Clydesdale Media Podcast

Cat steps in and takes over the Lunch with the Clydesdale show. She talks about her dating life and men being dishonest yet claim that honesty is a deal breaker for them. Check out a taste of Cat's new show CATching Feelings during this take over.

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What is Clydesdale Media Podcast?

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

Hello, hello.

You got cat today.

So Scott is traveling and

I'm actually traveling this

week for work.

I'm going to be in

Connecticut for a couple of

days and not going to be

able to do my normal Wednesday,

five PM podcast.

So I figured maybe I should

just go on now and give you

guys an update because I

have a really funny story

from Saturday night to tell you about.

And I didn't want two weeks

to go by before we talked about it.

So, um,

I'm struggling with this background.

Should we do this or should we do this?

I'm not really sure.

I'm going to leave it with

Lunch with Clydesdale

because that's really the

show that it's on.

I am guest co-host for the day.

So hopefully you guys will

jump in and chat with me

for a little bit and we'll

get right into it.

So I don't have a whole lot of time.

I do have to go back to work.

But let's see what happened.

What happened?

um elbow update I yes aaron

um the christmas tree is

gone I hope you're happy I

was really getting tired of

the bullying it would have

been right there um now

there's a lamp there so

anyway yes progress um

thursday would I talk to

you guys friday night

thursday I went to pt I am

completely cleared to do whatever I want

Um,

so your girl is doing whatever she

wants with that elbow.

Let me tell you.

Um,

I still have a few more appointments to

go to like once a week,

they do some like deep tissue stuff.

My bicep is still really bothering me.

Um, so I'm trying to take care of that,

but, um, all is well with that.

And I'll weave in some workout stories too,

as we go through the week.

So Thursday night, um,

let's see what I do Thursday night.

I had a friend who retired

from the bank I used to work at and he

reached out to me to tell me

that they were doing a

happy hour for him at this

local bar down the street.

So I popped in there for a

drink and met some old

people that I used to work with.

It was super fun.

And then we are going to get

into the theme for this week.

Aside from guys not being honest,

my friends bailing on me.

My girlfriends are usually pretty good

co-pilots and hanging out

and being available and doing things.

And I try my best to

accommodate my schedule for them.

Some of my friends have some

weird schedules where they

work on Saturday or they work on Sunday,

so they can't go out until Monday night.

And I don't really have to

get up early if I don't need to.

And so I'm up for anything whenever.

But Thursday night,

I had planned to go to this

fundraising happy hour with

some girlfriends of mine.

And that was the plan for my second stop.

And by the time I got to my second stop,

they all were like, nevermind.

We're I'm sitting at home

drinking a glass of wine or

I'm doing this or doing that.

So they bailed.

No problem.

I did not want to go to that

fundraiser by myself.

So I sort of circled back

around and I was already there,

but I drove back to closer

to my house and I went to, um,

this place called Nick's pizza,

which is like newly opened.

I don't know if I told you

guys about my buddy, Eddie,

who was the bartender at

the Mexican restaurant.

Um,

underneath me um when I say

underneath me I live on top

of a mexican restaurant so

um eddie's sort of my

wingman he's a super fun

guy but he doesn't work

there anymore he works at

this place called next so I

know if I went to the bar

and just ate my dinner

there I'd have at least

somebody to talk to um so I

went there it was really

crowded as I'm waiting for

a bar show to open up this

guy taps me on the shoulder

and it's somebody that I've

known for years and years

he was actually a bartender

at another place that my

ex-husband and I used to go to

for a long time,

like every Saturday night for decades.

Anyway,

so he and I sit at the bar together

and have dinner.

Well,

part of me was excited because I got

to catch up with my friend.

But the other part of me was like, damn,

I'm like trying to go out,

be by myself and meet people in real life,

just like everyone's been

telling me to do.

And now it appears like I'm with this guy,

which was not a date.

He's engaged.

Um, but Eddie comes up and says hi to me,

introduces himself to my friend.

And the first thing I say to

Eddie is this is not a date.

And my friend looks at Eddie and was like,

wait, it's not a date.

I thought this was a date

and he was just joking around,

but it was really kind of funny.

So anyway,

we're chit chatting and having a

good time.

And I purposely stay, um,

until after my friend leaves again,

because I was trying to go

there and meet people.

And, uh, you know,

when you're sitting with a guy,

it doesn't matter.

Like, gosh,

I think even if I go out like

with my brother,

to the mall or something.

People are going to assume

that we're a couple.

It's just kind of

interesting how that works.

Um, but anyway, that was Thursday night.

Had a good time.

Obviously didn't meet

anybody in real life.

Friday, um, Friday morning, we did Diane,

um, at the, at brainwine CrossFit.

Um, they do mayhem programming.

So if you guys follow mayhem,

I guess a bunch of people did Diane,

but for those of you that don't know,

Diane is one of my favorite

benchmark workouts and your

girl is a handstand pushup wizard.

Um,

but I have not, um,

I haven't done handstand

pushups since before my surgery.

So I went and pulling a

barbell is probably not the

best thing for me to do

either because when my elbow locks out,

that's when it gets sore and irritated.

So, um,

I went ninety five pounds on the

deadlifts, which, you know,

I know total was smooth,

but that was really all I can handle.

But your girl did twenty one

unbroken handstand pushups in round one.

I was so excited.

Hi, Holly.

Uh,

Twenty one.

And they were beautiful, like and no pain.

And I think the coaches were like,

what's going on?

Because I don't think they expected that.

But it was awesome.

Now,

did I fall apart in the round of

fifteen in the round of nine?

Yeah, pretty much.

I did like five, five, three, two.

And then I think on the round of nine,

I did like three, three, two, one,

because I was pretty much dead.

But I was really excited about that.

So that was a huge win for

me on Friday morning.

Friday lunchtime,

I went and saw my therapist.

