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what is going on everybody
welcome to a tuesday lunch
with cladsdale it is lunch
hour taking a little time
out of our busy work day to
come hang out chat see
what's going on can't wait
to talk to everybody today um
Definitely feeling some
effects of my three hundred
air squats yesterday.
Sitting down in this chair.
We're going to see how it
affected my shoulders as I
go ahead and throw the
start at that board over there.
Oh, that it hurt a little bit,
but not as bad as I thought
it was going to hurt.
And I came pretty darn close.
I'm getting really close now.
So if you remember yesterday,
we were just to the right.
Now,
I am just to the left of the bullseye.
I don't know if you can see it there.
Just about, gosh,
half an inch from the bullseye.
It's the left one.
The one on the right is my
dart from yesterday.
But we're zeroing in on that bullseye.
We're going to get it.
We're going to get it.
Dan Church promised me a
celebration when I hit it.
And so we're going to keep trying.
But, yeah.
So super stoked about my throat today.
Feeling good, feeling good.
Even though my legs are so damn sore.
Just getting out of bed this
morning took a little extra effort,
but all worth it.
Good time yesterday.
And we'll get after it today.
Ken Walters, Scott,
just got done watching yesterday's show.
Bums, you're not going to be in Knoxville.
And second,
how do you leave potato salad
and watermelon off the picnic list?
Well, it's my list.
My mom makes a great potato
salad and she makes a great
macaroni salad.
I prefer the macaroni to the
potato because it's lighter.
And when I'm out in the sun
and hanging out, I want light food.
I don't like a big, heavy thing.
Watermelon,
sometimes I'm really in the mood for it,
and I can really go to town
on some watermelon.
But it's not my favorite fruit.
I like some pineapple.
Some different things.
I like those kinds of fruits.
So, yeah.
Anyway...
That's why.
My mom's taste sounds really good.
You only get to pick five, man.
It gets tough.
It gets tough.
So, yeah.
Kat tried to join.
That would have been awesome.
Apparently,
her Mac no longer has a camera.
I don't think they just
disappear or go away.
Maybe it got disconnected.
Disconnected.
aaron frazier did murph on
saturday at the affiliate
pretty sore for two days
feeling okay today uh pr'd
by six minutes and uh
jaybert says howdy we
always like when jaybert
says howdy cat is trying to
reboot and jump in that'd be awesome um
But while she's doing that,
I wanted to put out a huge thank you.
If you saw any of my stories
on Instagram over the last
twenty four hours,
it was a year ago today
that a young gentleman
reached out to me and was
looking for a way to get
into the West Coast classic.
to do some photography and
video work um at the same
time I was not told I had
media credentials for west
coast until a week before
the event happened and for
me to get from columbus to
california with a week's
notice and the small budget
that I have to kind of
figure things out I wasn't
able to get to the west
coast classic last year and so um
ishmael garcia reached out
to me and said hey I'm
looking to get in do some
work can I work for you I'd
seen him around the space a
little bit and I said sure
let's give it a try let's
see what we can do um and
so he posted a story
yesterday and I reposted it
with a caption I'm going to
share that real quick uh
So he kind of says,
fast forward a year after, I'm sorry,
what it felt like leaving Pasadena semis,
seeing all the homies
capture and posting shots.
then he said fast forward a
year after that I reached
out to a couple of people
brands to shoot west coast
classic for them and
unfortunately got left
unread uh clydesdale media
was the only one who
replied and did not
hesitate to try and get me
a pass to shoot for him
this weekend marks a year
since shooting west coast
classic and working with
scott I appreciate you for
trusting me and believing
in my work can't thank you enough um
It has been awesome.
He has been incredible.
He has been my eyes in the
CrossFit space in a year
that I had to take care of my wife.
I had to get her through two
knee surgeries,
two total knee replacements,
and have not been able to
be out on the road
And Ishmael has done all of
the work for me to get all
the photos you see when I
post those from competition
weekends over the last year.
He was at West Coast Classic.
He was at Waterpalooza SoCal.
He was at Waterpalooza.
He's done all of that stuff.
And then a bunch of,
he was a WFP and the
semifinals this year.
And so I want to give a huge
thank you to him because
it's been an awesome year
hanging out with Ishmael.
And I hope that that
relationship continues
because he's an amazing photographer.
