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Episode Date: February 3, 2026

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Got to do something. Solid C. See, C's sound bad until you say solid C. Then you're like, he's trying hard. He's trying to. Hey, there's different levels of C's, man. You get a 79% or you can get an 84. 84%.

Okay, Randy Moss. Randy Moss. Guys in the classroom. Dude's heads in the books. Okay, 84. Put the hand up. Come on. Not bad for a fat guy.

TG 171. Hey now, hey now This is what dreams I made Hey, hey, hey Hey now Oh, this is actually on Okay

Yeah, sorry Yeah, what's up dude? Hey, do you like my new You like my new digs? You and uh You in hell right now? What is this? So I recently became a member

at a co-working environment space thing. Co-working for cohorts? Is that the name of... Yeah, that's... Co-horses... It's just called cohorts. I saw it and I had to be a part of it.

It was perfect. Yeah, the Wi-Fi password is just... Oh, okay? With six U's. Okay. Instead of the O's, there's zeros. Okay. So you're just...

You got a spot now? Yeah, so it's, yeah, I mean, pretty much like, just got to the point where me working from the house with the kids and being, you know, with the family and my wife every single day all day just became impossible. Kids couldn't figure out that if dad has at home, that he has to be doing something. And so we just had to figure it out. Found a nice little spot. And they have a podcast studio that you don't, like, you can just like book out. You don't have to pay for anything. And they're like, yeah, you can bring all your shit in.

And so I just brought in my whole setup. And there's soundproof walls. Ah! And are they really, though? Are they soundproof walls? Come on. I mean, they got the foam on them. I don't know what else I was supposed to do.

They got the foam on them. Can everybody in that place can hear every word you're saying. Okay. Okay. Come on. This whole podcast. We let that guy in here. Yeah.

I'm testing it out. This is the first go-round, obviously. But yeah, I've been here for, like, I've been about a week and a half where I come in here and just get all my shit done, my editing, my writing, and whatnot. And first pot in here, but pretty excited about it. Not bad. It's hot. How far away is it from your house? Like 30 seconds.

Oh, yeah. That's the move right there. You can kind of walk. Can you walk there? I would hell. I love walking places, dude. Not right now because it's two degrees. It's snowing out.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that. I forgot about that. But, yes, in the spring, spring till fall, you catch me out on the side of the road, downtown Indianapolis, just hoofing. Coffee walk? Yeah.

Coffee walk, got to pee the whole time? Nothing better. You already got my routine down. Coffee lock, got to pee, long sleeve, Jordan shorts. Team Jordan shoes that your wife hates. What? Just let me wear them. And I hate too.

But that's what happens when you're a married guy. You become a team Jordan. You become a team Jordan shoe guy. Because it's like the nice mix of like it's not too expensive. You can talk your wife into it, but it's still a little bit of that feel, that brand. Still $90. Dude, $90 is a good sweet spot for shoe price, you know. You can talk your mom into $90.

We'll split it. Yeah. I'll cut the grass. That's like $90 is like a B minus in school. Oh my God, bro. I will take a B minus any day of the day. A, B, I'm fine with that. B minus, all B minuses on my report card.

I used to go for that. Just B minus. B minus. Yep. 90 bucks. You're just slightly, just ever so slightly above average student. You know, C students like pretty, if you're all Cs across the board, you're just an average student, just run on the mill.

minus a little bit above. You might be toying with honor roll. Do you don't be minuses? Do you know, B minuses with like an A in religion? You know, maybe an A in another special class. You might be an honor roll student. Bro's flirting with honor roll right now.

He's got the star on his desk. I'll never forget the first time I got an honor roll, bro. I was like, they made a mistake, dude. And I'm not saying anything. Hell no. Nothing. Dude.

You would... Because you're comparing yourself. I was like, dude, Andrew is on honor roll too? And I'm on honor roll? Bro, no way. Man, I had so many friends that were on high honor roll. That's insane. High honor roll, dude.

Who's doing that? You have honor roll? You have nothing, just regular student. You have honor roll. Okay, now we're getting somewhere. High honor roll? That is like maybe one B, everything else in I'm like, you don't have a life.

Like, if you have high honor roll, you have a lot of time and stuff like that. Like, right? That's an excuse for me being an idiot. How are we this good of friends? We do the same stuff all the time on the same teams and have the same sense of humor. And you have that kind of grades and I have this. And I cheat off you. I cheat off you too.

I'm like, what kind of deal do you and the teacher I'm going on? Like we do the exact same thing. I'm like, I talk to you throughout the classes. Like, we're on the same wavelength there. But you're just picking up more than me? Like, I'm constantly like, we're talking while the teacher's talking. What do you mean? You ever have that friend that you're like, dude, everything about him.

He's a troublemaker. Total idiot. Like your parents are kind, your parents like them, but they're kind of like, I don't know about that one. In your head, you're thinking, no chance this kid is even. honor roll and all of a sudden he whips out and he's high on a roll you feel bad after that one what what kind of double life are you leading and it hurts you too because you're like wow you're I know deep down you're an idiot and on paper you're smarter than me I was like yeah I was like there's no way that me and Nick Baker are this far apart

bro's getting after school help he's not telling you I was always like, what? Yeah, I was always doing that. That's the only way I can survive in college. I had to go to class after class. Like, because I had to take a math class my freshman year. And after that, you don't take. But you got to take that one math class.

To pass it. And I was like, I can't cheat on math. You got to show your work, bro. And I was just so lost. So after math every day, I'd be like, yo, you got like an hour to reteach all this stuff you just taught? because like you were going too fast for your boy and then you just break it down for me and I'd be like all right cool I think I get it but that was the only way I could ever do that oh so you started

taking advantage of the the office hours yeah I was like because I'm like he can't say no like he's a teacher and I'm like on campus like what are you doing at like 2 p.m like I don't understand whatever you just talked about well that's what they are made for you know like in the syllabus on syllabus week and they would remind you throughout maybe even at the start of class say office hours, I'll be in there these days from, yeah, from two to three 30. And it was. Yeah, I was always too dumb and too kind of scared and lazy to take advantage of it. But then I finally started doing that. And hey, I went from, you know, maybe a D in math in college to like a solid C. Got to do something. Solid C. See, C's sound bad until you say solid C. Then you're like,

he's trying hard. He's trying. Hey, there's different levels of C's man. You get a 79% or you could get an 84. 84% Okay, Randy Moss Guys in the classroom Dude's heads in the books Okay, 84, put the hand up There's different levels You gotta break that down

You know, and I became a king of breaking that down to my parents I was like, yo, you know, This is a C plus That's an 85 That's fire, 85 But you jump up one more point, 86 We're talking B minus

is that's crazy. Okay, Jerome Pathan. You're like, you know, you're hitting up the teacher. Like, hey, is there any sort of just to give me that extra bump to an 86? Is there anything that I can do? How many times do you do that to your teacher when your parents are so mad at you about your grade? Every quarter. Every quarter.

