Circling Back - Weather, Launch Angle, & Scottie vs. Shohei with All-Star Brent Rooker | Circling Back 1-29-26

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

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All right, we're back. Thursday morning, the circling back podcast. My name's Dave. Hello, Dave. Hi. Producer Randy in the building. No lappy. Hi, Dave.

Yeah, I got a, oh, we'll get more into it and this weekend of fun, but I got a little golf date with Dan and my hands were full and I just completely forgot that I did not have my laptop with me. So, oh. It's a weekend and fun teas. Well, weekend and fun teas. Okay. Also, big news for my, my Sanderson heads out there. Apple TV, picking up the Cosmere.

It means nothing to you guys, but it means everything to me. No idea what that means, but I'm excited for you. I thought you were talking about the Sanderson. The golf, okay. No, Brandon Sanderson, the author of Stormlight Archive and Missborn. A big TV deal just went down yesterday. Do you understand what he's saying? No, it feels like you don't.

Not a bit of it, but. It means something to him, so I'm happy. Yep, and that's about all I'll talk about in this episode. Just wanting to get out there. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to introduce a guy who I think might have been wronged on a recent reel. I agree. I agree. So, Chris.

Like, I'm, like, on the podium holding the trophy, and they're just douse of me and champagne. There's just chicks everywhere. I know. But I'm also noting that they may have got this one wrong. It's Dylan Schifery. Will sent me a video, like, three weeks ago of a similar format. like that and the first guy in the video, it was approached like that and he said, what you got for me? I thought that was just a dope way to walk up to someone, like to say hi for the first time.

And I snuck that in and no one's even acknowledged it yet. But my DAP, super crispy and I should have won, but I think you're just a crowd favorite. That's why we'll give it to you. No. It wasn't terrible. No, I hit him with a snap at the end too. Okay. But to each his own, hey, we've got a guest.

We do. So hold on a sec here. It says here. Brent Rooker serves as an outfielder for the Oakland Athletics. That's not accurate. Using his ex-account to share real-time game insights, celebrate team achievements, and promote his 25 Rooker Foundation focused on youth empowerment. His posts reveal a playful side through humorous baseball memes and fan shoutouts while highlighting lesser-known aspects like his passion for community events in the Bay Area. With over 26,000 followers, he maintains an approachable by frequently replying to supporters and teasing upcoming athletics initiatives. Ladies and gentlemen, friend of the show, Brent Rooker. Good to be here, fellows. Was that a GROC summary of my ex? No. Dave, Dave, they spent all morning on that, actually. Yeah, I got the.

We got a fact check you on several things there, Dave. Chat, GPT is a little bit behind the times, it would seem. Yeah, that should tell you guys where the tech is right now with GROC. I feel a little less threatened by AI after hearing that. What's up? Not much, man. You know, we're winding the offseason down here. We're stuck in the house with a bunch of snow and, well, mainly ice outside.

So we're just kind of grinding through a week of no school and a bunch of children activities, I guess. I saw you brought the lumber out a little bit, though. You're in the cages. Yeah, we've been swinging. We've been hitting for a while now. Like I said, we're kind of getting close. to leaving for spring. So trying to get the last few things tuned up

and make sure that we head out there, Arizona. We're ready to go. What's, okay, what's that like? I mean, do you like to fine tune and tweak things? Do you see a hitting coach, or you just get out there and you just start hacking? So a lot of it's just like taking what I learned last year, obviously, and then applying it to what I think I need to be better at

for this coming year, whether it's swing mechanics, which is not the case most of the time, trying to add a little bit of my focus this year has been just trying to add a little bat speed this off season trying to swing a little bit faster um so i've been working on that but i mean a lot of it at this point of my career i'm kind of an old guy i kind of know what i need to be ready for spring so it's just uh it's it's working and uh i see dave given don't a look because i said i'm old but you know i'm shaking my head because i'm now old you are i'm old and compared to a lot of what the league is right now but uh no it's been good um like it just

kind of small tweaks here and there. Nothing, nothing major, no changes. Just making sure I'm ready for mid-February here. Nothing makes me feel old like looking at ages of professional athletes and realizing that I'm older than pretty much everyone at this point. I'm 42 years old. Aaron Rogers is one month younger than I am, which feels so strange to me. You look less stressed out than Aaron Rogers. Yeah, he's a-you-you-look-way-old. He's a pretty weathered 42-year-old at this point. Yeah. I sit in a podcast studio. I want to say thank you for posting your your cage journey when you're in there just getting reps in because I show like not only do I watch them on my own just because I'm like, dang, dude, it looks different than when I used to do it. I show them to my son,

who you met. You were gracious enough to have us out to hitting to a BP at a Ranger A's game. And yeah, I show him those clips. I'm like, dude, do you see how he? he's like, you see how he's lifting that leg up and he's really stepping into it, the weight transfer. And he's just like, yeah. So he's about to be five. It's T-ball. But still, I'm like, I want to give him something to emulate. Yeah, no, that's one of the reason I've kind of kept the consistent swing pole.

I've got a lot of feedback like that. Like, hey, you know, me and my whatever 10-year-old son watch this and go hit in the cage and it helps them out a lot. So I think there's a lot of value to that. And I enjoy, I enjoy that part of it. That's been one of the reasons that I've kind of posted more actual like training videos this year that I have in the past. Yeah, we made it out to Boston in September.

You guys were on the road. Absolute core memory for Parks. It was on top of the world. I got to surprise them right before. He knew we had tickets to the game, and that was like a big part of the trip. But as we walked up to the stadium, I was like, guess what, buddy? And we had the field passes and everything. So thank you for that.

I'm not sure who enjoyed it more between Parks and my dad. but huge moment getting to set foot on on fenway that was great yeah it's fun staying you guys there man it's uh it's always fun to have have kids like i mean both your boys come down and do the beat beat thing they always enjoy it and it's uh it's fun to be able to do that are you uh you still doing polates i am i am this is year i don't know four or five of it for me in the off season so do you have a grasp on it now because i imagine like first couple times like that's such a different style of workout. Yeah, the first full,

the first option doing it was a learning curve, just trying to learn, I mean, honestly how to like properly use the machine balance wise and what the movements are supposed to be. And I've definitely gotten a lot better at it. I think my instructor may disagree, but like I feel like I've gotten better at it. But the thing about it is kind of the better you get at it, the more correctly you're able to do the movements.

And so it never really gets easier because you're just doing it more and, or doing it more correctly and using your body in a more efficient way. But I think it's been super beneficial for me. So I think it's a big reason I've been able to stay so healthy the last few years. I mean, as I get older, like I said, but I've enjoyed it a lot. And I think it's more and more guys are trying to do it throughout the league too. So I think you're going to see a catch on. A lot of NFL, a lot of NFL guys are doing it.

A lot of bigger guys are doing it, I think a lot of linemen find it pretty beneficial. So I think it's pretty cool. Where are you at on baked potatoes in general, like Diet, wise. We eat a lot of sweet potatoes. That's what's up, dude. Yeah, you got to watch that glycine, that index, you know. Is it too high in sweet potatoes or what's the deal?

No, it's good. It's good. It's better for you. We do, you know, we'll dabble in the regular potato and the russet, you know, but we prefer sweet potatoes in this household. You like a sweet potato. I'm a big sweet potato guy. That's some last night.

