Hello, elegant listeners and welcome to Go My Favorite Sports Team, the greatest

sports podcast to ever grace your eyeballs and your ears. I'm Tyler Shide, your elegant host,

along with my co-host, Markiplier. Hello. How are you, Mark? Oh, I'm good.

I'm good. Stress. I'm usually, yes. What? Why? You ever think about retiring? No.

You ever think about retirement at all? Not really. I figured that I'll be dead by the time I

retire. You're just, you just work until death, create until you're dead. I mean, what else would I

do if I get to a point where I can't make things? What's even the point? So, do you think it's become

a part of your identity? Yeah. Do you think you'd be empty without it? Maybe, I don't know.

Unless I find something else I like isn't that what life's all about? You just find your,

what is it? What are you getting at here? Well, today we're going to be talking about

athlete retirement. Oh, okay. And how it's kind of different from usual retirement. And these

are some of the conversations that are interesting to have with with athletes that I've seen

in red ochre articles about about how difficult it is with retirement because retirement as an

athlete doesn't mean you're actually retired because you usually go on to do something else.

You find another job, whereas traditionally retirement meant that you know, you no longer work.

You live off of what you have done and basically enjoy the rest of life has to offer

with vacations and different things like when other people would retire. I'm not saying that

in today's day and age that's very much a common thing, but historically that's what retirement was.

Okay. All right. Well, you know, in all honesty, I think the concept of retirement as a whole is

kind of depressing. You know, you do this thing that you don't like doing all your life. And then

finally, when you're old, you don't have to do it anymore. And then when you're, when you don't

have the same kind of strength and vitality that you did when you were younger, now you can enjoy

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