Matt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He asked.
It followed us home like some kind of horror movie STD.
We don't even know what it wants.
I thought about the old man's analogy.
Fishing.
Hooks.
Names.
I think it wants...invitations, I said.
Opportunities.
Little cracks in the door.
Like answering when it calls, Ryan said.
Or going off by yourself.
Or ignoring a warning from someone who's seen it before.
It wasn't meant as an accusation, but it landed like one anyway.
We sat there, three guys in a noisy bar, surrounded by people who had no idea that a few miles off a Utah highway, there was a place where roads looped wrong and names were bait.
Eventually the conversation drifted to safer topics.
Sports, work, plans for the holidays.
We hugged it out in the parking lot like why not, we might as well, life is short.
Miguel joked that we should get matching I survived the Utah desert tattoos.
We laughed.