Lunch with the Clydesdale - A Fib is Gone Again

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what's going on everybody

welcome to lunch with the

clydesdale uh I wasn't

planning on doing a show

today um because I had my

procedure this morning um

and didn't know how it

would feel afterwards or um

how it go or when I would get home

um but things worked out

where I was able to jump on

give you guys a little

update as to how it went um

but here we are so uh yeah

I got up this morning about

six a.m to about an inch of

snow here in ohio um had to

clear off the car do all

that stuff to get ready to

head downtown um to have

the procedure done at

grant hospital in columbus

um we live about ten miles

north maybe twelve miles

north of downtown uh

columbus so I had to clear

off the car get all that

stuff ready and then drive

through morning rush hour

traffic which wasn't too

bad uh considering it was

just a holiday a couple

days ago so a lot of people

are still off uh but made

it down there got all checked in and uh

Yeah, and went in,

went through all the pre-op process,

got wheeled in,

and then before they could

shock my heart back into rhythm,

they had to check with a

scope my heart and my lungs

to make sure there were no

blood clots in either one

of those organs before they shocked me.

And so they make you gargle

with this stuff that's like

Smucker's jelly,

but like a cotton ball flavor.

How you can gargle a jelly like that.

I mean,

I'm trying to move it around my

mouth and doing all this stuff.

And then after like,

fifteen or twenty seconds,

you swallow it and it numbs

like everything in your

mouth and down your throat.

so then they put the scope down.

They put me under at that

point after I did the gel.

And then they put the scope down,

check my heart, check my lungs.

And if everything's okay, then they shock,

they shock me.

Um, everything looked good in the heart.

And I actually,

the heart looked better

than it did last February when I had, um,

when I had this done before

and then um there was some

leakage around one of the

valves um and the

cardiologist did not detect

any of that this time which

was really cool and then um

And then they had to shock

me twice before my heart

went back into sinus rhythm,

which is what happened last year.

They used a lower voltage

and then had to up the voltage,

hit it again,

and then I went back into sinus rhythm.

that's where I am right now

and um and now I'm starting

a new medication which is a

um an arrhythmia medicine

that is supposed to um help

me keep my heart in sinus

rhythm uh going forward now

it is it's about forty

percent successful there is

no cure for afib and then

if that doesn't work then

the next step is to do an

ablation of the heart um

and that is about seventy

percent successful

And then after that,

it's like the pacemaker route,

things like that.

So we're hoping that the medicine works.

It's a four out of ten.

It works.

Hopefully, I'm one of those four.

That's what we're looking for.

Had that all done this morning,

got home about eleven thirty a.m.

Eastern time.

And then forty five minutes later, I said,

hey, let me go to chat with my friends,

Ken and Jeff and and Corey

and see what they're up to.

And let them know how everything went.

So, again,

wasn't planning on do doing that.

a show today, but here we are.

Um,

and I can already feel a difference in

the way my body is working.

Um,

the thing with AFib is you can feel the

flutters at times and like

all that's gone.

Um,

the only side effect right now is a

sore throat from the scope and, um,

a burn mark on my chest and

back from the pads, uh,

that they use to shock me.

So I'm going to put some aloe on that.

Hopefully that heals in the

next twenty four hours and

then we'll be moving on from that.

So.

Ken, using leftover Christmas ham bone,

making split pea and ham

soup for lunch today on

this nine degree Minnesota day.

Yeah,

it's about twenty seven here in Columbus,

but we have about an inch,

inch and a half of snow and

they're calling for a lot

more before the weekend's over.

And actually they're calling

for a ton the night before

my wife's knee replacement surgery.

So we do not want that delayed.

Just praying that that does

not happen again.

But that is supposed to roll

in Sunday evening into Monday morning.

And I said about the gel

tasting like cotton balls.

Yeah.

So you have a lot of cotton

balls in your mouth.

To know that flavor.

If you go to the dentist,

at some point they put some

kind of cotton thing in your mouth,

usually to soak up the

excess saliva when they're

working on you.

And that's how I know what the flavor is,

Ken.

So there.

Corey offered up his

services of using a car

battery and some jump leads.

That would have been good.

And thank you for the well wishes,

Jay Birch.

Yeah, feeling better already.

Just a little tired because

we've been up early doing

that and can't wait to feel

even better as I get some

rest and get back to full

go here in a couple days.

And Jake brings in his sausages as always.

So there we go.

