Clydesdale Media Roundtable - Sweet Home Columbus!!!!

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The Crew get together to talk about what is going on in the CrossFit Space, in Pop Culture and life.  After a life long friendship we always chat and learn about each other and let you take a peak into those stories.  Today we talk about the Masters CrossFit Games as well as the Teens coming to Columbus, Ohio and we could not be any more excited.  We also look at the NCC being added to the CrossFit Games season as an in person qualifying event.

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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.

what's going on everybody

welcome to the gladstone

media round table my name

is scott she's kat she's

coming full bangs this week

and we're starting fifteen

minutes early because we

got meetings and we got

stuff we have to do we are

busy yeah so how are you

doing I'm good how are you

good christmas tree still

up I think it's gonna stay

up I have nowhere else to put it so

Might as well just leave it up.

That's the storage facility.

I think,

I think I might just make it like a,

like a holiday tree and I'll get little,

maybe, you know,

little red bows for

Valentine's day and little

pink bows for Easter.

And I'll just make it a year round tree.

Same morning to James.

What's going on?

Yeah.

The last, Hey Jody, what's going on?

Uh, again, I mentioned it yesterday, man,

being a caretaker is a lot of work.

I am so tired.

Um, just before we came down here, um, uh,

to do this,

she had to go to the bathroom

and that is not like a five

minute process.

And she gave me like seven

minutes to get it done and

to get down the stairs and

launch the show.

Um,

And, uh, yeah.

And we had to get her in a

machine cause she's going

to PT for the first time, uh,

this afternoon at two o'clock.

So she's in the machine that

moves her knee back and forth.

Loosen her up.

Yeah.

Jody.

I didn't just cut bangs.

I cut bangs a while ago,

but I've been hiding them

from everyone because they

are not necessarily a fan favorite, um,

in my life.

So, uh, we're dealing with them.

luckily my hair grows like a weed.

And, um,

if I wanted to make it look like I

didn't have bangs by like next week,

I could probably pull that off too.

So we'll see.

It's also very dark.

I don't know if you caught that, but, um,

it's a lot darker than it was.

So we're getting used to it.

Judy says, cute.

You're brave.

Yeah.

I've always been a pretty

adventurous with my hair.

People that have known me for.

Twenty, thirty years, um, have seen.

a wide variety of hairstyles

and hair colors.

So,

so I've known you for five and I've

seen a lot.

Yeah.

I can't imagine.

You never saw like the

blonde pixie cut or the

full on red or anything like that.

So yeah, you've,

you have seen a lot and

it's one of the things that

I know a lot of people remember me by.

I know people that I used to

work with at Chase, you know,

they'd be like, what colors are here now?

like is it long or short so

yeah this is the color god

gave me so I feel like it

should be you know the most

flattering on me but it's

just so uh so different

than what I'm used to that

it's uh it scares me

sometimes I still don't

recognize myself in the

mirror when I look at

myself I'm like who's that

so I'll make a comment at

risk of whatever but so

when I when I first saw the

bangs on tick tock

like I was taken aback

because you do very

different with them than

you do without but the more

I see you with them the

more it actually looks

really good thank you I

think it depends on what

you do with your hair too

because like I can put this

up here and have this down

and that looks very

different that just took

ten years off of you right

that looks much better and

then if I take it all the

way up and put it in like a

like a ponytail or a bun

same thing it just

creates like a whole

different look so I think

that's what I like about it

and I can take these and

like clip them up and it

looks like I'm normal like

I never had a haircut so

yeah all that that's how I

like about them they're

versatile what what is the

workout style well if I was

working out um they're my

t-one um but I usually just

wear my hair down when I'm

working on anyway so

there's really not like I'm

not wearing headbands or anything um

Yeah.

Like yesterday I worked out

and I just put it up in a bun,

left the bangs down.

But sometimes when I get sick of them,

if I, I'll just take these two,

I have these like two

little clips and I just

clip them like this and

then whatever happens to

the rest of it happens.

Yeah.

Jody with a show.

Yeah.

We need to rate CrossFitters hairdos.

Oh, that would be good.

Let's do it next week.

Yeah.

Let's do like a top five and

a bottom five.

Yeah.

We'll dig through Instagram

and show pictures.

And so that,

that'll be our show idea for next week.

Boys and girls.

Yep.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

Cause like cons had at least

seven different hairdos

since I've known them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then you got some people

that are just steady Eddie

the whole time too, but yeah,

that would be cool.

