Fore Play - Quarantine Quarrels with NHL defenseman Brady Skjei

Episode Date: April 2, 2020

We’re not a hockey podcast, so Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Brady Skjei (54:35) joins the show. We talk quarantine life, guys in the NHL’s golf games, Brady’s thoughts (former New York Ranger) on Frankie’s Henrik Lundqvist takes, and a ton more. In Headlines, rumors of a Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Tom Brady & Peyton Manning match continue to intensify. In From The Gallery, how many strokes would you save if every green were perfectly flat???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. I think we're on week three. I think it's like the third week of quarantine life. We had Matthew Fitzpatrick on Tuesday's show, so check that one out. We did like an hour with the people's Euro golfer. He was awesome. We were all over the place.

We talked about Augusta. Talked about snagging some swing thoughts, emulating other people's swings. Talked about quarantine. and he's got a hitting net. He's got chipping little device that he got. So it was very fun. And then we talked to Brady Shea. Brady Shea is on this show.

We had, I think, 52 minutes with him. He's a defenseman for the Carolina Hurricanes, very formerly of the New York Rangers. And if you have listened to the show before, you know that we have some New York Rangers, New York Islander fans. There's a great rivalry among those fans. And one of those fans of the Islanders has said many times

that Henrik Lungwist, who was the goal of, for Brady Shavon for a long time is the most overrated player like in the history of sports. That was brought up. I will say it's easier to say that when you're not talking to one of the players that we're naming, like his best friend and defenseman and guy that he played with since he's been in the NHL. I couldn't really make eye contact with Brady.

Trent brought that up that I was looking around my room while saying things. And then I couldn't even remember my like most used like arguments where it's like, oh, well, if you're putting in Henrik, then you got to put in Carrie Price and Pecorina. I go through a whole list. I got through one guy and then he was just staring at me, being like, what is this idiot talking about? And I blank. No, but Brady's a good dude.

I've been pretty friendly with him over the past couple of years. He was in that friend's group with Kevin Hayes. And then I met Kevin Hayes through Dave. And then I just like had met him out at bars after games and stuff. And he's really just down to earth. One of the nicest guys, Minnesota guy. One of the best looking like guys in the world. I mean, yeah, he's a hot guy.

There's no denying that. Like, that was an intimidating, like, like, zoom in. Because, like, we got, usually, like, if you have a guess, you call in or some person. We just, like, had him in his, like, multi-million dollar apartment in New York City. And it was cool to just get a different perspective. Obviously, we're not a hockey podcast. We say that often. But he's an avid golfer.

The guy's, like, a scratch guy. He's a one or two handicapped. Play, all the time. He's a really good player. He talked a lot about playing, you know, with other guys in the NHL and some of the cool rounds that he's had. He was a first. rounder in 2012 so we do you know we talk sports we talk hockey we get into it so getting his perspective and it was very funny like watching we're all doing the zoom shit and watching it like the

zoom would be like one of our ugly mugs one of our ugly mugs and then like brady shea it was like whoa crazy it was great it was great uh all right we've got brady shay he'll be in a few minutes we're going to go through some from the galleries we're going to go through some some headlines. We're going to update everybody on kind of our current situations. Biggest part of my current situation is death wish coffee. Been brewing our own coffee. People aren't leaving. You're not leaving your place. You're not leaving your house. You're not leaving your apartment except for potential activities like golf, which is the only time I've left. When you're hunkered down,

you want you got to get through, man. You got to have coffee. I'm telling you, we just started drinking this death wish coffee. I think we're all on it. They sent all of us some packs. and it's like twice as strong. It's the strongest coffee, I think, in the world. It's like twice as strong, twice so much caffeine that you're going to get, caffeine that you're going to get as anything else. When you can't improve your game on the back nine, when you can't get out of your place,

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Bill Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning. This is kind of the match that's being floated right now. There's obviously no sports. There's nothing to watch except for just Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona. and everybody's face all the time. We need some sort of reprieve.

And all of a sudden, there's these rumors, there's these reports that we're going to have, you know, the match two, that we're going to have Phil Nicholson and Tom Brady against Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning. I don't know how locked in this is. It seems like the reports are, you know, that it's getting very close.

People that have been talking to, air quotes, sources, believe that it's pretty much going to happen. I have some sources as well who have said, look, we're trying to get it done, but that it's not official yet. So those that are saying, you know, there's whispers that it's going to happen. I think it's probably the best way to say it from what I'm hearing. Nothing's official yet, but it very much could happen in May. This would be fucking awesome and could blow the ratings out of the water right now.

Yeah, that's must watch stuff. I mean, Tiger versus Phil alone, Tiger just playing in his backyard would be the most watched thing in America right now. you add Phil Mickelson, you add Tom Brady, you had Peyton Manning. It's a no-brainer. I'm kind of nervous about how awkward the exchanges will be because that's a ton of awkward people in one sitting. I mean, you got Phil Mickelson just loves the dad jokes. Peyton Manning is maybe the number one dad joke of all time with his commercials.