That's just two guys you know, Paul. What do you put on it? What's your sweet potatoes? So we do it two different ways. Sometimes we'll cut it long ways in half and we'll do a little olive oil and bake it face down. Oh, all right. A little salt little pepper at the end, really good that way. Or we'll cube it, hit it with a little garlic powder, olive oil, and we'll roast it that way.

Those are the two main ways. Nice. Both very delicious. Yeah. Yeah. I just go, I bake it. I go, I'm a butter and cinnamon guy on there with some salt. I throw cinnamon on there for like a dessert type bit of sweet potato.

I enjoy with that. You got to live a little. That's a good play. Yeah. That's that, you know, we recently like had a guy send in a photos. I guess I'll ask you, you ever eat a sweet potato while driving, whilst driving? No, I have not done that. Okay.

It's a new trend. It's a big thing right now. Don't, but yeah, you guys got to be careful, like two hands on the wheel. Have you seen the cheese filled sweet potatoes have been going around? That's been a viral thing on the, on the internet's. Cheese-filled sweet potato. It's like, yeah, look at that up. I don't know, I don't know exactly what it is.

I've just kind of seen it around, but people are melting cheese inside a sweet potato and then just kind of eating it like with their hands. It looks kind of good, but I haven't tried it yet. Just cavemanning a sweet potato. I'm not even baking it. I'm going to have to try this. Do you see it? I think, yeah, okay, here we go. Yeah, yeah.

I tried TikTok famous cheese-filled sweet potato. Here's a picture of it. There you go. That's the one. You got to try. I mean, why not? Are you playing any golf? Dude, I was playing a decent amount and then got hit with this winter weather.

But so you can leave this two ways. The week before the winter, or like two weeks before the ice and the snow came, I went top to bottom, full bag fittings, got all the new stuff ordered, new clubs. And then I have half of them, but I'm not able to use them. But I also look at it like, I don't have my irons yet, which is what I was most excited about. And so maybe it's good that I don't have the opportunity to go play because I'd be pretty torn and going to play but not playing with my new stuff. So I've been kind of looking at from both perspectives. But I was playing a pretty good bit, you know, pre this winter surge we got going on.

Is it more difficult to transition from a baseball swing to a golf swing or the other way? Like when you play a lot of golf, do you find it affecting your baseball swing at all? No. Okay. And I don't think it does either other way. When people say that, well, people are like, oh, like, you know, my golf swing used to mess with my baseball swing. I'm just like, okay, well, then you weren't really very good at either. Or you're just not very athletic.

I think that's just my problem. Did you know? I definitely have some tendencies in my golf swing that probably come from being a baseball player. But, like, it doesn't. I don't think either one affects you. So what's, what's Paul Skeen's deal? Did you see that? Like him swinging a golf club?

Did we know that this dude, like, has a world. A couple videos, but he was with Bryson, wasn't he? Yeah. I mean, he is an elite, elite rotator. Obviously, as we watch him throw the ball. So rotation is rotation, as they say. If you can throw it hard, you can probably hit it far. And that kind of seemed to be the deal with him.

I didn't see this thing. It's just like his head doesn't move. It's like extremely clear. It pisses me off when guys are just super good at two different sports like that. Yeah. What are you doing? I did see the video of his headstang that's still, and that's just like elite mobility in a few different areas.

It's elite core strength. It's just kind of, I mean, the fact that he can do that is what makes him, you know, at worst, the second best pitcher in the world. I legit saw that. It was like, hmm. I was like looking at Black Swan Yoga, seeing when like the next hot yoga class was because I got to get back to my mobility days. I didn't actually sign up, but I did look into it.

You thought about it. I thought about it. I thought about it. I thought about it, dude. Hot yoga is just such an investment of time. Okay, you said at worst, the second best picture in the world. I sure there's an obvious answer here, but who is top two? It's him or Terrick for one and two.

It just kind of depends on. Okay. That checks out. Yeah. What your opinion. And I'll accept either answer is number one. It doesn't really matter. But I think they're kind of without question one and two there.

Have you faced both of them? I have not faced Paul. I have faced Terrick a lot. I have not faced Paul. And how'd that go? I have very good numbers off carrot career. I don't know why, but I do. So I've joked about that with him.

So it's kind of an ongoing thing. The last time I saw him, he got me, but career-wise, I've had some success on it. A little bolton board material here on the circling back podcast. Oh, no. They're going to aggregate this. ClickBadz. That's been, that's been well aggregated and document at this point.

I got that when I got to, when we got to Atlanta and we were doing the media day for the All-Star game the day before the home run derby, I saw Tarrick and he kind of came up to me and he was like, hey, like, do you want me to throw to unite? Because like I'm good to throw BP to you because you know, you've done pretty well up me in the past. So it's a joke. And like I said, the last, the last time I saw him this year did not go well for me. It was kind of one of those situations were going into the game. I was like, you know, my career numbers off this guy who is, in my opinion, the best pitcher in the world. little bit too good. So we got to regress to a mean at some point. And I'm afraid that's going to be tonight. But, you know, we'll see how it goes. And it didn't go well for me. Hey, I'm sure it's been litigated. But, like, you don't have to comment on it. But you're the, you're the home run derby champ in our heart here on this pod. But I want to ask you, did that, did that affect you after that? Did you notice anything? Like, I haven't, I haven't looked at your numbers post-Homer and derby. No, I don't think so. I didn't feel like it did. First game after the all-stop break,

I hit a homer, so I feel like I was in a decent place there. And I honestly don't know what my splits before and after were either. They feel like they were probably pretty close. So I don't, I don't think it had to you. I didn't feel like it did either. But like, dude, my stock BP is like, I'm basically playing Homer and Derby with myself. So it's not like it's, that was like out of the ordinary or I was trying to do something that I don't normally do. What's the strategy in BP? Do you, are you supposed to like, I mean, do you start going opo? Do you, do you, do you have different hits in mind certain situations in mind or is it just like i want to put on a show for the fans for me my first round yeah it's like right center line drive right center and then after that i'm just

i'm basically trying to hit homers to like deep left center field um like just to the left of the batter's eye for me is kind of my my visual target and i spend the last two three-ish rounds doing that so i mean i got two i am as a hiter i got to hit the ball in the air to the pole side and do damage hit doubles hit homers so i might as well practice that in dp so it's not like full-all and homer and derby, but it's, it's not far off. When you go play golf and you show up, it's always back to golf. I'm just thinking like elite athlete, okay, rotational sport. What's your warm-up like?

Like golf specific, like on like range warm-up or like physical warm-up? Like, yeah, do you just go to the range and pull out a wedge and then go wedge and work your way up to driver or like a lot of people? Or are you doing more than that? No, that's pretty much what I do. But, I mean, a lot of times in the off season, if I'm playing golf, it's in the afternoon. And I've already worked out that morning. So, like, I'm already, like, loose and I've already done some physical stuff for the day.

But if it's a day where I'm just playing golf, I mean, I'm not going to sit here and lie to you and tell you that I'm getting in the gym and doing a mobility workout before I go out to the range. I'm just going to, I'm taking the 58 out, hitting some shots, going to an eight iron and kind of work on my way up. Just like a regular call. What's your club? What's your club had speed with the driver? It's like 1-16 to 1-18. It's not crazy. I mean, it's, it's decent, but it's not like, it's not super high. Control chaos.

