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Speaker 1 Today is Wednesday, April 10th, and the Yukon Huskies have their sixth national title and absolute domination back-to-back. 12 games in a row against the spread, 12 games, double digits.

Speaker 1 Dan Hurley is at the top of college basketball.

Speaker 4 The most dominant stretch in postseason play of any team ever. It was crazy.

Speaker 4 The best run of any team ever. I think we could say like UConn dominated everybody.
The games were not particularly exciting. Nope.

Speaker 4 UConn, I think they're the best second half team in the entire tournament by a vast margin. But it felt like it might be close a little bit in the first half when Zach Eady was superhuman.
Yep.

Speaker 4 And he played awesome in the first half. He was the best player on the court by far.
He was dunking on people. The hook shots were falling.

Speaker 4 He did look a little bit like he was seeing something new when Klingen was playing defense on him. He would turn around.

Speaker 4 He'd do that fast pivot, and he'd be like, I'm not used to having a guy's shoulder right here and a guy's hand right here where my hand is. But he was still making his shots.
He just got exhausted.

Speaker 1 He got exhausted. And UConn,

Speaker 1 they have... Great players, and they are so well coached through this two-year run where you saw right away, it was clear.
And Dan Hurley said this after the game.

Speaker 1 He was like, we were going to let Zach Eady get his points, and we were going to let him score 20, 30. He ended up scoring, what, 37? Did he score 37? I believe so.
37.

Speaker 1 He was like, but we're going to make him work for it. And if the rest of their team is held to 20 or less, there is no way that they can beat us.
And that was exactly what they did.

Speaker 1 They were so aggressive on the perimeter, face guarding. I mean, Purdue shot the three all year long.
I think they had seven three-pointer attempts. Like, they had two in the first half.

Speaker 1 So it was very clear, besides Zach Edie, the only other Purdue Boilermaker who really came to play was Brayden Smith. And, you know, Lawyer was completely taken out of the game.

Speaker 1 Gillis was taken out of the game. So it was UConn.

Speaker 1 It was very similar to the Iowa game on Sunday, where it was like, they have a great player, Purdue, and Zach Eady, who is a great, great college basketball player.

Speaker 1 UConn's team is so good and so well balanced. And even like their guards just rebounding, like they all were, I think.

Speaker 4 Cam Spencer was awesome.

Speaker 1 I think their entire starting five had over five rebounds, like the team effort that it takes and the team defense. And even

Speaker 1 in the second half, when Klingen got in foul trouble and it was like, ooh, this could be a little nerve-wracking.

Speaker 1 Like Dan Hurley adjusted, started, even when Klingen was in the game, started doubling in the post. Zach Edie would throw it out.
Guess what? Those guys haven't taken shots all game.

Speaker 1 They're not in a rhythm. They weren't making anything.
And they just suffocated him and stepped on him. And Dan Hurley said it perfectly after the game.
We won by a lot again. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And Dan Hurley also played some great defense on his own player. When he went on the court, he just lost his mom.
He went on the court. He was like, I need Cam to move.
Two feet on there,

Speaker 4 steps on, pushes Cam, and then he looks at the ref like, What would I do? Yeah, why are you calling a foul on me? Like, why? That's not technical. Yeah, I'm allowed to.
That's my player.

Speaker 1 Blacked out.

Speaker 4 I can shove my own player if I want to. That's how Danny Hurley tells players that he loves him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and

Speaker 1 we love Danny Hurley. I know he's not for everyone.
We'll get to that, especially Greg Doyle,

Speaker 1 Indy star. We'll get to that in a second, but I want to talk about the game a couple more things.

Speaker 1 the yeah the the team like watching a team like uconn throughout this two-year run and they they lost 75 of their scoring from last year it really is a crazy thing to see and you saw even some of the clips that people were posting of dan hurley talking about like when we go to the transfer portal it's just as much about a team a player's family and like what type of like makeup they have.

Speaker 1 And we don't want guys who are jumping from school to school every year. And they've just figured it out.

Speaker 1 Like this is a time in college basketball where we're in a weird transition where every school is trying to figure out the transfer portal and NIL and all these things, and UConn just did it before everyone else.

Speaker 1 And now, Danny Hurley's press conference after the Villanova loss in 2020 might go down as one of the coolest, most badass clips of all time when he said, get us now.

Speaker 1 Cause we're coming, and you're not going to get us later. And that was after they lost to Villanova in 2020.
And now they sit atop the throne. And I don't know, like,

Speaker 1 I don't, don't, I don't, going three-peat would be insane, but I also think that what they've got rolling right now and their coaching staff and their system, like, I wouldn't put it past them.

Speaker 4 No, I would not bet against UConn next year. Danny Hurley seems to have it all figured out.
His son got in the game again. Yeah.
Andrew Hurley got in there. What's their record now? 43?

Speaker 1 43-0.

Speaker 4 43-0. When Andrew Hurley plays in the game, he wanted to shoot the ball so bad.

Speaker 4 His dad was yelling at him, like, don't do it.

Speaker 4 He was rocking that pivot foot. Yeah.
And then he turned the ball over because he's the designated turnover guy when they need to not shoot at the end of games and let the shot clock run out.

Speaker 4 So he got another turnover. I wanted him to shoot so bad.

Speaker 1 So that was where I think Greg Doyle decided he was going to write his article because we couldn't see it, but he was sitting pretty close.

Speaker 1 And apparently Matt Painter was basically telling Andrew Hurley, go ahead and shoot. Like, shoot, shoot, shoot.
And so Greg Doyle was like, wow, that was a really classy move by Matt Payner.

Speaker 1 Greg Doyle also admitted that he had never, he was like, I don't watch a lot of UConn. Is he always this much of an ass? Danny Hurley?

Speaker 4 That's what Danny Hurley does.

Speaker 1 He is, and he admits he's an ass. And also, Andrew Hurley gets into every, he's been into every single tournament game, and he's done the same thing every time.
So

Speaker 1 that's just what they do. They stomp on you, and then he comes in and closes out.
But Greg Doyle afterwards wrote an article

Speaker 1 that was

Speaker 1 titled, On the Biggest Stage, Purdue Showed Nation what Indiana already knows. Boilers are all class, while Dan Hurley was really just kind of an ass.

Speaker 1 Probably the saltiest saltiest article I've ever read. I actually paid for the subscription to read it.
It was essentially just

Speaker 1 like a thousand, two thousand words of him saying, Matt Painter, you really learn a lot about guys in the Final Four. And what Matt Payner showed, we should all be so proud of.

Speaker 1 And Dan Hurley is a monster and a terrible guy. And Greg Doyle, you should just stop writing and stop covering sports because guess what? You know what people like to watch?

Speaker 1 They like to watch people win and win in ways that Dan Hurley's doing. He shows his emotion, and he's not a fucking robot, and he's the new face of college basketball.

Speaker 4 It was a thousand words to say, I didn't watch college basketball for the last three seasons.

Speaker 1 Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 4 That's what he did. He's like, is this guy always, is this his normal person? Yes, that's what Danny Hurley does.
But his players like him. That's the big thing.

Speaker 4 Like, if you're an ass like that and your players don't like you, you don't play hard for your coach,

Speaker 4 then that can be a problem. But if your players like you and you're intense and they get it, then you can do really awesome things, which UConn has done.

Speaker 4 And we talked a little bit on Monday's show about what a dream run you must have if you're a UConn fan who is also a Boston sports fan, which half the state probably is.

Speaker 4 Somebody sent this to me. This is AWL Sabre Metrics.
He was born in 1991. He's a Boston sports fan, and he's a UConn fan.
He's had six Super Bowls, four World Series,

Speaker 4 a Stanley Cup.

Speaker 4 An NBA championship,

Speaker 4 six men's titles, and 11 women's titles since he's been born. Sports must kick so much ass.

Speaker 1 Don't forget the 2011 Fiesta Bowl. Of course.
They did go to a Fiesta Bowl.

Speaker 4 How many civil conflicts have you won?

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, that was when there was that little blip where they gave the Big East an automatic BCS bowl. Yeah.
And they won that year. I think that was Dan Orlofsky.

Speaker 1 Nah, that might not have been Dan Orlovsky's year. I don't know who was on that team, but they went to a Fiesta.

Speaker 4 Yeah, just a dream run.

Speaker 4 Life is so good if you're that person.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you want a crazy, crazy snap.

Speaker 4 You're just being told that you're better than everybody at least once a year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you just can't, like, there's, you're just like, oh, I, even if you never win another one, you had that run. Yeah.
It's insane. And he probably will win more.

Speaker 1 But here's a crazy wild stat for UConn. This is from A Way Too Worthy on Twitter.
UConn has missed 32% of the NCAA tournaments played since 1999.

Speaker 1 UConn has won 24% of the NCAA tournaments played since 1999. That's like, they go, they have never lost a championship game.
They've been to seven Final Fours, six national titles. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 Jim Calhoun has built something that he passed to Kevin Ollie. Don't forget Kevin Olley, and then passed to Dan Hurley.
And it's nuts. I mean,

Speaker 1 they are the class. They have more national titles than Duke and Indiana.

Speaker 4 Think about that. That's wild to think.

Speaker 1 They have the third most national titles. UCLA has 11.
Kentucky has eight. UConn has six.
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 Good job, UConn. I'm happy for you.
Danny Hurley, I like Danny Hurley. I think he's a funny guy.

Speaker 4 I think he gets super intense on the court, and then he immediately afterwards is like, okay, I got a little carried away there. I'm going to try to work on it.

Speaker 4 And he tries to work on it a little bit, but it's still going to come out. That's just who he is.

Speaker 1 And he had a great line when they asked him about Kentucky. He was just like, I just started making money.
I don't want to get divorced.

Speaker 4 Yeah. He said, ask my wife about that.

Speaker 1 That's a great coach line, just being like, listen, I'm the head coach of the basketball team. She's the head coach of the family.

Speaker 4 They did show his wife after the game respect.

Speaker 1 Again. Jake, you were on the floor.
What'd you think? I was. It was a tremendous experience.
Very fortunate to be able to do those types of things.

Speaker 1 Third straight year and second straight year interviewing Dan Hurley on the court after he cuts down the net.

Speaker 4 Can we be honest about something, though, Jake? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Critique me as much as you want. No, not you.
Not you.

Speaker 4 The tournament. Grade the tournament.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I give this tournament probably a D.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it wasn't the best tournament, but like it's still the tournament. Yeah, yeah, I agree.
It was a tournament. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So like we're not going to look back and say this was a great tournament, but in the moment, moment, these three weeks, I still enjoy them as much as I do every year.

Speaker 1 The story is not the tournament this year. It's that UConn went back to back.
Yeah. That's really what it is because

Speaker 1 we didn't have

Speaker 1 all these moments that maybe we look back and be like, oh my God, it was crazy. It was chaotic.
NC State run obviously comes to mind.

Speaker 1 But UConn, goalky, but UConn was the story.

Speaker 1 I also will just say to the AWLs who maybe listen to this, who are Houston fans, I do think we were robbed of that because I think Houston, I do not think Houston would have beaten UConn, but I think Houston was the second best team.

Speaker 1 And that's no offense to Purdue. But Purdue had an incredible run.
Like, they, they silenced a lot of the haters, getting bounced in terrible fashion the last few years.

Speaker 1 Zach Eady is an all-time college basketball player. They just ran up against a team that was that much better than everyone else.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Zach Eady is like,

Speaker 4 when you bought like a basketball video game when you were a kid and you get to create a player, he's exactly the player that you would, just like a huge guy.

Speaker 4 And you're like, I'm going to going to make a dude that's going to dunk all over everybody. And then you dominate, you're loving the game.

Speaker 4 And then playing against UConn is like when you level up the difficulty. The first game that you do that, and you're like, oh shit, this is kind of hard.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Like you come out, you still get your points. But it was, it, nothing was easy after the first half for Edie.

Speaker 1 And it's, yeah, it's not like a.

Speaker 1 You can never feel good about losing the national championship game, but I think if you're a Purdue fan, you can at least take solace in that, like, what has happened in the last three years,

Speaker 1 you had a very, like, you had an incredible run that made a lot of memories.

Speaker 1 Again, it doesn't, this doesn't help right now because it's still fresh, but it, if Purdue had begun back, if Purdue had not gotten to the Sweet 16, it would have been way worse. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You'd rather lose the national championship game. Yes.

Speaker 1 As much as it might hurt right now, you guys had a great season, a great run, and Zach Eady will go down as one of the best college basketball players. And

Speaker 1 I think the tide kind of turned where he's like,

Speaker 1 people were like, you know what? Like, let's maybe stop. Maybe that's because I don't have to deal with him anymore.

Speaker 4 I loved it when he was yelling at people, when he was screaming at dudes hanging on the rim.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he showed a lot of fight.

Speaker 4 He didn't have that fire in years past, and it was cool to see, and he was dominant. He's probably going to be on the Canadian Olympic team.
So we might not be done with Zach Eddie just yet.

Speaker 4 And actually, I think, I don't know, I'm not an NBA scout, but I feel like the way that he played against UConn, he looked so good in that first half that there will be a team that wants to take a chance.

Speaker 1 He'll be drafted for sure. He'll probably be drafted in the first round.
Someone will take a shot at at it and just be like, you know, see if we can work with this.

Speaker 1 We also had, because it wasn't enough that all the women's former players or current players went after Caitlin Clark, Draymond Green decided to chime in with. He said he quit.
He quit.

Speaker 1 He said, job well done, 35. You did your job tonight.
It was him that made Edie quit with about 19 minutes ago in the second half. There was a turnover and I saw Edie body language walking back.

Speaker 1 He was done. Now re-watch the game from that point on.

Speaker 4 Hashtag free game.

Speaker 1 I don't know, man. Zach Edie was playing his balls off and no one else was helping him.
And also, Draymond Green, like, you've quit a lot.

Speaker 4 Yeah. And also, Edie was probably exhausted because he had another big man that was just leaning on him for an entire half.

Speaker 4 He wasn't used to having a big dude like that just pushing him around all the time. So you probably just, I think he just got tired.

Speaker 1 He got tired. And no one made shots.
And UConn's plan was, I mean, you saw it.

Speaker 1 Like, they were just, they're like, all right, we'll let him go one-on-one in the post in the first half, and we will make sure they were face guarding everyone, being like, you're not going to get the ball back.

Speaker 4 Heidi made a shot.

Speaker 4 Heidi

Speaker 1 from nowhere.

Speaker 4 I have Heidi number one on my NBA draft big board right now just for that putback dunk.

Speaker 1 That was incredible. I saw that.

Speaker 4 I was like, why wasn't that guy starting?

Speaker 1 Yeah. And Klingon did shoot a three.
He did. Fanta was so close.
Oh, Johnny Fanta, what a moment that would have been. Oh, would have been incredible.

Speaker 1 But yeah, overall, not the best tournament, but UConn.

Speaker 4 We got to witness greatness.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're the shout out greatness. I mean, the fact they did it double digits, and again,

Speaker 1 I know not everyone gambles, but 12-0 against the spread is so insane because they make the lines to make it so that it will be 50-50. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they just, it was just free money the entire two-year stretch. It's crazy.
Did you guys see the all-tern team? They announced it right after the game. Who's on it? Zach Eady.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Donovan Klingen, Stefan Castle, Kristen Newton, Cam Spencer. Okay.

Speaker 4 Oh, like, what if you put Zach Eady

Speaker 4 on UConn? That was literally how dominant would they be?

Speaker 1 Poor Alex Caraban. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The only starter who did it. And he played well, too.
They all played well. Yeah.
Yeah. This is crazy.
You never see that where it's just first team is literally the first time.

Speaker 1 It's like a castle was awesome. Yeah.
It's like Winston Newton.

