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Speaker 1: Welcome Just Straight Up five Johnny pet a hard hitting,
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Speaker 1: This podcast will not only cover all things bowling, but
Speaker 1: will also give you a raw look into real life issues.
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Speaker 1: the most gifted bowlers of this or any other generation,
Speaker 1: brick any claim it. So, without further Ado, Let's introduce
Speaker 1: you to the hosts of the show, Brad Rob, Rob Francois,
Speaker 1: Rob Rob Francois, Doctor Ocho, Doctor Ocho and the incomparable
Speaker 1: Johnny Petraglia Junior Johnny Petraglia Junior.
Speaker 3: Hey guys, looking back to Straight Up five with Johnny
Speaker 3: Petraglia Junior. I am your host, rad Rob, Rob Francois.
Speaker 3: This is episode one six and we are back. What's
Speaker 3: going on, everybody in the chat? We got staying man,
Speaker 3: what up?
Speaker 4: What up?
Speaker 3: We got Amanda Moore, who is very concerned that our
Speaker 3: show was gone. She messaged me last night. I said, nope,
Speaker 3: it's all Ocho's fault. Crambone, what's going on? Brother, Crambone's
Speaker 3: in the house. We got Mark f Oh boy, you're back. Yes,
Speaker 3: we are, Alex bur Alex Bermudez. What's going on? Hello
Speaker 3: from behind the Drill Press in Modesto, California. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Nico,
Speaker 3: our resident statistician and reporter is also here. Good evening, everybody.
Speaker 3: Crambone says, lose the cap. All right, your band. Uh,
Speaker 3: Let's introduce our first co host because we have a
Speaker 3: lot to cover here. He is straight out of Compton,
Speaker 3: or straight back from Compton. He is the resident doctor
Speaker 3: of Straight Up five. He is the man of many masks,
Speaker 3: the man of many talents. I could sorry, I couldn't
Speaker 3: say that a straight face. He knows a little, but
Speaker 3: a lot and a lot about a little. So uh
Speaker 3: he is the one and only doctor Ocho. What's going on? Oach?
Speaker 4: You know most people make that joke that say, uh hey,
Speaker 4: uh where I flew in from California and uh boere
Speaker 4: my arm's tired. Mine ain't because I could easily fly
Speaker 4: from here to California.
Speaker 2: Were good.
Speaker 3: Your arms never get smaller, I can't.
Speaker 4: They called me, James Vanderpeak, your.
Speaker 3: Little sunburn on one side of your body but not
Speaker 3: the other.
Speaker 4: I wasn't laying out like this when I was building
Speaker 4: a fence a swing set. Damn it, I was building
Speaker 4: a swing set like this.
Speaker 3: Did you get any in and out while you're out
Speaker 3: out there?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I actually did. Oh that's right. Oh my god, life changing.
Speaker 3: I've heard so much about it.
Speaker 4: It's so good. It's insane. It was so good and
Speaker 4: I only went once, and I'm upset about it. It
Speaker 4: was so good.
Speaker 2: Someone's in the picture. We almost had him.
Speaker 4: It was so good. I won't even it's I won't
Speaker 4: even board, and everybody else, everybody who's been there knows
Speaker 4: it's freaking me.
Speaker 3: So we're getting one in. We're actually we're getting several
Speaker 3: in Tennessee. Uh, hopefully by the end of the year,
Speaker 3: and were also like Gus we mentioned we're getting several
Speaker 3: wa walls too, So lots of good stuff coming here
Speaker 3: to the Mid South. But yeah, I can't I can't
Speaker 3: wait to check it out. I've heard nothing good things
Speaker 3: about it. I heard is a waffle.
Speaker 4: House here in New Jersey and an in and out,
Speaker 4: and I'm set for life.
Speaker 3: The waffle house is so good. They really are good, uh,
Speaker 3: Nico says in the two weeks off, did Rob getny.
Speaker 4: Popeyes's That's a silly question, I know, like.
Speaker 3: I'll take it he gets Popeyes? Yeah, no, exactly right.
Speaker 3: Burgers are good, the fries are ass. Did you have
Speaker 3: ass fries from now?
Speaker 4: I had normal fries. Actually I didn't get I didn't
Speaker 4: see the ash fries on the menu. I would have.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's right out my alley.
Speaker 3: That's fair, that's fair ship. Uh hey, Mozelle, what's going on? Welcome?
Speaker 4: I think what I was told that. Uh, Mama Petragli
Speaker 4: is tuning in tonight too, so always good to have
Speaker 4: the other protragon the better half.
Speaker 2: Clearly the Petraglia. That's not a knock on JP Senior.
Speaker 3: Really but you know, I mean he's been on the
Speaker 3: show too much.
Speaker 4: I look like this, so I get away with it. Hey,
Speaker 4: what else we got going on?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well we have somebody to your left right. Hey, Hey,
Speaker 3: Johnny Petraglia, what's going on? Brother?
Speaker 2: Use the microphone? Just testing out the windscreen. Barely made
Speaker 2: it from my golf outing today, So that's where I'm.
Speaker 4: Going to start.
Speaker 2: Oh, Jo is excusing himself, so I'm gonna slide right
Speaker 2: in here. First off, thanks to Jake Cutler for the
Speaker 2: new shirt which you sent me because you felt like it.
Speaker 2: Mister Olympia four times. Uh, the man that dethrowning Ronnie
Speaker 2: Coleman still rocking, send me the new light, you know
Speaker 2: the hues.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: But I will say this, this is definitely a prop.
Speaker 2: It's still right here. But I have a couple of
Speaker 2: things to say before the show even starts. First off,
Speaker 2: thank you to Lenny mastro Giacomo. He's he's Irish. And
Speaker 2: thank you to Eddie Bienvou He's also Irish. And thank
Speaker 2: you to Jimmy Sperano, also Irish, for the greatest day
Speaker 2: ever at mercer Oaks Golf Course. Today thirty six holes,
Speaker 2: and I have to brag about myself.
Speaker 3: So sure, go ahead.
Speaker 2: We started. We started on the third hole today at
Speaker 2: one one pm. And the fifth hole if you drain it,
Speaker 2: part three, one hundred and eighty five yards. If you
Speaker 2: drain it, you win a Ford Bronco, a year's supply
Speaker 2: of golf balls, a yetti, and a driver of your choice.
Speaker 3: Oh ship.
Speaker 2: And when I tell you what, a group behind me
Speaker 2: and the people watching, man, dude, right at that stick
Speaker 2: rolled right up two feet short. Ah. Man, it was
Speaker 2: so close, Rob and all of our viewers so close.
Speaker 2: I called my mother and facetim there. I look at
Speaker 2: this fucking shit, said stop using that language. I don't
Speaker 2: like that language. Dude. It was. It was one of
Speaker 2: those dude, when I tell you, closest I have ever
Speaker 2: been to a n ace. What a great day at
Speaker 2: mercer Oaks. Thank you, Lenny, Thank you everybody. H It
Speaker 2: was a mulch and something else, something with the ground.
Speaker 2: I never even actually looked at the name. But what
Speaker 2: they sped no expense in the woods of Jurassic Parks.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Awesome, man, they sped no expense.
Speaker 3: Too bad. You came just that close to winning. That
Speaker 3: would have been badass, that would have been.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a great day, man, what a great day.
Speaker 2: And then had an hour and five minute drive to
Speaker 2: good old Belford, which I made by ten minutes. Pop
Speaker 2: right in, gave gg a kiss, gave missus Ocho a kiss,
Speaker 2: and here we are and gg gg's birthday is tomorrow.
Speaker 2: She's I'm sorry Friday. She's a little embarrassed to come
Speaker 2: on camera. But maybe at some point while we're still here,
Speaker 2: we can get her up here to wish her a
Speaker 2: happy second birthday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, that as dude. Good stuff, fantastic, fantastic. I
Speaker 3: went to therapy today for the first time because you know,
Speaker 3: I'm fucking the head. So that happened today. Yeah right,
Speaker 3: what else? Oh? My kid just started kindergarten on Monday.
Speaker 2: I also have to give one more shout out to
Speaker 2: somebody doesn't even realize how important they are to me.
Speaker 2: And his name is Nick de Ambrosio. Went out of
Speaker 2: his way to make sure that everything was good with
Speaker 2: my family, as he always has. So I saw his
Speaker 2: name in the chad. I obviously popped in late, but
Speaker 2: I did want to send a an awesome thank you
Speaker 2: to the greatest man ever in congrats on the new
Speaker 2: Marina and looking forward to seeing you August twenty fourth
Speaker 2: at that marina. So yeah.
Speaker 4: And other than.
Speaker 2: That, uh, Rob, I have so much talk about in
Speaker 2: the in the world of bowling, sure for for the
Speaker 2: last few weeks that we haven't been here, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, to all of our viewers, thank you guys
Speaker 2: so much for dealing with us through this hectic time,
Speaker 2: through Ojo's vacation, me bowling, Dougie's event, battle Bowl, all
Speaker 2: that stuff. So thank you guys so much for being
Speaker 2: so awesome. And Rob, thank you as always for being
Speaker 2: the greatest host a show can ever have.
Speaker 3: Ah. Man, you don't have to say that. I'm just
Speaker 3: I'm just a house hacked like Ojo. That's all. That's
Speaker 3: all I am. No, dude, I'm glad things are growing
Speaker 3: great for you, obviously. I saw a picture from Martha today. Man,
Speaker 3: that's fucking bald name Ricatona. She had that looked fucking I.
Speaker 2: Didn't get any of it, so and ask her to
Speaker 2: send it this way.
Speaker 3: It looked really good, really good. I miss I missed
Speaker 3: Northeast food, I really do. I missed the Chinese food.
Speaker 3: I missed the Italian food. Not to say there aren't
Speaker 3: good pizza places here. We've had a lot of transplants
Speaker 3: from New York City come down here and open up
Speaker 3: New York pizza joints. But you know, speak speaking.
Speaker 2: Of Martha, she lives a long branch. She's right on
Speaker 2: the water and earlier it's I'm a like one of
Speaker 2: those asshole TikTok scrollers. And I definitely follow Dave Portanoit,
Speaker 2: so I follow the one bites and he showed up
Speaker 2: at Gg's Pizza and Sea Bright yesterday. So I I
Speaker 2: messaged Martha and said, Babe, have we ever had this pizza?