She's amazing.

I still love her very, very much.

And I always feel better

when I go to see her.

I'm actually not seeing her

for like another two weeks

because I just think

sometimes I just go there

to talk to her about whatever.

And she's probably just as

entertained as you guys are

about my crazy life.

So I did that.

And then I went and had a

voice lesson with my friend Gus,

who is like an opera singer

and very accomplished.

And that was super fun.

He, he tested my range.

Turns out I have actually a

pretty good range I'm just

not comfortable in those

higher notes but I can

actually hit them we

practiced some songs he

taught me how to breathe

while I'm singing and how

to warm up and protect my

voice so that was like

super super cool um and

then I did my normal friday

night thing with my

girlfriends we went to um

this place called the gap

um had a few drinks then we

went to this place called

kirkwood country club

because it had um this band there ronnie

Dee and Mikey, Richie B or something.

I'm going to get the names mixed up.

It was two guys playing guitar,

like nineties, you know,

rock pop music stuff.

Lots of dancing was happening.

It was a lot of fun.

And then we jumped around to

a couple of other places.

And I was the designated driver as usual.

And my friend, one of my friends, you know,

proceeded to get pretty,

pretty liquored up.

So I drove her home.

Oh,

one of the bartenders at one of the

last places we went to

This guy Butch, he's in a punk band.

He's a drummer for a punk

band and he wants to create a trio band,

him, his son who plays guitar,

and a female lead singer.

We talked briefly about

maybe that would be an

opportunity for me as well,

but I don't know how solid

that idea is or if it's

even going to work,

but that was fun anyway.

So that was Friday night,

got in really late.

Saturday morning,

woke up and went to

CrossFit again in the morning,

had a really good partner

workout with this girl, Jenny,

who's a beast at my gym.

My cousin had a baby shower.

My daughter and I went to that.

We had some mimosas, had some good food,

got to see our family a

little bit and celebrate my

cousin who's having a baby in June,

baby girl.

And then...

I was supposed to go, here's another,

my friends are bailing story.

I was supposed to go to this

luau fundraiser for the

green braid project.

And if you guys know me, um,

I've supported that

organization for quite a while.

Now they do a fundraising CrossFit event.

That's been in Wilmington

the last couple of years.

And I've been like one of

the event directors for that event.

Scott has gone down and covered it, um,

for Clydesdale media in the past as well.

Um, you know,

I've brought a lot of judges

to that organization and done

like some scoring stuff and

some other admin work.

But anyway,

they were doing this fundraiser

for pig roast.

I bought four tickets, spent like,

I don't know,

almost three hundred dollars

on these tickets.

But the pig roast was like an hour away.

And so, of course,

I wanted friends to go with me.

I had asked a in real life

guy if he wanted to go and

he had already made plans.

So I asked any girlfriends

that were willing.

And of course, Friday night,

when we went out, everyone was like, yeah,

I'm going to go.

It's going to be so much fun.

And then on Saturday,

everyone starts bailing on

me at like noon or one

o'clock and they're like, oh,

I'm so hung over.

You know,

I think I'm going to just chill today.

So I had a kind of a

decision to make whether I

was going to go or not and

decided not to go.

I was actually talking to

this guy on a dating app

and we were trying to get together.

We were going to get

together next Thursday,

like three days from now,

because that was the last

the next time I was available.

And, uh, we talked on the phone, I guess,

Friday afternoon,

and then maybe again on Saturday.

And I said, Hey, I'm free tonight.

You know, last minute,

why don't we get together tonight?

And he was like, okay, cool.

We can do that.

And we sort of hemmed and

hawed on where we were going to meet.

He lives.

Downtown Philadelphia area.

And I didn't really want to

go downtown Philadelphia.

So I picked like a suburb

that's sort of halfway for both of us.

And, uh, we were going to,

he was going to text me

when he left and I was just

going to leave.

He was like, three minutes away.

I was twenty-five minutes away.

And we were going to meet and hang out.

Kenneth, what's up?

Welcome.

So I get dressed, shower, do the hair,

all the things.

Oh, you can tell me, guys.

People have very strong

opinions about the hair.

Let's talk about this for a second.

Curly or straight or like curling iron?

The last episode,

I think my hair was curled

with a curling iron.

I want to know from a guy's

opinion what you guys think.

Because every time I ask a guy,

they're like, oh, it doesn't matter,

whatever you're comfortable with.

But I know that's bullshit.

And I know you have sort of, hi, Jeffrey,

sort of an opinion on that.

So let me know.

I'll be curious to see if we

like it kind of wild and crazy curly.

Do we like it straight and refined?

Or do we like it somewhere in between?

And I guess, Kenneth,

we're calling that wavy.

So we'll see about that.

Anyway.

I think I look better with

it sort of smooth and straight.

I think it like evens out my

complexion a little bit.

I know that's like way too

girly for everybody for all

you boys out there.

Um, but that's my opinion.

So, uh,

females weigh in as well because I

kind of care what you think too.

I think sometimes we have a better taste.

Um, anyway, uh, what was I saying?

Shit.

Oh, so we were going to,

I was going to meet this guy.

So, um,

He texted me and asked me

what the dress code was,

and I told him what I was wearing.

I was wearing a black tank

top and these kitten heels.

I was being a little more

dressed up than normal.

I was not my normal skater

boy outfit with vans and cargo pants.

I wanted to get dressed up.

And he was like, oh,

I have to get dressed up.

And I said, no, just wear.

I don't care if you wear

jeans if there's no real dress code.

Andrew likes it more straight than curly.

Thank you, Andrew.

Thank you for being honest.

I'm good with that too.

Jay Birch likes some curl,

but it matters how you feel in it.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Like if you feel a little

more confident one way or the other,

it probably shows through.

Holly's jealous of my curls.

Yeah, you know what?

This is going to make you really angry.

This is hair from, what's today, Monday?