If my swing was better, it would probably be higher, but I'm a bad driver player. It's the weak, it's the weak point of my game for sure. I got to figure that out and I'll get better. Interesting. I call it controlled chaos. Do you? Yeah. Yeah.

That's what I have heard that. When we're breaking it down, you're up to like 120 and 130, aren't you, I missed the Dave Rough Performance Academy had a little, wouldn't it the performance? It had a little run there during COVID. Yeah, we had a little trademark. issue. We got, yeah, we had a little litigation that we settled. We ended up shutting it down, but there's been some chatter. I've had some people reach out wanting to invest and see if my garage is open, see if we want to run it back. But we'd be happy, hey, you know, like, I know you don't

have very much more time in the offseason, but we could get you down and get you fitted and look to do an assessment and kind of see what you guys think. It'd be great. I think it'd be helping for it. We've got a proprietary system. We don't have a track man. We've got the Dave man. And that's just basically where I look at it with myself, my iPhone 13, and then I show you. I'm like, you see this? The Dave man. Yeah, the Dave man. Okay.

You know, it's helped a lot of people. You spit out, you know, launch conditions and numbers as you just kind of watch. You're like, that was like, that's 120 ball speed. Oh, yeah. A lot of that stuff, we're just eyeball on it, man. We don't like to get too into the numbers, you know. I'm more of like a, you know, whatever makes you comfortable, have a couple baked potatoes, couple cold beers, you know how it is.

Hey, can I ask you? As a baseball dad now, or a T-ball dad, excuse me, I don't want to steal Val. Dylan's a baseball dad. Oh, yeah. Clearly, there's some kids who stand out. I'm curious, like, at what point you stood out. Do you even know the answer to that, or were you, like, a late bloomer? How did that work?

No, I can speak to that. I was definitely more of a late bloomer. I mean, I was like 8 to 12, like true youth baseball. Like I was a good player. I was one of the better ones on my team, but I was never the best player on my team. I was never the best player in the area. I don't think I was ever like the best player. I think the first time I was the best player on a team I was on was probably my senior year of high school.

Like there was always somebody better than me. I wasn't like a dominant 10 year old or anything like that. I grew later. I didn't really start to grow and mature until I got. between age and ninth grade. So I was never like the dominant 10 or 11 year old like that. I was I was decent and I was definitely above average. But I was I was more of a late bloomer for sure. Cool. Yeah, I'm curious. And since I'm new to this, I'm noticing like a lot of the kids are being taught, like some of the better kids. What's the word? They're trying to launch it. Launch angle.

Launch angle. Seems like that is something that I'm not kidding. Five and a half year olds are working on launch angle. When, when I, okay, I, I played baseball all throughout high school. Launch angle, I don't think that term was ever mentioned one time in all of my years playing baseball. It's like, it's definitely a new thing. Yeah, it probably came on. Like, people started focusing on training it. I would say, 2011, 2010, 2011 is when it kind of first became a thing. And then obviously, as we understand more and more, and we have like a larger.

sample size of data measuring it, like which launch angles are ideal, which ones optimizer chances to get a hit, things like that. It's become more and more frankly. Are we seeing more home runs and more strikeouts because of this? Is that part of the overall strategy shift in hitting? I will say my opinion on that is, yes, that's the strategy shift, but it's only in, it's like a reaction to pitching becoming so difficult to hit. Like, pitchers are now so good that you're just better off taking your chances trying to hit a two run homer than you are trying to string three singles together in a row. Like it's it's just more difficult to get hits because guys are better. So you might as well make a little bit more conscious effort to try to

hit the ball in the air, try to hit devils, try to hit homers in order to score runs. With that said, I cannot stand what I see on Twitter guys who play in the 90s like telling us that like hitting coaches now don't care about strikeouts. Like organizations say like we don't care if strikeout. I've never once in my career been told I don't care like strike out as much you want. Like that's a good thing. So it's just like it's such a misconception of like people are striking out more because pitchers are better.

They're not striking out more because like we're we don't care about strikeouts or whatever. The narrative from older players is. Batting averages like they're trending downward over the years. Like you said, pitching is getting a lot better. Do you foresee at any point in Major League Baseball that they do anything to combat that. I don't know if it's dropping the mound an inch

or so or what. Do you think anything's going to change? I don't know. The trend's going to continue. Batting average will continue to go down if they don't make any changes just because pitching is so much easier

to like, I mean, I know hitting is called offense, but like in reality, the pitchers are on offense. Like they're controlling what's happening. We're just like having to react to what they do. And then they're like kind of in control. of the whole situation. So if they want batting average to go back up to where they were, you know, whenever they were at the highest, they're going to have to change something or else I think

it will continue to trend down. But I don't know if they will. I don't know where the league's head is in terms of what they want the product to actually look like and whether they're willing to mess with the kind of the traditional setup. Right. The 60 feet, six inches, the specific height of the mound, things like that. Wasn't there a change with the ball? like the seams are like less

I don't know the word for it they stick out less to give you know obviously harder to spin it wasn't that a thing a while back they may have changed it at some point I don't know what it would have been I know traditionally that the major league ball seams have been smaller than the like the minor league the minor league seams are bigger than the major league scenes and we changed that in like 2019 to where at least the upper levels of minor leagues

were using the same baseball I don't know when the last time the major league baseball was actually changed uh i mean was actually changed on record there had been some years where the ball was definitely different but it wasn't like announced that they were using a different ball i think they were just kind of manipulating some things to to get the results that they wanted what's that fucking look i was just thinking i could have used a different different ball back in my my one start my spot start back in the day not at kees park right well you got Yeah, I mean, if you would have had just a little bigger scenes, you never know what the future would have been like. I think it would have gone out there and dominated that one game.

You could have rewritten your whole story. Would have gone down differently? I'll tell you that. Dude, I wouldn't have given up eight and, hey, and then just gotten pulled and people were just looking at me. Well, look, here's the deal, coach. I don't know how to throw a curveball because I'm eight years old, but. Man, they, they discard balls so, like, if a ball hits the dirt, what? that hasn't always been a thing.