I would like that.

Let's do it.

You got some interesting ones too.

Like how many different

haircuts has Noah had?

You know,

he tried the dreadlocks for a minute.

He had the long haired Noah.

You have the short haired Noah.

How many,

how many haircuts has Dave Castro had?

Very good point.

Right.

We got some material here.

Yeah.

Now that we're workshopping this.

Good idea.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I'm,

I'm like two weeks away from going

to get highlights again,

just so everybody knows,

like I'm still not,

like sold on the color

either because I am going

gray at my roots here and

with the bangs down you

can't see it but when I put

them up you can see and

that's the whole reason why

I was going lighter before

in the first place so just

to think about being a girl

so if you have gray hair

and your hair grows like a

wheat does the gray grow just as fast

It does,

but I'm just not consistently gray

everywhere.

I have like five strands of gray hair,

like through here.

And then I just have a bunch

like at my hairline,

like as this starts to grow out,

I'll just get like a little

bit here and like a little bit there.

So it's enough that you notice it,

but it's not like, I mean, I,

I've embraced the full gray, the white,

whatever, like I'm okay with that,

but sorry to fix.

But it's just like these

like random spots that don't look great.

And they are very, like,

I think it's very aging.

It's not very youthful.

Yeah.

I go grayer as I go down.

Oh yeah.

Like the beard fully.

And,

and then I have like the Jonah Jameson

from Spider-Man,

the guy who owns a newspaper,

like really gray in here,

but like the tops, not so much.

Yeah.

I think I like gray hair on men.

I think it's, I don't think,

I don't think it ages them

and I don't think it makes

them look any less attractive at all.

Um, even in, in facial hair,

like I'm totally cool with that.

But I think for women, it's just,

I don't know.

It's different.

It's my own opinion, I guess.

Yeah.

I've totally embraced it.

I just,

I actually tried to grow the beard

out again, but it's been,

it's been like a year of

like semi consistently shaving it.

And it was, it,

it was to that point where

it was digging into the skin,

like curling back in.

And, um,

and if you don't beard oil it like

regularly, like it's,

it's just not even possible.

And my skin is more sensitive now.

Cause I have not had a beard for a year.

Have you ever grown a goatee?

I have.

What does goatee Scott look like?

Do you look, I was,

I was goatee Scott for probably,

probably ten or fifteen years.

When I was really, really heavy,

like the five and a pound Scott,

I thought that thinned out my face.

Okay.

Let's be honest.

It did not.

Bring the goatee back.

It's been a minute.

It's been, gosh,

it's probably been ten years.

Here's the more important question.

How does Julie feel about the goatee?

I don't think she really

cares about facial hair.

She likes whatever I do.

She does not like Fu Manchu, Scott.

I've done that just out of a joke,

like shaved again.

She does not like that at all.

Especially when I come down

with the Hulk Hogan.

Come on, brother.

And the Fu Manchu coming down.

Yeah, not a big fan.

Guess who's prioritizing protein?

And there you go.

That stuff's good.

Their core power that's even

like double the protein.

It's so expensive, but it is so tasty.

I take this and a scoop of

fat-free pudding mix or

sugar-free pudding mix in a blender.

And then I stick it in a

mason jar and I put it in

the refrigerator for a few hours.

And it's like protein pudding.

And I'll put blueberries and cashews,

maybe some chocolate chips or just plain.

Um, and it's absolutely delicious.

And if you get the white

chocolate jello mix,

sugar-free jello mix with the chocolate.

So good.

My favorite tip if you want, you know,

cause I like ice cream and

this is sort of an,

it's an alternative to ice

cream night protein pudding.

Yeah, we, we bought a Ninja creamy.

Oh, you did.

yeah is it amazing it it

took me a minute to like

refine the recipe but now

that we have it it's really

good um you just have to

kind of because once you

make it it has to freeze

for before you can put it

in the machine oh so yeah I

don't have patience for

that ahead of like what

flavors you want and what

you want to do but I got to

where like my base is

really good and I can just

add stuff to it cool um

But it's, yeah.

And it comes out like not totally hard,

like a hard ice cream.

So it's like a little bit of

a mix between soft serve and hard.

Like a gelato.

Sure.

Sure.

It's really creamy.

And when I do the mix at the end,

I do add a little milk.

So it's probably me doing it that way.

But I actually prefer it better that way.

Okay.

Yeah, I would love to try it.

