what is going on everybody happy monday to you all it is lunch time it is lunch with the clydesdale good to see you all what's up corey what's up craig yeah fun times today I am what's up holly um Yeah, so this weekend I went back to Pennsylvania to see my mom. She was in the hospital a few weeks ago, just wanted to go back, check on her, see how she's doing. And so we went Friday, came back Sunday, and it was a good trip. But when I'm at my mom's house, I do not sleep well.
Man, after last night's show, I hit the hay, and man, I was out cold. And I am having a very, very hard time waking up today. Do you ever have that where, like, Like you are sleeping so good and so solid that when you wake up the next morning, you just cannot get awake. And that's kind of where I am today. I am on the struggle bus at work today, just trying to get through meetings, trying to get through emails. Yeah, and nothing is going easy, of course, on a Monday because it's a Monday.
But we're here with you. I'm glad to be here with you. So good to see you all. Mama Schweitzer is the GOAT. She sure is. Kenneth says, just dead to the world for about four hours. Yeah. Corey, I was just at the part of last night's show where you said you didn't want to turn this into a steroid show. Yeah. Yep. The last night's show was so good. You guys in the chat, just turn it into whatever it becomes, right? We just talk about whatever kind of comes up in the chat. We have a rundown.
It's just a basic outline as to what's going on. But really, whatever comes out of... from you guys we kind of get into. And what was great about last night, because we're kind of in the in-between of a couple things, we opened it up to Q&A for Jamie and Carolyn, and that was a blast. You guys had a lot of great questions, and we'll probably do that periodically every couple weeks. I'll let them answer some questions and just let you guys pick what you want to hear about.
So that was awesome. we got a lot of you in here what's up helson john john jenkins welcome to the show uh jay birch what's going on yeah uh sounds like someone has a case of the mondays scott hopefully not I have a case of the mondays but if I can just get through if I can just get through today I should be fine I get another good night's sleep tonight in my own bed and then back on back on the winning ways tomorrow.
So, uh, cat is thinking about Tuesday or Wednesday nights for her dating pod, uh, catching cats.
yeah we put that out last week uh for you to a vote on whether you wanted to see cat do that um as a permanent show uh she is working on that now and watch for that if if that is something you are interested in um should be fun yeah corey I was watching uh I was watching savan and grubb got the email this morning about getting drug tested today I don't know if testing masters athletes outside gay after out of competition is new. It's always been allowed.
I think that the only way that it happened in the past is if someone filed something about that athlete and suspected or had some evidence or something like that, then they would do it outside of the traditional games season. But I think it is very, very rare. And I'm glad, I mean, I hope Jason passes and everything is fine with him, but I'm glad they're doing it.
I think that it is way, way, way too rampant in the Masters space to just make it an IQ test that they know they have to be off the half-life before the games, essentially.
Yeah. And we saw last year, especially with the behind the scenes, all those people I interviewed and the way they talked about how they worked so hard and did all this stuff and then come to light that they were using some of them for multiple times and had to give up their podium finishes at the games due to steroid abuse or whatever, performance enhancing drugs. Kenneth says, may I propose the title Cat Scratch Fever? And then we have Aaron saying Cat on the Prowl.
And I think I actually got that from Dex in a text as well as a proposed title.
uh the problem is what if I start seeing someone format may change a bit yeah I think what you'll find cat is once you start doing the show you'll just start talking about other things and it'll probably become more varied than you think just just through that's my experience like I had plans for this show to be different things and really it's just now me talking into a microphone reading the comments and we talk about whatever's on our mind and I think that you would
actually do well in that format. So it may start as a dating show and just may turn into something different. Yeah, Corey, I work so hard to be able to buy these PEDs. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I don't want to make accusations on the show about other people. So I'll let you guys talk about that in the comments. Um, one thing I talked about really at the end of last night's show, and I wanted, I wanted to revisit it a little bit. And that is this week. Uh, we had two episodes of behind the scenes come out.
Uh, the first one was episode four, uh, earlier in the week. And then I think Friday night, uh, episode five came out. What a great set of episodes. Episode four was really the first time in this behind the scenes where we hear athletes talk about really not wanting to be there. And other athletes saying they really did want to be there. So you start to see the divide and why things went down the way they did afterwards.
And one thing that's been really, really hard for me is I never understood the whys behind all that. And I may never completely understand it. But then episode five came out and... It starts with a very powerful discussion with Luke Parker and about his faith and his relationship with Lazar and why he felt that he needed to continue on in the competition, going a hundred percent to do the best he could. And that was awesome.
