SCRAMBLE: Quadruple amputee, professional cornhole player faces murder charges

Summary

Garage Logic: Weekly Scramble – Episode Summary

Episode Title: SCRAMBLE: Quadruple amputee, professional cornhole player faces murder charges
Date: March 24, 2026
Hosts: Chris Reivers & Mike Fratelloni
Produced by: Gamut Podcast Network (Garage Logic series)

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Episode Theme & Purpose

This episode presents a classic "Weekly Scramble" format: an open, conversational look at bizarre current events, sports, and everyday life. The main theme is an in-depth discussion of the shocking news story involving Dayton James Weber—quadruple amputee and professional cornhole player—who has been charged with murder. The hosts explore questions surrounding the crime, inject the show’s trademark humor, and segue into lighter topics including cornhole competitions, personal stories, and tributes to beloved community figures.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Bizarre Story: Quadruple Amputee Cornhole Pro Charged with Murder

[01:54 – 09:02]

• Overview: Chris introduces the case of Dayton James Weber, 27, a quadruple amputee and professional cornhole player charged with first- and second-degree murder, assault, and firearms-related offenses after the fatal shooting of Bradrick Michael Wells in Maryland.
  • Both witnesses (labeled W1 and W2) claim Weber shot Wells during an argument in a car.
  • Details include Weber’s subsequent flight and arrest, social media footage of him using firearms, and questions about his physical capacity to drive or shoot.

Key Quotes:

• Chris: “Police have not explained how Weber was able to drive a car or fire a weapon. That was my question.” [04:55]
• Mike: “Quadruple means four. ... How do you pull out a gun with no arms, no hands?” [06:35]
• Chris: “How did I pull the trigger?” [07:36]

Investigative Curiosity:

• The hosts question the plausibility of the charges, given Weber’s physical limitations ("no arms, no legs"). They speculate about adaptive devices, Tesla SUV self-driving features, and the credibility of witness accounts.
• Mike speculates about possible motives, relationships between vehicle occupants, and jokes about possible rendezvous that ended in violence. [08:17–08:49]

Cornhole as an Accessible Sport:

• Chris notes ACL Commissioner Stacy Moore’s statement on the accessibility of cornhole: “Anyone can play, anyone can win. ... If you want to put your mind to it ... you can become competitive.” [05:05]

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2. Competitive Cornhole and Personal Anecdotes

[09:02 – 14:50]

• Discussion veers into cornhole (“bags”) culture, emphasizing its rise as a competitive sport.

• Chris and Mike recount attending casual and hyper-competitive tournaments, reflecting on the seriousness and eccentricity of top-level players.

  • Chris: “I refuse to call it cornhole, because I just think it sounds so stupid.” [10:13]
  • Mike: “Bet you that gets him laid a lot. ... What a dumb thing to be [competitive at], but people are really into it.” [10:27]

• Memorable Moment: Chris describes facing players with matching jerseys, bandanas, and competitive intensity at the Rochester Mayo Civic Center tournament.

Sports Preference Game:

• Mike playfully quizzes Chris to rank cornhole against other leisure and sport activities: badminton, curling, bocce ball, bowling, baseball. [14:08–14:51]

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3. Bowling Story: Friendship, Mental Health, and Regret

[14:59 – 18:54]

• Mike shares a touching and humorous story: he created a bowling team with two friends (one struggling with schizophrenia) aiming for a combined 600-point game.
  • Achieves personal best score of 242; the team eventually hits 600 after several weeks.
• A joke about “becoming the world’s fattest man” is sadly misinterpreted by his schizophrenic friend, leading to a powerful realization about sensitivity and words.

Key Quotes:

• Mike: “I felt so badly. But that was my foray into bowling. ... I’ll always hold a fine feeling for bowling because of that.” [18:14–18:54]

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4. Remembering Jesse Pierce: Tragedy in the Hockey Community

[21:05 – 28:16]

• Chris solemnly shares news of NHL reporter Jesse Pierce’s tragic death (with her children) in a house fire.

  • Both hosts reflect on her personality, reputation, and the overwhelming support from the hockey world.
  • Chris: “She was so freaking cool... If you wanted to go to the bar, have a cold beer and talk hockey, she was your gal.” [23:10]
  • Mike: “I think I would lose my mind. Makes me want to bawl my eyes out just thinking of that.” [25:54]
  • Both praise the compassionate response from Minnesota Wild leadership and broader hockey community, referencing tributes on and off the ice.

• Discussion underscores the fragility of life and community support during crises.

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5. Airline News: United's "Relax Row" and Travel Banter

[29:40 – 35:46]

• Chris presents United Airlines’ new “Relax Row”—rows where passengers can purchase airline beds.

