Speaker 1: Now we go and check in with our mogul and
Speaker 1: training on the Friday free kick, find out what's going
Speaker 1: on in the life of Parky and what else is
Speaker 1: going on, because you know, he's having to juggle the
Speaker 1: Yegermeister Cup, like the actual cup, not like cups with
Speaker 1: Yegermeister in it. People. Come on, now, he's got a tournament.
Speaker 1: Although there might be benefits there, I don't know. We'll
Speaker 1: bring in Parky. What's up, dude? Morning?
Speaker 2: What sorry to hear about your scarring from juice boxes
Speaker 2: at the.
Speaker 1: Age at the age of thirteen when I was, when
Speaker 1: I was at the horse track. I mean, look, look
Speaker 1: when you go through all the juice boxes. Literally, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: here's what I think. What do I know? How much
Speaker 1: do any of us know? Virtually nothing. So literally it's like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: this this, this sounds good, This looks good, this looks good.
Speaker 1: What does Nelson say? Nelson gives you numbers? I said
Speaker 1: what I did? What Nelson said, you went the wrong direction,
Speaker 1: by the way Greeks from a hotel room in Millergeral, Georgia.
Speaker 1: But I'm not in office, HDS. You can tell there
Speaker 1: we go. Yes, no, it's it's that time of year
Speaker 1: where everything kind of blends together. Uh. And you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, when you're in a hotel, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and lean lean to my right a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know. So you know, when you're in a hotel,
Speaker 1: you always try if you've got if you're stuck with
Speaker 1: this in the background, you always try to make it
Speaker 1: look like you made your bed. You know, even if
Speaker 1: you're a slob like me, It's like, okay, let's just
Speaker 1: make it look like it made the bed and that way.
Speaker 1: So if something happens and I have to look this way,
Speaker 1: oh it's a clean hotel room. No, not when you
Speaker 1: are in with college kicking back in this as we
Speaker 1: come screeching and I burned the transmission on this transition. Uh,
Speaker 1: college is kicking back in. High school's back in practice,
Speaker 1: and everything is ramping up when it comes to you
Speaker 1: and Greg and your men, tees, how where is the
Speaker 1: pacing right now? Is it ramping up? Did it literally
Speaker 1: just slam on the gas and everybody hops back in
Speaker 1: the door. Is there a transition here or is it
Speaker 1: just basically like a light switch on off, on, off,
Speaker 1: on off When a complimentary.
Speaker 2: Well we do run a sale in August because we
Speaker 2: know seasons are starting back up and help with preparedness.
Speaker 2: But not crazy as far as light switch style, because
Speaker 2: some players want to or parents want their players to
Speaker 2: be prepared as the preseason starts and get in the
Speaker 2: right mind. But often history has told us that sometimes
Speaker 2: athletes wait until things aren't going perfect to seek us out,
Speaker 2: and so sometimes that needs to marinate a little bit
Speaker 2: within the start of a season. So based off of that,
Speaker 2: it's not a light switch, which is nice for us.
Speaker 1: Well, and does it you know, if you could and
Speaker 1: I don't know if if you could gently do it
Speaker 1: to where you're grabbing your mentees by the the lapels,
Speaker 1: you know, the floppy collar from like the eighties and
Speaker 1: nineties on the soccer jersey, and it's like, look, it's
Speaker 1: a twenty four to seven three sixty five thing. Pacing
Speaker 1: is okay. It doesn't have to be something where it's like, oh, ish,
Speaker 1: something's wrong. I need to go check in with mentees.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you have to have these Reminders's like, look,
Speaker 1: it's okay to reach out to me in an off season.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's cool. That's kind of what this development
Speaker 1: thing is all about. You have to remind them sometimes
Speaker 1: and sit there and go, yeah, it's cool to talk
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: In the off season, for sure, we send out reminders
Speaker 2: to families and things because you know, ideally we'd love
Speaker 2: to and a big part of our mentoring is trying
Speaker 2: to give them the tools to handle the adversity when
Speaker 2: the adversity hits, so that they aren't hitting the ish.
