Lunch with the Clydesdale - We are Back!!!

Using the daily lunch hour to hang out with everyone in the chat, talk about what is important to each of us in the world.  Today we will talk about the College Football Semifinals happening in the next 2 days!  Health Updates with myself and my wife.  and we will set up the story of CrossFit adding new events to in person semifinals post original announcement.

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what's going on everybody

welcome it's lunchtime on a

wednesday afternoon with

the collides dale yeah

first day back to work in a

week um first day back

after uh my procedure and

my wife's procedure um yeah

Man, am I tired.

I will admit it freely.

This weekend has taken a ton out of me.

So I had,

I talked to you guys Friday afternoon.

I took,

I had my heart shocked back into rhythm.

By Sunday, I felt so good.

Um,

just can tell like the blood flow is

back to full strength.

Um, all my joints felt better.

Um, everything's been going, uh,

everything's been going well.

So, Oh, Hey Corey, what's up Lex, Jody,

Judy,

Holly got the regular crew in with

us today.

So awesome seeing you guys today.

Um, so yeah,

so Monday morning after I felt

good Sunday got up, uh,

Five o'clock in the morning.

And got my wife ready.

We went to the hospital.

Got her checked in.

And then it was kind of wait.

I got to go back before they

prepped her for surgery.

She went in.

It was about a two-hour long procedure.

And then in recovery,

it was going to take a

couple hours for her before

I could see her in her room.

So on the way to the procedure,

we got snow overnight here,

about four inches of snow.

um we were the first people

on our neighborhood road to

even try to get out uh

about a third of the way to

the hospital my driver's

side windshield wiper uh flew off

And so at that point I was

having to try to make a decision.

Do I keep going?

Uh,

so I just prayed nobody would splash

anything on my window.

Um,

because it's not a long drive toward

that hospital.

It's probably only on good roads, for us.

Um, but we got there.

Got her checked in, got everything.

So when she was in recovery, I ran,

there's the place we go get

her oil changes right

beside the hospital.

So we are due for one of those.

Got an oil change.

Got new windshield wipers put on.

They inflated my tires

because it was super cold

and my tires were really low.

Got all that done.

Came home, let Walter out.

went back to the hospital,

sat down for about five minutes,

and then she was in a room

and we went up and I got to

see her and then spend the

rest of the day with her in her room.

And everything went well,

exactly as planned.

Now it's just the recovery process.

Got her home yesterday about one o'clock.

She has to be on this

machine three times a day

where it bends her knee

from zero degrees and she's

up to fifty five degrees right now.

Hopefully we'll be at sixty

by the end of the day.

She tries to get the goal is

to get five degrees more

each day with the bend.

But she's from zero to fifty

five right now and

hopefully get to sixty by tonight.

But actually,

she said that is one of the

parts of the day that feels the best.

I'm getting the leg moving

and allowing that machine to contract,

straighten her leg, bend it back up.

She said that actually feels the best.

We're weaning down off the pain meds,

but she has a bed in the

living room right now.

So she doesn't have to climb

any stairs for anything.

We have been up to the

bathroom a ton since she's been home.

So, really,

my job is lifting her up out of

the bed onto her walker.

Once she gets to the walker,

she's rolling pretty good.

In the bathroom,

I do have to help her up

off of the commode and...

And then once she's on the walker,

she's good there.

And then lifting the machine

up onto the bed,

getting her leg into the

machine all those times,

then lifting the machine off the bed.

So...

first couple attempts my

back was feeling it for

sure I'm getting more set

up into my deadlift

position with the machine

when it comes to her she's

getting stronger every day

I really think like the leg

is actually stronger than

it was before the surgery

and it's just her

confidence in it right now

getting her to be confident

and standing up on that and

uh feeling like it's gonna hold her

Even the PT people are like, yeah,

it's not going to give out

on you like your old knee was.

This is going to do well.

Once she gets on the walker,

she's moving through the

house pretty good,

but getting a lot of sleep.

She did not sleep in the

hospital hardly at all.

So since we've been home,

that has been the key thing.

But everything's going great.

We're doing great.

And we're on the road to recovery.

And hopefully in three months,

we'll get the other one done.