I'd go up to my teacher's desk all like mopey and sad. Is there anything I can do for extra credit? Mm-hmm. I was a no, but you can just listen, harder in class and not talk to your friends as much. I was like, come on, give me some points.

I was always waiting for that teacher. Just be like, hey, yeah, don't be such a dumb fuck when you're taking tests. That's what you can do. Double whammy, bro. Feel bad, now feel worse. Not talking at lunch.

Why is he so quiet? They're like, yeah, you left 62 points on each test. Left him out there on the field, man. Couldn't show my work. Those are your extra credit points right there. Jeez. What do you want me to do?

Those short essays on the back? I was like, I got nothing for these. I got no words. Got no words. You just knew you're absolutely screwed when you would have a four-page test. And then you'd get to, you get through the four-page front back.

So really two pages. But you get through the first page, all right, we're, you know, we've had multiple choice, had a couple matching, that's fine, whatever. And then you get to the front of the second page, which is page three, starting there from short answer. And then on the back of that one, you got an essay.

Once up, 52%. I can't remember one time in my life knowing one of those. Like I was never like, oh, I know this one. I'll write the answer. And I was always like, how would I ever remember that? That was so brutal That was so brutal

And especially when it would come Be time to go explain to my parents Why I got a 63% on this test And my mom would be like You can remember the AL Central Division But you can't remember the short answers On your social studies test And I'm like yeah

Because the Tigers against Cleveland Is way more fun So true though You can run down the whole NFC With your eyes closed Upside down we can't remember the Pythagorean theorem. You put your mind to useless crap.

Dog. Then you had to get your parents involved. You know, your dad couldn't take. My dad couldn't take it anymore. I had to learn math in school and then come home and my dad had to learn what I just learned in school

and teach it to me again. My dad's sitting at the table. His knees are like above the kitchen table, like trying to teach me like how to divide friends. actions. I was like, I don't know. I can vividly remember my dad closing my math book, making the sign of the cross, and throwing it across the room. I was like, Oh, man.

The slowest sign of the cross. I know I made for some absolutely insane meltdowns from my kids. My kids are nuts, dude. I think that's why I'll never have kids, honestly. I was soul searching. I was like, why wouldn't I have kids ever? And then I'm like, oh, I'd have to like help them with math. Never mind.

I'm good on that. Yeah, fourth grade math. Hey, when they bring it to you that they forgot to do the night before and it's the morning of school. I still need to do 12 problems. I still need to do 12 problems. Oh, my God. Yeah, now you're looking in the back of the book. Oh, yeah.

That's what I want to tell Frank from day one. Just like in the back of the book, dude. You're filling out his odds. Even if they give it, yeah, don't give you half credit. just put down what you did for the odds on the evens and screw it. Hopefully it's a completion grade. Oh, that was crazy when that started being a thing. Like it wasn't right and wrong as it was completion.

I was like, shut up. Wait, we can just put anything on this? How is that? Who came up with that? The dumbest guy came up with that. The laziest teacher. Hey, the former linebacker who became a fifth grade teacher, he came up with that.

Yeah, if there's not, hey, if every problem's done, They're good. You know what? Yeah, I don't, we're just going to call this one to completion. Really just wanted to go to the bar later with his friends. Got to go. Got to go golf. Dude, the things teachers would do.

And it really got me through. I mean, if I didn't have completion grades, I'd probably, I probably wouldn't even have my high school diploma. How did that help though? Like in the long run, like on the test, you still got to get a right. I'm like, damn, we can't do completion on the test. can't we should. You can't do completion on the test, but yeah, you can stock up everything else. You can set yourself a nice base

by stocking up all those completion grades. Yeah, yeah, okay, you get all the points for that, points of that, cool. All right, you're sitting at about an 87. Whoop, you're going to come with a D on the test. It's going to drop you down to about an 84. All right, but still, I can work with this. Yeah, you thought you were getting an

82 on your report card? You got an 84? You're like, this is a dub. This is a dub. I'm peak Randy Moss right now. Mm-hmm. If I ever got an 84 in math and science. Oh. We're getting ice cream tonight.

Right. My parents were like, yeah, Ritters. To bring the report card, I think you get like a, you know, some money off or like a scoop up or something. Oh, that was a thing that Chuckie cheese or something maybe? I think it was a thing, a lot of places. Big rumor. Yeah, if you bring your report card in and Chuckie cheese, you get like this many tokens. I was like, well, too bad I have all C's.

Like, what am I going to get it? Yeah, I never had enough A's to do that. I know there was one out there that was in Clubhouse You can help us out, but I know there's one out there that for every A that you had on your report card. Donut at Krispy Cream or something? Yeah. But I was like, who's getting that many? I'm like, you guys are getting A's like that?

Where you can just be like, yeah, I got six free don't. That's crazy. Yeah, dude. All of my friends were. It was like all my friends who said it was like two of us. That weren't everybody else. It's like, geez, everybody there in your high on a roll party. Cool.

You want me to order a pizza for you? Probably already having pizza ordered because they're on high honor rule. You got held me. They all left the class, but the teacher made you and like the two kind of dumb kids stay back. You're like, oh, I'm in this. You're on in this group now. Ooh. Ooh, that one hurts.

And your other friends that left the class know what's going on. They're like, bro, he's. officially an idiot. Verified dumbass. That's where I always just chalked it up to like, hey, you know, I'm more of a creative brain.

And that's why I'm still doing this. Creative, yeah, I'm more creative. A.k.a. Can't add. A.k.a. Take that high honor roll, bro. How's, how's that 9 to 5?

Love you, pal. Yeah, right, yeah. After. Love you, bro. He listens sometimes. I might get a text on that. You never know. Never know.

I'm going to go ahead and go get to the clubhouse. Team these guys at gmail.com. It's from our pal. Austin. Yeah. So, dead air. Let's see. He's sailing a wild bag.

And I don't know if we got to it. So I'll go with this. All right. Austin, this is Austin, front row Austin, and the fellow who sent us the Brett Favre and Priest Holmes jerseys.

