Fat Chance Podcast - Ep.53 - Alek Riestra

Episode Date: April 7, 2022

Alek is a pilot, coach and soon to be cop

It's like ever since I went like PC Mac stock Yeah, that's what most people say like who was it? My roommate was like you just get a PC next time you get one so I was like, I think my next purchase I was just gonna get a desktop Mac for creative purposes and Just have only Premiere Pro garage band on there flip your mic on is it off wrong? Okay good Well, you haven't talked to do it. Yeah, that's why I haven't said And so yeah, that's what i was gonna do just get a pc i'm like i don't know i'm kind of used to the max now that's the problem is like so you get used to the max but i promise like it restricts you so much you can do so much more with like an actual like a

just normal that like windows it's so much better you know what you need i said this to joey when his episode came out i told him this i said somebody needs to make michael an intro like you need an intro oh i don't i know i need an intro you know you ever listen to like part of my day yeah one second i'm trying to get your mic so it sounds louder yeah here we go it's a little better um no i have every time i do one of these i edit i'm like you know what an intro would be great for this and i don't know who's gonna make it though somebody make a song like who do you know i've been like for a while if a group of you that have been on this show just like hey let's do this some janky intro thing i'd put it on there i just like hey this is just the audio and do like some have i go to fiverr and pay

something like hey can you make this like a cartoon and i'd make it the intro for it and i think it'd be fun that would probably be actually be golden like it'd be great that's all i'd ask for i think andrew should definitely make a song probably actually be golden. It'd be great. That's all I'd ask for. I think Andrew should definitely make a song. It would be two seconds long. I'd be like, what the fuck is this? Why am I here? Welcome to Fat Chance Podcast. Am I done yet?

See, but it's the stupid things like that. Yeah. That's like peak intro. The stupid are the better. I agree. I don't want it to be perfect. That's just dumb. So dumb. What were we talking about before i hit play because that usually when i hit play like it just goes everything goes out yeah i totally forgot like where the because you said we're

gonna talk about this in a second and i'm like all right oh yeah yeah no when i left the high school you oh you guys got what oh the whole inroads thing and like yeah what the hell is that the whole like shit show of my life. That's what we're on. Basically, they changed high school to... You're going down one of three paths. It was engineering, nursing, biomedical, they called it, or whatever. And then business. Those were the three options.

Or at least they made it seem like those were the only... So you had three paths in high school then it was like business, science or art maybe. And then there was like a subset for like here are the basement boys. Well, the basement boys. Yeah. The basement boys never left, but like everybody had to do this inroads thing. So you had to take engineering classes or like health, like biomedical classes or business classes you you picked basically and that's like where you're kind of like college actually I mean

that's yeah you pick a major and then your classes are catered to that major actually that's what it was but like they made you seem like you have no way out of it it was you had to do it I did engineering for four years I took like college level engineering classes like i mean decent engineering classes and i just grew to hate it my whole family's engineers on my dad's side i thought i was gonna like it i thought engineering was great for me because i went into college as i apparently didn't know but i applied as an architectural engineer no landscape architecture in college yeah that was what i applied to to get into it directly

admitted into the landscape architecture school had no idea i was applying for that directly admitted then this is how unprepared i was for college did not tour uw madison i just got finally got i got accepted i was like i'm going there didn't tour it applied for landscape architecture got a random roommate like when they're like hey do you want to pick your roommate or do you want Didn't tour it. Applied for landscape architecture. Got a random roommate. Like when they're like, hey, do you want to pick your roommate or do you want it to be random? Oh, you're that guy. I waited so long that the countdown clock was like, hey, you have a month to pick this.

And then I was like, no, you got a week to pick this. You got two days to pick this. There was a running clock when I finally was like, what should I do? And I just hit random. So you're like the biggest procrastinator oh with that stuff yeah and college in general i was such a procrastinator i'm the same way and accepting the landscape architecture went to soar like the orientation yeah decided i was like i'm undecided so i'm directly admitted into a school a fraternity has already asked me to join like their ag program whatever i'm like i don't know what the fuck is going on then decide undecided

and then i was going to do mechanical engineering so i'm like i was pursuing a major while directly admitted into a school with a person i've never met before and playing club lacrosse i was like i am i mean i had no clue what i was doing for the first semester there. I didn't even know how to check my grades. It took me until I was a junior to – do you guys have a DARS report? Is that what yours is called? It's called – we use Canvas. It's like a – We had Canvas too, but, like, our DARS report was, like, the official document.

It was like, these are all the classes you've taken. These are the grades you've gotten. These are how many credits you have. And it's like you look at it to determine when you can graduate and stuff like that and what your transcript is. I didn't know how to access that until I was a junior in college. I'm pretty sure we have that, but, like, I'm the same way in college. Like, I just don't care. Don't care to look.

I'm just there. I'm just here to be there. So I have no clue. I'm sure there's, like, an official, like, here are your grades and here's, like, how many credits you have and what you need to graduate. But no. I have yet to figure that out as a senior yeah i had no clue and i remember going in for my last semester senior year to my guidance counselor like hey can you these guys are annoying as shit

by the way um and i was like hey how many credits do i have left like i'd like to how many do i need to take to graduate at the end of this year j Jesus. And she goes, you have like 30 more credits you need. I'm like, 30? I thought I needed like 18. She goes, no. And she goes, this is what happens when you switch majors twice and take the bare minimum. I was like, yeah, I did the same thing. I was like, yeah, that's fair.

So I only had to do one extra semester, which wasn't bad. Transfer twice. Switch majors once. Went around the country once. Wait, hold on. I want the whole. Well, that i want the whole well that that was like the whole high school thing like yeah i thought i wanted to be an engineer yeah and then like i didn't like decide till when does everybody decide what they want to you know like hey i have

this idea like well like some people still haven't junior year you know where you like you'd make that fake first choice like yeah hey i'm gonna do this or this is gonna be my first try sometimes i envy the people that are like i'm gonna be a doctor yeah i'm gonna be a nurse it's like but like the kids that were like like hey senior year's about to start i've applied to all these colleges as a junior or whatever this is what i'm gonna do at college this is my first like shot at life those are the well-prepared people yeah the people that are like i just kind of fly by the seat of my pants are like us like yeah i'm gonna see what happens i'm gonna let it come to me my whole anxiety thing the whole that i saw everybody doing this i saw like people like jake who's like hey i'm gonna be an engineer and he is like fucking crazy smart i'm like

and i'm like i'm like i gotta fit in i hey, I got to figure out something I want to do. I remember one day I was at home. I was sitting. I was thinking, what could I possibly do with my life that's not engineering? Like, I need something interesting. And I remembered, hey, my dad's a pilot on the side. I'm like, that's pretty cool. Like, I fly.

On the side. Yeah, on the side. Like, you know, he was a police officer for, I mean, by trade. Yeah. But he just took flight lessons over the years and just gradually got it yeah you can still do it i guess so i'm like well hey i've been flying before fuck why don't i like give it a shot like let me see can i go to college for this i had no clue turns out you can and long story short i wanted to go to florida somebody

didn't want me to go to florida and wanted me to stay closer to home and i ended up going to dubuque because they wanted me to play the cross there so that's why i went there it was basically like answered the phone in the car like i knew where the school was and i didn't want to go there yeah but i knew they wanted me to play the cross for them and my whole like get out of jail free card here was i would love the opportunity to play lacrosse with you guys you know but my main focus is what i want to do with my life and that's being a pilot and i thought that was like i would never hear from again yeah not two seconds later i hear oh really that's great that's exactly what we do here like

that's our number one that was like the university's number one selling point. That was their biggest major. And I thought, are you fucked? There's no way this random D3 school in Iowa. So you went to Dubuque? Yeah, so I went to Dubuque to play lacrosse and fly. How long were you there? I was there for the full freshman year.

And you were just like, fuck, it's this shit? Like it's Dubuque, Iowa? shit like it's dubuque iowa well it was dubuque iowa the team like was no fun it was like on top of like the fact that we sucked it was like the coach was just not a nice guy to deal with that's what i would tell people going into college if you're not playing d1 it playing D1, you better love playing the sport and the grind of it becoming your life, but not really having a light at the end of the tunnel because it's a whole different ballgame from high school to college.

