Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Shmoopy, shmoopy.
Hi.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: How you doing?
[00:00:09] Speaker A: I'm doing fabulous.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: How was your cornhole tournament?
[00:00:13] Speaker A: Oh my God. My cornhole tournament experience was phenomenal.
I knew I would lose right away.
But you know what? I was paired up. It's a random partnering. This is the 10th year, am I right?
[00:00:24] Speaker B: 10Th year of a cornhole tournament. Now, people, if you don't know what the hell a cornhole tournament is, I probably didn't either a while ago. But it's that game where you throw beanbags. A lot of people play it, but you throw beanbags at the boards and then you slide it in 20ft away.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: You get a point if it's on the board. Three points if it goes through the hole.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: And yeah. So we are at a 10th anniversary cornhole tournament. I won the 8th anniversary tournament two years ago with a 91 year old man who was my partner. It was unbelievable.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: I think what I love most about this tournament is that it's random and it's picked out of a hat. So you don't know who your partner's going to be.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: Right. You can't show up.
You can't show up with a ringer. You can't. You don't play with your wife. The idea is to get to know other people.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Exactly. Which is fabulous.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: And you don't know how it's gonna match you.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: I love that it was paired up with a gentleman who cared about it as much as I did, which meant that we were howling and we knew that we were not going past first round.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: Right.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: But you know, we were so proud to lose to the second. The second place winners, the runners up.
They whooped our ass. It was great.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah, you guys weren't very good.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: No, we sucked.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: We literally downplayed your existence.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: Yeah. But you know what? It was so fun to suck sometimes. This is really important in life. I don't know about you, but this is really important for me. In my life as I get older, I think it's important to do things you suck at because you get really frickin cocky. If you only do things that you're really good at, then you never know what it is to fall in your face and you don't have a sense of humor and you take things too seriously.
That's my two cents. There's the life. Life 101, shmoopy.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: There wasn't a lot of people taking it too seriously. Although the guy I was partnered with really wanted to win because he's always Been teamed with unfortunate partners who were futile.
So we were together and we were practicing the one warm up round. He was like, okay, this might work.
And we lost to the eventual champions in the second round. It's kind of like the Stanley cup playoffs now in hockey where sometimes you get maybe what you think could be the two best teams in the league meeting. And the way it's structured in the divisions in the second round instead of in the final. And that's kind of how it was.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: Because that's exactly it.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Once they beat us, it went to overtime, by the way.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: It did.
[00:02:43] Speaker B: And we.
In other words, you have to win by two. It's 21. Win by two. And we were tied. 21. 21.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: You were.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: And they won like 28, 26. That only took like five rounds of cornhole because I know you were killing it, pouring the points in. Right.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: I know.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: So you guys were good when they.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: Should have been matched up at the final.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: That would have been, that would have.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Been ideal because it would have been just so. Yeah. Yeah. Biting your. Biting your teeth, Biting your nails. Yeah.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: But it's really.
[00:03:10] Speaker A: You can't.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: Biting your teeth.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: No.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: But it's cool because the whole. Everybody's here is like 60 people.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: So great.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Everybody's watching all ages.
[00:03:18] Speaker A: You know what my favorite part was?
[00:03:20] Speaker B: The little girl.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: It was. Oh, she was freaking adorable. But how old was she? Five or six?
[00:03:25] Speaker B: I think she's eight.
[00:03:26] Speaker A: Okay, so she's eight and it's. I don't think she's eight the way she wrote. I think she's five.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: Really?
[00:03:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: And she's pretty good performing.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: She was great. But the age, the age gap was phenomenal. From 5 year old to a 93 year old. That's the kind of barbecue I want to be at. Right core. That's the kind of cornhole tournament I want to be at.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it was good. And then everybody watches at the end and. And yeah. The 91 year old, my partner from two years ago.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Didn't participate this year and he didn't participate last year because I wasn't here. But he wasn't really feeling all that hot. He wasn't feeling all that hot. It wasn't because I wasn't there. But anyway, it's fun. It's a neat little thing and.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: But a great reminder that multi generational events are very good for the soul.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: And for the brain.
[00:04:16] Speaker B: Great food.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: Great food.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: Oh, by the way.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: Oh, by the way.
Yeah.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: The reason we slipped up in the second round.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Is I took a break from drinking bubbles.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Yeah. It's because I poured you wine.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Started drinking bubbles.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: Took a break from bubbles.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: I interrupted your flow with serving you. I was the wine caddy, not bubble caddy. And that night, I screwed up. I fucked it up because basically, it's all my fault. Babe, you can blame me.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Effervescence.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: Effervescence will get you every.
Efferves will get you everywhere. If we could live on bubbles.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: Don't take the blame for my futility.
[00:04:51] Speaker A: Well, I can't. It's okay. I'm willing. I'm willing. I'm willing to do that for you.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: One hypothesis is the bubbles.
[00:04:58] Speaker A: Yes, I did.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: I screwed up. Who am I kidding?
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Yeah. That was fun, though. Okay, Schmoop.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Bye, Schmoo. Bye, peeps. Bye, Schmoops.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: Bye, shmoop.
