Fore Play - A Day With Steph Curry & An Airline Pilot

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

Steph Curry played in the Half Moon Bay Barstool Classic. We spent the day with him. It was real and it was spectacular. We’re also joined on set by Austin, a commercial airline pilot (25:45), who answers all our pressing questions. Plus, Matt Wolff and others join LIV, we are adding our first Canadian Classic stops, and we’re embarking upon a Scotland trip.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, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Foreplay, presented by Barstool Sports. We are sitting here looking at the Pacific Ocean behind us at Half Moon Bay Golf Links. Gorgeous setting if you're watching on YouTube, if you're listening, there's a little bit of wind. We can get approval for the anti-wind mic, so there's a little bit of wind out here. But I think it's fun. I think it's fun.

This kit that we have right now was the one that was a pre-interested. proved to go to the Barso Classic. We have one that just does better in the wind, but that's not here at the windy place that we're doing the podcast. It's also a lot of stuff that a lot of money was put into, a lot of equipment, and we don't really utilize a lot of it. It's also the first time that we've ever used these mics.

First time ever. It's the one that was approved, though. Yeah. Yeah, the other ones are the clicky ones that we always get in trouble for, right? And you've got the little thing on it that has, it's a little, it's a foam, wind resistant piece, whatever. We're here at Aft Moon Bay. I'm not going to get angry about it.

Great day at Half Moon Bay. One of the great stars in the world. Steph Curry was with us all day today. Steph Curry played in the Barstool Classic today. I don't know if you've seen it. I don't know if this is the first time you're hearing about it. It was the craziest shit that I've ever seen in my entire fucking life. He pulled up in a Lamborghini.

That's what I heard. But so I, like a lot of people, once it went live, a lot of people were texting us. A lot of people were tweeting us. How long did you guys know or did he just show up out of nowhere? My personal experience, I feel like I knew for two weeks that he was coming. So you go ahead. Yeah. So it's a good question because I know even Dave Portnoy was texting Frankie today.

Like what the fuck is happening? He wrote, is Steph Curry playing in the Barstow Classic? I said, yes. And he wrote, why? And I said, I think he just really wanted to play. And he goes, that's just true. Do we know him? And I said, well, we do now.

Like, we know his guy and you'll talk about his guy. But like, yeah, I don't know. I don't really know how it happened. Riggs, why don't you, as the commissioner, Steph Curry? Give us your vantage point on how this all came together. Steph Curry, man. And what's of all time? What timing.

So his boy, Jason Richards, who's an awesome guy, played with him at Davidson, and Caddy's forum when Steph plays in Lake Tahoe Century, I think it is, Pro Am, and a lot of the tournament. He plays a good player in his own ride as well. But anyways, he played the Marstool Classic last year at Pittsburgh, and we became buddies. He FaceTime Steph during that. And then he kind of stayed in touch and was like, hey, I think there's a chance like Steph might want to play in this tournament next year.

We're like, duh, if that's a reality, we'll make that happen. happen well he stayed in touch stayed in touch and then eventually a few months ago was like hey i talked to step we're going to play in the half moon bay stop in san francisco and i was like incredible and he's like can you get us in it's like yep yeah let me let me text my people see if we have a spot for you yes we can get you in and he's like okay great you know there's obviously a lot going on they keep making this run they're in the finals blah blah blah blah i'll keep you posted and then the day or two after they won he hits me up and says uh he's in we're going to be there and i said okay just so you know, we're not going to make a big deal.

I will keep it quiet. But when he's here, like, we're going to post about it. We're going to take videos. We're going to use iPhones. We're going to have camera guys out here. Like, we're going to document the fact that he's here playing. So just make sure he's cool with that. Maitreu's cool with that.

And then he showed up. And after that, it was pretty much like confirmation leading up to it. And we didn't tell people. We kept it as low key as we possibly could. It wasn't a booking. It wasn't like an interview. He literally just wanted to play in the Barstool Classic. Dude.

So obviously this all came together before their championship run, their latest one. But to have him at this golf tournament at this point in time, Steph Curry is obviously a super famous guy, no matter what. Before this run, he had three rings. He was already the greatest shooter of all time. Everyone agreed on all of that stuff. But then to go on that run, win that fourth ring,

rip the hearts out of Celtics fans' chess, saying ring me, pointing to his finger. And then to show up at this golf tournament like two weeks later, like you can't have a more culturally relevant person show up to this golf tournament than Steph Curry. Like, I don't know who else could show up at this point in their career who would bring more holy shits from the people participating in the tournament from us, from everyone running it. Just having him, having Steph Curry show up to this tournament at this point in time in his career is as big as big. At this location, we're in San Francisco.

Right. We're at half moon bay. Right. It's the whole game for him. We had said like if he. We're in Golden State. Like if he went to the St. Louis Classic, Barstallis Classic, obviously it'd be a big deal. All right.

Well, it is John Deer Classic Week. So why don't you fucking keep it. I was just saying. Why you keep it tight over there. I had to. Oh, actually you see. Rapids as an example earlier, but I wanted to use a classic stop that's coming up.

But, like, it obviously still would have been big, but we're in the fucking Bay Area. This is his spot. And in St. Louis, we don't have a basketball team. So people aren't that crazy about the NBA. They're general. This would be like in 2001, Derek Jeter showing up to a New York golf outing and everyone being in New York and everyone being like, what the fuck's happening

right now? Right. He stumbled upon this driving range and putting green area and the whole entire putting range just got really quiet and stared at him and they go, is that fucking Steph Curry? You're diehard Golden State Warriors fans. We were up by the clubhouse where the checking area was. Steph checked in, and we watched him walk from the checking area to the putting green just to see what happened.

And it just got dead quiet. And everybody was like, what the fuck is going on? We didn't tell him. We didn't tell anybody. We kept a really good secret. Nobody knew. I got to give a shout out to our guy, Justin Mancini. One of the funnier people behind the crew. He's just in the crew, Barstow Clas.

Andini's great. He's one of the funniest people I've ever met. He actually looked at Steph Curry in the eye and he goes, last. name? Right. That's an amazing lot. Because Justin was checking everybody in. So Steph came up and he was like, uh, your name please? Steph Curry. He goes, last name? Crazy, man. Crazy. So we got to talk about Roman and then we're going to get more into the Steph Curry situation here at Half Moon Bay, which was incredible. What

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He's coming off being the finals MVP, fourth ring, brought them back from the dead, best shooter of all time. He's going viral all the time for his pregame clips of him just draining shot after shot after shot, people can't believe it. He dominates the NBA. He just dominates. The NBA is huge people are, you know, there's as much chatter about the NBA is there. Is anything the drama, the back and forth, he's doing the point to the ring. And then he shows up here

and I will say he came, he arrives with a presence with some star power. He had his two boys with him who were kind of his security, but also his pals but also they were like taking amazing iPhone videos. Like they were just great. And they were kind of, it was funny

because as we were posting on social and this is all kind of happening. And like, like you guys tried. People were kind of looking around like, what the fuck, Steph Curry's here? There started to be galleries. Like, gallery started to form. People started to kind of arrive and wait on the side of greens. And then his security guy would go kind of stand with his arms crossed between like the pathway that Steph would walk to the cart and the people just so that he could be a little bit of buffer.

And Steph was still amazing and took photos with tons of people. He signed a bunch of autographs. And he just kind of was out there playing golf. He was chit chatting with us. He was chirping us. He was hit a bomb. He was just into it. He just wanted two plays.

like golf is really the best way to describe it. He was really into it. He wanted to win. He wanted to compete. He liked Barstool. He seemed to know a lot about it. We were talking to Jay Rich. That's what we were calling his buddy. Jay Rich. We were talking to him a little bit. He's like, yeah, man, he knows a lot. Like, he would come into the locker room or after the game and be like Portnoye sit in court side at the Celtics Warriors game finals. Like he knows everything. He really knew the storylines. He knows everything people say about him on the internet, all the fucking, all the critics that were ever saying that Like he didn't have it anymore. I mean, you saw on all of his post-game press conferences after they won the title.

He's calling people out. He's just a competitor. He's got an edge to him. And you could tell out here on the golf course he'd get mad when he didn't hit a good shot. He'd kind of just, like, stand over balls with a really, really good process. And, like, he wanted to hit a good shot every single time. It's a guy that knows what he's doing out here. It was really cool to see him in this element because you've heard so many stories about how good of a golfer he is.

And you watch him take this so seriously. But he's also just like the most laid-back guy at the same time. It's very strange. He's like, he's just the best. He's an amazing competitor. That's what his buddy was saying too. Like, he is Steph Curry, but he's also super normal. A guy.

Super down to earth. Smoking a cigar all day. How many cigars do you think he went through? He went through quite a few, man. He had one fired up on the first tee. Yep. And he had the turkeys going, and he was just enjoying himself. He was a guy that, you know, 10 days ago won his fourth NBA ring and was here to hang and enjoy life.

He had to get back to the kids afterwards, just like a family man. Try to Pink Whitney shot You want to talk about some of the best promotion of all time Avery was with him the whole day Fasoli the whole entire day They were they filmed him Drinking of Pink Whitney And then he shot the Pink Whitney

Over the screen I mean that's like A little rattling if we're being honest You can't do a fucking Barstool Transfusion I mean he's out here doing We fucking grind our dicks off We get Steph Curry and he's doing a fucking Spitting Chiklet's promotion

I don't give a fuck about spit chicken That was pretty rattling Let's get the guy We're team. We're company guys around here. I wouldn't mind if he had a transfusion. But he was doing everything. Like you said, he was a trooper.

He was involved in everything. He was drinking the truilies. He was hanging. He was chat with everybody. He was having Hannah Cook go up there and hit drives. And she hit a really good shot in front of him, which she was fired up about. So he was the man. He was doing the pink wind and he was doing the whole thing.

I did not hit a good shot in front of him. He chunked one in front of a guy. Best case scenario, if we're being honest. If you can get over the personal stigma of it, it's the best case scenario. We're a comedy, man. I made him laugh. Right before. belly laughing.

Right before you hit, I hit, and it was a part three over water, and I skipped my ball like a stone and almost made it all the way across. Listen. So it's fine. We've hit a lot of golf shots in front of people. Like, we were really nervous when we had to play at the Zurich Classic and hit in front of Boomer and Sean Peyton. And then we had a whole crowd. Sometimes when you're that nervous in front of big celebrity athletes that you've looked up to your whole life or like you've watched on TV, it doesn't feel like a real scenario. And today, I hadn't taken a swing all day.

I'm not making excuses, but I was very stiff. And I felt like the club was not in my hand. That's how nervous I was. I felt like I wasn't holding a golf club. I looked down at the ball and I'm like, I don't know if I know how to do this anymore. And I chunked it. I chunked right into the water.

He belly laughed, but I did get my redemption. You did. And that'll all come out on the video we're going to put out. I mean, these guys, Fasoli and Avery followed him all day. We have four hours worth of golf footage of Steph Curry today on the golf course at a Barstow Classic. That's going to just turn into a YouTube video. that's fucking insane. That just popped out of nowhere.