Dog. FRA, front row, Austin. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

From Austin, not of Sports Radio podcast. I want to share my first experience doing one. I was 18 and got asked to do color commentary on Division 4, smallest high school in Ohio volleyball game for an online radio station. Extremely high caliber gig, as you can imagine. I knew nothing of volleyball, but couldn't turn it down this opportunity to get my start. When I arrived at the game, the play-by-play guy and head of the station called to say he wasn't

going to make it. I was going to have to go ahead alone. I was shitting bricks at that point. I don't exactly know how that technology worked, but I had to announce the game through a phone call with my boss, and he used that phone call to relay the broadcast to the online radio station. I was so nervous. I'm sure there was a lot of dead error on the broadcast. Worst part, you had to download a sketchy radio app

if you wanted to listen to the broadcast. My mom, dad, and girlfriend downloaded it, and somehow it gave their phones viruses. Also, my girlfriend told me the app showed how many listeners tuned in. It was four people the whole night. And obviously, my parents and girlfriend were three of the four. And the real kicker, I never got paid for it.

But that's okay, because sports are my life. Keep up to laughs, boys, talk to the wife, and I'll go full hunting mode this fall. Oh, yeah, this is from a while ago. Thanks, Austin. Yeah, dude. I mean, that's kind of like, that really is just kind of part of the experience. Part of the game.

What's what am I looking for? Nature of the beast. Nature of the beast, part of the business. But it's just like something everybody has to go through. A ride of passage, there it is. It's a right of passage for any sports broadcaster whose sports are your life to have a situation where somebody doesn't show up. there alone. You don't know Jack about what you're talking about. You know, just make it up.

The technology is a nightmare. I mean, that's, that was me and Ben's life for like three years. Still is. Still is. Yeah, it's true. That's true. That's so funny. That sounds like a okay situation. You were just there by yourself, just looking at everything. Okay. Station situation. But yeah, four listeners, bro. When people start to know the facts, it gets tough. Yeah. For listeners, two are your family. When's your girlfriend? So embarrassing.

Oh, dude, don't even. I think that's why I've never had a girlfriend either, really. I'm like, ah, I'm good. You don't want to listen to this high school broadcast. Please don't. Yeah, no shit. You didn't want your dad and sister to come to these guys live, let alone a high school or college girlfriend.

Get out of here, yo. Well, it's not the same reason, but it's like, come on. I had, so when I was, when I was broadcasting, when I was trying to be, you know, the next Iron Eagle, when I was in college, we had a, we, my school I was, the school I went to was broadcasting for had a game at IU. All right. So it was like a pretty big deal. So I went down there and did play by play for an exhibition game, UND IU. and my girlfriend at the time was also in college. I got to go.

I got to go. And it was a Thursday night game, okay? Kind of hype. And she is like getting ready to go out with all of her girlfriends and their dorm rooms. She is talking about how excited she is because she's going to put on my radio broadcast of me doing the game in IQ. Dude, dude. For all the, for her and all their girls who are getting ready. So not only am I like, this is a big deal.

This is a lot, you know, it's at IU. Assembly Hall with Don Fisher right next to me. I'm doing this all with the fact in mind that I'm just thinking about like four to six college girls sitting in a dorm, getting ready, having to listen to my dumbass call the I. You indie exhibition game. I mean, even if you were like Tom Brady announcing a game, that's like why you have that on.

Listen to Chris Brown. Not 887 the Diamond. Yo. Oh, yeah. So I was like, oh man, you know, really appreciate it. That's like very sweet, but oh my God. It is nice.

It's very nice. I just knew I just knew my ass was getting roasted, but then also like not in front of her. You know, they probably were like very keeping their mouth shut and supportive, but then like all in the same room texting each other outside of her in the chat being like what in the fuck is going on. I'd go in that dorm room and clip every wire in there.

The night before. Oh my God. Like nothing works. What the hell is like the power out? Just getting ready, you know, getting ready to go to something. random bar in South Bend.

They're all just sitting in there. Not more of a sacred time for a group of girls than getting ready. Yeah. And my dumb ass is just like, Brandon McElroyd passes to Jordan Lloyd. Jordan Lloyd from the elbow. Got it.

Good squad. Brandon Malcolmroy, bro. What? Hey. Yo, easy 360s. Yeah. Free guys. He was a dog.

He was a dog. That was a good team. not a UND basketball 5th. Not a Stan Gourard podcast. Dude, what's girls getting ready in guy terms? Like, what's that? Is there a time where we're like, you know, I feel like that's the only time girls don't hate each other.

Could be the time they hate each other most, though, because they're all comparing everything. Somebody forget something, you know, like it's stressful. Is it stressful? Oh my god, you look so hot I look like I look like a stuffed sausage. No, you don't. Oh, yeah, I guess it can go that way.

But I feel like it's like two girls sitting on the ground in front of a mirror doing makeup like on the wood floor. There's Chris Brown playing. They're taking a shot like once every like three hours. And you're like, oh my God, we pregame so hard. Wait, wait, I'm like drunk. They got to be pretty locked in.

I swear they're locked in I don't ever say like we've never seen that part you know no I try dude like if I you know I'm trying to think of like even instances where I've been you know like me and Rye and a few people went to the Kentucky Derby hell you were there one time but it was different because we were we stayed at different places but like

remember in the Airbnb's you know she was like okay you know three hours before we had to leave like I got to go get ready and it was like I'm already in my I'm like, all right, cool. Yeah, you go. Like, I don't. Let's not see each other for the next two and a half hours because I don't want to do one thing that stresses you out even more than you already are with all your makeup and how you

look at your dress and everything. Do you need anything? Yeah. I'm like, I need to be as far away as possible. Guys are the complete opposite. We're like, uh, we're ready now, I think. Yeah. Well, hold on.

Let me go get my jacket real quick. I think that's all I need. wallet. That's kind of the same thing. Like, I love that part for guys. Like, if girls love that part, they're getting ready and they're, like, sitting on the floor at the mirror with their hair, you know, their iron and everything like that. Like, guys are already ready.

And that's where we can just, like, crack open a cold one and throw on a game or highlights or interchange of music videos. Like, that's the best. Somebody's just watching Spurs and Timberwolves on TV. Like, they have money on it. You're like, what? Oh, all right. Yeah.

I mean. Spurs and Timorles play four times a week. 10 p.m. four times a week. Every night I'm like, let's go! Let's go T. Wolves. Ryan Russo or whatever on the call. The hell. It's so soothing. Let's go to Kurt.

Weed Kid goes to Harvard? Hey, Benny and Joey. I've been meeting to send this email for a while. Every time we talk about a weed kid, it kills me because every school, big or small, had a few. In my graduating class, we had this one kid who wasn't the prodigal weed kid, but he was up there for sure. He wanted to me a sound. He wanted to be a SoundCloud rapper and would make music in class and went by the name Mills. His name was my.

