Fat Chance Podcast - WERE BACK! Ep.176

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

Took a minute, but the boys are back!

all right so i won't be able to look directly at you but that's fine i'm looking at the camp yeah that's totally fine yeah but as long as it's a new you know what we could tell people we're back but it's because we have this brand new we're back we have this new studio judd is no longer with me we're doing it virtually now for the first time ever i got this new chair i got this new chair um and that's why we were gone for four weeks the reason we were gone is because cuscus he was arrested and he's finally finally bailed him out and it's good to see him it's good to see your face man you finally got around to it that that would be that's a nice way to find out your friends don't like you like hey man we were just busy um can we get you next monday

Yeah. Well, I mean, bail money is not easy. You know, you just don't have it just laying around, you know? It's like 500 of felony. I don't think I'm doing two felonies. I think I'm doing, if I'm getting arrested, it's one minor felony that they legally have to take me to jail for. And it's like, boom, boom.

Like one and done, they don't really care. They're just doing our job. I think for you, you're getting arrested for a while, white-collar crime but you're also cocky about it if you have a little drinking in you yeah

I probably start bragging about tax evasion or something like that yeah you're like you're like you guys would have done it too if I was smart enough yeah I know a guy yeah yeah no that would be

I don't yours would be in the realm of like vandalism or whatever you know ticketing people would be whatever like whatever it falls into yeah my thing is probably I don't know I go I've calmed down in the craziness so I probably mightn't be like I'm illegally streaming something that's fair that's fair you know like I was like pirating a movie really wanted to watch die hard two couldn't find it any streaming services I'm not paying for the Grinch, all right?

Oh, absolutely not. And I don't want to watch the cartoon version. I want to watch the Jim Carrey version. Yeah. Well, they just took down Stream East, which was a thing you could watch a bunch of sports games on. And it was obviously a bad website. You have to go through a bunch of ads,

but then you could watch any sports game you want for free. And apparently, like, these two people that were in Egypt, that they didn't think that they would be able to ever get caught and somehow America got the authorities in Egypt to finally go after them. So it's a crazy, crazy story. That's what we need to be spending our valuable resources on is finding two gentlemen in Egypt who are just trying to watch LeBron dunk on whoever this week.

Yeah, we got it. For free. No more LeBron fans. No more LeBron fans. Not on my watch. his reach has gone too far I feel like streaming is just one of those I get it you got to at some point

you have to maybe crack down maybe but I mean really enough people are dumb enough to pay for everything that everyone's making enough money at one point is it too much money I remember there was a story about I didn't know this person

personally but apparently their cousin downloaded like 10,000 songs and the FBI showed up to their their place when they were like in middle school. It was like you owe us $10 million or whatever it was. It was some crazy amount. But yeah, just for illegally downloading music off a limelier. But who is that stealing from directly? Do I owe like 10,000 different people, 99 cents?

Do you owe nickel back? Do I owe Apple a $10,000? Why would I owe the government $10,000? That doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah, that's a good point. I get your stealing, but who do I owe that money to? And you know what? If I have to pay $10,000, you're going to wait for me to write $10,000 for $0,000.

That's why they're called Nickelback. Yeah, it's just that, I don't get that because it's not like it's one major streaming giant at that time. when Limeire was, like, pop it. Yeah. They're like, hey, you're stealing from them. Yeah, you're now going to have to pay Chingi some money because, like, you sold a song, you know? Yeah, and what about burned CDs?

Everyone burns CDs. Oh, yeah? I'm coming after everyone that has a burn CD. I guarantee you, some of those cops have a burn CD in their car that's, like, Stacey's greatest hits, 2002. Yeah, before burning CDs, people would tape the radio. That's true. Really? How often did you do that?

I probably taped the radio a few times in my life. Actually? Yes. Holy crap, that was more of like a dig of year old. I didn't think that was. I was fishing and I caught something huge. I was a fun kid. No, yeah, I remember taping the radio.

Well, I mean, back in my day, Cusky, car still had cassette tapes in their majority of the time. and my car that I first got I had a cassette tape that you push in and then the the chord would go down out of the cassette tape

to a CD player and that's how I'd play my mixtapes that I burnt and then I got an iPod after that and it would go up the iPod I know that's such good feeling I saved up for my first ever iPod I bought the nano, the skinny iPod nano.

