Crime in Sports - #117 - Never A Dull Moment, Always An Empty Glass - The Recalcitrantness of John Daly

Episode Date: May 22, 2018

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golfer great john patrick daly is his full name is he really john irish that irish absolutely uh john patrick daly uh if you if you don't know who john daly is this is a thing if you're 75 or if you're 17 you still probably know who john Dale is. He's one of those guys that's just around. He's the guy that you've seen, if you just don't know names, but you've seen an overly fat guy smoking on a golf course and been told that's a professional athlete. This is the guy. And then he so he tips his head back and takes a pouch of peanut M&Ms and pours that shit into his face. Into his head. And while he's chewing that, takes an enormous puff off of a big fat stogie. That's what he does, man.

And then drinks a bunch of Diet Cokes and booze and he's a mess. He's a monster. I love him. And a very, very interesting guy, too, as we're going to talk about. He's fascinating and I don't know. This is a weird one because I don't know how we're going to feel about him by the end of it. Let's go on an adventure and find out what we're going to feel about him.

I can't wait. His adventure started on April 28th, 1966. Is that right? When he was born. Yeah, 1966 is his date of birth. April 20th? April 28th. Oh, 28th. 1966. He's born in Carmichael, California. His parents are Jim and Lou.

I'll let you decide which one's his mom. Out of those two. What the fuck? You pick. I don't know. It's California. It's very progressive. I guess Lou, I'm going to go ahead and say.

He's the third child in his family. He's got a sister named Leslie and a boy named Jamie. Once again, you tell me which one's the boy, which one's the girl. What's going on? Gender ambiguous names. Unisex shit. And then John. I get a feeling they all had yellow bedrooms.

I think so, yeah. We don't want to judge anyone, which is weird for the 60s. Very progressive. Very progressive for the 60s. 50 years ahead of their time. Not bad. So, yeah, John's their third kid and their final kid. They have no more children after John.

Jim is apparently a nuclear power plant engineer. Awesome. He's not an awesome guy at all, Jim. No. No, he's a dick. He's a total dick, the father. But what he does, I guess, is interesting. Yeah.

He builds and repairs nuclear power plants and spends a lot of time away from home because of his job. Because there's never power plants like in the city. It's always like, oh, it's two hours out there. Oh, yeah. You know, you got to go stay out in the middle of nowhere for a while. As we know from this town, if you drive in from California, you're like, I think Phoenix is coming up eventually. And you're like, oh, that's a nuclear power plant. That means you'll be here in an hour and a half.

That's what that means right there if you see that on the side. So he did all of that. When he was home, though, he was very – it's very weird. His father was not a real stable person as far as his schedule goes. Can't count on him? Yeah. Reliable. Well, he – Reliable.

Well, he would work all night because he had these crazy things he was trying to work on. He would work all night and then sleep all morning and sleep a lot of the afternoon. And so like he just wasn't the norm of like, oh, it's Saturday morning and mom and dad are up and whatever. It was like, well, dad's been working all night. So it's like me basically except I'm not a dick like this guy is. And I just stay up. I don't sleep all day. I'll just not sleep. So being a father, that's not conducive to a family environment.

Were you going to yell at the kids when you need to sleep and stuff? Well, he did. He yelled at them for everything. For the kids, I guess it was hard to spend any quality time with the dad because he was working a lot and that sort of thing. They just kind of did their own thing. They did things out of the house later on, as we'll talk about. He's a man. He he well, we'll just get right into this here.

Here's a quote from him from John Daly about his dad here from later on in his life. He says, quote, My father was an alcoholic. He used to beat me and my brother for no reason. A lot of times we needed it. and that's when mom whooped us. But I didn't ever understand why I'd just get hit for no reason. I've been through hell. That's his childhood in a snapshot. His father's an abusive alcoholic that beats the shit out of the whole family, which in 1966 was semi-normal, honestly.

Not that it's right, but it was semi-normal, not, you know, whatever. I mean, John's saying this later innormal, not, you know, whatever. It doesn't mean it's right. John's saying this later in life, so you have to believe him. Yeah. Oh, his brother says it. His brother says it. It's a known thing. I just see my seven-year-old going, you hit me for no reason.

I'm like, no, no, there was a fucking reason, boy. There's a reason. Well, let's talk about what we talk about later on. It's definitely not false because his wife witnesses some things that are very interesting. John loved golf. At four years old, his father gave him, basically

they were sawed off shafts of two adult sized clubs, kind of, that he just sawed them off to make them shorter and let the kid hit with them, which is interesting. And he loved golf, and he used these clubs like crazy. And then when he was six years old, his father gave him a full set of Jack Nicklaus Golden Bear clubs.

Wow. Which was a big deal. And he's six, and these are Jack Nicklaus' model clubs. Those are nice clubs. They're nice clubs, and they're huge clubs for a six-year-old. So he had to really put his weight into it to swing these things here, and that's kind of what they say about him. A friend of his says, quote,

his swing now is identical to when he was seven. His swing is really his own. No one taught it to him. He's like Happy Gilmore is what he is, except he doesn't have a running start. If you've ever seen Happy Gilmore, it's a movie with Adam Sandler, and Bob Barker's alive in it. Yes, he is. It's a movie with Adam Sandler where he plays this guy

who's not like a regular golf kind of guy. He's a hockey player. He's a hockey player, and he just runs up and socks this ball with this weird unconventional swing that he has, and he hits the ball farther than anybody else. He's driving 500 yards. That's like John Daly. John Daly drives the a ball if you don't know anything about him or golf at the time especially excessively far his shots were like holy shit it's like he's fat or something

it's like well everybody thought he was like six four and three hundred pounds he's five ten and three hundred pounds he's a little guy he's not that big he's a little guy but he's not a huge hulking guy he just somehow has this strength for it somehow he gets that belly into the into the bottom of that club and it's weird that ball i don't even know if it's belly because later on he used to like mock tiger woods all the time did he really like to his face he would talk and one time later on he's mocking tiger woods for working out all the time and he's like fucking making fun of him and tiger rather than like make fun of him back just goes you know john if i had your natural talent i'd never have to work out and he meant it he meant it if i had your natural talent i'd never have to work out in other words if you've pissed everything

away you're more talented than me and where are we in our lives i think is what he was getting yeah that's what he was getting at at Let's see your checkbook there. Yeah. That's what he was getting at at the time. And the thing is, John, he has money too. That's what's fucked up. John Bailey's got cash left? He is a cult phenomenon. I'm blown away.

He's a weird cultural figure more than he is an athlete. It's very weird. He is like some sort of fucking redneck Superman. He really is. He is to me. I love him. The hillbilly people love this man. They do. They adore him and no matter what he

does, no matter how long it's been since he's won any tournaments or anything like that, if he puts some bullshit out with his name on it, they'll fucking buy it. It's the weirdest thing in the world. It's true. Super, super strange. He's from California. He has a southern accent. Originally, that's because when they were very young, because the father moved along with his job,

they were forced to move very, very often. Got it. Including the first main change of address is when John's five years old, they moved to Dardanelle, Arkansas. There it is. Which will get you. Exactly. Because I read that, too.

I'm like, California? Yeah. It must be one of those, like, Jared Wyatt California towns, like one of these northern, middle of nowhere. Fucking backwoods California. Yeah, I'm like, no, no, he's just from Arkansas. Okay. So there was a local nine-hole golf course near them, and so that was when he went crazy for golf at that point here. He said he never had a lot of friends as a kid because when you move, it's hard too,

especially if you're moving to a small Arkansas town. It's probably a little closed up, I would imagine. They don't take to outsiders. Yeah, absolutely. So they said at this point he could play 18 holes by himself or he could hook up with a group that needed a fourth or something like that. But most of the time they were just they were adults that he was playing with because kids his age in Arkansas don't usually golf. Yeah.

Unless they're like the rich kids or whatever. Most seven year olds obviously didn't play golf. He's out on a golf course with grown ass men playing golf where that's where some of the most horrible things are said by grown-ass men oh yeah horrible horrible terrible thing seven-year-old and they also do a lot of drinking yeah which is the other thing here and that's why they say the shit they say yeah yeah that's fucking funny man uh he had a woman an older woman that would watch him during the summer that would drive him to a nine-hole course where he would play 18 holes. So, yeah, he would keep playing. Basically, she'd be like, do you want to go home now?

And he's like, no, I'll keep playing. He wanted to keep playing. She said, even when he was seven, he used to tell me what he was going to do, and then he would do it. Once he hit a poor tee shot, and he said, I'm going to hit it over those trees, and then he did, I guess. And he said then he putted for birdie and was so excited that he jumped up and down. Yes.

She this woman called her Shirley Withrell. She called herself John Daly's number one fan. And at this later on, two walls of her living room were covered with pictures and stories about him like it was her own son. Basically, she knew everything. She said she's proudest of him later on with his victory over alcohol. Yeah. Which he has a lot of victories over alcohol that are very short lived. Because he has a lot of battles with that shit.

He's like an MMA fighter with 40 fights. He's going to lose a few. He's going to win a few. There's always another win. There's always another loss here. He was a perfectionist with golf. That's the weird thing. With golf, he was 100 percent into it. He loved a perfectionist with golf. That's the weird thing. With golf, he was 100%

into it. He loved Jack Nicholas. I wanted to call him Jack Nicholson. I have my whole fucking life. I know what he looks like. They look nothing alike, but it still somehow gets in your head. That's fucking great. He

would study Jack Nicholas for tips to improve his game. He would study Jack Nicklaus for tips to improve his game. He would study articles from Golf Digest that Jack Nicklaus would be in and how to do, I don't know, your swing right and your, I don't know, what the fuck, anything with golf. Fucking backspin and how to cut

and how to slice. All that shit. Just your general, I don't know, your swing, what do you call it? Swing mechanics? Mechanics, there you go. He said that his game mimicked Nicholas except for his backswing, which he had a super, super long backswing, which is why he can hit the ball so far basically here. They said that, and you could see it too, he brings it so far back,

it's like unnatural for a golfer to do that. It's almost like baseball. And then he just unloads on the ball with all that force from up top. Which is pretty intense because if you play golf ever and you draw a backswing like that. Makes it harder to hit the ball. Right. The ability of hitting that ball and when you do hit it,

it's not going where you want it to go. No, to get it to do that. Right. It's like Happy Gilmore. If you run up and take a hack at it like that, if you hit it perfect you're gonna fucking crush it but the chances of that are very low they're very very slim here uh so by 12 years old he was out driving most of the men in the golf courses at 12 um and

he still had the nicholas golf clubs that he always had uh he would fish the balls out of ponds you know nearby to get balls to play with so he wouldn't have to buy them. But he was really, really doing well. He would post better overall scores than the foursomes he would be. He'd win in the foursome when he was a kid, which was very odd. At one point

now, the family relocates to Locust Grove, Virginia, and he would have another golf course there, the Lake of the Woods Country Club in Fredericksburg, where he won the men's championship there in 1978. Notice I said the men's championship. And he was 1978, making him 12. Jesus. Wow.

This prompted the club members not to go, wow, this is great. We should do something with this kid. They instead banned kids from ever entering the tournament again. I love it. That's fucking amazing. No children are going to win this goddamn thing. Ever again. This is for a bunch of mediocre adult golfers.

Sorry. Come on, man. Really? That's terrible. That's what... What would have happened if Tiger Woods won it? I know. Nobody's allowed in.

They're barely allowed in anyway. That's what I mean. But men on golf courses, like, their ego's alone already. Like, if you think of somebody that plays golf, they are so fucking proud of themselves. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Boxing is a gentleman's sport. Golf is a cunt sport. That's what it is.

It kind of is, but for him it's different because he has a real chip on his shoulder that he doesn't belong there. I mean like guys that are not professionals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, yeah. Just do it. Well, people are cocky. The fact that I have the time and money to play golf, I think, is more. It's like, I'm playing golf.

It takes fucking all day. It takes all day. You have to be able to have all day and then pay a bunch of money to do it. He had a different attitude because he felt like, I don't belong here. None of these people want me here. He's right. Because he's not a rich kid. Yeah.

He's not a country club kid. He's not from there. He's not in their old money, fucked hard circle. So it's a totally different thing. And that's why hillbillies love him. Yeah. Because he is the guy that's not them. That's true. That doesn't fit in.

He is. No, he's Happy Gilmore. Yeah. It's 100% Happy. And the same thing, when he becomes popular later and wins a tournament in the beginning, the crowds, it's just like in Happy Gilmore. They modeled that after John Daly, 100%, because the crowds are the same way. All of a sudden now, it's not just a group of four businessmen going to them clapping mildly and all that.

Now there's people there with a fucking beer helmet on with cans going, come on, John, knock the shit out of that ball. Yeah, woo. And everyone's like, what the fuck did these rednecks come from? So you had the golf community hating him, hating him for bringing this fucking element in but then you also had the golf business people white man this is terrible but at the same time our fucking ratings have doubled and our ad money is twice as much and fuck it put a beer helmet on it who cares there's used condoms on the 13th hole who Who gives a shit? Wonderful. Those people are buying fucking fingers when they're done. Good.

Fine. It's at this time you're not watching the Trojan Masters because we got this shit sponsored. It's the only way we can do it. It's at this time that he takes up drinking when he's a young child and drinking is his real passion and

it's his hobby, his profession, his passion and honestly, it appears to be much more important to him than golf for much of his career. We'll talk about why. Being a little more frank, he's really fucking good at it. He's really good at drinking and golf. Those are two things he's excellent at. He had his first beer when he was eight,

he said, and he developed a taste for his parents' homemade wine. I believe him. That makes sense. It's right there. Homemade wine. I believe him. So that makes sense. It's right there. Homemade wine. If it's in your house like that, it's like all my relatives in Pennsylvania. When they're 12, they just go to the keg and fill up a fucking glass like it's nothing. You're like, you're allowed to do that?

And they're like, I don't know. I don't know. It's here. Whatever. It's here. Everyone else is drunk. Homemade wine. He went from California to Arkansas and then Virginia. Homemade wine.

Alright then. My Christ. His real passion was Jack Daniels. Which is what he likes and that was his father's drink of choice too. It's funny how that happens. Interesting. You would think the smell of that would make him angry and not want it. That sour

rye smell. That smell of Jack Daniels like it makes me nauseous it makes him should make your lip throb and swell up yeah exactly dad did it to you fuck yeah he had uh he had his first jack daniels at 14 at his sister's wedding and after that that was his fucking drink of choice man i can't believe that uh yeah absolutely it's fucking nuts now his golf upbringing is nothing like people like Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods was, you know, from the time he could walk, his dad put a club in his hand, took him to the course, did all that. This wasn't like that.

They weren't training him to be a golf guy. He just said, I like golf. And they were like, here's some sawed-off clubs. Knock yourself out. And then he just went out and played. They didn't, like, take him out there and take him to lessons and hire coaches. He just did it on his own because he liked it. He didn't have swing coaches

and all that kind of shit. Tiger, they installed practice facilities at the house for him to work on his drive and all that. None of that shit happened at all. And you wonder why a country club banned him. And every other kid. He's just a scruffy kid coming in there. He would go to baseball fields

to practice his wedge shots when he couldn't get on the course. He's up there fucking up their outfield. And the next thing you know, he's fucking swimming into the lakes looking for balls. And he would sell the nicer balls to golfers maybe so he could get money to golf. That's what he'd have to do. He'd do that to get money for golf. He also, in school and shit, he played baseball and football. But golf was his main passion.

He gave up baseball at the beginning of high school. He didn't want to pursue that into high school. But he did play high school football. He even still, to this day, holds several kicking records as a high school kicker. That makes sense. So he was a kicker and good at it, apparently. Well, he's always been built, as far as I can recall of him so he's a he was a kicker and good at it apparently so well he's he's always been built as far as i can recall of him he's always been built so stocky down like from ways

down strong legs yeah fuck yeah i bet he can kick like a mule apparently so uh he thought but as a teenager he started to think about like maybe i can play golf as he knew he was good he's like maybe i can be a pro golfer here uh they also went down to zachary louisiana for a while so california arkansas virginia louisiana the de-evolution of it gets worse he's moving worse and worse and worse what's next what how can you get mississippi how can you go lower sorry mississippi but you know you're awful so finally though after that uh they end up moving to jefferson city miss, where they kind of settle down and they don't move again. He attends high school there. It's Hellius High School in Jefferson City, Missouri, and he was a football letterman, and he lettered in golf as well.

He's really good at golf, but he's a football letterman as a kicker. In 1983, he's a high school junior. He captured the Missouri High School Tournament and the Missouri Amateur Tournament titles for golf. Then they end up, Jim and Lou decided to move to New Hampshire. Yeah. Which is... We're going to class it up now. We're taking off.

We're done with this hillbilly shit. You're our third kid. You're 17 and we're going to class it up now. We're taking off. We're done with this hillbilly shit. You're our third kid. You're 17 and we're fucking leaving. They did the same shit my dad did when I was 17. He's like, we're moving to North Carolina so if you want to come, great. If not, have a good one. I was like, okay. And they did the same

shit to him here. They were like, we're moving to New Hampshire. You want to come? Enjoy. If not, you can stay with your sister or brother, Jamie. I'm not sure which that is. I think it's the if not you can stay with your sister or brother jamie i'm not sure which that is i think it's the brother you can stay with your brother in arkansas if you want so uh he ended up staying in arkansas because at least he knew it he didn't want to move again to new hampshire uh so he stays in arkansas but now he's 17 he has no parental uh that's not good no parental supervision uh so all he was doing was golfing and drinking at this point. His grades fucking went in the toilet, obviously, because there was nobody to care.

