Fat Chance Podcast - Ep.12 - Ryan Kuzmanovic

Episode Date: May 4, 2021

Ryan Kuzmanovic: honestly just really into sports.

To end it in front of all these people, you know how cool that would be? I mean... That's a dream. I want to, uh... You know what? When do we start? Technically whenever we want. How long time?

How long time? yeah it's uh we can start whenever the microphones are gone sweet this one that i i missed out on and not missed out it was my fault for not going uh new year's my friends from college all went on a uh like my first golf trip and it's like fuck i don't know why i didn't go yeah i wasn't sure if i'd be able to or not and then they're just like yeah we filled this about like fuck but they went they went to Arizona for four days, played like five different courses. I want that. I need an income to do that.

But as soon as we're old enough and like we can make those trips, you know how fun those would be? Just like golf trips. That and like the Kentucky Derby that we were talking about. Oh my God. I mean, when Heilman brought that up,

it's like, it sounds so fun. If this thing doesn't figure the fuck out. There we go. If you want to switch to whatever, I have a couple of eyes for you. But I mean, it was a week in advance. I was like, there's no way I can just get up and go to the Derby. Plus, hopefully next year. That's got to be it.

That's got to be expensive. Oh, yeah. That's what Braxton said, too. He's like, I need a grand. At least. No, not a grand. I need two grand at least. You need a nice suit.

But that's also how I view Vegas, too. It's like, I need to go in with money. I know it's just disappearing. Yeah, it's gone. And if I somehow come back with any of that, I made money on the trip. True. Like, that's how I'd put it. Which is a weird way to think.

You have to bet when you're there. It's not just the status. Because I swear, the apparel that some people wear on those places are nuts. Oh, I would go balls to the wall. Pink suit, that weird little Justin Bieber hat. Big old hat. Yeah. Oh, hell yeah.

That'd be scary cool. This smells better than it tastes. We'll hide the brand. I was Oh, hell yeah. That'd be scary cool. This smells better than it tastes. We'll hide the brand. I was never a Truly fan. Never mind. They're not bad. It smells really good though. Excuse me.

Dude, okay, so I didn't know that you lived over here. Yeah. It took me on a weird route because I was like. Did you go through the neighborhood back there? Yeah. And then come back around like this? Scoot around and then come back, yeah. It's a way to just keep going down the street.

You live like right next to Valley Green too. Have you ever been to Valley Green? Have you ever been to Valley Green? Have you ever been to Valley Green? Have you ever been to Valley Green? Have you ever been to Valley Green? Have you ever been to Valley Green? Yeah.

I don't know if I've been to Valley Green. Valley Green, the par three, that's like nothing's longer than 75 yards. Yeah. Yeah. I've never been to Valley Green. No. It, that's like nothing's longer than 75 yards. Yeah. Yeah. I'd never Rolf there. No. It's so fun. I used to think.

We used to go like every single day after school in high school. And it was so much fun. Valley Green's the first golf course. If I'm correct, the first golf course I've ever played. My dad took me there. I was using, I was so young. I was using my driver on holes and stuff like that. Yeah.

And I remember even in high school before, like when I started getting into young, I was using my driver on holes and stuff like that. I remember even in high school before, when I started getting into golf, I used to think that the last hole was like 145 yards. And I'd be like, dude, this is a far fucking hole. And now I can bring one club with me for the whole thing. True. Full swing, a pitching wedge wedge and a bag of balls. Is that the longest hole? I think it's 145, yeah.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, you could makeshift wedge that entire course. Yeah, I mean, some of us, it's a powerful swing first. A lot of people's weds, but maybe you decided purposely to skull fuck one. But that's the other thing, too, is the last hole, like, that net covers the parking lot. So, and there's a bunch of holes in it. Like, that's not a, like, a safe net. Like, people's cars, I think, get hit there once or twice a day.

Oh, now. Oh, dude, I was thinking. Are you talking about. Valley View. I was talking about Valley View. Are you talking about, like, literally across the street. Whatever the hell that is. The park, the park. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I froth Valley View. I was talking about Valley View. Are you talking about literally across the street? Whatever the hell that is. The park.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I froth there plenty of times. Oh, I play Valley Green all the time. Or I used to. And now I know what you're talking about. But yeah, you're right. Because Valley Green is literally down the road too.

That is one club. Oh, yeah. It really is kind of. I'm all turned around here. But yeah. But yeah, no. The froth course is the next. If you kept going down yeah boy the next left

is right there we walk our neighbor's dog there all the time oh i guess that works out then but dude yeah those places are so much fun that's where i wanted to take someone who because the girls are trying to learn how to golf wouldn't that be a good spot to like valley green that's perfect yeah that's where that's where it's it's where old retirees who can't swing. Kids just learning. Yep. And then anyone just learning go to golf. And it's still enough for them to drive and still not make it.

Especially if you don't know if you can't gauge power. Granted, they'll get a hold of one and it'll go way past the hole. I'm like, all right, I can't use this club anymore. That's wishful thinking. Yeah. Sorry. And they don't just top it the whole time. Yeah. No, Camry was shooting oh we went to edgewood she was actually shooting really well um for like the first time you play

too she's never really swung before and we had her shoot and she's like embarrassed was like it was like everything was going straight and everything was going past like honestly like 100 it was going like 100 yards and that's all you can ask and for the first time you're playing first time everything straight in 100 yards that's it was i was like i was losing my mind because i was like you do better than some of us even yeah me and especially i've seen some bad bad bad hits from granted we were drunk but do your clubs here we can go golfing after this. They're in my, they're in my cup. Do you want to go golfing?

I would, I would. I have softball tonight, but I would go to like. What time is softball? 7.15. Oh, that's not bad at all. We can do it. Yeah, there's a little par three, par four course down the, it's like 10, 15 minutes away.

I would do it. I would do that. Literally, I have a ball here because I need something in my hand at all times. That's why I have the drinks, I think. And I switched to solo cups because I don't feel as fidgety with a bottle

with a solo cup as I do with a bottle. It's like here, but also it's like this shape in my hand, I know I'm supposed to drink. What? It's like a bottle. You're like, oh, I'm drinking to drink. What? It was like a bottle. You're like, oh, I'm drinking.

I'm going out. I'm having fun. So I'm like, start putting them back a bit. The Solo Cup, I think, dumbs it down a bit. It sounds like I have a fucking problem. That is a weird little thing you got going. Do you ever take that hat off, by the way? Yeah, do you want me to?

No, I'm just saying. Do you always have that whenever you're doing this? Because I love that. Do you have, like, a thing? Lately, yeah, I've been just cartoon t-shirts and my Yeti hat. I think that's so goofy. You got to have those, like, character traits, though. Yeah, no, the hat is just, I've had it on today.

And then it just happened to be, like, the one I wear during these. I get switched up. I think I've had my Nike one on and my Franklin lacrosse hat on and a few of them. But since I've been on camera, I think all but, no. I think half of them I've had this hat on. The other half,

knit hat, Nike, and Franklin lacrosse. Oh yeah, that lacrosse hat. Yep, I remember that one a lot. That was my Madison hat. I wore that every day to work. Just because it starts sweating. I'm like, I just... Oh, at W?

Yeah, just put your head in a hat and let it soak up. And I felt so bad when a girl working with me, just like they do that weird thing, they just steal your hat and take it. I'm like, you really want to put that on? You did this to yourself? That is a gross hat. That is a disgusting hat. Michael, oh my God. They do that weird thing where they just steal your hat and take it. I'm like, you really want to put that on? You did this to yourself? That is a gross hat.

That is a disgusting hat. Michael! Oh my god. Will they be drunk enough that they don't feel it either? So I'm like, they wear it for like 10 minutes. I see your sweat just dripping down their face. Your makeup's running. What do you mean?

Oh, gross. You could wring that thing out. Oh, golly. No, I, uh, that thing out. Oh, golly. That was weird. For their sake, I really didn't like it, but at the same time, it was kind of funny. God, I miss that bar. I do and I don't. I like the memories I have with it, but if you ask me to go work there again, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself.

You liked it, though. Oh, I absolutely loved it. It is top three decisions I made in college, hands down. As a bartender? Hands down. Top two, I would say. Did you start as a bartender or you started as a bar back or something? No guy started as a bartender yet.

Girls did. Usually, you guys need to work your way up that's what they say when you like get in and guys like you legit have to and then someone needs to die for you to like come in or like they cling to that or they need to leave so like they cling to like they keep saying you're gonna bartend soon you're gonna bartend soon they did it to me and i was like this is getting fucking old dude and finally i just kind of like weaseled my way in. That's a, that's like a staple of some business plans. It's also promises. And then just,

but it's also luck. Like when you get in. So when I got in, I bar back for like a year, maybe a little less. So it was one of the quicker ones to bartend, but that's because all the guys above me, except for one left.

So he's like, I do need another another guy and they trained a few of us and then i just happened to be the one that um bartended more often than the rest of them the girls they're like they're like yeah you guys are gonna work as the servers or whatever um super sexist to be honest like no guy was a server no no girl was a bar back and we'd be like well can we try it out because like the girls make good tips on game days and stuff oh i can't but then they'd be like yeah you guys got to work there would be a rule like girls like you got to work three months as a server before you're bartending yeah and then it was like all of a sudden it turned into three weeks then it was three days then it was like three steps into the building and they're bartending already.