This is hair from my date on

Saturday night.

And then I slept in it last

Saturday night.

I worked out in it Sunday

morning and did like a

forty minute high rocks

workout with lots of running,

lots of kettlebell swings

and like one hundred and ten burpees.

And then I lived my life yesterday,

slept in it last night and

just kind of fluffed it this morning.

So the curls are nice to like.

For me, low maintenance,

I can sort of get away with

not washing it for a while.

Anyway, back to the story.

So we're going to,

we're supposed to meet and

he sends me a picture of a

tire with a nail in it.

And he, I'm going to, we're going to,

we're going to do a little

play by play here.

Cause I think I deleted his messages.

Um, cause you know, this isn't ending well,

but we had like almost

three hundred text messages

from each other talking

back and forth the last couple of weeks.

Um, and it was nothing.

know we're just kind of

getting to know each other

um and phone calls we

talked on the phone um

several times anyway so

let's see he sends me he

sends me this I don't know

if you can see this can you

see this right oh his name

his name is not joe it's

like his name is joe um

anyway so he writes I'm

gonna flip out and I said

oh no he said I was running

to cvs this is elaborate

guys I was running to cvs

I'm going to see if anyone

is open to fix it real quick

This is at five fifty five on a Saturday.

And then he comes back in at

like six fifteen.

He's like, no, I'm screwed.

No pun intended.

No one is open.

And I said, I'm just sitting here like,

all right, you have a nail in your tire.

He had said he had just came

back from the beach.

He probably drove two hours

with him with this nail in his tire.

Like, just keep driving on it, dude.

You'll be fine.

And if not, he has like some coverage.

It wasn't AAA.

It was something else.

because he has like a fleet

car because he's in sales.

He said, so I can drive on it,

but if it goes, but if it comes out,

it's going to go flat.

And then I'm thinking like,

don't you know how to

change a freaking tire?

Like criteria number one for

like an actual man that I

would be dating would know

how to do that.

He said, no, I have BBL.

It's a fleet vehicle.

I called them already

waiting for them to call me

back to tell me how long.

And I said, you're home, right?

And he's like, yeah, why?

I said,

I was just making sure you weren't

still at the beach because

he was at the beach earlier

during the day,

like opening up his beach

house or something.

Assuming he even has a beach house,

he probably doesn't.

He said, no, I'm home.

He said, we can go out down here,

but I feel bad if you have to drive.

And I said,

it's not what I had in mind for

our first encounter.

I didn't want to go all the way down to,

he lives in like South Philly.

I didn't want to do that.

He said, I get it.

Trust me.

I just feel bad.

I must've gotten it in the

tire on the way home from the shore.

Again, elaborate story.

He said, so are we calling it?

And he said, if you want,

I'm not sure when they will

get here to fix it.

I don't want to hold you up

if you can make other plans.

And then I thought to myself, I was like,

well,

can't you just have them come to the

place where we're going to meet?

Like you drive it the twenty

minutes that you have to

get to where we're meeting

and then plan on having

them come there and change your tire.

Like you're saving some time.

You still get to see me.

And again,

why I'm the dude making solutions here,

I do not know.

That's something I need to work on because

it backfires on me all the

time and it's not giving off like,

you know, damsel in distress,

feminine energy that guys like.

So anyway, meanwhile,

I'm like talking to one of

my girlfriends and she's saying, Oh,

when are you going out?

You know, what are you doing?

And I go to show her the

picture of the tire because

I thought like,

that's easier to say than

what's going on.

And so I had downloaded the

picture that he sent me.

And I think you probably see

where I'm going here, but

I went to pull up the photo

to send to my girlfriend in

my photo app and it wasn't there.

And I was like, oh, that's really weird.

But then I remembered when

you save a photo that

someone sends you and it's got the,

like all the data behind it

around when it was taken

and where it was taken and all that,

it puts it in your photo

album in chronological order.

So it didn't put it at the

bottom of my thing because

that's not when the picture was taken.

So now I'm in Sherlock

Holmes mode and I am not

responding to this guy,

but I am frantically going

through my phone,

scrolling the thirteen

thousand pictures I have

trying to find this fucking

tiger picture.

Of course,

I can't find it because it's

like finding a needle in a haystack.

So I go back to his text and

I download the picture like

eighteen times so that it becomes,

you know,

this big swath of pictures as

you're scrolling.

I finally found it.

May of twenty twenty four is

when this picture was taken.

So he sent me an old photo,

like purposely crafted this

whole crazy story about why

he couldn't meet me.

Even though he said like,

you could come down, like what,

what would we have done if I had said,

okay, I'll come down and see you.

Like, was he not going to show up?

I have no idea, but he kept saying like,

you know, if I get stuck on the highway,

I'm screwed.

Then I'm going to be sitting

on the side of the road.

And then he said, you aren't saying much,

my apologies.

Cause this is when I was in

like Sherlock Holmes mode

and I'm looking through and

I figured it out.

And I wrote, sorry,

not sure what I'm supposed to say.

And he said, I was just apologizing.

I feel bad.

Back it up, back it up.

A couple, maybe yesterday, day before,

like I always try to ask

guys when I'm talking to

them and I haven't met them yet.

Like,

what are some of your red flags or

what are you

You know, what are your icks?

Like,

I feel like getting to that point

over text is pretty easy

because if someone says like, oh,

I don't want a girl who

lifts weights or I don't want a girl who,

I don't know,

loves dogs or I'm allergic

to dogs or something,

all that stuff like matters

in the very beginning.

So I said something about, you know,

I made a joke like, oh,

we might as well just hold

our red flags until we meet.

And he's like, no, no,

let's talk about them now.

So he said like,

I can be stubborn and hardheaded.

And I was like,

that's not a red flag in my book,

but whatever.

He said, I'm extremely outgoing.

And sometimes people can be

intimidated by that.