No, and I think another thing you hear is like the like 90s, especially like Greg Maddox like that era pitchers, they get mad when guys throw out the scuff balls. They're like, oh, yeah, you want to use the scuff ball. Like you can make it move more. But I think the answer to that is when there's a scuff,

it's less predictable. And I think that like pitchers like to know exactly what their stuff's going to do. And I think when there is a marker, there's an imperfection on it, like they don't necessarily know how it's going to react. So in their mind, they're less in control. than they are with like a brand new ball that they can kind of manipulate and do exactly what they

won't okay i think would be the answer to that i don't know yet that's a pitcher but i think in my mind that's kind of the rationale behind you guys go through like 200 balls a game that's where rainies got a lot uh just i'm thinking speaking of like technology and baseball i can't remember if we ever asked you about like the torpedo bats like when they first came out in the scene they were like a huge thing yeah have we seen like now that's been longer like have those things helped out forgot about that um there are some guys still using it it's not it's no longer a story it's no longer like people think that this is inherently an advantage it's just kind of like a different style different model of that guys that like it use it guys that don't just kind

of discard it and don't anymore i used it for like two weeks didn't hit very well so i went back to my normal bat and i've been using that sense so i think it's it's no like i said it's no longer like guys it's it's not like we found this hack or this cheat code to where these bats are like way better. It's just like, some guys like the feel of it and they're going to continue to use it. And some guys just didn't necessarily love it and kind of went back to the traditional shape. I'm glad you brought that up, Randy. I've got a cheat code for warmth. It's my Lola blanket. Oh, that's right. You understand? It's a cheat code. It's a cheat code for warmth, in my opinion. It's the world's number one blanket crafted with Ultrsoft luxury faux fur in a signature four-way

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Brent, you've been tweeting. You've been ex-in. First of all, I saw you were mixing. up with some meteorology Twitter accounts, which I love to see. Got deep in there. Yeah. Is that something you've always had a little interest in it or what? How did this happen? So, I mean, just, I mean, based on the one where I live, not to the extent of you guys probably, but like growing up, like we got a lot of tornado weather, right? There's a lot of severe storms here.

So I always found it interesting. I by no means of an expert or like him very well versed in the weather world, but following that kind of thing on the days when we were expecting severe weather it was kind of interesting to me. And then, you know, I just, I got, like I said, Elon, whatever he's got going on, just tossed me right in the middle of, of Snowstorm Twitter. And it was super entertaining. And I learned a lot, too. So it was a good time there for a few days. That's what got me into it. Tornado Allie Kid. Yeah. And lucky enough, never had one hit the home, but, you know, had plenty of, plenty of nights where we had to clear out space and go get in a closet or a bathtub. I think as a kid, like I was, I was very, very scared of storms as like a little guy.

So I think that kind of led me to paying more attention when the, you know, when the severe weather coverage was on TV to try to understand like, all right, like, is there actually a threat here? Like, or am I good? Kind of what's going on? And that kind of allowed me to to learn a decent amount, you know, as a youth and then kind of carried that vague interest into adulthood. You're looking at the radar.

You're looking for the little hook. Echo. Looking for the hooks, man. You got to find the hooks. That's what people don't understand. It's not once you get to the actual storm line, like you're generally fine. It's those breakoff cells when you got to worry. Absolutely. That's where you get your upper level rotation, Dylan. Oh, I understand. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think weather watching comes for all of us, you know. It's a, it's a mature thing. Yeah. As you get older, you just become more interested in it. There used to be a website that you could go and they have like a data. You have like every. You have like every. Every storm chaser who was active on whatever. And you could just go click them and it would throw you in. So if there was like a severe outbreak in like the deep south, you could just pop on and just go watch different chasers. And it was great. And I don't think it exists anymore. But there was like, there was Friday nights where I would sit home.

This is not long ago. And I would just like be following like an outbreak in like Alabama. And I'd be like, oh, man, this is getting nuts. That's real weatherhead stuff. Yeah. It's real. I'm a real cool guy. Steve.

Yeah, I think I had a few chasers reach out on Twitter and like offer to take me chasing. So I don't know, maybe that's the thing in the future I'll look into. Will you take us with you? That could be fun. We tag along. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be great. Like, yeah, I'll come along.

But I got these two guys down in Austin. They're going to fly out and join them. It's all right. Small and medium-sized podcast. Good dudes like baked potatoes, sweet potatoes too. They're easy. And then you threw up a hypothetical or you threw up a question to the followers. It was, Randy, I sent you that tweet.

if you can pull it up. Yeah, I got it. I got it. You were asking Scotty versus Otani. Scottie Schaeffler, of course. Who's more dominant? Who's more dominant in their respective sport? And this one made people think, made me think. The results of the poll were closer than I thought they would be. And especially because my audience, obviously, is going to skew more baseball. The fact that it was as close as it was, despite that being the case, surprised me a little bit honestly it was 58 42 i think is what it ended up at with show hey being the 58 but um i thought it would be more one-sided especially given like i said the demographics of my audience i'm not even sure which way i would vote in this it seems it's tough close obviously one is an individual

sport so you control all of your success all of your failures all of your failures all the ones in team sport of course uh and then of course you have to weigh in the fact that it Otani is not just a hitter. Right. But he is a pitcher as well, a starting pitcher. I don't know. This is really tough. The arguments both ways are like, so there's no one right now that would argue that Scottie's

not the best golfer in the world. There are people that would say Showing is not the best baseball player in the world. I think they're wrong, but like those people do exist who would say that he's not the best player in the league. And there's no one arguing against Scotty being the best player in the world. But when you look at it from a historical perspective, like Scotty is not the best of all time yet. Like Tiger is still better than he.

Tiger's career is still better. But like I think there's an argument for the people who think Shohei is the best in the league right now. There's definitely the argument that Shohei is already like the best of all time. So I think there's like an interesting argument both ways there. Because you have, like I said, there's people who would argue that Aaron's better. And I think Aaron is a better hitter.

But I think when you couple that Shohei is the second best hitter along with a top. 10 pitcher as well. I think he becomes pretty easily the best. Yeah, the historic dominant player in the league. It's what, it's, Sohey, it's a wild case because if, if he couldn't hit shit, he'd still be on a, on a huge contract as a starting pitcher. Yeah. And if he couldn't pitch, he'd still be one of the best

hitters in the league and people you talk about him with, with the greats. It's, he's just such a unique athlete. Yeah, it's, it's crazy what he does. But I think, I mean, I think it was, I kind of posed the question and thought, it would be Shoah and like kind of a runaway landslide, but then it kind of made people think more than I was expecting, so I kind of enjoyed it. That was pre-Scottie winning last week, too, wasn't it? That was right after he won. It was right after. It was like immediately following. I mean, what he's doing right now is just like the difference between him and even Rory is just

insane how much better he is than literally everybody else. Yeah, if you picked Scotty to win all four majors this year, I would not really like last. It's reasonable, man. It'll be the bad of favorite each time. Yeah, the historical thing. is interesting because it's like Scotty wouldn't say is the greatest of all time right like you said tiger obviously tiger jack you can argue that uh and then with show hey it's like either you know some people are babe ruth some people or adrian beltray um love beltrade alice andrews i think sticks into discussion elvis gets in there don't don't sleep on kins either you know kins had some years um no i i i would vote scotty in fact i might have voted in this poll

anonymously, I may or may not have. I don't remember. I'm like, what's his name? Bill Pollyne. I don't know what I voted. I don't know. I'm still undecided, man. I don't know.

You were saying. It's hard. Yeah, it's tough. Belichick's not a first ballot hall of Famers, what you were saying yesterday. I did not say that at all. That's just, I did not say that. I'm just forcing in sports things. Huh.

I think the follow-up question was it more interesting, though, that I feel like, who, is there anybody better than those two right now? I think some of the responses I got to that question was kind of even more. I enjoy that discussion as well. Yeah. I appreciate that you get in there and mix it up and you ride for the golf golf Twitter as well. Of course.

My favorite thing you do on, sorry, go ahead. No, go ahead. No, you go ahead. My favorite thing you do on Twitter,

though, is when you talk about, like, you get into like the intricacies of baseball and hitting and pitching. And it's breakdowns that, you know, the lay person has no idea about. That stuff's awesome.