Like he's just a zinger. And then Tom Brady, he's just not a real human being. He's just a robot. And then you had Tiger Woods into the mix, who was quite literally not a human being. there's just no real personalities in that whole entire group it's like I just feel like they're not going to be able to cope to like mingle with each other it's like that's just having them sit around like a dinner table and try and converse about something would be would be a nightmare they might have to they might have to social distance not because of the coronavirus

but because they can't talk to each other like there's just nothing to talk about yeah and like Tom Brady's face also like doesn't move so like I imagine tiger crack at one of his dumb jokes and then Tom Brady's like even trying to give a fake laugh, but his face isn't moving. So everyone's just kind of like, what the fuck are we watching right now? It's going to be weird and awesome at the same time. Yeah, I think it will be great too

because there will be, I mean, one of the big, you know, downfalls last match was there was just so much dead air. So at least there will be double the shots, more people playing. I'm interested to know like what the teams will be. Because Peyton, I mean, he had like neck surgery at the end of his career, so I actually don't know how much rotation he's got in his neck

to like look at others and laugh. But I think it will be, I think it will be must watch. He's just got to turn his whole body, like square out to you. Yeah, just totally pivot to be like, ha ha, that's funny, Tiger, onto the next shot. Yeah, the way I understand it, it's Phil and Tom Brady against Tiger and Peyton. Again, none of this is like official according to who I'm hearing it from. But I would love, like, a pure alternate shot. I think that would be amazing because, you know, you could do it with, like, strokes.

But like that's just it always kind of even like this was the debate we had with the Whitney match was like to the average sports fan does putting strokes in there make it like give it that that next level of complication that kind of you lose people. And it doesn't feel like, you know, what if the strokes are what if one guy plays way better than his handicap that day, then people will be like that's kind of bullshit. So I think if you just did pure alternate shot, the two on two teams like imagine Tiger and Peyton Manning standing like, you know, Tiger just misses the fairway or something, and Peyton Manning's got like a 150 shot out of like pretty thick rough and Tiger's standing there with him. Like, look, I think if you just lay up like 80 yards, I can get up and down.

And Pete's like, I think I could get it there. Like he and Tiger and Joe LaColver are talking over shots. Like that would be fucking incredible TV. Yeah, no doubt about it. And also what I was thinking is like, do you think Peyton Manning finds out of disrespect that like it's almost like he's the fourth, right? so he's getting paired with the greatest of all time.

And then Brady and Mickelson. It's almost like one and four get paired together. Two and three get paired together. And it's also just like, oh, they're not going to put Brady and Tiger together because those are the two goats. Like, why don't we put one goat with the other goat? And then, like, Brady plays with Mickelson

and Tiger plays with Peyton. It's fair. It's almost like when you're mixing up with your buddies. Well, you're better than me, so you play with him. So like Peyton's just getting chapped in here. Be like, oh, yeah, well, it wants to throw me with Tiger Woods. Like, oh, Tom gets to play with Phil and be the underdog, I guess. Yeah, it would maybe be better if they did it the other way.

They did like the two guys who were always fucking second. You did Peyton and Phil and they had a chance to take these guys down. Such a good. It's like the two guys that were just like they couldn't get that final thing on the other guy. They just couldn't get over. They were both all-time greats, but they just couldn't get over that hill. Right. If the guy, the team of if one other person wasn't born, we would be on top of the world.

Be it number one. That's the team name. You're setting them up. I mean, if Tiger makes a fucking put on the 18th grade to beat that team, like they might just be, like inject us with fucking coronavirus and get us out of the like this. We can't fucking beat these guys. But look, this is everybody in sports is like, yeah, feed me that.

We need that. And it makes us think about how can we try to, you know, stream shit like this or come up with matches like this that we could go film without A, being like a detriment to society right now and B, getting like shamed all over the place. So it's like, and how are they going to do that? You know, like they're going to need to be able to hopefully if it's a small enough crew, then maybe you test everyone, make sure people don't have it before. But like there's a situation where they go do this and like one person that was involved in it, you know, have the corona, they were asymptomatic and then it spread and then they get horrible PR

and obviously have like a negative effect on people. So it's like, how are they going to juggle that? I was thinking about that too. The behind the scenes of this might be more interesting than the match itself. Like all of the logistics that have to go into putting something like this together during a global pandemic, I don't know if you could have documentary crews documenting it. But I think people are going to want to see how it came together just as much as those guys on the golf course. It quite literally could end up being just like them recording them on their phones at this point.