  • Both hosts ponder the practicality, pricing, and possible social consequences (conflict, “Mile High Club” potential).
  • Mike: “If you want to encroach in the other two seats, you need to pay the lay down fee.” [30:29]
  • Chris: “If this is available for any flight under six hours, get your lazy ass off of this bed and sit up like an adult.” [31:22]

• Amusing aside: stories of mid-flight romance, with Mike joking about bathroom escapades and Chris’s anecdote about a delayed flight caused by adventurous passengers. [34:31]

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6. Quick Jokes and Listener Engagement

[36:23 – 37:39]

• Chris reads a listener-submitted joke involving expectations and a neighbor’s dog.
• Mike drops several light “dad jokes”:
  • "Why don’t boxers have sex the week before the fight? Because it makes eye contact in the ring awkward." [37:16]
  • "What do a mortician and an electrician have in common? They both are a little shocked when they find a live one." [37:35]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Highlight | |-----------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 04:55 | Chris Reivers | “Police have not explained how Weber was able to drive a car or fire a weapon. That was my question.” | | 06:35 | Mike Fratelloni | “How do you pull out a gun with no arms, no hands?” | | 09:02 | Mike Fratelloni | “He’s not playing in an amputee league. He’s a professional cornhole player in a full-on men’s league.” | | 23:10 | Chris Reivers | “She was so freaking cool... If you wanted to go to the bar, have a cold beer and talk hockey, she was your gal.” | | 25:54 | Mike Fratelloni | “I think I would lose my mind. Makes me want to bawl my eyes out just thinking of that.” | | 31:22 | Chris Reivers | “If this is available for any flight under six hours, get your lazy ass off of this bed and sit up like an adult.” | | 37:16 | Mike Fratelloni | “Why don’t boxers have sex the week before the fight? Because it makes eye contact in the ring awkward.” |

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:54] Start of Dayton Weber case discussion
• [05:05] Cornhole, accessibility, and ESPN coverage
• [09:02] Quadruple amputee's cornhole skills
• [13:03] Hyper-competitive cornhole tournament stories
• [14:08] Casual sports preference banter
• [14:59] Mike’s bowling and mental health story
• [21:05] Tribute to Jesse Pierce and hockey community's response
• [29:40] United Airlines “Relax Row” segment
• [34:31] “Mile High” anecdote and bathroom talk
• [36:23] Listener joke and joke-off

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Tone & Style

• Conversational and freewheeling, with sharp comic relief even on serious topics.
• Candid, sometimes irreverent, blending heartfelt moments (Jesse Pierce tribute) with blue-collar, slightly edgy banter.
• Garage Logic's unique blend of “gumption,” everyday wisdom, and community spirit.

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Conclusion

A quintessentially “Weekly Scramble” episode: Chris and Mike take listeners from the bizarre and serious (a quadruple amputee murder-arrest saga) to the deeply personal and communal (remembering a local sports media personality) to the playfully absurd (ranking backyard sports, airline “bed” gimmicks, and rapid-fire jokes). Engaging, unpredictable, and always just down the road from Gumption County.

Transcript

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[Mike Fratelloni]

This is the Weekly Scramble, a place where we chat about life over a cold one or two. It's time to belly up to the pod with Mike Fratelloni and your host, Chris Reivers.

[Chris Reivers]

That's right, it's time for the Weekly Scramble podcast. My name is Chris Reivers with me as always, his name is Mike Fratelloni. Hello Michael.

[Mike Fratelloni]

How you doing?

[Chris Reivers]

I'm doing well, and we're going to start off the show with a bit of an odd story, and I had mistakenly mentioned something to the Garage Logic crew, and of course that then turned into that story, making it a part of the John Height News experience. And let me just put it this way, I have many questions about several of these different events, and sadly, I don't want to make light of the fact that someone unfortunately did lose their life. But it's a story worth exploring nonetheless. Let's head to Maryland, shall we? A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee has been formally charged with murder and multiple related offenses in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred in Charles county on March 22, 2026. Dayton James Weber, 27 years old, of La Plata, Maryland, was arraigned in the District Court of Maryland for Charles county after located in Charlottesville, Virginia and arrested following the fatal shooting of 27 year old Bradrick Michael Wells, according to court documents. According to charging documents signed by a detective from the Sheriff's office, Weber is formally charged with first degree murder, accused of intentionally and with premeditated malice killing Bradrick Wells. He's also charged with second degree murder, also charged in the same incident. Assault in the first degree. There's two counts there, one relating to an alleged assault on someone identified and one another relating to Bradrick Wells the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Alleged firearm use during the offense. According to the statement of charges filed by the Sheriff's office, Dayton Weber picked up two witnesses from work in a vehicle with Braedrick Wells already in the front passenger seat. The documents state that while driving an argument broke out between Weber and Wells. The witnesses, identified in the charging documents as W1 and W2 Woman 1 Woman 2 told police that Weber pulled out a firearm and shot Wells twice in the head during the argument. The statement of charges says Weber then pulled the vehicle over and asked the passengers to remove Wells from the car, which they then refused. The two witnesses exited the vehicle and flagged down a police officer, the documents state. While Weber drove off with Wells still inside the car. According to the filing, around 12:41am On March 23, a resident discovered Wells body on the side of the road. The statement of charges notes that both witnesses positively identified Weber as the shooter and Wells as the victim, providing the basis for murder and assault charges. Police say that Weber's vehicle was later located in Charlottesville, Virginia and Weber was found at a hospital seeking treatment. Weber is currently awaiting extradition to Maryland where he will face formal charges. Police have not explained however was however was able to drive a car or fire a weapon. That was my question.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, it's a big one.

