Episode 126: Kaepernicked

A new episode with Jordan Schmaltz & Gage Ausmus.

This week the fellas get into: 

- Pat McAfee Album

- Kyrgios got pinched snowing

- Auzzo to FORKS

- People's Insider Term of the Week

 && much more !!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Alrighty, folks. Welcome into Live and Fire Baby episode 126. Off the bone on the screws, battling some technical difficulties, but we got the captain nonetheless. Gay Ozzo Osmus, reporting from the guts of the greater Minneapolis area. Jay Swish, as always, I am in Dane County, holding it down, holding it down nice and brown over here in Mad Town. Had to get out of the desert, Ozzo. Too fucking hot there right now. There's nothing going on. So I slid up here. Gonna hang out with Nikki. Gonna see Jakey before they leave. And then uh I'll be back down to the desert. But I wanted to ask you, bro. Did you uh are you bumping that new Pat McAfee or or what's going on? Have you have you listened to it at all yet?

SPEAKER_00 0:45

I'll be honest. I love Pat McAfee just as much as the next guy. I think he's a great personality. He does a great job on ESPN. I have not listened to his country music. I saw he released an album.

unknown 0:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

Well done. I saw Bucci tweet about it. I saw Bucci like, hey, it's pretty good, Pat. Nicely done. It's his colleague. They both work at ESPN together. Now I saw people making fun of Bucci for saying, nicely done, Pat. Hey, listen, this is America. We can all do whatever the hell we want to do. And if Pat McAfee wants to go out and make a country music album, by all means go ahead and do it, man. You're you got a hundred million dollars plus. Why not go try it? Now, am I gonna listen to it? Not until I get told to listen to it. I'm not gonna go search it out. I'm not gonna search Pat McAfee and just listen to it on my own. So I have not heard any of his songs, and I have not been told to listen to it yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

So should I? Have you heard? Well, first off, I want to preface this with some context. I envy Pat McAfee. I respect the fuck out of his work ethic. For a guy that gets paid 60 million dollars a year, he absolutely grinds. Like the guy is everywhere, he's six days a week for I think almost 12 months. I think they take three weeks off in July. So I respect his grind. But is his music good? I listened to one song after I saw Bucci's tweet, and respectfully, that take was one of the worst takes I've ever heard. And I like Bucci too. But you don't have to nutchug him just because he's your coworker. Like the fact that he said that one of the songs on that album, I forget, but he said the one song on the album could be a top 40 hit. That is such a stretch, dude. Like, and that's honestly disrespectful to other artists that put their blood, sweat, and lives into making music. The fact that you think Pat McAvee can just hop on a record and make a top 40 banger on all of the billboards is erroneous. And the fact that Dan Orlovsky is nut chugging him too because he's his coworker and he probably wants more time on the Pat McAvee show, saying it was an incredible album, top to bottom. Like, fellas, come on. Like, you don't have to lie that hard. I know you want to get in bed with them, but you don't have to fuck him.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Yeah, I guess I haven't heard any of it. Like, like I said, I'm probably not gonna listen until someone tells me to. I agree with 100%. Like, you know, you can do whatever you want, and you can't. I mean, you can just go out there and make a country album. Like, why not? But yeah, you're right. Like, you don't have to glaze him. I think it's best not to mention it. Yeah, if it's not good, no, if it is good, I I don't know. I haven't heard it. But now Pat McFee does have a good voice, he he's got a great radio voice. I feel like that is why one of the reasons why he's in his spot, he's great at talking. So maybe his singing voice is good. I don't know. But singing isn't something that you just have, right? Jordo, like there's a lot of training that goes with singing, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

