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what is going on everybody
welcome it is lunchtime
lunch with the Clydesdale
we are back for another day
you know what that means
it's time for another dart
throw here we go dart in
hand uh went high again today
I think I got double nines
on that one but at least
I'm staying inside the
staying inside the numbers
a little bit um but we got
that one off uh corey's
already here that's awesome
I got a bone to pick with
you corey I was watching
cat show from last night
and I think your quote was
hey cat this is the best
show on the channel dude
you're on the channel
You were on the channel.
I'm just kidding.
Cat show was great last night.
If you had any doubts that
she was going to be
completely transparent,
those doubts had to have
gone away last night
because she told everything how it was,
man.
So yeah, if you have not seen the show,
I know it's starting to
become everybody's favorite date show.
So make sure you check that,
that check that out every
week on Wednesday at five
PM Eastern time.
Um,
and encourage her to
encourage her to keep doing it.
Um, she's three weeks in, man, we gotta,
we gotta make sure she
keeps doing it and whether
it stays with like dating
and maybe she finds someone,
maybe it evolves into something else.
Um,
she's just too good at like sharing
stuff to not have a space
on this channel and to have a show.
So make sure you encourage
her to keep doing that.
Um,
Because, yeah,
I actually was listening to
it this morning as I was
trying to do some testing at work.
And I've known Kat for five years.
I know how she is.
And it's so cool that she's
being that way on the air.
and and that's just how she
is like when we were
hanging out at a hotel or
hanging out at an airbnb or
hanging out at an event
somewhere like she just
that's how who she is um
meredith says she lays it
out there she sure does uh
she ain't scared to share
she put it all out there
she sure did and andrew
says if she finds someone
though the show will end I
don't I hope not I hope not
just hope it evolves into
something different right
um because she has thoughts
on a lot of different
things in and around
fitness and the space and
life and kids and the whole
thing and um and I I just
hope it evolves uh as as
she finds somebody because
we don't want her to date
the rest of her life just
for our entertainment um we
do want her to find someone
during this process so
I saw this on Instagram
today and I think this fits, um,
this fits my thoughts of
the day pretty well.
Uh, so I wanted to share that real quick.
Uh,
Mark safe from turning myself into a
box stall today.
My Instagram feed is so full of box dolls.
I don't,
and I don't even know how to do it.
I, I'll be honest.
Um,
I try to keep up with as
much technology as I can
doing this podcast thing
and coming on here every
day and doing reels and
different things like that.
But, man, when it gets to the AI stuff,
man, I am really,
really way behind the curve for sure.
So...
I see them everywhere.
Some of them are really cool.
I really like the way that
it adds the components
around the side to kind of
tell you about that person.
But again,
I don't know how any of it's done.
So there you go.
Andrew Sten says,
it's like the aging thing
from a few years ago.
Something new pops up and
everyone does it and it gets annoying.
Yep.
Yeah, I know, like,
I did the AI thing where it printed out,
like,
twenty different versions of you in
an AI.
Like, some look like you were in Star Wars,
some... I don't know.
Yeah.
That happened, too,
and everybody had their AI
portraits done.
So, yeah.
It seems like she can easily
chat on any topic.
She sure can.
That's really how, like, we met.
Like, we met...
A mutual friend of ours told
me that she had a really cool story.
I had her on the show as a guest.
It's one of the few people
I've done a pre-interview
with before because she was
nervous and just wanted to
kind of walk through it.
And from that moment, we became really,
really good friends because
we could just talk about
anything and anything.
And it's been a fun five
years having her as a friend.
And it's really cool seeing
her have this much
popularity with a show and
it be pretty successful so far.
So yeah, awesome stuff.
So I guess there's a bit of
news in the CrossFit space.
If people did not see,
there was an announcement
last night from one Miss
Tia Claire Toomey that she
was going to be saying
goodbye at the Torian Pro
to this chapter in her life.
I know a lot of people are...
hung up on the fact that she
just is saying goodbye.