[Chris Reivers]

It's early in the investigation but there's no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the shooting and that he acted alone. The the Sheriff's office said in a statement. Videos posted to social media do appear to show Weber shooting rifles and 9 millimeter handguns. Weber underwent quadruple amputation as a baby after a blood infection. According to reports. He is a professional cornhole player in the acl. That's the American Cornhole League, Michael. They have been on ESPN since 2016. That's one of the great things. Oh no, that's one of the great things about our sport. How accessible it is and how we like to say anyone can play, anyone can win. Because if you Want to put your mind to it. You want to put the time into practice. You can become competitive, said the ACL commissioner, Stacy Moore. Moore is pushing for cornhole to become a sport in the Olympics in 2020.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Just to jump on that. If cornhole becomes a sport in the Olympics in 2028, I'll never watch another Olympic event.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'll never do that.

[Chris Reivers]

Second of all, the floor is yours.

[Mike Fratelloni]

When I hear this reverse, I think to myself, okay, there has to be some kind of answer. So first of all, I thought, what kind of car could he be driving? Because again, he's a quadruple amputee.

[Chris Reivers]

No arms, no legs.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Quadruple means four.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You have two arms. You have two legs. Those are gone. I've seen pictures of him. He has arms, too. Like a little bit past the body.

[Chris Reivers]

Basically his elbow, right?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, kind of like maybe his elbow and then legs down to his thigh. Right. Okay. I know they can strap on some devices onto the car. I don't really know how they're doing it, but he drove a Tesla suv. I was like, oh, I kind of get it. Self driving car. Oh, right. But I can't get my mind around is how do you pull out a gun?

[Chris Reivers]

Right?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Pull out a gun with no arms, no hands.

[Chris Reivers]

While driving.

[Mike Fratelloni]

While driving. Well, Tesla suv, we're trying to think of the easiest answer. Pull out a gun and shoot your passenger. How do you do that? And how. How, when that passenger's dead, you can't blame it on W1 or W2 in the backseat and look at the cops and say, cops. If you're watching online cops. I don't have hands to shoot a gun.

[Chris Reivers]

How did I pull the trigger?

[Mike Fratelloni]

How did I pull the trigger? Chick number one did it.

[Chris Reivers]

That was so the story that I found earlier and even the one I read just now. Were the two other witnesses, were they in fact females?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, W1 and W2 would indicate woman one and woman two.

[Chris Reivers]

I would indicate it was witness one and witness two, maybe.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, okay, maybe.

[Chris Reivers]

I thought you had confirmation. That's why you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What they really should have done is if it would have just been one person in back, then it would be his word against the person backs word. And he could just stand up on trial. Right. And the attorney could throw him a ball or something, and the ball would just bounce right off of his chest and he'd say, I can't catch balls. I don't have any arms.

[Chris Reivers]

So let's just go down the path of saying that. Yes, it was, in fact, two female Occupants in the vehicle. Are we to suggest based upon that information and then based upon the time of the day that that this was some type of rendezvous and then maybe that's what started the argument.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Maybe one was a kind of a fit Latina and he was like, I want the one with the big caboose.

[Chris Reivers]

I want W1. You get W2.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. And they got in a little fight about it.

[Chris Reivers]

It started off as a negotiation, then escalated.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. But I don't quite get how Dayton Webber, 27, a professional cornhole player, pulled out a gun. I don't get it. I did watch some videos of him playing. You know what he's pretty damn good at?

[Chris Reivers]

Cornhol.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And he's not playing in an amputee league. He's a professional cornhole player in a full on men's league. Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Have you ever been to. Completely. Not divert away from this story entirely, but have you ever been to a cornhole tournament? You and I were at the one at Summit. Yeah, I played bags for Wags. Right?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

And it was kind of fun. And there were some guys that were taking it kind of serious, but most of us were there to have a good time to raise money for dogs.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Wags.