But the part of episode five on a serious note that was really, really powerful to me was there is footage of Dawn Fall giving an apology to the athletes. where he is saying that they are sorry for putting the athletes in this position, that it was a no-win situation for them, that they should have done better to guard them from this, that they put them in this situation. And he just kept saying, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
And while I think that that was a very powerful piece and something that had to be done, I think that if... And I should ask Siobhan this, but if that truly happened in the timeline that we're going by in these behind the scenes, and that did not happen until Saturday night, I think that was a big miss for CrossFit. Now, granted, I've said all along, I've never been in that situation. I don't know how I would act in that situation. I don't know how I would make decisions in that situation.
But to make the apology on Saturday night, almost... what, thirty-six hours after everything went down, I think was way, way too late. And so, and Aaron kind of says it, it seems like he did it in retrospect. Like he saw what happened and then he reacted with the apology. When those athletes deserve the apology up front. Because by Saturday night, a good chunk of the athletes that withdrew had already withdrawn and had already gone home.
So the most upset people about the situation didn't even hear the apology. So I think that. So, Denise, it was not an apology for the death. It was an apology for the position that they, CrossFit, put the athletes in with like, do we go forward? Do we not go forward? You have the choice to do this. You have the choice to do that. That's what he was apologizing for in that moment. And it was a very good apology. And it was done well. I think it was just done late. That's all I'm saying. D read.
No one knows how they would react to that situation. Grace should be the rule because it's awful. Some of the athletes forgot that. I don't disagree with that. I do not disagree with that. Sarah, I think it's weird. We didn't see Don at all on any open announcements or posts or anything. Not that I saw anyway. Yeah, I'm sure that was calculated. I think with the sale and everything else, Don is probably on his way out as a CEO once the company sells.
And really, he is the CEO of CrossFit, not the CrossFit Games. So I think it's fine the way they did it. We said last night, overall, our feelings of this year's Open have been very positive. And we think that CrossFit has taken at least baby steps in the right direction to kind of right the ship of what the Open was. But it just, it's going to get crazy with the sale. And where do we go from there? Andrew Sten says, also thinking about when he was allowed to give an apology by the owners.
Sure, but he didn't say anything. He didn't admit anything in that apology. He just apologized for the situation that they were in and the position that they were in to answer for either staying or going and things like that. I don't know. No, Denise, it's about the position he put the athletes in. It was not about the decisions that were made or anything like that.
It's just all those athletes had to then answer for why they stayed or why they left or why they weren't performing like they normally did. Really, it's just that. So for me, for me, and I said this last night, I'll echo it again. These pieces that I got to see now help me finish a couple puzzle pieces and truly allow me to move on, to move forward. I've had a very hard time trying to do athlete interviews because I just don't know where to start. I don't know what to talk about.
And I've resolved that in my own head now. after seeing some of this stuff, and I'm really truly ready to do some more stuff like that. On a little bit different subject, Denise says, my affiliate just started getting charged monthly for their affiliate fees. Out of the blue, normally his affiliate fees are due in December. So... The new affiliate fees, you have the choice to do monthly or do yearly. And when you sign up, you choose that. So I think that's something that he can correct.
He can still choose to pay yearly, but because of the increase, CrossFit gave them the ability to move to a monthly charge as opposed to a once a year charge. And that was spelled out when the price increase came. So I don't know if your owner got flipped and didn't know it or flipped it and didn't know he did it or what, but it is an option. You can pay one way or the other. Correct, Kenneth. It is a choice to pay monthly or to pay once a year.
Dee Reed says, we clearly saw a division in how athletes cope with the awful. Those with faith were better prepared. I do not disagree with that statement at all. So the last thing I'm going to say about the BTS is, While all that was good for me to move on and for me to be able to get back to doing interviews again and stuff like that, I do want to say there was still a lot of fun pieces in it.
They really honed in on Alexis Raptus miscounting her laps on the mile and the reactions from the other athletes when they saw her kick in. So... So early and Brooke Wells thinking, oh my gosh, she must have a lot in the tank. If she's kicking now, I can't keep up with this. So she backed off. And then to come to realize that Alexis had thought she was on lap four when really she was only on lap three. But she went on to win that heat.
And so it made for a really cool behind the scenes moment with her coach, with Alexis and with Brooke Wells. And then there's some really cool stuff where they were prepping for the sled drags. And they didn't have sled drag sleds in the warmup area, uh, to warm up on.
So coaches were like grabbing onto the rope and having their athletes drag the coaches across the floor, um, to warm up the sled pools, which was just some, it's, those are those little things that you get to see and how they adapt in the moment to warm up for something that you don't always get to see broadcast. Um, So yeah, those are the best parts, right? Um, Kenneth says, Scott, why do you think they're getting pushed back on the releasing the BTS?
I think that none of us know what's pending in the behind the scenes, if there's still litigation going on or stuff like that. Um, And so that could be why I think that if you're selling CrossFit, there's probably things that you don't want to get out to the general public for them to see before they buy or that could drive the price down. So I am sure that Berkshire is not happy with these being released at all. But I'm glad they are.