And and you start using auto tune. I'm just saying, like, you have to put some respect on people that actually have done it their entire lives. You know what I mean? It's like I think it's cool because number one, I want to drop a track, probably not a whole album, but I would love to have just like a music video and just shoot it Magic City and just go white boy rapper for the jokes. Someday I hope and I dream that I can stand on top of a Ferrari with an Uzi in my hand outside of a 7-Eleven and make some bad bitches dance. Like, that is a dream I have. Do I want to do a full country album that it's actually like I'm being serious on? No, absolutely not. But I just thought it was hilarious, Oswald in the sense of like there's people, and they don't they haven't earned the platform that Pat McAvee has to get the reach he does, but there's legitimate people that are actual qualified singers that are really good country music people that struggle on the daily in a town like Nashville just to get the chance to be a feature on a song or even perform at a honky talk to get one chance of someone seeing them, and then for Pat McAbee to drop an album, which I think is cool and I respect because you can do whatever the fuck you want to do when you're in his position. I just thought it was corny for guys to glaze him and be like, This is actually good, fellas. Come on, what are we talking about? I'd rather listen to fucking I would think Chaz Michael Michael singing you know Lady Humps by the Black Eyed Peas in a movie like Blaze of Glory. It's just it was unnecessary. I was like, dude, you can't tell me this is good.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

So I actually I listened to a few songs and I was just kind of laughing, but the funny part is Jordo, he he's probably making money off of it. 100% he is, he's got a huge following. You know, if you're just strictly talking monetary terms, I guarantee you, like, what did it cost him to make it? Some time. He's already got a studio, he's already got the equipment, I'm sure, to make uh an album. It just costs him time, and whoever produced the songs. Yes, now I guarantee you they made money off of it. It's like I don't know, music's kind of funny because think of how many good singers are out there, Jordo, that that you've never heard because they just never they haven't made it to your eyeballs or your ears. Like they just didn't have enough steam behind them. Like, how much in music is it just getting out in front of everyone and having everyone listen to it versus how good you are, you know? Yeah, oh yeah. There's so many country artists that really aren't that good, but they're just they have a name and they're out there, and you heard their song, so now you listen to it.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

Yeah, and it's also just like who the industry wants to push to and push on you, you know. I mean, that's a big thing, too. If they fit the bill, like I feel like obviously Morgan Wallen is nasty, but he's kind of their poster boy for who they wanted to have on the radio, who they gave the serious XM channel to. I mean, they have Morgan Wallen radio. I just feel like you know, he's done a good job to mark himself too, but there's other guys out there, you know, that are probably better singers than a guy like Morgan Wallen, but he just fits the bill for that kind of American badass country, no give a fuck type of Tennessee type of dude, you know.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

Yeah, he's a superstar, and they just you know, like when you if you watch a Morgan Wallen concert on video, Jordo, he's kind of doing nothing up there. He's not he's not a great performer, he's just kind of singing, like jumping around. It's like that's not really a performer, like you're just singing, yeah. But he sells out stadiums because he's got such catchy songs. I don't even know if he writes his own songs. I think someone just hands it to him and he just sings it off.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

I don't think he writes a lot of his songs. I know Ernest writes a lot of his songs, I think he co-writes a few of them, but I I don't think he's grinding and putting together a whole album. Actually, I know that for a fact.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

No, yeah, that's what I've heard too. Like Eric Church, I think, writes his own stuff. Yeah, Thomas Rhett. Some of those guys do. I want to say Luke Combs might too. But yeah, think of how many people like you've been to Nashville. Those bands that are playing in Nashville on every level of every bar are unbelievable. They're all they're all great, and you will never hear any of their names. Maybe one.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

Yeah, maybe one if they're lucky. I mean, I I was fortunate a couple years ago to meet that Ernest guy in Arizona, and it was his first solo like stadium or festival headliner performance. And I was talking to a couple guys in his band, and they're like freelance dudes just in his band because because he was just kind of you know, the just getting going with his own tour and things like that. And a lot of those guys, like the one dude that plays the fiddle, the one guy that plays a bass guitar, like they sing every night on Broadway, hoping that they'll have their own band one day. But at this rate, you know, seven years in, they're just kind of either a bass guitar player or they're just a part of a band right now, just basically just doing it for the paycheck. You know, it's crazy, yeah. And they're nasty, they they have sick voices, like they're in there before before the concert starts and they're singing. And you know, a lot of times those guys they get so sick of just singing the cover band shit all the time, too, because they want to hear when you're shit faced and I'm faced on the third floor at Kid Rocks. Well, we want to hear Wagon Wheel by Darius Rucker. We don't care about some guy, some up and comer, even though he could be amazing. That's not what I want to hear right now, fella.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