All he would do is practice golf and party at night. That's all he would do after school. But it didn't bother his golf game, though, because he was practicing the shit out of golf while he was drinking. He won the 1984 Arkansas Amateur and also the Missouri Amateur again in 1984. And he was just crushing these long drives. He was doubling up people's drives back then. Steve Loy is the golf coach at the University of Arkansas, offers John a half scholarship. And John goes to Fayetteville, Arkansas to go to the University of Arkansas.

So grades in the toilet doesn't matter. Drinking his ass off doesn't matter. He's still fucking crushing that ball. Crushing it. Colleges need golfers. They need them. And if you find one that whatever he does. They'll give you a scholarship.

Your extracurriculars are out of my control. But if you can crush a ball off a tee, you're in. The coach complained about his weight. At this point, he was 5'10", and he was about 225, which is hefty. And John carries all of his weight in his stomach. Right in his belly. He's one of those guys

that if he loses 50 pounds, his belly goes away. If he gains 50 pounds, his belly pops out like a pregnant man. It's not anywhere else. His arms don't get fat. It's so weird. It's so fucking weird, man. So he was one of the best players on the team, but the coach would break his balls and make him do all his extra work. He qualified for a road trip like he would.

He would sometimes, like they said, one particular time he qualified for a road trip by outplaying his teammates to get on the whatever four guys that could go. And his coach would make him do something additional like challenging him to hit a drive in the fairway, shit like that. He would make him go the extra mile to break his balls because I think he knew he needed some kind of discipline, needed some sort of direction. But John hated this guy, hates the coach. Rather than try to do what he wanted, he would purposely fail to piss him off. Really? Yes. In his junior year, the coach demanded that he start a strict diet and do it.

And if he didn't, he might be getting kicked off the team. Like, that's how he told him, basically. Like, your spot on the team is in jeopardy due to your weight. I see John being, like, that Gomer private pile in fucking full metal jacket. He's hiding jelly donuts in his fucking caddy bag. He had a different way of going about it, actually, but it's just as interesting here. He said, all right, that's fine. You want me to lose weight?

No problem. He stopped eating as much as he had been, but he said he started drinking more hard alcohol. That was his way to do it instead of beer, which he always liked to drink beer, but he realized that Diet Coke and Jack was a great way. If you don't eat and you drink Diet Coke and Jack, you'll lose a fuckload of weight. Not bad, right? All those empty Budweiser calories. Yeah, he's feeling great.

He's like, look at me, looking great, huh? Hammered all the time. Substitute with Jack Daniels. Incredible, right? So he's trying to get to 170. That's his goal weight. Really? And as he's getting down toward there, he's at like 180.

People are telling him he looks really good. His self-esteem gets better. His game improves because he feels better about himself. But he also said he became accustomed to playing golf while he was a little buzzed. Yeah. Like he had some drinks in him. So that's the type of thing there. Makes golf more fun.

I would assume so, yeah. And I don't know if it makes you a better competitor. It does not. Well, at least in my case, it makes it much worse. I would think it would be much worse for me. If I lose more balls than I drink drinks, then I had a good day. Hey, you win. That's a win.

That's a win in Jimmy golf. So, 1986, Daly plays in the 1986 U.S. Open as an amateur. And that's if you do well, then you can get a tour card type of thing. He misses the cut with an opening round of 88, though, which is too high. 88, and he missed it. Missed the cut. A little too high here. I've never shot an 88 in my life.

Well, no. Neither of us are going to ever shoot an 88, probably, unless we get really rich and decide that's what we want to do with our lives, because that's what would have to happen for me to play golf that well. I might shoot an 88 on a nine-hole par three. I was going to say, maybe on a nine. One of those little nine-holers that have mini golf, too. And everything's a par three. Maybe on a nine. One of those little nine holers that have mini golf too.

And everything's a par three. I might shoot an 88. And then I'll hit the windmill afterwards and try to knock one through there too. So summer of 1987, it's after his junior year of college at the University of Arkansas. He decides he's quitting school.

He quits school. He wants to be a pro golfer. He wins the Missouri Open in 87 and that makes him decide to quit school and go pro. So, I mean, whatever. I mean, what are you going to do? I mean, get a degree. I guess so. But honestly, if you want to be an athlete, if you want to be a pro golfer, that's clearly your—

But— He's not doing anything in school that would give him a career. You got a point. He literally only wants to golf. So, I mean, I get it. I'm just thinking more of like back then a college degree was so much more valuable than it is today. It was in 1986. Yeah.

The less people had it, it didn't matter. You had a college degree in 88, 89. You're a fucking CEO. Yeah. You'll get hired somewhere. You'll get a nice entry-level job. Absolutely. Whereas now you can work in the mailroom.

They'll buy you a lot of jack. You can be an intern now. Good luck. So he goes pro. At this point, too, he gets married. You gotta get married. And John marries. See, this is the other thing that he does wrong here, is he marries outside of his social sphere, which is

not good. And we've seen this happen a lot, because athletes... It's a weird thing in this country. Your social mobility, upward mobility is a big deal. But like in this country, if you're born a piece of shit, if you're born fucking just

some white trash person, whatever. You're born a white trash person. You'll grow up with a white trash stigma. If you make enough money, you can kind of get out of it. You can shake it a smidge. But you're still not a country club guy. You're still not that guy.

And they'll still sniff you out and know that you're not them no matter how much money you have. And I feel like athletes have this thing where they don't realize they're not there yet because they feel like they're better than other people. So they feel like they're into that social circle. Whereas they, those people just look at them as animals. They just look at them. You have to make money with your body. That's,

that's not how they do things. So look at my body. I'm not making any money with this fucking thing. And I've got just as much as you. Yeah. But they feel like they're just as important because they're famous. So if like, if you're famous or your people treat you like you're important,

you feel like you're important. you feel like you're important, even though, according to these people, you're not important because what vagina did you come out of? Right. You know what I mean? It's one of those things. So this woman, Dale Crafton is her name. He loves the gender ambiguous names.

He does. He found one. He's like, my mom's name's Lou. You're Dale. Perfect. I've been looking for someone like you. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

And I'm sexually attracted to you. This is crazy. Holy shit. Just like my mom. Sorry. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And I'm sexually attracted to you. This is crazy. Holy shit. Just like my mom. Sorry. We don't know if he was sexually attracted to his mother. And I'm not going to insinuate it. I have no idea.

That seems wrong. Yeah. So she is a hand model. Okay. That's what she does for a living. But she doesn't really have to do anything for a living because she is the daughter of a prominent Arkansas family, obviously. And they go to live in her hometown of Blytheville.

Basically, he moves into some ritzy area with this lady and all of her society friends and all of this shit. This ain't going to work. And he is completely unhappy. Yeah, fish out of water, babe. It's a total mess. Plus, she wants things that cost lots of money that she's used to being able to have. She wants a horse.

He's trying to make a living as a golfer here. So he's like, fuck, that's a lot of pressure when you're playing the tournament. It's like, I gotta make this shot so my wife can get a horse. That's more than just, I need to make this shot because it's important in the game. Like, because my wife needs a horse or she's going to complain all night. And my next shot, the buggy

rides on, so I've got to make two shots to get to the horse and then the fucking buggy. And then never mind what the stable costs are. Next round's going to suck. And then I've got to pay a guy to fucking drive the thing. Jesus H. Christ. So she's... They're a mess. He's unhappy as shit in this whole situation. And in February

of 1990, they get a divorce. This is his first divorce of many. He's got a lot of victories over alcohol and victories over marriage as well. We'll put it that way. Maybe it's losses. He's got a lot of defeat in marriage. I'm choosing to look at it in a positive way, Jimmy, and call them victories. The problem with a victory in marriage or a loss in marriage is that it cannot be called

a victory when you lose that much money. And he has lost a shitload of money. He, well, we'll put it this way. Shocker, later on he makes music, and one of his song's names is All of My Exes Wear Rolexes. So you're not far off. And he's hysterical. And he's hysterical. God damn it, I love you, John Daly.

He didn't write that shit. Come on. You think this drunk fuck wrote a word on this? We'll get to it. We'll get to it. But he's fun. He's a lot of fun. He is great.

So they get divorced. At this point, he goes overseas to play some golf tours. He goes on to South Africa. He's single now, so he's trying to party. He goes out, gets shit-faced all over the place, trashes a hotel room and fractures his right pinky, and then wins the tournament with a broken right pinky. My fuck!

After he's in the middle of a tournament. That's the other thing. Because he couldn't feel it. There's pictures of him, like, hammered doing karaoke at, like, 1 in the morning and then him at, like, 8 in the morning on the course just hitting drives. You're like, seven hours ago you were hammered. There's one. There's a picture of him doing karaoke with Darius Rucker.

What? At like fucking two in the morning and then like he's golfing at 7 a.m. the next morning. Couldn't stand up five hours ago. So fucking weird. Darius Rucker is holding you up by the collar of your polo shirt. Yeah. And now you're walking around. How do you do this?

And Jesus Christ. So he kept drinking, takes all of his money, and goes to the nearest casino to piss it all away. Oh, God, I forgot about that. Because in addition to booze, he loves to gamble. Oh, boy, does he. Oh, God, does he love to gamble. Oh, fuck. We have some stories.

A little while after he gets back to the States, he meets another woman, a Betty, but Betty has an E on the end. It's Betty with a Y and an E. It's not Betty. Oh, my God. It's E-Y? No, Y-E. Oh, even worse.

So weird. Poor woman. Messed me all up. So Betty, I don't fucking know. Betty. Betty. Betty. Betty Fulford, which is a weird name.

She's a hotel convention planner from Georgia. They start to have a relationship. He just likes her because Bet's in her name. Yeah. It's like, it's not a boy's name, though. I'm looking for like a Charlie. Bet's in there. I'd really dig Bet.

Bet's all right. I like to bet things, so that's going to be good. She was kind of like a stabilizing force for him. She kind of kept him not on the track, but not from veering off into the woods off the track, just in the gravel on the sides of the track. She's like a magnet. If he was metal and kind of wandering away, she's just like kind of yanking back. Yeah, she's kind of pulling him back into the tent a little bit here.

So they start having a good relationship. He's a part of the Ben Hogan tour here. He has a pretty good season in 1990. He wins the Utah Classic and finishes ninth on the money list in this like curvature or whatever the fuck here. This season, though, he has a bad incident in Maine here. He has a huge drinking binge. Yeah. Huge.

I mean, a monstrous binge, so much that he ends up in the hospital in an alcohol-induced coma. Oh, my God. He wakes up in the hospital bed, no idea where he was, and just was like, all right, see you later. Takes back off. I got a tea time. I got a tea time, and I got some drinks to do.

Where's the nearest casino? What? Several times he'll do this type of shit. He is my personal hero. I love him. He wins 1990. He wins the AECI Charity Classic. The Hollard Royal Swazi Sun Open, I think, was the one in South Africa.

Does that. April 17, 1991, the tour's first disciplinary action against him takes place. Oh, boy. And this is going to be, there's a whole report later on that comes out because of a lawsuit of all of his infractions. Lawsuit? Lawsuit. What the fuck? He didn't like the way a newspaper covered his story, so he sued them.

And somehow in all of that, because he sued them, everything about his life came out. He's a fucking idiot. And by the way, he lost that lawsuit and ended up having to pay them $300,000. Oh, fuck. Nothing works out well with this guy. And then it ends up being fine. It's super weird. I don't get it, man.

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1991. It's Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He curses at a playing partner during a tour event there. We don't know who he cursed at, but he cursed at them and he gets a disciplinary action for that. I think it was a small fine of some kind. I don't know who he cursed at, but he cursed at them, and then he gets a disciplinary action for that. I think it was a small fine of some kind. I want to know what the words were.

Who the fuck knows? John Daly knows. He knows. I'm sure he'd tell you, too, if you asked him. I want to drink with him. I do. Oh, man. I think a lot of people do.

For at least 20 minutes, and then I'll be done. I think that's what's going to kill him in the end, is because everyone wants to drink with him. It's one of those things. 1991 PGA Championship, and this is a big deal, the PGA Championship. August 10th, 91 here. This is an interesting. First of all, in the tournament, he wasn't even supposed to be in it.

He's not scheduled to be in the tournament. Not at all. He just shows up. Not supposed to. No, no, no. He's an alternate. He is the ninth alternate. Okay. Ninth alternate. He is the ninth alternate. Okay? Ninth alternate.

And Nick Price, who's a pro golfer, had to pull out at the last minute because his wife went into labor. Okay. So Daly was the ninth and final alternate to replace Price. They called eight guys before him. None of them could make it. Wow. He happened to be near there enough because of where he lived. to be near there enough because of where he lived. It's a

500 mile deal from Memphis where he lived to get to Indiana so he could get there in time and race there to get there and got there in time to play the tournament. Okay? Which is fucking nuts, first of all, that he even is in the tournament. He was sitting on his ass drinking. He's like, oh shit, I gotta

drive to fucking Indiana, be in this goddamn tournament. Pop, make me some coffee. I gotta get out of here. Oh, Irish it up a bit. Come on now. So they had a little incident here on the 11th Green. It's Crooked Stick Golf Club here. His caddy was helping him line up a putt downhill left to right, a 35-foot eagle putt, apparently. Now, my ignorance of golf is going to come up a lot here.

I know what a 35-foot eagle putt is and shit like that, but some of this shit, we'll just breeze through it. Okay. Because we could talk – this could be a five-hour episode and it could be only golf. He's been playing golf forever. I'll do my best to fill in where you can. We're going to do – I probably know as much as you, I think. So I think we're in the same level of stupid here. But I think – yeah, it's basically – we'll breeze over the golf as much because there's

so much crazy shit, you don't need a lot of golf here. So I guess the caddy thought that Daly needed the flagstick tended in the cup because Daly had a difficult time seeing the hole. Got it. So Daly said he didn't need the flagstick tended and the caddy took it out and then he stood just behind it and to the right of the hole and then he stood just behind it into the right of the hole and asked daly if he could see the cup as he asked daly the question the flag stick touched the ground about two feet off to the right and behind the hole uh he then cleared the caddy cleared the

area a moment later and uh daly putted the the putt uh he then ended up tapping him for birdie he missed the eagle putt okay uh the viewers viewers on CBS that were watching called the PGA network officials saying that the guy violated Rule 8, Section 2, Part B of the player's rule book. The rule states when the player's ball is on the putting green, the player, his partner, or either of the caddies may, but not during the stroke, point out a line for putting, but in so doing, the putting green shall not be touched. No mark shall be placed anywhere to indicate a line for putting. I fucking hate viewers.

It's so fucking—I hate golf rules. They're so fucking stupid. But the worst is a viewer calling in and fucking reporting. Fuck you. If you were any good at this, you'd be doing this. Shut the fuck up and watch the goddamn. It makes me so nuts. He ends up, this whole thing may cost him two strokes, basically. He could end up with a two-stroke penalty.

In the end, the PGA officials tell him there may be a violation. Don't sign your scorecard yet, because if you sign your scorecard, then then it's wrong then it's another fucking five strokes and all that kind of shit uh so uh they ended up saying the pga representative said quote there's no reason to upset the player on the course uh he said that daly was a perfect gentleman it was a pretty tense situation he apologized but i don't know what he apologized for even the guy said he's like it's not a big deal uh you know not not a fucking big deal here. It ends up not costing him two strokes, but it could have been a big deal, and they made a whole big deal with it.

Daly said he didn't even know about that. He said, quote, I guess you learn something every day. Squeaky, who's his caddy's name, is a perfect name for a caddy. Squeaky tried to explain it to them. He was kind of hurt. We just talked about it, and then they made a final decision. So he ends up going on and wins. Wow. He was kind of hurt. We just talked about it, and then they made a final decision. So he ends up going on and wins. Wow.

He wins the fucking tournament. The tournament he wasn't even in. Wasn't even in. Wow. He wins the goddamn thing. Wins it by three strokes, by the way. So even if they took the two strokes from him, he still would have won the tournament. Awesome.

Good for him. Somebody recently called into the PGA, and I believe it changed. It happens all the time. I believe it changed the outcome of it. Oh, it happens it happens all the time switched first and second and made somebody win and somebody lose in this article they talked about like 10 other times where the cost but like the audience is the one because you can't call the fucking NFL and be like that wasn't a catch they'd be like shut up fuck you drunkard and they'd hang up but these people are like really we'll look at the footage we'll have a look see jesus christ fucking ridiculous so he wins this i mean garners

him a shitload of media attention a shitload of me and rightfully so this guy came out of fucking nowhere the guy with the big well i mean not nowhere he came out of out of memphis that's true like three hours before the match. He came out of nowhere. But I mean, a guy that no one's ever heard of, who wasn't even supposed to be. I mean, if someone's a big golf fanatic and they were looking over the entrance into the tournament, they didn't even see this guy. They don't know who the fuck he is. He's this new guy with a big

long drive. And I'll even say I watched this golf tournament. My stepfather is a big golf person. He likes to golf. He's a good golfer, and he likes to watch golf. And he was like a business guy, so he would need to know golf shit to talk to the other yuppies at work. Sure.

So 1991, when this went on, this is right after my mother and stepfather moved out here. And so I was actually with them for a couple months, and I watched this with him. And my stepfather was saying, who is this guy? Like, he kept saying, who is this guy? And he hits the ball a mile. And so we were like, wow, who is this fucking guy? And it was even intriguing to me, a 12-year-old who cared nothing for golf. I fucking hated golf.

And I was like, yeah, this is really weird. So it made him a huge fan favorite because he wasn't a young guy, not one of these established, stuffy guys. These long drives. He seemed like just an out-of-nowhere guy. Everyone loves an underdog. And a guy that doesn't fit in. He doesn't fit in. He's tin cup, a fat tin cup that not just takes chances, but he's just not your average fucking golfer.

