July 2, 2025 • 68 mins
Former college football player Luke Secrist takes us on a journey from the steel mill town of Follansbee, West Virginia, to his decision to hang up his cleats and chart a new course. Growing up in a tight-knit community of just 1,500 people, Luke shares how small-town life shaped him—where "everyone knows everyone and everything about everybody," making it impossible to get away with much mischief but creating bonds that last a lifetime.
The conversation weaves through Luke's experience at Brooke High School, where he benefited from innovative vocational programs that prepare students for trades in communities where traditional college paths aren't always the norm. His football career at Glenville State College reveals the less glamorous side of collegiate athletics—predawn workouts, managing injuries, and ultimately facing the difficult decision to step away from the sport when his passion faded and academics took priority.
Food emerges as a central thread connecting Luke to his roots. The passionate debate about regional pizza establishments (DeCarlo's vs. DeFelice Brothers) soon gives way to a cultural revelation: pepperoni rolls, a West Virginia staple so regionally specific that residents of neighboring states have no idea what they are. "When I moved and asked for pepperoni rolls at pizza shops, they looked at me like I was crazy," Luke laughs, highlighting how food traditions mark our cultural identity.
Between stories of modest sports betting adventures and the notorious "Fast Fiddy Five" segment of random questions, a deeper message emerges about finding your path. "Live life to the fullest, don't take anything for granted," Luke advises. "You only get one life." Whether staying in your hometown or venturing out to see what else the world offers, the key is making that choice consciously—and perhaps, as host Mike suggests, remembering that "you don't only live once; you live every day. You only die once."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home
Rants podcast.
This is, as always, your host,mike Bono.
I had a great guest for ustoday.
He's coming to us, I believehe's right now in Glenville,
west Virginia, grew up near inmy hometown of Follinsby, west
Virginia, but he is also thecousin of former guest of the
(00:21):
show, brennan Seacrest, and thatis Luke Sechrist that joins the
show.
Luke, thanks for joining,brother.
Hey, thanks for having me man.
Hey, not a problem at all.
Mentioned it there a little bit.
You know you and Brennan arecousins.
I think you said first cousinsbefore we got it rolling.
So you know, how are you guysreally related?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So pretty much my dad and Brennan's's dad, uh, are
cousins.
Wait, hold on back this up ummy pat and brennan's papa
brothers, okay, yep, yeah, okay,so um, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It's always fun trying to figure out the family
tree, isn't it?
You know how it's related.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I don't know.
I mean it always comes up inconversations.
But yeah, we're cousins, but Imean we're pretty much just each
other's best friends.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So yeah, it's always good to have, uh, family members
like that.
Um, I wish I had a lot moremale cousins than I do.
Um, because I I grew up with alot of female cousins and you
know, like you, you know bestfriends, but it was still funny
because we didn't have the samelast name.
So people would always look atus and be like, oh, you guys
(01:31):
would make a cute couple.
It's like, well, we're family,so like that would be weird.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think that's like the best part of like us being
each other's best friends butalso having the same last names,
like we'll go out to the bar.
Like us being each other's bestfriends but also having the
same last names, like we'll goout to the bar.
I think, like yesterday we justwent out and had dinner and we
got a couple beers and ourwaitress asked your ids and
we're like we're gonna blow yourmind.
She's like what are you talkingabout?
Then she looked down and shesaw the same last name and she
was like what?
No, it's always funny to getpeople with that.
(01:59):
Or like just random people willmeet at parties that, like
brennan know them but they don'tknow me, or I may know them and
they don't know Brennan, andthen, like I don't know, it's
just always, it's always funnyto mess with people, I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I said did you ever mess with anybody with the same
last name?
Tell them your brothers.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, yes.
I told the lady we were twins.
I said we're twin brothers andshe was like oh, I kind of see
it.
I was like no, you don't.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, you don't Not even close.
Don't lie to me.
Yeah, it's fun to mess withpeople that way.
But, like I said, you grew up,I believe, near the Falsby area
where I'm originally from, whereBrandon's originally from.
So tell the listeners what itwas like.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
you know where you grew up and you know what it was
like growing up in such a sucha small town.
Yeah, so I mean, like I wastelling you before, I did
originally grew up in Follinsbeeup until I was like five or six
and then parents split up, mommoved to New Philadelphia, ohio,
so for the first I'd say likeafter the split, I was only in
(03:08):
fallingsby on the weekends, okay.
And then, um, so I think myeighth grade year is when I
moved back with my dads.
So I finished out eighth gradethrough senior year, uh, school
there in fallingsby.
But I mean the small town vibes.
I mean you love it or you hateit.
I mean everyone knows, everyoneknows everything about
(03:28):
everybody and you know we're uh,everything spreads like
wildfires down there but I can'tget away with shit in a small
town, no, you know.
But I don't know I liked it.
I mean there was and I it wassuch a small town, but I mean,
like you know you're from there,we're 45 minutes from
(03:51):
Pittsburgh.
You know we're not too far fromWheeling, like if you wanted to
get out of that for a day, Imean it was, it was easy access.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Easy For sure.
Yeah, I spent a lot of time,you know, going to Wheeling
Nails games to get out ofFarnsby for a little bit, going
up to Pittsburgh catching aBuccos game and stuff like that.
It's quick, it's easy, it's notthat terrible of a drive, no
matter where you go, but I loveit.
Farnsby, a town of 1,500 people, it's my kind of vibes.
(04:20):
A lot of mom-and-pop shopsthere too as well, love that.
But yeah, it's just one ofthose old steel mill towns for
people out there that you know.
Just the blue collar town thatyou know it's.
You want to hate it, but youlove it.
Right, I moved away from it,you know.
I live in Zanesville Ohio nowand been here for about six
(04:44):
years now and the wife and I aretrying to figure out how we can
get back to fallsby, like wenever thought that we would want
to go back and it's just like,okay, how quickly and how could
we get back to to where we know?
Uh, everybody and just, we justlove the town, we love the
(05:04):
environment there and, uh, youwent to my alma mater, brook
high school.
Um, what sports and activitieswere involved in there growing
up?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
so I did football, um I did track for two years, um,
I tried out for baseball, uh,one season and it just was not
for me.
But that's all right.
Yeah, I mean those are reallysports wise.
I was in a few of the clubsthere at Brooke mostly spent a
(05:35):
lot of my time.
I was in the carpentry programthere.
I did that for four years.
I really liked a lot of thehigh schools around.
Pretty much everywhere theyhave like um I don't know how to
explain like one vocationalschool for like multiple schools
to come to and it's separate.
I really did enjoy how brookehas that all like attached right
(05:57):
there and yeah, they have thatuh access to students and
whatnot.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But yeah, that that really, when I was there in the
early 2000s, that um, agingmyself a lot by that um but yeah
, they, they started when theybuilt that new uh gym, the
basketball courts, the, thenatatorium, the pool and
(06:24):
everything.
The vocational and all thatjust kind of fell into that
project and it was superbeneficial.
You grow up in a town like that.
They kind of realize there'sprobably not a lot of people
that are going to be going to atraditional four-year college or
university.
There's a lot of trade workersin that town and it's perfect.
(06:48):
I mean here, where my son goesto school, they have that, but
it's like 10 miles away fromwhere the school actually is, so
it's not as easily accessed asBrook is, where it's like oh,
I'm going down the hall and intothis one wing of the of the
high school and I'm where I needto be to learn, where I need to
(07:12):
be.
You don't have to go to yourcore classes in the morning, get
in your car and then drivesomewhere else to get to the,
get to what you really want todo in life, what you really want
to do in life, and that, and Iwish, I, yeah, I wish more
schools were were like Brookeand had that just right there.
Yeah, yeah, definitely so you're.
(07:35):
You're in Glenville, WestVirginia right now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's where you're currently going to school,
correct?
It's where I'm going to school,but as I right now I'm in
morgantown, you're more account,okay?
Yeah, working up here for thesummer gotcha um where.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
What school are you going to right now?
Um for college when you are inschool and um playing any
football in your college um, Iplayed three years of football
down in Glenville.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I actually just hung everything up beginning of the
spring.
I just decided that.
You know it wasn't for me.
I enjoyed it while it lasted.
You know I had to deal withsome injuries and some other
personal issues and I just feltthat that was best for me, but I
mean it was an amazingexperience.
I mean I know a lot of kidsdon't get the opportunity to do
(08:24):
that, but I don't know how manypeople are listening to your
podcast.
Who was in high school werethinking about maybe doing that
is probably the most beneficialexperience you could do in life.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
If you have that opportunity any college sport
100%, a hundred percent.
I, um, I was a swimmer.
I played football and swam atBrook, went to Bethany College
and swam there for two years.
It was an unfortunate injury ashoulder injury that's kind of
the kiss of death for swimmersbut loved every minute of it.
(08:59):
I'm crazy.
I loved getting up at 6 am andbeing in the water and doing
workouts that early.
You know it kept me groundedand had me into a routine and I
think that's super beneficialfor college students For sure.
(09:19):
Yeah, getting into that routineand just OK, you, you knowing,
even after the injury theneverything like that where I
couldn't swim anymore, you know,the next year, like my
roommates were like, why, whyare you awake right now?
Like, why are you up and doingsomething at 6 AM?
I was like, well, basically,since I've been eight years old,
(09:41):
I've been up and swimming sinceat 6 am.
So I just, I got into thisroutine, I get up, I'd get some
breakfast.
You know I'd go, if I could,I'd go to the gym, you know, get
a little run and cardio in, andthen by that time it was time
to go to classes.
And you know I had more donebetween six and like nine
(10:07):
o'clock than most collegestudents get done in a full day.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh sure, for sure.
Yeah, I think that was.
I mean, I don't think it'sanybody's favorite part of being
a collegiate athlete, or the 6am workouts, but I think,
looking back on it, like itprobably was the most beneficial
thing for me.
You know, I I think my biggestthing was, I mean, yeah, I had
the, I also had a shoulderinjury and, um, eventually, what
(10:36):
led to me, you know, decidingto hang it up.
I just fell out of love of thegame, I think.
Yeah, but those 6 am, like, likeyou said, I mean you go to bed
the night before.
I mean I was the type of personwhere I am a morning person for
things I want to do, and likegoing to bed like the first
(10:57):
couple weeks of fall camp belike I do not want to wake up,
do not want to wake up in themorning, I want to sleep in.
You know, just getting offsummer break and everything like
that, and then you get up andyou do it after the workout.
I mean you just feel great, youjust want to go and accomplish
as much things, as much as youcan get done and uh, yeah,
definitely super beneficial andthat just to get in.
(11:17):
Like that schedule, thatroutine.
That's definitely one thingthat I missed.
That I missed after everything.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, I know, even like at Bethany College, like we
had like swimming you know it'sa winter sport and you know
there was for Christmas break.
We pretty much had all ofJanuary off at Bethany, unless
you were a winter sport athlete.
Then you had to be on campusand it was what we called a j
(11:46):
term or january term.
It was optional to take a class, um, if you wanted to.
It actually would help yougraduate early if you wanted to.
I don't know if they stilloffer that now.
I would imagine they still do.
Uh, but all the athletes had tobe there because there were
workouts and everything likethat.
So even though I wasn't takinga class, I still had to be on
campus.
I still had to be there becausethere were workouts and
everything like that.
So, even though I wasn't takinga class, I still had to be on
(12:08):
campus.
I still had to be up at 6 amand in the water doing workouts.
Uh, we'd be done by eight.
You know, breakfast after that,then we'd have to be back in
the weight room and back in thepool by like noon and again,
like I didn't have to be there,it was, it was winter break for
me.
(12:28):
Most kids are sleeping in.
They're.
You know, we're working off allthe holiday food and everything
like that.
We're just getting, you know,being fat and happy, you know,
after the holidays and and I'min the pool just cooking it.
You know, yeah, and it's just,you know it's a lot for somebody
(12:50):
who doesn't have thatdedication and love the sport
that they're doing.
I know a lot of people are like, well, I'm going to college
because you know they're givingme money and I really don't want
to do a sport.
But if they're going to give memoney to go to school, why not
do it?
And they just kind of half-assit and I don't think that's
right, you know, I think youjust need to call it quits.