And I was, I said, I said, well,

that's cool.

Like I want to date an extrovert.

You guys know, I've talked about that.

Like I've never dated

someone who's kind of outgoing.

I've always dated guys that

are sort of quiet and

introverted and that does

not work for me.

So we went into this whole

comment and I said, you know,

what are some things you

dislike in a partner?

He wrote,

I don't like a liar or

someone who can't be loyal.

I need someone who can hold

their own and doesn't make me there.

Didn't mean to be there at all times,

if that makes sense.

And I'm like, I got you.

Like, that's fine.

Honesty is one of my biggest, you know,

criticalities for someone's personality.

So anyway, back to, hold on.

We're going to go to some comments.

I love that my wife was like, right,

Corey?

Isn't that like so cool?

I love it.

All right.

So here we go.

I just wrote, I said,

I'm stunned that someone

that values honesty would

just wouldn't just say they

don't want to go out versus

sending me a picture from

twenty twenty four

pretending to have a nail in his tire.

My job.

I was like, I got you.

I should have called him

because that would have

been really fun to sort of

get his like verbal reaction.

But I didn't feel like

dealing with him or even

really talking to him at that point.

I was going to leave it at that.

But like he didn't respond.

And that sort of annoyed me

that I needed him to like

I don't know,

at least apologize or just

like I needed to know that

he got the message.

Right.

And so I said something.

I said, you, sir,

what's wrong with online dating?

Thanks for validating that for me.

Because like, come on.

And his only response was,

you will be fine.

Yes,

I will be fine and I am fine and I'm

so much finer, not not, you know,

wasting my Saturday night

to go out with you.

So.

You're like, wow, Saturday night, blown.

It's six thirty.

I have nothing to do.

I'm all dressed up.

So you know what I do?

And yes, Holly, isn't that crazy?

All that effort for a ridiculous story.

Either way looks bad.

Either you're a liar or you

can't solve basic problems.

Oh, that's like a double negative,

double negative.

Hey, Corey says, what a douche canoe.

Pretty much.

So so what did I do?

I decided to go to the place

where we were supposed to meet anyway,

because I was

looking forward to it.

And I already sort of had it

in my mind that that's what

we're going to do.

There was supposed to be live music there.

And I went and sat at the bar,

maybe five minutes into me

sitting at the bar,

this older gentleman comes

and sits next to me.

We start chatting about soccer.

We were watching a soccer game on TV,

a football,

an international football game.

Um,

he had just come from the Philadelphia

union game, which is a,

which is a team soccer team.

I don't know.

MLS major league soccer.

Is that a thing?

Anyway, he was drinking.

I was drinking my diet Coke

cause I was by myself and I'm like,

I don't want to really drink.

And I just kind of want to

skip the vibe and see

what's going on anyway.

So he's sort of monopolizing

all my time at the bar.

Not somebody that I, you know,

was going to be like dating or,

or wanting other people to

think I was dating.

Cause again, we talked about.

If you see a man and a woman

sitting next to each other,

you sort of make an

assumption that they're together.

And again,

the whole point for me was to

get out there and to like

meet new people.

And I met him.

His name was Earl.

Very nice guy.

However,

in comes this woman and these three guys.

And they looked, you know,

they look to be like maybe my age,

maybe a little younger.

And I heard them talking about banking,

like Discover Bank or

something like that.

So I turned around and I

talked to the girl and I said,

how do you guys know each other?

And she said, oh, this is my husband.

This is my husband's boss.

And this is the godfather of our children,

blah, blah, blah.

And I really got to stop saying blah, blah,

blah.

I don't like that.

Anyway, they...

We started chatting.

I went to the restroom.

I came back and I really

wanted to go somewhere else

because it turns out there

was not live music at that place.

There was like a live DJ and

I really wanted to see some live music.

And she told me that she was

going they were going to

take their boss to a bunch

of places in that town

because he had just moved there.

And they were familiar with all the area,

all the different local bars.

And it's like this main

street of just restaurants

and bars the whole time.

Um, so I'm gonna sneeze.

I think maybe not.

Should I lost it?

Okay.

Um, anyway,

and I so I looked at her and I said,

Can I please go with you?

I just totally invited myself.

And it was kind of like,

it was kind of like girl

code for she knew I was

sitting next to this guy

that clearly we weren't like a match.

Um,

and I kind of wanted to get away from him,

not in a mean way,

not in a like rape whistle way.

I just,

it was not how I wanted to spend my time.

Um,

so I thanked Earl for the conversation.

I kindly got up and they

took me to three other bars

and we had a blast.

I have her cell phone number

and now we're friends.

Her name is Jennifer.

And she lives in a town

pretty close to me.

And, uh,

there was like a little bit of

chemistry between me and one of the guys,

but he was like, way too young.

Um, but we chatted a little bit.

It was funny.

I was talking to him and

then he went to the

bathroom and Jennifer comes

up to me and she's like,

so what do you think about so-and-so?

And I, you know,

and I just kind of giggled and I was like,

he's a really nice guy.

So I think he's too young for me.

And she's like, oh,

he's not too young for you.

And then she told me he was and I was like,

yeah, he probably is.

Um, anyway, so that was my Saturday night.

I thought it was pretty cool.

Um, just

crazy craziness about that

dude with the with the flat

tire thing that was kind of

annoying um so sunday

morning I got home I got

home early like eleven

o'clock maybe then just

like went to bed um sunday

I did a workout at my

crossfit gym it was

actually a hyrox workout it

was two four six eight ten

ascending ladder forty

minutes um burpees no it

didn't start with burpees

You had to start with burpees,

kettlebell swings,

American kettlebell swings, and V-ups.

And every four minutes, starting at zero,

we ran a four hundred.

So lots of running.

Like I said, one hundred and ten burpees,

one hundred ten kettlebell

swings with this guy.