We have a good YouTube page, I would say. We go all to these amazing places. We play against all these pros. You know, we do all these videos. And then we're just going to add Steph Curry playing in the Barso Classic. We had almost every single one of his shots. Right. And because I think the original or what we told him or what somebody told him was like,

we'll, um, we'll hit you for the first hole, leave you alone, maybe meet you as you go to the back and like it won't be that intrusive or invasive. and he, and then when he got here, he was like, I don't care. I'm Steph Curry, you guys can film me all you want. Which we didn't know. We didn't know if that was going to be kosher. We didn't know if that, you know, whatever. We didn't follow him for a couple holes.

And then they, like, duck hooked one into the trees. And, like, they made a bogey and they, like, weren't playing well. And then we met up with them two holes later. And Jay Rich and Steph were like, where were you guys? And then we were on the tea with them. And they made a birdie. And they're like, yeah, like, they needed, like, us around. It was crazy.

I don't know what the fuck happened out there today. Yeah, it was cool. we um so we obviously wanted to get him for the podcast afterwards you know we were trying to um we were trying to shake and bake it was a sad scene we had all set up thing and he kind of me and trend set up fucking chairs we went and got chairs we set up all these mics we were ready and then you know it's on us we shouldn't have set up over here honestly we put it way too much like in the mix and like guys were coming over taking pictures with them and then he was done it was like it was way too much of it he already did all that stuff all day long for five hours at the end he's

like, you know what, I'm so close to my car, I can just go there and leave. We probably should have done, like, right off his last hole or something. We're going to get Steph Curry in the future. There's no doubt about it. Steph Curry's like a for play guy. Yep. Big day. He's a huge golf guy.

I might have to take a shit, guys. Someone shit their pants today. Someone shit their pants today. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What do you mean? Right before he teed off a guy. Just shit his pants.

I don't know. He poop fucking underwear. Without taking him off. Yeah, he said there's, he just shit his pants. He said there's underwear somewhere on the eighth hole. He said that at one point, you were flying. I'm not shit my pants, but I have shit on a golf course. He shit his pants.

He said right before he teed off, right before the shotgun start, he shit his pants. And he was like, but then he said he birdied the three first three holes. So it's like maybe you shoot your pants every time. What a tournament this is. He says that there's Jeff Curry and a guy's shitting his pants on the eighth hole. Get it all out here. He says of us filming Steph on one of the holes into the left. It's him throwing his underwear in the preserve.

God, I hope we have that. Wow. You get it all out here. Wow. A little bit everything. You get it all. What a brand. I'm feeling a little rumble.

I had a casadilla that's not sitting well. Where'd you get a cassadilla? Over there. It had some bell peppers and some nice cheese. But the ball. Mulligans, I think it's cold. Yeah, there's like a walk-up on the other side. I think if I farted right now, I would ship my pants.

It's one of those. I can't. You would be sharded. I'll say we had a... Last night I met a couple buddies, Steve John and my boy Anthony, Guido, out here, and Steve's son, Kyle, and they were the ones that played with Steph and Jay Rich. But, man, we're looking at this Ritz that they got here.

and that little fire pit patio scene out there at night up here is what the good parts of California are all about. You can hear the waves crashing. You could kind of see like the moon glistening off the Pacific Ocean. It was brisk. It was like 50 degrees and a little windy, but you had a fire pit. I mean, I don't know that the Ritz needs like our promotion or anything. Actually, you've been not tagging your posting because I'm like, I mean, it's the Ritz. My review of the Ritz is it's really nice.

It's the Ritz. Like that's what you say about it. Sometimes if you're staying in a shitty hotel, well, it's not the Ritz. Right. This one is. This has to be one of the best properties you can possibly have on a lot. Right? When you're driving up the 18th hole of the ocean course at Half Moon Bay, you're looking at the Ritz.

It's on a fucking hill that's just with crashing waves on a cliff. You're like, how'd they even get a fucking hotel up there? It's an amazing spot. Yes, sitting out there with the waves crashing. I don't know if you can experience Earth better. It's public too, right? Speaking of you sitting down on something Someone sent me

A link to a video that said that we Technically Because Adams at the most Smallest level They they like don't connect They repel each other That we're actually never touching anything No you're never

We've never touched each other Even if we tap up we're not touching each other At the smallest level Right now I'm not touching Trent I'm just what's the word Manusia Minute Micro level

miniscule minuscule molecular molecular molecular even at the molecular level we're not touching each other

that's crazy to me think about that you've yeah yeah I mean you've never touched the ground which is fucking impossible because I'm doing it no you're not

we're floating yeah basically we also have more mind blowing stuff coming up in the rest of this podcast we've got a commercial airline pilot coming on the podcast. He's standing right behind the camera. He played the Barstle Classic. Yeah, we're going to get to him and we

peppered him the questions earlier. We're like, we should record this. I just thought that would be interesting to talk to a fucking guy that flies like the public. Well, I flew from Phoenix to Vegas a couple weeks ago when we were there for the classic. And in front of us, we flew this little airline, JSX, which I've talked about a couple times. In front of us was a pilot for JSX. I mentioned it to that guy.

Yeah, we were chatting with him as the plane was landing. He was essentially in real time narrating why things were happening the way they were happening. And there was like a little jolt in the plane. And he's like, oh, one of the landing gear came down before the other. That's all that was. Don't worry about it, folks. And then we were like, oh, okay, that was pretty comforting. And then we did like a hard bank to the right. And he's like, yep, what happens here is you get the wind currents that come over the buildings, which of the Las Vegas strip as you're landing. So it's almost like a wave, like a, a, a, a wave, an inconsistent wave

of wind that comes through. So the plane might bank at the last second as it's coming in because of that. And then that was like exactly what happened. And his name was Dan from JSA. And he just, he was fascinating. Are they any of take the trophy? Is that what you guys were waiting for the table? Oh, you got to take the trophy. You can take the trophy. You can take the trophy.

It's sitting right behind us. It's got to make it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You guys, you got to make it to Washington. No, you're all good. No. These guys are really hard working crew that just got to get this.

We just talked about a guy shitting his pants for five minutes. Yeah, we don't. It doesn't matter. It's not. It's not a super professional operation. Look how fast they are, dude. That trophy is already in Washington. It's gone.

That's right. That thing is gone. I'm going to shit my fucking pants. They do that 25 times. You got to go shit, go shit. Me and Trent did this goddamn podcast for two years together. What's happening here? What can talk about?

I'm going to do an ad read real quick. And then we're going to get to, uh, then maybe we get to a commercial pilot. Do you guys have a favorite airline? I just talked about coming on tits. I don't know if you want to be associated with us. I do have a favorite airline. Me too.

Delta. Delta is my favorite by far. Yeah. I have a Delta card. I'm a platinum member. I'm, uh, I'm a silver member. Silver medal. Platinum's legit.

You have a least favorite? Close to diamond. Um, yes. American. American sucks. I don't like the anxiety that comes with a Southwest flight. Just give me my number. We'll also blur his face.

He looks rattled right now. We'll blur his face out if he wants us. That's really funny. We'll say his first thing. Actually, I had a bad thing with American in 2018 ever since they've kind of gotten gone up in my book if we're being honest with each other. Shopify.

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The fuck just happened. You brought it up like it was a fact nobody knew and then yelled at me when I didn't know it. else know that? Wow. Everybody's confused. They're like, what's this guy even talking about? Eric and Ardini just texted us. Steph Curry?

What the fuck? I mean, it's a mind-blowing name to show up to a Barstool event. For sure. He's a big name. 44 million followers on the gram. We're talking about... They love him. They love, like, the family, him and his, like, kids are good content.

He covers all bases. Like, like, girls love Steph Curry because of, like, the reality TV aspect of it. Like, he's posting his kids, and they're cute and the whole thing. Yeah. just like got it all kids were like in the trophy weren't they one here was the one kid's there was the one how what's his daughter's name i'm forgetting i'm totally blanking i just said how popular they are she was at um but it was it was years ago now during their their first run of tournament what we're trying to find the name you're like well it was years ago

when i knew it no she what i meant by that is she was is she was at during the press conference she was like walking through with uh she was made it was like her press conference it was very funny that's a good story riley riley how do we not know You heard us puking on ourselves. You had that up there the whole time? You had that all the whole time. What an asshole? Rangers fan.

When's Chicklet's going to do something for us? I don't know. We go Chicklet's Cup. We got Steph Curry's promoting their fucking Pink Whitney. We can't get those guys of playing one bar so classic. That's such a good point. It's crazy. Whitney loves Caldally.

What the fuck are you doing? Grennelly texts me. You send a nice text. We were in the office. Yeah, but still, like that's fucking bullshit. We got fucking Steph Curry to promote your fucking drink. And we do. You know what I'm doing for Chicklet's Cup?

It's fucking crazy. I love Chicklet's cup, by the way. It's a great time. I love playing roller hockey, and they put it out an amazing event. I don't know if teams are still even available for that thing. It's probably sold out. Sold out like a motherfucker. So if you didn't get in, you're out.

But Buffalo, we're coming. It's just like, hey, wait, why don't you play us in a fucking golf match once in a while? I just wanted to, every year I texted him to come playing the classic and he never wants to. We were just in the office. It's a shame. I just played with him. He's a good. I mean, Whitney is my favorite person.

I fucking love those guys. We interviewed Matthew Fitzpatrick last week, and Biz was in the office, and he was buzzing. We were hugging and we were shaking hands. This is an ideas guy. Biz is an ideas guy. What if we all do like a huge tournament leading up to the big games? Like, all right, days. We try to this every year.

No one wants to do it. We love the whole crew. I'm just kidding. We love chicklets. But maybe, you know, if they get like, they could get Connor McDavid to be drinking a transition. Wayne Gretzky is a golfer. Get him on the pot.

That's a big ask. I think there's a chance we can get Wayne Gretzky on the pot. Let's do it. I really do. I want to congratulate my close and personal friend, Devon Taves, on his Stanley Cup victory. Me too. Congratulations, Thubon.

Just the greatest guy. He finally went to a great organization. Oh, fuck off. That knows how to win. Could a one with the Islanders if you stayed if we didn't trade him. A bag of pucks. Just a bag of pucks. Two draft picks.

Just two second rounders for Devon Taves. Just maybe the best defensive pairing in the league, him and Cal McCar. Unbelievable. The way that they moved, the way that they grew, it's insane. The fact that Devon Taves is a Stanley Cup champion, he's going to put his son in the cup. The whole thing, just like this ride they're going to go on. I love him.

I love his wife I love his family I love everything about Devon Taves He's a good guy Family guy Just genuine person And the fact that that guy's getting

That success is insane This is a solid tire pumping And the hockey world likes to say But he's just Dude I was on the flight Coming out here And I watched him fucking lift the cup And I started tearing up

I'm like That guy just won He did the thing man Quinnipeak University Quinnipak Yep Or is it Quinnipiac Myer

They kind of mumble through Quintipiac University the whole thing, dude, he's just grinding his way out here, and he fucking did it. What is he from? He's from, BC. He's from BC. Is it Abbotsford, British Columbia?