Was there, I always wanted to know, is there a correlation between nice days, like sunny days, and tips? Like, because I know W has the patio. Would that, did you notice that at all? Or like, because did you ever work up there? All the time, yeah. Okay. I was always, I was always so like. I preferred working up there all the time yeah okay um i was always i was always

i preferred working up there just because there was um less supervision okay um but i guess with tips so many days yes because there's more people in the bar because the rooftop's open i was i just want yeah but then again at the same time we also need more bartenders so it's split up more um if you mean like are people happier oh do you guys share tips yeah okay yeah so yeah that's what i mean because whenever it was like a nice day i was like dude fuck yeah let's indulge let's tip a little more there are some days where i'm like thank god we're getting tips because like the girls would just be raking in money. And it'd be me. You got to love to see that. Me and Corey be up front and be like, we got a dollar. A girl just working someone.

And it's from the one local who's had like 19 beers. He goes, thanks for your service guys. It's like, oh, appreciate your $200 tab. You gave me a dollar. That's tough. Dude, speaking of, okay. You know what made me irrationally mad today it was getting the beer for you go to the gas station across the street and you know when you check out there's a

they're like hey would you like to round up to donate oh my god same and i say and i i've always i always just say no yeah it's like because dude, because... Dude. Well, because it's like, I'm not donating it, really. I could talk about that for days. But what made me mad is, he goes, would you like to round up to the nearest dollar to donate to? And I didn't even listen. I just go, no, it's all right. I'm okay. And he goes, all right, so it'll be $12 even then.

I'm like, what? And I look at the thing. He just put the roundup in for me. I'm like, what? I was just like, I just need to go. Dude. I got to finish setting up. Screw that.

And I got in my car. I'm like, this little prick. I got so mad that I donated to like St. Jude's Children's Hospital. See, they make it. It's just a guilt trip. Oh, 100%. And it's just so, I mean, I'm all for, I do that all the time. I donate.

I never give it to like homeless people on the side of the road. But it's always like, do you want to round up to the nearest dollar? And it's, like, maybe it's because I've done a lot, like, outside of, or at least I used to. I really haven't anymore. I haven't done shit lately. But my mom would always say that. She's, like, I give enough. She's, like, a really generous person. But she doesn't buy that like round up to the nearest thing and i i'm

a firm believer on just like no i'm not gonna do that plus i don't know if you know what acorn you know acorns yeah where they do oh i have the roundups yeah i have that on my i'm like no that's going to my acorns so screw that yeah that's 72 cents I didn't just get. Exactly. It's like, that stuff adds up. For as much as I get Panda Express, it's, that's like $5 a week. The roundups, you're kidding me? I'm going to kill this fucking fly. I mean, dude, it's so open. Like half the garage is open.

Just fly out. Just fly. Look, go to the light. We have stink bugs in my house. Ooh, they come to the balcony here have stink bugs In my house Ooh They come to the balcony here I hate those things They're disgusting

I haven't squished one yet But It's only because I think it was you Who told me that Was it you who told me that Yeah They smell

Yeah The one that You were Was it I think it was you When you came that one time And you're like These are stink bugs

Yeah No they're gross I forgot Cause I didn't know what they were I think we saw them Did we see them at like Braxton's Cabin or something Oh yeah Yeah they're gross. I forgot. Because I didn't know what they were. I think we saw them. Did we see them at Braxton's Cabin or something? Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're gross.

I'm going to want... This is bad. If I had a bottle and this flying here, you would just be talking to the microphones. God, I love this. I need another one. Dude, you can have all of them until I switch over to Miller Lite. I'm definitely not going to drink all these. But we should help after this, though. Maybe I will. I'm Miller. I'm definitely not going to drink all these. But we should help after this, though.

Maybe I will. I'm down. No, I was going to say something about that roundup thing. I don't know what you said. It's going to bother me. It'll pop up in my head randomly. But yeah, that just bothered me today. It's like, hey, I know you can hear me.

And then, oh, I remember. Then afterwards, I think he realized he fucked up. Because my card, it was like chip hey, I know you can hear me. And then, oh, I remember. Then afterwards, and I think he realized he fucked up because my card, it was like chip malfunction, chip malfunction. He goes, third time usually works. I'm like, how about get a new reader? And I put it in, it works, and it said, would you like to donate a dollar to him? I'm like, what? He goes, oh, you can just skip this, skip this, skip this.

I'm like, did that 72 cents even go to St. Jude's? Yeah, who knows? Or is that right to your pocket? I'm not sure. Is this cents even go to St. Jude's? Yeah, who knows? Or is that right to your pocket? Is this your version of acorns? Yeah, for real. It's fucking your corns as he's taking right now. In today's day and age, we could be getting scammed. We don't even know.

Sorry, Panda Express. I wouldn't know. But you think about it, it's like, oh, it's just 70 cents here, 70 cents there. I'm also convinced they don't ask you to round up unless it's like oh it's just 70 cents here 70 cents there i'm also convinced they don't ask you to round up unless it's more than 50 cents yeah um because it's never been like it's like your bill's like 68 i had one that was like 8.99 they're like do you want to donate that i was like sure i'll do that one just round that one up i remember that they do that but like it that adds up because that acorns app is a free promo for Acorns. Oh, yeah.

But I forget about it, and I'll just randomly look in it, and it's like, oh, there's like two grand in there, which is crazy. Yeah. Because I've had it for two years now. I agree, though. It's easy to forget. And when you have money taken out of your savings or whatever, checking account, whatever you have it to, because I have it on my debit card.

Money just goes, and you just see it going and going. And it's like, at this point, I don't care what my expenses are. But when you look at that Acorns account, you just see all that money. You're just like, oh, my God. And it's one of those huge sighs where it's like, oh, thank God I have this. It's nice, but at the same time, it's not like you made money. I mean, technically, you invested in it, so you've made maybe $100. But it's just slowly been siphoning money out of your account.

Realistically, you could be like, I should have two't spend in my account yeah i treat it as a savings account it's like just money i'm not gonna spend any guy who's played fantasy football knows like in the beginning of the season you pay like 50 bucks 100 yeah whatever you have for your team if you pay it right away at the end of the season you're you will be pleasantly surprised because if you're, especially if you're in the runnings and like everyone owes this X amount of dollars, it's like, oh my God, I paid that money already. And it's like, it's the weirdest feeling. It's just not having to pay it again or like just paying sucks, but just get like rip the

bandaid. Yes. Rip the bandaid. You kind of have to just go for it and then you'll be just like, it's over. And then you forget about it. And then you're like, oh my God, I paid for that already. Thank God. And then it's like, boom. Oh, so it's over and then you forget about it and then you're like oh my god i paid for that already thank god and then it's like boom oh so it almost feels like you made 50 bucks give me that 300 200 dollars oh yeah it's i'm the same way because it almost feels

like you made money instead of losing it even though you never had that 50 dollars yeah that whole time yeah it's just like oh fuck i could i would have spent less yeah something like that i don't know it's it's really dumb but it's just like a weird mental game. I think we both play with ourselves. We think we have more money than we actually do. Yeah, that's always good. Dude, I do that now with my credit card bills. I just, I'm big into just, I like the idea of a debit card.

Now I just noticed a spider. Oh, good Lord. It's on the ladder. You're fine fine it's not coming up um by you but like i like the idea of a debit card i spend it i lose it like it goes away yeah i don't like the i spend it on my credit card it just all of a sudden the bill just starts racking up on my chase account so i'm like oh my checking or whatever stays the same and i'll look at i'm like oh i still have x amount of dollars and then i'll scroll down and be like no you actually owe 850 bucks so now if i use my credit card for a weekend i just paid off right away i'm like i don't want to be fooled that's big three weeks down the road i'm like holy shit there's

actually like 15 grand in here yep and then down then down low, like underneath it goes, no, you owe six of that. Yeah. That's like procrastinating. It is. I was a horrible, horrible procrastinator. Like literally my entire life. And it is the worst habit I think anyone can have. Because who was it?

Matt Bemis. Matt Bemis. Bless him. He, in high school, every single Friday, right after he gets home, finishes homework kind of thing. Weekend. I've always, like me, Braxton, Sunday night, Monday morning, we're finishing homework.

It is the worst stress. And it, like, you get in those habits. And it starts going to, like, debit cards and credit cards. And it's, like, it's the worst i i think it's because you want like the weekend thing i get that i in middle school i had to my parents made us we got home we could have like a snack but then homework had to be done or it was like homework had to be done then we can have our snack like we like dogs they rewarded us with a treat if that was it had to be done once i got to high, that went out the fucking window.

If that was my. If I have kids, that's one thing I want them to. I want to train them. Even if they hate me. I swear. It's to not procrastinate. That is like the one thing. It's a bad habit.

It's a very bad habit. It's a horrible habit. And I can't stand it. Because I do it all the time. I'll put it off. I'll do it later. Kind of thing. Ugh.

