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what's going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the
Clydesdale it is lunchtime
we are hanging out it's a
Monday what is going on
Andrew Sten what's going on
Judy and it's a couple
times in a row you you off
for the summer um yeah
we're going to talk about
some stuff today uh it's a
Monday after crazy weekend
what's going on Leto
So good to be with everybody this week.
Really fighting off the
allergies this week.
Judy,
happy to be off for the summer and
catching up on your lunch shows.
Got Lex.
No hat, no shades.
Yeah, no prescription glasses either,
so...
My allergies have been like
so bad this week and the
last couple weeks and
forgot to put my glasses back on.
So we're half blind.
But that's interesting.
So Jay Birch, interesting thumbnail.
So that is actually...
I asked chat gbt to make a
portrait of myself if I
were in the comic strip
dilbert and that's what it
produced so that is scott
as a dilbert character um
but I actually have a
contest I want to do
Because last week,
if you guys didn't notice, every week,
every day of the week last week,
there was a different art
style of a portrait of
myself in the picture of the thumbnail.
And except for Wednesday,
Wednesday was Corey and I
doing stepbrother's.
But Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday,
four paintings were done
from different famous artists.
If you can name who those
artists were in the comments,
and you're the first person
to do so in the comments, not the chat,
but in the comments,
I'll send you a prize.
So I have to do is go to Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday thumbnails,
name the four artists,
and I will send you a prize pack.
And just to kind of give you
a quick remembrance of what
those look like.
I'll try to pull that up real quick.
So here is last year's one from last week.
There's one from last week.
There's one from last week.
So yeah,
there were four artists last week.
Name the four
There's one.
And, uh, yeah, there you go.
Can win a price back some fun,
something new.
Um,
Last chance qualifier has come to an end.
We are waiting for the
official results by this Friday.
But unofficially,
it appears that Yonikoski
and Lydia Fish are the two
people going to the
CrossFit Games pending
further video review.
I think it's an
interesting... First of all,
I think the way... And I
said this last night on our show.
I think this season has been
the worst structured season of all time.
And I think that the last
chance qualifier was a joke.
When you have over a hundred
people that qualified on
both the men's and women's
side to do the last chance
qualifier to get your shot at the games,
and you had...
Nineteen women sign up,
fifteen submitted scores,
and I think you had like
fifteen men and nine submitted scores.
Out of a hundred from each side.
That is a complete joke.
Complete joke.
But anyway.
Anyway.
Lito said everyone was just exhausted.
I don't doubt that at all,
but I think it's the way
the season was structured
that created this to happen.
I think, and I don't know.
Okay,
let's talk through this for a second.
You have the WFP come on the
scene and it's,
we want to have more
opportunities to compete, right?
Then for the first time
since twenty nineteen in
the CrossFit game season,
you can take multiple
attempts to qualify for the
CrossFit Games.
Other than twenty nineteen,
you only had one shot,
you had regionals or you had semifinals,
and that was your one shot.
Now you have multiple attempts to do this.
Many people took four,
five shots to do this.
And so I do think because
people felt their odds
would be better in the
in-person qualifying events
and the online semifinal,
they tried there and then
were completely exhausted
by the time they hit the
last chance qualifier.
Okay.
so I I also said last night
that because of the way it
was planned out with the in
affiliate semi-final in the
middle of the season it
really messed up the
in-person qualifying events
it weakened the fields
everywhere it gave the
third party people running
those events literally no
chance to make any money back um
And they they just did a
really poor job and by the
way they structured the
team season that really
screwed up the in person
qualifying events,
because the teams are what
draw people to those
regional slash in person
qualifying events.
and
We took that away from the
event organizers as well.
So affiliates didn't come in
droves to cheer on their teams.
It was just you had to be
the fan of an athlete to do that,
which actually caused a reduction,
in my opinion,
of the attendance at those events.
lido is a thirty five to
thirty nine year old
athlete and her first time
qualifying for the crossfit
games which are being held
here in columbus cannot
wait for that so the season
was all messed up but
regardless of that we had a
last chance qualifier
I was really afraid that a
lot of the people would not
submit their last scores if
they did not feel like they had a chance.