[Chris Reivers]

Help me. Why can't I think of the name? They were. They were wonderful, wonderful Eggs for Wags.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know. Wags.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. Second Hand Hounds.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Secondhand.

[Chris Reivers]

Secondhand hounds. Thank you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

All these defective hounds. Yeah, secondhand. Right, right.

[Chris Reivers]

But, you know, for the most part, you know, you were super smart. You brought the pool full of ice.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. It was a hot day.

[Chris Reivers]

Because it was a very hot day and. But we had a good time.

[Mike Fratelloni]

A blast.

[Chris Reivers]

Before that, I had attended a, like super competitive. I'm an okay bags player. I'm not great by any means, but I enjoy it. It's fun. Sure. When you're in the backyard at your buddy's house and you're knocking back a couple of brews, it's a good time in the summer.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's like any of those dumb sports.

[Chris Reivers]

So a good friend of mine is a competitive bags player. I refuse to call it cornhole because I just think it sounds so stupid. But he is one of those where he's good. He's a competitive bags player.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Bet you that gets him late a lot. How dumb. What a dumb thing to be.

[Chris Reivers]

Of all things, this would be. I don't think my youngest son was born yet, but I do believe my oldest son was. I'm going to guess this is like at least 10 years ago, maybe even as much as 12 years ago. And I get a text from him. He lives. He used to live down in the Rochester area. He now is in Wisconsin. And he had texted me and he had said, dude, my buddy had to cancel. He got sick or something like that. And the whatever, whatever Big bag tournament at the Rochester Mayo Civic Center. Wow. Is this weekend. Is there any way you can fill in? And I said, well, dude, I'm not any. I mean, I'm just. Okay, I don't care.

[Mike Fratelloni]

We can't get our butts killed.

[Chris Reivers]

I literally just need somebody. Otherwise you get fined if you have to forego your spot.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Sure.

[Chris Reivers]

And so I said, all right, yeah, that's fine. I said, I mean, what time do you need me there? He's like, I got you covered. Don't worry about the entrance fee. Just maybe buy me a beer or two. And you just got to be there at 10 in the morning on Saturday or whatever it was. I thought, oh, that would be kind of fun. Yeah, middle of winter. That'd be kind of fun. I get there. Have you been to the Mayo Civic center down in Rochester?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes, I have, strangely enough.

[Chris Reivers]

So it's a very similar setup to the convention center in Minneapolis. And so I get there, and I've played a basketball game there before in high school. I've been there for a different convention, but I've never been there for something like this. I am not kidding you. I walked in and saw bars in every corner and the entire middle. The entire thing was open, fun. And there had to have been 200 setups of bags.

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[Chris Reivers]

And I thought, what in God's name am I walking into? I thought, all right, you know what? We're going to play. So first game, me and my buddy, we get there, and he said, hey. I go, so is there a strategy here? He's like, yes. Score more points than the team. I go, no. I mean, do you want to try to lose your first game? And then, like, because sometimes you want

[Mike Fratelloni]

to be in the losers bracket.

[Chris Reivers]

That's exactly what I was thinking. Was there a specific strategy? He said, dude, we're probably not going to do well. I really. I truly don't care. Like, let's just have fun, right? So we get set up, and we're facing this team. Mike, none of this is offered with hyperbole. So it's two guys. They had jerseys, matching jerseys, sponsorships. They had sponsorships. They also had matching do rags. Oh, that's cool.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That's cool.

[Chris Reivers]

Like the bandana look. And so before the game, hey, how you doing? I'm Chris. And he looks at my hand, doesn't shake it. And I went, okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I just went, oh, we're not doing that, are we?

[Chris Reivers]

And so I just went. I kind of see where this is going. And they had a couple of gals, like, beer gals walking around. I said, coors Light, please. This is still the beer show name, whatever. And I just thought, okay, did you

[Mike Fratelloni]

try your absolute hardest? Because nothing would have felt better than beating them 150,000%.

[Chris Reivers]

I thought, oh, you're an ass. Now I want to beat you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Now I want to try my hardest. And I'm not great at this game, but I need to try my hardest to win.

[Chris Reivers]

And so there was a lot of.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Like, they'd point at me.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

And at one point, I mean, they, they. They rolled us, right? And I just went, really?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Like, okay. And then after the game.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Do you care about this?

[Chris Reivers]

But then after the game, he gave me the, hey, man, I'm just super competitive. I said, okay, you're also kind of a loser, but that's fine, too. And he didn't take too kindly that comment. I just thought, what are you doing?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay. Anyway, I'm going to have you pick between the two. Okay. Cornhole or badminton?

