Fore Play - 2017 Travelers Recap w/ Kyle Rudolph and Frankie Borrelli

Episode Date: June 27, 2017

The Boondoggle Boys are live from Minnesota at Kyle Rudolph's charity golf event. This episode features the long awaited return of the pizza maker, Frankie Borrelli, plus a cameo appearance from another well known Barstool personality. The boys recap the Travelers and what a finish it had. Riggs discusses his experience playing Sebonack this past weekend and Frankie confesses to something that can only be described as either genius or absolutely insane!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, ForPlay listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. All right. We're joined by our guy, one of our best buddies, Frankie Borelli, the pizza maker. Frankie, what's up? How's it going for? Welcome back, buddy. It feels great to be back.

Is it nice to be back? I was telling Trump before this. I wish I was in a bed right now in Augusta like I was. You told us before that it's been 78 days. You know the exact amount of days it's been. 78 days. You were at Augustus. Augusta Sunday.

We're in a weird spot because we're on the patio and Dave just came in. Dave just walked over my shoulder. In like a big swinging dick kind of way. Like you had something to say. I feel like Frankie's not Frankie when you're around. Yeah, it's time to leave. I mean, it's like literally their last song. You guys are talking about something that happened like 78 days ago.

We can talk about this anywhere. What does that do with this tournament? We were going to get into Aston Martin talk. And then maybe you could let's check. But again, we don't have to be here for asking. You guys could continue this podcast at any point in time back at the hotel. We have the driver waiting to leave. And it's like you guys are just sitting here for no reason.

This can be done anywhere. You realize that we didn't know that. We thought we were just like the party was cooking out there. But what is the atmosphere? Like you guys are just trying to boondoggle boy. No, we're trying to literally get this done. No. We can send it to our guy.

So he doesn't get it at midnight. We're trying to send it to us. We can get it like 11. We have this beautiful. stretch limousine van type thing. The guy We didn't know that. I bumped into the guy out there. He's not supposed to be eating from the buffet

and he knows he's not supposed to be from the buffet. And I was in there when he was eating from the buffet and he tried to act like he wasn't but we both knew he was. The limo guy? Yeah. The driver. That's a no-no. Wow. Okay. So the limo guy was like

biting off more than he could chew. He went and he treated himself to the buffet. You're like rattled about that I'm not it's not my food but I know he's not supposed to be doing that I just thought it was weird when we made eye contact and he knew I knew he knew that he wasn't supposed to be doing it the limo

driver is not supposed to invite himself in and eat from the caterer it'll be like if you are catering if you're a limo at a wedding you don't walk in and eat the food that's what Bob the limo driver did do you know his name oh yeah no that's his name Bob that's literally the limo driver name Bob could not open the door and some of the guys

like tried to make excuses for Bob like Bob usually doesn't drive this rig so he doesn't know how to unlock it. And then I saw Bob in the buffet line stuffing his face. And it was like I looked at him and he looked at me and we both knew he shouldn't be there. Jesus Christ. Wow. All right. I knew you came over here with a mission.

You had something. You know a story to tell? That wasn't it. Okay. I just came over to see if we were ever leaving. Yeah. We didn't know you were ready to leave. Because there's like four people out there.

And I'm just making. I'll be honest. It sounds like there's like a reach. No, there isn't. It's the last song of the band. There's four people. I'm just making a small talk with everybody. I'm sick of it.

With your boys, this is Riggs. I'm joined by my guy, Trent. Hello. We have a special guest, Frankie Borelli. Hello. The most special guest. The most special guest. The greatest day there ever was.

He cut it to be like, is it good to be back? Yeah, it's good to be back. I'm sitting in a bed, which for many people that may know from Augusta National I'm sitting in a bed for that podcast also. So I feel at home right now. There's a great picture of you. doing the sailor cap thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All-Business pizza, because he was in the room as well. Yeah. So you got cut off a little bit earlier by Dave. We were at Kyle Rudolph and Jason Zucker, who hosted the charity golf event for the Children's Hospital. We're in Minnesota. We're in a hotel room in Minnesota. We're in a bed. It's a weird environment.

I'll be honest. Feels good to be back with the boys, kind of the Augustic gang. Yeah. You said that when me, when us four, including Dave, went out to a bar, our first night here, It was like, we kind of got the Augusta crew back, and it did feel that way. Yeah, so last time I went out to a bar, Trent was doing his weird-ass non-drinking thing. The other three of us were drinking. We don't have to get into it, but I felt great today.

Trent, have a goddamn drink. I felt great today, too, by the way. Like, I felt fantastic. You didn't feel as good as I did. I bet I did. I don't think so. I helped in that shower, which is like the nicest shower I've ever been in. We're going to talk about this hotel and this experience, by the way.

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So we're in Minnesota. We flew in Sunday afternoon. It's been a pretty unbelievable experience. We got like these cars that are just unbelievable. We're in a hotel that is way above our pay grade. Yeah. So Rudolph is a huge fan of barstool. And he's like, come out to our charity event.

We'll pull out all the stops. We'll do this and we'll do that. So we're at the nicest hotel in Minneapolis. Frankie Borelli drove an Aston Martin to the course today. True story. and I rode with Dave and we were in a 1966 Ford Galaxy, I want to say. Yep. And I'd never been in a spot with Dave like that.

And he like had a religious experience. He was so happy driving that car. He's legitimately going to buy it and take it to Nantuck. So I've never really seen anything like that. But Dave legitimately when we got to the course sought out the paperwork for the vehicle. And was like, I'm fucking buying this wagon. It was what? Like a 1972?

66. 1960. Ford Galaxy. Ford Galaxy. Yep. Like legitimate, like stationware. The guy who pulled up the car was like this thing would go for $175,000 at an auction. I asked Dave on the way to the course, like when you heard $17,000,000, how did that hit you?

He was like, I'll buy it today if I can. All right. So we do have Kyle Rudolph on the podcast. We talked to him for 15 or 20 minutes about his golf game, about the event. We're all out here. Darius Rucker. was here. Larry Fitzgerald was here. The boys had ourselves

a day at Winsong Farms. Winsong Farm, whatever it is. Unbelievable track. My group, my group was, so we all kind of came to Minnesota basically being like, all right, we're all

golfing together. It's going to be like a foursome. It's going to be me, Dave, Trent, Frankie. We're all going to golf. We're going to have a video. It's going to be really easy. Dave's going to make fun of us. We're going to capture two shots. where we hit shitty shots. Dave makes fun of us. That's going to be a whole video.

Dave's going to prove we're all going to be working. It's not going to be considered a boondoggle. That was the exact opposite of what happened. We all got put in different fucking groups. Yes, we were the celebrities coming to play with people. Which is crazy. It is crazy. I would agree with that.

So all four of us got split up into different groups. We were the celebrity person in like any respective force of them. Frankie Borelli was a celebrity in this golf tournament. I don't know if we have to preface that again. Let's all take a pause. Yeah. And realize that someone paid money to be in this golf tournament, to play with a celebrity. And they stepped up to the tea and Frankie Borelli was waiting for them.

Frankie Borelli from East Meadow showed up. And to make things even more interesting on the guest list, I don't know if anyone saw my Twitter, but I had posted this picture the other night. This was great. On the guest list, it says Frank Borelli. and it showed a picture of the New Jersey tank Frank Fleming. So this fucking group thought that Frank Fleming, they were expecting the midnight,

was going to start waddling up to this 13C tea time. And it was me. But I wouldn't be more opposite than Frank Fleming. I was thinking about that. You guys are very opposite. But it could not have worked out better because it sounds like we all had pretty damn good days. My group was great. Your group sounds like regular legendary group.

So my group was all restaurateurs as they consider themselves. Yeah. I think is butcher and the boar. Yeah. It's the name of the restaurant. And it's apparently like one of the greatest restaurants in the history of Minneapolis. Rudolph was talking about it nonstop. Zucker was talking about it nonstop.

These guys were the biggest beauties I've ever met on the first tea. Okay, they roll up and they're like, all right, Rigsie. We don't really know much about you, but hopefully you like smoking stogies and drinking alcohol. And I was like, yeah, definitely. So they had all Cubans. And then they had a whole cooler slash, like backpack that pretends to be a cooler. Yeah. Full of like beer, bourbon, all this different shit.

We took a shot before we teed off. That's aggressive. We were 12C. So like we sat on the tea for like 20 minutes, not doing dog shit. Next thing we know, we're still not up. We think like, oh, we're up next. Nope, not up because we're 12C. Yeah, we were 12B.