Speaker 1 Tristan Newton was

Speaker 1 like, he went to East Carolina, was not looked at at all out of El Paso, went to East Carolina. I think his coach got fired and then goes to Yukon and wins back-to-back

Speaker 1 most valuable player in the Final Four. Crazy, awesome story.

Speaker 4 Jake, that's like when the Pistons had, I think, five all-star starters, or not maybe not the starters, but they had five all-stars. And for a period during the All-Star game, they had all five.

Speaker 4 So it was the Pistons

Speaker 4 against the Western Conference All-Stars. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was like the Rip Hamilton, Sean T. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The five of them.

Speaker 4 Rashid Wallace, Ben Wallace.

Speaker 1 I was thinking about this. Tay Sean Falls.
Rip Hamilton. Yeah, Rip Hamilton.

Speaker 1 And there's some guys who you could be like, oh, they built it. You know, Ray Allen didn't win a title, but he helped build it.

Speaker 1 Cliff Robinson, who I think was there, he helped build it. Okafor.
Oka Four won a title. Rudy Gay.
Rudy Gay, I feel like that has to suck.

Speaker 1 Because that was one of the teams that was supposed to win a title, lost to George Mason. And it's like.

Speaker 4 Ben Gordon won, right?

Speaker 1 Ben Gordon won, yeah. But like, you have the guys that built the program that you're like, okay, that makes, you know, in the 90s with Jim Calhoun.
It's like Damik O'Ryan.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then just like, okay,

Speaker 1 yeah, you're here. Yeah.
It's Brotherhood.

Speaker 1 Please, Yukon, don't do like a Brotherhood weird, stupid thing like that.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they'll be okay with that one. It was funny also seeing Bill Murray spooning with Jim Calhoun.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 I think he's probably the only dude that could spoon with Calhoun without Calhoun punching him in the face.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Luke Murray said that he's going to stay.
Yeah. I feel like he would get a job, but it's probably so much fun.

Speaker 4 Winning. Winning.
Winning everything.

Speaker 1 Winning all the time. Inviting Calhoun onto the stage was really cool.
Yes. And he's the architect.
He built the whole thing. Calhoun and Danny Hurley holding the trophy.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They had to like, you know, they were, I think it was,

Speaker 1 I might be speaking not sure, but I'm pretty sure when the Big East was created, like UConn kind of had to beg to get in because they didn't really fit into the whole, you know, their state school and they weren't, they didn't have the history of social media.

Speaker 1 It's weird that they left for the AAC. I know.
Like, that's a good idea. Well, that was a weird era.
Football fucked everything. And,

Speaker 1 yeah, they're back. The Big East.
They had the Big East Commissioner cut the corner. Yeah, Val Ackerman.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So what happens if UConn wins a third in a row? Because right afterwards,

Speaker 4 right after the game was over, they immediately started saying, yeah, I think we can win a third. And I think that they can.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 At that point, they become UConn women's team. Yeah, they're bad for basketball.
10 years ago. They're bad for basketball.
Yep.

Speaker 4 And then at that point, if you win three in a row, I feel like the NBA would just toss a shitload of money at Hurley.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Although I think he's just, I think he's going to get a new contract. I mean, so we can talk about it.

Speaker 4 He's going to have to get a new contract. And I think he does want to stay.
I think he will stay.

Speaker 4 It's just about like if they offer him 7 mil and then Kentucky comes in with like 12 mil.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I still think he would stay, though.

Speaker 1 I do too.

Speaker 1 So Cal officially said that he's going to Arkansas. He posted the grainiest video ever, which was very funny.
He also had, on Monday, a reporter found him walking his dog with a dog stroller.

Speaker 1 I think the dog was not in the stroller.

Speaker 1 And it was very, it was just the most ridiculous video because Cal is like the center of all conversation in college basketball.

Speaker 1 And he's walking on a public street and he's like, I'm just walking my dog. Can you leave me alone? Yeah, it might be the most.

Speaker 4 I think it's the most SEC video ever. Yeah.
And he's just, he's using his dog as a shield against the media. It's like Jimbo with the food with the Christmas.
Yeah, we're walking.

Speaker 4 I'm walking my dog here. Of course, I can't talk to you.

Speaker 4 So then the next day he goes home, he's like, okay, I do need to make a video and issue a statement. So he has the same camera that they used to film Bigfoot come into his living room.

Speaker 4 They videotaped him saying bye to Big Blue Nation. And then he deleted it after like five minutes because everybody was roasting what a bad video it was, which is a genius move.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Because now no one's mad at Coach Cowell for leaving Kentucky. They're just making fun of how shitty his camera is.
Right. So like a 500 IQ play by Coach Cowell.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He did.
Yeah. He should have done a video.
Like, this is actually for anyone who has to leave a place and under weird circumstances, like maybe do the video and just don't have audio first.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the worst video.

Speaker 1 Yeah, make it as bad as possible. Yeah.
Yeah, so he's gone.

Speaker 4 He deleted. He re-uploaded.
He's not a one-and-done guy after all. And the new video is crystal clear.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And so we had Nate Oates say that he's out.
Billy Donovan kind of said he's out.

Speaker 1 Danny Hurley has sort of said he's out.

Speaker 1 So it looks like maybe Scott Drew.

Speaker 4 Scott Drew would make a lot of sense. He did build that program from like less than scratch.
Yes. He brought it back from the death.
He had the death penalty. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it feels like Scott Drew is going to be the name.

Speaker 1 Although, again, it's college sports. So any coach saying they're out doesn't mean anything

Speaker 4 at all. You know who hasn't said that he's out? Who?

Speaker 1 Petino. Oh, Petino.

Speaker 1 He's not out.

Speaker 4 He's still in. You got to go back.
It's actually

Speaker 4 going to forward.

Speaker 4 He might pull out later, but he's in right now. It'd be great.

Speaker 1 What was his biggest regret when he came on the show? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Kentucky. Kentucky.

Speaker 1 He won so many there.

Speaker 1 Although I love Pietino in the Italian league.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it is good for the sports.

Speaker 1 He's in the Italian league.

Speaker 4 Is Danny Hurley making the Big East less Italian?

Speaker 1 I don't know. He's got kind of Italian energy.
He's a shorter guy, fiery.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, honorary? No, yeah. He has Italian vibes.
Also, it was really nice hearing everyone say four of eight.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Villanova.
Yeah, because

Speaker 1 you don't get the four of eight without the cats. That's true, but this has to hurt because it's just they have become what you were.
Four of eight. Well, but then, no, because they had a lull, too.

Speaker 1 They won those two. No, I said they have become what you were.
Yeah, but. But we're in present tense right now.
Correct. But

Speaker 1 we're just...

Speaker 1 We're going to get back. Okay.
We're going to get back. So that answers my question, that he knows they have become what Villanova was, and that hurts.

Speaker 4 And now

Speaker 4 you have to deal with Villanova every year.

Speaker 4 You have to deal with old Villanova.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 that sucks. Yeah, no, and then there was another thing on Nova Twitter being like, fuck, because we 18 was like

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 best team of all time. Yeah.
So now it's like, no,

Speaker 4 it's tough.

Speaker 4 Well, statistically, this is the best team of all time.

Speaker 1 Well, you know what the funniest thing is? I think the highest Ken Pom-rated team of all time was actually 99 Duke, who lost to Yukon.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that doesn't. I mean,

Speaker 1 they don't eat. No, I'm saying they beat the best team of all time, and they've also, yeah, I think they outscore their opponents by like 140 or something.
Something ridiculous. So, yeah, tough Max.

Speaker 4 Can you imagine if they get Cooper flag to flip?

Speaker 4 Get that Providence Twitter shit going on.

Speaker 1 It is funny why. The flip.
Like, you sure? The flip. The flip.
The flip. Oh, yeah.
They really got to

Speaker 1 Ken Bingley. Yeah, we're going to have to do that.
We will do that.

Speaker 4 But Cooper.

Speaker 1 It also is crazy. For America, Cooper.

Speaker 4 I don't think Cooper Flag understands how much America is going to hate him at Duke. Yes.

Speaker 1 Just flip a lot. Just flip Cooper.

Speaker 1 It also is crazy that everyone just keeps talking. Like, Yukon, like, three people.
They literally return nobody. But, like, they still have just as good of a chance as anyone else.

Speaker 1 Because they'll find someone. And they'll return a couple guys.
No. Diara is their six man's.
The only one who has any eligibility left. No, Tristan Newton definitely does, right?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I was looking at.
The Caraban definitely does.

Speaker 1 So you're living in fantasy land right now. I don't know.
I was looking it up online that said that DR was the only one that had any eligibility. Was this like a...

Speaker 1 Because you found someone who told you exactly what you wanted to do. Caravan's a sophomore.
Caravan's a sophomore. Samson Johnson's junior player.
Samson Johnson might come back. Pull a Bronnie.

Speaker 1 Tristan Newton is a senior, but let's see. He might have a COVID year.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 he's played in five. So he probably does.
Who knows? And I wouldn't be shocked if Cam Spencer tries to take it to court to play another year because he just is like, I want to be. He's going to be,

Speaker 1 you know, we make fun of Rico for succession plans. Cam Spencer will be the succession plan at UConn.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's just going to go meet.

Speaker 1 In 10 years, he'll just be the coach. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, that's tough that you were wrong. Caraban's the only one I was wrong on.
Okay. That's a big thing.
Yeah, I mean, that's the fifth guy in there. Jonathan Klingen could come back.

Speaker 1 No, he's not going to.

Speaker 1 But he's not going to go. Castle could come back.
But they're not going to.

Speaker 1 What if the NIL has changed everything? No. Both of them are going to be top 10 picks.
I'm just saying, what if the NIL has changed everything?

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right, anything else? Kling Kong.
Kling Kong, yeah,

Speaker 1 Kling Kong shirts.

Speaker 4 NIL money goes to Donovan Klingon.

Speaker 1 I showed him on the court. I showed him the picture of the shirt, and he said, that's awesome.
Well, I hope he had seen it.

Speaker 1 Also, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 Also, credit to Dan Hurley for crediting us.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Thank you for that video, Jake. Anytime he makes a podcast,

Speaker 1 he's welcome to come on.

Speaker 1 Cash it in, brother. Brother.
Yeah, brother. Yeah, I botched that.
Yeah, that's okay. He did a good job, Jake.
All right, anything else before you do hot seat, cool throw and get some masters?

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. There's one other thing in college basketball.
A Vila is in the transfer portal.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but they're saying he's going straight to St. Louis to follow the shirts.
Apparently, in the portal, you can put like a red exclamation point, which means you can't contact the player. Ah,

Speaker 4 so why is he in the portal?

Speaker 1 Because he's going to St. Louis.
You have to formally do it.

Speaker 1 to transfer because he already knows. If you mark yourself, you can't be ready.

Speaker 1 me.

Speaker 4 I just wanted a couple weeks of every team just thinking about the Vila Photoshops that could be out there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, would have been nice. Uh, all right, let's do Hot C Cool Throne.
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All right, Hank, hot seat cool trone.

Speaker 1 My hot seat is.

Speaker 1 I guess I don't really.

Speaker 1 Should I reverse my hot seat or just go with it? Reverse, reverse. Okay.
What was your hot seat going to be? It was going to be Max, but it's kind of a cool throne. And my hot seat was.

Speaker 1 No, Cool Throne was kind of us, but it could be a hot seat.

Speaker 4 The Switcheroo.

Speaker 1 So my hot seat is us. We're still in the third dimension.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, you were wrong.

Speaker 1 I was kind of looking forward to it, so that was, it was going to be Cool Throne, but I kind of was hoping we were in the fourth dimension.

Speaker 1 Well, Eclipse sucked. Overrated Eclipse.
Well, we were in a bad spot for it. But I think everyone, the consensus, even the people that were in the, you know, well, not that woman who was

Speaker 1 magicness.

Speaker 1 I will remember the eclipse as the video of the guy's ball sax. Yeah, that's funny.
So that was Mike, our security guard, sent it to me. I sent it to everyone in my phone.
He then tweeted it.

Speaker 1 And then I think I saw a Mexican

Speaker 1 news station actually put it on air by accident. Yeah.
That video rocked.

Speaker 4 And they were just mortified by looking at the ball sacks. But yeah, we were not in the zone of totality.
Is that what it's called? The path of totality.

Speaker 4 But I did have a particle physicist reached out to me

Speaker 4 last night, and they were talking about Hank's performance on the podcast on Monday and all the things that Hank got wrong.

Speaker 4 And apparently, this physicist wants to turn the CERN collider onto you and just make you disappear because you're so wrong about everything.

Speaker 1 I would be down. If there was like a

Speaker 1 test dummy to get to the fourth dimension,

Speaker 1 I'd be the Christopher Columbus of that.

Speaker 4 Now, how do you know that we're not in the fourth dimension, though?

Speaker 1 You don't.

Speaker 1 I guess we'll find out tomorrow when he putts.

Speaker 4 Maybe this fourth dimensional Hank is really good at golf.

Speaker 1 Tomorrow mini golf open.

Speaker 1 So if we've, yeah, if I'm good, then maybe we're in the fourth dimension. Right, exactly.
Like, if you hit every hole in one, then we're, we, we're there. 4D.
That would be sick. Yeah.

Speaker 1 People used to call me 2D in high school because I was so skinny.

Speaker 1 My cool throne is Max. Oh.
He's going to be living his dream. Yeah.
Yeah. I think we alluded to it on Monday.
You guys were confused what I was talking about.

Speaker 1 But this Friday, 4.12,

Speaker 1 starting at the Barcelona Bar, Max is going to be. Which Barcelon Bar? Barcelona Bar in Philly.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Max is going to lead the first 100 people that go to the Barcelona Bar. They'll get a ticket to ride the chill train and go to the Sixers game.
It's Pride night, coincidentally. Oh, it is Pride night.

Speaker 1 And at 6 p.m.,

Speaker 1 Max is going to be leading the Sixers drum line from Barcelona Sansom to

Speaker 1 the chill train to the game.

Speaker 4 And And if you know anything about Max, he is very good at leading these trains. He did one for Darts Day like three years ago before he quit Darts.
And he gets the people going. Yeah.

Speaker 4 He gets the people going. So if you're in Philly, show up to the Barstool Bar, get a free ticket on the chill train, and

Speaker 4 Max is going to put on a show. That's what I promise you.

Speaker 4 Max will put on a show for you guys.

Speaker 1 It starts at 4.30. Get there at 4.30.

Speaker 1 I'm nervous about people coming. On Pride Night.
On the train?

Speaker 1 On everything.

Speaker 4 You're going to run a train on Pride Night. Okay.

Speaker 1 First hundred people get a free ticket to the game. It's a big game.
Max is going to make sure people come.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Max is going to make you come

Speaker 4 when he runs your train on Pride Night.

Speaker 1 This is a big moment for you, Max. I know.
I don't like it. The city of Philadelphia is going to show up for Max.
Will you be sitting in a box?

Speaker 1 I don't think so. And don't throw tomatoes at him.

Speaker 1 No. Oh, come on.
What? Don't. I said, don't.

Speaker 1 I love when you say, come on.

Speaker 1 It's so fucking cute.

Speaker 1 We got him a big, whatever you call it, conductor's hat, like the person that

Speaker 1 one of those batons.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so overall,

Speaker 1 this is a nightmare. This whole thing.
You're going to do great, sweetie. It's like one of those things where you say it's your nightmare, but Loki, it's like your dream.
Yeah, it's not my dream.

Speaker 1 You beat a fucking drumline on Pride Night.

Speaker 1 If you told 12-year-old Max Delente that, you'd be like, oh, my God. Thank God.
I made it. I just hope people show up.
People show up. I just hope people show up.
Please show up.