Sorry. i don't know why i i hate it though no it's it sucks because then you get to in college was the worst yes like high school homework it was usually like you do it quickly grade school homework obviously like i would just get it done right away yeah but then college it's like it's projects yeah it's whatever those those semester-long projects oh my god clearly you can get the high penny the worst things how are you doing good how are you just let me go under she loves me she loves my mom hi puppy hi cutie um she's gonna be like what the fuck is going on

um I think only two people have peeked underneath the uh basically the hood or the garage while we were doing this and they both were like

oh um the fuck but yeah no the college like you can it's amazing what you could get done in a day

yeah if you really just which means like if I would have just done this like three days right after it was assigned yeah I wouldn't have to and you could get done in a day. Yeah, if you really just... Which means if I would have just done this three days right after it was assigned, I wouldn't have to... And I could have done half of it at a time. Holy shit. Honestly... It's so much easier.

That is the biggest advice I could pass down. Someone who is asking me, starting their college career, like their college career is just do one go to class to finish as much crap as you can when you're like especially if you're coming out of class because you're already in the the mindset you've you've been there an hour two hours or however long and then you could just do it right away while it's fresh in your mind it saves you i think it also so much crap you also probably need to study less because it's like you're doubling down on it rather than trying to cram it all in one that's just it's proven time and time again how bad that is it's so bad and we do it every time because i have us right i have written 12 page research papers in a day in a day like what

do you what do you get i literally just of grade do you come off of that? I literally was just like, B's. See, that's impressive. If I do that, I'm like, I could have graduated with a way better GPA if I was going to hate this. God, I can only tell you

because I did homework for someone once. It was a pretty big project. You did someone's homework? Yeah. See, I'm the normally like, can I get you to do this somehow, whatever. I did it for someone once, the person anonymous. I screwed up royally. Well, one, it wasn't.

No, no. I did not screw up. I got told to do this. I got paid to do it okay you at least got paid i did it horrendously i thought i did a good job i did it all in one night and i and i thought i would be the kind of guy to be like oh if i just grind if i literally just focus i could not i got i think i got an f for the person i think i straight up got like a 55 percent they still pay you? No, I had to pay them back. Isn't that shitty?

It's just like trying to cram. Oh, horrible idea. I can't stand it. Like, ugh. I really can't. The only time I think I had an assignment work out perfectly was my capstone class for my major yeah or my my no my certificate so one of my minors i did a semester's worth of work in one night see like what kind of project so it was it was it's the capstone class it was one credit and it was basically for you to build a portfolio

to like send it for because it was it was uh digital studies and like tv film and radio so it's like build your portfolio to send it out so the whole thing was basically hey you need to make a website for yourself but like use wordpress so the website's made you just need to add the tabs you want and throw everything you've done in college on so basically i did it i thought i was like i gotta make a website and all this stuff there was like two checkpoints so i did like most of his message work in one day yeah but i uh i just i just threw it on so like everything that was on my computer you just upload i'm like i'm done and they're like oh this is what you want your website to look like it could have just been like bullet points of this is what i've done with my name

and picture of my high school graduation picture was my thing. I was like, this is my website. This is what I want it to look like. This is how I want people to see me. They're like, all right, cool. You passed the class. It was just pass-fail. That's BS.

I can't... Dude, like... But for every class I had like that, I had like 20 that were fisting me. Like, it was fucking terrible. I can't believe, like... See, why make it such a huge thing if it's... Capsule. Capsules are a joke. Mine is a...

Some are, I think, kind of tough. It was a presentation. It was... You present to a class, like an undergrad. I mean, no. It was like a gen ed class. You just... And you come up with a thing, like an undergrad. I mean, no. It was like a gen ed class.

And you come up with a thing, and mine was ADHD. And it was like, dude, this, it could have been one of those, like, do it all in one night, because it's a speech.

It literally is just like a class-long speech. Oh, the amount of five-minute speeches I memorized the morning of five minute speeches i memorized the morning of see like and that's the thing is like i can bullshit pretty well but not in front of a bunch of people especially someone who's grading me like i can't do that yeah so i had to make it kind of longer and that was like probably the one project where i did not procrastinate thank god and it was And it was a lot of it. Because normally I'm okay at public speaking,

okay as in emphasis on average. Sometimes I get really tense and I quicken things up and I talk way too fast. I hate that. I'll start talking quicker. Then it gives me two minutes in and then I'm fine. And I had to like prolong this for an entire class and it was so by the end because i was pretty nervous for it um

i finished by talking about like a memory like of having like really bad adhd like an adhd episode yeah exactly which isn't a thing and i mean i guess it might be if you're like like hyped up but i was never really anxious when i was young so where there really wasn't like episode it was just a bunch of things that would happen that i would just like unknowingly you have like you gotta teach like a 30 minute class you're done in 12 minutes it's honestly what happened because i ran out of slides and it's just like um so i i also wanted to get in this story and then it's like 10 minute story that i had to bs and it was just and it turned out like very average grade again but it's cool i just don't think i i hate i don't know Some people really enjoy doing all that stuff.

And I think power to them. Like, I don't understand. I think I've said it on here a few times. I don't understand, like, the people that finish undergrad at college. I said it last episode. And then we're like, I'm going to go do more school. I'm like, how? Yeah, it's tough. Like, when I was done, I was like, I'm done.

And that's how some people view high school yeah like I don't know how you're going to college but I've always viewed college as mandatory power to them because my parents went I'm supposed to go and it's like college is such a part of I can't think of the word but um just like how we like culturally like yeah we go to college like that's it's what we're pushed to do it's expected so i'm like all right that's part of it but then when that for me was the end like the friends that are in law school med school whatever other schools there are kennedy ringleberg i don't know how he's done he's in the navy now because it's paying for his school i just don't get it now he but he's the kind of person who just always thinks long-term.

These people just think so long-term. I've said this a lot. There's short-term thinking and long-term thinking. They're better off for it. And they're so much better off for it because they're thinking years in advance. I'm thinking about what I'm doing tonight kind of thing. I've already asked you what you're doing after this episode. And the thing is, those people are so just they they have it together

and i could bless them i could never do it but these people who are like he now he's going for what four eight years in the navy and it's like it's med school and then that we're very much what are we like now thinking and there i can worry about now five years down the road exactly it's like and now that just for them five years down the road it's gonna be way better yeah and that's always how it is but i mean it's like i can't change this is who it is the only thing i have is like this is a slow burn maybe this will it's a benefit one day yeah hey but we have a good time we have a great time we make up card games i think that's our best thing oh yeah i need to explain this for the audience that is watching we made a card game that

was it's called honors it's the dumbest thing and it changes every single time we play every time i think we have a new rule and like one rule changes every time but we have so much fun and we get there could be a party of 45 people and at the start of every party it's just him and i in a corner and like three beers honors and like a few shots but it gets you it's like a it's like a damn the girls hate it yeah what are you doing over there can we make this a four-person game like probably we change the rules every time but we're not going to. No, it's too fun. But yeah, it is.

We've done that. It's good. I'm glad we made up our own game because I noticed before, like you and I would kind of just like start every party, just like playing a game and drinking in like a dumb amount. Yeah. Do you remember on the boat? Yep.

We played go fish. I was thinking that everyone's listening to music. It was was war war yeah we played war fucking war worse we were in our mid after every card one of us drinks early to mid 20s and after every one drink and if you won war it was like shots yeah and we had way too many wars same card and yeah we would have it like three times a game at least we're explaining war right now yeah and it was just but that's the thing it was like why do we do that why but it's so much fun it's like we were always the instigators and it's like fine it feels like you guys don't want to do it we'll do it it's like having our own little thing though which is nice yeah so i don't

mind it i think it's fun it's pretty cool but my god that case i God. I thought about that. I was like, should I just get a deck of cards and the whole hour is just us playing one game of honors? Fred, I'll hire Drake. We would be crawling out this garage if we were doing that again. Who do you play softball with, by the way? Well, our season that me, Ringelbergs Braxton John Brad Andy are on it's

Thursdays and it's at the community center in Greendale that hasn't started yet so I got asked I just got asked to sub

for I don't know if you know he's your age like Logan Zastrow he's a Greendale guy and Eric Ouellette maybe Matt Vareny Matt Vareny played

Franklin baseball I think for a little bit. Or, like, maybe when he was younger. I have no idea who any of those people are. They just invited me to sub. And this is at Conkle. This is going to sound real weird, but does that Zastro person have a little sister? Maddie Zastro?

Yeah. Who is the twin? Twin. Okay. I went to confirmation camp with her i believe i believe it see that's i think she's and at the time she had like this wait wait through what saint mary's maybe i really i don't know what church that's i don't know like i i remember that name yeah she's like really athletic like super athletic she's probably better at golf than

i am um i think most people are better and she's really good at hockey but um yeah that's definitely her yeah it's definitely her big hockey player yep um but yeah it's his team and dude let me tell you this we played a guy last week we tied the first game 8-8 it was the scrappiest game we found a way to tie we did very well second game this is the fun thing about their team is that they're very chill and one guy brings a case every single game so everyone's drinking there was two cases there i was on beer six by the second game um Wasted. You're feeling it, yeah. And it's like you're up to bat. You're like, fuck yeah, I'm going to take this to left field.

