Cougars Uncaged, with Sage Erskine, Barry Seymour, and Jerry Wallace

This episode kicks off with high energy, quick laughs, and a totally unplanned guest lineup that turns into an instant favorite. Lonnie and Kylie welcome Sage Erskine, Barry Seymour, and Jerry Wallace for a conversation that’s equal parts funny, candid, and full of Cleary pride.

The trio shares how they each found their way to Cleary and why the campus family culture means so much to them—proving it’s not buildings that make Cleary special, but the people. From there, things spiral (in the best way) into a lively holiday debate, hot takes on Christmas and Thanksgiving, and plenty of playful banter.

The episode also delivers some surprisingly meaningful moments, with guests reflecting on who has impacted their lives most, balanced perfectly with rapid-fire questions, unexpected personal reveals, and a competitive movie showdown to close things out.

If you’re looking for laughs, personality, and a behind-the-scenes feel of what makes Cleary special, this is an episode you’ll want to tune into.

Transcript

Lonnie Preis  0:00  
Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon,

Lonnie Preis  0:07  
good evening and good night. Welcome to cougars, uncaved from the dead dwellers. Halle Walker, this is Lonnie craze, our studio audience. Hello and today we have sage Erskine. We have Barry Seymour. Mary Seymour. We have Jerry Wallace. Good afternoon. Hello. Thank you. Are you sweating? I'm a little warm. It sounds warm in here. Did you run out of breath there? For a minute, I am out of breath and I'm just looking at I could do that.

Speaker 1  0:36  
Okay, I need to sleep here. Okay, we have, we have a trainer.

Lonnie Preis  0:41  
Okay, I gotta catch my breath. Y'all didn't know you're doing this today. How do you feel

Speaker 1  0:46  
a little surprised, but I'm excited. Surprise at Christmas.

Lonnie Preis  0:52  
Surprise, sage. How do you feel nervous? Hey, that's okay. A lot of people feel that way. I feel great. Jerry feels awesome. Excited for this. So excited. Okay, well, we're gonna kick it off with one of our questions we ask everyone. And by the way, thanks for being here, like literally, the most unplanned podcast trio that we've ever had. Out of the blue, you guys stepped in. You got to feel good about this. No matter how this goes. You can leave here and be like, I just right there. Okay, sage, ladies, first, how did you get to Cleary? How do you get here, and what do you do here at Cleary,

Sage Erskine  1:34  
I am in financial aid here at Cleary. So I'm a student specialist. I help students with their financial aid. I moved back to Michigan about a year and a half ago, two years ago, and was just looking for somewhere to work and was familiar with clearing so

Lonnie Preis  1:51  
love it up. Here is and is Michigan home.

Sage Erskine  1:54  
Michigan and Arizona are home. I go back and forth.

Lonnie Preis  1:57  
Nice, that's a nice, that's a great combination of states to have. Mr. Barry, how about you?

Barry Seymour  2:05  
So I have started at Clare University in June this year, so I just got past my six months. Congrats. Yeah, it's been very exciting. Michigan is home for me as well. I just came from Pittsburgh, from school, so I just graduated and from my master's, and found and came across Cleary while I was looking for

Lonnie Preis  2:28  
job applications. Excellent. Well, and you're obviously enjoying things so far. Heck yes, good. Love it.

Jerry Wallace  2:34  
And Jerry, so Jerry, yeah, it was. I'm the assistant women's basketball coach here at Cleary. Been here three years now, four years, no, three years, yeah, three years. So, yeah, came here from coaching in how and yeah,

Lonnie Preis  2:54  
love it. These next questions are actually some of my favorite. What do you love most about Cleary and what is your very specific favorite spot on this campus. Whoever has it and they're in their mind first, can go ahead.

Barry Seymour  3:10  
I can go you. Go ahead. Barry, go ahead. I love the family orientation, which I think has been brought up plenty of times on here. Everybody in our staff has been very welcoming. Would probably lay down a life for anybody on the on the staff. So I think that's probably my favorite thing about Cleary, my favorite spot. This is going to surprise some

Lonnie Preis  3:32  
people. I love it.

Speaker 2  3:34  
Love it. Don't do it to me. Barry, don't steal mine.