Speaker 2: You know. They that's tough, right, It's tough for teenagers,
Speaker 2: which mostly we work with right to have that mindset right.
Speaker 2: They just want to think about the present and what's
Speaker 2: going on right now. And I'm sure we were the
Speaker 2: same way when we were teenagers, so I get it.
Speaker 2: It's tough, but yeah, that's why we try and connect
Speaker 2: with people a little bit in the off season. I get, yeah,
Speaker 2: you want to get away from soccer and everything, which
Speaker 2: is great, but you know, as the season kicks off,
Speaker 2: we try and have a session with everyone just to
Speaker 2: give them the tools again as a new season starts
Speaker 2: and expectations are there, and just figuring out their role,
Speaker 2: whether it's a new team or current team, or going
Speaker 2: into high school or going into college. It's it's all
Speaker 2: a challenge so some of them do, some of them don't,
Speaker 2: and we take it from there.
Speaker 1: So when you you know, when you have how many
Speaker 1: how many mentees? Are we talking eleven dy billion?
Speaker 2: Just under eleven dy billion?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the goal.
Speaker 2: Gets to eleven dy billion.
Speaker 1: And you've got you've got book on all of them, right,
Speaker 1: you have at least some kind of a whether it's
Speaker 1: a is it a word doc or is it written
Speaker 1: down like on legal pad? Or where do you keep
Speaker 1: your notes? Yeah? We do.
Speaker 2: Weard docks that way we can share I know. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry Google Docs. We don't do work. We don't do Microsoft.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, So you keep running tally on all of
Speaker 1: your mentees when they circle back to you at the
Speaker 1: beginning of a season, when that first round of ish
Speaker 1: happens and they all of a sudden, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got to talk about you know. Uh, you've got
Speaker 1: your notes there with you. Are you able to process
Speaker 1: progression in conversations and even how they carry themselves, whether
Speaker 1: it's a couple of months at a time, if they
Speaker 1: go away and they handle themselves, they're handling themselves differently
Speaker 1: when they pop back in the door. Are you able
Speaker 1: to gauge that from the notes that you have and
Speaker 1: those initial conversations coming back or or is it one
Speaker 1: of those where I've got them intee, they're back in here. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're picking back up or we left off. I guess
Speaker 1: how much is how much is progression a part of
Speaker 1: it that you pick back up, and how much of
Speaker 1: it is like okay, literally is at the end of
Speaker 1: the last sentence when we last we're hanging out with
Speaker 1: each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like sixty forty seventy thirty about progression. I
Speaker 2: think we all need reminders about things that we've learned
Speaker 2: in the past, right, It's it's tough for us to
Speaker 2: keep tally on everything. And so for sure, just especially
Speaker 2: where the athlete is, of going back and giving some
Speaker 2: reminders about certain things that maybe presented themselves multiple times
Speaker 2: in the past or whatever. Or we're big concerns earlier,
Speaker 2: right checking back in see how we're doing there, and
Speaker 2: then we progress from there. And you know, progression might
Speaker 2: be the same topic, just viewing it a little bit
Speaker 2: differently and talking about confidence differently and what it means
Speaker 2: to them now. And yeah, that's so it's not all
Speaker 2: different topics, it's just different approaches and based off of
Speaker 2: who they are, where they are and things. But you know,
Speaker 2: we're still at a point where we're young and that
Speaker 2: and I don't even know if this will ever change.
Speaker 2: But the notes are good just to give us a
Speaker 2: friendly reminder. But usually when you get back on a call,
Speaker 2: you remember the person and kind of okay, yes, I
Speaker 2: remember you and what you were going through, and you
Speaker 2: know whether they're easy to talk to or not, or
Speaker 2: who's going to run the conversation? How involved are parents?
Speaker 2: Like all those little.
Speaker 1: Things, and you have all of these these issues, what
Speaker 1: do you think is the biggest issue that you continue
Speaker 1: to tackle over time? Is there one that's more constant
Speaker 1: than the others, or is it still the variety of
Speaker 1: things depending on the mentee, or is they're just one
Speaker 1: big thing that Yeah, this seems to be a common
Speaker 1: topic with mentees these days.