Does that make sense? Sure. We'll go with it. Whatever. Just shout out to him, man. Shout out to Devon Taze. I'm just so happy for him. We DM sometimes.

I don't think I've ever met him, but we like each other's tweets, and the last thing we DMed about was Schitt's Creek. Yeah. We were talking about binging Schitt's Creek. He's just a good guy. He is a good guy. I wore that turtleneck to his wedding And it was just I've never stopped thinking about it

Just should have wore a collar Should just wore a collar Congrats Devon I think we're gonna try to do a Scramble against the abs Yep The champions versus the Fourplay guys

We're not calling him champions We're calling the abs They are champions But they are champions Fuck there's So then it's I think that it sets us up for failure If it's the champions against like

Fourplay God they are champions though They are though They're kind of like By the book They're champions They're fucking good golfers too Devante's nasty little right to left swooper.

The thing comes in sideways. Hits the ball far. All right. We got a lot to talk about, too, on the golf front in terms of topics. Live golf. A couple people left. And then we got, we got to get into our upcoming itinerary here. We got a lot.

We got a lot coming up. Can we bring it on the pilot? So we're going to get to all that. We got to get the pilot first. Are you getting cold feet? Are you good? All right. He's good.

So the pilot hasn't been turned off by us just bashing maybe his parent airline, his employer. Yeah. Did we? I don't know if we did. No. What's the pilot's name? We'll give you a first name. Come on over.

Austin. Austin, get on over here. Austin, you want to sit in the middle? Yeah. Sit down. Austin. Come on over it. Fly on in there.

See, that's good. I'm very excited about this. I mean, we talk about a lot of random shit on here. And flying is definitely one of them. So to finally get some concrete answers is going to be nice. Welcome to the show, Austin. Austin. Who do you actually?

work for? We can blur it out if you don't want it. I work for a company called so it's a regional airline. Okay. But we fly for like Delta United American and Alaska. Oh, wow. Okay. I like Alaska. Did you play last year?

I did. Were you the guy that was talking about your Alaska Airlines pilot? No. Okay, all right. Never mind. So then we've had an Alaska Airlines guy played too. Wow. We just got a lot of pilots in this. We also have Jack, who's a Navy pilot, who played

in the San Diego stop, who qualified this year. So we've had a lot of pilots I just saw Top Gun Maverick two nights ago I'm jacked up about pilots right now That movie by the way Just got made a billion dollars at the box office Still haven't seen it

It is you should We're not allowed to use this word that much It's unbelievable how good that movie is And Austin said 90% true Yeah most of the flying is very real And was actually done And their actual like F16 or F18 Whatever they were

Yeah they got like special permission from the Navy to fly The maneuvers these guys are for flying in are fucking out out of this world you actually like want to stand up and scream when they're flying these planes shout to Tom Cruise absolute lunatic gonna die one day doing one of these scienceology thing too yeah he's a lunatic but I'm excited to talk to you I'm jacked up about pilots

I was clapping at the end of the movie I just loved everything about it so let's let's start simple and small and I asked you this before so you'll be ready for it yeah turbulence should I ever be worried about it or are you guys ever worried about turbulence never once I think I said to you earlier the only thing we're worried ever once Never once.

Turbulence, you should never be worried about. You're up in the sky on a giant death tube going 500 miles an hour. Things shaking like fucking a popcorn machine. And you're like, no problem. What? But that's why it's good to have him on because we just test him. We're like, this thing's going down now. And Austin's up there like just, you have a bit.

I'm buying the internet trying to text my family. I love you. All right. No. Turbulance is fine. Turbulance is fine. Everything's fine. Okay.

Yeah. The only thing we're worried about is, like I said earlier, we have to turn the seatbelts on and make an announcement. Let you guys know. Sit down. You're not worried about turbulence. You're worried about like a little bit of stage fright to be like, hey, you guys got to put your seatbelts on. It's funny, too, because we make those announcements and we know that 90% of people aren't listening. So we're like so nervous.

And we have noise cancelling things on. And nobody's listening. We're trying to cancel the chance of hearing you say anything. All right. So I wanted to get the turbulence thing out of the way. Where do you guys want to go next? Also, do you, I've got a couple questions for you. Number one, is it kind of like when you're driving a car and like when you're the driver, you don't feel the bumps in

like the motion sickness as much as you are when you're in the back seat. Like, do you guys not feel the turbulence as much because you got your hands on the wheel? It's less because we have the hands on the wheel and more, the front of the plane is just a little more stable, so the back of the plane's a little, it's getting the bumps a little bit more. Okay. What's the next, this next question is, with all respect, all due respect. Are the airline seat, are the pilot seats a little tight for you?

No. Okay. No. I didn't know if you were like one of the, like, like, I just didn't know. I'm a big dude. Yeah. It's fine. I didn't know if that had anything to do.

I've looked in there before. We all have looked in there before. It's a tight fucking capital point of this. I don't understand this point. He's called me. I don't think. I'm asking if it makes it harder to fucking, like, I mean, you're looking at me. Your buddy's looking at you.

It's fucking tight in there. Our seats are so tight, dude. Like, fucking airline seats. Glennie balls complains about it literally every single day. I don't like sitting in the back either, but up front I can move around. So it's fucking spacious up there. I never do that. Of all the questions I thought we were going to ask, I didn't see that.

I looked in the, I looked in the chair back. I didn't see that. I looked in there the other day, and I'm like, have you ever looked in there where it's like all the buttons are coming right over their head? They have to squeeze in there. I don't even know how you guys get in there. It's fucking insane. Some of them are harder to get into than, like, actually sit in. All right.

It's an answer. Jesus. The buttons. We just talked about all the buttons. Yeah. For the average person, you walk on the plane, you look to the left, see all the buttons. It's overwhelming. What percentage of those buttons do you know what they do?

Love it. I know what all of them do. I touch maybe 20% of them. Okay. Yeah. And most of the time, a lot of the buttons, like, you don't touch unless, like, a checklist or something tells you to. Okay. So if I went in there and I just picked a random 10 buttons, random list, you would know what every single one does that I thought.

Really awesome. Yeah. That's a lot of buttons, too. I mean, well, like, so I just learned a new plane. I just got done with training. That's like a billion hours of simulator, right? I spent the last two months in Denver and St. Louis learning a new plane. It's like you do a lot of training.

So the training is exhausted. Yeah, it's a lot. You were saying a lot of it's like doomsday training, right? Yeah, most of the same stuff. This guy, Dan, the JSX pilot was telling me, he's like, dude, when we do the simulated training, he's like every time, like, somebody has a heart attack, the engine blows up, all that. He's like, when we actually fly, nothing happens. Yeah, that's, uh, yeah, that's very true. Who has a heart attack?

No, they have, like, if a passenger has an heart attack. All right, so here's the issue, like, pressure's gone down. And then now you have a passenger at hard attack. What do you do? And that's, like, what they do for thousands of hours of training? And when they actually fly, it's like fucking Susie's baby's crying. Everything's fine. Exactly.

Yeah, that's very true. Like, all of our training is, like, worst case scenario. And then you go, like, your first flight, like, actually out on the line. So, fun fact, first time anyone flies a jet with passengers in the back, that's the first time they've ever flown that plane. We were making real progress, awesome. We were making real progress. I mean, they have someone sitting next to them. But, like, the first time they've learned.

learn like a new jet or something. The first time they actually fly the plane outside of the simulator, there's passengers in the back. Is it true that the people that work on the plane? We've heard a rumor that the people that work on the plane have to fly it before it goes out to the public? No, no. What we had heard is that the people who check the plane and work on it would be responsible, were that plane to go down. They would be liable for the deaths. Yeah, if they did something wrong, they would be liable.

It would be kind of like the same. Like if a car mechanic messed up your car and that's why you crashed. They don't have to fly on it. No, there used to be, I don't know if they still do that. There used to be like a rumor would be like, you had to go on it. Like they'd have to go on it and be like, so it's good enough to fly. Right. I don't want to go on it.

Yes. But I don't know if they, I don't think they still do that. I'd like that. Here's my other question for you is if you're in there and something happens with your co-pilot, is there training for that? Like, what if like your co-pilot goes rogue? Are you ready to like go, like, I don't know, like go hands? Do you have to be, like, trained in that? Like, is that something that we're not all thinking about?

No, it's a, it's a fair, it's a fair question. there, I'm trying to answer this without, there are some programs out there that do train you to deal with those situations. You can Google them if you want, I'm not going to talk about that. Do you know all of your co-pilots like on a pretty personal level? No, most of the time, I fly with a guy for four days and I don't see him again for the other three years.

So I wouldn't want to know. See, I don't because like I want you to, like you said, what if that guy's a terrorist? That's what we're thinking, right? Like, what if the guy gets brainwashed, he gets changed, it becomes a terrorist. Yeah, or just like, yeah. Like loses his mind when you have.

Yeah, whatever. Suic. He wants to take everybody down. Just like I'm always thinking, all right, I had this, I had this thing a couple months ago I said on the podcast. Everyone that says, oh, have a safe flight. Like, I can't do anything. It's the two guys that are women that are in that cockpit that I think is very tight in there. It's insane that you guys get in there.

It's crazy to me. It's crazy to me. It's fucking, it's crazy to me that, like, we just trust them. So it must be fucking crazy for you. You're getting in there. And you're like, all right, it's our time. Like, we are in charge here. You better make sure nothing goes wrong.

Yeah, I mean, to be honest, like most of the time, when I first started flying at the airline, I was a little more nervous about it. So, like, I'd show up a little early and I was like, and then now he show up like 35 minutes prior to a flight. That's the first time I'm going to be it. Yeah. You ever been like, you ever just get stuck in traffic and you're just late to fly your plane? Yeah, a couple times, actually. So everybody's just away for you? Yeah, pretty much.

Do you ever? Well, most of the time, most of the time what I'll do is I'll tell, I'll send an email or like a text to whoever I'm flying with. and just be like, hey, I'm going to be there 10 minutes prior, and they'll get everything set up so we can leave on time. Can you take a shit in the middle of a flight if you have to? You guys have your own bathroom? We do not. We have to come out.

Sometimes if you're on a flight, you'll see they'll bring the carts. They'll bring the carts out and block the aisle. So the pilots can come out. Yeah, has anybody ever said, get back in there. Get back in there. No. What's going on in there? You do always get the, you do always get the, how do you fly the thing from back here, Joe?

Oh, brutal. What's your least favorite pilot joke that people use on you? Pilot joke? Is it that one? That one's probably the least favorite. My least favorite thing is when people ask me where baggage claims at. That's the most frustrating thing ever. There's giant signs ever.

There's giant signs every airport. So, Austin and I were talking during the putting contest before we turn the mics on. And we want to return to the days when pilots are looked upon in society as like athletes like a Steph Curry superstars. Catch me if you can do. That would be nice. Leonardo Caprio. No, Jr. Don't ask Austin or the pilots wear baggage claimants. We need to upgrade your outfits is what we need to do.

You got to be wearing the white suits again. You got to be wearing these crazy caps. Like, you can't be looking like every other guy who's dead. Delta still does. They wear the suit jacket and the hat at all times. Oh, they do? Yeah. They wear their good air line.