She didn't really say she's retiring.
I guess I'm having a hard
time finding the clip she
put on Instagram.
But she's also on the Proven podcast,
so here we go.
She put out,
this is from her YouTube video.
It is a clip from her
YouTube video that she put
on Instagram where she talks about
as most of you know in may
I'm taking the floor at the
torian pro and so it's been
known that she was going to
go to the torian pro uh
there have been predictions
that that would be her last
event we kind of
we brought up those thoughts
on the Sunday night show a
while back that is it
possible that Torian be her
last show or her last show,
her last competition and
her just walk away.
And I think the only like
feedback that I got from
anybody was that it's a
weird place in the season
to kind of call it.
because you're midway
through the season and then
you're just hanging it up.
And so it just seems a little bit weird,
the timing of it all.
But I think if you look at
last season and the way it ended,
I believe that there was a
good chance that last
season was going to be it for her.
But because of the things
that transpired at the games,
she was unable to retire.
And I could be wrong.
This is like a large
assumption on my part.
And then after the season,
she started looking in
other avenues to kind of
find her passion.
And, um,
And she found it in some
other things that she can
put her fitness toward.
And then she decided, Hey, why?
I think just in the off season,
she decided, Hey,
I'll do the open enough to qualify.
I'll get my invite to the
Torian pro and I'll go back
home and I'll say goodbye
in front of my own fans.
And I think that's cool.
It's just weird.
It's in the middle of the season.
But I totally get why you
would want to be in front
of your home crowd where
all your family could be there,
all of your friends, where it all started,
and you could finish it
right there in front of everybody.
So,
although I do think it's weird in the
middle of the season, and then, you know,
it'll be one of those if she wins,
she's not going, she's going to decline,
so the next two people get to go.
But I think we can live with
all that for the greatest
person to ever compete in
CrossFit decides to hang it up.
Weird to be winning two and
then relinquishing that
spot to the runner-up.
think it's weird but she is
the goat I think she's the
greatest crossfitter of all
time and if she wants to do
it in front of her home
crowd um this is the
biggest competition that australia has
um but if it is her last why
not announce before touring
to give her country time to
buy tickets and so I
completely agree t-bird I
think that that's what this
is about it is to get
everybody that she wants to
be there uh the opportunity
to be there I'm sure she's
told people close to her
before this announcement um
but I do think
torian has never had a hard
time selling tickets so I
don't think like they were
struggling to sell tickets
but I um but I think yeah
that's kind of it um might
she just be stringing us
along again will she one
hundred percent compete in
high rocks maybe go team I
really I mean what else is
there for her to accomplish
I, I think like you've won seven times.
Um,
I think she wants to do something that
challenges her, uh, helping says,
and I did see this right
before I went on air.
Uh,
she now has an hour long pod out today.
Haven't watched all of it,
but there are some tidbits.
She says she isn't doing
online semis that she
started high rocks because
CrossFit was moving more online.
Okay.
I know that she has said
doing High Rocks gives her
that community feel.
Meredith says on Barbell Spin,
they wondered if she was
going to do Rogue.
She's a Rogue athlete,
so I'm sure she's going to
get an invite because she is Tia.
if she wants to do it or not
at the very least,
she's going to get an
invite to be at legends and
get all the same stuff that
every other athlete gets
and just get to hang out for the weekend.
Um, so, but I, I,
that thing that Mike said about, uh,
that CrossFit's moving more
online and her wanting to
be more with the community,
that actually rings out
pretty true to me of a
reason why someone would
want to walk away,
especially after seven titles, man.
Like she's just, she's done it all.
She wants to compete though.
Like in competing online is not the same.
I mean,
I talked to Carolyn and Jamie about
this all the time, you know,
Jay Burch says,
I hear Torian's a great
place to volunteer.
I hear Torian is just a great place to go,
period.
Like, it is a rock show.
Darren Hunsaker.
Darren Hunsaker said, dang,
I was just about to post my retirement.
I'll wait.