No, it's not. I don't I don't even want to hear, you know, what when you go to a concert, it really doesn't matter who the artist is. But if you go to a concert, Jordo, and they sing one of their songs from their newest album they just dropped. You're like, uh skip this. Like, none of us know the words. Just play your old shit while we're here. You know, I don't care about your new album that you're trying to push on me. I haven't listened to it yet. I don't know the words. Just play your old shit that I know the words so I can sing along. And you're right, it's it's gotta be so hard for those guys to come out a new song and have people listen to it. Like, it's gotta be so catchy for people to even listen, like continue listening.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

I know, I know, man. And like people are so quick to judge, even just tying it back to Pat McAvee. Like, if that's what he wanted to do and he did it, that's cool. Is it any good? Well, some people might think it is. Music is subjective, comedy is subjective, everything is up for your own interpretation, but it's just so funny when you see it online and like the hate and the scrutiny. First of all, I didn't realize how hated Pat McAvee was. I didn't know people like didn't really fuck with. I mean, I'm I know he's a ton of fans, and Twitter's a negative space, but I was like, huh, this is kind of weird. But the fact that you know everyone is just so quick to judge a guy. The guy at the end of the day is not a singer, he makes 60 million dollars a year from ESPN, probably doubles that up in endorsements. Do you think he really cares? I think he's gonna be okay sleeping at night.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Yeah, no, he he doesn't give a shit. And I I I bet he made money off of it, which is I mean, it's it sounds dumb, but he definitely made money off of it. And I mean, his fans are gonna listen. Here's the thing, Jordo. If you're anyone, if if anyone knows your name, you will have haters. It's it's it's hilarious. Like, I follow this guy, Giordo, because I've been running recently. So I'm following this guy who just runs a hundred miles a week, and he's been doing it for I think it's like 350 weeks in a row. He's ran a hundred miles each week, and he he posts all this content, and basically his whole his whole job now is he's got half a million followers on Instagram and however many more on TikTok. That's his job, is to be like a con uh a runner that produces content, and the guy loves running, and he always posts videos of like people commenting, they're just they just hate the guy. They're like, buddy, shut shut the fuck up, quit running. Like, it's like, how does this guy have haters? All he does is post videos of him running, and people hate him. And it's like, what you gotta be kidding me? This guy doesn't do anything to be hated by anyone, and there's people out there commenting like they hate the guy. It's like there's humans out there who just they get pissed at you for if they think you are living a good life and then they hate you. They're like, Look at this fucker, he's living a good life, fuck him, he's a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Oh, yeah. I mean, I I think that's a good sign of growth, honestly, it for your business. If you're on Twitter or you're a personality or you're an athlete, I I think the the more haters you have in your comments, I think that shows a sign of you're getting bigger, and people just don't like to see that. So it is a good thing to have it. Now, does it nag on you? It could, yeah, if you're just looking at these people with burner accounts all the time and they're just chirping the fucking shit out of you, and you're like, Jesus Christ, this is there's no let up here. But yeah, I I think with anything, right? Like Pat Pat McAvee could have came out and literally dropped a gold album, like a CMA award-winning album, and it wouldn't have mattered. He still would have had people that said it was dog shit. It wouldn't have mattered. Is it good? I don't know. Is it bad? I don't know. It's probably somewhere in between it, but does it really matter? No, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter at all. Because, like you said, he probably made money off of it. It gets his name out there in other circles and maybe don't watch Pat McKibby. He definitely probably gained some fans from it. I doubt he lost a ton of fans just for dropping a country album. They might have been like, yo, that was dust, but yeah, whatever. I still like him on ESPN. So if anything, it's a win, a net win for a guy like Patty Furda. But I just thought that was funny. He came out, it was just so random. It was just like, all right, well, I guess we're on that Pat McAvee. I had tweeted out, like, yo, I've heard my I was just talking to my buddy. He told me he stayed in all weekend just to whack his ex to that new Pat McAvee. I was like, he ordered Chinese food, stayed in, took his ex on a waterbed. And I'm like, all things considered, that's a great Saturday night in Rockford, Illinois. You know, it's just like you're bumping that new, you're just banging to that new Pat McAvee.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