[Chris Reivers]

I've never really been a big badminton guy, so.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Cornhole. Cornhole. Curling.

[Chris Reivers]

I probably would love curling, but I've never tried it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay. Curling. Bocce ball.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I go back to cornhole?

[Mike Fratelloni]

No.

[Chris Reivers]

Probably. I mean, I don't know. Probably bocce. Cause you're outside, you're having fun. Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Bocce ball. Bowling.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I love bowling.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay. Bowling jarts.

[Chris Reivers]

Bowling.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Bowling. Baseball.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, baseball. Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I was wondering how far you were going to go.

[Chris Reivers]

No, I do love bowling. In fact, we have a great bowling alley in Belle Plaine. It's phenomenal. And the boys and I go there a ton. It's super fun.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Ever tell you my bowling story?

[Chris Reivers]

Please.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So I had a buddy who really, really great guy, graduated from high school.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I'm gonna use this term, and this is not the right term. Caught schizophrenia.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, no.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Right. Just became schizophrenic, which is really, really a tough thing.

[Chris Reivers]

That's too FYI.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Right. So he was living in this not schizophrenic only thing. And I'm not making fun of this kid. I love this kid. Right. He was. He was a real dear friend and is still a sweetheart of a guy. Right. Dealing with unbelievably big troubles with schizophrenia. And so he Was living in this halfway house, kind of this schizophrenia halfway house, just to try to see if he could live out kind of by himself because he had to have kind of full time attention. And I said, why don't we do this? And he was a beautiful athlete. And this kid was an unbelievable athlete as a high schooler, right? And I said, we should start a bowling team and we should bowl together. Me, this guy and another guy, until we get a 600 game.

[Chris Reivers]

Nice.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I didn't really realize that a 600 game is a lot of points in bowling if you're not a bowler, Right. Just to have three guys average 200 is not that easy. I'm sure there's people listening and watching the show that do it all the time. But if you're just guys who don't bowl, like I'm using the shoes from the place and the ball from the place. I don't know if they oiled my.

[Chris Reivers]

Getting 200 is a chore.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Getting 200 is a chore. I end up getting a 242 on my game.

[Chris Reivers]

Wow.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Biggest game I've ever had. And my other two buddies compliment my 242. We get over 600 after like eight straight Tuesdays of going bowling.

[Chris Reivers]

Congratulations.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, my God, I can't go bowling anymore. And my one buddy, the one who was schizophrenic, couldn't drink, right. Because he was taking so many pills. But the other buddy would be like, you want some beers? I'm like, no, no. We're concentrating until we get focused, we are focusing. So I take him out for a celebratory drink and some dances afterwards at the Lamplighter. Oh, no, Right?

[Chris Reivers]

Yep.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You ever heard of the Lamplighter?

[Chris Reivers]

Sure have.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay, so it's not the place, but strangely, I think it was Tuesday nights. They had Taco Tuesdays. And their tacos were freaking delicious. Reavers, like off the charts good tacos.

[Chris Reivers]

Sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I said to my buddy, I said, you know, my schizophrenic buddy, I said, he was so lost, right? So I'm this doofus, like 20 some year old trying to get my buddy who's just mentally gone. He's not gone, but mentally really struggling, giving him life advice because I'm 20 something, right? So I know everything. So I said, you know what you should do is you need to have a goal in your life. You should try to become the world's fattest man, right? Making that joke, right? Comes a year later. You know, we had gained, we won our goal. I Hadn't seen him for like a year. I see him a year later, and I said, what? What happened? What happened to you? What? You look totally different. He said, you told me I needed something in my life. I should try to become the world's fattest man. I thought, oh. Oh, no. That's what we call a joke.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, no.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And when I say he was a beautiful athlete. He was a runner. Just a beautiful runner. All American runner. And I thought, oh, my God.

[Chris Reivers]

He took you at your words.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Stupid Mike Fratelloni made a joke to a buddy who was just. He didn't know what was going on. He knew what was going on, but the medicine made him so looped out.

[Chris Reivers]

Mentally unstable.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. And I thought, oh, my God. Thank God I saw him only a year later that I could stop him and say, maybe you should become the fittest guy in the world. Like, I had to be so careful with him. I felt so badly. But that was my foray into bowling. So I'll always hold a very fine feeling of bowling because I know that you put three guys on a lane that just have to get through this. And don't want to go pick up your friend at the halfway house because he's schizophrenic anymore. You gotta get that 600. And I did it. Reverse.