Yeah,
I think Darren missed that ship a
while back.
Halpin says,
I could see her doing Waza
Sokal again as well.
Yeah, she's into that team stuff.
And it looked like from the
tier behind the scenes,
she had every bit of the
fire in that event as she
does at any other event.
have one criticism with the
way that it kind of went
down at tier so socal but
I'm gonna save that for
another time because this
is about tia and what she's
accomplished and the kudos
that she deserves um moving
forward because she is she
is the greatest crossfitter
I've ever seen um I think
what's crazy is it
completely changes the
dynamic of this year's
crossfit game season
Because with her out and Laura out,
it is completely wide open
as to who is going to win
the CrossFit Games this year.
It is going to make it epic
in a way that I have been...
hoping for in a while that
we just do not know who's going to win.
And that's,
what's made the men's side so
exciting right now is you
have a group of like five,
six guys who all have the copy,
all have the capability of
winning the CrossFit games.
And now you're going to have
the same on the women's side.
The predictions are going to
be insane because it could
be any of a group of
Ken Walter says,
must be nice to be able to
pass up on three hundred
fifty K automatic check for
at least the next three to five years.
Well,
I think calling it an automatic check
is a little bit of a misnomer.
She still has to put in the work.
She still has to go win the
competition to get the
three hundred fifty K. And
this year it ain't going to
be three hundred fifty K
with the open signups.
It is not anywhere near three fifty.
But I get what your point is,
but at some point her body
is going to break down a little bit.
Uh,
T bird wants to go to Tori and just to
see Mr. Mr. Perform.
They're so great.
Oh my gosh.
I haven't heard that name in a long time.
They were so big when I was
in high school.
So big.
I had the cassette and I
used to listen to it on my
Walkman on my way to my swim meets.
um ken says but she is tia
she is but like we're all
human we're all human and
nothing in life is
guaranteed who is next up
to be the champ that I I
would need to really sit
down and think about who I
think is next up to be
champ and I want to see who qualifies
I think it's much harder to
qualify for the games this
year than it's been in the years past.
So I want to see who makes it through, um,
before I really sit down
and analyze who I think is
going to win the games.
So, um,
but it it was just a crazy
announcement um I I
wouldn't say like I'm super
shocked I I mean I heard
John Young predict this I
heard other people kind of
predict it when it was said
it made sense to me um so
when I saw it it wasn't too
shocking but what
I do want to say is we'll
talk about this more on
Sunday night because I want
to get Carolyn and Jamie's
perspective on this.
But she's the greatest
living CrossFitter in the world.
She's won seven times.
Most of those years,
it wasn't even questioned
whether she was going to win or not,
that she won by such a
dominating fashion.
But she was involved in
probably the three best
finishes on the women's
side at the CrossFit Games.
two of them she did not win
when it was Sarah Catron
and her in two thousand
fifteen and sixteen all
with a chance to win in
both of those years going
into the final event.
That was amazing.
And then in two thousand seventeen,
the most epic finish ever
with her and Cara Saunders
going down the floor and
Cara Saunders getting that
no rep on the kettlebell
overhead right before the finish line.
And then Tia winning by just
a point or two.
I don't know the exact spread that was,
but it was so stinking close.
And people did not know
which Australian had won
until it was announced on the floor.
But before her dominating performances,
she was part of the three
greatest finishes on the
women's side of the CrossFit Games.
And so because of all that,
in the first two years,
nobody even really knew who she was.
She wasn't even in the documentaries.
Like nobody filmed her
because they didn't think
she had a chance.
And she finished a second,
both of those years.
And then in her coming out
party to have that epic
finish against Cara to win
the CrossFit Games just
took her to another level.
And after that, there was no looking back.
After that,
nobody could even hold a candle
to what she was doing.
And then she dominated the
sport from that point forward.
And the only event she
hasn't won since then on
the individual side was
Rogue when she came back
six months postpartum and
took second in that event,
which is completely insane.