Little top. Actually, every single one of my hits was a grounder or a liner to shortstop or third base. And I was like 50-50, I get out or not. And it was very whatever. But this guy that we played, let me tell you. Matt Rainey, he's playing third i'm in left field i've never played outfield before uh this guy uh he's like you want to back up for this guy and as he's saying i'm like running back there our pitcher pitches i have never seen i've played

with kennedy ringelberg who was an insanely good hitter hit bombs like everyone in the outfield that community center backs up till they can't even fucking see him. This guy hit the biggest bomb I have ever seen in my life. There's a fence even throughout the entire... If you've ever been to Conkle. I'm listening. 300. This guy hit one like 330, 340 over left field.

As soon as it's hit, I'm like, I can't get that. The fuck am i even running like is this what it's like to be like to see godly hit right now because i was so confused i was like and this is like a whole nother league of different this is by the way this is aluminum bats and softballs right yes like the big big yellow guys slow pitch crack do you have like an extra appreciation for the people who are hitting it 450 with wooden bats? That's insane. The one thing I appreciate about anyone, about any athlete, or actually no,

the sport I appreciate the most, baseball players, hockey players, and golfers. hockey players, and golfers. Honestly, I think those athletes, like guys who are hitting 95-mile-an-hour fastballs, like 400 to center field, that's the craziest shit I think you can do as a human being. You see those sports science things where it's like they... They have like a quarter second to react. Like half of a half a second to react to the ball, and they're still.

And some of them are early. Yeah. Like, yeah, how can you. I would be early, too, because he would wind up like this, and I would just fucking swing. Like, dude, the ball hasn't. Hit that. Nope.

That's another thing, too. I heard that softball players, like girls softball, college softball, they have even less time to react. Are they close because it's so close yeah that like and these girls are still pitching like 50s 60s underhand oh i believe it and it's like they have nothing granted the ball's a little bigger but it's like it's insane how you can there are some insane softball pitchers yeah i just don't get it insane like can you imagine You have to have a lot of respect for these people. Because they're underhand. A lot of the balls I know nothing about softball.

But I imagine a lot of the balls rise. Can you imagine there's the breaking ball in baseball where you're like, holy shit, it came to me. Imagine one starting here and you're like, that almost hit me in the fucking chin. Something coming up, you're like you go like this and it's still coming at me.

Yeah. I can't imagine those people. But what did I want to talk about? I wanted to talk about the draft, like a big, big segue, but – No, that's fine with me. I was about to bring it up anyways. Okay, good. Because I think, obviously, the Packers,

I think the two notable ones are just Packers-Bears for us, at least, for the NFC North. And I wanted to get your take first. What do you think about the Packers draft?

Okay, well, I told you last night in a text, I'm in the who-gives-a-fuck mood with the news. Okay? Okay, I don't know what this Aaron Rodgers the news okay okay okay i don't know what what this aaron riders fiasco is i don't know who to believe if he if this is like truly him not

wanting to be there and to leave which by the way i don't blame him at all i mean that man deserves better and he will agree he. And I said this before. He will be the one athlete in the sport of football that I will cheer for outside of the Packers. Oh, so if he leaves, you'll be okay with it? If he leaves, because I know Broncos are big into him. Yeah, whatever that is. And I also have been big into moving there. I would want to move immediately.

That's good for you. I think I would exile moving there. I would want to move immediately. That's good for you. I think I would exile his existence. I would not. I would not at all. That man deserves way more than what we have given him. I agree. I can't tell if our front office is dumb or if they're just fucking stupid. It's one or the other.

They have to be. You have one of the greatest quarterbacks to play the game. I mean, why don't you just please him in any way possible? He's a once-in-a-generation, once-a-hundred-years kind of player. Like, why not? Just give him a weapon. Just one. Just one.

Draft one weapon just to quiet all the people that... I can't stand it. Like, I love our quarterback. I love our cornerback. I love our set. I don't like Kevin King, so I'm okay with this draft. King needs to go. Well, he does need to go. Who knows?

He could have a great season. You can't make plays like he did blown coverage in the NFC championship. He single-handedly cost us. That halftime before halftime blown coverage. It's like, dude, how can you do that? Your one job. Like, I don't know.

Dude, high schoolers know not to do that. Exactly. It's like, I get trying to get a good corner. Apparently, this guy's super fast, though. He's just super fast. I don't really know. 4'2", 40.

I was... Who gives a fuck, though? If we had our quarterback, we could have a Hall of Fame defense. Yeah. But if all we have on offense is Jones and Adams, but no one's giving them the fucking ball. Say once someone gets hurt or is out for something, then I guess you could say that about anyone. But it's like the more weapons this dude has, I think he's exponentially better.

Because that means he's not just looking at one guy the entire time. You spread out that offense, and it's exponentially he's exponentially better because that means he's not just looking at one guy the entire time you spread out that offense and it's like a wide i was actually hoping mostly for a linebacker an inside linebacker and i was very confused on why it was a corner i guess all the like the value of all the to outside linebackers was dropped drastically, so we had to get the fastest guy who is a D-back. But I wanted inside linebacker. I would have been really, really happy with a wide receiver. I'm okay with a cornerback.

I am just ecstatic that we didn't draft a QB. I don't know too much about the players that were coming in. I know, obviously, the big names. And I don't know much past the top five receivers or top three or four. So at that point, in my head, the receiver we would have gotten would have made that much of a difference for one. I actually don't know who is still available. However, if you are on the thinnest of ice

with your Hall of Fame quarterback, the reigning MVP, and all he wants is a receiver, and you go the other direction. What the fuck? I mean, draft a kid out of high school and it would have made him a little happier than what you just did.

It really is tough because it just feels like we're just keep... Packers are notorious for disappointing fans with weird picks. Well, what I don't get is because we are such a storied franchise. So in my head, what they're thinking is like we have to stay relevant always. So they're afraid to go big for two to three years and then have a dip yeah it's like because they don't want to want whether it's not whether it's a money thing a reputation thing or like they don't want to piss off the fans thing like you know what's pissing the fans off

being this close like we have fucking blue balls dude honestly, honestly. All right. That's a good point because the Packers. I would rather get off and then not do anything for a year. Yes. Yes. Let me have sex once and then not for six months. Then be like. But I had sex with the most beautiful. Summer Rae walked in here.

We did it. But guess what? You can't have sex for another year. I would accept Summer Ra Ray in a heartbeat. Rather than Summer Ray. I don't know why we're picking her. Just every day, just unzipping your pants. And just looking at it.

And then just leaving. See ya. Disappointment. That's where we're at. That's where we're at. I get it. It's so fucking annoying. It is annoying.

Rogers is sitting here like, someone just sucked my fucking penis. Yes. Honestly, the Packers are always looking in the future. What will we be in two years? I would love to see them just indulge. Go do a Buccaneers thing. One year. Go do a Buccaneers thing.

Yeah. One year. One year. You pick everyone that are Hall of Fame quarterback who's going to leave within the next probably two years now. To be honest, he has four more years for sure. Yeah. If you give him one more really good year and say we win a Super Bowl somehow,

the sky's the limit after that. Like, maybe we don't even double down and lose. Maybe we double down, we hit it, and we keep riding it. But I would love to see one time where we went out and got Antonio Brown or That'll just never happen. But no, that's not our

image. We need Corn Thread or which I love Aaron Jones and Devontae Adams, but it's like they're quiet. Hey, every once in a while, can we go get someone that was like, hey, fuck your mother. Never in a million years.

Give us a shot of adrenaline. A Chiefs domestic violence ambassador. Yeah, give me someone who hits kids. I don't care. You have anyone. I'm glad I'm the one that clips videos. Give us some heartbeats, man. I said this before last season when we were doing Tending a Lisp.

I said this about Rodgers to Braxton. I said, okay, if Rodgers is, quote, unquote, on his way out, let's treat him like he's in hospice. Okay? Okay. Give him everything possible to make him comfortable so that his last four years are so enjoyable that when he goes out, he goes, dude, I went out with a bang. Yeah.

So, hey, for this last four years, he has his old reliable. He's got weed. Devontae Adams, okay? Yeah. Go to works every time. But you know what? He has his old reliable. He's got weed. Devontae Adams, okay? Go-to works every time. But you know what? Every once in a while, needs a shot of adrenaline. Maybe a little heroin.

Go get him Antonio Brown, okay? He wants to go on the treadmill when he's 95? Kareem Hunt. Yeah, MVS is like hit or miss. Same Brown as Ida. Shot of whiskey. JJ Wadley or something. We need someone like that we need one

if we had any if we drafted any wide receiver they would have been I think Devante him we would have had the best like

wide receiver core in the NFL who could we have had last year like Chenault I think that was our guy we could have gotten trading up God

no we traded up for a guy that was rumored we were going to trade. Imagine getting a QB. That's the biggest piss on the face you can to a Hall of Fame quarterback. And maybe it did help. Maybe it did motivate him this year because he played spectacular. Unbelievable, yeah. But it's like, just give the man what he wants. I don't care anymore.

Just feed him. Dude, he's ornery. Just feed. I don't care. Treat him like, we should treat him like he was in hospice. He clearly isn't. That's a good analogy. He clearly isn't.

Spoiler, man. Give him fucking everything so he's comfortable. Why not? Okay? True. Like, our defense was okay enough. I think Kevin King was kind of like a bullet wound that we didn't know happened. That hurt.