How do we get you in with Delta? The double breasted jacket, and I'm trying. Let's get you interview with Delta. I'm trying. My best. What are any Delta like executives out of? My nonstop try. Let's get Austin on the, I mean, we might have to, they might not know who he is.

We might have to just blur out everything that is. Scariest thing it's happened while you're in control of the aircraft. At an airline or just ever, ever? There was this plane. Have you all seen the movie American Made with Tom Cruise? Where he ran the drugs to Columbia and back? So there's a movie. Yes, yes, I have.

Great movie. So one of the planes in that movie. Crazy movie. I used to fly that plane that was in the movie. And it... The model you're saying? Not the actual plane? No, the actual plane that was in the movie.

Come on. They filmed that in my... hometown. So the actual plane that was in the movie is. Oh, interesting cat you are. Yeah. But it's engine, the right engine on it.

If you would turn it off. Like, sometimes for training, when you're training, you'd have to turn it off and flight. It wouldn't restart. And so that was, so that was probably, yeah. But we had another, we had, it was two engines. So it was. We have another.

But that was, that was probably the most, like, nerve racked I've ever been. What were you thinking that whole, like, did you start to go down, like, slowly? It'll still, there's like, an altitude at which it'll still fly at. Okay. I'm not going to, yeah. Have you always been fascinated by flight?

Like, is that, like, when you were growing up, were you like, oh, I want to be a pilot? Or was it just another job? Yeah, so when I was, like, four or five, me and my sister took a flight by ourselves. Like, our parents sent us, like, by ourselves. And that was probably, I got to, I got a tour. I was four. My sister was, like nine. You got an airplane by yourself?

Yeah, we got on. Yeah, we got on one. Because we were moving. Home alone situation. Yeah, we were moving, and they sent us. But from that point on, I was pretty fascinated by airplanes. Really? Yeah, I wanted to be pilot. You were five?

Yeah, I did not know, though, that I didn't know how to become a pilot. I thought you had to be, like, rich or going to the military or something like that. Military, I feel like a big feeder system, right? Military, that's where most people go. And you were saying that you went to school for it and that a lot of universities actually have a pilot program. I went to a four-year school, Middle Tennessee State, go Blue Raiders. Blue Raiders? Yeah.

And they had a run. What was that? And basketball? Yeah. Like, 2015, maybe. Yeah, something like that. I remember that. Okay.

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Really important one. This happened to me yesterday on a flight. On the runway. I think we're taxiing out. We're in line. There's a line that the pilot said we're like fourth in line. Yep. And this will go into a more broader question. Phones. The use of phones in my seat.

Drives me crazy. I answered the phone while we were like fourth in line. And someone called me, I'm getting a wall spackled in my house, and I needed to answer it. I answer it. Flight attendant comes running up and goes, that's a huge no-no. That's what she said to me. That's a huge no-no. That's how everyone should talk to before.

I fucking. I fucking, dude, I was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. And I put my phone to my pocket. I'm like, turn red. But I'm so sorry. She goes, you need to know better than that. I'm thinking to myself, like, I almost at one point, at one point, I want to be like, well, now, if it's that important, take my phone on entry.

I'm seeing right through these rules Like well So let them let them answer Use of phones on planes Does it make any difference of what the hell's going on on that plane Not really Thank you Well that's right because if it were that important

Like they're just like please turn on airplane mode Some people don't If people if the whole plane didn't turn on airplane mode And that made the plane go down They would not let us out of course Or they would have a thing that would just like Nuke our phone so that you can't get any service out of it You can only get Wi-Fi and then that's it

Like if they're like we can't have one person Answer this phone Or else we lose comments Like, that's insane. So in, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is bullshit. But in her defense, it is a regulation that she has to. Okay. She's not, I totally get that.

But the rule, the root of the rule is wrong. Like, it's not going to mess up the communications or the, it's not going to make the point. I was thinking, she made me think that in the middle of that phone call with Javier who was spacking my wall. I was going to hear the tower. Like that was like, all right, you guys are ready. You're on third. I'm like, I thought I was going to tap in. Yeah.

No. No, it's not. It's nothing. Okay. Good. I don't remember I think they made the rule just like because like terrorists wouldn't like be on their phones like see who was using their phones and whatnot but I don't know why the rule's still in place okay I'll be honest all right no that's good um have you uh um when you're flying have you ever been scared scared scared um

not really scared most of the time like we train so much on like the worst possible things that never happened that like the things that actually do happen are no big deal who's the guy laying in the plane in the Hudson Sully?

Yeah could you do that I would like to think that in a pinch I could What do you hit a flock of geese? What timing? My flight just got canceled tonight Oh wow Awesome, what can you do about that? Yeah, we're canceled.

Who was it? 6.05 flight tomorrow. Was it Delta? Yeah. If they'd hire me, they probably would have staff. Sorry, but your itiner is changed. The reason I'm not excited about that. Yeah, you are.

I don't want a canceled flight to ever happen. Frankie and I have a very long-running discussion about red eyes versus not doing red eyes. I am not a red-eye guy. I think my body needs a rhythm. I think I have to go to bed at night, wake up in the morning. This guy loves taking red eyes so we can get back. So now he's just been forced in the situation that he has to do what I do. That's the reason why I'm sort of happy.

I just like to get back the next day because you're already home while he's flying. It doesn't matter. That is true. You do get back earlier, but like you get no sleep. What's your schedule like? What do you guys do? You like firemen? You're on a lot and then off or you?

So we get to bid every month. Bid? Yeah. So like it's based on seniority. So like the longer you've been at the company, the better your schedule gets. That's interesting. That's cool. But most of the time it's like three.

three, four days on, then three, four days off. And they're like, do you, like, sleep in a lot of different spots or you usually return home? No, it's almost on all, like, the three days, like, the two overnights, you're out at, like, whatever hotel, wherever you're at. You just wake up and just back at it. Yep. You're just fucking flying. Do they give you a pretty, I'm sorry to cut you off. Do they give you a pretty sweet deal on, like, if you just want to go somewhere, you're not flying the plane, but is it like they give you pretty good deals?

Yeah, so I get to, I can fly standby on anyone for free. that's amazing. Yeah. So tomorrow I'm just winging it. Yeah. Whatever, whatever flash got in the open sea. Where are you stationed?

I live in Atlanta, but I'm based in Houston. So if somebody like Tiger Woods, for example, were to ask you where you're stationed, that would actually be a very relevant question. Yeah. Wait, you say you're based out of where? I'm based in Houston. Yeah.

I live in Atlanta. Based in Houston and you live in Atlanta. So that means your plane's usually going to return to Houston? Their schedule? Yeah. So, like, at the beginning. of the trip and the end of the trips in Houston, yeah. And then you started to get to Atlanta.

Why isn't in Atlanta? Both of them. I was going to ask. We did not have an Atlanta base. I actually did the last year, so I lived in Dallas and was based in Dallas. And then I moved back home to Atlanta. But it's a lot of pilots do it. It's just we call it commuting, just like you'd commute to work.

Yeah. So because we can fly for free, we just jump on a flight an hour and a half to Houston and I'm at work. How do planes fly generally? air and wings i know how here have you heard this one from captain connor i know what you're gonna say you know oh yeah the hand yeah i thought it'd be more like specific that did it for me that like that like did it for my boys i'm tapping out he's gotta go back he's got he's got to shit his band it's like that's doing so well that this just might be what it is um well i was nervous about him because he's got a weird brain i didn't

know what questions he's gonna ask yeah he never know what you're gonna get with him well his first it was question i the first question was about fat yeah yeah the first question was like i want to I apologize for my friend Frankie for calling you. I don't care. That was crazy. I've never seen such a... What's the hand thing? I find that interesting.

So the hand thing is... This came from Captain Connor. Not a captain because he flies aircraft like you. Captain in the Army. Went to West Point. Great guy. Lies about his scores. I think he's about to shoot on a golf course.

I'm just kidding. He was right about that. But here's what he told me. I was discussing... I don't understand lift and I understand all this science. How is this incredible? incredibly heavy thing, just going to go really fast down that strip and then just fly through the sky like a light bird.

That's insanity. He said to me, he said, when you were a kid and you're driving down the highway, your parents are driving, and you roll the window down and put your arm out the window and you would just raise your fingers just a fraction of an inch, what happens to your hand? And I was like, your hand like lifts up into the air. And he's like, that's how a plane works. And I was like, is that right? That's the simplest, most accurate way of describing.

And he was like, as long as you keep up that velocity, the, you know, based on the aerodynamics of your hand, aka the wings and the way the plane's designed in this situation, as long as those engines don't go out and they continue to thrust and you have those wings, that thing's going to stay in the air. And I was like, oh, my fucking God. That is exactly right. That was all it took for me.

That makes me feel good. Say it. I think about that when a plane takes off because I'm scared a lot. Like, oh, no, just the hand out the window. It will never just not go in the air. Yeah. And that's why, like, if you do happen to lose engines, planes will still glide. Because you still have that shape of the wing.

And it's just, it's slowly losing that momentum, but it still is enough to stay in there. Both engines go out. What happens? I mean, the plane will glide. You just got to find somewhere to put it down. What about, like, a highway or something? What do you do? Highways?

Is that a real thing? Every, like, I heard a ruin of every. In a jet, no. If you had your pick and both engines are gone. Where would you buy, like, a cornfield maybe? An airport. Okay. would be my bit.

That's a fucking good answer. Yeah, that's probably the right answer. You'd be really surprised at how many airports there actually are. Yeah. There are so many airports that are not like the JFKs and stuff. Like, there are hundreds of airports in the New York area. Right. That's a good point.

What about lightning? Are you scared of lightning in terms of flying a plane? Not really. I think, like, statistically, every plane gets struck with lightning once a year or something like that. But it's more... Can you tell? No, not really. Really?

It's not, like... That's crazy. It does do damage, but it doesn't do, like, damage. It doesn't... What the fuck does that? It's not going to take it down. It's not going to take it down or anything. It's kind of damage to like...

More like electrical stuff. A little burn mark on it. A little electric... Burn marks are good. More like hail does more damage. That does a lot of damage. You want to avoid hail. And geese?

Geese are bad. Birds are pretty bad. We try to miss geese. Yeah. All birds and shit. All birds are... All birds are a brand we use, actually. Yeah.

Allbirds. Isn't that shoes? You know what I think... I actually have all birds in the car. You're great. You know what's... What seems to be debilitating to planes is wind. Like, people, like, airports or airlines don't fuck with wind.

Is that a big deal? Yeah, it's mainly when landing and taking off if it's coming from the side. Like, the crosswind is what we call it. So it's like... That's when you see those planes coming inside. Well, and like the... We're talking about golf here. You know, when the wind's coming from right to left, it pushes the ball.

And that's what it's doing to the plane is you're trying to land on a straight runway. So you don't really want it to be pushed. Definitely not. It's not. Jesus. I appreciate you breaking that down in our language. That was nice. This guy knows how a podcast.

