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 Fradolone and your host, Chris Revers.

That's right. It's time for the Weekly Scramble Podcast.

My name is Chris Revers with me, as always.

His name is Mike Fratellone. Hello, Michael. How you doing, Revers? Doing good. Last day of the calendar year of 2025. Happy New Year. You know, it's funny, before we get into the really heavy topics that we're going to bust down here on the

Weekly Scramble podcast, I did have, I had to make a stop earlier today.

I had to deposit some money.

And the person at the teller, it was not North American banking companies, for those of you

that might be wondering, it was for basically a non-banking outlet.

I had to make a payment on something.

And the teller goes,

oh, do you have big plans for New Year's tonight?

And I have gone to the Joe Souchery and Patrick Roece's school of interacting with tellers over the last 20-plus years.

And I looked at her and I said, look at me.

I'm wearing a park nickelette stocking hat.

I'm wearing a hooded sweatshirt.

I haven't worn jeans in six months.

If I'm awake past 9.30, I hope somebody puts a bullet in my forehead.

And she went, oh.

I said, ah, just kidding with you. Just kidding you. No, I just said that actually. That is a nice thing to do to tellers, because they don't want to hear that stuff. No. The guy, I went to the bank today, too, and they had to deposit some Christmas checks, right, for my kids, like putting them into their account. And people kept asking me, they did say, happy New Year.

Do you have plans?

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