Even when I played club in college it's like i didn't like my coach and the i mean the practices were laid back and what like stuff like that but in high school part of the reason everyone likes high school sports is your entire school is there to watch you exactly like you have football games at least at our high school was um i mean everyone was there like everyone came out even like as lacrosse like, as lacrosse. Like, we made lacrosse pretty big. Even when we started it, we were drawn to lacrosse. Before you guys, it was not a thing.

I mean, after you guys, it was, you know, you started it. And people were, like, starting to come out, and, like, they were coming to see us. They were wearing our superfans shirts. Then you go to a D3 school or D1 and play club like I did, and maybe your parents are there to see you once. They're like, we're going to come see you play your first college game. And they're like, we're not coming to Iowa every fucking weekend to watch you play.

There's absolutely not even your parents are like, there's no one there. It's just 11 to 20 college kids in a cornfield playing lacrosse. Exactly. It was like ridiculous. For no one. And you have this one dude who's just, like, ruining the sport that you loved. Yeah, and then you're probably going to have a coach that probably cares, but you don't care enough because you know it's D3,

so you don't like him because he's treating it like it's D1. You're like, we're going nowhere. Exactly. And so it's, like, half his fault, half not kind of bullshit like that. And you're like, this ruined the sport for me. It did. So, but then I like – I stuck to – like flying was always going to be like my main focus. I didn't really like – as much as I love lacrosse, I just was more worried about life, you know.

Same thing like you said, like it's D3. What am I going to do with this? They're not paying me. I don't care. Oh, we're gonna speak about getting paid for lacrosse too here in a second all right but uh yeah i was you know i was with somebody in my freshman year of college too and that wasn't you know very beneficial do i know that person you do know that person okay you do know we'll talk about it afterwards

yeah that's off camera yeah um i didn't really do much because of that. Yeah. I didn't really drink, go anywhere, do anything. If I was not flying, I was in my room, like, playing video games. I, like, just, that was it. That was my whole life. Video games across and flying. In a little dinky town in Iowa.

And I was, like, just bored out of my mind I believe in my life but my like escape card was when I was in high school I went to like showcases around the country for lacrosse University of Jacksonville Florida Institute of Technology and the Florida Institute of Technology their D2 but I had a good showcase there I basically like said like, said, nope, not playing there. I want to go stay close to home. But I always wanted to go there. Campus was cool.

City was cool. We were on the beach. And they had a really good flight program, too. But my get-out-of-jail-free card in Iowa was like, hey, I want to move off campus. Like, we'll pay rent um sophomore year and we'll we'll get a house and we were looking at houses and the school administration said no you can't move off campus until your credit like you have enough credits to be counted as a junior and i thought there's there's no goddamn really like you could have like if we wanted to we didn't

have to live in the dorms freshman year. It was. I mean. As long as you made it to class. I mean. It was a private school. So. I mean. I guess.

But whatever. Junior. Like. That's ridiculous. Junior year. I'm not waiting three years. And living in the same room. In a dorm. I know.

It's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. Because I hated living. Like I told you earlier. Yeah. I hated sharing a room with somebody. I like the dude. But like.

I just. You want your own space. I need my own space. That's it. Simple as that. You're like. Hey. Maybe maybe if like if the dorm was double the size and we each had our own like room in the dorms completely different story but you're exactly your dorm is the size it would have been smaller than my living room kitchen that's what it was and it was drinking so in order to like pressure the university i said hey i tried like i tried

everything i said hey i have an uncle that lives in the city. I have this. And I gave, like, an ad. We followed one of my buddies who actually did have a relative that lived there, and we put it down. Denied, denied. We tried everything. Finally, I'm like, all right, guys. Like, everybody gave up but me.

Like, I was still determined to, like, get off campus. Like, I'm going to try this last thing. I'm going to, you know, throw my trap card at them. Yeah. And I said, hey, if you don't let me, like, move off campus, like'm gonna try this last thing i'm gonna you know throw my trap card at him yeah and i said hey if you don't let me like move off campus like i'm leaving like i'm gonna transfer i'll take my money elsewhere and i did like i went through with like the whole like hey i'm gonna like fake transfer yeah to florida tech that's what i said hey i'm gonna go there and sure enough they call my bluff they said okay if you want to leave leave i said i guess i'm leaving yeah so i so i transferred i said i'm

i'm going to florida but that was where i wanted to go originally so then you went to florida so it was like an excuse for the person i was with like i want to get out of here but i also really didn't want to it was like uh yeah just Just happened to be a good idea at the time. Yeah. In my head, it happened to be good. So then I went to Florida the next year. Yeah. We kept flying down there.

That was. It was fun. And I thought I loved Florida. Man, I hate Florida. Man, I fucking. I fucking hate Florida. Like, it fucking sucks. Even being like.

I mean, I love warm weather. I'm Hispanic. I told you that. But like, man. It fucking sucks. Even being like, I mean, I love warm weather. I'm Hispanic. I told you that. But like, man, it fucking sucks. Like, it's all tourists, crackheads, and old people. That's all Florida is. It's all it is. Where in Florida was this?

Because I lived in Miami Lakes for seven months, six, seven months. And it's nice. I would be like, I understand snowbirds. After living in Florida for longer than would be like i understand snowbirds after living in florida for longer than two weeks i understand snowbirds so the the old people weren't the worst part the only bad thing about the old people was traffic oh it's terrible there was literally so i was in a little a city called melbourne okay it's south of coco it's not even a little city it's like it's a decently sized city it's probably like the size of, I don't know, like Racine.

Probably like north of 70,000 people. Okay, that's a lot of people. Yeah. I mean, that's double where we're from. But it's just south of Cocoa Beach, right on the Atlantic. And man, like it just blew. I mean, it was bigger than Iowa, but there was, I mean, being from Milwaukee, I mean. Yeah, if you ever think traffic here is bad go i mean one go to like florida's bad go to la obviously that's bad like the 405 but like

um i'm gonna finish this finish it go grab another one on the fridge we'll i'm gonna i'll demolish these pacific goes first you don't have to i mean they can go in the fridge if you want one of those go for one of those all right i will see how i'm feeling we'll probably drink after this too so you don't worry about it um they'll be gone um last episode i did we did a case of the topo chigo oh my god those are like that's actually so good it is prickly pear dude so we still have some of the seltzers left from last time and um i think the tangy lemon lime i think there's one left i might just open it to make you smell it fruity pebbles really fruity pebbles through and through where was i florida though yeah yeah go florida disgusting one when it's hot out it's summer months yeah

you're like you walk outside and you like physically walk slower it's that hot and we lived in like the retire like what i would call for like people like no i was like the tuck away yeah like age-wise of um retirement center yeah like so it's like older people like condominium i slept on my buddy's couch jesus it was just brutal sleeping on a couch in florida does not sound good it's it's not it wasn't great but it was good mentally for me because i was like, I was, it was when I was like for college. Yeah. I was graduating college.

I'm like, my time up here, my time is up here. Yeah. So like, I need to go. Um, kind of like how you're like, I don't want to be here anymore. I need to just go somewhere and figure it out elsewhere because I'm not going to figure it out here. It was not going to happen in the Midwest. I'll tell you that.

No, I don't like that. I'm here now. Like I've always wanted to travel. I don't like that. No, I don't like that. I'm here now. Like I've always wanted to travel. I don't like, I don't want to be in my, I'm not in Franklin, which is fine. Nothing wrong with Franklin. And like, I've, I've like always ripped on like, why is everyone like staying in high school or shit like that? And like a little hypocritical now for me, but I'm not complaining at all, but it's more like it's not because i hate it it's just

because i have like this desire to see everything and i think if you leave you appreciate it more there's nothing wrong with coming back and appreciating it but you need to go see something else like you have this entire like i used to, like I have when I was like 22 and I wanted to move. I was like, yeah, I spent 22 years of my life in Wisconsin. Yeah. I need to go see something else. So I moved to Florida.

Like I, when I, when I can travel, I will travel all the time. If this is my home base at the end of the day, fine. Yeah. But like, that's where I like aspire to like travel the country and like do standup and stuff like that. No, I totally get that. Like that's, I mean, I'm super like, I don't even, like, aspire to, like, travel the country and, like, do stand-up and stuff like that. No, I totally get that. Like, that's – I mean, I'm super, like – I don't even know, like, what word it would be to describe it. Like, when we went to Vegas this summer with your brother.