And it was totally fine.

I didn't even have to adjust

my grip or make a fist on

the ground or anything else.

So I felt really good about that.

What else did I do on Sunday?

I went shopping.

Oh,

I took my mom out to dinner last night.

We went to this place called

Kid Chalene's.

It's a little bar down the road.

We sat at the bar.

I was telling her all about

my stories from the week.

She, you know, thinks I'm crazy.

What else?

I told her that I wanted to

do something on TikTok

where she scrolls for me.

Like she goes through some

of my dating apps and just

makes decisions on my behalf.

And she thought that was really funny.

So she's also getting...

She's getting very,

she used to be like super judgmental.

Like she hated tattoos.

She hated facial hair, all this stuff.

And we walk into this bar

last night and there's a

guy sitting by himself eating a burger.

Clearly he had just played a

round of golf and very attractive.

He had like a full beard, a hat on.

like a tailor-made hat and

like this vibrant tattoo sleeve.

And I'm thinking my mom's

going to look at him and be like,

oh my God, he's so gross.

Look at his hair.

It looks, you know,

unkempt and uneducated.

And she's very judgy about

that kind of stuff.

And she actually said to me, she's like,

that guy's attractive.

And I was like, mom, what are you doing?

So she's coming around or

maybe she's just starting to deal with,

you know, what my type is or whatever.

But anyway,

I thought that was really funny

that she did that.

Corey, what do you have to say here?

This is a lot, buddy.

Your problem, Kat,

is that you don't look

anywhere near thirty two.

So new people you meet don't

think that a guy who's thirty.

Yeah, I mean, I guess so.

I mean,

he he might not have thought that either.

But guess what?

Like when we left that night,

all four of us stood outside.

No, one, two, three, four,

all five of us stood

outside the bar and I had

like seven blocks to walk to my car.

And they were all going sort

of in the opposite direction.

And I like gave everyone a

hug and said like, so nice to meet you,

whatever.

Um, hi Jody.

Um, no one offered to walk me to my car,

which I was kind of annoyed.

I would, I mean,

I didn't need the guy that

I thought was cute to walk me to the car,

but even like the couple,

if that were me and we

picked up this single woman

for the night and she had

seven blocks to walk,

I probably would have

offered to drive her to her car,

walk her to her car, whatever.

But anyway, not a big deal.

Um,

But you're probably right.

It's just funny because, again,

the attention that I get

when I'm out is mostly from older men.

And I don't know if they're

just like so damn confident

and they don't give a shit or what.

But yeah, Corey,

I know you would have offered me to walk.

And I've talked to other

people and they said the same thing.

So anyway.

Um, so Sunday was good.

We went out, like we did that.

I kind of explained to her, you know,

what I'm looking for and what I'm doing.

And, you know, she's like my biggest fan.

So that was really fun.

She did not wear her hearing aids though.

So it was kind of annoying

because I had to repeat

myself a million times and

I felt like I was yelling

and the whole bar could

probably hear what I was talking about.

Um, so that was kind of weird, but anyway,

um, we did, we did talk a little bit.

Um,

then what happened then last night I

spent like most of the

evening actually talking to, um,

a new guy that I matched

with on Facebook dating.

Um, we have a lot in common.

Um, we just texted back and forth.

We didn't talk on the phone,

but we were up until like,

like two thirty in the morning texting.

I had to sort of call it

because I was like, I was,

I was super tired,

but I was enjoying the conversation.

Um, he needs to ask me out though.

He has not asked me out yet.

And, um,

We're going to we're going

to not make any moves until that happens,

because like I've talked about,

I need to meet people in

person to see if there's

like that chemistry spark

physical attraction piece.

And I don't like to get too

attached to somebody over

text before then,

because then it makes it

even harder or more

complicated or complex when

you do meet in person.

I don't want the feelings to

like be caught before we actually meet.

because then I'm going to be

really disappointed.

Jody Lynn says, do not text anything.

Oh, you wouldn't say on the phone.

Yeah, no, I don't do that.

We definitely didn't do

anything like that.

Heidi, my baby.

Hi, I miss you.

Heidi met a guy once and his

voice was super high deal breaker.

Yeah, that's true.

The good thing, well, I mean, not for me.

I have no idea what this

guy's voice sounds like,

but I sent him all the

links to my YouTube shit

because I figure...

that person's going to find out anyway.

Um,

so I sent him my seven interview where

it talks about me being on TRT.

Um, and it talks about, you know,

when I was married and have my gym.

Um, and then, um,

I sent him the Clydes or I

sent him the dating,

one of the dating episodes or whatever.

So it kind of is helpful for guys.

Cause I, you really get to feel,

you get a feel for my

personality and what I'm

like on these videos.

Uh,

he said he was hot but I

couldn't do it yeah I mean

sometimes that's a

definitely a deal breaker

what does this mean judy

jody obligatory mother's

bag bag I don't know what

that means trish your

auntie yeah um the the

smallest possible dose five

units every five days

Um, it's like barely, I had to get like,

uh, half a milliliter vials or, um,

syringes just to administer it.

I just took it this morning, actually.

Um, every five days,

my levels are like hovering around to.

I think something like that.

Um, they were at,

they had actually at one

point been at a eight hundred,

which is super scary.

Um, but I swear to God,

you guys have seen me

through that eight hundred

uh spike and the dip and I

don't think you would have

noticed like I didn't you

know my voice didn't get

any lower I didn't uh you

know my body didn't change

very much the only thing

that the only thing that

testosterone that I notice

on my body is that like I

have to shave my legs

pretty much every day like

my hair growth is a real

thing um you know I get

like a random hair like on

my thigh that I've never

had before which I can't

stand um but my waxer is

like my best friend

But yes, I am on that.

I feel like it balances out

my hormones a lot.

I don't have, oh, you're funny.

I definitely don't have the

kind of female problems

that most women going

through menopause go through.