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[Mike Fratelloni]

You know what? You have to ask her because I heard that the IRS has categories of things they audit. They say, oh, the mics of the world go in this pile. The Chris's go in this pile. The guy who's a male dancer goes into this pile. And as you get closer to the deadline, those fill up. And at some point in time those are filled up. But if you file extension, I don't think they have more openings in those piles. I wonder if that's true, because it might even be advantageous to be an extension filer with Linda Keller.

[Chris Reivers]

And I have done an extension with her. And if you're going to do that, she's the one you want to use.

[Mike Fratelloni]

She's the one you want to use. Anyway. She's fantastic.

[Chris Reivers]

Kellertaxservice.com, let her know you heard about her on the weekly Scramble podcast and we will be right back.

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[Chris Reivers]

A sad note to pass along, Michael and I did want to bring this up because I knew Jesse Pierce personally. Honestly, ladies and gentlemen, what you're hearing about her from basically everybody when the general manager of the professional hockey team in town, along with the head coach, along with any other reporter that worked the Wild Beat, along any other reporter that worked for the NHL. When you don't hear a single negative thing about someone that tells you everything that you need to know.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'd hope no one would talk poorly about a woman who just lost her, her life and her three children's lives.

[Chris Reivers]

For those of you unfamiliar, a beloved NHL reporter who covered the Minnesota Wild died in a house fire Saturday along sadly with her three young children. The NHL confirmed the death of Jesse Pierce and her children on Sunday. The entire National Hockey League family sends our prayers and deepest condolences to the Pierce family on the passing of Jesse and her three children. League stead league said Excuse me, the White Bear Lake Fire Department said an adult and three children and a dog in the house fire had passed away in White Bear Lake and neighbors called 911 to report fire coming through the roof and response crews arrived to find a fully involved structure fire anyway. And you just feel horrible for her poor husband who apparently was out of town. And I had never met her husband before, but she so Years ago, when we flipped to podcast form and Score north had taken over the airwaves on AM 1500, Jesse was one of the people that kind of came along with Phil Mackey and Judd Zulgad and Declan and the rest of that crew. And she would come down here, I think it was once a week. It might have been more during the hockey season, but she would come down here once a week. And I've said this a couple of times already. She was the gal, ladies and gentlemen, that if you wanted to go to the bar, have a cold beer and talk hockey, she was your gal.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You had me going to the bar park.

[Chris Reivers]

She was so freaking cool. And she was always so full of life, and she was always. She loved to give you s. And that's the exact kind of person that fits in with, quote, unquote, the guys, you know what I mean? She was not pretentious. She was not. She was just an absolute joy to be around. And obviously, there are other people in this town that know her so much better than I do. And I. Like I said, it's just. It was more of a passing conversation kind of relationship when she would come and do her show. But she was such a treat to be around. And you know what? It goes to show you just how fleeting life can be at times. You know what I'm saying? And here was a gal that was doing what she loved. I mean, she loved hockey. And you see the final post that she had with her kids. They went to go get ice cream the day before this sadly took place. And it's. Man, it just. There's no good way to really talk about a store like this. But it is a reminder at just every day, man. You never know, you know? You know, not the hour. Right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And do they know? They're not saying it was arson. They don't believe it was arson.

[Chris Reivers]

It was not. The fire department did rule that out. I believe this morning they did rule that out. Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I can't find out a cause of the fire.

[Chris Reivers]

You can't. You don't know. You know, sadly, you don't know if there was some type of gas leak. And at this point, I don't really think it matters. You know what I mean?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Because, I mean, we live in such a world. Reavers. We live in such a weird world that. Do I wanna know the. Do I wanna know what happened?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I gotta tell you, when I first saw this story surface on Saturday, it's heartbreaking. Saturday evening, at first you're like, wait, that can't be the same Jesse Pierce that used to work here.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Sure.

[Chris Reivers]

And I'm like, oh, my God. Not only is it that, then you start to read the details. It's like, okay, I can't keep reading this story.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, this young, beautiful mother.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, exactly. Like I said, she just was. She was just a cool. She really was. She was just a treat to be around. And my heart absolutely goes out to her entire family. And I do believe that There is a GoFundMe that's out there right now connected to her husband. And obviously that's gonna help cover funeral expenses and everything under the sun for that poor guy. And it's like you ask yourself, you basically just lost everything. And I can't even imagine what's going through that poor. And again, I never got the chance to meet him, but my heart absolutely just aches for him and what he's got to go through.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Play this through. You're the husband and you're making this up. You're down in Orlando at a convention because you sell speaker systems or whatever, whatever it is, and someone calls you

[Chris Reivers]

and says, oh, it's every father's word. Every father and husband's worst nightmare.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I think I would lose my mind. Makes me want to bawl my eyes out just thinking of that. Just like, what. What is. What do you do?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, and everybody handles situations differently. But I gotta. I've got to imagine that just the tremendous sense of guilt would eat you alive. I mean, I just. I can't even imagine.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So I hope to God they didn't suffer. Hopefully they died of smoke inhalation or something. I don't know. Right.

