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He'll always get you.Skee-Diddy.And so when I come back to San Francisco after the national championships I really went back to the drawing board.
Skee-Diddy.
Skeeting at all the fly hos and smoking blunts?
Skeeball came to me-- as you mentioned-- from Chuck E. Cheese.
I went skeet shooting.
And so the alter "skeego" that I employed in the league was Joey the Cat, which was given to me in college.
So how did skeeball transform from a hobby to a business for you?
had a skeeball machine inside my apartment.
or going around to skeeball machines and collecting the passive income that's coming in to the machines that are in bars and venues.
And then skeeball came around.
So I took two skeeball machines, cut the legs off, and put them on a utility trailer that you'd pull around lawnmowers
to play skeeball and hustle a group of bystanders.
So I own 25 skeeball machines-- Wow.
have a really killer skeeball machine or something that is even more interesting than this game.
Yeah so the skeeball machines are at this perfect intersection of overwhelming size yet marginally portable.
We're not skeezy. I mean, maybe a couple people, but-- No, but in all seriousness, we're not skeezy.
And I had never been skeeing.
Those were-- plus me and Skeeter Spight and Leroi Mitchell, the two guys I sang with.
And there's like drone-driven skeet, people are firing cannons they made themself.
Then we'll talk about the skeeball business.
And everyone has an alter "skeego" when they join the league, because it's sort of escapism and something fun to do.
And my dad was hovering around the skeeball machines.
And that planted the seed for my skeeball love.
Yeah when I joined the competitive skeeball league when I moved here I fell in love with the game and playing with friends.
And I end up shipping out a skeeball machine into my apartment.
When I bought that first skeeball machine that's when people started calling me crazy.
And when he saw the skeeball machine in there he was just enamored with my story and with the novelty of this large-- it was a 13-footer.
I thought I wanted to start skeeball leagues and copy what they were doing.
And then I got better at skeeball and it just sort of suck.
But it was the most iconic skeeball performance attire that anyone was wearing.
And then I retired that to the skeeball memorabilia hall of fame and then upgraded to this thing, a three piece custom tailored Sumatra tiger cat suit, which
as someone just beyond a skeeball league.
You can't train to be a skeeball national champion and assume you're going to win it.
There are really cheap $300 skeeball machines that you'd have for maybe a kid's backyard party
And they were kind of skeevey about telling us where it was.
So the metaphor I use for how we argue is skeet shooting.
And maybe somebody can challenge Joey to a little skeeball match.
So let's start by talking about your love of skeeball.
And when I moved to San Francisco I joined a competitive skeeball league.
So I'm flying across the country to play competitive skeeball.
and then climbing up to the top of Bernal Heights with skeeballs in my hand and posting that to YouTube to send a message that I've
And all along the way I was running the skeeball biz on the side.
And I just cut the legs off the skeeball machine and plopped them right onto the trailer.
as the x for y-- I'm the skeeball guy for rentals-- and that is more critical than being some novel
So I'm just going to call it Joey the Cat Skeeball Rentals.
the guy in the cat suit who brought the skeeball machine.
But you can be the best at deconstructing a skeeball machine even if you're not-- Yeah.
The question is do you ever wish that skeeball machines were more portable and were surprised that there isn't a more portable version at this point.
Because you don't want to seem like sort of a skeezy person who goes around with lines, right?
So why does this matter in terms of saying skeezy opening lines to people?
kinds of interventions, so like Jennifer Skeem in California who does research on people with psychopathy who have committed severe crimes. And she specifically creates these treatment programs that aren't
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