You really spoke to us. We might just have to leave Frankie off forever. And now it's just the Austin Riggs and Trencho. Jobs accepted. Man, I find flight way, way scarier than you seem to find flight. No, but that's why you have a guy like this on because it quells the fear of a lot of people. Like, I already feel better about it. Now, I used to be really scared of flying.

Like my palms would sweat like crazy And I just wouldn't be able to handle Now we fly so much Arms are heavy Now spaghetti Now my arm Now my arms Now um

Can't feel his arms all time Now that I've flown more I have more comfortable And then talking to a guy like you It makes it Doesn't seem that scary Like this is kind of a fucked up Question I guess

But like when was the last time Like a one really went down How recently? There was a I think there was a plane in China They went down a few months ago maybe, but it's not the U.S. It came out as one of those.

It doesn't happen in the U.S. very often. The last one in the U.S. was a couple years ago and there's a cargo plane. Went down in just south of Houston. Do you like, when that happens, do you guys like study it? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

Yeah, my continuous. So every year we go back, we call it CQ, it's continuous qualification. You guys are like a Tesla that gets like updates every day? Every year. Every year. Every year so we go back. And this year, we go back.

we talked about the... So it takes like a year or so for the investigation to go out. They study all the stuff that went down. And we studied the one that went down in the... And the the black box is real? Yeah. Absolutely. It's an orange box, right? Yeah, it is an orange box. And that just has like all the data. What exactly

does that... It's orange? Yeah, so they can find it easier. What um... Why fuck they called it? It's a really good question. It might have used to be black or something. What? Changed the color. Like, we can't find these things. Do you guys like know about that extensively? Like, what sort of data? It gathers?

Yes. Yes. So, and we get the, like, the airlines get those back even on, like, non-crashes. Okay. So, like, they can tell if you were. Yeah. So, like, if you were, like, hoping to be on a lot of non-crashes flights. Yeah.

If you were too high on an approach or, like, too fast. Oh, so it's kind of like, it kind of like keeps the unchecked a little bit. Yeah, it does. Like, so if you, if you were too high and you continue to do the landing and you aren't supposed to, like, it'll tell you. Wow. The company will get an email and be like, hey, you were, you shouldn't have done this. That's super interesting. Has it happened to you before us?

No, it has not yet. Hopefully it doesn't happen. How long have you been doing it? About three years. Cool. Three years, I just upgraded a captain. I'll be in charge of one of your friends, maybe. That'd be great. Do you fly less as a captain or do you...

No, probably more. More, more. Yeah, there's less of us out there. So you're the captain, and there's a co-pilot? Yeah, Captain First Officer. First officer. It's the same thing. And the captain is doing...

Who pushes the thing forward? Both either, either one. Together. Whoever's leg it is. we alternate each flight so like if uh um if i if it's we're doing houston to dallas and then dallas to houston the captain will fly one leg first officer will fly the next light oh okay the only difference is uh essentially like do you is it's a lot to push the thing forward yeah yeah yeah and the plane you can hear the feel the engines rev and it just takes off it is it's got to be great it's

always it's always there's uh there's not a steering wheel up there is there no so it's it's like a control wheel it's called a yoke that you use in the air. And then there's a, we call it a tiller that controls the wheel on the ground to help you drive around on the ground. So when the plane starts banking to the left, are you typing in like coordinates or are you actually turning?

If the autopilot's on, you're just telling it where to go. And then it doesn't. Or it's following a flight plan that you've already put up there. You're not up there. You're not up there. Like, I think this feels right. I'm turning left and up. I know a shortcut. Typically, typically we hand fly from the ground up to about

20,000 feet is hand flown and then the autopilot comes on most of the time until Oh, so some of those early turns are you guys. Are us, yeah. You're just, you're just, Austin has the wheel. Yeah. Oh, that's got to be fun. This could be a sensitive question, but do you think there will ever come a day where pilots are obsolete where planes will just fly themselves?

I think that they will try to make. Called drones, Trent? Yeah. I think they will try and make that a thing, but I don't think that it'll happen. Okay. I hope it doesn't happen. Plains are all computers. So if, like, think about how many times your computer just, like, doesn't work for some reason. Constant.

True. Somebody could hack a plane and see you later. So there always has to be at least one person up there for that. Okay. In my opinion, we'll see. Congress, don't, don't allow that to happen. They would have to pass some sort of, like, autopilot robot law? Well, I think a lot of the cargo companies, like FedEx and stuff, are trying to make it one pilot.

That's the robot for my robot. Sonny. Sonny? The one that goes, he has like feelings and stuff. Yeah. He's like, what does he say?

He's like, can you draw a painting? Can you put together a symphony? He says, can you? And Will Smith's like, fuck you, Sonny.

Fuck you, dude. That is a great line. What a moment from that movie. I haven't seen a movie in years. That's a really good movie. We got to talk about curve real quick, right?

You're doing all right, Austin? I'm doing great. I think you've been crushing this, by the way. This is my favorite interview I've ever done me. It's interesting stuff.

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I got a text from Frankie Burley that just says, I'm in a bad place. So we might not see him again. Who knows? He got, like, food poisoning or something? He might have. I don't know. I'm trying to think if I've got any more pilot questions. I think you've covered a lot with us.

Do you have any aviation ambitions? I mean, I'll work for any of the three big three, like Americans. DELT United. That's the prize, is to work for one of the big three. I mean, I think the ultimate, a lot of people love FedEx. FedEx is probably the highest-paying airline out there. You were saying that an airline pilot is the second high-paid profession in the country? Yeah, I believe recently we became like the second highest-paid profession.

You guys deserve it. If we're paying anybody, it's these guys. Look, I took 92 flights last year. I appreciate you guys. You guys mean a lot. You, I, Jesus, take the week. I do that all the time. He's just running out.

Here comes Frank. Here comes, really. Here's a stupid question. Could you fly a helicopter if you had to? No. Okay. Really? I actually want to learn to fly helicopter, but it's...

Are those more dangerous, it feels like? I think so. They don't make sense to me. Me neither. Like, how do they fly? I agree with you. I mean, if you're asked that question, I have no idea. I would like to learn to fly a helicopter.

Hey, guys. How'd that go? There's a battle in there. I read your text on here. You just said you're in a bad place, but now you're out here. There's one of those where, like, I thought I thought I could have sat there forever because you just don't like you don't feel like when's it done. You're like when's it done?

And sometimes you just got to just like end it. You know what I'm talking about? You just got to fucking just like it's over. I ain't sitting here anymore. I'm going to get it done. Yeah. Clean myself up and we're just going to go. I think it's going to be okay.

And then 30 minutes later you're back in there. Yeah. I was you said, do you think is it what are the, it's not a hundred percent and a half an hour. Yeah, yeah. It's not 100 percent that you won't leave the show again. It wasn't a goodbye. I was to see you later. What have we've been talking about?

A lot of pile of stuff. Do you have any questions for us? Oh, questions for you guys. Frankie, we're talking helicopters. Trying to ask him he thought he could fly a helicopter if you really had to. He said absolutely not. Dude, helicopters are insane. Yeah, they don't make sense.

I'm not a big fan of helicopters. I feel a lot more turbulent. It is kind of cool that they can land wherever they want to and take off wherever they want to. Yeah, it's definitely cool, but that inherently I think is more dangerous. Isn't it crazy that, like, I've always thought, like, all right, the propellers go, they're whipping, and that thing's just grounded. And then, what, it just, it just, like, it just, like, um, it just like, um, it just like, um, the angle of it just changes and then it just flies. Well, it's the, you missed, you missed his hand,

you missed his hand description, but that's all that it does is they take it, the hand from flat and just kind of raise it up. That's it? Yeah, and it starts lifting up. I feel like those things go down. I also am always amazed people that just run underneath it while the things are whipping so fast. Crazy. It feels like, I mean, I don't know.

It's got to be the biggest fan in the world. Yeah, it's like scary out there. Scary for me. Choppers, I don't know. I don't know about choppers. Get to the chopper Yeah No something I never really realized

Until recently I mean the airlines have been So crazy So many delays So many cancellations My flight got canceled I think I'm pivoting to an 830 Tonight?

Yeah You mean just booking you know Yeah pivoting What I never really thought about Was like all right If we're like on the tarmac And like or we're in taxiing And we're like in this line

And you're like Fuck like every update the pilot gives me It's like another worse one Like that pilot's on the plane too. Like you guys are fucking getting delayed also. Yes. That's brutal. And I never really thought of it that way until recently where I'm like, I was getting so...

Looking at you putting yourself in other people's shoes. Yeah. That's nice. That's new. Well, that's so... Maybe that's new. We don't get... We don't get paid.

We don't get paid. We don't get paid. I like to complain a lot of times, but I never... Like, I've, like, I sat there and I'm like, that's fucking brutal. I'm still mad. That's not going to change. I'm so mad. Steaming mad.

But, like, how, how, how, how, Rattle do you guys get, like, when you're in the cockpit and you're like, fuck. Well, it depends on, it depends on if it's go home day or not. It's like, am I going home or am I not? But, no, we don't get paid until the door's closed and we've started pushing back, essentially. So we, if we're delayed in the airport, we're not happy, just as you are not happy. Oh, so you guys kind of like when you guys are waiting on the runway? Not really.

Because. Why? The clock's ticking. The clock is ticking, but we also, like, want to get to where we're going. Sure, but money's money. Yeah, but we might have 18 hours in Nashville. Okay, I see what you're saying. Like, I'd rather get...

You missed, like, the next one because you waited there. Okay, I'd rather get to the next location. Or we might be going home. Is there ever a scenario where you can, like, kind of give a flight to a guy and he gives you one? Like, hey, man, I got to get back. Like, can I take your flight and you take mine? Yeah, covering shifts? Yeah.

Really? Yeah. That happens a lot. Really? Well, and especially, like... Just get texts, like, yeah, can you fly, like, the 1130 tomorrow? We have, like, on our company website, we have, like, you can post your trips. for trade or pickup or whatever.

Is there like a law that you can't? I don't know. Like when I used to work, I was a security guard and I worked with truckers and like they could only drive for 12 hours and then they got to sit for 12 hours. Is there anything like that with pilots? Yeah, there's a lot of like,

we can only be on duty for a certain amount of time. Having us. Fucked by that rule before. Having us and coming up from the Masters. Yeah. Going from Augustine National to Chicago, right? Yeah, we just sleep on our cocks in the fucking Atlanta airport. They're like, hey, guys, sorry.

This flight's gotten delayed too much. It was like 12 o'clock and like we got to go home. Dude, they were doing it. They were trying to race basically. They were like, if we don't leave in the next like 15 minutes, then we have to get a new crew. And it's one in the morning. There are no other crews. So you guys are screwed.

We actually got off the plane. So they had to, right. We had to get off the plane. And they tried to find another crew. We're like, we mean find another crew. It's 1 o'clock in the morning. I was watching. I was watching bridegmaids last night or two nights ago.

And they say in the plane, you're going to the bathroom? Oh. And she says, and she says that. there's someone on every, there's an air marshal on every flight. Is there any truth to that? No, not on every play. There's not an air marshal on every flight. But just enough to make you not know when there is one. When there is an air marshal, there's always two of them.