I wish more guys would do that. I enjoy doing that too. Like I like breaking it down. I think I talk about a lot. I think like the only reason that I have success is because I'm able to understand things on a pretty deep level. So like I kind of enjoy sharing the knowledge and different perspectives. Because I know people like to hear it.

Like I know baseball fans who love the sport itself, enjoy kind of hearing the more in-depth things and kind of what's going through our minds and our processes and things like that. So that's fun for me. Brent. always a pleasure yeah man happy to be here as always

last time we had you on I think it was it was on spooky season right and you yeah you told you told the which hotel was it there's the allegedly haunted hotel Milwaukee Milwaukee the Fister in Milwaukee yeah that's right

but now we got you here for all the people where can we where can we follow you got anything you want to promote I don't think so I think it's Brent underscore Rooker 2-5 on both X, Twitter, and Instagram. So catch me there. Follow some A's baseball this coming season. We got a good team.

We got a squad. We're excited about it. So, you know, keep up all along. It seems like y'all got good chemistry, too. I saw y'all at the Gris game. Yeah. It was a Kings game. It was a basketball.

So close. If you guys, we do. We got a good. You guys made any offseason acquisitions that we should be excited about? I haven't really followed the roster movement. Yeah, man. We got Mark Leiter in our bullpen going to be a big help for us. And then we made a trade for Jeff McNeil, too, who is universally understood as the best golfer in the big league.

So the team handicapped went down significantly. And we also added a second baseman who's won a batting title. and plays all over the field and is a really good player. So we've got some, he's a big get for us. Love it. We may have to show up

either to Arlington or Houston just to go and root on. Rood on Brent. Come on, man. In a tasteful way. Let me know when. And like a non-intruding way. Right.

Like we will make it weird, but we will like make it known that we're there. You're not going to have. Let me know when. Listen. Love to have you guys. Paint 25 on your like shirtless body

or something like that. I can't. I don't make any promises, dude. We do we do got to get y'all an autographed jersey for the studio there to hang up next to Arch. Oh, no, don't do that. If you guys would like one, we can make that out. Yeah, look at your setup. Absolutely.

We would absolutely love that. Yes. I mean, I guess. That would be very cool. Hey, we will take Arch down. I will take Arch down just for you. No, no, no. Don't do that.

Don't do that. I'm sure there's somewhere else. Yeah, we'll just move large. We'll give you the prime spot. Funny, Brent, you were nice enough to sign a ball for. Rhodes. It was his first autograph. He's, you know, has it met a lot of ballplayers. And, he looked at it in like a week later, he's like, he didn't write my, he's like, why did he write his name and not mine? I was like, you know, like, it's just kind of how it goes.

Man, one day you're going to understand. Well, man, the selfie, the selfie has replaced signatures in a lot of ways. Yeah. For the youngsters. But baseball, a baseball is such a perfect thing to sign, you know? Yeah. Yeah. It's great. It's got the perfect spot for it. It looks great displayed. It's the ideal, the ideal autograph memorabilia. Yeah, Parks has his Rooker displayed proudly in his bedroom right now. He loves it.

So thank you again for that. Love it. Yeah. His is, uh, Rhodes is sitting right next to his first game ball that he got, uh, in T-ball, which is cool. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, Brent, you're the man.

Thanks for doing it. We appreciate you, man. Thank you so much. Great as always. Thanks for having to go. Yeah. We'll catch you later. Thank you.

We'll look for to that jersey arriving in the mail, too. Yeah. Sounds good. Be on the lookout. All right, man. Thank you. Take care. Oh, man. Brent Roker. I about it. That jersey is going to look tight.

That one's cool, obviously, but it's not a real jersey. You know? Yeah, it's not. But, you know. I mean, it's still really cool. Yeah, it's cool. You know, I'm arch. You know, you don't have to be a huge longhorn to appreciate the blue blood colors.

That's right. And the will mommy, the autographed will mommy's cap. Look at you got Emily, you got Crem, you've got Sam and Shelby. Chelsea, Shell Bay. Chelsea signed that? Macy. My Chil's? I didn't know my Chels was there.

She's a Will Mommy, wasn't she? Sure. Oh, man. Dude, talking ball. I can talk ball with him for a long time. I don't even know how to talk ball. Tell you this, I know how to talk clothing and you're wearing a Fair Harbor crew neck. clearly.

Engines. I'm full Fair Harbor out. I'm full Fair Harbor out right now. That's right. A lot of people think, they're just that company that makes awesome swimwear. Well, no, it's a lot more.

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And make sure you use our code circling 20, circling 20, so they know we sent you. that's funny that he says he doesn't drive the ball very long. And I'm very, very surprised by the club head speed numbers because you've met him. He's a large guy, tall dude. Swings a baseball bat very well. Yeah. Very hard, very fast. Typically translates to a guy.

But you know what? Maybe it's just effortless power. I said controlled chaos, but. We don't know he's really coming out of his shoe swinging, you know. He may be. He's smart. Yeah. He's a smart guy.

But swings don't always translate. No, you're right. You're right. We've got to get out there with him. Do you want to go up to Arlington for a game or Houston? Well, I've never been to the new Arlington Stadium, the shed. The inside is great. The juice box is great.

It is a fun ballpark. Outside. You got Texas Live, get you ice cold beer. I'll do. I'll do. Get you some nachos. Either or, Dave. Oh, you won't order nachos.

Nice nachos, pussy. Yeah. Not going to order a bunch of some pussy-ass nachos for a baseball game. Yeah. You get some pussy style, not poncho style anymore. Don't say pussy style. Oh, my God. God. It's so dirty.

There's new people who watch the show because of Brent. And they're like, oh, these guys are foul. They're producers of degenerate. Dude, speaking of Brent, like, we need to win some awards. Our past two guests have just had like multiple awards just on display in their background. What's going on with us? It's kind of heavy hitters we get in here, Randy, you know? figure it out find a way i'll find a award for us to win he hasn't got i guess he hasn't got the

he hasn't got the gift in the mail yet yeah he would have mentioned it right yeah yeah i was wondering if you're gonna talk i guarantee like there's like a thousand things that have been sent to him for autograph purposes at the a's uh player center where i mailed it just do it in the trash no it has our our stuff on it hopefully not Should we send him something else? Like, we sent him some washed gear and he was like, yeah, I get a lot of stuff. It's probably in my garage. Maybe we should sign, maybe I should sign this Fair Harbor Cruneck.

Man, I just... That would look so tiny on him. I guess he's going to hang it up. Oh, he's going to hang it up. Can we find something other than a game worn crewneck? Maybe do the Big Johnson tea. That's the one sentence. Yeah, send him a Big Johnson tea.

He just keeps getting signed stuff from us. He's like, guys, I don't, come on. I don't know what to do with this. Got to talk about olive oil. You have talked a little aval? Put the tweet up, Randy. You want the tweet up? I do.

I'm getting blown up, man. People are like, great interview. I guess it is live. They could be doing that. Chat's been popping. This was good. So this is, I don't know what this account is, but it feels like a tech analyst and shit co-investor, like a non-cool, like these guys, like. these guys like to tweet about finance and things of that nature.

