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 more stories for you.
I'm hoping again, the goal is to not be talking about dating, right? That is the goal of this podcast eventually. And we have obviously other things to talk about like CrossFit and, you know, parenthood and relationships, hormone replacement therapy and all that good stuff. So I want to thank you guys for joining. We're almost at the hour. I do have to go back to work. I'm sorry I didn't throw a dart. I'm not going to tell you hooligans to get back to work. That is Scott's deal.
But I love you and reach out anytime. All right. Take care, guys. Have a great, great Monday.