Why's that? One sits in first class, once it's in the back. It's just randomized? Yeah, it's just random. A lot of times they go to like high sensitive areas. Like if you're going to D.C., there's going to be a lot of air marshals on those flights. A lot of New York flights, you think? Yeah, probably.

And like, especially if there's like a big event, happening. There'll be more. Well, you know if there is one or just? Yeah, they have to let us know up front. And then they look like, I actually have a friend that is an air marshal. And like they dress to the airline. So like if they're on a Delta flight sitting first class, they're going to dress like someone on Delta sitting first class.

If they're on a spirit flight in the back, they're going to dress. No way. Yeah. Wow. So you're going to dress like trash? I'm not saying that. I just how a spirit passenger would dress. Definitely have the bluer's name.

I like Spirit. I would take their money. I would take their money. I flew Spirit once. It was fine. I never did. I've never done it. Really?

Yeah. Southwest I'm starting to be out on. I used to not be that negative on Southwest, but I'm pretty out. I just think, like, I understand that we're all adults and we can just get in line and all sit down. But I also think we should just be assigned a seat. Like, if I just buy a seat that's more expensive than yours, I just get a better seat and like all that stuff. I don't disagree that. I kind of got.

lucky one time. I definitely booked a flight. I booked like, because you can book different like, um, tears. Tears. You just get better access, but still, like, I was late to get on my plane. And like, I just got lucky and sat in like the second seat on a fucking Southwest flight. And I'm like, I just got lucky today. Like, that's just, like, that's not acceptable. You could have showed up on time.

I could have. Yeah. You would have had a good seat anyway. All right. Just give me my seat. Tell me where to sit. Um, anything else. Awesome. You got any thoughts and live golf? Do you want to fly in space? Do you have any, like, ambitions for that? Like, if they start moving these things above the atmosphere? No.

No. Not really. Space scares you? That just sounds like more training I'd have to do. I don't really want to do that. Do you hate doing the training? It's just a lot. Like, it's like going back to school again.

That's crazy to me that you don't want to just go a little bit further. You're right up there, man. Just a little bit further. I get all the views I want to see. What kind of views do you get up there? Some really good ones. Really? Yeah.

What's the best view you've seen? The Rockies in the winter is really nice. I bet. Like, on a clear day. Is it better than ours? Yeah, absolutely. Because you got the whole... The whole front.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk to me about flying or landing in the fog. No, it doesn't matter. I mean, so we have, like, approaches, is what they call them, and so we can go down as low as, like, 100 feet, technically. So you don't get to see the runway until the last 100 feet. Oh, yeah, I've experienced that. I mean, I can't imagine what that looks like in your fucking...

It's pretty quick. It's pretty quick. Where is it? Ah. Yeah. So you're just trusting the, like, the computer to be like, yeah, this is exactly where we're going to go in the next 100 feet? Well, we're not, so at that point we're not flying a little bit of GPS, but mostly not computers.

Okay. It's like they're like precision radars essentially, I guess you could call them, that you're tracking. Okay. And then they bring you down to 100 feet. And if you don't see it, and you just go back up in the air and try again. Air traffic control. Is that a crazy job? Yeah, I think it's, I think they're one of the most stressful jobs in the country. They have like one of the highest alcoholism rates too.

I can't imagine. Is that right? Yeah. How in contact are you with them through, let's say, like, this flight tonight, San Francisco to JFK, like how many times are you talking to them? Pretty much the entire flight. Probably every 30 minutes of the flight, you're talking to someone or switching over to another controller, the whole way. I'm always amazed the planes don't just crash through each other more often.

Well, we have radar on our planes, like, not really radar, but we can see other planes on our planes, and then they have their radar that can tell us where other planes are as well. It's just still amazed it doesn't happen more often. You guys are going fast. And you're all taking like the same row. Yeah, pretty much. But then they just like, they'll slow us down and speed us up to like keep the spacing in between us. What about that line?

What about that fucking line that you guys say? Hey, we're going to pick up the speed here and get you guys there faster. Like, why don't we just do that all the time? Yeah. Is that a pilot like a hack to like make us all be like, yeah, he's trying hard? No, I mean, sometimes it's like if there's, if everyone's going to Atlanta at the same time, like, you can't go faster. because they can't have a thousand planes show up at the same time. I see, I see.

That's interesting. So they see a pocket and they're like, all right, we're going to gun it here because we can get, like, today we got lucky. Like, there's an opening in, like, 20 minutes earlier that we saw. Or a lot of times there's waves. Like, Atlanta will have a wave from, like, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. But if you're the one that's getting in at 8 a.m., like you're the first one in line, you can go faster. Do airlines pack on longer times for how long the duration of flights going to be just so that they can say that they got you there faster? some of them do

okay like southwest I appreciate South West does that like my flight out here I wish my GPS is on my car would just lie to me and sometimes

sometimes like in the winter the times are built to have to like de-ice or things like that and then if you're today you don't have to de-ice that's like 30 minutes

that yeah like you're gonna get there earlier now because you didn't have to do that is there like a maneuver that you like more than another one like do you love like

climbing up to the left or something like days or something that you feel like that's awesome to you no i like i mean like landings are just fun because we get to do those it's like it's challenging you're fun like it's yeah what about those videos are the ones where they're whipping and they're going

they land sideways have you ever had to like landings are pretty crazy but did you trust the coordinates and shit or what do you no like that like most of the time on landing is just like visual and feel and like it's unacceptable just told me work with idiots dude feel is they're good at what they do though

What about the times when you have to land and then you go back up? Yeah, so most of the time... Have you ever had to do that? Yeah, most time it's just like... Most time you don't touch down when you're doing that. Like, that's kind of rare to actually touch down. But it's either you didn't see the runway or like something happened. Like somebody crossed the runway.

Okay. Like when they weren't supposed to... I did that Miami once. The only time's ever happened to me? It's like going up on a roller coaster and going back down. It's not a good sense. It was pretty scary. And then the pilot for like the next 30 or 45 seconds is like taking off again, you know?

So he wasn't really worried about talking to us. He was just like... flying the plane and making sure we took off against it. We're all there like, didn't we just try to land and we're in the sky now? And then it was like a minute and a half

wait who comes out. He's like, so we're going to try that again. Okay. That shit's fucking scary, man. Jesus. Pretty cool, man. Yeah, that's probably the most nerveing part. Pretty cool job you got.

That is cool. You fly, man. That's really crazy. Like, you're doing the craziest things humans can do. Yeah, probably. You know? Like, that's as like, that's as crazy.

the craziest thing I can think of. And the craziest thing about flight is that it's become incredibly safe. Like, you know what I mean? Very much stuff. It's an incredible thing to do, but it's apparently super duper safe. Way safer than driving a car. Do you think we've gotten too complacent, though? Like, it's the year 2022, and we're still flying similar to the same way we flew with

like the 1940s. Has it gotten that crazy different? Newer planes, better technology in the planes. Shouldn't we be going like two? thousand miles an hour at this point there so there were planes that did like go faster in the speed of sound but they make a lot of noise oh yeah I think I watch a YouTube

video on that they're very expensive it's a noise thing well because like when they break the sound barrier it it like pops and it's they're not as like the long lasting and things like that okay yeah like residents around like where it would pop would like go crazy right because it sounds like a bomb's being dropped everything

it's very loud yeah wow okay everybody go see top gun good movie seen you. I'm going to see it soon. Go see in the movie theater, man. You don't want it to come. You'll walk out. You'll walk out with a mustache. Sony or whatever. You want to watch it in the movie theater. You got nice. That's a big pilot thing, right?

Yeah, this was more for this. For the interview? No, for the classic. Do you wear aviators? Do you wear aviators? I do not. No, no, I don't. I got aviators on right now. You do. They're nice. Shady rays. I'm actually an anti-songlasses guy. I don't know why. I'm kind of with you there.

Yeah, I just don't wear sunglasses. I think it fucks with my, like, depth perception. specifically. Yeah, I got to figure out how to pile sunglasses on top of my glasses or I get prescription sunglasses and I give up. Yeah, at that point.

It's like, what am I doing? Just get LASIC. Maybe. All right. Awesome, this has been a real pleasure, Mike. Thanks for having me. I enjoyed this a lot. Hopefully I was better than Steph Curry.

Dude, think about that. That chair was brought out here for Steph Curry. We got you. That's true. And I honestly think that you're like equally as interesting. I highly doubt that. I mean, we know a lot about Steph Curry. We know he's the best basketball player of all time.

We know he's a fucking champion. We don't know what pilots do. Of all time? He's up there. That's a shooter of all time. He's not the best player of all time. I was trying to give Ray Allen some credit. I thought Trent was just tossing Ray Allen to the fucking to the birds.

No, I'm saying that Steph Curry changed the three-point shooting game. I'm pretty sure guys have done that before. He changed the way that three-point shooting is per seat. Like if you go before, if you went to a gym, people were like, I want to dunk. That's all I want to do. And then when Steph came along, they're like, let's shoot from right before half a court and see what happens. Yeah.

He made that cool. That's what I was saying. Ray Allen's a great shooter. He was the greatest shooter until Steph came along. Yeah. For sure. So sure. Steph's insane. But you were awesome. You really were.

Austin, the pilot. Thank you, man. Thank you, man. Thank you. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. All right, Austin. All right. Thanks, guys. Thanks, pal. Thank you, awesome. I really appreciate it. Safe, you know. Safe flight.

Yeah. Hopefully to see it back at the classic next year. You guys come back. He's just going to fly home. Awesome. Appreciate the time. That was awesome. That was really fun.

I really like that. What a nice guy. Remember bars or radio segments? We used to you, Frankie, and we would just do people call in and tell us about their jobs. Myrtle Beach. We're talking a lot about trips, vacations, golf. Golf capital of the world.

Yeah. Just I can hear the ocean. I can feel the breeze. you know, I'm in a hoodie, but you can wear a t-shirt. It's just, it's summer, baby. And when I think of Myrtle Beach, I think a summer, I think a vacation. I think about golf. I think about having fun with my friends.

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Sorry, what? Yeah. No. Four and a half times. No. I thought they said 100 million at first. So four and a half million. That'd be four and a half million hours.

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That's a lot. Of golf that they've booked. Matt Wolf, the front of the program, we did blind golf with them, not that long ago, is going to the Live Golf Tour. Carlos Ortiz, the number two amateur out of Oklahoma State, number two ranked amateur, Eugenio Chakara, I believe is his name. I think that's right.

All are the most recent commits to live golf. I will say we've gotten quite a few questions about friends of the program going to live golf and what we do or say or think about, Pat Perez comes to mind, Matt Wolf comes to mind, Graham McDowell comes to mind, Abraham Answer. we've had a fun history with come to mind they've all gone to live golf i'm gonna say this um obviously much like phil meccles and said i respect their decision to do whatever they'd like i completely can understand it making your hud's money i'm disappointed um not necessarily in them as people but disappointed they won't be a part of the pga tour disappointed they won't be at the events that i like to watch all time

disappointed that they won't be part of president's cups and rider cups um so again i completely understand it i don't really hold any like ill will towards really anyone because I think I get completely where it's coming from. I might make a different decision myself in the same shoes, and I'm disappointed overall, but I think we've talked at great length about how we understand that somebody puts an offer in front of you for generational type wealth. I think every person on earth can understand taking it.