Speaker 2: Confidence is always one yeah, But another big one is
Speaker 2: just understanding the journey is full of ups and downs,
Speaker 2: and you know, when you zoom out, you hopefully see
Speaker 2: it going up, but when you zoom in you see
Speaker 2: some ups and downs, and up and downs and ups
Speaker 2: and downs and understanding, hey, these downs are normal, and
Speaker 2: just understanding that they're going to hit and that's okay.
Speaker 2: And so that's the age of social media right where
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, these people that are having success and
Speaker 2: these people that are out there having a great time, rights,
Speaker 2: that's just how they live life twenty four seven, and
Speaker 2: that's how I should we live in life twenty four seven.
Speaker 2: And then when you're not and challenges hit and adversity hits,
Speaker 2: or a bad grade comes in, or a tough training
Speaker 2: session or whatever it might be where you get benched, right, well,
Speaker 2: everybody on Instagram's not doing that, so poor me type thing.
Speaker 2: So that's that's a big one for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, and how much of when you and Greg are
Speaker 1: talking to your mentees about the ups and downs do
Speaker 1: you try to remember to have your mentee remember that
Speaker 1: it's about trying to stay in the middle as much
Speaker 1: as you can because we all know and I know
Speaker 1: that we're surrounded by young athletes and it is the
Speaker 1: extremes seem to rule more than the median, and success
Speaker 1: over time, I would imagine comes more from enjoying this
Speaker 1: and not locking into the bottom and remembering that that
Speaker 1: median is always what you're what you're aiming for, and
Speaker 1: not getting wrapped up in the highs and lows as much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean, it's just it seems like something
Speaker 1: that And like I said, I know that we were fifteen, sixteen, seventeen.
Speaker 1: I mean I was back in the seventeen nineties. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you have these kinds of things, how
Speaker 1: difficult is it to remind them about being even keeled
Speaker 1: because of that that you ful exuberance and wanting to
Speaker 1: sit there and go, yeah, I'm doing great or no,
Speaker 1: or no I'm not and I've got to fix it.
Speaker 1: How difficult is it to remind them about the happy medium?
Speaker 2: Sometimes it can be, for sure, and sometimes it's because
Speaker 2: players are constantly getting too high, more often because they're
Speaker 2: constantly being too hard on themselves. So it's all over
Speaker 2: the gambit. But regardless, Right, we talk about that median
Speaker 2: and that neutral line because it can serve so many
Speaker 2: benefits as far as just expectations if you're on the
Speaker 2: high side, but also it can serve as a goal
Speaker 2: if you're on the bottom side of it. Right, we
Speaker 2: don't have to get from negative ten to positive ten. Right,
Speaker 2: there's that zero in the middle. That's pretty good for
Speaker 2: most of us. Right, you're living a decent life if
Speaker 2: you're living right on that line, or at least you
Speaker 2: can be if you're viewing it that way. So you
Speaker 2: know that that provides hope for people that are struggling
Speaker 2: with confidence. Right, I don't have to go from unconfident
Speaker 2: to super confident. I can go from unconfident to feeling neutral,
Speaker 2: and from neutral I can play better, have more success,
Speaker 2: and gradually gain my confidence.
Speaker 1: How hard is that, though? I mean to remind him,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like we live in the extremes. Everything's
Speaker 1: cool or it's not. How difficult is to remind him
Speaker 1: that okay is okay? Because I mean it's like we
Speaker 1: live in this idea of everything's great. Everything stinks, everything's great,
Speaker 1: everything stinks. Just have a just have a good day
Speaker 1: is having a good day and then starting that winning
Speaker 1: streak of good days? Is that something that you literally
Speaker 1: have to pound in the folks. Sometimes it's like, look,
Speaker 1: it's okay to have a zero. It's okay instead of
Speaker 1: being a minus ten or a positive ten, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's cool. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have to tell myself that even today John out
Speaker 2: on the golf course, right, Hey, just have an okay day.