I think Braden had one at

the house at one point in

time and then he broke it.

So never got to use it.

Yeah.

I, I,

I want to try like a peanut butter swirl,

but you should not put

peanut butter in the creamy.

It can damage the machine.

That's a bummer.

That's probably what he did.

So you,

they tell you to put like PB two in

it or something like that

to get the flavor,

like gumming up the machine.

Okay.

But I did want to PSA real quick.

If you weren't watching Savan this morning,

they have been pretty much

talking about the LA

wildfires all day today.

And there is a GoFundMe

campaign out there for the

CrossFit gyms in LA that

are suffering damage.

One of them just celebrated

their twenty year

anniversary and everything.

So it's CrossFit LA and Oak Park.

um it's a gofundme campaign

and I did put the link in

the description below if

you want to go do that like

a dollar five dollars

whatever you can um can

manage to donate I'm sure

they would appreciate

anything you could give to

that because if you have

not seen the footage from

la it is it is gosh scary as hell

It really is.

And I just don't, yeah.

What is going on?

This new year has just been wackadoodle.

my understanding is the

winds are really strong out

there right now and so one

little spark gets like

shoved to another location

and boom then we have

another start but what what

really like took my breath

away was the hollywood

hills are hit right now and

they they showed on I think

cnn or one of those should

I can't remember which one

but it was an overlay of a

map so the fire's

Berlin up here on the Hill

and right at the base of

the Hills Hollywood Avenue

like it is that close to

like downtown Hollywood um

I I just I don't know how

they're going to get under

control because they don't

have enough water in LA for

this um yeah and it's it's just sad

It's really sad.

Yeah.

Again,

there's a link to the GoFundMe in

the description below.

Make sure you click on that

and do that if you are so inclined.

So on to brighter news.

I talked about this

yesterday because I am so excited.

The Masters and Queens

CrossFit Games are coming to Columbus.

Yeah.

I I said yesterday that I

thought it would be at the

columbus convention center

based on the layout they

had in birmingham

convention center like uh

and andrew stenn kind of

confirmed that in the chat

yesterday um and he's close

with those legends folks so

um I will take him at his word uh but

What I love about it is,

and not just for me because I live here,

but because I think it's a

great town to come visit.

And we actually do have,

in that area where the

convention center is,

a ton of restaurants.

Oh, yeah.

That's where the Arnold was, right?

Yes.

And an international airport

where you're not struggling

like Madison to find a

flight that's affordable to

get in and out of.

And we have tons of

different airlines you can pick from.

Yeah.

So I've always thought that

Columbus would be a great

place for the games games.

But if we have to start with

masters and teens, let's do that.

and they're going to be

going on at the same time, right?

Like same weekend.

Cause then you don't,

I passed over a little bit yesterday,

but we've been,

we've been begging for that, right?

Why not have the fans of

both the teens and the

masters all wanting to

watch the same event at the same time?

Yeah.

And I mean,

you don't dilute your judging

population and all that either.

You know, you get everybody in one place.

It's going to be a,

I think a huge benefit to

everybody that's really

cool yeah so and I don't

know if like they had three

floors in in birmingham for

the masters games and

everybody kind of rotated

around uh during the day so

what I liked about that was

and I didn't think I would

but if you're tired of seeing

the standard being done over

here and you want to see the deadlift run,

you can kind of change up

your workout day by going

from Florida or if you're

there and not having to

watch everything at once.

Let me just clear this up, Judy.

That's my work computer.

My laptop is literally

sitting right in front of

my three monitors for my work computer.

So you're hearing a meeting requests and,

teams messages and all that

kind of stuff in the background.

I don't have a doorbell.

So you are not a Columbus native.

No.

You've been here for the Arnold.

You've been here for rogue.

Yes.

Thoughts as an outsider.

I mean, the,

the setup for Arnold was great.

I mean,

Braden and I stayed sort of closer

to the university.

So we weren't in, we didn't stay in town,

but it was an easy drive.

There's plenty of like, even,

in the surrounding areas,

if you don't want to be in downtown,

there's, you know,

resources and Walmarts and, you know,

grocery stores and whatever

else you would need when you're here.

But the downtown was so cool.

Yeah.

Super quaint,

lots of cute little restaurants.

I mean, you know,

we had to sit at the bar one night to,

you know,

just to eat because we didn't

make reservations or

anything like that because

we weren't really sure what was going on,

but yeah, it was, it was great.

Cute little town.