I mean, that's a whole story in itself. But Andrew came back, and his net worth was the yellow towel he stole from the hotel. Oh, my goodness. We can get to that. We can get to that. We can. I also want to talk about, like – want to talk about that story for that for that trip oh my god oh yeah but like you'll be all right with that wait we'll see tonight i mean i'll tell him he'll be fine he doesn't care yeah i know he doesn't but like like so we go to vegas first time we go to vegas love it great trip but now every time like i see vegas like i'm like i get like the jitters i'm like man like

i gotta like i feel like i'm there i should be there like that happens everywhere i go yeah like i see something like hey i was there like i want to be back i need to be back there yeah i don't care where it was but you know it's it's a weird feeling but no you just it's you it's someone who wants to experience things. Some people are like, they find, I don't know, they're comfortable in what's normal or like familiar to them. Yeah. They find comfort in familiarity. So that's like, I'm home. I'm fine.

I'm me. I find comfort in like the new. It's like, what else? And you're like, I'm'm gonna try something new this is way more fun way more entertaining whereas if i just sat here all day you did nothing did a nine to five every day that wasn't like i still have an hour like basis i need to be somewhere but like i can do whatever i want there yeah kind of thing i would go insane absolutely i would i feel the same i would break the like safety locks off these windows that only let me open them three inches and i would jump head first

out of here straight out like i know i get it like i couldn't do it i guess i mean the whole florida thing it was i had a decent time it wasn't bad it was better than it was better than here and there was some outside factors that came into like i started like losing my mind like i got really homesick and i'm super close to my family and i mean that was part of it but not really i just got too like i'm like no i don't see my friends and i would see on snapchat like everybody's we're either part we're partying madison mifflin or lacrosse you know octoberfest i'm like what am i doing here like there's no

parties like that here like nobody like i was like damn this sucks so i was like i i gotta like i gotta go i'm homesick so i left at the semester i dropped out of college i just i said screw it like i wasn't enjoying the flying thing either it was it got really boring it was basically like hey here's what you need to accomplish like this this amount of time, this amount of, this many landings or whatever, these maneuvers, like there's a bunch of different maneuvers you can do or whatever. There's a bunch of different criteria. It didn't matter where you went or whatever.

It was up to you or when you did it also. But as long as you just met the criteria. Were you actually flying? Yeah. I had my pilot's license. But yeah, I would get these lesson plans. It would be like, example, solo cross country, minimum 450 nautical miles. Solo cross country you did?

Many. I got like 100, 200 hours worth of flight time and a lot of that's like yes the a lot of the time building i did was i got my pilot's license at four so could you technically fly me just me and you somewhere right now yes and no is the correct answer okay yes i could but i need to be current again in order to carry passengers you gotta like re-up kind of thing yeah kind of a re-up but it's not that like serious in order to carry passengers You gotta like re-up Kind of thing Yeah kind of a re-up But it's not that like serious In order to carry passengers

You need Three takeoffs or landings Full stop In the preceding 90 days If I remember correctly Oh so you would need to go So I need to go

Three flights by yourself So like we go to the airport Yeah we go to the airport You wait on the ground I'd be like Be right back Take me like You would go up and down

Three times Up and down three times And I'm like Alright get in and then we go like simple as that yeah i could what like if you wanted to just like fly to minnesota tonight is there like is i don't know how that worked could you just like go find a plane yeah i mean good there's a lot of i mean all airports rent they're called fbo's i'll get a little nerdy They're called FBOs. I'll get a little nerdy. They're called FBOs. They're fixed base operators.

That's like where the private planes go. That's not your commercial gates. It's like Signature. Have you ever been at Mitchell? If you go on Layton, it's called Signature. That's a really big FBO around the country. There are a lot of places. But as you go park your airplane, you get fuel.

They have crew cars for you to borrow, whatever. around the country there are a lot of places but as we go park your plane you get fuel um they have like uh crew cars for you to borrow whatever but yeah so you you would go to one of them usually you'd be like checked off they're like you sign up hey i want to rent planes and then they'll take you up like they'll give you like a test this is more of like the hey i'm getting a wash in every aspect of my life yeah they'll take you up you get it's like not for anything just like hey can you can i rent your planes that's all it is and then if you pass you pass if you don't you don't if you pass then yeah usually you go online or something here's our planes here the times are available it's available mine and then whatever the rental rate is for the plane so what does a rental rate usually run you

depends on the plane like when i was in florida i was flying uh piper archers which are small they're still small like a cessna and i was flying cessnas in florida i was flying pipers but the pipers are wings around the bottom instead of on top but they have like super fancy instruments like it's not like your typical like this you see on like the movies like the round yeah the dials no it's like a computer screen that's what i was like using so that's more expensive than the round dial ones or like how big the engine is whatever it's a bunch of different factors how nice the airplane is yeah and then on top of that some places will charge you wet or dry so if it's like like in florida i think i was paying 220 wet so it's

220 an hour and they cover the fuel you understand what i'm saying yeah like so or dry it would probably be like whatever 180 bucks dry you cover the fuel that's that that's essentially what that means but usually most fbos do wet rates and how many people could you put on that plane in florida four four comfortably so it actually ended up being cheaper if i was like hey we get a plane and we wanted to go to minnesota instead of us trying to find a flight right now yeah i don't even know how much like avgas is right now but it can't be that much more than normal gas. But like, yeah.

That's interesting. So I would, I mean, I could fly a plane that's probably like $150 an hour. You want to go to North Carolina? Let's go. Let's do it. I can get us down there. That'd be fun. I've done long trips like that before.

I've gone to South Carolina. I oddly trust you to just hop in a plane. My mom would shit a brick If I was My mom would never get in a plane Who's taking you? Where are you flying? Alec?

Never heard of that airline Don't look it up My mom My dad's been a pilot Since like Before I was born Actually I don't Maybe right after

But Almost 22 years now 23 years He's been a pilot My mom has never like refuses to it's scary it's because they're tiny planes but yeah i love it i mean i'm not saying i didn't like it i i get i never got to that part i forgot about that i love the flying part it was the lesson part that i was at i was doing my commercial because i already have my private pilot's license

at this point i was working on my commercial pilot's license now, which is a lot of, like I said, by yourself, super far. So I would go from, like, where I was, middle of the state in Melbourne, Cocoa Beach, I'd go to Tampa, I'd go to Miami, I'd go to Tallahassee. I'd go up to, like, Savannah, Georgia. On commercial flights, were you just, like, a passenger pilot? No, no, no, I was flying. So you were flying, like, a southwest plane? No, no, no, like a southwest plane no no like a little oh little little little little plane but i was yeah

it was just me yeah i would just like like i said i would just go sign up for like a time and hey you're like i'm gone yeah but uh and you autopilot you just put that on for most of it that that was what killed me i think maybe i don't know but like i got so like the school rules were no engaging the autopilot unless you're above a thousand feet uh agl which agl is like literally a thousand feet above the ground yeah and then msl is c level okay, two different things. But it was, like, whatever. Certain height, you couldn't activate autopilot.

And I got so bad. Like, I do my pre-flight stuff. Yeah. I taxi up. Like, you do your pre-flight by yourself. Make sure all the control servers are working. Get in. Start it.

You don't have to talk to anybody's you're not on the airport technically yet you go do like you you do a run-up it's called you set the parking brake and like put the engine all the way up just to see if it's gonna like shit out on you yeah just like to be safe um you do that and then you call hey ready the taxi let me give you taxi instructions to whatever wrong ways operating get to the runway get takeoff clearance get on i go full power rotate at this at takeoff speed and immediately like i would just autopilot i was just like i was so like just bored because i knew i was gonna go one direction on autopilot for three hours it just sucked it was it was the worst thing I've yeah why not I

mean we use cruise control it's the same idea it was just so boring to me because you're not you're not with anybody it's a tiny plane it's Florida it's hot and it's like you're in a little like greenhouse so there's no like no AC there's no the AC is the window I would stick the window open and keep my hand out the window like hey I'm hot like I need to like could you have headphones in or I think yes I had like a headset which I had a nice like headset yeah which had like Bluetooth into the headset cuz you got to talk to people all the time yeah while you're flying you keep talking but I have Bluetooth but it was like so loud you couldn't really get a lot out of the music

and you had to make sure you were listening in case you got talked to yeah it just blew so bad but i would have the autopilot on from literally as soon as my wheels hit the ground to my wheels hit the ground or i was on final for runway yeah that's all i was doing for what four months how often were you flying probably like four days a week like like four days a week and probably like two or nah i wouldn't even say two like three or four hours a day five hours six hours at most like for long trips because like i mean it was fun because i would i guess the best example i have for the longest one was i went from melbourne to saint simon's island georgia i think it was fun because i would i guess the best example i have for the longest one was i went from melbourne to saint simon's island georgia i think it is it's right it's on the ocean

but it's all the way up in georgia i think it was like three hours one way because the planes are they're fast yeah drive but not that fast i went early in the morning i think like eight nine a.m took us took me three hours. Landed at like noon. Got out. Walked to like a really good like renowned barbecue place. Got barbecue. Went back. Like took me like got fuel.