He made two horrible, horrible mistakes. Probably cost us the game. If you really go down to whose fault, which I don't ever believe, it's one person's fault. But when you blow coverage like that right before a halftime and let up a fucking touchdown. It's also momentum changers. Big, especially going into halftime. Oh, that would have killed us.

They were kind. They had their foot on our throats a bit. A bit. And then they just twisted. They were like, hee hee hee. Yeah. I mean, that was a big fuck you. That did hurt.

Part of me, because I am such a Rogers fan though. And I feel like we still haven't even talked about the draft that much is if he goes AFC. Okay. I can almost promise you it'll be, we'll see finally a Brady Rogers Superbowl because he will be treated by other players. The same way Brady was to an extent. I wouldn't,

I'm interested. I'm fascinated. I don't think it's the same type of free agency and the cap space kind of sucks for them to be able to do stuff, but I think people will go and flock. Let's say he goes to Denver. He also has Judy.

The defense is solid, but people will go there. It's a fun place. Good market. I think we would see possibly a Brady-Rodgers Super Bowl. However, I think it would be kind of amusing to see us then go to the Super Bowl and then Rodgers just dick us down. I would honestly be okay with that. I'm honestly fascinated to see how another team like Denver would treat him.

He should have three – oh, Elway? Like, what do you think he would do? I think they would spoil like Denver would treat him. He should have three... Oh, Elway? Like, who... Like, what do you think he would do? I think they would spoil the fuck out of him. And it would just be the biggest, like...

He would have all the freedom in the world. All the freedom in the world. Yeah. And why not? Because we've had him for so long and now we think

we could just build around a future instead of build around the man who's still present. That man would come to the sidelines and put a coach's fucking mic on and be like, I got this.

And they wouldn't care. Another thing I'm upset about is because our defense is so just shit on. Our run defense is garbage. Garbage. We don't have an inside linebacker. We don't have an outside linebacker. We have teams like the Vikings. We had, what, three, four losses last year?

All of them? Maybe not all of them. I think what it comes down to is you have to draft based on a team that's trying to win a Super Bowl this next year. You have to find the reasons why you lost and the reasons why you won. Super Bowl this next year. You have to find the reasons why you lost and the reasons why you won. And a lot of the reasons why we had so few losses was because of our run defense.

And a lot of it was the game that Dalvin Cook just absolutely just took us to pound town. It was all because it was every single one of those runs, too. I think he had three rushing, one receiving. The three rushing touchdowns, I swear to you, were all between the tackles. Just all linebackers fucking shitting themselves. In hindsight, being 2020, in an ideal world, two drafts ago now. So, the Jordan Love and the A.J. Dillon draft. A.J. Dillon could turn out to be something. However, I don't think it was the time for us to draft him.

Last year should have been emphasized on run. I mean, we missed the Super Bowl because our run defense was fucking terrible. We should have addressed that last year. This year, and that probably would have maybe pleased him a little bit, like maybe go first-round defense, second-round receiver, or receiver defense not quarterback running back when we had like probably one of the best one

two punches for running backs which is so good I'm going to miss Jamal I liked him I knew when he gave him the ball he's a guaranteed three four yards and he's falling forward every time yeah I noticed, he's a guaranteed three, four yards. Yeah. And he's falling forward every time. Yeah, yeah.

I noticed that too. Every time. He's a very, yeah, fight for that extra. He's not going to bounce off a lot like Jones did. Yeah. Like he'll probably more breakout runs. I love Aaron Jones though. Same.

And. Big fantasy running back. And this year, holy shit, should have been. I mean, dude, we just traded. I mean, trade away the fucking farm. Get us someone. Yeah. Go get.

Yep. Anyone. We won't do it though. That's why we'll never win. Last year was the year to get a receiver though. If we were going to trade up and get a receiver any year, it was last year. Yeah. Are you kidding me?

So many. Dude, and there was good ones this year too. It's just. Yeah. It's just, they were all like, I just don't understand the value that we see in not getting one. It just confuses me. Obviously, they're thinking about a million different things, and they're paid to do it. But it's like – I don't know.

I think it sucks that we cannot draft one. When was the last time we drafted it? Do you know? It had to have been – We haven't drafted – I think I saw that we cannot draft one. When was the last time we drafted it? Do you know? It had to have been. We haven't drafted. I think I saw a stat last night. We haven't drafted. God knows.

An offensive player in the first round since 2012. No, we've drafted one offensive player. Like a skills position? Offensive. Skills. Yeah. In the first round since 2012, that person is Jordan Love. And I think before that was 2002.

And it might have been... Like, what is that? It might have been like Javon Walker. God, and who was spectacular, by the way. God. It's like... And we have one Super Bowl to show for it. And so maybe...

I'm a believer we should have three. A classic get shafted by the end of the year team that could possibly be fixed with just one more wide receiver. We haven't tried it yet. Why not do it? I also will never believe one player in the draft makes that big of a difference. True, true. Like immediately.

Then again, like one player does make a huge difference i mean we're we've spent 25 minutes i'm talking about one player on our team that's gonna devastate us if he leaves yeah and we are spoiled when i when my friend sent me the link is like this chef to read this out like my sunny a sunny, warm day yesterday. I'm like, my day is fucking ruined. I legit was like, I was bummed out. Yeah, that sucked. Because we are so spoiled. We went from Favre to Rodgers.

We're spoiled and blue-balled at the same time. We have great quarterback. The last. The last. My entire life, every year I've played, I've thought there's a chance we could win it. Yes, that's a cool point. Whether I'm naive and we don't have the best team, but because we have this all-star quarterback,

Hall of Fame quarterback, and now the idea that he's— I feel like we tried the same thing for so long, and we only got one thing, so why not switch it up? And we got lucky. Weren't we a wild card when we won it? Yeah. Yeah. So, not lucky. We were a good team. We got very fortunate, but the thing is, yeah, we caught fire. We caught't we a wild card when we won it? Yeah. Yeah. So, not lucky. We were a good team.

We got very fortunate. But the thing is, yeah, we caught fire. We got caught at the right time. Exactly. But I was telling my mom this. I was like, I never imagined. And I knew one day it would happen. Like, Rodgers is not going to be my quarterback forever.

He'll be fucking 80 when I'm still watching football. Yeah. But I always thought the man's either going to retire a Packer or he's just going to die. Those are the only two options. He was going to be a Giannis where it's like... Or I'm going to die. It's those three things. That was it. And I was going to go out on top.

Liver failure. But yeah, I agree. It kind of does... I never knew... I couldn't imagine a Packer team without a good QB. And people freaked out when Favre left. And there's that famous clip that's like, Packers aren't going to win a lot of games unless Rodgers changes something. And then he goes on to be significantly better than Favre.

Yeah. I just – the difference between my mom we don't know like would Jordan love or whatever the difference between

that is true we didn't really I mean we did expect Aaron Rodgers to be good and we expect Jordan to be good but I think the difference

is Rodgers fell to us we reached for love and I think that's what scares people it's like

it would be the equivalent now of like Wilson falling to us in this draft it's like oh somehow no one took him and we got him at 12 kind of thing so it was like oh shit and then he sat under Rodgers

for two years and then we're like fuck like rogers is unhappy he left and then one off year with wilson and wilson's doing fucking crazy like that would make more sense because it's happened before with rogers the fact that we reached i always feel like reaching just never usually works yeah too much i i really yeah i don't know enough about it but gamble it is it is a gamble it's like what do we give up for it and why why him they have to know a reason why but it's like i don't remember seeing him play i don't think it's anything like aaron rogers and how he played so it's like it is a gamble no we just fell for the Mahomes effect where it's like, hey,

the future is this mobile quarterback who can sling it. You know how rare a talent like that is? There are very mobile quarterbacks. There's still a big gap between Wilson and Mahomes. Mahomes is athletic, athletic. That man is throwing things behind the back sideways he's the weirdest skill freaking muppet beaker i have ever seen that's a tough find in my life and he's a he's a freak at freak for how far he how fast he could throw how far he could throw and just like the things that he can do he's got that confidence and it's so impressive. It's like, but that's such a rare thing to find.

And I don't think we're going to find that in drawing love. And I think we got scared by it. It's like, oh, if we're going to compete with the Mahomes of the world, we need a Mahomes of the world. Yeah. And the first person we saw that we thought we could get that was semi-similar, we took. Yeah.

Which is like, hey, there's a new— Yeah, we traded up for it, and we're going to— But there are new—and that's the thing. We're going to groove him now. Like, oh, if we're always worrying about the future, like the future is like we'll worry about it when we get there kind of thing. It's like, hey, there's more quarterbacks in every draft. Like, people—like, Burrow came out of nowhere to be, like, the stud he was.

Yeah. It's these guys. The draft before, no one thought Burrow was going to be the first overall pick. Mack was the same way. He didn't find his way until, what, his senior year? Like, Joe Burrow was at Ohio State, found his way, and turned out to be a stellar...

Like, who knows? Like, everyone is a weird coin toss, bust or not. Also, if we want to get one of those guys, we should go all out for a few years, then drop off, have a shit year, and then we can get a good pick in the draft. Pull 49ers, dude. Spectacular team, shit team, great draft. Back to the top. Back to the top.