That did not happen as I expected.
It only happened a couple
times on the men's side.
Really, all the women put in their scores.
But what we ended up with at
the end of the day was
Lydia Fish on the women's side,
Yona Koski on the men's side.
Yona was pretty much a no-doubter.
he finished in the tops in
most of the events,
which isn't surprising
because Yona is very good
at online events.
Plus these really worked out
for him on the women's side.
Um, Carolyn and I were actually debating,
I don't think it was on the show.
I think it was after the
show last night between
Kyra and Lydia fish.
Um, and Lydia fish won it.
Um,
and really happy for her.
Um,
she had like the moment of the year
last year when I was at
syndicate crown and she
finished the snatch ladder, um,
which nobody probably thought she could,
um, including her own parents and fans.
Um,
but I caught a really cool video from
behind of her finishing
that with all of her crew
in front of her leaping to their feet,
leaping to their feet as
she finished that event.
so super happy for lydia um
and then we wait this week
just to make sure all the
video reviews go through
again with this small of a
number they should be able
to review just about all of
them without too much
effort so there is that um
And that review, I believe,
is being done by CrossFit.
There is some conflicting
information with that,
but who the heck knows?
Also,
if you didn't tune in to the last
night's show,
we got clipped by Dents Updates.
So I'm going to show that real quick.
Sure I am.
If you guys did not see last
night show or this,
here is the clip that they did of that.
Facundo,
director of International for
Mayhem and coach to many
big-name athletes,
dropped in on Savon's live
show the other morning.
Do you know that I compete
with your Jenny?
Yes, yes, yes.
I sometimes get jealous.
And there are rumors
floating that Facundo could be the CEO.
Oh, really?
one of my favorite people in the space.
So last night we talked
about the sale of CrossFit
and some things that I am hearing.
One of the possibilities for
CEO was Facundo.
He's not the only name that I've heard,
but I have heard his name
floated out there.
I am in no way
No way an insider in this sale,
but that is a name that I
heard as someone that could
be the CEO of CrossFit once
the sale goes through.
But she put that out.
I shared it.
But please know, I am not an insider.
That is just something that
I've heard floated.
But I've heard it a couple times.
So there is that.
The other thing I wanted to
dive into briefly is we had
the community cup going on
this weekend and there's
been very little attention given to that.
We talked about it briefly
last night on our show.
Jamie's gym actually used it
as an in gym competition and,
And they did the three
workouts as the competition for the gym.
They do those every year,
which I thought was a very creative idea.
Carolyn's gym used each
workout as one different
day of their programming.
So I think from like
Thursday was one workout,
Friday was another, Saturday was another.
so that everybody could do it.
But not everybody signed up
for it in both cases.
Some people did some people didn't.
I also just finished
watching Amanda Hari's
video where she finished
the last two workouts.
She has another video where
she did the first workout
and talked about doing it.
But at the end of it, she's like,
After reviewing her video,
she felt like her reps
weren't necessarily the best reps.
But after thinking about it,
like it wasn't for anything.
It was just to like come
together as a community.
And so she ended up not
redoing the workout because
she felt like it wasn't
really for anything.
And you can go check that
out on her YouTube channel.
It's a pretty short video
because the one is just the
lift and the other one is
just the intervals.
And so...
My question to this whole thing is,
I think it's a cool concept.
I think the timing sucks.
You put it right in the same
weekend as the last chance qualifier.
You're in the summertime
when everybody is off and
vacationing with family and you're
I mean,
I've been an affiliate since two
thousand eleven every summer.
Our numbers go down because
people are on vacation.
People are on the road.
People are in and out.
Kids are out of school.
So schedules are all wacky.
There's sports all summer.
And so you have less
participation as an affiliate overall.
And then to put this
community cup smack dab in
the middle of that.
plus these other things that
are completely different
going on the same weekend.