Speaker 1 I mean, free ticket to the game. Please show up.
Free ticket to the game. Free ticket to the game.
We're still fighting for that sixth seed. Pacers won today.
That was tough. But, you know,

Speaker 1 two nights off, and Beatle definitely be playing.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to say it. Embiid will definitely be playing.
Nice.

Speaker 1 Magic. Good basketball team.
Big win. Got to win on Friday night.
Let's go, Max. Okay.
Have some pride. PFT, your hot seat cool throwing.

Speaker 4 My hot seat is every Major League Baseball pitcher because they've all got elbow issues. Yeah.
And they're all getting Tommy John. They're all getting UCL injuries.

Speaker 4 How many have there been this year?

Speaker 4 It feels like six quality starters that

Speaker 4 have gone on the DL with some sort of shoulder tightness. And I looked up the stat.

Speaker 4 Starting pitchers that throw 96.5 miles per hour in a season from 2019 to 2023,

Speaker 1 they're all injured.

Speaker 4 All of them have been injured. I'm looking up and down this list right now.
We've had even a couple more added in the last two days. Seems like every good pitcher is getting hurt this year.

Speaker 1 Well, we talked about it on Sunday, like it's just everyone's obsessed with velocity throwing it so fucking hard.

Speaker 4 And the uniforms, and the uniforms are an additional issue. But yeah, the list just keeps growing day by day by day.
My cool throne, I'm going to put, so I'm going to switch it up a little bit.

Speaker 4 My cool throne is the Masters app. We're going to talk to Max Home about it in a second.
I re-downloaded the Masters app. It's a tradition unlike any other.

Speaker 4 And when you log into the first time, it just feels, it's such a great way to come down from the NCAA tournament being over.

Speaker 4 And now you have the Masters app back, which is the greatest piece of technology ever invented. Yep.

Speaker 4 And you open it up and you're like, everything's going to be okay because the Masters app's here and it's comforting and it's perfect and it runs as smoothly as anything.

Speaker 4 I fucking love the Masters app. Yeah, I do too.

Speaker 1 All right. My hot seat is

Speaker 1 NBA playoff strategy. So two things.
One,

Speaker 1 someone on Twitter threw this out there that I just, I'm very interested in what you guys think.

Speaker 1 He said, is it legal for players to kiss as a strategy? Let's say that it's the finals, game seven, and a crunch time.

Speaker 1 If Luca starts kissing Kyrie, not a single defender will be watching the ball, leaving Exem open for an easy three. Would Luca and Kyrie be called for a tech or would the points count?

Speaker 4 I think it counts. We talked about this on the show.
Yeah. I think this was our idea.

Speaker 1 Kissing? Oh, so someone stole it from a kid. That's old.
Yeah, that's all old. Oh, okay.
That's our idea. That's old.
All right.

Speaker 4 You remember the old, like, you've seen it in

Speaker 4 high school tapes where one player will get on the ground and falls down like a dog?

Speaker 1 All right, so that's it.

Speaker 4 That thing? Yeah, just make out with.

Speaker 4 Is it a foul to make out with your opponent?

Speaker 1 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 4 Is that, I don't know, we need to get a rule.

Speaker 1 Your opponent, probably.

Speaker 1 I was like, this sounds vaguely familiar, but then it was from yesterday, so I was like, damn, someone's, they're just stealing us from 2018. Yeah.
But here's the new strategy that no one's ready for.

Speaker 1 The Bulls unveiled tonight

Speaker 1 the double person dunk. It didn't go in,

Speaker 1 but I think if it did, it would have counted for four points.

Speaker 4 Do you think it was a double dunk, or do you think the guy behind was trying to block the shot?

Speaker 1 No, I think it was so Torrey Craig went to throw it up off the glass to himself, and Andre Drummond thought he was throwing it to him, and they both tried to dunk at the same time, and neither of them dunked.

Speaker 1 But I'm pretty sure if it had gone in, it would have been a double dunk four points.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's hard to defend.

Speaker 1 The picture of them of Tori Craig just being like, what the fuck? Why is there someone on my back trying to dunk this ball?

Speaker 4 You should never try to do something like this when you're losing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Andre Drummond also turned his ankle like the next play. Yeah.
So the Bulls, yeah,

Speaker 1 they're going to figure it out.

Speaker 1 Also,

Speaker 1 I do think

Speaker 1 that I think the only reason that Billy Donovan is still alive for the Kentucky job is that Jerry Reinsdorf would pack his bags for him. Being like, now I don't have to pay you.

Speaker 1 Because there was a story in the Chicago Sun-Times today

Speaker 1 about Jerry Reinsorf and the White Sox.

Speaker 1 He said a source recently said that Reinsdorf, who is also the chairman of the the White Sox, knew that manager Pedro Grafal had put in a fireable season by mid-summer of 2023, but he wanted to wait at least a year so the dead money wasn't as big a hit.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 So just terrible employees, but being like, I don't want to pay him. Yeah.

Speaker 4 But that's good that

Speaker 4 they might move on, though.

Speaker 1 Or did they already move on? No, they haven't.

Speaker 4 Oh, that's bad.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what he's dealing with. All right, my cool turn.
I got two as well. One is anyone who loves coffee because Stell Blue, we have the golden mug.

Speaker 1 We have done our first golden mug of the year. It's going to be all day today, all day Thursday.
We got new merch. This hat is in the store.
All the coffee is stocked. Cold Brew Season's here.

Speaker 1 And five people are going to win a custom Stella Blue golf bag and a new driver.

Speaker 1 So five people can win

Speaker 1 the golden mug. It's going to be great.
Obviously, we give money

Speaker 1 to dogs, Paws Chicago. But yeah, we have all the new merch, hats, coffee, everything.

Speaker 1 I love doing the gold mugs. It makes me feel like Willy Wonka.

Speaker 1 So go buy it right now.

Speaker 1 And then my other cool throne was the Chargers because Jim Harbaugh has unveiled his new strategy, which our friend Sam Schwartzen has told us he has all kinds of stuff like this.

Speaker 1 But Jim Harbaugh has made some locker room changes.

Speaker 1 Not only are players' lockers rearranged numerically, but each player's nameplate now shows the recruit level coming out of high school, not ranked through five-star recruit level.

Speaker 4 I like that.

Speaker 1 We all just, we all, we all came from a different place,

Speaker 1 and now we're here, all this together.

Speaker 4 Remember, also for the guys that weren't highly recruited, remind them of that every day.

Speaker 1 Khalil Mack. Hey, Penguin, zero stars.

Speaker 4 People think you suck.

Speaker 1 Right. He also, when I asked Sam what this probably meant, and he said that he just loves to rank stuff, loves to remind everyone that it doesn't matter where you started, we're all in this together.

Speaker 1 And then he said that Jim Harbaugh Harbaugh used to call he'd classify all the players at Stanford, and the lowest classification was bus rider steakeater because they don't play, they just go to games and eat the team meal.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 4 when Harbaugh was making this list, when he was assigning all the different stars to all the players from their past, he probably, in his head, thinks like all the players that were zero stars, those are my core guys.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Like I want 53 of those on my team.

Speaker 1 Yes, but the Chargers changes have started. All right, Jake.
My hot seat is basketball fans. Oh.
Giannis non-contact injury tonight. What? MRI.

Speaker 4 I saw some

Speaker 4 unauthorized aggregator Twitter accounts posting this. They don't think that it's an Achilles.
They think it's a calf.

Speaker 1 Doc Rivers says post-game his level of concern is high, but he's Giannis. I think everyone probably feels the same way as I do right now, so we're just going to hope for the best.

Speaker 1 The Bucs have had the season from hell. It feels like.

Speaker 4 You have Doc Rivers as your coach. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So we don't have many other

Speaker 1 Hank. I mean, that had to be the only team you were even slightly worried about.

Speaker 1 That had to be the only team you were slightly worried about. Never root for injuries.
I mean, Pat Bev, they said he was going to be out for the season. He started.

Speaker 1 Got 20 and 10. Belt the ass.
But are you... Does this...

Speaker 1 If he's playing, I'm not worried.

Speaker 1 All right. Were the Bucs the only team that you had a little bit of worry about? Not really.
Okay.

Speaker 1 They are still fighting for the two-seed against the Knicks. And if they get it, then you could potentially rest Young, but then they'd have to.
They might be playing the Sixers or the Heat.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, Celtics are in the finals.

Speaker 4 Pro Football Doc says probably not Achilles.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. That's good.
It'll be fine.

Speaker 4 Calf is not good, though. Calf's not good either.

Speaker 1 Calf is not good. All right, Jake.
My Cool Thrones the Champions dinner. It took place tonight.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And Max, if you want to pull up the picture of Big Cat, I feel like this is kind of like the coach's picture light version.

Speaker 1 Light version. Yeah, light version.

Speaker 1 But they're all dressed the same. I don't know, Vijay Singh.
But their smiles are different. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So anyway, what stuck out to you?

Speaker 4 Yeah, what stuck out to me was immediately Phil Mickelson. Phil, if you zoom in on Phil, that's a man who I don't think he had much of an appetite for dinner.
I think he probably,

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 he took his.

Speaker 1 He's wide-eyed. Yeah, he's a lot of fun.
He's looking like he's ready to go to a Florida Panthers game.

Speaker 4 He's very alert for this dinner.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I also, it just reminds you, like, if you win a masters, that's just got to be the coolest thing. Be like, every year, once a year.
Yeah. I get to go to this.

Speaker 1 So we do like a part-of-my-take dinner for life. What do you mean? Like, we just have dinner.

Speaker 1 When? Once a day?

Speaker 4 On a Sunday? No.

Speaker 1 Sundays. Yeah.
No, just like once a year, like in 50 years. Yeah, but then we would have to invite Billy.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 4 We'd also have to invite his 50 Secret Service agents.

Speaker 1 Yes, that's true. Oh, yeah.
You might be president. Yeah, we'd do that.
We'll do that at the White House. We'll invite Jilly.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Okay, if Billy gets elected president one day, we will have an annual part of my take dinner

Speaker 1 in the Lincoln bedroom

Speaker 4 at the White House.

Speaker 1 How fast if Billy became president would he just forget that we exist?

Speaker 4 No, he would arrest us. Yeah.
He would have us.

Speaker 1 He'd just be like, send us secret

Speaker 1 banned podcasts. Yeah, those would just not be part of.
Yeah, anyone who said one word on a mic. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I also love John Rahm's facial hair in this. Yeah.
He's got the White Sox Dave beard going on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Tiger's looking good.

Speaker 1 Where's Fuzzy Zeller?

Speaker 4 Is he alive?

Speaker 1 I also don't know know where Onhell Trebera is. He's not there.
Anhell's not there? No. You're really, you really are a dimple head.
No, I know he's not there. I'm saying I don't know where he is.

Speaker 1 Fuzzy Zeller is

Speaker 1 alive. All right, let's go, Fuzzy.
Good job, Fuzzy. Wow.

Speaker 1 Who's the Wilford Brimley guy?

Speaker 1 What does that mean?

Speaker 4 The guy with the mustache.

Speaker 1 The fat guy with the mustache. That guy's on TV.
Exactly what that means. What's his name?

Speaker 4 He's on TV.

Speaker 1 Yeah, who is that? No, we're showing ourselves right now. People could be like, oh, fuck.
fuck, how did you not know that guy?

Speaker 4 He's always on TV. It's going to be bad.

Speaker 1 This is good podcasting. Man, this is really bad podcasting.

Speaker 1 Champions Wilfrimley. Maybe it just is.

Speaker 1 Wilford Brimley did not win a green jacket.

Speaker 1 It looks exactly like him. All right, well, we'll just have people tell us how we were wrong and we didn't know anything.
And this is going to suck if it's a name that we should have known, PFT.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you, I asked Kirk earlier. I didn't recognize it.
And what did he say? I forget. What do you mean? It's an old guy's name.

Speaker 4 All right, we're doing the image search right now. Okay.

Speaker 1 Nothing from the game. Great.
You just bring up a lot of green jackets. Great podcast.

Speaker 4 I think Augusta has a trademark on that pant on green.

Speaker 1 This is doing nothing for us. Oh, wait.
No. Does that say his name? No, it doesn't.
Most likely to call his waitress sweetheart. That's true.
Uh-huh. That's very true.
Scroll.

Speaker 1 Maybe someone replied in it. Two words.
Sex symbol. Okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 All right. This is going to kill us.

Speaker 4 Let's see. I'm just going to type old guy mustache.

Speaker 1 Someone said Wilford Brimley. Old guy must have.
Maybe more than Brimley.

Speaker 4 Mustache and golf.

Speaker 1 I just searched Wilford Brimley Masters. Okay, we got to find this now.
This is a terrible podcast, and we apologize to everyone.

Speaker 1 Sorry, sorry, sorry. Craig Stadler.
Craig Stadler.

Speaker 1 Craig. Oh, dude, how did we not get Craig Stadler? He wanted a playoff in 82.
82. Of course.
Of course. The Walrus.
Oh, he's got the first picture of him just like chewing on a bottle of wine.

Speaker 1 What a fucking legend.

Speaker 4 Yeah, this guy rocks.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's get to Max and Brooks, and then we have Riggs and Trent as well. We're going to talk some Masters.
Get you ready for the Masters. Also, everyone, tune in.

Speaker 1 8.30 Central, the Barstool Mini Golf Open will be live.

Speaker 1 Pardon my take.

Speaker 1 Tea time is 9.30 Central. So you can watch us.
You can watch us on all of our socials too, right? If you want just hole by hole. We'll be live on Instagram.
Great.

Speaker 1 And then the broadcast will be live on Marshall Sports. Nick and I on the main feed.
Yep. Yep.
And I want Hank to win.

Speaker 1 Hank, I'm rooting for you. I do too.
I want a playoff. We haven't had a playoff in any of these.
I want Hank to win.

Speaker 4 I want Hank to win in a playoff.

Speaker 1 It's been a blowout

Speaker 1 as we went to the 72nd hole. I want Hank to win in a win.
We want drama. I want Hank to beat me in a playoff.
That'd be good. I want Hank to beat both of us in a playoff.

Speaker 1 I just want to a playoff, Hank win.

Speaker 4 I just want Hank to win first, second, and third place.

Speaker 1 Oh, thanks, guys. Yeah.
I want it to be like UConn.

Speaker 1 Because then it would be like, you won, you beat us, you beat me in PFT in the three-player playoff, and then when the top golf video comes out, it won't matter. True.
Right. Yeah.
Which will be out.

Speaker 1 And this one's for money. Right.

Speaker 1 Good luck, Hank. Good luck, Hank.
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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our very, very, very good friend,

Speaker 1 an Augusta tradition, unlike any other. It is Max Homa.
He's getting ready for his masters, the year that he finally puts on a green jacket.

Speaker 1 Max, I actually have to ask you a question first because this has been in the headlines. Your wife is not pregnant right now, is she? No.
Okay, all right.

Speaker 5 That was in the headlines?

Speaker 1 No, not you specifically, but Scotty Scheffler said that he would leave if his wife goes into labor so i just wanted to we needed to make sure that you weren't going to leave at any point if you're leading the masters i think we're all uh sadly rooting for her to uh give birth a little early the way he's been golfing someone's gonna send her some thai food or something she's gonna speed it up

Speaker 1 hey meredith you want to walk on this curb one like off the side for us please all right so how are you feeling max

Speaker 5 yeah good uh it's been great uh i was waiting to tell you I'm playing with Brooks tomorrow in the part three. So we're getting the pardon-my-take vibes.
Love that. As good as they come.

Speaker 5 So I think that's

Speaker 5 a really good start to the actual event.

