what's going on everybody it is a friday afternoon lunch hour episode of the clydesdale lunch with the clydesdale yeah that's me um man what a slow crossfit news week it has been we had mayhem and then we kind of got all that out of the way and then it's just kind of been waiting for the next shoe to drop uh and there's no other in person qualifying event until next weekend in copasur so um just kind of uh just kind of going through what we can here so um what I wanted to talk about a
little bit today is I got a couple comments yesterday a couple texts um I talked a little bit about the dress code policy that we have for my job even though we work from home And I used a term head to toe, and that's really my term. It's not in the policy. But when you read the teleworking policy, it says you must adhere to the full dress code of the agency that we work for.
then when you go to the agency dress code policy it says that you must wear a collared shirt dress slacks dress pants um you must wear dress shoes and um and then it has like things that it forbids and one thing that um captured the attention of a couple people I talked to yesterday was it actually forbids any color of hair not in not in a natural sense and then it says for example green blue pink because people are not born with those colors of hair those are forbidden as part
of the dress code which is just insane to me are we really still in um but anyway I just wanted to clear that up that the head to toe comment was actually my way of expressing that even though only my upper torso is showing just like it is on this show right now, uh, when I'm in a work meeting, only that much of me shows. Um, uh, so even though that's all, I still am required by the policy to wear dress pants and dress shoes, um, and a colored shirt.
Um, what I do is, uh, I actually have an oversized pair of pants and oversized. Um, I have five collared shirts in the closet that's right behind me where I work from. And when I, it's time for a meeting, I just throw the pants over top what I'm wearing. I throw the colored shirt over top of my shirt that I'm wearing.
Um, and so I appear in the meeting in full dress code, uh, whatever full required, what is required of me so that I am in compliance just in case one day, if they said to me, Hey, stand up, we want to see your lower torso to make sure you're in dress code compliance. I would be able to do so.
But it's, it's really and there's there's a whole thing and I was talking to lex by text yesterday where it talks about that you might your hair must your grooming must be in order and and it's really like loose where the executives can really just attack whoever they want to attack because the uh The grooming bit is, man, if you have a bad day or your hair's just not going right and someone wanted to pick on you, they could say you're not groomed well.
It's just insane and archaic, and I can't believe we're still in this era. But anyway, yeah, it's what I deal with, but it's my job.
try to do it to the best of my ability I'm going to be back in a in an office by the end of the year anyway and then I'll have to be in full dress code anyway so um lynn says hair that well that's me out with my purple hair yeah it is the the uproar that came from that that's not even a newer policy that came out before we left the office and it got fought big time because um depending on cultures like And those, the hair colors are, it just looked at differently and it was
fought big time back then, but they lost somehow and I don't know how. But yeah, purple hair would not be allowed, Lynn.
what's weird is like they allow red even if it is not like a natural what a redhead would would wear because to be able to come down to what where is the line of where it's natural and unnatural is too hard to come by so they allow all reds but they don't allow blue they don't allow green they don't allow purple pink any of those it's it's pretty crazy um And there was even arguments that some of the older women say their hair is naturally blue. Um, but that, that failed as well.
So, uh, uh, train to lift says you're basically Superman. I am. Um, I change in and change out of clothes constantly throughout the day. Now, if I have back-to-back meetings, I just leave them on. Um, but like, I don't want to wear dress clothes down here to do this. Um, do surprise meetings count? Like when someone calls you randomly to get clarification on something they do. Um, but I'm pretty fast and I have everything sitting beside me for the day.
Uh, so I can get in and out of clothes quickly. Uh, Corey says, dude, asking you to stand up to check, to see if you're in compliance for a job, for a job where you're working from home is some. Shit. It is. It's crazy.
um and lynn says I guess she's going ginger yep it's so stupid it's it's funny like I've always wanted to do like the faux hawk in like a blue tip thing um but I've never been able to do it because I my job I pays my bills so and jeff jay birch is saying uh he's singing the song express yourself not with the state of ohio you are not allowed to do that so anyway I just wanted to kind of wrap a bow around that because we talked about it yesterday and I did get a lot of comments
some people texting me asking me clarifying questions and so just to clarify um that that's where we're at um And man, with my allergy, some days I have like a really bad day and my eyes are puffy, things like that. And to like be on camera, cause you have to be on camera for everything now. And it's really hard, but I guess I'd have to do that going into the office.