That's,
that's a hard thing to put on the
affiliate,
a community cup and a last
chance qualifier that we
didn't have much
participation in the last
chance qualifier,
but they're both on the same weekend.
I think that actually
getting rid of the
quarterfinals was a mistake and
Now, maybe instead of quarterfinals,
you do the Community Cup a
couple weeks after the Open,
and then people can
continue on and have this
competition in their levels
before we get to summer,
before we get to the heart
of the competitive season,
and maybe all that is done
in that little February
through March-April time.
Yeah.
Andrew Sten says maybe
schedule it around the time of the games.
Use it to get games more attention.
That's a possibility.
Or use the same workouts as
the last chance qualifier.
Or what I think,
use the same workouts as
the in-affiliate semifinal
event and let everybody participate.
and have the in affiliate at
the end of the season.
And then you have your upper
one percent or whatever,
three percent that are
competing for a shot at the
CrossFit Games.
And then you have all the
scaled versions of that
down below for everybody to
participate in.
And then maybe you get more
attention to the games that way.
I don't think many people
are interested in doing yet
another online comp,
whether that's the LCQ or
the Community Cup,
and affiliates aren't
interested in running it.
Yeah,
that's why I think you should combine it.
Combine it into one event
and not add on another one.
I wonder if hosting the
Community Cup soon after
the open could be
burdensome on affiliates
I'm sure it would be I'm
sure it would be.
Jay birch who works out in
camp pendleton out behind
his house don't make it
where you have to do it in an affiliate.
yeah.
Then we have Jonathan coming in.
What about the service
member cup at the may at mayhem?
I don't think it's called service member,
but service members are involved.
It is the occupational service.
games because you do have first responders,
police, fire, teachers,
healthcare workers,
and then you have the
service service members as well.
That is happening in the fall,
completely after the season,
completely away from everything else.
Which I like that idea.
My affiliate owner had zero interest.
A couple people did the workout,
so that's it.
Yeah,
it almost needs to be a thing where
it can be used as a
marketing thing if you want
the buy-in of the affiliates.
And Lito, this is what I think.
The LCQ needs to be merged
with the online semis.
Three spots only done after
all the in-person semis.
Yeah, I don't know about the number.
Like, I'm okay with five.
I'm okay with seven, whatever it is.
However many spots are left
of the thirty after in-person,
put them all into that last
chance qualifier, merged online semi,
and do the whole thing at once.
Corey says, stop making sense, Lito.
I know.
But we're probably going to
have new owners very, very soon.
And they may change all this stuff.
Um...
That's really all I had on
the CrossFit front today.
If you did not see last night's show,
I implore you to go watch it.
There's a really cool
dynamic with Carolyn
Prevost talking about her
experience from NorCal,
almost making the games,
and coming down to that
last split second of the clean.
She talks about that into...
how her week went with just missing out,
then Alex having the car accident,
how that affected her,
how she got a call from
CrossFit telling her to
stay ready in case Alex couldn't go,
And then talking with Alex
and they had actually
planned on working together
through the last chance
qualifier where Alex was
going to test workouts for
Carolyn to help her make it
through the last chance
qualifier before the accident happened.
So all this happens this week.
And then she had to try to
do the last chance qualifier,
very much mentally fatigued
from everything that
happened during the week.
It's a really good listen as
she talks through that whole thing.
If you did not hear it last night,
I think it's some of the
best stuff we've done on this channel.
And she also said this, Corey,
if you stay ready,
you never have to get ready.
She just works out all the
time because she works a full-time job.
She doesn't really get the
opportunities much to ramp
up for different competitions.
So she has to stay at kind
of an even keel readiness
all season long.
She has a little bit of
extra time in the summer
when she's not teaching,
and so she does ramp up if
she has games training.
But most of the time,
it's the same thing
year-round because of her
being a full-time school teacher.
David Johnson,
we did the Community Cup workouts.
We just programmed one each
day early last week.