So that's sort of my stance on it. I think that's well set. Thank you. Yeah, it is well said. Thank you. Yeah, just doesn't change my perception on them as a person at all. At the end of the day, it's business decisions. They have a lot.

The more that we've been in this, world we realize how much bigger it is to be in their position you have so many people they have to worry about and it all falls on your shoulders to like not only just make yourself successful but also the people around you successful and they're paying mortgages and they're putting their kids through college and you've got caddies and managers the list goes on and on and on so um i don't think the decision falls lightly on any of them to like take a stand for morality or whatever i think they're just like i got to do what's best for my family and their families and the people around me and It's just getting a little normalized at this point, which is obviously not the ideal situation.

It's a fucked up situation. The whole thing is just fucking, it's like, I'm just not in any position to say that, like, Abraham Answer or Matthew also a bad guy. So I agree with what you're saying. It's just, yeah. Hopefully they can figure out what's going on with Ryder Cup and stuff because the younger guys that are all moving over there, if we just start losing these guys to live, like, that's going to really be a shame. You know what I mean? Like, if more people start going over there and, like, there's not a lot to play in the Ryder Cup and the president.

President's Cup. That's going to suck. Yeah, it's going to suck that they're in, and for the European team, I mean, there's a bunch of guys. There's by that or, uh, he was Ian Poulter, even though we hate him. A bunch of veteran guys. Yeah. He's not being, I don't know if he was going to be involved anymore because they got their

fucking. They're getting close to being like out, but like, Sergio is the winning. He has the most points collected, I think, in the history of the Rider Cup. Yeah. Him and Lee, they're like stalwarts of the European Rider Cup. So they are at a point, especially after getting their dicks kicked in by the, USA the last time they're probably looking for a sea change but like those are still big names like you can't even be like you couldn't be like a Sergio or Lee Westwood couldn't be

right I'm understanding it right yeah and think about this like Kepka Bryson Dichambeau it's just yeah they're not going to be involved in it's crazy it's it's nuts and think yeah correct because those guys are young there there are studs there are stars uh and three four five hitters think about right I mean DJ do DJ did DJ went five and oh at those are our straight. That's our Aaron Judge. John Carl Stanton and fucking Rizzle right there. That's not on our team. That's part of it that sucks where it's like they knew that so they did. They were just like, fuck it.

I don't want to do the Ryder Cup then. Maybe they're just calling the bluff. Maybe they think that they're still going to play. They might be right. Maybe. It could be right. Time will tell. But yeah, if you look on the European side, and again, it's not a done deal. European tour and DP World Tour it is now. There's a lot of rumors swirling that they're going to partner in some capacity

with LiveGolf. They came out this past week. They had the BMW championship. I leave is in Munich. I saw our new friend Billy Horschel who's posting all about playing over in Munich. I laugh at when I see him now. I like all his stuff. I'm like, oh, that's our guy, Billy. It's amazing when you know somebody, you read the stuff that they're associated with or their tweets or their comments in a different tone. Every single word. Now I just read them in a lighter, like good-hearted tone with Billy. Instead of a crazy thing. He's saying the same things for 20 years. The DP World Tour released a statement before the BMW Championship saying they are not going to ban

or not allow the people that are in live to play, so they're all allowed to play. So it does seem that there's a more likely chance that the rider cupers from the European side might not be affected or at least not. That would be interesting. I didn't know that that's possible. I thought like the Ryder Cup as a general would all decide.

I didn't know that one team could be like, yeah, we'll take the bad guys and the other teams. Yeah, because it is really interesting. Like when the Ryder Cup is in Europe, it is run and operated by the European tour. Right. And when it is run in the United States, run by the PG of America.

And so it's really interesting, like, how that all works and the profit sharing and the power and everything's really interesting how that works. So technically, if the European tour would agree to allow them to play all the guys from either team USA, and this is just us guessing, they would be able to just play, like, even like Dustin Johnson and Brooks, but then when they played at Beth Page, they wouldn't be allowed. That'd be interesting.

I don't know. No, not within each team. Okay. Right. Like I don't, I think Team USA is run by PG of America. Gotcha. Just like the logistics and all that. So I think they would make a call either way.

But, you know, it would be tough. Like if the European tour is like, hey, we're allowing it. We don't give a shit. These guys are going to be our captains. They're going to be our players for decades to come. And then the PGA tour were like, we're still banning all these guys. Then the PGA of America is in a tough spot where they'd be like, are we aligned with the PGA tour? Do we need to be?

Can we just let people play? Because it's the Ryder Cup and this is how we make all of our monies. We're just going to do it. That'll be fascinating to see. But the President's Cup, which is coming up, is run by the PGA Tour. And the PGA Tour has been very clear that they are not going to basically allow clearly these guys. So it'll be fun to watch. Have to shout out Brandel, who I love Brandel, love Brandel.

But he had a tweet that was just wrong that he's getting dunked upon by everyone that's pro-live, essentially. Okay. He tweeted, he quote tweeted somebody talking about Charles Schwartzel winning. He's the one that won the London event. Oh, is that who it was? Winning $4.7 million. And he quote tweeted this person talking about and said, but Shorttle didn't quote,

laser win, unquote, 4.7 million because as it turns out, all the winnings went against his guarantee, which was never noted on air, proving once again that his Saudi regime with MBS heading the PIF fund are slow to or don't pay. That turned out to be wrong, as everyone said.

So wait, what was his point? What was he making? What Brando was saying is that he didn't win the money. He's like, if he was guaranteed $25 million to come over there, and he wins 4.7, that just is taken out of his guarantee. So now he's just so $21 million if he doesn't win another event. This is what Brando was saying. That turned out would just be wrong.

They're like, no, no, that's all like bonus. You win that one. Yeah, I don't think that's, that's not how that works. So a lot of people, like Lee West would have bought a people were piling on. They're ready. Brando's shooting from the hip right now. He's like, he's on the front lines. He's unloading the clip.

And he's going to miss a couple times. Totally. He's missing, you know, the people, he's missing a couple times, and that is what it is. And, you know, he's fighting what he thinks is the good fight. Totally. Couldn't agree more. You're allowed to do that. I could not agree more.

That's exactly kind of what he's been doing. So, yeah, the live golf, I mean, Matt Wolf, I don't think that's surprising. No, he's a good kid, too. And I don't think he made that decision lightly. I don't think that he wants to have his reputation tarnished. I think that it was probably, there's a lot of things that probably went into it. Like I see him What kind of money they give him

You know probably a lot And he's a proud guy Like I feel like he's a competitive College golfing He knows what it's all about He knows a legacy Go pokes I mean

So a lot of that probably went into that decision Probably didn't take it lightly He probably respects the PGA tour And all that stuff So I like Maddie Wolf I think like every interaction We've ever had with him Has been unbelievable

The video that he did with us on YouTube Was insane The fact that he took that much time And effort To do one of our dumb Just blindfolded videos is hilarious if you haven't seen it go watch it um so yeah i don't change anything about mattie wolf it is surprising though i agree that's why it's just it's just disappointing not his necessarily

even like decisions just disappointing the situation yeah that's why i do like agree a lot of times people say it's worse for golf because it's like splitting these guys up i'm just never gonna see these guys i'm not gonna watch matt wolf play this weekend in fucking portland four or five times a year like major for majors yeah but i'm just i'm just never going to see these guys again they're like going to like how many huts has like mad i'm like mad i'm like Matthew Wolf, like, made. That's true, and he hasn't been playing a ton. That's true.

Yeah, he's kind of had a weird couple of years, but I'm just talking generally about all of them. And we're just not going to get him, like, his resurgence of him, and then he, like, wins the memorial or something. Like, we're not going to get that. Somebody was saying something interesting, too, about, like, the really young guys that go, like, the unproven college guys. Like, it's hard to become a star without context, and we don't know, like, what is a live tournament? And, like, what is the talent level? And, like, it's, but the PJ-T. door it's easy to see because it's we've just been used to it and we know all the good guys

play on the PJ tour so it's like if a guy wins a tournament you think that guy's fucking good now you go over to live and there it's it's more diluted and the competition isn't as high so you just it's harder to build like young stars it would be interesting if it's like whispers start getting around that this like chakara guys won like the last three events on the live tour you know it's like how good is this guy it's gonna be up to like unfortunately the brandles of the world to like keep on like what that competition is and they're going to have to deliver it to the people during majors weeks and be like listen like there is another tour it's happening and this guy has finished like t5 or better in his last seven live events he is like a favorite to win the fucking

open championship like no one's been paying attention to it because they've been playing on youtube but like you guys need to understand that just chakar kid is lighting up the live tour and he's going to win the open he's like he should be the betting favorite like i wonder how they're going to that's the context you don't know like he's winning these live tournaments but it's not They're going to have, it's not, it's not going to be an easy job, but someone's job is going to be to have to, like, I mean, like Penn, like Penn Sportsbook, Barstall Sportsbook is going to have to, like, weigh those odds about like, like, odds on if they're going to win. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's so much easier right now because they're playing the same competition. It's far more unpredictable.

If a guy wins X amount of events on PG-Tor versus other guys, he has a better chance of winning the next tournament. They have no idea what that means, like winning the live event. That's going to be really hard. It's why the world rankings points thing is going to be interesting, too. Right, who the fuck shouldn't do that? Right, because they're going to, you know, so the way I understand it, they have applied for their events to be world ranking-backed events, so they get world ranking points based on it.

I don't think that decision has come through yet. So as of now, they don't get world ranking points for it. So I think the world ranking points are weighted by, like, strength of field, and by, and they like, you know, certain points for events. They accept European tour events. They accept DP world events, everything. Yeah, a lot of them. It depends on the event. There's actually a lot of controversy over which events,

because I remember like might have been like Alex Noren or something in one point got to like number nine in the world and I think a bunch of people were pissed about it because he was just playing on the European tour and everyone's like this guy. So I don't know all those facts is where that's not really what we do. We don't pay attention to that

but I know there's been controversy in the past about world ranking points and then those get you into like WGC and then if you just tee off at a WGC because your top 50 in the world you just are guaranteed 50K and everyone's like all these guys are making money by just playing on the European tour and other tour events and going to week field

getting world ranking points and then just making a much of cash without really being a time. top 50 player in the world. So then now factoring in live because the big complaint now is that like the average world ranking there is like a hundred something. And so it's like if you're playing that and you're playing really well over there, are you really, is that the same thing as being a top 15 guy on the PJ tour? Right. We don't know. Does that make you a favorite going into the US? It's really tricky. What's not about, what's not tricky is Buck Mason. Buck Mason's

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I don't know. I don't know what's going to have. What we're actually doing in Scotland? I don't think so. I don't know that we have. I do want to do something. I almost forgot that we got to plug Barstool Classic Toronto. Holy shit.