Um, like you said, you know youfell out of love with the, with
(13:12):
the game.
Was that partly, partly to?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
you know, just the grind of everything, or I mean I
think and I was also I towardsthe end, I would say like I'd
say right around the fall of myjunior year, which would have
been the start of my last season, I think that's when I was like
kind of debating on wanting tohang it up then.
(13:36):
But I was like I guess what yousaid like oh, they're giving me
money, I might as well just doit.
You know I have good friends.
Like, oh, they're giving memoney, I might as well just do
it.
You know, I have good friendsand I like for a long time hated
myself for even like thinkinglike that, because there's so
many people who would kill foran opportunity like that to be
in my shoes, and they justdidn't, that door just didn't
(13:57):
open for them.
And then I would just like Iwould wake up and be like man I,
I do not want to go Like, Ijust not feeling it anymore and
I would wake up and be like manI hey, I do not want to go Like,
I just not feeling it anymoreand I would like just kick
myself in the ass, honestly.
But it did get to a point wheremy class schedule just like
completely took away footballfrom me because we have.
(14:19):
I would.
I mean I would make the 6amworkouts but then I would be in
class, uh, pretty much fromeight in the morning till 6 in
the afternoon, sometimes later,with just my field.
So I mean I was missingpractices left and right just
because I mean, yeah, footballit's sport, that's what I went
(14:40):
to college to play, but like, inthe end and my head, school was
more important, so that's justthe decision I ended up was
really just the final.
I guess cherry on top of likeokay, this is, you know, it's
time.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, and I think it goes.
I don't want to say likeunrecognized, but I mean
unnoticed or anything like that.
But you're a student athlete.
Student comes first, thenyou're an athlete.
You're there to get aneducation to better yourself
(15:17):
down the road.
Athletics is a bonus.
I was at a D3 school, you know.
So there wasn't I don't want tosay there wasn't potential to
go anywhere, and swimming it'ssuch a tough sport.
There's not like a professionalleague per se.
(15:40):
There's the Olympics every fouryears, there's the Worlds every
two years.
Uh, yeah, besides that there'sthere's not a lot of
opportunities past past college,and I know, with football, you
know, I mean, what's it like?
(16:00):
Three percent of collegeathletes will even get invited
to the draft and 1% of thosewill get drafted into the NFL.
It's a crazy number, like it'sjust stupid.
Um, I mean, unless you're, youknow you can do it.
I mean studies should comefirst and I did not think that
(16:26):
way.
Uh, my freshman and sophomoreyear, when I was swimming out
there because you know, in in myfantastic head it was just like
oh yeah, I'm at the olympics,so the hell do I need to go to
this class?
For I was the exact opposite ofyou, I was missing classes to
go to practice.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I'm not saying that never happened.
My freshman year, I think, Iwent into college with the
mindset of I'm a collegefootball player.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Like I'm not cause I don't even know, I don't even
know when, at what point I likemade up my mind that like I
wasn't going to go to collegewhen I was in high school.
But once I got over that humpand was like, okay, the only
reason that I'm going to go isif I get a chance for football.
And that's where I was.
(17:20):
And then whenever I got there,I was like, okay, I'm in college
, I'm a college football player.
Like screw school.
That was like me the first fewmonths of freshman year and it
ended up coming back and bitingme in the ass for sure.
But yeah, I didn't, I guessdidn't really necessarily lock
(17:41):
in to my school and studiesuntil my sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I wish I would have locked in my sophomore year
.
I still didn't, until after theinjury which happened in my
sophomore year, which goes backto my days at Brook.
I actually separated myshoulder my senior year playing
football, um had no place.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Was it the ac joint?
Was it your ac joint?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
no, it was.
It was actually completelyseparated right at the, at the
tip, and I had no idea I did itand it was the first day we put
pads on at brook and're andwe're hitting sleds and I I hit
a sled and I push it and I felta burning sensation go down my
arm and into my pinky and I wasjust like, oh, it's a stinger.
(18:31):
First time hitting pads it's astinger.
What?
Whatever?
Played the whole season Never,never missed the practice, never
missed a practice, never misseda game.
I was a special teamer and abackup wide receiver and
defensive end playing at Brookeand just taking a beating.
Oh yeah, didn't find out untilI went to swim practice after
(18:55):
the season, after our playoffgame, and jumped in the pool,
went to do a stroke and my armjust wouldn't do the stroke like
I needed it to do, and I toldmy coach like something's wrong,
like I I don't know what'swrong, but like I can't.
This, this is all I got, thisis all I got for the people
watching on uh youtube and on mypatreon.
(19:17):
Like this is all I got, my armwon't go and I can't extend it
out.
She's like have the trainerlook at you all right.
So uh, went back to to Mike.
He was like didn't you justfinish football?
How are you already in thetraining room?
I was just like I'm here, Idon't know um, and he, he was
feeling my shoulder and he waslike you in any pain.
(19:39):
I was like like I mean I'vebeen in pain, I just finished in
12 game season with making theplayoffs and everything like
that.
So, yeah, I mean I'm sore, butI don't know.
He's like you should probablygo to the doctors and called my
parents.
They met me at the hospital andthe doctor was just like, yeah,
(20:00):
you separated your shoulder.
I was just like, when youseparated your shoulder, I was
just like when it's crazy, thewhole season, whole season.
You know, just a dumb teenagekid, you know what I mean.
Just like, oh, it's pain, I'myoung, I'll heal Whatever.
Didn't think anything of it.
Invincible.
Lost my senior swim season.
So I had a lot of D1.
(20:27):
Uh, coming out of my junioryear, um, and lost all of those
except for bethany college.
They were the only ones thatkept it.
So, uh, what made the decisioneasy for me?
As the schooling I was going toum, but yeah, it was.
You know, at that point it waslike, okay, somebody still
believes in me, I obviously canstill do this, even though I
lost a year swimming and, yeah,and you know, re-blew it out in
(20:52):
the middle of a race, uh.
And at bethany, my sophomoreyear, and um got it rehabbed
enough that I could, you know,finish the season, go to our
conference championships.
And then after that I looked atmy coach.
I said, coach, I'm done, Ican't, I can't give you
everything I have.
(21:12):
This shoulder is not going tohold up.
I don't think rehab is going todo it again in the off season.
It's probably going to requiresurgery and I'm not losing
another year of swimming, I'mjust going to, I'm going to hang
up the goggles and the cap andI can't do it anymore and I hate
to do it, but I'm going to doit.
(21:33):
And then, and plus, that alsomade me realize like, oh crap,
now I got to buckle down withthis schooling thing.
So, yeah, ended up having to doa fifth year option, uh,
because basically screwed aroundfor the first two years, that
was there, um, so, yeah, it iswhat it is.
(21:56):
You know, you live and youlearn, um, but I don't know it's
, it's, but I don't know it's,it's yeah For anybody into
college athletics or thinkingabout going into college
athletics.
Just do it, make the leap offaith, and if it's not for you,
then you know, hang it up.
You tried.
(22:16):
That's the thing I would sayfor everybody.
You know, just just give it ago, and if it's not for you,
it's not for you.
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, not right 100%.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And we got completely off topic with that little
spiel and rant there.
We started talking about whathometowns and then it somehow
got onto college athletics.
It's just the way my mind workssometimes.
But, like I said, you knowwe're.
We're from an, a near the sametown, grew up in the same town,
(22:53):
but you're, you're familiar withthe area, but a lot of people
don't realize there.
There's a lot of great food inthat area and the you know,
Fonsby, Steubenville, Ohio area.
Uh, do you have any favoritespots back home?
Um, so if you're there, thatyou, you try to hit up.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Oh, I mean being so.
I'm from, obviously, farnsby's,a small town.
You know this.
Glenville is an insanely smalltown where I'm going to school.
At, I mean, there's onestoplight, one gas station and
two restaurants.
So when I'm home I try and goas many places as I can to eat.
(23:33):
I don't know, I feel like oneof my favorites and I did work
there in high school, but Ireally like the Ionis.
The Ionis is one of my.
It's one of it's in my top fiveup there up in weird yeah, the
(23:53):
Ionis is great.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
If you like Greek food, it's good.
I don't mind it, I don't hateit.
It's definitely up in my topfive.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I just gotta be in the mood for greek food, though
you know what I mean like it'sone of those like I gotta be,
like I'm getting great today,like yeah, definitely same here,
but I mean, every time I get itit's just delicious.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, um pizza wise the carlos I said, this is gonna
make or break how the rest ofthis show goes here.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Luke, if we don't say to carlos well, and I've been
thinking about this one becausewhen I listen to you and
brendan's podcast and that gotbrought up the carlos I'm gonna
throw a curveball at you here.
Okay, sometimes I preferdefelice brothers over to carlos
(24:46):
I'm not mad at that either.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I'm not mad at that at all um, I get a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I get a lot of hate for that, but I why?
They're both great I don't know.
This is good it's delicious itis.
I think it's just because it'ssuch polar opposites of what the
carlos is.
Yeah, I mean thicker, more likesweeter.
It's.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's delicious, the sauce is definitely sweeter, for
sure, uh, but it's still aphenomenal slice yeah, yeah I
mean the carlos, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
DeCarlo's Go ahead, I think, because DeCarlo's is so.
I live on Hoverson Heights andwith DeCarlo's being right there
, I mean it makes an easy pickupfor sure, the convenience
factor definitely helps.
Yeah, and I definitely think myfavorite DeCarlo's is Hoverson
(25:42):
Heights, for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, I, I, I've had them all.
Um, I think we we've gotten theweird and the Hoover's and
Heights, one more than, uh,what's at Willsburg?
Um, what's your favorite one inyour opinion?
I got, I got to go weird.
(26:07):
I got to go the HoogersonHeights.
Wolfsburg is a little bit moreconvenient, but I don't know,
it's something about weird.
I mean, they're both about thesame distance from where my
parents live.
But I'll tell you this though,for you know, student bill area,
(26:27):
I'm gonna throw another pizzacurveball at you that my wife
and I absolutely loved when wewere living, uh, in wintersville
, um, but, but chelly's I don'teven know if I've had that
before you shut up man like thatis, but I probably have and
don't remember it, but I Ireally don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't spend a lot of time over there in the
wintersville area uh, you got tolike they.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Uh, gianna moores was over there.
Uh, they recently shut down.
Kovid kind of put the kibosh onthem, what they've been there
for decades and that was you andyou, you want a good piece of
pizza.
Like that was the place to go.
Um, but vichelli's man, I don'tlike when we lived there, like
that was the go-to, like we knew.
(27:16):
Like payday we're rollingaround, it's like friday night's
vichelli's night now, likewe're ordering out and we're
getting some michelli's.
Uh, I'm gonna have to try somenext time I'm in the area yeah,
100.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Now I feel like I have to because I love pizza.
I do.
I mean, who doesn't?
Who doesn't love pizza if you?
If you don't love pizza, you'rea sociopath in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Like get out of here.
Like who doesn't love a goodslice of pizza?
Grow up, grow up, yeah, that'sit.
Grow up, dude, like just getout of here, enjoy some pizza
I'll throw another one at youand I.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I think they used to be in the student mill mall.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But rubies, rubies have you do you know what I'm
talking about.
I've had it a couple times, notenough to probably give them a,
a bump, but I know who you'retalking about.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I it's very good.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, not I don't want to put it over the carlos
or, uh, the felice.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But if I'm over in the stew mill area and it's like
the lunchtime, I mean mean yougo in.
Everything I like about it iseverything is like precooked,
like fresh, obviously, but assoon as you get it you order it
by the slice and they throw itright in the oven, warm it up,
get your breadstick, but theirsauce with their breadsticks, oh
(28:38):
my gosh.
I do know I like the steaksauce.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
No, it wasn't Ruzzo's , and I know who you're talking
about.
That wasn't named because Iworked in the student mall right
out of college and I lived onthat pizza and the breadsticks
even their pepperoni rolls withthat sauce.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's delicious okay, I gotta, I gotta ask you this
too.
Um, I found this out moving towhere I did um pepperoni rolls,
strictly an ohio valley thing.
You're in morgantown right now.