He's not your guy with his shirt tucked in and all classy. He's not that. No, because if you're sitting at home on the couch and you're an average guy, you don't feel like that's you. I mean, I assume you don't feel like fucking Ben Roethlisberger's you either, because he's not. So none of these people

are you, so don't think. They're way better than you if you're sitting on the couch watching them. Better than you. Whether they rape or not, still better than you. Doesn't matter. Just better. Better human beings they're made differently put it that way their quality is an operational on quality it's the difference between a ruth's chris steak and a fucking and a longhorn steak they're both meat yes you're both made of meat one is much higher quality much so undisputed. You could look at it and see. You don't even need to get into science.

Look and then put in mouth. Done. Test over. It's over. So, he wins this with a minus 12. So, he's 12 under. 12 under par. Wins by three strokes, like we said.

Wins $230,000 from winning this tournament, which you win a shitload more now. It's like two million now. $30,000 whoa from winning this tournament which you win a shitload more now. It's like a million now But still wins 230,000 which in 1991 You know for a 24 year old kid a 25 year old kid who just started being you know a big deal. That's not bad That's a big win daily gives $30,000

Of his winnings to the family of a man who died during the tournament by being struck by lightning winnings to the family of a man who died during the tournament by being struck by lightning wow spectator was struck by lightning and killed and he gave the family 30 grand gave the family 30 000 for the funeral uh and it's also the money was used by the family to pay for college for the man's two daughters amazing so that's amazing right there and and he wasn't wealthy at the time so this was like a big deal for a 30 000 that's a big chunk a lot of money more than fucking 10 percent that's two that's more than fucking 10%. That's too good. That's more than he gave his agent.

You know what I mean? Like if you had an agent, that's more than he gave him. And he didn't have to do that. So people were like that gave him also a lot of good publicity. And he didn't even care. He's a decent guy like that. That year he is named PGA Rookie of the Year for 1991, which is a huge deal. He's arrived on the scene. rookie of the year for 1991, which is a huge deal.

He's arrived on the scene. He admits that he never trained a lot or stayed in shape seriously or really did anything other than play golf and drink. We know, John. He says, quote, I hate it, to be honest with you. I can't stand to work out. I can't stand to do a sit-up, you know? I can't stand to run. Yeah, we know.

Yeah, we can tell. It's why you chose golf over football. And they asked him about his diet, and he just said, quote, it's not great. Let's just put it that way. It's not great. He said he lives on fast food, soda, and beer, lives life by his own rules. He says it's an unrepentant attitude. He doesn't give a shit, which is why the fans fucking love him.

He says that he admits his career had ups and downs in his whole career, as we know. He said, no doubt, it's all or nothing. And that's John Daly. It's all or we'll find out when he's not doing well in a tournament how he reacts to it. Fuck it. It's just one of these. Fuck him. Don't give a fuck.

It is crazy here. God damn it, I love him. And when he was golfing later on, too, like when he was all washed up and done, he would be, you know, ranked 700th in the world and nowhere on the money list or anything like that. But he would have a gallery as big as Tiger Woods or any of the big guys because people wanted to see, A, the long drives, and B, maybe he'll have a meltdown. Who fucking knows? Or maybe he'll say something funny or whatever it is. He says, quote, I think people relate to me because of the ups and downs I have had. I mean, I've shared a lot of strong emotions in my life that I think maybe because they believe I'm not scared to tell anybody I'm a human being.

So that makes sense. He's vulnerable and he's human and that's why people might like him. Now, at this point, it gets a little more difficult for him though because he finds out that Betty is 10 years older than she claims she is. Oh, no. She's 10 years older. What the fuck? Than she claims she was. And not only that, it gets worse.

She has also been previously married, which is fine. Oh, this bitch. But she also has a 13 year old son a 13 year old son none of which she told him about none of which nothing wow i know a guy shit oh i'm about to tell you a story 10 years oh boy 10 years is like how drunk are you you don't notice that she's 10 years older than she is how fucking drunk are you that's not on her that's on you John look at her hands bro

is she fucking 24 or 34 you can tell that's true sorry I mean 5 years alright 10 fucking a decade that's the difference between 34 and 44 yeah that's a lot I'm looking for cracks in the armor there that's the difference between 34 and 44. Yeah. That's a lot. I'm looking for cracks in the armor there.

That's the difference between 74 and 84, and that's the only time that it's like, eh, who gives a fuck? Yeah, who gives a shit? Yeah, exactly. I don't know. She must have looked phenomenal. Good fuck. So, yeah. He sobered up one day and went, how old are you?

She's like, 35. He's like, really? I thought you were 25. She's like, I told you that 10 years ago. Shit, I'm sorry. I must have been hammered. I don't remember shit. So 13-year-old son.

I know a guy at work that married a woman, met her in Vegas. She was a cocktail waitress. He married her and moved her back to Phoenix. Seems reasonable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one you go after. Something Quagmire would do, but yeah, sure. So he married her.

He did do. And she can't have kids, and he was heartbroken about it because he wanted a child. Oh, no. But he married her anyway, and they moved on with their life. And then 20 years later, 20, James, 20 years later, she leaves the state and goes to some fucking hillbilly like Louisiana or something, goes back to this hillbilly podunk town wherever she's from to visit family, mind you, and then she comes back and tells him

that she's leaving him and going back to live with her husband. She's still married. The man was just getting out of prison, and she went back to visit her family, her three children. Three fucking children, and it ruined him. Oh my God, you think?

It was five years ago. What about those kids? The woman was gone for God knows how long. I know. She started another life. 20 years. Jesus Christ. It's bananas.

What the fuck? But he did a 20-year bid. And so he told her, move on with your life. When I get out, we'll get back together. And she did it. She did it. Wow. You know what?

I'm going to say this. As fucked up as that is that's amazing loyalty if you could tell somebody look wait for me and do whatever you gotta do but then when i get out in 20 years drop whatever you're doing and come back and she did it yeah wow it's unbelievable hats off to her that's a loyal woman i knew him before i found out about it then i found out about it hadn't seen him for a while so i'm two years later The attitude of this man is completely different. He's just a shell of a man. I bet.

And that was five years ago. I just saw him recently. Same fucking body language. He's just like, everybody knows I'm a dope. Everybody. Well, you just have to feel. I mean, your whole life is a lie. It's one thing.

It's like, oh, I went out with this lady for six months. But in 20 years, your whole life is a lie. Your whole life is a lie. He had stepchildren. He didn't know it. Jesus Christ, he had no idea. Well, at this point, John ends their relationship. He's like, what the fuck?

But she says, well, actually, I'm pregnant with your kid. And he's like, all right, never mind. And he stuck around? Yeah. Well, not immediately. She filed palimony and paternity suits against him. Right. And then they end up getting back together and getting married.

Okay. What a guy. God damn it, John. Eh, what's 10 years? Whatever. What the fuck? Not only are, all right, maybe, but let's get married then, I guess. It's all right that our whole relationship was a lie.

That's fine. No worries there. Let's get married. Because you're. It's all right that our whole relationship was a lie. That's fine. No worries there. Let's get married. Because you're pregnant, everything will be fine now. Because that always solves everything. Have some kids. It makes everything better. You're being honest with me now, though.

So let's just get married. So a month after they get married, they have a daughter, Shina, I guess. S-H-Y-N-A-H. Shina? Sheena? I don't fucking know.'ll be shina shina hail that's her name sure i'm gonna call her shina fuck it so they have old shina they shine to the hail yeah uh 1992 this is september 27th 1992 he wins the bc open which is the broom county open which is the Broome County Open, which is a shitty golf tournament that was defunct in 2006. He won it by six strokes with an 18 under par.

Clobbered everybody. So crushing it. He's hitting his stroke right now. Not even close. No, yeah, he's hitting his fucking stride right now. You know what I mean? This is like everything is good, except for, of course, the home with the wife and the 10 years older and the 13 year old stepchild. That sort of thing.

But professionally cruising. He's definitely picturing her face on that ball when he hits it. He loves it. Well, let's find out what happened here. That was a fucking year's difference. God damn it. September 27th, 92. That was December 19th, 92.

was December 19th, 92, Betty calls sheriff's officers in Denver, outside of Denver, to tell them that Daly, quote, just lost it while drinking at their home. Okay. It began, apparently, when Betty asked, I guess they had a bunch of people over and they were drinking and that sort of thing. And Betty, who at the time was 40, not 30 as she had claimed, well, he's 26 at this point. So he thought, she's four years older than me. That's fine.

Nope. She's 14. Well, yeah, 14 years older than me. That's a long, that's a big age gap there. She asked a guest of theirs if, quote, if he could control his girlfriend as she was hitting on John. That's what she puts in the court documents here. So this is some white trash shit.

They're drinking. One of the guest's girlfriend is hitting on her husband. She's a jealous 40-year-old woman, too. Yeah. Okay. So apparently this escalated somehow into Daly, John, throwing Betty up against a wall, pulling her hair and fucking destroying the house. Like threw her heart against the wall, pulled her down by the hair and then, quote, lost his temper and destroyed the house, as she put it. They found broken glass, smashed pictures, windows.

He took he fucking threw the big screen television over. This isn't like now where it's like a flat screen that weighs four ounces. This shit had wheels. This is a giant fucking box that would be heavy. And he pushed that shit over, broke it, broken liquor bottles, all sorts of holes in the wall, blood spattered on the walls in the basement. Fucking absolutely went around kicking, punching, and destroying the whole house and then left. Wow. And then takes off here.

He's arrested three days later. Wow. They finally find him. Sergeant Kim Castellano of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department said that they had to arrest him with a domestic violence policy. And he was taken before a judge and he posted $1,000 bond. Okay. He's charged with third-degree assault for throwing her into the wall at their home and pulling her hair.

They didn't release a lot to the public because it was a very gray, drunken night of craziness so they didn't know what to do. Now, a member of the senior tour, a guy named Larry Mowry, who's a golfer, who's on the senior golf tour, is a recovering alcoholic. He says, quote, it's probably the greatest break of his life. He has a chance before things go too far to come out of this a better person and a better player. Also, Jack Nicklaus said the same thing. Jack Nicklaus said that he met Daly last year and then he sensed that he was in need of guidance.

He invited Daly to spend time with him at his home in North Palm Beach, Florida. But he said he was disappointed that Daley never showed up. He never followed through and showed up down there, which is kind of shitty. It's his idol. It's his fucking idol his whole life. He had his golf clubs when he was six. If Don Mattingly invites me the fuck over, I'm fucking going.

If John Elway invites me over, I'm not going. Why? I don't want to meet my idol. Fuck that. I'm going over there. What if he's a dick? What if he's great? Ron Guidry. Ron Guidry, okay? I don't know him. Yankee legend.

Louisiana Lightning. All right? Ron Guidry is a legendary Yankees player. Did you meet him? I'm getting there. He had a 19 strikeout game. Let's get to the point. Did you meet him?

He had a 1978-19 strikeout game. Legendary lefty. Had injuries. Otherwise, he's one of the greatest lefties that you could watch. Electric, right? Awesome. Anyway, a couple of guys. He lives in Louisiana.

He's from down there. A couple of guys happened upon his home down there, and they were afraid to whatever, but they wanted to meet him, so they rang his doorbell. He's got a big gate that says Louisiana Lightning on it and the whole deal. And Ron Guidry comes out, and they were scared that he was going to be a dick because he was their idol. And he ended up having a fucking catch with them for an hour. He ended up saying, got your gloves, guys?

Let's go out and throw a couple balls around. They were like, what? They were like, yeah, catch me. I got some pitches left in me. They were catching him and shit. He's like, this is the greatest that could happen to you. You never know. I don't know.

Or he'd be like, get off my lawn, Dilbo. Right. Exactly. Who are you? John says that shit through those giant choppers. I don't want to fucking be responsible for the shit I say to my hero. Calls you a faggot and kicks you off his property. You're like, damn, he's a dick.

What an asshole. Total. I'm impressed with how well he pronounces Fs with those giant teeth. I love him and I don't want it to be ruined I have this whole picture of what our day would be like if I got to spend the day with John Elway and I don't want it to be fucked Jesus Christ man

but I do also have this great day of what picture of what a great day with John Daly would be and I guarantee it would be the same. It would just be sitting there drinking, I would feel. The nickery, though, of women getting punched. Oh, it would be a mess. So, John enters Sierra Tucson. Right.

Which is an addiction treatment facility in Arizona. They're all here. Thomas, they all come here. Yeah. The tour also suspends him. He spends 30 days in rehab. Oh, boy. I think it's for the time. They suspend him for a while. He spends 30 days in rehab. Oh, boy. I think it's for the time. They suspend him for a while. He's in there.

It's a for show. And then they're like, he couldn't play anyway. It's fine. He was kind of locked up talking about God. Yeah. You know how that goes. Jack Nicklaus said, quote, that's the best thing for him. He's obviously he obviously must need some help. And I'm glad that he's taking that step. So they're trying to be supportive of the whole thing here. Everyone

says his heart was never into this rehab thing because he's just like, is there booze in here? Is there a bartender? Is there a waiter I can get? He said everything publicly that he needed to, but deep down he didn't think

he had a problem. He's got money and he likes to drink and he still plays golf ball. So he's like, what's the problem here exactly? The order leads to coming and turn down his bed and he's like, I'll have a Jack and Coke. Oh, it's fine.

Yeah, they're like, no, that's not how it works. I'm not your waiter, fucker. Some pills? Something? Unbelievable. He had a shit season in 1993. He did finish tied for third at the Masters tournament, and it became his only top 10 finish in a major championship outside of his two major championship wins.

So in majors, he kind of melts down a little bit, or he wins. All or nothing. That's John Daly. So he has no tour wins in 1993. He does win the Alfred Dunhill Cup with Fred Couples and Payne Stewart. It was a trio fucking tournament. I don't know what that is. He had five top 25 finishes and one top 10 finish out of 15 cuts.

Out of making the cut 15 times. 1993 Southern Open, he walked off the course in the middle of the rounds. I love it. And withdrew following playing like shit. This also happened at the 97 U.S. Open. And it happened in Australia, and we'll talk about it. It's hilarious. He's a mess.

He walked off the course more than once? Oh, this has happened many times. Oh, that's fucking genius. Just was like, fuck it, playing like shit, and going home now. Can you imagine? I'm having a drink. What if LT just couldn't get through the line one day? Fuck it

And just throws his helmet At the 50 yard line Gets in his car And just fucking leaves Fucking leaves I would have been shocked That's what this guy did Can't get through the line today

I quit Fuck it This has been too much You know how frustrating this is A pitcher just stopping And the manager Doesn't come to get him He just throws the ball down

And walks off I'll be in the bullpen. I'm taking off. I'm going home. I'm having a shit day. I'm just leaving. They're like, I'm not in the plans. That's awesome.

So the 1993 Fred Meyer Classic. He has assessed his largest single fine by the PGA Tour in this one because he, and Jesus Christ, he's doing a golf-like tournament clinic thing for people right before and around the tournament. And the bleachers are full of fans, corporate people, all sorts of shit. He got mad at somebody and fired a golf ball into the bleachers at the spectators. Oh, my God. That is so dangerous.

Ended up going over them, luckily for him. Maybe he did that on purpose. Those long drives. Maybe, yeah. We don't know. But he was basically being a dick and scaring the shit out of a bunch of people, so he's fined $30,000 for that. They're like, no.

Yeah. This costs as much as two lightning-struck dad kids going to college. Right. You're fucked, mister. Wow. That was interesting there. That's crazy. That's the tip of his behavioral iceberg here.

1994, he has a terrible year in 94. Again, he's suspended by the PGA Tour after walking off the course during the Kapalua International and also the Kempler Open. He was upset after scoring a 77 and threw his score card at the scoring tent and was disqualified so he scored a seven to sign his golf card and fucking threw it at him and they were like never mind you're disqualified you can't do this shit in golf you know what i mean like it's it's as much as i love this shit obviously this isn't gonna fly in golf this isn't gonna work here in golf. This isn't going to work here. So he ended up.

Do you know the dance I would do if I shot a 74? Is that what it was? 77. 77. That's amazing. He was heated. Fucking mad pissed. I'd be like, I'm going pro.

Nope. He's like, I already am a pro and this isn't good enough. Made a paper airplane out of the scorecard and there you go. Firing at people. So after this this he ends up in rehab for three weeks. That makes sense. Gets out of rehab and wins the 1994

Bell South Classic. He claims afterwards that this is the first tournament he's ever won sober. Outside of being like 11. So he's saying this is his first sober tournament win. It's May 8th, 1994. It's May 8, 1994. It's in Atlanta.

He is 14 under par, wins by one stroke. So not too shabby here. Now, 1994, this is fucking nuts. This story gets progressively crazier as we keep going. The stories are nuts. This episode of Crime and Sports is just loosely held together by stories of crazy. It's just segues

to crazy. I don't even know how to segue. I'm just like, so he did that crazy thing. So the next day, he did this other crazy thing. There's no breather. Then he played some golf. It's just all crazy. God, he's so awesome. He's amazing. This is a great episode. This episode was really hard to put together because he's been famous for so long, and he's done so much crazy shit, and it's all publicized.

So this is one that I was putting off for months because I'm like, this is going to take me forever. But once I got into it, I'm like, this is so much fucking crazy fun. This is at the World Series event at Firestone CC. I don't know what that is. He's having... Wow. He's annoyed by slow play on the course. Oh, boy. Okay? So he smashes his drive through the

dog leg on the 14th hole and almost hits Michigan Golf Club pro Jeff Roth in the fucking head with it. Wow. He's upset by his slow play, so he literally fires a fucking golf ball at him and nearly hits him in the head. So maybe he did shoot it over the bleachers on purpose. Got a feeling he didn't scream four. Yeah.