Speaker 2: Don't have a shocker here, you know, don't put up
Speaker 2: a snowman, just get a bogie. It's fine, right, But
Speaker 2: when you're in it, that's tough because you want to
Speaker 2: be good and you want to be the best, and
Speaker 2: you want to challenge yourself, you want to push yourself.
Speaker 2: So it's natural within all of us. But yes, when
Speaker 2: you take a step back and you say, hey, if
Speaker 2: my bad day was just okay and it wasn't brutal, right,
Speaker 2: it makes it really easier to bounce back. And that's
Speaker 2: the biggest thing, because we're all going to have these
Speaker 2: off days and bad moments and bad things and whatever, right,
Speaker 2: but how quickly can we rebound? It is usually the
Speaker 2: differentiator between people. And if we make it easier for
Speaker 2: ourselves to bounce back, and we have some tools that
Speaker 2: are going to help us bounce back, then we can
Speaker 2: try and separate ourselves and then you know, some of
Speaker 2: those really good days come a little bit more often.
Speaker 1: How hard are you and Greg on yourselves when it
Speaker 1: comes to wanting to do right by all of your mentees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely something we work on because of course
Speaker 2: it's only two of us and it's you know, it
Speaker 2: takes time, and nothing's you know, every session that we
Speaker 2: have is our time. It's nothing automatic here.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 2: Yes, we want to be there for everyone and we
Speaker 2: want to do everything, but we also have to say
Speaker 2: no sometimes and we have to We can't partner with
Speaker 2: everyone and do everything, and we have to be strategic
Speaker 2: about things. And you know this this summer was a
Speaker 2: good example for me, Like I did not have a
Speaker 2: super productive summer in terms of work, but I had
Speaker 2: a super productive summer in terms of enjoyment and being
Speaker 2: around the kids and enjoying you know, one of the
Speaker 2: last few summers I have with them in the house
Speaker 2: and everything. And so for me, that was the priority
Speaker 2: this summer and just understanding and having that knowledge of hey,
Speaker 2: I can catch up with this work and I can
Speaker 2: get back on it and you know, focus more time.
Speaker 2: But that's that's always tough because you feel like you're
Speaker 2: letting someone down and you hate to do that, especially
Speaker 2: especially as a mentor. Right you're supposed to be helping
Speaker 2: other people up. And so yeah, it's it's always a struggle,
Speaker 2: but we just do the best you can.
Speaker 1: Our resident to m I t grab Michael Parkhurst hanging
Speaker 1: out with us.
Speaker 2: Did you see that, John, you seem I T.
Speaker 1: Did you get it? Yeah? Yeah, look, M I T.
Speaker 1: I saw it. That's why that's why I mentioned it.
Speaker 2: I know, But do you did?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: Do you get it? M I T. It's not?
Speaker 1: I no, then what is it? What is it? M
Speaker 1: I T? Mobile and training and training? Awesome? Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: you got me. I haven't had enough caffeine. That's awesome though,
Speaker 1: our resident I T. I like that when it comes
Speaker 1: to saying no. You mentioned that for for you and
Speaker 1: your own personal sanity and enjoyment and time frames and
Speaker 1: anything like that. I know that when your mentees are
Speaker 1: of that age, they want to please everybody. They want
Speaker 1: to be They want to be in the end Click,
Speaker 1: They want to be in that group. They want to
Speaker 1: be that person that you know, the They want to
Speaker 1: make sure that. They want to make sure that Gretchen
Speaker 1: Wiener's is you know, a happy person I'm twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven three sixty five, and that you're in part
Speaker 1: of the end Click and that you're not, you know,
Speaker 1: outside of it. Do you tell your mentees it's okay
Speaker 1: to say no. Do you have those conversations? Do they
Speaker 1: even ask about that kind of stuff because we're in
Speaker 1: that age group. We always want to be pleasing to
Speaker 1: folks and we want to sit there and be our best.