If you have not checked out his stuff,
go to, I think,
He has one that is Eastma
captures on Instagram.
And then the simple one is like ICG.
So yeah.
So with that,
I see someone in the green room.
And there she is.
Hi.
So you do have a camera.
Yeah.
I don't know what happened.
It just,
it said like camera not detected
and it's part of the computer.
So it's not like I removed it.
Yeah, computers are funny.
Up until this week, two weeks before this,
StreamYard has been acting so bizarre.
Yeah.
Like I've been having
trouble getting on every day.
I have to reboot my laptop
to recognize all the different things.
It's crazy.
So it didn't recognize the
Rodecaster for a week
unless I rebooted my
computer before every show.
Yeah.
No, good.
How are you?
I'm good.
Really good.
I had a whirlwind weekend.
I saw you were in the sun and fun.
I went to Florida with a boy.
I saw it got hacked by one
of those dating apps.
Probably.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I went to Florida was
supposed to go to Baltimore
for the weekend and realize
that the weather wasn't
going to be that cooperative.
So we decided to go to Florida.
So we left Friday morning,
came back yesterday morning
and then went out on his
boat all day yesterday.
So I've got a fried forehead.
Yeah, it looks pretty red.
Probably drank a little too
much all weekend and I'm recovering now.
So this is, um,
you said you met somebody a
couple of weeks ago,
but you didn't want to get
into it because you know, it's still,
are we still in the don't
want to jinx its face?
Yeah, no, I don't think so.
I mean, we've had,
I feel like when you go away with someone,
it's kind of,
we were calling it like the
shit out shit or get off the pot weekend.
You know,
you're either going to like
somebody more or you're going to be like,
Oh my gosh,
like I can't deal with this person.
So, uh,
We got to the airport Friday morning.
We got into the elevator to
go up a floor to the ticketing booth.
And there was literally a
pile of human feces in the elevator.
Yeah, welcome to Philly.
And so that was the
beginning of the adventure
for the weekend.
I thought it was appropriate
because of how- Bad sign or bad moment?
What's that?
Bad sign or bad moment?
No, it was neither.
It was, it was just, it was fitting.
Right.
Okay.
So yeah.
Yeah.
We know we had a great time.
We had a good time.
He's a really good guy.
Like I met him in real life.
Didn't meet him on the app,
which I'm super happy about.
You know, he, he lives close by.
He's got a child.
It's not a child, not really a child and,
you know,
almost up and out and all that
kind of stuff.
So yeah.
Yeah, we're giving it a go.
When you got to go, you got to go.
I want to know the details
of that whole scenario.
Was it a homeless person?
Was it somebody who was
trying to get to their
flight and just couldn't wait?
Did they report it to anyone
to get cleaned up?
On our way back,
I really wanted to go back
to the same elevator to see
if it was still there.
Do you hit the emergency
stop button so you have
some time without the doors opening?
I mean, yeah, I don't know what you do.
All I know is I did not
breathe when I was in there.
And that's the other thing.
There was an elevator right
across the hall.
Like we didn't, there was no like, Oh,
let's just get off and go
take the other one.
It was like, here we are.
This is what we're doing now.
Yeah.
Or Hey, the stairs work.
Right.
Yeah.
We could have done that too.
We ended up taking the
stairs up on the way back.
So yeah, that's good.
So you ended up in Fort
Lauderdale of all places in Florida.
Why Fort Lauderdale?
I don't know.
That's, that's where he chose to go.
He said that he usually goes
to Miami a lot,
but we just kind of wanted
something a little more low key.
So Fort Lauderdale is kind
of like a step down in
terms of action and
nightlife and all that.
And yeah, it was good.
A lot of pool time,
a lot of little bit of ocean time.
We found this cool bar
called the elbow room, which was like,
just like a live music dance place.
Yeah.
We had a, had a lot of fun.
Yeah.
It sounds fun.
It was good.
Um,
How are other things?
Everything else?
Good.
Work is good.
Working out is good.
When I, when I get to the gym, um,
I've been a little,
I've been missing my morning workouts,
but, uh, I'll be going tomorrow.
I usually go like Tuesday, Wednesday,
or Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday are usually my
four days that I get in for sure.
Um,
And I really like the gym
that I'm going to for anyone CrossFit.
