When an injury benched my dreams of swimming competitively, I understood the weight of saying goodbye to a lifelong passion. Today, Pat Svihlik, a former college soccer standout who's now shaping futures at Notre Dame College, joins me to share that familiar pang of an athlete's career cut short and the resilience needed to craft new dreams. We follow Pat's journey from his rough-and-tumble childhood games with his brothers to the turning point that saw him hang up his cleats and pick up the coach's whistle. Alongside, we delve into the world of college recruitment, unpacking the allure that pulled him to Walsh University, and nodding to the friendships that often guide our most pivotal choices.
The conversation takes a heartwarming turn as we reminisce about the euphoria of calling a championship soccer game, before peering into the multifaceted life of a college admissions officer at the historic Notre Dame College. Moving through corridors of laughter, we exchange tales from wearing our many hats—mine as a comedian and podcast host, and Pat's as an administrator. But don't let the chuckles fool you; there's wisdom in our "Fast Fiddy Five" segment, where quirky questions unlock candid revelations. As the episode winds down, Pat takes a moment to step back from the spotlight, redirecting our attention to those serving in the armed forces and first responders with a heartfelt thank you, leaving listeners with a sense of gratitude and blessings for the New Year.
When an injury benched my dreams of swimming competitively, I understood the weight of saying goodbye to a lifelong passion. Today, Pat Svihlik, a former college soccer standout who's now shaping futures at Notre Dame College, joins me to share that familiar pang of an athlete's career cut short and the resilience needed to craft new dreams. We follow Pat's journey from his rough-and-tumble childhood games with his brothers to the turning point that saw him hang up his cleats and pick up the coach's whistle. Alongside, we delve into the world of college recruitment, unpacking the allure that pulled him to Walsh University, and nodding to the friendships that often guide our most pivotal choices.
The conversation takes a heartwarming turn as we reminisce about the euphoria of calling a championship soccer game, before peering into the multifaceted life of a college admissions officer at the historic Notre Dame College. Moving through corridors of laughter, we exchange tales from wearing our many hats—mine as a comedian and podcast host, and Pat's as an administrator. But don't let the chuckles fool you; there's wisdom in our "Fast Fiddy Five" segment, where quirky questions unlock candid revelations. As the episode winds down, Pat takes a moment to step back from the spotlight, redirecting our attention to those serving in the armed forces and first responders with a heartfelt thank you, leaving listeners with a sense of gratitude and blessings for the New Year.
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I have a great episode for us today, but, first and foremost, I do have to get this new sponsorship read and that didn't air at the beginning and that is Buddies' Beard Care. Beard oils, cleaning, face washes and bombs everything you're going to need to keep your beard looking healthy, shiny and well maintained. I've been using this now for a little over a month now. My beard has never felt healthier. It has never been as full and as thick as it has and, according to my wife, has never been softer. That being said, go to Buddiesbeardcarecom. Tell them Mike Bono sent you. You won't be disappointed. It's Buddies' Beard Care, where size does matter At all. Being said, my guest today he is an administrator at Notre Dame College. He's a former college soccer player and a college soccer coach. I do believe we're going to get into all of that. Pat Svelec joins the show. Pat, I hope I didn't bust your name, but thanks for joining.
Speaker 2:
It's perfect. Thanks a lot for having me. Really appreciate you having me on and, before I go any further, happy early New Year to you.
Speaker 1:
Thank you, no problem, absolutely. Happy New Year to you and yours as well, pat. For the listeners out there, tell everyone about where you grew up and where did you go to school, and everything like that.