So this was after he had talked shit to them about being too slow. Yeah. Okay. This is amazing, too. Next to the green were Jeff's parents, Bob and Dolores, here. So what ends up happening is they accuse him of hitting a ball at them, obviously. It's the Firestone CC's country club. I should have known that.

Yeah, that makes sense now. This escalates into name-calling on both sides. Daly starts firing off profanities. Yeah. Just, I mean, first of all, fires him off at Roth, and then turns his ire to Roth's mother. Yes! And Roth's mother's caddy. Yeah! Now he's not only saying, fuck your mother, he's saying, fuck you, to his mother right in front of him.

It's much worse that way, I feel like. How many times did he call her a cocksucker? That's what I mean. So, wow. So this, tensions are held until the end of the round because you can't brawl on the golf course, I don't think. And that's on like the fairway of hole three. Yeah, it's probably the third fucking hole. Let's see if we can find.

I think it's the 14th hole. 14th, yeah. So at least we're close to the end. You got four to go. But let's just say Roth played the next four holes through gritted teeth. Let's just say that. He was not fucking happy. He called my mom a cocksucker.

Dude, Dale, he probably didn't even remember what happened. So now, after this, once they're going to the clubhouse, to the locker room in the clubhouse, they're still drawing back and forth to each other. Witnesses here daily yelling at screaming at Roth saying, you can't be me. You don't know my life. You can't live my life. OK, so he's turned into just this like no one said they knew your life. They just said, please don't hit a golf ball and almost kill my mom. Thanks. Please don't call her a twat. Can you not do that?

Please don't tell my mom to shut her cocksucker. Shut your dick sucking lips up, god damn it. Shut your man pleaser. Quit flapping your dick suckers. I think quit flapping your dick suckers is going to be the one that we're going with here. I don't know. I'm positive that he're going with here. I don't know. I'm positive that he said something like that.

I could be wrong. Yeah, he definitely said something. It for sure said something about a man fucking his mother's face, for sure. So then at this point, they get into the clubhouse. That's all stopped. And then out of nowhere, Daly apparently calls Roth's mother a bitch. Okay.

Okay. So Roth's father, Bob, this man's father jumps on Daly from behind and starts scuffling and rolling around on the clubhouse floor until they're separated by other people. So he's now fighting with a fellow golfer's father after calling his mother a bitch in a locker room. This is white trash to the maximum.

This is the whitest trash shit. You're not at a Dollar General. What the fuck are you doing? You're acting like you're in a dollar store parking lot. You can't do this here. Stop it with the piggly wiggly behavior. Yeah, this is panhandle behavior, to use a small town murder term. Good Lord.

Unbelievable. Fuck. So this all happens. Daly ends up being fined $20,000 for this incident. You can't start fights with people's parents in the fucking clubhouse. I suppose that's a justified fine. They couldn't find the other guy's dad.

He doesn't work for them. So they were like, I guess this, it's your fault, asshole. You've earned this. And they order him, they don't suspend him, they order him

to take a leave of absence for the rest of the season. They're like, get the fuck out of here. You're a menace. He's been, this is three years he's been famous.

He's already a mess here. The wait is over. So far, you're not losing. The only thing you're losing is my patience. Quickly, I see that. Bing! The queen of the courtroom is back. I didn't do anything.

You wouldn't know the truth if it came up and slapped you in the face. I see he's not intimidated by anything. I can fix that. New cases. She wanted to fight me. Leave her alone. Okay, so, um... This is not a so. This is a period.

Classic Judy. Did you sleep with her? Yes, Your Honor. You married his cousin. His brother. That's not him. Yes, ma'am. I would make a beeline for the door.

The Emmy Award winning series returns. How did I know that? I have a crystal ball in my head. It's an all new season. It's streaming. You can say anything. Judy Justice. Only on Freebie. Beauty Justice, only on Freebie. So while he's suspended, he has to talk shit about the PGA, which I love. July 9th, 1994, he claims that many PGA golfers were cocaine users,

and he said if drug testing was done properly on tour, he would be, quote, one of the cleanest guys out there. Obviously, the golf community was super pissed at that. It's like even if it's true which who knows if it is even if it was it probably is a bunch of rich guys yeah they're doing coke but uh it's like why are you fucking telling them that that's probably not the wisest thing but he's like i'm not that bad it's his thing like yeah i'm an alcoholic what about all these coke heads i don't hide my alcoholism they're all going to the back in the bathroom and snoring lines, and you think they're perfect. So he says, and we'll do it in their own words on this one.

What do you say here? He says in their own words, quote, there are certain people on the tour who do crazy stuff. They're never going to get exposed unless they are found out by the police and put in jail. I wish we could have drug testing on the tour. If we did, I'd probably want to be one of the cleanest guys out there. Drugs, cocaine, some other crazy things. If you're going to test everybody, athletes in the NBA, football players for steroids and stuff, test the golfers.

So that's what he's saying. He's drugs and cocaine, drugs and cocaine, by the way. Drugs, cocaine, some of the other crazy things. Some of the other crazy things. What else is crazy? What is that? I don't know. I want more.

I want him to elaborate. That's what I want. Yeah. So he's saying drug test golfers, which no. No one is. We're all bored. Who cares is what we're all saying. John, if you're trying to tell me that Tiger Woods is probably on steroids, I agree with

you. We get it. He's on a million other things. Ask the Jupiter, Florida Police Department. Who cares? That was some HGH for Tiger always. I don't give a fuck. He calls on a million other things. Ask the Jupiter, Florida Police Department. Who cares? That was some HGH for the Tiger always. I don't give a fuck. He calls for, Daley calls for random drug testing of golfers. This is what he wants. 1995, John and Betty divorce, which you knew that was coming.

That wasn't going to last forever. She is 66 years old at the time they divorced. No, she's not 66, but she's 45 at the time. He marries then, he marries the time. He marries then. He marries another woman. He marries Paulette Dean. Not Paula Dean. He marries Paulette Dean.

Dean ends up having a second daughter, which we'll talk about. And they end up fighting for years. And as that goes, he has a few wives. This is a brief thing here. 1995, he wins the British Open Championship out of nowhere. They have a four hole playoff to determine a winner. And he finally wins it in the playoff. He was six under par. He wins

$125,000 for this tournament. That's not bad. I mean, if you think about it, though, I don't know how much unless you're winning a lot of tournaments, I don't know how being a golfer is very lucrative. I mean, you have to win like five of those a year for it to be like something that matters. With all the travel, with the equipment, with having to train.

And the caddies. That's what I mean. You have caddies. You have other swing coaches, all this type of thing. Like, just to play would cost half of that. And it's not just one tournament that wins. I mean, there's a bunch of shit that builds up to that. Yeah, and you have to go travel and stay.

You've got to go pay for that. You have to do all that shit. Yeah, it's interesting. You have to make a lot. You win a up to that. Yeah, and you have to go travel and stay. You've got to go pay for that. You have to do all that shit. Yeah, it's interesting. You have to make a lot. You win a lot to make it matter. Yeah. 1996 is good now. Yeah.

He's sober. Yeah. He's feeling great. Sponsored by Jack. Everything's going to be fine, Jimmy. No, he's not. Jimmy, he's good now. Damn it.

What, do you not believe in him? How many times in the history- He's my favorite one so far, I believe. How many times in the history of crime and sports have we heard someone say they're good now? What, do you not believe in him? How many times in the history? He's my favorite one so far, I believe. How many times in the history of crime and sports have we heard someone say they're good now? What do you not believe them? I believe it every time, Jimmy. Every time I believe it. I'm on board.

He says, quote, lots of people come up to me and say, John, you're not alone. I've been sober for seven years or 32 years, and they hand me these sobriety coins. I've collected over 200 in less than three years, sobriety coins. coins. I've collected over 200 in less than three years. Sobriety coins. On the back, they have the serenity prayer that we all go by and the Roman numerals, how long they've been sober. It really touches me.

He says, other golfers, Fuzzy Zeller, who's the racist guy who said some shit about Tiger Woods wanting fucking, I don't know, what did he say, fried chicken or something? Some fried chicken in collard greens. It was some hacky, stereotypical old Southern guy. Just call him the N-word.

You want to, dickhead. That's right. So he says that- Show me true colors. Yeah, well, Fuzzy Zeller's Daly's best fucking friend. Is that right? Oh, they're pals, boy. Oh, my God.

They go way back. All right. He's been a one-man support team for John, as he calls it. He says, quote, John's been down, gotten up, and knocked down again. That's the way he's come back shows how much courage this man has. And then he says, John says that it's one day at a time. He says he's just a rookie at sobriety. He said that Zeller came up to him two years ago and basically tried to get him to notice that he had a problem.

He said, look around at all these people, John. Your life isn't that bad. Daly says that, quote, Fuzzy is my big brother. Yeah. So, yeah, he's my big racist brother, Fuzzy. His best advice? To find other addictions that are good addictions, other hobbies that make me happy where I can forget about golf

and the thought of having a drink. Yeah. Which is. And the South will rise again. Yeah, exactly. And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. That's one of those. It's that, exactly.

Yeah. If you do all that. Ridiculous. Yeah. So he says, John Daly says that it's kind of hard because all he ever done since he's 12 is drink and play golf. That's all he does. He says, quote, I don't fish. I don't hunt.

I couldn't kill anything to tell you the truth. I barely have enough patience for golf. So he ends up taking up guitar is what he ends up doing. That's right. He said he's been playing guitar for the last three years. He said, quote, the guitar is definitely harder than golf. You've got six little strings and no margin for error. I think golf's much fucking harder.

Yeah. I'm going to say it's probably a lot harder. There's a lot more people that play guitar really well. Yeah, that play pretty well. I can't really tell if they're a pro at it or not. Then play golf even mediocre. Even mediocre, yeah. Most of the time you see a guy swing and you go, he's not a professional right there.

Anybody could tell. You go to any bar on a fucking Friday night that they have live music and you're like, that guy's not a professional? That's crazy. Yeah. So, Jesus Christ. So, at this point he's got a one-year-old daughter named Sierra with his wife, Paulette. He's got his other daughter, Shina.

He's got Shirley Witherell, the old lady who took him to golf. That's his support group. There's a picture of him, like, in the newspaper all together, him holding the kids and all that shit. He says to the kids he's not going to preach to them. He doesn't want any of that. He says about his kids, he worries. He said, quote, I worry about it a lot. Hopefully they'll know what their daddy has gone through and won't drink.

But I want to give them a chance to learn on their own. I'm not going to preach. If you tell your kids to hit golf balls for two hours every day, they'll hate golf. Which, yeah, I would say so. He says, if they're hanging out with the wrong crowd or dating a guy they shouldn't, I want to know. He says he wants to be involved in his kids' life. He says, I love kids and seeing them develop. It's funny, too.

Make it easy, John. Calm down. He has a 40-week-a-year tour schedule, which is the same as a headlining comedian that goes around the country. It's not bad at all. It's the same family life, basically. He's gone a lot. He says quality time is difficult, giving my schedule.

He admits he's, quote, not too much for diaper changing. Preferring things like playing with them and taking them shopping. You know, things that don't involve shit. The fun part. You know, where there's not poop on your hands. Right. That's the way that happens there. Jesus Christ.

You got to take it easy with quotes like, I love children and love to watch them develop. I love kids. I want to watch them develop with their shirts off. Right. No. You can't say that shit into microphones, John. They'll isolate that and you'll be in a courtroom. People who, they're with their shirts off. Right. No. You can't say that shit into microphones, John. They'll isolate that and you'll be in a courtroom. People who are all writing it down.

Right. I just picked it up off a 20-year-old newspaper. 1997, he becomes the first PGA Tour player to average more than 300 yards per drive over a full season. Unbelievable. Never happened before. He did it also every year from 99 to 2008. Averaged 300 yards. Per drive over four seasons.

So 98 he didn't, but 97 he did, and then 99 to 2008 he did it. And he was the first and only player to do it until 2003. Wow. So he was doing it every year until 2003 and no one had ever done it ever, but he did it every year. That's what I mean. There's a difference in his drives that make people want to watch him because it's like, I don't know, it's like a guy who can dunk well. You want to watch that or

a guy who, I don't fucking know, does something. The hard slap shot, I don't fucking know. The interesting part about that is that the average is 300. Not every hole is even 300 yards. Yeah, they probably are. That means some holes. No, no, because you'll have a par three that's like, I don't know, 250, 280.

I guess. I don't know enough about PGA courses. But that means you are on like a 500. You're crushing that down 380. Goddamn 400 yards. Right. He also promptly starts drinking again. There you go.

At that point, 97. Alcohol is tough for him. He would run up, Jesus Christ, man. He ran up huge gambling debts, trashing hotel rooms, two multi-million dollar sponsors dropped him when he headed back to rehab one time. Just a

fucking disaster. See, that's where it's at. That's the money in golf. It's the sponsorships. You make so much fucking money. But you have to be popular. You have to have a name that anybody gives a shit about to get sponsored. You don't have to win these fucking things. You just have to be great or insane.

Or at least, yeah, you just have to be known. Right. So 1997 U.S. Open, he walks off the course in the middle rounds. Had enough of that shit. God, I love that. Enough of that shit. 97 also, he ended up later talking candidly about a suicide attempt he had this year, saying it was prompted by, quote, everybody coming down on me,

as well as looming financial problems from being dropped by his sponsors. He said that, quote, it was just a bad, bad time. Yeah, I would say that's a bad, bad time. 1998 Vancouver Open, he has a tough thing. bad time. Yeah, I would say that's a bad, bad time. 1998 Vancouver Open. He has a tough thing. He's uncontrollably shaking and it's noticeable. He can't

stop shaking. His whole body's shaking. People didn't know what was wrong with him. A Sports Illustrated columnist said, quote, he was meant to be a great athlete. He just was never meant to parade this wreck of a life in front of the world, which makes a lot of sense. He was caught by the television cameras walking the course, shaking, and people saw him.

The other golfers saw him, and they helped him complete the round, get through it all, but he missed the cuts. They said that it was evidence that he was manic depressive for some reason. A lot of people said he said the problem was caused by medication prescribed to him, which is possible. We have no idea what caused that. It could have been both of those things. He could have got a weird medication and it was testing out.

It could have made him shaky. Who the fuck knows? But he finished the round, doesn't make the cut, obviously. 1999 is the JCPenney Classic. He wins that. So he comes back with a win every once in a while. And also he divorces his wife at 99, Paulette. They're divorced.

So that makes sense. That is three marriages under his belt. Good job. Two kids. A lot of them. That's three marriages and a shitload of pounds and booze under his belt. There's a lot under this man's belt. Let's just say that.

Holy shit. Does he have two kids right now or just the one? Two kids, too. Yeah, he had one from each. Yeah, he had two girls there. March of 2000, he's freshly divorced. So as we know from crime and sports, when things aren't going perfectly,

you want to latch yourself on legally to the nearest person possible because you always make good decisions when things are unraveling. So now he says he's engaged, again, to a 24-year-old named Shanae Chandler. She's a journalism student at the University of Texas, and she drops out of college to go live with John, which not a great decision probably for her either. Both of these two, this is not going to – do I even need to say that this isn't going to last forever?

I mean, do we know here? We know. April 14th of 2000, he's got Sinead Chandler, his girlfriend there. They're recently engaged. A disagreement between himself and Sinead outside of a McDonald's restaurant. This is so white trash. Escalates into a police situation on this here. He's in town for a celebrity golf tournament apparently here.

He's not arrested. No one's arrested here, but there's a police report taken. They took Daly and the – this is funny. The police took him and Sinead to separate hotels after the dispute. Like nobody's under arrest, but we're not taking you fucking idiots to the same place. They literally drove them to separate locations like children. You go in that room and you go in that room. You guys are idiots.

And then let them loose. And then let them loose here. They said that Chandler, she was the one that called the police here. The report describes her as his, quote, common law wife, which is fucking interesting. Very, very interesting. It happened outside of a McDonald's at 1025 p.m. He was playing the Price Oil Plainsman Celebrity Tournament at the Auburn University Club. Why is that McDonald's open that late? Shit, I don't know.

That's impressive. Yeah, them are. Yeah, really. Especially down there. You wouldn't expect that. Yeah, it's usually Waffle House. Yeah. She tells, Sinead tells police that they started fighting over who was going to drive home. That's what this fight was about. She reportedly admitted to pushing Daly to keep him away from her because

he was too close to her and getting in her face. When police arrived at the restaurant, Daly was in the action of throwing clothes out of a van. He was in a van with clothes flying out of the back when they pulled up. So they're like, okay, there's a dispute here. His clothes are her clothes. Oh, no. They must have pulled up.

Oh, boy, here we go. This is some white trash, guys. Brace yourselves. Holy fucking shit, man. McDonald's and clothes are flying. That's weird. The police report indicated they identified Chandler, Sinead, as the victim in a case of disorderly conduct. He's not actually arrested or cited for it.

It's very, very interesting here. Around this time, too, he had a bunch of weird things. He had three empty beer bottles in front of him when he was being interviewed by a reporter that week, which was odd. During an interview also, he said that his – and during that interview, he said that his struggles with alcohol have prompted him to drink in moderation. And I guess those three beers are moderation. He's saying that's all he has here. All I'm going to have is three. Wow.