Do they know what a goodpepperoni roll is?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I don't know if they know what a good pepperoni roll
is, but they definitely knowpepperoni rolls.
I think that it's, um,definitely being so.
I don't know if you're WestVirginia, begley.
Yeah, it's pretty smack dab inthe center of the state, yeah,
but a lot of the kids and a lotof my friends that go there are
(29:35):
all from like either that areaor southern West Virginia.
And like, when I tell them thatpeople don't know what
pepperoni rolls are from likeOhio, like where my mom lives,
because it's not a big thing inlike the farther north in Ohio,
they're like mind boggled by it,I'm telling you from from new
philly.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Just west has no clue , like I said, I moved and I'm
in the zanesville area.
I'm about 45 minutes fromcolumbus, where where I'm at
right now, and a ton of pizzaplaces here, a ton.
Not as good as up home, but youknow they try.
I went into one and you know,stupidly, was just like y'all
(30:23):
got any pepperoni rolls.
They're just like huh.
I was like a pepperoni roll.
They're like what's a pepperoniroll?
I was like that was like apepperoni roll, like what's a
pepperoni roll.
I was like you're a pizza place.
You have no idea what apepperoni roll is Like.
And then, trying to, I soundedlike a psycho.
I was trying to explain this toa cook at a little pizza shop
(30:47):
here.
I was like it's about likemaybe like six inches to a foot
long, it's basically a pizza.
That's kind of just like.
It's not a calzone, it's rolledup, it's pepperoni and cheese,
a little bit of sauce, and thenyou get a little cup to dip with
sauce and they're just likeyeah, we don't have that.
They have pepperoni bites iswhat they got me?
(31:09):
I was like pepperoni bites iswhat they got me.
I was like how's this Like?
I was like all right, and thenI went to.
I went to every single pizzaplace here, like when we first
moved and asked for a pepperoniroll, like we don't know what
that is.
I was like I'm, I'm leaving, Idon't like this anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Definitely that's a thing, definitely think that's a
thing that West Virginianspride themselves in.
And everyone's grandma makesthe best pepperoni roll.
You talk to anybody, without adoubt.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Without a doubt, it was funny because my wife and I
just got fed up of not beingable to find them.
So I was like we're just goingto make our own at home If we
want them.
It's probably cheaper thanthese places.
That'll probably upcharge usfor not knowing what the hell we
were talking about.
Yeah, and so my wife was justlike curious and she just typed
(32:03):
in pepperoni roll recipe.
The first option that comes upis West Virginia pepperoni roll
recipe.
That's the first option.
Like I love that.
That is like a staple of WestVirginia is just pepperoni rolls
.
I go as far as I think ifanybody from the NCAA is
(32:27):
listening, I think you need tomake a pepperoni bowl and
pepperoni roll.
That's a hard thing.
It's pepperoni roll bowl andhave it somewhere in West
Virginia.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, you have a mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
You have a mayo bowl Like why can't we get a?
Let's get a pepperoni roll bowland teach the nation what
pepperoni rolls are.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
So I know you said when you were explaining what
pepperoni rolls are.
So I know you said when youwere explaining the pepperoni
roll.
It's obviously got pepperonicheese, a little bit of sauce.
Have you had a pepperoni rollwith hot pepper cheese and
banana peppers in it?
Yes, cool Dude.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Game changer Game changer If you like a little
heat when you're eating, that's.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Just a little, it's just enough.
You get a little hot peppercheese, maybe some pepper jack
in there.
Yeah, a little.
I'll go as far as I've had thatwith a little bit of sweet
banana peppers in there.
Oh, I made that myself and Iwas like, yeah, I'm keeping this
recipe to myself.
This is no joke.
(33:36):
If you like a little heat,sweet and heat.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh yeah that'll.
That'll change your lifethat'll change your life.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Oh man, I could hell.
I could talk about westvirginia all day.
Um, what's the?
You know, so we got under that.
But what's next for luke here,you know, after, uh, I believe
you you have you graduatedcollege yet, or you're finishing
up this year, or you know yougot one more year.
Okay, so what's next for?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
a year.
Okay, um next step I it comesback to talking about how you
guys are trying to go back toFollensby as quick as possible.
It's not that I hate the area.
I want to leave as fast aspossible.
Maybe not for good, but I Iknow there's more out there 100%
(34:26):
you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I would tell you to do it.
I would tell you Anybody that'sin any small town you know,
venture out.
You're not wrong, I would tellyou to do it.
I would tell you Anybody that'sin any small town, venture out.
There's a lot out there.
Don't forget your hometown,because I'll tell you, leaving
makes you appreciated that muchmore, because I was kind of like
(34:48):
you Moved away and was like, oh, it's going to be awesome
getting out of the small town,small town, going to do big
things.
Here Columbus has a greatcomedy scene trying to make it
into comedy Like I'll be closeto there, yada, yada, yada.
Now it's just like, yeah, Imiss Follensby, pittsburgh, I
(35:16):
miss wheeling and I just I justat the end of the day, that's
home.
Uh, and you know, being thatfar away from my family I'm
about two hours away from themand it's not a terrible drive
but no, no, only seeing thembasically every other year on
holidays because we have wesplit it between my wife's
(35:37):
family and them, because mywife's family's here, um, so
it's, it's tough when you, whenyou're going home not as often
as you would like and, yeah, you, I appreciate it more my
parents are always like hey, weknow, you live forever away, so
if you guys got to get out ofhere, leave when you want to
(36:00):
leave.
I was like, well, if it was whatI want to leave, I'm just going
to move back in here.
I'm going to have somebody gograb my animals and all my shit
in Zanesville, I'm just going tohave them move in here.
We got enough room here.
Right, we're good, we're cool.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I got a 16-year-old wife.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
We're just going to come in here, we're fine.
They're like just go home.
I blame that on being Italiantoo.
We're just very family oriented.
That's why people are alwayslike, well, you don't see them
(36:37):
leaving much.
It's just the Italian way.
I'm pretty sure everyespecially Italian boys we stay
at home until it's absolutelynecessary that we leave home.
No shit, I was 27 when I leftmy parents house 27.
Nothing wrong with that.
No, there wasn't.
(36:58):
I mean, I was.
I was working, I was bankingmoney and like, although you
think you're a baller whenyou're making like 30, 40 grand
a year and you're just like,dude, yeah, I got so much money
to do whatever I want.
And then you move on.
Yeah, you got a few bills carnote, insurance, cell phone bill
(37:23):
, that's it.
And then like some food like,and then you finally leave and
you're just like man, I wasnsome food like, and then you
finally leave and you're justlike man, I wasn't making any
money at all.
So it's, yeah, but it's, youknow, it's, it's just a thing,
yeah.
To get back there and westvirginia, I will say, though
(37:44):
this is weird, uh, becausethere's no pro sports teams,
yeah, zero pro sports teams.
So who do you root pro sportsteams?
So who do you root for?
I got to ask you, who do youroot for in pro sports?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I got to be a hundred percent honest with you.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
I don't pay much attention Really.
Yeah, I mean like if there's agame on, I'll watch it, but like
I don't really have a favoriteteam.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
No skin in the game.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
No, I mean I got to throw this one out there for my
dad because him and my pap bothhave always been diehard Raiders
fans.
So because of that I alwaysgrew up my family very strongly
dislikes the Steelers.
I get it.
That's just how it always was.
I don't know, I don't reallycare.
I just really I recently justgot in, like the last few years,
(38:37):
started doing the fantasyfootball like this, the leagues,
and it's not that I've paidmore attention to the games and
like the teams out there, but ithelped me pay more attention to
the players I had on my team,yeah, which then made like focus
on like everybody, and thatmade it like everything
interested, interesting for me.
But it's really just football,like nfl, I got I caught myself
(39:01):
watching a couple, uh couplebaseball games.
I mean, I would say that thepirates, although they're not
the best in the mlb ever, saythat.
Yeah, I would say the piratesdefinitely, although they're not
the best in the MLB Ever.
Yeah, I would say the PiratesDefinitely.
A Penguins fan, I do likehockey.
I love hockey.
I can't stand watchingbasketball 100%.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I'm with you on that one.
I don't root for anybody in theNBA.
I watch college basketball.
Oh I love it.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
The only college basketball watch is March.
Madness, that's it, and I willsit back and I'll just watch
every game, cause they're allexcited.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Every now and again I'd watch a WVU game, you know,
if it's on before March, madness, and I can catch it, I'll you
know.
I'll flip it on for a quicksecond.
But I root for all thePittsburgh teams Steelers,
penguins, pirates.
It's hard to admit that I'm aPirates fan.
I think that's how you knowyou're a true fan when you can
(40:01):
admit it out loud.
But I am a Tampa Bay Buccaneersfan.
I was super young they stillhad the creamsicle orange
jerseys and I saw them in thoseand I was like dude, those are
sweet.
I mean I was like maybe four orfive and at that time it's just
(40:24):
like, oh, that color's awesome,I like orange and I stuck with
it.
And there's no pro sports team,so like, who's going to be like
dude?
Why do you like them?
Tell me a pro sports team inWest Virginia that I could root
for.
You know, like, but you're notwrong with the fantasy football
making you follow players morethan the teams themselves, more
(40:51):
than the teams themselves.
I will say this though now thatsports betting's legalized in
pretty much the entirety of theUnited States, now gets you a
little bit more invested in thegames, for sure.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, I agree with that.
I turned 21, right smack downin the middle of uh football
season in november and I gotinto it pretty good.
Yeah, you can you can.
You can absolutely lose it,sport betting yeah, and what's
crazy, I would only ever do itwhen I was with brennan.
Only ever do it.
(41:35):
When I was with brennan,shocker brennan, right in his
basement and uh, he quit.
He quit on the sports betting acouple years ago and he had
mentioned it one night and hewas like give me your phone,
like what do you mean?
He was like give me your phone,do you want to bet 10 bucks?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I'm like sure he'd set it all up, I'd see what it
is and then be like, all right,let's do this yeah, I um my wife
hates football season for forthat reason, because it's like
football's like the only thingand I've been, I've been told
like by a lot of people I'm theycall me a bitch better, um,
(42:06):
because I think the most I'veever bet was like 50 bucks.
Like I'm not throwing likehundreds at this thing here.
You know what I mean.
Like I got.
I got a guy I know he said heput five grand on the Indiana
Pacers to win it all this year.
I'm like you're dumb.
I was like one tell me you'rein your 20s, not married and
(42:30):
don't have any responsibilities,without telling me you're in
your 20s, have no family, noresponsibilities, right, I went.
If I put five grand on a longshot at best in the Indiana
Pacers, I didn't understand ifthat pays out.
Kudos to you for for makingthat bet.
(42:53):
But I was like my wife wouldcut my nuts off, like that would
be the end of me I would haveto, like lock myself in my house
until I either won or lost.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Yeah, I could not.
I couldn't bear the anxietybehind that.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
No, like he was pacing as a guy I work with in
my day job, like he was pacingaround the office today.
No, I'm sure of it, and I'mlike dude, game six, what do you
wear?
How you feeling tonight?
Big guy hella burdens out whatlike possibly, how you, how you
feel, how's that five grandtreating you?
(43:30):
I was just harping on him.
I could already tell he had theproverbial knife in his gut
from the situation.
I was just twisting it.
I was just giving him hell allday.
It was just one of those thingsthat you know it.
(43:54):
You like.
They said like I I'll do.
I'll make my own parlays,though.
Um, because you know you bet 10bucks, you know you do like a,
an easy par, like you might win15.
Yeah, you know you're not,you're not breaking the bank,
but I'll make some crazy ones,like some stupid seven-leg
(44:18):
freaking parlay that goes fromthe one o'clock games all the
way through Sunday night, and mywife's just like okay, let me
try to understand your logichere.
You put 10 bucks down, I'm notworried about like 10 bucks, I'm
(44:39):
not, that's not what I'mworried about.
But you did a seven leg parlike she's like I don't know
anything about betting, I don'tunderstand it.
But so if any of those don'thit, you just lose that money.
I was like, yeah, the veryfirst thing I pick could not
happen at one o'clock and thenjust the rest of the games being
(44:59):
shit nothing at that point intime, because I'm not going to
win.
She's like so why would you doa seven leg parlay?