I'm trying to keep that PG,

but I don't have those

kinds of symptoms or issues.

And before I went, I actually,

it was funny.

I went on TRT with

California Hormones back

when Sivan was working with me,

or I was working with them.

And I think I was taking too much.

And that's when my levels

got kind of high.

And I sort of, instead of, I panicked.

Instead of like just reducing my dosage,

I just went off of it cold turkey.

And let me tell you,

when you go off of that shit cold turkey,

not fun.

I started developing the worst hot flashes,

the worst menopause symptoms,

not the not like the female part stuff,

but the hot flashes were like real.

I was getting like I was

getting them like every twenty minutes,

like full flop sweat, hot flashes.

And I definitely think that

stopping that testosterone

caused part of that.

But I went on.

I'm taking estrogen and

progesterone from my OBGYN

and I'm taking testosterone

kind of on my own.

Um,

I buy it online and I administer it

myself and my primary care

doctor knows that I'm on it

and she's very good at

monitoring my blood.

So, you know, she can't prescribe it.

She can't give it to me.

Um,

but she's very supportive of it and she

sees, you know,

how I'm feeling on it and how I'm looking,

uh, and behaving.

And she says, you know, more power to you.

So, um, CrossFit wants to know,

did I get super jacked at a hundred?

No, I wasn't.

I didn't notice anything.

Like I said,

you guys have seen me through

this whole journey.

I mean, I started it, gosh,

almost three years ago,

maybe two and a half years ago,

back right around the time

when I did my interview with Sevan.

And I don't remember when that was exactly,

but it was probably two years ago.

I started like two and a half years ago.

How do you find online?

Trish,

if you want to send me a DM on Instagram,

I can give you the link.

My son hooked me up with a place.

where you can get it.

It's different than the

place where I got my

peptides for my elbow,

which I'm also still taking.

And I take those every day,

but I have a vial.

It probably costs me maybe

two hundred and fifty

dollars and I've had it for

almost a year because I

take so little of it.

Really, it's not it's not a lot.

And Trisha, some states don't allow it.

Well,

I can order it for you and then I can

send it to you if you need

if you need me to for a small fee.

I'm going to start my own, uh,

my own TRT clinic here in a minute,

but yeah, um, I do buy it online and it's,

you know, I think it's, you know,

one of those places where they say like,

it's for research only.

It's probably not, um,

sanctioned by anybody, but, um,

you think PCPs can, yeah,

I think they can too,

but you have to be like clinically low,

like at zero.

And for guys you have to be

under two hundred and like,

know if a guy's at five

hundred and he feels like

crap um and he's having a

hard time you know building

muscle mass and he's over

fifty and he's starting to

look like a female um what

are you gonna do like your

doctor's not gonna give it

to you um and and a lot of

the doctors that do they

give you like pellets or

they give you cream and all

that stuff and like

injecting is really the

only way to go because you

can really control the

dosages and dial it up and

down you get that pellet

and it's like in your body

for a period of time until

it dissolves and the creams

don't really work

So, you know, I'm not a doctor,

but I know what works for me.

And I've had experience with

other people that are close

to me that have done it and

have had great results.

I wouldn't hesitate to do it.

You just have to have like a

primary care doctor who

really is understanding and is willing to,

you know,

write your script for that blood

work probably every six

months just to make sure

that some of your other

levels aren't out of whack.

You know,

you shouldn't have high blood pressure.

You shouldn't have sleep apnea.

You shouldn't have a heart condition.

Um, you have to kind of be, um, you know,

fairly, fairly healthy.

Otherwise CrossFit says,

I guess I can cancel my

natty or not bid for cat.

Yeah.

I mean, if that's what you want to call it,

I mean, if I got, if,

if I was in a competition

where they tested my testosterone levels,

I wouldn't fail the test in

terms of my levels, just because they're,

they're within the normal

ranges or maybe like slightly above,

but I'm not going to the CrossFit game.

So you don't have to worry about that.

Um,

And yeah, like I said, I mean,

it's probably helped me

keep my muscle mass over

the years when I have gone

through some peaks and valleys,

mostly valleys of not

working out because I'm

busy with the gym or I got

injured and things like that.

Yeah, Andrew,

I highly recommend just getting,

you want to get a couple of things.

You want to get your testosterone.

You want to get your free testosterone.

Sometimes that's a

calculation and you need to get your

Um, it's like a four letter, um,

acronym and it's like the

sexual hormone globulin,

something or other.

Um, I'll,

I'll look that up and let you

know what that is,

but those are sort of the

things you need to look at.

You also need to look at

your red blood cell count

and your hematocrit.

Um, yes.

Thank you, Trish.

Sexual hormone binding

globulin is what it's called.

S H B G. Sex hormone binding globulin.

Yep.

CrossFit's got it too.

Yeah.

That helps to calculate that

free testosterone because

my free testosterone is

completely normal for a female.

So it's kind of like when you eat food,

like I'm one hundred and

forty pounds and I could

eat a candy bar and my body could absorb,

you know,

three hundred calories of that candy bar.

could have another person

who also weighs a hundred

and forty pounds eat the

same snickers bar and their

body might consume or might

absorb you know x number of

calories like calories are

is just a generalization of

what your body needs to

expend to to digest that

food um and it's very you

know it varies person to

person there's really no

it's it's all sort of not

an exact science um and I

feel like that's the same

thing with testosterone

like guys could have

A twelve hundred testosterone level,

which you think, oh, my gosh,

like holy balls, that's crazy.

But.

But if they're free,

testosterone is like within

normal range or even lower

than normal range,

then that's what's like

bioavailable and in your

body that is able to be

used in a sort of.

What's the word?

It's not manifesting.

It's like what's existing,

what's like available to you,

bioavailable.

And so it's not a perfect science.

And it's, you know,

you can't just look at one thing.

