What's going on, everybody? Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Roundtable. It's been a week. What's going on, everyone? Hey. We got the full team in. Mine is Charlie. Charlie's supposed to be in the chat with you all. I'm assuming lots of kids at home. No, they're at school. They go back to school, right? Yeah. Really? They're back to school already? Yeah. Wow. I'm not, but they are. I still have two weeks. That's awesome.
Yeah. I mean, I, to be honest, I was actually already doing some stuff right before we logged in here. Like I'm, I don't have to be physically there yet, but I've, I've got a lot of work to do to get ready. When does Natalie go back? We take her on Saturday.
Okay. okay so you're gearing up yeah here's what's funny about this is even my kids said to me did you get um why'd you get all dressed up for your podcast today I didn't get dressed up you mean put makeup on and do my hair I know it's so rare it only happens once every few weeks so that's so good how long have we been doing this podcast Four years. It's almost five. Yeah. Almost five, right? Yeah. Do you realize that like the majority of our listeners are listeners? Oh, sorry.
So you should read the comment. The comment said, Amy got Kat's hairdresser's number or something. I did my hair. I washed my hair. It's clean. It smells good. I blow dried it and then I curled it. It looks awesome. I am. I got my hair did yesterday. Yeah. So I just woke up this morning, slept on it, worked out and then fluffed it. Cause I can do that. See, I can't do that. Oh, I put extra goo in mine. There you go. Speaking of working out cat worked out this morning. What'd you do? I did.
Um, I did the, uh, A 15 minute AMRAP with a 25 double under five dumbbell push press, five dumbbell step over buy-in with a max calorie echo bike. So five rounds in three minutes, like a three minute in three minute intervals. So I got like, I didn't get many calories. I was kind of dogging it. I was quitting after like two minutes and 45 seconds to get a rest.
Um, think I got like 65 calories I think the the highest member at my gym got like 75 calories maybe for the five rounds um you ended up being on the bike for like a minute and a half minute 45 seconds two minutes if you were really fast but I used 20 pound dumbbells in a 20 inch box um but fun fact yesterday I did a workout with power cleans and um I did 85 pounds and it was like for reps it was a it was a lot of work. I was doing them as singles.
And I was saying to somebody like, um, I remember when I could do grace, my, my best grace time is like two 47 or two 27 or something like that. Grace. Yeah, 95 pounds, clean and jerks, like 30 in a row. And this was like sets of eight clean and jerks. And I was doing them at 85 pounds and it was like one at a time. Yeah. With breaks in between. I think I cycled like three, one of the rounds, I think it was doing like rounds of nine. It was so hard. I'm really out of shape.
Yeah. It's engine goes so fast. All of it. I'm losing a lot of strength, too, just from not lifting. But I did back squats yesterday, so tomorrow I will be dying, hurting in a lot of ways. That's what I expect. Day two. How about you? Scott, you don't work out today because of this podcast right here. Correct. Did you work out yesterday? My workouts look really shitty right now just because of the no antihistamine issue. It was a pretty nice day yesterday. Yeah. Did you walk yesterday?
You should walk. I probably did walk, Walter, a little bit. Okay. But I did get on the bike and just kind of hang out in my garage yesterday. Yeah. Charlie and I did a terrible workout today. Terrible. It was three rounds every 10 minutes. You do 12 calories on the bike, 12 burpee box getovers, 12 calories on the bike, nine burpee box getovers, 12 calories on the bike, six burpee box getovers. Yeah, three rounds of that.
It was a sprint because the goal is to be done around five minutes and then rest. What do you guys do for the getovers? Well, I coached it one way. And then when I did the workout, I did it a totally different way. I typically like to, do it like, um, like where I'm almost like diagonal towards the box. And then I placed my hands on the box and then jump my feet on top. And then I kind of twist and turn around.
Um, so are you piling, like, is it 40 inches or you're probably, no, no, no, no, no. It was 24 and 30 inches today. Oh, okay. Got it. So we didn't need to do that with other, there was no banding of, there's no Chad set up at the gym. Nope. But I did do, when I did the workout, I did do my burpee and then put my butt on the box and spin it around. Perfect. It was, it was, it counted.