Took it back off. Headed back. It's kind of a cool life. It's a cool life and I tell everybody everybody says like dude why the fuck would you give that up? I don't know.

Well you technically haven't. You have your license. Yeah I still do. You still do it if you want do me a favor click just to humor me the top up button they're like yeah yeah just click it a few times i don't know something's up with one of these where it's like i just doesn't register i'm also just stupid um that's so interesting yeah that's like And then I hated it so much that I Said hey I'm gonna become a cop I'm gonna turn away this

Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year salary And go do something everybody hates And make a fraction of the money Well the beautiful thing is You can always go back I could if I wanted to It's just And you wouldn't be starting from scratch i wouldn't be starting from scratch but i kind

of would be starting from scratch yeah because well things change too even though i was going even though it seems like a completely different world going from flying to being a police it's still the government yeah it's still the same government in all. And there's so much fucking bullshit and hoops. You've got to jump through so much stuff. And if you haven't been flying for this amount of time and yada, yada, yada, you've got to do this much stuff to re-up, go to class. It's a headache.

I would love to just do it too. Like, hey, let's go to Minneapolis, whatever. Let's go to Newfoundland. I might try and take you up on that one day and be like, hey, let's do this. Hey, if you want to, I will go get current again, and I will. Oh, my God, that would be so fun. I'll bring the cameras. We could do a little episode in the plane.

Hey, should we get, like, a fat chance, like, sticker to put on the plane? I'm now sponsoring a plane, ladies and gentlemen. I sponsor two athletes. Two athletes and a plane. And a plane, ladies and gentlemen. I sponsor two athletes. Two athletes and a plane. And a plane. And a pilot. Do you have a private jet? Yeah.

Yeah, I do. Yeah. Not really. It may not be a jet, but it may not be mine, but I can fly in it. I can fly. I just need my pilot to get current. He hasn't flown in a few years. I have not flown in a couple years, so I would, yeah.

Also, if we were going to fly, I would would more so i would want you to be like hey maybe not the three up and downs maybe do like one or two flights and then come back and then come pick me up i could i i think even you would want to do that yeah i did something like let me go do something small i would definitely i'm an idiot i'm like i'm an adrenaline junkie when it comes to that shit. Oh, I am too. That's why I'm kind of just like, fuck it, fly me. Well, like, I was doing like, as much as I was working on the commercials, I was working on my instrument rating or add-on, I guess,

which is totally separate. What's that? It's basically, in layman's terms, it is flying the airplane from point A to point b without looking out the window and i'm sure that like you're like what the fuck but yeah like well to be honest without looking out the window like how much it's not like you have landmarks in the sky exactly like if you get to the big cloud that looks like a penis take a right like no like this shit changes it's just like it's just white that's my other question is like

i honestly assume most of you fly just autopilot no there's actually like traffic signals up in the sky you know hey chicago this way chicago theapolis there's a big green sign that's just like we've never really seen. I'm going to start looking out the windows more instead of napping on the plane. Oh, that's actually a good question. Does it feel the same at the front of the plane as it does as a passenger? So, like, in terms of speed, like, when I'm flying, I don't really feel like I'm moving. I'm just sitting there.

Yeah, you're just moving. But when you're at the front of the plane and you're driving, do you kind of feel like you're moving because you're seeing out the front window no you don't i mean unless you're close to the ground if you're closer to the ground you're because you have reference yeah you have reference but but like but no i mean no you kind of just feel like you're there until you start doing maneuvers yeah which is yeah like for instrument i once again without looking out the window so you like so i had these glasses they're called foggles and they're basically that doesn't sound real they're called foggles and they're basically just safety glasses that are blacked out except

for like two little like slits in the inside like tiny like tiny tiny slits they look like they're just blind goggles so literally you can only like, directly in front of you. Directly in front of you. And I would put those on. We'd go up. Even at night, we would do it just to, like, make it even harder. Like, so you can't see anything. My instructor would be in the passenger seat.

And, obviously, there's two session controls. Yeah. But we'd go out to, like, the middle of nowhere, like, Florida. And, like, it's called a practice area where you can do dumb shit and, like, nobody's going to, like, get in your way. He'd be like, all right, give me the controls. Head down, ear to your shoulder. So I'd be, like, this, like, sitting there, not touching anything.

He'd be like, my airplane. All right, when I say go, you're going to look up, look at your instruments instruments and correct the plane And he would like just fuck with the plane He would like go nose down for like a couple seconds then pull it really hard back up crank it around So you have these things in your ear they're called vestibular tubes You learn all about like the human body to while you're flying we have this fluid in your ear That's what like how people get motion sick and stuff okay but that's what tells you you're like hey i'm

turning right i'm turning left i'm going up i'm going down and interesting if you if you turn long enough it's like you you're here you initiate a turn the fluid in your ears are telling you hey i'm turning to the left At like this rate You know whatever your body senses Like hey fast low whatever If you like keep it constant long enough The fluid settles And now this rate of turn is

Level and straight Okay So when you go back to actual level and straight It's gonna feel weird Your brain thinks Oh shit I'm turning right so you have to kind of correct you have to mentally like overcome that or like yeah it's the biggest mind fuck ever i promise you it will never i've never had a bigger mind fuck because he

fuck with it and then you because like you're trying to think like okay he did this he did that like the plane's facing this way down we're getting faster we're getting slower and you're trying to keep up but it's going for so long and then honestly like you're just like you lose track yeah like i think we're here and then he goes okay fix it your airplane and you look up and your instruments are telling you completely you have those goggles on yeah so basically you just you can only see your instrument you can always hear okay so you have to trust the instruments the one thing they tell you is don't trust your body your body will lie to you all the time like look at the instruments they will never lie to you unless they're broken yeah and then you shouldn't be fine at playing anyways exactly

exactly you're not wrong actually but yeah so you would like completely be feeling different and trying to like it's like oh shit like i'm turning right really hard i want to crank it left but actually you were turning left okay don't want to crank it more left you're ready to turn left but your body would think that's what you're supposed to do it's the biggest mind fuck to like fight your body to like correct an airplane it's that's interesting it's crazy that's cool though i didn't know like that's what you actually did like that's a lot of it's a lot of stuff it's not just it's nice to know our pilots are using drunk goggles up in the air right now yeah it's drunk goggles it's i can can

you imagine if you were like just you're i know you're in the middle of nowhere you're probably over like nothing and shit like that but imagine there are like people underneath you're doing this during the day and all of a sudden you just see a plane casually just doing this i would you'd be like this thing's going down i have actually never thought about that and i would love to know what that looks like from the ground because it also probably it feels way more dramatic when you're up there than what you saw yeah but i mean if i saw one saw a plane like a small plane gradually nosedive for a little few seconds like this guy's suicidal well like one of the things you do in your private like not no more goggles no more bullshit like hey i'm just flying the plane one of the things you do

like when you have really don't wear the goggles when we go to minneapolis i'll forget i won't bring them i won't bring them but one of the the things you do to learn how to be a pilot is correcting a stall. That's like your, I guess, biggest enemy in the flight. I mean, a stall means the plane stops flying. That's what it is. The plane stops being a plane. It's a rock now. It is now.

It's a fucking rock. Tons of aluminum. But it's like the funnest. It's fun. It's so much. I promise. I sound crazy saying this, but it's so fucking rock. Two tons of aluminum. But it's like the funnest. It's fun, really? It's so much. I sound crazy saying this, but it's so much fun because you'll go and you'll induce. You're usually with your instructor, but I've done it by myself too because you have to practice it. But you'll induce a stall.