Speaker 1 That's great.

Speaker 4 I saw that you were paired with your childhood hero, Tiger Woods. I also saw that your screen name when you were a kid was NextTiger Woods59.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I've gotten a lot of people. You haven't been one of them, shockingly, PFT, but I've gotten a lot of people saying, oh, all the kids say that's Cap now.
And they say that's cap. It was 69.

Speaker 5 And I was like, Well, it was AIM. I was like nine years old.

Speaker 5 It was 59 because of golf. Like, it's even nerdier.

Speaker 1 Yeah, mine was.

Speaker 5 69 is like a sweet score in golf. I guess as you get older, 69 becomes significantly sweeter.
But yeah,

Speaker 5 it's that was it. Next talk about it was 59, about as embarrassing as it gets.

Speaker 1 All right, so we gotta, though, he's just a guy. We can't be a puddle around him.
He's just a guy.

Speaker 5 No, just a guy. Just a a guy.
Just a really, really cool

Speaker 5 childhood hero of mine. But no, it actually has been easier.
Since the first time I played with him, we've gotten to be a lot closer.

Speaker 5 PFT, though, I feel like you were just about to tell me your embarrassing name, and I would like to feel better about mine.

Speaker 4 I mean, yeah, it was 69, 69.

Speaker 1 Oh, spelled out the word 69 and then

Speaker 1 hell numbers. Yeah.
I was fucking up. You are such a badass.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I was fucking. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Dude, holy cow. Did the dick wet a little bit? Oh, speaking of that.

Speaker 5 Oh my god, God, it was soaked.

Speaker 4 I saw the other news about Tiger Woods that he's not having sex leading up to this Masters tournament.

Speaker 4 Are you taking a similar route?

Speaker 5 I mean, some days by choice, some days not, I guess.

Speaker 5 I don't know who

Speaker 5 nobody cited their source there, but I'm not sure Tiger's got a friend close enough to him. that would talk to the media that were true.

Speaker 5 So I'm so confused by, I feel like some guy just asked somebody somebody and said, yeah,

Speaker 1 Charlie Tiger's not having sex now.

Speaker 5 Like, I, I don't, I don't know how you get close enough to him to know that. And then if you did get close enough, I'm pretty sure you're usually quiet as a mouse.
So it was a weird story, man.

Speaker 5 But I mean, good for that journalist. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was a weird story. I mean, we, our only theory was that maybe his tiger's penis wrote that story because like that's the only one who would know.

Speaker 1 But yeah, that was definitely a weird story.

Speaker 4 That might be like a classic NFL smokescreen thing where Tiger has one friend that he thinks is running his mouth a little bit. Yeah.
So he only tells that one friend that story to see if it gets out.

Speaker 4 And now that guy's out of the circle.

Speaker 5 I wonder if then it came out and he's like, oh, gotcha, bitch. He's like, fuck, now the story's out.

Speaker 1 Damn, I should have come up with something a little less weird. Yeah.
Damn it.

Speaker 4 That's a good point. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Think about that one. Max, kind of a weird question.
You're a diehard Dodgers fan.

Speaker 1 If you get a text on Thursday morning from a number you don't recognize and it's Shohei Otani and he's like, hey, I just put $4.5 million on you to win the Masters.

Speaker 1 Would that be more pressure or less pressure?

Speaker 5 I mean, it sounds about on brand because he sounds like, I mean, if he was gambling and he was down $4.5 million, putting all of it on me to win the Masters sounds right about

Speaker 5 on par.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 For lack of a better pun. That's been crazy.
I mean, we...

Speaker 5 We've been dumbfounded, enamored a little bit just by how you can be that far in the hole, even if it wasn't him. That's impressive.

Speaker 5 And that bookkeeper is what a what a guy just taking on some serious heat uh yeah the whole situation i i need a i need a documentary about the whole thing but whether it was shohe or not yeah it's it is a fascinating story and the dodgers are a super team so it's like it's nice that they gave us this one thing we can make fun of when they win like 115 games this year yeah joe said it best this morning he goes

Speaker 5 his like bad world, perfect world would be if Shohei somehow got suspended and we still won the World Series.

Speaker 5 So we didn't have to listen to how we like bought our team for but yeah, it's not a bad point. That would be best case, worst case, I guess.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So in terms of your game right now, I know you played last week.
You usually don't play the week before the Masters. You decided to this year.

Speaker 4 What was that decision about? Why'd you figure, okay, you know what? I won't take a break this year.

Speaker 5 Great question, PFT.

Speaker 1 Great question.

Speaker 5 I typically sit at home and I try to get my golf game like as perfect as I can get it. And I notice when I show up here like on a Monday,

Speaker 5 you know, I'm just trying to hold on to it when you're really just getting going Monday to Wednesday, you know, you're getting moving and seeing what's working and going and checking out the golf course instead of just trying to be like a perfect robot of a golfer.

Speaker 5 So I felt like if I went last week, I would get a bit more into like golf. Uh, I never remember what side of the brain you're supposed to use.

Speaker 5 I'm not going to ask Mac because I think he only uses like one side, anyways.

Speaker 1 Right brain, I think. They use the front of his brain.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Only the front.
The first thing that comes to mind. Yeah.
I think it's right-brained. I get too left-brained at home, and I'd like to play a bit more right-brained.
So I tried to do that.

Speaker 5 How would you a bit more last week?

Speaker 1 Yeah. How would you say Max is doing holding up your name right now?

Speaker 5 Great. I'm doing it.
Disappointing at times.

Speaker 1 That was a question.

Speaker 1 That was not a question for Christopher Delente. That was a question for Max Homa.
But I'm doing a really good job over here. So I just wanted that.

Speaker 5 I would like it to be known that the eight minutes I'm on the show once every like four months, you are bad girl, not Max. So if someone asks Max a question, it should be at me.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 That is all I asked. Eight minutes.

Speaker 5 But he's doing all right. I mean, he got more seconds than I do.
So that's something.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's, yeah, that's, that's a fair point. Um, you've been in the news a little bit recently, Max.
Uh, you've had a couple couple shots that have either hit

Speaker 4 a patron or come close to hitting a patron. The one last week was so funny where the dude just fell over as he liked.

Speaker 1 We should have seen it for the T.

Speaker 1 That was a bummer.

Speaker 5 I saw it on Instagram after. I was like, oh man, I would have really, I actually would have given a good laugh at that guy with that guy.

Speaker 5 A lot of effort. I don't know what he was.
I don't know what the plan was.

Speaker 1 He was doing a great job.

Speaker 4 He was trying to get out of the way.

Speaker 1 And he...

Speaker 4 obviously is not as athletic as maybe he once was and didn't realize the limitations of his body at his current age and then just tumbled backwards onto the ground. But everybody had that guy's back.

Speaker 4 Everybody was like, great job as a volunteer. That's what you should be doing, getting out of the way, trying to track the ball.

Speaker 5 I think people appreciate effort.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Sometimes you fail, but effort is important.

Speaker 5 And that guy had all of that. He had no athleticism, unfortunately, for him.

Speaker 5 But I loved it. He got out of the way, then in the way, and then like rolled out of the way again.
He did everything really fast, but I liked how he just lay there and just looked up up at the sky.

Speaker 1 Like, yeah, damn.

Speaker 5 Probably like just completely regretted ever volunteering for like those two seconds.

Speaker 4 That's the I Know I'm on TV page that you make. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Like right in that moment, he was thinking about what the next two days of his life were going to be like. People just sending him that video repeatedly.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 And he doesn't have Instagram. So every time they set it in the Instagram link, he has to say, I don't have an Instagram.

Speaker 5 And he's going to find me download it, read the comments, and be like, oh, none of these are nice. I thought it was going to be nice and jolly and fun.

Speaker 5 I didn't know the internet was so fucking terrible.

Speaker 1 It is a terrible place. I got a dumb question for you, Max.
So there's rain in the forecast on Thursday. We love, we're regular guys that just love whenever a plan gets canceled, period.

Speaker 1 I don't care if it's like a good thing, a bad thing. If you, if I have something I have to do and then you tell me I don't have to do it, I'm like, holy shit, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 I basically have free whatever time. Is that similar with the situation with the rain or are you like, I want to go? I like, let's go.

Speaker 1 That's actually a funny question.

Speaker 1 yeah because it is the master so i'd assume it's maybe not like us but like i could you could tell me i'm going on vacation and then be like no actually it got canceled i'd be like oh awesome now i can

Speaker 5 sit and watch nothing for three days yeah yeah that's a good point uh i would say typically i'd be pissed because i would like to just get going but this week's a bit unique i have uh some of my friends stay at my house this week so it's actually kind of fun not to be at the golf course where typically we're usually just sitting in a hotel room uh uh trying to you know they don't baby proof hotel rooms as you know big cat so uh you're just trying to have your kid not bump his head on something so this week is a little different being home is not so bad so i guess for this one i won't care too much if we don't get going but it is always you get a little antsy as it gets close but i don't think it's quite the same as no as when you have a flight and you're like oh thank god i don't have to get on it uh even though you want to leave uh but it's it's a bit similar i mean you kind of get itching and ready to go and if it gets pushed all the way to Friday for us, that would suck.

Speaker 5 But I don't know. Maybe Tiger will want to come over and play like shoots and ladders or something.

Speaker 1 I feel like that would be a nice little adjustment.

Speaker 5 So I guess I could float that idea. That'd be very fun.

Speaker 4 I also have a dumb question. Do you download the Masters app?

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. Yeah.
Okay, cool. It's like the best app ever just for one week.

Speaker 5 It's our favorite thing.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So even though, even if you're playing in the tournament, you download the app, you can check in on people.

Speaker 4 Do you actually like watch the Masters as a fan while you're competing in it?

Speaker 5 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 5 I guess

Speaker 5 I kind of like, I, because on the PJ Tour app, it's similar. You star like your favorites or whatever, but the Masters app's just one week and there's less people.

Speaker 5 So I like going through and seeing who I'm going to star for the week.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 Usually just me, but every once in a while, I'll be like, I'm curious what this guy's going to do this week. So I'll star him up.

Speaker 5 So I do enjoy going in and almost at the end of the week being like, what prompted me to starve so-and-so? Why did I give a shit at any point in the tournament?

Speaker 5 But yeah, it is fun. They do a good job.
You can see all your shots too back, which is pretty, that's rare for us.

Speaker 1 So that's, that's cool.

Speaker 5 But yeah, it's just like a nice nerdy thing. I like the golf nerdy shit.

Speaker 1 How, uh, another dumb question. Um, how tiring is Augusta?

Speaker 1 Because I, all I hear about is like, you, we, we're watching on TV, we've never been, we want to go some year, but like people talk about, you know, the walking in the hills, it's a lot more steep than you realize.

Speaker 1 Is it actually like after 18 holes, you're like, okay, that was, that was different than a regular course?

Speaker 5 I mean, that's definitely a golfer thing to say to make us feel better. But yeah, I mean, I don't know how the fuck Joe does it with the bag.
Yeah. There's just a couple hills, eight and 18.

Speaker 5 Just, I already walk fucking weird. Watch how low my chest gets to the ground halfway up both those hills.
I'll fucking drag an ass going up. eight and 18.
It's steep as shit, man.

Speaker 5 Like it is, it is, I wouldn't say you're like dead tired by any means, but it's definitely sneaks up on you.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah. Uh, what's your favorite hole?

Speaker 5 Um,

Speaker 5 you're leading me to a joke here.

Speaker 1 I'm not, I'm not gonna go for it. Oh, nope.
Uh,

Speaker 1 I'll start first. Vagina,

Speaker 5 that means I gotta, that means I gotta pick.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just took one of them.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah, I'll go second.

Speaker 1 Mouth.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're up, Max.

Speaker 1 Fuck.

Speaker 5 Yeah, the 13th hole is going to be a little bit more.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Good answer. Good answer.
Good answer.

Speaker 5 God, you guys picked the two ones.

Speaker 1 I should have just spit it out here. We got the clear one, one, and one, two.
Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 such an obvious couple picks. The 13th.
Okay, so we got to watch you on the 13th.

Speaker 1 13th, sick. How has the gallery been? Has everyone been behaving themselves? I know Augusta's.
This week's clean. Yeah, this week's clean.

Speaker 1 But other tournaments, has everyone had a home?

Speaker 5 I still had one yesterday. Oh, in general? No, I still had one yesterday.

Speaker 5 I couldn't believe he had the balls to do it at Augusta.

Speaker 5 It's getting a lot better. I'm pretty impressed.
But then there's just some weeks these guys,

Speaker 5 they go fucking nuts. But

Speaker 5 it's gotten better.

Speaker 5 I'm definitely hearing a lot more parverts.

Speaker 1 Okay. Which

Speaker 5 I will accept for the time being.

Speaker 5 I still contend beyond my favorite thing that happens. And is every week or two, someone will scream homosexual, which they, I mean, they yell at all the whole time, whole day.

Speaker 5 Everybody's like, I'm a homosexual, homosexual. And most of the time, a lot of the people around them get it, but got it hit so hard last week, some guy screamed it.

Speaker 5 And you could just tell there was like a group of 10-15 guys that did not know what it was, like what they were getting at. And they lost their shit laughing so hard.

Speaker 5 They were just so confused. Like, what a weird place.
You know, golf course, the 16th hole to come out. Yeah.

Speaker 5 It was fucking, and you could, it makes me laugh so hard because I think my favorite part about people not understanding why I don't like being called a pervert in public is that they can't separate the internet from real life.

Speaker 5 Like you're not everyone gets that this is a joke and I'm not going to explain it. And I am a real person.

Speaker 5 And so I like when people do shit from the internet in public and then almost get like embarrassed. It's like, No, no, no, it's a joke, dude.
And everyone's like, well, well, what do you mean?

Speaker 5 And they're like, no, it's from a podcast. This is a part of my dick.

Speaker 5 is that no it's big cat and pft and they're like what the fuck is a big cat and pft i listen to it and i'm just like yeah how dumb do you yeah

Speaker 5 yeah the funniest jokes are when you have to explain them like for minutes and minutes yeah yeah and homosexual i love because you could piece it together like it's a great y'all came up with it it's a great idea but like the pervert one takes like eight levels of explaining yeah i'm just like yeah dude it doesn't sound good anymore right yeah i like the idea of a guy saying like standing up and be like i am a homosexual and then the whole crowd looking at him and like slowly breaking into applause.

Speaker 1 Like, congrats, I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 5 At uh, Tampa two years ago, guy on the 10th T kid walks up, dad, and his son were standing next to him. He goes, Hey, Max, I'm a homosexual.
And I, and I was, I like, nodded.

Speaker 5 And the dad looked at him and just gave him like a nod of approval, like, good for you, man.

Speaker 1 Like, that's cool.

Speaker 4 Proud of you for being proud.

Speaker 1 I was like, this is a heartwarming moment.

Speaker 5 He doesn't get that. He's telling a different story to his family when he gets home.
And I was just like, Man, what a time to be alive.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 we'll reiterate: AWS have to police each other.

Speaker 1 We're rooting for Max.

Speaker 1 We want Max to do well, so let's get him in a good spot. I know Augusta's different because it's just prim and proper, but like when you're back on the tour, everyone just do a good job.

Speaker 1 Listen, we want Max to win, so then he'll win us money and Shohei.

Speaker 4 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 Yeah,

Speaker 1 allegedly. Yeah, allegedly.

Speaker 4 Allegedly. Maybe just his translator.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's a weird wrinkle to the story that the bookie issued a $4.5 million line of credit to a guy that makes like $200,000 a year, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's good for it.
He's been doing a lot of icky part.

Speaker 5 Maybe he was up a lot for a while.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Yeah.
Handshake agreement. I don't know what goes on over there.