And I think primary care

doctors will give you a test.

They'll look at your overall

testosterone levels and be like, oh,

you're within the, you know,

the limits that insurance

covers or whatever.

And that's that.

What are you saying here?

And CrossFit cat thinks a

thirty eight year old dude.

Just wants to bang,

doesn't want to be serious with her.

Oh,

someone asking me why I won't go out

with a thirty eight year old.

I mean, there's other reasons, too.

I just think like I've

experienced a lot more life

than a thirty eight year old,

and I think it would have

to be a very mature thirty

eight year old.

It would have to be someone

whose kids are maybe a

little bit older than your

average thirty eight year old.

What else?

Yeah,

they can't be just after me for one thing,

obviously,

because that's not what I'm

around here for.

Yeah, those levels are also important.

I don't understand them as much for men.

I know for women, that's a thing.

If you want to juice your numbers down,

drink and sleep terribly

the night before.

I actually, the last time I did get tested,

it was like a day after I

had taken my microdose.

So I'm pretty sure that I'm

in a good spot right now.

And I know when I got the

eight hundred level or whatever it was,

my doctor called me right

away and she's like, oh,

we need to do something.

And I immediately I think I

was doing I was doing five units,

maybe every.

Maybe twice a week,

maybe even like every three

days and just kind of doing that,

so I went to like every four days.

and never got tested.

And then I just balanced out

at every five days.

I thought that would, you know,

less is more.

And so, um,

that's kind of my sweet spot right now.

And I'll, I'll,

I just got it checked maybe a month ago.

Um,

so I'll get it checked again in another

six months and make sure

that that's the right dosage for me.

But so far it's been,

it's been really good.

No complaints whatsoever.

Um, yeah.

And here's my theory on that.

I feel like, and again, not a doctor, just,

just like to think about things.

I feel like we were meant to

live like four years, forty, fifty years.

And modern medicine,

thanks to modern medicine,

we're living longer lives because,

you know, don't come after me on vaccines,

but, you know, we have vaccines, we have,

you know, antibiotics that can, you know,

we don't die from pneumonia anymore.

We don't die from viruses.

We have medicines that can

can fix that for us.

So our lifespan.

has increased because of modern medicine,

which is great.

And because, you know,

our healthy lifestyles or whatever,

but your body,

like the biology in your body,

you probably were only

meant to live to be forty or fifty.

And that evolution of what

your body can produce and do, I think,

takes a lot longer than, you know,

the thousands and thousands

of years that we've been

around tracking this kind of stuff.

So what I think is

your hormones, you know,

that your body's producing

stop around that forty to fifty mark,

because that's all it was

ever engineered to cover in

terms of lifespan.

And so we need to go in and reproduce it.

And if it means you have to reproduce it,

you know, synthetically or even naturally,

but just we have to add

things to our bodies to make it

like that so that we sort of

maintain that vitality now

it doesn't mean that we

should be having babies

later and I'm not like I

don't need to grow eggs

again or anything like that

um but yeah that's kind of

a thing hold on wait I want

to go back to this aaron my

natural t is total t number

isn't everything exactly

like your free is probably

kind of low and then

there's things that you can

do to dial down some of

those different numbers um

to get you in a spot where

you're in a better place

No wonder those useful

levels are attracting.

Yeah.

But I'm a huge fan of it.

And like I said,

I just think it's because

we weren't meant to live as

long as we did.

And if everyone were like to

get on the bandwagon of

hormone replacement,

where it's safe again,

because I know you hear

about things like people have, you know,

certain cancers that are

hormone sensitive or things like that.

You probably, you know,

maybe want to talk to someone about that,

but I don't know.

I'm just rolling the dice.

This is how I want to live.

This is what I'm doing.

Sorry.

Yeah.

People are dying of cancer or COVID.

Any life over thirty five is a win.

Seriously,

like go back to whatever days

we're talking about.

And people did not live this long, guys,

at all.

We were not meant to do so.

Anyway,

That's all I had, guys.

I head to Connecticut tomorrow.

I'll be there Tuesday, Wednesday,

Thursday.

I'm really hoping that this

guy that I'm talking to asks me out.

What else?

I band practice tonight.

Band rehearsal.

I'm calling it practice.

It should be rehearsal.

It's band rehearsal.

I think I get my tambourine tonight.

Tim forgot it last week.

I was very disappointed.

So...

We'll see.

Yeah.

Just don't get steroid voice.

I mean,

the funny thing is my voice is

already really low anyway.

So I'm hoping it's not like,

I hope it doesn't sound too manly,

but I've gotten that feedback.

I've posted,

I post TikTok videos and

there's so many guys in it.

They're like, you,

you kind of sound like a

drill sergeant or you seem

really masculine or really, you know, not,

not feminine or like a mom

or something like that.

And I think that's

more like my coaching voice.

And again,

I'm working on all that to sound

a little softer and look a little softer.

But Jodi, I'm going to Stanford,

Connecticut.

I actually,

I did have really good pizza

last time I was there.

I forget where we were,

but it was like a famous

pizza place and it was delicious.

Hold on.

People still want to talk about this.

Maybe you think I need to

get onto your tube and not yet.

I still do okay when I'm consistent.

Yeah, I mean, eleven fifty is great.

You know,

most guys that are going on it

are more like in like the five hundred,

six hundred, four hundred range.

Do I feel like it makes you

better at work?

No, I have total ADHD.

It doesn't help with my ADHD whatsoever.

And because I work from home,

that's really tough for me.

I mean,

I get things done when I need to

get them done, but

Um,

I could definitely focus a little more

now brain fog.

It helps with brain fog for sure.

I've noticed a big difference there.

Um, yeah, Jody, let me know.

Hook me up.

We went to, I think that's where we went.

I think we went to Sally's.

Um, cause you remember you guys,

I talked to you about that

CrossFit gym I went to too.