You get really, really slow. You go up in the air really high, but you get really, really slow. You start pulling back and pulling back and pulling back. And the plane just starts shaking. And then it'll, boom, it'll, like, nose down because it stops flying. There's no more lift being produced by the wings. That's what you're doing. And then you're kind of, like, trying to have to, like, paraglide this thing now? Well, you're not.

But there's, like, there's a thing to, like, correct it. Yeah. Like, hey, I just stalled, pushed down, like, nose down, power in, and then slowly pull it back up. And then you fix it. But, like, you're falling out of the sky there for a couple seconds. It's kind of nuts, but it's fun. Because, like, when the lift stops being produced over the wings, it's like, oh, fuck, it just shakes. Like, it's crazy.

Like, the whole plane just shakes. I feel like, naturally, you kind of have to freak out, even though you know you're doing it. Oh, the first time we did time it had like we did it it was like what like why are we practicing this like this does not seem safe safe at all no no shot but it's like it's crazy because like you know i mean i guess you're young invincible you feel like nothing goes wrong but the the plane just stops. There's nothing you can do. It's kind of like black ice on a car or something.

Yeah. Hydroplaning. You're going from flying to all of a sudden the whole plane just boom, straight down. Have you ever had a real serious issue while you were flying? No. I've done some dumb things that I'm flying too close to clouds that I shouldn't be flying into, flying into the wrong airspace,

but nothing like that. No mechanical issues with the plane. They're usually pretty well kept, especially at the schools. Yeah, I would hope so at the schools. That's so interesting. I didn't know you actually had. Yeah. I had an idea that you. Actually, no, I didn't even know you did pilot stuff at all.

But to have your license, too, that's so fucking cool. I mean, that's something I think everyone would be like, it'd be cool if I could do this, and you actually can, which is awesome. That's what, like, everybody says. Like, hey, like, that's awesome. Why would you give that up? Well, it's not so much why would you give it up. I totally understand why people give certain things up. It's like maybe people say it's like a wrong or right person, wrong time kind of thing.

That applies to occupations, I think, too. It's like I really like doing this, but I just can't right now. It's something you can always revisit. And I think people, too, are – like me with engineering, I always viewed engineering as, like, the glamorous part of it. Like, oh, I get to build things. Yeah. Like, just build things.

I think you were like, I get to fly places. I get to fly places, yeah. But then you get into the nitty-gritty of it, and you're like, for it to become a profession, the profession is the nitty-gritty of it. You barely get this it would for it to become a profession yeah the profession is the nitty gritty of it you get barely get to do like the fun stuff kind of thing and you're like you know what i'd rather this just be a hobby because i then just get to do the fun stuff exactly making this a business kind of thing that's literally all it needed you want

like it a lot of people like it's one like thing that takes like for me with cooking. Yeah. I love cooking, but I don't know if I could ever make it a full time job because I think it would take the fun out of it for me. You could have explained it better. Like that's literally what happened. Like I'm like, I mean, as a kid, like, I mean, yeah, my dad was a pilot, but like planes were just like cool. Like they're fast. They still are.

Like if I see a plane, I'm like, oh, what is that? But once you associate something with work you're like oh this isn't fun anymore exactly you need to find like it's a tough balance like one something is gonna have to be work eventually in your life hopefully it's something that is also super fun and you don't like i don't know like what i'm going with that one but like it really is. We're cooking with me. I would like to do a cooking show because it's going to be entertaining, but to be, if I was 9 to 5, like, hey, stressful,

everything needs to go out, out, out like this, that wouldn't be as fun for me. It's like, you know what? I would love to learn to be as good of a chef as that person that's running a kitchen. However, I'd rather like to do it on my own time and cook for my friends and family than being like this person didn't like the way this was like yeah stress out of yeah like take this make it fun let it be creative and i think even i go on a limb and saying i think a lot of chefs would be like

they enjoy the process but i think some of of their favorite when they're done cooking, people are like, hey, can I cook for you? They're like, please do because I don't want to do this right now. Like it's no longer fun. I mean it's still fun, but like they like when they get to experiment with new like things on a menu or shit like that. Yeah, it – I don't know. There's a lot of my friends that were there. I have a good buddy.

He's from New Jersey. Like, probably the only friend I made down there. One of the only friends I made down there. He's a super good friend of mine. But he did the same thing. He called me crazy for leaving. He's like, dude, like, why are you giving up this early? Like, why? There's so much money here.

There's this, there's that. I'm like, dude, it blows. The city blows. I cannot see myself sitting in a plane seat pushing buttons for the rest of your life the rest of my life yeah like i mean that's that the sad truth of it i mean anybody who flies on a plane your pilots aren't flying the plane they're just pushing buttons it's all you're doing and they would you would like to still fly planes but you just don't want to be a profession exactly you want to be i think you need to like you need

to find hobbies you really like and then something that'll like make you money and want to be i think you need to like you need to find hobbies you really like and then something that'll like make you money and oh that's i think everyone's dream is a hobby will make you enough money and it still remains fun but that's super hard to do yeah that's that's how i got into motorcycles actually because i was so depressed out of my mind in florida from flying i'm like this wasn't dangerous enough i gotta touch the ground i need to touch the ground and let me do something that's probably gonna get me killed more than flying a plane yeah let's do it like screw it i as much as my parents told me no i said like oh i wasn't allowed to get a bike oh i was i was not allowed when i was under my parents roof like i don't care if you're 18

my mom's like you're not gonna fuck a bike a fucking bike. That's what I was told. But I pulled the, hey. Like, my dad rode bikes for the police department for 20-odd years. You can't tell me no, and then you do it. Yeah. I mean, I've ridden dirt bikes, ATV, all that shit. I mean, ATV is four wheels, a lot different, and we're doing it in the woods. But I was like, you've seen us whip around our, like, field in the backyard at decently high speeds on dirt bikes we've gone tracks i've crashed

plenty of times on the dirt bike it's like you know what i hit a car i'm just kidding i hit a car what it's fine i just yeah i just i bounce off you know i'm wearing a that's the other thing too is i hate helmets but i would definitely i would definitely wear one i would be a little that's the thing is like every i'm like my helmet i'm sick i'm a junkie kind of when it comes to adrenaline like i'll push it push it push it until there's a point where i have like a little freak out moment and i'm like all right dial it the fuck back oh i've had i've had that before yeah but also i'm the same way or the same same as as the wrong word, but like I'll start tentatively. Yeah. And then I'm like,

Oh, I'm comfortable. And then all of a sudden it's like a switch flips and you're like, let's see how close to death. You are way too much like me. Cause I did the same fucking thing. Like say, Hey,

I'm just going to, I told my, like, this is how I ease into it. I said, Hey, like I'm not having fun, like flying anymore.

I need to take like a break. I mean, everybody needs a break sometimes. They were fine with that. I said, Hey, like I'm not having fun, like flying anymore. I need to take like a break. I mean, everybody needs a break sometimes. They were fine with that. They say, Hey, like take your time, take a break.

So I told my like flight instructors, I'm going to take, I'll let you know when I want to go again, but I'm going to take a couple of weeks off at the least take a couple of weeks off. Signed up for like the motorcycle safety class in Florida, like a Harley Davidson dealership. And told my parents, I said,

Hey, I'm just going to take it, get my license. So I have it. I'm not going to get anything or whatever. I still don't have mine. I want to get mine, though. You should do it. I got a helmet.

I got a jacket. I just, I told, hey, I need it for the course. Yeah. No, no other reason. I need it for the course. I truly didn't think I was just going to take the course. So again, I'm like, fuck, like this. I see why people do this like this is it's dude

riding riding bikes atv shit like that is so fucking fun no better feeling like we were only going like 25 miles an hour not even 20 miles an hour in a parking lot i'm like fuck like i i need i want to go i need i need to do this i got my license and then i the whole i came back what's the fastest you've gone now the fastest i have gone on a motorcycle so i got after i came back from florida i had a kawasaki ninja 400 okay it's 400 cc bike it wasn't that fast it's only a two-cylinder but i got it north three digits wasn't enough for me. I'm like, damn, like, I need a bigger bike. Do you feel like, do you shake a little at that or no? Like, the bike or me? Yeah.