And hopefully... hopefully they, they can go to a more wide release at some point because I do think there's a lot of value in what I've seen in these. If you don't have the membership, uh, to the Savon channel, um, I've, I've chosen to spend that money because and support him for making them because I really enjoy watching those things.
Uh, immensely and uh he puts a lot of effort into that and it's a big team and so I pay for the membership to be able to watch those and thank goodness because this year that's about the only way you can see it at this point but hopefully hopefully once it's all out there and everybody has seen it and everybody's talked about it people realize it's not that that big of a thing at this point um and that they let it go for a wide release D Reed talks about the unknown and the unknowable
with the sled drags. Yeah, that's, it's perfect. It's a perfect illustration of how you adapt to the unknown and unknowable in a situation to do things. And it's really fun to see that. Corey says he's been out of the loop all weekend. Does anybody know when the leaderboard is supposed to be finalized and online semifinals supposed to be sent out? I think I want to say that for the age group divisions, Carolyn and Jamie have already received emails about semifinals.
Please do not quote me on that. Just updating about what to expect from um, through that. So I don't know if that means that the leaderboard is final in their, their opinion. Um, Corey, Jamie is out of the country, so you may have a hard time texting her. Jamie left for Cancun early this morning. So she is enjoying her week, spring break with her son in his senior year with an all-inclusive vacation to Cancun, Mexico. But I can dig around. I'll see what I can find out for sure.
So yeah, I want to talk about that a little bit and then... I wanted to pull up the qualifier leaderboard for the WFP. I believe it closes tonight or tomorrow. I saw a post on Instagram, but I couldn't tell when it was posted. So I'm going to share that real quick. Still, we have nobody of significance on the men's side that have posted their scores yet.
um these these gentlemen I I am not aware of and I live a lot in the semi-final world so these I don't know who these people are we have a lot more scores but we don't have any of like the big hitters there all the way at the bottom but they got a lot of people to sign up uh brian spin is posted A score. There you go. And then after him, nobody has posted a score. So all of your, like, Caden Hogan and Bruno Marans, none of them have posted a score yet.
Uh... Challenger female, Fisa Goffey, still the only really big name athlete that has posted any scores. She posted all of them. I got to tell you, man, I love Fisa's attitude this year, both in the open and in these qualifiers. Like she's posted her score early and like, come get me. And you got to love that attitude. She's not hiding anything. She's as fit as she's going to be. She posts the scores.
But here you can see even at number, they only have eleven people that have posted any scores at all. There's Jesse Smith. There's Jennifer Muir. There's Dana Peran. And none of them have Matilde Garnes. None of them have posted to Grace Lochner. None of them have posted any scores at this point. I'm surprised Jamie hasn't posted her scores because she did all of these workouts, and hopefully she can do it from the plane or from Cancun. Oh, there she did. She posted her scores.
She's sitting in eighth. So there we go. Well, she posted one of her scores. Okay. But she's done all of them, and all of her videos are out there if you want to see them. But yeah, all like the games athletes on a career that none of them have posting scores. So, yeah, we are still waiting on that to finish up a little bit better. Holly comes in with official invitation sent to athletes March. And the workouts will be released. I know you're getting them like the month. Is that the Monday?
Let me look at my calendar. That is Monday before you can start doing the workouts. You will get the actual workouts. We talked about that a little bit and whether they like that, Jamie and Carolyn last night, whether they like getting them on a Monday and having some time to think about it before it actually goes live. And then are they going to do passwords to make sure nobody does it before the start of semifinals? So that'll be interesting to see. Holly said cut lines are posted.
So that's cool. And just as I was messing around, breaking news from two minutes ago, the barbell spin. While I'm there, uh, twenty twenty five tier waterpalooza SoCal returned September nineteenth through the twenty first. So we will have another water or tier waterpalooza SoCal. Uh, and I thought that was a good time. Um. And it will be returning with the Tier Cup again. So again, we will have an all-star team or two or three going up against each other in the Tier Waterpalooza SoCal.
So fun stuff there. And humble brag by Corey. I'm inside the cut line. I just didn't know the last thing you said. You rock, Holly. So, fun stuff. Well, that's pretty much, you know, we got into a lot of stuff last night on the show. If you missed it, go back and watch it. It was a great show. We got to talk with the chat a lot and got through a lot of information last night. And then we finished with some quick hit stuff.
Last thing I'm going to hit today, and then I have a couple meetings this afternoon, is that... Man, this has been the best year for TV. I've talked a bunch of times about Landman and High Potential being amazing shows that I've gotten into this year. And now recently, The Pit and Reacher are both amazing. If you are not watching The Pit and you have the stomach to do so, it is one of the best shows I've ever, ever seen on television.
the realism of working in an ER and what they have to go through in a day is amazing. And now they're to a point where there's a real life. I don't want to say real life. It's fiction. There is a massive trauma event that happens. And then they talk about, and they talk about how it, They have to get the ER prepped for that and get rid of all of the unessential machines, all of that kind of stuff, and prep for this trauma.