I put one of those rubber cases over. I was like, I'm going to protect this thing forever. And now I couldn't even tell you where it is. I wish that stuff was worth money. Yeah, it's definitely, Pokemon cards are worth money, but this old technology, it's just, I don't know. Art always will grow in value, but I guess not technology. Yeah, because we just make so much of it now.

It's like, you know, it just gets redone, done and did like Pokemon cards i don't know if you can oh with the old and with the new yeah it's i remember the iPod nano the first one that like rectangle i was in high school or something like that may i think early high school i got a letter in the mail that said there's a recall on these nanos i've had it for like 10 years there's a recall on this nano um if you let us know that there's a recall i maybe i sent it in we'll send you a brand new touch screen shuffle so it was the shuffle the square shuffle but at the touch yeah I got a brand I was like I already had one of the iPod touches at that point and I was like I just

kind of want something new I took them up on it wow yeah that was uh I was a very I was a big stickler of making sure every um album had a cover on it because I didn't get music off iTunes I got music illegally yeah offline wire About $10,000 worth? Allegedly. But then I would then have to go find the album cover for that song and put it in the file on iTunes. It was wild.

Yeah, that's a lot of work. I can't believe we actually went through all that. I remember going and ripping songs off YouTube and having those and then organizing them by artists and stuff like that because sometimes you had, it was a Vivo video. and it's like, well, this isn't with the other Zach Browns, so I was like... And it's just one long line of

whatever the name of the YouTube video was. And it's just constantly scrolling over. I'm like, I actually don't know what this is. Yeah, you have to wait because it starts with www.w. YouTube.com. Absolutely. Oh, that was...

Sometimes the music video video was better than the actual, like, song you'd get on iTunes, though. It had that little extra twang. Dude. I agree with it. It's also some of the live ones. You're like, oh, they play it a little bit different, you know?

Yeah, a little spicy. To this day, I have an artist that I really enjoy his music, but he does so much better when he does like an acoustic version of the song. To the point where he just put out one album and then he puts out the acoustic version of it. And that is so much better to me that I only want that. I think there are a few artists like that. I think Zach Bryan sounds significant. significantly better live than a recorded version.

Like, it's like one of those, there's some people I want you to be Jam Bandy, and Jam Bandy is supposed to be at, like, you're at state fairs or you're at amphitheaters, or you're at amphitheaters, out there's outdoor, you're sitting on the grass, on the hill. I don't want to listen to you, like, well-polished in my car. Yeah, yeah, you kind of want...

I want the live version of it. Yeah, you kind of want to just a vibe, because that's really what you're going off of, just like, you know, a little bit grungy, a little bit dirty and kind of more relatable than high-class trumpets and, you know, polished stuff. Exactly, exactly. Well, we haven't seen each other in a bit because you obviously been in prison. What have you been up to?

You've got a new job and... Yeah, I mean, there's so much to talk about. I know we want to keep this one semi-short today, but, I mean, I got a new job, finally. It's, like, the coolest job in the world. Couldn't ask for anything better. I'm not going to throw it out there now, but, yeah, it's going phenomenally well.

It's just as, it is kind of interrupted our usual filming schedule, but I get a- To the point, to the point, people have messaged us and was like, are you still doing the podcast? Are you okay? Are you alive? I haven't jerked off in a month. It was also very funny because it was definitely from people's burner accounts that we got messages from.

They were too afraid to say that they're worried about us from the real account? What the hell? You know? Yeah. Yeah, mom. No, it's been very busy, very active. This has been a big travel month. It's like in the start of August, everything just hit.

Whether it was between every other week since the beginning of August up until this past week. This is when I just said at my last one, I have traveled somewhere, and then one of the weeks in between have gone camping for Labor Day weekend. Like, I have, I don't know why I'm paying rent at all here. Like, it's, I've barely spent time in my own. Yeah. In my own place. But, but winter's coming up, fall is coming up. You probably have no more travel until for a bit.

I got, in a month, I have another. bachelor party we got hunting in november thanksgiving christmas i have a wedding in the beginning of january another ski trip somewhere between january and february potentially a second and a third ski trip for another bachelor party and a college thing i yeah it's but you know what it's it's good i can't complain it's a lot of fun stuff it's just every once in a while you you want to sit down and be like i kind of just want to be got to recharge the batteries yeah here for a weekend Just here. Yeah.