Because if that $10 bet hits,it's 200 bucks, because they're
all long shots like this is justone of those like let's see,
let's throw 10 bucks at this andsee what happens.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Maybe the betting gods are on my side this time
and you know I hit one.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Like it's fun betting when you're not like, okay,
that doesn't hit, I'm out 10bucks.
Yeah, yeah, that week we don'tget to.
You know, order out, uh, onenight.
We have to cook it home.
Oh, no like that's what that'sthat's what's on the line for me
when I'm sports I would do thatduring March madness.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
this year I think there was like two or three
times.
Oh, I had like I think one timeI had like an eight or nine leg
parlay and I think I might'veput like 10 or 15 bucks on it,
and it would have hit for crazyand I think I think I did it
three separate times and I thinkthe second time I did it it I
(46:11):
was like two games off fromhitting, yeah, like I was so
close then at that point, like,and it was like the last two,
like one of the last two games.
Like I'm watching, I'm like,okay, this team won, this team
won.
Like, oh shit, I'm like, okay,I'm done.
Looking, then I go back.
I'm like, oh my, I need, I needfour more.
Then the one back.
And I'm like, oh my, I need, Ineed four more than the one wins
(46:32):
.
And I'm like, oh, there's noway I want to lose.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
I'm like shit that that happened with me and it was
yeah, it was one of the sevenleg parlays and one of it was, I
think it was like one was likeMike Evan gets a hundred
receiving yards Sam Bradford,not Sam Bradford.
One was like Mike Evan gets 100receiving yards Sam Bradford,
not Sam Bradford.
(46:53):
Matt Stafford throws twotouchdowns, christian McCaffrey
has like 100 all-purpose yards,so catching and receiving those
three were like layups.
You know what I mean.
That's probably going to happen.
And a couple of them were likeokay, took the Rams money line.
(47:20):
And then I think the Sundaynight game was like Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati or something likethat.
It was a rivalry game and I betthe spread that Pittsburgh
would pull it out and justeverything else hit and it was
(47:46):
down to the last second andPittsburgh all they had to do.
And it was down to like thelast second and Pittsburgh all
they had to do was kick a fieldgoal to get into field goal
range and they were just outsideof balls.
Well, range like he gets you,get in across the 50 and this
(48:09):
man's hitting it like the dude'sa freak and it's just like all
right, my wife's like she's likeyou know, you gotta work in the
morning and it's at like 5 amand it's like almost midnight.
I was like I don't want to talkabout it right now like we're
talking about like a huge payoutif we can just get to the 40.
And balls, balls, automaticfrom there.
(48:32):
And I think, like Najee Harrisfumbled or something and we were
in range.
All they had to do was get tothe middle of the field, kneel
down, call a timeout with threeseconds left, kick the field
goal and I would have made it onthe spread and everything would
(48:54):
have been hunky-dory and Ithink it was like $10 would have
paid out like $500.
It was a stupid amount and I'mjust sweating watching this.
When he fumbled or it wassomething the fumble, I
can'tumbled, or it was somethingthe fumble and intercept I
can't remember what it was, butit was something stupid like why
(49:14):
are we running that play atthis moment of the game?
And I just paced the house.
She's like so you're just notgonna sleep tonight.
Is that what I was?
Like you have no idea?
Like I'm just this was the bestcoffee and energy drink anybody
could have ever had.
I'm so mad right now.
(49:34):
I've watched from one o'clockall the way through.
Everything hit.
I needed a give me field goalfrom one of the best kickers in
the league, and I couldn't getthat.
So, yeah, I get it.
(49:56):
Like when that happens, thoughI am so invested in whatever it
is, whatever game it is, I amjust honed in on that game.
Like I will watch teams I don'teven care about, just to watch
to see if the player gets whathe's supposed to do yeah,
sometimes I'll make a bunch ofbullshit bets.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
Yeah, like I'll do a stupid parlay.
I mean like women's tennis.
I know I bet, like I really twogames I did on that.
It was like a weekend of justsports, it's like women's tennis
and then like a ufc orsomething stupid and I just like
completely forgot abouteverything until like the next
week when I like went in andchecked my app and I like won,
(50:37):
and I won like five bucks.
But I mean hey oh nice, yeah,like one half, yeah paid zero
attention to anything thathappened.
I I was like oh cool.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
That that when, when, um, the fantasy sports really
came out like the same, the oneday where you could win like
some money on it, like kind ofthe early ages of sports betting
, but it was still fantasy, sothey kind of got away with it Um
, I did some stupid roster forbaseball.
(51:11):
It was like a dollar to do itand I was just like, well, I
mean, what the hell it's adollar?
Completely forgot.
I made it, like you, I had noclue.
And this was the game.
Like Max Scherzer pitched like acomplete game, shutout, almost
(51:33):
perfect game, no hitter.
He walked a guy in like theninth inning, cashed out for 600
bucks Holy shit, on a dollarpay.
Like I was just at work, it wasslow and I was just like
fumbling through stuff on myphone.
I was like, oh, let me see ifthere's anything in daily
(51:56):
fantasy that I want to dotonight, clicked on it and I was
like account balance 600.
I was like what the hell?
I was like what the hell?
Oh, that's right.
Last night I did it's just theguys I worked with like just saw
my eyes light up and likewhat's going on?
(52:17):
I was just like dude, I just Ihit a dollar bet for 600, like
color me lucky.
I completely forgot about itand yeah, so like it's fun in
that sense, like because, again,what is it A dollar?
I'm going to find that in thecouch cushions with change, like
you know what I mean that'scrazy.
(52:41):
You won $600 off of that andlike I was just like, alright,
I'm going to have some fun hereon DraftKings and just throw
some stupid bets out.
This is free money right now.
Like, so, yeah, I get that forsure.
And I think the like you said,you know the, the fantasies and
(53:04):
you know a little bit of smartly.
Okay, we've kind of went off ona real bad like sports gambling
, right right there.
But like for people out therethat have you done, like,
smartly, bet we'll, we'll, we'llpreference this.
Um, yeah, with that, you know,be smart about it.
Um, don't do anything.
Like, uh, my co-worker bettingfive grand, um, on a long, don't
(53:27):
do that.
And also draft Kings.
You know, I will absolutelypromote anything.
I'm not that proud.
I'm always looking for sponsorsfor the show Love it.
Just hit me up anytime.
I will absolutely put in anyshameless plug anywhere.
Luke, we are running down herenear the end of the episode.
(53:51):
I do have to get this segmentin.
If you listen to Brennan's show,you kind of already probably
have an idea what's coming, andit is the Fast Fitty Five.
It is five random questionsfrom the wonderful manager of
the podcast, Johnny FittyFalcone.
These are kind of rapid fire,but you can elaborate if you
need to or want to, and, yeah,if you know, johnny, anybody.
(54:16):
For the new listeners out there, these have nothing to do with
what we've been talking aboutfor the better part of an hour
now.
So if you are ready, luke,we'll go ahead and get going.
All right, question number one.
And we'll go ahead and getgoing.
All right, question number one,and we're off to a great start.
What would you be more afraidof?
(54:37):
100,000 angry fire ants or apissed off polar bear?
Speaker 2 (54:47):
100,000 fire ants are pissed off.
Polar bear.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
The mind of Johnny Finney Falcone, everybody.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
What would I be more afraid of?
What would you be?
Speaker 1 (54:59):
more afraid of.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Oh, polar bear 100%.
I mean like I don't want to sayyou can easily escape ants, but
like the polar bear.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
It's a bear.
At the end of the day, it's abear.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
A pissed off, very hungry, needs food.
Polar bear, you're not winning.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yeah, you're not winning.
That I have to agree with that.
I mean 100,000,.
You know, if they caught youyou're probably in for a little
bit of pain, but like a bear, itcatches you in night night if I
find, if I find myself in thesame environment as a polar bear
and he wants me.
Something went wrong.
Something went wrong if I'm inthe same environment of a polar
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bear.
Uh, question number two uh,what are your thoughts on grapes
?
Speaker 2 (55:48):
Grapes, grapes, they're delicious, they're
delicious.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
That's it.
Well, I think this one, I meanjust based off of what we just
the conversation we just hadbefore this segment.
But question number three whatpro sport athlete do you hate
the most?
Speaker 2 (56:11):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (56:13):
I don't see you.
I mean you.
Speaker 2 (56:15):
Oh no.
I don't know if you can countit.
Who's the see?
This is how much I don't knowabout football.
Who's that dude from Coloradothat just Shador?
Speaker 1 (56:24):
Sanders, shador Sanders.
Speaker 2 (56:26):
Not him, the other one, oh, shoot Travis Hunter,
yeah, not him.
Speaker 1 (56:38):
Uh, the other one oh shoot, travis hunter.
Yeah, I can't, I don't, forsome reason I don't like him, I
know.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, wanting to play both ways in the nfl was just
crazy.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
Yeah, I don't know I like his.
Not wrong, you're not wrong.
Question number four what's thebest flavor of fudge?
Flavor of peanut butter?
Oh yeah, that's a solid choice.
That's a solid choice.
All right, this one might notgo over well either.
But question number five.
Speaker 2 (57:11):
Better athlete?
Rob Gronkowski or aaron judge?
Oh gronk, I got it yeah I don'tknow.
Speaker 1 (57:16):
I don't know, though, aaron judge, I mean any
baseball player to me like tohave that hand-eye coordination
to hit a hundred mile-hour balland crank it 450.
Like that takes skill thattakes a lot of talent.
Speaker 2 (57:35):
Then you get a guy the size of Gronk doing what
Gronk did.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Yeah, I would say yeah.
But on the flip side of thatcoin, gronk was a freak of
nature as a tight end Like you.
Look at just the dimensions ofthat man and any coach would be
like, yeah, that's one of mydefensive linemen or that's my
outside linebacker.
No tight end, yeah, that's atough one for me.
(58:05):
Just on sheer size, I'd have togo grunk.
Um, but just the hand-eyecoordination, I'd have to give
the edge the judge on that one.
Yeah, that's good, but that wayI mean that was the fast 55.
I mean he started off crazy withthat one um we haven't had a
(58:27):
good one like that in a while,though I mean, I'm not gonna lie
.
Um, johnny is notorious forthose questions like the first
question, and I've been gettingthese types of questions since
college, because that's wherejohnny and I met, was at bethany
college and like this is thisis just an everyday thing for
(58:49):
him and the way his mind worksLike he'll text me like randomly
and it'll just be like aquestion like that.
We wouldn't be like talkingabout like anything for like a
day or two, and then, out ofnowhere, so you're locked in a
racquetball court with it's youBatman, conor McGregor and a
(59:13):
polar bear.
You have a road flare, a tennisracket and a set of boxing
gloves.
Who comes out alive?
It's like, dude, I love you todeath brother.
But like it's eight in themorning on a Saturday, I don't
have the mental capacity toanswer this question, but he
(59:38):
would do it all the time andthat's just fitting.
So one day I was just like yo,what if we made a segment on the
podcast and we'll call it theFast 55 and it'll just be your
random ass questions, hell yeah,and he was like love it, love
(59:58):
it, it's a fun way to end theshow.
We've talked to some collegeadmins and some serious people
too as well on the show and youtalk about some serious people
too as well, like on the show,and you know you talk about some
serious topics and it's a funway to just kind of wrap up the
show.
Um, but, luke, I do give everyguest this opportunity at the
(01:00:20):
end of every show.
Um, if there's anything youwant to get out there, anything
you got going on, or even ifit's just a good message to
everybody, I'm going to give youabout a minute and the floor is
yours uh, I guess the onlything I'd say is live life to
the fullest, don't take anythingfor granted and live free.
Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
I guess you only get one life.
You only get one life.
Don't mess it up, don't haveany regrets 100.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
I mean, I love it when people have, you know,
messages like that to end theshow uh, you have a lot of fun
and you know, I'm all forhelping people if they have
anything going on, uh, topromote that out there and get
that out there for.
But when it's just a goodmessage, like, I love it.
Um, the only thing I would youknow, you're right, you do only
(01:01:14):
get one life.
I I've coined a differentphrase, like everyone all yolo,
you only live once, uh, no, youonly die once.