Speaker 3  3:38  
David's seat

Speaker 1  3:40  
next to his refrigerator in his office.

Lonnie Preis  3:42  
That's a good one. That is special. That is a good choice. That is very special. Why? I just have to ask David.

Speaker 1  3:49  
And I have very good conversations. I don't always make it in there every day, but I try to, and we always have good conversation about literally anything.

Lonnie Preis  3:58  
Just just fun to say. I'm totally intrigued. What's the most unique conversation

Speaker 2  4:03  
you've had? Well, they were on a dues here today. Don't let them fool you, or

Lonnie Preis  4:07  
just any the most recent topic, even

Speaker 1  4:09  
we actually talked about a lot about religion and the similarities and differences between Judaism and Christianity.

Lonnie Preis  4:17  
So that is awesome. That's awesome. Great spot. Not many people. I mean, people have said different maybe offices, but I don't think that actually in someone's specific office very good.

Jerry Wallace  4:29  
Okay, Jerry, so my mind is definitely the baseball office, mainly because so those you do not know, we have coffee time around 8am every morning, where a lot of debates and hot takes were taken specifically a great hot take this week was David winning the lottery and saying he would buy a Honda Accord as his car choice if he won the $1 billion

Lonnie Preis  4:49  
lottery. People shout out David Victor.

Speaker 2  4:54  
Terrible take horrible,

Speaker 1  4:57  
because it's good on gas mileage. Yeah.

Speaker 2  4:58  
Good. Good on gas mile. Mileage, except he didn't want a Ford Escape. That's better gas mileage because it's just a little too big.

Lonnie Preis  5:04  
Shots fired. Shots fired. Oh, and what do you love most?

Speaker 2  5:08  
Their family atmosphere. I mean, everyone can give everyone crap. And, I mean they kind of return a tent full, right? I mean, I'm a terrible trivia player, and I got a lot of crap given to me over the last week about it, and I can just take it. It's fine, yeah?

Lonnie Preis  5:21  
All good. It's good. Good. Little Humble Pie is good, yeah, good for all of us. Sage, how about you?

Sage Erskine  5:26  
I love the family kind of atmosphere of Cleary, too. I like that. It's a small school, small campus. You recognize everyone, even students. But my favorite spot on campus is probably Jules office. We're in there a lot, just laughing and it's fun.

Speaker 2  5:41  
Breaks up the day. Love it. You haven't been in Jules office. It's very zen.

Sage Erskine  5:46  
It's my old office. Yes, it's a

Speaker 2  5:49  
very calming office, very decorated,

Lonnie Preis  5:50  
well, very nice. We might have a trivia question about who is in our studio audience, and I think we've given a hint as to one of who that might be, but we won't say their name, okay, even though we've said their name. Okay? Thank you guys so much. I love how you're right. Barry, so many people talk about the family atmosphere here, and I love how when people talk about their favorite spot, it's connected to people. I think all three of your favorite spots were like in someone's office, because it's not just the chair, it's the conversation, and it's the, it's the, you know, the friendship and so on. Absolutely love it. Okay, next topic. We are coming off the heels of holidays. By the times this, this, this comes out. I think this is going to be aired, probably sometime in January, in the New Year. Have a lot, I see the, everyone's kind of moving in their seat. We had a little discussion about holidays. What's the best holiday? What's, you know, what, what is just or what, what are the holidays are just overrated. So I'm just gonna open it up holidays. Give me some thoughts, guys and ladies,

Speaker 2  6:54  
Christmas is the most overrated holiday of all time.

Sage Erskine  6:59  
100% true. It's not true. I don't think it's over, right one, it's fun. You get to decorate. It's not over,

Speaker 2  7:07  
but you decorate, like a lot of people, decorate starting in, like, beginning of October, and I truly feel all those people are nuts and should be evaluated. No, November 1 you can decorate. That's what you're also in thanksgiving. No, like, Thanksgiving is the best holiday.

Sage Erskine  7:23  
You still celebrate it,

Speaker 1  7:24  
but at least leave your stuff up until after Thanksgiving. From, from Halloween, though, like, like, it's all folly and stuff. Like, it's not like, yeah.