[Chris Reivers]

But you know what? One of the things. I don't know what the right word to use is. One of the things that was really touching was. I mean, obviously, I don't know if you saw Billy Guerin's comments. I mean, Billy Guerin was choked up talking about her.

[Mike Fratelloni]

He should be. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

And they had that big game Saturday against the Stars where they won an overtime. John Hines, the Wild head coach, did his regular presser after the game, and then after that was done, he said, I want everyone to hang out for a moment. And he said, I want the cameras off. He sat there and I did not see this. I only heard about this secondhand. He apparently sat and talked about her family, about the hockey community for another 20 to 30 minutes. I heard, like, that just doesn't happen. And that's kind of one of the touching things that is about, like, the. When they say the hockey community, they truly mean it. It sparked memory of remember the horrible bus crash in Canada from a couple of years ago and how that junior hockey team, you know, they had lost some kids and just the entire, like the NHL, like everyone rallied around that tragic situation. It kind of gave me the same sense with this horrible situation, too. And just those are sadly. And the Wild put the, the stick out on the ice for her after the game. Just things like that, while you aren't going to bring somebody back, but it's just kind of neat to see that there are still decent human beings out there that know when it's the right thing to do. You know what I'm saying?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Luckily, you don't hear about house fires that often anymore. At least house fires that take lives, right? And this is just unbelievably tragic. I know that the world is going to wrap their arms around this husband. And I'm sure Jessie's young, right? She was 37. I'm sure she has a mother and father potentially and siblings. And hopefully the world wraps their arms around them and just helps and protects them from what they're going through because it's going to be a very tough thing. It is such a sad, sad, sad story.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

stop, stop, stop, stop. What I don't get is you're driving that truck. You can look down. He was Perpendicular to. I'm not saying he did anything wrong, but he's perpendicular to the Runway. You look and you say there's a plane there. Yeah, it's landing here.

[Chris Reivers]

But I want to know what your opinion is of this because I have some, some thoughts about this. United Airlines has just released the all new relax row where passengers can make a bed out of three chairs. The new feature will reportedly be available on 200 of their 787 777s.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay, got that. Yeah. Big planes.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. You'll also get a mattress pad, a blanket and two pillows. United Airlines announced if you're traveling with kids, a plushie too. United relax row will be available starting next year on more than 200, with each up to 12 of those brand new rows. Okay, I don't need to read any more of this. What's your initial?

[Mike Fratelloni]

So you have a lay down bed. I'm kind of fine with that. Here's the problem is sometimes I'm going to be on a nice empty flight way back in coach and there's going to be three in the middle and I lay down. Do they come over to me and they say, hey, hey, get up. You're not paying for the relax row, Mike. No laying down just for fun. You can't do that. You gotta. If you want to put your head. If you want to encroach in the other two seats, you need to pay the lay down fee. I wonder how much that lay down fee is compared to a first class.

[Chris Reivers]

That was my first question. I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of people, a lot of people who are gonna be more than happy to pay the extra premium price for the lay down feature. Here's what I'd like to say about this. Number one, if this is available for any flight under six hours, get your lazy ass off of this bed and sit up like an adult.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You can make it.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay? If you've got the young kids, I'll give you a four hour flight. I've had to fly. Well, my youngest, who is now 11, the first time he was on a plane, he was 2. And it was a nightmare. It was an absolute nightmare. And it wasn't his fault. He was just too young. We thought he was gonna be ready for it, but he was just too young for it. Secondly, if you don't think this is gonna lead to more epic brawls that you're seeing on airports or on airplanes, excuse me, you're out of your mind. You're already seeing the worst of humanity spirit Airlines should just have a sitcom and just start filming passengers that are just obnoxious B holes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm looking at a press release from this today, and they show a mom laying there with a little child seat belted in. Unlike a little mattress pad, it looks actually kind of cozy. And the mattress pad, like, sticks out to where your legs would be. Right. So it has, like, it's like a little platform. You know what I'm thinking there's enough room for two in there.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You get a couple blankets and you have to wait till you're at least 5,280ft in the air. You know why? Why? Because that's one mile into the air. It should be one mile high.