And I think that's where like the working from home is crazy because if I'm sick or I have a really bad allergy day or things are puffy or whatever, like I'll just work through it cause I'm working from home. But if I have to go into the office, man, I'm probably calling off sick and then you're not even getting me for those eight hours in the day. Um, I don't understand the obsession with bringing everybody back to work.
For some people who don't work with the public or don't do things like that, it just doesn't make any sense to me.
And then in our city, because it was announced, and we're the capital city of Ohio, that everybody has to return to work, the real estate companies are now charging four times the rent on the buildings because the state is trying to find places to put people and and pick up leases again but they're the building I was in before I left they went back to try to get it and the rent price on it is four times what it was when we left so they're being gouged now for that and they're going to pay four
times as much to get people back to work as they would be to to work from home And I've said this a million times, I test things in our system and I test them for what the customer would see. The customer is not inside our firewall, so I get actually better results on my testing by working from home and working outside the firewall to test what I'm doing.
and then it's just me going into a system and trying to break it and doing things like that I'm much I get way more done when I'm here at home because nobody is interrupting me I can just put my head down and go through the whole test I don't have to worry about someone coming up to my desk and asking for anything or whatnot so It doesn't make sense to me, but I'm just tired of fighting it. It's an inevitability, and we're going to be back soon. Jason Bourne, the government is back asswards.
It is so that much. It is so that. Jaybert says, do you have a Republican governor or legislature? We do. No TPS reports. Um, I I've worked under both Democrat and Republican governors in my time here. And, um, it always, it all seems the same when you're inside of it all. Um, they all have their, they all have their, their agendas. They all, I dunno, it just is, it's bizarre. But right now we have Governor DeWine.
And I was born and raised a Republican, but I'm not a fan of Governor DeWine and the actions that he's taken. So... I don't know. I really don't like any politicians at this point after working for both sides. I've not seen anything from any of them that have... I shouldn't say I haven't seen anything. They all come with their faults. And working for both sides, I've had trouble with both. So I don't really lean one way or another anymore.
I just don't like... I don't like politics anymore after working for the state. I'm just over it. ACRS, what's for lunch? That I have to determine. My wife is actually leaving after work today to go back to Pittsburgh to help my daughter pack as we are moving her to Montana in less than two weeks now, which is totally blowing my mind. Can you believe Easter is like next weekend? Where has time gone?
I can't even... man so in in a little over a week I'm going to be packing up a u-haul uh driving across the country to montana with my daughter unpacking her in a new apartment there with her two dogs and then flying back to columbus um after that and it's gonna be it's gonna be a crazy crazy trip um Uh, Corey Leonard's birthday is in six days, just in case everybody needs some time to buy a gift. Uh, you have six days left.
So, yeah, so we're going to go, we're going from Columbus up to Chicago, up to Madison, up to Minneapolis, and then across like Fargo, Bismarck all the way to great falls. Um, and. with that, we're going to pass the Badlands. We're going to pass Mount Rushmore. We're going to stop at those places. Um, the Badlands, the more I look into it, the more I am really psyched to go see that. Um, so I'm really pumped for that.
Um, as well as even though Jay Birch has poo pooed my visit to Mount Rushmore, I'm still looking forward to it. Um, just to kind of see it and move on. But, uh, but it's going to be fun. And then my daughter will start her new life as a, as a professional photographer with a company, um, doing their catalog and their social media and their websites, uh, and all the apparel that they sell. So that's going to be awesome for her. And I can't wait for that to happen for her.