Speaker 2:
I'm a Northeast Ohio guy. I grew up in the Broadview Heights Parma area. I attended Paddle High School. From there I went on to Walsh University, which is about an hour down the road Little over an hour down the road in Canton, ohio, right next to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I was able to play a couple years of soccer at Walsh University. Unfortunately, the offseason of my sophomore year had a pretty bad injury. The doctors wouldn't clear me anymore to play, so that led me into kind of the coaching administrative aspect of the game, if you will. And then, from Walsh, I have been able, and very fortunate, to coach and work at a lot of great institutions NCAA Division III, ncaa Division II schools. So very fortunate and very blessed after the playing days were over to jump into the coaching realm, I really just meet and interact with a lot of incredible people people that I've coached with, players that I've recruited and coached and coaches that I've coached against and players that I've coached against. So it's been a huge blessing.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, absolutely, and very familiar with the Caddon area. We visit the Hall of Fame All the time. My wife's uncle is actually a member of the pro football Hall of Fame Clark Hingle, Mr Fullback for the Green Bay Packers. We try to visit Caddon as much as possible. Go see a whole uncle Clark. But yeah, that's awesome. And growing up and everything like that.
Speaker 1:
I can relate with the sports injury too as well. I was a swimmer in college and after my sophomore year I actually injured my shoulder In the middle of a race that was actually going to be the one that was going to give me to make it on time to the Olympic trials in 2012. So I definitely understand doctors not clearing you back to play and everything like that. So it's a tough reality, but you know what? It's a part of being an athlete. You know, I've always say it's not if you're going to get hurt. It's when you're going to get hurt, because it's the nature of the beast, but it definitely happens. So, like me, you actually come from a big family. So what was it like growing up with so many brothers?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, so for older brothers it wasn't always easy. There were a lot of days, especially in our backyard, whether we were just running around or climbing trees or playing soccer or playing another sport, one of us was usually coming inside the house with something bleeding, whether it was like an elbow, a knee or, on a rare occasion, like a bloody or a black eye. So my brothers and I were all real competitive, but you know I love them all and we just kind of got together over Christmas, most of us, and we were just rehashing some of the days and some of the stories of just playing in the backyard and growing up and doing some of the things that if I were to tell you I'm not sure that would go for a while. But now definitely enjoy growing up with all four of our older brothers.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I can get it. I'm the youngest of three and I'm the only boy, so, uh, two older sisters, I know I wish I had that brother to go out into the backyard with, you know, play football or anything like that. But my one sister she had missed this now, but a little bit of a tomboy growing up, so, you know, got to throw some baseball around with her A little bit. It was definitely a lot of fun. But yeah, there's in my immediate family, there's 16 total of us. So I understand coming from a big family and what that's like. But you mentioned a little bit, you know you went to to Walsh University. You know, can you take us through a little bit of the recruiting process there? Because you didn't say you played soccer and and what was that like and why did you ultimately decide on Walsh?
Speaker 2:
Right. So my best friend when I was at Paddlewall, he initially got got got my interest into Walsh. Chris was being recruited for for two sports, soccer, as well as the track and field program and I remember him just telling me a lot of great things about about the university, about, you know, some of the people, some of the coaches, the location and just some of the different academics that were offered. So I remember it was it was my senior year and I had been on a couple college visits and it was. It was around early September of my senior year that I was planning on getting down to Walsh University for for a visit to see the campus and everything and then unfortunately, most unfortunately my senior year September was the events of 9-11 transpired, so that kind of pushed my visit back about a month, little over a month. So when I went down there I was a little bit just anxious, because now it's October of my senior year and a lot of my friends already in their senior year they had a very strong indication of where they were, where they were going to attend college or most of them were already committed to school.
Speaker 2:
So going down to Walsh, I just remember. You know I was thinking, man, what if this doesn't work out? Or what if this isn't the? The, the place that you know Chris and I were talking about it as being. But as soon as I got on campus, as soon as I got on tour, as soon as I got into the dorms and recognized some people I went to high school with and competed against at the high school level and just really meeting a lot of the people I knew that was the place that I really wanted to attend college. And then, you know, coming back from that, from having conversations with some of my older brothers, with my mom and dad, and just going through the FAFSA process, speaking with, with, with Coach Mead from the soccer team and him finding out a little bit about me and me finding out a little bit about him and the type of program he was building, I just knew that that was really the place. I want to love it.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I mean I wish, with my sport being swimming, that by October of my senior year that I knew where I was wanting to go being a swimmer. I got to wait through those winter months or over, right?