Speaker 4 So, Max, what can we expect this weekend from you? What's your goal?

Speaker 5 Goal is to win. Our game does feel really good.
Getting a little bit more comfortable. I'm excited.

Speaker 5 I don't know. I feel like something about majors gets you amped up, but I feel like I've done a good job of just enjoying my week and trying to be myself a bit more and have a bit more fun.

Speaker 1 I love that. And I feel like you have come a long way from whatever it was five, six years ago when I was like, can you win it? So, and I know you can win it now.

Speaker 5 Like, I just one of my favorite questions. I got to ask myself that every week.
So, I'm going to ask myself Thursday right before I walk to the T and say, Can you do this? And then I'm just going to

Speaker 5 answer it honestly. And I'm just very hopeful that answers yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 yeah get to get to swinging you've been playing great golf the last couple years you're you're you're ready to go you're ready to go i know on i i think i know now that on a good week if i can kind of if things go the way you know they can go i know i can win it which i guess is different than uh maybe a few years ago where i didn't know if like my great golf was good enough i know for a fact my great golf's good enough it just needs to come out the right week.

Speaker 5 So let's just hope it's this week.

Speaker 1 But that's got to feel awesome to be like, I know that like, if I just play to the best of my abilities, I can do this. Yeah, that's that's a huge difference.

Speaker 5 It's a big difference, it's a little bit more calming knowing that, like, it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be good. And I've done that enough times to know.

Speaker 5 Um, I think it would be the pressure on Sunday that would be the most unique thing. But as far as the golf goes, like, I think fortunately, I've lived enough of this golf,

Speaker 5 uh, these golf experiences to know like I can physically do what needs to be done. Um, so it'd be fun to get to see

Speaker 5 to eventually have an opportunity to just see what that's like when you're kind of getting down to the nitty-gritty.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would love that, Max.

Speaker 4 I, we might cry, we might cry if you win.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I will cry with you guys. Yeah, or you'll be lead the charge.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, if you win, you'll be on with your green jacket on Sunday night. Yeah, I will be incredible.

Speaker 5 I will be, I have not been drinking like at all, trying to get ready for this whole part of the season. And I am really looking for an excuse to

Speaker 5 get white girl wasted.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm ready for it.

Speaker 5 Sunday would be a great time.

Speaker 4 I'll cry, and I'll get white girl wasted with you. Yeah, solidarity.

Speaker 1 Okay, what a big deal.

Speaker 4 We're just hammering as max one. Yeah, max one.

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Speaker 1 Thank you you for doing this. This is, I know that you got a busy schedule and we appreciate your time very, very much.
Also, my last question is not a question.

Speaker 1 It's just, I wanted to apologize to you in face-to-face.

Speaker 1 We've texted.

Speaker 1 I lashed out. I was a bitch.
I actually, honestly, the whole Wisconsin JMU thing, I've been in like a mental funk for like a month or three weeks because I hate how I was.

Speaker 1 And like, I've beaten myself up.

Speaker 1 I haven't even read, like, I'm sure there's people online who've said really mean things, and I've done a good job of avoiding that, but know that I've hated myself more than any, anyone in the world the last three weeks.

Speaker 5 So, dude, no, it's good. I've been a bigger bitch than that.

Speaker 1 So, I mean, yeah, we all have moments. Yeah, we all have moments.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah. The only part, the only part of the podcast I didn't like when you lashed out was that you said my joke wasn't very good because I thought it was good.

Speaker 1 It was good.

Speaker 1 You know what I thought into it?

Speaker 5 You know what? I'm going to text PFT and Vig and do this thing. And then I was glad Hank pointed out.
He's like, you do this.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, no, he was right.

Speaker 1 I was an idiot. That was the point.

Speaker 4 I can read it here. This is during the game.
Was it halftime? No, it was whenever. It was halftime.

Speaker 1 I mean, the whole time at halftime.

Speaker 4 At halftime, hey, just wanted to let you know I'm watching the game and I'm rooting for your team. I know he'll be mad, but that makes it even better.

Speaker 4 And then he followed up with, oh, shoot, I didn't mean to send this to both of you guys.

Speaker 1 Yes. And there was only one person who could be mad in the moment because Wisconsin played terrible.
And the other thing is that I didn't explain well was it wasn't you.

Speaker 1 It was two people who, from my private life, who texted me that I was very upset about that I didn't want to say their names.

Speaker 1 But that wasn't realized Rascillo was like trying to get a bunch of people. Rasillo sent me a fucking,

Speaker 1 I didn't realize.

Speaker 4 He was a great guy that did. Rascillo sent me

Speaker 1 a,

Speaker 1 I didn't know you could send like a FaceTime

Speaker 1 message. A FaceTime message.
And I didn't see it for a week. And then I pulled it up and I just deleted it right away.
He was just like smiling and it was the end of the game.

Speaker 1 And he's like, hey, buddy. And I just deleted it right away.
I was like, I'm still not ready.

Speaker 1 Him and his fucking Cardinals hat. He probably turned off the game at halftime anyway.
No, he's watching it with me.

Speaker 5 I was talking to him the other day, and he was telling me about the game.

Speaker 5 And he said he was basically your personal security guard PFD because he thought you were going to fight every Wisconsin fan in the building.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they didn't want any of this, though.

Speaker 1 They're all talk, just a bunch of yapping dogs. They're not going to fight a big old pit bull like you.

Speaker 1 That's also very funny of Brasil to be like, I stepped up for it. That's Brasilo's dream.

Speaker 1 He's like Mark Wahlberg in that moment, being like, oh, I'll fucking, it would have been different if I were there.

Speaker 4 Also, Max, you can, Batgirl, you can correct me if I'm wrong. Rascillo didn't step up to anything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, but he, I, in his head, I backed the guy down. Yeah, in his head.
Yeah, no, that was.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was essentially you.
It was essentially you.

Speaker 1 But I mean, there was the, there was the initial interaction, and then it was funny just hearing Rascillo be like, hey, like, I know this is like probably a little

Speaker 1 tough for you to hear, but like, he is a big deal. Like, this is a big

Speaker 1 thing.

Speaker 4 also I had Batgirl and Rossillo with me. Like that's that's

Speaker 4 such a beefy security team.

Speaker 1 No one's fucking that's literally Russillo goes to bed at night and he's like, I really wish that someone would step to one of my friends so that all these squats I'm doing in my, in my garage by myself are worth it.

Speaker 1 Like that's his job.

Speaker 5 I've got this running, running joke, but like a real thing. Like when I'm, and it has nothing to do with like being like a...

Speaker 5 a golfer and not wanting to have to talk to somebody who might know me.

Speaker 5 It's more like when I'm in an Uber or I meet a stranger at times and they say, and you're in like close quarters, and they ask you what you do.

Speaker 5 My running joke's been that I'm a real estate agent because my wife is, so I know a lot about it because I just don't want to talk about golf.

Speaker 5 I imagine that Rosillo's answer to that, if he does this, is a bouncer because he wants people to think he's a bouncer.

Speaker 5 Like, that's like his, like, that's like he has one of the coolest jobs in the world, but I almost guarantee you he'd be like, I wish it mattered how strong I was.

Speaker 1 That was like my job.

Speaker 5 Like, I wish I could talk about this more.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 it absolutely is what he answers.

Speaker 4 Or just like something that everybody would hate so that they try to pick a fight with him. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Oh, that's actually a really good idea. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I actually beat up dogs for a living. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm a Duke fan.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, Max, best of luck.
We're rooting for you.

Speaker 1 Have fun with Brooks tomorrow. We had him on, too.

Speaker 1 Only two bets I made, I'm riding with my boys. So let's go get a green jacket.

Speaker 5 That's good odds. Like I I said,

Speaker 5 we're going to get the Big Cat's Bet vibes rolling tomorrow.

Speaker 1 Yes. Starts bent off right.

Speaker 5 Yeah, get this thing going. But thank you guys for having me on.
What a tradition. I love this.
Yes.

Speaker 1 All right. All right.
Thank you, Max. Oh, kill it.

Speaker 5 All right. Thank you, boys.
Love you, PFT.

Speaker 1 Love you, too. What about me? Good for you.

Speaker 1 Hey, love you too, big cat. All right, thank you.

Speaker 5 Even Bat Girl.

Speaker 1 Yeah, even Bat Girl. And Hank.
And Hank. And Hank.

Speaker 5 Hank, I love you, extra.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Nice.

Speaker 5 Call of Duty because I fucking still suck.

Speaker 1 All right. See you, back next.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our good friend,

Speaker 1 one-time Blake of the Year.

Speaker 4 I think so.

Speaker 1 Did you win Blake of the Year? I got the goose head. Oh, no.

Speaker 4 Well, we're doing the green jacket this year, then later the masters. Yeah, we're going to do the real masters, which is Blake of the Year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so it is Brooks Kepka,

Speaker 1 our guy from Smash FC. No,

Speaker 1 GC.

Speaker 1 Brooks, thank you for joining us. It is Masters Week.
Let's just start here. How are you feeling? How is the game feeling? How is the mentals feeling?

Speaker 1 And just so you know, we also are going to make sure that Hank does not jinx you this year.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I think that's the big thing. I need Hank to lay off.

Speaker 5 Feel good, man. Feel really good.
Really happy where I'm at and excited for a good week.

Speaker 5 It'll be a lot of fun. Need a little redemption.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so compare it to this week last year, because I think a lot of people didn't really understand that Brooks was back last year at this time. You were telling people, like, you feel good.

Speaker 4 Game's in a good place. Now people know that Brooks is back.

Speaker 4 Are you feeling better than you did last year? Best shape of your life?

Speaker 5 You're not best shape of my life, but yeah. I mean, I'm getting old, man.
Dad bought it. It's in right now.
Wait. But yeah, I feel good.

Speaker 1 What was the best shape of your life?

Speaker 5 Probably when I did that body shoot for ESPN or whatever, and I lost like 30 pounds, that sucked, but yeah.

Speaker 1 That was best shape of your life.

Speaker 4 You're not imposing nude shape, but you're imposing in. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Would you do a nude body shoot only wearing the green jacket?

Speaker 5 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 1 That would rock. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 If that happens, yeah, yeah. There'd be, yeah, Jenna won't be.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I saw a picture, by the way, of all the live guys

Speaker 1 Sergio treated were coming for that green jacket. When he says, we,

Speaker 1 is it you? Is it where we're are you guys playing as a team? Does he know that it's not a team, Masters?

Speaker 5 I feel like he should know that it's not a team event right now. Um,

Speaker 5 yeah, I would, I would like to win it. I'll throw my name into the rink there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I want you to win it too, not just because I bet on you, but because you're our friend, and also you'd come on after and show us the troll or the green jacket, and that would fucking rock.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and but if you win, you have to give partial credit to Sergio, though, because that's a we win

Speaker 1 for the league.

Speaker 5 I'll give the we to

Speaker 5 PMT. Oh, yeah.
That's the we. Yes.

Speaker 1 When I win, it's we win.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 1 I like that. I like that.
So, Brooks, I saw you had a piece in golf.com yesterday, maybe yesterday.

Speaker 1 And it was 10 lessons that Brooks Kepka taught me in 32 minutes.

Speaker 1 One of the lessons,

Speaker 1 so you did 10 lessons. The first one is don't think about anything, which I love.

Speaker 1 But then lesson,

Speaker 1 what was it? It was like seven.

Speaker 1 Lesson eight was don't think about consequences, and lesson four was again, don't think about anything. So, three of your ten lessons were just don't think.

Speaker 5 That's that's honestly, fellas, that's the best way to be.

Speaker 1 I just kept on scrolling, and I was like, Wait, we're not, oh, just a reminder, but don't you think that if you're telling everyone to not think about anything, now they're thinking about not thinking about anything?

Speaker 5 Which is perfect. That's right where I want them.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
But when you step up to the golf ball, like I understand what you're saying.

Speaker 5 It's a depend zone.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 When you step up to the ball, I get what you're saying because you go on to tell the guy, like, you want to react. And in golf, there's no reaction usually.

Speaker 4 You have to, you know, you set up and you do a lot of thinking. And most people think when they're hitting a golf shot, but you want to make it so you react.

Speaker 4 So you completely like shut your mind off and act like when you open your eyes, this is just, oh, there's a ball. I got to hit it now.

Speaker 5 yeah well usually you're standing behind guys that are playing really slow so it's like five and a half hours you get what i'm saying yeah yeah you get a lot of time to think so if you don't think for that five and a half hours it's beautiful yeah i like the other lesson that you had on there uh which is that you only warm up with your odd clubs is that is that only you like you only warm up with nine irons seven irons five irons three irons yeah i think it might i don't know I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 5 I've always done it that way. I don't know.
I never really looked at anybody else, what they're doing on the range.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 5 I would say, yeah, probably guys probably do the same thing, or maybe not the odd clubs. They might go even.

Speaker 5 Rory is probably even, you know, but four, it's even, you know, five is odd. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 So you,

Speaker 4 you only warm up with your odd clubs and you wear them out way faster than your even clubs?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, like I barely ever hit my six iron unless it's on the golf course.

Speaker 4 And so when you step up to hit a six iron on the course, that's not, you never think about that.

Speaker 4 Like, cause me personally, I know if I just warm up and I hit a seven iron well when I'm practicing, I get up there and it's an eight iron shot.

Speaker 4 I'm like, God damn it, my eight iron wasn't good, but my seven was earlier. You just don't have that problem.
You're just like, oh, I guess I'm hitting the six.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Now, when I think back to Chicago, when we played, I probably should, I probably should change that all up going in this week.

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't want you to change any. I don't want, I want you to just go and not think about anything.
So this is your eighth, ninth, ninth masters. Ninth Masters.

Speaker 1 You finished second twice. You finished top 30 every single time that you didn't get cut.
So

Speaker 1 you've been right there. Is there anything you're changing about the Masters, like going this week? Is there anything that you're like, I'm going to do this differently

Speaker 1 to get me over the hump?

Speaker 5 No, no, not going to do anything. Still going to stick with the odd clubs in the warm-up.

Speaker 1 Yeah, nothing.

Speaker 5 I got nothing for you, fellas.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 That's actually. I just don't want to think about anything.

Speaker 5 So I'm just going to do whatever I do. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 That's smart.

Speaker 4 Do you have a strategy strategy for what number you want your caddy to get?

Speaker 5 I did last year. I actually, or it was the last year I waited.
I actually waited for one person so I could get 69.

Speaker 5 I,

Speaker 5 yeah, so when I get there on Monday morning, I'll,

Speaker 5 is there any, what number do you guys want? I can't get the lone ones. I'm sure guys are there Saturday and stuff, but yeah, what number are we going for?

Speaker 1 100?

Speaker 4 69 would be funny.

Speaker 1 What about 99?

Speaker 4 99 looks badass.

Speaker 5 I don't know if there's only what they get, what the guys that play. So I think, I don't know how many guys, I'm assuming it usually goes up to like 90.

Speaker 4 What's Jake? What lottery?

Speaker 5 Do we draw a lottery ball to figure this out?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, great call.

Speaker 4 Okay, we'll do it. I tell you what, Brooks, we'll do 100 lotto balls and we'll take the one that comes up the most.

Speaker 1 Okay, so stand by.

Speaker 5 I'm hoping it's above 45 to make this realistic.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll do, we'll just draw until you get above 45, and that'll be your number.

Speaker 4 Perfect. Okay, it's spinning.
44 was the first one.

Speaker 1 So we go again. again.

Speaker 1 That's 44. Underneath 44 is 52.
You want to go 52?

Speaker 5 52 miles. It might be close because I can get there Monday morning early.
I'll see you next time.