Speaker 1: Do you tell do you talk to them about that
Speaker 1: kind of thing? Rarely?
Speaker 2: Actually, John, that you mention it, and maybe I should.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's something I should kind of institute a little
Speaker 2: bit here and there, especially for the more adolescent teenagers, right,
Speaker 2: the older ones here that are, you know, sophomore June
Speaker 2: and your seniors having choices of what they want to
Speaker 2: do sometimes after school and who they hang out with
Speaker 2: and what friends are doing. I mean, for sure, we
Speaker 2: talk about saying no in terms of sacrifices and if
Speaker 2: you've got a game on a Saturday and all your
Speaker 2: buddies are doing something on Friday night and they're having
Speaker 2: a sleepover and you want to go right, and hey,
Speaker 2: there's sacrifices to be made in order to have success,
Speaker 2: and you can't have everything, so what's the priority. So
Speaker 2: there's there is that, but that's less of the pleasing
Speaker 2: thing and more towards sacrificing and dedication type stuff. So
Speaker 2: but no, you know, that is probably something that we
Speaker 2: should look into and discuss a little bit more even
Speaker 2: with the younger generation of hey, people pleasing and that
Speaker 2: what goes into that and you know versus what do
Speaker 2: you want to do? And who are you? And does
Speaker 2: this make you happy? Type stuff?
Speaker 1: And I mean, and that was literally just from the
Speaker 1: conversation that we had. That was why that popped up
Speaker 1: into my head. I was like, well, you know, we
Speaker 1: we think that we're bulletproof at that age. Legitimately, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how many things we got going on. We think
Speaker 1: that we can go until two thirty three o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, go on four hours of sleep, roll out
Speaker 1: of the racket seven o'clock, go to dunkin Donuts and
Speaker 1: go to the go to the game, and everything's locked
Speaker 1: in and everything's fine. I mean, it's patients, it's pacing,
Speaker 1: its understanding. Okay, you can't. You can't go one hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour all the time if you want to
Speaker 1: be better at doing all these other things. It just
Speaker 1: to me, I know that I sit there and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at all these young athletes today and they all
Speaker 1: look bulletproof. They really do. But I'm just I am
Speaker 1: in I'm in awe of what you and Greg do
Speaker 1: because of the level of patience that you guys piece
Speaker 1: together with all of these individuals and want to make
Speaker 1: sure that this next generation is approaching it the right
Speaker 1: way and that they're not you know, that nothing gets
Speaker 1: left out and that they continue to do things the
Speaker 1: way that it's supposed to be done. And I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just something that's come across from me
Speaker 1: that you guys wanted to take this on in the
Speaker 1: first place, to do this kind of stuff. Do you
Speaker 1: do you feel the impact that you guys are having,
Speaker 1: You get I know you may not necessarily get to
Speaker 1: see it all the time, but do you do you
Speaker 1: kind of gauge the impact that you guys are having
Speaker 1: with what you're doing there beyond goals?
Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes yeah, sometimes sometimes we get good feedback and
Speaker 2: we see somebody have success. We see somebody commit to
Speaker 2: a college, you know, be very happy with where they're at.
Speaker 2: You know, talking to a few pros lately that are
Speaker 2: in circumstances they want to change, and you know, when
Speaker 2: something comes out of that and you know they see
Speaker 2: things a little more clearly, that's success in my eyes. So, uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, there's there's definitely some moments where we feel
Speaker 2: good about what we're doing. To get back to what
Speaker 2: you were saying earlier, John, about you know, telling kids
Speaker 2: that you know it's okay to say no. Sometimes I
Speaker 2: can just foresee a parent of like a twelve or
Speaker 2: thirteen year old saying, well, my kids said no that
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do chores this week because that
Speaker 2: doesn't make me happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you've run that. You've already run that game, haven't.