So that is kind of what's

going on with me.

I did want to touch on,

and this is going to be a

shorter show today probably

than other weeks because

I usually do a little bit of

prep before the show.

I've had no time to do that

today as I was at the

hospital for most of the

morning until about forty

five minutes to an hour ago.

So there's that.

But I wanted to address,

yesterday I talked about

the WFP and a lot of

comments in a negative

fashion about the WFP.

And I went on a little mini

riff about that we've been

bitching about the format

of the season for so long.

And that someone has come

along to try to rectify that issue.

And our first reaction is to

bitch about that or to...

I think one of the things is

like everything,

everybody's talking about

what may happen in twenty

six and twenty seven.

My God,

we're not even through twenty five yet.

We don't even we've not

given this organization an

opportunity to prove anything to us.

And we're already ripping them apart.

And again,

I have nothing against CrossFit.

I'm going to support them just as much.

But these people are coming

in with a great idea and a

season that makes sense.

And I want to see it play out.

I want to see how well it

does before I start ripping

everything apart.

we had a couple comments on

that yesterday that I do

want to share and so um

that's one of the things I

wanted to talk about

briefly so here are some

comments from uh

yesterday's show and I'm

going to start with it's

wellness girl um she says I

love love coffee pods and

watson spin and I do too because um

I'm a member of both of

those channels I list the

spin I listen to every

single week if you're not

listening to spin you're

not getting the news that's

going on I'm so I'm a big

fan of that and I've known

peter we started our

podcast about three weeks

apart from each other and

we've been friends uh ever

since the start and so

super super supportive of

both those people

she goes on to say og

listening every episode but

I felt exactly the same as

scott on this I have been

reassuring myself that they

are just trying to generate

conversation and buzz by

adding contradicting

opinion but I really felt

their negativity stuck out

painfully on both shows

yesterday at the end of the

day can we all just not get

excited for more

opportunities to watch

these awesome humans

compete I understand why

people don't want to be just

Yes, men, all the time.

But right now,

would a small bit of

consensus and shared

excitement be more

beneficial for the

community and betterment of

CrossFit right now?

So that is it's Wellness Girl.

And then the Clooney's or

Clooney's Adventures.

I really wish I knew how to

pronounce that.

I'm going to just read this last line,

whether the WFP survives or not,

the innovation that they

are trying is a big win overall.

Exactly.

Um,

so those are kind of echoing what I

talked about yesterday on the show.

Um, for the first time ever, there is a,

a fitness season where we

have a very logical start and end date.

or start and end,

where you can tell a story.

Tour event one, earn points.

Tour event two, earn points.

Top thirty point getters go

to the final to compete to

see who are the top twenty

to get their pro card or

who is the champion overall,

if that's what you're more excited about.

I think that makes a very linear,

easy to tell story.

that we have not gotten from

CrossFit and that we've

been begging for for about

eight years now.

Ever since regionals went away,

we have been begging for a linear story.

Back when CrossFit first

started and we had that open to regional,

to games, it made sense.

It was linear.

You in your region,

you were in the top twenty.

You got to go on to the super regional,

super regional.

You're in the top five.

You you moved on to the games.

Super simple, super easy.

And then in twenty eighteen,

when Greg changed

everything and we went to

more of this global concept

where every country had a

representative and we did

and we did sanctionals,

we did all that kind of stuff.

That's when things got really complicated.

And ever since then,

there's been no easy way to

tell a friend of mine that

it does not know about CrossFit,

what the season means,

how to get to the end,

or how we crown a champion.

It just is...

impossible to tell and we've

been bitching about that

ever since that point and

here we are today with an

organization who is trying

to meet those needs by

having an easy story to

tell by giving the athletes

an opportunity and we're

immediately discrediting it

by um by little

fact finding missions about

the future that may or may not be true.

Like everybody's saying,

there's this contract

contradicting information.

Everything will has put out

has been that we are not

looking for exclusivity.

One athlete goes on a

podcast in Europe that we need AI to, um,

discern and now will's a

liar because he's saying

they're looking for

exclusivity in will didn't

say it victor hoffer did if

the ai is correct so I

don't know jay birch wants

to know so why what does

that say about the

ecosystem I think the ecosystem is

We have almost been

conditioned to look for the

negative in everything.

So I think that whenever new

stuff comes out,

our first reaction is to

find out what's wrong with it.

instead of looking for the

benefits of it or what

could be good for the community about it,

we look to tear it down first.