Speaker 1:
And to really make my decision. But yeah, the recruiting process is always different for every sport and every individual in every college. So I'm always interested to hear, you know, how that went for different people. Swimming is, it's a little different. You know, I had a bunch of schools looking at me. I mean, if it wasn't for actually being hurt my senior year of high school and not being able to swim because I thought playing football and swimming at the same time was a good idea in high school, in hindsight it wasn't Right. But you know, a lot of schools did drop their, their scholarships all except for Beth and the colleges where I ultimately went.
Speaker 1:
But you know, it was it's. I don't want to say it's fun having schools actually reach out to you and telling you that they want you to come there and I guess, actually being courted by them. So it's always nice to see that and you know, having that want is always a good thing for sure. But you've had quite the coaching journey for sure. Actually, after we're fast forwarding now after college and you know getting into coaching. So take us through a little bit about that again, where you've coached and the positions you've had at each school.
Speaker 2:
Right. So so after I finished up at Walsh University, I finished with my undergrad and actually ended up doing my graduate schooling at Walsh. From there, one of my best friends and an amazing player got into coaching Steve Rose whether it was the coach at Marietta College and he he asked me to come down and join him and be his assistant coach. That was going from Walsh to NCAA Division 3 level, where we're treating a little bit different because obviously NCAA Division 3, no, no athletic aid or scholarship, if you will is is afforded to attending in the student, at least at that level. So it was a little bit of an adjustment. Marietta was a little bit of an adjustment, kind of a different town, but again similar to Walsh in the fact that there were a lot of great people on campus and in the study. So I enjoyed my time down there, spent a couple years down there in helping to develop our student athletes and get involved not just at the college but but in the Marietta community as a whole. From from there, when I was at Marietta, I had the opportunity during the summers to to work some of the residential and development camps at Ohio Northern University and Ohio Northern at the time and, and even even today is is a top one of my top programs at the NCAA Division 3 level. When I was there Brian Ridenauer was the coach and and when I got there there was a young man by the name of Chris Matejka who was one of the better midfielders on the team. He's now the head coach and he continues to do a great job there. But when I was at Ohio Northern, my first year there, we went on to win the conference regular season, the OAC conference regular season, went on to win the conference postseason 30. And we made it all the way down to Texas, to the final four and even the national championship, where unfortunately, we lost in the national championship to Tom Masayek College. From there then I came.
Speaker 2:
I came back to the Cleveland area to gentlemen who I just have the most amount of respect for and I'm not sure you're going to find any better not just coaches and administrators, but people, and in Mac McBride and Carl Nolan they brought me on to their staff at Notre Dame College. I mean, from there I really learned so much from there, from both of them not my first time in the office on the field we're recruiting different type of meetings, different type of conversations, understanding different financial aid models, different recruiting approaches, different administrative approaches, but the number one thing that I talked about from both of them from Mackinacroll was how they go about treating people and how they communicate with people which they turn into an orphan From there. Both of those gentlemen, as well as some other administrators I know their name helped propel me to land me. I had coaching position at Heidelberg University. So going from Notre Dame, which is an NCAA division, to institution to back to NCAA division three realms Heidelberg a little bit different.
Speaker 2:
We're not in a major metropolitan city, if you will, where Notre Dame is, heidelberg's located in Tiffin, ohio, which is about 45 minutes south of Toledo, ohio, and about 20 minutes away from Finlay.
Speaker 2:
But enjoyed my time at Heidelberg, met some incredible people there, some fantastic coaches, some brilliant people in the athletics department and at the university, and was able to recruit some incredible young men from the state of Ohio, from the Midwest, from Texas and from California.
Speaker 2:
And I was so fortunate at Heidelberg that the previous coach, the gentleman who really built the program, dr Brian Haley he was still at the university and Brian I like to think of him as Mr Heidelberg, he teaches at the university did so much advising and mentoring and serving on committees and doing so much for the athletic department and did a lot of fundraising.