Speaker 4 We'll do another one because

Speaker 4 that one was not selected. I want this to be legit.
44 again.

Speaker 1 44 again. I think you've got to get 44.
You didn't drop it.

Speaker 1 Big Cat set.

Speaker 1 That would have been crazy.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 No, no, Big Cat forgot to clear it.

Speaker 4 He forgot to clear it, so we're going to do another one.

Speaker 4 Okay, it's it's cleared now.

Speaker 1 We're just putting you right back into Blake of the Year, the worst Blake of the Year ever. We're just going to be right in the middle.

Speaker 4 72. 72.
72, that's the number.

Speaker 1 72. 72, okay.
72.

Speaker 5 That's what we're shooting for. I won't register until I get the 72 number.

Speaker 1 But not what you're shooting for in the tournament. No, no.
Okay, all right.

Speaker 5 That's where I'm trying to register. 72.
I got it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just want to make sure that's the risk. So Rick, Rick will have that 72 pass right in his chest.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 1 Okay, I love that. He'll be riding for us.
Yes.

Speaker 4 If you win with 72, I mean, we have to put you in the part of my take Hall of Fame. Yeah.
Which I don't think there's anybody in that ring.

Speaker 1 Well, we'll need the, we'll need to, we'll pay, have to pay Rick, and we'll just

Speaker 1 pay him for the number and we'll just put it up here and be like, this is the one that Brooks won the Masters in. Yeah.
That's manifold.

Speaker 4 Brooks, I saw yesterday that Anthony Kim just found out that you were a major champion because he was off the grid for so long, not paying attention to golf.

Speaker 4 Did he come up to you and was he like, holy shit, dude, congratulations. That's awesome.

Speaker 5 AK's the man.

Speaker 5 I didn't get to know him because he kind of left right as I was kind of coming up. But

Speaker 5 he's a good dude. He's funny.
He's the nicest guy ever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's he, I mean, it's a crazy story that he's back. It's awesome.
We're all rooting for him. I have two semi-personal questions for you, Brooks.
One,

Speaker 1 how did you end up on the Blackjack table Super Bowl week?

Speaker 5 I mean, I was out there Super Bowl week. So, I mean, I feel like it was pretty obvious I was going to be somewhere at the table.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, we were playing together, but

Speaker 1 did you end up okay?

Speaker 1 Okay, that's a no. That's fair.
I could have had better trips. I know that answer.
That's all you had to say. Two, did you watch Feet the Streets Arch Madness with Jerry?

Speaker 1 And did Jenna maybe watch and be like, I could probably have won this?

Speaker 5 I did not. I feel like I should have.

Speaker 1 So I'm probably going to have to reach out to Jerry now and apologize for that yeah um actually jenna should be apologizing it's not me she was telling me she was gonna send feet pigs so that's yeah we'll talk to jenna about that yeah i i mean i i competed in it i uh i i did my nails up uh jerry thought i was a woman for about 20 minutes um and i saw the competition i think jenna could have taken taken it home i think she could have won yeah they're gonna have to

Speaker 1 next year next year is the year yeah because i feel like next year is the year if you win it's gonna have to happen yeah if you win the green jacket and it's like what else could this family have oh arch madness like those are kind of hand in hand of like illustrious awards someone can win the fifth major many say yeah those you guys would be like the number one family in golf and feet

Speaker 1 if he uh if he makes a trophy for it and if she wins it there's a big trophy case in my house like all majors we'll put it right in the middle of the trophy case just a giant foot yeah yes also just giant foot yeah sitting there yeah in the middle too i swear yeah and just so we're clear just because I want to back up Jerry here, he just wants to make everyone know that it's not sexual.

Speaker 1 He's just judging feet. It's not sexual.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 No, I mean, it's black and white. It's pretty.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's just feet.

Speaker 4 He's like an artist that makes statues. He just appreciates the human form.

Speaker 1 It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 All right. So what else?

Speaker 1 Are you doing anything different, August, the week? Like, your chef's going to be there? What are we doing? Meals? We got to just, I want to get so focused. I already bet on you.

Speaker 1 20 to 1 is an absolute slap in the face to a guy of your stature.

Speaker 5 I feel like those are good odds.

Speaker 1 Is that what the odds are at right now?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I did it two days ago. 20 to 1.
I mean, it's just like, it's crazy. They have no, they have no respect for you.

Speaker 5 No, none. None.
I love it, though. I love it because then it just makes everybody else.
The odds go high. It's perfect.
Nobody's betting on me. Everybody else can make some money off me.
It's perfect.

Speaker 5 Yeah. It's a great situation.

Speaker 4 So do you actually like get fuel off being an underdog when people are doubting you?

Speaker 5 No, I just think, listen, whoever's going to be placing the bet, they're going to win a hell of a lot more money. So good for them.
I'm sure my boys are going to be placing the bets too.

Speaker 5 So I'm like, all right, great.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 No, it'd be very lucrative for this podcast if you want. So I would appreciate it if you did that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we might be able to buy the A's.

Speaker 4 Again, yeah, Hank is not allowed to design merchandise. He's not allowed to even think about shirts.
No jinx. Hank should not be allowed to watch the Masters.

Speaker 1 I won't say a word. I'll be

Speaker 1 right back. Don't think about anything.
Yeah. Yeah, don't think about anything.
That's easy for me. Rule number one.
Did you not read the thing? Yeah. And rule number four.

Speaker 1 And also a little bit of rule eight. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Brooks, I don't know if you saw this clip, but our good friends over at Spit and Chicklets, they interviewed JT and they were talking about the Masters.

Speaker 4 And Paul Bissenet came up with a theory that Augusta has kidnapped all the squirrels there or killed all the squirrels in Augusta. Have you seen a squirrel in Augusta?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 5 I know they got like speakers in the trees.

Speaker 5 That's where you never see birds, but you see, or you can hear the bird chirps, but like sometimes when you get to like 12 and 13, you can look up and you can see the speakers. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I've been

Speaker 5 hidden from the fans, but we can see them.

Speaker 4 I've been thinking about that. I've been saying they pipe in crowd noise like it's like it's Seattle's Field, except it's at Amon Corner.
They've got speakers up there.

Speaker 4 I'm going to be on the lookout for that. But if you do see a squirrel, please let us know because

Speaker 4 our sharpest mind here at Barstool, Paul Bissinette, is hard at work cracking that mystery.

Speaker 5 I will. If I see a squirrel, I will be very quick to point it out and let Biz know.
Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 1 I'm wearing the joggers right now.

Speaker 1 How are the vibes? That was a good ad read, right?

Speaker 1 That was great. Yeah.
Just black out and don't think about anything.

Speaker 1 How are the vibes? It feels like this masters will be a little bit less contentious in terms of like to live in in the PGA guys. You guys are all good now, right?

Speaker 1 Like you're not going to have to deal with people side-eyeing you and everything.

Speaker 5 No, I don't think anybody would be side-eyeing. I just think, you know, hopefully the PGA guys don't get into beer chugging contests with the libcast.
I think we would definitely.

Speaker 1 You guys would crush that. You guys would kill that.
It was pitiful.

Speaker 5 How many of you boys saw that? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No.

Speaker 5 But yeah, I think we would definitely.

Speaker 5 No, it's all good right now. Everybody's,

Speaker 5 I mean, it's fine. Like I said, I think everybody, we're in a year and a half of this.

Speaker 5 So everybody there's nobody knows what the hell is going on so might as well just enjoy the ride yeah I think in a way it could end up being good for golf where it's kind of like you know WCW WWE you got two rival factions they'll be reunited at some point have you heard anything about like what that would look like when when the merger goes through I have no idea I don't know if it's gonna go through if it's not if it's if it is gonna go through it's just I mean, I know that they're they're meeting, they're having talks, but I mean, I'm so far removed from that.

Speaker 5 And I think the PGA, I don't know, it seems like the PGA guys get a little more info than we do. But at the same time,

Speaker 5 I haven't really heard much of it like progressing or going to anything, even from the PGA guys that I talked to.

Speaker 1 It's a don't think about anything. Don't think about it.
Don't think about anything.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 If you do think about one thing, if you just like put something in their ear of the PGA tour, just be like, hey, let us wear shorts. Yeah.

Speaker 4 See?

Speaker 5 I mean, it's awesome wearing shorts. I'm not going to lie.
I love it out here. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fantastic. Shorts are back.
All right. Well, Brooks, best of luck.
We're rooting for you. Um, just go, let's just go win a green jacket this week.

Speaker 5 I know, I think, yeah, that's the goal. 72 right there, fellas.

Speaker 1 Not where you're gonna shoot, not where you're gonna shoot, not where you're gonna shoot.

Speaker 1 72. We made that clear.
Yes, all right, Brooks. All right, Brooks, go, go, not think about anything and let's let's win a master's.

Speaker 5 Easy, easy done, fellas.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we're going to finish the show with some guys on golf, and we have our good friends, Riggs and Trent, in studio. Yeah.
They were at Augusta. 24 hours ago.

Speaker 1 They're here for the Barstool Mini Golf Open, which is teeing off at 8:30 in the morning Central Time. As you're listening to this, it has already started.
Boys, let's start here.

Speaker 1 How was your, what were you, 24 hours in Augusta? Yeah, haven't washed our hands or anything because we were just rubbing it against the dirt and the grass at Augusta.

Speaker 4 Like grass stains on your shirts rolling out the streets.

Speaker 1 Sleeping with the shoes on. I'm doing the Masters thing where I'm wearing the gear that I bought so everyone knows that I went and I'm bragging about it because I went.
I have a question about that.

Speaker 1 And I don't,

Speaker 1 I one day really want to go to Augusta. It looks incredible.
Like, all of it just is, it's my favorite, you know, one of my favorite weekends to sit on the couch and watch tournament.

Speaker 1 What has happened in Augusta that has brainwashed people to the point where I saw Marty Smith had, he posted a picture of the eclipse glasses that looked like they were maybe 70 cents and they had the Augusta logo on it.

Speaker 1 And he said, these are the coolest eclipse glasses ever. Not kidding.
Yes, right. He's right.

Speaker 1 When we went in and they handed those to us, we all looked at each other and said, this is the most important thing I've ever heard. So I just have to be there.

Speaker 1 I have to, that's, all right, that's a fair answer. Well, also, because all the other stuff I'm down with, like the merch, the menu, I love all that stuff.

Speaker 1 But when we get to like eclipse glasses, I was like, all right.

Speaker 4 Have you seen any other eclipse glasses, though? Those are the coolest eclipse glasses. I don't know.

Speaker 1 The ones Frank was wearing pre-screen.

Speaker 4 I didn't see those. But for the ones that I've seen, I would agree with Marty Smith.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dude, it was also the idea that you were potentially going to be inside of Augustine Astro during an eclipse. That feels like fake life shit.
True. I think that was a big part of the appeal.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was a huge part of it. You know, I think that, what is it, every 20-something years? There was one seven years ago.

Speaker 4 They do the masters every year, Riggs. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think Augusta. Thank God.
I hope that except World War II. They didn't do it for four years.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So I actually, I had, um, I had a friend that went there, I think, four years ago. JP Finley from DC does like DC Sports Radio there.
And he hit me up.

Speaker 4 He's like, do you want any merch while I'm down here? I can ship some to you. I didn't realize what a big deal it was to get something shipped out of Augusta.

Speaker 4 And I asked him for a pimento cheese sandwich. So he got a pimento cheese, put it in the mail.
A little pro tip for everybody, don't try to do that. It does not arrive fresh.

Speaker 1 No way.

Speaker 4 You want to eat the mayonnaise and the cheese the day that they slice it.

Speaker 1 But what you guys are saying is it is, it is just as special as it is. So if you get the eclipse glasses, just that it, they are the best eclipse.
Yeah, guys like us are like, somebody sees that.

Speaker 1 Like you were at Augusta National during that eclipse. Like people go to Austin, Texas, or wherever to watch it.
We were at Augusta National.

Speaker 1 The efficiency in there is insane with all of the concessions and all that. And you realize, like, we were having a funny conversation, being like, it's crazy that everywhere doesn't just copy this.

Speaker 1 You're like, oh, well, everywhere doesn't have unlimited money. Yeah.
And billionaires that run the whole thing. Yeah.
You will be stunned when you go, though, for the first time.

Speaker 1 The concessions are unlike any other sports concession where it's a walkthrough. It's not a walk up and stop and then turn around and go back.
You just keep moving the whole time and you're grabbing.

Speaker 1 Like an Aldi?

Speaker 1 What's that? What's through an Aldi? It's like the really cheap grocery store. Oh, I have been a days.
So you can't go back. You just keep going forward.
That's exactly what it is.

Speaker 1 People are grabbing. Austa and Aldi's.
Augusta will probably kill me for saying that.

Speaker 4 I think IKEA is the same way, too, right?

Speaker 1 You just follow the path to the other. Yeah, right.
You just keep going. I think that's right.
But it's that special. It's very, yeah.

Speaker 1 They just figured it out because so many people go there with the concessions and the merch that you can't have a line take three hours. Right.
You cannot have that.

Speaker 1 So when I was in the merch line yesterday, I looked at it and I said, that's going to take three hours. They have people standing over the sign.
This is going to take 18 minutes.

Speaker 1 It's not going to feel like that when you're looking at it, but it's going to take 18 minutes. It takes 18 minutes.
It takes 18 minutes. So are you guys at the point now?

Speaker 1 Because foreplay, you guys have had so much success. You guys are crushing it.
By the way, we have a Stella Blue Foreplay collab coming out very soon. Very exciting.
Cold brew.

Speaker 1 Flavors, which are going to be really good. Do people know the flavor yet? We're holding it.
I think we're holding it. Okay, we're holding it.
Yeah, we're holding it. We're holding it.
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 We're going to do a golf video. I've actually been thinking about maybe doing...

Speaker 4 Transfusion coffee. Well,

Speaker 1 I was going to drink a pint of cold brew for every hole, and then Hank looked at me like I was insane. He's probably right.
I trust Hank. I think your heart would explode.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I trust Hank in in these situations, but we'll figure it out. But are you guys at the point now where are you getting any extra, like, is Augusta being like, oh, they're the four-play guys?

Speaker 1 Or that just will never happen? No. Okay.
In fact, Augusta. Nope.
Not even a little bit. Nope.
No, we don't.

Speaker 1 Like, Dan obviously is more of our golf rider, our big J. I know he's been on PMT, and he's had his credential.

Speaker 1 And we were a little worried, like, he went from golf digest and legacy media to Barcelona Sports. Like, you still have a credential at the Masters? Got it.

Speaker 1 But now they almost treat us like we have to walk more on eggshaws. They're like, one of your guys has a credential.
Oh, they got you. They have leverage.
Yeah, they got a little leverage on us.

Speaker 1 So it's like, we got to be careful.

Speaker 4 How close are we to playing at Augusta?

Speaker 1 Not even close.

Speaker 4 They'll never let you get around.

Speaker 1 Dude Perfect did it. Yeah.
I know. All right.
So we had this conversation on our show, too. We were like, all right, they're maybe opening the door to alternative types of media.

Speaker 1 And then we went on their YouTube channel, Dude Perfect. They have 40 million YouTube subscribers.
We have like 440,000.

Speaker 1 It's not even like a same bracket at all.

Speaker 4 I was upset when they opened the door to the DP guys because they went out, they defiled Augusta.

Speaker 4 They brought like tennis rackets out there and they were playing weird sports on the hallowed grounds of Augusta National. I didn't like it.
I thought that was bad for Masters.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we kind of like started all of us, our whole brand being like making fun of old man Yell at Cloud, but we're such Augusta golf guys that we were like, that's you can't allow that at Augusta National.