12C. I was 18C. The shotgun starts are at 1130. We didn't tea off till 1210. Right. So we're like, fuck this. Let's do a shot. We take a shot.

We're drinking a couple beers. We're a couple drinks deep before we even tea off. These guys were absolute savages. We had one guy. I'm not going to say who it was. Fell into the water at one point. Legitimately fell into the water. Yeah.

Like we were on a bank. Falls under the water. Anyways, it was a wild scene. There were a lot of celebrities. There are a lot of local, you know, restaurant tours, business. owners, et cetera, et cetera. We're in Minnesota. It's crazy.

It's fun. We're making connections. We're having a good time. Now, like we said, we're in the hotel room. We, when we got here Sunday afternoon, we caught the end of the golf. It was interesting. It was the Travelers Championship. It started, interestingly, as well for us.

We went up Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday night. Yeah. Trent and I. We had never been to Cromwell, Connecticut before. I'd never been to Connecticut in general. It was a good place. We do have this longstanding philosophy that basically every city we've ever been to is identical because the only thing we do when we go there is we just go into a bar and drink.

Yeah. I went to Philly. So I'm not from the East Coast, but every East Coast city I've gone to, I went to Philly like a month ago. It's just bars. I'm like, oh, this is a nice place because the inside of the bars are nice. Yep. People were like, oh, what do you think of that city? I'm like, well, I mean, I literally, I arrived in the city.

And then I went to the first bar someone told me to go to. Yep. And then I stayed inside of the city. that bar and drank until it closed. And then I went home in like an Uber or a cab. So it looked like every other city. Which is what we did in Cromwell, Connecticut the first night. Went to Chicago Sam's.

Took a bunch of Keegan versus everybody's shirts because we were going to follow Keegan on Thursday. Yep. We showed up. You and I to pull behind the curtain were very nervous. We didn't know if... Very nervous. Yeah.

Well, you know, so the reason we were nervous because this event has been kind of spearheaded by like Dave and like... Gas. Spites and gas. this whole crew that have been at Barstool and in Boston and in the Northeast forever. Yeah. And now we're the golf guys and, you know, Dave couldn't make it. He had business meetings. And he's like, hey, I'd really like it. If you guys went, we're like, yeah, let's fucking do it. We've never met Keegan Bradley before. We don't know really anything about anything.

And we're like, yeah, we'll drive up to Cromwell, Connecticut. We put out a couple of tweets. We put out a couple blogs. We show up with 50 shirts thinking, you know, there's a very good chance that. We are sitting there with 48 shirts just like, fuck me. Like we might be the idiots walking out with 46 shirts. Right. We walked in to this bar, Chicago Sams in Cromwell. Would it take 90 seconds for all the shirts to be gone?

As soon as we walked in, you felt eyes on you. Yeah. Because we had the shirts and then we put them out in 90 seconds they were gone. Yeah. Might have been 90 seconds all the shirts were gone. No, I will say that, I don't know, probably 30% of the people that took shirts were lying pieces of shit who just took the shirts

because they were free shirts and didn't know what they were doing and weren't going to show up which I tried to call people I looked in the eyes and I was like if you don't show up tomorrow I'm going to fight you like that was just dog shit

obviously I can fight anybody they just took shirts yeah but a lot of the people that did take shirts they showed up so that was cool yep so we had a great time at Chicago Sam's hung out with a bunch of stooleys in Connecticut my golf arch nemesis

Tron showed up he did which was a wild move. Shown up out of nowhere. Courageous move. I would say so. Yep. I don't want to get too much into it because I don't want to present things because he's not here to defend

himself. Right. But we chatted. You know, we disagree on some things. We agree on other things. We had actually a really good time. We drank beers. We talked for an hour or two. We ended up sharing an Uber back to the hotel. We were all staying at the same hotel. So it was an

interesting night. Very interesting night. We had a good time. Again, we'll get more into details and everybody wants to talk about the Tron stuff, what the fuck happened. We talked about a match. We talked about doing something going forward. I don't want to get into the specifics of what we do or do not agree upon because he's not here to defend himself.

I don't think that's fair. I will say that we had a very good chat. I told him how I felt about him. He told me how he felt about me. Yeah. We had a good time. I was there overseeing the whole thing. It was all very cordial.

It was all very, a lot of things got worked out, and it actually was a very nice conversation. Very productive. It was a good time. we're not we're not anti any of those guys we actually love those guys true trin's been on their podcast was solely on no laying up um and that you know they do great shit we love all those guys we had uh our guy from fox on last week shame bacon yep who's kind of part of that crew as well so you know we like those guys apparently they kind of like us which we didn't really know

but it was a good time yeah um so the next day was fun because we followed keegan around yep so we followed Keegan all day Thursday, 7.30 a.m. T time. We made it there at what, eight? Yeah, because like we said, Chicago Sam's was a good time and we may have slept in just a little bit later than we wanted to. But we only, yeah, eight o'clock we showed up and, uh, I mean, we closed the bar down. We did. So like if you expect this to close the bar down and then show up for 730 tea time, you're insane. Yeah. So we did. We showed up. That was actually mostly my fault too, too, because everyone else was ready and I was just too hung over and I couldn't make it there. But we eventually made it. So we showed up at eight o'clock. Uh, once again, nervous because you don't know how many Keegan versus everybody people are going to show up.

We had a very good morning crew, probably 10 to 15 guys right off the bat. Yep. Started following Keegan around. Kegan played pretty fucking lights out while we were there. Yeah, he played great. For the first, you know, four or five holes while we were there, like you said, we had like 10 or 15 people. 10 or 15 might that sound like much. But when there's when it's 815, 8.30 in the morning in Cromwell, Connecticut, there's nobody.

It's like an unbelievable crew. And then by the time we got to like the 10th, 11th hole, we were probably 35, 40 people strong. Yep. We're in the same shirt. Keegan versus everybody. Oh, we saw Smiley was also in the group. Yep. Ran into Smiley's girlfriend who we had met down in Augusta who picked me out of the crowd

because I was the guy who had the outrageous hat tan. Yeah. She said that to you. She did. She did say that to me. And we talked. Oh, you're the guy with the outrageous ridiculous hat tan. Yeah, it wasn't like, oh, hey, there's Barstle Trent.

Oh, there's rigs too. It was no, there's the guy who stupidly wore a backwards hat for four days straight and had a 10-line to prove it. Yep. So we hung out with them. We followed Kieg's. Like I said, by the time we got to the back nine, there were like 40, 35, 40 people, which at 9, 10 in the morning in Cromwell, Connecticut is like an astronomical crew.

Kegan came by us, gave us a little fist pump. He gave you a couple fist pumps throughout the day. A couple fist pumps. He ended up shooting a 3-6-7. He made like a 20-foot putt for Bertie on 18. And then the crazy person. part was that afterwards we didn't really know what to expect right Trent and I've never been up there before we've actually never met Keegan before even though he's people's golfer 2.0 so you know we give him a little fist pound great round dude yeah so cheering so after he makes a 20 footer uh for birdie which we're pumped about one because it made him shoot at 67 but also we're like all right now he's gonna be in a good mood right he's been a good mood he'll probably take a picture with us he's coming off which if i mean if you watch the spief stuff you'll see where those guys kind of exit he can come by gives Riggs another fist pound,

but we didn't kind of want to annoy... Two fist pounds, by the right. That's two. Two fist pounds in one round from Kagan. We didn't want to annoy him. I was over the moon. We didn't want to annoy him with the picture thing there because there were thousands of people around.

So we let him go. He's going to sign his card. And then we're like, all right, well, now we are we not going to get a picture with Kegan Bradley? Which would kind of not leave our day. Like, it would leave it wide open.

Incomplete. Incomplete is the better word for it. Yeah. So we're standing out there. We're standing out there. We're going to one location in the next thinking, where's he going to come out so we can try and grab him. I check my phone just because I'm always checking Twitter because I'm a blogger.

And I see a tweet from Kagan, a public tweet that is at me and Riggs that says, where are you guys? So Kegan's pretty notoriously like not a big Twitter guy. He doesn't really understand how it works. He realizes it. So instead of DMing us, he just tweets publicly at us, where are you guys at? Trent responds. We're out front. He fucking battles through the gallery.

He's pushing people. out of the way. That'll be my lasting impression of Keegan Bradley forever is us standing next to the first tee, which is very crowded because Jordan Spieth is about to tee off. Right. We're like, we're maybe 30 yards from the first tee. Yeah. And there's people piling in because Bubba just came by and then Speeth is about to come by who we're going to talk about here in a second, obviously.

