My girlfriend says I should post something here about who I am in Len Koepsell’s audiobook, The Golden Flyswatter, So, here goes, dudes. Brody here, going public.

You’ll meet me, twenty-five at the time, tending bar and regretting my athletic failures. I was just starting to feel good about makin’ enough money to afford my own place and keep gas in my car. It wasn’t how I thought I’d ‘launch into adulthood’.

I played quarterback in high school and landed a football scholarship to UCLA! But then I found out nobody was granting me stardom for what I did in high school or where I went to college. I realized the outcome of my life was up for grabs–for a while at least. I couldn’t think past my next paycheck.

At work, I knew some people were doin’ some iffy stuff, but I ignored it. I was tryin’ to figure out who I was, now that I couldn’t be my version of Tom Brady. But hey, everyone gets to start over in the land of palm trees, movie stars and In-N-Out burgers, right?

Wanna hear who spun my globe and showed me where the future was? It’s all the stuff of The Golden Flyswatter, coming soon to Spotify.