[Chris Reivers]

Have you ever been on a flight where that's occurred in a restaurant?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I am the kind of guy reivers, little insight to everybody. Mom, you might want to shut this off. That if I was walking by a porta potty at a concert, I'd be willing to, like, drag anybody I was with. Like, let's go into this porta potty. Let's go. But nothing, nothing about a bathroom at 32,000ft. One of those little tiny gross bathrooms that constantly is making this noise because the air is just seeping through the toilet as it just sucks you through. Nothing about that makes me say, I think I'd like to do this in here.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, and you're only doing it just to say you did it. There's nothing romantic about it. Whatever. Here's my point.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I just said that to my wife the other day, let's do it. And she's like, I don't want it. I said, let's do it.

[Chris Reivers]

Just to say we did.

[Mike Fratelloni]

She has no idea urge whatsoever.

[Chris Reivers]

We had taken a flight from where were we going? We had a connecting flight maybe in Memphis, but we were flying to the fighting city of Tallahassee, Florida, for one of those big, douchey national softball tournaments. And we got our connecting flight in Memphis. And they had said, hey, it had been delayed, I'm assuming due to weather. And they had said, hey, here's the deal. We're gonna give people a couple of vouchers for the very first flight out of here tomorrow morning because we're overbooked, but we'll put you up in a hotel, we'll get your luggage, you'll be able to fly first class in the morning. And this was already getting to be like 8, 9, 10 o' clock at night. And I'm thinking, I looked at her, I'm like, should we do this and she's like, oh, let's just get going because I don't want to go. Have to go get a hotel. Then you gotta find it because this is way before Uber and all that stuff, right? And so we did it. And we found out the reason why we were delayed.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh no.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, yes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Stuck in the bathroom.

[Chris Reivers]

The plane that was coming to pick us up basically had to divert and the two people that were involved in that act were arrested.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Really?

[Chris Reivers]

And that's what led to our delay by like an hour because we had assumed it was, you know, it's got to be weather related, maybe a mechanical issue. And whether it was true or not, the word had spread that no, there was a couple people bumping uglies in the bathroom on the flight before.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What's nice about me is I could be done in like 15 seconds. No one would even know. You know, how you slide that little thing to lock the door. By the time that little light went into occupied, I'd be halfway done. Right? And then I thought you were gonna tell me a story about you.

[Chris Reivers]

No.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Cause I like, you're 6 foot 4, you can't even stand in one of those.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm gonna be honest, I don't using bathrooms on airplanes because it's so uncomfortable. Because my knees. You can't stand up to pee because you're constantly moving. Because I'm always afraid I'm going to get it all over myself. But the other thing is, so you have to sit down and my knees always bang against the door.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Aren't you a little worried though? When you flush at that, it's just going to go, you're going to hear that noise and it's just going to

[Chris Reivers]

go, make that sound again.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Just get sucked down into the drain. That is. You know, it's really interesting that you say that.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I got to tell you one quick thing first. And then I got to read another ad. But I found this too. Kind of along the same lines. My neighbor is single, very gorgeous, and lives right across the street. I happened to be looking out the window when she got home from work. To my surprise, she walked straight across the street and up my driveway and knocked on my door. I opened it and she smiled and said, I just got home and I've got a strong urge to go out, get a little drunk and have some fun tonight. Are you, Are you doing anything? I quickly replied, no, I'm completely free. And she grinned and said, perfect. Can you please watch my dog

[Mike Fratelloni]

before

[Chris Reivers]

you finish up the show? Michael? I had to read that because that came from a loyal Weekly Scramble listener and frat pack member. So I had to make sure I got that in. Michael, I do want to talk about Quick links golf and quicklinksgolf.com I know you're getting the urgent it's officially starting to become golf season, ladies and gentlemen. So go online to quicklinksgolf.com and you can see all sorts of really cool past projects that they've been working on. You can also book your free consultation and they are a local operation based right here in Chaska, Minnesota. A great company. And you know what? This is really cool. And the neat thing about Quick Links Golf is they offer all different price points. If you're looking at doing some big expansive project at your office, they got you covered. You want to do something a little bit more intimate at home, they got you taken care of. Just go to quicklinksgolf.com book your appointment today, and please let them know that they heard about you on the Weekly Scramble Podcast.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Michael, why don't boxers have sex in the week leading up to the fight?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh my goodness, I have no idea.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Because it makes eye contact in the ring real awkward. Get it? Like they're having sex with each other. Okay, what does a mortician electrician have in common?

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know.

[Mike Fratelloni]

They both are a little shocked when they find a live one.

[Chris Reivers]

Wow.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Those are the best. Reivers, you are the best.

[Chris Reivers]

Please do us a favor. Rate. Interview the show wherever you happen to be listening to the Weekly Scramble Podcast. It helps others find the show. It helps us out as well. And we appreciate each and every single one of you. His name is Mike Fratelloni. My name is Chris Reivers. Thank you so very much for listening to the Weekly Scramble Podcast. We will talk to you again next time. Until then, cheers.

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