I’m not even here to make fun! I’m in awe! It is truly something to behold and honestly I kinda want a Film Room with Goodbar. (
@djpie)
Absolutely. What is going on in my mind vs what is actually physically happening are two very different things. You’ve witnessed it firsthand, my apologies to you and your lovely wife.
So did I, then life happened and changes were required quickly to that plan. I learned a whole new meaning of responsibility and “grew up” a hell of a lot faster than 3.5+ years of college would have done for me.
Have you asked her what she wants? Like, truly wants not what she feels is expected. I had this conversation before, it’s shocking how different these can be.
I think you might be underestimating how fortunate you were in this regard.
Carve @Randy into Mount Rushmore.
Holy fuck guys, what an episode. So much of it resonates. I’m 34 now, and still got zero clue what I want to do, what direction I want to take and just meandering like a lost soul.
It’s an episode I feel I’ll watch over and over again.
@djpie - the story telling, the edit, the cuts……impeccable. Quite possibly the best #content released so far. Kudos.
My wife and I have been supporting her decisions and letting her walk her own path for a long time now.
She made the choice to attend an early college and graduate HS with an associated degree. We supported.
She made the choice of what university to go to and what degree to get. We supported.
When she graduates we will support her in whatever choice she makes. That does not mean that I don’t have high expectations and want what is best for her.
Maybe so. Even after all these years I look back on how easy it was for me and I get that not everyone has had that same experience.
I don’t think it’s being an old man, just that everyone is different. I’m a very risk adverse person, which comes from my parents not having a ton of money as we were growing up, but seeing them do everything they possibly can to get us what we wanted for sports and other activities (don’t take that as trying to bash people who come from more fortunate up bringings). Being risk adverse I would have never taken the route Randy did solely because it’s a risky move and I like the security my profession (accounting, I’m an internal auditor) brings.
Randy’s an adult and I’m sure will chime in, but keep in mind that this was the reader’s digest version of his story. As someone who had an up close view of it as his roommate and then friends after school and eventual colleague, here’s some additional color:
He did go to Miami with a very clear objective and major - accounting. He never wavered on that through school. He then went to work for a big 4 accounting firm for 3 or 4 years, which is a substantial chunk of time. If memory serves, he hated it from the get-go but stuck with it. He then worked for a company called Winthrop Intelligence, which is a pretty fascinating college sports analytics/consulting firm, and went on to fortify the stuff he was doing there with an MBA. He could’ve continued down that path and been quietly miserable for a lifetime. But he didn’t…
In regards to the “old man not up to date with the times” comment: There’s probably a little of that happening. You had it mapped out, and it worked out for you which is great. 27 years is an absolute lifetime in todays work environment. But it’s not the norm, especially with younger folks.
The median tenure for workers at a job ages 25 to 34 is 2.8 years. To me that signifies a generation constantly looking for better opportunities in the work place, as well as an increased focus on a work/life balance.
In regards to Phil, I think the thing you’re missing is the 2 degrees acquired along the way. At some point (if the current situation had not played out the way it has) you have to believe he would have “bit the bullet” and joined the traditional workforce. The degrees as well as the contacts he built up to that point would have been a great fall back plan.
@Randy Is this where the home game model was born?
I left high school with a very specific plan to be a mechanical engineer. Got in to a nice engineering program, worked very hard, and today I am a successful engineer. 
I do think it’s a very interesting point @grizzly224 and one that I was struggling a lot with how to edit because I get that it can almost come off as flippant in the condensed version. As Tron said above, a lot of it got cut because I wasn’t quite sure how to get everything in and still land the plane, but a lot of this story has to do with the fact that Randy is Randy. I’m sure there was much more hand-wringing and tough conversation going on behind the scenes than either side let on after the fact.
It’s very easy for me to say as someone who doesn’t have kids, but I think it was probably easier to support his walkabout when you know Randy and you know his intentions and foundation are solid. If he had ever truly slipped off the rails, I have no doubt that Chuck/Peg would have happily changed their strategy.
Me too, partly b/c I went through a similar untethered period in my 20s and I cringe when looking back.
You aren’t strange in that you went to college w/ a definitive plan, but you are strange in that it actually worked out. It’s a pretty strange ask of 18 year olds that they know what they want to do w/ the next 40+ years of their lives when they have no idea what it actually is like to be a lawyer or nurse or construction project manager or sales or IT consultant or whatever.
It’s not odd that children take a bunch of HS classes w/ little relevance to any profession and then are asked to decide what they want to do for 40+ a week for 40 years. “I’m a voracious reader and like debate club, so… lawyer?”
You don’t, it’s not fun. It’s much better to avoid that anguish and pop into what makes you happy and secure immediately.
Nah, the person taking a wandering road to find what truly makes them happy is a very old story.
Thanks Tron. That is a lot of color. From the ep last night I got the sense Randy just went from graduation to floating to MBA to falling into the McGladry job for a few months to floating trying to have fun.
So does this mean there could be an outtakes or video that never made the cut (across the entire series) for Nesticles at some point?
@Tron and @djpie . Thank you for the responses. Living your life in a way that a few thousand golf sickos can comment and be a critic cannot be easy. Like I said above, from the character we see on screen Randy/Phil seems like a great guy. I would hang with him in a heartbeat. I know that you guys are in the entertainment business so we are only getting a snip-it of what is the real story.
My story is vastly different than the one that Randy shared. Not better, not worse, just different. It is the differences that make us who we are and make the world a better place.
Definitely. Not sure how much of that specifically will be in there, but will have a lengthy outtakes vid for sure, like we did last year.
I’ll say, from playing a round with @MerchCzar at the NIT and interacting with all of the other guys at the NIT, I was so heartened to find that what we see on screen is completely genuine and authentic. They are who we thought they were (RIP Denny Green) and that was cool to see because you don’t know if people you see online/social media are actually like that IRL.
Edit: @grizzly224, not to say you were insinuating they are not, just something that jumped out to me at the NIT.
Had literally no recollection of this…and 5 years ago too!
Maybe not the best word to use but I feel we all play a character of some sort as we make our way through life. Some are genuine, some are fake. Those that are fake are usually reveled and those that are genuine are usually liked.