Speaker 2:
So it was great to have him. They're a man of so much experience where I could kind of lean on him and just kind of have some conversations with him before some big matches we're in the off season and talk about the development of not just the student-athlete but the entire personal student and athletic component. So I spent a little over four years there and then was able to come back to Notre Dame and join Coach Nolan's staff, be as assistant coach and from there have kind of taken on a couple different roles at Notre Dame this year, going from athletics into doing some teaching and doing some work in the admissions department, working with some transfer in international students. Sorry for rambling on, but that's kind of how the journey's unfolded.
Speaker 1:
No, I love it, and you're on the show with Ride Home Rans, so we expect long-winded answers. Right, we're good with that, Especially with, like I said, you've had quite the coaching journey. But you actually do know former guests of the show, Frankie Tall. So how did you get to know Frankie and know about Bethany College?
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
So Frankie and I got a chance to know him when I would go down to Bethany in the summers mostly June and July and worked on Bethany College University soccer camps and Frankie and I remember having a lot of great conversations with him and a lot of conversations were not just about soccer but just sharing how we can take lessons from the pitch and carry it into life and recruiting and I would ask Frankie what type of players or what type of tactics or how he would like to set his teams up.
Speaker 2:
He would have similar questions and then just the ability or, I'm sorry, the opportunity to see Frankie run some of the sessions that he ran during the Bethany Soccer Camps was awesome. So I'm so happy that he's down there at Bethany Again. He's a Bethany guy. He absolutely loves the institution. He loves the student athletes he gets to work with. He's done so much for the institution, not just as a player but now as a coach. So Bethany had themselves a good one and definitely enjoyed following him when they're competing in conference play as well as especially late October and November when they get into the NCAA national tournament.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I've been following Frankie for a while, since he's been on the show Love Frankie to death. And, having been there, and especially coaching and playing at my alma, mater I definitely follow them a good bit.
Speaker 1:
I follow everybody that's been on the show, right, it gets taxing at time. This could be the first episode of season four. So we're on season four. I've had a lot of athletes and administrators and coaches and everything like that on. I do follow all of them, so it gets taxing at time, but I love it and I love seeing the success of everybody that's been on.
Speaker 1:
But yeah, frankie is just awesome and Bethany soccer has always been up there in top notch and always defending for conference championships and in the national tournaments and everything like that. I even remember when I was there I got to announce the PAC soccer championship I believe it was Bethany versus Teal and I gotta say we did not have a press box for me to sit in, so I was sitting up out in the cold, right. It was an interesting experience but it was a great one for sure to sit and watch that. Definitely glad Frankie's keeping up with the winning tradition at Bethany soccer, absolutely For sure. Now you're currently working at Notre Dame College as a transfer coordinator in the admissions office. I mean, how do you like working in the admissions office and the mission size of it, and can you let our listeners know. You know what is your drop and tail.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, so. So first thing first, the opportunity to work with, with brandy and and Johnny, is awesome on a day-to-day aspect, one of the cool things about Notre Dame it's it's cool but what also stress will, at the same time we have to wear so many hats, with us being a small private institution. So I know brandy and John are always, you know, rushing to to different meetings and in different committees and things like that. But but coach Nolan, carl and I Carl, in addition to to coaching the soccer program, is also the director of International admissions, so still have an opportunity to work with him, not just in the off an athletic component, but work with him in helping work, recruit Young men and women who are outside the game of soccer and help bring them to Notre Dame to get a quality education.