Or both. Me? No. Because it doesn't feel that fast. Especially on, like, I mean, it never felt that fast to me. I'm like, I look down, I'm like, oh, fuck, like, I'm going 100, like, whatever. But the bike, I was like, I need to go faster than that. Like, 120 kind of thing? Like 120 like it's not it didn't scare

me enough like yeah i was that's alarming i was comfortable doing it so i i upgraded you are gonna scare a lovely lady one day to death yeah if it's not your mother already yeah it's probably she'll never listen to this so she it's fine she might she she might not she might not she might i think uh jake's parents listened to it because they ordered the t-shirts for him oh god but well actually my dad would probably kick my ass for before my mom did if he hears how fast i went um but then i upgraded to a ninja zx6r which is like a 636 cc bike that weighs 375 pounds and makes 140 horsepower that's a lot it's a lot and i weigh 150 pounds soaking wet so there's not a lot there's not a lot of weight there you know yeah and i got

it and yeah the bike was like super aggressive compared to my old one it was like like i'm leaned over like it's and you can tell it had some fucking balls like yeah it was i could i knew it was different i'm like damn i got into oshkosh well like last april actually and i rode it back and i didn't really fuck around with it because i was scared of the bike yeah mad scared i could tell it was fast and then after all as the summer went around i got comfortable with it i was like throwing it in and out like i've i got i've learned how to get my knee down like in corners and i got really comfortable with it and then i was with jake actually we rode yeah you got jake into bikes didn't you yeah jake i like jake's bike is jake's bike sick i had a little bit because

he was selling it and he actually he accidentally sold me or sent me pictures of it he was supposed to send his girlfriend at the time or whatever. I was like, thanks, man. Thanks for the picture. He goes, sorry, wrong person. I'm like, I really like this bike, though. Buy it. Buy it.

He's still trying to get rid of it. Jake, if you hear this, I know you want a faster bike because he's pissed because he can't touch 100. We did this. I think that'll be a summer product for me. I'll get my license, and I just want to try it out. Granted, the fucker is 6'5", 230 pounds. He's massive. He's massive.

He used to be shorter than me at one point in his life. I feel bad for the motorcycle. I feel bad. He's a D1 athlete. Can we get a Fat Chance motorcycle sponsorship? You know what? When we're done here, I'll show you what I have to make stickers. I'll put it on my bike.

We'll make stickers for the bike and the plane. Deal. But, yeah. So, we literally wrote. 9 a.m. we met up at his house. And we're like, let's just go west. Let's just go. Let's see how far we get.

I think we wanted to get to new gloria's to go to see the brewery dude this is literally that you guys came back and he did the podcast i think oh really yeah was that that day yeah i think he came back and did the podcast oh really that's cool because he took pictures of his bike at uh the terrace i think or something like that yeah yeah yeah that's the day we literally left his house and went south on Loomis, like, got off, like, Waterford area, so, like, south, like, East Troy. We just headed west in Farmlands. And there was nobody out. It was, like, super early in the morning at that time.

And we were fucking around. And it's funny because, like, I'll lead, and then I'll, like, I'll stop going fast, and then Jake's like, oh, fuck. Like, I'm going to blow by him. And I'm in, like, sixth gear as he, like, blows by me, and then I just, like, twist the throttle, and then I'm gone. But, like, we got to, like, a stretch of road that was... Flat.

Flat. There was no intersecting roads. It was, like, I don't even know what town it was. I don't even think it was, like, incorporated. Like, there was no people. Like, you couldn't see anything it was like it came in it was a like a left right 90 degree turn and then completely straight for probably about a mile or two and then a 90 degree right and you did it in 2.3 seconds and then i like jake and i have like like uh headsets in our helmets. All right.

We talk to each other. Oh, that's sweet. Yeah, it's dope. It's dope. So I can listen to music in my helmet too when I'm not talking to anybody. Yeah. But yeah, we were talking. I said, dude, this road looks nice.

I'm going to fucking send it. And he goes, all right, have fun. So I can take corners decently fast. So I took it and I stood the bike up dropped it in the first at like 20 and i just got on it like wheel wheel came up like power wheelie like i didn't even try and pop the clutch like it just came up boom banging gears i'm banging dude i'm getting so jealous right now i was banging gears the wind's going i didn't even say a word i was like blacked out just like leaned in like in the tuck and i like looked down

at my speedometer once i got to six gear and i was doing 153 miles an hour holy shit i was doing 153 miles an hour that's the speed where you passed a cop there's like oh i i mean it wouldn't even be this slow it'd be like this but i like he's gone i remember it because i like i'm like fuck like oh in like a split second time like i looked down saw how fast i was gonna like fuck and then i like stood up to like catch the air to slow me down instead of like being hunched over like your body actually helps you slow down a lot on a motorcycle um i stood up and i downshifted to slow down for the turn up ahead. Jake's what, two miles behind you? I remember freaking out.

I was so hyped. I was screaming. I was like, that was the coolest fucking thing I ever did. The adrenaline's pumping. I remember the headset disconnecting. It said, too far away to pay. I looked back. I stopped in the middle of the road.

I just looked back and Jake's all the way back still at the turn and i just started dying laughing i'm like there's no way that just happened that's unreal it was it was crazy it was probably the best now now i'm gonna have to go get my license you got you have to i'm i'm i'm known to be a bad influence to my friends when it comes to shit like hey trust me, I'm going to convince you to get this. You don't have to. I've already convinced myself. My buddy Sam Walsh, his dad calls me the common denominator because whenever apparently I'm with him or our friends,

they get into trouble. He goes, you're always there. I go, it's not my fault. But he's like, you're the common denominator, man. The common denominator. So, I don't know. It's one of my favorite nicknames I've ever gotten. Dude, that's so fucking fun.

Go for it. Yeah. So, they're in the fridge. Do you want it on ice or no? Do you know what I'm saying? 153 miles an hour. So, if you went from franklin or milwaukee to madison at that rate instead of it being an hour and 15 minutes that you would get there in 20 minutes yeah you get there in 20 minutes 20 minutes that's like if you drove normally from franklin to my place's like... With maybe a little traffic.

It wasn't scary either. Like, it wasn't... And I've been around that number again. Yeah. I've been near it. I haven't passed it. Like, that's the fastest I've gone, but I've been very near it at multiple...

At that point, I think at 153, you wouldn't feel a difference between 153 and 165 i don't think not no but i think like it would be like 175 would feel different that's like with cold like at certain speeds like hear me out like with certain speeds i feel like you know the difference between 60 and 80 yeah like anything between like zero and 100 you can tell the difference once you're getting past like 100 120 you're like i'm fucking moving 120 to 140 probably feels the same 150 you're like i think the car's gonna explode like 150 to 175 i'm sure probably feels pretty similar 200 like oh my god i'm going to like just burst into a million pieces that's like with coal like if you're like oh how cold

is it's like oh it's zero versus negative 10. Negative 10 feels the same as negative 15 as it does negative 20. Negative 20 feels the same as negative 30, negative 35. It's just fucking cold. It's just cold. It's just how long can you sustain that temperature or that speed is the difference. Like, oh, it's negative. Like when we had that polar vortex, remember that?

I was in Iowa. Yeah, I do. Like, oh, it's negative. Like, when we had that polar vortex, remember that? I was in Iowa. Yeah, I do. So, first time Madison has ever canceled, like, classes. Yeah.

In forever. It was crazy. And, like, it was, like, six, seven years that, like, they actually canceled a class. And people still wanted, like, people were, like, girls were in, like, tank tops, like, waiting outside the bar. Like, when I was working. Like, you guys are fucking, like, you could actually die. Sit down here. It's that cold.

But, like, it felt the same as if it was working like you guys are fucking like you could actually die sit down here but like it felt the same as if it was like negative 20 or like negative 15 it was just like meant to you know like i can't be out here because it's negative 60 degrees outside which is hard to wrap your head around that something's less than an no temperature um negative 60 you're just like all right i instead of it feels the same as negative 30 but instead Less than no temperature. Negative 60. Negative 60. You're just like, all right. Instead of – it feels the same as negative 30, but instead of being out here for 20 minutes, I can only be out here for 10 until I actually get frostbite. That was – yeah.