It's it's cool.
Like mostly people my age, not super,
super competitive,
but there are some girls
that I try to chase, which is always fun.
And, you know,
I'm I don't have any limitations.
Now.
I saw my surgeon last week
and I'm ready to go.
I don't know if I could do
four days in a row,
doing all the things anymore.
I mean, maybe three, three to four.
But I'm trying to keep up with them.
I've really kind of embraced
the listen to my body phase
of my life finally.
And I just do what I can do
when I can do it.
And yeah, it seems to be working.
Yeah.
And I was on an airplane yesterday,
so I didn't get a chance to do Murph,
unfortunately, but I haven't done her.
I mean,
I haven't done it fully in probably
three or four, maybe five or six years.
Anyway,
I would always do half Murph at my gym.
Yeah.
For all those years we traveled,
like Carolina and I were
talking about it.
She was either prepping for
a semifinal or at a
semifinal on Memorial Day weekend.
Yeah.
She hadn't done Murph in like five years.
Until last year,
I would say the same
because we were always at an event.
Yeah.
This was the first Memorial
Day in a while that there
wasn't a semifinal or
sanctional or whatever you
want to call it.
I know all we had was grid.
Right.
Grid.
Because John Young was doing
grid and a couple of my
friends have moved over to
the grid league.
We've met over the years.
Yeah.
I ended up watching a couple
matches on Saturday.
Yeah,
I don't think I could watch a bunch
of it.
every week but it seems like
they do like one big match
day and then they take a
month off and then they do
another match day yeah I
could probably handle that
pace were there were there
two teams competing or
there was like a multiple
teams it was all eight
teams competing okay so and
they just went back to back
to back in the same arena
nice are they still doing
are they still doing the
total bar chest of our combo gymnastics
I can actually do those,
believe it or not.
I hate to do toes to bar and
I can't do chest to bar very well.
But when I put the two of them together,
I actually do them pretty well.
It's kind of like a glide
tip for the chest to bar almost.
Maybe that's why I can do it.
the first race was it
started with ground to
overhead with kettlebells
and it was such a train
wreck of standardized of
standard movement.
Yeah.
I was like, I,
and I know that they're not CrossFit.
They don't pretend to be CrossFit.
They're their own thing.
They have their own
standards and you have to respect that.
It was so damn ugly.
Did it,
did you get to see Kelsey Kiel in
any of the matches?
She was later in the day.
Okay.
So, but like our friend, Jesse,
she's competing.
Yeah, I saw her.
I saw her on stuff.
Lauren Olson,
one of our first listeners
ever is now competing in
the grid league as a
strength expert on John Young's team.
And she's awesome.
Lauren was killing it.
I think the videos I've saw of Kelsey,
she was killing it as well.
Yeah, I'm sure.
But
Uh, toe to our chest of our bar muscle up.
Hmm.
Maybe I should try that.
Maybe that's how I'll get my
bar muscle up more consistent.
Uh, the jumping pistols were wild.
Yeah.
Uh,
they had John young do the jumping
pistols, which I was shocked.
Uh,
but maybe just because of his height
compared to some of the other athletes,
uh, to get up over that.
Cause it's just what a PVC
pipe stuck out there.
Um,
Yeah.
Anyway,
it filled a little bit of my Saturday.
I'm really excited for this
weekend to see all the things.
All the things.
All the things.
Eight tickets up for grabs.
I mean, how do you choose?
The men and eight tickets for the women.
No.
Two of those only get one.
So we have six tickets up for grabs,
men and women.
Okay.
We tried to preview Far East
on Sunday night.
I don't know anybody over
there other than Shahir Kaya.
Yeah.
I knew none of the men
because half of the field
last year tested positive.
So there's like nobody left
in the men's division.
When it comes to Africa,
it's Sarah and a bunch of
people that I don't really know.
And this is her last best shot.
Yeah.
I do like the fact that with
all of these different time zones,
I feel like we could just
continually watch
throughout the entire weekend something.
There's always going to be something on,
assuming everybody's streaming.
Yeah,
I don't know anything about the
streaming.
I know Torian will always stream.
Yeah.
And I know Syndicate, the Savant podcast,
is streaming it.