And then this knee will be

in such good shape that the

recovery process will

actually be easier the

second time around.

So...

I want to thank everybody

for their thoughts and prayers.

I got a lot of those.

And so I really appreciated those.

And they really did help as

we have been moving through this process.

And Corey,

you are dead on movement as it

turns out is medicine.

Yeah.

And the doctor said like,

He doesn't even care how

much she's up and moving

around the house.

It's how much she bends that

knee and really working that machine.

And she's supposed to do three,

one hour sessions a day.

She's actually, when she's on it,

she probably does ninety

minutes just because it feels good.

So we're even overachieving

on that at this point already.

Now we just got to get the

angles to where they need to be.

So, um, again,

thank you everybody for your

thoughts and prayers.

It has been a really good process.

She's doing great.

And, uh, yeah,

I don't see her being down very long.

Uh,

she's up moving around pretty good

already.

Uh, so pretty excited about that.

And I got to actually take

her to the rehab facility tomorrow.

So we got to get her up out of the house,

into the car.

Uh, so we'll have prayers for that.

Hopefully that goes well tomorrow.

Um,

Cause they helped me at the hospital,

get her into the car.

Getting out was much, much easier.

So,

but hopefully we've made enough

progress where tomorrow it

won't be so bad.

So, yeah.

So while I was in the

hospital with her and recovering,

the news came out that the

Masters and Teens CrossFit

Games are coming to Columbus, Ohio.

And I could not be more pumped about that.

Um, I, one, I love, I love my, my town.

I love my city.

And I think it is a great

place to hold events.

And, uh, there's so much to do here.

Um, I, it's going to be awesome for, uh,

everybody to come here and to, uh,

celebrate these masters and teen athletes,

uh,

My guess at the moment is

it's probably going to be

at the Columbus Convention Center.

If it's anything like

Birmingham was last year,

that seems to be the place

that would fit that layout the best.

But there's also a really

cool... So we built a new

soccer stadium maybe two or

three years ago, and the old one still...

sits vacant well not vacant

they still use it for

concerts things like that

it'd be an awesome place

for some outdoor events um

I would love if they could

use both of those um but my

guess is it's going to be

at the convention center

and andrew does uh echo

that and he is that he is

connected with that group

so uh yeah columbus

convention center that is

where the main part of the arnold is held

And it is massive.

They won't even need the

whole thing for this.

So...

so it it's going to be

awesome I if it's at the

convention center you're in

the short north of columbus

there's so many restaurants

so many good restaurants um

so many like little quaint

shops um and then you're

not even that far from ohio

state campus so uh so

I think that's going to be

incredible and I think

everybody's going to enjoy

it here and probably the

best piece of all is we do

have an international

airport so flight should

not be too out of control

to get into columbus um and

I think that's most

important for uh people traveling in

Uh,

the other thing is we have a ton of

hotels down there around that area.

We have a major, uh,

convention center Hyatt.

We have a Hilton across the street, uh,

plus probably two,

more hotels right around the building.

So, uh, plenty of places to stay, uh, easy,

get in, get out.

And, uh, yeah.

so shay we are talking about

the masters crossfit games

coming to columbus ohio

along with the team

crossfit games and how

excited I am for that

because that is where I

live uh and so it's going

to make it so much easier

to do content and stuff for

me here and I love this

city and I think it's a

great place to host these

events um uh kenneth to

lapses like and subscribe

people support the show for

free yeah it doesn't cost

anything to hit that like

and subscribe um

Holly asks,

how many couches do I have and

when do reservations open?

Uh, we'll probably do a lottery.

Um, but anyway, or we could, uh,

we could put some cots down

here in the podcast center

if you don't mind being a

little bit cold.

Uh, but it's going to be August,

so it won't be that cold down here,

but it'll be cool.

Um,

holly I've only been to the

library there once but the

conference was nice yeah

the main library is

beautiful too they've just

renovated the whole thing

it's a it's a classic

building with colonnades

out front um and uh yeah

super super cool and the

convention center is

probably a ten minute walk

away from that library so uh yeah

uh scott can sleep in his

own bed while covering the

cup damn straight um all

these places I've traveled

to uh the hotel podcasts um

have been just

know we we've made it work

but that I don't even have

to move my equipment to do

a live podcast from

columbus during the

competition is going to be

awesome um so yeah we could

we could even I by then

I'll have to have it set up

where we have a couple

microphones uh and just uh

chilling out uh down here

in the basement to do those

so that would be awesome

Uh, it is Shay.