It is so funny to think you just go out and make a fucking country album out of nowhere. Just why not? I mean, I guess it's kind of sick, you know. If uh if I'm going to sleep at night and I I gotta produce and like it's on Spotify and it's on Apple Music. Like, I got a country album. I don't really care if it's good or not, it's kind of nails.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

It is nails. I mean to think about the athletes that had the best tracks. I would say Antonio Brown had a couple catchy bangers, like put that shit on. I'm from the pit, not the palace. But I would say, probably Jell-O Ball, man. Don't you think? Probably the best ex-athlete for sure to have a you know, that swerve and bend that corner. Like, that was a banger to have a track out there, that was nice.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

That well, I mean, and that caught on, and everyone knew it. Yeah, probably the biggest. I don't know. I'm I'm trying to refresh my brain here to think if there's ever been. I mean, Chucky Slick, I don't know, where that lands like Chucky Slick's shout out slick for me. That's probably number one from an athlete. But yeah, that jello one that one hit hard. Like, that's you're gonna get so lucky, right? You think to to have like produce a banger like that? Because when you're making it, you're just like, I mean, I think it sounds good, but right who the fuck knows what everyone else is gonna think.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

Yeah, yeah. What is the world gonna say? I mean, artists say that all the time. They're like, What's your favorite song on your album? Well, it was actually one that didn't really hit, but I thought it was gonna be the biggest banger. Yeah, the thing I think Pat McAvee did wrong, Ozza, was I think you gotta like dip your toes into that and be like, I'm gonna put out maybe one or two songs to come up with 14 of them? You're like, Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

That's a good point, Giordo. Why a full album? And what psycho is listening to that full album when you've got real country music artists out there making absolute bangers. Do you have enough time in your day to listen to 14 Pat McAfee songs? Like, just give us one. Like, one is good.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Like, dude, we hear your chin talk six days a week on ESPN five days for three hours prime time. Then you go do college game day on Saturdays, and then Sunday is off. When do I have time to hear you drop 14 songs on a track and listen to this? All these bars, like, dude, this is gonna be a whole day, this would be a whole week, this will be a whole year full of Pat McAfee.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

You gotta but McAfee is so smart, Jordo. You gotta think maybe this was just a complete marketing stunt because we like we just discussed, all press is good press, yeah. And and it did definitely like get his name out there, which is the name of the game when you're when you're a TV personality or a radio personality. The more people that know your name, the bigger you are going to be. So maybe he's just a step ahead of us, and he's just like fuck it, I'm gonna do this. It's people aren't gonna like it, but all press is good, press, baby, and this is gonna get me a lot of press because it did, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

But don't you think somewhere deep down as a competitor he is? He hasn't got to the point where he is, even as an NFL punter, to where he is as a medium mogul right now. He's gotta be competitive, and there has to be a sliver of him where he's in that in that studio. He we know he smokes weed, and he's drinking that lean, and he's like looking at us all of his guys around him who are probably all yes men by default. Don't you think he's thinking like this is pretty nasty?

SPEAKER_00 18:11

Uh, you would think to release it, you would think like this he's sitting in the studio listening to the song, like let's go do you think his boys are firing him up? Like, no, this is fire, this is fire.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

And that one brother on the show, I forget his name with all due respect, but you know, he's probably like, damn, dog, I didn't even like country, but this shit fired.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

The old the the reviews come out and he turns to his friends, like, where the fuck were you guys on that one?

SPEAKER_02 18:40

Yeah, and he's like, his wife is just pumping his tires, you know. It's so funny, dude. But man, like that's the thing about art, like you never know. Like, and to have the stones to put it out there, I think is always the most nails thing, and nails will always win over everything. I mean, it's even the same thing with David Spade and Theo Vaughn, where they produced that movie Bus Boys All by Themselves. I watched that movie, I try to watch it. I love both those guys. I've seen both of them do stand up probably over a combined 10 times. I've actually met them both. They're some of my heroes. But that was one of the worst movies I've ever seen, politely. But I do think at the same time, it was nails that they didn't use anybody in Diddywood. They produced it themselves, they funded themselves, and they didn't have to answer to anybody, and they didn't really have the funds maybe to do you know various different takes or camera angles. So I think the man in the arena that is willing to go in there and do it, I'll always respect as an artist. I think that's hard.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