We're coming to Canada. People don't know about this. First time. We were supposed to do this pre-COVID. We were going to go to Toronto. COVID-haven. We couldn't get it to Canada for like years. We just wanted to wait and see if you guys won a playoff series,

but that didn't happen. So we're like, we're just going to fucking do it. Don't be mean to the people we're about to go hang out with. That's an unnecessary shot. You don't think they feel that pain every fucking day? Fuck that guy. Especially this year when their team was sick. So good.

You know, I actually finished second in my NHL bracket on NHL.com. The only team that fucked me, Toronto Maple Leafs. I had them going to like the third round, and they just couldn't even win a series. I thought this would for sure be the year. We are coming. to the Great White North, Canada. I've been to Canada just once,

and I went to the other side of Niagara Falls. Crazy little town. Yeah. A lot of stuff going on in that place. Okay. That's a weird part. It's a good part. It's a good part if you're trying to get into certain something.

That's right. A little something something. Yeah. Some shenanigans. But I'm excited to get to Toronto. I've seen all the pictures. I've seen everything. Toronto looks like an amazing city.

The needle, the whole thing. Yeah. I'm a really, really big architecture fan. And I like the fact that they have like their old Toronto. I've talked to some people about old Toronto where everything's like cobblestone and older buildings. And, you know, you got the Blue J. I've spent quite a bit of time in Canada. I'm excited about it.

And I think the course that we're locking in, it's not determined yet. It's to be announced. It's not officialized because we've got to sign the contract, but it's looking really good. We've got a course that I've talked to local Canadians. And they said that it is the best course. It's a top 100 Canada course. The place is fucking phenomenal. as pristine as it can get

listen when we announce this do we have the date that we're August 25th and 26th are going to be the actual events you must you must have a Gulf Canada handicap to be eligible or a gin handicap if you're coming

from the United States of America and tickets will go on sale Thursday that is two days from when you're listening to this at 12 o'clock Eastern time now how many years has the Barso Classic been running this is year four we just did our 64 Barstool Classics.

64 Barstool Classics. Every single year that this thing goes on sale, we tell people on that show prior, make sure that when we announce that date Thursday at 12 o'clock, Eastern Time. Eastern Time, and I want people to know there's going to be a party the night of the 25th with the score. We've been saying the score is the best. They're awesome. The bets that they've been allowing us to do for all the tournaments, specifically the RBC Canadian Open were awesome. The score is the best.

If you're on the score, I've had the score of the app for 10 years, and the fact that they're affiliated with Barcelona is insane. We've been saying for 64 events, every year that this thing goes live, just make sure that you're logged in the second the clock strikes 12. Because if you don't, you're getting locked out and you're not going to make it. It's going to sell out. We're telling you this now. Send it to your buddies.

Thursday, 12 o'clock Eastern, Toronto. We are doing two events. Make sure that you're ready by the computer. Don't take this lightly. Don't say, oh, I'm sure we'll get in last minute. you won't you won't you're not going to it's a fact you're not getting in you have to get in at 12 you have to do it so here's what we're doing that that's barstle classic dot com on uh thursday at noon you can sign up we got two stops august 25 26 Canada we'll be up there it's going to be awesome

i love Canada um Scotland trip oh so we're going over there for i believe 11 days what it's looking like we might stick around for the weekend and stay for the open we currently don't have credentials or working on that and then also uh after being there for 10 11 days you know, we don't usually get a ton of great stuff on site at a tournament because we're not golf journalists. We're just us. So we're going to leave. We're thinking about staying, Tiger Woods, old course, the whole thing, 150th anniversary. We're not sure about that part yet.

But the part we are sure about is we're going over a tail-made golf. We have like a Mercedes sprinter van that we're taking around the whole week and we're staying in all these unbelievable accommodations. We're going to play in Presswick, Dun Donald, Crail, Dunbarney, Lynx, old muscle. I think that's a handful now. We're going to be doing a travel series. We're doing a lot of fun local stuff in Scotland as well. We're going again with our friends at Taylor-Make golf. So there's going to be a lot.

We're playing with an absolute megastar over there, not golfer, a megastar. I don't think we're going to. I don't think we're going to announce that. He's a footballer, and I think if you're a fan of Premier League soccer, you're not going to believe that we're playing with him. I got an argument with Zad dinner last night about where he is in the, like, super star world sport rankings. And he was like, yeah, I think he's like, he's like,

a little higher than Tom Brady. And I was like, wow. Because this is a guy, I'm not a soccer fan. Fasoli's behind the camera. He's shaking his- You're a Boston guy. Fasoli doesn't. He's not a good guy.

I don't know that we know the gravity of what European soccer players actually pull. We looked up his Instagram followers and he has more Instagram followers than Steph Curry. Yeah, it's crazy. So it's a big name. No, this is a big boy. This is a big name. Something that I didn't really know anything going. I knew nothing about it.

It's a big name. big name. So anyways, we're playing those five courses and then I will make a guarantee. That's like we're going to be over there 10, 11 days and there's a lot that we're doing. But I will make a guarantee that I will be playing more than five rounds. Yeah, I mean, we're hearing that the sun doesn't set until like 10 o'clock in night. We're going to be playing a lot more golf

than advertised. So my point to that is anyone who's out there, who's got connections in certain places or places that we need to add to our thing in here and our little it. Just four of us. Four of us. We're going to be over there. Lurch's coming with us. That you need to let us know because I have been over there once. It was really

quick for a quick weekend I was alone I was just in St. Andrew's proper alone um lurch had been over there a little bit but he was a little bit more north so we're not really that familiar we're trying to play really cool golf we got a bunch slated thanks to tayor made already we're going to get more slated but yeah we're going to be in scotland for about two weeks fellas and it's i'm giddy i'm giddy i'm really excited yeah it's it's something that i never knew if i would ever have actually be able to experience but now we're just going we're going for a long time we're going to play a lot of golf. We're going to do a lot of Scottish things.

Scottish. So, yeah, we're not St. Andrews. They say... We're wearing Kiltz at one point. Yep. Yeah, we're going to wear kids. Hey, they say, uh, by the way, they say Santandrus. They don't say St. Andrews. They don't say St. Andrews. We're going to... We're going to... We're going to... We're going to... We're not a bad. I hope that we do something

with sheep. Hopefully we can shear them. What are we wolves? We're going to herd the sheep. Hopefully we can shear them. Standres. We're trying to do a... We're going to do... We're going to try and get... dive into the culture, you know. You know, like, let's learn a little thing or two about the Scottish people.

And I want to maybe play some bagpipes and do the whole thing. So I think we're doing, like, a hickory round one day. That's going to be amazing. We are doing a hickory round one day. I want to do a full round and see what we would shoot with hickory clubs. Okay. Like, I don't want to just be, like, an hour bit. I want to, like, play.

Here's what I think that after five or six holes, we're going to be like, this is fucking stupid. Give me a driver. Maybe we'll play nine holes. Maybe we'll play nine holes. No, I would love to do it. Just to see the number. It's, like, striping it. Yeah, we'll see.

Nine would be good. Nine and nine. Or we do 18 and just see what the number is. Okay. Do you shoot up to get over? We're going to fucking scotland. It's crazy. It's crazy.

Did we ever have this debate on this podcast on if you would beat Francis we met? Or did we do that on the stream? We did it on the stream, I think. If you were playing against Francis, we met, and he had to use his stuff, and you were playing the course today, today's yardage, everything else. Could you beat Francis We met out there? And now it sounds crazy because he's like it's the greatest game ever played the whole thing It sounds crazy, but what? He won with like a 79 or something like that.

He was shooting the high 70s. They played from significantly less distance. And they also played on golf courses that were just not even close to as crazy as they are now that we're all accustomed to. You kind of talked to me into it like where it's like I think I might have a chance. I do. I do. The only problem that comes into it is that like if I played if I played if I played. played the country club in those conditions that they played

the U.S. Open and I'd shoot 110. Right. So you gotta think that fucking, like, I'm not the right guy for that question. I do think, like, you or Lurge have a chance to do it because he wouldn't know what world he's on with like the way that the fairways run, like all that undulation

and like, just how mowed down they are, like the balls run. How fast they would be. How fast the greens are? Like, we were looking at it up. Like, they played on like, like on the stick meter. Greens were literally like a four. They were four. And now they're like a 13. Right. So, he'd be like, I can't get the ball in the hole. And I'm also using like...

His ball would suck. His ball was like a ball of feather, right? It's pathetic. It's literally even a ball of feathers. And like, he probably had the ball, like, 220 yards. Like, I mean, I don't even know if that's, like, accurate, maybe even less. Right. So, like, we would just be bombing it, I think,

like, past... Even our bad shots would go further. Plus, our irons would be, like, these towering TP-5s coming in that, like, again, the course is hard, really hard. We're going to post good scores, but I think we could have a shot. I think he'd struggle breaking 90. Yeah, I think so would we. Right.

Really struggle. What do you think? I think I would not have a chance, but I do think that, yeah, he would be stunned at the Greens. He'd be like, whoa. He'd be like, what? Whoa. Why are these things running so bad? Maybe he'd get used to him, but at first he'd be like, boy.

But he can ball strike, man. He's fucking Francis when he met. He would. Over four rounds, he would definitely defeat me. But I think in one round when he's so, so. shocked i think it'd be a hell of a hell of a i think we say this and then you watch them just strike one down the middle like 290 and you're

like okay like what the fuck francis i gotta be honest i've been outside all day it's chilly in california i'm i'm done i'm beat i can't wait to get a little dinner i just got on a 930 flights i'm getting the fuck out of here nice nice all right that was fun thanks to austin coming on step curry today what a hell of a day we had we got a big uh big couple weeks coming up huge couple weeks if you're in scotland we're coming for you we're coming for that I'm going to Gamble Sands.

We got a bunch of people going to Gamble Sands. Oh, real quick. And we could talk about this next show. It might be a little tease, but we played with Joey Likava. I didn't know how much you guys wanted to get in that. Oh, we'll get into it. Why don't we get into it Thursday? Okay.

That's a something that's a preview for the next Friday, our next match with him. Yes. Patty Nolan, shout out to Patty Nolan, just the absolute legend that brought us out. Yeah, we'll talk about it on Thursday, but... What a teaser. It was a, yeah, we played a full round of golf with Joey La Cava. He was your partner. He was my partner, and I had an epic match.

that came down to the end with Joey La Cava. It's amazing. He read greens from me at points. He's the best person I've ever met. And I don't know that, like, I don't know that there's like a close second. Like, Joey is that good? He's just Tiger Woods like, guy. He's like his, he's so good that he is like his own thing.

Yeah, true. True. He's been like the guy on the bag for guys like Freddie couples and Tiger Woods. DJ. DJ, but he is Joey La Cava. And like the fact that he's been able to become his own guy is really impressive. That's how good of a person he is. Yeah.

We had a great day with him. We'll get more into it on the next show. I love him so much. Same. I can't wait to hear all about it. Well, actually, you have heard a lot about it, but I can't wait for everybody else to hear all about it. All right.

Everybody, have a good week. We'll be back as always on Thursday. Noon on Thursday. Make sure you're ready for the Toronto stop, barkswellclassical.com. Hit it hard. Hit it hard. Hit it hard.