I don't know anything about
far east or renegade rebel
renegade no clue so yeah um
syndicate's gonna be pretty
good it's I thought it was
a pretty reduced field
because of everybody who
qualified but it actually
is a pretty good field um
On the women's side,
I think Carolyn Stanley is
the one to beat.
And then it's just up for
grabs for that last spot with Shelby Neal,
the Wells sisters, and gosh,
trying to do it all from memory.
She made it last year, Lexi Neely.
Are we in an era where
Brooke Wells isn't going to
make the games?
I don't think she is.
Yeah, that's wild.
I mean, you think about it,
she's going on this,
she's like in her ninth season.
Do we think she should be at the games?
Like,
do we think that this new system is
not picking is not getting
the right people there
because of the way it's
sort of segmented who can
go to which semifinal?
Cause I, I kind of feel,
and this doesn't have
anything to do with Brooke,
maybe not making it, but just in general.
Well, I think that I, one,
I don't think we have the
right thirty going to the games.
Right.
OK.
I don't know where Brooke is
because she withdrew from
everything other than the online.
And then her penalties were
so bad in the online that
do we really even know what
her capacity is anymore?
Right.
And I use a capacity in a funny sense.
I don't know where she's at
anymore at this point in her career.
It's funny because Ben Smith
was on Savan this morning
and Savan asked this
awesome question where
after he won the games,
did you think in your head
as everybody was pulling
away from you that they
were all on drugs?
And Ben said, I did think that really,
he said,
I have no knowledge to any of that.
I have no,
But it was either my fitness
was getting that much worse
or it was a trend that was
unlike anything I'd seen in
the history of CrossFit.
Everybody kind of came in,
slowly built to a capacity
where they could compete,
and that's where it was.
Then there was this pack that came,
and they pulled away super fast.
And so in my head, I was like,
they must all be using drugs.
Wow.
Then I was surprised he said it.
I'm not surprised.
Ben is one of those people
that you don't know what
Ben you're getting in that conversation.
And some days he'll,
he'll spit out everything.
And some days he's very tight lipped.
But today he just like for a
legend and a CrossFit games
champion to say,
my thought process was they
were all using is something
we've never heard.
I hate that.
I hate that.
We don't know.
Yeah.
I mean, and then they got into like,
would he ever do it?
And he said, no,
it's not his character to
cheat in any way, shape or form.
And we've had that
discussion on here before.
Would you ever use.
And gosh,
there's part of me that if there
were no side effects and I
wouldn't even need it for competing,
I don't need to do it to go compete.
Right.
I just want to look better.
But.
Yep.
So you can feel better
because feeling better is
probably the bigger piece
of it for me at least.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I hate that my body is breaking down.
I'm fifty five.
Right.
I can't do what I used to do.
And if I try to do it,
my body just says no.
Yeah.
So.
We don't, I've talked about this on my,
on my podcast, catching feelings too.
I just feel like we were not
meant to live as long as we
do these days.
If you think about, you know,
lifespan and how it's
increased over the
thousands of years that
we've been a species.
And I just think that our
biology hasn't caught up
with us and that we
You know, when you stop being fertile,
like for women,
that's you were probably
supposed to die soon thereafter.
You know what I mean?
You probably weren't
supposed to live another thirty, forty,
fifty years.
Not having access to all
those natural hormones in
your body and all the
processes that go along with it.
And I think because of modern medicine,
you know,
we're kept alive longer than we should.
And our bodies just haven't
our natural like biology
hasn't caught up yet.
that's,
and so that's where the hormone
replacement stuff comes into play.
And it says like, okay,
well we're just going to
pretend like we're still fertile and,
you know,
enjoy life for a little bit longer.
Meredith Jones says,
I want things to stop hurting.
That's the only reason I'd try it.
It's funny cause I,
I've been talking to my mom
who just had a stroke like two months ago,
right?
She's eight years old and
she's always been that person that,
And I've told her story on here a ton.
She's lost one hundred and fifty pounds.
She started doing five K's
at like sixty five.
She's now eighty.
She's that person just goes, goes, goes,
goes,
goes and has a ball of energy stroke.
She just doesn't have that.
And it's.
I think it's leading to
depression because all of a sudden,
like she just can't go like she could.
Right.
And she.
and one,
I think she's too stubborn to let
her body heal from the stroke.