Speaker 2: And she said, lol, yes we have. We tried the
Speaker 2: everything bagel topping.
Speaker 4: On the crust, and I said, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's the place that has like the real pizza. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like I forget the everything bagel crust, but what an
Speaker 2: amazing place. So anybody that follows Dave Portanoit go to
Speaker 2: Gg's Pizza and see Bright Ocean Half North.
Speaker 3: I follow him anyway because he's a Boston guy, but
Speaker 3: I do love his his pizza reviews. He's he's brutal.
Speaker 3: Sometimes Martha says the place is Johnny's it's definitely amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah that I gotta if I ever get up there,
Speaker 3: I gotta go eat there and get that bull of
Speaker 3: nase Man. Yeah, that's that's good stuff. Chuck Richie has
Speaker 3: a crush on Martha. Fuck who doesn't. I'll take no
Speaker 3: ship for a thousand, Alex.
Speaker 4: Uh you know what?
Speaker 3: Hat you know what?
Speaker 4: Oach.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Hi, Mozelle, the best, the first person to ever
Speaker 2: ever give money to the Johnny p Slash straight up
Speaker 2: five slash amazing shirts and one of my best friends
Speaker 2: from Vegas. I want to start with Nico's question down here,
Speaker 2: oach or. Rob wants to talk about the women's tour. Yeah,
Speaker 2: super show from West I Nico give us a little
Speaker 2: bit more about the show from last night. And while
Speaker 2: he's coming back, Rob, how are you, sir? How's the family?
Speaker 3: The family is great. I mentioned earlier. My kid just
Speaker 3: started kindergarten this week. It's been a little bit of
Speaker 3: a tough task trying to get her to go every day,
Speaker 3: but she's she's doing great. Alrighty, she's uh, she did
Speaker 3: preschool last year, so she's already head of the kids
Speaker 3: that have never been to school. So uh, you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: life is good right now, Man, my mom just got
Speaker 3: got here or she just left here. She visited for
Speaker 3: a few days last week from Colorado. Yeah, man, I'm
Speaker 3: able to I think I mentioned before, I'm able to
Speaker 3: work from home every day now. So that's a b.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about working from home all the time?
Speaker 3: What a bear going on? Brother?
Speaker 5: That's a that's a quite quite after this gott a. Yes,
Speaker 5: they will working from home. It's cool because one, I
Speaker 5: don't I don't have to go anywhere. Two it's uh, well,
Speaker 5: when my kid was here, it was good to spend
Speaker 5: time with her, but it also it's actually a good
Speaker 5: chance for my wife and I to kind of work
Speaker 5: side by side and kind of reconnect to uh could
Speaker 5: you know marriages have up and downs. We've been married
Speaker 5: almost twenty years, we've married twenty years in February, but
Speaker 5: we've known each other since ninety eight, so you know,
Speaker 5: we're and that's kind of the part where we're doing
Speaker 5: with therapy now, just to kind of reconnect and kind
Speaker 5: of focus back on, you know, strengthening.
Speaker 4: Do you like it? Like?
Speaker 2: Do you like the idea of I've.
Speaker 6: Been working for DraftKings for a long time, right right, right,
Speaker 6: as much as I love never having to go anywhere,
Speaker 6: I really really fucking hate what's up Like a ten PM.
Speaker 2: It's hard.
Speaker 3: Well I can imagine, yeah, no, I can imagine. It
Speaker 3: says on gas right, and it says on wear and
Speaker 3: tear in my car when I still have time to
Speaker 3: pay for it, so it saves money. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean I could just get up and go upstairs my office,
Speaker 3: you know, like that's where I work from. Uh, and
Speaker 3: I don't have to go in and deal with fucking people.
Speaker 3: Everything I do is usually so yeah, no, I'm no,
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: Let me get my windscreen here, hang on so I
Speaker 2: can feel more like Joe Rogan and do me a favor.
Speaker 2: Bring up Devin Baker real quick, because Devin Baker, I'm
Speaker 2: actually going to announce this out loud. First off, Devin,
Speaker 2: I don't know where deluci is or del deluci is is. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: the amazing black man that's Devin and the Italian guy
Speaker 2: doesn't know fucking the way to say this word. That's
Speaker 2: that delucious anyway, Uh, this is the man that got
Speaker 2: me into weightlifting right here. This is uh the natural,
Speaker 2: like the true natural bodybuilding champion of Devin. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I know, I know it's definitely New Jersey. I know
Speaker 2: he's been drinking Crystal lighte for eight years and been
Speaker 2: on the same eating regimen for almost thirteen. So always
Speaker 2: a pleasure to have Devin here because, honest to god,
Speaker 2: he's not only one of the best menu'al ever meet,
Speaker 2: but like one of the most committed. So never been
Speaker 2: to Delucia's Delucious. I'm still embarrassed at I can't say so.
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna.
Speaker 3: Flex Nico, says. Lee Jansen beat Jordan Richard, Richard, Recard, Ricard,
Speaker 3: is it Recard, Jordan Richard and whatever in the tour
Speaker 3: Champage for a fourth title and locking up Player of
Speaker 3: the Year. She doubled in the tenth after Jordan Wentz
Speaker 3: strike seven tenth split to give her a chance.
Speaker 2: Well, we can't take anything away from Jordan Richard. Let's
Speaker 2: at least start there. She's one of the most talented
Speaker 2: bowlers I've ever seen. She has guts, she's got ball,
Speaker 2: she's amazing, she's clean, she's amazing. But Lee Janesen, I
Speaker 2: only was introduced to her this year, and I've watched
Speaker 2: her just be flat out amazing the entire season, and
Speaker 2: it's just a culmination of what she's done all year.
Speaker 2: And kudos to her, and also kudos to Jordan for
Speaker 2: just two amazing female bowlers that could also make TV,
Speaker 2: just like Liz Ard Kelly on The Men's Tour. So,
Speaker 2: Lee Janson, we love you, always have and uh so
Speaker 2: let's talk a little bit more about this because I'm
Speaker 2: gonna actually feed this into I'm gonna feed this into
Speaker 2: Battle Bowl. I'm gonna feed this into Battle Bowl. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna feed this into I'm just gonna go with this
Speaker 2: for a minute.
Speaker 3: Can we can we address long Nate here just for
Speaker 3: a second. Though, I always say you the sexiest man
Speaker 3: in the world, but I mean Nate's right, Like, if
Speaker 3: you're here.
Speaker 2: I wish Nate my nickname was long John.
Speaker 3: Nate right underneath you. Uh he's a sex and man too.
Speaker 3: I tell him all the time. But uh yeah, ashtag
Speaker 3: long Nate. By the way, ashtag long Nate.
Speaker 2: Look at everybody showing up. We even have Doyle Irons.
Speaker 2: We have the man who actually gets to wrestle the
Speaker 2: men that you envy. Mister Doyle Irons dot Com.
Speaker 3: Sir, he's a badass.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna I'm gonna start my battle Ball talk
Speaker 2: like this. I didn't bowl battle Bowl, but I did
Speaker 2: show up on Wednesday to bowl the four team event.
Speaker 2: I did that and the first person I saw was
Speaker 2: mister Corey Christian. So to anybody that uh knows Corey,
Speaker 2: please do him a favor and let him know that
Speaker 2: we're talking about him.
Speaker 4: On the show.
Speaker 2: The dude we bowled on a seven to I I
Speaker 2: believe the pattern was seven to one.
Speaker 4: And I bowled with one of my.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest people you'll ever meet. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna say his name is Lenny and his beautiful wife Jackie.
Speaker 2: We did have a fourth I'm gonna leave him alone
Speaker 2: just because I didn't ask permission from any.
Speaker 4: Of these people to even talk about them tonight.
Speaker 3: Sure, but you want to.
Speaker 2: Talk about the greatest group ever And here we go.
Speaker 2: I show up and who am I bowling with on
Speaker 2: my pair the first the first game? Ken McNeely. Do
Speaker 2: you all know who Ken mcnellly is?
Speaker 3: Roll, yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 2: The last memory I have of Ken McNeely is this
Speaker 2: and a courtesy leading the ninety five JP Open at
Speaker 2: carole Er Lanes, losing to John Gann. That man still
Speaker 2: loves this sport like there's no tomorrow. We kind of
Speaker 2: banked off each other the first game. We talked history
Speaker 2: of bowling, We talked like old school shit. What a
Speaker 2: pleasure to be around. So Ken McNeely, if you're watching,
Speaker 2: or anybody that knows kem McNeely that's watching, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for such a great day at bol Rama
Speaker 2: in Delaware.
Speaker 4: Man, what a pleasure to be around you.
Speaker 3: Rob.
Speaker 2: I am so happy lately. I'm like ecstatic right now.
Speaker 2: Forget the shirts, forget the bag, forget everything else. What
Speaker 2: a great day. Because who do I see walking by me?
Speaker 2: I'm on lanes thirteen and fourteen to start, and who's
Speaker 2: on the end. He's he's pretty good. His first name
Speaker 2: rhymes with Schmantoning and his last name rhymes with Cripsenson.
Speaker 3: So I heard he did pretty well. Actually I heard,
Speaker 3: I heard. I heard he bowled fairly well.
Speaker 2: So let's start the convo. Now, the greatest bowler in
Speaker 2: the world beat the living shit out of it everybody
Speaker 2: at battle Bowl, and everybody knew was coming, including Anthony.
Speaker 2: It was so amazing to watch dude. And it's not
Speaker 2: like he was playing the track or like bumping fifteen
Speaker 2: to ten. He was just I'm just gonna go this way,
Speaker 2: throw it over everybody, and just shoot one spare for
Speaker 2: the next three hours. Twice. Yeah, did that twice. I
Speaker 2: mean it's I think it's low said that I saw
Speaker 2: I saw eight fifteen and I saw eight eighty, so
Speaker 2: it's like, that's that's pretty good. Eight.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good, dude, Nico.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm gonna answer Nico's question here, Rob, because
Speaker 2: I bothed great in the one event I did not
Speaker 2: bowl battle ball. I only showed up for Dougie's tournament, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, Dougie Dougie heron Dougie Vision. Thank you
Speaker 2: for being the greatest and the greatest tournament host any
Speaker 2: of us could ever have. Dude, you are a class act.
Speaker 2: You're amazing, you always will be, and thank you for
Speaker 2: always being. I mean, like Dougie, you're the best. Nico.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I bowled fabulous for my three games on Wednesday. I
Speaker 2: did everything I could, man and I shot six ninety.