We have, there's a lot of, uh, rowing program or burpee over rower programmed with Ibex and, uh, the people at my gym cannot, are not hurtling over a rower. So we always end up just doing regular burpees, but yeah. Burpee get overs. I think they, they dig. I like them. Interrupted. Yeah. Corey, six rounds, two minutes rest between, 32 heavy rope dubs, 16 GHD sit-ups, 10 thrusters at 115, eight-bar muscle-ups.
10 thrusters at 115. On a different note, Scott, my wife is traveling over to Alabama with her mother, Karen Dawkins, who will compete in the 65-plus next weekend. One, super excited to meet them. That's going to be awesome. Two, why hasn't she contacted me to have a profile done on this channel? Let's do it. She should. I interviewed Kelly Frio last week from the UK, and I'm interviewing a guy tomorrow from the UK. So, yeah. Hmm. I've not interviewed anybody from the Isle of Man.
Chelsea says, been a while since I've made a live. Amy, how goes the muscle-ups? We're still chugging along. Actually, I got my first entry from them. Let's see if you can see this. See this bruise? I'm going to lose this. Oh, yeah. What happened? Well, we've been working on... No, we've been working on some strength and it was, you know, like face down on a bench and like doing dumbbell rows. And so like I went to put the dumbbells down and I just slammed it right on top of my finger.
And that was that. But my I've been doing assisted strict muscle ups and they're looking good. My coach even said. I've been taking the online gymnastics course for the last year and a half because I just, I go to it and then I forget about it and then I revisit it. And now that I'm due for renewal on September 7th, I have to get my act together and finish it. And there's like 10 more modules to do.
But every time they talk about like arches and hollows, it makes me want to go back to like the basics. Cause I feel like, like I'm not even doing toes to bar. Right. in the gymnastics sense. So interesting. Apparently Jake's mother-in-law sounds like a pirate. Sounds fun. It does sound fun. He answers Jay Birch by saying, you just wait to hear a voice. It's like an extra from a Johnny Depp film. Okay then. All right. Definitely got to get her in the behind the scenes then.
Right. Did Mark reach out to you? Mark Peters? He did. Okay, cool. We're finalizing a time now. Good. Yeah, I have like maybe five for this week set up already and a couple kind of lingering. But like we leave next week, like next Tuesday. Okay. Are you going to ask you, what is your mode of transportation? Who are you going with? What are the details? Uh, I'm going with my wife. Okay. We are driving, um, so that we have a car. It can take the equipment, all of that.
Um, and it's like an eight hour trip to Birmingham. So that's about what we did to Madison. Yeah. Right. Amy. Yeah. Uh, I'd say a little less to Madison, but not, not by much. yeah um and then the team is caitlyn walters is a videographer jonathan ortega videographer and ellie hiller interviewer and then myself and ellie's an athlete right she is cool but they're gonna have two floors um They're going to have two floors, major, big size in this convention center running at the same time.
I don't know what that means for the stream. I know that it's going to mean for us splitting up into the two sections somehow to cover both. which is going to be wild with four people. It's three floor. The one floor is smaller though than the other two. I'm hoping that there's only like one or two events there. The floater wide. Will your wife remind you to pack your cords and take your medicine? Or do I also need to give you those reminders? Yes. She'll remind me, for sure.
And then also, I think she'll be a lot less annoying for you to travel with in the car than me. But... TVD. That's great. That's funny. Um... andrew said three floors two for individual one for teams so the teams are not they're a part of this but they're not like sanctioned as crossfit games winners um so that's going on as well during this is what so um jake's wife don't interview my wife though she's a retired olympian very boring Sounds like she has no stories at all to share.
No. Here's what Andrew said. I found it. Two floors streamed, two floors for individuals, one floor for teams. Please not an Aussie breakdancer. I don't know. I found it entertaining, Chelsea. They did take breakdancing out of the next Olympics, though. Do you know what that Aussie breakdancer did? It made every one of us believe we could be an Olympian. You're right. It gave a lot of us hopes. So much hope. Yeah. I mean, she's like 36.