Speaker 2  7:33  
Like, I mean, but how, like, how you said be November 1 you put up your tree. Yeah, okay. Is it wrong that I do not have a tree up still? Oh, yeah, my kids do not want a Christmas tree up because they have five at their mom's house. Do you leave it up way past Christmas? No, it comes down the day after Christmas.

Sage Erskine  7:50  
So you do all that work for

Speaker 1  7:51  
like, three days, correct 100% how it should be.

Jerry Wallace  7:55  
Thank Barry. See, Barry and I same page in this maybe that's just the mail. I mean, I mean, it's just to me, is just, it's just so overrated.

Kylie Walker  8:03  
I gotta, I gotta ask a question, if you don't put the tree up, but you like, start, like, wrapping presents and stuff, where do you put them? I mean,

Jerry Wallace  8:10  
literally, last year, we did not put up a tree at all because my kids were very much we do not want to tree up because it's so

Speaker 3  8:16  
overblown. They hang out in a closet.

Speaker 4  8:19  
Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 3  8:22  
so let's we

Lonnie Preis  8:24  
hear your thoughts about Christmas. I'd like to hear about some of these other you know,

Jerry Wallace  8:28  
Thanksgiving is the best holiday. That's totally incorrect.

Lonnie Preis  8:31  
That's what I want to get to. Here we go. We can argue this like we can we can argue the time of timing of decorations is the best holiday.

Speaker 2  8:38  
Why? Friends, family, food and football, the four important F's.

Sage Erskine  8:45  
You have three of those on Christmas, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2  8:47  
But, I mean, it's not the same level of football. I mean, yeah,

Speaker 1  8:50  
but it's getting into the playoffs. That's one that actually like matters also,

Speaker 2  8:54  
like you're also leading up, like you're preparing yourself mentally for the game that Saturday. So it is like 100% you're prepared, like you're getting yourself ready. It is locked in football time.

Lonnie Preis  9:05  
I got a question, if Ohio State and Michigan did not play around that weekend, would you still feel this way about Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2  9:14  
Yes, really, yeah, I think so. I mean, I mean, I don't know if it'd be the same level, but Thanksgiving would still be my favorite holiday.

Speaker 1  9:21  
That's insane. There's so many other holidays. What do you got Barry? Like Fourth of July, you got barbecue, you got lakes, you got fishing. It's a solid number two for me. Okay, I'll take number two. But saying Thanksgiving is number one, it's

Speaker 2  9:35  
absolutely absurd. Solid number two. Sage, Halloween is the best holiday. That's, that's, that's literally the worst. Oh my gosh,

Lonnie Preis  9:43  
sage. I want to know why? Why Halloween?

Speaker 2  9:45  
Briefly, talk about Halloween real quick. And how is this socially been acceptable now to walk around with your kids drinking it is

Sage Erskine  9:52  
wild. People do that. I know

Lonnie Preis  9:55  
like they do that a lot. Why do you love Halloween?

Sage Erskine  9:57  
It's so fun. Everyone's dressed up. Little kids are dressed up.

Speaker 2  10:02  
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's not, once you have kids, it's not as fun. It's kind of a nightmare, like you're like, Heidi, they find

Kylie Walker  10:10  
Cinco de Mayo. Isn't that holiday because you get tacos.

Lonnie Preis  10:16  
Studio audience has a question, comment, question,

Speaker 5  10:21  
do you like Thanksgiving? Because that's like football wise. No. I just love No, because that's the last time the Browns are in the playoff hunt.

Speaker 2  10:28  
That is a very fair question for those who do not know, I'm a die hard Cleveland Browns fan, and every Sunday, I typically just accept my fate, that they're gonna lose.

Speaker 1  10:38  
The only where, or the only place that the Cleveland Browns belong in is a nice ceramic bowl

Lonnie Preis  10:47  
that one hurts. Barry, all right, we're going off the rails. What I what I hear this? Let me. Let me take this if I'm if I'm a little kid, and I'm thinking about holidays right now, what I kind of love is you all kind of mentioned and tell me if I'm wrong. What you love about each year holidays, you talked about Fourth of July. What do you love most about that

Speaker 1  11:07  
family? You got? I love barbecue. So, like, ribs, pulled pork just gives you an excuse to pull out the smoker. Yeah, right,

Lonnie Preis  11:16  
I got, I got that sense. You talked about, like, the food being by a lake outside fireworks.