Uh, you live every day.
So that's that's my.
I guess it's yodo um for me, um, but that just means, you know,
go out and live every day, um,because you don't know, nobody
(01:01:41):
knows when, when, their time is,and it's just yeah, you live
every day.
Yeah, you don't only live, youlive every day.
Yeah, you don't only live once.
You live every day.
You only die once.
So go out and and make the mostof it.
But that is actually going to doit for this week's episode of
(01:02:02):
the ride home rants podcast.
Again, I want to thank my guest, a Luke Seacrest, for joining
the show.
A lot of fun to get to sit hereand shoot the shit with him and
talk about his sports andeverything else that we got
going on there in that episode.
As always, if you enjoyed theshow, be a friend, tell a friend
.
If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just
(01:02:22):
because you didn't.
No-transcript.
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home
Rants podcast.
This is, as always, your host,mike Bono.
I had a great guest for ustoday.
He's coming to us, I believehe's right now in Glenville,
west Virginia, grew up near inmy hometown of Follinsby, west
Virginia, but he is also thecousin of former guest of the
(00:21):
show, brennan Seacrest, and thatis Luke Sechrist that joins the
show.
Luke, thanks for joining,brother.
Hey, thanks for having me man.
Hey, not a problem at all.
Mentioned it there a little bit.
You know you and Brennan arecousins.
I think you said first cousinsbefore we got it rolling.
So you know, how are you guysreally related?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So pretty much my dad and Brennan's's dad, uh, are
cousins.
Wait, hold on back this up ummy pat and brennan's papa
brothers, okay, yep, yeah, okay,so um, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It's always fun trying to figure out the family
tree, isn't it?
You know how it's related.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I don't know.
I mean it always comes up inconversations.
But yeah, we're cousins, but Imean we're pretty much just each
other's best friends.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So yeah, it's always good to have, uh, family members
like that.
Um, I wish I had a lot moremale cousins than I do.
Um, because I I grew up with alot of female cousins and you
know, like you, you know bestfriends, but it was still funny
because we didn't have the samelast name.
So people would always look atus and be like, oh, you guys
(01:31):
would make a cute couple.
It's like, well, we're family,so like that would be weird.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think that's like the best part of like us being
each other's best friends butalso having the same last names,
like we'll go out to the bar.
Like us being each other's bestfriends but also having the
same last names, like we'll goout to the bar.
I think, like yesterday we justwent out and had dinner and we
got a couple beers and ourwaitress asked your ids and
we're like we're gonna blow yourmind.
She's like what are you talkingabout?
Then she looked down and shesaw the same last name and she
was like what?
No, it's always funny to getpeople with that.
(01:59):
Or like just random people willmeet at parties that, like
brennan know them but they don'tknow me, or I may know them and
they don't know Brennan, andthen, like I don't know, it's
just always, it's always funnyto mess with people, I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I said did you ever mess with anybody with the same
last name?
Tell them your brothers.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, yes.
I told the lady we were twins.
I said we're twin brothers andshe was like oh, I kind of see
it.
I was like no, you don't.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, you don't Not even close.
Don't lie to me.
Yeah, it's fun to mess withpeople that way.
But, like I said, you grew up,I believe, near the Falsby area
where I'm originally from, whereBrandon's originally from.
So tell the listeners what itwas like.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
you know where you grew up and you know what it was
like growing up in such a sucha small town.
Yeah, so I mean, like I wastelling you before, I did
originally grew up in Follinsbeeup until I was like five or six
and then parents split up, mommoved to New Philadelphia, ohio,
so for the first I'd say likeafter the split, I was only in
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fallingsby on the weekends, okay.
And then, um, so I think myeighth grade year is when I
moved back with my dads.
So I finished out eighth gradethrough senior year, uh, school
there in fallingsby.
But I mean the small town vibes.
I mean you love it or you hateit.
I mean everyone knows, everyoneknows everything about
(03:28):
everybody and you know we're uh,everything spreads like
wildfires down there but I can'tget away with shit in a small
town, no, you know.
But I don't know I liked it.
I mean there was and I it wassuch a small town, but I mean,
like you know you're from there,we're 45 minutes from
(03:51):
Pittsburgh.
You know we're not too far fromWheeling, like if you wanted to
get out of that for a day, Imean it was, it was easy access.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Easy For sure.
Yeah, I spent a lot of time,you know, going to Wheeling
Nails games to get out ofFarnsby for a little bit, going
up to Pittsburgh catching aBuccos game and stuff like that.
It's quick, it's easy, it's notthat terrible of a drive, no
matter where you go, but I loveit.
Farnsby, a town of 1,500 people, it's my kind of vibes.
(04:20):
A lot of mom-and-pop shopsthere too as well, love that.
But yeah, it's just one ofthose old steel mill towns for
people out there that you know.
Just the blue collar town thatyou know it's.
You want to hate it, but youlove it.
Right, I moved away from it,you know.
I live in Zanesville Ohio nowand been here for about six
(04:44):
years now and the wife and I aretrying to figure out how we can
get back to fallsby, like wenever thought that we would want
to go back and it's just like,okay, how quickly and how could
we get back to to where we know?
Uh, everybody and just, we justlove the town, we love the
(05:04):
environment there and, uh, youwent to my alma mater, brook
high school.
Um, what sports and activitieswere involved in there growing
up?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
so I did football, um I did track for two years, um,
I tried out for baseball, uh,one season and it just was not
for me.
But that's all right.
Yeah, I mean those are reallysports wise.
I was in a few of the clubsthere at Brooke mostly spent a
(05:35):
lot of my time.
I was in the carpentry programthere.
I did that for four years.
I really liked a lot of thehigh schools around.
Pretty much everywhere theyhave like um I don't know how to
explain like one vocationalschool for like multiple schools
to come to and it's separate.
I really did enjoy how brookehas that all like attached right
(05:57):
there and yeah, they have thatuh access to students and
whatnot.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But yeah, that that really, when I was there in the
early 2000s, that um, agingmyself a lot by that um but yeah
, they, they started when theybuilt that new uh gym, the
basketball courts, the, thenatatorium, the pool and
(06:24):
everything.
The vocational and all thatjust kind of fell into that
project and it was superbeneficial.
You grow up in a town like that.
They kind of realize there'sprobably not a lot of people
that are going to be going to atraditional four-year college or
university.
There's a lot of trade workersin that town and it's perfect.
(06:48):
I mean here, where my son goesto school, they have that, but
it's like 10 miles away fromwhere the school actually is, so
it's not as easily accessed asBrook is, where it's like oh,
I'm going down the hall and intothis one wing of the of the
high school and I'm where I needto be to learn, where I need to
(07:12):
be.
You don't have to go to yourcore classes in the morning, get
in your car and then drivesomewhere else to get to the,
get to what you really want todo in life, what you really want
to do in life, and that, and Iwish, I, yeah, I wish more
schools were were like Brookeand had that just right there.
Yeah, yeah, definitely so you're.
(07:35):
You're in Glenville, WestVirginia right now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's where you're currently going to school,
correct?
It's where I'm going to school,but as I right now I'm in
morgantown, you're more account,okay?
Yeah, working up here for thesummer gotcha um where.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
What school are you going to right now?
Um for college when you are inschool and um playing any
football in your college um, Iplayed three years of football
down in Glenville.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I actually just hung everything up beginning of the
spring.
I just decided that.
You know it wasn't for me.
I enjoyed it while it lasted.
You know I had to deal withsome injuries and some other
personal issues and I just feltthat that was best for me, but I
mean it was an amazingexperience.
I mean I know a lot of kidsdon't get the opportunity to do
(08:24):
that, but I don't know how manypeople are listening to your
podcast.
Who was in high school werethinking about maybe doing that
is probably the most beneficialexperience you could do in life.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
If you have that opportunity any college sport
100%, a hundred percent.
I, um, I was a swimmer.
I played football and swam atBrook, went to Bethany College
and swam there for two years.
It was an unfortunate injury ashoulder injury that's kind of
the kiss of death for swimmersbut loved every minute of it.
(08:59):
I'm crazy.
I loved getting up at 6 am andbeing in the water and doing
workouts that early.
You know it kept me groundedand had me into a routine and I
think that's super beneficialfor college students For sure.
(09:19):
Yeah, getting into that routineand just OK, you, you knowing,
even after the injury theneverything like that where I
couldn't swim anymore, you know,the next year, like my
roommates were like, why, whyare you awake right now?
Like, why are you up and doingsomething at 6 AM?
I was like, well, basically,since I've been eight years old,
(09:41):
I've been up and swimming sinceat 6 am.
So I just, I got into thisroutine, I get up, I'd get some
breakfast.
You know I'd go, if I could,I'd go to the gym, you know, get
a little run and cardio in, andthen by that time it was time
to go to classes.
And you know I had more donebetween six and like nine
(10:07):
o'clock than most collegestudents get done in a full day.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh sure, for sure.
Yeah, I think that was.
I mean, I don't think it'sanybody's favorite part of being
a collegiate athlete, or the 6am workouts, but I think,
looking back on it, like itprobably was the most beneficial
thing for me.
You know, I I think my biggestthing was, I mean, yeah, I had
the, I also had a shoulderinjury and, um, eventually, what
(10:36):
led to me, you know, decidingto hang it up.
I just fell out of love of thegame, I think.
Yeah, but those 6 am, like, likeyou said, I mean you go to bed
the night before.
I mean I was the type of personwhere I am a morning person for
things I want to do, and likegoing to bed like the first
(10:57):
couple weeks of fall camp belike I do not want to wake up,
do not want to wake up in themorning, I want to sleep in.
You know, just getting offsummer break and everything like
that, and then you get up andyou do it after the workout.
I mean you just feel great, youjust want to go and accomplish
as much things, as much as youcan get done and uh, yeah,
definitely super beneficial andthat just to get in.
(11:17):
Like that schedule, thatroutine.
That's definitely one thingthat I missed.
That I missed after everything.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, I know, even like at Bethany College, like we
had like swimming you know it'sa winter sport and you know
there was for Christmas break.
We pretty much had all ofJanuary off at Bethany, unless
you were a winter sport athlete.
Then you had to be on campusand it was what we called a j
(11:46):
term or january term.
It was optional to take a class, um, if you wanted to.
It actually would help yougraduate early if you wanted to.
I don't know if they stilloffer that now.
I would imagine they still do.
Uh, but all the athletes had tobe there because there were
workouts and everything likethat.
So even though I wasn't takinga class, I still had to be on
campus.
I still had to be there becausethere were workouts and
everything like that.
So, even though I wasn't takinga class, I still had to be on
(12:08):
campus.
I still had to be up at 6 amand in the water doing workouts.
Uh, we'd be done by eight.
You know, breakfast after that,then we'd have to be back in
the weight room and back in thepool by like noon and again,
like I didn't have to be there,it was, it was winter break for
me.
(12:28):
Most kids are sleeping in.
They're.
You know, we're working off allthe holiday food and everything
like that.
We're just getting, you know,being fat and happy, you know,
after the holidays and and I'min the pool just cooking it.
You know, yeah, and it's just,you know it's a lot for somebody
(12:50):
who doesn't have thatdedication and love the sport
that they're doing.
I know a lot of people are like, well, I'm going to college
because you know they're givingme money and I really don't want
to do a sport.
But if they're going to give memoney to go to school, why not
do it?
And they just kind of half-assit and I don't think that's
right, you know, I think youjust need to call it quits.
Um, like you said, you know youfell out of love with the, with
(13:12):
the game.
Was that partly, partly to?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
you know, just the grind of everything, or I mean I
think and I was also I towardsthe end, I would say like I'd
say right around the fall of myjunior year, which would have
been the start of my last season, I think that's when I was like
kind of debating on wanting tohang it up then.
(13:36):
But I was like I guess what yousaid like oh, they're giving me
money, I might as well just doit.
You know I have good friends.
Like, oh, they're giving memoney, I might as well just do
it.
You know, I have good friendsand I like for a long time hated
myself for even like thinkinglike that, because there's so
many people who would kill foran opportunity like that to be
in my shoes, and they justdidn't, that door just didn't
(13:57):
open for them.