And here comes six foot five Keegan Bradley, major championship winner, just plowing through the crowd. Who's a Vermont guy, like New England guy? He is, yeah, he's like a king coming home. He was very popular with the travelers. And here he comes to come meet his Keegan versus everybody crew. When he didn't have to do that, he could have like, and he could have pulled us back where there weren't as many people. Nope.

Storming through. Legitimately walking through the gallery. Yes. I cannot say enough good things about Keegan. I had never met him before. I never talked to him before. He is boys with, you know, Dave, Featherberg, Gaz, those guys that are huge Patriots fans because, like we said,

Kegan's a Vermont guy. He's a New England guy. He was at the Patriots. rule party with those guys, party with them. However, Trent and I were up there. We were kind of on our own. We'd never met him before. This fucking guy, Keegan comes out, battles through the gallery, shakes our hands, and then proceeds to shake everybody's hand that was still hanging around that had a Keegan versus everybody's shirt that had fouled him.

Legitimately shook every single person's hand and said, thanks a lot for coming out. I really appreciate it. Great, dude. Stand up, dude. Played well. He ended up finishing, I think, eighth, tied for eighth, something like that. I don't know what that. Yeah.

played well throughout the weekend. Yeah, I had to pull up because I was prepared for the statistic. He finished T8, eight under par. He shot a one under 69. Nice. On Sunday, to finish eight under just four shots back from the guys. Speaking of the guys, we had a hell of the finish on Sunday. We did.

It didn't look like we were going to have that type of finish because Spieth was, he had a couple of shots lead heading into Sunday. Then he went 200 through two, which went to 14 under. I think the closest guy was maybe Boo, weekly at 11 under. Yeah. So at that point, when speed's got a lead like that,

I know, I mean, he's had some trouble in the past, as people know. But for the most part, he's going to kind of lock that tournament down. It's going to be a boring ending.

It did not happen because he faltered with, I think, three bogies. Yeah, any one earlier this year. So, like, yeah, we all, like, we always make fun of him for collapsing at the masters.

Yeah. Whatever. He collapsed. Like, what was he, 22 at the time, wherever the fuck he was. Like, sure, you can get away with that. It's not really that big of a deal.

Did not expect this from him. He won. He hit the heroic bunger shot where he hold it to winning the playoff. But what's not like he, that was shocking. So he missed, I think he missed two putts inside of four feet back to back. He was screaming at his putter. On the back nine, he was yelling at his butter. He said to himself, like play golf.

Yeah. Was like yelling at himself. We've all done that. You just yell. Play golf. Right. Just yelling at himself, which I love. My roommate Lurch who everybody he just kind of heard about fucking cannot stand.

because he thinks his antics are really annoying. And then he's, like, overdoing it. I love it because I think he's genuinely passionate. Okay. Yeah, I do too. And I love that type of stuff. When he's, like, yelling at his putter, he's doing all that shit. The guy fucking cares.

Like, what Steve Elkington was saying about Rory last week in that, like, oh, I don't know if he cares about golf, blah, whether Elks right or wrong, there's that, there's that, like, thought that, you know, these guys make a billion dollars and they're not that passionate about winning golf tournaments. Speed is going bananas. going nuts every time, every shot, every putt because he cares. That was always kind of the tiger thing, too, where it probably got annoying to a lot of the people that's like, your Tiger Woods stop doing that, but that just means he gives a shit.

And Shorten-Spef is the same way. He gives a shit. Right, and you want to watch a guy that cares. I mean, when Spith on whatever, I think it's the 13th, that part five with the water where he struggled all week, he kept hitting the water, you know, when he hit that ball that barely, you know, landed on the bank and you watch him and he's like, stop, stop, stop, go, go, go. And he's yelling at his ball. I love that shit.

That means the world to me because it's the week after the U.S. open. You don't think, oh, it's Traveller's Championship. It's in Cromwell, Connecticut. You know, does it really mean that much of these guys? Fuck, yeah, it does. Like, Spieth wants to win more than anything in the world. It builds momentum.

It gets him going into the summer. So we had Speeth, Berger, going to the playoff. What do you think about Burger? What are your thoughts on Burger? Just in general. You know, one of my favorite things about Burger is that he's got a swing that you look at and you're like, ooh. that's like that guy does not play on the PG

but he gets it done I mean he's very consistent he just won a couple weeks ago two weeks ago he won the week before he won the FedEx St. Jude Classic for he was the repeat champ there and then two weeks later

you know he loses in a playoff at the Travelers I actually I'm pumped because I picked him in fantasy and I picked him so I picked him in my preview blog to win at FedEx St. Jude. And then I also I picked him and speed

from my fantasy team. We get four people picks. So I'm pretty excited about the whole thing because I really jumped a bunch of spots against my boys. But I mean, I love Berger. He's a young gun, too.

Yeah. He's the 2011 class. These guys are all, you hear about that all the time. People hear about it. But he's part of that class. Right. He's part of that class.

It's always good to see like an American, you know, come out and be gutsy, right? Especially at a young age because we kind of went through this phase with our Rider Cup guys where they were like kind of pussies. Yeah. And it was like these guys can't close. You know, these guys have like these, this like, uh, they're like they're, they're too famous to be like gritty and tough and grind it out. Yeah. Burger fucking grinds it out. He does. Right. And he battled back.

She was shown emotion was throwing some fist pumps around, which I liked. He made, um, yes, I think it was his put on, he made the putt on 17. Yeah, that's what it was. For a birdie, that little slider, like 10 or 12 footer, um, that he made, he gave a huge fist pump. Love that stuff. So huge burger guy. Like you can't ask for more than two guys like Daniel Berger and Jordan Spief going

to a playoff, even if it is the travelers, which I mean, that event is great now. I mean, I'll never forget it. But like, to have two young guys like that battling out on a Sunday is you can't ask for much more than that. No, and it also speaks, you know, it was a very, um, it was very reflective of golf in general the playoff because Berger actually played the playoff whole way better than speed yeah i mean he hit his drive a little left sure he had a little left bunker he had a great iron shot in there like that landed on the green dribbled off to the left speed hit a fucking like low miss hit kind of hook deal

that hit the tree and like kicked into the fairway and then from 216 or whatever he was he hit one into the bunker and then holds it yeah you know what i mean it's like that's just golf like that's how it is it was a great shot it was also all almost identical shot to what he had 15 or 20 minutes before. Yeah. He just played it a little more to the right because it didn't break as much as you thought the first time. And this one went in. So, I mean, that's just golf, you know, that's tough.

There is part of you that is like, God, Jordan Speed is the golden child. Yes, because that happens. Right. Almost like when Tiger was doing that shit. Yeah. Where it was like, how the fuck does someone, like, produce this type of stuff? What is Smith now, 23? 24.

24. No, no, he is 23. 23. And he's, you know, that was his 10th win on tour. he's you know when he won his first win which was what the john dear classic was the john of the classic the the the the trent ryan classic where he hold out to get into a playoff was jack johnson at the time right yep and then won that playoff and then he holds out here um from the bungers you're right it's like golden child all that type of stuff it just makes you think he's like

destined for more than the other the other guys totally i think a lot of guys feel that way too like just and thomas called it he was like i bet he holds this yeah he does it and even burghers said he was like speed doing speed things right like that shit's crazy like there is no business hole in that shot and that shot too i was coming in hot like if that misses the hole yeah he's got a four or five foot slider coming back it's true you know to to go to an extra playoff hole whatever but it fucking for speed that goes in nobody talks about yeah so a plus sally with him and greler oh greler tossing the rake fucking speed throw in the club and then they did like basically wide receivers in quarterbacks in the afl where they both jump at the same time i mean

very very cool which for golfers is rare for like a golfer and a caddy to pull off like that was actually it was still a little awkward but for golfers that was like the smoothest sell right it was awkward because it was two white guys doing something that wide receivers in the NFL's you do but they pulled it off pretty well but it was also if you look grel or didn't know what's coming grelor kind of went in for like the chest bump oh okay I didn't look at close yeah no grellor went in for like wide receivers now and streeth went in for like no we're like wide receivers now and grelor right right We're on an NFL field now. Yeah, right. Sure, I'll be the wide receiver. It was great. So it was awesome. It was a cool ending.

Speed said it. It wasn't awesome. I'm ending. Speed was saying with his interview at the end that feels like he's been around for a long time. It very much feels that way. He's 23 now. He's got 10 wins. You could have told me he's been around for eight years and I believe.