Speaker 1  11:22  
Who doesn't like explosions? Yep. I mean, that's awesome. Yep.

Lonnie Preis  11:26  
And sage, go ahead. Sage. No, I heard, I heard you say about Halloween, just, you know, dressing up. The fun involved with that and all that Thanksgiving, obviously, the games, the, you know, the football one

Speaker 2  11:37  
comment on the Fourth of July, and who doesn't Justin tuck does not love fireworks in the Fourth of July, just saying,

Lonnie Preis  11:45  
okay, but he recovered thanks to his athletic trainers and other people in the healthcare industry. That was a very interesting hot take. We went all over the map. We talked a little bit about football, but now you know what holidays these are people love what they don't. So on the days that they don't, on the holidays they don't love, give them a hug. Give them some love. Make them love that holiday a little bit more, right, Jerry. Let's not do that. Give Jerry a high five. Okay, there we go. We are now going into a segment called behind the curtain.

Lonnie Preis  12:34  
There it is, hey, boom, here we go. Here's my question for y'all, you can meet anybody in the world who you have not met yet. They walk in this door. Who would it be? Who do you want to see walk through this door? And what question would you ask them?

Speaker 3  12:53  
Here you go ahead, alive. Either

Speaker 2  12:59  
skip, come back. I'm going to do Michael Jordan. I feel like that's probably been said multiple times

Lonnie Preis  13:06  
already, but only once. I believe Yeah. Michael Jordan, okay, what would you ask him? First question,

Speaker 2  13:11  
first question. I mean, this might be a little bit aggressive, but were you really suspended by the NBA? Oh, for your gambling addiction,

Speaker 3  13:23  
that's it very interesting, and I love it. That's a good question. Sage, there's no right or wrong answer. I know. Okay, I'm just

Speaker 4  13:39  
this is a hard one. I

Speaker 2  13:44  
I literally have no idea, nothing. You had an entire episode to prep.

Lonnie Preis  13:47  
Let me know. Let me help you. Let me hear. Let me help you. Who is your favorite actor?

Speaker 3  13:55  
Okay, you don't watch movies.

Speaker 1  13:57  
Ryan Reynolds, maybe I don't know. It's

Speaker 2  13:59  
not my favorite, but who's

Lonnie Preis  14:01  
your favorite athlete?

Speaker 1  14:03  
See, this is another hard one, because my favorite athlete doesn't play hockey anymore, and I've met him before. Okay, are you gonna elaborate on that, or just forward for the wings back in the early 2000s

Speaker 3  14:19  
okay, I guess. I'm

Lonnie Preis  14:22  
sure you go with him, yeah. What would you ask him?

Speaker 1  14:30  
What's it like playing professional sports?

Lonnie Preis  14:33  
Okay, good sage, we're gonna move on. All right. Good sage, what do you got?

Sage Erskine  14:37  
I think I would say Boston. Rob from survivor. I'm a big survivor fan. Do you

Lonnie Preis  14:42  
want Have you watched all the seasons? Yes, have you really? Yeah. So do you watch them? No idea who that is. Do you watch them when they come out? Like, like, do you schedule your week and make sure you're home watching it? Or do you watch it on delay?

Sage Erskine  14:55  
No, I watch it on delay. Okay, but I've gone back and watched from like, season one on. Yes, and I've probably seen a lot of them twice,

Speaker 2  15:02  
so I don't think either one of you were actually alive. When the first survivor came

Sage Erskine  15:06  
out, it came out, the arrow was born. Okay, boom. Like, that's, I just

Speaker 2  15:11  
remember, like, survivor, like Australia, I think was like, the last one I watched, yeah,

Lonnie Preis  15:15  
and isn't it the same host that's from the get go?

Sage Erskine  15:18  
That's crazy. Oh, he would be my answer, years.

Lonnie Preis  15:20  
Yeah. Well, you you would obviously go on Survivor if you could. Yeah, probably. Okay, what would you ask Jeff? Jeff, that's his name. Jeff, right?

Sage Erskine  15:31  
Yeah, I think I'd ask who his favorite player is, because he won't answer it.

