INTRODUCING: We Need A Fourth with Brian Baumgartner, Cooper Manning and Kenny Mayne

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Well, guys, I am so honored.

I am joined today by

the absolute royalty of golf podcasting.

Honestly, royalty of personalities, too, if I'm being fully honest.

The co-hosts of We Need a Fourth, Kenny Mayne, Brian Baumgartner, and my boy,

cooper manning.

Boys, welcome.

I'm so excited for you guys.

I'm so excited for the podcast.

Thank you so much.

This is great.

We've been having a blast.

This is the threesome that we didn't know we needed in America.

And then when I tell people that

you guys are doing this podcast, everybody's very excited.

You all love golf to varying degrees.

Explain a little bit about your relationship to golf.

Well, first off, well, I would say that Kenny loves golf golf the most for sure.

Like, I don't think

Kenny loves golf more than Cooper and I love golf combined.

He just needs to learn how to play it.

He doesn't love me back.

Now, I'm a disabled senior, and I play back way back with those guys from the tips.

So keep that in mind.

That's not fair.

I'm trying to learn.

I'm trying to learn.

I got a lot more to learn, but I do love the game.

You know, I was going to ask you about

your hockey team up there in Canada and and whether you get distraught i get incredibly competitive

when it's over i'm done like it's not it's not like right i don't carry the

i don't carry the joy or the pain for longer than like 25 seconds right and coop coop you don't get you're not very competitive in that way like golf for you is a lot of fun you like to have fun i mean you like to bet or whatever but i've gotten to the point where i do not like playing golf as much as i love playing golf i do not like playing golf with people I do not like.

And I won't.

Someone can invite me on the greatest trip.

We're going here, and I'm like, who's going?

And if it's a bunch of bozos, Coopie is out.

I'd rather go play an absolute muni with two guys wearing football jerseys and smoking weed and

get a story out of it than stumb stiff at

some fancy schmancy spot.

Well, that makes sense.

And

this podcast, obviously, is, you know, we need a fourth, fourth so it's golf-centric but you guys kind of delve into you it's safe to say that you guys go on tangents that aren't necessarily golf related

and we also get very deep you know as you you know interviewed with us I mean we talked high lie we talked Canadian football we talked about your love of hockey and your love we try to we want the whole person we're peeling back there's nothing left of the fucking onion by the time it's minced and and we break the person down I guess I like the social aspect of it.

I love that for that time, you're out there, there's nothing to do, you're not on your phone, you don't have a million things coming at you, you're just there, and you get to kind of shoot the shit and have a good time.

And that's that's what I like, and that's kind of the vibe that you guys have here.

That's what we're trying to do.

I mean, we're trying, we're looking for a fourth to play golf with, but really, we're just looking for a fourth to hang out with.

And like you,

well, for me, golf,

I don't do yoga.

I know that's surprising to a lot of people.

This is, by the way, this is breaking news, by the way.

That was going to be the name of this show.

I don't do yoga.

He's more tight sheet.

I don't do yoga, but I use golf as meditation 100%.

Like you get four hours and you're thinking about nothing, you know, not work, not family, not whatever distracts you on your phone, but you're just focusing on putting this little stupid ball into this little stupid hole.

And that it totally resets me.

But don't you think as a man in the world you live in today, there's rarely a scenario where you're going to spend four hours with three other guys doing something everybody's enjoying and not,

you can't hide from getting a read on someone.

If you spend four hours playing someone, you're going to find out a lot.

Like,

is this a good fellow?

Do I want to hang around him again?

You find out because you can ask him anything, and it's always fun.

I usually learn a lot.

Sometimes people don't ask me anything in return.

I go, Well, I got that guy figured out, but he doesn't know shit about me.

That's fine, too.

I like that.

Well, it's also sort of like I forget which comic does it.

It's we have the joke here where I'll come home and my wife will ask, So, how's so-and-so doing?

You know, is he dating anyone?

Like, I don't know.

He fucking had an 82.