Speaker 2:
Is is is something of a of a bonus. So, in addition to doing transfers and getting to, you know community college events and you know whether it's Cuyahoga Community College or or some some of the other schools, lakeland Community College the best thing is always getting out to, to interact with, with different people and hear their stories and hear how they came to be in higher education. And then the ability to recruit Young men and women who you know may not just be coming from from Ohio, but maybe from the Midwest or from the West Coast or from overseas. It's it's awesome to to hear those Different perspectives and different stories.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that I definitely understand the. You know we're in the the many different hats as Not the same, I guess. But as a comedian, you know, I'm not just up on stage slinking jokes all day. I do wear Many different hats in that. You know, I have this podcast, I have a merch store I got around. I have and website I got to keep up with. I got coffee brand. You know it's just, Everyone sees the final product and they're like oh, you're a comedian, you work like an hour a day. That must be the job on the planet. It's like no it's right.
Speaker 1:
You see, you see the hour that I cut everything down to to prepare jokes, and then going to open Mike nights to do to test out the jokes and everything like that. And yeah, so it is it. I definitely understand it, and the only person I know that could do that would probably be Johnny, because I wish I had a third of his energy. Yeah, I love him to death, but there's times when it's like to can we just like pump the brakes a little bit, but, right, never another way. I'm sure working with him, you're, you're definitely in the same boat with that and dealing with that energy on a daily basis.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, john is always on, he's, he's always a hundred percent. That's. Yeah, you know that. That's. That's one of his saw, his strengths and and he brings, he brings a cool energy to the office, especially on Halloween.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's Halloween for sure. Yeah, so take us through a little bit. You know why should students choose Notre Dame College to attend?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I think there's. There's a lot of reasons why no name college, what appeal to to a lot of different students and Student athletes? Number one, I would say, is the people. Number two, I would say, is the location. What us being you know, depending on how you drive Five to ten minutes away from from downtown Cleveland, there's so much to do in around the, the area of Of Notre Dame and where the campus is located the, the. The third thing I would say Kind of it's a continuation of my second answer is there's a lot of colleges around Notre Dame. There's there's John Carroll, there's Cleveland State, there's there's Baldwin Wallace, and then there's a lot Lakeland Community College, I, and I'm sure there's a couple other ones that that I'm forgetting to mention, uh, which means there's a lot of students and a lot of student athletes In. You know um that that have a lot of similarities, that that you can, that you can hang out with uh and bond with them and learn from the, the.
Speaker 2:
The last item, um that that I would uh Stay. You know Notre Dame College, with its uh strong history, uh, and with its uh, with its Catholic foundation, um, I feel like it's it's moved um into uh, into, you know, an opportunity where we have uh students and we have student athletes who are not just from the state of Ohio, not just from the midwest, but from all over the country, and then we have over a hundred um Students um who come from uh, come from uh across the pond, uh come from uh countries of England, ireland, uh, germany, very brazil, um all Australia, um just to name a couple. So um again the opportunity to work with um young men and women and hear their story of how they came to Notre Dame and what they're looking to get out of Notre Dame and what they're looking to contribute to Notre Dame. Um, it's, it's just uh it's. It's a fascinating Uh place that provides such a unique opportunity For for men and women, literally from from all over the world.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's. That sounds like an amazing place to To be and to go. I honestly wish I would have known about it when I was choosing a school and everything like that.
Speaker 2:
Right right, we do have a pool on campus too, you know.
Speaker 1:
So feel free to come up on campus and get a couple laps and I don't even know if my shoulder would allow me to do a couple Right, would love to be able to do it. Trust me, I do miss the water, even though, um, you know, at 34, you know it's, it's tough. You know, I've been out of, I've been out of the water now coming up on 20 years and it's it's. It's still tough to do that, but you know what you're, you know what's it. You have a, like you said, you wear a lot of different hats. What's it like being a dad, a husband, you know, with coaching and everything like that? Where do you find that balance?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, um, probably glad you're asking me and not my wife. Um, um, yeah, it's, it's. It's not easy, um, it is definitely not easy, um, but at the same time it's it's. It's a lot of fun and I find it rewarding when I'm able to be on the field and then when, if it's a training session or after a match, I get to see my kids running across the field and give them a hug, and my wife, who is so incredible and so supporting and who you know, who will come to games that are not in the most ideal weather conditions, and she'll oftentimes say to me you know, why can't you coach an indoor sport? You know it's, it's, it's awesome, it's awesome to have that strong support network from my, from my loving life and and to awesome kids.
