From Bob's Office

3/10/2020 On this week's episode, we welcome Shane Morgan, the LA City Director for FCA. There is a big event going on this weekend called "Night of Champions", one on Friday in Irvine and another on Saturday in Gardena, where food, games and music will be in abundance and multiple professional athletes are sharing their testimonies. So he gave us all the info about that, and we also learned a lot...

On this week's sports episode we asked some our Instagram followers to vote on five topics and we discussed them in some detail: Lebron vs Giannis for NBA MVP; how many times the Astros are going to be hit by a pitch this year; how many wins the Angels will have this season; who will finish higher in National League MVP voting between Cody Bellinger and Mookie Betts; and who will win the XFL Champ...

On this week's episode, we first cover in great detail the emotional and touching celebration of life for Kobe and Gianna Bryant. Then we spend some time talking about Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon University and her incredible statistical accomplishments. We also go in depth about Alexander Ovechkin reaching 700 career goals, and then take a little detour about Wayne Gretzky. We end with quick mentio...

2/20/20 On this week's episode we welcomed one of our current high school students, Ashton Sharp! He is currently in his junior year at Los Alamitos High School where he plays volleyball and helps produce the Griffin News. We'd like to say we had a conversation that flowed in an organized manner and covered the intricacies of Ashton's life, but that would be a lie. Instead, we had an incredible ra...

Sorry we haven't been around for a couple weeks! Despite all that has transpired, we just kept this episode to recent content. We went to an XFL game on Sunday, so we recap that experience (Shawn Oakman plays for LA!). Then we covered the NBA All Star weekend, and the exciting events of the Daytona 500. Give it a listen, send us your feedback, and feel free to disagree with our takes!

2/13/20 Our guest on this episode is Giddeon Massie, a 2-time Olympic cyclist who now does real estate and volunteers some of his time with FCA. We spent a significant amount of time asking Giddeon about cycling in general: how he got started, what the youth cycling scene looks like, training as an individual and as part of team. Then we go in depth about his experiences at the 2004 Olympics in At...

2/6/2020 This week we welcomed our friend Simon Viss to the show. Simon is a graduate of Biola University and currently the high school pastor at Cornerstone Church. We spent the start of the show recapping our weekends, including a little Super Bowl talk, but a lot more about our dinner party Friday night with FCA. We all played the game "Two Truths and a Lie" that night, so we talk about what we...

The guys talk about everything regarding Super Bowl LIV between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, including specific player performances and some of the controversial calls that happened, plus a look at the halftime show and the conversations that surround it, and they highlighted some of their favorite commercials.

1/30/2020 On this episode we welcome our good friend and former student Christian Almanzan. The conversation covered everything from video games to separated parents to foiled plans to be an astronaut. Check it out!

Kobe Bryant meant a great deal to Jake and Jacob during his playing career. His death on Sunday, January 26 was a devastating shock. In this episode, the guys talk about how they processed the news of his passing and spent a long time sharing memories about him and what kind of impact he had to them and the world. At the end, Jacob read some thoughts submitted by other friends in the community, wh...

1/23/20 On today's episode we were joined by Traco Rachal. A standout football player in high school and college who developed a relationship with Christ while playing at Texas A&M-Commerce, Traco now works with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, reaching students on campuses, and is a youth pastor and coach. As one of eight siblings, and the youngest of five boys, Traco had a lot of family to...

We look back at the college football national championship game between Clemson and LSU, noting LSU's dominance and Clemson's future. Then go in depth on the two NFL Conference Championship games before lamenting the Lakers getting drubbed by the Celtics, and some thoughts on the aftermath of the Astros cheating scandal.

1/16/20 On today's episode we welcomed songwriter, music teacher and Tacoma-native Tom Kell! We covered everything from Tom's first guitar-playing experiences to his time in the Army as an X-ray technician. He recounted parts of being a member of the Skyboys band, a very popular group in the Seattle area in the 70s, and his short-lived time with Warner Brothers. He talked about teaching choir at t...

1/13/20 On today's episode we welcomed WILSON High School and Cal State Long Beach alum, FCA area representative and world champion paper airplane distance thrower Jake Hardy. After getting a litany of mistakes by the hosts out of the way (Jacob now for sure knows where Jake H. went to high school...), we were all able to share about our weekends in relative detail. Summary: Go see "1917", don't t...