And you know what? I get that for the next couple of weeks, and Rich and I are excited, so it would be nice. Yeah, finally. I'm glad the new job's going well. Yeah, over here, I mean, it's been summer. I mean, summers in Milwaukee are insane. I love it.

Busy with everything. And, like, we had, you know, summer fast, we had state fair. We had all these different things that we happen in Milwaukee. the Harley Fest and all these different things. And now it's finally fall with football and comedies rear and back up. So I really love all of it. So it's a good time. Football is so back.

Dude, so bad. Like, just watching it yesterday, I was like, oh, man, I missed this so much. I don't think Rachel could do, like, if somehow the Packers played two days in a row, Rachel would leave me. We were at our sisters yesterday in Minnesota, and all I wanted to do was watch the game, and she took a nap and just let me have my moment, which was really nice, and she's staring at me right now,

like, yep, absolutely, you are obnoxious. She thinks I'm in love with Micah Parsons, and why wouldn't I be? He's great. Welcome. Yeah, number one in your heart, number one in the field exactly and it i've been between football like the relief off my shoulders in the last like two weeks knowing that we're done with the golf outing which we'll get to kind of i have an award to dish out i have i i'm going to start giving out end of the year or like

end of outing awards um okay yep the golf outing's done I got to spend a weekend in the mountains I went to one of my best friends' weddings and now football's back it was cool and it was like 60 and sunny and now I'm staring down a four-day week and just a weekend here and I'm like oh my God

I'm gonna become one with this couch and the pack to start my weekend my three-day weekend the Packers are playing Thursday night are you kidding me you get you get you got your comfort sweatpants on and I got I forgot about it about those yeah you gotta you gotta get those on uh i got a pair they're great um and then you get and you get whatever like packers do you have a favorite jersey that you wear every time um i don't own a jersey

so i actually said if micha parsons came i'd go buy a jersey oh yeah you you you borrow your friend's jersey i was going to say i've seen you at lambo in a jersey but yes that would be your jersey Um, no, I have a, I have a, I have a, one of those Abercrombie Packer sweatshirts that I absolutely love. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then, so I wore the last year. And then I have a t-shirt that says, that I got from the Wisconsin State Fair that says, shut up, I'm watching the Packer game. And honestly, those are probably the two most Michael things you could wear.

I'm kind of short for a jersey. The sleeves are really long. It's basically like a, like a three-quarter length shirt. the jersey goes past my knees it's yeah you gotta get like a youth large you get like a youth large uh as of no surprise to you you know how i am with the packer games and my packer merch uh so yesterday i had packer uh socks on packer underwear i had uh some some loo lemon joggers uh packer shirt that had our Super Bowl win with all the wins on the back. Then a Jordan Love jersey over it, Packer hat on.

And I went to my friend's basement and pretty much just basked in the glory of everything. It was amazing. It was a great day to be a Packer fan. It really was. Oh, amazing. Amazing. And it's also like feels good to, be almost a good team that we know is good and we are confident in it and we are like this is

what teams wish they could be like they wish they were where the packers are like the lions wish that they were where the packers are and and like everyone does every team wishes that except for maybe like the Bills or the Ravens. They're already there or the Chiefs. Typical week one overreaction, but I couldn't agree more with you right now. And it made knowing I was going to be traveling through the Minneapolis airport wearing my Packer stuff that much better because I wasn't going to chain my sweatshirt if we lost,

which means I was just going to get those from those Minnesota fans and a few lines. How many goal pack goes did you do you get there? There were so many people wearing Packer stuff. I was like, yep. And it got to a point where I kept looking at Rachel. It was my thing. I was like, that's a really intelligent person. Like, I think people are really dumb at the airport.

I go, yeah, but that person knows how to get through the airport. That person, I was like, those are two very smart people. Anytime I saw a lion's jersey, I go, can you believe this idiot? Like, doesn't know what he's doing here. I was like, that's the dumbest person in this airport. There's, there's a loss. You can't wear a jersey to the airport. Are you kidding me?