Speaker 2: I bowled fabulous.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he doesn't, Rob, I don't know
Speaker 2: how he does it. He's He's figured out a way
Speaker 2: to just not only is he better than everybody else,
Speaker 2: but he jumped to the move before everybody else. He
Speaker 2: has no fear, he has no worry. I played golf today,
Speaker 2: like shit, I duck hooked one, like I dead pulled one,
Speaker 2: and then I pushed one. So the next hole like
Speaker 2: instead of like just hitting it up the gut, I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 2: don't hit it this way, don't hit it that way. No, man,
Speaker 2: that never happens with Anthony, and I personally think that's
Speaker 2: the difference when it comes to most bowlers, because Anthony
Speaker 2: never fears what could go wrong. So, Nico, there's the uh,
Speaker 2: there's the answer to your question. I feel like Anthony
Speaker 2: never ever fears what could go wrong. And I think
Speaker 2: that's a big thing for for everybody that's listening, for
Speaker 2: especially our.
Speaker 4: Our younger bowlers.
Speaker 2: If you have no fear and you just commit and
Speaker 2: let everything go, what's the worst that can happen? Probably
Speaker 2: the same thing that would have happened if you didn't.
Speaker 2: That's always been my problem, and it was never my
Speaker 2: dad's problem. Let's pull up Jim Ward here, Let's let's
Speaker 2: just this is definitely like Jim went out of his
Speaker 2: way to talk about this, So go ahead, Rob read
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 3: Jim Ward says, I look at it this way. If
Speaker 3: you want to get better, you compete against the best,
Speaker 3: and and it's the best, the best is simo, then
Speaker 3: you better get better. And if you're going to beat them,
Speaker 3: then you have to give an If you're gonna beat him,
Speaker 3: And even if you don't beat him, look at what
Speaker 3: you pick up by learning by watching him. Uh, you
Speaker 3: get to watch and learn against the best. I mean that.
Speaker 3: So a lot of people are complaining that, you know,
Speaker 3: he shouldn't have been allowed to bowl, or he shouldn't
Speaker 3: have been allowed to be in any side action, Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, getting any brackets and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Well, Jim didn't say anything about that.
Speaker 4: No, I never just said people.
Speaker 3: Have been complaining about.
Speaker 2: Bring bring that, bring that back up.
Speaker 4: Prop.
Speaker 2: Jim makes a great point here because it was exactly
Speaker 2: what I was just saying. Anthony is not afraid to
Speaker 2: do anything at any time. Ever. Everybody else is like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm here to I'm here for the what's what's the
Speaker 2: word that they always use. I'm here for the experience, right,
Speaker 2: the experience. But they always use that word, which I
Speaker 2: fucking hate respectfully, if you are excellent, Anthony's never there
Speaker 2: for the experience. Anthony's there to kick the living you
Speaker 2: know what out of everybody else, and he does it committedly,
Speaker 2: like he never gives it an extra frame. Right, So
Speaker 2: like when we watch we've all bolt. Anybody that's a
Speaker 2: bowler that's watching this show, that's that's a bowler has
Speaker 2: bolt eight hundred, Okay, So the difference between eight to
Speaker 2: oh and eight twenty is one shot. The difference between
Speaker 2: eight twenty and eight forty is one shot. Difference between
Speaker 2: eight forty and eight sixty is one shot. So eight
Speaker 2: hundred to eight sixty is three shots over the course
Speaker 2: of thirty six frames, well thirty frames if you don't
Speaker 2: include the rest, right, So Anthony doesn't waste a frame
Speaker 2: here and there figuring out how to do better than
Speaker 2: what he's doing. And he's always been that way personally.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's why he's adapted the backup ball.
Speaker 2: That's why I can throw it over the gutter so
Speaker 2: I can play it up the gut with a grenade.
Speaker 2: That's why I can do whatever he wants whenever he wants.
Speaker 2: He has no fear, and I appreciate what Jim said,
Speaker 2: and I definitely appreciate what.
Speaker 4: Nico said earlier.
Speaker 2: And now we also have Player of the Year Senior
Speaker 2: Player of the Year mister Troy Link in the chat. Troy,
Speaker 2: I for one to add it to their please do
Speaker 2: us a favor and add it. But Rob, that's I've
Speaker 2: seen that from Anthony, not even just bowling. I saw
Speaker 2: that when he when he opened his bowling alley went
Speaker 2: when he took over those eight lanes at the Nerd,
Speaker 2: which is before the compound, when he was at the
Speaker 2: Nerd downtown, like I watched him try and level the lanes.
Speaker 2: I watched him fix machines. The man is the man's
Speaker 2: entire life is bowling. That is, that's one thing that
Speaker 2: most bowlers can't do. They can't put their entire our
Speaker 2: lives into the sport that that gives them their life,
Speaker 2: including my dad. I mean, you know, like we watched
Speaker 2: bowlers grab bowling alleys, Don Carter or.
Speaker 4: Anthony just to name a few. But man, oh man, like.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm I'm sorry to spit a little
Speaker 2: bit here, but how do you feel about this?
Speaker 3: Robin Simo is so driven and he's so cold blooded right, Like,
Speaker 3: he's just he's fucking he's an ice man, right, I wonder,
Speaker 3: and this is no knock to anybody. I don't know
Speaker 3: him personally. Do you think he might be on the
Speaker 3: spectrum a little bit? Because people that are that focused
Speaker 3: on one thing and that good at one thing are
Speaker 3: extremely extremely smart, but they may lack in other areas,
Speaker 3: like in social skills and stuff like that. How is
Speaker 3: he wait personally the best?
Speaker 2: He's the best person in the world to hang out with.
Speaker 2: He's the best person to hang out with. He's the
Speaker 2: best person to talk to. I will never say a
Speaker 2: bad thing about Anthony. Anthony. We saw Phyllis earlier in
Speaker 2: the chat. Phillis got me a birthday cake and Anthony
Speaker 2: showed up at Phillis's house. He's normal, He's like us.
Speaker 2: He almost doesn't want the fame, at least from what
Speaker 2: I see. He's just a good man.
Speaker 4: He's always been a good man.
Speaker 2: But he is such a predator on bowling mains. Dude,
Speaker 2: it's crazy, and I'm talking like dude. I've been around
Speaker 2: guys like JD. Sant Lucia, Mike Newman, the Judge, John Rubyo.
Speaker 2: I've been around some really, really badass son of the
Speaker 2: Gun's rudy revs. For Christ's sake, Sure this guy is
Speaker 2: This guy does it all with like he just relaxes
Speaker 2: when he does it like he's really that good. Bring up,
Speaker 2: Bring up Doyle's comment and then Charles right behind it.
Speaker 2: Let's see what we got here.
Speaker 3: Doyle says there's three types of bowlers. Type one both
Speaker 3: locally and knows all the house shots and all average
Speaker 3: two thirty and talk heavy trash, but don't leave their
Speaker 3: zip code. Type two wants to be the best, travels
Speaker 3: the bowls against the best, and bowl on any in
Speaker 3: every condition, no matter what. Type three bowl just for fun,
Speaker 3: drinks the beer, or does rock and bowl or maybe
Speaker 3: one fun leak that would be ocho.
Speaker 2: Do you just read that backwards? Uh?
Speaker 3: Nope, yep we didn't.
Speaker 2: Did you just read that backwards? No, I or my
Speaker 2: drunk off of.
Speaker 3: I don't know. No, I read that exactly why it
Speaker 3: was it was written.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Type one bowls locally and is a house hack. They
Speaker 3: talk ship they don't know.
Speaker 4: So let's let's see this.
Speaker 2: Type one bowls locally and knows all the house shots
Speaker 2: and and all.
Speaker 1: Fine.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Type one has no problem going after everybody,
Speaker 2: right right, Fine, I'm I'm I'm that guy Carolier Doyle.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that that that's me wants to trash
Speaker 2: but don't leave their zip code. I'm definitely not that guy.
Speaker 2: I would rather, I would rather get my ass handed
Speaker 2: to me than ever talk shit. I would rather say
Speaker 2: let's go and lose than ever ever ever talk ship
Speaker 2: and not.
Speaker 4: Be able to back it up right, and then.
Speaker 2: Wants to be the best, travels to bowl against the
Speaker 2: best and bowl on every condition. I'm gonna take John
Speaker 2: Fury on that one. Yeah, I'm gonna take John Fury
Speaker 2: on that one because John Fury is one of the best,
Speaker 2: takes care of the best, and is always in the
Speaker 2: hunt with the best. Is that That's That's my assessment
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 3: And Type three just bowls for fun, drinks, a beer
Speaker 3: or two, do you know, does maybe one fun league
Speaker 3: or rocking?
Speaker 2: That's me after a day on the golf chorus and then.
Speaker 3: I bowlague right right and Charles Charles says Simon was
Speaker 3: the main with every single person that wanted a picture
Speaker 3: or to chat or anything. Kids down to earth, so
Speaker 3: down to earth. It's sick and a lot of bowlers
Speaker 3: are like that. But to have somebody that's that good,
Speaker 3: be that humble like Belmo, almost the same way. Belmo,
Speaker 3: I'm sure, gets hounded everywhere he goes in bowling alley,
Speaker 3: but still takes the time to take pictures, sign autographs,
Speaker 3: stuff like that. I mean, bowlers are just a different breed.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's you'll you'll never see anybody like it.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna see that many people like that in
Speaker 3: basketball or baseball or hockey or football. I mean, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have one or two there here and there. But
Speaker 3: I saw a video of Lebron and France brush a
Speaker 3: kid off that wanted an autograph or I wanted a picture, uh,
Speaker 3: and then went in club and just start dancing like
Speaker 3: that's a fucking newsbag. He this kid's never gonna see
Speaker 3: him ever again. And I know Lebron gets hounded every
Speaker 3: where he goes. I know he's one of the most
Speaker 3: popular people in the playing the most recognizable people in
Speaker 3: the world. But to tell I can't the fuck out
Speaker 3: of his way and not take a picture with him
Speaker 3: is it's just kind of.
Speaker 2: I think, let's let's do this. Then, how about Shack
Speaker 2: is Shack or or Snoop Dogg. Are are Shack and
Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg like two of the best people in the
Speaker 2: world when it comes to the media, and they're also
Speaker 2: like two of the most badass people in the world
Speaker 2: outside the media. Right. Sure, they they've accepted their fame
Speaker 2: and they they want to do good for other people.