Speaker 2: You, bark You telling me I can say no and
Speaker 2: do things that make me happy and not feel pressured.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. My mentor said this. Well, I'll show you this.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, Mentor, you know, all right, Mente, you
Speaker 1: go over there and take out the garbage. I mean,
Speaker 1: but shoot, hey, hey, Mentor, go take out the garbage. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get home after your weekend, it's like, hey, Mentor,
Speaker 1: Sunday night, go take out the garbage. Yes, ma'am, I
Speaker 1: mean that literally. But that's that's how things are. Michael
Speaker 1: Parker's thanking out, whether it's beyond goals entering our resident
Speaker 1: in our mogul in training, I noticed you got a
Speaker 1: banner over your your left shoulder in the office. Now
Speaker 1: I noticed this.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes, that's from the first inaugural game at
Speaker 2: the stadium.
Speaker 1: How did that feel?
Speaker 2: And this guy over here, I bring this out for
Speaker 2: all event the other day. I guess I can't hold
Speaker 2: it up because it kind of but that's what it is.
Speaker 1: All all very nice, all of that.
Speaker 2: Look at that good reminders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so since you open that box, I'll go
Speaker 1: through that door. When you're in a when you're in
Speaker 1: a situation like you're seeing with your old club, and
Speaker 1: it's like you're seeing improvement, but it's almost like you know,
Speaker 1: Schlepprock's hanging out with you, and you hit hit a crossbar,
Speaker 1: you hit a post, it's like you're seeing improvement, but
Speaker 1: it's not coming into results. I guess that's something else
Speaker 1: we could talk about with your mentees. What's it like
Speaker 1: to see the the current state of affairs with Atlanta
Speaker 1: United the way that it is right now, with only
Speaker 1: a handful of matches left at home this year.
Speaker 2: It's tough. Not going to sugarcoat it.
Speaker 1: It's tough. Thanks.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, obviously a far cry from where it was
Speaker 2: a few years ago. But you know, I'm a half
Speaker 2: glass full, and you know, I understand there's huge expectations
Speaker 2: every season, I think, particularly going into this season, based
Speaker 2: off of the off season last year and the finances
Speaker 2: and everything, and so I think that's what makes it
Speaker 2: more frustrating, because it's not a lack of effort from
Speaker 2: the front office that things haven't gone well. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's easy to say, oh, it's because this guy got
Speaker 2: injured or this guy was missing, or oh we just
Speaker 2: don't have a good striker, Oh this that or the
Speaker 2: other thing. It's more frustrating when you can't exactly pinpoint
Speaker 2: it and say, hey, we've spent money, we've got a
Speaker 2: talented roster, we should be good enough to be at
Speaker 2: least a playoff team. Why isn't it clicking? Why can't
Speaker 2: we do it? Type thing? That's where the frustration really
Speaker 2: lies for probably most people, and including the players. I've
Speaker 2: been there. My last year in Columbus was like that,
Speaker 2: why can't we win? I don't know why? And it's
Speaker 2: super frustrating, And yeah, there's nowhere to sugar go to it.
Speaker 2: There's no one that's from players to staff to fans
Speaker 2: that's enjoyed this season, and that's frustrating. But I do
Speaker 2: think that you know, given the league and Arthur's ambition
Speaker 2: and the club and where we're at that there's no
Speaker 2: reason why we can't be a top team next year.
Speaker 1: When are you playing golf? When's your tea time?
Speaker 2: I wish I was playing today, but I did play
Speaker 2: the other day, John, John, I've been playing really well lately.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got my handicapped down to I think it's
Speaker 2: right at eleven. Who I shot at eighty five yesterday
Speaker 2: with an eight on the last hole.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So that was frustrating finish, but I played well, and
Speaker 2: so for me, that's really good golf. The single digit
Speaker 2: handicap is within in sight.
Speaker 1: Wow. See. I play better the longer the gap time
Speaker 1: between rounds, Like I play like back to back or
Speaker 1: like twice in a week. That's second round. I'm awful.