I don't want to get out of his name, but he ended up going to community college, jumped to U of M, then graduated from Harvard and works at IBM now. God. Harvard know about milk sick beats on the school iPads that were only ever used to look up porn and NFL games from early 2000s? Oh my God. You nailed that. So my question is, do you guys have a story from high school or college of someone getting into school you never would have expected or currently doing something in life? You could never see them doing while you knew them as Weed Kid. You guys rock.

I was looking forward to Tuesdays because you guys, bend me over and slap my ass with Weed Kids Harvard Diploma. Thanks, Kurt. Good to hear from you. you email back any time I don't know I can't really think of a a weed kid that really turned it around they're always doing something

that like okay yeah but there's all it's always a little little bit sketchy too yeah we responsible weed kid yeah I guess where we went to school there was a lot of randomly like super smart intellectual weed kids. I knew a

smart, really smart weed kid in college that I was like, yeah. Oh. Oh, wow. That's like now your first personality isn't weed. It's like smart. And then your backup. Yeah.

Your side personality is like, all right, I'm going to smoke tonight. Yeah. A few kids that would just be absolutely ripped. But they would be an AP kid. him and buy like AP everything like applying to Notre Dame and stuff. It's intimidating. You're like, how do you balance those two

things? I can't I can't do that at all. Yeah, dude, before like, before before there, it is pretty funny. Like there's a few instances where there's kids that maybe it wasn't a weed kid, but they like really went off the rails in college like in a bad way.

And then all of a sudden like I'll see him and like people you may know on Facebook and they have like a wife and two kids and then I look and they're working at like, you know, like Charles Schwab or something. I'm like, Lily. You're like, wait a minute. How did, man, what a turnaround.

It is. So when you really know somebody, it's so funny. And then you see like their profile picture pop up. You're like, oh my God, bro. We were like ran down hills naked that one night. And now you're just, now you're sitting in a field with your wife and your new baby. Oh my God.

If people, if they only knew about that. I know. And I know you didn't tell them. If they only knew where we peed in college. And now you have two babas. Yeah. Yeah, dude. I want to have a baby.

Now they're a hunty. Dude, if you can go from weed kid to Huntie? Happens. Happens sometimes. It's a pretty wild revolution. Pretty wild turnaround. It's like,

Sidetti got him in shape. Hi, Petty. You don't know about my past Pea lady. Oh, God. Oh, God. You didn't know.

You didn't know I was a piece shit in college, Pea lady. Hi, Petty. All right. You got to hit a couple. I'm doing, hi lady. You didn't know I broke into a car lady. Dude.

Oh, God. I got arrested, Pee lady. I wouldn't tell you. Because I love you, Pity. Oh, my God. Please don't Google me, honey. my mugshot will come up

I'm not proud of my past honey but I will change for you that's why I love you that's why I love our family one of those guys all right oh man I will change for you

You Does that for two hours in the corner Steen coming out I will change for you Yes I will go to every Morgan Wallen concert now If that's what you want Breed lady

Hi lady Matching flannel lady Okay God dang it All right From Anthony Station know about Greg Oden's senior year Lawrence North highlights

Station knows Oh yeah Station was there Station never forgot Yeah Station was in the crowd Station's dad was like Hey we're going to go check this out Oh my God

Your dad did that too? Everybody's dad in Indiana. Hey, uh, like proposing it to you so they have a reason to go with someone. You're like 12. They got this guy at, uh, got this guy at Lawrence North, uh, supposed to be the next big thing. Uh, didn't want to know if you want to roll with me. How crazy is that? Your dad.

Your dad, oh, bro, nothing more. Me and Chiller are going up. basketball game in high school with my dad just like, yo, or yeah, this is it. This is our night. Mm-hmm. It was a good feeling, you know? Because you don't have anything to do with it.

You're in a different place. Yeah, yeah. Checking out of their crowd and... Mm-hmm. They're chucks. How they... Wasn't any drunk chucks there because it was high school. Could have been.

Could have snuck it in the water bottles. On the lookout for the drunk chucks. that's a dad's favorite night right there high school basketball game bringing his son and his son's friend maybe going to blockbuster around the way home maybe getting pizza what's it turning into

sounds amazing like yeah I as you were saying that I was like wow I can't wait to do that with Frank yeah that's fire that's like boys night like diet boys night

like you don't hang out with your homies anymore as much so you got to hang out with your your son and his friend is kind of like dude there's always me my dad and like, chiller.

Just, oh, like, we're spending a lot of time together. You're showing them some of your

music on the way home, you know? Yeah, can you play this? And he's like, ah, that sucks, but then he downloads it

later. Yeah. My dad did that with 50 cent. I put my dad on to 50 cent. Yeah. No, but I'm saying,

like, my dad would play some of his music, you know? Yeah. And we kind of, like, teach about that. I put that,

but you know, about a little L. Cool J. Yep, put that on a couple your burnt CDs. Yeah, my dad showed me this one. Kind of nice.

Heard We Ready for the first time and my dad's Ford Taurus. We ready. Wow, on what, 93-1, not a local podcast. Dude, I think it was a CD. My dad had like a hype CD that he probably took from like the weight room when he was coaching or something and like just. No, it was just a Colton Stadium playlist. Oh, no.

Colton Stadium playlist. It's been the same since 2005. That was hard When the cults were cool Not a local podcast but when the cults were cool Even Mike Vanderjad was like Get out our idiot kicker All right from Anthony

So up boys third time emailer Just wondering how you guys got through social anxiety Of high school basketball games Where you entered the gym and had to walk across The length of the bleachers to get to the student section On the complete other side from where he walked in P.S. and maybe sneaking up, but start to brace yourselves for the green beer crowd in less than two months posting their photos in their 2010 Rajon Rondo jerseys with stained green lips. Anthony. Great call, brother. We just said Dollar General yesterday with the fam, and it must be my lucky day because shamrocks are out.

They got the full thing, man. Full aisle of St. Patty is already going. You say Dollar General? or dollar tree whatever oh same thing yeah dang I haven't been in a dollar tree

for a long time you can find some you can find some gems in there there's a fun little it's a fun little trip we were heading down south ordered some food they were like

yeah it's gonna be like 25 minutes or like what do until the food's ready ordered food to go and then there's a dollar dollar tree right there

so hopped in there nothing a dollar lollipops nothing a few stuff Good spot. It was good. Good spot for the kiddos.

Mm-hmm. Man, which kind of just, yeah, talking about this a little bit. Yeah, you did. You prayed that because you knew your setup at your high school and so you'd hopefully get there early enough or whatnot. I feel like I was never early enough. I feel like, yeah, I was always like coming in and it was craziness. Like shit.

