My guest is my brother, Scott, or as he is listed in my phone—Chico D. This is Scott’s 2nd appearance on the podcast. His first followed the tragic accident that occurred just before he got home from work one evening.
He noticed a kid laying in the street and immediately rushed over to see what had happened. A 5-year old boy was laying in the street after having been hit by a car. Scott immediately began CPR and saved the 5-year old boy’s life. Incredible.
This podcast is more relaxed. My brother and I met halfway between where we were living at the time, Baton Rouge & Houston, respectively, to play poker at the Golden Nugget.
Scott has been very successful in his career as a Director of Pharmacy. Not to mention the success he’s had as a family man married 21 years. He, and high school sweetheart-turned-wife, Toni, have three kids: Luke, Noah & Ella.
Please enjoy our chat.
Other topics discussed:
- Overuse of filler words–umms, ahhs, likes, and you knows
- People not open to constructive criticism for their grammatical / oral errors
- How good writing can help you tremendously
- Dating before phones & texting vs now
- Eating crawfish in Louisiana
- Wanting to drink Coke instead of milk as a kid
- How milk didn’t keep Brad from getting injuries
- Putting in the work as a D1 athlete at Nicholls St.
- Funny stories that Scott remembers from when Brad was playing ball
- Why it’s different when you have a family member that plays for a team in important games
- Baseball as a brutal sport that beats up your body
- How Chipper Jones would relieve the physical ailments he experienced during his playing days
- Pat Mahomes’ Toradol shot at the Super Bowl
- Podcasting tip: be accommodating to your guest
- Dealing with daughter issues
- Houston vs Wichita State basketball game
- Degenerate gambling
- Netflix’s Full Swing
- How Scott uses Algebra every day in his career
- Why Scott still considers the Northwest part of the US his favorite part of the country
- Scott’s favorite place to go in the Northwest
- Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Cannon Beach
- Caesar’s Superdome vs LSU Stadium
- Damian Lillard scoring 70+ points vs Houston Rockets
- Best college game Scott has ever been to
- Two NFC Championship games that Scott has been to
- Raising a child with autism
- Being involved with your kids & investing resources in their success
- Saving up for your kids’ college education
- Why Scott wouldn’t go the same route (professionally), if given the chance to start over
- Investing in Amazon vs Apple
- Not taking life too seriously
Questions asked:
- Are you more nervous with your 2nd appearance on this podcast or were you more nervous the 1st time?
- Did you know ‘umms’ are edited out in this podcast?
- Did you watch the Super Bowl?
- Would you rather have a pair of sevens or let’s say Queen-Jack Offsuit?
- Did you see the halftime score of Houston vs Wichita State?
- Is the Northwest part of the US still your favorite part of the country?
- Speaking of the Northwest, if you had Wednesday through Sunday up there with me or with a buddy of yours, which venues would you hit us up?
- What about sporting venues in the Northwest?
- Do you think the Caesars Superdome is louder than the LSU Stadium?
- Did you see what Damian Lillard did to the Rockets the other night?
- What’s the best live sporting event you’ve ever been to?
- What was it like when you found out your son had a form of autism?
- What did you mean when you said your son Luke “lives in a better world than we do?”
- How many kids should Miriam and I have?
- At what age do you start thinking about scholarships for your daughter?
- Have you been putting money away for your kids’ college since they were little?
- If you had to start over, would you go the same route [professionally]?
- Questions to Brad:
- How many years of English did you take?
- Are you familiar with the internet term ‘TL;DR’?
- When was the first time you ever ate a boiled crawfish?
- Have you watched any of the shows like Yellowstone and 1883?
- Have you brought your daughter to Disney World yet?
- Were you taught how to camp as a kid?
Fun questions:
- What % of poker is skill vs. what % is luck?
- What’s the ideal age for a kid to have a smartphone with social media on it?
- If you were given $3.5 million tomorrow, would you quit your job within 6 months?
- Let’s say 40 years from now, you’re in reasonably good health & you’re given the option to live forever, do you take it?
- Have you ever been to a church service that wasn’t Catholic?
- If I gave you $100,000 & you had to invest it in either Apple or Amazon, where would you put the money?
- Would you rather win a gold medal or a National Championship?
- Is not wanting something just as good as having it?
- Let’s say you worked in a high-rise building & got stuck in an elevator, and your phone died a few minutes earlier and nobody’s answering the emergency button. What would you do with yourself?
- What’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for you?
Books mentioned:
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
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