Sorry, Mom - Quit Chasin’ Transcript
The following conversation is a excerpt from the Quit Chasin Podcast published April 16th, 2024. Some of the information has been edited or condensed for clarity and because we say “Um” and “like” and stuff like that and I felt like cutting some out. To hear the full conversation, click Here or to hear the entire Quit Chasin catalogue, click Here.
AK: Do you have anything that you want to talk about that we didn't get to there?
DG: No, you know where that put me at, though?
AK: Where's that?
DG: I need a beer.
AK: You know what, Danny? I could go for a beer. And what better thing to enjoy a beer with than with the company of friends? So Daniel, Daniel-san, if you could pick any three current Philadelphia Phillies members to have a beer with, who would you choose and why?
DG: Yeah, do you want to do this one by one? How do you want to do it? I'll do one, you do one? Do you want me to just give you my three?
AK: Give me your three, because mine is more of a group. Like mine really comes down to the dynamic of all three guys. So doing it one by one doesn't do us any justice. So give me your three.
DG: I would love to be a bar stool philosopher with Nick Castellanos.
AK: Naturally.
DG: I mean, that just that guy just whatever weird conversation we get into, we get into. If the night's not over and we go to his ayahuasca guy, then we go to his ayahuasca guy. No big deal. Right?’
AK: I Love it.
DG: The next, Kyle Schwarber, even though we've talked about this briefly. I have a feeling that ideology wise, philosophy, politically, we agree on absolutely nothing. However, if I want to sit at the bar and just slam 30 keystone lights, I think that's my guy to do it with.
AK: That is your guy to do it with!
DG: That's what it is. It's keystone lights and it's 30 of them and I'm here for it. We don't have to talk about any of that stuff. So we'll be fine. We talk about Creed or something.
AK: You could talk about Jack Ryan movies, I'm sure.
DG: Maybe, I don't know. I just like something that is pop culture enough
AK: And not very white American.
DG: Yes, exactly. That's why I went with it, Creed, and that conversation would be welcome with arms wide open… In any case.
AK: Delightful.
DG: And the third one I have is Wheeler because he is the oldest. He's not really the oldest, really. It's Merrifield by a year, and I have no desire to have a drink with that Aaron Lewis lookin mf’er.
AK: So the reason I love the Wheeler and you calling him the oldest guy on the team is because he does look about 55 with the bald head and like the salt and peppery beard.
DG: He's the oldest guy on the team with a birthdate of 1990. A lot of 2001 on there.
AK: I love that top three. Is there any player that when you thought of them, you immediately said yourself like, no, absolutely not, I do not want to have a beer with this cat.
DG: Yeah, like there's some people like I have no desire… Well, he doesn't drink, but I have no desire to have an intense beer with Harper. Like, no, no, you know what I mean? I love the guy, great ball player, panders to the city, I eat every word he has, but I have no desire to ever talk to him.
AK: Well, much like, you know, Taylor Swift, I feel like a whole lot of his personality is just manufactured anyways… Ooooh, shots fired… So I feel like you're never going to get to know the real Bryce Harper. You're just going to get to know the Bryce Harper that he's comfortable with you seeing in that moment.
DG: Yeah, the haters are going to hate. And you know, Turner, his smugness.
AK: You know what, I don't think it's his smugness. I'm actually going to cut you off, I think Turner is ridiculously introverted at heart. I think he's just a really shy dude that is like, he'd be quietly nursing a beer, not adding anything to the conversation. I think he's an introvert.
DG: That might be the case. I say smugness because of that All-Star Game interview where he said the celebrity he wanted to meet was Elon Musk, And I was like, okay.
AK: You did hate that. And I get that, I do.
DG: Going off of what you said, that could purely be because he might be that introvert. And that is like the name that came to his head.
AK: Yes, I could totally see that. Or like, he's that sheltered kid that got like a really parochial upbringing and to him, Elon Musk is just this really good business guy… he doesn't see him for the slug human that he is and all that jazz. So it could just be that he's misguided. But I really do think that Trey Turner is very introverted.
DG: You know what? I'll buy that, I'll buy that… and then I also briefly thought Marsh and then said, “I ain't got that party in me anymore”.
AK: Oh, see Stubbs to me was “I ain't got that party in me anymore”. Stubbs is that guy where you're wearing the box of 30 racks on your head walking out of the bar and like Stubbs, I wanted to add him so many times, but I just I'm too old to party with Garrett Stubbs.
DG: Yeah, that he was never my style of partier, so it never even came up, but I did think Marsh and then I was like… I ain't got that in me.
AK: So here's my three, OK? And I think because of everything that just went down, I think you're going to like it. So my three is obviously the corner philosopher, Nick Castellanos. You have to have Casty. I don't care what we're drinking, what we're not drinking. Casty is a must at the conversation. My number two is 100% Brandon Marsh because less about the drinking, but more about the conversation. And you pair him up with Casty, I think A.) they could totally go down some conspiracy loopholes together and B.) I feel like they could have some philosophical conversations, I really do. and I think it would be really fun and really funny… And that's what brings me to my number three:
This one's a bit of an oddball, but it's going to make perfect sense. I need Jose Alvarado at the table with us while we're cutting up a rug,
DG: *look and sound of holy shit I didn’t even think of him but I wish I had*
AK: because you can tell with how menacing and terrifying he is when he's on the bump, he's probably one of those really, really kind, really loves life kind of guys… when he laughs, his entire body shakes and you just feel like so excited that I just made this mountain of a man laugh. Like this is the best day ever.
DG: Oh, that's an exceptional call.
AK: Right?
DG: exceptional call.
AK: Yes, like you need that that Jose Alvarado at the table because he's going to have some really funny quips and the way he's going to react to the stuff you say is going to make you feel so warm inside.
DG: You're pounding down tequila shots and sucking limes and making towel chickens.
AK: Yeah man, You're going home to Casty’s house and Weston Wilson is tattooing everybody to commemorate the night. That's just the way it can go.
DG: Your group as a trio, sign me up.
AK: Like I said, that's why I couldn't go back and forth because it was the calculus of the entire trio that made it what it ended up being.
DG: Yeah, that's a Motley Crue and I'm here for it.
AK: Now if I want to black out and not remember a week, that line up was Stubbs, Marsh and Ranger, like if I'm looking to not remember a week, that's the trio I'm going to go with in that situation.
DG: That's funny because there was a brief moment where I thought Ranger too and then passed it away like, no, because I'm not talking to that guy. He's got his flats on, he's sliding around the dance floor.
AK: Bro, first off, he's got other things on his mind. Second off, he's way too cool for me to be able to connect with. It would be such a level of hero worship to be at a table with Ranger Suarez that I'd just be giving him heart eyes while I'm looking with my chin in my palm. “What was that like, Ranger?” “Tell me more.” So, yeah, I couldn't bring him, it'd be too distracting, I love him too much.
DG: Yeah, I've met a few people in my life and I've been cool enough to be able to have a conversation with them because I did not freak them out…Um, I don't think I would be able to be cool. I think I'd be a little, a little fan-ie.
AK: He would be my number one fangirl moment. If I were the, the number one Philly that I could, I don't think I could control myself from fangirling out is Ranger Suarez by far. Not Casty, not Marsh, not Schwarber, not Harper. It's, it's Ranger, dude. I love him too much.
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