This is, almost verbatim, what I said earlier when I said if they’re going to go down this road they may as well drop the budget and the money round / megabonus altogether because it’s irrelevant.
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Might try the light wash jeans and white brogue FJs look sometime. I’m an overweight 34 year old 7 handicap but I like to pretend to be swaggy too sometimes.
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The whole score was a tour de force. My Amigo could not have been a more perfect fucking opener. It’s had me revisiting one of my favorite albums, Lubbock (on everything)
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Loved every second of this.
@MerchCzar @Randy @djpie
Only thing I would like more is a nest podcast where you 3 talk about the experience for 2 hours with no rules/filters.
Cheers and thank you for all you do online.
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I enjoyed the most recent production of Strapped and so did my oldest son. We bonded. It was great.
That is all.
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First time, long time of sorts. Apologies for the blatant lack of structure below.
Incredible episode. Struck so many chords for me.
Neil talking about the team room. That resonated. I commented on the youtube channel that the things I miss about HS football and greek life in college aren’t necessarily the games and the parties (although those are special). Its those times with the guys. Sitting in the locker room, eating lunch between doubles during two a days, hanging in the TV room or a common area with no place to be and everything in life out in front of you. I’m only 38, but those are the moments I want to go back to.
My buddies and I have said “And we’re going to win state but not tonight” whilst pregaming to go out and made “Billingsley!!!” or “Hold on to the G-- Damned footbawwwl” references pretty consistently since the movie game out. Loved all the tasteful babies and memories drops. And the Explosions in the Sky!! Yes!
I read Friday Night Lights as an 8th grader. My heroes growing up were Jake Girard, Stevon Ray, Rashad Gilbert, Yarzue Slowon and the rest of the Armstrong Falcons so the book struck a chord in a major way. Enough that I used it for every book report from 8th grade through high school (and to my credit, read the book each time and would get new nuggets of research from the early 2000s world wide web to present each time). Senior season we actually got to see the movie as a team a few weeks before it was released. I’m sure I was insufferable with all of my “well actually Boobie got hurt in a scrimmage at Texas Tech because of the crappy astroturf” “Carter wasn’t in the hood and it was a low scoring game in the rain” and “Comer was an absolute stud and maybe better than Boobie” takes at the time lol.
FWIW- Permian QB1 has always worn a number in the 20s. IDK why. Cool to see that it’s still the tradition all these years later.
Getting Brian Chavez on camera to open up was an incredible touch. (I have so many questions about that team. The QB the next year ended up being a 10 year NFL journeyman. How was he versus Winchell in practice? How much did having an NFL receiver in Lloyd Hill make other problems disappear?) Throwing a football at Ratliff? What a dream. I have a weird location bucket list. Stadiums, buildings, cities, golf courses. Ratliff is absolutely part of it.
Richman Houston is the most Texas guy alive. My word he reminds me of about 25 people I met in places like Royse City, Plainview, Roswell NM (eastern NM is culturally west Texas down to massive stadiums and good HS football historically), or Lubbock with my cousins. The hair, the build, the floppy hat, the mannerisms. What a dude.
I’ve never golfed in west Texas, but the way the wind cuts in that part of the country I kind of get the appeal of playing in nice thick denim.
God the radio broadcast, the guy walking up to them in the car, those were amazing. The Mojo Black and white fits for the round.
DJ and co really captured the spirit and feel of West Texas in every way. I understand the format is different, but as a piece of content it was an absolute gem. What a home run. Goodness I’m thankful for NLU.
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Personal opinion, I don’t need the boys slumming it at middle age. I already know what it’s like to be broke bitch.
Show me what it looks like when two middle aged dudes escape from their normal lives with a modest budget and visit places that aren’t on the A (or B) tier of golf spots, while encountering a cast of interesting characters
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The budget aspect of Strapped is so far down the list of priorities here that it’s basically irrelevant. What they are doing now narratively is so much more interesting though and then mix in this
and we’re rolling and growing and evolving as a series. It’s clear now that the lens we’re doing strapped through is an overarching theme that is so much more thoughtful and interesting then an arbitrary budget. Spring training and friday night lights are good, but I want to see next is some truly off the wall philosophical shit Randy pitches.
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Great minds and things of that nature
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Discussed it here!
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How low did you go today?
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Made 3 birdies in 9 holes. Easy 38.
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Today is my birthday. My wife found Randy’s shirt from the third ep of the Myrtle Beach aka breaking budget. I am delighted.
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Happy birthday!
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Have a day! Lol
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That was incredible.
I couldn’t watch until just now because of life. But, it was worth the wait.
I wasn’t sure how I would feel about 1 episode instead of 3, but I think it was perfect for this season.
Strapped remains the best NLU video product.
It’s the people and places that make it special.
I know a few people have already mentioned it, but Strapped has always felt like something that Bourdain would have made.
Thank you, Strapped boys. Last week was long and kind of shit, but I just had a smile on my face for 90 minutes watching two people I have never met play golf in places I have never been.
Strapped Magic > Mojo Magic
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The Machinehead montage
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They stayed in a 100 year old converted service station across from a Greyhound bus station lol Randy said it’s a buddies trip with golf, and it still lives up to that.
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NLU has gone from a bunch of dudes working it part time to a business with several lucrative sponsorships and more than double the staff. Strapped could have changed a lot more than it has, and I think the boys have done a great job keeping its spirit intact. The #content is spectacular.
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