Speaker 2  15:34  
He won't Nice. He's had some really good ones over the years,

Speaker 1  15:37  
even some that's like repeated multiple times. How far do you can make it in survivor? I see, well, that's a good one.

Speaker 2  15:43  
Actually, it's a good question. Barry, yes. How long does it last? I mean, I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I watched survivor.

Sage Erskine  15:48  
So the like original and the best time of Survivor, it was 40 days and you had no food. You could win a bag of rice and beans. But other than that, you had no food, and it was 40 days now since, like, covid, they've dropped it down to 28

Speaker 2  16:03  
oh, I can last soft, soft. That's, that's

Speaker 1  16:06  
not even a challenge. But I also have a lot of confidence in myself. Yeah.

Speaker 2  16:09  
I mean, I can definitely go fishing like that's, I mean, that's pretty easy.

Lonnie Preis  16:13  
Sorry to go off on a tangent, but fear factor, you remember the old fear factor, and now Johnny Knoxville is coming out with a new one. Yes, we got to. We are going to use some of that for the next kind of get togethers for like, eating contests and some crazy stuff. Anyway, sorry, you got me all right. We are off the rails. Bring it back. If you could spend three hours with this person, you cannot do stuff related to what they're famous for.

Speaker 3  16:38  
What would you do you do with that person? Jerry, I'll

Speaker 2  16:42  
go first. I would drink a nice glass of bourbon and smoke a cigar and just sit and chat. Sit and chat, sit and chat. Love it. Sure he has to have, like an immaculate no no.

Speaker 2  16:58  
I'm sure he has to have an immaculate bourbon collection. So I'm thinking that that would be, you'd definitely have some well aged

Lonnie Preis  17:05  
bourbon, nice sage. What would you do with Jeff?

Speaker 4  17:09  
Maybe go bowling, get a couple beers.

Lonnie Preis  17:12  
I'm just very curious why bowling was the choice.

Sage Erskine  17:15  
I like bowling, okay, and I feel like it's more fun to do something.

Lonnie Preis  17:18  
Yes. Okay, good. What do you do with your friend?

Speaker 1  17:23  
I think we would go to a golf course and maybe hit some balls and have a couple drinks and hit some holes and,

Speaker 3  17:30  
yeah, okay, very nice. I didn't know you were a golfer.

Speaker 1  17:34  
I am a golfer. I played golf in high school too.

Speaker 2  17:37  
Little bit, yeah, the audience is saying just a little bit.

Lonnie Preis  17:41  
I saw you in the in the thing that happens, I'm terrible golf, so I don't know if you have a good swing or not, but I saw you swing the golf

Speaker 2  17:48  
coaches are pretty good at golf. I'm surprised by that from you. I figured you'd be a good golfer.

Speaker 1  17:52  
No, I'm either hit or miss. I'm usually like a double bogey.

Speaker 2  17:57  
Ish, do you golf?

Lonnie Preis  18:00  
Yeah, I'm around that. Okay, next question, on a little bit more deeper level, who in your life has impacted you? Could be somebody who is alive or somebody has passed away. You can't say Jerry, who has impacted you and and how? How will they impact you? Because I don't know. We have 1000s of people watching this, but just in case, you know, at least we can have these people watch if they're alive. So who'd like to go first?

Speaker 2  18:26  
I mean, you had to be prepped for this one. Yes,

Speaker 1  18:27  
I kind of have a couple. I have like, two. So I'm just, I'm a last second decider.

Speaker 2  18:33  
So just that stresses me out.

Lonnie Preis  18:36  
Sorry, these guys are bantering. Sage, what would you like we're supposed to banter you?

Speaker 1  18:42  
Supposed to banter. Yeah, screw us for talking. Where are we on a podcast?

Sage Erskine  18:48  
I love it. My last boss at my old job, I think, is someone who impacted me a lot kind of helped me grow as a person. So I would say them awesome.

Lonnie Preis  19:00  
Can you think of a moment that impact like a specific I know I'm putting you on the spot, but a specific moment that they like, or a specific thing that they shared that

Speaker 3  19:09  
was helpful, they

Sage Erskine  19:11  
always just pushed me to do things I was uncomfortable with. So I don't like speaking to people. I get really nervous, but I had to do interviews for people and things like that. So it really pushed me outside of my comfort zone.