You wanted to be late. But then when you'd go on the road, you'd hope and pray that the student section for where you were going to be and where you were coming. Like where you would enter, you would pray that it was just right in that corner. So you can just kind of slide in there. Not like under the main. You know, there's a guy by the door holding you back because they're shooting free throws like five feet away from you. That's crazy.

Yeah. You have to spread down the baseline when they're on the other end of the court. Yep. Scope, scop. The guy that's just been working at the high school for way too long, directing people. Go run. Go run. Now the hybrid football coach trainer gym teacher situation.

Track coach too. This guy just does it all, huh? Man. What a utility player. You can plug him in anywhere, bro. History teacher's out for two weeks. Guess we're learning about the JFK assassination. He'll be there.

Who was that guy at our school? Sombo. All right, bring in Sambo. He can fill in. He can teach. He can tape ankles. He can teach. You know what? He'll learn how to coach linebackers overnight.

Takes it everything he does super seriously. Does not mess around. Hey, we need a shop put coach. Should we hire somebody? Sombo. Got him. I got the guy. What's his salary?

I got a guy. He's changing tires, bro. He's just. Teaching wood shop. Different. guys different I feel like this probably wouldn't ever a problem for you Ben at least in my mind though

but I feel like also in your mind you would have been really freaking out about like the entrance to a game I kind of like everybody's looking at you everybody's turn you know what I mean yeah if the actions happened right there you just so happen to be entering at that time for the JV game like oh shit I really didn't think about it at away games

because I was like I don't really know and nobody knows Nobody does. But like at home games, I'm like, all right, we know what's happening here. Like, I'm not going to be on time. I don't think I've ever seen a tip off in my life. Like, we're walking in halfway there. Like, where's something decent? You know what I mean?

But I was kind of always ready for it. I was kind of always looking forward to it for four weeks. Put the red Jordan shorts on and the gray waffle. Mm-hmm. Going to the very top of the bleach. You know what I mean? Like when you're younger, all like the freshman and sophomore

All the way up And then like the seniors are in the front Mm-hmm There's barking at you Yeah, it's like it's so Dude, you get bullied in those top bleachers You got a sophomore behind you Your armpits are never been sweatier

When you're walking into a high school basketball game But I'm talking about like when you're walking past the seniors Who are all down there at the very front Like aren't we on the same team? I'm like, I'm sure Why is there so much, yeah, hostility. Every high school's like that, though. I know.

No high school's ever, like, embraced a freshman. Kid in me? No. I, uh, yeah, I would just, I don't know. I would, I would just kind of just swallow it and just know it's going to suck. And my, yeah, my armpits are going to be sweating. And like, hopefully, hopefully, like, Pulitzer or someone gives me like a, uh, a what's up or maybe a, you know, that'll like validate me you know what I mean like if like Burkhard or

Politsi or someone gives me a little like dapp up or something then it's like I want of these from like across the gym oh yeah yeah what's up though the nod I got the right people in my corner at least like Mitch Gallimore's probably gonna say some shit to me still but it's all good like I got Pulitzer down there I could like say what's up to him yeah and like yeah it'd be okay sure I got like three words with that guy that just nodded at me. We're good. We're good.

We're in a hoodie. Just so your armpits don't like show the sweat. Oh, for sure. Hottest gym of all time too. You came prepared. You knew if you were just in a t-shirt. It's trouble. Wouldn't dare.

A gray one? God. From Christian. That one basketball net. Hey, fellas. Year-long listener, first time emailer. Not a reminiscing a grade school or sports pod, but I wanted to share a story that I was reminded

of listening to the cast. Back when the neighborhood crew and I were around 13, we used to absolutely shred basketball on my street using some older guys basketball net at a random house that was just there. He was, I want to say, about 24 and hadn't touched that net in years, but he kept it out well past its prime, so me and the boys could lower it all the way down to six feet and break it more and more with each dunk

while playing aggressive summer vacation basketball. I don't think we ever even spoke to him once or his parents, even though from time to time they would appear out of the house and give us a firm nod. The guy was always stoned completely with loose basketball shorts and weed socks. I had no clue what any of it was, but now I realized that he was cool weed kid. One time he even gave us jumbo freezes and went inside. Eventually they moved, but the cherry on top was they left the net anyways. It was a good time.

Anyways, just wondering if you have any story of strange generosity from that one terrifying house who's actually really chill. Slop my ass with your single Uncle's Sports Illustrated Bikini Edition magazine in the bathroom toilet reading stand selection while I'm taking a shit at his house sent from my Nintendo DS Picto chat

From Christian It's a great time when you're just in your uncle's bathroom You're like oh finally new scenery It's clean, it's big new stuff to look at You know Taking a deuce at your own house You're like Can we get a new conditioner bottle

something just sitting here every time station today don't know about going in and take a dump without having a phone oh bro just looking at the rug

for like literally seven minutes looking at a piece of hair on the ground between the wall and the floor just on the baseboard

just praying that a spider wasn't like crawling around you or something I was always like man there's like going to be a spider

crawling out from behind the toilet or something Tough moment when you're when you're mid-duce and you see a spider. What do you do? Wreck your soul. I'm like, yo, not now, dog. Right.

Like spider, I get it, but like now? Jeez. Didn't even knock. Jeez. God. Yeah, that basketball hoop. Scary house out turned cool or was cool. It was nice.

You know, you figured it out on Halloween, you know. Oh, that corner lot. They got a basketball hoop in the back. They got the cement in their backyard. That's when you knew a house was like a little intimidating. When they had the basketball cement in the backyard, like half court almost. I was like, yo, they're about it. Like they've planted their, they live here for like, that's a 10 year plan that cement in the backyard.

Like they're in the moms, the moms kind of like you ride your bike by their house. the mom's kind of like straightening their son out. Hey! You're like, oh, that's like a, that's like a, they got some rules that are laying down in that household. Do you ever have like a super scary neighbor though that you never really got past because there's always just like, yo, the ball goes in that guy's yard. He's going to come out and either call the cops or yell at us or

you might come out with a gun I don't know dude I'm thinking about it and that might have been my house like it might like on some like we didn't really mess with the neighbors like that

like we were obviously nice to him though but like everybody was really nice around us kind of weird but it was scary to get a ball in somebody else's yard as a kid that was like I got a knock on their door

you sure I can't just like climb the fence I started just doing it I was like I'm hopping the fence throwing the ball over hopping again they don't care like I'm not ringing their doorbell this is going to happen seven more times in the next hour yeah if it's one of those

like wiry fences that you see traditionally in backyards that's fine if you do one that's going in if you do one's got a wooden guardian fence then it's what do we do here I know situation.