Speaker 1 I don't even know if we would want them to allow us to film our tennis. Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

Speaker 1 I would prefer that they don't give us anything. Like that's sort of their appeal.

Speaker 1 Like, the more there's been stories of members, like, if you really want to be a member at Augusta National, they won't give it to you. Right.

Speaker 1 If you're too thirsty for an Augusta National membership, they're like, I'm not giving it to that person.

Speaker 1 So, I think them keeping the door closed, the dude perfect thing did make me a little bit mad because of that. But, I mean, I would prefer that they're just like, never you guys can't come in.

Speaker 1 You're saying we're playing it cool. We're like, yeah, we're not even really that worried about ever playing there.
Yeah, because it feels that's that's the secret society, man.

Speaker 1 It's like you can't play on that golf course. We act like we don't even want to play there.
Maybe we'll get to play there.

Speaker 4 I think it does turn you into a dad immediately when you go there. You could be like a young, like a rap scallion.

Speaker 4 You can be like a rebel and you set foot on there and you're like, I'm going to behave myself perfectly today. I'm going to make sure that I'm wearing a freshly pressed shirt.

Speaker 4 I'm going to start narking on the other people next to me that might be yelling inappropriate things. Yep.
Like it matures you just being at Augusta.

Speaker 1 The no-phone thing changes everybody. Dad, I'm actually excited for the first time I go.
Dude, the best.

Speaker 1 The first 30 minutes you're going through withdrawals, you're tapping your pocket, you're trying to check your phone, and then you're free. Yeah.
you're free. Yeah, it was so freeing that yesterday.

Speaker 1 I made a crazy claim that I'm considering going phoneless as a person. Yeah, that's the dumbest thing you ever said.
It is. That's what it does to you.
Yeah. Big cat.

Speaker 1 It's like me saying I'm going to do a diet. Right.
I was, that's what I was telling you. I was like, you know, your whole life.
Hank's saying he's going to dunk. That's right.
That one.

Speaker 1 And it's like, that's our whole life. If you're on your phone, that's our whole lives.
But it's nice even just asking people for the time. People with watches in Augusta National are a big deal.

Speaker 4 So are there any other pro tips? Because that sounds like one that people wouldn't think about before they go there. Like, wear a watch so you know what time it is.

Speaker 4 Any other pro tips for like your first time going to Augusta?

Speaker 1 I would say one of the biggest ones is you truly have to commit, if you know someone else that's going, of meeting somewhere at a certain time. Because you just, oh, we're all going.

Speaker 1 Next week's going to be great. You get out there.
You're like, I have absolutely no way to communicate with this human. Yeah.
So it's, it's jarring. You cannot communicate.

Speaker 1 And if you lose somebody, it's over.

Speaker 4 It's like you're in a Seinfeld episode.

Speaker 1 Dude, you go back in time.

Speaker 1 If you go into the restroom together with someone and like they go to this and then afterwards you didn't agree on where you legit might not find them for the rest of the day.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's kind of cool. Yeah, it's very cool.
Uh, it's like, yeah, like old, I mean, PFT and I date ourselves a lot.

Speaker 1 You guys are a little older as well, but like the idea of like going to like a bowling alley as a kid and my mom giving me like a dime or a quarter and being like, just call.

Speaker 1 I don't want to get picked up in the pay phone. So we also dated myself.

Speaker 1 They have not paid, they just have phones old school where you can, and we were like, oh, yeah, we should call somebody, and we don't know any phone numbers. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 We don't have anybody. 911.
That's the only number on the call. I got nobody else.
Yeah, it's a little tough.

Speaker 4 They should do just like text phones where you can text somebody at a payphone that you know they're going to be next to. Beepers.

Speaker 1 Beeper. Yeah.
I just invented beeper. Just invented beeper.
All right. Last question before we get to Hank's questions.

Speaker 1 Everyone give a pick. Give us a pick.
Are you guys worried about Scotty and the baby?

Speaker 1 Honestly, Scotty, I'm worried about Scotty. ruining the tournament because he's he's so good.
He's so much better than everyone else. But are you worried about the baby?

Speaker 1 Because he said that he would leave the grounds if his wife goes into labor now it's their first child and i think the due date's not till the end of the month so it should be okay but would that not be the craziest thing ever if he's like killing everyone well i was gonna ask you guys what would you like with your kid if it's your first child if i was winning the masters i would not leave you wouldn't leave if i was winning the masters yeah i would not leave first kids i agree with you first kid first i would if first kid winning the masters If I was winning the Masters, I would not leave.

Speaker 1 In contention. I would say...
In contention, maybe I would leave because then I could always be like, I I would have won. The kid will be there tomorrow.

Speaker 4 But if I was up, if I'm in the last group of the Masters, I'm not leaving. I'll name my kid Augusta.
Yeah. How about that? Like, you're always going to remember that kid.

Speaker 4 The kid will understand, too, once he grows up. The kid, they'll be like, good call, dad.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I like the storyline just because it's something to follow.

Speaker 1 It's like, yeah, is it going to, because if it happens, like, the footage of Scotty Shuffler running off the golf course would be incredible. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then it's, it's Scotty, and then who's the other one? Sam Burns. Sam Burns.
He won. He actually, I think his wife is like a week away.
Yeah, she's a lot closer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is a lot more nerve-wracking because I think Scotty would be fine.

Speaker 1 I also think there's a funny dynamic of the two of them are best friends, but Scotty's number one player in the world has won the Masters before.

Speaker 1 If you're Sam Burns and you've never won the Masters, never won a major championship,

Speaker 1 and then he's sort of in this spot where he's like, Scotty said he was going to go. And you're like, well, I haven't won the Masters.
Yeah, Scotty kind of screwed him on that.

Speaker 1 Because his baby's also not due for a lot longer. And the first, which usually the due date's about right with the first.

Speaker 4 I think that's the math, though. If you have more green jackets or equal amount of green jackets as you have children, then you stay to try to get another.

Speaker 4 So, if you have if you've won it twice and you're about to have your third kid, then you stay and you try to win on Sunday. If it's the other way around, then you have to go.

Speaker 4 If it's your first kid, you've got two green jackets, you got to go.

Speaker 1 I would leave if I was if I was in, if I was like 15th, I would be like, all right, I'm leaving, and then I can just tell everyone I would have won.

Speaker 4 How are they going to let them know?

Speaker 1 How are they going to call him? Someone, they have

Speaker 1 like telepathy out there.

Speaker 1 Beepers. Remember, we invented beepers.
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Called us number.
All right, so wait, who's your pick to win? My long shot pick is Jason Day. Okay.
He's plus, I think he's 6,000, 60 to 1. Remember that time he collapsed? Yep.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was pretty funny. Vertigo is Vertigo.
He's a big Vertigo. You can laugh about Vertigo.
Yeah, I think that was Chambers Bay.

Speaker 1 And then he contended at the Masters a handful of years ago, and he had like a broken back the whole time. I like Jason Day.
Okay, Trent? I'm taking Brooks. Okay.
All right. 20 to 1.

Speaker 1 I already took it. Big game hunter.
He really wants this one, too.

Speaker 4 And he's very cocky right now.

Speaker 1 By the way, way, we should update. We should update everyone.
Yeah, he is very cocky. So everyone just listened to Brooks.
We had him on, and he was like, I'll pick the, we did the lottery ball.

Speaker 1 And he's like, whatever number comes up, I'll just pick that for my caddy.

Speaker 1 So 72 came up, and in classic Brooks fashion, he texted me and he said that he like zoned out and Cam Smith jumped in front of him. So he got number 73, which is perfect, Brooks.

Speaker 1 It's perfect, Brooks.

Speaker 1 He's like, I literally just look, I was just like staring out the window, and then he jumped right in front of me. And and so I got 73.

Speaker 4 He's lucked, and I've seen this, Brooks, before, where he's just in fuck it mode, and he's not thinking about anything.

Speaker 1 That's rule number one, four, and eight. I don't know if you guys saw

Speaker 1 golf digests 10 rules, and three out of ten of them were don't think. Smart.
They're just different versions of don't think.

Speaker 4 But yeah, he's like talking shit. He's taking little shots at people.
He was having some Lucy out there on the range today, and he is very confident.

Speaker 1 Dude, and he's healthy.

Speaker 1 Him being healthy, he can win any tournament in the world, and he loves the majors, obviously. So I feel very good about that.
His pressure today, too.

Speaker 1 If someone asked a question that he thought was a dumb question, he basically just said that's a dumb question. Yeah, well, that guy asking, is this a 50? Can you shoot 59 here?

Speaker 1 That guy was asking everybody that. It's so crazy.
Laughed at him. He said, have you played the course? Yeah.
He's like, no. Okay, dude, shut up.
All right. Guys on golf.

Speaker 1 We got some questions from the listeners. Yes, we do.
Hank. Hey, fellas.
Huge fan of the podcast.

Speaker 1 I'm 24, and now that I'm working nine to five, and me and all my boys are washed up, we've taken up golf. I'm in a top-tier vibes-wise guy on the course, but bottom-tier in actual skill and play my

Speaker 1 play of my golfing friends. Okay.

Speaker 1 Which do you recommend for getting better at golf, hitting a simulator for a couple hours and playing a virtual course, or going to the range and hitting a bucket of balls? Ooh.

Speaker 1 I don't think I've gotten better at golf since we started all of this. I love your series against the haters, though.
That's a great idea. That's a fucking awesome.
That's a great idea. Thank you.

Speaker 1 I appreciate that. The problem is nobody actually wants to play.
Of course, because they're cowards. It's infuriating.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 As you go through, we were like, oh, yeah, any of the videos I post, we'll just go through, look at all the comments. They're all insanely negative.

Speaker 1 And just message those people and be like, okay, like, we'd love to have a match. And none of them will actually do it.

Speaker 1 We got to get you hooked up with our buddy Andrew Santino because he had a similar idea to hold an actual tournament with the haters. So if you did that with him, it'd be hilarious.

Speaker 1 Okay, he was like, we'll just invite all of them out because then in numbers, I feel like the haters feel a little more of a safety blanket. Yeah,

Speaker 1 yeah, that's right. Yeah.
And that would be great. So, wait, Trent, what's your you've gotten a lot better at golf.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think you got to go to go to the range. Simulator golf, although you guys have a simulator here and I can't stop hitting balls over there.
Like this place is incredible.

Speaker 1 I think you got to go to the range. That's that's just where you get better.
Not no mats, no simulator. Just go to the range and hit a bunch of balls.
I also

Speaker 1 cliche as it may sound, like taking even one lesson, I think makes a massive difference. You realize that you don't know what the fuck you're doing.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'm of the mindset that I will never let another man teach me how to swing.

Speaker 1 That's me. I've taken a couple lessons and I've I feel like every time I take a lesson, I learn like one thing that I can take.
Like it's like 10 lessons, I get one thing that I can take.

Speaker 1 So I need to take like probably about 600 more lessons and I might be okay. You're going to be right there.
You're going to be dialed.

Speaker 4 What about just watching a YouTube video before you go to sleep? I like to do that and then I think about the YouTube video in my sleep. Subconscious.
Yeah, subconscious works.

Speaker 4 So next thing you know, I can hit a bunker shot in the morning.

Speaker 1 Have you ever watched that YouTube video where the guy tries to fix the slice and he just never gets to the point? Yeah, because he's there's so many of those guys.

Speaker 4 I love those guys that are selling like their informational DVD or whatever and you have to watch the YouTube video and then he's just like, it's so easy. It's so simple.
And you never tell you.

Speaker 1 This is the one key tip to fix that slice.

Speaker 1 What is it?

Speaker 4 And there's like a line of these, the most unathletic looking weirdos that are like, he fixed my swing. Now I'm hitting 275 right down the middle.

Speaker 4 And he's like, all you got to do is come to my seminar. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I watched like 50 minutes of it when we were at Pinehurst and he just never got to the point. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The main reason I say that about Elastic Elastinthi 2 is because the amount of times that any of us I feel like have gone to a range and air quotes practiced and had no idea what you're actually

Speaker 1 doing is every time. And then you walk off and you're like, I actually have, I don't think I learned anything.
Right.

Speaker 4 Well, let me ask you guys because Brooks says that he doesn't think about anything at all when he hits. Every time I learn something new, I have like another thing that I think about as I'm swinging.

Speaker 4 And then I forget about the previous thing I was thinking about that fixed my old problem. Now I've got my old problem, but I fixed my new one.

Speaker 4 Do you guys think about anything at all? Like consciously, keep your arm tucked?

Speaker 1 The more I think about stuff, the worse I am. Right.
Brooks is in a position when he's not thinking about anything. That's why he's one of the best in the world.

Speaker 1 Because he doesn't have to think about anything. Doesn't have to think about keep your elbow tucked, go this far back.

Speaker 1 If you can have no thoughts, he's actually right because then you're just, it's all athleticism and what you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and Brooks had in the Full Swing series in season one, like one of my favorite sort of clips because he obviously comes on here and he's great.

Speaker 1 We laugh about him not really giving a shit about golf some of the time, but you can see how frustrated he was there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And he had all the quotes about how, like, yeah, when you're sucking or struggling or whatever, you've got a trillion thoughts. He's like, I bet Scotty Shefford doesn't have any thoughts.

Speaker 1 And they cut to Scotty Shefford and Meredith, like walking down the street. Yeah, down the street.
Yeah, having golf. And that is, that sums up golf perfectly.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, if you can, like, that's something I've honestly been doing better lately when I've been hitting better is on the range, you work on all this stuff where you're thinking about this.

Speaker 1 You have seven swing thoughts. But when you go to the course, you just honestly just swing, as crazy as that sounds.

Speaker 1 My best rounds have when I think about tempo. That's it.
I think I honestly think about Freddie Couples in my head.

Speaker 1 If you want to watch golf YouTube videos, just watch Freddie Couples swing and you don't have to mimic his swing, but his tempo is what you want. It's so sweet.
It's so sweet.

Speaker 1 You don't have to swing hard. You don't have to swing fast.
Just it's very easy. Technology in the clubs are so good now that they're going to do a lot of the work for you.

Speaker 1 If you just sort of keep things in control and hit the ball, it's going to go.

Speaker 1 And if you just do it slow, you'll be, it's funny, feel versus real, people talk about it all the time, you'll feel like you're going as slow as molasses, and then you'll see your swing on video and you'll still be going fast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so just slow everything down. That's what I do.
And I got to say, shout out to the vibes guy because you can suck out there as long as you're just a good vibes guy.

Speaker 1 Like, we, one of the one guy I saw one like an amateur tournament got up and he said, the best thing I ever learned was if you can't play great, just like be great to play with.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and that's such a good point. So, if the vibes guy is always bringing the vibes, then he's doing a great job.

Speaker 4 That is a good point.

Speaker 4 Best vibe-bringer personalities, like personality traits, I should say. Like,

Speaker 4 selecting good music, not being slow, obviously.

Speaker 1 Saying you're going to love that. I know you're great at that.
No matter what.

Speaker 1 You're the king of that. Yeah, sometimes they're sarcastic.
Picking it around with the cart girl. Yep, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, anybody who capitalizes on opportunities to acquire alcohol. Yeah.
I feel like that. Compliments.
I like to compliment, but not shot. But not in a belittling way.

Speaker 1 Not in a sarcastic way, but actually do like, that's a great shot. Uh-huh.
Yeah. Not playing slow is a big one.
Just kind of knowing when you're out of the hole.

Speaker 1 If you're on swing. Oh, I'm good at that.
If you're on swing eight and you're still like 170 yards out, just pick that sucker up and let's go.

Speaker 1 There's nothing better than when you see a guy who's clearly out of the hole and you're looking back being like, are we going to have to?