No, it's it's really hard. And you I don't know if it was John Mayer I was watching an interview with, or it was it was some artist, Giordo. And he was like, people always ask me, like, was I always creative when I was younger? And he's like, I don't really think people are more creative than the other person. It's just like I've written and sang 10,000 songs, and 30 of them are good. Yeah, like if I only if I only wrote and sang a thousand songs, you wouldn't even know my name, but I just kept going. And he's like, that's what creativity is. It's just you just keep going. You don't know what people are gonna like. You think you have an idea, you release it, they either like it, they don't. Whatever happens, you just go back to the drawing board and do it again, and you just keep doing it. And people think it's like, oh, you were born with all that creativity, and like I don't have that. It's like, no, these guys just they just do it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

They just per you they just persevere and they put stuff out in the world that they think is dope, whether it hits or not. Well, they go back to the drawing board and they and they don't let it affect them in a type of way where they're just gonna quit. Also, it's no different than a business guy that you hear about that's like uber successful. Well, you never heard about all the failures he had, the time he went bankrupt, the time that he lost his house, the time he got foreclosed on, you know, his wife took half, whatever the story may be. You don't hear about all those failures, you're just like, Oh my god, well, he got lucky. It's like, well, I mean, he went through other shit that people just weren't willing to do.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

So it's funny. But did you see? Uh, I thought it was classic, and I hope the guys are right, but I'm obviously a tennis fan. Kyrios got caught snowing, and you know the always the funniest thing is about the guys that do Dust, and especially a guy like Kyrios. If he didn't get pinched, nothing would have happened. He would have been at the club in Mallorca probably tonight on Thursday, as people are hearing this, doing another bag. But the fact that he got caught led him to his Instagram story, which led him to saying to his fans that he's gonna be off the app for 28 days because 28 days is a rehab stint. Like, that's the funny thing about. Guys that get caught doing dust is they're not going to rehab for themselves most of the time. They're going just for the Instagram post.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

100%. I mean, it's not even it's you have to though once you get caught. It's like, yeah, does Kyrios have a problem with cocaine? I I see him on TV. I see he does. I wouldn't say he does. I just think, and and am I shocked that this guy, this personality, likes cocaine? Absolutely not. I'd actually would have bet my only nut that he likes the snow. I mean, that is the least shocking news I've ever seen in my life. But yeah, once you get caught, you have to act like, oh, like I'm gonna go figure this out. Like, I know my head it's not a problem, but you guys think it's a problem. So now I'm gonna have to go do rehab for you guys.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Dude, dude, the guy has a back piece tattoo. Of course he does blow. Like, what do you mean? Like, do you think a guy that inks his entire body's never done a bump? Of course he skis. Like the guy, also the dead giveaway, besides the back piece, two sleeves and a neck tattoo. The guy that has a tattoo behind his ear right here with some sort of initial, that's a guaranteed snore. That is a guaranteed snore.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

And the way he the way he looks too and carries himself, it's just like that guy snows when he's at the club. I mean, that's just the automatic.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

What do you mean? Of course he of course he funnels snow. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 23:34

How did he get caught? Like, does tennis drug test him randomly?

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Or like, yeah, what is that? I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure it's it's kind of like um the like the PGA tour where they can randomly test you if you're still a you still hold your card, which he does, but he's ranked like 919th in the world. He you know, he doesn't like play anymore. No, he barely competes. He always enters a tournament like once a year, be like Nick Curiosos playing in the Aussie open he's back home, and then it's like wrist or wrist injury 48 hours before they start play. He'll always do that just to get the buzz up, and then he'll play like in a low-level tournament in Monaco just to go probably snow and never really plays, but he's decent on TV.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

Yeah, he's great, he's a great personality. I like him. He was actually fun when he was playing. Um, he was a little bit of a Johnny McEnroe modern day, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