And then I would just like Iwould wake up and be like man I,
I do not want to go Like, Ijust not feeling it anymore and
I would wake up and be like manI hey, I do not want to go Like,
I just not feeling it anymoreand I would like just kick
myself in the ass, honestly.
But it did get to a point wheremy class schedule just like
completely took away footballfrom me because we have.
(14:19):
I would.
I mean I would make the 6amworkouts but then I would be in
class, uh, pretty much fromeight in the morning till 6 in
the afternoon, sometimes later,with just my field.
So I mean I was missingpractices left and right just
because I mean, yeah, footballit's sport, that's what I went
(14:40):
to college to play, but like, inthe end and my head, school was
more important, so that's justthe decision I ended up was
really just the final.
I guess cherry on top of likeokay, this is, you know, it's
time.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, and I think it goes.
I don't want to say likeunrecognized, but I mean
unnoticed or anything like that.
But you're a student athlete.
Student comes first, thenyou're an athlete.
You're there to get aneducation to better yourself
(15:17):
down the road.
Athletics is a bonus.
I was at a D3 school, you know.
So there wasn't I don't want tosay there wasn't potential to
go anywhere, and swimming it'ssuch a tough sport.
There's not like a professionalleague per se.
(15:40):
There's the Olympics every fouryears, there's the Worlds every
two years.
Uh, yeah, besides that there'sthere's not a lot of
opportunities past past college,and I know, with football, you
know, I mean, what's it like?
(16:00):
Three percent of collegeathletes will even get invited
to the draft and 1% of thosewill get drafted into the NFL.
It's a crazy number, like it'sjust stupid.
Um, I mean, unless you're, youknow you can do it.
I mean studies should comefirst and I did not think that
(16:26):
way.
Uh, my freshman and sophomoreyear, when I was swimming out
there because you know, in in myfantastic head it was just like
oh yeah, I'm at the olympics,so the hell do I need to go to
this class?
For I was the exact opposite ofyou, I was missing classes to
go to practice.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I'm not saying that never happened.
My freshman year, I think, Iwent into college with the
mindset of I'm a collegefootball player.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Like I'm not cause I don't even know, I don't even
know when, at what point I likemade up my mind that like I
wasn't going to go to collegewhen I was in high school.
But once I got over that humpand was like, okay, the only
reason that I'm going to go isif I get a chance for football.
And that's where I was.
(17:20):
And then whenever I got there,I was like, okay, I'm in college
, I'm a college football player.
Like screw school.
That was like me the first fewmonths of freshman year and it
ended up coming back and bitingme in the ass for sure.
But yeah, I didn't, I guessdidn't really necessarily lock
(17:41):
in to my school and studiesuntil my sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I wish I would have locked in my sophomore year
.
I still didn't, until after theinjury which happened in my
sophomore year, which goes backto my days at Brook.
I actually separated myshoulder my senior year playing
football, um had no place.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Was it the ac joint?
Was it your ac joint?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
no, it was.
It was actually completelyseparated right at the, at the
tip, and I had no idea I did itand it was the first day we put
pads on at brook and're andwe're hitting sleds and I I hit
a sled and I push it and I felta burning sensation go down my
arm and into my pinky and I wasjust like, oh, it's a stinger.
(18:31):
First time hitting pads it's astinger.
What?
Whatever?
Played the whole season Never,never missed the practice, never
missed a practice, never misseda game.
I was a special teamer and abackup wide receiver and
defensive end playing at Brookeand just taking a beating.
Oh yeah, didn't find out untilI went to swim practice after
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the season, after our playoffgame, and jumped in the pool,
went to do a stroke and my armjust wouldn't do the stroke like
I needed it to do, and I toldmy coach like something's wrong,
like I I don't know what'swrong, but like I can't.
This, this is all I got, thisis all I got for the people
watching on uh youtube and on mypatreon.
(19:17):
Like this is all I got, my armwon't go and I can't extend it
out.
She's like have the trainerlook at you all right.
So uh, went back to to Mike.
He was like didn't you justfinish football?
How are you already in thetraining room?
I was just like I'm here, Idon't know um, and he, he was
feeling my shoulder and he waslike you in any pain.
(19:39):
I was like like I mean I'vebeen in pain, I just finished in
12 game season with making theplayoffs and everything like
that.
So, yeah, I mean I'm sore, butI don't know.
He's like you should probablygo to the doctors and called my
parents.
They met me at the hospital andthe doctor was just like, yeah,
(20:00):
you separated your shoulder.
I was just like, when youseparated your shoulder, I was
just like when it's crazy, thewhole season, whole season.
You know, just a dumb teenagekid, you know what I mean.
Just like, oh, it's pain, I'myoung, I'll heal Whatever.
Didn't think anything of it.
Invincible.
Lost my senior swim season.
So I had a lot of D1.
(20:27):
Uh, coming out of my junioryear, um, and lost all of those
except for bethany college.
They were the only ones thatkept it.
So, uh, what made the decisioneasy for me?
As the schooling I was going toum, but yeah, it was.
You know, at that point it waslike, okay, somebody still
believes in me, I obviously canstill do this, even though I
lost a year swimming and, yeah,and you know, re-blew it out in
(20:52):
the middle of a race, uh.
And at bethany, my sophomoreyear, and um got it rehabbed
enough that I could, you know,finish the season, go to our
conference championships.
And then after that I looked atmy coach.
I said, coach, I'm done, Ican't, I can't give you
everything I have.
(21:12):
This shoulder is not going tohold up.
I don't think rehab is going todo it again in the off season.
It's probably going to requiresurgery and I'm not losing
another year of swimming, I'mjust going to, I'm going to hang
up the goggles and the cap andI can't do it anymore and I hate
to do it, but I'm going to doit.
(21:33):
And then, and plus, that alsomade me realize like, oh crap,
now I got to buckle down withthis schooling thing.
So, yeah, ended up having to doa fifth year option, uh,
because basically screwed aroundfor the first two years, that
was there, um, so, yeah, it iswhat it is.
(21:56):
You know, you live and youlearn, um, but I don't know it's
, it's, but I don't know it's,it's yeah For anybody into
college athletics or thinkingabout going into college
athletics.
Just do it, make the leap offaith, and if it's not for you,
then you know, hang it up.
You tried.
(22:16):
That's the thing I would sayfor everybody.
You know, just just give it ago, and if it's not for you,
it's not for you.
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, not right 100%.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And we got completely off topic with that little
spiel and rant there.
We started talking about whathometowns and then it somehow
got onto college athletics.
It's just the way my mind workssometimes.
But, like I said, you knowwe're.
We're from an, a near the sametown, grew up in the same town,
(22:53):
but you're, you're familiar withthe area, but a lot of people
don't realize there.
There's a lot of great food inthat area and the you know,
Fonsby, Steubenville, Ohio area.
Uh, do you have any favoritespots back home?
Um, so if you're there, thatyou, you try to hit up.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Oh, I mean being so.
I'm from, obviously, farnsby's,a small town.
You know this.
Glenville is an insanely smalltown where I'm going to school.
At, I mean, there's onestoplight, one gas station and
two restaurants.
So when I'm home I try and goas many places as I can to eat.
(23:33):
I don't know, I feel like oneof my favorites and I did work
there in high school, but Ireally like the Ionis.
The Ionis is one of my.
It's one of it's in my top fiveup there up in weird yeah, the
(23:53):
Ionis is great.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
If you like Greek food, it's good.
I don't mind it, I don't hateit.
It's definitely up in my topfive.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I just gotta be in the mood for greek food, though
you know what I mean like it'sone of those like I gotta be,
like I'm getting great today,like yeah, definitely same here,
but I mean, every time I get itit's just delicious.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, um pizza wise the carlos I said, this is gonna
make or break how the rest ofthis show goes here.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Luke, if we don't say to carlos well, and I've been
thinking about this one becausewhen I listen to you and
brendan's podcast and that gotbrought up the carlos I'm gonna
throw a curveball at you here.
Okay, sometimes I preferdefelice brothers over to carlos
(24:46):
I'm not mad at that either.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I'm not mad at that at all um, I get a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I get a lot of hate for that, but I why?
They're both great I don't know.
This is good it's delicious itis.
I think it's just because it'ssuch polar opposites of what the
carlos is.
Yeah, I mean thicker, more likesweeter.
It's.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's delicious, the sauce is definitely sweeter, for
sure, uh, but it's still aphenomenal slice yeah, yeah I
mean the carlos, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
DeCarlo's Go ahead, I think, because DeCarlo's is so.
I live on Hoverson Heights andwith DeCarlo's being right there
, I mean it makes an easy pickupfor sure, the convenience
factor definitely helps.
Yeah, and I definitely think myfavorite DeCarlo's is Hoverson
(25:42):
Heights, for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, I, I, I've had them all.
Um, I think we we've gotten theweird and the Hoover's and
Heights, one more than, uh,what's at Willsburg?
Um, what's your favorite one inyour opinion?
I got, I got to go weird.
(26:07):
I got to go the HoogersonHeights.
Wolfsburg is a little bit moreconvenient, but I don't know,
it's something about weird.
I mean, they're both about thesame distance from where my
parents live.
But I'll tell you this though,for you know, student bill area,
(26:27):
I'm gonna throw another pizzacurveball at you that my wife
and I absolutely loved when wewere living, uh, in wintersville
, um, but, but chelly's I don'teven know if I've had that
before you shut up man like thatis, but I probably have and
don't remember it, but I Ireally don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't spend a lot of time over there in the
wintersville area uh, you got tolike they.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Uh, gianna moores was over there.
Uh, they recently shut down.
Kovid kind of put the kibosh onthem, what they've been there
for decades and that was you andyou, you want a good piece of
pizza.
Like that was the place to go.
Um, but vichelli's man, I don'tlike when we lived there, like
that was the go-to, like we knew.
(27:16):
Like payday we're rollingaround, it's like friday night's
vichelli's night now, likewe're ordering out and we're
getting some michelli's.
Uh, I'm gonna have to try somenext time I'm in the area yeah,
100.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Now I feel like I have to because I love pizza.
I do.
I mean, who doesn't?
Who doesn't love pizza if you?
If you don't love pizza, you'rea sociopath in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Like get out of here.
Like who doesn't love a goodslice of pizza?
Grow up, grow up, yeah, that'sit.
Grow up, dude, like just getout of here, enjoy some pizza
I'll throw another one at youand I.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I think they used to be in the student mill mall.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But rubies, rubies have you do you know what I'm
talking about.
I've had it a couple times, notenough to probably give them a,
a bump, but I know who you'retalking about.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I it's very good.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, not I don't want to put it over the carlos
or, uh, the felice.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But if I'm over in the stew mill area and it's like
the lunchtime, I mean mean yougo in.
Everything I like about it iseverything is like precooked,
like fresh, obviously, but assoon as you get it you order it
by the slice and they throw itright in the oven, warm it up,
get your breadstick, but theirsauce with their breadsticks, oh
(28:38):
my gosh.
I do know I like the steaksauce.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
No, it wasn't Ruzzo's , and I know who you're talking
about.
That wasn't named because Iworked in the student mall right
out of college and I lived onthat pizza and the breadsticks
even their pepperoni rolls withthat sauce.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's delicious okay, I gotta, I gotta ask you this
too.
Um, I found this out moving towhere I did um pepperoni rolls,
strictly an ohio valley thing.
You're in morgantown right now.
Do they know what a goodpepperoni roll is?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I don't know if they know what a good pepperoni roll
is, but they definitely knowpepperoni rolls.
I think that it's, um,definitely being so.
I don't know if you're WestVirginia, begley.
Yeah, it's pretty smack dab inthe center of the state, yeah,
but a lot of the kids and a lotof my friends that go there are
(29:35):
all from like either that areaor southern West Virginia.
And like, when I tell them thatpeople don't know what
pepperoni rolls are from likeOhio, like where my mom lives,
because it's not a big thing inlike the farther north in Ohio,
they're like mind boggled by it,I'm telling you from from new
philly.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Just west has no clue , like I said, I moved and I'm
in the zanesville area.
I'm about 45 minutes fromcolumbus, where where I'm at
right now, and a ton of pizzaplaces here, a ton.
Not as good as up home, but youknow they try.