After a weekend full of great games, we review Vikings/Niners, Titans/Ravens, Texans/Chiefs, and Seahawks/Packers. We focus on SF shutting down Minnesota's offense and some of Richard Sherman's postgame comments, the majesty that is the Derrick Henry/Ryan Tannehill duo, the Chiefs seemingly toying with Houston before clobbering them, and a couple close calls in Green Bay. Then we looked ahead to t...

1/9/20 Our guest on this episode is Brenden Peach, a good friend of Jake's with a media degree from Cal State Fullerton and currently a production assistant at TMZ. After a discombobulated intro (0:00-9:30), Jake started the interview with asking Peach about his favorite food. The ensuing spirited conversation included Jacob ranting about under-cooked Del Taco fries, Peach's work history at In n O...

1/7/20 In the first guest episode of the new format we welcomed Angel Sanchez onto the show. He is another member of the Long Beach Pyramid Scheme ultimate frisbee team and goes by the nickname "Loops". We started the episode with a recap of our weekends, including friends leaving, disc golf, Rosca de Reyes (aka Baby Jesus Bread), and the greatest Jeopardy tournament of all time (0:00-17:30). We s...

Our first episode of the new format, Jake and Jacob recap the Wild Card round of the football playoffs, preview Gardner Minshew's cross-country adventure, and look ahead at the Divisional round of the football playoffs. They also talk about Alex Caruso and Dwight Howard being among the leaders in NBA All-Star Voting, and a bounty set on President Trump being equal to the contract of Domantas Sabon...

12/31/2019 Our last guest of 2019 was our good friend, Kevin Jentes. He is a graduate of Los Alamitos and is currently studying at Grace College in Indiana. Since we haven't been around for a few days, we started by pointing out some of our highlights from the holiday. These ranged from Throw, Throw Burrito and disc golf to celebrating a wedding and other group celebrations (0:00-22:50). Then we r...

12/19/19 Our guest for this episode is our friend and colleague Mariah Shope! She is an integral part of the Los Altos community, and has just completed her undergraduate coursework in Geography at Cal State Long Beach. We intro'ed the show with Jake telling a funny story from his week, getting excited about Star Wars, recapping the most recent Mandalorian episode (spoilers!)and Jake and Jacob giv...

12/17/19 For this episode we welcomed our good friend Khalil Meade. He is currently studying business and competing in discus and shot put at Cal Poly Pomona, and he has become a popular counselor at summer camp. Additionally, previous guest Ian Silva sat in on the show. After recapping our weekends, a few sports topics were covered: Jacob explained NFL coin toss protocol because of the debacle at...

12/13/19 In the first ever "From Bob's Office" special event, Jake Mathes accepted the challenge of trying to eat five pounds of ham in one hour for a $100 prize. Jacob Nielsen, a previous guest, sponsored the event and joined us for it, and Jake Hardy of Orange County FCA also sat in with us for the action. We were recording the podcast and streaming live on Instagram, so some parts of the audio...

12/12/19 Our guest on this episode was writer/poet/friend Micah Bournes. Jacob has known him for 15 years and they have both seen the other go through some incredible growth, personally and spiritually, over the last decade and a half. We opened the show with an exciting event that happened at the bowling alley the previous night, then talked about big baseball news and the upcoming football weeke...

12/10/19 Our guest on this episode was Aaron Meade. Hailing from just outside the city of Cork in the great country of Ireland, Aaron is the first guest we have had on the show who was not actually recording with us in person. Go us for utilizing technology! We started the show with Jacob telling the story of how he and Aaron got acquainted (specifically how Jacob ignored Aaron for a year) and the...

12/5/19 This episode features Tony Landini as our guest. He is from Victorville, California, graduated from Biola University and is the high school youth pastor at Arbor Road Church in Long Beach. We started the show talking about Star Wars, other movies and video games (0:00-11:10). Football this weekend includes Cowboys/Bears, Rams/Seahwaks, Packers/Redskins and Giants/Eagles, so we talked about...