It is totally the dream.

The fact that I do not have

to take equipment and I can, and I can,

it's going to open up so

many possibilities for

content because I love the

master's division.

Doing the master's

documentary last year was so much fun,

but I had to travel in.

I had to travel out.

I had to lug equipment everywhere here.

It's going to be,

I'm still going to have to

take equipment to the venue

and to shoot things around,

but I'll be here like the whole week.

And after that,

where I can actually

include more pre stuff, more post stuff,

And not have to be hurried

back to a hotel or things like that.

I can pack things to eat.

I can do things like that to

keep me sustained throughout the day.

It's just going to make

producing content that week

and that weekend so much easier.

and allow me to do so much more.

And the fact that I'm saving

money on hotel and flight

and all of that stuff,

I can invest maybe a little

bit into some equipment

upgrades and additions so

that we can get more footage, more angles,

more stuff.

It's going to be, it's going to be epic.

I cannot wait for that to happen.

Jody Lynn says, have you been to B&H?

podcast or stream store I

have not been to bnh I am a

zz sounds guy um that's

where almost all my

equipment comes from um

that's just what I found

easily at the beginning and

a lot of their shipping is

like a day um so that's

what I've been using ever since I started

But, uh,

the one person who shot for me

last year at the games, uh,

some of the floor footage, Caitlin Walter,

she lives here in Columbus too.

So it's going to be easy for her.

Um, yeah, we're gonna,

we're gonna kill it this year.

And I know,

and I know more people that do

things here, uh, than,

than when I have to travel

so I can use more people.

And I have, uh,

have some my daughter is a

photographer and I I'm

hoping I can use her to

just I have some ideas with

some still photography to

kind of insert into the the

content and I want to see

if I can get her to do that

uh for me with that so um

so yeah I have a lot a lot

of ideas but super super

stoked about this um

Again,

I think we've said it on the

roundtable a million times

because Charlie, Amy, and I all live here,

along with Judy.

And...

Columbus is a great spot to

host the CrossFit Games.

It's a great spot to host a

WFP tour event.

There are so many venues

here and so many different

sizes of venues that I hope

when the masters and teens are here,

we can highlight what all

is around and maybe show it

as a viable option in the future.

Um, but again,

probably the biggest thing

is we have a ton of hotels

of all levels and we have

an international, uh,

airport where getting

tickets in and out is going to be easy,

uh, easier and cheaper than like Madison,

Wisconsin, that has a very small airport.

Um,

it's just going to be a lot easier to

do that.

Uh, Shay asked,

do we know where the games are this year?

We do not know where the

games are this year.

Carolyn has some predictions.

I'll save those for Sunday night.

Just doing some things that

she's working with and just

watching social media.

She has some ideas.

So we'll probably talk about

that a little bit on Sunday

night show for sure.

And I will say that Carolyn

is not leaning towards Albany.

I'll just say that much.

So we'll see what happens.

But that Albany rumor has

been out there for quite a while.

But Birmingham was a thing

for a while too and never happened.

So we'll see.

We'll see what goes on with that.

Dense update says Valley Forge.

Oh, my gosh.

If that's in Valley Forge,

there's nothing around Valley Forge.

Swerve everyone and just

have them at the ranch.

I don't think that would happen either.

When the twenty twenty games happened,

there were issues just

about places to stay for

the smaller group of athletes and coaches,

and they had to be bused in.

So I don't think the ranch

could could even.

Even attempt to have sixty

athletes plus teams.

So a lot of people are guessing.

We'll talk about it Sunday night for sure,

because Carolyn's been

saying some things in our

little text string,

but I'll let her go on about that.

We got the college football playoffs.

I saw Judy saying go Bucs in the chat.

Yeah.

Got Penn State and Notre

Dame tomorrow night at seven thirty.

And then Ohio State and

Texas on Friday night, the final four.