Yeah, that's what Carolyn's gym did too.
Alito, great show last night, Scott.
I caught up this morning.
Corey, last night's show was great.
Agreed.
Yeah,
I'm not saying we were great the
whole way through,
but that Carolyn part was really,
really cool.
And she was also asked if
she would hit that last bar at NorCal.
And her response was,
I never miss two twenty five.
Her only attempt at that two
twenty five bar was with
three seconds left to go.
And by the time she lifted it,
there was no way she could
complete the lift before
the buzzer went off.
And she just kind of like left it go.
Did Carolyn do the in affiliate semi?
She did.
She finished around twentieth, I think,
Jay Birch.
So about seven spots out.
Corey, I don't miss two twenty five.
Carolyn,
the absolute G. Love that from her.
And by saying that,
we're not taking anything
away from Hattie because I
think Hattie rushed that lift too.
If she would have had more time,
she would have had more time to set up.
But it would have come down
to this hugely climactic
finish that we as
spectators all got cheated out of.
Cause one of them was going
to make a lift.
You add a minute to that time cap.
One of the two of them were
going to make a lift at
some point and they were
going to look down at each other.
They were going to face off.
And it was the first one to
get that bar up was going to win.
And one of them was going to make it.
And we got cheated out of that.
That's what sucks.
But it was cool getting her
perspective and,
Um,
about that and really going into the
race before they lowered the weights, she,
her plan was to go slower
on the rope climbs and the box jumps.
Cause she knew her max clean
squat clean was more than Hattie and, um,
Holta's and her plan was get to the bar.
She knew she could hit it
and then she would be able
to beat them at that point.
But she gave kudos to Hattie
who stayed ahead of her the
entire time through that race.
But yeah.
And speaking of which,
we are going to have Hattie
on the show tonight at six thirty p.m.
Eastern time.
So we'll get Hattie's
perspective as well and how
it came down for her and
what her process was, what her plan was.
We'll hear from her and get
the other side of the coin.
But yeah, six, six thirty p.m.
Eastern time right here on
Clydesdale Media YouTube channel.
We'll have Hattie Canio
talking about that experience as well.
Of course,
Hattie will be on while I'm training.
She actually asked, like,
when is Corey training when
he's training?
That's the time I want to
pick to come on the show.
She just wants to make sure
you do the rewatch and not the live.
That's all.
Uh, two twenty five.
That's around my deadlift PR.
Yeah, these women are.
They're just amazing athletes.
Amazing athletes.
So, um.
if you listen to the show
last week and we talked
about Corey's experience
with MFC qualifiers,
I think we have a
continuation of that story
coming this Wednesday.
So stay tuned for that as well.
Cause I believe we're still
in limbo status with that.
And I,
you'll get to hear his perspective
on that as well.
Yeah.
This, this Saturday night,
I went to see buddy guy
play at a local concert
venue here in Columbus.
And, uh,
about an hour West of Columbus
towards Dayton.
It's like the best venue in Ohio.
It's coolest venue ever.
Um, went to see him.
Friend had extra tick, an extra ticket,
offered it to me.
I offered to drive in return.
We got down there and, um,
I love live music and I
haven't been doing that as
much lately as I used to.
And, uh,
I'm really glad I took the
time out to do that for myself.
Since COVID,
I have not been to concerts much,
and I'm really glad I took
the time out to do this.
The blues are not
necessarily my favorite genre of music,
but Buddy Guy is a living legend.
He's a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,
seven-time Grammy Award winner, and...
And he said it in his show,
there's only three living
blues men left on this earth.
And he feels like it's a
responsibility for him to
go out and play for as long as he can.
And at eighty eight years old,
he was crushing it.
His guitar playing was amazing.
His singing and storytelling
were fantastic.
If you ever get the chance to see him,
even if you're not a blues fan,
it's very entertaining.
And we're not going to get
many more opportunities to
see musicians like him.
But I really, really enjoyed it.
And it gave me the itch.