I think they saw me in their backyard getting a ball one time, like caught like red-handed with the big fence with the clip and the gate. And I was like, and then it was just green light from now on. I was just like, this is kind of my fence. I know how to work this fence. So I was putting in time in the backyard.

I'm like, this is going to happen a lot, trying to explain it through the kitchen window. Yeah, my bad, but like this is the third time. You're 10. For sure. Yeah.

for sure. I remember not like, I guess it's different, but there's, there's a guy, there's this place, this neighborhood in this house

so he went to all the time in high school. And it was everything always happens in a court. Every neighbor story, all that stuff always happens in a court. Courts were sick. Yeah.

That's, that's VIP of a neighborhood. Court. And so we live in a court. This house was in the court, in the back corner of a court, or, on the edge, facing out.

And it was kind of like one of the hangouts in high school. The kid was in our grade and he had an older brother, two years older, that had the older brother friends that would also be there. We would be there. So, you know, any given night that you were there could be 17 guys from the age of 14 to 16. Dangerous. Yeah. But then there was like a few houses.

down there was this guy they just called neighbor Dan and he was like either in college or just out of college and we didn't really know what he did or why he still lived there with his family I guess looking back now it's like yeah a lot of us you know move back home after college or whatnot like every now and then neighbor Dan would be around or they like go down in neighbor Dan's basement play video games and smoke weed and now never knew anything that could tell his last name, sniff of his last name, anything. Just neighbor Dan.

That'd be a cool, like, gamer tag. It felt like, it felt like we were on a TV show or a movie. I was like, there's no way that, like, this would just actually just call him neighbor Dan. And they would refer to him as that in front of his face. It wasn't like one of those things were like, you know, amongst the circles. They're like, oh, yeah, neighbor Dan. Then when he comes, oh, hey, man, hey, Dan, they literally call him neighbor Dan to his face. Oh, Mike.

I love stuff like that. Like, it just happens and it just keeps happening. All parties except. Yeah. I love it. It's like that with people's last names, too. You know, you just call some people by their first and last name. And you're like, why don't I just call him?

Mm-hmm. For sure. Fishee. Fisie. Neighbor Dan, new Instagram name. Right. Go pretty hard. Yeah, it is hard.

From Andrew. Fernando Mendoza. Am I the only one that sees this? Fernando Mendoza is a huntie. If he isn't already, he's got hunting DNA, which will at some point morph his corny ass into a full-blown hunting. Mock drafts have him going to the Raiders. Weird is fit since Mike McCarthy to the Steelers.

Smack my ass as hard as D-Lyman looks wearing a single-digit number in college football. Andy. P.S. January birthday slap. In the Midwest, you get a chance of a snow day on your birthday. Yes, please. Send from your mom. I've never thought about that Imagine that lining up

You gotta be Just The God's got to be with you For a snow day birthday I think it's happened to my sister a few times A few Maybe Lucky

Yeah Or it always works out for my sister This is another factor It always work out MLK day Would fall like her weekend would either or her birthday would either be on that weekend

or like on that day and so she just gets a three day weekend for a birthday you know. Three day weekends are so fire. I forgot about those. Remember that? When you'd have Monday off? Oh my God.

The teachers would even be like kind of lit at school on Friday. Three day weekend. Three day weekend. Well, we'll start that on Tuesday. And you kind of forget. You're like Tuesday. Oh, we have Monday off.

Yeah. Dude, I never knew. I swear I never knew till Friday. We have month. Shut up. Yeah, bro, we have Monday off. Dude, I would, we'd get that out on the calendar because my dad would always use that kind of shit

to just like motivate you, you know? So he'd like start the week prior to be like, hey, get through this one, got a short one next week. God dang, man, that is a good call. Because you always forget about that on the back end. You're like, sick weekend. But wait, we only got four days next week. That's not even a real week.

Four days, then we're back in the weekend. Yeah. We're in business. You can't accomplish anything in four days. Nothing. Like there's no, yeah, there's no feeling like that feeling of a Sunday evening

slash night when you have a three day weekend you have the Monday off. I can watch Sunday night football in peace. Yeah. I can just watch it. Are you talking about? No stress Sunday night football? Uh-huh.

Football. No tea. Football. I can watch Sunday. night football? It wasn't a great feeling. That's when it really comes to football. When it's on three-day weekend.

Staying up a little later. Just a little later. Yeah. This is Saturday. Right. Crazy feeling. I went to church. We had donuts and football.

We don't have school tomorrow. Ridiculous. Monday night football comes to get sad again. Oh yeah, for sure. But kind of pick yourself back up because like you said, tomorrow's essentially Monday, but it's Tuesday.

So. Andrew thinks Fernando Mendoza as a hunty. Yeah. I think it's all I think it's all a big, like, big fake thing he's doing.

You never buy into any of that shit. I mean, he said it himself. He's like, yeah, dude, I just say the things I should say. He's like, Yeah. But yeah, I get the Hunty vibe.

But like, is Russell Wilson Hunty? I feel like he really turned into Hunty like mid career. At the beginning, I was like,

I don't know. I don't think he was always hunting. There's a lot of QB hunties out there, bro. I think that's how I want my QB. Sat.

Pill lady, Pillet lady. I want a Hunt E QV Dial that in, bro plug him into the playbook Yep Yep

Literally Pugs and nose Yeah That's what language Hunty speaks Exes and O's because they hugs and kisses

And also formations Hunty Yep Then go back to your Go back to your house bro Do your huntie Come back here

No distractions Just all Yeah It's a good point Family football, honey. That's a good. Family football is what it is. He's getting that tattooed on him, sitting in a tattoo chair.

I do this for you. My two loves, honey. Family football, honey. If you don't want me to play football anymore, I understand, pretty lady. I'll do it for you. Mendoza's got Mendoza's got the smile He's got the kind of robot face

Because it's always the same looking one It does seem like he's malfunctioning a bit Every now and then when he answers He'll really have to kind of However Yeah he's yeah He knows he's yeah He knows what's going on

Scorn on Let's go to Andrew Micced up Hey Hey, fellas, it's Russ from Massachusetts. Long-time listener, second-time email. I recently got a new job as a high school math teacher,

and I've had a solid first month. A student in one of my classes is partially deaf, so I'm required to wear a microphone when she is in the classroom, and I'm teaching new material. This microphone hangs around my neck and connects to speakers in the classroom to make my voice louder. Every time I wear this microphone, I can't help but feel like an NFL player

who has been miced up during a game. I always have to resist the urge to call an audible or call out the defensive coverage like I'm at the line of scrimmage. Does stationette were changing the play car? I've been contemplating giving out a play call just to see if any of the students know ball like that. You have to.