I went into one and you know,stupidly, was just like y'all
(30:23):
got any pepperoni rolls.
They're just like huh.
I was like a pepperoni roll.
They're like what's a pepperoniroll?
I was like that was like apepperoni roll, like what's a
pepperoni roll.
I was like you're a pizza place.
You have no idea what apepperoni roll is Like.
And then, trying to, I soundedlike a psycho.
I was trying to explain this toa cook at a little pizza shop
(30:47):
here.
I was like it's about likemaybe like six inches to a foot
long, it's basically a pizza.
That's kind of just like.
It's not a calzone, it's rolledup, it's pepperoni and cheese,
a little bit of sauce, and thenyou get a little cup to dip with
sauce and they're just likeyeah, we don't have that.
They have pepperoni bites iswhat they got me?
(31:09):
I was like pepperoni bites iswhat they got me.
I was like how's this Like?
I was like all right, and thenI went to.
I went to every single pizzaplace here, like when we first
moved and asked for a pepperoniroll, like we don't know what
that is.
I was like I'm, I'm leaving, Idon't like this anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Definitely that's a thing, definitely think that's a
thing that West Virginianspride themselves in.
And everyone's grandma makesthe best pepperoni roll.
You talk to anybody, without adoubt.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Without a doubt, it was funny because my wife and I
just got fed up of not beingable to find them.
So I was like we're just goingto make our own at home If we
want them.
It's probably cheaper thanthese places.
That'll probably upcharge usfor not knowing what the hell we
were talking about.
Yeah, and so my wife was justlike curious and she just typed
(32:03):
in pepperoni roll recipe.
The first option that comes upis West Virginia pepperoni roll
recipe.
That's the first option.
Like I love that.
That is like a staple of WestVirginia is just pepperoni rolls
.
I go as far as I think ifanybody from the NCAA is
(32:27):
listening, I think you need tomake a pepperoni bowl and
pepperoni roll.
That's a hard thing.
It's pepperoni roll bowl andhave it somewhere in West
Virginia.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, you have a mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
You have a mayo bowl Like why can't we get a?
Let's get a pepperoni roll bowland teach the nation what
pepperoni rolls are.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
So I know you said when you were explaining what
pepperoni rolls are.
So I know you said when youwere explaining the pepperoni
roll.
It's obviously got pepperonicheese, a little bit of sauce.
Have you had a pepperoni rollwith hot pepper cheese and
banana peppers in it?
Yes, cool Dude.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Game changer Game changer If you like a little
heat when you're eating, that's.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Just a little, it's just enough.
You get a little hot peppercheese, maybe some pepper jack
in there.
Yeah, a little.
I'll go as far as I've had thatwith a little bit of sweet
banana peppers in there.
Oh, I made that myself and Iwas like, yeah, I'm keeping this
recipe to myself.
This is no joke.
(33:36):
If you like a little heat,sweet and heat.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh yeah that'll.
That'll change your lifethat'll change your life.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Oh man, I could hell.
I could talk about westvirginia all day.
Um, what's the?
You know, so we got under that.
But what's next for luke here,you know, after, uh, I believe
you you have you graduatedcollege yet, or you're finishing
up this year, or you know yougot one more year.
Okay, so what's next for?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
a year.
Okay, um next step I it comesback to talking about how you
guys are trying to go back toFollensby as quick as possible.
It's not that I hate the area.
I want to leave as fast aspossible.
Maybe not for good, but I Iknow there's more out there 100%
(34:26):
you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I would tell you to do it.
I would tell you Anybody that'sin any small town you know,
venture out.
You're not wrong, I would tellyou to do it.
I would tell you Anybody that'sin any small town, venture out.
There's a lot out there.
Don't forget your hometown,because I'll tell you, leaving
makes you appreciated that muchmore, because I was kind of like
(34:48):
you Moved away and was like, oh, it's going to be awesome
getting out of the small town,small town, going to do big
things.
Here Columbus has a greatcomedy scene trying to make it
into comedy Like I'll be closeto there, yada, yada, yada.
Now it's just like, yeah, Imiss Follensby, pittsburgh, I
(35:16):
miss wheeling and I just I justat the end of the day, that's
home.
Uh, and you know, being thatfar away from my family I'm
about two hours away from themand it's not a terrible drive
but no, no, only seeing thembasically every other year on
holidays because we have wesplit it between my wife's
(35:37):
family and them, because mywife's family's here, um, so
it's, it's tough when you, whenyou're going home not as often
as you would like and, yeah, you, I appreciate it more my
parents are always like hey, weknow, you live forever away, so
if you guys got to get out ofhere, leave when you want to
(36:00):
leave.
I was like, well, if it was whatI want to leave, I'm just going
to move back in here.
I'm going to have somebody gograb my animals and all my shit
in Zanesville, I'm just going tohave them move in here.
We got enough room here.
Right, we're good, we're cool.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I got a 16-year-old wife.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
We're just going to come in here, we're fine.
They're like just go home.
I blame that on being Italiantoo.
We're just very family oriented.
That's why people are alwayslike, well, you don't see them
(36:37):
leaving much.
It's just the Italian way.
I'm pretty sure everyespecially Italian boys we stay
at home until it's absolutelynecessary that we leave home.
No shit, I was 27 when I leftmy parents house 27.
Nothing wrong with that.
No, there wasn't.
(36:58):
I mean, I was.
I was working, I was bankingmoney and like, although you
think you're a baller whenyou're making like 30, 40 grand
a year and you're just like,dude, yeah, I got so much money
to do whatever I want.
And then you move on.
Yeah, you got a few bills carnote, insurance, cell phone bill
(37:23):
, that's it.
And then like some food like,and then you finally leave and
you're just like man, I wasnsome food like, and then you
finally leave and you're justlike man, I wasn't making any
money at all.
So it's, yeah, but it's, youknow, it's, it's just a thing,
yeah.
To get back there and westvirginia, I will say, though
(37:44):
this is weird, uh, becausethere's no pro sports teams,
yeah, zero pro sports teams.
So who do you root pro sportsteams?
So who do you root for?
I got to ask you, who do youroot for in pro sports?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I got to be a hundred percent honest with you.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
I don't pay much attention Really.
Yeah, I mean like if there's agame on, I'll watch it, but like
I don't really have a favoriteteam.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
No skin in the game.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
No, I mean I got to throw this one out there for my
dad because him and my pap bothhave always been diehard Raiders
fans.
So because of that I alwaysgrew up my family very strongly
dislikes the Steelers.
I get it.
That's just how it always was.
I don't know, I don't reallycare.
I just really I recently justgot in, like the last few years,
(38:37):
started doing the fantasyfootball like this, the leagues,
and it's not that I've paidmore attention to the games and
like the teams out there, but ithelped me pay more attention to
the players I had on my team,yeah, which then made like focus
on like everybody, and thatmade it like everything
interested, interesting for me.
But it's really just football,like nfl, I got I caught myself
(39:01):
watching a couple, uh couplebaseball games.
I mean, I would say that thepirates, although they're not
the best in the mlb ever, saythat.
Yeah, I would say the piratesdefinitely, although they're not
the best in the MLB Ever.
Yeah, I would say the PiratesDefinitely.
A Penguins fan, I do likehockey.
I love hockey.
I can't stand watchingbasketball 100%.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I'm with you on that one.
I don't root for anybody in theNBA.
I watch college basketball.
Oh I love it.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
The only college basketball watch is March.
Madness, that's it, and I willsit back and I'll just watch
every game, cause they're allexcited.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Every now and again I'd watch a WVU game, you know,
if it's on before March, madness, and I can catch it, I'll you
know.
I'll flip it on for a quicksecond.
But I root for all thePittsburgh teams Steelers,
penguins, pirates.
It's hard to admit that I'm aPirates fan.
I think that's how you knowyou're a true fan when you can
(40:01):
admit it out loud.
But I am a Tampa Bay Buccaneersfan.
I was super young they stillhad the creamsicle orange
jerseys and I saw them in thoseand I was like dude, those are
sweet.
I mean I was like maybe four orfive and at that time it's just
(40:24):
like, oh, that color's awesome,I like orange and I stuck with
it.
And there's no pro sports team,so like, who's going to be like
dude?
Why do you like them?
Tell me a pro sports team inWest Virginia that I could root
for.
You know, like, but you're notwrong with the fantasy football
making you follow players morethan the teams themselves, more
(40:51):
than the teams themselves.
I will say this though now thatsports betting's legalized in
pretty much the entirety of theUnited States, now gets you a
little bit more invested in thegames, for sure.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, I agree with that.
I turned 21, right smack downin the middle of uh football
season in november and I gotinto it pretty good.
Yeah, you can you can.
You can absolutely lose it,sport betting yeah, and what's
crazy, I would only ever do itwhen I was with brennan.
Only ever do it.
(41:35):
When I was with brennan,shocker brennan, right in his
basement and uh, he quit.
He quit on the sports betting acouple years ago and he had
mentioned it one night and hewas like give me your phone,
like what do you mean?
He was like give me your phone,do you want to bet 10 bucks?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I'm like sure he'd set it all up, I'd see what it
is and then be like, all right,let's do this yeah, I um my wife
hates football season for forthat reason, because it's like
football's like the only thingand I've been, I've been told
like by a lot of people I'm theycall me a bitch better, um,
(42:06):
because I think the most I'veever bet was like 50 bucks.
Like I'm not throwing likehundreds at this thing here.
You know what I mean.
Like I got.
I got a guy I know he said heput five grand on the Indiana
Pacers to win it all this year.
I'm like you're dumb.
I was like one tell me you'rein your 20s, not married and
(42:30):
don't have any responsibilities,without telling me you're in
your 20s, have no family, noresponsibilities, right, I went.
If I put five grand on a longshot at best in the Indiana
Pacers, I didn't understand ifthat pays out.
Kudos to you for for makingthat bet.
(42:53):
But I was like my wife wouldcut my nuts off, like that would
be the end of me I would haveto, like lock myself in my house
until I either won or lost.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Yeah, I could not.
I couldn't bear the anxietybehind that.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
No, like he was pacing as a guy I work with in
my day job, like he was pacingaround the office today.
No, I'm sure of it, and I'mlike dude, game six, what do you
wear?
How you feeling tonight?
Big guy hella burdens out whatlike possibly, how you, how you
feel, how's that five grandtreating you?
(43:30):
I was just harping on him.
I could already tell he had theproverbial knife in his gut
from the situation.
I was just twisting it.
I was just giving him hell allday.
It was just one of those thingsthat you know it.
(43:54):
You like.
They said like I I'll do.
I'll make my own parlays,though.
Um, because you know you bet 10bucks, you know you do like a,
an easy par, like you might win15.
Yeah, you know you're not,you're not breaking the bank,
but I'll make some crazy ones,like some stupid seven-leg
(44:18):
freaking parlay that goes fromthe one o'clock games all the
way through Sunday night, and mywife's just like okay, let me
try to understand your logichere.
You put 10 bucks down, I'm notworried about like 10 bucks, I'm
(44:39):
not, that's not what I'mworried about.
But you did a seven leg parlike she's like I don't know
anything about betting, I don'tunderstand it.
But so if any of those don'thit, you just lose that money.
I was like, yeah, the veryfirst thing I pick could not
happen at one o'clock and thenjust the rest of the games being
(44:59):
shit nothing at that point intime, because I'm not going to
win.
She's like so why would you doa seven leg parlay?
Because if that $10 bet hits,it's 200 bucks, because they're
all long shots like this is justone of those like let's see,
let's throw 10 bucks at this andsee what happens.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Maybe the betting gods are on my side this time
and you know I hit one.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Like it's fun betting when you're not like, okay,
that doesn't hit, I'm out 10bucks.
Yeah, yeah, that week we don'tget to.
You know, order out, uh, onenight.
We have to cook it home.
Oh, no like that's what that'sthat's what's on the line for me
when I'm sports I would do thatduring March madness.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
this year I think there was like two or three
times.
Oh, I had like I think one timeI had like an eight or nine leg
parlay and I think I might'veput like 10 or 15 bucks on it,
and it would have hit for crazyand I think I think I did it
three separate times and I thinkthe second time I did it it I
(46:11):
was like two games off fromhitting, yeah, like I was so
close then at that point, like,and it was like the last two,
like one of the last two games.