That was kind of an alarming moment in his post-round press. He's like, it feels like we've been around forever. It's only been four years. And I was like, holy shit. It did sound like he was like, I'm. tired. Like I'm a little tired now. Yes. Which he's going to be fine, but he just had to be completely exhausted.

And it was, dude, it was a weird ending where Spieth, you know, we missed a bunch of putts. Like that just looked like horrific punts for the guy that's widely considered to be the best putter, you know, on planet Earth. On top of that, you know, everyone kept going on and on about how he's the best iron player on tour this year. And then he hit some terrible iron shots down the stretch. I mean, on his 72nd hole with a, I think he had a gap wedge in his hand from like 1-16, he hit it in the bunker. It's gross. And then even in the playoff, you would think that from 216, he had a 5 iron, and he left that short in the bunker. Yeah.

You would think he'd hit that in the middle of the green, let him funnel towards the hole or hit it to the back of the green, whatever. So it was like, it was crazy watching him hit these shots that you don't expect. And then he does speed stop and just holds it. He's like, no, turn him it over. It's like, what the fuck? Right. So Frankie Braley, how old are you? 23.

You're at the same age as Jordan Spee. That's just unbelievable. I was just like listening to you guys doing this. And I just can't fathom. We just played today. I was in a couple bunkers, which is weird in a scramble, by the way. We were in like four bunkers. It was like embarrassing.

You guys played shots in the bunker? It was insane. I didn't play in a scramble? We didn't hit a single bunger shot. Didn't hit a single bunker shot there. In fact, I bet I've played in the last 10 scrambles. Probably haven't seen a single bunker shot. We played in a single bunker shot.

We played in a single bunger shot. three bunkers. I mean... Well, I will say this. So, like, I hit a good drive and then I put one in the bunker and they just like dribbled theirs into the woods. So, like, what else were we going to do? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, let me say this. That it's also like it was par was the max score today. Yes. So, you didn't give a bar. So, like, you just put yourself in a position to like, whole one for Bertie. Yeah. Otherwise, it doesn't fucking matter.

True. So it's like, I'm, I'm just picturing myself standing in that bunker today. Can you imagine. being able to hit that shot. Never. And it's less about... Under that pressure. That's what I mean.

It's less about the shot and more about the moment. It's like, dude, you have to hit that shot. He had to. Yeah. The other thing... Like you said, that thing was in a roll, maybe six or seven feet past the hole. And Berger was putting.

Right. That thing was coming in hot. And it's like, yeah, that's the thing is that under that pressure, you know, and I think about this all time. Like, when I'm on a bunker, you know, in order to get, like, the reaction you're looking for out of a bunker shot, you have to hit it in terms of like where your club injures the sand exactly where you want to and for speed like if he's off by a fraction of an inch that's like you know three four five feet difference in terms of how the ball rolls out completely it's unbelievable it's it's the perfect shot it's the perfect shot do you think there's any part of him that thinks he can play with more of a reckless abandoned because he is who he is like i'm not i don't he has got on I won't say that his legacy is set because we're very, very, very early on speed.

But he can play with because he's just like he's joined speed. I think he can play however he wants. Well, I would say to that bunker knowing he was hitting that shot. You don't step into that bunker any other way when you're during speed. I also think when you step into that bunker and you're a two-time major champ and a nine-time PGA tour winner, you step into that bunker being like, yeah, like let's fucking go. I got the biggest guy. I got the biggest dick. Exactly.

And I think he said that before. He has said like when we were, you know, when I was, when I was playing down the stretch at St. Andrews, when I was still looking for the grand slam, I kept saying to Greller, like, we've been here before. Most of these other guys haven't. Like, we're, we have a bigger swinging dick than these guys. Let's fucking go. And he like channels that. He believes that.

He knows that. Yeah. And like when he stands in that bunker, you're right. It's the same deal. Like, yeah, I can stand in this bunker and hit this either hole it or if I hit it. six feet by it. I'm Jordan fucking Speed. Like, I'll make it.

Like, I think Burger is a perfect comparison to that where, yeah, he's, I mean, he's a good player, obviously. He won a couple weeks ago, but he doesn't have that same type of confidence that Speeth has. No. And I think it's impossible to have it until you're like, you know, you have what Jordan Smith has, which is a couple major. Basically what I'm saying is like Jordan Speed is pretty much the only person in the

planet that makes that shot because he's Jordan fucking Speed. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's definitely a couple other guys that could, but like they're And yeah, who currently has that combo of being that accomplished and that young? Nobody. That accomplished that young and seemingly a pretty big flare for the dramatic. Yeah. And like you said, you're able to play a little bit with like reckless abandon being like I'm Jordan fucking speed. Like, I'm going to hold the shot.

Yeah. And whatever happens after that doesn't matter because I'm Jordan fucking speed. And then I make it and Greller tosses a rake 300 yards and we do a celebration. That was heroic. It was great. Great celebration, by the way. Golfers are known for horrible celebration. missed high fives, missed everything.

That was on point. And that was a huge point for the golfers. They nailed it. Huge point. That was rare. I did. I kept watching it for like faults. And like I said, like I nitpicked a little bit that like Greller went for the chest pump.

Dude, they nailed that. That was like as good as it gets for golf cellies. I would agree with that. All right. Next up, like we said, we're in Minnesota. We all, all three of us played in the golf celebrity event today. we were actually celebrities. Three celebrities right here, guys.

We're going to do, well, every 20 minutes, we'll just set a reminder. Frankie Burralli was a celebrity at this golf tournament. You're literally listening to three celebrities. I'm so sunburnt. Talk to you. Frankie is so sunburnt. You are an unbelievably sunburnt person.

I'm going to have to go into that shower and put it on. I'm going to pull back in curtain here a little bit. Frankie took a picture with Darius Rucker. Yeah. And he looked like a tomato. He's a literal tomato. Hey. And so we were sitting outside.

Everything was outside. Like there were tables outside. We were eating. And he looked like a tomato. He went inside the clubhouse to mess with Instagram filters before it made it look like he wasn't red. I look like less of a tomato. He made it look really good. I mean, the Instagram filters are scary.

Like I know. What do you can accomplish with that? I mean, that's what girls do. That's why girls are famous for it. It's a scary world. Like I became an Instagram model today. Don't get catfish folks. Horrible.

I mean, I looked like a fucking tomato. I look electric in that. You're glowing. I mean, I'm very white. Super white. But you know what? It was fucking hot out there, man. Yeah, it was.

All right. So we're in Minnesota. We got the host of the golf event today, the celebrity golf event. Kyle Rudolph for the Minnesota Vikings. Awesome dude. Been a big fan of Barstool. Been a big friend of Barstool for a long time. He's a huge golfer in the off season.

So we talked to about that. We talked to about the event. We talked to about Minnesota, golf, his career, all that in this interview. So enjoy it. Kyle Rudolph. Kyle Rudolph, Minnesota Vikings. We're in Minnesota. We're at a fantastic golf course.

Yep. Let's start, talk about the Children's Hospital. What it means to you, what this whole event's about? It's a special event to me. You know, this is the first time I've got to host the event. It's the ninth annual. Champions for Children's Golf Classic. And how many years have you been at it?

This is my seventh. Okay. This is my first time hosting it. So I wanted to do it big. What kind of responsibility that comes along with hosting it? What's how intensive is it? You know, I'm in charge with getting the A-list celebrities like you guys. That's right.

It is pretty funny when like people roll up, you know, there's Darius Rucker. There's all these different people. There's Larry Fitzgerald. There's all these guys. And then you got a couple of bloggers. People get matched with us. They're like, who the fuck? are you guys? Yeah, but I guarantee you, whoever you played with, had they heard of you or not,

will now become award-winning listeners. They're going to tune in and they're going to be hooked. I guarantee it. Next year, next year when you guys come back, whoever you play with, like, yep, I've been listening for a year now. It's a good point. So I played with the Butcher and the Boar guys. This guy, Greg, who's like the biggest legend ever met, these guys were, we were doing shots on the first hole. Yep. And they were, they are now, they don't know anything about, you know, they didn't know anything about us.

They're like the biggest bar still fans in the world now. They've never even read it yet. Yeah. So this is almost like a brand opportunity for us a little bit. Absolutely. So, okay. So now, you know, you're hosting the event. You know, how intense has it been for like the last couple weeks?

Getting everybody together. Getting guys to come. Do people like volunteer? You know, like, what's that whole process? The biggest thing for me has been, you know, hoping for good weather. Yep, which we got. Gorgeous day. It was like 702 and sunny.

It could have been cold. It could have been hot. Could have been rainy. It could have been anything. Exactly. Perfect weather. So you hope for good weather. And then honestly, for me, the biggest thing that I hope for are, you know, guys like you, the celebrities that come in, they have a good time.