My Penn State Nittany Lions

making it this far has been

an awesome season.

I am a person who roots for

a lot of teams that do not win.

And the fact that my college

football team is in the

final four makes me very

happy that I have a team to

root for this year in the

college football playoff.

because definitely my

Chicago Bears have not been

in the playoffs for a while.

My Pittsburgh Pirates never make it there.

And then even my Pittsburgh Penguins,

who were the reliable team for me,

have been off for a few years.

So super pumped that Penn

State is in the national

championship hunt and can't wait.

Yeah, Oregon still in, says Kenneth,

and they got walloped.

They got walloped by Ohio State.

By the time they realized

the game had started,

Ohio State was already up

by twenty eight points.

So the Oregon is no longer

in the in the running for sure.

They're the charred duck in

that commercial all state commercial.

I think it is charred duck

appetizer right now.

The other thing I wanted to

talk about is Corey says, yeah,

Ohio State beat the brakes

off them Ducks.

And Judy,

it was a little shocking even if

I was happy.

It was so shocking.

I did not see that one coming at all.

I knew Ohio State was good

if they put it all together,

and I knew they could beat Oregon.

I never saw the shellacking

that happened at all.

Didn't see that coming at all.

um the only thing that's

been bummer a bummer about

this week and the

procedures and my wife's

surgery and all of that is

uh we sunday night we

started to watch landman

which I've talked about on

this show a lot is one of

my favorite shows um and we

got interrupted from people

just calling with well

wishes so I only got ten

minutes in and have not

been able to finish that show and I I'm

I want to find out what's happening.

But we did get to see one of

my when I went back and I I

rated the top five shows of

twenty twenty four.

One of those shows was high

potential and it came back last night.

It's the only network show

that made my top five list

and it's on ABC and it

stars Caitlin Olson as a

consultant for the LAPD.

who has one of those minds

that can like uh see when

things are missing and so

they bring her in on tough

cases uh to kind of figure

out what's been missing and

it came back last night ah

but it came back hitting

home runs um it is

definitely one of the five

best shows of the year um

and she should she deserves

awards I know the golden globes didn't go

all the way I thought they

would with Billy Bob

Thornton not getting

anything or the cast of

shrinking didn't get

anything but Caitlin Olsen

has been killing it if you

don't know who she is she's

been in a ton of show she's

in it's always sunny in

Philadelphia she's been in

it was a comedy on Fox but

she's married to

The guy who wrote It's

Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Rob.

And he owns the Wrexham

soccer team with Ryan Reynolds.

Rob.

Oh, gosh, I'm having brain farts.

Not enough sleep.

Sleeping on the couch so

that I can be there by my wife.

But anyway, it's a great show.

If you've not seen it, it's very monkish,

but better personality.

Rob McElhaney.

That's it.

Thank you.

Understand.

She's married to Rob McElhinney,

but it's kind of a monk,

but she has a better

personality than monk did.

And she has kids and she has a normal life,

but she has this brain that

works in a way to help the police.

But she is a little bit

quirky and it's funny, it's endearing,

and the mysteries are really good.

Usually you don't know who

done it until the end.

as she's trying to figure it

out you're trying to figure

it out and it makes for a

really good show if you

have not seen it so yeah so

that was on last night

that's the one show that

I've been able to catch um

since uh since we've been

back from my wife's surgery

other than that she's just

watching a lot of like her

stuff and I'm just letting her do that so

But she likes this show,

so we could watch it together.

The other thing I want to

talk about is the Bears coach search.

My gosh,

they're inviting everybody and

anybody to interview with them.

I have no confidence that

they're going to pick a

coach that can lead this team.

If you're bringing in over

fifteen coaches to interview,

then you have no clue what you're doing,

and it's just disappointing.

They had a press conference

yesterday with the general manager,

the president, and the CEO,

and I have no confidence in

the team at all.

Oh, my gosh.

I may be at the all-time low

as a Bears fan of where we're going.

We have that.

Corey, I'll coach the Bears for the low,

low price of five million per year.

Yeah.

That's my guess is they're

going to look for the Corey

Leonard's and not for the

Mike Vrabels or the Ben Johnson's.