Speaker 3: Right right.
Speaker 2: Simon and Belmo are the same way. So is Pete Webber.
Speaker 2: Pete Webber is the same exact way as as Simon
Speaker 2: and Belmo. So is Walter Walter Ray. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: one of the coolest things about bowling is even though
Speaker 2: everybody always wants to bog about and all their ship,
Speaker 2: our bowlers are are are pretty solid.
Speaker 4: When it comes to the fans.
Speaker 2: You don't You don't meet many bowlers that are assholes
Speaker 2: to fans because it's got to remember one thing, man,
Speaker 2: I mean, like ray Gun from Australia beat us.
Speaker 4: To the Olympics and she's got fans.
Speaker 2: But when it comes but when it comes to bowlers,
Speaker 2: when I was at when I was at Dougie's tournament
Speaker 2: at bol Rama and Della or which I've never been.
Speaker 2: When I tell you, dude, the entire bowling alley full
Speaker 2: Everybody there was nice, everybody was happy, everybody wanted to
Speaker 2: be around each other.
Speaker 4: It was amazing.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's the world that bowling.
Speaker 4: Has always been.
Speaker 2: I feel like if everybody in every other realm just
Speaker 2: followed bowlers in that respect, the world will be a
Speaker 2: lot better place because bowlers give a shit about bowlers.
Speaker 2: They may talk shit when they're done, but when we're
Speaker 2: on the lanes, they don't give a shit. Man, they're happy,
Speaker 2: they high five. They don't care if you go Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: trip of four. You know, roll of two doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Everybody's there for everybody. Everybody has a good time. Everybody's loud,
Speaker 2: everybody's kind of notch is having a good time. It's good.
Speaker 2: It's Bowling is the sport that has always kept people together,
Speaker 2: at least in the world that I live in. I
Speaker 2: have made so many friends from every walk of life
Speaker 2: through bowling. I've said this Rob one hundred something episodes,
Speaker 2: one hundred something episodes. Bowling is the greatest thing in
Speaker 2: the world, and the greatest thing for me is I
Speaker 2: got very, very lucky. People always talk about, oh, you
Speaker 2: rolled into a pot of gold, you did this, No,
Speaker 2: I just happened to really roll into a pot of
Speaker 2: gold and the son of not only one of the
Speaker 2: greatest bowlers in the world, but one of the the
Speaker 2: biggest gentleman's the sports I've ever seen. My dad's entire
Speaker 2: life is dedicated to making other people happy and prosperous.
Speaker 2: So for my entire life, I've only heard positive things
Speaker 2: about my dad for my entire life, which is kind
Speaker 2: of tough to deal with sometimes. It's also the most humbling, amazing.
Speaker 4: Thing in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I definitely want to make sure I do
Speaker 2: that for people like Simo and people like I saw
Speaker 2: at Dougie's event on Wednesday at bol Rama. I mean,
Speaker 2: just my buddy day Day Day Day is one of
Speaker 2: the coolest dudes in the world behind his fucking wife Destiny.
Speaker 2: Just amazing people for no reason other than the fact
Speaker 2: that they give a shit about the thing that they're chasing,
Speaker 2: which is bowling. They're chasing greatness and bowling. I'm starting
Speaker 2: to like dig a little bit here, Rob take it over.
Speaker 2: I have to drink another sip of this coke thera.
Speaker 3: No, uh, you're absolutely right, man. I mean we've said
Speaker 3: it every guest we've ever had in the show. We
Speaker 3: always say afterwards, man, they're so fucking cool, They're so humble,
Speaker 3: they're they're so laid back, whether it's Belmo or JJ
Speaker 3: or Danny Wiseman or John Maza or Ryan Schaeffer or
Speaker 3: Brianna like anybody who've ever had in a show, never
Speaker 3: had a douchebag on her show ever, even Chris Barr.
Speaker 3: This was nice to us. And I've heard you could
Speaker 3: great at some point, but like people have bad days,
Speaker 3: people have off days, you know, you never you can't
Speaker 3: judge with somebody by one or two you know encounters.
Speaker 3: Matt russo fucking fantastic. Buog Book is one of the nicest,
Speaker 3: you know, one of the nicest guys ever. You know,
Speaker 3: just bowlers in general are just the everyday working class, right,
Speaker 3: And it's kind of what your dad obviously growing up,
Speaker 3: which is a hard fucking worker, right, blue collar guy, right,
Speaker 3: just fucking notes of the grindstone, always diligent, always had
Speaker 3: great work ethic, and when it got to bowling, it
Speaker 3: was no different.
Speaker 5: That was and that was a little bit sorry, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: that that was a.
Speaker 2: Little bit different. Like like nowadays, for instance, if I
Speaker 2: if I was to compare me to Dad, Dad had
Speaker 2: a couple of different options, right. It was either join
Speaker 2: the gang the Monarchs, so you can fight the bishops
Speaker 2: from seventieth to seventieighth and thirteenth to sixty ninth and
Speaker 2: eighteenth and so like it was like I could do
Speaker 2: this for the rest of my life. I could sell drugs,
Speaker 2: I could join the mob. Or I could go to
Speaker 2: Maple Lanes and clean tables for two hours so I
Speaker 2: could bowl for one hour. And I would distinctly remember
Speaker 2: my dad tell me a long time ago that I'm
Speaker 2: I'm not going to use the guy's name because it's
Speaker 2: a it's a big name in the in the in
Speaker 2: the wrong world. I distinctly remember my dad going somewhere
Speaker 2: and making a lot of money and then going home
Speaker 2: and not knowing where to hide the stack of hundreds
Speaker 2: in his drawer and my grandfather finding it. Because it's
Speaker 2: very similar to like a Bronx tale story, like the
Speaker 2: working man is the badass you know type shit compared
Speaker 2: to but Dad, I worked for.
Speaker 4: It, you know, is one of those stories.
Speaker 2: But my dad's story was hey, when he finally told Grandpa, look,
Speaker 2: I can stay here and do X Y or Z,
Speaker 2: or I can try and go out on tour. So
Speaker 2: my grandfather took a second job to raise enough money
Speaker 2: for my dad to go on tour. Got the car,
Speaker 2: got the rides, got all that shit. And after my
Speaker 2: dad goes and wins in Fort Smith, Arkansas in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty six before it was actually nationally televised, he gets
Speaker 2: his draft card, so he has to come home and
Speaker 2: go to war. I think, where do we start this
Speaker 2: real quick, because whenever I talk about my dad, dude, like,
Speaker 2: I started getting a little bit mushy.
Speaker 3: With this hard working work ethic, down to earth driven people.
Speaker 2: I guess I guess what I was trying to get
Speaker 2: out here was if you want on something bad enough,
Speaker 2: absolutely nothing can stop you other than your brain. And
Speaker 2: my dad decided to not let his brain stop him.
Speaker 2: And I going back to Simon, I feel like Simo
Speaker 2: decided from a very early age nothing's gonna stop his right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's yeah, steal it. Getting getting mushy. I mean it's
Speaker 2: second man is comment.
Speaker 4: Take a man is comment.
Speaker 3: That's a sexy that's a sexy comment, though, like, and
Speaker 3: it's a sexy trait to have right to be that
Speaker 3: driven and not give a fuck about what people say.
Speaker 3: About because I mean, when you're on top, dude, everyone's
Speaker 3: gonna talk shit about you. We've seen it from Belmo
Speaker 3: for how many years? Right, fucking two Hendry, he's fucking
Speaker 3: changing the game. You know, he's cheating whatever the fuck?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: People get jealous of winners, right.
Speaker 2: I think the difference between Simono and Belmo is everybody
Speaker 2: wanted to hate Belmo, Like they really tried to hate Belmo.
Speaker 2: But after Belmo established the new game, then they saw
Speaker 2: Simo and they said, Oh, this guy can do everything
Speaker 2: he does plus more and he's even.
Speaker 4: More quiet about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have two like thing about this dude. The
Speaker 2: the loudest, the loudest professional in my in my top six,
Speaker 2: Let's go Earl, Let's go Walter Ray, let's go Belmo, Simo,
Speaker 2: there's four, Mark Roth, Parker, bon Paull even add six.
Speaker 2: Are any of them loud? Are any of them over
Speaker 2: the top? No? Man, They're all even keeled. They're all normal,
Speaker 2: and they just follow the flow, all of them. It's
Speaker 2: is this even working? No, it's like the sexiest thing
Speaker 2: I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Is what do you got wraps? There? A small percentage
Speaker 3: of pro bowlers are ruining for others, but that the
Speaker 3: other ninety eight percent surpasses all expectations of what we
Speaker 3: think pros are like, those are the ones that bring
Speaker 3: passion back to the game. No, she's right about that.
Speaker 3: You're always gonna have bad apples in life, no matter
Speaker 3: what profession or job or sport or what you do.
Speaker 3: I mean, just that's the fact of life. But for
Speaker 3: the most part, everybody we've ever encountered in the bowling world,
Speaker 3: whether the professional they work in the lanes or you know, mechanics,
Speaker 3: pro shop operators, they're all cool, right, They're all fucking
Speaker 3: just down to earth, badass people like Glick. Fucking Ocho
Speaker 3: talked about Glick all the time. I'd love to get
Speaker 3: him on the show at some point, but he's just
Speaker 3: a down to earth cool dude. Fury same way. I mean,
Speaker 3: John Fury is a I've never met him, but every
Speaker 3: story I've ever heard about him was cool. I grew
Speaker 3: up with so many good people at Bradley Bowl in winslockx, Connecticut.
Speaker 3: For Red Burnham, the proprietor to his brother that ran
Speaker 3: the snack bar, to his on the rand, the pro shop,
Speaker 3: just all cool people. Mechanics are great, the porters are great.
Speaker 3: It's just it's it's a job and a sport unlike
Speaker 3: any other.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And guys like Simon's. I love that that they and
Speaker 3: and and EJ buy their own lanes, right, take care
Speaker 3: of like, you know, fucking fix machines and and you know,
Speaker 3: like Parker, you said, Parker filled up people's fucking like
Speaker 3: sodas and ship at a birthday party, you know, in
Speaker 3: Halloweens or I don't know if it's Hollered earlier. Just
Speaker 3: down to earth people, right, like Parker bones one of
Speaker 3: the greatest bowlers of all the time. He's helping out
Speaker 3: around the fucking balling out. It just you know, with
Speaker 3: kids' birthday parties. Like where else would you find that
Speaker 3: in any other sport.