Like I'm watching, I'm like,okay, this team won, this team
won.
Like, oh shit, I'm like, okay,I'm done.
Looking, then I go back.
I'm like, oh my, I need, I needfour more.
Then the one back.
And I'm like, oh my, I need, Ineed four more than the one wins
(46:32):
.
And I'm like, oh, there's noway I want to lose.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
I'm like shit that that happened with me and it was
yeah, it was one of the sevenleg parlays and one of it was, I
think it was like one was likeMike Evan gets a hundred
receiving yards Sam Bradford,not Sam Bradford.
One was like Mike Evan gets 100receiving yards Sam Bradford,
not Sam Bradford.
(46:53):
Matt Stafford throws twotouchdowns, christian McCaffrey
has like 100 all-purpose yards,so catching and receiving those
three were like layups.
You know what I mean.
That's probably going to happen.
And a couple of them were likeokay, took the Rams money line.
(47:20):
And then I think the Sundaynight game was like Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati or something likethat.
It was a rivalry game and I betthe spread that Pittsburgh
would pull it out and justeverything else hit and it was
(47:46):
down to the last second andPittsburgh all they had to do.
And it was down to like thelast second and Pittsburgh all
they had to do was kick a fieldgoal to get into field goal
range and they were just outsideof balls.
Well, range like he gets you,get in across the 50 and this
(48:09):
man's hitting it like the dude'sa freak and it's just like all
right, my wife's like she's likeyou know, you gotta work in the
morning and it's at like 5 amand it's like almost midnight.
I was like I don't want to talkabout it right now like we're
talking about like a huge payoutif we can just get to the 40.
And balls, balls, automaticfrom there.
(48:32):
And I think, like Najee Harrisfumbled or something and we were
in range.
All they had to do was get tothe middle of the field, kneel
down, call a timeout with threeseconds left, kick the field
goal and I would have made it onthe spread and everything would
(48:54):
have been hunky-dory and Ithink it was like $10 would have
paid out like $500.
It was a stupid amount and I'mjust sweating watching this.
When he fumbled or it wassomething the fumble, I
can'tumbled, or it was somethingthe fumble and intercept I
can't remember what it was, butit was something stupid like why
(49:14):
are we running that play atthis moment of the game?
And I just paced the house.
She's like so you're just notgonna sleep tonight.
Is that what I was?
Like you have no idea?
Like I'm just this was the bestcoffee and energy drink anybody
could have ever had.
I'm so mad right now.
(49:34):
I've watched from one o'clockall the way through.
Everything hit.
I needed a give me field goalfrom one of the best kickers in
the league, and I couldn't getthat.
So, yeah, I get it.
(49:56):
Like when that happens, thoughI am so invested in whatever it
is, whatever game it is, I amjust honed in on that game.
Like I will watch teams I don'teven care about, just to watch
to see if the player gets whathe's supposed to do yeah,
sometimes I'll make a bunch ofbullshit bets.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
Yeah, like I'll do a stupid parlay.
I mean like women's tennis.
I know I bet, like I really twogames I did on that.
It was like a weekend of justsports, it's like women's tennis
and then like a ufc orsomething stupid and I just like
completely forgot abouteverything until like the next
week when I like went in andchecked my app and I like won,
(50:37):
and I won like five bucks.
But I mean hey oh nice, yeah,like one half, yeah paid zero
attention to anything thathappened.
I I was like oh cool.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
That that when, when, um, the fantasy sports really
came out like the same, the oneday where you could win like
some money on it, like kind ofthe early ages of sports betting
, but it was still fantasy, sothey kind of got away with it Um
, I did some stupid roster forbaseball.
(51:11):
It was like a dollar to do itand I was just like, well, I
mean, what the hell it's adollar?
Completely forgot.
I made it, like you, I had noclue.
And this was the game.
Like Max Scherzer pitched like acomplete game, shutout, almost
(51:33):
perfect game, no hitter.
He walked a guy in like theninth inning, cashed out for 600
bucks Holy shit, on a dollarpay.
Like I was just at work, it wasslow and I was just like
fumbling through stuff on myphone.
I was like, oh, let me see ifthere's anything in daily
(51:56):
fantasy that I want to dotonight, clicked on it and I was
like account balance 600.
I was like what the hell?
I was like what the hell?
Oh, that's right.
Last night I did it's just theguys I worked with like just saw
my eyes light up and likewhat's going on?
(52:17):
I was just like dude, I just Ihit a dollar bet for 600, like
color me lucky.
I completely forgot about itand yeah, so like it's fun in
that sense, like because, again,what is it A dollar?
I'm going to find that in thecouch cushions with change, like
you know what I mean that'scrazy.
(52:41):
You won $600 off of that andlike I was just like, alright,
I'm going to have some fun hereon DraftKings and just throw
some stupid bets out.
This is free money right now.
Like, so, yeah, I get that forsure.
And I think the like you said,you know the, the fantasies and
(53:04):
you know a little bit of smartly.
Okay, we've kind of went off ona real bad like sports gambling
, right right there.
But like for people out therethat have you done, like,
smartly, bet we'll, we'll, we'llpreference this.
Um, yeah, with that, you know,be smart about it.
Um, don't do anything.
Like, uh, my co-worker bettingfive grand, um, on a long, don't
(53:27):
do that.
And also draft Kings.
You know, I will absolutelypromote anything.
I'm not that proud.
I'm always looking for sponsorsfor the show Love it.
Just hit me up anytime.
I will absolutely put in anyshameless plug anywhere.
Luke, we are running down herenear the end of the episode.
(53:51):
I do have to get this segmentin.
If you listen to Brennan's show,you kind of already probably
have an idea what's coming, andit is the Fast Fitty Five.
It is five random questionsfrom the wonderful manager of
the podcast, Johnny FittyFalcone.
These are kind of rapid fire,but you can elaborate if you
need to or want to, and, yeah,if you know, johnny, anybody.
(54:16):
For the new listeners out there, these have nothing to do with
what we've been talking aboutfor the better part of an hour
now.
So if you are ready, luke,we'll go ahead and get going.
All right, question number one.
And we'll go ahead and getgoing.
All right, question number one,and we're off to a great start.
What would you be more afraidof?
(54:37):
100,000 angry fire ants or apissed off polar bear?
Speaker 2 (54:47):
100,000 fire ants are pissed off.
Polar bear.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
The mind of Johnny Finney Falcone, everybody.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
What would I be more afraid of?
What would you be?
Speaker 1 (54:59):
more afraid of.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Oh, polar bear 100%.
I mean like I don't want to sayyou can easily escape ants, but
like the polar bear.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
It's a bear.
At the end of the day, it's abear.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
A pissed off, very hungry, needs food.
Polar bear, you're not winning.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yeah, you're not winning.
That I have to agree with that.
I mean 100,000,.
You know, if they caught youyou're probably in for a little
bit of pain, but like a bear, itcatches you in night night if I
find, if I find myself in thesame environment as a polar bear
and he wants me.
Something went wrong.
Something went wrong if I'm inthe same environment of a polar
(55:42):
bear.
Uh, question number two uh,what are your thoughts on grapes
?
Speaker 2 (55:48):
Grapes, grapes, they're delicious, they're
delicious.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
That's it.
Well, I think this one, I meanjust based off of what we just
the conversation we just hadbefore this segment.
But question number three whatpro sport athlete do you hate
the most?
Speaker 2 (56:11):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (56:13):
I don't see you.
I mean you.
Speaker 2 (56:15):
Oh no.
I don't know if you can countit.
Who's the see?
This is how much I don't knowabout football.
Who's that dude from Coloradothat just Shador?
Speaker 1 (56:24):
Sanders, shador Sanders.
Speaker 2 (56:26):
Not him, the other one, oh, shoot Travis Hunter,
yeah, not him.
Speaker 1 (56:38):
Uh, the other one oh shoot, travis hunter.
Yeah, I can't, I don't, forsome reason I don't like him, I
know.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, wanting to play both ways in the nfl was just
crazy.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
Yeah, I don't know I like his.
Not wrong, you're not wrong.
Question number four what's thebest flavor of fudge?
Flavor of peanut butter?
Oh yeah, that's a solid choice.
That's a solid choice.
All right, this one might notgo over well either.
But question number five.
Speaker 2 (57:11):
Better athlete?
Rob Gronkowski or aaron judge?
Oh gronk, I got it yeah I don'tknow.
Speaker 1 (57:16):
I don't know, though, aaron judge, I mean any
baseball player to me like tohave that hand-eye coordination
to hit a hundred mile-hour balland crank it 450.
Like that takes skill thattakes a lot of talent.
Speaker 2 (57:35):
Then you get a guy the size of Gronk doing what
Gronk did.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Yeah, I would say yeah.
But on the flip side of thatcoin, gronk was a freak of
nature as a tight end Like you.
Look at just the dimensions ofthat man and any coach would be
like, yeah, that's one of mydefensive linemen or that's my
outside linebacker.
No tight end, yeah, that's atough one for me.
(58:05):
Just on sheer size, I'd have togo grunk.
Um, but just the hand-eyecoordination, I'd have to give
the edge the judge on that one.
Yeah, that's good, but that wayI mean that was the fast 55.
I mean he started off crazy withthat one um we haven't had a
(58:27):
good one like that in a while,though I mean, I'm not gonna lie
.
Um, johnny is notorious forthose questions like the first
question, and I've been gettingthese types of questions since
college, because that's wherejohnny and I met, was at bethany
college and like this is thisis just an everyday thing for
(58:49):
him and the way his mind worksLike he'll text me like randomly
and it'll just be like aquestion like that.
We wouldn't be like talkingabout like anything for like a
day or two, and then, out ofnowhere, so you're locked in a
racquetball court with it's youBatman, conor McGregor and a
(59:13):
polar bear.
You have a road flare, a tennisracket and a set of boxing
gloves.
Who comes out alive?
It's like, dude, I love you todeath brother.
But like it's eight in themorning on a Saturday, I don't
have the mental capacity toanswer this question, but he
(59:38):
would do it all the time andthat's just fitting.
So one day I was just like yo,what if we made a segment on the
podcast and we'll call it theFast 55 and it'll just be your
random ass questions, hell yeah,and he was like love it, love
(59:58):
it, it's a fun way to end theshow.
We've talked to some collegeadmins and some serious people
too as well on the show and youtalk about some serious people
too as well, like on the show,and you know you talk about some
serious topics and it's a funway to just kind of wrap up the
show.
Um, but, luke, I do give everyguest this opportunity at the
(01:00:20):
end of every show.
Um, if there's anything youwant to get out there, anything
you got going on, or even ifit's just a good message to
everybody, I'm going to give youabout a minute and the floor is
yours uh, I guess the onlything I'd say is live life to
the fullest, don't take anythingfor granted and live free.
Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
I guess you only get one life.
You only get one life.
Don't mess it up, don't haveany regrets 100.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
I mean, I love it when people have, you know,
messages like that to end theshow uh, you have a lot of fun
and you know, I'm all forhelping people if they have
anything going on, uh, topromote that out there and get
that out there for.
But when it's just a goodmessage, like, I love it.
Um, the only thing I would youknow, you're right, you do only
(01:01:14):
get one life.
I I've coined a differentphrase, like everyone all yolo,
you only live once, uh, no, youonly die once.
Uh, you live every day.
So that's that's my.
I guess it's yodo um for me, um, but that just means, you know,
go out and live every day, um,because you don't know, nobody
(01:01:41):
knows when, when, their time is,and it's just yeah, you live
every day.
Yeah, you don't only live, youlive every day.
Yeah, you don't only live once.
You live every day.
You only die once.
So go out and and make the mostof it.
But that is actually going to doit for this week's episode of
(01:02:02):
the ride home rants podcast.
Again, I want to thank my guest, a Luke Seacrest, for joining
the show.
A lot of fun to get to sit hereand shoot the shit with him and
talk about his sports andeverything else that we got
going on there in that episode.
As always, if you enjoyed theshow, be a friend, tell a friend
.
If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just
(01:02:22):
because you didn't.
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