He's Snapchat.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

Snap show love that and tennis to think we need more of it, or just another one of those characters, it always makes it fun to watch. But yeah, that was the least surprising news I've I've ever seen. I I couldn't believe that it wasn't even in a news story. It was like, uh, I could have told you that five years ago that Nick Kyrgios is snowing.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Yes, and I I always anytime Kyrgios is in the headlines, it always brings me back to that Rafael Nadal clip where he's talking about Kyrgios. A reporter asks Rafa, he's like, Hey Rafa, Kyrgios said if he had your work ethic, he could be just as good as you. And he just looks at the reporter and he goes, Eve, eef, eef. It's like, you know, like what do you mean? Like you're comparing the biggest savage to ever go on a tennis court with probably the most uber skilled tennis player to ever actually play. I mean, Kyrios's skill was insane. I compare him in hockey terms, also to Josh Hosang.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Yes, very similar, probably better career than Hosang, but yeah, I would say so. I mean, if if he even had a sliver of Nadal's work ethic, he would be he'd probably have a couple majors.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Yeah, I mean, curious, the way he would play too, even when he was playing Joker, Rafa, like the the stuff in between the legs and just how he would play. Like he was just yes, he was just such a jackass out there. It was awesome.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

Oh, and the way he would give up on points too, if he was like pissed, like he'd just he'd just stand there and not go after a ball.

SPEAKER_02 26:04

If he was down like 30 to zero, he just he'd let them win the game and just walk to his yeah, and then he would he would like serve underhand and just get teed off on, and then go right to his teeth his team's box and just shred his coach. It's like, dude, what do you want him to do? He's not out there with you, bro. Uh yeah, he's all time, yeah. Just those wrist injuries, and just I I he probably just just snowed too hard, to be honest. He's honestly like in between, I would say he's almost like a manzell, man. To be honest, like, yeah, so much, so much hype, so much potential, so much skill, just could never really put it together. Some injuries probably caused by narcotics. Yeah, man. He was even in pop culture. If he would have won one major man, he would have taken tennis on by storm.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

Oh, he would have been big time. Because yeah, his his personality and his his character, and he can he can talk as good as anyone out there. Like he's fun to listen to when he talks. Um everyone has that. Like, Johnny Manzel isn't even close to as good of a talker as Kyriosis. And no, he would have been so big time, and it helps like he's obviously a really cool looking dude, too. So that that just makes that magnifies things.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Yeah, yeah. And he's one of those guys, too. Like, you know, he's making a quarter final or a round of 16 at a major, and his game check for the week is 400,000. He probably spent 300,000 in two weeks, and then he just goes and buys like an Ashton Martin and he pulls up in the gym and posts every single picture from it. You know what I mean? Like, that's that was curious, like it's so sick. But it is, yeah, it's nails. It's nails, but yeah, man. That was uh that was the least surprising news of the day, but uh fuck that's funny. That's so funny. So funny.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Go under rehab, rehab got pinched. You think that guy isn't touching the little keybump and uh in a biza next time he's there or wherever he's fucking hanging out at.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

Like, oh yeah, oh yeah, Majorca, right to Abiza, back to Barcelona, the old fucking Chinese triangle shift. Yeah, of course he's on the powder. What do you mean? He needs it just to stay awake. Unbelievable, unbelievable. But yeah, I think we're just gonna do one quick and short this week, folks. Uh, just wanted to pop on here, get Ozu on the captain. Azu, you're heading up to Forks, right? Next week.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

Yeah, Sunday. I'm heading up there for three days. Get to hang out with the alumni, the the pros skating there, and then the uh the current team as well. Try to instill some culture, some North Dakota culture into that current team with the help of the alumni. Really cool opportunity for myself, Giardo, just to be around the boys. Uh, everyone knows how much I still love the current team and obviously the coaching staff. So I don't know, dude. I'm I'm I'm fired up to get to meet these guys, and and you know, obviously there's there's big hopes for them this season, so it's pretty special that I get to be a part of you know, a little part of it before the season even begins.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

100%. I think Jakey's heading up there. Nikki Schmaltz is staying back. He's actually got a member guest this weekend that's taking him into Sunday. He's playing in the Maple Bluff member guest, his partner, Phil the Thrill Kessel. So those guys are gonna be. Yeah, those guys are gonna go tear it up at Maple Bluff. They got their, I think the the auction is tonight where you can bid on teams or buy a team that you think is gonna win, depending on the flight. And then the shootout is on Saturday, and then I think Sunday is you know a meat and cheese kind of thing. So yeah, Phil the Thrill is flying back into Madison. Obviously, this is his hometown, but he's flying in today. I think he gets in tonight. So yeah, they're going practice round tomorrow's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, tourney out Sunday. So yeah, the thrill back in town.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

How's the thrill out there on the links?