Dude, the way, yeah, you could go so many ways with that. You give out a play call. Green 80! You could, yeah, do a cadence like that. You could also do like a ref. Offsides. God, yeah. Why does offsides always sound like that coming from a ref?

Just like the way you just said it. They don't say it any. It's always, Hoff sides. I'm like, did you just like step on a thumbtack? You step on a Lego ref? Half sides.

It's like it's never, yeah. He's got a question. My question is simple. Do you have a favorite NFL miced up moment? As a Pats fan, one of mine is when Bill Belichick was talking trash to Chad Johnson before the pads played Cincinnati back in the day. Bill told Ocho,

we're double covering you, so we'll have the night off, which is hilarious to tell an opposing player before the game. Also, Waffles, AFC, pancakes, NFC? I'm having trouble with this one because perhaps I'm biased since my dad made me the best waffles growing up. Keep up the hilarious show the next time you do a live show in Boston. I'll be there.

Thanks, Russ. Email sent from the 1987 Macintosh 2 desktop computer. That has been in my basement for 35 years. Can't throw that away. Is this thing still on? Dad just can't let it go. It's hard to let stuff like that go. Like every computer and laptop and phone I've had I'm like where do those all go?

I know I just got a new phone actually so hopefully the video quality is to step up but But yeah I just have my other one just laying there I'm like wow I do feel like bent because remember we always do shit and you'd have like three phones you'd be yeah we can record on this one but then this picture I gotta go to this phone for this picture of shorts that I wore in college to put in our video Yeah because my old phone had everything yeah right I have like four phones ago Yeah my life

Yeah everything's on here What do you want me to do? You ever look at those texts From like three phones ago If you ever, you do you oh that is a That's sad You're like this is what I was on Time capsule

Yo Modern time capsule I was talking to her Whoops Whoops Whoops Wops, miss her Favorite NFL

Mic'd Up moment I like it when You can hear a player Just in a refs mic You know The rest's about to make a call And he turns it on And a player is like

Man fuck that man Yeah You know Don't do the shit Illegal use of hands Hads of the face You know Why do refs have to talk like that

It is weird Reff cadence Reff voice And then when you get one guy that's like a little different he's everybody's favorite ref. I'm like why can't refs just like figure that out? Oh I love that ref because he doesn't sound like Hoffsides. He's like off sides and you're like oh shit he's here to like lay down the law all right I like this guy. Hoffs hides that's the other I'm weird about my refs yeah for sure

they they if they hold anything for too long too long of a delay I don't like that. Yeah bro, you're putting on a show out there. You're not the game. God, that's what refs need to know. You're not what we're here to watch. Don't make it. Don't make it about you. Do you like a hard, fast,

full start, or do you like a guy that's kind of a little bit more relaxed? Or like short, like, full start. Like, yeah. Kind of an older, like, they're all old, but like some of them really,

you're like, oh, okay. God, you really, you really trust the older ref. You know, that like, he's been doing this. He's been doing this for 30 years. I think it's, I think it's Cleet Blakeman who does the, his false start is like, he's so, false start. And it's like just one over the other, real quick, stops it, you know.

Of course, his name is Cleet. C-L-E-E-T-E. Like, dude, be more football. Yeah, I'm a ref. My name's Cleet. Okay. All right, bro. What's your last name?

Cleet, flag, glove. Yeah, for real. My mom's maiden name is Face Mask. Oh, okay. Jesus Christ, bro. There you go. It's fucked up. Favorite.

I mean, it's tough to be the John Gruden miced up for me. What do you say? I mean, there's the best of that has a whole bunch of different ones where he's like ripping into his guys and everything or he's giving his play calls. But I think my favorite one is when he just goes, Are you out of your mind? Are you out of your skull?

God, he was so... That was so good. That was a good. That was a good impression. but um dude him on the sideline that's like the realist i've ever seen like when they just see you see like Tampa Bay Gruden Raiders Gruden on the side of that I'm like he's just saying what we would all say like hey I'm sorry if I was being a dickhead like just say something

I'm like god damn so true so relatable relatable coach Buccaneers gruden on the sideline sweaty visor Vizer Chucky hair going red face God, just wants to win. Just wants to make sure everybody's doing their job. Yeah, I'd say that's easily probably my favorite. Are you out of your skull?

It's so funny, man. And it's so football coach, too. You know, like they can't say, like, it's got to be a little different, you know? Like, it starts with out of your mind, but then can't go back to that out of your skull. Got to say, you can't repeat it. Unless you're a repeat coach. Everybody knows repeat, coach. Repeat.

Repeat. Let's go to Sid. Trayvon Boykin. Sid from Phoenix. What's up, lad's first time in long time. Was introduced to the show from my college roommate.

Became a Tuesday regular. Watch a pod after class. So thank you for those laughs. I'm in need of some advice on how to play out the whole bachelor party wedding stuff. I'm currently at the stage where all my friends are starting to get married.

I now have three bachelor parties and three weddings this year. Golps nervously. So many questions. go through my head. What dance moves do I hit? How do I manage the wedding if I'm not feeling the lady I'm paired up with? Feels like I'm going up against the 2013 Seahawks defense. Keyes to the game. Take what the defense gives you and establish the run. I'll take any tips and tricks I can get. Smack me in the ass with an ego waffle. I'm in the outfield during my 14 U. Travel Ball tournament trying to calculate how many more runs we need to give up to get run ruled so we can go home early.

I appreciate y'all from making Tuesdays better. Sent from my IBM Simon Person communicator. I didn't know you guys were doing that in baseball Oh hell yeah dude That's when I knew that I was not gonna go anywhere with my baseball career I was like okay let's just come on go ahead Go ahead let's just run this up so we can get out of here in five Man I was doing that my whole life with stuff That's not a good sign

Yeah if we win we go to the playoffs But I'm like but if we lost we're done Yeah Think about that If we lost They'd be like dog. I'd be like, Mm,

done? If we lost. Done sounds good to me. Dude, I'm a piece of shit. But yeah. If we lost, we could go to the St. Jude Fest.

Yo. If we lost no practice after school, just wanted to experience that one time in my life. Like, can I just go home, like eat cereal and just sit there for an hour, please? Yeah.

Then feel guilty, but just give me that hour. That's true. All right. Wedding. Wedding season. Wedding season. Yeah.

I mean, we all went through that. Luckily, I think both of us are really on the other side. Ben's actually in the second marriage route with all his people. True. He's in that phase. I'm still, you know, everybody's still, we've got through the ones so far. But it does.