I mean, so basically, I mean, you could start right now and train. My favorite was the dead fish. I think I could pull off that move. I love all the memes that have come out with it since. Uh, Corey's moving to Australia just to become an Olympic break dancer. Well, they're taking it out of, they're taking it out of the Olympics next time. So that's not a solid plan. Football's getting added. Um, okay. I like Carolyn's question here. What sport do you want to see added down the road in Olympics?
Well, I can't believe that pickleball isn't there yet, but I bet it will be. I mean, if you have badminton and ping pong.
pickleball will be there have you seen them play badminton and ping pong they move more than pickleball players fascinating I mean and then how high they throw the ball up to serve or the ping pong ball it's crazy I i would like to see added functional fitness would be interesting I mean, the IF3 has been trying to do that by creating like a standardized template to make functional fitness an Olympic sport. I'd like to see them. I know that's the boring answer, but it's what I'd like to see.
And that's led by Gretchen Kittleberger, right? Mm-hmm. So, yeah, that'd be mine. Okay. Kat, you got one? Can't think of one. Go ahead. Is bocce ball? Is bocce ball in the Olympics? It probably was at one point in time. I like street bocce ball. We play it like in the neighborhood where it's just like, I mean, you can, it's anywhere. Yeah. Fair game. Yeah. We call it hillbilly bocce. Wherever you can throw the pin. Now you got to make it there. Yep. Chelsea Miller wants bull riding.
That would be interesting. Lots of logistics there. Carolyn says, need more buy-in from game athletes from IF3. It needs to be more competitive. She's also surprised karate isn't in the Olympics. Taekwondo and judo are. Speaking of school, Carolyn, have you started back to school yet? I think Friday, she said. She does a mid-service day. Then everybody's back on Tuesday after the holiday. Okay. Which would actually be next week. Yes, next week. I watched your show on Sunday night.
And I actually retained some of what I watched. Look at that. Yeah, I think Charlie wants slap fighting. That's what he's talking about. Oh, see? He just put it in there. You are like magnificent. Okay. Anything else going on with you guys before we hit the one piece of news that I saw that I do want to bring up? I just got to take a kid back to college, and that's it. Yeah, my kids are, one of my kids goes to college very close to home, so it's not like she's even leaving.
And she technically moved into her apartment at the beginning of summer, just hasn't been sleeping there. Yeah. And my son went back last week, but I think he starts classes next week. He's got the most expensive apartment known to man, one bedroom furnished because he's fancy. He's bougie like that? And broke. So like how he does it, I have no idea. I don't know. It's annoying. But we do have some sad news. So I will break my sad news just because we should talk about it.
On July 2nd, my golden retriever bumper died suddenly. He was nine years old, had like a cardiac event, tumor out near his heart exploded, internal bleeding. Like the whole family met at the emergency room and we had to put him down like within an hour. Super shocking. The kids were, you know, the kids were wrecked because he was their dog along with the other two dogs that they have living with them. And now the 13 year old dog is on his last legs. He collapsed on Sunday.
I had to go rush home because Eliana was by herself and figure out what was wrong with him. He got blood work done yesterday. He is bleeding internally somewhere. We don't know where. He's like on his last, like we're on like the death watch with him.
He's either going to, you know, he's having these episodes of like, wagging his tail playing with the toy eating frozen broccoli like he loves to do going outside and everything else and then you know and then he'll like lie down for 10 hours and we're just like watching him so um yeah it sucks um so we we will probably in the next week or two be down to jojo the one crazy dog that lives uh at my ex-husband's house and then the sheepadoodle that I have here that lives with me so
went from four to two really fast. And it sucks. How close did you get those two dogs? Were they like, did you get them around the same time? We got them four years apart. So we had a golden retriever when, when we got dash and then that golden retriever died at the age of eight from some crazy cancer. And then dash, um, when dash was four, we got bumper. And then when bumper was four, we got Jojo. So it was like every four years we've gotten a dog.
Um, And so when bumper died, like we were, we, we were expecting dash to die for dash is 13 bumper was nine. So they're obviously like four years apart. So yeah, they grew up together. So, uh, we've had dash ever since Eliana was, you know, a baby she's she's 19. Now she was like five when we, when we got her. So, and he's like the grumpy old man, Scott, you met him. He's like a terrier. He's all kind of disheveled. And on Friday I went to the house and I gave him a haircut.