They're going to look for

the Corey Leonard,

that diamond in the rough

that only they could find

that will be firing in two

or three years.

Exactly.

you can't be any worse than

what they had before.

But if there is worse,

they're going to find it.

I just know it.

I just know it.

So today's going to be a

little bit shorter show as

I'm just getting back and

my first day back at work today.

But I did want to talk

briefly and we're going to

really dive into this on Sunday night.

It was announced yesterday

that the NorCal Classic

is now an in-person semifinal.

I think this illustrates

some of the things I have

been ranting about with the

CrossFit game season

compared to the WFP season.

And I know that my co-hosts

have very strong feelings

about this being added to

the lineup at this time.

And so we're going to dive

into this in deep detail on Sunday night.

But NorCal Classic has moved to, I believe,

June,

and it will be a fourth North

America in-person semifinal.

So we knew that it was

affiliated with CrossFit.

It added that to it.

There's going to be some

streaming done for that.

Uh,

that's been announced through the

Savonca podcast.

I'm guessing that will be the same now.

Um,

but the fact that it's an online,

it's an in-person semifinal

and it actually, we don't,

I have not seen how many

people get to go from there.

Is it a one person qualifier?

Is it a two person qualifier?

We have heard thirty people total.

What does that do to the total there?

These are all the things

we're going to talk about

on Sunday night.

And I know both Jamie and

Carolyn have very strong

feelings about what

happened with this and what

it does to everything else

and what it does to the season.

But I'm just giving you the facts.

It was announced yesterday.

It's an in-person semifinal.

So it's another chance to go

in person and check that out.

Back on a little bit of football talk.

The Bears are like the Saints,

finding new and creative

ways to snatch defeat from

the jaws of victory.

Yes.

But I think we took that to

an all-new level this year

with the blown Hail Mary,

the timeout fiasco on Thanksgiving Day,

the blocked field goal against Green Bay.

the overtime debacle with Minnesota.

Like we have some really

creative ways of losing games.

Aaron Frazier says the

Jaguars will be competing

for those coaches as well.

I am hearing that.

And what I'm actually

hearing is that it's coming down to, well,

are the coaches more

willing to work with Ryan poles,

the bears GM or Trent Balky,

the Jaguars GM.

And,

that seems to be the crux of the issue,

which one is willing

because they're both kind

of lame duck GMs, um,

who didn't get an extension.

We think, uh,

but the bears don't release

that information.

So there's no way of knowing, um,

and who's willing to work

with those lame duck GMs.

And are, are they willing to, uh,

put their fate in the hands

of these personnel guys?

That's what I hear.

so uh and corey leonard will

even do the saints for

cheaper and aaron does say

the weather the weather is

better uh down in florida

but uh I'm hearing trent

bauke is not the favorite

personnel guy for a lot of

these coaches but again I'm

getting that from a chicago

perspective uh so who knows

So I think that's everything

on the news front that I

wanted to talk about today.

Tomorrow,

we'll have our roundtable with

the full crew in.

Friday,

I'll be back for a lunch with the

Clydesdale on Friday,

and we'll update everybody

on the health situations of

both me and my wife.

And then Sunday Night CrossFit Talk,

where we'll get into some

deep detail on the NorCal

Classic thing coming, more WFP signings,

the Masters CrossFit Games

here in Columbus,

plus anything else that

hits the scene between now and then.

But yeah, so we have all that.

Yeah,

it is a lose-lose situation for all

of that.

I did put out my riff on a

shortened version of my

riff about the WFP and not

giving it a chance.

And I've gotten a lot of

comments back on that.

Mostly positive.

A few friendly debates, I'll say,

about it since that went out.

But as long as you're willing to talk,

I'm cool with the debate.

Like, bring it on.

I'll debate the situation

with you as long as we keep

it friendly and not hateful.

I'm cool with that.

but really interesting discussions about,

um,

how people feel about the WFP and

maybe it's intrusion on the

CrossFit games where I

think it accentuates the

CrossFit games or

accentuates the sport in some way.

Uh,

there are people that feel it's

actually detracting from

that and have their thought

presses behind that.

And they're entitled to those.

Um,

And so the comments have

been very interesting down that road.