Uh,
the twenty sixteen doc was hilarious
with them talking about how
they missed her.
That was twenty fifteen when
they they missed her
completely and she's in
like the last two minutes of the doc.
Twenty set twenty sixteen is
where she had the meltdown
after because she lost and
she had lost all confidence in herself.
And if you look at that
moment and at that point in time,
she didn't know what her future was.
And then to see where it is now,
oh my gosh, like the,
the climb from that time at
the end of the
to what she became.
I mean, she was beaten down.
She was crying because she
had lost all confidence in
herself and the ability to
win the CrossFit Games.
And after that moment,
she went back to the lab.
She got her stuff together.
She comes back in twenty
seventeen and win seven
CrossFit Games since.
Only one of those years did she not win,
and that's because she
wasn't there because she had given birth.
what what an amazing feat my
my faith you know I started
my my crossfit life and on
the competitive side as a
volunteer and I was
volunteering at the games
when that went down oh my
gosh to be there that day
for that finish was
incredible just completely
incredible uh one of the
favorite memories in my life
But you can take nothing
away from this woman.
What she did after that,
she left everybody in her
dust from that point forward.
So super happy for her.
You know, you can tell she is
knee deep in love with
Willow and loves that girl to death.
It wouldn't surprise me if
she wants to build a bigger
family as well.
And it's the perfect time
for her to go do that.
Corey Leonard says,
I still laugh at Pat
Sherwood talking about Cara
being faster because she
didn't do all the reps.
Cara didn't do all the reps.
It's faster if you don't.
True.
Still epic, epic CrossFit games that year.
so uh that is the tia story
um I'm we will talk more
about it sunday night for
sure um carolyn got to
compete against her I'd
love to hear her
perspective uh and jamie
has been around the scene
for all of that I'd love to
get her perspective so
we'll talk about that for
sure on sunday night and
get some of their greatest
memories of tia uh the
other thing I wanted to
talk about is and we've
been talking about this for
a couple days is the
age group semifinalists are
getting more validated
videos over the last few days.
And I said yesterday that
that Carolyn got all of hers validated.
She posted that on her
Instagram and she ended up
moving from third to first.
And so she ended up winning
She ended up winning the
semifinal for the thirty
five to thirty nine year old division.
If all things hold true,
someone would have to gain
points in order to pass her
and not have points taken away.
But she has a forty a thirty
nine point lead in first
place now after all of the
video reviews and hers are all valid now.
And then I did find out yesterday,
last night actually,
that Jamie got all of hers
validated as well.
And she moved from eighth to sixth.
So she moved up two spots.
So congratulations to my two
co-hosts as they are,
now that all videos are validated,
have qualified for the CrossFit Games.
so uh I cannot wait the fact
that they're here in my
hometown man I'm like I
know I have said I'm having a party
I'm having a cookout.
Something is happening here
at my house that week.
I'm celebrating what's going on there.
And I can't wait to be able
to cover those here in my hometown,
sleep in my own bed for the entire week.
That's going to make things awesome.
So
Couldn't be more excited about that.
Now I've got to get my request out to Joe,
see if I can do behind the scenes again,
put together a killer team
this year to make sure that
we cover it well and get a
good product out after all of this.
Corey said there's been a
bunch of movement in forty
five to forty nine.
I think people have been
getting some serious score
adjustments because I'm
back to seventy six now.
It's been moving a bunch.
Yeah, man, you keep climbing.
What,
you're only forty forty forty six
away now.
Just forty six more adjustments, man.
So.
Yeah, I haven't done a deep dive.
I know Halpin has like the
spreadsheets with the
Google Docs with all the adjustments.
I haven't had an opportunity
to go look at it yet.
But it's going to be fun.
It's going to be fun.