Speaker 4: It's difficult.
Speaker 2: It's it's difficult too, at least after all these years.
Speaker 2: I mean, man, I'm gonna be forty next month. I know,
Speaker 2: I say that all the time. JJ. Great to see it, man,
Speaker 2: what a pleasure to see you. But you're exactly right.
Speaker 2: It's it takes a lot of heart and a lot
Speaker 2: of I'm trying to think of the uh, forget this
Speaker 2: for a minute. It takes a lot of heart and
Speaker 2: a lot of I'm looking for that one word, that
Speaker 2: one word, the where you keep everything intact, where you
Speaker 2: keep everything in line, where you you don't get pissed
Speaker 2: about X, Y or Z. Like right now we have
Speaker 2: to guys. Sorry to interrupt, but we do have a birthday.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, Gabriella, I.
Speaker 4: When's your birthday?
Speaker 2: Two seconds ago everybody can hear you, And now all
Speaker 2: of a sudden.
Speaker 3: Hi, Gabby, Daddy's best friend.
Speaker 2: You were just screaming two seconds ago, and now you
Speaker 2: can scream.
Speaker 4: You're dummying up? Who's this?
Speaker 3: She is adorable name.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Gabrielle's birthday is Friday, and look at all the
Speaker 4: happy birthdays. Everybody says, I.
Speaker 3: Forgot our kid the same day, I totally forgot all.
Speaker 2: That's silly Doyle's happy birthday. Look at this, Look at
Speaker 2: this happy early birthday. Alright, So we're shirts are gonna
Speaker 2: hear you scream from over there, and then when we
Speaker 2: get you on the camera, you're gonna dummy up? Are
Speaker 2: you crazy? Are you crazy? What are you looking at?
Speaker 4: Well? Her enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you, Nick.
Speaker 2: Was the word I was looking for.
Speaker 4: Grounded. She'll be two by the next show.
Speaker 2: Nice well, happy happy early birthday to you from all
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 4: Bye waved everybody. Wave, Wave on the time, wave on
Speaker 4: the screen. Uh, come on, need to wave?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: Okay, whenever the camera's off, you know, we we'll edit that.
Speaker 2: I will get to the happy birthdays.
Speaker 3: Somebody happy should just do this more often. I completely
Speaker 3: forgot Dad his kid and my kid had the same
Speaker 3: not the same year, but the same day. That's uh,
Speaker 3: I'm an idiot. I don't know how to fuck. I
Speaker 3: forgot that. Don't ever get old, Johnny, You'll forget all
Speaker 3: kinds of.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this. The one thing I don't
Speaker 2: have is children. And I'm gonna go back to uh
Speaker 2: Nick de Ambrosio here again, because Nick gives a ship
Speaker 2: about the Petraglia family like there's no there and went
Speaker 2: out of his way to remind me of something that
Speaker 2: was very important. So I'm looking forward to not only
Speaker 2: lunch with Dad on Friday, but also a little bit
Speaker 2: of a bowling session just to see if I'm still
Speaker 2: moderately close to how good he is.
Speaker 3: Nice. So let me take this opportunity, just so thank you.
Speaker 3: Let me take this opportunity to apologize for getting into
Speaker 3: it with him. On his Facebook page about political ship
Speaker 3: because we're in one of apologize. No no, I should.
Speaker 3: I should because that was no no, no, no. I
Speaker 3: was rude to him and I shouldn't have been. I
Speaker 3: think he infriended me over it.
Speaker 2: But that's okay, man, I've seen I promise you he's
Speaker 2: a great dude, as are you. And that's that's that's
Speaker 2: totally cool.
Speaker 3: He's a good dude everything I've seen. He's a hard worker.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I've seen pictures of you guys golfing and how
Speaker 3: much you guys love each other.
Speaker 4: So he's a good man.
Speaker 3: Just want to throw it out.
Speaker 4: There's good man.
Speaker 2: Just like you. That's that's all there is to it.
Speaker 4: That's fair.
Speaker 2: And I'm definitely going to his Marina party on August
Speaker 2: twenty four.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 3: John Janowitz is still on fire one again. Last week, Uh,
Speaker 3: he didn't make match playing the TOC, but he was
Speaker 3: announced Player of the Year. So our guy jj uh
Speaker 3: rookie the year last year, Player of the Year this year.
Speaker 3: Couldn't happen to a better guy. Just just one of
Speaker 3: the coolest dudes ever.
Speaker 2: And you know what, man, Yeah, Roberts, I look at
Speaker 2: the senior tour.
Speaker 4: I look at Barnes.
Speaker 2: My god, Toms, Walter, Walter is having a great year,
Speaker 2: Jason Couch, Parker, Walter Ray. And then here comes John
Speaker 2: Janowitz and everybody was afraid of John Janowitz and now
Speaker 2: he's just like, oh, it's gonna non slowly kick the
Speaker 2: living ship. Had all of you and a walk off
Speaker 2: the approach like this touched my jaw once in a while.
Speaker 2: Play any zone on the lane and just kick the
Speaker 2: living ship and everybody. He's also got three Johnny Petraglia.
Speaker 3: Titles he does, so I feel like I have a.
Speaker 2: Reason to have him and I as my Facebook photo
Speaker 2: right right, totally, totally.
Speaker 4: I feel like I definitely have an excuse.
Speaker 3: We've had a couple of years in bowling in our
Speaker 3: in your circle, right, you had Troy win Player of
Speaker 3: the Year last year win the US Open.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know he had jj Windbrook of the Year and
Speaker 3: that player of the year bug has become a good
Speaker 3: friend of ours.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And he had a fucking ridiculous year winning in Delaware
Speaker 3: and winning the playoffs. It's it's kind of and even
Speaker 3: last year with Seminelli uh and and your dad's team
Speaker 3: winning the Elite League, like it's been it's been a
Speaker 3: pretty good run that we've had here with friends of
Speaker 3: the show for the last couple of years. It's, uh,
Speaker 3: it's just cool, man Like anytime we ever see our
Speaker 3: friends win, like, it's just badass.
Speaker 2: Dude, Rob. I just think it goes to show you
Speaker 2: that when you when you move the blinds or when
Speaker 2: you cover ship. Bowlers are fans of bowlers. We all
Speaker 2: talk ship to each other, especially when we're trying to win. Finally,
Speaker 2: you're gonna wake up, it's your second birthday.
Speaker 4: Hello and bad.
Speaker 2: Hey yo, whoa, whoa, you're gonna come over here? Or what? Bowlers.
Speaker 2: As as much as we talk ship to each other
Speaker 2: on the lanes, nobody wants.
Speaker 4: Anybody to fail.
Speaker 2: Ever we we all. I stand in the back. I
Speaker 2: want everybody to strike always, and so does everybody else.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets irritated or mad or like, oh this guy sucks.
Speaker 4: What a piece of ship? This guy can't fucking wis
Speaker 4: when you're now all.
Speaker 2: The ship that we all say, we all say it right,
Speaker 2: But everybody, deep down, somehow someway respects this sport.
Speaker 4: Enough they don't want anybody to fail. Man, I certainly don't.
Speaker 2: I mean my girl is a brand new bowler, and
Speaker 2: when she bowls one thirty seven and majestic, makes me happy,
Speaker 2: makes her team happy, makes her happy. That's fun. It's
Speaker 2: fun right. When I get to watch guys like Simo,
Speaker 2: all I want to do is ask him how do
Speaker 2: I do that?
Speaker 4: How do I get there?
Speaker 2: When I see Jason Couch, I say, how do you?
Speaker 2: How are you such a great shot maker? Like just
Speaker 2: all the time from any angle? How do you hit
Speaker 2: what you're looking at? When I talk to Parker, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I would like to learn how to split a dime
Speaker 2: at the dots and the range finders. When I see
Speaker 2: John Fury Bowl League, I'm like, you are amazing. It's
Speaker 2: like I do shit like that, Like I feel like
Speaker 2: all bowlers do that to some extent. We all go home,
Speaker 2: we watch videos, We try and figure out how to
Speaker 2: get a little bit better. And the only way you
Speaker 2: ever learn is from somebody who you think is better
Speaker 2: than you. And everybody has somebody they think is better
Speaker 2: than them, including Belmo, including Simo, including Walter Ray, including
Speaker 2: Earl Anthony. Everybody's got somebody that they looked up to.
Speaker 2: Nobody entered this game and said, oh I'm good at this.
Speaker 4: I'm going to get better at this.
Speaker 2: Everybody showed up and said, this guy's good, this girl's good.
Speaker 2: I have to figure out a way to be better
Speaker 2: than that, right, right, And that's the greatest thing about.
Speaker 4: The bowling world.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's been a very.
Speaker 2: Weak We have Oach washing hands and we have Little
Speaker 2: Gigi screaming. So I'm gonna mute myself for a second.
Speaker 2: Rob you take.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's fair. Now it's uh again, bowling is
Speaker 3: a unique sport.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot of chatter now the Olympics throw over.
Speaker 3: But we were we were going to cover this a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago about and covered several times about
Speaker 3: why bowling is in the Olympics or not. And a
Speaker 3: lot of our discussion has been because of the unequal
Speaker 3: playing conditions or you know, more righties and lefties, oil
Speaker 3: breaks down differently. But a lot more of the research
Speaker 3: that I've put into it and seen, you know, Wriggles
Speaker 3: talk about and all that is it really comes down
Speaker 3: to money and who wants to grease the poems of
Speaker 3: the IOC, the fucking corrupt IOC.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 3: Bowling is popular around the world a lot of people
Speaker 3: want to say that, well, you wouldn't have that many
Speaker 3: countries competing, but how many fucking countries compete in archery
Speaker 3: and fucking cricket and shit like that, right, you know,
Speaker 3: Like it comes down the money, and we got close
Speaker 3: in the mid nineties. I remember remember Chris Shankle talking
Speaker 3: about how close we were to getting in. They almost
Speaker 3: got in in Japan. Yes, the IBF is corrupt too,
Speaker 3: says Chuck Ritchie. It really comes down to the fact
Speaker 3: that there's just either not enough money put into trying
Speaker 3: to get it in the Olympics, or just not enough
Speaker 3: money in general to support because we've seen money issues
Speaker 3: with prize funds and all that and sponsorship and blah
Speaker 3: blah blahlah blah. But it's still a universal sport.