So it looks very dysfunctional.

Are you talking about the WFP?

The WFP,

if you listen to just the people

in charge,

does not seem dysfunctional to me.

Where the dysfunction comes

in is you have an athlete

saying this or an athlete

saying that who aren't

organizers of this entity.

They are just players in the game.

And so we don't know what the truth is.

All of that is rumor and speculation.

The only thing that we can

truly take to heart is what

Will and Jackson have

talked about on podcasts.

And until, and that's,

that's the bad thing about

not releasing all the

information at once and not

understanding because

everybody's digging and

looking for that additional information.

And then you get, I heard this,

I heard that.

And then I think that adds confusion.

I don't think it's dysfunction at all, but

I'm just a little old guy in

my basement in Ohio watching this go by.

And I seem to be in the

minority by giving the

benefit of the doubt.

And so maybe I am naive.

Maybe I just want something to work.

Maybe I want something to

push CrossFit to be better.

We've been asking for them

to be better about their

organization for a long

time on the sports side of things.

And they have not answered that bell.

So Ken says, according to Drunk Pedro,

today is Friday.

It's not very clear.

Well,

while I love the news that drunk

Pedro provides and I,

and I find it humorous and

I watch every version of this,

I have not seen today's yet.

Um, but I don't think it is, um,

it does not contain

journalistic integrity as a, um,

as a new source.

Jay Burch says, I'm with you, Scott.

I would rather give it a go

rather than poo-poo

everything that comes along.

And Corey Leonard says,

maybe you just have a more

positive outlook the most.

It's probably that I have

somewhat of a positive outlook.

It's probably somewhat that I'm naive.

And it's probably somewhat

that I want something.

I love covering the sport.

I love what this methodology

has done for me personally.

And I love the sport itself

and following it.

And I want it to be successful.

I just want it to be successful.

And we've put all of our

eggs in this one entity

that we keep complaining.

Isn't doing what we need it to do.

And, um,

now we have this other

organization and according

to tr maybe a third

organization uh if hiller

is is accurate um trying to

put something together that

makes sense and trying to

answer all of the

complaints that we've had

and the first thing we do

is poo poo on it and I just

don't want to be that

person I want to be a

person that like watches it play out

Give it a good go.

Give it a shot.

See what we have.

And again, they're in year one.

They can modify it,

tweak it during year one for year two.

Jay Burch says, well,

I am personally a realist.

My wife says I'm a pessimist.

I would love to see the sport evolve.

I would love that.

More than anything,

I want to see the sport evolve.

I want more to talk about.

I want the storylines that

would come from what the

WFP has put together would

be so freaking cool.

have these twenty athletes

that are known that have

their contract that have

their pro card whatever you

want to say and then you

have this group of people

trying to be the ten to

take them down I and I love

that concept I love and of

course if you followed this

podcast at all the ten are

where I'm interested

want to know those ten I

want to know who those ten

are I want to know what

their their plans are to

and how they're going to

get to the twenty that's

what I find fascinating

modification over time is a

necessity all pro sports go

through modifications there

are rule changes every year

in the nfl there are rule

changes every year in major

league baseball

And those sports are a hundred years old.

They still modify every year,

but they don't revamp every

year like CrossFit has done

over the past five to six years.

Tweak, modify, good.

Revamp every year, bad.

So,

again I didn't get a lot of

prep time in uh for today

uh so I don't have a whole

lot to talk about um I did

watch the notre dame

georgia game yesterday

notre dame looked really

really good um it's been

interesting seeing the sec

not do as well um in this

twelve team playoff as they

have done in years past I I

watched a little bit of get

up right before I got on the air here

And they were talking about

how the NIL and the

transfer portal are

changing things for the SEC,

where they used to be able

to stack their teams.

Guys don't want to wait

around because there's

money that they can make if

they go start at another school earlier.

and it's uh making the the

backups not as good as they

used to be or the sec

schools not as deep as they

used to be and the only sec

school left in the

competition is texas who

was a big twelve team last

year so they weren't they

are brand new spanking new

to the sec which is crazy to me um

we have the final week of

the NFL this week and

there's still stuff to play for.

Uh, so I'll,

I'll be checking into all of that.

And then we have college

football playoffs at the

end of next week.

Thursday night is Penn state,

Notre Dame Friday is, um,

Ohio state and Texas.

Um,

I think those are some pretty cool

matchups.