And like,
so that she can go back at it again,
she's trying to go at it
before she's ready.
Yeah.
So that's, I, I,
I can see it happening to her at eight.
Like we weren't supposed to
be running five Ks at eight.
Yeah.
Uh, David Johnson,
if I'm not hurting
somewhere from training,
I feel out of shape.
I start to get sore,
like my back and core get
sore when I stop working out.
If I go for a period of time
and not work out, five, six days,
I start to get sore, which is weird.
Yeah.
What I had to learn in my
mid-fifties is what's the point?
Where do I go to to not hurt?
Yeah.
Yeah, from inactivity or from overuse.
Sense enough to hurt enough
where I'm supposed to hurt
and not go to the point
where I'm beyond that and
actually injuring myself.
Yes, true.
That's the tough thing for me at this age.
Yeah.
No, it's true.
And I've been drinking so much lately,
like literally way more than I'm used to.
And I was like afraid to get rhabdo.
Cause you know how like
alcohol is one of the
biggest sort of factors and you know,
I'm doing a hundred hang
cleans or whatever else.
Um, I forgot to mention,
I dropped in at CrossFit
Fort Lauderdale on Saturday morning.
Um, great gym dogs loved it.
Dogs running around like crazy.
Um, in the middle of the workout,
it was a partner workout.
It was at calories on the
echo bike while your partner.
held a handstand hold.
So you were, you know, like,
ten calories on the bike, handstand hold,
and you kind of switch
until you get eighty calories.
And then it was fifty power
cleans at eighty-five,
and then it was another
eighty calories on the bike,
and while you were doing that,
you had to hold the barbell
in a front rack.
So basically, you were choking yourself,
right,
while the other person was doing
the bike.
there was an odd number.
So I just kind of like
shadowed these two girls, but I told them,
I was like, don't pay attention to me.
Just kind of do your own thing.
I'm going to be over here
going back and forth with my stuff.
And in the middle of the workout,
this woman from the back of the gym,
she's on an echo bike.
Um,
there was like a big section behind
where people were doing
open gym and just kind of
hanging out from the last class.
She comes over to me and
starts talking to me in the
middle of the workout.
She's a,
she's a judge from like the games in
she recognized me and we
started chatting like in
the middle of the workout.
It was fine.
Like I was in the middle of
doing my echo bike and she
just comes over and chats
and we're talking about
whatever the head coach had
a granite games,
twenty twenty two judges shirt.
And I said, oh, did the coach judge, too?
She goes, no, that's my shirt.
She said,
I kept all my originals and gave
all my extra ones away to
people at the gym.
She's like, I know it says judge,
but that's fine.
She lives there.
She lives in Fort Lauderdale.
It was just so random, like
how we make connections with
people in this sport and in
this space and that she
recognized me and said,
I recognize her too,
but I couldn't really
figure out maybe where I knew her from.
Yeah, Andrew, I think it was Olga.
Blonde, blonde hair, short, super cute,
red lips, like the whole bit.
Yeah, she's adorable.
I mean, she's probably late fifties,
early sixties.
Ken says,
where does it say we weren't
supposed to be running five
Ks in the eighties?
I did Murph with a vest Friday,
half Murph partner without
a vest yesterday.
I don't,
I'm not saying we were not supposed to.
I think we're just, we're beating age.
I think what Kat is saying
is we're beating age beyond
what we have in the past
and how to handle that at a
later years is, is harder to understand.
Yeah.
It's a big flex, Ken.
Two marks on a weekend.
Yeah.
Trying to make us all look bad.
The other thing Ben Smith
said today was that Gabby
Magawa is working out at Krypton.
Oh.
Still.
Nice.
I like that.
Well,
she was doing that with Laura way
back when, right?
Right.
But he also said he hasn't
talked to Laura since the
games and not that he, like he's,
he wanted it clear.
Like he's not mad at her or
there's no issue between the two of them.
Right.
But he's team Gabby with grief.
Everybody deals with grief
in different ways.
And so whatever, but, um, uh,
Jay Birch says, uh,
Ken can do that because he,
all the scallops and onions he eats.
Can't eat a ribeye every day, I thought,
for lunch.
My son was home for a week.
And of course,
the weekend that I decided to go away,
he's home.
And you guys know how much I
want to spend time with him.
But he actually stayed at my
apartment while I was here.