Corey says year forty eight
of not making the games.
happens is my friend Dave
Powell is second in six to
sixty four my gym will be
there in Columbus to cheer
him on yeah I just want to
and I could not be more
excited for that at all I
was I was telling my wife
last night like my next
couple weeks are insane I'm
generally an extrovert and
I and I am cool with like
cool with like being out on
the road doing stuff around
people but starting
tomorrow it's Easter
weekend my daughter's
coming home with her two
dogs we're gonna have
Easter she has to do some
pictures some senior
pictures for some people
then we have to run her to
get a pickup truck
that she is going to use to
go to Montana in,
and then she's going to buy
a car out there.
So we have to get her and
it's like two and a half
hours away where the pickup truck is.
So we've got to get her there.
And then I get my second car
back and we'll drive that back home.
Then at some point early this week,
I have to get in my car,
drive to Pittsburgh,
help her load up the pickup
truck and the trailer.
Then come back home.
Then she's going to come
across from Pittsburgh to Columbus,
pick me up,
and then we're going to head to Montana.
So that goes all the way
till the end of next week
into the weekend.
We're moving her into her
apartment next weekend.
Monday, I will fly home.
Tuesday through Friday, I work again.
Then that weekend is my
mom's eightieth birthday,
so we're going to
Pennsylvania to celebrate
her eightieth birthday.
Then after that, two days later,
my wife is having her
second total knee replacement,
so I've got to take her in
for that and then be her
caretaker after we get her
home that Tuesday night.
And then WFP is that weekend.
And I think after thinking about all this,
I'm just going to watch that from home.
Because I just can't... I
can't keep hammering the
gas and expect to come out
on the other side okay.
So...
So Denise said,
my training partner has all
her videos validated.
She won fifty five to fifty nine.
That's Cindy Hinkle.
Cindy's awesome.
So you should be so proud of her.
So she took first.
You took fourth.
Awesome job, Denise.
Probably doing what I did in
Birmingham again,
but would like to help Andrew Sten.
I didn't see what Andrew said.
I did take the advanced
judges course if your team needs help.
Um, maybe Margo will be in Montana.
Maybe.
I don't know where Margo is.
I should reach out to her.
Um, cause my,
my daughter will be in great falls,
Montana, uh, working for, I,
now I can't even remember
the name of the company off
the top of my head.
Um,
So yeah.
And then we're, and again, I've,
I'm really looking forward
to the time with my daughter next week.
Um, and,
and just kind of hanging out and bonding.
Um,
not so much or two dogs because I'm
allergic to them,
but we'll figure that out somehow,
some way.
Um,
But yeah,
it's going to be a rough few
weeks and sometimes I just
need to relax and I don't
get that until sometime mid-May.
Halpin said,
even the old athletes are too
fast for me to judge.
Yeah, some of them are pretty damn fast.
It is insane.
Um, Margo lives in Vegas.
She, she does,
but I think that I still
think she has property in Montana.
I, I think I need to reach out and see,
honestly,
I haven't talked to Margo in a while.
I used to talk to her all the time.
So, but yeah,
so that's next couple of weeks.
And, um,
I did break down and buy an
iPad with self-service so
that I could do the show from the road.
Um,
So we're going to do that as well.
Um, so I think on my trip across country,
um, I'm still going to do the lunch show.
Come on.
And wherever we're at, um,
wherever we're at, we'll stop.
Maybe it's Mount Rushmore.
Maybe it's the Badlands.
Maybe it's just some field in Iowa.
I don't know.
We'll, uh,
We'll stop and hang out.
It's not Iowa.
I'm not even going through Iowa,
but maybe one of the
Dakotas or Minnesota or one
of those places.
I'll stop.
Maybe I'll stop in Minnesota
and see Ken Walters.
Who knows?
But we're going to take the iPad.
We're going to do the show from the road.
So maybe you get to see some
sights and sounds of the
road while we're on the way.
And I'll do Sunday Night CrossFit talk,
not this week,
but next week from Montana.
So should be really fun.
Once everything is solidified,
you'll be doing age group
interviews again.
Uh, should be.
Yeah.
I'm really slow for some reason.
Like I've just been really
slow on the interviews this year.
Um,
I don't know why.