I loved it.

Yeah.

You're right.

Like South of the, of the short North,

which is a kind of a bougie

little area where there's a

ton of like quaint little restaurants,

mom and pops.

Um,

there's lots of bars and clubs if

you're into that thing.

And then a couple blocks West is, uh,

the North market.

So it's like a big open

market with a lot of places

to eat or like,

and it's nice like like

knoxville like downtown

knoxville yeah yeah but

different like this is like

what I would picture I've

never been there but like

seattle's uh pike market is

that what it's called or

okay where it's just like

there's a like a polish

stand and then a jewish

deli and then there's um an

ice cream shop there's hot

chicken takeover there's

It's just,

you go around in like a... So

dry in my house right now.

You go around in a square

and it's just a restaurant

after restaurant after restaurant.

Or like a cheese shop or a

sweet shop or...

And it's an old warehouse

that they turned into this

quaint little place.

As long as they have ice cream.

Yeah.

Lots of ice cream in Columbus.

Good.

I'll be good.

So super excited about that.

And hopefully we can do

another documentary this year.

And maybe I'll have more

people on cameras to get even more angles,

more perspectives, more topics.

Yeah, that'll be great.

You'll have to get more media passes too.

Yeah.

Bigger team.

That'd be great.

Yeah, I'm excited about it.

I'm excited for you guys.

I'm excited for Charlie and Amy,

like the three of you will

be like right there.

I think that'll be super cool.

And maybe Corey and Charlie

get to meet face to face.

Yeah, maybe.

Well, it's weird.

You said Corey and I have

this like of asking my

daughter to come with her

photography skills.

Yeah.

I heard that getting like

candid shots during the

event that we could add

into the documentary.

Yeah, that would be cool.

But, uh,

yeah what is she what is she

typically is she doing more

like fashion photography or

what's her sort of

specialty I have this

little itch in my throat

but um yeah fashion

photography right now she's

doing a lot of headshots

modeling okay so like

sports and action would be

maybe something new for her

to explore and investigate

that would be cool

she's done some in her past.

Um,

she got a media pass to cover the blue

jackets hockey team here in town once.

And she was around CrossFit a lot,

but we'll see.

We'll see.

I've asked her to do other

things in the past and she's declined.

Um, I was going to ask you, um, the,

the master's athlete that

passed away from cancer, Will Powell, um,

I don't know if, did you know him?

Had you interviewed him?

I've never interviewed him.

Of course I knew, I knew of him.

Of him, right.

Was he at the games this past?

He was not.

So he, he competed in the open,

but he was.

Oh, that's right.

No, this year and didn't make games.

But he's,

he's fought cancer a few times in

his career.

Yeah.

And sounds like held off on treatment to,

to compete.

Yeah.

Based, based on what I've read.

So he was really like giving

it the middle finger.

when I first got addicted to CrossFit,

like he was,

he was the grand poobah of

the master's division.

Like everybody knew who he was.

And I think when they first

went to Madison and first

did that swim thing,

he actually almost drowned in Madison.

Like one of the competitors

had to stop and pull him to

safety and they both got disqualified.

Okay.

I had heard about that story.

I didn't realize that was him.

Yeah,

that's probably the lowest light of

his career.

Right.

Because he won like five times.

But yeah,

he always did fine in the ocean

swims in California because

of the saltwater.

And less buoyant,

that freshwater in Madison

did not do him well.

Yeah, I bet not.

But he passed away...

earlier this week from cancer,

and he'd been fighting it

off and on for probably the

last seven years, maybe.

And actually went to the

games after the initial

diagnosis a couple times.

Yeah, yeah.

So, quite the fighter.

And from all accounts,

like one of the nicest men

you'll ever meet.

Just a really nice guy.

Can you hear that in the background or no?

No.

Okay.

The trash trucks are here

and they're dumping and

they're taking like eight,

ten shakes of the dumpster

into the back of the truck.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I hate that.

The last thing I have from

CrossFit World is...

And I know, like,

Carolyn has some really

strong opinions on this,

so I'll let her go off on this on Sunday.

But CrossFit added the

NorCal Classic as an in-person semifinal.

All I'm going to say about it is,

you know...