Speaker 1: If I haven't played in like six months and I
Speaker 1: go out cold Turkey, I'm crushing it nice. Yes, It's
Speaker 1: just it's stupid that way. I can't explain it. I'm
Speaker 1: probably in eighteen. I mean I'm probably, I mean I
Speaker 1: break ninety. But it's like I got an I've got
Speaker 1: a new set of clubs. The Boss was like, we
Speaker 1: got to get rid of your old metal shafts, and
Speaker 1: I've had to dial everything back to zero. My yardages
Speaker 1: are just screwed up because I now have callaways with
Speaker 1: the graphite shafts or the composites, and I'm back to zero.
Speaker 1: It's like literally, it's like I'm sitting here and because
Speaker 1: of my swing speed and everything everything, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: two and three club club links ahead. It's like I'm
Speaker 1: hitting nine irons one fifty two with my old clubs.
Speaker 1: With the nine iron. Now I'm back to one ten
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there and I'm piddling around, and I'm going, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, when it goes one ten and it's dealing
Speaker 1: with new clubs, especially with new fangle technologies, stinks. Man,
Speaker 1: it's awful.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope to have that problem someday. But I
Speaker 2: told myself, my my Nikes. Everyone, everyone's always amazing that
Speaker 2: I play with Nike clubs.
Speaker 1: I got.
Speaker 2: I got the whole thing, you know, driver woods, irons,
Speaker 2: the whole thing, except for a putter and put the
Speaker 2: putter John I got from played against Sports like three
Speaker 2: four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: It's been a game changing for me. But that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like literally your club and and that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like your clubs are your clubs, They're they're what
Speaker 1: you wanted, They're what you like. It fits you. This
Speaker 1: is my thing, and you know, to heck with the
Speaker 1: rest of you. You know, this is this is this
Speaker 1: is what I'm doing, this is what I'm comfortable with.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to succumb to the peer pressure of
Speaker 1: gol clubs. This is not going to happen for me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to play my nikes and to heck with you,
Speaker 1: and I'll get a snowman. And when was the last
Speaker 1: time you broke eighty? I never have? What? Oh? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So that's that. So in addition to getting from a
Speaker 1: double handicap to a single, you got to break eighty. Yep.
Speaker 1: See you were you were like you were you were.
Speaker 1: If you if you hadn't a snowman and you just
Speaker 1: bogied out, you'd beat an eighty three.
Speaker 2: I know I've shot eighty two and eighty three a
Speaker 2: bunch of times, but yeah, nember eighty one, never eighty
Speaker 2: never below. Oh man, it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 1: All right. What's the latest with beyond goals mentoring? When
Speaker 1: are we announcing this third minte mentor.
Speaker 2: Oh she's announced, John, it's out in the wild.
Speaker 1: Okay. So Zara, uh.
Speaker 2: Cheboshi, Okay, I want to you're the last name? Zara, Yes,
Speaker 2: defender for Orlando Pride. She went to Wake Forest.
Speaker 1: H huh of course you did.
Speaker 2: And uh yeah, she's awesome. The third intur Canadian American.
Speaker 2: So she's played with both national teams at the youth
Speaker 2: level and then has played I don't know if she's
Speaker 2: fully committed yet or not, but she's played with the
Speaker 2: full Canadian team, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Canadian American and playing for the Purple team
Speaker 1: in the NWSOL as always my friend. It's great to
Speaker 1: catch up with you wherever the door opens and wherever
Speaker 1: it goes. I'm glad that we're back to see the
Speaker 1: next season of Beyond Goals Mannering and you guys are
Speaker 1: crushing it and then dealing with all the ish that
Speaker 1: folks have to deal with these days and correcting it
Speaker 1: to make sure that the path is what it always is.
Speaker 1: Where's Deacon.
Speaker 2: On the floor? Not in her bed this time, but next.
Speaker 1: But it's cooler. I understand that you're what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: It what in the most recent book that I'm about
Speaker 2: to start. There it is Chief Joy Officer.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Archie Enjoy Officer and MI I T. Michael
Speaker 1: Parkers as always my friend. Great to see you and
Speaker 1: have a great weekend. We'll catch up within a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Be well and we'll catch up soon.
Speaker 2: You too, say a challenge, joh