So the whole thing with Sinead doesn't really work out, as you might imagine. That kind of doesn't do anything. So June of 2001, he meets Sherry Miller, who's a 25-year-old car saleswoman from Memphis, Tennessee. She has a one-year-old son named Austin. He meets her at a golf

tournament in 2001. Seven weeks later, on July 29, 2001, they get married. Again, brilliant. Nice job, John. Stop. Calm down. Take a deep breath. Pull back for a minute. And also, aim higher than their 20s. That's the other thing. This is not good for you. Let's just say that. You're 35 years old. It's fine if they get along, whatever, but I don't think you should be marrying anyone in seven weeks. That's probably that you just met.

That seems stupid. That seems fast. Very fast. September 2, 2001. This is interesting. He's in Germany. I hope he got back quick because otherwise he's going to be stuck there for a while. A little bit.

September 2, 2001. He wins the BMW International Open in Germany. He's 27 to be stuck there for a while. A little bit. September 2nd, 2001. He wins the BMW International Open in Germany. He's 27 under par. What was that course set for fucking 90-year-old people or children? 27 under par. But he only wins by one stroke. So the second place guy was 26 under par. It's super weird.

Do you win a car when you win that one? That's fucking great. Maybe. Yeah, that'd be terrific. They'd have to ship it over. But still, right over there, it's right-hand drive. Right-hand drive. That's awesome. So 2002 that'd be terrific. They'd have to ship it over, but still, right over there, it's right-hand drive. Right-hand drive. That's awesome.

So 2002, here it comes. Now it's full-blown insanity. Before this, he's just kind of a douchebag athlete. You know what I mean? He's funny. He's a spectacle. He's a blast. He's going through all these marriages, and he's a cliche anyway.

Now he becomes a crime and sportsé with the release of an album. Yes. Now he's a fucking musician. He is country. Every time one of our athletes releases an album, it's hilarious. I'm sorry, it's always hilarious. I don't even care if it's good, which it never is. It's still hilarious.

Why are you doing this? He releases an album called My Life. It's on the label Scream Marketing, which is one of the top labels in the world, obviously, here. What year is this? This is 2002. Okay. It includes guest vocals by Darius Rucker and Johnny Lee, whoever the fuck that is. I don't know who that is.

That's great. The sample, the track listing here, if we would like to hear some of the tracks. Oh, boy. I'm Drunk, Damn Broke. I'm Drunk, Comma, Damn damn broke is the name of a song. Okay. You Don't Know Me is one. Long Ball Rebel.

He does a remake of Knocking on Heaven's Door. No. Fuck you. I've heard it. Don't do that. He does a My Life. All My Exes Wear Rolexes, like I said, featuring Johnny Lee. I Only Know One Way, which features Darius Rucker on there.

I think that's the song I've heard. Maybe. Mr. Fan, I found it. Where am I now? Which he was just asking people in the studio, where am I right now? I have no clue where I am. No, seriously. And they kept, he's like, turn the fucking, turn it off.

Stop recording me and tell me where I am. God damn it. And that was that was that i found it that's what he used to scream when he'd jump into the ponds yeah the fucking golf course is on golf balls uh my life reprise okay he he made another one another one two of them on the second remix uh and 12 is golf exhibition which is 27 minutes and four seconds long, which seems like a long song. I don't know what that is. So he's releasing albums. So it's gone full fucking crazy now when he starts releasing albums.

That's when you know the ego's gotten out of control, when you're like, I should release an album. No, you shouldn't. It's because somebody told him he should. Listen here, Cosner. Fucking relax with the band. Kevin Bacon, calm down. So, 2002, he wins the 2002

Champions Challenge with Pat Perez, whoever the fuck that is. He got me. 2003, he wins the 2003 Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational. So, good for him. 2003 also. July 23rd, 2003, his son is born.

Oh, boy. He has a son from his new wife here. His son's name, John Patrick Daly II. Junior. A fucking junior. God damn it, John. He juniored him up. He is, if there was a crime in sports like money, like he's the dollar bill.

He's just the dollar bill. He's a crime in sports fucking archetype crime in sports guy. Albums, juniors, fucking mad marriages, craziness. Insane amounts of alcohol. Insane amounts of alcohol. It's fucking nuts, man. So he is born. This is great, too.

John is born. John Jr. is born a week before his wife, Sherry, and her parents are indicted in Mississippi on charges stemming from what authorities said was an illegal drug ring and gambling operation. Oh, my God, John. What have you married? What the fuck is happening? What is happening?

Now this I would say maybe he rubbed off on her, but no. She's a lunatic. She makes him, over the course of this episode, she makes him look like an old church woman. She is a nutcase. I mean, it's obvious when she's being indicted with her parents on a gambling and drug ring. A week after her son's born. That's a mess, man. Jesus.

What a fucking mess. I just read that and I'm like, huh? This is, what? Define alternate sources. I'm like, this is insanity. You almost want to say, maybe you shouldn't have named that kid Junior. Yeah, you think? Maybe?

That was instant fucking. Instant fucking CIS karma. That's right. Right there. So October 12th, 2003, he wins the Colon Korean Open. The what? K-O-L-O-N Korean Open. Oh, my God.

Colon. It's a sponsor over there. Hopefully it's Colon. I looked. It just said that was the name of their sponsor. So I was like, good enough for me. I don't know if that was whatever. He's six under par.

He wins by two strokes there. February 15, 2004, he wins the Buick Invitational, which is like a big tournament. He wins that. He's 10 under par there. That's amazing. I don't know. Through all of this, his wife just got indicted for an illegal drug and gambling operation a week after his son's born.

He's like, the chaos makes me focus. He lives in chaos. He needs it. He can't play unless he's got it. It's what it is. He needs to be drunk. He needs to have this. He needs to have that.

Now, February 19th, 2004, a judge in Superior Court of Riverside County, California, rules in favor of Daly's third wife, that's Paulette, in case you're keeping track, in a case involving the couple's eight-year-old daughter, Sierra. So it's like a custody thing is what we're talking about here. John must give Paulette notice before he visits Sierra. The visits only may occur in Southern California, Arizona, or Nevada. Paulette and Sierra live in Palm Desert, California. And Sherry may not be present at any time during the visits also. Maybe because she has criminal charges for having a drug and gambling ring.

That's the judge does all of that. The evidence was submitted to the judge, including a three-page single-space letter from Sierra's therapist, as well as a two-page declaration from John's former personal assistant, Donna Crabtree, who claimed that she had seen Sherry screaming at Sierra and physically abusing John. That's a problem. Yes. Sherry, for some reason, has a comment in the media.

Sherry says, this case is not over. We have attorneys working on it as we speak. No. Wow. Maybe worry about your other problems, Sherry. Yeah, you worry about your court and let him worry about his. How about this? You guys, instead of being taken to separate hotels separately, take him to separate courthouses and not fucking worry about it.

Jesus Christ. Now, Daly was hurt, he said, by Crabtree's letter, his former assistant, because they had been best friends since they attended elementary school together in Dardanelle, Arkansas. Well, that's why you don't involve friends with your business. That's exactly right. Crabtree insists that she did the right thing. She says, quote, John's been saying I took Paulette's side, but I didn't. I took Sierra's side, which is the kid.

If he wants to be upset that I said these things about his wife, then that's fine. But he shouldn't be telling people I made him out to be a bad guy because that's not true. She just said that Sierra was an asshole, which she sounds like it. Or Sherry, not Sierra. Sierra's the kid. She's fine. She's not an asshole. She's a good kid.

She's a good kid, I'm sure. November 2004, Sherry Adeli pleads guilty to charge of conspiracy to structure a transaction to evade the reporting requirement. This is in that whole drug deal here. Yeah, she made only a few comments about it. She said, quote, you don't beat federal court, a federal judge, and the FBI. No way. Yeah. Her lawyer said, quote, I told Sherry, you have to look at what's ahead.

If there's probation, house arrest, you have to take it. I know you're not a convict. I know you're not guilty, but you're not going to win, is what his lawyer said to her. So she, while this was all going on, was still with him while he was out golfing. She was walking the golf course with him as he was playing a tournament. She insisted that her offenses are not as great as the plea agreement makes them out to be. She said, I didn't do anything.

She says, quote, this is she says it's on the golf course while he's golfing. Ridiculous. Right. She says, quote, the prosecutors know my in my involvement was very small. My dad was misled and taken advantage of. We hated to make the deal. But in the federal system, ignorance does not excuse you from the law. I didn't know we couldn't have a gambling and drug ring.

What is she doing? Your dad invested in something? We don't fucking know. What the fuck is she talking about? If all of them got arrested, who the fuck knows here? Now, 2005, he sues Morris Publishing. This is for they published the Florida Union Times, which is a newspaper. He sues them for libel after a columnist claimed this is what he sued over. Okay, so he might sue us.

I don't know. If he does, go for it, John. I hope we win. Guess what? I don't care if we win or lose because guess what? You will make us so fucking popular it's not even funny. So if you want everyone to hear it even more, then sue us because that way everyone will hear it let's dance johnny shut the fuck up and go have a drink and we'll talk you know call it a fucking joke and have a sense of humor because it seems like you have a

sense of humor john if you're listening and if you do you realize your life's been kind of funny and we don't hate you and we're not fucking sniping at you're coming down on you're calling you a piece of shit we're just saying you've made some fucked up decisions, had some bad times. We're probably rooting for you still. At the end, we'll decide whether we like you or not. But at this point, I'm fucking rooting for you. At this point, I still want to drink with you, Johnny. That's all.

So the columnist called, said about Daly that he, quote, this is the quote, failed the scoundrel sniff test. What the fuck does that mean? It means that just by looking at him, he seemsailed the scoundrel sniff test. What the fuck does that mean? It means that just by looking at him, he seems like a scoundrel. The sniff test meaning he sued over that, saying he failed the scoundrel sniff test, which is not even a defined thing. He didn't even say he is a scoundrel. He just said he comes off as a scoundrel is what that says. I sniffed him. He smells like a scoundrel.

That's it. So he's suing over that. Let's find out how that ends up because it's horrible for John Daly. It doesn't work out for him. Now, 2005 U.S. Open in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Holy shit, I forgot about this. Daly is investigated for nearly running over an alcohol, tobacco, and firearms agent with his car at a security checkpoint.

You can't do that. Jesus fucking Christ, man. That's awesome. He apparently nearly ran down ATF agent Eugene Fleming in his hurry to make an open tea time. This wasn't publicized right then, and the tour dubbed it a case of mistaken identity and never punished Daly for it. of mistaken identity and never punished Daly for it. According to this document that they have, the police affidavit, four witnesses besides Fleming, all law enforcement officials working at the checkpoint named Daly as the man behind the wheel.

They're like, we can't make a positive identification. All of them are like, there's John Daly. There he goes. There's his license plate. It's Jay Daly. I don't know. Jay Daly won, I guess. That's not him.

Wow. But North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation did not recommend a criminal probe. He said, Jesus Christ, Fleming, who's the guy, the ATF agent, maintains that Daly was the driver and upset that the tour didn't even punish him. He bristles at the mistaken identity characterization, which I don't blame him. That's ridiculous. So dumb.

He said, quote, I follow golf and I know John Daly and he was the driver of that car. I looked him in the eye. There was no mistaken identity on my part. He was driving. A lot of people wanted the state of North Carolina to prosecute John for that incident. I heard later that the PGA Tour asked the North Carolina SBI to let them handle it. They said, this is bad publicity. Nobody's hurt.

Let's just move it along. Yeah. Fleming said that he was told Daley was ordered by the tour the next day to go to the security checkpoint and apologize to the officers. And Fleming said he wasn't even on duty at that time. So he didn't even get an apology. He said, quote, it wasn't my shift. So John Daley apologized to the wrong guy. As to why North Carolina never prosecuted him, I have no idea.

But I'm surprised the tour never did anything. John go in there and apologize. Somebody go mistaken identity. He's like, I'm mistaken identity. Yeah, you're all wearing the same shirt. I don't know. Jesus Christ, man. They did do an investigation.

They talked to people. But then they ended up not doing a fucking thing about it because, you know, he's famous and it's bad pub. He's already got a bunch of things happening this year, looming and all that shit. I mean, so fuck, he's just got to be holed up somewhere like fucking drinking his brain. I mean, after you almost ran down an ATF agent. A federal agent. A federal agent for no reason because you're late. No, because he's late for a tea time, James. federal agent. A federal agent for no reason. Because you're late.

No, because he's late for a tea time change. Come on, man. Not for no reason. Leave five minutes earlier. So now he's fucking sitting in a goddamn hotel room afterwards, I'm sure, getting hammered, being pissed off about his wife and everything else there. And I don't know, maybe he orders up a prostitute. You never know how that goes with these guys.

An escort of some kind. There's a knock at the door. He excitedly answers it. And it's the Mexican pimp. And he says. How is it you've come to arrive here? Why are you here? Why do you come here?

You are here. I must give you credit, though. You have brought in many women. Many women, many of them younger than you. Many women I could make a lot of money off of. I'm just saying if you're the type of man who can get a 25-year-old woman to do things, maybe you could get her to do things for me. That's all I mean. Right there. Besides that, I would pour you a scotch like I usually do. I pour scotch for both of us. I figure you've had enough.

You've had enough, my friend. As a matter of fact, I'm not liking the look you have in your eyes right now. You don't pass the scoundrel sniff, Taz. I am sniffing, and you, sir, are a scoundrel. Poof, and in a puff of fur coats and pist pistols uh he's gone and sean daly is even more confused and he's staring at his booze glass like what's in this like a bum in an old sitcom when like i drank i like bewitched like fucking she would disappear and there'd be a homeless guy sitting there with like a wine bottle looking at it and looking at her and then putting the wine bottle down like I've had enough.

No more of this shit. No more of this shit. So October 2005, this is amazing. He wins the WGC American Express tournament and promptly takes his winnings to the slot machine at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas and loses $1.5 million. Oh, and a slot machine. Yes. Yeah, he won $750 at the tournament, went and lost $1.5 million there.

What a dipshit. Lost it all, most of it, on $5,000 slots. They have that? They have five at the Wynn, yeah, the Bellagio too. That is huge. $5,000 slots. They have that? They have five at the win. Yeah, the Bellagio, too. That is huge. $5,000 slots. That's way too much. Imagine just pulling that and $5,000 is gone in three seconds.

Ding, ding, ding. That's it. That's a used car. Gone. Bar, cherries, hamburger. Fuck. Ding, ding, ding. Four months of mortgage.

Done. Gone. Fuck. Two pulls. That's a mortgage. Done. Gone. Fuck. Two pulls. That's a Harley. That's a fucking Harley. You're like, Jesus Christ. You're there for 15 minutes.

You could have put three kids through college, for Christ's sake. This is insanity. So January 2006, Sherry begins observing a five-month prison sentence at that point. She gets for that. That's part of her deal. She's also going to get six months of house arrest, five years of probation. They say she helped to launder more than $1.2 million of illegal drug money. No, that ain't shit.

She hear about John's slot night. Yeah, he just lost 1.5. Shit, I could launder that right there. 2006. He just wrote all that shit off anyway. It's just gambling losses. Fuck it, and he drank more. 2006, John's hubris, the hubris on this fuck.

Now he starts a wine label. Oh, my God, John, no. What the fuck does he have to do with wine? Start a beer label. Start a whiskey label, sir. You start a micro brew? Oh, my God. He would be killing it.

People are going to come killing it. Instead, a wine label. Idiot. He calls it John Daly Wines. Of course he does. Don't call it that. Jesus, make something up with a stick or a hole or a fucking putt or something. Rusty Bear, because your favorite's the Golden Bear.

There you go. Just go with the Rusty Bear. So June 15th, 2006, he's on 60 Minutes. He says, this is fucking amazing here, Morley Safer is interviewing him. He talks about his diet here. He talks about, like we said before, it's all or nothing. That's his whole thing. They talk about, he says, he thinks people relate to him.

That all came from this interview. He says, I was a basket case, you know. When I got mad, I threw clubs, you know. And if things weren't going well, I would walk off a course. I think I lost a little bit of respect, but hopefully I've gained that back. I doubt it. He said, everybody fights demons. Some are worse than others, but I've conquered the Jack Daniels. That was the biggest one. Conquered it. Good now. Not going to drink anymore. He says it was bad for him, Jack Daniels. He said, horrible. Me and Jack Daniels were best friends,

but boy, too much of it. We just didn't get along. Yeah, that's what happens with everybody with Jack Daniels. That's just life. That shit is bad news. It really is. He says that they talk about him being a ratings draw still. He said the PGA knows that

they kind of need him because he's a great draw. He said, but they're always like, oh, please don't let me look in the newspaper today and see what happens. They're like, show up, don't get arrested, and draw this crowd. But if he doesn't get arrested, he draws less of a crowd. That's the thing. It's kind of a catch-22 here. He says that his one place to escape is Dardanelle, Arkansas, where he can go. He recently bought a golf course there.

He bought the golf course that he taught himself to play on. He said it's a club, and Daly has – it's basically he's made it into his own little yard. Yeah, a place that he can fuck around. Yeah. He said it's a club that, like Daly, has virtually no rules is what the guy said, which I think is funny. He said, quote, I don't care what you wear, just, you know, cover up the private parts. That's his golf course rules. Cover up the private parts. Just wear a golf course rules. Cover up the private parts.

Just wear a merkin and you can play. Yeah. He says he's turning his life around. It started to turn around after, only after he decided to ignore all of the advice to go back to rehab, quit gambling, and take antidepressants. Now it's going better. He said, quote, I took myself off all this medication I was on. The doctors were putting me on, prescribing. You've got to do this., you got to do that.

And I looked in the mirror one day and I said, one thing you got to do, John, let's take care of John for now. He said, I used to look in the mirror and flip myself off. Now I can look in the mirror and say, hey, you're all right. You're all right today, man, which is hilarious. Him just going, you're all right. And then he goes out and loses a million and a half dollars in a sitting. Jesus Christ. He said what he found was he could not or would not.