Yeah. Why don't you read it, Dylan? This comes to us from 90 days liquidity on Twitter. Cannot stress how much of an advantage it is to be a normal, well-adjusted applicant for banking rolls. I reviewed a resume that listed olive oil as an interest. That is not an interest. Bullshit. It's been hours and I cannot stop thinking about it.

there will not be an interview. Is that a deal breaker? I do think it's a bit weird to include on a resume, but having interest in olive oil is not a red flag, red flag to me, but also how does it apply to the banking job you're applying for? To be clear, when's the last time you had a resume? You made your own resume. It's been probably five, no, it's been 20 years. the game's changed i think i think now and i'm speaking as a guy who uh was a recruiter in 2008

so a long time ago now i think they don't they kind of it's like encouraged to put little little personality plays on there if you add that to a resume i assume like you are deep in the weeds and all like you know i might put i like to play golf i'll put you know what i like make your own like you make your own olive oil you have to randy you could put uh put But it also sets up for an interesting conversation with the applicant. It's like I see here. That is where that could come in handy where it's like olive oil. Tell me about your olive oil.

What's going on? Yeah. And it's like, oh, this guy, okay. You extra virgin guy? Do you make your own? I was supposed to get an olive tree from a sponsor and it just never happened. And our sales guy never really said anything about it. He steal my tree.

I never got anything from them. He lives in an apartment, so I don't think he stole your in-ground olive oil tree. I also don't think Brett owns a single plant in this place. I told him it could spruce the place up. I own too many. I'm just asking the questions here. Did he maybe steal it and flip it? Maybe.

He flipped your olive tree. You could have flipped it on the black market. I got a dope fiddle fig. Yeah, I didn't get anything. I'm sorry, man. I feel like Brett, I feel like Brett, Merriman, not to be confused, Brent Rooker. I feel like Brett, if something like that, like, if he finds out like, hey, he just won't tell one of,

he won't tell me. They're like, hey, you're not getting that tree because he just doesn't want to deal with it. I feel like that that could be in play here. See, this is why I'm super annoying about everything. Yeah, but I didn't want to be the annoying guy about a free tree that I was like, whatever on. But also, like now I'm like, fuck, I do like olive oil.

What happened with those trees? Olive tree. You could be making your own oil, man. Maybe I'll, uh, maybe I'll reach out to him extend the olive branch, right? All right, guys? This is not a deal breaker, though. Like, this guy's too harsh. This guy takes himself too seriously. If anything, like, he could have a weak resume and, like, I would be like, I want to bring this guy in just to see what the fuck's going on here. Yeah. Like, it says here, you like, if, Randy, this guy makes mead. What's going

on there? Oh, that might be a little too much. That's something unique. I don't know. It depends on the, uh, it's unique, but it makes you sound like a weird alcoholic. Yeah. Yeah, like this guy's going to come in and wear on a fedora. Like this dude does, yeah, this guy is also probably super into craft beer, although you're weirdly not. Yeah, no, it's wild because I feel like the majority of people don't have to go through hiring processes, like, of like going through resumes. I'll tell you this, just going through hiring interns on here, you'd be surprised that, like,

I throw out 70% of applicants just because they can't follow basic instructions. It is wild, like, being in the job market back before I got this job. I'm like, what am I doing wrong? I'm doing everything right. And like, these are people like this are who I'm competing, I guess. They can't even, like, send what it's asked. It's wild how, like, inept some people are. So olive oil is not that bad in my opinion.

I guess is what I'm trying to get to. That's just something interesting. This guy might be missing out on just the dopest candidate because of one little mention of olive oil on a resume. I wish that. So this person, whoever. had this resume probably knows by now that they've been become famous on Twitter.

So I wish they would speak out. Excuse me. And I hope that this person doesn't remove olive oil from his or her resume. No. Let the, you know, and it's not even a freak flag. Just let it fly either way.

Yeah. Be yourself. It's not like it's ditty baby oil or something like that. It's olive oil. Yeah, it's not, hold on. Right.

Address that. It's not ditty baby oil. That would be a red flag. Yeah. Because that's specific. Of course, the top comment here says it's anti-Italian discrimination. It's true. Yeah.

And then the picture from the Sopranos. When you go to Tuscany and have their olive oil, it's... You don't even use it in the States anymore. It's like nothing you've ever had. I actually refuse to eat olive oil here in the States. Really? Yeah. Huh.

I might try to talk you out of that. It's very useful. We cook with it quite a bit. Um, I will say that I don't think we, the all, there is a noticeable, like, that is an underrated part of going to, uh, to, to Italy. If you go somewhere that does olive oil in addition to like their wine, it's fucking good, dude. You're like, you do olive oil tasting. It's, it's like sneaky, not something you think about. You're never going to go somewhere for like an olive oil tasting, but like, oh, this is dope.

Olive oil is good. You just sip an olive oil? Go somewhere maybe like in the northern part, maybe northwest Italy. Dude, you've been to Italy, we get it. And you can get some infused. You're talking like you just studied abroad there for three months. Well, I did that, but that was a long time ago. It was a different version of me.

That was Dave. That was probably Dave. We walked to a place right down the street that had infused olive oil. What are you talking about? The three of us. And we never went back, didn't we? They're playing like karaoke YouTube. That all the was really good.

It was good. He made sure we had some. What was that? Why were they playing like that? They were playing the unauthorized versions of music. Yeah. It was like he didn't want to pay for Spotify, so he was just playing like YouTube. Is it closed down yet?

Because they weren't doing so hot. No. And dude, honestly, like the food was pretty good. Maybe they do better at night for like dinner rush because, I mean, we went there for lunch. Maybe they have a good dinner. Who knows? Still not. Maybe they have a nice lunch.

We don't know. I'll tell you what's hopping that pizza grata that you guys. go to to get the sandwiches. When they were Dan, that place is popping all the time. Did you go there for an Eagles game? No,

it was Broncos, who were they facing? Bill's, at night, at night it turns into just a bar. Yeah. And all the Philly people

love going to it. They've got good sandwiches. Their pizza's good too. I typically don't get their pizzas because I'm not a pizza for lunch guy unless it's the weekend. But, that's neither here nor there.

We just get like, All kinds of jerseys in here, man. Who else do we know? Who else? Should we see the fact Rooker can get us any of his friends sign here? I don't know, man. It's going to look cool in here. It's going to look cool as fuck.

What color do you want? Dude, I want a home jersey, man. They have the best colors. They're so cool. I would like to start rocking an A's cap. It's just, it's cool. It's underrated. It's one of the best looking uniform color combinations going.

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You pick one out. Send it to you in a box. Not a big box, a tinier box. And you open it up, pull it out, it's in like the Vaxial thing, undo it, and it just slowly forms. You go put it on your bed front. Maybe you have Randy over to help you put together a bed frame for some reason. Take it apart. And then you just put your head down on it and it's like,

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Now's that going to work. Why? I don't think people, I mean, people probably do have them at the ready. Um, well, speaking of LinkedIn, uh, there was a LinkedIn bomb. that went off recently when a friend of the show, old producer Michael Weiner announced he's accepted a new position. What? Yeah.