Well, they probably wore a two there because they're what came from watching the game. You know? No. That game ended early enough that you could have changed shower. Take it off. Reconsidered fandom and then went to the airport. There's a Twitter account that always is at Lambo after losses and takes pictures of people that took their jerseys off.

I like that. Like walking out of Lambo and they're carrying their Jumeir Gibbs blue jersey. Yeah, they just have like that basic, like, built basics black t-shirt on now from underneath yeah yeah uh we do have talked about the golf outing we do before we do do do you have the camera that you need to switch yeah i should probably i would you give give that a chance and then we'll talk with the golf outing and i'll uh i'll i got two awards for sure um i'm i got three awards three awards you let me know awards yes i have three awards i have three awards i have three awards

So each year we are going to do what I call the Matthew McKenna Award, and that's going to go out to the drunkest individual at that golf outing. Okay. So Matthew McKenna Award? Let's go one-way-one. Yeah. So the Matthew McKenna Award. So who's Matthew McKenna?

Matthew McKenna, he came last year. He's an old neighbor of mine. And just was, you know, he had too much fun, a little too inebriated. caused a few issues. Nothing. The guy that kept showing his ass tat to people. Okay, but who's the guy the year before broke his lake? Oh, that would be Scott.

That was, you know, we'll give him, we'll give him the pre-annual year one. Yeah, he's the pre-cala. But it's forever, it's going to be the, it's going to be the McKenna Award. And that one goes out to my little brother this year. Oh, my gosh. He made it through seven holes. No, no, no, hold on. Before I picked him up off the course.

He probably made it through two before he was like, this isn't going to last long. So from my perspective, so Michael has two brothers. We can't get too specific about things, but yeah. But by the third hole, your brother was. so drunk he couldn't put his ball on the tea yeah so he couldn't figure out that he was just wobbling and then he finally got on the tea was then trying going to try to hit it but he swung and missed and spun all the way around that the air from his club just moved the ball off the tea and he didn't

realize it so he just kept swinging and missing swing and missing swing and missing so then we're like The comedians are heckling him. This is on whole three that they're heckling him. And can I say the best joke? If I need a beep, I'll be it out. I'll be it out. That's really fine. Okay.

Your brother's name is Andrew. Yeah. And Eric goes, oh, it's Andy Winehouse. They want to make me go to rehab. And I say, no, no, no. Yeah, it was great. And you know what? All the power to, you know what, everyone's been there, maybe not on a golf course.

To give him credit, I went to my mom's, and he was there. And he immediately came and he goes, I owe you an apology. Won't happen again. Sorry. Also, my body hurts. I think someone ran me over with the golf cart. So it might have been himself. He might just felt.

Yeah, he fell down. few times yeah so down a hill yeah so that's the uh that's the mckenna award um we're gonna move on to big i honestly and i again i love everyone that has come to this event biggest dumb ass award um it's gonna go out to my friend ryan coos uh ryan you left your entire bag of clubs at the course your entire bag the whole bag and up until you know you Yesterday did we just find them for him. Gary Zadjikowski, shout out you, took him home, and just held on to him because someone from the golf course,

like, someone left he's here, you should take him. That's so funny. We got him, but leaving your entire bag of clubs. That's great. So I didn't know that. So I didn't know that anyone lost bag of clubs. So then my friends started joking with me. And they're like, hey, Judd, I would love to come golfing with you.

weekend but I left all my clubs at the at the golf course and I was like what that's insane how did you text me hey did you know if anyone has an extra set of clubs I was like oh no that's crazy and so then I went back to my friend I was like someone else did the same thing and they're like no we're just kidding because we saw his email about it I was like oh okay yeah I emailed the captains I had only one person reply that was Josh um What do you say? He's just like, I can't believe someone left their clubs. Also wanted to know about the damage that happened to the course and all that stuff.