He doesn't know yet, but he couldn't or wouldn't give up alcohol and gambling. He says he's and he also he's lost another multimillion dollar endorsement deal as a result. But he claims he's trying to learn from his mistakes. He said, I've lost a ton of money, money in the middle 90s, which is more than that. Yeah. They said how much? He said in the millions. Later on, we find out exactly how much or not in this interview. He claims in 15 years, in a 15-year period, he lost between $50 and $60 million. Gambling.

Million in gambling. Oh, my God. $50 and $60 million. So you think it's Charles Barkley? Barkley said he lost $20. That's nothing compared to 50 to 60. John, I got news for you. You're not good at gambling.

Holy shit. You are really bad at gambling. Wow. They asked him, why are you so unlucky in love? And he said, quote, I don't know. I think it's a two-way street. It's 50-50. It's a tough life.

It's not as glamorous as people think it is. It's a lot of traveling. Tons of traveling. Also, I marry psychopaths. I mentioned that. Liars, psychos. Convicted fucking thieves. Convicted fucking felon.

Things like that. Then he also says, or they ask him, there's a lot of temptations on the tour. A lot of groupies, right? And he says, just tons of temptations in life, period. Then he says, unlucky in love. He lost $60 million. I would say you're unlucky in gambling. Then he says, this interview was done while his wife was still in jail.

He says, quote, well, I've never given up sex. I mean, it's been very difficult where my wife is right now. I mean, I've got to wait five months. I mean, that's, I'm a nympho. I'm not scared to say it. I'm a nympho. So he's like, I he's like i'm fucking everything i can still here uh yeah holy shit if you look at his body and then hear him say i'm a nympho

jesus christ man i'm fucking nuts right i'm a nympho i can't help it i don't think i've ever heard a man i gotta be fucking i just gotta be i like that i like to rest my belly atop a lady and thrust that's what i like to do so i like to flop my my potato sack right on top right up on them cheeks jesus christ he says later on about gambling oh john that's gross he said quote we went through all my tax records to find out how much i lost because i really didn't know and it just came to that i was shocked i thought it may have been 20 to I really didn't know, and it just came to that. I was shocked. I thought it may have been $20 to $25 million, but I had no idea it was $55 to $57 million.

It's crazy. He said he would regularly place seven hands of blackjack at the same time, each for up to $15,000. Wow. So he'd have over $100,000 on the table at once. He said he also frequented the $5,000 a pull slot machines, and he said sometimes he'd stay at the tables for up to two days straight. Jesus. He said, quote, I love the action.

I love the adrenaline going on in there. Now if I gamble, I play the $25 slots. If I hit something, I might move up to $100, but I don't know. I don't do what I used to anymore. No. And that'll never escalate. I'm sure. Back up to that again, because it's not like gambling's a fucking addiction that escalates that. That's like saying I just have a few beers and a couple of Jack Daniels, and I don't think that'll ever escalate to me having 15 of them. Yeah. He says that he does not have any remorse or regret about this. He says people are going to say that I should regret it, but I did it. You know i move on from it i had a lot of fun doing it oh my god he doesn't give a fuck what a crazy statement that's a crazy 60 million dollars and he he had fun doing it and

he had fun doing it i mean jesus i could think of a lot of shit you could buy for 60 million dollars yeah i you could have so much fun for $60 million. For the rest of your life. Forever. If you just don't gamble it, give it away. Also, right around this time, there's an Urban Dictionary definition of John Daly, and it's a drink. It's his own drink.

It is a noun, a mixed drink, two parts vodka, one part iced tea, one part lemonade. It's an Arnold Palmer, but it's half vodka. That's what that is here. It's two shots, two parts vodka, one part iced tea, one part lemonade. So it's 50 It's a double. It's a 50 this and more than that. Christ, it's a glass that's half full of vodka. Half full

of fucking lemonade and iced tea. Oh my god. That is an Arnold Palmer that will make you shit your pants. That will make you fucking go blind. Oh, my God. Daly's last tour victory came in San Diego in 2004, which got him a two-year playing exemption where he'd just always qualify for these tournaments. After 2006, though, his career began to fall apart. He had trouble making cuts because now he's got to make the cuts.

And he had trouble staying on tour. He had trouble making cuts because now he's got to make the cuts, and he had trouble staying on tour. He was earning entries through past champion status and numerous sponsor invitations because they want him there so people will watch. Daly, this is a weird fact, is the only man from either Europe or the United States to win two major golf championships but never participate in the Ryder Cup, which is the international tournament. Really fucking that's the only man in history. I don't know if it's like that now, but I think it is still. October 17, 2006, Sherry files for divorce from him. Daly files also a day later.

John does. I don't understand that. It's because he doesn't want to be the defendant in the case. He's like, yeah, I'd rather be the petitioner. And then a month later, he said, the divorce is on hold. We're not sure yet. We might be the petitioner. And then a month later he said, the divorce is on hold. We're not sure yet. We might be back together here. We fucked it over and I got a big dick about some things and everything's going to be all right. This is where he has his book here, My Life In and Out of the Rough, it's called.

There's more to it. Details as a gambling and all that. One of his chapters is called All My Exes Wear Rolexes as well. Stop, John. Stop. Stop with the puns. Well, 2007, he provides backup vocals in the Kid Rock song, Half Your Age. I've heard it.

By the way, Kid Rock, I saw, won some golf tournament by beating Alfonso Ribeiro or some horse shit. Ridiculous. This is stupid. What are we doing here? Stop golfing. 2008, 2007, June 8th, 2007. John calls police about 6 a.m. on a Friday morning. Shelby County Sheriff's Department spokesman says they got there.

When they arrived there, his wife Sherry and the couple's children were not there. He says that they argued the last night at a restaurant near the golf course. What restaurant? We don't know that. And then he says they got home, they argued more, and then his wife tried to stab him with a steak knife. So, holy shit. What the fuck is going on, John?

And he had red marks all over his cheeks and face, and he still had them when he showed up to play on the course Friday. And there's pictures of him and his golf hat on the course with his face all fucking scratched up and messed up looking. The police couldn't find the. Sherry ruined his golf picture. Ruined it. That's awesome. Ruined it.

Now he's fat and smoking and scratched. Deputies couldn't find the knife he claimed to use here. Fat and smoking and scratched. Deputies couldn't find the knife he claimed to use here. He competes at the Stanford St. Jude Championship on a sponsor exemption there. That's where he was when this happened. He was tied for eighth after a first round in which he had a triple bogey and then had five straight birdies. Oh, fuck.

He didn't speak to reporters but issued a statement saying he was, quote, the victim of an assault by my wife. He said, I filed a complaint with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. They are investigating, and I'll have no further comment on the matter while they pursue their investigation. My only concern at this point is for the safety of my children and myself. Good call. Which is what he should be saying here. Good speech. Yes, he said he was working with local authorities and Tor security for protection. He now has two bodyguards with him throughout the

round like she's gonna run out onto the course and stab him i think maybe they'd see her it's an open golf course uh but that's how scared he is of a woman at this point yeah no shit uh he went from a tie through this basically he went from a tie for eighth when this happened to a tie for 58th after that no uh With a four over 74 round that included two double bogeys, five bogeys and five birdies. She ruined his fucking round here. He didn't speak. He just said

that they should let him play. He just said he was finishing the round and they should let him play into the weekend, which should let him play into the weekend and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Golf shit. No charges have been filed as of then, and it will be, it seems to be up to Daly whether he wants to file charges on this. March of 2008, Daly hires a swing coach named Butch Harmon, who's like a swing guru.

He's a great coach that all the big guys hire when they need to work a kink out of their swing. Got it. Like two weeks later, he quits, this guy, saying, quote, the most important thing in Daley's life is getting drunk. I think his lies kind of destroyed my life for a little bit, he said. He's like, I'm here for no reason.

Fuck this guy. Ridiculous. So now even Butch Harmony's fucked over. I mean, fuck me, man. The PGA, I got to say, he hasn't fucked them over. They've made a lot of money off of his goddamn presence. So for them, whatever. But his kids have to be embarrassed, man. His kids, his fucking.

Even the wives that have divorced him, they're embarrassed. His wives, his mom, Louie, his brothers and sisters. Fucking Butch Harmon. I feel bad for all these people. I do, Jimmy. But God damn it, not nearly as bad as I feel for John Daly, Director of Corporate Operations for Orlando,

Florida area Government Administration. He's the Director of Corporate Operations at Naval Air Services Command. He is also an Associate Professor at Valencia College. He's a serious man. John Daly, U.S. Executive Director in the greater New York area.

He's the Executive Director, Head of Access, Immunology, and Dermatology at Norvartis. Serious guy. Big deal. Yeah, I would say so. John Daly, real estate broker from Norfolk, Virginia. He's lived in Virginia. I feel bad for anybody who's a real estate broker because you see their name and you're like, I'm not buying from that guy because it's not him. Buy from this poor guy. He's in Norfolk in Virginia. I feel bad for anybody who's a real estate broker because you see their name and you're like, I'm not buying from that guy because it's not him.

Buy from this poor guy. He's in Norfolk, Virginia. And John Daly III. Oh, my God. John Daly III, who's a holistic hospitality professional, empathetic leader, passionate free runner, providing optimal guest experiences where he is a banquet server and bartender at the Wyndham Worldwide Hotel in Tampa, St. Petersburg. I feel terrible for him. And also, John Daly, an Olympic athlete for Team U.S. fucking A.

And he comes up a lot if you search for John Daly. Oh, yeah. What does he play? Skeleton. He's in the Skeleton event. I think it's like a luge type thing. I'm not sure. But yeah, he's in Skeleton and he is confused for John Daly

all the time. You know what? Let's pop in one more. I don't know if I feel so bad for him or our golfer John Daly either way, but a former Long Beach High School janitor who pleaded not guilty to allegedly spying on girls in the locker room.

They arrested 33-year-old John Daly who faces three counts of endangering the welfare of a child at his Long Beach home. Authorities say three girls ages 10 to 12 who were at school for a swim meet noticed Daly watching them undressed from a hallway in the locker room. Jesus Christ. I think that's the first time you found one way worse than our actual scumbag. Yeah.

Oh, no. The one guy stole from Little League. I remember that. That was worse than Edwin Valero. This is pretty nasty. Oh, no. The one guy stole from Little League. I remember that. That was worse. Edwin Valero. This is pretty nasty. Well, I guess he killed a woman. Death is, that's worse than anything our John Daly did here. Way worse.

May 5th, 2008, John is filmed golfing shirtless for some reason. Gross. It's still on YouTube. So gross. He's out on a course. He's with a reporter hanging out and he just takes his shirt off because it's hot. Stop it, John. 2008, he gets Buick open.

He gets in trouble by the PGA for hitting a ball off a beer can that Kid Rock gave him. Kid Rock gave him a beer. He downed it and then hit a ball off the top of the can. He used it as the tea. You're not allowed to do that. Not allowed to do that at all. October 26th. That's fucking amazing, though.

Incredible, right? That's so awesome. It's like, what are you doing? What, sir? I need to ask you what you're doing. Is that a Coors Light? What are you, sir? No, no. What are you doing? What are you doing? Now, October 26th, 2008. He has no golf on his schedule.

He says that he went to North Carolina to have fun with some friends, which, right, you know, there's trouble. You're like, oh, boy. His version of fun. Yikes. He ends up being held overnight in a North Carolina jail after he's found passed out at a Hooters restaurant. Inside or outside? Both.

Hooters is a sponsor of his, not the PGA. Oh, shit. A personal sponsor of his is Hooters. Police officers were called to the Hooters at 120 Haines Square Circle in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at 2.17 a.m. Sunday morning. Oh, my God. Wow. They arrived there.

Daly, who had passed out at the restaurant, was being treated by emergency medical workers. He refused to go to the hospital. According to police, Daly, quote, appeared extremely intoxicated and uncooperative. He eventually refused again to go to the hospital. And eventually he was asked to leave by Hooters employees. And he couldn't, he said. And they said he had no transportation there. So police held him in custody at a local jail until he sobered up.

He was photographed by the police. And he's never charged with a crime, but he gets a great mugshot. He looks fucking hammered in this mugshot. Hammered. And we'll find out his explanation of it. He looks hammered. He ends up getting a six-month suspension from the PGA at that point, and the tour also fines him $10,000

and requires him to participate in an inpatient alcohol treatment program. Oh, boy. He has an explanation of what this is. He says, in their own words, quote, nothing is going right in my life right now. I'm going through a my life right now. I'm going through a hell of a divorce. I haven't seen my son.

It was an unfortunate incident, but it's a joke what people are saying. I take full responsibility for what happened, but it wasn't that big of a deal. He said a girl in tiny fucking orange shorts asked you to leave. Jesus, man. He said it could have been avoided if his friends had realized that he tends to sleep with his eyes open when he's tired. Stressed, and he says when he's tired, stressed, and has been drinking, when you add all these

things together, he sleeps with his eyes open. He said the driver of his private bus was parked near Hooters, panicked when he saw Daly and called the paramedics. He said, oh my God, he's dead, and called the paramedics. He said, oh, my God, he's dead, and called the paramedics. He said, if I had seen someone like that, I probably would have done the same thing. They were only trying to protect me.

But he says that he wasn't arrested. The restaurant closed more than an hour before police arrived, so he was still sitting there all comatose. He says, quote, the thing I want people to know is when I called my girlfriend at 1130 a.m., I was going back to the bus to go to sleep. I'm not going to say I wasn't drunk, but I did have a few drinks. I said to them, I'm tired, I'm drunk, I'm going to bed. Daly said his friends woke him up at about 2 a.m. The bus driver called 911 because my eyes were open. I said, what's going on? He said, we thought you were dead.

Anyone who knows me knows when I'm tired, I sleep with my eyes open. Okay. Anybody who knows me. Who knows me. They know it takes me a while to wake up. He said he didn't want to go to the hotel, but he wanted someone sober to be with him. That's when he was introduced to a law, North Carolina law, called assistance to intoxicated persons. The police people said it's like a public service. The person is taken into our custody for their own welfare due to impairment or intoxication. It's not a criminal offense. It's like the drunken Mayberry that they lock up. Are you feeling better this morning?

All right. There you go. Same thing. He says, quote, the picture looks like I'm drunk. I wasn't drunk when they took the picture. The picture people are seeing is me half asleep and fucking drunk. You got to see it. At this point, his endorsements are dropping off.

and fucking drunk. You got to see it. At this point, his endorsements are dropping off. He fears his sponsorship with Hooters could be in jeopardy now because they don't want him in his restaurants. He said, the world perceives that I passed out at Hooters

and that I was thrown out of Hooters. I was asleep on the bus. I didn't pass out at Hooters. He was in the parking lot, not inside. He said, I've never had an incident at Hooters. I hate that their name is brought into it this way.

You don't want to besmirch the good name of Hooters now. Come on. The good name at Hooters. I hate that their name is brought into it this way. You don't want to besmirch the good name of Hooters. Now, come on. The good name of Hooters who exploits women's bodies. Jesus Christ. And it's named after a slang term for tits. For tits. He said, they'll probably have to terminate me because of the negative publicity. Unlike being calling your restaurant tits.

Meanwhile, he's looking for a place to play next year. He's thinking about Europe. His agent at SFX Sports said he's looking at his options. In Europe, he's always enjoyed playing over there. I think he would be welcomed warmly by the European tour. Because they drink like a motherfucker. They love it, too. He says, quote, just tell my true fans that I love them.

If they give up on me, I'll understand. But I've still got to play golf. I've still got to earn a living. I'm not sure I'll ever be back where I was, but I'm going to keep trying. I doubt you'll be back where you are. I'm sure of it. You lost $60 million, man. At that moment, he is currently, well, not currently, but currently then, number 774th in the world.

That's pretty good. He's ranked better than me. Much better than me. 2009 at the Masters in the world. He's ranked better than me. 2009 at the Masters in Augusta. Daly is not playing in the tournament. He's instead selling souvenirs across the street from the course

out of his fucking RV. There's an article, which is hilarious. I'll just read right from the article because I had to copy it word for word because it's funny. The RV is parked at National Hills, a collection of stores across the street from Augusta National Golf Club. Daly could easily drive a ball from where he stands onto the club property, and he'd probably hit a Lexus. John Daly is diminished.

I walk to his customized RV late Thursday morning, in front of which is a long table full of autographed Daly paraphernalia. A man stands behind the table. Is John Daily here? The man nods to his left, standing five feet away with a cigarette between his lips and a hog's cap pulled low on his head as Daily. I didn't even recognize him. Daily tells him, I've lost 40 pounds. He said, how?

And Daily says, lap band surgery. That'll do it. Seven weeks ago, he had an adjustable lap band put in and it said this will limit his intake of food. He says, John says, quote, I was 280, biggest I've ever been. I need to get down to 190. Okay. That's a long way to go. Yeah.

He said, quote, some guy was here. He said, you're not John Daly. John Daly's 6'5 and 300 pounds and he's in rehab. And so he said, no, I am. They said at this point, I love when articles put little details that are supposed to be like, I'm a good writer, but it's just kind of funny and also telling. He says, quote, Daly holds a cigarette between his index and middle finger, lets it drift to the ground, steps on it and lights another. Just say he's chain smoking. Thank you.

Stop it. You're not. If you wanted to write fucking novels, you should have wrote fucking novels and not for Sports Illustrated, you asshole. I hate that shit. So much. Middle and forefinger lets it drift to the ground. He stamped it out and lit another one.

