Speaker 1: Last night, I suffered a brain injury. Oh no rescrolling.
Speaker 2: And the last time I had a concussion was when
Speaker 2: Frogman happened.
Speaker 1: I forgot how did you get the Frogman concussion?
Speaker 2: I was playing basketball and got a concussion that morning
Speaker 2: playing pickup basketball with Frogman and last night. So now
Speaker 2: as I get older, I still love pickup basketball. But
Speaker 2: you have to be super careful because when you get
Speaker 2: to be my age, you know, you realize you're on
Speaker 2: borrow time, like you're playing pickup basketball.
Speaker 1: Beyond the point.
Speaker 2: Where you should like I could have an achilles or
Speaker 2: a knee injury or the next big injury I have.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm done forever. You're what we would call
Speaker 2: high risk, very high risk. The beauty is there is
Speaker 2: a guy that I play with who's significantly older than me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2: Occasionally you hear stories a guy's playing another six yeah, seven,
Speaker 2: he's like what. There's a guy I played with who's
Speaker 2: a retired Southwest Airlines pilot and he's sixty three. And
Speaker 2: when I first started getting matched up with this guy,
Speaker 2: I was like, man, this is depressing for me. They're like,
Speaker 2: why don't you guys guard each other? I was like,
Speaker 2: oh no, it's like that. And so at first I
Speaker 2: was like, I'm gonna take it easy on this guy.
Speaker 2: It's an unfair matchup for me. And then he started
Speaker 2: busting my ass, just hitting threes right in my face.
Speaker 1: I was like, God, you gotta dominate from the jump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so so anyways, but at my age, I
Speaker 2: love basketball. I just want to play and not get hurt.
Speaker 2: So the main thing I don't do is I avoid
Speaker 2: the areas where there are the propensity to roll an ankle,
Speaker 2: like in the paint. I'm not hard charging into the paint,
Speaker 2: jumping up as high as I can to come down
Speaker 2: with a rebound, because that's where all the feet are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean. I want to roll
Speaker 1: my ankle, and if you jump, you just want to
Speaker 1: jump straight up a little bit.
Speaker 2: He's barely just like you can't even fit in like
Speaker 2: a playing card under my shoe.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: What sucks is when someone wants to get a they
Speaker 2: want a sky for a rebound over you. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: And you know there. I've had some bad injuries. The
Speaker 2: worst injury I ever got playing pickup basketball was our
Speaker 2: buddy Travi.
Speaker 1: You were at that game, right, yeah. He had hit
Speaker 1: two straight threes on.
Speaker 2: Me, and so I could tell he was about to
Speaker 2: shoot another three, and my teammates are going dude, and
Speaker 2: so I'm like aggressively out on him, going dude, just
Speaker 2: do anything, Just pass the ball, just don't try to
Speaker 2: shoot another three on me.
Speaker 1: I can't let you hit three in a row.
Speaker 2: And so I was right up on him, and so
Speaker 2: he picked the ball up and was like trying to
Speaker 2: create space, and he hit me right in my mouth
Speaker 2: with his elbow. This is what created poop tooth, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: snap my front tooth in half right there on the court.
Speaker 2: And it was since my brother had knocked out my
Speaker 2: tooth when I was in school for sneaking his car out,
Speaker 2: it was already like a cosmetic fake tooth, uh huh.
Speaker 2: And when he hit me with his elbow, it cut
Speaker 2: my real tooth underneath the veneer and the veneer in half.
Speaker 2: And so insurance was like, wait, that was already a
Speaker 2: cosmetic tooth, and so to fix it is cosmetic. No,
Speaker 2: we're not paying for that. So it ended up being
Speaker 2: like six grand out of pocket, Oh my goodness for it,
Speaker 2: just because he hit me in the mouth. And so
Speaker 2: I'm like, anyways, that was a long time ago, and
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to avoid getting hurt. There is a
Speaker 2: guy that I play with in my Tuesday I have
Speaker 2: a great group that I play with a group on
Speaker 2: Sunday and I play with a group on Tuesday, two
Speaker 2: totally different groups.