Speaker 1 And he's just walking towards the hole with the ball in his palm. He's done.
Like, nope. Oh, I'm out on this.
I'm good at that because I will be out of like multiple holes in a row.

Speaker 1 Like, if I have a really bad one, I'll be like, that's it for the next three.

Speaker 4 Me and Big Cat conceded a hole off our T-shot.

Speaker 1 I played against that guy. I was in that.

Speaker 1 People were like, you guys are such pussies pussies for doing that it's like why why we're we suck yeah like it's funny to conceive i thought that was admirable if the guy's in pocket and then he goes up and pulls the pin out and is like oh what do you guys see here and is still involved you're killing it yeah actually can i ask you guys a question uh hypothetically if you're playing golf you're on a course maybe with your producer of your podcast right maybe the guy that's been producing you since like the start

Speaker 4 he's been around for a while mic click on

Speaker 4 and uh i don't know who could have turned the mic on there but you have to pee right everyone's got to pee on the golf course no big deal yeah Would you recommend pulling your penis out and peeing directly onto the middle of the cart path as it's about to trickle down on everybody's shoes that are right behind you?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would say generally pick the surface that absorbs water the worst and pee right onto it, preferably uphill and into the wind. Yeah,

Speaker 4 the only surface that doesn't absorb pee on the golf course. Would you pee right onto that?

Speaker 1 When I heard that from the hypothetical, it's hypothetical. When I heard that there could be a hypothetical like this,

Speaker 1 I've played golf thousands of of times. I've never seen that move in my life.
Yeah. Not once.
Changing the game. Hypothetically.
Hypothetically. Hypothetically.
All right, Hank. What's the next one?

Speaker 1 Ask the four-play boys. Once Tiger inevitably retires, who is their number one guy after that? Oh, good question.

Speaker 1 Ooh. And it can't be Charlie Woods because we have dibs.
You guys do have dibs on that. Yeah.
Careful as a teenager. I know.

Speaker 1 I have dibs on that list.

Speaker 4 I have dibs on Charlie.

Speaker 4 Charlie's going to be. He's going to be on that couch before you know it.

Speaker 1 Oh, boy.

Speaker 1 Ah, man. I would say

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think of someone that isn't like

Speaker 1 a friend because that's always a little, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, because you can't criticize the same way. Well, yeah.
And like

Speaker 1 Tiger, we don't want Tiger to be our friend, really. Right.

Speaker 1 He's an icon. He's above being our friend.

Speaker 1 Kids are somebody that we're close with. It's like, oh, yeah, I root for that guy, but he's kind of your buddy, whatever.

Speaker 1 I would say he is kind of our friend, but Joel Damon. I just root for that.
That was the first name that popped up. I just root for that guy.
I think he's

Speaker 1 so regular. I feel like in the second season of Full Swing, he kind of got dogged a little bit, and they just made him look like he just drinks 24-7, 365, which

Speaker 1 is not accurate. He cares about it.
So, I don't know. I just like Joel Damon a lot.
That was the first name that popped into my head.

Speaker 1 I don't even really like to look into the future like that with Tiger because it makes me sad. But I think it would probably be Joel.

Speaker 1 We still got probably 10 years left with Tiger. We're fine.
What? Yeah. No, no, we're fine.
Okay, we don't have to do it. Did you guys talk at all about the abstinence thing? Yeah,

Speaker 1 i think it's gonna backfire we want tiger to fuck that's what we said yeah yeah why would that be the formula he's probably gonna try to fuck max why maybe max might try to fuck him hey max a good looking dude well i that made no sense to us and i don't know where the rumor came from but like in the prime of tiger's career he was yeah right so to not fuck right i think that's the answer is idiotic but he then again like he's got leg problems so maybe he's trying to save up all his energy that's fair maybe just a blowjob yeah it's blowjob era it's the blowjob era.

Speaker 1 Blowjob era.

Speaker 4 When Rock of Tiger was like, I'm not having intercourse anal only for the two weeks leading up to the masters. This is no sex policy.
That's my jigsaw.

Speaker 1 Just butt stuff. I think everyone's on the same page.
I hadn't seen All Business Pete in like two years. The first thing he said to me, he's like, I feel like Tiger needs to be fucking.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was like, yeah, I think everybody feels that way. So, yeah, it's concerning.
Very concerning. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He might have also just been a classic Tiger like bait and switch where he said it and then like the hottest girls hit him up and like, I'll fix you. He's single.
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 We're dealing with that on purpose. Not that it would have mattered, but we're dealing with a single tiger once.
Yeah. All right.
Let's do two more, Hank.

Speaker 1 My friends and I are not great at golf, but enjoy playing nine holes every now and then.

Speaker 1 We almost always walk when playing nine, but walking coupled with a few bad shots leads to groups behind us talking shit, saying we aren't playing fast enough.

Speaker 1 Sometimes I understand this, but when we are playing at a public course and the angry group behind us is riding in a cart, do they really have a leg to stand on?

Speaker 1 How are we possibly supposed to play at the pace of the group behind us who's in a cart when we are walking? Isn't this just like depending on the course?

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's walking courses and there's there's also, I mean, it sounds bit, but the if it's ever cart path only, I think you just walk every time. Right.
Cart path only sucks.

Speaker 1 You drive up, you got to run all the way across. You inevitably hit everywhere.

Speaker 1 The cart path's on the right. You always hit it left.
You're bringing like three clubs out there and you never grab the one that you wanted.

Speaker 1 So I think walking is actually faster if it's cart path only. But in the other situation, I mean,

Speaker 1 just tell them to go fuck that. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't know what you do.

Speaker 1 Tell them to walk. Because walking is underrated.
I get the

Speaker 1 if you're out there with buddies and you want to drink and you're having like a big group like I get getting in a cart.

Speaker 1 But if you find a course and you find like a slot of time where you can walk, it's amazing. It does feel great.

Speaker 1 I sound kind of like the old like romanticism of golf guys. You've evolved on that.
Oh, yeah. I used to be cart guy only, but then recently within the last couple years, I would walk nine holes.

Speaker 1 Never 18. I'm going to die out there if I walk 18.

Speaker 1 But if I walk nine holes, it's beautiful yeah because in a cart you almost aren't looking at the scenery around you right you're outside you forget that when sometimes when you're in a cart it's like shot grab a beer drive to the next shot hit it get in the cart go when you're just walking you're just you're taking it all in it's also actually more social with the whole group yeah for sure sounds counterintuitive because obviously you're chit-chatting with your one guy but the other two you only see them on the tee they go to their ball you go to yours whatever when you're all four kind of walking together it is it's nice it's peaceful it's more social and this is with caddies Yeah.

Speaker 1 If you're not walking, we're not carrying our own bags. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I have been recently, but we do think you get the cart. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, of course. The push cart.
Yeah, the push cart. Yeah, push cart's nice.

Speaker 4 I like the cart that just follows you around everywhere.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the little R2D2 thing. Yeah,

Speaker 1 those things are switched. That's a classic, like, country club older guy move, and he just plays every Saturday and Sunday morning and just hits a little button and his thing goes down.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, Hank. Last question.

Speaker 1 Oh, he's having trouble reading.

Speaker 1 Last year, Liv Golfers killed it, finishing at the top of the master spots and really showed out.

Speaker 1 My question is: this year, do you think PGA players or live golfers will do better at the Masters this year?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I would say we were, that was shocking last year to a lot of people because, you know, there was kind of a belief that the Liv guys weren't playing as much. It's not as competitive.

Speaker 1 The fields aren't as deep, blah, blah, blah. And then obviously, Brooks almost won the Masters, won the PGA.
Phil finished second in the Masters. There are a bunch of other names up there.

Speaker 1 So I think it'll be close. I really do.
I think John Rahm is maybe the second favorite. I think he is.
Third favorite.

Speaker 1 Liv has gotten so many good golfers now. Gotten a ton.
Even guys

Speaker 1 that don't get talked about a ton, like Sergio Garcia was leading a lot last week on Liv.

Speaker 1 He could contend at the Masters easily. You got Tyrell Hatton, who nobody really talks about, who's a great guy to watch, play helicopters, clubs all over the place.
He's somebody that could contend.

Speaker 1 So I think it'll be, honestly, it'll be pretty damn close now. Yeah.
You also just find that these are the best golfers in the world, right? And they get up for these big tournaments.

Speaker 1 So regardless of how they're playing or what tour they're playing playing on, they're probably, we found out last year that they're probably going to play pretty well. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Do we know what it's going to look like when they merge the two? Any idea?

Speaker 1 They have been incredibly tight-lipped because I don't think they know.

Speaker 1 I think John Rahm also gave a

Speaker 1 his answers made it seem like they're very far apart because it feels like he went to live being like, don't worry, we'll just be the PGA in like a year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was kind of the guy that when he went, it felt like he went as the tipping point of Tor was going to to be like, oh, shit, we really got to get something done or Liv's just going to keep taking all of our players.

Speaker 1 Ron was going to be the last guy that cashed in. He got three, four, $600 million, whatever it was.
And then he seemed frustrated. He does.
Yeah, it's not working, which sucks.

Speaker 1 So, you know, it's a little split. Like, we talk about it a ton, obviously, on our show, as you can imagine.

Speaker 1 And we get a little bit annoyed that the best players, you know, aren't playing together all the time.

Speaker 1 But other people make the point that they don't really play together or didn't all the time, anyways. Like, it wasn't like they all played the same tournaments.
They really didn't.

Speaker 1 It wasn't that common that you got Rory and Rahm and Tiger and Phil back when they were all together, like playing and contending in the same tournament. That never fucking happened.

Speaker 1 So it's definitely, it's frustrating for us because like Brooks and Rahm and those guys that we love watching. All of the interesting guys went.
Yeah. Patrick Reed, as much as you can,

Speaker 1 polarizing guys went. And when you lose that from the main tour or whatever you want to call the main tour, it lessens the product and it's more boring.

Speaker 1 Like at first, we talked about this on the show too. Like at first, when this all started to happen, we were like, this is great for guys like us because it's all storylines.
Who's going to jump?

Speaker 1 How much money are they taking? This is incredible. Now we're in like a holding pattern where everybody who, all the big names who are going to jump have jumped.

Speaker 1 And all we've done is split the talent pool. So when you watch, even if you watch the PJ Tour or if you watch Live, whichever one, you're watching a watered-down product.

Speaker 1 And for a sport like golf that is not cool enough to water down its product, we are now fucking the sport over completely.

Speaker 1 It's also guys like Patrick Reed and Bryson are like Bryson was the biggest headline guy forever, whether you hated him or loved him.

Speaker 1 And those guys are headline guys and drive it when they're unhappy about stuff. Now they're at Live and they're like, this is great.
I like money.

Speaker 1 So they're never in the headline anymore. When they're at the tour, they bitched.
They hated the other players. Their wives hated the other players.
It was amazing.

Speaker 1 Now they never bitch about anything.

Speaker 1 That's true. It's a mess.
And I know

Speaker 1 to go back to the original question, like, I don't think they're close. I don't know when it's going to come together.
Yeah. Sucks.

Speaker 4 I like the strategy, though. Let's give Patrick Reed so much money he won't steal from his teammates ever again.

Speaker 1 But he probably still is thinking about it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, that would be great if Patrick Reed did a tiger headline. He was like, I'm not stealing for the two weeks before the last.
You know, it would rock.

Speaker 4 It would rock if they offered Rory like $500 million to join Liv for like a year and then he just bounced from the PGA tour. He went back on everything.

Speaker 1 500 million. I think if he went, that would like, there'd be riots in the streets.

Speaker 4 Probably not because it's golf, but like if he went, he, there's so many clips of him being like, I hate Liv.

Speaker 1 I'll never go.

Speaker 1 But at this point, that's kind of what Ron did and what you were saying, Den, where he was thinking he's going to take the money and we're all going to be playing the same events right here anyway.

Speaker 1 And I think it's probably going to end up that way eventually, but it might be two years. No, it might be a while.

Speaker 1 One thing I don't like is when the players or anyone really in any situation where they take a ton of money say, like, I had to do it for my family.

Speaker 1 Because what I don't understand is like, when has raising a kid and just giving them $100 million worked out? Yeah. Never.
No, it's just an easy way.

Speaker 1 People love to do it whether they're like in controversy or like a situation like this. Like, I'm thinking about my family.
Right. And I'm like,

Speaker 1 I'm like Rob you already had 50 or 100 million dollars that's plenty for any like I don't understand what that means if you're just gonna your son wakes up and you hand them trust fund and endless money that the kid's gonna be dead by the time they're 25 what he should say and what the reality is he should be like I'm thinking about my great great grandchildren because that's what the money that's what where the money like you when you get to a certain point it's like you can't spend all that you're just setting up all the ROMs for the rest of the life providing them a safety net and all that but you still gotta like raise a human being like in order for them to work out sexually.

Speaker 1 You can't just throw money at them. So that always kind of drives me crazy.
But I still would have taken the money.

Speaker 1 I mean, well, especially now, because the original guys, the DJs and the Bubbas and all that, they took the brunt of it. If you jump now, nobody cares.
No one gives you a job.

Speaker 4 The first guys had to be like, you know, I'm just, I'm really passionate about team-style golf. Yeah.
And so it wasn't about the money at all.

Speaker 1 And the reporter would be like, we were asking you about 9-11. I don't know why you're talking about team golf.

Speaker 1 Oh, did you say 9-11?

Speaker 4 No, is that the length of the shorts that they're going to be playing?

Speaker 1 Is that the in-seam? And now nobody, even the ROM stuff. ROM jumped, and two days later, people were like, all right, that's cool.
That's fine. Sounds good.
All right.

Speaker 1 You guys want to pick some numbers? Yes.

Speaker 1 All right. Should we do numbers? Should we finish the show? By the way, Trent, I literally, I gasped when I saw you in linen.
You looked so hot. So we were shooting.
You looked so hot. Thank you.

Speaker 1 I really appreciate that. We were shooting a commercial and they were like, put on all this linen.
And I did. And something shifted in me.
You looked hot. Like, I stopped.

Speaker 1 It stopped me in my tracks on Twitter. I was just like, whoa.
I need linen. I've already been shopping for linen.
Yeah. I already ordered a shirt.
It just looked fucking cool.

Speaker 1 It looked like you just look relaxed. And you're, and you're like, you're comfy, too.
Yeah, right. That's what you're looking for.
Yeah, right. You look good.
Yeah. No one ever calls me hot.

Speaker 1 Today, people are calling me hot. So if I'm comfortable and people are like, you look good, that's the route.

Speaker 1 It was a tough hour for me because the whole premise was kind of like Trent was shitting on me a little bit. Awesome.
And we had to do the take many, many times.

Speaker 1 So he just kept pulling up next to me and shitting on me looking really hot. It was awesome.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, we did a commercial where the whole thing was that we have small dicks and we had to basically be naked for it. So it could be worse.
Definitely.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Hot trent shitting on me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
Numbers, what do you guys got in the booth? Eight. 40.
20. 3.

Speaker 1 18. 99, Pug.
There we go, Pug. 21.
All right, what do you guys got? 55.

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Speaker 1 Because it's going to be 16th major for Tiger. 16th.
Tiger's not even going to make the cut. Tigers will make the cut.

Speaker 1 He's healthy. He looked really good.

Speaker 1 I'll bet him to make the cut. I bet he's going to make the cut.
That's what I'm going to do. I'll pick 16 because it's the 16th major.
He's going to win this week.

Speaker 1 He makes the cut and doesn't withdraw.

Speaker 1 It's like 10. 10.
10. Who's got 9? Anyone got 9? No.
Nine majors?

Speaker 1 Gary Player? I think Gary Player. All right, so Gary Player is going to bet on Gary Player.
All right.

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