But so, yeah, that was our biggest dumb ass this year, which honestly, if that's the biggest, that's the worst thing, great. And then I have an MVP, I have an MVP, and that's going to be Nate from the course. Nate basically let us get away with murder. And this event doesn't happen without. us getting away with murder once or twice throughout the day and you know what I think this one we had a few less people this year just a few and I think it was I mean we did better from a from a charitable standpoint a philanthropic standpoint from a weather standpoint that made nothing to do with that but unless he's Jewish and then just like an overall

fun standpoint I think this year like people had a blast and yeah it was I think it it turned up very well I couldn't be happier yeah you could tell right away when there's so many people in different uh costumes or uniforms or you know the teams were all in it and that that's like just right away the vibes are great when you see somebody pull up in all black cowboy uniforms or people are I was starting to understand what this is becoming. It's like maybe this year we didn't sell it by two groups, but everyone that did come was like, oh, no, we're here for the sponsors balled out more this year.

There was like, it was a good time. I had a good time. And this year I was able to like just relax. I didn't have to like do much during the event. And that felt so good. Yeah. I agree. It was a blast and a half.

I mean, everyone had so much fun, and they keep, they, uh, someone came to, uh, don't tell on Saturday that were, that was at the golf hunting. Really? Because, yes, because at the golf hunting, he's like, you do comedy in Milwaukee? I was like, yeah, I do it. I'm coming to Milwaukee. He was like, like, went and where. And I told him like the next spot next time.

He thought, I'm going to be there. So he did. Uh, and he was still talking about it after, he came up with me after the show and talked about it. So, yeah, that'll blast. Yeah. Now, it's, it's great. I mean, I already have.

sponsors for next year locked in, but I can almost say with certainty, we will be relocating next year. After the last two years at this course, time to move, leave no trace behind, and bounce while you're ahead. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right. We'll definitely be on the lookout for a new course, and, yeah, should be a good time.

Well. I'm good. We also have these hats, sweet hats. I know. Do you have any more of them? We sold out. We sold out of hats. Yeah.

So we sold, I mean, of the ones I was selling, I have one of each sample here still as like a trophy case kind of thing outside of, I think, one. But of the ones we were to sell, we sold all of them, which was honestly, I thought I'd sell. 10 max and I was like oh this is going to be a loss for sure but it's fun and I like taking a few gambles like that it worked I think people actually really liked them I think the ones you and I are wearing turned out phenomenally they're sweet yeah I I like them uh and and uh yeah a bunch of my friends were were that bottom now refuse to wear them around me because they're like we can't wear your merch in front of you. Like, like, yeah, just the other day,

I showed from Puddy's place. He's just in his room and comes back out and he puts his hat on. And he goes, I noticed I was wearing your hat. I couldn't have done that. Honestly, I don't blame him. I don't blame him. But, yeah, I have fed a few of my friends. Like, I want them.

So I'll end up making more. We'll sell him more. Yeah, make a little store on that thing or we can do it. It's good But yeah I think that's our updates for I mean we're back Hopefully

We're back We'll be We'll be doing this more regularly Now that we have a More scheduled time Whether or not it's going to be In this This prison cell

I don't know But Yeah who knows Maybe Maybe Judd will make it back The library We'll see Yeah the West Dallas library

The quite The memories we have in there I think Before we leave, I'm going to put this out there. I really wanted to come back after a month, and Jack was here. So I'm just, Jack, for some reason, you've listened and listened this far. Just need one from you, buddy. And if you want to do it virtually with us, kind of whenever, I miss you.

We miss you. Jack has been off. Yeah, we would love to have Jack back. Rehab's over, buddy. Rehab's over. You can come back. no yeah he was up he was up north on a farm for for a few months but he's ready you're ready come back yeah uh but uh yeah uh have fun uh we don't have anything to promote anymore so

unless you have something promote uh no i'm gonna start working on uh a website more so not that i don't have to now that i have the job locked down and priorities are are all back to being being right in the world So we're happy, we're healthy, we're busy, football is back, and I guess, I guess next week we'll pick up on where our picks are. Well, right now you're 13 and 2, so you are murdering me. Which ones do I get it wrong? You're 13 and 2. I don't think you've even heard me say that.

I said 13 and 2. Which 2 did I get wrong? Uh, who, I'd have to look. It would, I just saw it today. I was going to, we were going to talk about it. But yeah, 13 and 2 is wild. I think you got maybe like the Patriots wrong or something like that. Yeah, maybe.

Damn. All right, we're off to a good start. I forgot who I picked on this one, but I think it's the Bears. Well, they're up. They're up seven nothing. All right. We're going to clap you out in three. three two

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