I forget what it was called, but, um,

that was like right on the

main drag there in Stanford

where Sally's is.

Concert is this huge radiation.

Yeah.

I don't,

I don't know that I want to take it.

My daughter has ADHD too.

And she took medicine when

she was like maybe in

junior in high school,

she's in college now.

And she took it for like

half a year and she hated it.

She said it made her like a zombie.

She hated the way it made me feel.

Um,

it's actually given her like some

anxiety about medicines before.

Now I don't, I'll take meds all day long.

Um,

Jay Burch, never had it tested.

I am fifty six.

Yeah.

I mean,

if your doctor is willing to test it,

you should you should do it.

Not me, the guy there, I'm betting.

I mean, you don't know until you know.

So so do that.

I have heard that the new meds are better.

I don't I don't find that my ADHD is.

Well, first of all,

it's never been diagnosed,

although I mentioned to my

therapist last Friday we

were talking about my daughter.

And I made like a funny comment, like,

you know, she probably gets that from me.

And my therapist just kind

of like did one of these.

She didn't say anything,

but she kind of validated it for me.

I'm like, oh, shit.

Is that me?

Do I have it?

Probably.

But it hasn't.

It's part of my charming personality.

It's not I don't think it's

a bad thing right now.

Am I going to share new pictures today?

So I don't have my extra screen set up.

If you guys don't mind

hanging out for a second, I can.

Let's see.

I can hook up this monitor.

Oh, I don't know.

Are we doing what kind of

new pictures are you wanting to see?

Are we wanting to look at

dating profile pictures?

Because I don't really have many of those.

Oh, no, it happened.

Okay, there I am.

Or are we talking about... Wait, wait,

wait.

I don't know how this is gonna work.

Shit.

I have to go around here to

look what I'm doing.

Do you wanna look at... I can't see.

Hold on.

Where's my mouse?

Oh, there it is.

Lots of them,

I get told they have anxiety.

Do you want feet pics?

Tell me what, Jason,

tell me what kind of

pictures you want to look at.

What I can do, see if I move this camera.

We'll do it anyway.

Now you guys are going to

see the other side of my apartment.

All right, don't go crazy.

I'm going to share.

This is so unprofessional.

Usually I have my other camera on.

I think we can do image file.

And we'll go photos.

I don't know what you guys want to see.

I will show you the picture

of me pregnant because it's hysterical.

You're going to die.

We showed short hair pictures before,

right?

Dude, look at this.

Look at that.

I'm going to sit over here.

You're not going to be able

to see me for a second.

That is your girl.

Thirty-six weeks pregnant with my son,

Braden.

I mean, seriously.

First of all,

can we have a moment for the red kitchen?

And yes,

I don't feel bad for sharing this.

My nose was fat, guys.

That's what my lovely mom told me,

that your nose was fat.

I was so big.

And I don't know if you can see right here,

fun fact,

I had a mole inside of my navel.

like inside my belly button.

And I had to go get it surgically removed.

I got it done.

like two,

maybe a week before I gave birth

because it was out there

and they wanted to do it.

So I went to the surgical center.

They, they took my weight down.

Obviously it was like almost

two hundred pounds and they

took out the mole and I left and they had,

I had like a stereo strip on my belly.

It was the most painful

recovery ever because my

skin was so stretched.

Um,

and I had stitches and everything else.

Seven days later I gave

birth to Braden and I had a

C emergency C-section.

Um,

I go into recovery.

He's in the NICU.

It was like a horrible birth story.

His APGAR score was like one.

He was blue, not breathing.

And I go into recovery with

no baby and this like

deflated belly and this

dairy strip on my belly.

And the nurse comes in and she's like, oh,

you got your tubes tied.

And I was like, what?

No, I just had a baby.

Like it freaked me out.

The fact that I couldn't get

pregnant right away after

Brayden was born,

I was convinced they

accidentally tied my tubes that day.

Um, but anyway, maybe two weeks later,

I got a call back from the

dermatologist that it was

suspicious for like

pre-cancer cells and they

didn't get all the margins.

So they had to go back in and do it again.

And I went back to the

surgical center and they

had to like check my ID.

They were so confused

because I weighed like

forty five pounds less than

I did two weeks prior.

And they weren't sure I was

like the same person

because I didn't look the same.

It was really kind of funny.

But yeah, that was my that's my fun.

My fun story.

All right.

How do we do this?

Okay.

All right.

We're back.

I'm going to unplug this

monitor too because it

really screws me up.

I'm sorry, guys.

I will do better next time.

This was like a last minute thing.

I talked to Scott.

I talked to Scott and he was like,

I'm not going on camera

today because he's on an airplane.

And so I decided to do this for us today.

What do we got here?

What is that?

That's a lot of signs for a new hospital.

I don't know what that means.

Yes, JB.

Pregnancy nose.

I had it.

It was so fat.

And you know what's funny?

I'm so self-conscious about

my nose anyway.

Ever since I was a kid,

I wanted a nose job so bad.

This bone right here that forms your nose,

this bone on my body is flat.

You could land a penny on it.

It's so flat.

And so it shapes the rest of my nose.

And I'm Italian, right?

I've got this like broad

Italian ethnic nose,

but it also like turns down

because my mom has like a Roman nose.

She's not Italian,

but she's got this like

thin English nose that sort

of points down.

So it's wide and it points down.

And I used to sit in front

of the mirror when I was a

kid and I would just go like this.

I'll be like, oh my gosh,

I just want it like up just

a little bit and like a

little bit narrower.

And I would put, I still do this.

I put like contour and all

kinds of stuff on my nose

because I'm super

self-conscious about my nose.

So yeah, that was not fun.

But yeah, I'll do better next time, guys.

This will be two weeks, right?

So not this week, not this Wednesday,

next Wednesday, um, five PM.

I should be around.

Hopefully I'll have some

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