And I'm going to another concert in July.
um live and collective soul
and then I think my wife
and I are going to go to
another one in august just
because it gave me the itch
to start doing I need to
treat myself to these
things that I used to love
doing and that covid got us
out of the practice of
going and doing and uh yeah
and get back to like things
I love like live music so
that was that was a blast for me and uh
Yeah, just wanted to share that.
The other thing that's kind
of new this weekend is I'm
running out of shows to watch.
So if anybody has any suggestions,
throw them into the chat.
I'd love to hear them.
But my wife and I started
watching FUBAR this weekend.
And it's an Arnold Schwarzenegger series,
but it is the...
It is that awesome eighties
action with Arnold stupid humor stuff.
If you miss any of that in your old,
like me, uh,
it's been fun to watch so far.
Um, and I'm, I'm really,
really enjoying it, but it is,
it's not going to win any
Emmys or Academy awards or
anything like that,
but it is freaking funny
and it it's nostalgic.
Jay Birch says I should go
back and watch Mad Men.
I just finished Apartment Q.
Only one season, sadly, but very good.
Okay.
I'll check that out.
We did get rid of a few of
our streaming services.
We're going to kind of
rotate them in and out.
Arnold one-liners are a huge
part of my childhood.
Mine too.
And they do find ways in
this show for him to say
choppa in different aspects.
And it's not even where you expect it.
And it's hilarious.
Corey says,
I saw Jared Lee Lewis and Elton
John back in two thousand twelve.
And I felt the same way then, Scott.
Absolute legends.
I've seen Elton John twice and he's great.
I saw him with Billy Joel in the nineties.
Rocket Man meets the Piano Man.
And then I saw him solo
early two thousands.
And then.
Jerry Lee Lewis, I actually saw.
early nineties at three rivers,
three river stadium in
Pittsburgh before it was
torn down and it started to rain.
And he went in and played
the organ they use for the
baseball game to entertain
during the rain delay.
That is one of my greatest
musical memories ever to
hear Jerry Lee Lewis pounding,
pounding on a baseball
organ was fantastic.
so jay birch I would have
loved to see elton um I to
be honest I went for billy
joel billy joel is one of
my favorite artists ever I
actually own every one of
his records on vinyl except
one that I cannot find for
an affordable price um and
my wife is a huge elton
john fan so we were
actually dating at the time
and she went for
Elton John, I went for Billy Joel and we,
we ended up both liking the
other artists just as much.
And, uh, it's good.
trained to live not sure
I've if you've seen
severance on Apple came
highly recommended started last night.
My daughter has been trying
to get us to watch that
Apple TV is one that we've
kind of canceled for now.
And but we have to get it
back because I'm a huge Ted
lasso and huge shrinking fan.
So when it comes back,
maybe I'll jump in and
watch severance while we have it.
Brett Owsley,
Four Seasons on Netflix was good.
I've seen that already.
My only issue with Four Seasons, Brett,
is that by the end of the show,
I didn't like any of the couples.
That...
the first four episodes, I was like,
this is pretty good.
And then by the end,
you don't like any of them.
And that,
that kind of let me left me a
little limp at the end of it.
Um, and then after Jody says,
afterlife Lito says, Oh my God,
afterlife.
Yes.
And you've said that to me before.
I've got to find it.
Brett says, agreed.
I thought it was good at
first and then we were really into it.
And then, man, I,
I thought I was going to really like the,
um, Tina Fey.
And I can't think of who her
husband was that couple.
And they just didn't, didn't it.
I'd start hating them too.
Judy Reed, yes.
Ted Lasso, can't wait.
Oh,
I cannot believe they're coming back
for a fourth season.
I really had reserved myself
the thinking it was completely over.
And then I found out that it
is not completely over.
And I am so stoked for that.
I cannot wait.
Ted Lasso is one of the
greatest shows ever made.
Ever made.
Jay Birch,
my greatest memory is having the
flu at a KISS concert in
Waco and it snowed fourteen inches.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, I've thrown up at a KISS concert,
but it was not from the flu.