I had to change my car's battery outside. Thank God I didn't have a car at that time. In that polar vortex. I think it was like negative 50 or 60. It was ridiculous. I hated my life. I remember because I like think it was like negative 50 or 60 and it was it was ridiculous i hated my life i had i remember because i like it was so cold i couldn't get like the bolts off or like you know i couldn't do like the small things with my hands you're moving like super slow like you get in your you try and text and your thumb is moving like this it was like that

i remember having to go inside like every five to six minutes like i had to run inside warm up go back out do like a little bit more yeah it was so it was it was crazy because we canceled school and i knew like people were like oh we don't have class tomorrow everyone's going out tonight kind of thing yeah and there was like it was a wednesday and i remember working in everything i was like we're gonna have a line tonight, which is stupid. Like we are going to make people wait outside this bar, negative 60 degrees, but we're going to be fucking packed. And they still waited. I was like,

are you guys dumb? People are crazy. The best part was, is like everyone complained, like, I don't think I can walk to class in this temperature. Like that was the big complaint that everyone was like, some people have like 20,

25 minute walks to a class, depending on where they live. And it's like, the government the government advised like don't be outside for longer than 10 minutes yeah and so like all right if we exceed that by like 200 you shouldn't be going to class and so that made sense they're like oh yeah but we're fine waiting 25 minutes in line to go to the w to get fucking four dollar drinks it's like and the girl's like i'm not carrying a jack you're like i'm not carrying a jack you're like i'm not carrying a jack i don't want to hold it inside exactly so they're like my god like i was fully prepared to like have to shovel some people off the sidewalk because they were just frozen

i can't believe like that happened what last weekend we were out it wasn't even like remotely near that cold no but it was cold it was maybe maybe like 15 degrees down here. Yeah. And we were out at wherever, Trinity, I don't remember. But we're trying to go home, but the Ubers were taking forever. Yeah. And we're like, can we please just wait inside? Nobody let anybody wait inside at the bar. I'm like, come on. We had that when we went to Whiskey Myers, the concert um the other weekends and uh it was freezing

and i was like can we just like honestly like can we wait inside like everyone needs to be out of the venue like people were waiting inside like they kicked everyone out like yeah dude it's fucking freezing out the wind is howling who cares we were with we were with eliza devereaux and no clue who that is. She's a grade younger than us, but she's Ava's friend. After a turn of events, she lost her jacket. So she was in spaghetti straps outside. It's either parka or nothing for the girls.

But she had a jacket, and it got lost. We'll say that. But I felt so bad because like she was like just like in tears almost because it was so cold and nobody let her in like nobody gave a shit it's so dumb it's so dumb we're at an hour are you surprised that was an hour that was an hour there's no way how easy is that you're we're gonna keep talking don't get me wrong but also you're gonna come back on and do this whenever you want because you're about to keep talking. Don't get me wrong. But also, you're going to come back on and do this whenever you want. Because you're about to be basically my neighbor.

Yeah. I want to talk about one last thing. And we'll wrap it up with a question that I haven't even thought of yet. Yeah, go. Whatever you want to talk about now, I feel like I've been rambling about bullshit for way too long. Well, that's why you're the guest. I want to hear you. I hear on because I want to hear you talk. I have so many more.

I could just keep going. I know you could I hear on because I want to hear you talk. I have so many more. I could just keep going. I know you could. That's good. So you are – we both coached lacrosse last year. Yes. Which is how we kind of like reconnected and stuff like that amongst other things now. And so last year I coached fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth, and then would occasionally come to your varsity and JV practices

and come to the games to help coach. I was spread thin with coaching. Oh, my God. I remember coaching. Deal still the coach? Yeah, deal still the coach. Coach and head coach is the other one. So, like, you are going to be well compensated, stuff like that.

I already know where that's going yeah my ass i hope deal listens to this so well here's the thing are you getting paid i am getting paid okay i am not i didn't so all at all and deal and deal was like looking like here's the thing i have no problem with it i loved coaching these kids for the most part. Seventh and eighth. Yeah. Like, those of you who are in high school now and he's your coach, fucking buckle up. Because he's actually, you know what? Not buckle up. He's way nicer than I was.

You guys were annoying as shit. Well, I mean, hey, if you're worse than I am now, I feel bad for them. I promise you, I was way worse. I promise you, I was way worse. I used to make them. make them we had a thing i was like just go get me sticks from the woods oh like your father did to me as a kid i was like just go yeah i am my dad your father abused me i was not actually abused but like i've never ran more than when your father coached me whether it was football or lacrosse oh yeah i was big well i was like hey well they were well conditioned that's for sure but i was like if you don't listen to me or try you're going to get punished kind of thing

but so i got like you're going to get compensated i thought i was going to make maybe like between basically four teams i was helping out with two one i was head coaching seventh and eighth basically i was the assistant but i was head coaching. It was probably, I would call myself the number two coach for fifth and six behind Jeff and then occasionally help with you guys. Sometimes I was like, I'll make like maybe 500 bucks for teams. I think that's reasonable. Yeah, dude. The only thing I was compensated was donations that they turned into gift

cards. I made $140 in gift cards to places i have never heard of in my entire life three of them are still sitting on my bathroom counter right now your banquet or whatever they're like oh my god here's like this is the most money we've ever gotten thank you so much i was like what the fuck i mean i get paid and i'm not gonna like i don't i don't get paid a lot but for what i do and i i love it too, I thoroughly enjoy. Oh, I so enjoyed getting back into it and being the person that like I was on the first ever team. Yeah. And then being like, people are like, do you know, Franklin?

I'm like, bitch, I started this. Dude, I feel so fucking old and I'm much younger than you are. All right, let's chill on the much. Okay, well, I mean, out of high school. Yeah. You've been out of high school for what? Seven, eight years? Eight years.

Eight years. Fuck, eight years, yeah. I've been out of high school for four. And, like, these kids, like, I'm not trying to, like, I'm not carrying a reputation, but they're like, hey, I was, like, I played football and i played lacrosse but these kids are like there's no way you were any good at either i'm like god damn like y'all a bunch of at like there's a bunch of assholes who i think i was like a bum in high school and i just show up to this that's when i would like i would bring my stuff and be like all right let's do this that's what

we do and i was like i was like coach has still asshole. Also, you guys are fifth and sixth graders. Shut the fuck up. That's why I feel like I realize I'm a young coach. Yeah. But I'm four years older than most of you guys. Five years older than some of you. You're smarter, too. That's a huge difference. There's no respect.

They have no respect for any sort of authority. It's bad. No, none whatsoever. Well, fifth and sixth definitely did because they're young enough. Seventh and eighth, when they get into that. Seventh and eighth and JV, like freshman, sophomore, none whatsoever. None. Junior, senior, like I want to fucking win.

I'm going to listen to someone that I know has some experience. Yeah. Fine. But like that seventh through sophomore, fucking worst people to coach ever. And we were those people, but they're the fucking worst. Oh, we were definitely those people. I said it to D all the time. I'm like, damn. Oh, we were definitely those people. I said it to Dio all the time. I'm like, damn.

I'm sorry. I get it. I get you had to deal with me. He's like, now you see. Yeah, it's obnoxious. It's obnoxious. And they're all cocky. They think they're great.

And they're like, you can't do this. And they also don't appreciate just general sports IQ or intelligence. Like, hey, you can be naturally gifted. But if you are fucking stupid, come to this sport, which all of them are for the most part, besides maybe four people on that team, you're not going anywhere. You have to be a

student of the game rather than just an athlete of the game. I would rather have somebody who, like, knows the game of lacrosse than... This year's team, there's a ton of athletes probably one of the higher like hey across the board we have like fucking crazy athletic kids but understanding the sport there's maybe four that actually know the game

lacrosse yeah like our whole defense like crazy good they're all part of the state team yeah this year that won. Like, D1 offensive lineman, kid's going to go D1, another kid's going to go be a D1 linebacker. Yeah. Crazy athletes. But none of them played lacrosse. Like, I remember yesterday we got a penalty on the face because nobody got released.

But the ground ball on the face came right towards our defense and ran out. I'm like, what the fuck are we doing? Yeah. No, it's tough, too, when too when you play multiple sports remember all the rules and shit like that but yeah i agree with you it's it's so tough just like because you know all of them and then when i would come back to your games when i when i graduated high school and i'd come watch like you andrew and steven and i would i'd be on the sidelines because my dad was still a coach yeah mr fernandez and whatnot and like deal was like just starting all that and i would, I'd be on the sidelines cause my dad was still a coach and Mr. Fernandez and whatnot.