And I did so badly because the attachment that I used was like too short. And so he's got that hair that is like blonde at the base and black at the tip. And so if you don't cut it completely evenly, he looks like eight different colors. And I swear he looks homeless. Like he looks like he got ran over by a car, like just looking at him, his sides, he's got all these spots on them of like black and blonde hair. because I totally butchered his haircut and it was just on Friday.
And then Sunday this happened. I was like, he's not even going to look cute for his last little few days. But yeah, everybody's really sad. It just sucks. Totally. I'm sorry. Well, thanks for bringing the show down. I'm sorry. I had to talk about it. It was on my heart. No, no. I know what they, what they mean to you.
So. Yep. um corey with a joke uh so he looks like a boy band member for us exactly corey likes corey gets uncomfortable and makes jokes I think that's what it is I will post uh I'll post the video that eliana sent me last night of him playing with his squeaky toy on my instagram you can see what he looks like yeah it looks like spock yeah how long have you been doing this you have to read the comment out loud Oh, sorry. Shaming us on the podcast.
I think it's unclear who's pressing the buttons too. I think that's why I was like waiting for someone maybe to else to do that. But I know I I'm allowed to do that too if I want. So I'll start doing that. Jake said, I cut my son's hair. Either it looks like Spock or Dave Hill from Slade. Slade is a metal band from Europe, right? See, you shouldn't eat broccoli or green things. Yeah. That's what Charlie said. Dash eats frozen broccoli. That's like his favorite thing in the world.
You open up the freezer and he goes berserk. What was it? Yeah, from the 70s. I thought so. And then I cut Leia's hair over the weekend, but she's all matted on her legs, but not on her back. So I just cut kind of like her legs and her shoulder blades and blended the rest. And she looks like a character from CatDog. Like, I don't know if you guys know that cartoon, but she's super fluffy, like everywhere around her shoulders. And then she's got these tiny little stick legs. She looks ridiculous.
All right. So one piece of CrossFit news we're going to talk about. What do you got? And that is, it went around our group chat. It is that CrossFit announced that they are doing a third-party investigation. And... John Woolley, who I think is trying to become the new Andrew Hiller, is getting very expose-ish with his Instagram and his YouTube, where he is commenting on what he sees wrong in the space. And he makes an excellent point with this one. He does. It's a very good point.
So I'm going to share this. And hopefully I have it pretty much at the beginning. And I'll go ahead and play it around. Mr. Edge is this for me. He's worked the bulk of his career for the department of Homeland security and ice as a deputy director, the U S border patrol is the largest department in the department of Homeland security. again, where he was the director. This is notable because the United States border patrol has been a sponsor of the CrossFit games for the past two years.
I mentioned earlier that a third party review needs to be above approach and unimpeachable. And the guy running the investigation has direct ties and relationships with the sponsor. Now, Does that make him unqualified or biased? No, not necessarily. Again, I don't know him. He may be the most honest person on the planet, but out of the hundreds of people in firms, you could have gotten to run this.
You chose someone who is connected to CrossFit through a sponsor, and that raises a lot of eyebrows for me. You get the gist. Yeah. Go ahead. My initial reaction was, why can't you guys get out of your own way? Yeah. Yep. Why not consult with PFAA about... This has nothing to do with PFAA. Well, I know in his long one, he talks about that.
They weren't consulted about, I'm just saying that would have been a good start to consult together about where it should like, okay, CrossFit looks, you know, maybe throw some names in the hat. Maybe PFAA does too. And then maybe they come to an agreed upon group that's going to do that investigation. Well, you think the investment firm that owns CrossFit would be able to provide lots of names of people to do an independent investigation that don't even know anything about CrossFit, right?
I mean, that's kind of what you want, I would think. So this part of the thing I kind of agree with, with John, the PFAA, one I'm less inclined to believe, the PFAA is an association. It's not a union. they do not have an existing relationship or a contractual anything for them to go to them in this case. But my God can't how, like you said, there are hundreds of firms that you can choose from to get one guy that has no connection to what you do. And this is what you pick.