And he drove my car around
because his truck is not that reliable.
And so the reasons how you
know that your twenty two
year old son stayed at your
apartment and drove your car all weekend.
without actually knowing
that that's what he did.
I came home to the apartment.
The thermostat was at sixty
five degrees because he had
jacked that down.
The steaks and the chicken
thighs were all gone from the fridge.
There was a there were two clean pots,
mind you,
a skillet and a frying pan on
the on the thing.
The Diet Dr. Pepper from the
pantry was gone.
was a random razor hanging
out like in the bathroom
the towels were not where
they were supposed to be um
what else did I find oh in
the car there was a there
were two three empty ghost
drink bottles you know from
his pre-workouts whatever
um and I couldn't find my
phone charger so that's
signs that your
twenty-two-year-old stayed
with you yeah anytime my
daughter comes we lose five
or six chargers yeah
I mean, I did tell him to help himself,
obviously.
I mean, I thought the meat form,
I knew he would,
I know he would eat all
that and everything else,
but he did a pretty good job.
He like straightened up a little bit.
He didn't quite make the bed, but, uh,
he's getting, he's getting,
starting to get a lot of
followers on TikTok too.
He's looking fierce.
Um,
I keep asking him if he's going to like
think about competing, um,
in bodybuilding.
And I really hope that he
does because he looks really,
really cool.
Kind of trying to see, I'll put his, uh,
I'll put his TikTok account on there.
If anybody's on TikTok,
they should go follow him.
Let me see what it is.
I think it's Braden something.
Mine would be all the beer
and food is gone.
Yeah.
He doesn't drink and he's always on a cut.
I took him out to dinner on
Thursday night and he
picked the most expensive
restaurant in the area that
I had never been to before.
And again, he orders the
The prime ribeye,
it's like seventy two dollars.
He gets it rare.
I bought,
here let me put this thing in here,
lifting.
This is his TikTok, lifting.
I got like an artichoke
appetizer and it had like
oil and butter on it or something.
He like wouldn't eat it, wouldn't eat it.
It wasn't prime rib, it was a ribeye steak,
rare.
And then of course we have
to get like the carpaccio
because he's bougie like that.
And then no dessert.
But I'm pretty sure our
dinner was more expensive
than like the most
expensive dinner we had in Florida.
And Florida is pretty expensive.
Okay, I'm done promoting him.
Yeah.
He is, he's pretty ripped.
He works so hard.
He really does.
I mean, he's enhanced too.
Let's face it.
He's in the bodybuilding world.
So he does some shit,
but he's constantly working out.
Now, if I could just get him to get a job,
that would be amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Gosh,
I don't know if I should say this on air,
but I probably will because
I'm just open.
We've been talking with my
daughter a lot because
she's out in Montana doing
the whole thing.
Julie and I have picked up
finally the final season of
Yellowstone because it
makes us feel closer to her.
So we're finishing up that.
But she's like the happiest
I've ever seen her.
since graduating high school.
And she loves her job.
She loves it in Montana.
She's just loving everything.
She gets a letter from the ex-boyfriend.
And he wants to buy a ring
and wants to buy a house in
Montana with his military
money and have her live in
it until he gets out of the Navy.
And I'm just like,
she she'd kind of moved into
like not needing a man and
just doing her thing and,
and as happy as she could ever be.
Yeah.
And now this letter comes and she's,
and now she's like distraught.
What do I do?
It like,
she's actually horrified that he got,
that he sent this letter.
Like, cause she's not ready for that.
She goes, I'm twenty four years old.
I'm not ready for that commitment.
And so like, yeah,
he fumbled and he's
realizing it now that it
happens all the time.
That sucks because it's
always happens just when
you're like over the hump
and you're feeling good.
That sucks.
How did, so what is she?
So Meredith,
he's in basic training right now.
So he doesn't have access to
social media or a phone.
Uh,
he only gets like a one phone call
every two weeks.
And it's because all of this separation,
I think is why he feels this way now.
Right.
Cause he can't even talk to her.
Um,
I'm just,
I want to be a parent to her and say,
don't fall into this trap.
But I know if I say it directly to her,
like it's, she's not going to listen.
She's going to go the opposite direction.
Right.
So how do I do, how do I do that?
And Heidi is asking, is he a good guy?