Speaker 2:
Just quick story I remember my, my first year at Notre Dame. Where our benches are located, the, the fans are are literally right behind the benches, and I remember there was a. There was a conference match. We were playing and and the head coach, carl Nolan, he was, he was having um I'll use the term a delicate word with, with, with officials and and some of the players, and I just I just remember when he turned around. I'm sitting on the bench. He turned around and there's there's kind of the the, the stands behind us. He turns around and there's, um, there's my, my daughter, who at the time was I was two years old Lucy and he just turns around and he goes Pat, there is no mistaking that. That daughter of yours is absolutely your, your child, and that was just, that was just awesome for an awesome moment.
Speaker 2:
I'll never forget, like, during the heat of the competition, um, such a tough, competitive conference match we were playing in you, you could feel the tension between the two sides.
Speaker 2:
Carl turns around and, you know, he cracks a statement, cracks kind of like a joke, if you will like that, to kind of just like loosen all of us up. And from that moment on I remember, um, we kind of ended up smashing the opponent I won't say who, but it's cool to have family um involved, uh, whether it's, you know, you know, ncaa athletics or you know club sports, training sessions, games, um, it's, it's awesome to, uh, to, to have them come out and and to see, you know to, to see what, what I do for a living, um, and then you know, um, it's a tough position that that I put my wife in where she's doing a lot of um the the raising of the kids, and doing a lot of the the bedtime um while while we're on the road traveling through west Virginia or Pennsylvania or other states. So, um, there is absolutely no way um I would be able to do this without her um, so I'm just so blessed um all around and really, uh, really appreciative and and really thankful for it all yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
I know what a crazy schedule could be like and you know, having a son myself, there's times when I wish he could come and see what I do being a comedian. He's always asking like can I come? Can I come? I was like you, you're 14. I can't knowingly take a 14 year old into a ball right now to do a comedy show.
Speaker 1:
I can't right right you're close to a couple more years go, excuse me, getting over, yeah, the wonderful time of the year, cold, uh, but yeah, it's just. But yeah, he, he asked all the time hey, could I come to the show? Dude, I unfortunately no yeah, I can't yeah.
Speaker 1:
I can't bring you to this one, but right so he's he's getting to that age where it's he's gonna be able to come, and I can't wait for that, to have him there, mainly because I know he. He's like me, he's very quick-witted and I know he's gonna heckle me throughout the show. I just know what's gonna happen, just knowing his personality and how he is.
Speaker 1:
So I actually can't wait for that. I've been preparing for this that day right over to make him regret heckling old dad on stage. So sure, sure. But yeah, I definitely get it too as well. But um, now you said noted, or yeah, you said it was noted, dame, though the fans were literally right on top of you, uh, yeah that's right.
Speaker 1:
His uh football stadium where in his high school is the same way like you, the fans are literally right on top of of everybody, and you know it's. It's nice to be that close to him and, you know, get to experience the fans. But I'll tell you that he is the worst injured player that could be on the field. He, he was always turned around like hey, uh, can you give me a drink? Like you have water bottles right there, turn around, be with your teeth why, are we talking right now?
Speaker 1:
we should be talking right, right, right. So I definitely get that. It's. It's a lot of fun. But, pat, we are running down near the end of the episode here. I do have to get this one last segment in, otherwise the wonderful manager of the podcast, johnny fitty falconi, will kill me if I don't. And that is the fast fitty five. Five random questions from the wonderful manager of the podcast, johnny fitty falconi. And I gotta tell you, pat, he sent these to me today, uh. So, uh, I get these the last minute, just like everybody else, and, uh, they have nothing to do with what we've been talking about for the entire show. So for the new listeners out there, this is kind of rapid fire, but you can elaborate if you need to. So if you're ready, pat, we'll go ahead and get started well, let's do it okay, question one what would be harder to live without hot water or no electricity?