Yeah. It's almost as if somebody came forward and said like, I'll do it. Here are my credentials. If you're a good company, and at this point, we're not talking about CrossFit HQ. We're talking about Berkshire, whoever's running the show from the investment firm. I have zero confidence going forward that these people can do anything when this is the stuff that they're doing now. I get what he was saying with the PFAA in the longer version of this if it was a union.
But people have to remember the PFA, they could not get enough athletes to band together to make it a union, to stand up together. And that is the most difficult part of a sport that is more individual based than a team sport. That's why tennis and golf took longer to unionize than like football and baseball. That's interesting. Now, could you in good faith say, Hey, we want to take a collection of athletes and say, we want to do a third party investigation and want your input.
Sure. That's what I'm saying. Then just involve the PFAA. Or oversight. I just think it would have been a good move for a lot of reasons. Who am I? I'm just a preschool teacher that's talking on a Clydesdale podcast. You have as much authority as anybody else who's talking right now. I just... I'm having a real hard problem with the PFAA right now. And I haven't said any of that publicly. Because I want to see more facts before I talk even more.
But I did talk Sunday night about there's a lack of authenticity with some things going on that's really bugging me. And... i think that there's a an agenda push in a direction based on things that aren't related to a man's death but you're using his death to do it and I think that sucks I think the first thing you have to do is solve the problem of the man's death then once we do that then we can move on to the other stuff Yeah.
But as is being said in the chat, you know, there were no concerns brought up about run swim. And for then for you to and then for you to use that and say there have been complaints forever and blah, blah, blah. Like, yeah. But again, I want more facts before I go too far into it. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Yeah, I find it's really hard to, it's even hard to process it all without knowing exactly what's going on. Like, it's hard to know how you're supposed to feel.
And I think there's so many voices in our space that are taking stands. And I don't think that's wrong. Like, that's cool. with me, um, I just tend to be someone who's highly influenced by things that I hear and people that I see, especially people that I respect and care for and things like that. So I'm just, it's, I'm still struggling with all of it to sort of process it all.
Not quite sure how I feel about, you know, the surrounding circumstances, obviously, you know, Lazar's death is, is the easy one to feel a certain way about, but it's just so complex. And I hear viewpoints from people that I didn't think of necessarily. And I'm thinking, oh, okay, well, yeah, I get it. You know, and then I hear something else that's completely to the contrary of what I just heard, where I said I get it. And I'm like, yeah, okay, I get it.
It's just, it's hard for me to, I don't, I feel like I'm all over the place with my thoughts and feelings about it. Well, that's natural when there are no facts. Right. Well, I think that's what I was getting at. Like, it's really hard to say because it kind of, it's one of those things like, how do you feel? Well, it depends. You know, it depends. Yeah. And I don't know what it depends on yet because I don't know what that is, but it depends.
Yeah. Yeah. So I just, I hope and pray that local authorities give us more facts because now after John put this out, I don't trust the third party investigation. Right. Right. And a man, an acquaintance of ours died. Right. And I was very sad about that. And it has lingered on for a week. And it's going to keep lingering on until we get some facts about what happened and some kind of resolution as to correcting whatever it was that caused that. If there isn't.
But at least we'll know there was no resolution. Either way. Okay. And so, like, I think for us as a community to move on, we need facts and answers. And the problem is we just don't have any of them right now. Yeah. Yeah. You can't get closure is not the right word, but you can't get clarity around it when when there is no clarity around it. Right. Mm hmm. because you want to be mad. You want to be sad. You want to do all these things and you can't do any of it.
You have no idea where to point it to. So I have a lot to say about a lot of things, but I want facts to come out before I say them. Yeah. Yeah. And that's hard too, because we like to talk about things. That's what we do. Very hard not to talk. Yeah. But I think that that is the best way to handle it right now. Yeah. Because I mean, even, even today we're struggling for like content. It's like, so what's going on? Like, oh, well, my dog is sick.
Like, I don't want to backtrack what I said a week ago, like spend done. Right. Come out and all of a sudden, woo. Well, I didn't really mean that. I meant this. Sure. Yeah, it's hard. I mean, I will say that I've been paying a lot more attention to Instagram and YouTube than I was a month ago. I've paid less attention. I agree. I've actually really tried to be not involved in it because of what you're saying earlier.