One thing, one bit of news that came out today, and I don't even know if it's that newsworthy, is the WFP has announced who is going to be in Indianapolis in the pro qualifier or the pro division out of the qualifier. And so this is the list of athletes that qualified. My... My biggest question about this list, and it doesn't say it in the comments or in the narrative, is did these people accept their invitation to Indianapolis, or are they just the qualifiers?
Because I think on the men's side, it is the top ten people in the qualifier, from one to ten, all of them. And so I'm wondering if they all accepted. And then on the women's side, it's one to eleven. There may be one change because I thought Var, Thurman, Moe was the last qualifier, but maybe I was only counting to ten. And then Oda Lundikvam is also in there at number eleven. So I'm just curious because it doesn't say that they've accepted.
It just says that these are the people that qualified because I know they do backfill these positions. Um, and if it's just qualified, we knew this when they locked the leaderboard like a week ago. So I don't know why it's newsworthy unless they've accepted. Um, Ah, so yeah. So Otis because Jamie Green couldn't make it. That is, or Jamie Simmons. I call her Jamie Green too, Lynn, and it's hard. So yeah, so I guess this is people who have accepted because Jamie did not accept.
And so we do have a little bit of a different list on the women's side. I agree with you, Lynn. I think it's accepted because others qualified but couldn't travel. Yeah, so this is the lineup that's going to be added to the signed athletes.
and you know everybody's gonna I mean everybody knew colton was going after it anola kai nate ackerman tolamore akinyo tanner belas danny camacho colin bassard nick matthew fabian benito and chris ibarra uh it's a pretty good um that's a pretty good lineup on the men's side to be added to that uh andreas oberg ella wilkinson annika greer fisa goffi like c neely Lydia Fish, Linda Keesman, Trista Smith, Emily Rethwell, Var Thurman Moe, and Oda Lukunvan. That's pretty awesome.
so uh I think that those are pretty good lineups um to go into the pro division what's crazy is and is that abby domet did not make the qualifier for the pro division she's only in the challenger and she talked about it on the spin this week that she's not great at online qualifier she's better in person um And I think this goes to show it. That's why she went for it at mayhem and didn't really have a backup plan.
It was, I'm going forward at mayhem and, uh, to qualify and what a tight race to, for it to be like, I know she had other opportunities if she didn't make it, but for it to be like your one shot mentally and how close that was at the end. Wow, man. Good on her, though. Sometimes you just got to put yourself in that situation and let the cream rise to the top as you get there. I'm not sure who else is gaining from this comp experience, men or women.
Um, it's good for Lydia fish and Trista to compete in. I think any competition, especially for young athletes, that they can get some experience head to head is really good for them. Um, I think we found that when we came out of COVID and the young athletes at that time never competed on the floor because everything was online during the COVID year. And when they got there, they, they struggled in person events.
Um, And so I think any experience that any athlete can get on the floor head to head is really, really important. And I think what Craig's saying here, and if I'm missing the interpretation, is that you're asking who is gaining more from this competition, the men or the women? I don't think there is a difference in what they're gaining. I think they're both gaining experience. Any head-to-head competition is good for them. I'm excited for Oda and Var.
Krieger has been churning athletes and I'm pumped to see them bring it in. Yeah. Kristen Holta and that crew are just building an empire in Norway. It's going to be, I'm really sad that, that Mathilde Garnes did not, was not able to compete. She's one of my favorite athletes. She's done well with the Krieger system. So yeah, bummed for that.
so another thing that's happening tonight is the public judging window for the age group semifinals ends this evening um and at that point then crossfit will take the votes that have been given and they are going to then go back and do a second review um do a second review of those that need reviewed in their opinion based on the numbers and then we should have a final a final age group qualification in about ten days um it's such a long time to wait for those athletes they put so
much into this and man the the online thing just is terrible. I did. I was encouraged that Dave said that he loved what mayhem did in an affiliate and maybe they could do some of those types of things for the age group, uh, semis as well and find a way for them to, to qualify in person. I know there's a couple, uh, masters type at, um, competitions. There's the pit, um, to do for the teens, I think it'd be cool if there was some opportunity, uh, for them to qualify in person.