I don't know why I,
I did the one with Ariel.
I did Hattie Cano had Justin color on.
Um, but yeah,
I need to pick up the pace of
that a little bit.
It seems like everybody that
pops into my head to have
on the show has either just
been on a show or is just
going to be on a show or
they're just going to a
competition and I don't
want to interrupt until
they're done with that comp.
So it's, uh,
But yeah,
the age group athletes are the
most fun for me.
And I really want to dive
into that and dive into
what happens at the games
and doing the behind the scenes again,
because that was so much fun.
I have some ideas of who I
want my dream team to be.
So I want to put together a
team that does some amazing
stuff at the Masters
CrossFit Games to get some
fun interviews.
But we'll see.
We'll see where we go from there.
Well, guys,
it's been a wild morning at work.
I think this is going to be
it for today so I can get
back to it and get caught
up on all of that stuff.
But it's been fun again.
You guys are the best, as always.
Love each and every one of you.
And I know,
I think it was that yesterday
someone asked, Lynn asked about, oh,
it was Sunday night.
Lynn asked about meet and greets.
We really got to get better about that.
If we are going to an event,
we need to set up like a
meet and greet where people
can come hang out.
And the group that hangs out
with us can hang out and
get to know each other,
the people from the chat, all that stuff.
Yeah.
so I will do better with
that too if we're going to
some event we will set up a
meet and greet where we can
hang out we can take
pictures we can have fun
whatever it is but we are
definitely doing a meet and
greet barbecue at my house
for the masters crossfit
games I am telling you that
so there you have it uh
halpin said you should own
the masters interviews those are great
I will do those again.
Those are a lot of fun.
And they're really low pressure.
It's just... And this is just some...
inside baseball,
but it's the research on
people that aren't super famous.
Like I want to go into an
interview prepared to be able to,
if need be,
carry the interviewee for as
long as I have to,
to make them comfortable to
tell me stories.
So it's,
It's getting to know enough
of their backstory from
research to be able to like
carry it until they get
comfortable and open up and
then tell their own story.
That's kind of my plan with those.
And so it takes a lot of
work away from the
interview to prep for that.
I hope that makes sense.
And Train to Live, if you have someone
that you want me to interview,
definitely send them my way.
What I did last year is I
just put out an open call and I got,
I got a ton of people that, uh,
that wanted to come on and
be interviewed.
I just put it out on Instagram.
If you're a master's athlete
going to the CrossFit games, hop in.
Um, so yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I did and it was
awesome last year.
I actually got to know
Denise from Legends the year before.
I can't wait to see you too, Denise.
Met her and Cindy the year
before she won Legends.
And I did an interview
series where I did all the
champions of the Legends competition.
And then I got to know
people even more with that open call.
Ken Walters wants to know if
helping is incognito.
That's above my pay grade.
I can't tell.
I can see comments.
So the software we have
shows me comments that are
happening on YouTube,
even though I'm not on
YouTube as we speak.
And then it gives me the
ability to pull those over or not.
And it actually shows me
comments from Facebook, Twitch,
and YouTube.
So...
And thankfully,
most of you on YouTube
can't see the Twitch
comments because they are
wild and bizarre sometimes.
But... None of them are...
There's no comments from Twitch today.
Thank goodness.
I shouldn't say thank goodness.
We love our Twitch followers.
But man, sometimes they get wild.
So...
And Denise can see Halpin's comments.
And so can Andrew.
So it just must be Ken.
All right, guys.
What's been another fun day.
I am actually starving too.
I'm actually ready to go
have lunch as the Clydesdale.
Um,
I made these really good burgers last
night on the grill.
And I think I'm going to go
have one of those.
Uh,
I'm going to have one of
those and what should I have with it?
Maybe some veggies.
Anyway, I'm starving.
I'm going to go do that.
You knuckleheads get back to work.
Lunchtime is over.
Thank you for being here.
Love you all.
See you next time, guys.
Lunch with the Gladstale.
Bye.