And maybe we'll get into a

little bit of that on the

Sunday night show as well,

or maybe even Friday.

If nothing big hits,

we'll talk about some of

the comments that I've

gotten about the WFP and

giving it a chance to see

if it'll succeed or not.

And then I know training

think tank has done a

podcast about the WFP and

I've heard it's very pro, uh,

very pro WFP.

I'm interested to watch that

this afternoon just to see

what's going on with that.

Jody Lynn says,

I'm surprised Will Morad

hasn't been interviewed

anywhere or have I missed it?

You missed it.

He was on Coffee Pods and

Wads with his partner Jax

and Terry and they were

both on Talking Late Fitness as well.

And I did reach out to Will.

So we've had a conversation.

It's been a brief one,

but it's the start of something.

And hopefully, I mean,

Will and I go back a lot of years.

So I'm hoping I can have him

on as well as I made some

proposals to him about some other things.

So we'll see what happens

with all of that.

But I have reached out to

him and have had talks and

communication with him.

And hopefully we'll have him

on very soon as they get

more details out about what's going on.

So,

super excited about that.

And Will's always been a good guy to me.

Uh,

if you watch the behind the scenes at

the masters,

we have some very candid

conversations about some things there.

Uh,

I had him on right before semifinals

this year, uh,

where if you go back and listen to that,

it, he, there are indications that he,

this was coming before that.

And some of the comments I have,

I've gotten there that the

WFP is leveraging the Lazar Jukic, uh,

tragedy to push themselves forward.

My interview with Will was

before that happened.

And you can tell in that

interview that something

was coming from Will at that time.

So there was at least some

thought about it coming.

I don't know how far down

the road they were or if

that accelerated after what

happened with Lazar.

But I can tell you that I

can definitely say that

they were thinking in that

direction prior to that event happening.

speaking of lazar one of the

signings this week has been

luka jukic for the wfp as

well as uh one of the one

of my favorite guests to

have on his page simenza

she was signed as well I

was really excited to hear

that we still have not seen

a signing of tia or laura

but there is still time and

I think slots available for them

But it's interesting that

they are going to be one of

the last announced if they

are in fact part of the WFP.

But I think all the big

hitters from the men's side

have already signed,

but we have not heard from

Laura Horvat or Tia Toomey

on a signing with the WFP.

So that's going to be

interesting to see whether

they do or they do not.

With that,

my sinuses are filling up a

little bit down in this

cold basement because it is

really cold here today.

With that, I'm going to leave you for now,

but we'll be back tomorrow

with the full roundtable

and can't wait to talk to you then.

If there's anything that you

want to talk about,

make sure you leave that in

the comments and we'll dive into that.

I know I've had some

comments about bringing

back maybe some weird top

five lists around the pop culture world.

Uh, I think we'll do that.

Uh,

but I'd like to do that with a guest as

we do that.

So, um,

can't wait to kind of add that to

the repertoire of the show.

Uh,

Kenneth says new reach or trailer just

debuted.

I think it came out like a

week or two ago.

Um, because, and the listeners, you,

the listeners are the ones

that told me it was out.

Um,

And I went and watched it.

It's really good.

Or are you saying there's

even a newer trailer coming out for it?

But anyway,

excited for the new Reacher

season for sure.

I knew it was with, I think,

Twentieth Century Fox going under.

It was debated whether it

was going to make it through to come back,

and it has.

It was bought out,

and they are going to show it.

So, yeah.

can't wait for that and uh

Cory's always going to be

on my list for guests trust

me uh he's one of my dudes

man love chatting with Cory

um and Judy nominates that

so now he's nominated and

he's one of my dudes so

you'll probably see Cory on

here as one of the guests

for a top five list uh so

we will definitely do that

in the future I just got to

come up with some ideas and concepts

CK Kevin says the Reacher

dude went to woke for me

won't be watching I I don't

know anything about woke I

just watch the shows and if

the story writing is good I

enjoy the show that's where

I leave it I don't put too

much credence into anything

else that's just me with that

I'm going to say adieu and

see you guys tomorrow for

the Clydesdale Media

Roundtable with Kat and Amy and Charlie.

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Friday with Lunch with the Clydesdale.

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