I, we talked about it briefly yesterday about the difference between online and in person. And some people were really good at one and maybe not the other. I know like Jamie would love to compete in person to qualify as opposed to online. Um, so it'd be cool to have that option. If you are a better in person athlete than you are an online athlete. But we'll see.
I mean, it would depend on partners being willing to have those events because I don't think CrossFit themselves would actually invest in holding those events. But yeah, I can't wait for those to be finished and us to get final results on who's actually coming to Columbus at the end of the year. It'll be good to get those officially out there. Of course is what idea online qualifier of MFC and Legends and then those two are qualifiers for Masters games.
They'd really have to do some mega schedule changing because Legends is in December. They would have to change that dramatically. Legends hosts the games, and so I don't think they'd want to do two really close back-to-back events. I think you'd almost have to find some other partners. So with that, He was talking about it in the way that Mayhem was an affiliate and that they held a competition in an affiliate.
So I think he's thinking like smaller ones around the country inside of an affiliate where you can go compete as opposed to like these big competitions like MFC and Legends. Lynn says, the online video thing I hope was just a test case. They were trying, but... Well, the good news is, I don't know if anybody saw this, but Jason Grubb actually posted, hopefully it's on his, okay, here we go. He posted this yesterday, I think it was.
that and he is part of the athlete council uh he had posted a thing that corey and I talked about on wednesday like a list of things that were wrong with the online judging um and he's posted this update crossfit hq will meet with the crossfit athlete council regarding feedback questions concerns about the semi-final review process unfortunately after the completion of the competition late next week so hopefully it will They'll have this meeting and they'll correct things for next year,
but it looks like we're stuck with what we have for this year. But at least someone is talking to CrossFit about it and they are responsive and they're going to talk to the athlete council about it. So I think that's a good thing. Also, they said HQ programmed the semis and Legends will program the games, right? So it would be HQ organizing the semis. I think it's all up in the air as to who would do what for next year unless they did the same events at every in-person semifinal.
If they did it like they did for the elite and just let the in-person semifinals program however they wanted and you could choose to go to those or not, I think that's fine too. It's just different ways to get into the party. and I'm okay with all that however whichever way they wanted to go um so yeah so that happened yesterday the last thing I want to talk about just some fun stuff is uh is I, I am a great game show junkie. I love game shows. I watch them all the time.
It's something my wife and I do together. Um, we watched jeopardy every night, uh, together. I know that makes me sound like I'm really old, but I just, I love, I love game shows. I've loved them since I was a kid. My mom and I would watch them together. And I guess I was just thinking about it with everything going through with my mom that, um, uh, that I've just, I don't know. I just really, really, really enjoy them. And I was thinking about which ones I love the most.
And I, and Jay Birch comes in with wheel of fortune. I would put that as like a tier two. I'm not really great at the, at the word puzzle solving. I'm, I'm okay. Maybe a little better than average, but I'm okay with it.
Uh, but, um, yeah I like I like fast trivia like the games I like are the ones that get the most questions out in the half hour or hour that it's on uh so the shows I like are jeopardy I like the chase I like um the floor because you're getting just rapid fire questions throughout uh the episode that it's airing I, when my mom used to actually, and I used to play five thousand dollar pyramid or whatever, however many dollars it is now, one of us would turn our back to the TV,
we would mute it and the other one would give clues and we would play the game along with it. so I yeah I like all those games the games I don't like are the ones that like in an hour you get like six questions like hundred like uh who wants to be a millionaire like that is it just drones on with like really bad questions at first you finally get to some decent ones but you only get like a handful in the entire episode and to me that's just a big big waste of time But I like Price is Right.