SPEAKER_02 30:18

Sandbagger. Is he? Yeah, I think you said he was I think you said he was playing like a five or a six. I wouldn't be surprised, especially that course. It's a little, it's a short porch, but if you can keep it straight and you can stay out of trouble, you can go low. I wouldn't be surprised if Philly Fur does one day a 67 or something like that. Like he's just he's a ringer, he comes to play, he's a gamer, so we'll see how he plays. But yeah, he's playing. I think so. He might piss off some members there if he plays well.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

Yeah, they gotta be. I mean, can you imagine you're in a country club and Nikki Schmaltz and Phil the Thriller are fucking team across here? That'd be pretty damn cool. They get those guys gotta be loving that.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Yeah, oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, they got a good there's a solid amount of guys there too. Like Pavelski plays at that course, uh, got some local buddies as well. Suter's a member there. I don't think he's playing in the the member guest, but yeah, there's there's a good crew, there's some good sticks there too, like guys that played at the University of Wisconsin, played D1. So they have their work cut out in the top flight for sure. Yeah, but I'm interested.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

I'm I'm I'm curious to see how that goes. I'm gonna text Nike Sunday, see how it went.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

I know, I know. I'm gonna have to uh I'm gonna I don't think I'm gonna caddy for it, but uh I'm definitely gonna be keeping tabs on that for sure.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

You're gonna get out to the club, just have a few with them.

SPEAKER_02 31:37

I don't know. I don't it one day maybe if they if they have you know some time afterwards. I know the first day, Ozo is 27 holes, so that's you know, Friday, that's a long shift. You're out there basically all day, and then I think Saturday is 18 holes, and then it's the the shootout. So that's just basically as you know, you make that final shootout, one team gets eliminated every hole. So I think like maybe eight to ten teams make that shootout, so you could play another 10 holes plus bonus holes. So yeah, they're gonna be their backs are gonna be sore, they're gonna be barking after that.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

Dude, my backs were after one 18 round.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

Like it's uh I don't know how those guys do it.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

I don't know either. I don't know how those guys play, and especially like Jerry Kelly, he's a member out there, he plays on the champions tour now. He's almost 60. I mean, that guy's still mucking weekly events, and he's out there. It's actually pretty cool because at the course, as though you can't hit dog, like the longest you can hit a club is like 220 yards, but they built this chute off the backside of the 10th T where it's that's the Jerry Kelly shoot. So you go back there, but you got to hit like a tight little crispy draw, and it's like built out into the woods. So you go back there, and you know, you you probably got I don't know, 10 to 15 yards to work with. Like you got to hit a straight nugget, and then you got to hit it in a certain part of the range where you can hit it like I think it bleeds out to like 290, so it's pretty cool. But this it's called at Maple Bluff, it's called the Jerry Kelly shoot, it's pretty sick. Yeah, so you can go rip dog out there. I make it a point every time I play there. I go to the Jerry Kelly shoot just to say I did it. Yeah, fellas, head to the shoot, and then I absolutely spray one and block one at the parking lot.

SPEAKER_00 33:29

Yeah, try to hit a draw.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

Yeah, come on, bud. Oh, yeah. I absolutely block one out to the parking lot and just like, all right, let's go to the box.

SPEAKER_00 33:39

It's so funny when I when I go on the range and try to hit draws, it's just so dumb. It's like, what are we doing? I can't do it.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

I can't oh man, my game is in shambles. I played like two times in the last three years. I went out there actually and played. We played nine, an emergency nine like a week ago. Started off okay, and then I got to like the fifth hole, and I got the shanks. I'm like, oh my god. Then I had to work out the shanks for two holes. Well, how does that happen, by the way? It's got to be all mental, right? Like, how do you how does that actually happen when you get the shanks?