It's amazing how it really just, you know, one breeds another, man. I mean, once the first ball drops all of a sudden. Oh, bang, bang, bang. Yeah, you got seven in two years

and they just come out of the woodwork. It's like, it'll be anywhere from your, your two best friends to then just like, the guy you work with and then a guy that you grew up with

on the street, you're like, I got this invite. I guess. Do I, you know? Crazy. Yeah,

there's two years where it's like nonstop. Yep. Um, I mean, I wouldn't say, worry about the dance moves to hit so much. I mean, honestly,

I hope you're budgeting out, my man. These bachelor parties ain't cheap and the weddings aren't either. Yeah, big, yeah. I don't know. For me, it was always like, honestly, it was have your entrance thing that you're going to do with your girl, like ready. So you're not,

because I'd spend a whole wedding day thinking about that. like I can't enjoy myself at all because this girl just wants to know what are things going to be. I'm like, oh my God. That and getting the tucks back pretty much. I wasn't a big bachelor party guy. But yeah. Yeah, I don't think that's a whole, that's a whole two days pretty much. Dude, bachelor parties aren't two days anymore.

Three? Those bitches go on forever. You're looking at a Thursday to Sunday. yeah that's so much money and that you don't have either yeah exactly that's where when i did mine i was of the two-day belief i was like yeah we'll get there on friday afternoon we'll leave on sunday afternoon we'll get friday night saturday night a place like drivable that's not too crazy you know what i mean like but then there's some you know there's some that i hear about that i can't believe there's some that i've been on that i haven't been too bad but yeah it's like

I get there Thursday afternoon, leave Sunday, and you're like, geez. It's a lot of time. By the second day, you're like, we've done it. So run it back, I guess. The third day? Yo, this is starting to feel like, am I breaking the law? Like, who's mad at me? Right.

Yeah, wedding. That's good from Ben. Yeah, just like have something. So because the girl's never going to have something. It's crazy that they take no responsibility with that. I'm like, you got nothing. Rarely, rarely, if she does, if she's one that rarely does, then just go with that.

Just don't even, then your idea is just caboot. It's not worth it because it's just, just go with that. But come with one in mind that's going to be simple, quick, whatever, just because the girl's going to be like, I mean, I don't, like, I don't know. You don't even know her either. You're like, what is she even about? at all. I have no idea. I don't even know her name. There's three Caitlin's. I don't know if she's one of them.

Or it can come down to, yeah, why does every bridal party have at least, at least multiple pairings of girl at the same name? Are you a Jessica R or Jessica S? I'm like, I don't even know there was a Jessica. Yeah. I was saying Jess. She probably hates that. My mom calls me Jess. Don't. Girls always do that, bro. Girl, ew, my dad calls me K. I'm like, I mean, Jesus Christ. I'm just trying to, sorry, Kelly. I'm just trying to mix it up a little bit.

All right. Can't give you a fun nickname. That was already taken. Jesus Christ, cut me some slack. Here's my biggest piece of advice, I think, for the bachelor parties. Always two girls with the same name. All right.

At least. Sometimes. Sometimes there's one where they'll be like, they'll be like two Kalins and they'll also be two Megynes. Yeah, fuck, dude. This is horrible. Yeah. Biggest piece of advice that for the Bachelor Party is

whenever everybody else is super hyped up to try to do something on the first day, try to do the opposite. If you get in, if you get in and they're like, because what's going to happen is that it's always going to go where, and the group chat leading up to it and everything, you'll get the kind of the run of show, the lay of the land,

it'll be like, hey, yeah, so Thursday night, we'll get in, we'll just kind of like order some pizzas, watch the game, and just kind of chill. And then you're going to get there and everybody's going to be so jacked up, like, you're all nine years old on Mountain Dew,

and they're going to be like, should we, I'm thinking about, I think we should probably go out. Like, I feel like we could probably check it out, right? Like, we don't get crazy, but we can check it out. That never ends up happening. They always go out.

There's a portion of people who go out, And then they're all way too excited and they stay out until 3 a.m. or whatever. And then they're hurting for the rest of the trip. Whenever that comes up, don't get FOMO. Know that you're looking out for your future self and the good of future self and the rest of the party. Stay in. Say, nah, actually, I'm just going to, you know what? I'm going to, I'm going to chill on a few beers here.

And then I'm just going to call it. Dude, come on. What? Dude. what? You just got to. And sometimes don't even, what I'll do, I'll just Irish goodbye at where I won't leave.

All of a sudden, I'll just duck out and I'll be in my bed. Future self, dude. He'd never let you down. Why would you let him down? Just saying. You know, then the next morning, people are, oh, dude, I don't. Like, they're not wanting to get up at like 10 a.m. 11 a.m.

You're like, I knew this is going to happen, bro. It's a marathon. The same sprint. It's a marathon. You got me down here for three and a half days. It's good advice. I've messed that up so many times on spring break. It's going to be really hard.

It's going to be really hard. But what always will break you, and you might have to experience this. What always break you is that first time where you are so excited, you go with them and you're out until four in the morning, and then you've got to realize you have two or three more days of this and you're so hungover and you just want to die.

You're like, damn, I'm never doing this again. I'm staying in and you're going to feel immaculate the next day. And you'll be set up for success. We got to go to the baseball. ball game at noon. You're looking at the clock, dude. It's 5 a.m. You can hear birds outside.

Uh-huh. Bro, no. Yeah. Hey, Uber's here at 11, he said last night. Uh-huh. Hey, you thought that, you guys were getting your riffs off on Grant

because he was already cashed out at 11.30 p.m. last night. Look at him now. He's laughing now. On fire. Cracking jokes. Your eyes just. open.

Grant's got a mixer. He's asking you if you want a mixer. You can't even think about alcohol and that's all Grant is ready to do because he got seven and a half, eight hours of sleep last night after having five beers. He's going to do it again tonight. Yep.

Simple put. Be Grant. All right. Good deal. We'll end there. Team of these guys at gmail.com.com.com. I appreciate you guys. These guys, L-O-L. YouTube. Subscribe, watch us every week. These guys, L-O-L on Instagram.

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Could not believe it. Hey, I'll be out actually. I'll be out of the Super Bowl this week. So if there's any clubhouse who is out there in San France, San Clara area. And I got any recommendations or you want to meet up or, you know, whatever. Let me know. because I'll be out there Thursday to Saturday. Recommendations know about this?

Maybe I will too. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. But, uh, yep, like, follow, subscribe. Send it to your wife. Mm-hmm. And yeah.

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