It moves fast, all of that kind of stuff. And I was just curious if any of you guys were game show junkies like I was, or if I'm one of the few. I actually tried to get on a game show this year for the first time ever. My nephew, my daughter, and I tried out for Pop Culture Jeopardy, which is running on Prime now. The test to get in was... So hard. So, so hard. We kind of knew coming out of the test that we had lost our shot to come on the show, but we gave it a shot. I'd never done it before.
It was a fun experience just going through the test, but we didn't make it. And then now I've watched the Pop Culture Jeopardy show, and a lot of the people on there are former Jeopardy contestants. Like, you've had your shot, man. Let some of us in there.
uh so yeah jay birch says when I was in high school I was on the challenge team which was essentially a trivia con contest between schools and we would do it on tv yeah we we had those in pennsylvania too that was fun um and then corey says hollywood squares again that's one of those where see that shows more about the jokes to me and the celebrities telling the jokes and the trivia questions you only get like ten for ten or twelve for the half hour or whatever it's on it's it's fine I
don't I don't dislike it but it's not like in my my upper tier of game shows And we still have more talk about the online de-read issue with the online stuff is that there are too many videos to validate. I think that was the premise of this though, that there were so many for HQ to go through to validate that they put it out there for public consumption thinking that everybody would be trustworthy and that they would do legit judging to narrow down their focus to just the bad videos.
And I don't think that's what they got. I think what they're getting are manipulated numbers based on friendships, based on all the stuff that Grubb talked about in his post the other day, which was this post.
um where he talked about there's no way to identify what's been wrong with the video uh we can't see who's marking the videos uh some athletes used friends or judges to pre-populate good reviews um their reports of organized networks down voting other competitors like these are the things we that crossfit did not expect um when they when they launched this the whole premise of this was to narrow down their focus because there were so many videos to validate so many divisions
so many videos but I don't think that's what they got um I think this is about what Craig asked up here, which was, I'm not sure who else in the men or women brackets would gain from this comp experience except newer athletes like Trista and Lydia. Again, I think everybody can use experience. And then Lynn answered, a majority of the qualifiers have at least one CrossFit Games experience or pretty close.
I think both men and women, WFP is more than, is more visibility for sponsorships etc um yeah we'll see about the visibility um once they launch I hope they get more visibility I want the athletes to have more opportunities um so I hope that that that is what's there um Family feud with Richard Dawson. That's the best. Jay Burch, you and I may be the only two that even remember Richard Dawson on family feud.
Corey says one of his fellow competitors is in the twenty ninth position and he has a ton of down votes for no apparent reason other than the fact that he's in twenty ninth. Yeah, that's that's exactly when that's the mess. Um, Lynn says I'm not a judge and I've watched a lot of videos with down votes for no reason. I have been a judge. I've been a judge. at very high levels.
I have, and I, and again, I think I said this the other day, I did some, I just spot checking of videos and I did not, I did not look at any friends videos. I was trying to eliminate all of my biases and just trying to find what these people were down voting. And I had a really, really hard time finding anything through my spot checking that was actually legit. Again, it would be very helpful if they had to say why.
I think if you say why, it eliminates people just going and clicking on a thumb up or thumb down. Meanwhile, the guy who got twentieth on Isabel clearly did it with a hundred and fifty-five pounds. See if that happened and they did spot that and it was in there and they, that makes sense for, to point that out to HQ, to get this guy out of there. He doesn't belong. Um, so yeah. Corey remembers Richard Dawson. Um, Craig Bosley likes the dating show and marriage show.
Don't remember you, the newlywed game. That's what you're thinking of, Craig. So yeah, that one led to a lot of fights usually. We had a home version of that that I played with my parents before my dad passed away. And my dad can't remember anything. And my mom was so livid that they were getting into a fight in our living room over the stuff. And that's what the show turned out to be as well. But yeah.