That you get put with a good group, that you have fun because in so many of these you can get with a stale group. And it's a long day. I mean, we were out there for almost seven hours today. I wasn't kidding. I wasn't kidding. When I said, I think we set the Guinness Book of World Record for the longest round of world. It was a long as day. It was long.

So I just hope that, you know, you guys had a great time. You enjoyed it and you look forward to coming back, hopefully. Well, but you're right, because, like, right, our group, you know, I became boys with my whole crew immediately. And we had times on the 18th, you know, we waited for, like, 30 or 40 minutes. We didn't care. Right. You're like, we're drinking margaritas. We make sure that we have things to make you forget how long you're, like, sad.

That's the most genius thing about this. Almost every single hole we were at, there were booze stations. So it's like as soon as you get there, you're like, oh, I'm happy I'm here. Exactly. I can sit here for 15, 20 minutes and get a couple drinks and wait. You're good to go. So how's your golf game? I'm okay.

I'd be considered a good golfer in football player terms. So like amongst other football players, I'll do pretty well. Most of the time I shoot in the mid-80s. If I play well, I'll get in the low 80s. That's not bad. But just inconsistent as, most amateur golfers are. You know, you can get up there and smash a drive. I think today on a number three, you know, I literally drove it to like four feet. We eagled the hole. It almost went in.

The group in front of us, the catty's running up to put the pin in. Because he's like, if it hits the hole, it doesn't go in because the pin's not anything. I'm going to go. I'll never live this down. But then I can get up there and duff it and put a giant divot in the T-box. And, you know, it's hit or miss. Yeah. Okay. So you're, you know, you're obviously, you've been in Minnesota for a long time. You guys miss a ton of the year. You can't golf. You can't do that. How do you like keep your game going for the rest of you? I mean, I say all the time like, you know, Midwest, you have to relearn the game of golf every year. You know, when you end the summer and, you know, you get your handicapped down nice and low. You're playing great golf. And for me, it ends in July. When we go to training camp this year, July 26th, you're done.

I'm putting the clubs away and I'm not going to play again. you know, hopefully somewhere in February nice and warm. So it is tough. You have to go out and, you know, relearn your swing and get back into it. But it's an incredibly fun and addicting game. I mean, you just, you want to play. You can't stop playing. And so I'm a huge golf fan as well.

So let me ask you that. So, you know, the season ends for you guys, you know, Super Bowl's early February. Let's say mid-February until July, like you said, you guys show up a training camp, are you just, are you just all golf all the time? You're, like, obsessed with the game? What's your connection to the golf game? You hit the nail on the head. I mean, it's, I can't get enough of it.

You're playing with the boys. Like, you guys just out there and we go all the time. And, you know, thankfully, you know, I foresee us continuing to do it in the near future. We go out to California for between six and eight weeks. Yeah. Middle of February until April when we start OTAs. Yeah. So I get a little head start on my golf game and play out there.

Like you better be ready to go when you get out there. Exactly. So it's time to go. You know, I better play 15, 20 rounds of golf before I get back in April. And then you come back to Minnesota in April and now we're waiting on the weather. Right. It's not the best. You may get a couple rounds in, but between OTA's mini camp, when that's done in June,

and when we go to camp in July, that's golf season. Yep. I got to get as much in as I can. So let me ask this. What kind of, you know, when you guys go out, what kind of games you guys play? Is it just like, hey, man, have a good. time play well or is it like you and me against him and him and it's vicious like what you know what I mean oh absolutely I'll tell you the competitive juice has got to be flowed no no question and somebody's

reaching in their pockets when we're done like we're making sure that it hurts honestly one of the the best games and one of my just most favorite games to play it's called past the trash and so basically way it works. Go up to the first tee, four people, $20 in a pot. And, you know, you flip the tee, do whatever you want to decide who hits first, second, third, fourth. And the first guy hits, he has the trash to begin with. If you hit it in a hazard, hit in a bunker, three putt, and bogey, you pass the trash. Okay. So as you pass the trash, you put $20 in the pot. And the just continues to grow, continues to grow. So you could go out, you could shoot 110, and, I mean, you're putting most of the money in.

Right. But if it comes down to the 18th hole and you have the trash and you can find a way, don't hit the ball in the water, don't hit the ball on the sand. You might come away away the winter. You might get all the bucks. I like that. So it's sweet because it keeps you in the entire time. So you can have a blow-up hole, whatever.

Put your 20 bucks in the pot and we'll move on. We played it in Vegas this winter. I played with Sam Bradford, a buddy of mine that's here now, Nick, and one of Sam's friends. And it was awesome because Sam's like a scratch golfer. He's a player. He's a player. Jesus. He's legit. Probably the best football player on the golf course that I've ever played with.

Okay. I'm a little surprised by him. I didn't realize Bradford was that. He's lights out, man. Keeps it tight. Smooth swing. Just, he's a player now. So we play out there.

I could see him to you that little fucking smirk. And we're playing at Cascada in Vegas. And, you know, like this dude, he starts off. He gets a double on the first hole. And I had heard, you know, Sam's such a great golfer, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, okay, perfect. Like, he's just like the rest of us. Right.

He can have some good holes. Suck it, brother. He's got the blowup holes in him as well. And sure is shit. Like, I swear, the next five holes he birdies. Like, not par, birdie, birdie, birdie, birdie. And outside, I'm like, wow. this guy is.

Yeah, he's good. He's like hustling you right now. He's good. So, but, you know, we play that game and you have an opportunity at the end. It comes down to the 18th hole. And I think all four of us passed it to each other on 18. And, you know, you make a putt, walk away with a couple hundred bucks. And I probably shot almost 100.

Very cool. That's awesome. All right. So we got Super Bowl in Minnie next year. I mean, how do you think that's going to go? Are you guys pumped about it? Are you like, all right, like we have to do everything we can to make sure we're there? Absolutely.

I mean, as a mini guy. No team has ever played in their own Super Bowl. So it would be history, you know, first time ever. I'm excited. I think this city is, you know, everybody thinks like, oh, my God, the Super Bowl in Minnesota, it's going to be freezing cold. Like, what the hell are we going to do? Yeah.

But they're going to embrace it. You know, they're going to make, hopefully we get a nice, you know, mild week in February and it's not extremely cold. But they're going to embrace it up here. And I think it's going to be awesome. I think it's going to be a Super Bowl that's unlike any other. You know, they're not, a lot of times, you go to these Super Bowls, and it's they have the format laid out.

Yep. And it's just insert your city. Yep. Everything is the exact same, but just insert your city. Whether it's like Arizona, New Orleans, like, Houston. Exactly. It's all the same.

And I think Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota will really try to make it their own because it is cold here. Like, they're going to have to make it unique. But I think you have to embrace that. Yeah, absolutely. You can't, like, shine away from you got to lead into it. It's almost better at my mind if it's like frigid. Yeah. And this is what Minnesota is. Exactly. That's like, yeah, like we were. That's what the people in Minnesota want.

Yeah. Right. They would love it. I think if we get like a, you know, random 50 degree week in Minnesota, people will be like, I'll be great. But the true like, diehard cut throw in Minnesota. They'll be pissed. Damn. Like that's not, that's not, that's not us. Like it's supposed to be, I don't want it to be negative 10. But like, you know, we're supposed to have snow on the ground and, you know, winter fest, all these type stuff. That's like the claim to fame is the league. If you walk outside and you spit, it like freezes in the air. It's freezing. Right, exactly. And like, I feel like Minnesota needs that. Yeah, the cup of water trick.

You pour the water out and it's frozen. Exactly. Precisely. Yeah, so I like my brother played a little bit of juniors in Alaska. It was the same type of deal where he's like, if you don't throw a bucket of water out and it doesn't freeze, you're like, you're not in Alaska yet. Right. Yeah. So talk a little bit out the Children's Hospital.

Obviously, the event here we had, what, 244 people somewhere. like that. Quite a few go. I didn't know the number. That's shocking. Which is an unbelievable showing. It was an awesome day. We're going to post a ton of pictures on our Instagram, on our Twitter and all that.