Well, who knows? If Jimmy gets traded, that's another change in scenery. But who knows? I think the 49ers in the next three years will be spectacular again. Because they should. I think that team is going to be really good. They're a scary team. I think if the Chargers do the right things, Herbert can be very good.

Oh, he's a beast. I think Tua is going to be a bust. You think if the Chargers do the right things, Herbert can be very good. Oh, he's a beast. I think Tua is going to be a bust. You think so? Yep. I think Burrow has a... I think he was a good college quarterback too. I think Burrow has the potential. He got shafted, obviously being the number one over pick to the Bengals.

But now he's reunited with Jamar Chase, and now he's... If he can get the ball off, which is – But my brother was pissed. He goes, it better be the fucking offensive line. And I go, it's going to be Jamar Chase. Of course not. Which is like – it's a cool story.

It is cool. It's a cool – it's a great story. I love that. But – and who is it? Wade Waddell is reunited with Jalen Hurts. Yeah. Which is cool too. But then again, it's like, hey, you could have every – Tua. I think it's with Tua. I think it was Tua. Miami. No, it's Hurts. Yeah. Which is cool, too. But then again, it's like, hey, you could have every...

Tua. I think it's with Tua. I think it went Tua. Miami. No, it's Hurts. No, it's... No. Didn't Waddle go to Miami?

Waddle is with Miami. And then who's with Hurts now? Well, they were both... Who's the other big Alabama receiver? Devante. Freeman. Or not. Smith.

Smith, yeah. So, yeah, he's in true true like the thing is I don't know that is insane actually are there three

reuniting yeah but like you can have all the weapons in the world if you can't Jalen on the team with Waddle

and Devontae Smith I don't know I don't know I don't know right now maybe there's an Alabama connection to all of them. True. I mean, what, six guys drafted, seven guys drafted in the first round?

Isn't that like tie a record or something? No offensive line, you're not getting anything off. That's it. That's insane. Yeah. The only offensive linemen that were notable for at least a Packer fan, because I thought Detroit was going to get Devontae Smith, because he dropped to him.

And then they picked, what, Sewell? Who is Oregon's absolute stud. And which is kind of scary because if they could give... I never really think of Detroit as a team to be feared. Ever. No, never. And now with Stafford gone, who I think kept them in games.

It's, yeah. But now that they have Jared Goff, who with protection, like, Not a bad quarterback. He's shit on. He's shit on for, I don't know.

I mean, for decent reasons, but at the same time, I think he's good. But that's how I view a lot of players too, is like, there's people who have bad years. Gavin Kings of the world or Preston Smith who are like,

we need to get him out of here. There are years where you see people have an off year and the next year they're unbelievable. Rogers had maybe not... He had a shallow season and then just... By the way, his down years are still unbelievable for other careers. And then came back He had a shallow season and then just. But by the way, his down years are still like. He said it. He said it, yeah.

Unbelievable for other, like career years for the quarterback. And then came back in what? MVP. But to go MVP, MVP, like it's possible. That's insane. So like, I think people, what is it? The praise has to be just as loud as the disrespect or something like that. So like. Yeah.

So, I mean, it's possible. However, it is right to voice it complains like listen you you shit the bed last year yeah figure it the fuck out or you're gone yeah compared to what you are capable of which sucks and really isn't fair but when you're making that much money it's like it's a that's the thing it's a business it's no longer a game it's a business we don't care about your feelings We don't care about how you feel, which kind of does suck because that's what it is. And they're putting their bodies and lives on the line. Find your shit together.

Yeah, for real. We're talking about lives. CTE is a very real thing. It's a motherfucker. That's a whole other conversation. You had concussions? Actually, yeah. I had one concussion playing soccer or i got shoved into

a goal post i i feel like soccer that you probably you guys probably have more concussions than you think like that ball isn't super soft and you're heading it a lot honestly the concussions really don't come from headers because when you play it right when you when you learn how to really hit it it's all like when you have that like really hit it, it's all like, when you have that mentality where it's like, this won't hurt you, you take a punt, freaking 100 yards in the air, and you just strengthen up that neck, chin area, and just, and you control the ball. And you don't feel it.

It's just, if you do it incorrectly, if you do it incorrectly and you let it hit you kind of thing, you have to hit you kind of thing, you have to hit it kind of thing. Oh, okay. So if you let it hit you and it's just like this awkward thing. You can't procrastinate. But that's also – concussions off headers really don't happen. Maybe if it's like a liner off a free kick and you just get drilled.

That's a different story. But most concussions come from ground, the ground. Weird collisions in the ground. I wouldn't say it comes from the ball like ever so you've had one state cup um when i played for croatian eagles i think i was sixth grade seventh grade um maybe fifth i don't know but oh my god i i call a kid a bitch for the first time in my life it was fifth grade

I never really like hated someone I hated this kid I hated this kid let me say that again if this kid who we played this is the Brazilian team

that we played at the state cup I hate you this kid straight up shoved me because I I wasn't like

that good, but I was kind of like one of those streaky players where you put me in, make something happen, or I don't. And I did all these like cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts, and he shoved me before I could get it off. And it was like the most disrespectful thing because it should have been a red because he was the last guy, and I just got shoved, and boom, right into this thing and i just got i remember just like kind of like coming to

on the ground looking at him like you bitch what's happening i was like fifth grade fifth grade and i was just like you're like he's like what'd you say I was like you heard me Hello bitch You bitch And I was just out of it And I remember the lady was like You can't fall asleep But I'm tired On the bench just like Days out of my mind That was like the only time I ever really got a head trauma

I have one diagnosed And one that almost positive It was a concussion, just never. Because it was in football, and you're like the tough guy. It's like I want to play, and I'm trying to get into varsity. It was so dumb of me, and I obviously would never recommend it. Yeah. And I was just like, I just wanted to, because all I was doing was special teams.

I'm like, I'm playing. And my friend was like, dude, what the fuck are you doing right now? I'm like, I'm going in. Shut your fucking mouth. He goes, face the other direction motherfucker no that's not true but um yeah but yeah i know that one definitely wasn't but i remember when i got my first one that i know of i definitely probably could have had more i feel like people have had them they just don't know yeah um minor ones yeah sophomore in high

school i took a guy's knee tried to tackle him to the head, and it just like, it rattled me. Like it hit your helmet? Yeah, knee to the helmet, and I think whiplash, then I hit the ground. Yeah. And it was,

even minor ones aren't great, and it was definitely a minor one. Wouldn't they add up too? It's like, it's not good for you. They're linking like, a lot of head trauma to like, Alzheimer's and like crazy

shit like in cte obviously it's like it's crazy what stuff can do oh yeah and so i remember like we've all taken baseline concussion tests at the beginning of the year yep which is a whole another story i had to take it three different times because my computer crashed on me twice and i but i also banked goodwill because they did like random testing like physical testing too and i remember we were like balancing on something and they're asking us questions and our trainer goes what year is it and i go 2003 it was 2013 i go wait i mean 2013 she goes i have to mark 2003 down i'm like fuck but i'm like alright good so if I get one we're good she goes that's not a good way to look at this

more concerned that you're just dumb you know what I got so during the online testing you take there's just those random like squiggles come up and like hey they'll show you 6 of them and then they'll show you 10 and you'd be like pick which 6 you just saw

or something like that and I remember before I had the concussion I would look at these squiggles They'll show you six of them, and then they'll show you ten, and you pick which six you just saw or something like that. And I remember before I had the concussion, I would look at these squiggles and these scribbles and whatever, and I'd go, that one kind of looks like a cowboy hat. This one looks like a baseball player. I would just identify certain little parts of it. I'm like, oh, that's the bat.

That's the hat, whatever. And I remember taking it after the concussion. I'm like, I got this. Like, I just recognize what you got. Yeah. Doing it. I'm like, all right, I got it. I'm like, that's a whatever.

And they go through it. I'm like, what the fuck am I looking at? And I remember my trainer reviewing it with me. And I'm like, oh, I just see, like, green. Which obviously is, like, synonyms of, like, good color. Like, all right, you passed. Green, green, green, red, red, green, green, green, green. I'm like, I got this. I don't have a concussion.

It was like red. I'm like, holy shit. He goes, yeah, your memory dropped by about 39%. I go, holy fuck. That'll do it. He goes, so you have a concussion. I go, yeah. I get it. Left with an ice pack. And he's like, just, just rest up. It's a concussion. I go, yeah. I get it. Left with an ice pack.

And he's like, just rest up. It's a minor one. Yeah. I don't mess around with that kind of stuff. Then you tell your parents or your mom you have one. She's like, you can't sleep. It's like, fuck. Yeah.

You're suddenly the most tired you've ever been after you get rattled in the head. Like, what is that about? That is so dumb. Sometimes I wish I could just give me a concussion because I can't't sleep like just hit me hey hit me in the head melatonin dude grab that bat smack me hey legit just knock me the fuck out major concussion made me out for two days really promoting healthy lifestyles here on the show hey whatever gets it done whatever gets it done is right. What time is it?

What time is your softball thing? 7, 15, 4.30. We're golden. We're golden. Where is it? Conkle. It's right in Greenfield. So you're like 15 minutes away.