Speaker 1:
electricity yeah, that's. That's kind of a toss up for the first one. Question number two is ice cream better in a cup or a cone cup?
Speaker 2:
okay, cup yeah, you, you can. You can put more in a cup as a post-doc account okay, I never thought of it that way, as well as you know, would it be in in a cup, you can add, you know, uh, you know, chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, uh, sprinkles different type, you can just add so much more when it's in a cup, um, as opposed to uh uh account. So yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
Question number three who was a better performer, elvis or Michael Jackson?
Speaker 2:
Oh, definitely, definitely the king of alphas.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I'd have to agree with that one too as well. And okay, this, this one is such a fitting question. All right, bear with me on this one, right. Who wins in a fight? Four regular guys or 50 emperor peg, peg ones? Keep in mind the fight is Wait, they, they booked it. The key is you're fighting them in a locked, empty house, which you cannot escape. Let me get through that again without having to reread that. So who wins in a fight for regular guys or 50 emperor peg ones? The key is you're fighting in a locked and empty house and you cannot escape.
Speaker 2:
Wow, um. Well, now, normally I would say the four guys, but but With, uh, with, with you dawning the the penguin shirt, you know, and, and us talking penguin hockey, you know, I, I gotta go with the penguins right now.
Speaker 1:
Absolutely. And Last question, now this one, this one's actually right up your alley. Yeah, could the best d3 college soccer team in the usa beat the worst d1 college soccer team?
Speaker 2:
Yes.
Speaker 1:
Okay that? Yeah, I was interested to hear that. But yeah, I mean, I think anybody can win at any point in time, depending on the sport, no matter what it is. So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:
That was the fast 55, other than that emperor penguin question. I mean, that was pretty easy questions for you there, pat, uh, right, he's. He's had a strange obsession with animals.
Speaker 2:
With these questions there's always at least one animal question, right right, I'm just curious and, and maybe you know, you can ask you know, like when or or how does he go about even coming up, come up with some of these questions.
Speaker 1:
I've asked him this for years Because I've known johnny since college of bethany and he was like this in college. He would just come up with these random scenarios in his head like all right, you're locked in a room, it's you, connor McGregor and batman who comes out alive, like it's just like. Why do you come up with this?
Speaker 2:
He's like right away my mind works, man.
Speaker 1:
So it's just awesome Because he yeah, he won't even randomly text me these questions, just like not five, but he'll just. I'll just be sitting there. I hear my phone ringing and I'll look down and it's it's johnny, and it's just like I got a real good question for you. It's always something like that, it's just, it's always fun to do. But yeah, he right, it's just the way his mind works, is his answer that he's giving me right, right. But, pat, like I said, we are running down near the end of the episode here. I do give every guest this opportunity at the end of every show. So if there's anything you want to get out there, whether it's now promoting ndc or anything else that you want to get there, or even if it's just a good message, I'm going to give you about a minute and the floor is yours.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, uh, uh. Honestly, um don't don't really have anything to promote. Um, I would just take the opportunity with uh, with um the new year a couple days away, to take the opportunity, um to wish everyone a happy and blessed new year. Um and take the opportunity to um to thank everyone um in our um armed forces, in our first responders and for everyone who's um, who's out there Um sacrificing Um so that we can have um the um, the, the Quote on the call hally-jally Christmas and and safe Christmas and safe new year, so um. So thank you um to To all uh, to everyone who is uh, who is sacrificing um and uh allowing us to to do what we love to do. Um, and thank you uh for for having me on the show. Really, uh really appreciated uh the time in my and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Speaker 1:
Absolutely I. I love it when people have a good message. I'm all for helping people promote, but you know I'm a big supporter of the armed forces and our troops and the first responders. Uh, I love it. That's why I partnered with uh that you heard at the beginning of the episode. Uh, one of the sponsors, tactical brotherhood. All of the not all of the first, but most of the proceeds from every purchase goes to helping support veterans and our first responders and our military. So, big supporters into those.
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