And then how they go through the triage part of that with slap bands and assessing like, Is the person going to die within five minutes? Is the person going to die within an hour? And those are different colored bands. They just slap on the wrists of these people. And there's no charting. They just have like a tag on them that they write down all the stuff. It was insane. And it was so intense this last episode that I could not catch my breath.
Thank goodness there are three more episodes for this year because I thought that it ended at episode twelve, but they are going to fifteen. So because there are no answers at the end of this episode at all. And I'm really excited for this week to see how that turns out. Yes, Denise, the pit is great. It has really become one of my my favorite shows of all time. And Helston says, please watch From. It's amazing. I don't know what From is. I'll have to look that up. So, yeah. The pit's great.
And then we have Reacher, which is really a short season. There's only one more episode left. And everything is building to that climactic thing like every Reacher season does. And now we're ready for the showdown. And that will happen this Thursday night. Cannot wait to see the end of that. But yeah. Great television right now. Fun stuff to watch. So... uh, Kenneth says from his horror gory. If you can handle that, I don't mind it like gory.
The pit is gory because the, the, the stuff you see in the CR is, is insane. I've never been a horror guy and, and it's not that like I get scared of it or anything like that. When I was in college, I had a roommate that watched horror movies all the time. And there were so many bad horror movies that you had to get through like ten bad horror movies to get to one good horror movie. And I just, to me, the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze anymore.
So I just stopped watching horror movies altogether. Because some of them were so, so bad. It just was like a waste of my time. And, and I really, if I waste my time on a movie or a show, I get really irritated, really irritated. Cause I'm a busy guy doing this podcast, working full time, having a family, like I don't have time to waste on crap. So, um, so yeah. Uh, cat is swiping left to four movies are in the profile.
amen to that uh helston says it's not as horror as it is suspenseful it's not scary okay maybe maybe I'll check it out um I don't mind suspense suspense is fine um just the horror genre as a whole just I think I don't know. I don't even know. I don't know. I think one of the most irritated times I've ever had in a horror movie is I watched The Blair Witch Project.
And to me, that was very realistic because it was very much like the woods behind my parents' house that they're running through the whole time. the end of that movie is so damn dumb I like I was like I've wasted I have wasted two hours to get to this point and this is the payoff you're gonna give me like I just can't I just can't I just can't um Kenneth had to turn it off after the first episode. It was too much. Oh, I, if there's things happening to the kids, I have a hard time with that too.
Being a father now, I just, I know. And yeah, the, the pit even got me on this a little bit. But yeah. Yeah. There is an episode of the pit where kids are in danger and it, it was tough, tough on me. I understand the buildup for Blair, which was made. The buildup was awesome. The movie was, it had me, it had me for two hours, but that ending was just dumb.
dumb it didn't it didn't even as real as everything else was because of the way they they did it with the the the handy cams or the video cameras and and then at the end it just didn't look real it just looked like a stick and a piece of cloth in the corner oh my gosh it was so dumb and holly says it's a classic Corey said, Blair, which was the least scary movie I've ever seen. Horror movie I've ever seen. The running through the woods. Like I get that. Like we did that all the time.
And at times there's sounds in those woods that you just don't normally hear. That was awesome. Andrew, I know it was a person in the corner, but they made it. It was such a bad representation of the person. It looked like a stick in a cloth. Like it didn't even look scary.
so bad so bad man you're getting me riffing on the damn blair wit blair witch today I've heard I heard this a lot denise says I got super dizzy so I couldn't really watch it I heard a lot of people say that and for cat it was actually a jump scare there you go yeah to each his own That's why there's so many different genres. That's why there's so many different things on TV, because we all like different things. Right. And if you like that stuff, like more power to you, man, it's awesome.
But for me, that's just something I don't do anymore. So, yeah. Well, that's all I really have today. Mondays are tough because we come off that show on Sunday nights. But those are the things I wanted to talk about today. And it really was fun to talk to you guys. I need to call Jay Burch and I need to get in touch with Jay Burch and Andrew, if you're both still on here. If you guys are up for doing the Top Five Tuesday tomorrow with judging movements, I'd really, really like to do that still.
And I can send you a link for tomorrow's show. And we can have you guys on as elite judges talking about, uh, the hardest movements to judge both online and in person. So, um, So, yeah. So, you guys, I'll reach out to you after the show. It's good hanging out with everybody today, but I got to get back to work. So, you hooligans, you go back to work too. We'll see everybody next time on Lunch with Clydesdale. Bye, guys.