I feel like it's influencing my feelings on things, and I don't want it to because I want to know more. you know, more facts. Yeah. Yeah. And I think for me, it's just, I'm searching for information. I get that.
And it's not like, yeah, it's not the information that I, that I need or want necessarily, but it's, I also think it's, you know, I hadn't really been too involved in the space prior to me going to the games and knowing I was going to the games, I sort of started to get back into it, you know, and, and now, you know, as a true diehard that I am like, I'm in it, I'm back in it. Yeah. Yeah. So I want to leave with just two quick things.
And that is, One of the byproducts of this whole thing is that I took some of the best pictures I've ever taken in my life. And I don't feel like I can post any of them. Right? So what I've kind of done in the background is... I've contacted athletes that are friends of mine and I've said, you know what? They're yours. I'm just going to, I'll edit them and you can have them no cost, no nothing. But, and then if you feel okay with doing that or not, that's your choice.
But I just didn't want them to go to waste. Yeah. Um, but then I would, so one of those people is Bethany. Yeah. Um, And after talking to her, I went and looked at her YouTube, which part one at the games. If you have not watched that. Okay. It is one of the most beautiful pieces of content in such a lovely tribute to Lazar. I highly recommend it. Caught a cat. It is real. It is raw. Like have a box of tissues beside you. I know. But that's just part one, part two still to come.
Um, it is, it is really, I'm like tearing up just thinking about it because she was in the ice tub when the search started and the video captures like her reaction to it all. Oh, wow. That's raw. I have a funny Lazar story. Can I, I want to try to bring one up once a week as we, as we meet. Um, so I was going through my DMS again from Instagram and I don't know if you guys remember, but the, one of the times that we had him on prior to the games, he was also going on the seven podcasts.
And it was like the same day or like maybe, you know, hours later or something like that. And I was sort of giving him shit about it. And I said something like, you know, well, ours is better than Savant's podcast. And he said, he said something like, oh, it's so hard. It's like picking your favorite child. He's like, you both are awesome. Yeah. And I, I screenshot and I sent a seven too. Cause I, you know, it was just funny. He was like, Oh, thanks. That was cool.
Yeah. I could just hear him in his voice too. Like saying it, you know, if he was speaking it. Yeah. I can't pick, pick your favorite child. Yeah. Oh, I love that. My lap. Well, I'll do a memory too. I can't remember talking to him where he wasn't laughing while he was talking. Yeah. The only time I can. Yeah. A giggle. The only time I can remember is when I was in the pit and he was getting no rep on his facing handstand pushups.
And he was so mad and spitting on his judge, not like intentionally spitting, but screaming so loud, like stuff is coming out at his judge. And, uh, But that showed, like, that he could be, he was funny and giggly and all that all the time. But when it came to, like, getting on the floor and going, like, it meant so much to him. It's because he was a passionate person. I mean, yeah. That's what you get. In all the things. Yeah, right. In all the things. Yeah, he's a competitor.
Yeah. Yeah, I probably, I was taking pictures at the time. So I need to go back to that year and see if I can find those. I need to go back and see if I have any video. So yeah, that's what I reposted it the other day. because I had forgotten I had taken that picture. And then I saw that somebody liked a photo and I was like from 2021, what the heck? And I go and I look, so somebody must've just looked up Lazar or whatever. This reminded me.
And I remember taking that picture and he was walking off the, the Coliseum and we were like, great job. And he like smiled and waved at us. And I was like, yeah. Yeah. I mean that he was, he was looking at us when you took that picture. It wasn't like he was. Yeah. That's cool. Well, that's the same year he was doing pull-ups off the railing. Yes. Right in front of you guys. Yeah. Right. Did I make it? Did I make it? Awesome. I love it. Yeah. We got to keep that going. Yep. Let's do it.
yeah I think that's a good place to end this um but yeah there's there's comments in the chat about how good that bethany video is um and the editing at the end man really like honest to god get tissues ready because it's it's freaking fantastic awesome um with that going to keep his memory alive uh and we will see everybody next time on the clydesdale media roundtable bye guys