Um,

of course I'll be rooting for my

Nittany lions.

Uh, uh,

And Penn State, Notre Dame.

I mean,

that takes me back to nineteen

eighty six laying on my

bedroom floor watching Penn

State play Notre Dame every

year in my bedroom.

And Rudy, in the eighties, man,

I was a I was I rooted for

Penn State and whoever played Notre Dame.

So taking me back to those games,

I hated Notre Dame back in the day.

Ken Walters, Vikings fan.

Wow, what an NFC North year.

So Sunday night we're getting Vikes, Lions,

both teams, XIV and II.

No two XIV win teams have

faced each other in a

regular season ever in the NFL.

It's happening Sunday night.

The winner of that game gets

the NFC North.

The number one seed, first round by,

home field advantage

throughout the playoffs,

and the other team is a wild card.

And with fourteen freaking wins,

a wild card.

That is insane.

That game is going to be epic.

I cannot wait to see that

game Sunday night.

But I will probably catch

the second half because

I'll be here live with

Carolyn and Jamie on Sunday

Night CrossFit Talk.

We're going to go over our

workouts for the traveling

gauntlet that we have come up with.

If you have submitted your

workout that you think

would be good for the gauntlet,

you'll go in the drawing to

win one of our vessels for liquid.

There is the water bottle,

the Clydesdale Medial Water Bottle.

with the logo engraved in the side,

or you can pick a coffee cup,

the same color, same steel makeup,

and the same etched in vessel.

So we're going to go through

those on Sunday night and

see what you guys have come up with.

Jeff, Jay Birch is going, go horns.

Corey Leonard,

here's a question to ponder.

If the Bengals decide to

actually procure a defense,

how scary will they be?

That's a team that was in the Super Bowl,

what, two years ago, three years ago?

And now, because of just a crappy defense,

wow, they would be really scary,

honestly.

My wife is a Steelers fan,

so I do not want that to

happen because when wife is unhappy,

the house is unhappy.

So I root for the Steelers

unless they play the Bears

just to keep my wife happy.

The over under on the Vikes

Lions game is fifty nine points.

I don't know if I've seen an

NFL over under that high before.

Andrew Sten,

who I am assuming is a Bengals

fan since he lives in Cincinnati,

says they would be very

scary if they keep Chase and T. Man.

Last week, T. Higgins was unstoppable.

And that's because they were

doubling Chase on every play.

And T. Higgins went off.

All I want for Christmas is

an offensive line for the Chicago Bears.

That's it.

I hope they draft five

offensive linemen this year

and sign three in free agency,

and out of the batch we can

get five good ones.

And maybe sprinkle in a

defensive lineman or two as well.

But, yeah, that Cincinnati team,

like living here in Columbus,

we are smack dab in the

middle of Cleveland, Cincinnati,

and Pittsburgh,

and we get all of that mess

of the AFC North.

And the Browns have problems.

If you put the Browns'

defense with the Bengals' offense,

they would be unbeatable.

the browns can't get out of

their own way on offense

and the bengals defense

can't get out of their own

way on defense and uh it

it's lessening both teams so

Well, guys, as always, man,

it's fun hanging out.

I just wanted to do a quick update.

Since I had the procedure this morning,

everything went well.

We're back to sinus rhythm.

And now I get to rest up on

the weekend and get the

house prepped for my wife,

who's having surgery Monday

morning to have a total knee replacement.

And so she will become the

focus of the house from that.

We'll see how that goes.

I'm going to try to jump on

either Monday or Tuesday.

Her surgery is super early.

We have to be there at like six,

fifteen in the morning.

It's like an hour and a half

to two hour surgery.

And then...

And then she'll be in

recovery and then to her

room because she's spending the night,

the first night.

I'll probably come home and

rest for a little bit and

get her some stuff.

And so maybe I'll jump on

for a short show on Monday

or just to give you guys an

update on how everything

went with her and talk

about anything that may pop

up over the weekend.

But again, wanted to hop on,

let you know that

everything went great with

me this morning,

back in sinus rhythm and

ready to take on the world

now in twenty twenty five.

With all of you as my

friends and the list and

the listeners that are so

awesome to the show.

Thank you so much, guys.

We will be back.

Hopefully we will definitely

be back Sunday night.

CrossFit talk with.

Jamie and Carolyn.

And then I'll hopefully be

back on Monday with a lunch

show for y'all.

Until then,

you guys are the best as always.

See you soon.