Yep. He says, quote, I can't gamble anymore so I still got smoking. It won't cost you $60 million. He says he's seeing a therapist. He says that he doesn't care that the perception is he wasted all of his talent. He says,

I miss going into talent. He wasted his talent. He wasted his fucking money. What is he talking about? You didn't waste your talent. You used it and earned like a motherfucker. Fuck, man. And then you wasted that.

Then you pissed that away. He says he'll compete in the Spanish Open this month and may be eligible to return to the PGA Tour in May, depending on his suspension. He says, quote, I've been practicing. That's good. That's very good. He says a customer asked Daly if he really signed all the shirts and caps and posters. And he says, I signed them all today. He's trying to be a good writer.

It's so fucking annoying. Jesus Christ. So there's a woman here. He said there's a tall woman with dark hair and ornate sunglasses who takes his $20 and puts it in a rubber purse. I ask her. The reporter says I ask her name and what she does for Daly. She says, I can't tell you. Then 10 seconds later, she says, I'm Anna name and what she does for Daly. She says, I can't tell you. Then 10 seconds later, she says, I'm Anna.

I'm John's girlfriend. So, OK. Can't tell you what I do for him, but I'm his girlfriend. Yeah. So take that for what you will. OK. Do you want to know everything? I like his asshole.

I like his balls. I do all sorts of stuff. The reporter asks her to describe Daly like she was describing him to a stranger. And she says, quote, the most down-to-earth, warmest, most colorful teddy bear. And everybody loves a teddy bear. He's just like one of us. Yeah, he's a person. That's why he's just like one of us.

He's a human being. Yeah. Jesus Christ. He said, I asked what he's doing, what he's going to do Thursday night. He says he's going to, he says an Italian chain restaurant, which he calls the best Italian restaurant in the country, gave him a $1,000 gift card. So he's going to eat there. So the Olive Garden gave him a $1,000 gift card. Jesus Christ.

He says he eats small. He stopped gambling. He sees a therapist and he eats free food at chain restaurants. Okay. Wonderful here. So his diet's still shit, is what you're saying? Yes. Now, his girlfriend here, Anna Kladakis, she has experience with chain restaurants because

she was, before him, was seeing Chris T. Sullivan, who's the founder and chairman of the Outback Steakhouse chain. Right. So she became pregnant with their daughter. She has a daughter with him. Oh, boy. She is hellipaid. Oh, yeah.

Out of wedlock and fought for a reasonable settlement with him. Let's find out what that was. 17 Outbacks? Yeah. You know, three Outbacks. She tried to get $186,922 for the first year of Charista is the kid's name. Oh, my. That's a fucking awful name. She said that Sullivan hadn't even seen the child at that point for a year.

He didn't even see his kid and agreed to pay $5,000 a month in temporary supports. They called any demands for more money ludicrous. What an asshole. Yeah, he's an asshole. He owns the fucking restaurant. That guy's a fucking jerk. Later on, though, it's reported later that year that he agrees to pay her $7,500 a month until Charista turns 18. He had at this point an estimated net worth of $153 million.

He can eat assholes. He can fucking afford it. Don't eat another Bloomin' Onion until that cocksucker. No, fuck that guy. Fuck that guy and his stupid shit. What an ass. 2010, publisher Oxygen Games releases John Daly's Pro Stroke Golf, which is a terrible name. Pro Stroke?

Yeah, I like it. Sounds like I can jerk it with the best of them. It's for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. In the game, Daly is the instructor as well as the opponent for the players. It's 12 courses modeled after real world courses but they're locked at the outset. You've got to unlock them. Blah, blah, blah. Unlocking a course allows the player to play

against Daly and other players. March 1st, 2010 a secret personnel dossier that the tour has kept on Daly since 1991 becomes public. Yes! This is because he sued that publisher. Now, this went back and forth, and finally there was a judgment for the paper, and he failed to appeal this judgment.

So everything became public out of this thing because this all had to be – because basically they got to subpoena this to prove that maybe he does fail a sniff test on the scoundrel. So they get this entire dossier that otherwise the PGA keeps secret. This is all of his infractions. It is 456 pages. Pages. Not words. 456 fucking pages. It's a book.

And was entered in court as record as part of the legal battle there. Amazing. By the way, he ended up having to pay that publisher $300,000 for their attorney's fees and everything else. Don't sue people, John. Don't do it. Especially if you're wrong. It's cheaper than gambling, yes. It is.

But it's still gambling. Maybe he thought, hey, that was four years. It only cost me $300,000. Christ. The stats on this are five tour suspensions, six times put on probation, 11 citations for conduct unbecoming a professional, 21 citations for failure to give best efforts, and nearly $100,000 in fines. They've ordered him to go to rehab or counseling for alcohol seven times, once disciplined him for hitting the golf shots like we talked about, also cited him for alcohol-fueled misconduct such as the trashing of a room at Sawgrass Marriott the week of the 97 Players Championship, which resulted in a $5,000 fine and $1,500 in damages,

improper withdrawals from events, missed starting times, and antics such as being filmed at the opening of a course in which he plays wearing no shirt or shoes, Like I told you, that is one of those. And make no mistake, if he was still good enough to play golf, he'd still be playing. He'd still be playing. By the way, he's still playing golf. You bet. We'll get to that. Among, they talk about, this is great.

One of these here, sixth hole during the 1998 Arnold Palmer Invitational. here, sixth hole during the 1998 Arnold Palmer Invitational. He gets super mad at his score, so he just takes six straight balls and on purpose hits them into the water hazard. Just takes six balls and just fucking shoots them into the water hazard. Bang, bang, bang. And then he just, I mean, not in a golf shot way, just a quick pang, pang, pang, led to an 11 on this hole. And so he ended up leaving. He's like, fuck it, never mind.

He did the same thing at the 1999 U.S. Open. Basically just said, fuck it, and left. Yeah, the water hazard one's my favorite. I really like that. And what he does at the Australian, one of the Australian tournaments is funny. Yeah, like I said, it becomes public over that case. in one of the Australian tournaments is funny. Yeah, like I said, it becomes public over that case.

Daley, Jesus Christ. Daley, though, last year made, this is the last year before this, so we're talking like 2009. He made $4 million in off-course income. Wow. So he's making money off the course. That's why he has money to piss away. He's on a reality show right about then, March, that premieres called Being John Daley on the Golf Channel, which I don't remember because who the fuck watches the Golf Channel?

I remember him promoting it. Good God. April 2010, what can you do but release a second album, Jim? He's got a lot more to say. Second album, I only know one way. It's Long Ball Records, which sounds like there's long droopy balls, even though I know what he means. Hope Song Digital and GMV Nashville. He wrote and co-wrote eight tracks on the album.

Like I said here, he said about his music, the album itself is really my life. All the songs have meaning. Most of the record is happening or has happened in my life. I hope people can relate to some of the troubles I've had along the way. Everyone around the world has problems, and I want to connect with those people. So he puts out Songlist, guys. I remember this album because he was promoting it heavily, and it was hysterical. Go on.

Fucking Songlist. Is there one called Grip It and Rip It? Let's find out. Hit It Hard, Blue Collar Golfer, Only Know One Way, which the title of the album is I Only Know One Way. That's the title track. And the track is Only Know One Way, so the title of the album is I Only Know One Way. That's the title track. And the track is Only Know One Way, so I don't know what's up with there. All I Know, Lonely as a Man Could Be, Big John, Knockin' on Heaven's Door Again.

Might as well put that one out there again. The Canvas, Wrong Directions, God Sent a Woman, and Lost Soul. Damn it. No grip is a rip. And there's no 27-minute track on this one, so I don't know what he's thinking there. No grip it and rip it. Right. I think that's just a T-shirt that he probably has.

2011, Sherry releases a book. Oh, boy. It's called Teed Off, My Life as a Player's Wife on the PGA Tour. Jesus. Yes. Daly had she in the book. It's so funny. In the book, I love her quote on prison.

She said she was in prison, and she thought about about it and she said, quote, you know, this is bad, but it's kind of peaceful here. That means you're a psycho. She liked it. She liked it. She delves into his problems with drinking, gambling, sex with all sorts of groupies, as well as his anger management that she said sometimes resulted in verbal and physical abuse. Some of these that she said were documented and some not documented. She claims at this point, and John backs this up, she claims that there's a time John's father in a drunken stupor while she was there pulled a gun on John and his brother and aimed

it at John's face. And then when the brother jumped in to fucking knock it away it went off and fired a fucking shot into the wall as it was pulled away from him which is god damn nuts he says about this incident in 2001 right before my mom died my dad pulled a gun on me luckily my brother was there to save

him shooting me he was drunk and that's a nightmare I'll never forget no kidding yeah you have a drunk angry lunatic who's been beating you up his whole life now he's gonna you, for Christ's sake. Fuck. She describes a shopping spree she had with Amy Campbell, who's the wife of Chad Campbell, who's a tour player. She said, this is just like an insight into the life of a tour wife here I find interesting. She said, quote, we had the limo take us to the mall, and retail marathon began.

We were having the day of our life just shopping and shopping without pause we went to versace we went to chanel that was the first time i ever bought a 5500 bag it was hot pink of course of all colors by the time we were done we had bags and bags of stuff uh she which is that sounds terrible who lives like that that sounds terrible i would feel horrible about myself. That's a horrible day. She also says that John has three distinct personalities. She says there's John, the charming fun guy she first fell in love with, Johnny, an apologetic figure who would sometimes curl up into a fetal position and beg for forgiveness after a night of misbehaving, and JD, the party animal who's destructive and wild enough to

do everything. Oh, my God. Yeah. And that's why he drinks Jack Daniels because they call that stuff JD. Yeah, yeah. He tells – yeah, no, exactly. He tells a – he and her both tell the same tale basically. This is how he says that he threw a bunch of cash away in order to teach his wife Sherry a lesson.

She backs this up. He says, go on. I'm fascinated. He says, fuck it. Let's do it in their own words here. In their own words, quote, I won like $55,000 in the casino. And I said to Sherry, if you're going to yell and scream at me about this, I threw it over the bridge going over to Memphis from Arkansas.

He threw the money out of the car window. He said, I threw all the money out the car window and said, you know what? If you want that money, you can go find it. But let me tell you something. You don't have a job. You're not working. I'm supporting you. I'm paying all the bills. My buddy then took her to a McDonald's drive-thru and got her two cheeseburgers

and some french fries and a soda. And it was like, okay, this is how you can live from now on if that's the way you want it. That's not okay to do that also the next time you feel like throwing money over a bridge i'll send you an address just send it to me just tell her that'll show her i sent it to two dickheads that'll fucking show make fun of us yeah they talk shit about you so i paid them for it. Yeah. Wow. What the fuck? She also talks about how unpredictable with John could be in her book. She says after they were in Germany, they came back to their Arkansas house with John's mother, Lou, and some neighbors to see the progress the interior decorators were making on some changes that they had wanted. Yeah.

When they discovered the walls of the kitchen had been painted the wrong color. What did he do? So in front of everyone, in front of his own mother, Jean whipped it out and started peeing all over his own wall. He pissed on the wall in front of his mother because the color was wrong, rather than just tell the guy, hey, wrong color, fix that shit. Holy shit. Now you've got walls that are the wrong color and piss on the floor.

And piss. Now you've got more problems. November 11, 2011, he's at the Australian Open. He hits seven balls into the water on the 11th hole and storms off the golf course. He does it again. Exactly again. Daly was banned from playing in the Australian PGA two weeks after that, and he might not be welcomed back.

The head of Australian golf said, quote, it's very disappointing for the tournament that he has treated the championship this way. It is a bit of a habit for him. So fuck that guy. He has advice for Tiger Woods. No. John, no. Stop. No.

In an interview with TMZ Sports, he said that it will all be forgotten and Tiger can get himself back on track. That's not true, though. Daly was always – he's different than Tiger. Tiger was a perfect guy. So if you're a perfect guy, you can never fuck up because once you fuck up once, you're forever tarnished. If you're perfect because you were so fucking perfect. If you are already suspended from the tournament before you – from the tour before you even win your first tournament, you're known as the fuck-up. So then anytime you don't fuck up, it's praiseworthy.

You're amazing, and everyone will forgive you. But if you're Mr. Perfect, you can't fuck up at all. It's like going to college and having an engineering degree and you're homeless. It's like people expect it. I've never stepped foot in a college when my rent and mortgage and car payment are all on time. People fucking lose their minds. That's amazing.

Good for you. Incredible. We don't expect you to succeed, John. That's what I mean. We expect Tiger to succeed because he was trained for it his whole goddamn life. He was born and bred into this shit. He says to Tiger, get back on the golf course, man. This stuff will pass.

It always does. Hey, it proves he's human. He's one of us, baby. I love him. So, okay. He's one of us. What, he bangs whores constantly? Yeah, that's one of us.

And apparently he likes to drink. 2014, he wins the Bayco Classic in Europe. It's sanctioned by the PGA of Europe. Who the fuck knows? in Europe. It's sanctioned by the PGA of Europe. Who the fuck knows? October 2014, Daly signs an endorsement deal with Rock Bottom Golf, who's a discount

golf retailer. That sounds terrible. He also has a company which designs golf courses called JD's Designs, including Sevolano Links at Rolling Hills Casino in Corning, California. It's really weird here it was

actually named best new golf course by golf week magazine uh other golf courses he helped design uh wicked stick golf links in myrtle beach blarney golf resort in uh county cork ireland thundering waters golf resort niagara falls ontario murder rock golf resort in branson missouri that sounds right that's cool we need to go there and the lion's den in dardanelle arkansas which is his he didn't really design it it's just his deal there so i mean he's actually successful at that i mean off the course he's successful everything he fucking touches it's weird uh now it's because he has a team of people involved in that for sure he's not doing that all by himself no when you have a team of people no when you have a team of people design a golf course exactly he just said i want the fairway longer and they're like okay john they draw it up

he doesn't fucking know what he's doing when it's all on his shoulders on the golf course it can it can be over in a second that's the thing yeah and when he's in a casino it's all on him to make the decisions it all fucking 60 million dollars. It all goes away. When you got a team, it'll be fine. Yeah, put it together. But when it's on John's bed, don't do it. December 6, 2014, he announces that he's now engaged to Anna Kladakis. So he's going to get, again, holy shit.

She's going to have some problems not with him, but with Sherry in a minute, too. And we'll talk about that. He's smart. He just latched on to somebody that has $7,500 a month. Yeah, perfect. Yeah, just in case. Get that Outback money coming in. Yeah, boy, no rules.

Just right. So March 11, 2015, he talks more shit about the PGA drug testing policies. He says that he knew exactly when he'd be tested this week when he's playing, even though it's supposed to be random. He said, I'm going to play at 150 on Friday, so they're going to test me about 652, 7 o'clock, which is very exact. He said, I know when I'm getting drug tested. That's sad. The players all know when they're getting drug tested. And for you dopers and all that shit on the PGA Tour, you know you're getting drug tested.

You got it made. You got it made, and I'm tired of it. Yeah. Wow. Then he calls out PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Fincham and Chief of Operations Andy Pazder and says, Andy Pazder, if you listen to this show, if you listen to this show, you and Tim Fincham, get off your ass and get it right. You know, I'm tired of it because it has to be random. This is bullshit. And I'm sorry. Find me. I don't care what you do. Find me, but do it randomly.

And I'm sorry. Find me. I don't care what you do. Find me, but do it randomly. Okay? Now, August of 2015, scary moment here. According to his manager, he's recovering from a collapsed lung while playing a tournament in Canton, Mississippi. Apparently, Daly has fought a lingering rib injury since 2007.

It's been causing him severe pain and affecting his breathing. He ended up getting discharged from the hospital, which is nuts. He said that he was walking off the 18th tee when he collapsed. The guy who was with him said, I had my arm around him when he went down. He had no pulse and he wasn't breathing for close to three minutes. Jesus. He said that the nurse in the gallery ran out and did CPR on him to get him going again. It was kind of a miracle, the guy said. Fucked up part is he is back to playing golf less than 24 hours later.

He's on the golf course. He was dead. He died, and he's like, I got golf tomorrow. He's like our dude in Nashville. Holy shit. Yeah, he's like that guy. September 14, 2015, Sherry Miller is now being charged with harassment and extortion. Not for anything to do with him.

No. She's allegedly threatening to post nude photos of a woman on social media. Oh, what a bitch. Jesus Christ, man. She's arrested by Tennessee authorities there after she was found. She found the woman's photos on her boyfriend's cell phone. So it's a guy's check. Asshole. And so she threatened her and threatened to do that. She found the woman's photos on her boyfriend's cell phone. So it's a guy's asshole.

And so she threatened her and threatened to do that. Investigators say that Sherry texted the victim saying she would post the photos. Victims posted that told authorities that Miller had posted screenshots of the photos to the victims to Miller's own Facebook page. So she's posting on her own Facebook page, Sherry is. This chick is flirting with my boyfriend. She's fucking nuts. Yeah. She got booked on that.

She's also at this point suing Miller. Sherry says. Such a cocksucker. Sherry says that the sexual tris occurred in DeSoto County, Mississippi, which borders Memphis, Tennessee, when Daly won the PGA Championship, where he had passed one. Okay. So, holy shit. She's fucking nuts.

That's bananas. That's nuts. Look what you've done, John. Yeah. How do you get involved with somebody like that? Let's find out what more she's into because we're not done with Sherry yet. November 7, 2015, she is arrested again. This time, police said she repeatedly hit a man with a golf club.

I like her now. That's my girl. They responded to the aggravated assault on Ivy League Lane in Cordova at about 3.30 a.m. The victim told police that he was sleeping when he heard a loud noise and woke up to seeing Sherry Daly holding a golf club. He said there was broken glass around the exterior door to his bedroom. Sherry Daly then hit him on the hands and forearms, which he was using to protect his head. He said he was able to get the golf club away from her and take her outside, and then she left. There was a witness there in the room at the time, left the house when Sherry Daly came into the bedroom.