Speaker 1: Actually there's one or two guys that play in both games.
Speaker 2: But there's one guy that occasionally plays who he sets
Speaker 2: off my injury radar. Not because he does anything wrong
Speaker 2: or anything. He's a phenomenal athlete, but he's one of
Speaker 2: those guys that's so athletic he can't control what is
Speaker 2: about to happen.
Speaker 1: He's just exploding out of a cannon on every play.
Speaker 2: Yes, like he's got explosiveness, and so he can I mean,
Speaker 2: he is a phenomenon. I thought, like last night before
Speaker 2: we played, I was like, how old are you? I
Speaker 2: thought he was gonna say twenty nine. He goes forty four.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god. And so this guy
Speaker 2: could jump. He can dunk easily, be wanted to get,
Speaker 2: just jump up in the air as high as he wants.
Speaker 2: He's quick, he's fast, he could guard anybody on the
Speaker 2: or He's just an amazing athlete. The last time I
Speaker 2: played with him, he was doing something and he slammed
Speaker 2: into both of my knees going the opposite direction, almost
Speaker 2: bent both of my knees back the other way, just
Speaker 2: because he was aggressively playing on some other guy.
Speaker 1: He wasn't even my guy, and he just slid into me,
Speaker 1: and like.
Speaker 2: You have to be aware of where he's going to be,
Speaker 2: just because he's wildly athletic, and it's you know, he's
Speaker 2: just a really good athlete. Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: feet and arms and things there that could injure you.
Speaker 2: And so I for what I want with old man basketball,
Speaker 2: I just want predictability. The more I've played with you,
Speaker 2: the more I know what you're gonna do. I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's great, dude. I hope you have a fun night.
Speaker 2: If you score sixty points on me, that's awesome for you.
Speaker 1: I hope you have that. But I'm not.
Speaker 2: We're not playing for the World championship, and I just
Speaker 2: don't want to get hurt. And so the typically the
Speaker 2: guys I match up with are not real mobile, just
Speaker 2: like I'm not. It's a good matchup, right, So last
Speaker 2: night we just started playing and the guy who's a
Speaker 2: really great athlete, was on the other team, and he
Speaker 2: was guarding the best player on our team. And that guy,
Speaker 2: the best player in my team, faked a shot, and
Speaker 2: so I turned around because I thought he was gonna shoot.
Speaker 1: So I'm waiting for a rebound.
Speaker 2: I'm not jumping, I'm not moving, I'm just boxing out,
Speaker 2: waiting to see if I can get a rebound offensive rebound. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: he pump faked and then attacked the basket kind of
Speaker 2: right where I was, okay, And so I was turned
Speaker 2: around to the play that was happening.
Speaker 1: That's shocking, right, And remember.
Speaker 2: What I told you KT, when you're on defense, always
Speaker 2: see your man in the ball. So the super athletic
Speaker 2: guy is guarding this other really good player on our team,
Speaker 2: and they get up way up high in the air.
Speaker 2: And the guy who's super athletic probably got up a
Speaker 2: foot higher than the other guy.
Speaker 1: That's just how he rolls.
Speaker 2: Well, it just so happens that he came down with
Speaker 2: full power, accidentally, not intentional at all, and hit me
Speaker 2: right in the top of my head with his elbow.
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds so painful.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 1: It hurts so bad.
Speaker 2: It was like getting hit with like a baseball bat,
Speaker 2: like a wooden baseball back god, and I they told
Speaker 2: me what I said was oh f this, and I
Speaker 2: just I just or oh f no, and I just
Speaker 2: walked off into this other part of this place we
Speaker 2: were playing and.
Speaker 1: Went and laid down. Oh no, and you don't remember?
Speaker 2: And it well, I got my bell rung, Dude, I
Speaker 2: got it wrong. And it was not anyone's fault. It
Speaker 2: was just an accident, super good athlete just having an
Speaker 2: elbow me elbowed me in the top of my skull.
Speaker 2: But they they wouldn't let me drive home, so I
Speaker 2: had to uber. I can't remember you're supposed to lay
Speaker 2: down when you get a concussion or now I think
Speaker 2: you're supposed to, like just not supposed to fall asleep, okay.