He had a good day.

Like, you know,

yeah,

I did.

Kenny, that is so funny you say, uh, uh, my buddy, I don't play golf with anybody more than I do with

our pal, Jason Bateman,

and JB, Jakey Bates.

And

his wife,

she'll double back on me.

We'll play and then we'll have dinner that night.

And she goes,

Jason didn't tell me any of the stuff that you're telling me.

I asked him, and

she goes, what do you guys talk about?

I go, I don't know.

We're just, you know, we're just

shooting the breeze.

Yeah, next shot,

ribbing each other, having a laugh about something.

But we don't, you know, you don't get too deep.

It's not like,

you know, we don't tee off and go and start walking and go, hey, man, you know, I just, I'm really depressed.

Like,

it doesn't make for a freak.

You're not good at home.

Should I get eight or seven?

Exactly.

Mark, our producer, should be noted,

is a stick.

He's a very good golfer.

I played with him many times over the years.

And he reminded me of a story one time we were playing years ago in New Jersey, which, Coop, I know you like.

I can almost stop there.

In New Jersey, in New Jersey I can almost just stop there, right?

This is like 10, 15 years ago in New Jersey.

Mark and me and Chris Pratt, TV and Films Chris Pratt, who we adore, hilarious guy, great guy, funniest dude in the room.

And Pratt, about the second or third hole, I forget what it was,

his shot and he's like,

threw my back out.

And he says,

he says, I'm going to go in.

We're like, do you want to see?

He said, no, no, you guys keep going.

I'm just going to go in and let me just go and do it.

And I'll see you guys later.

So, Mark and I continue to play.

We play full 18.

We're coming in.

It's kind of like twilight.

We're coming into 18.

And just behind the 18th green, we see this thing, this being

lying on the ground with his knees up.

And it's Pratt.

And he's been waiting there for hours for us to come in, lying on the grass just beyond 18.

By the way, we drove him back to the, because we were his ride to the city.

We drove him back here to New York City.

He gets out of the car, bent over, and he walked through, and he's like, see you, man, that was a great date.

Fully bent over.

I love when people get hurt.

I don't know why.

Pain

in a grown man, like it's self-defense.

I saw a guy kill a goose once.

I saw a guy off a tee at

Diker out in Brooklyn.

Off the T.

This guy was a terrible golfer, and he hit a goose and it killed it.

I had two clients one time I was playing with, and one guy was up ahead in the bunker, kind of trying to figure out something.

And someone's just absolutely hit this shin-high two-iron right in the lower back.

And the guy went, oh, you know, it goes down.

And those two started getting in a fight.

And I just said, you know, I just laughed my face off.

By the way, you just said, I love when someone gets hurt.

I love it.

Doing something, you know, they're supposed to be doing.

Well, that's why you guys both ridiculed me for the leg brace.

I got a ruined, the Will doesn't know this.

I got a wrecked ankle from football way back when.

So I wear this leg device that lets me do stuff with no pain.

These guys and JB, the Jasoner,

they killed me for it.

It's like, okay, let's go make fun of wheelchair people next, guys.

I know, but you carry it around like you're carrying an urn of your dead uncle, like walking around with.

Dead ankle.

Yeah.

So, guys, listen, we're really excited about We Need A Four.

This is going to be

a lot of fun.

When does it drop?

September 15th.

September 15th is a drop date.

Thank you, Bomber.

This is our own presentation.

Every Monday.

Every Monday.

Dropping two on the 15th.

So there'll be two there if you're listening to this on the side.

Deuce on the 15th.

Deuce on the 15th.

Jay Refund.

Jay Reed.

I mean, let's reword that.

I don't think it's going to give us the best.

Deuce on the 15th.

Fantastic.

We need a fourth.

Brian Baumgartner, Kenny Main, Cooper Manning.

Guys, couldn't be more excited.

Psych for you guys.

And can't wait to listen.

Thanks so much, man.

Thank you very much,

thank you.