Yeah, it's like on Layton. If you keep going past the high school, it's over there. What's everyone else doing tonight? It's pretty Yeah it's like On Layton Like if you keep going Past the high school It's over there What's everyone else doing Sexually right by Meyer What is everyone up to lately I know Braxton's

Working his ass off He's uh Yeah he's He's working He's loving it Him and Sam Are getting uh Pretty serious

I approve Pretty serious Yeah Oh No I'm just kidding um Jack and Morgan are in Florida right now

are they really? those lucky bastards yeah I need to go somewhere warm like that's consistently warm I was in Denver last weekend it was gorgeous it was like 65

sunny on Saturday t-shirt weather like just great like you can wear whatever you want kind of weather on Sunday oh I love Sunday no it was 75 it was sunny on Sunday I was leaving t-shirt weather like just great like you can wear whatever you want kind of weather on sunday

oh i love sunday no it was at 75 and sunny on sunday i was leaving i'm like this is great but then it's like i'm leaving and i'll come back to 55 and cloudy i just i would like to go somewhere like i spend a week five to seven days it's like hey you got sunshine and sand be so nice true i haven't done one of those trips in forever. I love those fucking trips, dude. Well, you were just on one. I know. I got burned to a crisp on the very first day.

It turned into a nice little tan now, though. I guess, yeah. I got a beautiful... Do you peel bad? A really... Oh, dude, it was so bad. I think I'm still peeling on my feet. My bad.

Yeah, you can still see it on my feet a little bit over there. And it's been, what, like two weeks now i tan really easily same but my back as of like when i moved to miami i swear when i got burned there it might be a different kind of sun or something but my back was that florida i would go like this just like scratch my back and then just kind of like rub it and i'm like i have a hand like i have my back in my hand this is disgusting yeah yeah i was doing that there was a point dude where i looked like a damn leper just all the dead skin here i would just go like this this and it would just be like a cloud of dead skin and it sounds disgusting because it was that flaky i would take it so it's like just do like. Dude, it's bad.

No. It's bad when you have like the chest and you like, you have a piece and you just kind of like peel it. It's so satisfying. It's so satisfying. But you're like, this is like, I'm literally peeling myself away right now. Like this. And it's a piece the size of your hand.

Yeah. So I'm like, oh my God, just do it in the shower and you get it off. Saw three, just. Dude, I would have times where like, it would be like during the midday, if you're peeling, and I would just go like this with my chest, and you would just see flakes of skin just come out from underneath my shirt. I'm like, dude, this is. That's exactly what happened to me.

That was gross. I was like, all right, I need to chill it in the sun. It was really gross. True. It was after the first day, and i had to just like towel up because i was watching the masters all my data went into the masters that day or that weekend because i was just staring at my phone under the towel like like a 10 year old on his like on his nintendo nintendo nintendo switch um and it was just so i felt i felt bad And it was just so... I felt bad because I wasn't enjoying it

just because I fucked up one day. But it was a good time. By the way, is Nintendo Switch the new DS or Game Boy? I have one. You have one? They're so fun. Are they really?

It's incredible. Can you just... Is it like a PSP? Yeah, it can be. Do you have to buy games for it? Or do you buy them online like you do PlayStation? You can do both. What's cool is there's one that's only $200, and it's the light, and it's just the handheld. Just a screen with two things on it.

I thought that's all it was. Then there's the regular Switch, which you can plug into your tv and then the whole thing so then you can you can watch either one then and you can play no like the screen like it's kind of like a like this little station oh it's like it's like sharing with your phone to the tv but then the controls are the switch and then you have and then you can get this and then you have the controls and then you can just control it just like that and it's so i could technically play pokemon on like a 60 inch flat screen tv that is what you can do it's it's definitely as cool as it sounds i don't need that in my life right now it's it's it's a distraction

for sure do you have the light version um no i got the the the original though the one that hooks up my cousins wanted like oh they had it and i was so jealous and they and it's just so much fun it's so cool like like you can also get games that are just like well you'd never expect like like random like board games you can get up there um and then you have it on your screen and it's like it's just i don't know it's it's a ton are they are they expensive games like our games i haven't bought a game like are they still they still, like, 60 bucks a game? Yeah, like, the newer ones... Like, okay, so there's...

I feel like you should be able to buy, like, chess or Yahtzee for, like, five bucks. Exactly. Those ones are, like, $20. Like, it was, like... 20 bucks for Yahtzee? It was, like, a thing that was, like, $20, and it was, like, seven games on this one thing. Oh, okay. And it was all the coolest games.

Like the ones where you could like play on, play like party games. Like you have it on during just some sort of party and then you could have like eight people playing. And it looks so cool. And I was like, dude, I should, I gotta get that. And I haven't gotten it yet, but I will. It's so much fun though.

Like people haven't, it's a ton of fun I think it's what did I pay $300 my attention span for video games is I think 30 minutes

and then I check out like I have like during you have to want it beginning of the pandemic I it's like you know what

there's legit nothing I can do like the first like the stay at home order like for however long it was a time where we literally could do nothing. I was like, okay. That would have been the time to do it.

Also, during quarantine, you couldn't get one for four months. Oh, I bet. The backup was insane. But I bought the Assassin's Creed game. I like those games, the open world stuff. So much fun. I love Assassin's Creed. I've always liked Assassin's Creed. from those are so those are insane i just i played that and that

at that time i was like all right i'm gonna do like three four hours on a snowy or rainy day in the middle of pandemic what the fuck and then just go stuff food in my face like that was those are the best kind of days a great day just no stress that day but then eventually when like things like open up i'm like all right i can do things i'm like i what am i doing this for kind of thing yeah especially i don't understand how i ever played uh modern warfare or yeah because i mean if you think like the actual game itself is that campaign like that's the game. Yeah.

You're done. You beat it. I beat the game. But what everyone plays it now for is the online. The online just for whatever reason. But then think about it. What is the point? For me, the game is to beat it.

You can't beat online. Agreed. So you're a big campaign guy. It's like you give me the game. I want to beat it. I want to beat it. But no, then I played online all the time. Like, MW2, everyone did it in high school.

I played online all the time. You level up to 70, Prestige, start it over again, whatever. I want the AK, use it for two days, whatever, come back. But then you really think about it. It's like, what is the fucking point? I play online. I know it's to play with your friends. You're hanging out, whatever, when you're at each other's your own house but you play to use a gun to level up to use a different

gun yep but all you're doing is that but that gun is just me doing this am i like it's just the same trigger okay all right just the same trigger different sites but you know what you're stuck with one site because you like the red dot. So every gun, you put the red dot on it. So you're looking through the same thing no matter the... And you see 10% of the gun on top. Okay, it just makes a different noise. And you use that gun to get to the next one.

Well, it does a different thing. Some are three-round bursts, some are semi-automatic, some are automatic. But then you put the same sight on it, so you're looking through the same thing again. Makes a different noise, three-round burst, automatic, whatever,. But then you put the same sight on it so you're looking at the same thing again. Makes a different noise, three-round burst, automatic, whatever. But you know you're not using,

like, if you like the submachine guns, you're not using assault rifles or light machine guns and you occasionally use sniper rifles. You're getting into the philosophy

of, like, why you should play this game. No, but this is all my head when I'm like, why am I, like, is this benefiting me at all? Like, I'm using this to get to this,

to get to this, to get to this. Then you get to the top and you're like, you know what would be really fun? Let me just do it again. Yeah. And do this. And then like,

and then like people like break. I'm like, you know what? I'm ninth prestige. I'm like, Oh, you went in a circle nine fucking times. Yeah.

Good for you. You should start doing NASCAR. Like you can make money doing this. True. Dude, that's it. And then thing though, you have to have a goal in set.

It can't just be, which by the way, then you turn, then you turn the, though. You have to have a goal in set. It can't just be entertainment the whole time. Then you turn the game off, and you're like, wow, I've been sitting in the same spot for three hours. Yeah. See, that's something that doesn't hit a lot of people until they're 30. And you know what? If that's your thing, and don't get me wrong. If someone gave me MW2, like the remastered version like they did, but had the same amount of people playing it,

and all my friends got together. That's why Fortnite was so big. It brought people together again. Like in those quadruple, like you have teams of people, and the whole like... I think that's why I liked it because I was playing with my friends. You can beat your friends. It was competitive then, which is nice.

That was a blast. And I loved it because I was playing with my friends. You could beat your friends. It was competitive then, which is nice. That was a blast. And I loved it. But where I'm at now is because I don't have friends that are playing it. It's like, I'm playing by myself. This is stupid. But if you gave it to me now, even if I played by myself, I could probably do an hour of just team deathmatch, trying to snipe people with whatever gun it was just hiding in a corner

see like the thing is like what drives guys is competition it's always it's always competition who's the all sex and competition that's it yeah and who's you know what's so fun though is like when we were in middle school it was because i live in the same neighborhood as the Ringelbergs, so we had the bus that would drop us off. So it was me, Josh, Jack, John, sometimes Braxton would come with us. And it was we get dropped off at the Ringelberg stop every single day in middle school. And we would just run, like sprint to their, like, P1. I call chair. Yeah.

And it was, we would play, like, just Rust. Oh, yeah. Like, just. The smallest map. Free for all, or, yeah, whatever. Yeah, exactly. Also, efficiency. Like, we want to kill people, we want to do it quickly.

