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