People were saying my comment is almost ratioed his post. And it would be a real shame if everybody went on Micah's LinkedIn and just liked my post, my comment. All I said was that boy. But Micah,

Michael, pull back the curtain, Micah hit us up in the group chat. He said, hey, your boy, just dropped a LinkedIn post. Go comment. He directed us to his LinkedIn post to get some engagement going. Dude, he's great, man. Why? Why? Why do you want engagement on a social platform? Are you serious? I just never taken LinkedIn seriously. I find a fun bit of just hitting the automatic responses one of my friends post something on there. I think it's funny because clearly I would never say something like that. This is automatic. This is like so painfully LinkedIn automation.

It's not a good place, LinkedIn. Congrats on the new role. Congratulations to Micah. They may send their resume yet? I don't know. What else are they saying? Okay. I don't know. It's, I mean, people were, were bumping during the, the Rooker interview. Did we need to go to the chat for questions for Rook? Maybe. Oh, Arby's polo. Just sign that and send it to, Rook. That's the one. If he still had it. It would just fit him.

That thing was like a 5x. It just like he puts it on. Like, yeah. Yeah. I have un-Arby's polo. I don't have the actual. The actual Arby's, the original. Belongs to a museum now, I think. I do have, we have Arby's head covers as well.

Someone asked that you should pull everyone's resume from when they applied to Grandex and see what those were like. I remember Dan's really well because he was doing like graphic design at the time. Golf Channel. And he made his resume look exactly like the homepage of TFM. And it obviously stood out to us. And then we hired him. Good for Dan.

That was clever. You never had to do a resume for us, Randy. Did you? I think I brought it. it, but you guys pretty much were like ready to hire me. My resume. I brought it all along. Check it out.

I got references in a cover letter. Yeah, I didn't apply to a grand ex. They just offered me a job. I guess, I guess a friend of the show, Gordo just sent us his resume. Let's see it. Is he looking? Is he hot for ops? I don't think so.

He's hot for opportunities. I'm not sure. I know. He doesn't, uh, he doesn't, uh, he doesn't have a social on there, dude. Oh, yeah. Hold on. It does have his, his phone. on here, so let me try this.

Well done, Randall. It's not on screen yet, so I'm making sure that I try to hide it. Okay. That's a good-looking resume. Back in the day, they would tell you if you can keep it on one page, that's ideal. But I just, a lot of stuff, people eat us. I don't know. There we are.

Dude, what I've always said is it's not the grades you make. It's the hands you shake. That's right. This is good-looking resume here, Gordham? Where's his interest, section. Does he have one of those? Ticova's, the Lauren Hotel. Olive Oil. Two page. I was always told

one page, but I feel like the two pages like It's hard sometimes, man. But I think it's become more acceptable to have two pages now, which is weird. Oh, so he's got some hospitality too. Oh, yeah. He used to be whatever it says, a concierge. My first time, the first time I remember meeting

Gordo was walking into a listener meetup at Eisenhower's to set up about 35, 40 minutes early. And Gordo was already there. He was like, what's up? I was like, what's up, dude? You're early. He had a big-ass leg brace on.

And probably a cowboy hat. And definitely had a cowboy hat. Oh, I'm Brett Merriman. Oh. Brett's in Utah right now, everyone. If you couldn't tell by his Pflare. Robeck wants to do a photo shoot next Friday. He said, oops, I was just supposed to go to Dylan.

So if you're going to be around, go do a, go to a shoot with Roeback. I said, yeah, Daddy's in. Man, nobody expected us to review resumes on the pod. Yeah. That's, I mean, I guess Dave and, Dave, you want to do something for it? You want to do our own little photo shoot? Oh, we just go to Kelly's. Yeah, let's go.

We're due for lunch anyway. Yeah. Let's go. Dave and I go and do our own rowback photo shoot. Let's fucking go eat some fun. Let's go get a couple cold beers. We'll get some. Or some room temp, Guinness.

Make sure you wear your best. rowback. And you and I are going to do a little photo shoot just to say, look at, look at us. We wear a rowback too. A little added V. A little added V. Since we jumped right in with Brent, let's do a little housekeeping. Listener voicemails will drop tomorrow. Yes. If you do not hear the hashtag chat interview from yesterday, he just was on the show for most of it. Just go listen to it. It was a great show. It was a great interview. Went back to back. I don't think we've ever gone back to back with guests like that. That was great. Remote guests, too. Look at us. Getting more comfortable doing remote stuff. What a freaking

week, Dave. And then Tuesday, we also did House Party Week, which I think people have enjoyed for the most part. I didn't see any negative stuff. So there you go. Go check it out. I see I'm going to pull up any comments. I want to see if people like the song. It's a great song. A lot of people were writing for 303 and upset at the 303. Is it 303? 303. Slander. And to those people always say, that song, you have a great song. It's a great song. It's a have to realize that song sucks. It's fun, but it sucks. It sucks. It does sound like a lonely island sketch. Okay, Zach comments, let's not shit on 303 now. Good music? Certainly not, but it has its place in the House Party Hall of Fame. Yes, that's right. I listen to Limp Biscuit

in high school. I understand having a soft spot for really bad music. I get it, but we have to acknowledge it's just not a good song. I want to see what you think about Hollywood undead. I mentioned a couple weeks ago and friend of the show Blaine texted me on the side. I was like, hell yeah, Hollywood undeader reference. Charlie's seen is one of the guys. If Blaine's into it, oh man, it's it's, it's, it's on the margins.

Blaine, Blaine. You'll be on like the third hole in like a, like a boys golf trip and like he'll put on stained. But like, not like, he'll put on like it's been a while and you're like, I love Blame. I don't know if we need this. I put, I said Hollywood

undead. If I were put on a spectrum, it would be a spectrum of limp biscuit to 303. And it's, it's closer to the 303 side, but it's, it's not selling it. That's the spectrum. That's, that makes me want to know. Makes me want to not be in space and time. You know what I'm saying? Two corries. There's two cores. There's two cores. Hey, let's talk about our weekends presented by Lucy. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening. I like to turn off. Bro, there's a crazy event happening.

We had the party, and it was lit. I got yelled out by a prostitute. Let's just go have fun and let go a little. Little water trials, let's go. That's right. This is being of fun. Brought to you by Lucy. I bet somebody's got one in right now.

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Thanks, Dave. I don't have much going on this weekend, actually. Will mentioned something about wanting to step out. He said he's got nothing going on and wants to do a little something. I could be talking to stepping out and getting crispy beer somewhere. I don't know. Are beers crispy? Sure.

Yeah. Okay. We're talking about. I feel like ciders are more crispy than beers. No. Dude, a nice crispy logger? What's that one that you sent me to try? On Slack?

You sent me a Cayman cider. I don't send you things on Slack. Oh, you don't? You probably don't know how to use it. Yeah. Pretty sure I do. God. He hunts and packs and says, check out this Cayman insider.

Check out Caminsider. That's how you talk. That's your interim monologue. What is your inner monologue? What's the voice? It just sounds like me. Hey. Yeah.

It sounds like this. Okay. Yeah, I like Apple Ice, Lucy. Parks has tryouts on Monday. And so on Sunday, he's got, we got, we're seeing a hitting coach. He's getting some reps in. We just had one on. Yeah.