Lonnie Preis  19:23  
So I got to ask, did you think of this person when, out of the blue, we said, hey, sage, can you do this podcast? Yes, that's it's all coming together. I love it definitely is. I assume this person is still alive, yeah, definitely have them listen to this. That'd be great. Barry, boom. What do you got?

Speaker 1  19:41  
Probably my father. I wasn't very close to him growing up, especially like around the high school, but throughout the last eight years or so, I've really come to realization how much and he's done for me and how much he's put on the line. And for me, my sister, my family and so on so forth. So I've really appreciated that, especially over the last eight years or so, yeah. So that's

Speaker 3  20:10  
awesome. Yeah, that's awesome. Jerry, how about you

Speaker 2  20:12  
definitely my mom, just being, you know, being adopted, being a single, single mom, that I was like my mom was, and kind of how she raised me and stuff like that definitely helped, kind of push me in the right direction. Is just coming from the life I had so definitely my mom, great.

Lonnie Preis  20:27  
Well, thank you guys for that, for sharing that. That's awesome. We are going into a segment called Rapid Fire. Kylie's got some sound effects. All right, here we go. These are rapid first thing that comes to mind. We don't need you to elaborate. You know what? Go off on a tangent. Just boom. Answer the question. Got that we're not allowed to go off on tangents, is what he's saying. Yeah. I'm not looking at anybody. I'm not looking at anybody. I just want to make sure you're looking right at me. Everyone gets us, gets a fair shake. Here we go. Weirdest thing you've ever eaten, Barry.

Speaker 3  21:08  
Just called Rapid Fire.

Speaker 1  21:10  
What shrimp? Maybe I don't know.

Lonnie Preis  21:16  
Okay, I feel like Steve Harvey and Family Feud. When somebody makes an answer, you're like, shrimp. I'm just I'm sorry, sage, what

Speaker 2  21:24  
do you got? Rattlesnake, oh, it's good. It's good. Cockroach, Oh, was it good? No, no, it was terrible.

Lonnie Preis  21:30  
Okay, go to hype song you got to get hyped. What song you listening to? Doctor's truck, no hands by

Speaker 2  21:40  
waka. Flocka, yep. Um. Can't

Speaker 6  21:43  
use did you just say that? Yes, he is in the zone. I mean,

Speaker 2  21:54  
what was on the Barry pregame mix? Give me like one song you played over and over, Tears for Fears it could. It wasn't that long ago.

Speaker 1  22:03  
Chill Bill has been on there too.

Lonnie Preis  22:04  
Okay, okay, good, right back at you. Barry, sweet or savory.

Speaker 3  22:11  
I'm a sucker for sweet, savory, sweet. Okay? Favorite board game, board game, interactive

Speaker 2  22:19  
game, oh, Cards Against Humanity.

Sage Erskine  22:22  
Worst case scenario,

Speaker 6  22:25  
never heard. Audience loves it. Audience loves it.

Speaker 1  22:31  
My red wings. Monopoly,

Speaker 2  22:33  
see, I do love a good monopoly.

Lonnie Preis  22:35  
Love me a good monopoly. Say, say, less

Kylie Walker  22:39  
David, say, we need to have a board game night. We should,

Lonnie Preis  22:42  
yes, we should a table flip with here's it. I don't know if we've ever asked this next question, something people get wrong about you.

Speaker 3  22:55  
Say it, you know, something came in your mind.

Speaker 1  22:58  
I mean, I don't know if they get it wrong. But, like, I was a cheerleader in college, so, like, it really throws people for a loop.

Speaker 3  23:03  
Yes, love it. It's not, were you a flyer? It was, have

Speaker 1  23:07  
flown before? I wasn't. I wasn't interesting.

Speaker 2  23:10  
Have you really? I'll show you later. That's incredible. Is there a video? Yes, oh, my God, oh, I want to see this video. Love it. Can we intro the video into the podcast somehow. That'd be great.

Kylie Walker  23:22  
We'll try this. Maybe if you send it to me, I can include it with this. Yes, I don't know. Be Awesome.

Lonnie Preis  23:27  
Jerry, yes, what do people get wrong about you? Or something that's surprising to know about you?