The reason they broke up is not,
was not for good reasons.
Right.
You mean, no,
you mean it was a good reason,
but he was not being a good guy.
Correct.
Okay.
Correct.
So the answer to Heidi's
question before Christmas.
Yeah.
Right.
He broke up while they broke up together.
It was a mutual kind of thing,
but it was for,
for things that he did that
were not good.
And I think she's finally
realizing all of this stuff
and that she didn't need him.
And now he drops this bomb and,
while everything's going
awesome for her yeah she
doesn't need that uh yeah
he's missing anything that
seems normal compared to
being in boot camp yeah but
what a hard thing for her
to have to deal with now
because well and and they
were they did kind of get
to like a friend state
before he went into base to basic
and and she promised to come
to his graduation and
that's when he wants to go
ring shopping during that
weekend which comes up next
month it's in june sometime
and I I'm just this just
have I just found out about
it before we went on the
air like literally five
minutes before we went on
the air yeah um and I go
out on a couple dates with somebody else
Well,
she's made like a ton of good friends.
Like they hang out.
They go on hikes.
They do pool days.
Like she's just having a blast.
And I think that that's why
she's horrified.
And hopefully it stays that
way for the right reason.
Clock,
I made some weird phone calls from
boot camp myself to former girlfriends.
Yeah.
we're seeing it firsthand
and I just she's my only
kid you know I just I you
know I'm still protective
dad even though she's a
grown woman um I just hope
she sees the truth in this
whole thing but thank god
she doesn't ever listen to
my show because she would
she would literally murder
me for me talking about it on this show
Yeah.
My,
my kids don't listen to my shows either.
Unless we're talking about dating.
She needs to keep reminding
herself about why they
broke up in the first place.
Well, and again,
like her initial reaction
was she was horrified that
he even brought up a ring
and getting married at this
point in their life.
So hopefully we stay in that direction,
but man.
Yeah.
She has to realize that
that's like not an
appropriate thing to be talking about.
And you know when your kid
is finally happy and like
in the place they want to
be and everything's going well,
you're just so excited for
them and you don't want
anything to block that from continuing.
But yeah.
And on a bonus, she's doing so well,
like she is taking herself
off our car insurance.
Oh, good.
She's going to start paying
for her phone bill.
Part of our phone bill.
Big girl stuff.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
My daughter texted me.
She's been working at the rest.
She works at a restaurant
and she only gets like two
shifts a week because she's in school.
But now the school's over
and all the other students
that were working there
have gone home for the summer.
And she sort of still lives
near campus anyway.
She sent me a text,
I think on Sunday night, maybe.
And she said, mom,
I made eighteen hundred
dollars this week in tips.
And I was like,
Oh shit.
Okay.
You go.
So she's going to have a
really good summer.
She keeps that up.
Jay Birch.
I have two thirty one year old girls.
You will always have those
same fatherly concerns.
Thanks for letting me know that Jay Birch.
Jay Birch has twin girls.
That's cool.
I want to know how Jay Birch is doing.
They moved to be closer to
one of his daughters and
then his wife got called
back into office and now
they have to move back to
where they lived before.
Oh, that stinks.
Yeah.
And trust me, I'd live that life.
I'm waiting for the call any
day now to go back to the office.
Yeah.
I hate to rub it in,
but I work for a company
that will absolutely never
have us back in.
Yeah.
which is amazing.
I figure I got like eight or
nine more years.
I can do this for eight or
nine more years and then just be done.
But literally I think I could go anywhere.
We're making it work.
Crazy.
That's not an unusual concept, right?
To want to go where your kids are.
to be closer to your kids
right we've we've actually
talked about like once we
retired moving to my if
she's going to stay in
montana yeah like I have
nothing holding me here in
columbus right this is not
where I grew up we might
probably move out there with her yeah
Yeah.
I just, um, that concept, the, the,
the concept of not agreeing
with that doesn't make
sense to me at all.
I've been in,
I've been with people before
who thought I was
absolutely crazy for wanting to, you know,
see where my daughter landed,
see where my son landed and
go somewhere in between to
be closer to them.
Like, and to me,
that seems completely reasonable.
And to most of the people that I talked to,
that seems completely reasonable.