Speaker 4: But we have.
Speaker 3: So many other sports that are in the Olympics that
Speaker 3: don't make sense. Break dancing, Yeah, breakdancing is below that.
Speaker 2: Doyle Doyle stole my next thought.
Speaker 3: Oh all right, let me pull.
Speaker 2: So Doyle's secret is on the way to the tournament,
Speaker 2: finds the nearest church, drops c note in the collection plate,
Speaker 2: cleans the equipment in the holy water. Somehow a miracle
Speaker 2: happens and now everything.
Speaker 3: That's that's amazing, That is so so good, amazing.
Speaker 2: Jerry, that's that's definitely not a knock on crist Jerry.
Speaker 3: I know, no, no, no, that hilarious.
Speaker 4: That was funny.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: Do you think is an Olympics Scott, Yeah, you're right. Uh,
Speaker 3: I think. I think everybody's right. I think it has
Speaker 3: nothing to fucking do with with bowling conditions and equipment
Speaker 3: and all that bullshit. It's literally nobody wants to put
Speaker 3: any money into bowling or or grease the palms of
Speaker 3: any of the IOC to get it in there.
Speaker 2: Now, I feel like enough of the world has shipped
Speaker 2: on Raygun, including me. I even showed it to my mother.
Speaker 2: My mother cackled over it. I actually showed her Bob
Speaker 2: Menory commentating.
Speaker 3: On Raygun, so I was like, this man is so vulga.
Speaker 3: He's so vulga, he's so funny.
Speaker 2: He says fuck a lot. But you know, it was
Speaker 2: still amazing because he made so much sense when it
Speaker 2: comes to bowling. I again, I want to talk about
Speaker 2: the Olympics. The only thing I'll say is too many
Speaker 2: variables left righty oil condition That's that's it. Every other
Speaker 2: sport in the Olympics. The playing field is is even
Speaker 2: there is there's no advantage for anybody unless you're a man,
Speaker 2: that's a woman and you want a box.
Speaker 4: That's that's the only thing I got.
Speaker 2: Everything else is whether you're throwing the hammer, whether you're
Speaker 2: doing the shot put, whether you're doing javelin, diving, swimming,
Speaker 2: track and field, you're all competing against the exact same.
Speaker 4: Thing all the time.
Speaker 2: And I feel like when it comes to bowling, we've
Speaker 2: seen it, man, like we have seen it. And I
Speaker 2: know this is going to piss off a lot of
Speaker 2: people because it makes sense. Rob, who are the bowlers
Speaker 2: that have always been the best? Give me three names.
Speaker 3: Go over the years. I'll just say Weber, Duke, and Walter.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, right, fine, My three in my lifetime would
Speaker 2: be Weber, Duke, Walter, and I'm gonna throw in Parker
Speaker 2: as like my my half right, Parker's in there too.
Speaker 2: Why they figure out a way to beat everybody else
Speaker 2: all the time, same way Bulma does, same way Simo does,
Speaker 2: same way EJ does.
Speaker 4: So those are the new guys.
Speaker 2: Kyle Trupe is like right there, He's like he's dancing.
Speaker 2: He's dancing it's right on the edge.
Speaker 4: But he's not.
Speaker 2: Ocho is screaming, Marshall Kent. They're screaming from the outside.
Speaker 2: They want to be those three names that are just
Speaker 2: instant right. They're just instant right. And let's even include
Speaker 2: guys like Brian Voss. Let's let's take guys that have
Speaker 2: just stood the test of time across the board when
Speaker 2: it comes to bowling. So not only have the variables change,
Speaker 2: whether it be resin, whether it be rubber, whether it
Speaker 2: be plastic, you're a theme, whether it be I don't know,
Speaker 2: sport conditions, short conditions, long conditions, They've always figured.
Speaker 4: Out a way to be the best, right.
Speaker 2: That's what we all aspire to be. So when we
Speaker 2: see guys like Simo, EJ Belmo Troop, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: even gonna go as far as saying, God, who am
Speaker 2: I missing from from the new tour?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 4: Is that good?
Speaker 2: I feel like maybe I'm talking too much. We get
Speaker 2: a lot of people talking here in the chat.
Speaker 3: I just got a text from John Jenwens JJ.
Speaker 2: Okay, JJ's there's Mike Carter, which, by the way, Mike
Speaker 2: great Senior in Virginia, brother, and congrats on a fantastic week.
Speaker 2: That's my man, dude, I've we should have been playing
Speaker 2: golf together today. Look at my tanlines, dude, they're messy.
Speaker 2: I need you to bed, I need you Mike Carter
Speaker 2: Roger mean, he has a great one, Chris Praither, but
Speaker 2: even okay, so let's even take Chris Praither. Chris Praither
Speaker 2: new to the tour, amazing on tour, wins the big ones,
Speaker 2: win the big ones, and we haven't seen Chris prai
Speaker 2: through on the TV show all year. I think Chris
Speaker 2: Praither's one of the best bowlers that's ever lived. Anybody
Speaker 2: in the chat disagree? Anybody not sure? I think Chris
Speaker 2: Braither is one of the best bowlers that's ever lived.
Speaker 2: Always well sure, but he doesn't reach Belmo, Simo, Troop
Speaker 2: or Parker like just to name four of the guys. Right,
Speaker 2: So what's the difference. What is the difference? Because Chris
Speaker 2: has ahead of Steel just like Simo, just like Belmo.
Speaker 2: Chris can play Andy Zone, can do whatever he wants.
Speaker 2: He's Bilt Dell, Thank you Dell. Another great one. Bill O'Neil,
Speaker 2: want to talk to about somebody who has decided that
Speaker 2: the evolution of the game when it comes to two
Speaker 2: handed and guys that throw it high and guys that
Speaker 2: throw it hard, the guy that just is amazing at
Speaker 2: what he does, and thank you Rob.
Speaker 4: There's another one, Tommy Jones.
Speaker 2: So those are the other two, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: Robin Dell, thank you guys for that one. Thank you guys,
Speaker 2: and Scott agree about pray thir.
Speaker 4: The modern osio on. Yes, so there you are.
Speaker 2: Actually, that's that's an amazing So what are they even
Speaker 2: stronger mentally than the guys that have got all of
Speaker 2: it nowadays? Like what's going on there? I don't even
Speaker 2: know because TJ is TJ is like the modern day
Speaker 2: to me, Marshall Holman twenty something titles, televised three hundred
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer just but the difference between TJ and
Speaker 2: Marshall is TJ actually wins on TV. A lot of
Speaker 2: people don't know this about Marshall Holman, and I hate
Speaker 2: to shit on them, but Marshall Holman made TV one
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety seven times and.
Speaker 4: Only won twenty two titles.
Speaker 2: Sure, Tommy Jones has twenty one titles and has been
Speaker 2: on TV eighty times. Chris Parnes same way. Chris Barnes
Speaker 2: originally early part of his career struggled on TV. But
Speaker 2: now another Guy twenty titles Triple Crown Winner Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: I mean, could you imagine, like that's it's just crazy
Speaker 2: And now they're really, really really chiming in here because
Speaker 2: this makes a lot of sense, this entire story. The
Speaker 2: athletic guys stand a better chance. I'm going back to
Speaker 2: Roger Maine. Athletic guys stand a better chance these days
Speaker 2: because they're all athletic, all of them. You don't see
Speaker 2: respectfully anymore, Dale Travers, you don't see God.
Speaker 4: Who else was a mess?
Speaker 3: Hm hmm?
Speaker 2: Now Steve Cook was.
Speaker 4: Tall and athletic. Who is a mess?
Speaker 2: Who is a messy bowler?
Speaker 4: That that won a lot? Who am I missing?
Speaker 1: M hmm?
Speaker 2: Like that won a lot? We can't find one, right,
Speaker 2: So that's always been a constant, but nowadays it's especially
Speaker 2: true and when you watch it. I talked to Phyllis
Speaker 2: about this a lot. Phillis. Phillis is used to, you know,
Speaker 2: the guys like Pete Webber, Randy.
Speaker 4: Peterson, Brian Voss and let him Monticelli.
Speaker 2: We're all out on tour, roll going out to dinner.
Speaker 2: We're doing this, we're doing that, YadA, YadA, YadA. Nowadays,
Speaker 2: the guys kind of keep themselves away from all the ship.
Speaker 2: You never see a guy in the bar, thank you, Henry,
Speaker 2: Mike Sproggan's great one. You never see anybody in the bar.
Speaker 2: They all do their work, they go home.
Speaker 4: That's it. It's it's a job nowadays.
Speaker 2: And I just wish that they were doing this job
Speaker 2: for a little bit more money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, they work. That's always been the issue,
Speaker 3: right Phil ring like the.
Speaker 2: Jim Phil Ringer, and thank you Del Pacard, DJ Archer,
Speaker 2: and thank you Rob the Lez Tim Couch. They're bringing
Speaker 2: up they're bringing up good, good players here, and this
Speaker 2: is good ship right here.
Speaker 3: Brian Kretzer, oh, my god, b K.
Speaker 2: Nobody was better than BK and and and Brad Angelo
Speaker 2: and in the World Team Challenge era.
Speaker 4: Mike Newman, my god, Mike Newman.
Speaker 2: But anyway, starting starting to ramble. We're at an hour.
Speaker 3: You have an embecile, I do, But there's one thing
Speaker 3: I do want to bring.
Speaker 4: Up here, Yes, sir, take it.
Speaker 3: Take getting back to the Olympics real quick. I sent
Speaker 3: this to you an oach uh the eighty four bowling digests.
Speaker 3: Apparently we did have an Olympic team and I did.
Speaker 3: I don't know those guys.
Speaker 2: I believe this was the f i QS in Singapore
Speaker 2: when Fred Borden was the coach.
Speaker 3: Okay, we had Tony Carriello, Rich Wonders and Rod Toft.
Speaker 3: Obviously this before the allowed pros in the Olympics, so
Speaker 3: it was just purely amateurs. But I apparently we were
Speaker 3: close to getting in eighty eight. Like I said before,
Speaker 3: we were close to getting it. In ninety two they
Speaker 3: almost got into Japan. Bowling's coming up just a little
Speaker 3: bit short.
Speaker 2: Can we go back to the gray angle in the photo?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, not that photo.