I will say that.
I've seen KISS four times.
I really went to a lot of
concerts when I was younger.
A lot.
Brett says,
the waterfront is coming in two
days and looks good.
Judy,
I cried so hard when Ted Lasso ended.
If I were being honest,
I would admit I cried as well.
I saw an interview where Ted
Lasso was sharing him
asking coaching questions
to Jim Harbaugh.
Great stuff.
If you didn't know this,
Ted Lasso actually started
as a commercial.
It started for a commercial
that aired during NFL games
to promote the World Cup
coming to the United States.
And from that commercial,
Jason Sudeikis and Brett
Goldstein took that and
made a complete series out of it.
So it really started as a commercial.
Of course you did.
You're a good dude.
Yeah.
I'm an emotional wreck.
I didn't cry a lot as a kid.
When I had a daughter,
all of a sudden the
waterworks started to open
up in my eyes and I cry
over the silliest stuff now.
The silliest stuff.
That would be an interesting
top five for people to
share best concerts.
I imagine it would be an
interesting mix with this group.
I am sure it would be.
I'm sure it would be an
interesting mix for sure.
It was an NBC promoting the
premier league.
Okay.
So it was not the world cup.
It was a premier league.
Got it.
Thanks.
Thank you, Andrew.
He is our resident football expert.
Are you caught up on Wrexham, Andrew Sten?
Because I am caught up and I
am loving this season.
Jay Birch's first concert
was Duran Duran in Dallas
in nineteen eighty three.
My first concert that I went
with my parents was the Beach Boys.
Then we just lost Brian
Wilson the other night.
Um, that was sad.
Well,
my first concert was the beach boys
with my parents.
My first like rock concert
was Pat Benatar in.
Eighty four, eighty three, eighty four,
probably eighty four.
Um,
Uh,
Andrew is caught up pretty sure it's a
short season for the show though,
which sucks.
Yeah.
It keeps getting shorter and
shorter and that really bums me out.
Um,
but I think the emotion this year
because of the growth of
the team and how some of
the players haven't grown
as fast and as they're getting promoted,
they're just not able to
keep up and that they have
to let people go and
and move people from
different roles within the
organization is really emotional.
Like I said,
I'm an emotional wreck these days.
I cry over everything.
And when you bring in a new
CEO and the old CEO has to
move to this role and this, it's just,
if you have not watched
Welcome to Wrexham,
It's real life.
It's a real-life documentary
of a team that was bought
by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhinney,
and it is so good.
So good.
Brett Owsley,
Poison was my first rock concert.
I've seen Poison.
Not my favorite concert ever,
but that's a pretty good first one.
Craig Pasley, Eric Clapton, you dog.
I would have loved to seen Eric Clapton.
He actually lives here in Columbus.
He married a girl,
a girl from Columbus and
has a house here in Columbus.
Um, and I've been by it several times.
Um,
And he actually,
him and his wife gave birth
the same time we did.
And we missed being in the
same Lamaze class by one night.
Yeah.
Jody asks, what's it on?
Andrew asks, it's on, whoops.
It's on FX or Hulu.
Yeah, I stream it on Hulu.
It's available every Friday on Hulu.
Vicky says, Tom Petty,
been to seven concerts by far.
One of the best ever.
Yeah, Tom Petty's awesome.
uh scott is a glass case of
emotion yep you never know
when I'm gonna break all
right guys well we're
coming up on one o'clock
which means most of us have
to get back to um to work
uh doug comes in with alice
in chains thanks judy
that'd be a good one too they're
That double guitar stuff
that they do and the double
lead singer stuff is so good.
So different than anybody else.
With that, coming up on the hour here,
I'll let you guys go
because you knuckleheads
need to get back to work and so do I.
With that, we'll jump back in tomorrow.
We'll continue our conversation.
And we will see everybody next time on,
hey, don't forget Hattie Canio.
Tonight, six thirty.
And then.
Tomorrow,
back with lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.