.
Hmm.
I don't know who's really
good at endurance.
I said Sprague.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I was gonna say, hollow, justy.
Hello.
Hello.
I got it.
One that yellow stuff.
Brent's brain, obviously,
style and personality.
The boys are kind of playing.
I mean, well,
a style I'll go with down pepper.
And personality, Colton Mertens.
Colton Mertens.
He was in my top three for sure.
Yeah.
I love the new smack talk Colton.
He'd run a heel now.
Oh yeah.
I think,
but he'll never be a heel because
everybody,
it's like when the rock was a heel,
right?
Stone cold.
Yeah.
Everybody loved him.
We need a real true heel.
car with Emily's speed and endurance.
Yeah.
I don't want to do the
ladies cause I'm brain dead right now,
but I would pick, um,
I don't know that I picked
Danielle for gymnastics,
but I guess would either be
her or Alexis rap, uh, um, Alex Kazan.
I went with Alex,
but I had like Emma
Lawson's gymnastics are amazing.
There's a lot to choose from there.
Aerials are good.
I would say aerials
athleticism just in general.
I said her personality.
So I tried not to use that too.
Yeah.
Cool.
Emily's endurance.
That's pretty well.
We said T is athleticism, right?
And that what we said.
She has intelligence.
Intelligence.
Yeah.
I mean, she could qualify for all those.
Correct.
I would say for personality,
like I wish Sarah Sigmund's
daughter was still in the
mix because she was always
so bubbly and fun.
Yeah.
It was a fun little thing.
I just think Rogue has done
such an amazing job
marketing this week on
their Instagram with all of
the interviews they're
having with the pairs doing
the competitions,
showing the golf simulator, the kilts.
I love all the questions
when they show them the
logos of like different
rugby teams and stuff.
Like what's the team name?
Yeah.
What was Dallin's one?
Those are the angry flowers.
Really good.
I'm really excited for this weekend.
Just looking through their
stuff right now.
We still don't know about
Event Six or Event Ninth?
We do not know.
I don't think we'll know
until the weekend.
I think that's going to be a
pop-up surprise.
Last night on The Spin,
they did announce some of the details.
They did?
Yeah.
So the sandbag run is the first four,
four hundreds are with a ruck.
The rest are without.
And then it is every version
of a rogue sandbag has to
be picked up and taken on
the run or on the sandbag carry,
whatever that is.
You can choose which one first to last.
So it's going to be a cool
strategic thing.
I like that.
They were picking every event,
and so I got a little tired.
I was watching it going to sleep.
Did we get details on the
wall walk complex?
Do we know what that is?
I think it's two strict
handstand push-ups.
So it's wall walk,
two strict handstand push-ups,
and that's the complex.
That'll get spicy.
It ends up being a lot of
strict handstand push-ups
at the end of the day.
Mm-hmm.
I guess I could go to the
events and I did like,
I did like killer's
prediction of the event six
being some kind of like the
dinty stone deadlift or
something like that.
It's going to be some odd object.
I feel like, yeah, I,
they don't have the events on the page.
Now it must've been a story.
That's kind of a bummer.
Here are the Denny stones,
if you don't know what they are.
Yeah,
I think those are going to come into
play.
They've been used in Strong
Man and Strong Woman for a lot.
But this talks about the history of them.
they're used at the Arnold
last year as well.
So I can't believe they
don't have the workouts.
That's crazy.
Scott, how's your football team doing?
I don't want to talk about.
Which one?
Both of them?
I was talking about the Bears,
but I don't do college football.
It's too much.
Too much for me to pay attention to.
They are not doing well.
Is there a football game tonight?
Yep.
Ravens-Bengals.
Pretty good game.
Probably first one to forty wins.
A whole lot of defense happening.
Should be up and down the field tonight.
Yeah.
Found a new podcast I like.
What's that?
When I need to decompress for everything,
it's called Where Everybody
Knows Your Name.
And it's Ted Danson and
Woody Harrelson interviewing people.
Interesting.
I love it.
It's funny because the logo
actually says like with Ted
Danson and Woody Harrelson sometimes.
Like the latest episode with Martin Short,
it's just Ted Danson.
That's just like our podcast
with Charlie sometimes.
Scott, Kat, Amy, and sometimes Charlie.
And sometimes.
Sometimes Charlie.
Well,
I don't know if Kat can talk much
these days either.
Well, this is true.
I know.
Well, I mean, now that I'm,
now that I have a place and
a thing and I did get
scheduled every other Thursday,
a recurring meeting at work.
So I will be every other a
hundred percent not on if it stays,
if we stay with Thursdays.
So, yeah.
And they pay me, so I can't,
I can't not do that.
Yeah, I become so busy at work.
I was telling Charlie when we first got on,
like I dropped the ball on a project,
but they've been handing me
so many projects lately.
Like it's like how many
balls can you spin before balls?
So I have a meeting at two
o'clock today to discuss.
Actually, I lied.
So next week, I'm good.
The week after that, I'm good.
The first day that I'm not
good is the twenty eighth,
which I'm pretty sure is
Thanksgiving Day.
So.
It is.
We probably won't do a
Thanksgiving Day show.
Yeah, I know,
but I probably won't have
that meeting either is what
I'm kind of getting at.
I would hope not.
You might have to renegotiate.
If you have that meeting,
you may need to renegotiate.
They don't pay me enough that much.
No.
Any big Thanksgiving plans
now that you're out on your own?
I don't know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to try to get a
kid or two to come visit me at least.
I don't have a dining room.
So here, Corey,
what Corey will be there in
the evening here.
Okay.
Oh yeah.
You got that.
She's got a splitter time now.
I think Braden said he was
going to go to his
girlfriends in Georgia.
So he might not even come home.
He didn't come home last
year for Thanksgiving.