Yeah. So I really think that this age group video stuff is a mess and hopefully they get this cleared up and that, um, the athlete council can talk to them about, uh, what they're doing and maybe get some corrections, hopefully along with that in the same vein is take away the silly requirement for two judges for these, um, take away the two judges for these in-person or in-affiliate semis. That's just a big ask for Masters athletes who have to work full-time.
um lynn says deal or no deal I like deal or no deal but I really like deal or no deal island I think that has added a a mix to the bag that makes it way more exciting um uh so yeah lynn is saying I should have collins for sunday because I'm heated We have the capability of doing Collins. I can do that. We've done them in the past with not a lot of response.
I think the only people that have ever called into my show are Corey and Kenneth on different shows, but we can we can open up the phone lines. Uh, I have my phone hooked to the road caster. I just have to Bluetooth it in again for Sunday night. And I'm actually going to be bacheloring it up all weekend because my wife's going to Pittsburgh to help my daughter pack. So it's just me and my dog Walter all weekend. Uh, so I got plenty of time to hook up some stuff.
Um, And get that ready so yeah I'll put in the the phone call option, and you can talk directly to carolyn and Jamie and get their thoughts. I'm trying to transition to just being like a facilitator on Sunday nights there's times where I just I have to say. I have to say something, but I'm trying to turn into a facilitator on Sunday nights where this show during the week is my opinion. I let Jamie and Carolyn talk and give their perspective on Sunday nights, and I just try to be a facilitator.
Now, again, that's really hard for me because sometimes I just really want to say something, and I do. But that's really where I'm trying to lean toward going forward on those Sunday night shows is really making it Jamie and Carolyn's show, and I'm just kind of facilitating the news and the topics and all of that. But I would love to hear a heated Lynn on Sunday night. So I will go ahead and hook that up.
Lynn says, no, you also give good perspective too and different, which I don't agree with sometimes, but that's good.
What I love about this medium, Lynn, is that this is our philosophy all three of us is I don't care if you disagree with me that's fine I just want to talk about it and maybe you can convince me otherwise I think that's fair I I just don't want to be a place where um we we bash the people that think differently than us because I think what makes life great is variety and not everybody should agree it makes life boring if everybody agreed with everything it's okay to have differing opinions and
as long as we can talk about it in a civil adult manner I'm okay with all of that um God knows Carolyn and Jamie and I don't always agree on things. Um, we disagree all the time and that's fine. And there's, they're my best friends, like, but that's cool. Like, and maybe we can understand each other a little better by the end of the day. Wait, are you talking about life before? That's what I'm talking about, Jeremy. If everybody looked the same, we'd get tired of looking each other.
That's right. And that's the good thing because you make us also see another side, which is great. That's all. That's all. That's what discussions are about. That's what podcasts were made for, right? Like for us to discuss things. And maybe we don't come to a resolution at the end of the broadcast, but that's okay too. Maybe it's just about understanding. So. Kenneth on an update, he did not go overweight on his dumpster rental. Do not if you ever rent a dumpster, do not go overweight.
That surprise, seven hundred dollar charge to my bank account was a shocker. So you, you did good, Kenneth, keeping it underweight because that is that is an awful bill to see. And man, good thing I my heart was in good condition at that time because I was not prepared for that to come out of my checking account all at one time. Well, guys.
kenneth made weight yeah he can now wrestle the gooch or the shoot the shoot the shoot that's it he can wrestle the shoot and only jay birch probably understands that reference so um and maybe cory cory's close to my age seven year difference something like that um but anyway with that guys I'm gonna head back to work it's fun as always um I hope you all have an amazing weekend and uh and we'll see you live on sunday night I'll get the phone lines ready so lynn can have her riff and uh
and we will do that sunday night with carolyn and jamie um can't wait to talk to you all cool is it that I get to do a show with two crossfit games athletes every sunday night like that is really freaking cool when I started this five and a half years ago never in my wildest dreams that I think I'd be doing a show with carolyn privo and then that I would make a best friend in the masters division in jamie latimer my gosh This community is so freaking cool.
With that, guys, time for you knuckleheads to get back to work too. I will see you next time on Lunch with Clydesdale. Bye, guys.