The two have restraining orders against each other. So this person was like, I can't be around her. We both have restraining orders against each other. She turned herself in. She's charged with aggravated assault, aggravated burglary, and violation of a protection order. She's a lunatic. Wow. January, January 2016, Sherry Daly is arrested again.

Good Christ. Again. She's arrested. She's charged with two counts of custodial interference and one count of violation of probation. The charges stem from an incident on December 18, 2015. Daly, Sherry, picked up her 16-year-old son from Germantown High School but never returned him to his father, who has full custody of the child. It's not John Daly's. That's kidnapping. That's kidnapping.

It's kidnapping. Her bond is just over a million dollars. Oh, fuck. Jesus Christ, she's due in court. Fuck, man. This was also, she was arrested the year before, given a 90-day suspended sentence when her son had 52 unexcused absences from school. That's too many.

Also, so she's fucking got in trouble for that. Wow. That's like three months worth of fucking absences. That's too many. Also. So she's fucking got in trouble for that. Wow. That's like two, three months worth of fucking absences. That's insanity. He doesn't go on the weekends. No. Was it 20 days in a month? 180 days of school. That's it. That's like a third of the school year almost.

2016, John stars in an episode of Bar Rescue that features the Bridge Lounge in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Anna, Clodakis, her brother, and her sister all own the bar, which their late father bought and then they inherited. The bar was losing $4,000 a month when it was featured on the Spike TV show. Don't worry, Anna makes $75 a month.

By the end of the show, successfully transformed, like all bar rescues. It's all fine and dandy. Bullshit, John Taffer. Fuck that. So, December of 2016, John is teaming with his 13-year-old son, Little John, in the PNC Father-Son Challenge. He says, John Sr., I think it's going to be great. We've been looking forward to it for a while. Little John goes to Gary Gilchrist's golf school.

He says, quote, John Sr. says, quote, I don't get to see him as much as I'd like. It's a golf academy. When we do have a break or holidays or whatever and he's not in school, we're always playing. May 7, 2017, John wins the Insperity Invitational. This is like last year. It's a professional golf tournament in Texas based on PGA Tour champions. It's like old champions, I guess. It debuted in 2004 as the Administaff Small Business Classic, which sounds terrible.

So they renamed it Insperity, which doesn't sound much better. It's played in Houston. Insperity, is that the shitty credit card machines, I think? Insperity, I think, is like... Banking, financial services bullshit. I believe it's that fucking... I don't know. Fuck it.

Who cares? No, no. I think it's like a... What's the word I'm looking for? It's the shit inside you. I don't fucking know. It doesn't matter. I think it's the thing that teaches you how to heal.

It teaches your body how to heal itself. Great. I think that's true. Fuck yeah. how to heal. It teaches your body how to heal itself. Great. I think that's true. Fuck yeah. And they have a golf tournament for it. So the winner's share here for him is $330,000 for this, so that's not bad. October 2017, he has an excellent day of golf here going into the next day. He was three under on the front nine, and he never made it to the 10th green.

His right knee gave out. He didn't give up and shoot balls into the water. His right knee gave out on him after the tee shot. He left the course in the cart of a rules committee member, and that was that. His weekend was over. Has that ever happened before? I do.

You leave a gulf. Yeah, it's not like somebody tackled him. We need the medics. Jesus Christ. So in his career, the majors, the major tournaments here, there's the Masters, U.S. Open, the Open Championship and the PGA Championship. He has two wins. He won the Open Championship and the PGA Championship. One third place, three top fives, three top tens.

He made the cut in 33 of 73 events. So that seems okay. Career golf winnings, $10,263,611. That's pretty impressive. Which is nothing compared to what he made off the court. That's literally change. He could just give that back to them. And he does.

He gave it to the win. He gave it to the win. November 27, 2016, John Dalyaly's steakhouse is officially open gross yeah buddy uh depending the success of this one he plans to open a second location in northwest arkansas he said he'll know sometime within within the two next two years if he'll do so it says in the article from cheap ass do you want to do a steakhouse and i said heck yeah that's how he got into a steakhouse all All righty. What the fuck? That's your venture into fucking business?

The steakhouse is another goal he said he's proudly achieved. He says, quote, I've always wanted to have a nice restaurant, which he thinks Olive Garden is the best Italian restaurant in the country. And I've got good partners and good friends doing it. In other words, this has nothing to do with me. I just put my name on it. And don't worry, I won't be cooking anything. Got a team. Got a team.

Yeah, yeah. He says he's geared up. He's learned from his past mistakes. No problem with alcohol anymore. name on it and don't worry i won't be cooking anything got a team got a team yeah yeah he says he's geared up he's learned from his past mistakes no no problem with alcohol anymore he's doing great he says uh i'm lucky to make it to 50 in the first place to keep grinding it out and fighting it's been a decent year grinding it out 50 december 17th 2017 uh John Daly Jr. earned his first win of the year in the International Junior Golf Tour in South Carolina. He's a student of the Bishopsgate Golf Academy in Florida. He prevailed in a five-player playoff at this final round of 73 after an opening round of 79. This is at Hilton Head, the Harbor Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, site of the PGA Tours.

One of their fucking events. It's beautiful, by the way. It sounds gorgeous. Hilton Head is awesome. April 6, 2018, he has his RV parked at the Hooters parking lot in Augusta, Georgia. Oh, God. When he's nearly hit by a car in the parking lot. What the fuck?

What the fuck? Did he fall asleep standing up with his eyes open again? Well, his vehicle, maybe. His vehicle was hit when a driver tried to make a U-turn, but how do you lose control of a U-turn in a parking lot? And his fiance said, quote, it wailed into the front of the bus. John was standing in front of the bus, and she said John had to dive out of the way. So it almost killed him.

He dives out of the way. He says he tweaked his knee a little. It was still recovering while it happened. Medics treated daily at the site. He had x-rays and MRI plan to assure there was no further damage done. Jesus Christ. At the end here, he talks about how he's taken too much of the blame for his divorces in the past.

And, you know, he said changing his mindset there altered his life. But still, that's four failed marriages, he said. Why did he have so much trouble finding the right women? Was it because he had terrible judgment in women? Let's find out his answer. He says about women, quote, no, I'm like Jesus. My problem is I love them all. He's Jesus, everybody.

How did we not realize that? The body of Buddhadha he's got too much love to give guys that's all it is can't get enough john daly oh boy oh follow john daly at pga underscore john daly on twitter uh ebay you can get an autographed golf ball which is hard for a drunk guy to do so that's extra uh close one eye yeah fuck man jesus it just looks like all just black marker uh it's 44.99 plus three dollars shipping that is steep that's pricey or you can get a uh autographed eight by ten picture of him golfing in hawaiian pants oh boy which looks ridiculous uh that is 1999 plus 9.99 shipping that's steep too again that's 30 bucks

you're gonna spend there you can get his book my My Life In and Out of the Rough, The Truth Behind All That Bullshit You Think You Know About Me. I saved the title for now so we can leave on a laugh because that's hilarious. I love that so much. The truth behind all that bullshit you hear about me. All that bullshit. That's awesome. That is $9.95 at HarperCollins.com. That's a deal.

You can go to JohnDaily.com. His website's fully operational. Punch it, drip it, and rip it. The fan club, though, is not operational yet. I tried to join and said, coming soon. I'm like, fuck! I want to see what you get for joining. I'm a fan, John! I wanted an email from John telling me something

so I could have read it. It does have his upcoming events. John's shop with all his shit on there, et cetera. Scheduled June 7th through 10th will be at Principal Charity Classic in Des Moines, Iowa. June 21st through 24th will be at the American Family Insurance Championship in Madison, Wisconsin. And June 28th through July 1st, he will be at the U.S. Senior Open in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Senior Open. You can catch him golfing.

I think you have to be 50 to be in the Senior Open. You can buy his albums. My Life and I Only Know One Way. The only one I could find to download is I Only Know One Way is on sale on Amazon. And it's $8.99 digital, $14.99 for a CD if you wanted that. They're all on YouTube. They're all on fucking YouTube. It's fine.

Although I would like to get the CD and have him autograph it. That would be amazing. Just like our fuck off Jake the Snake autograph, which is great. It's the best one ever. Thank you, Donnie. Thank you. So that, my friends, is John Daly. That is a hell of a wild story.

Holy shit. That's what I mean. He didn't do it. It's just crazy. It's just one of those stories that needed to be told. It's one of those stories that I knew would be really hard to cobble together. There's so many facts from so many different places that that's so long to cobble together. That's a tough one.

He's a maniac. He's a maniac. You've got to admire his spirit. Yeah. And you've got to kind of like the guy. Don't like that he roughed his wife up, allegedly, there back in the day. But also, there's no excuse, but that was a crazy, drunken, wild part. That's no excuse, obviously.

But, I mean, that was also 28 years ago or 27 years ago or something. So I can't hold that against him today because it's not like he was beating up anybody else. I would think that that behavior would surface again if it was a real problem for him, especially as much as he drinks. If he wanted to backhand a woman and he's that drunk, he'd be backhanding fucking women left and right all over the place. Although that's the one thing that he could do that he couldn't come back from, I feel like. I'd like to find out if he ever bet on golf.

I don't. I'm sure he has. I'm sure he has. But he loves the casino because he likes the, he said he likes the excitement of the whole thing and being at the table. I don't think betting on a golf game would have the type of adrenaline rush. For a hillbilly tourist. For him, it's adrenaline.

That's what he is. He's a hillbilly tourist with millions and millions and millions of dollars, which is insane. He's doing all the touristy shit. That everybody. He would eat at Olive Garden in Times Square. Oh, yeah. Like, that's him. He'd be like, oh, they got the good Italian restaurant.

That's the best one in the country. I'm sure it's the best here in New York City, too, where they know their Italian food, so it's going to be good. Nah, them little places down there, they say homemade. I don't want no homemade. They don't know how to make things in their home. I want the olive. They know how to make things at the Olive Garden. So, guys, that's John Daly, the insanity of all that. If you

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going right now in the world. Jimmy, hit us with that list. Firstly, this week, you guys, thank you so much for all you guys did on Twitter and social media between sharing the WGN interview. Thank you, guys. Thanks for all the wishes about my grandmother, too. I appreciate that. Thank you. And James' support.

Very much. And then on top of that, hammering away at Audioboom. We fucking, you guys did it. You guys got us paid part of our money, which is awesome. We got a little bit over half, and we're almost— We'll take it. Fuck yeah. Absolutely.

We had written it off. And you guys—yeah, exactly. So thank you all for that. Laura Murr upped her donation. Thanks, Laura. She's fantastic. She comes to our live shows. Our executive producers—right, right, right.

She fucking came to so many of them. She's very supportive. Thanks, Laura. Our executive producers this week are Laura Murr, Chrissy Ann Costaldi, Samantha Rothwell, Alex Echt, or Echt, or Echt. ECHT has to be the hardest last name. That's a tough one. That's brutal.

Yeah, you need some vowels in there, buddy. You got to get an I at least somewhere. Something. An A, I don't know. Meg Smith up in Detroit, and Jennifer Robinson. Thank you all so, so much. Thank you so much, guys. We appreciate you.

We really appreciate it. Taffy Salon and Brow Bar. I'm not sure what it is, but I imagine it's where you get beautified. I would assume so. Jess Landgren down there in Australia. Thank you very much. She sends a bunch of people a bunch of different things from Australia. Her and Michelle Jolly do that.

And Michelle sent us a nice package today, too. Thank you guys so much. James Hires, Jesse Hartman, Jake LaBeer, Anna Hattamalis. That's an interesting one. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stephen Mace, which is Doug Mace. I don't know why.

Yeah, that's weird. It confuses us always. Every time it shows up, it says Stephen Mace, and I'm like, that's Doug. Why is he hiding? That's my Doug. Anyway. Jude Kendall. Sarah Kalin.

Alicia Dedricks. Ryan MacArthur. Tiffany Shute. Sarah Peterson. Kelsey Ruggiero up there in Boston. Under the Sea Fabrics. And Kelsey said that when we come to Boston, she's got you covered. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much.

For all kind of greenery. Thank you. Who else do we have here? Sarah Peterson. Julia Edwards. Nick Laycock. Fucking every time I see it, I think he's fucking with me. Richard Basantes, Mackenzie Butler, Sarah Willis, Nicole Danzer, Nathan Nolte, Aaron Chasey or Chasey or Chasey. Thank you.

Whatever one it is. I'm sure I nailed it somewhere in there. Tammy Renee, Matthew Burlington, Karen Lambiasi, Lisa Padgett, Haley Snyder, Brooke Humphrey, Shannon Russell, Lisa Padgett. I said that. Victoria Smith, Wendy Starr Brown, David Hadnut. How do I do that every time? It's not right, right? Is it really Hadnut? It is, right, right? Is it really had not? It is, right?

Maybe. Deblo Shen. You never know what could happen to not. Dan Moran. I think that's Tin Can Dan. I think that's who that is. Hey, Tin Can. I believe so. Carter Bruning.

Karen Edgen. Drew Shockley. Jessica Taylor. Lori Snyder. Patel Huang. Todd Crago. Sinfully Delightful Clean Eating. I'm not sure.

I imagine they tell you how to clean eat and it's good food. It's Sinfully Delightful. Probably. Well, then. Go give him a shot. Lee Taylor, Emily Rose, Krista Eiler or Eiler, C. Mill. I want that to be Meek Mill so bad. I hope his real name is C. Mill.

Stephanie Slaza. That's hilarious. Cammie Yoakum. Megan Wurzasek. Wurzasek. Yes. Yes. Absolutely.

Jordan Young. Cat Power. Cat Power. Still helping us out. We love you, Cat. You're the best. You are the best. Dustin Coleman.

Elizabeth Davis. Stephen Breen. Rhiannon Demings. Savannah Briand. Stephanie Menzies. That's a brutal last name, right? You've been picked on a lot. That's a tough one.

You don't want to know, man. That's tough in school. Kate Myers, Marianne Hender, Brandy Ferry, Micaiah. Yes, Micaiah Johansson. No, Johannes. God damn it. I was so close. Micaiah Johansson.

Thank you. Johannes. Fuck. Diana Libman, Johannes. God damn it. I was so close. Micaiah Johansson. Thank you. Johannes. Fuck. Diana Libman. Bree Ryan up in Montana. Justin Seitz. Antonio Garcia. Michael Moore.

Rachel Conover. Harold Lawton. Yes, Harold Lawton. Greg Allison. Vanessa Motto. Shalima Alphys. Shalima Alphys. Yes.

Okay. Thank you. And then there's Hal Lawton also Harold and Hal both oh wow Devin Gorman Lisa yeah the Lawtons

are fucking taking care of us is Hal short for Harold it might be I don't know I have two names I'm going with both of them I'm going to look that up while you're talking

alright Devin Gorman Lisa Warren Laura Pate Tim Henley Leanne Williams Laura Pate I Tim Henley, Leanne Williams, Laura Pate, I said that, Heather Shaw, Amy Lowe, Martha Klein. That's a fucking great name.

Yeah. That sounds like a great woman that leaves you Werther's. She's a very sweet lady, that Martha with the hot ass. She's probably like 19 years old. She's like Werther's. What the fuck are you talking about? What are you talking about? Patricia McCoskey, Jordan... Hal is a nickname

for Harold. Is it? Alright, so he donated twice. Harry or Harold. You can use Hal for it. What are you doing, Harold? Pick a fucking name. What are you, running from the law, Harold? Jesus Christ. Jordan Bodell, Cole Whitlock, and then a home stretch. Matt Johnson, Diego Cisneros, Samuel Miller,

Lindsey Rastan, Jordan with no last name, Jessica Michichurn, Charlotte Karuba, Cedric Wardell, and then Dan and Chelsea Yonce sent us a fucking sweet package with the DQ cards. Oh, thank you so much. Michelle Jolly sent us an amazing package full of Australian shit. That's so cool. It's fucking fantastic. Thank you so much. Michelle Jolly sent us an amazing package full of Australian shit. That's so cool. It's fucking fantastic. Thank you so much.

And then Shane Raley sent me back a shirt of hers that she wore to the show in Nashville that she wanted me to sign. And fucking amazing, when I opened it, I said, James, this shirt smells funny, right? And he goes, yeah, yeah. It smells like chocolate and weed. And then I start sifting through the box, and I go, oh, James, by the way. I literally took that. I was like, chocolate and weed I smell sifting through the box and I go, oh James, by the way. I literally took that and I was like, chocolate and weed

I smell together. Which is funny. It's like a chocolate tie maybe or something. Like a chocolate... You're not far off, James, because there's chocolate weed in here for you. There's literally weed chocolate in the package. I'm like, wow. Alright, I'm good. Smelled it off a t-shirt. Police dog you. I was going to say, I'll smell

it in your pocket for Christ's sake. Don't be holding out on James. He'll find it. I will find it. So thank you guys so much for everything that you do for us. We can't tell you how much it means to us and we appreciate everything you do for us. Whether it's a tweet, whether it's listening, whether it's sending any sort of donation. You guys are the fucking best listeners

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It blows our minds every time John Daly pulls that $5,000 slot wheel and he wins something. That's how we feel if we get a dollar. Literally. We're like, oh if we get a dollar. Literally. We're like, oh, my God, that's amazing. Did you see this? Did you see it? So thank you guys so much for keeping us in business, honestly, and doing all the wonderful things that you do for us. And what if one of these wonderful people wanted to tell you how wonderful you are?

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