Banger. First time listener and caller. Excellent descriptions of guys in sports and fun examples of half the stupid shit they do between the whistles. I hadn’t seen anyone get caught doing the water in the beer can before, you teed that up very well. Even as a parent now, I’m mildly embarrassed to admit “making it rain” made me laugh.
Lots of favs in here but if I had to pick one it’s the way you captured the lack of respect many (most?) young males display. Most grow out of it to a degree, but there’s a window in there where dudes have very little respect for anything. I heard a girls’ basketball coach team call that out once in high school when we scrimmaged the girls’ team on a rainy day. “They ain’t being disrespectful but they ain’t got no respect, for any of y’all.” It was her way of hyping up her girls but it shot through me like barreled carbon. Never forgot the accuracy of that. You nailed that behavior in this one, all the way down to the coach. Well done! 👊
Thanks for the kind words Matt! I'm glad the story resonated... and that some of the (dark) humour came through. I like that from the basketball coach. In my experience, I feel like there is an energy among guys where the lack of respect or whatever it is has them constantly egging each other on—exaggerated here for max effect of course—but yeah people either grow out of it or it's not really around once the group structure falls away.
Great point about the group structure. Some dudes struggle with that too, their mates grow up and/or get married, they look around and there’s nobody left.
This is great and you capture the same atmosphere as in "G2." Not an easy thing to do when dealing with what is ultimately very fraught subject matter. Looking forward to reading more excerpts or the whole work.
Appreciate you checking this one out and I’m glad you were able to connect the two pieces. Good to know something is working. Now if only I could write quicker. Thanks for reading my man!
Banger. First time listener and caller. Excellent descriptions of guys in sports and fun examples of half the stupid shit they do between the whistles. I hadn’t seen anyone get caught doing the water in the beer can before, you teed that up very well. Even as a parent now, I’m mildly embarrassed to admit “making it rain” made me laugh.
Lots of favs in here but if I had to pick one it’s the way you captured the lack of respect many (most?) young males display. Most grow out of it to a degree, but there’s a window in there where dudes have very little respect for anything. I heard a girls’ basketball coach team call that out once in high school when we scrimmaged the girls’ team on a rainy day. “They ain’t being disrespectful but they ain’t got no respect, for any of y’all.” It was her way of hyping up her girls but it shot through me like barreled carbon. Never forgot the accuracy of that. You nailed that behavior in this one, all the way down to the coach. Well done! 👊
Thanks for the kind words Matt! I'm glad the story resonated... and that some of the (dark) humour came through. I like that from the basketball coach. In my experience, I feel like there is an energy among guys where the lack of respect or whatever it is has them constantly egging each other on—exaggerated here for max effect of course—but yeah people either grow out of it or it's not really around once the group structure falls away.
Great point about the group structure. Some dudes struggle with that too, their mates grow up and/or get married, they look around and there’s nobody left.
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Awesome piece
Thanks for reading!
This is great and you capture the same atmosphere as in "G2." Not an easy thing to do when dealing with what is ultimately very fraught subject matter. Looking forward to reading more excerpts or the whole work.
Appreciate you checking this one out and I’m glad you were able to connect the two pieces. Good to know something is working. Now if only I could write quicker. Thanks for reading my man!