Speaker 2: I can go back to the gray angle with the
Speaker 2: yellow finger grips.
Speaker 3: Sexy ball, isn't it.
Speaker 4: I mean that was one of the balls that I
Speaker 4: wished I owned.
Speaker 3: Right right, I mean NE only had about five choices
Speaker 3: back then, right, So it's like it is now where
Speaker 3: there's fifteen balling balls every month.
Speaker 2: But so way, Joe Chaden mission, dude. I'll be back
Speaker 2: on the West Coast someday. Dude, Great to see you.
Speaker 3: I think I think at one point, I think bowling
Speaker 3: would make it in. I don't know if it'll be.
Speaker 3: In fact, bowling did make it one year, but it
Speaker 3: was only an exhibition support. It wasn't for any metals.
Speaker 3: I don't remember which games that was, but there's even
Speaker 3: in the Panang Games quite a bit. Obviously, we have
Speaker 3: the USA national team that that goes around the country
Speaker 3: and bowls. But you know, like Tom Clark said, we
Speaker 3: have the World Series of Bowling. That's kind of what
Speaker 3: he wanted to do to kind of make his own
Speaker 3: world stage, right, have the world championions of the World
Speaker 3: Series of Bowling and get people from all around the world,
Speaker 3: the best in the world to come bowl here. So
Speaker 3: if it didn't get hot when Belmo was hot, I
Speaker 3: don't I don't think there's that big of a chance
Speaker 3: of ever getting back in unless you have a guy
Speaker 3: like a j and Simo that just keep going fucking
Speaker 3: nuclear and winning everything.
Speaker 2: Rob we have we have Alamazoo, Michigan's finest.
Speaker 3: Charlie Tap Oh, Charlie Taple.
Speaker 2: Confirming that Rod Toft from Minnesota is in the cover.
Speaker 2: Terrific player. Charlie tap gonna say this out loud in
Speaker 2: front of everybody, hammered off my coke zero. You're one
Speaker 2: of the best men I've ever met, and thank you
Speaker 2: for bringing that to this show.
Speaker 4: Man, We love you. You're the best.
Speaker 3: Also the greatest name in bowling ever ever. Charlie Tapp,
Speaker 3: That's just how many.
Speaker 2: Imagine being so nervous that you can't see straight and
Speaker 2: still acing a shot for the win.
Speaker 4: That man knows how to do it.
Speaker 3: We do. Uh yeah, Chuck, Richie that I love Chuck.
Speaker 3: Chuck is uh, Chuck's one of our unsung heroes. Like
Speaker 3: he's he's out there bowling Reach every single week. Obviously
Speaker 3: formerly a bowld TV. He got a raw fucking deal
Speaker 3: there for voicing his opinion online and got fired from there,
Speaker 3: which is still fucking bullshit. But Chuck is one of
Speaker 3: the good guys, and uh, we got to get him
Speaker 3: on the show here one of these days. He's he's
Speaker 3: a he's a cool dude, and Charlie that would I'd
Speaker 3: love to have him on as well at some point too.
Speaker 2: But I like what Jason said here. So Jason, this
Speaker 2: has always been one of my arguments is Jason says
Speaker 2: seventy hours a year of TV versus every four years
Speaker 2: for the Olympics in a two week span. We are
Speaker 2: getting exposure in some ways, thankfully. So here's my answer
Speaker 2: to this. True, my dad always said this. Remember when
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods showed up, so you would get to if
Speaker 2: you watch television, Like if you watch sports on TV Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: Saturday Sunday, you could watch Tiger Woods from I don't know,
Speaker 2: depending on where you are geographically, you could watch Tiger
Speaker 2: Woods from noon to six pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 4: Right, yep.
Speaker 2: But in nineteen ninety four, when Norm Duke set the
Speaker 2: scoring record and lost two ninety six toot eighty to
Speaker 2: Brian Goebel on the TV show with the True Value,
Speaker 2: you only got to see Norm Duke lose, and that
Speaker 2: was like fifteen minutes. You didn't get to see him
Speaker 2: break every scoring record six game, eight game. You didn't
Speaker 2: get to see him out average anybody by eight pins
Speaker 2: a game since Mike Alby. You never got to saw that.
Speaker 2: Never got to see it. Sorry, never got to see that.
Speaker 2: So this is my biggest problem with bowling too, is
Speaker 2: we don't have enough. The world doesn't get to see
Speaker 2: what the.
Speaker 4: Guys do prior to TV. Right enough.
Speaker 2: So I guess we'll go to Roger's question in a
Speaker 2: minute here, I guess thanks for getting closure in some
Speaker 2: ways thankfully, I guess, Jason.
Speaker 4: But I wish that bowling. I wish bowling figured out.
Speaker 2: A way to let the world know what the bowlers do.
Speaker 2: I could never do what the bowlers do, man, ever,
Speaker 2: I mean we have.
Speaker 4: I could do it one day.
Speaker 2: I could never do it for not only a week.
Speaker 2: I could never do it for the way my dad
Speaker 2: did it. I could never drive across the world, across
Speaker 2: the country. I could never lead the showboat in Vegas
Speaker 2: after I drove my fucking Cutlass three thousand miles across
Speaker 2: the country. I could never then go from there to Lakewood,
Speaker 2: California and lead the ac Delco follow it to freaking
Speaker 2: Texas for the Quaker State, like I couldn't do that. Man,
Speaker 2: The talent, the commitment that those guys have is extremely
Speaker 2: underlooked and not shown. It's just not shown.
Speaker 3: Getting to what Rogers said, you know, if bowling did
Speaker 3: make it into the Olympics, with the major networks ABC, NBC, etc.
Speaker 3: Even cover bowling or bastball gymnastics, you know, swimming and
Speaker 3: diving and all that. But there's so many networks nowadays,
Speaker 3: Like I think NBC Universal just alone owns like fucking
Speaker 3: thirteen different networks. I mean, like you'll probably be able
Speaker 3: to see it at some point. Would you get primetime coverage? No,
Speaker 3: of course not. But I mean if they cover fucking
Speaker 3: judo and rowing and handball and sailing and shooting and
Speaker 3: squash and canoeing and cricket and cycling, like fuck me, dude.
Speaker 3: And that goes back to what Belmo said. Belmo was
Speaker 3: on Sweep the Rack a couple of weeks ago, and oh,
Speaker 3: you're right, dell, we do need bowling back in Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 3: I do miss that. But Belmo said that the Olympics
Speaker 3: are being geared towards the younger demo, which is why
Speaker 3: they have break dancing and X gangs and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But I once I respect BAMA, I still kind of
Speaker 3: called bullshit, because then why do we have golf? Golf
Speaker 3: is not a young man's sport. Forty year olds and
Speaker 3: fifty year olds love watching golf. Why is archery in?
Speaker 3: Why is judo in? Rowing, handball, sailing, shooting squash? You're
Speaker 3: telling me squash appeals to the younger demographic. You know,
Speaker 3: table tennis and tekwondo cricket.
Speaker 2: Don't know, Rock. I mean, I will say this one
Speaker 2: of our fans on YouTube, Dak Arling, I have an
Speaker 2: answer for this, or at least something to maybe make
Speaker 2: Dak think about it. Dak Arling on YouTube, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, thank you for watching. Why does bowling insist
Speaker 2: on step ladders when at the match play rounds which
Speaker 2: are dramatic, they are dramatic so long time ago, Dak,
Speaker 2: like late sixties, mid sixties.
Speaker 4: There was no step ladder.
Speaker 2: That there just wasn't and they made the step ladder
Speaker 2: for television. They made it, and it was great for
Speaker 2: television for a long time when you only had three,
Speaker 2: four or five stations to turn on the television. You
Speaker 2: had ABC, NBCCBS or whatever the networks were in the sixties, seventies,
Speaker 2: even the early eighties. And nowadays. I can't answer as
Speaker 2: to why they don't do it now other than how
Speaker 2: much it probably costs to air it. But I will
Speaker 2: say they don't insist on step ladders, but I guess
Speaker 2: it's their only chance to show the world the best
Speaker 2: in the sport. But that's a great question.
Speaker 4: Rob, Like, that's a great question right.
Speaker 3: There, because a TV the format is talking about earlier. No,
Speaker 3: I know, but the format is TV friendly because again,
Speaker 3: you only have ninety minutes or two hours. Back in
Speaker 3: the day, it was what ninety minutes.
Speaker 2: Not friendly for the tournament leader though.
Speaker 3: No, it's not, no, absolutely not. But it comes down
Speaker 3: to how long do they have in their in their
Speaker 3: time and what can you sell the sponsors. It comes
Speaker 3: down the money comes out of time management and money.
Speaker 3: I don't I think there's just not enough time to
Speaker 3: show match play rounds and stuff like that have a
Speaker 3: longer presentation.
Speaker 2: Pull up Roger because this is contradictory to what Dak
Speaker 2: was trying to say. And Roger, I'm gonna call you
Speaker 2: out right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fucking Roger.
Speaker 2: Steve Miller took over the PBA from Nike. His his
Speaker 2: goal was the Exempt Tour. They had sixty four guys
Speaker 2: and initially, initially they would just bowl best seven matches,
Speaker 2: top sixty four, go to thirty two. You could be
Speaker 2: on tour for six weeks and you would travel from
Speaker 2: I don't know, Muskegon, Michigan to Minneapolis, Minnesota, gets swept
Speaker 2: by Robert Smith, and then a week until you have
Speaker 2: to bowl your next match. At least finally, they decided
Speaker 2: to have some qualifying and then cut to say the
Speaker 2: top thirty two, but was talking about tour trials. I
Speaker 2: liked tour trials when the tour was exempt, I liked it.
Speaker 2: I still think it sucked when to watch tenured players
Speaker 2: not be able to do what they've done for forever.
Speaker 2: I respect it, I understand what they were trying to do,
Speaker 2: but I didn't like the idea that you're taking away
Speaker 2: the livelihood of certain bowlers based off one week in
Speaker 2: one center. That never sat well with me. It's the
Speaker 2: reason I've never liked the Masters. I don't like the
Speaker 2: idea of bowling one opponent on one pair leanes, regardless
Speaker 2: of how you did against them for the first fifteen games.
Speaker 4: I've never liked that.
Speaker 2: I've never liked it. Man, dude, we could talk about this.
Speaker 3: For another the hour we couldn't.
Speaker 2: Unfortunate, I wish I was actually drinking booze.