SPEAKER_00 34:11

It's straight mental. It has to be. There's nothing to it, you just lose your mind. It's almost like I I like there's two sports I feel like you have the Shanks in. It's it's golf and then it's baseball. Like those guys who go, those like big time ball players who go like 20 games without a hit, and they're just like, I don't even know what I'm doing. Like, I can't field the ball now because I can't hit. I'm in my own head and I don't know what's going on. Like, I didn't do anything different. I just I'm fucked.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

Dude, I got to a par three. It was downhill, down fan 170. I hossled, and there was water on both sides of the green, and I hossled three in a row, straight right. Like I hostled two up the T. I said, fuck this, took it to the drop zone, hostled another one, took an X on that hole, got to the next hole, hit dog, fine. I think I made par or bogey in a short par four, got to the next hole, another short par four, hit it okay off the T, a little bit right, 90 yards out uphill, absolutely bladed one straight right into the bunker. Go to the bunker, hozzle another one, take an X on that hole, and then work it out on the final hole. I'm like, dude, this is so dumb.

SPEAKER_00 35:25

It's it's so dumb. It's so dumb that I spend $150 to play a course where I'm just hilarious, hacking, I'm hacking nuggets out of the fescue, and it's taking six whacks to get it out of there, and then I gotta finish the whole. It's like, what am I doing? This is so fucking dumb. I'm not on the range to get better. I'm not I'm not on the chipping green, the putting green to get better. And every time I go out there, I'm like, yeah, hopefully I can beat my last score, fucking 87 and get a fucking 84. It's like, what am I doing?

SPEAKER_02 35:58

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I have no clue what I'm doing out there. It's it's it's not good, but we'll stay with a choke and poke, spray and pray. You'll have to text Nikki about that Ozo. Lastly, People's Insider Turbo of the Week. I think the folks might like this one this week. I've been thinking, Oz, I've been trying to write more down because I do have a lot of terms, but it's it's tough to do one every week or every two weeks, and you forget which ones you've done. You kind of don't want to double back, obviously, because that's bad style. So I'm gonna give this one a whirl. I was thinking about it all week. And this week's people's insider term of the week is drop to a Kaepernick. Now we all know the famous social justice warrior and former NFL quarterback who famously dropped to a knee during an NFL game national anthem. And how this relates to real life. Well, inevitably, we will lose some of our boys to engagements, marriages, yet just to maybe see them on the other side of a divorce. But when you start that process, you have to drop to a knee, aka Kaepernick. So when you're sitting at the bar, you're around a group of friends, and you go, hey, did Tommy really drop to a Kaepernick? Yeah, fella, he did. How long's he been dating Stacy? Man, I think they're still in the honeymoon phase. Like it's been like six months. Did he panic? What happened there? I don't know, fella, but he was down in Sarasota, and all of a sudden I was getting pictures, I was getting wind of it. Somehow he already had the ring picked out, he just dropped to a cap right on the beach. And when you're down on a cap, obviously most times she's gonna say yes. But sometimes, hell, she might say no. Some guys are fortunate or less fortunate, depending on how you look at it, to drop to a cape dick more than once. So, fellas, getting engaged is called dropping to a cap. Fellas, good luck out there. Keep your chins tucked. There goes my hero. He dropped to a cap. 93-1. So that is this week's People's Insider term of the week, Azzo. Dropping to a cap.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

Dropping to a Kaepernick. Yeah, everyone, each guy does it. Uh, sometimes the guy does it uh at the wrong time, maybe with the wrong person. Sometimes you can drop to a Kaepernick when you want to just fucking bury a beer and you want to sustain it.

SPEAKER_02 38:32

Yeah, and sometimes guys have the luxury, and what am I trying to say? Sometimes they have the luxury and and sometimes they have the abundance to drop to a Kaepernick more than once in their life. You hear about the guys that have dropped to three or four caps. Never be scared to drop to a cap and never be scared of love, is what I'm trying to say. Because just because you drop to one cap doesn't mean you might not do it again. So, to all the fellas out there thinking about getting engaged, to all the guys that have buddies that have got recently engaged are gonna do it, say fella. Good luck dropping to a cap. You're brave, man. You're really brave. You are all right, Alzo. That is this week. Live and five, fella. Until next week. Good luck up in Grand Forks, Alzo. Keep your chin tucked. Not everyone, the captain signing off. Folks, enjoy your weekend.