A lot of it goes towards the children's hospital. Talk about how you got involved with that. What that means to you. Well, for me, you know, it's, and a lot of people here in the Twin Cities know my story, my family story. Right. My younger brother is a childhood cancer survivor. So born with cancer, my family spent about a year in the hospital. And, you know, as I grew up and as they told me stories, you know, children's charities,

children's hospital charities in general have always been something that I've been very passionate about. And when I got here to Minnesota, the Vikings have always had a relationship with this specific University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital. So I go down there and visit a couple of times with a lot of my other teammates and just fell in love with the place. I mean, they have some of the best doctors in the world on, you know, cutting edge research. and then you get to meet some of the patients. And I mean, when you're around those kids, man, it really puts life into perspective. It's like infectious. I'll go down there on a Tuesday and, you know, might not have played the best game.

Right. And, you know, you're all pissed off. And then you hang out with some of those kids. And it's just like, man, it puts life into perspective in a hurry. And, you know, immediately you realize how fortunate and how blessed you are that, you know, yeah. Things may not have gone great for me on Sunday in the game. but, you know, a lot of people have it a lot worse. Yep, right.

And, you know, so for us, it's always been something that we wanted to, we wanted to make an impact on the Children's Hospital. We wanted to give these kids an opportunity in an area, which is where we came up at the end zone. And, you know, this will be a 2,700 square foot space where, I mean, we'll have everything from arcade video games simulators to a lounge to movie theater screen. Which means, like, literally the world to them. Yeah, I mean, like the coolest thing in the world.

If you're a, you know, toddler to a teenager, you know, we talk to these kids and, like, what do you guys want? Like, what are things that, you know, when you're on your stay, what can help you just relax? Be a kid. I mean, that's the thing. These kids, just be normal. They don't choose to be there. And, you know, it's so hard for them to just be normal, exactly like you said. You know, for them, that's all they want to be.

They want to be normal kids. Right. You know, we feel like this will give them an opportunity for that. no matter what they're going through. Awesome. That's great. That's great stuff. So Kyle Rudolph, Minnesota Vikings, him and Jason Zucker, do the, you guys are the host now

of this tournament. 244 people. I think is that the number, right? That was the number. That showed up. Unbelievable event. We really appreciate you sitting down with us. What's ahead for your golf game?

Like, what's your goal with your golf game? I'm hoping to get better. I actually, I took my first two lessons. I think I like that. I took my first two lessons. You know, my whole life I just, you know, grow up and. athlete and it's like, all right, you get a set of clubs when you're a kid and you go on the range and you just beat balls and you like figure it out. Yeah, you figure it out. And so for me, like,

I haven't gotten any better. You know, I've played a ton of golf over the last 10 years and I'm always in that same category. Like, if I play well, it's the low 80s. If I don't play well, it's the low 90s, sometimes the mid 90s. And it's like, I want to get to a point to where like, when I play well, it's like mid-70s, maybe even close to even par. And when I don't play well, it's like low 80s. Right, right, right. Okay, so it's like adjusting that threshold from 82 to 90 to like 70 to 74. Yeah, it's tough threshold.

So like for me, it's like I said, I've played for 10 years. I've played all the time. And I just have never gotten any better. So I took a couple lessons and I'm trying to learn like the fundamentals of a golf swing and, you know, how to practice golf. Like I can't imagine my entire life like, all right, I'm going to take you guys out on a football field and you're just going to figure it out. Yeah. Like, no one's going to tell you how to practice.

Nope. How that would go. So then I think to myself, like, well, no reason, no wonder why you can't get any better. Like, there's your reason right there. You didn't know what you're doing. Exactly. So those are my golf goals for the next year or so. All right, dude.

I think that's very relatable. Yeah, I think so. Hopefully when you guys come next year. You're pretty good athlete. I think you got it down. I think you can do it. I will say you look good over the ball. Oh, thank you.

I mean, I'm comfortable at times. But then, like I said, you take a couple of last. lessons. Oh, my goodness. It throws you into flux. You don't know what to do. Literally. All this shit, you're like, this doesn't feel right. No, I mean, no, that's right. There's times where you're swinging the club with your new technique, and I'm surprised I hit the ball.

Yep. Like, it just feels so foreign. But, you know, you can't argue with the results at times. So you just, it's so addicting. And I feel like every time you'll, you know, you have the worst round ever. And then you're on 18 and you stripe one. It's like, oh, yeah, I'll come back tomorrow off way again. I love this.

Oh, I love this game. I love golf. snapped four of my clubs, but like all my new ones. Like, don't worry about it. All right. Kyle Rudolph. Dude, thanks a lot for having us in Minnesota. Thank you guys for coming out. Absolutely, man. We really appreciate it. Thanks for dropping by. You're the man. We'll all be following you this year. And we really appreciate it. Oh, thanks for coming, guys. All right, man. Thanks a lot. That interview with Kyle Rudolph is

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Next up, everybody's favorite segment from the gallery. We got a couple good ones this week. We're going to start off with on the same lines. We had a little bit of range balls controversy discussion, whatever we want to call it last week, where basically we had a guy who ordered jumbo bucket. it didn't hit all the balls and decided to put the balls in his bag, take them home, and then come back and hit them at a later date, which is psychotic.

This week, we have a guy. Look on Frankie's face when you said that because he was just like, what? I've done something so recently, like so similar to this recently that it's insane. So just keep going on. Wait, come on.

Wait, I have a new thing that I do now with range balls. All right. So let me tell this. Let me tell this, and we'll get into it. So hat tip to J.W., who said this one is basically said, what's your thoughts on pocketing good range balls when you find them in a bucket of mixed-to-match balls? If I'm on the range and I find a ProV-1 in the bucket, that's officially my ProV-1. Am I a dickhead thief, or is this commonplace?

Totally commonplace. Yeah. That's obviously not supposed to be there. If you, you know, that was just like somebody, and it's usually on a golf course where there's like a driving range in the middle of the golf course, and someone or multiple people will hit a good golf ball. into the driving range, it gets scooped up by the cart and ends up in your bucket. If you're going fucking top flight, top flight, top flight, and then you find a ProV,

you fucking pocket. That's like being like, would you pick up $20 if you found on the street? Yeah. Like, yeah, I'm going to pick that up. I'm not going to trek down whose it was. I don't care. It's mine now. That's a no fucking brainer.

Frankie, you got some look on your face. You've been through like some weird witchcraft lately. This is like a weird thing I just started doing. So I have a course right by my house called shout out Eisenhower Park golf course. Okay. Long Island. So I go to this driving range, and this is a brand, I mean, I just started doing this two weeks ago. It's pretty bad.

It's pretty bad. Like, I think I'm stealing big time. I go and I buy a large bucket, and I go all the way down to the end of the driving range, and I just put the large bucket in my bag. And then I go to Eisenhower Park. I hop the fence at, like, 8 o'clock at night, and I go to a par three, and I just hit the 80 balls on the par three. I pick them up and I put them back in my bag And then I do that like

And then like sometimes I'll leave them on the on the hole And like so like someone will wake up the next morning Like one of like the course people And just see like a thousand balls on the green Do you know what's bad about that? Probably like the most like disrespectful thing I've ever done But it's just like I'm so addicted to it You know what I was just thinking about that's really bad about that

Is you're hitting like 80 balls into a green And like 80 ballmarks and shit on the green Yeah That's like you're like crippling the green It's such a shitty golf course That's that's so much worse It helps my golf games

I'm like pissed off that you said that I know I'm so bad Not that like I just started I mean twice Do you feel bad about it? No I don't at all It feels so good to like

Because when you live on Long Island You don't belong to a country club It's so I was telling you this today Yeah I cannot hit down on the ball right now because I go to these freaking driving ranges with these rock hard mats and I can't take it anymore. Right, because

I'm a mat with the concrete underneath it, you learn to clip it. You learn to clip it like I wouldn't believe and that's all I'm doing right now and when I go to a grassy ranger, I just hit like shit. So I take these balls to like a par three and this is such a shitty golf course that they have two par three so like you can choose if one you want to go

to. So it's not like a, so it's like I always go to the one that like no one goes to. It's like barely kept like decent. Yeah. Okay. I'm trying to make it sound better. I mean, I'm stealing from the driver. Yeah, I mean, you're trying to like, I'm stealing from the driver. You're trying to, like, elevate your shooting. I'm hopping on the golf course late. It's the poorest thing I do. It is the poorest thing I do.

It's like, just go, like, belong to a country club. That's incredible. I respect you for admitting what you've done. I know. So speaking of driving ranges, I have to talk about the driving range of Sabonic. Yeah, you played there this weekend. Yeah. With the boy Francis. How does that rate to the other place, uh, Francis? bail on because that was the best driving range i ever got them been to well so the driving range a little known fat the driving range of bayonne that we hit out of uh when we went a couple months ago

has not been open since then jesus so it's this little like strip on the water and i guess the day that we were there the wind wasn't like in the negative way that it is when they close it because they're very cognizant of, like, keeping all the balls within their little, like, enclosed area so that the balls don't, like, drift and become litter. And I guess the wind's been so, like, intense lately that they can't have the range open on the water. Wow. Because the balls, like, drift outside of their little, like, enclosure. And they just, like, float up against the docks and shit.