Speaker 2  23:32  
My kids say that. All their friends say I'm scary because I always have, like, a straight face on, but I'm actually not that scary according but yeah, you're looking at me really weird. Lonnie and

Lonnie Preis  23:45  
okay, but you didn't want hugs. No hugs. Not a big hugger. No hugs. I'm not scary. Don't hug me.

Speaker 4  23:52  
I don't know. I feel like people. I don't know

Lonnie Preis  23:58  
I was Can I say something? Yeah, you are a great pickleball player. Seriously, we just had our staff party a little bit ago. Like, get gets after it. Did you think I was gonna be bad? Are you secretly? No, I didn't know. I played pickleball. I've played like, five times, and I just don't know. And I'm like, Okay, this is throwing missiles.

Speaker 1  24:16  
The thing is, Lonnie actually won the tournament.

Speaker 2  24:18  
Yeah, very, very, very, very competitive in pickleball. It made its way around campus very quickly.

Lonnie Preis  24:24  
Well, you're super competitive. Somebody flipped a competitive switch. And yeah, it wasn't you say in his jeans. You wore jeans to do it. Yes, I've never done that before. Wow.

Speaker 1  24:34  
Okay, jeans and sweatshirt. That man was sweating, and then he went to dinner with his wife.

Lonnie Preis  24:39  
Right after, there was some moisture, I will say there was some moisture underneath the sweater. Okay, couple more favorite holiday. It's on there, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving. We have learned something, if we don't know anything else from this podcast, we learned that dream job. We.

Speaker 2  25:00  
Yeah. I mean, I feel like I already have a dream job, I'll be honest. Like, it's pretty great. I mean, I come into the office, I work from home full time. It's all flex schedules. Pays pretty good, allows me to coach pretty much full time. I would say this job right now.

Speaker 3  25:15  
All right, I think being a travel writer would be really cool. What is explain that for me, like,

Lonnie Preis  25:21  
what would that be? What do

Sage Erskine  25:22  
you do? You travel around the world and you write kind of like articles

Speaker 3  25:27  
about where you're about where you go, yeah. Oh, nice. I have my dream job that's a clear athletic trainer.

Speaker 2  25:35  
Can I can I change my answer? Just real I would be the owner of the Cleveland Indians just to spend money because they are the cheapest owners in sports, and they kill me.

Lonnie Preis  25:45  
Okay, good, good. Coming back to you, Barry, we have a couple more, three favorite ice cream flavor,

Speaker 3  25:52  
Reese's, peanut butter cup, mint

Speaker 2  25:55  
chocolate chip, Moose Tracks. Nice. That's awesome. That's pretty much the same, yeah,

Speaker 3  25:59  
early bird or night owl, both.

Lonnie Preis  26:03  
I knew. I literally thought you're gonna say that both. I don't sleep.

Sage Erskine  26:08  
I love it, probably. Night Owl.

Speaker 1  26:11  
Recently I've been an early bird. I do like a coffee in the morning.

Lonnie Preis  26:15  
Night Owl, Okay, last question, describe yourself in three words and three words only

Speaker 4  26:28  
do it, that's two.

Speaker 2  26:31  
Did you say that? No, that's for him. You're looking at me a year ago.

Speaker 4  26:37  
I feel like I'm fun, I'm competitive, and

Speaker 3  26:45  
honest, nice sage,

Speaker 4  26:49  
I would say fun, curious and

Speaker 3  26:57  
kind, good. I love it.

Speaker 2  27:00  
I'm gonna go with prankster.

Speaker 3  27:04  
See competitive and loyal, awesome.

Lonnie Preis  27:10  
I love when, when people respond and then people who know each other kind of got like, kind of a little nod, like, yeah,

Speaker 1  27:15  
I got a feeling. I got a nod from Barry on the prankster. You should see this man with Nick Michigan football, Ohio State.

Speaker 2  27:23  
We go back and forth. I've heard I'm a die hard Buckeye, and the buckeyes did win this year, of course, now that Michigan can no longer cheat, Ohio State won.