So I'm kind of used to that.
And Eliana will be around.
So she'll,
she'll probably have spent time
with her dad and spend time with me.
And we're all so close.
So yeah.
Yeah.
I saw something on somebody
was talking about, like,
I'm trying not to put a
whole lot of pressure on holidays.
This,
this should go around just because
things are weird.
And, um, somebody was saying like,
if you have good
relationships with your
kids and your parents and everything else,
like you don't have to put
so much emphasis on the holiday.
Like,
cause the holiday is not the one time
that you get together.
Like if you're getting
together regularly anyway,
then who cares if you don't
see them on that day, you know?
So I'm kind of going with that.
Yeah.
And I do.
I spend a lot of time with my family.
For a long time.
So we have the dilemma that
Julie has to have surgery in January.
And every day the pain gets
worse on her knees.
And so she made the
announcement that she
wasn't coming home for Christmas.
And to her face, everybody was like,
that's fine.
We understand.
And then when she left
Pennsylvania this last weekend,
then everybody behind her back was like,
I can't believe she's not coming.
I can't believe like, come on.
Yeah.
And it's,
and you guys do spend a lot of
time traveling to see those everybody.
So
My family is so laid back
about that stuff.
We've stopped doing gifts
and all of that stuff.
It's just about time together.
My nephew lives here.
I live here.
My mom's coming over.
And she'll spend whatever,
whenever that is.
It doesn't have to be on the
twenty fifth of December.
Whenever that is, we'll hang out.
We'll play board games.
We'll do whatever.
And that'll be our day.
And so be it.
But yeah, well,
and I don't have to worry
about my dad because he's
going to England on the twenty sixth.
I'll tell you that it's
going back and the ring.
Oh, don't tell me that's still happening.
And so far, I guess.
Okay.
I just, Charlie's face.
I love it.
I love it.
I mean, I hope it works out, but you know,
with all the scams going around today,
you just worry and fret.
Yeah.
You want your dad to be happy too, right?
Yes, absolutely.
He's
let him live his life how he wants to,
you know?
He's what?
Twenty seven.
She's forty nine.
OK,
since we talked to age difference and
to be happy,
have you seen this Bill Belichick stuff?
What in the world, man?
Like, be happy.
I don't care what the age difference is.
But when you see them side by side,
it is shocking.
It looks weird, yeah.
At least my dad and his girlfriend,
they don't look physically
mismatched at all.
They look like they could be a couple.
It's either good for him or bad for her.
It's kind of a combination of both.
She definitely looks older
than she is and he looks
younger than he is.
Both look like fifty-ish.
She looks more fifty-ish and
he looks more sixty-five-ish.
There's an age gap, but it doesn't look
super huge, I guess.
Corey says seven to eight
minus forty-nine is okey-dokey.
Isn't it a half plus seven
or something like that?
Isn't that what they used to be?
There's like an acceptable formula.
Yeah.
The teletech thing is like
seventy-two to twenty-four.
Yeah, that's crazy.
She's twenty-eight now.
Twenty-eight?
Really?
The article I read said twenty-four,
but...
But she has them doing, like,
TikToks and stuff.
Like, it's just weird.
He's living his best life.
They don't test it at all.
All right.
Go for it, Bill.
Anyway, other than Rogue, man,
it's been a slow week.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um,
barbell spin did announce yesterday
that the coroner's report
did change lately.
Oh, the, I don't want to get it wrong,
but there's one section
that is now listed as accident.
And my understanding is
there's only five answers for that box.
It is accident, homicide, suicide, natural,
or unknown.
And so,
Yeah.
We wouldn't expect anything
different then.
But the cause of death is still blank.
I think it's reason for
death is accident and now cause.
I was texting with Jamie
last night and I was like,
I don't even care anymore.
I just want to move on.
every right now everybody
has their mind already made
up I think as to what
happened and you believe
one thing or another and
whatever they say is either
going to it's not going to
change make you feel
stronger in that way or
you're still going to feel
that way anyway yeah I
think a lot of people are
hoping that they find out
that he had some kind of
underlying condition right that
caused him to be struggling
the way he did.
But I still think people are
going to believe that
that's still CrossFit's
fault because they didn't
have enough people to grab him.
Sure.
Sure, sure, sure.
Yeah.
But, but it's still, it,
it feels a little bit
better than healthy as a horse drowned.
No one saved him.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't know.
It's just, to me,
there's a little bit of a
difference and you're right.
It doesn't, it doesn't matter in terms of
I think for you, it can,
it can be a little bit different,
but I think for the community,
it's just going to deepen
the divide and take longer
for everybody to get past it.
Yeah.
That's my fear.
And, and yeah.
And then, but, but then again,
also you don't want to
necessarily like be
disrespectful to his family
either by saying like, Oh, we don't care.
And I know that's not what you meant.
Like you don't care, but.
No, it's like we're kind of over.
Nothing's going to change
the fact that he died.
Right.
Right.
And I have grieved him and I
have celebrated him.
Lazar was an amazing human being.
We've said it enough times on this show.
And I have grieved that tremendously.
It took me forever to get past that.
I still haven't done an
interview with an elite
athlete since the games.
Really?
I don't know what to do.
Mm hmm.
And I'm having a hard time
reconciling that.
And this drawing out even
longer makes it harder to move on.
I think this rogue will be a
good litmus test of kind of where we are.
Yeah, I hope so.
Yeah, it should.
I hope so.
I got a bowl, guys.
I have a meeting.
Yeah, I have to go too.
But it was good times with you guys.
Glad you got your sofa.
Thank you.
We'll have to talk with the surprise now.
Yeah, we will.
We talked stuff.
All right.
With that,
we will see everybody next time
on Gladstone Media Roundtable.
Bye guys.