Brent wasn't available since he's got more important shit to do. He's also, he's several states away. You could send him vids. dude what's look he's kind of just he's just releasing his hands a little he's kind of chicken winging it it but i know i don't know let's just do this yeah it's all you got to do it like brent you see i'm hitting the piss out of it peepie on it dude yeah that's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's i might see family i think some fam's getting together Saturday might go to my dad say i say hi for a little bit but i really i don't have much going on at all man all right man i'm working

on a dillon inner monologue impression it's it's gonna take a while is his real voice or his it's a slightly off if y'all do impressions in me like how do i sound you all. Okay, kind of side like this. You gotta be a little bit more short. Like, no, that's not his real voice, not his fake. Well, you put those glasses on and like you become, uh, Randy, do it, do it Dylan. This is Dylan on the podcast. Okay. Oh, you stupid Duke.

Pretty good, dude. That's pretty good. You guys got to, you guys got to stop doing those jokes, man. You guys got to post egg videos about me. Guys, like, I don't even know why you'd want to. I can't do it, Dylan. I'm just eating eggs, undoable. I'm just eating eggs, man. he's undoable that's it man it's gonna be a low key want for you boy you know no I'm gonna randall to go

you got anything cool nah not really well fucking you go I'm uh I today Dan and I have a standing Thursday Butler Pitchin'pud so gonna start that off

this mad cute yo I know it is I think I mean my worst part of my game is my chipping you'll definitely get better off of mats I mean you're you're doing more than just mats. I'm not hitting the green every single time off the mat. I'll tell you that much.

Yeah. Pretty Randy. Yeah. I'll get like three or four extra strokes. It's just like good for you, man. It's so annoying. So that's great. Just doing that hang out, Dan. I don't really got too much. I'm still just trying to save like money and not do much this weekend. But this shows how. Oh, Randy, you're saving your money. Yeah. This shows how old I am what I am really excited by for this weekend. Ready? making a stew. He's making a stool.

I'm making a stew. And I am so excited. I get to make this like once or twice a year. And I'm like, it's just your basic ass beef stew. But man, I am excited for it. That's great, dude.

I'm happy for you. I hope you'll find what you're looking for in a stool boy. Maybe I'll even make two, double the amount so that I can bring some in for you guys. How about that? Double the stew. What a generous lad. Double the stew.

The gift of stew. but yeah that's about it probably watch night of seven kingdoms play some video games the weather doesn't look it's gonna be terrible so I might go out

we'll see okay Dave how much as for me so but Dave dude tomorrow is my son's fifth birthday so I'll be celebrating

according and I'm very excited because it's a big birthday he's very excited about it can't wait to give him grandma and grandpa got him a putter and a wedge to chip with.

We're going to start learning a short game, which I'm very excited about. Start bringing him out to the course. Don't have him do it off mats, apparently. I'm sorry. I was just trying to diminish your weekend and fun. Apology accepted. He's doing his party at, like I said,

the little rock climbing place. It's a little small. He's going to have just a few of his buds out there. Gonna eat some Zah. He wants Jets for dinner. He wants Jets for a birthday dinner. Fuck, yes. Is there a birthday exemption for the Zocard?

Yeah. Well, here's the thing. The rules don't apply to kids under 12. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Otherwise, Marcus Lopez would be in big trouble. That was all one sitting, right?

Well, yeah, but it didn't end there. Oh. New Lord just dropped. Yeah. You realize he ate 38 slices of pizza at C.C.'s after the last soccer. game of the season. I'm not sure I believe that number. I do. You know what, Dylan? That's so, Marcus. 38.

Bullshit. You ate 17 eggs at Jason's deli. You don't believe the 38. That's a lie, first of all. Second of all, that's easier to do than 38 slices of Zaw. I don't know. Dude, that's so much pizza. How many whole pizzas is that?

I don't think they offer whole pizza. That's fucking gross. How many entire pizzas is 38 slices? I don't know. I look at a fucking calculus major? It's like a fucking guy. It's like five. It's classes.

Oh yeah. What's the Pythagorean theorem on the square root of the pizza? I mean, I think a standard pizza is cut into eight slices, no? All right. Then do the math. Do the math,

Cowboy. Like I said, it's about five entire pizzas. Find a way. Well, look at Mr. Genius over here. I just think,

I think you're fib in the numbers a bit to sound cool. And I think, yeah, it really makes me sound cool. It's about time someone called you out on it. I mean, honestly, yeah,

every single time I hear that, I'm like, man, Dave's the coolest guy I've ever met. Man, Dave, talking about Marcus Lopez eating 37 slices of pizza. Man, this guy's different. God.

What's the diameter of, hold out, what's the circumference? Let's get, let's get to the numbers. 3.14159, 26535. You got, what's your problem? Sokatoa, bitch. Ah. Is that sign cosine? Tangent, yeah.

Facts. Trigonometry. Tugonometry. I never measured in it I didn't do well I felt the test because someone put pineapple on my pizza

and I killed them I killed that person I was very confused when you guys are talking about that because that's not from the soundboard that's just some guy doing an impression doing it that person is not dead because of me

I killed them because they put the wrong thing on the pizza that they ordered Oh dang Roeback landed Arch that's who the photo shoots with That's so cool I'm happy for you

Are you going to glaze him like you're doing the show I'm just kidding Oh I was gonna say That seems like it would probably be something

Oh, it's Colin Simmons. That's very cool, too. Actually, hold on. Brett just texted me. They want me to do a photo shoot with Arch and the Warby Parkers because they does do this. Oh, my God, they landed Brent or Lacker. Oh, wait, hold up. You just got an email from Siren.

I'm supposed to do a photo shoot with Swains and some of their new shit. Yeah, right. You'd have to wear fucking rubber sheets on your waist. Dave and I are about to go do a photo shoot for Lola Blankets and we're just going to cuddle together. Oh, no. Randy, you would love that. We're going to be in front of a fireplace in my place. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Oh, cool, man. Come over to my place. He needs to help me take down my bed frame. He just wanted to hang out. He just wanted me of friendship. He's dying. It's dying like the man who put pineapple on my pizza.

He died. A slow death. Stick around. Go on and do it. It's such an argument. Marcus Lopez, 839 slices. Well, that's the show, folks. I hope you liked it if you did not.

I don't care. Thanks again to a good friend and two-time all-star Brent Rooker for hopping on the program. Also, always a treat. Hashtag Chad. Chad, a real one. And anybody else joined the pod? No. Dan last week.

Dan last week. Thanks, Dan. I've been trying to get Ross on. He's probably busy with all the other. I'm watching too many shows, man. Yeah, he's got the night of the Southern Kingdoms. What a turd, man. I got too many shows.

That's not how Ross talks. It's not how he talks It's unfair Welcome back to Acres, Clams and Cockles Yeah, what's going on? That's not how he talks Yeah, I don't have a Ross either

Hey, what about this giant hog on His, his night guy? Did you hear that? There was a huge cock on that show It was a huge fucking cock. We got a wrap up. Yeah, it's always important To wrap it off

We have to shut this show now First episode had some Ria time in it too It was great. It was very gross, disturbing To Seaward, man, We gotta, guys, stop. My favorite band is disturbed. Stop the cock.

I was down with the sickness, no? Brittany Greiner. All right, bye. Bye.