And like deal was like just starting all that. And I would get irrationally angry just as like the like old player that was like, I was like, I can never, I would never be able to just be in the stands. I either have to coach and it's socially acceptable for me to start screaming at people or I can just never come to these games. It's, it's ridiculous. Like I can just never come to these games. It's ridiculous.

I never thought I'd do it. I haven't watched the film from last night. But I know for a fact I was just screaming my head off for 48 minutes straight. Not even 48 minutes straight. We still have one coaching staff for two teams.

I know you said you were spread thin. I feel like I'm spread thin over two teams. trying to make i would have coached this year so i told them i was like i was supposed to move i wanted to move to denver after in the summer last year yeah um didn't work out with a few reasons um and like now stand up and all stuff if i didn't like if stand up was like later later at night i would be able to coach. But I was like – because I would love to help you out. I really would. Just can't. I totally get how you're spread thin, though.

It's not that I – I shouldn't say – well, I don't know. In plain terms, I don't have the patience for JV. I don't. I really don't. Some of them are good. Try seventh and eighth, dude. I don't have the patience for it. I know I am not the best.

Jake is ten times more qualified than I am to coach the defense, which is what I'm doing right now for both teams. We have other coaches there. Well, you'll get him at the end of the year again. Yeah, but pretty much it's me being the vocal one and telling them, hey, do this, do that, so we got to correct. But, man, doing it over two teams just sucks because half the jv team just doesn't want to be there and they fuck around for the whole two hours of practice and then if i'm

there i know i have to worry about like the varsity team not getting better that day or you know it's i hate doing both teams i really do but you know we got to do it i do it and you know what it's it's like semi. I have a joke about them. I'll tell you afterwards. But like a true story. I did it last night. It went so well.

I make fun of these kids so much because it's like it's supposed to be rewarding. It's kind of rewarding. But like they're fucking ridiculous. Let's end it with like I'm supposed to. I'm not going to do these fucking questions anymore. Do a question. Do a question. Well, no.

This thing is like I would break it into seasons, and every episode since the last season I've ended with, like, I have this question. I used to do questions, but I would break it into seasons. Are they, like – They're serious. So they were, like – So I asked Jake when he was on.

I was like, hey, what's something you have to do before your next birthday? Okay. Yeah, I remember that one. So it's like i want and that was stand up for me when i before i turned 25 it was like it's something i could just do tomorrow or like monday or whatever if i wanted to but it's like something that like you're putting off because you're afraid or whatever it's like it's something you have to do before your next birthday. Like when is your birthday? June, June 17th.

June. So like, and if it was so close, be like, all right, you got a year to do it kind of thing. But like, I'll let you answer both of these. So it's something you want or have to do for your next birthday. And I'll hold you accountable. Jake satisfies his. One of the few people that actually did his. Jake said he wants an actual like job at graduating college and jake jake's got it um and then the other one the last season was

what's something you live by something i live like this whole thing is like we're supposed to have fun and be funny or just like entertaining whatever or like getting to know you for like 59 minutes yeah and the last is like something you have to do. Tell me like something you're like you want to do. You haven't done it just because you're afraid or whatever. And then what do you live by? Like why do you get up like a life philosophy? Why do you act the way you act? Stuff like that.

It could be dumb. It could be douchey. I don't care. Okay. Something I have to do. Something I wanted to do actually. I mean we I mean, we talked about earlier,

but like just get into shape. Like I'm going to be a cop, but like I can't. All right. So you're coming to my gym now. Yeah. On Monday. I mean,

like deal deal. I'm on it. I mean, I get it. I mean, it's, I mean, I'll give you a workout plan too.

I have one written up that I'm small. It's what it is. I'm small. I don't want to be a cop. And I'm like, actually very intimidated by like the real world. Yeah. Like I need to be like,

Hey, I got to run. I got to be somewhat strong. I'll show you my workout plan. We're done with this and you'll do it. That is like something I, I really want to do. And I'm getting,

I'm getting there. Yeah. I've, I've made a lot of progress in the last two months, like in the gym, but like cardio, none. So, you want to go, like, the Joey Baumgart route? You want to put on, like, 15 pounds maybe while you're there?

I already did put on 15 pounds. Don't put another. If you put another 15 pounds on in two months, that's a lot. So, you're going to, like, be like, wow, what the fuck? So, I got my tonsils removed in February because I was, like, sick for four months straight. Yeah, I'm going to move to kindergarten. Yeah, I should have. But I was I was like sick for four months straight. Yeah. I should have, but I was sick for like four months straight.

And before then I was like chilling around 140, 145 pounds. And I knew, I'm like, I knew that was like, but I was so lazy that I'm like, I'm not going to the gym, whatever.

And then I got surgery and I dropped to like one 30. Damn. I'm like, man, I have not weighed this much since I was like a freshman in high school. Damn. I'm like, man, I have not weighed this much since I was a freshman in high school. Yeah, me too. I'm like, this is crazy. I told myself that. I'm like, I'm going to the gym as soon as I'm better.

Putting on weight. I want to sit at 170, 175. Muscle, pure muscle. That's a lot. I know. It's a lot. Currently, I'm sitting at 157 from 130 in February. That's a lot.

That's a lot of back and forth. But it's also like you lost it because of surgery. It's easy to put that back on. Like when wrestlers cut weight, and then over the weekend, they put on 20 pounds. I'm impressed with the 10, 11 pounds from my normal 145-ish. Yeah. I don't know where it came from or how, or I just maybe have not been paying attention. But it. Yeah. I don't know where it came from or how, or I just maybe have not been paying attention,

but it came somewhere. I don't know. Yeah. Like, I double-checked, like, the last, like, three days I weighed myself. Because I weighed myself the first day, I'm like 157. I'm like, what? Damn, yeah. Maybe I just ate a lot.

You weigh as much as me now. Maybe I ate a lot, drank a lot, and I weighed myself the next day, 157. Next day, 156. I'm like, oh, I'm sitting here now. So I'm like, oh, that's cool. But, yeah, that's what I want to do. Cardio is my next step. Okay.

All right. Not losing weight. I'll text you tomorrow. I'll make sure you come to the gym. I'll come to the gym. Hold me to it, please. I'm very lazy. What was the other one?

Something you live by something i live by something could be like a quote could be like even something you have to don't have to live by now but would like to like if you ever heard someone say something you're like shit i don't i don't have a saying but i, like, I don't know what I'm chasing. There you go. That works. I mean, it's my parents. Really, I mean, honestly, that's why I changed everything.

I mean, you see your parents being police officers since you were born, before you were born, every day. Both your parents are police officers? Yeah. Both my parents work for the city of Milwaukee. But, I mean, you see them every day go to work you ever pull me over your son's been on the podcast all right i would like a warning they're retiring now you're good they're good i'm next i need two more people on my side they're retired but like i mean growing up like that's all i want to do

you see your dad you see your mom that's what my life was i mean you watch him go to work i mean i didn't see my dad much when i was growing up because he was working uh day shift when my mom was home during day shift and my mom was gone at night. I never had like except for like the vacations as a kid. They were never there. But you knew what they were doing and you were proud of it as a kid. Yeah. All I ever wanted to do.

But as I was growing up, they said, you're never going to do this. Like, it's not worth it. It's dangerous. Don't do it. Yada, yada, yada. I said, OK. And now you're doing it. And that's what I said. Like, fuck it. Like, this is what I wanted to do. And they don't do it yada yada yada i said okay whatever like and now you're doing it and that's what i said like fuck it like this is what i wanted to do and they don't know i mean i don't know maybe

they do but i've never told them but like that's what i looked up to like i want to be like oh i was gonna say they don't know you're trying to be a cop oh no they know i'm trying to be a cop they're not happy about they're not happy about that part but like i've never told my parents like like hey like i just you guys are the two i'm chasing like this is who i aspire to be that's good i think at the end of the day they will love that i i can only you hope so yeah i hope so i'm trying i gotta get a tattoo yeah i promised them i promised myself that i promised them i'd get a tattoo all right well then that's the other one you gotta get a tattoo Okay I'll do that I'll do that

Hold me to that Thank you for doing this buddy Not a problem Alright Alright