Yeah. But, Sabotic. So, Francis and I went out. We played with a couple stooleys. shout out to Dustin and Lynn great dudes shout out to those guys oh Lynn what a name

we went out Lynn great name Lynn kicked our asses too so Lynn was the dad Dustin was a recent college grad and Lynn was like a competitive savage who kicked our fucking asses

at Sabotic but anyways the reason I brought it up Sabotic you go out to the driving range not only do they have like pro viz of the driving range but they have like the Sabonics logo on the Probeus. So we went out to Sponik. We played out there on Saturday.

I had unbelievably high expectations going in. I had heard really good things. The place, it was the most spectacular golfing experience I've ever had in a landslide. And the reason is because I'm a sucker for views, definitely. But there's a difference where, like, you definitely play courses that have views. And you get, you're like, you know, it's, they're breathtaking and you're like in all the whole time and all that. And the course architecture is like whatever. This was like, it's a Jack Nicholas, Tom Doak, like, co-designed.

So like the course is a major championship type architecture course, golf course. The bunkering's phenomenal. The way the holes are routed are just absolutely phenomenal. Strategically, the greens are like unbelievable. difficult. And on top of that, like, by the time you get to the green, oh, like, 12 or 13 holes are on the water. Yeah.

So you're like, you're like, you're standing there hitting like, you know, a seven iron or whatever into the green. And it's like a really tough approach. And there's bunkering. You got to factor all the shit in. Oh, and on top of that, like the backdrop of the green is like you're on like basically a cliff over a beach. Yeah.

Overlooking the water. And it was just spectacular. It had also this really cool feature where like a bunch of the holes are just there's instead of like tea boxes, it's almost like a huge fairway. Hmm. And they just put the teas wherever the fuck they want. Really? Yeah. So like like between the first and second hole, you're walking over thinking you're just the middle of some random fairway and it's just all cut out beautifully fairway and they put the T's wherever they want.

That's crazy. Yeah. So there's not like they're not cut out in T's. box form where there's like a black and a blue and a white and a red. It was, it's legit, you know, just a long, long strip of perfectly cut fairway.

And they put the T's wherever the hell they want that day. Does that make you feel weird hitting it like a driver of that? Yes. Almost like you're hitting like a driver up the middle of the fairway. Yes. It's like, honestly, it's like, it's like, it feels weird the first couple of those. You're like, all right, this is like unique and cool and different.

It was great. The second whole, you know, an assistant superintendent drives up. He's like, hey man, big stooly. I heard you guys are going to be out. I have a great time. You saw Michael Phelps? We legit walk. So we, it was weird because we drove out there and it was torrential downpour.

Yeah. And it started in Manhattan. Some of the worst rain I've ever seen. Dude, it was crazy. Like, we drove. And I played the same day, Riggs played. And I want to compare the type of golf course. So we drove straight east

And we realized after a couple minutes We're like oh we're driving with the storm Because everything all the weather patterns move west to east Yeah So everything we were driving straight with the storm So like woke up walk outside It's fucking pouring Like unbelievably pouring

To where there's like a foot of water Underneath my car in like Manhattan Right And we just drove straight east On the highway like the L what is it LIE? Yep On the LIE, like every, I don't know, every like mile or two, you had to slow down because you're driving through like two feet of water. On the fucking highway.

That's how intense it was. We went all the way out with the storm. It poured on Sabonik for like the first hour that we were there, like getting breakfast hanging out. They're like, all right, it's going to be like another hour break. So we do an hour break. Finally like, all right, you can walk down towards the range. You start walking down towards the range. Who's in front of us?

Michael Phelps, Matt Lauer. we're like, holy shit. It's like, oh, this isn't a joke. Michael Phelph, by the way, has the most Michael Phelps body you've ever seen your tire. He looks like a gigantic upside down triangle. His torso. Like his shoulders are so broad? Yes. Yes.

And, yeah. His torso is like freakish. And he has like these little legs and this gigantic, like his torso is like six foot. It was, it was unbelievable. And so we walk up to the range. Of course, I'm like, I don't want to be that guy. I'm just going to hit balls. Fucking get in the zone.

I'm going to play well today. Francis walks right up to him. Hi, I'm Francis. What? No way. Yeah. So then we're like... You see my skits?

Me and the other. So... No, Francis. I'm a fucking like Olympian. Like, I haven't seen your skits. Dude, I will say, Riggs did say there was a small part of him, because you guys were wearing Barstallel.

Yeah. That you were like, Phelbs is going to be like, I love Barstall. Right. Have, like, Phelbs give us a little wink. being like, hey, I'm headlining at Carolines. Like, I don't fucking care. I'm a little bit. Right.

So, let me hit this golf. So we, you know, we go up. Like, because it's, it's, the, the weird thing was it was like a really intimate setting where there's just four of us on the range. No one else is on the driving range. Yeah. No one else. It's just, it's me, Francis, Michael Phelps, Matt Lauer, basically on the driving range. Matt Lauer is such a boss.

And Matt Lauer could not have been a nicer dude. He takes off his hat. He's like, hi, I'm Matt. Like, yeah, I'd fucking know you. How many moms. love Matt Lauer. So many. Dude,

so many moms. Like the nicest dude would probably leave my dad from my mom. So many moms are having sex with her husband's thing about Matt Lauer. So like Matt, he's such a stud. They're staying on the range and I'm all the way out here. I drove fucking two hours out here.

Matt Lauer's like, you know, have you ever been out here before? Oh, you're going to love it. It's a great track. Really nice to meet you guys. You should have been playing in the celebrity golf of them that we've played in.

Right. And so then, you know, they tee off in front of us and all we, everybody kept saying like, oh, Michael Phelbbs in front of us, Michael Phelps in front of us. It was like a footnote that Matt Lauer was in front of us. Yeah.

That's what you get because Michael Phelps is one of the most famous people in the world. He's like a global celebrity. He has 4,000 Olympic gold medals. So that was how it started. So then we get on the first tea and Francis and I, we had played Friday night. We had left work, gone out, caught like a Twilight round and played. I had played

lights out. I was hitting the ball on a string. So I'm like, all right, we're going to go out to Somonik. I'm going to play lights out. We stand up on the first tee. I'm nervous. I've never been more nervous in my life. I don't know why. Like, no one else was around.

It's just us. We've got caddies. People we know. People we've been talking to it for a couple hours. I legit like shanked a three wood. Like out of bounds. First shot. So then I re-tee driver out of bounds.

Slites it right. Third one. How mad is rigs right now at this moment? Well, I'm just like embarrassed. Yeah. Because they're like, you're coming out. Let's have a match. They wouldn't have a match.

Okay. And I'm like, yeah, let's have a match. All right, yeah. So I legit hit two T shots out of bounds. I'm like, Jesus Christ. Like, this is so embarrassing. It ended up playing like death. And the most embarrassing part was that I was doing, you know how you do like this mental thing where you think it's like you have like a negative golf germ?

Like it's not your fault. You just are playing bad that day. Yeah. Like, oh, I caught the negative golf germ today. Which is such dog shit. It's like, no, dude, just like be better. Right. Put a better golf string on the golf ball.

Stop blaming it on like this random phenomenon of like, oh, I was. It doesn't exist. I was going to hit it well today. But instead, I'm not. That's just really unlucky. No, dumb ass. Like, be a better athlete, you pussy. That's what I kept saying to myself.

You are so mad at yourself. I was so mad at myself. I suck dick. And then on top of that, on the third hole, I had to take a huge shit. I had to shit so badly. Sabonic shit. So I get invited all the athlete. We drive two hours out there.

Can't wait. Like real. Classy. We're all, you know, taking her hats off, shaking hands. I can't wait. So, it's all good to be. I can't even enjoy it on the first two old. I have to shit so about it.

So after the third hole, I sprinted to the bathroom. After that, it felt great. Okay, good. Walking like a stud after that. Taking her hats off. I love that comment. I love nothing more than taking my hat off at the end of the run. It's just so fucking important.

Totally. I took so important. I took the shit out of my hat off. You feel like the classiest motherfucker. We did that. I essentially threw my hat off the green today when I went to go shake a . I'm like, get this fucking thing out of my sight.