Speaker 2: And so they got me an ice pack and I
Speaker 2: just laid down and put this ice pack on my
Speaker 2: head for a while, and then I caught an uber home.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed how few frogs?
Speaker 2: That's what you said from the next room, like, Hey,
Speaker 2: what is he saying about frogs? But I'm like whatever,
Speaker 2: I got my bell rung, But man, I'm still feeling it,
Speaker 2: like I'm a little groggy a little dizzy.
Speaker 1: It's a little weird. Where was this what part of time? Fristco?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so getting an uber home wouldn't No, I
Speaker 2: wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad at all.
Speaker 1: You can't meet your car this morning. I had to
Speaker 1: go get my car on my way into work.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, right, that is very crazy. And then and
Speaker 1: this is what your fifth concussion? It felt like you've
Speaker 1: had a bunch.
Speaker 3: I had seen two or three of them when you
Speaker 3: got one at the Gay Lord when he chair fell
Speaker 3: or something that's a long time ago. I don't remember it.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that.
Speaker 2: Was that the one where then we turned around and
Speaker 2: saw the dude from Arrested Development.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Tambor. I remember Jeffrey Tambor. I think he can
Speaker 1: cuss to you.
Speaker 2: There was one time I was playing softball and I
Speaker 2: slid into third base and I slid into someone's knee
Speaker 2: hit me right in the top of my nose and
Speaker 2: my cardinals and my nose is still facing the wrong way.
Speaker 1: Wow. If you were.
Speaker 2: To be cocaine, then I snorted, you'd go on that
Speaker 2: adventure and see that's not equal. So yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: I probably had five concussions, maybe six.
Speaker 3: You had none one in elementary. It was a minor
Speaker 3: one though.
Speaker 2: I was at a party in high school and I
Speaker 2: was sitting on the couch and a speaker that was
Speaker 2: mounted up high in the living room fell on my head.
Speaker 2: And I was just sitting on the couch listening to
Speaker 2: depeche Mode or whatever. And then suddenly everything was like
Speaker 2: and I was looking around and everyone was looking at
Speaker 2: me the shock, you know, the look of a shock
Speaker 2: and horror.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh my god, are you okay.
Speaker 2: I'm like what And then there was just a speaker
Speaker 2: on my shoulder. Oh like, it didn't hit It hit
Speaker 2: my shoulder and my head at the same time. If
Speaker 2: it had hit square on my head, I probably would
Speaker 2: have just died. I thought you were gonna say you
Speaker 2: were at a party and saw me get headbutted.
Speaker 1: I did see that. So what happened was we were
Speaker 1: playing the.
Speaker 2: Game Chase, the quarters game Chase, and I think I
Speaker 2: think Ben had had a few.
Speaker 1: I had had a few. And then there was this
Speaker 1: guy in our high school.
Speaker 2: He was like he was he developed really quickly, so
Speaker 2: he was like it was like a thirty year old
Speaker 2: model hanging out with high school kids. And he walked
Speaker 2: out and Ben had had That was the night you
Speaker 2: swallowed the quarter, right, yeah, excellently swallowed quarter while we.
Speaker 1: Were playing Chase.
Speaker 2: While we were playing Chase, and so Ben went outside
Speaker 2: because he was like, God, why did that happen? And
Speaker 2: then this guy walked out saw Ben and it was
Speaker 2: just like a movie and a moment in a movie,
Speaker 2: like a high school party movement in a movie. And
Speaker 2: he just said or something and then he headbutted Ben
Speaker 2: and then walked off. He just headbutted me for the
Speaker 2: sake of headbutting. I mean, it's just you know, something
Speaker 2: you do in high school or whatever. And I remember
Speaker 2: watching him walk I was like, why did Jimmy do that?
Speaker 1: So weird? And then I looked at Ben was laid
Speaker 1: out flat in the yard. You also saw me get
Speaker 1: a concussion. I may have had like seven or eight.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of concussions. The causes that lobotomy
Speaker 1: left