So I don't
mean that's she's my family
right we only have one kid
yeah scott's having an
asthma attack this
cottonwood season has been
so bad this year and it's
supposed to rain and it'll
knock it all down yeah and
it's supposed to do that
this afternoon I I'm
looking forward to that
Oh, I forgot to tell you.
So I met this,
we're at this place for
dinner one night and this
woman was sitting next to
me and she got this
beautiful lobster salad.
Oh my God.
It was like a lobster green goddess salad.
It's a seafood place.
We've got like stone crabs
and a bunch of other seafood.
Anyway, she was adorable,
this cute little blonde.
And then there was a seat in
between her and then this
young guy sitting next to
her and he started chatting with her.
He was very young, probably like,
late twenties.
And I pictured her to be
probably like late thirties,
early forties.
And so they were chatting and he was,
you know,
you could just hear them sort of
back and forth.
I heard her say that she lived in Ohio,
but that she's in Florida all the time.
And he said that he was from California,
but he had just moved to Florida.
And so EJ and I are like listening,
like part of the
entertainment of us going
out and like sitting at bars is to like
watch other couples and try
to figure out you know like
what their dynamic is are
they on a first date are
they married do they hate
each other do they like
each other and all that
kind of stuff so we love to
people watch um and just
observe and comment so
we're listening to this
woman talk to this guy and
I'm next to the lady and
I'm sort of looking over
and thinking this guy's
really cute and I'm like
rooting for her I turned to
ej and I was like you know
what I'm like rooting for
this to happen and uh
So I think he got up,
the guy she was talking to
either got up or like
stopped talking to her, got his food.
And I turned to her and I was like, hey,
I said, do you know that guy?
You know, I said,
are you here by yourself?
And I just kind of struck up
a conversation with her.
Long story short, she's from Columbus.
Right.
She lives in some
neighborhood that I had
never heard of before
because I'm like drop.
I'm like, oh, do you live in Dublin?
You know,
like acting like I know all the
suburbs of Ohio.
But she's got two kids at Ohio State.
She has another one that graduated.
She was fifty two years old.
And when I say I mean,
I know you guys are so
sweet and say that I don't
look fifty two.
She did not look fifty two whatsoever.
She looked like a younger
version of Kelsey Grammer's wife,
Camille.
kind of like the blonde,
tiny little petite,
but like cute little body.
But she couldn't have looked
a day over like thirty five.
I swear to God,
when I started talking to her,
she was fifty two.
And she was she was saying to me,
she's like, he's too young.
He's really cute and everything.
But, you know, he's too young.
He probably wants kids like
it was the exact same thing
that would be going through
my mind when I if I was
talking to someone like in
their early forties.
But this kid was like had
couldn't have been thirty
years old if he was a day old.
I just thought it was cute.
But yeah, floored me.
Fifty-two.
Crazy.
It kind of goes back to what we said.
Our bodies weren't geared to
do all these things or
doing it later in life.
And everybody's looking
younger because of it.
Yeah.
She looked amazing.
Anyway, I wanted to stay.
And then I remember we like
left for the bathroom and I
got a chance to say goodbye to her.
And then EJ like whispered
something in her ear when we left.
He was like, good luck.
We were,
we so wanted them to get together.
Now I can't, like,
I don't know what's going to happen.
I wish I knew.
I wish I knew what suburb she was in.
Right.
If you name a couple, I would recognize it,
but it was a name I'd never
heard before that I
probably couldn't spell.
Hilliard.
No, it wasn't Hilliard.
Literally a word that I've never heard of.
before.
Well, what?
Gahanna?
Yes, it was that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Gahanna is right by Rogue.
Oh, okay.
See,
if I'd known that I would have said
something.
She could have done CrossFit
for all I know.
I didn't get a chance to
talk to her long enough.
Rogue is just west in the city limits.
And if you keep going out east,
you'll run into Gahanna.
Got it.
Okay.
Okay.
I, sir, have to bail.
I have a one o'clock meeting.
It was a pleasure joining you.
Thank you for your time.
I have a meeting too.
But just real quick,
maybe our bodies were
designed to live this long,
but it took us this long to
figure out how to do it.
Perhaps.
We're doing it.
Yeah, there it is.
We're doing it.
Guys, this was fun.
Thank you so much for all being here.
And we'll see everybody
tomorrow on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.