Yes, and we would do that for, like, two hours. Every single day in middle school. And it was the most fun thing. And then when we were done, we'd play like three-on-three basketball. We had it made. But the competition that came from... God. When you see those memes that were like, arguments were settled here.

Oh, yeah. The most true thing ever. It's true. It's like, I... No, but you had P1. You had the better gun or whatever like and it was your screen hopping your screen screen fucking screen peaking was like the biggest the biggest deal of the biggest deal especially i would almost kill to go back to my biggest problem

was like my brother was screen cheating yeah and you go complain to your parents like what the fuck are you talking about can you imagine if you were told that as a father dude can you imagine what are you saying you are a father and let's say you have boys in their company like what what would they complain about in five to ten years what do you think you're going to be hearing like dude he logged into my virtual reality set and started playing as my yeah dude Yeah. Dude, that would be... Oh, God. I don't know what you're talking about. Honestly, who knows what they come up with.

Get out of your isolation pod once and come hang out in the real world with me and your toy robot. Isolation pod. Robot dog. True. Virtual reality. But it doesn't change. VR is coming true.

The way we act does change, but what drives us doesn't change vr is coming true the way we i mean the way we act does change but what drives this doesn't change it's just what's stimulating it yep so like it is competition but whether it's sports video games yeah it's it'll be different forms but yeah competition we always whether we like it or not we're probably going to try and out-dude another guy. That's what it comes down to, especially, oh, my God. Like, okay, if we're talking about the insecure years, it was sex. It was everything to do with sex, and then it turned into competition and sex, and then the combination of them both.

I don't know if we're competing about sex. Yep, it's toxic. I'm not even in that competition right now. That's all right, though. Oh. Oh. I got my little garage show. Well, we are at 119.

Let's do some final thoughts and then maybe go hit a par 3 I would love that what time is it it's 4.42 so done we might be able to

we might not we'll figure it out no we'll do it we gotta do it I don't think we can do a full 9 par 3 bar 4 though like that other course there's no way

we can get 9 in that quickly Valley Green Valley Green we can do the other course I was talking about no we can't oh then yeah let's do Valley Green

yeah we just we just literally grab I can grab one club yeah um quickly. Valley Green? Valley Green we can do. The other course I was talking about, no. Oh, then yeah. Let's do Valley Green. Yeah. We just literally grab one club. Yeah. I would do that. I'm glad you did this. You were going to come on like a month ago.

Yeah. It worked out. Scheduling differences. But honestly, all right. The thing is, I love this. This is so much fun. It's just hanging out. And it is. It's just hanging out and it is

it's just it's nice conversation talk about whatever whatever I when you get someone

like I know you're gonna do it but you're gonna get someone of like who has like importance to them some status

yeah and when you do it's all gonna just bomb I know it's gonna be good. It's gonna explode. And it's gonna be great. I think it'll be fun. I feel like it's gonna happen. Well, I gotta figure out some stuff

on my own personal and other endeavors that I need to get more serious about before I think that happens. And not that I don't like hanging out with you guys because obviously it would be nice to talk to if we can get anyone, athletes, musicians, stuff in here, it'd be great. Yeah, you've got to get multiple people too.

If you get three, three's a crowd. As soon as you get three, conversation could be electric. Oh, I could. We were doing that for a while when Jack did his, Morgan was here, and we made the joke like Morgan's our producer. And then when John did his, Jack was there, and I was we'd made the joke like morgan's our producer yeah and then when john did his jack was there and i was like what if i just said like every episode you go from that chair to produce your chair but it's so hard then to coordinate two different people's schedules

yeah no i i'll talk to you off mic about what i have planned for I have planned for a month from now. I think you'll like it. But, you know, I think it'll be fun. Four people is going to be – I can do three. Four right now with cameras is going to be real tough. It just won't look – I love it, though. Like, I love how you have – dude, three fucking angles is the coolest thing ever

because, like, when you put them on on YouTube Do you edit it at all? Yeah It's all edited like You edit it but it's like Like do you change it? Yeah so basically According to who's Like when both people are talking kind of

Yeah so basically just Liquid conversation I'll put all each one of these separately into things And there's a thing called nesting And so it'll just basically kind of I'll sync all one of these separately into things. And there's a thing called nesting. And so it'll just basically kind of, I'll sync all the audios together. So it mixes. And then this is a separate thing, the mics.

But then I have to rewatch it. And I'll have my three cameras on top of my screen. And then what camera is actually being used right now. And then I just listen to the podcast and each camera has a button and it was like i was here during it and just changing as we go i'm just doing it afterwards and sometimes i'll have the whole thing and then i right now i'll have i'll hit camera one or camera two is me your camera three so right now i'll be on two and it's just watching me i stop you start, I'll go to three. I think there's something.

And I do that because it's stuff I can clip then and it's easier for Instagram. And it's stuff I don't think is usually going to make Instagram. I'm like, oh, let's show both of us. There's a reason I have a 30. I want to show the set. Like I need to show them both. But yeah, I think it's every, depending on what I have going on for the week or the weekend, Sundays or Mondays, it's four to five hours worth of just bullshit. Wow. Yeah.

But it's also little things too. And now I have Cody running all the social media, so I have to get her shit. Really? And she's going to be on my fucking ass. I saw her episode. I liked that one. She, dude, I'm pissed. The last 20 minutes, like I have to remember to turn these cameras off and not just un-fucking-plug.

But yeah, she, no, it's funny. She's doing this. So I gave her the login and all of a sudden I'm looking, so now we are both logged in on our accounts and I'm looking at it. And my initial plan was I'm just going to follow everyone that comes on the show okay i'll get followers when they come or whatever like i just i'm not gonna and i need to post more and i know that yeah but i gave her the key she goes you need to engage more people so all of a sudden like i looked at the account last tuesday i'm like i should have 11 people i'm following i'm at like 15 i'm like what's going on?

Because sometimes I forget I'm logged into Fat Chance and not Michael Kosky. Yeah. So I'm like, oh, did I follow someone accidentally or did I start liking things? I'm like, oh, shit. What did I like look at and I liked? And I go, I'm like, I didn't mean to follow you people. So I just unfollowed them. And all of a sudden I'm getting notifications like they accepted your follow request.

And I'm like, Cody, what are you? And she goes, I'm following these people. I'm like notifications like they accepted your follow request and I'm like Cody what are you she goes I'm following these people I'm like oh this is legit you and so now it's a fun game for me like randomly I'll get a notification like Ryan Kuzmanovich you were right now when this is done you're supposed to get the follow

for the episode that's how my plan was I like it it's kind of like a status that you have yeah and eventually maybe I'll just unfollow everyone again but but it was like hey fuck the rest of you but all of a sudden it's a game to me now like i'll be driving in my car and i'll get a notification it's like someone i'm already friends with like jake fernandez was the last one i just got because jake fernandez accepted your follow request i'm like I'm already friends with him on Instagram I'm like oh wait no my other comic and then it'd be random people from my high school

I have either never talked to or talked to once in my life in the hallway like oh hi like that's it and they're like they accepted your follow request I'm like you know what this looks like to me right now which I get it it's like I don't care I know what it looks like you can right now? Which I get it. It's like, I don't care. I know what it looks like.

The thing is, you can't. Especially when you're starting something like this. Because it's kind of like a business. It's just like, you can't give a damn except if it helps the business kind of thing. I'm in. So it's like... My initial reaction is Michael Kuski reaction.

Like, do you know what this looks like if I just start following? Like, I look like a fucking creep. Or like, of the 30 followers, I thought of you 31st kind of thing yeah it's like someone i've talked to once yeah um it's like oh i apparently think of you all the time kind of thing no i think you're but then i think you're overthinking it no and then that goes away right away and i'm like okay she's she knows she's doing like i just or if she doesn't whatever i don't what she's doing. Or if she doesn't, whatever. I don't care. She's more engaging than I am within that world. I will do, quote unquote, not the heavy lifting, but the editing, the content stuff.

She does that, I'm fine. But it is funny because I'm looking at it and I'm like, who the fuck am I following now? And so now it's really confusing. I have an actual feed now instead of just like who i know i'm following yeah or just my stuff so i'm like oh who's account of mine i'll like something like no not not on the right account michael stop um but whatever it's gotta let her do her thing she asked me yesterday what do you think about paid promotions i'm like not yet i don't have enough on there.

She's on the right track, though. She is. Well, I told her. I was like, I've thought about it. God damn, I need some lotion on this thing. That's exactly where I want my tattoo to go. What tattoo? The.

Oh, the VIA. Yeah. I got to get Steven to touch up Jax. Steven's upstairs. Steven won't do it right now. He's kind of cranky. Hi, Stevenven he's drawing and like tattooing stuff i'm like can i see he goes no i'm like why he goes because when i say something i fucking mean it jesus christ i'm glad we're friends good lord out my room out my fucking room michael like dude you're just drawing you're good

I've said multiple times on here he's an unbelievable artist three of my friends have let him tattoo him yeah he goes no you can't see it I use the batting for you that was

good lord I'm giving him softballs just like hey hit it out of the park. I don't like him. He just goes, fuck you. Alright, we gotta end this. Let's go. Let's go golf. Thank you for doing this, boy.

Anytime. It was a pleasure to be here. We can do it again. I have to pee really bad.