It's so disrespectful that I'm wearing this hat. My group did that today, too. Obviously, you take your hats off and you just shake your hand. It feels so, so, so, so important. Is there anything better than, like, God, I'm a great guy. I took my hat off and shook that guy. It's probably the whitest, like, moment of all time, but you just feel like, this is, yeah. I feel better taking my hat off and shaking your hand than when I do, like, giving money to the church.

Yep. You're like, dude, I just. I feel like a better person doing that. No one's ever showed more respect to someone than I just did when I took my hat off and shook that guy's. I'm a great. I'm a great guy. That was awesome. Man,

I'm great. That's tradition in sports. It's, it's really great. It's like the opposite of like a handshake lines. Right. Like, you might have shot a billion,

which I did. And you just shake, you take your hat off and shake those guys hand. And you're like, man, that guy thinks I'm a great guy. Yeah. Yeah.

So, Sabonic, it was spectacular. It was unbelievable. We had a couple of beers afterwards. That place, I mean, what about the rain?

You said that they have this thing, right? So they have the sub air system. Sub air system. I'm not kidding, Frankie. You couldn't tell it rained. Like, an hour beforehand, you couldn't drive down to LIE.

I played it. It was like a fucking lake on the LIE. I played a golf. An hour later, you play it on Sabana. It's like it never rained. They just suck that shit out of it. Like, they just suck it up. Frank,

he had the same tea time as you in a public golf course, maybe 45 minutes west of where you were. And we were driving boats. I told you this. I've never seen anything like this. It was the most insane thing. This place is so greedy that they wouldn't tell us what the conditions were.

We had a 1 o'clock tea time. The rain must have stopped at 11 a.m. So we're like, all right, let's call. Like, we had a tea time at that place, windwatch that I've taken you guys. It's unreal. Great golf course. Really good spot. They called me on my way there.

Hey, by the way, we're closed. I'm like, okay. So I go on my phone, look at places close to me, and I find this nice place on the water called Middle Bay. We ended up going there. We show up. Boy, was there water. Whole 13 was just underwater.

I told you it was a par 525 yards. The whole thing was underwater. 525 yards of a lake. What was the part of your telling us about just like one hole? It was just like a chipping green? Yeah, so that hole, the par five turned in, so they're like, you know what? We're just not going to play 13.

You guys are going to hit over to the practice chipping range. We have a mat down, and you're going to play that as a par three. Act like it's your third shot on the par five for your cards. I'm like, what are we doing here? I'm like, did I just pay money to do this? I feel like I'm playing like mini golf. And I, I played it like an asshole. Like I'm like, here I am on this fucking cart like path like hitting off of a mat.

I was on a cart path on a mat. Frankie, I cannot tell you how much difference about it. We had such a different freaking, what was it, a Sunday? Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. I'll be honest, sabbics way different than that. It's really spectacular. I didn't have a great day. I mean, I hit a drive right down the middle and went to a,

four foot deep puddle. And you were on a sub-air system that they have in Augusta. Frankie, they sucked the water out of there. It was like, it was literally like it hadn't rained in two weeks. It's crazy. It's been 78 days since Sunday at Augusta. It's true. How do you feel him?

Matt Coacher hit a hole in one right in front of my face. Right in front of your face. Right in my eyeball. Let's not get him going again. You weren't talking about what you saw on TV coverage. You were just seeing what you saw. That was what I saw. That's what you saw.

You weren't just recap of the masters. No, anyone can do that. is what you saw. All right. We got one more from the gallery. This one's from Michael. It's about someone trying to give you lessons. It says, what's to play when you're on the course, and someone starts to give you lessons?

I was playing with my buddy this weekend and a random. We got pair with, decided he wanted to fix my swing on the 18th. Wanted to tell him to go fuck himself, but didn't know what to do. This is pretty much, this is really not in your hands. is in the other person's hands. If you're a kind of guy that starts to give someone lessons at any point during the round, you're a huge ass.

Well, that's true. And also a big part of it is, because it wasn't the random that tried to give the lesson, right? Yep. Am I reading that correctly? Yep. That's, you can murder that person.

Yeah, I think you can just kill that person. Like, if it's your friend, it's still a hard no. Yeah. But a random... Who do you fucking think you are? Yeah, that's exactly right. Tell me what my golf thing needs to be. Are you fucking kidding me?

So let me say this. It's got me so angry. isn't that? I have to give you, I have to, I have to say something. Are you the guy who gives less?

No, so like a month ago, Francis and I were out playing and he said to me on like the eighth green, he goes, I like missed a pot, I left it like short or something.

He goes, yeah, it just seems to me like you're, you're deselling on a lot of your puffs and just walks off the green. And I was like,

oh no. I got to tell you, that, fuck you, yeah, yes, but I got to tell you that doesn't shock me

at all from coming from Francis, he is the type of guy who will, like, give you backhanded pointers of your, on your golf game during a round. Well, I have to give him credit because he immediately apologized. He's like, dude, I'm so sorry. That was like a really, like crazy. Dude, you're hitting the ball into the woods. Right.

I was right. I was telling me, I'm decelering. How about you hit the ball fucking straight? Well, I was so mind fuck because then the next like four holes every putt. I was like accelerated. I said they're like 12 feet by the hole. That's the thing about some like drove me, my putt up. That's the thing about some like drove me.

My head was spinning in circle. That's the thing about someone giving you a tip on the golf course. Then you, like, didn't think you were thinking about it and you can't get it out of your head. Totally. Yeah. So no, like, unless someone asks, don't say a fucking word. If you're the person about to give someone a tip, think about you stepping up to the ball and having someone say, hey, hey, don't come in, don't come outside on this back swing. Imagine.

What? Like, imagine being there. So don't do it. Unless you're playing with, like, Butch Harmon or Hank Haney, like, they can give you tips. Those are probably the only two people on the earth who can do it. If you're a random fucking person, keep your mouth shut. This one makes me want to fight somebody. Like, if you go out of your way to just, like, give someone pointers on their swing mid-round, especially as a stranger?

Yeah, that's the very crazy way. You deserve to be beat up and, like, left in the woods. Fuck that person. You're paying for golf. Don't give me a fucking lesson. I'm paying to play around. I'm not paying to practice. And on the range is one thing.

Right. That's what I mean. You come up to me on the range. You can fucking. Like, hey, buddy, you're coming outside on it. Like, why don't you keep it inside your body? You can soften me up. You can grab me.

Deconstruct my swing. Nice and easy. It's all in the hips. I really don't give a shit. You say something to me on the course. Like, those are fighting words. That's like Trent and I say, that's like honking at somebody in the Midwest.

Oh, yeah. If you honk at somebody in the Midwest on the street, you better be ready. You better have a shotgun in your car. Because it's like a war. By the way. Same type of deal. Midwest driving, such fucking bullshit.

No, just, I don't want to do it because we're going to wrap this up. But I want to say, we make a very good point about people honk too much in New York and to the point where it doesn't mean anything. It's all white. noise. If you honk in the Midwest, you guys have been crying wolf for like a hundred years. Yeah. And it happens every day all day in New York. I'll roll my windows down and like, pull my dick out and tell you to go, fuck yourself.

In the Midwest, if somebody honks at me, I'm like rattled. Yeah. Because it means a lot. It means something. It's like a very legitimate thing. New Yorkers ruined it for themselves. Yeah. You guys blew it. Yeah, we'll honk at someone just merging into our lane. Right. Right. Which is crazy. Anytime I get in an Uber, I get the guy honks at least 45 times. And you guys just don't have red lights out here, though. there's a lot of stops. There's a lot of stops signs. What do you mean out here? Like, we're in Minnesota, dude. This is not like, I drove my ass and Martin DB 11 today.

I was just like, I was rattled by how many stop signs there were. All right. It was crazy. All right. That's post travelers championship week. We're in Minnesota. The boys, Frankie Borelli made his, uh, triumphant return. Triumphant return.

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Yeah. What's your, what's your Instagram? We'll give you a couple of those. Frankie Braley. Frankie Braley. A lot of people forget the two R's. Two R's. A lot of people go one R.

I used to go one R is like weird. I think it's weird or strange. I don't know. Two L is definitely correct. Two L's is correct. I can see one R. Someone probably fucked up along the way. Two and two is tough.

Two and two is tough. It is rare. It is easy to like say it like you're like two R's two Rels. Yeah. whatever. Everybody go look at that Darius record picture that he completely manipulated. Two R's, two L's, Twitter, Instagram. I just looked at it.

Actually, you did a good job. Thank you. All right. Thanks for joining us. Folks, hit it hard. Hit it hard.