Speaker 3: Right, get my kid to bed. So, uh, let's wrap
Speaker 3: it up with the imbecile of the week.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, it's time for everybody's favorite segment.
Speaker 2: Hey you guys, Button and Tommy, you'll come back there
Speaker 2: and hit you on ahead with a tack hammers, you know, Lloyd.
Speaker 2: Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber,
Speaker 2: here's the imbecile of the week.
Speaker 3: Some people are really stupid. Uh. So I don't really
Speaker 3: have a particular imbecile of of the week. I just
Speaker 3: have a plethora of idiots that I just want to
Speaker 3: make known to the world.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: This first one comes from the Bowling Science form which,
Speaker 3: by the way, Uh, Mikey Panels has been tired of
Speaker 3: the trolls in the group, and I'm surprised I haven't
Speaker 3: been kicked out yet because I talked about the people
Speaker 3: in their every week. But there was a gentleman that
Speaker 3: was anonymous that posted trying to switch to two handed
Speaker 3: total beginner seems like about three hundred and twenty RPMs
Speaker 3: sixty miles per hour. Tips. As to my form, I
Speaker 3: can't seem to get my release closer to my slide
Speaker 3: foot scenes my left fo knees in a way and
Speaker 3: once I can lean forward more with my bag, which
Speaker 3: I might be too inflexible for.
Speaker 4: So I have a video.
Speaker 3: There was a video. I don't have it, but I
Speaker 3: just wanted to point out one of the commos.
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with this guy.
Speaker 3: No, nothing wrong with him at all, nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 3: I'm just showing the initial post.
Speaker 2: Oh god, you can see what assholes say.
Speaker 3: With an entire internet full of instruction from the top professionals.
Speaker 3: I think this is the last place i'd post a
Speaker 3: static photo that is hopefully not your actual finish position
Speaker 3: that comes from Mike Bielski, Good old Mike. If a
Speaker 3: guy is legitimately asking for help, why do we have
Speaker 3: people like this that have to stick their nose and say, dude, seriously,
Speaker 3: you have all these other fucking places you can go
Speaker 3: and help, you know, YouTube and all that, Why the
Speaker 3: fuck would you post something in here and hopefully that's
Speaker 3: not your actual finished position, because I'm assuming he says
Speaker 3: it looks like shit, it's just fucking unnecessary, right, Like
Speaker 3: that's and that's where that's where we say, like, you know,
Speaker 3: the pros are the best in the world, and there's
Speaker 3: so many good people in bulling, but then there's so
Speaker 3: many fucking idiots that like to just post stupid ship
Speaker 3: like that, which is it's gross.
Speaker 2: I obviously have no problem saying it. Mike Bealeskate, go
Speaker 2: fuck yourself. You are the biggest piece of ship walking
Speaker 2: how's that?
Speaker 3: That says a lot, especially with Doc Sullivan around right.
Speaker 2: It's gross.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it is.
Speaker 2: Not to mention the kid in the picture is actually
Speaker 2: like doing work right here. I don't give a ship
Speaker 2: so that those feet actually kind of look like belmos.
Speaker 3: Yeah that I thought. I thought the same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his hands under the ball now, granted his thumb's
Speaker 2: in it, which I would say, like eliminates possibilities from
Speaker 2: what he's trying to do, right.
Speaker 4: But man, not Bilski.
Speaker 2: What a piece of shit? Like, like, my god, why
Speaker 2: would you go out of your way to what is
Speaker 2: wrong with you?
Speaker 4: Asshole?
Speaker 2: Stop?
Speaker 3: It's all Yeah, you got a kid that just looking
Speaker 3: for help, right, just a traditional bowler is switching the
Speaker 3: two hand because maybe it'll help bone.
Speaker 2: Why would you post this chat? Maybe it was the
Speaker 2: first one he found. Dude, Yeah, he doesn't have a name.
Speaker 2: I'd like to actually talk to him. I would actually
Speaker 2: like to talk to that guy. I'd also like to talk
Speaker 2: to Bielski.
Speaker 4: Or whatever the hell his name is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to be like, hey, dude, how are you?
Speaker 2: Maybe I could.
Speaker 3: Maybe I could make that happen.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Next one, I have a question for the group. I
Speaker 3: bought a hammer Arctic Vibe from Amazon. It was one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifteen dollars and forty cents and it came
Speaker 3: from ups and when I opened it, it had a
Speaker 3: strong smell like acetone or something. Has anyone ever had
Speaker 3: their ball smell like that before? And will it affect
Speaker 3: the ball when I use it on the lanes? So
Speaker 3: that's that's a legitimate question, right, I mean.
Speaker 2: That's a great question, Aaron Minzner.
Speaker 3: So here's what Mike McGrath had to say, simple question.
Speaker 3: Do you save enough money buying online and insulting your
Speaker 3: pso to have him drill it?
Speaker 2: All? Right? So there's no way that's the Mike McGrath
Speaker 2: from my dad's era, because it's just not because Mike McGrath.
Speaker 4: If that hang on a second, Rob.
Speaker 2: Mike McGrath, the Mike McGrath is from California and was
Speaker 2: introduced to action bowling on the East Coast by my
Speaker 2: dad in nineteen seventy one. So it's got to be
Speaker 2: a different Mike McGrath. They do like I actually do
Speaker 2: like the question from the kid as far as the
Speaker 2: Arctic Vibe. So, Aaron Mitzner, if you are listening. Since
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say h K twenty two when it
Speaker 2: comes to Brunswick products, I will say, since the move
Speaker 2: to Mexico early on, the bowling balls do have a
Speaker 2: fragrance that they not like a storm fragrance where they're
Speaker 2: actually like smells. Brunswick bowling balls do smell like that.
Speaker 2: They do, especially the Arctic or balls that are a
Speaker 2: little bit more porous. So it's it's totally fine, drill
Speaker 2: that ball. They're amazing, But Brunswick bowling balls do have
Speaker 2: that smell that they do. What do you have to say,
Speaker 2: everybody in here? Huh?
Speaker 3: What do you have to say to the fake micrograph?
Speaker 2: No, this was for the Well, I don't know anything
Speaker 2: about the fake microncograth, but I do know the og microograth.
Speaker 2: And there's no way that man is sitting. I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't tell from this picture. But the last thing
Speaker 2: I know about Mike McGrath was the sideburns just like
Speaker 2: Dad's right. But there's no way that's Mike McGrath would
Speaker 2: never write that. He just wouldn't write that. Charlie Topper,
Speaker 2: he's still here. Mike McGrath would never write that, right,
Speaker 2: this has to be a makeshift. Mike McGrath got even
Speaker 2: though he's a top contributor, and eat my ass.
Speaker 3: Mike McGrath, the other Mike McGrath, not you, Mike McGrath,
Speaker 3: not Mike McGrath. Good stuff, Johnny. Uh, well, I was
Speaker 3: hoping to get Ocho back in here say good by
Speaker 3: to him. But uh for the one and only Oho,
Speaker 3: the daddy of the year getting ready for his kids.
Speaker 2: Prokees feeling some kind of weight a tonight.
Speaker 3: So he speaking with my kids here which not dressed
Speaker 3: on a compart on camera. But happy early birthday to Gabriella,
Speaker 3: Happy early birthday to Mike, kiddo. It was going to
Speaker 3: be six on Friday. Addison, my love. You want to say,
Speaker 3: just yell hi, thank you? Charlie, Yeah, Hi, nothing. Kids
Speaker 3: don't want to talk to us today. I don't know
Speaker 3: what it is. What did Charlie say, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 3: guessing probably not. No, that's not the same micrograft. So
Speaker 3: we'll put him in Roger, We'll put him and the
Speaker 3: other guy up there with Doc Sullivan. So we'll have
Speaker 3: a We're gonna have a list at the end of
Speaker 3: the year of who is the Imbecile of the Year.
Speaker 2: Before you even say, before you sign off, guys, thank
Speaker 2: you all so much for always being here.
Speaker 4: Y'all are amazing.
Speaker 2: Sorry miss two weeks gotta sign off here, Rob take
Speaker 2: it away.
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Speaker 3: gonna announce who wins the signed is it bowling ball
Speaker 3: and a sign pin from the legend Johnny Pan Trackle Senior.
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was? Uh it's it is a ball in a pin.
Speaker 2: Picture, signed bowling pin and a bowling ball their choice.
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Speaker 3: the coming months. But if you do want a shirt
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Speaker 2: Please add Dougie Dougie Vision one more time, one more time,
Speaker 2: I have one more thing to say about mister Harral
Speaker 2: doug Martha stole the rosin bag. She stole the rosin
Speaker 2: bag that I purchased from Lodi. So Martha stole it.
Speaker 4: I'm very pissed about it.
Speaker 3: Come on, Martha, so uh.
Speaker 2: Respectfully, Uh go ship on her and thank you so
Speaker 2: much for being here.
Speaker 4: Brother, I love you.
Speaker 3: Can we add Martha right there? We had Martha to
Speaker 3: the imbecile the weekend for doing that.
Speaker 2: No, Martha's perfect, but she did steal the Dougie rosenbag
Speaker 2: because she loved it.
Speaker 3: It's a dick move. But uh yeah, do better, Martha.
Speaker 3: Uh No, we love you, guys, and we love her.
Speaker 3: Martha's Martha's.
Speaker 2: Martha's pretty solid.
Speaker 3: She is pretty solid. You keep her and Uh anyway, Johnny,
Speaker 3: good to see you again, brother. Always uh looking nice?
Speaker 3: Uh Tan, And you got to get back to Georgia,
Speaker 3: though you do for another do another haircut.
Speaker 2: Georgie's in the Bahamas till the twenty first, of course,
Speaker 2: he leaves. Matt Harris connections to my back hair. Oh,
Speaker 2: I have no idea what to do for the next
Speaker 2: ten days.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe Martha can help you out there too. With
Speaker 3: manscaped go to mans.
Speaker 4: My mother is better.
Speaker 2: My mother can trim like this note of just drive
Speaker 2: to Jackson. Mom's got this ship.
Speaker 3: Well. Good to see you as always, Johnny for jp
Speaker 3: J and the OHO. I am Rad Rob. We'll be
Speaker 3: back next week four another edition of Straight Up five
Speaker 3: with Johnny. Good night everybody, God bless and take care.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next week.
Speaker 2: Love you guys, thanks for being here.
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