I've talked about the wfp

and everybody being

negative about it and that

it the one thing it does is

it gives us a linear season

where if someone asks us

what is it it's really easy

to say tour event one year

earn points tour event two

year earn points the top

thirty point getters go to

the finals to find out

who's the best in the world

right super straightforward right

crossfit in its infinite

wisdom as they do every

year after they've

announced nine events have

now a month later and added

a tenth which now changes

the equation of like how

many people get in online

how many people get in in person um and

the less and less people

that can get in online,

like that changes that

equation and whether people

can think they can go for

that or do they need to

start signing up for these other events?

And some of these other

qualifiers are happening this month.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

I'm so confused by all the

ins and outs is do we have

a rule book yet?

Exactly.

That's all we can say.

Yeah, we don't have a rule book.

And the fact that someone

could qualify to go to the

CrossFit Games and not

attend an in-person event

prior to the CrossFit Games

is freaking crazy to me.

How?

We're not in COVID.

It's not the online semifinal like we did.

I don't understand it.

Well,

it happened in the past with the open

straight to the games in

that nineteen whacked out season.

Top twenty in the open got

an automatic bid.

Oh, in twenty twenty nineteen, you mean?

Yeah.

With the with the national

champions and all that.

Yep.

Crazy.

I don't get it.

Yeah.

I mean,

let's look at the semifinals when

you get like a handful of

athletes to the semifinals

that have no business being here.

Yeah.

Cause everything was online up to that.

There's no way to like

double check everything.

And you get five to ten

athletes at the bottom of

the pile that can't even do

some of the movements.

Right.

Now you're sending them

directly to the CrossFit games.

And they're going to take

the place of someone who

might have gotten third or

fourth in one of these

in-person semifinals who

clearly deserves to go to the games.

Yeah.

I don't, I mean,

Again, I'm trying to stay positive.

I know things change and I

don't want to shit all over it,

but it's frustrating.

And yesterday on Coffee Pods and Wads,

Peter responded to my reel

that was out there about

everybody being negative about the WFP.

I just want to quickly say.

And they said, well,

we're negative about everything.

We're critical of everything.

We do.

There's a difference in

being critical and there's

a difference in being negative.

Critical is taking facts

that are established and

saying that this is not the

way it's going to work.

Negative is saying things like, well,

if the WFP holds an event

and CrossFit holds an event

and the WFP has their

top-twenty athletes plus

the challengers and CrossFit has no names,

CrossFit will still outdraw the WFP.

Yeah, you don't know that.

You don't know that.

It hasn't happened yet.

Right.

It's you just being negative

about that sport in that moment.

It's not factual.

And it's okay to have that opinion,

but it's a negative opinion

about the WFP.

Yeah, and we're very critical of CrossFit,

but we've had twelve,

thirteen years of the

CrossFit Games to warrant

the criticalness of our commentary,

right?

In fact, we haven't had anything.

We haven't had anything.

Right.

We don't have any experience.

It's based on experience.

Right.

And we don't have experience

with this one.

So, yeah,

I totally understand the nuance there.

And the example they used

last night was the syndicate crown.

The syndicate crown hadn't

drawn that well the couple

of years before that.

What makes you think that

now that they're competing with the WFP,

all of a sudden their

numbers are going to go up?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now,

maybe they're talking streaming numbers.

I don't know.

But it just, that's all I'm saying.

And they're entitled to their opinion.

They can, if they want to think negative,

they can think negative.

I just,

I'm the naive guy that wants to

think positive and hope

that it has a shot.

Well, and you're keeping an open mind,

right?

I mean, believe me,

if something happens with

the WFP that we don't agree

with or that we think sucks,

we're going to talk about it.

Right.

But hopefully we have facts to back it.

Well, that's what I mean.

Like when, if,

and when something were to happen,

we will, we, it's not like we're going to,

we're not trying to elevate it to some,

you know, not putting it on a pedestal.

And I will admit that the,

that spin knows more about

what's going on behind the

scenes than I ever,

like that guy digs and he

has so many contacts.

He may know more about

what's going on than we do

and just can't say it.

And maybe that's what's

causing it to happen.

Um,

entitled to say whatever he wants to say.

Um, but I have,

I have the platform to rebut that.

So there it is.

Yes.

We are the masters of our own words.

We can say whatever we want.

Well,

I know we were pulling right up

against your twelve thirty deadline.

Yeah.

So short show today.

Uh,

but we'll be back tomorrow with lunch

with the Clydesdale.

Um,

Go Penn State tonight against Notre Dame.

Hopefully we're in the

national championship when

I speak to you tomorrow.

Other than that,

thank you for joining us

and we'll see you next time.

Peace out.

See ya.