Lonnie Preis  27:33  
Shocking. Yes, I've heard some of the I've heard some of the shenanigans. Okay, last segment, Showtime. You all said a couple of competitive want to get it. I know you're competitive. Play pickleball. Thank you. You guys chose the topic movies. We're gonna go rapid. You get three seconds top there's gonna be a quick trigger. You better be thinking quick. I have studio audience ready to judge, to see if you guys repeat a movie or if you're not accurate, if they don't say the title correctly, you're out of you're out of it. One person gets eliminated. Eliminated. Those two continue to go at it. Whoever that is. Question, yes,

Sage Erskine  28:10  
for movies where there's like a one, two and three, can you say

Lonnie Preis  28:14  
studio audience? What

Speaker 2  28:15  
do you think? No, I feel like you got to just have once you say that's the series. Just, just the series. I mean, I can go fast and furious.

Lonnie Preis  28:21  
One like Rocky. Rocky's rocky fast and furious if they change the complete title. Okay, we're going quick here. Kylie, how much time we got? We got about 12 minutes till we got to get out of here. We'll see how we do studio. Audience, ready to listen for me? We're going to start with you, then a sage, and we'll go around like this, clockwise Showtime. Show us what you know. Jerry Stardust, Major League bird box.

Speaker 4  28:47  
Remember the Titans. Miss Congeniality.

Speaker 2  28:51  
Cool Runnings, great movie choice, Space Jam, all about Steve

Speaker 3  28:58  
one Don't be messing with me.

Speaker 2  29:02  
Water Boy, weeks.

Sage Erskine  29:05  
Notice, one, Super Troopers, the proposal,

Barry Seymour  29:14  
hot tub, time machine,

Jerry Wallace  29:16  
the other guys,

Sage Erskine  29:18  
oh, that's a good one. Step Brothers.

Speaker 3  29:21  
Pitch Perfect, the Godfather, Brother Bear.

Speaker 4  29:26  
One 201

Speaker 2  29:29  
Dalmatians, Beauty and the Beast.

Speaker 4  29:32  
Hacksaw, Ridge, frozen sniper.

Lonnie Preis  29:37  
123, time is up. No, you guys are going back to you.

Speaker 2  29:45  
Let's go local mermaid, oh,

Speaker 4  29:48  
Cinderella, Lion King, Aladdin,

Speaker 2  29:52  
Pocahontas, one Moana i. Come on, let's go. 123,

Lonnie Preis  30:06  
times up. Nope, did not get it in, did not get it in, and I was going slow save you're the winner. Way to go, good. Good job competing. I was expecting that to go longer, personally. But you

Speaker 2  30:17  
know, what do you do? Stuck on, like the Disney movies. I couldn't get past it.

Lonnie Preis  30:23  
One thing, I apologize we did not come up with our trivia challenge from you all ahead of time. Okay, so Jerry, I'm putting you on the spot. This can be any it could be related to Cleary. It could be related to Ohio sports. I don't care what it is, if people can look it up, obviously, but it could be the, well, I'm not going to say any trivia question out there. Audience, student, life@cleary.edu first one to respond correctly, we'll note it. We'll get you a prize. Jerry, what's our trivia question?

Speaker 2  30:58  
Only because I know Chad GBT is wrong on this one who has the longest drought of winning a World Series in major league baseball history,

Lonnie Preis  31:09  
the current current drought, or the longest ever

Speaker 2  31:11  
current drought, the current drought, longest drought,

Lonnie Preis  31:14  
current longest drought for any major league baseball team from winning The World Series, but it's the current drought. Is that right? Student life@cleary.edu Kylie, anything to add for these young people who have joined us today?

Kylie Walker  31:33  
Thank you for being so willing to come in at the last minute. You guys are a lot of fun. This was a

Lonnie Preis  31:38  
great time. Spur of the moment. You guys are phenomenal to do this. Sage, please tell your mentor how awesome it is. You did this. You guys, the banter. I loved it. Sorry to give you. I loved it. Just trying to keep it, you know, within the time frame, all right, we're gonna do this like we start off, we're banging the table. Well, thank you. Yeah, blow it, whatever you got to do, and then we're gonna end 123, roll. Cougs. Go. Cougs, whatever you want to say, Gosh, here we go. Thank you everybody. It's been great. Studio audience, love having you here. David Victor in the den. Kylie Lottie, the den dwellers and our guests. Jerry sage Barry, Jerry, Sage Mary, till next time. 123. Go Cougars!