Like I don't know how they're going to get huge network trucks and people inside trucks sitting on top of each other. they're doing graphics and directing and all these things. Like how are they going to, so how are they going to like be like, no, this is fine for us to do it, but the rest of the world, like, all these shows like the, the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon is doing it from his freaking like bathtub on his phone. It's like, but we can like have a full production and, what if they just did all drones? Everybody,

everybody stay home and they do drone work on everybody and it's just them out there. That's a guy who's been stuck in his, that's a guy who's been stuck in his part thinking the world's going to end. Like you're thinking like, millions and stuff right now. You can't film an entire thing with drones. Why? I know. What are you been watching?

What are you been watching? Like the year, you know, 3,050 or something? It's like crazy. It's like, there's no drone that can film something like that. Like, like, how are you going to get every shot?

Oh, can imagine drones colliding. Sorry to try to bring a solution to the table. Jesus. It's a bad at your box. It could work. Stupid, man. It's fucking stupid.

It definitely makes me think I'll never do a live. Trent, Trent, let's talk about New York City right now. And the other night you looked outside of your apartment. Maybe you didn't see it, but everyone in the city saw it. Empire State Building, one of the world's most famous buildings, turned into a emergency siren that actually illuminated the entire city and spun around like the eye from Lord of the Rings. Like, in what world is that an event?

acceptable thing for New York City to do. I understand it was like, oh, we are one with the responders. We are the heartbeat of New York and they're doing a heartbeat. You just can't. I told you this. I texted you this. That's just something I didn't want to see. And I texted you this. I said, I don't think like end of the world movies in which like the day after tomorrow when the cover is literally New York City being engulfed by like a typhoon and like a crazy wave. I don't think that they would think it's, it's realistic enough to have Empire State Building turn into a global siren. That's saying like,

panic, panic, panic. There's no way that that's like ever been drawn up in a movie in a movie. Right. They would, they would put that in the script and it wouldn't end up in the final product. Because like you're saying,

it's just too on the nose. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. And like you said, it's like, it was like a shout out to all the medical workers. I understand that. But also on that night, there was a fog that was covering Manhattan.

So, and the top of the Empire Stap building was just into the fog. And it just created this effect of boy, oh boy, the world is coming to an end. And yeah, I didn't need to see that in the middle of this. I know things aren't going well. I don't need to be reminded by one of the most famous buildings in the world. So yeah, that was a dark time for everybody in New York City for sure. Truly hard. All it needed was that War of the World was like, oh.

Oh, the trenches like looking at its window. If there had been horns on that, I would have just jumped into, I would have jumped into East River. I live right by the East River. I would have just jumped right in. Even my brother, who still is back in Iowa, was texting me like, boy, was that unnecessary? So unnecessary.

It was so scary. I thought it was fake. I honestly thought somebody had photoshopped it on Twitter. There's no way you can, it turned into Mortor for fucking like 20 minutes or however long I think when it's going on. It's awful. What are they doing? but yeah other than that things are things are going great in new york city you know

i'm good today for the episode people can't see me but i opened my blinds i'm getting a little vitamin d today and it's gonna be fun yeah i see that looks way better without that black that black drape coming down you're looking through yeah it was good stuff when we had brady shay on and he's in this all marble white brand new apartment and trent i mean i have like a black shade too but like at least there's some light coming in like Trent was to live legitimately sitting there with the darkest, like, wool covering to his window, and he was just, like, leaning into the microphone. And Brady's just in this magnificently big, 20-foot high ceiling. He has an 18-foot putting green inside his kitchen. It's like, and it was just so the polar opposite.

I wish he would have seen you like this today because we're recording this part after. In terms of podcasting, it's also not logistically the best because I live with Robbie Fox, obviously, and we both do podcasts, we both do interviews, we do everything. And we had to start like 25 minutes late because, you know, he had an interview lined up that he had to do. And if we both were doing things at the same time, you could hear it in the background. That's how small our tiny little Manhattan apartment is. That's when I asked you, I was like, you got to get out of there. At that point, like when you texted that, you're like, guys, I can't do the podcast right now because my roommate, Robbie Fox, is actually talking in the next room.

And it's so small that we actually will hear each other. So can we wait 25 minutes? I'm like, man, you're going to be stuck in there every day, 24 hours. until late July at the minute. Like this thing looks like it's going on for months and months and months. So like you've got to make a decision here. Like either make a run for it or like figure something else out because I don't know how you can survive in a box for that long.

It's like legitimately like being in jail. I don't know if we want to get all the way into it, but I don't know if I can make a run for it anymore. I think that has left the station. I think that train has left the station, unfortunately. Yeah, you've made your points. Like at some point, like no one's supposed to be leaving the city and stuff.

But I've made the point that like if you're going home and you're going to stay there, like if you took all the precautions that you needed to, you can go home to your house, wherever it may be. You got a car and drove it to Iowa. Maybe you even walked at this point. Just walked to Iowa. Don't touch anyone.

Don't look at anyone. And you just get home. Like get home to a safe place. Like that is not a safe place you're in right now. The mental image I can't get out of my head is there was that graph after all those idiot spring breakers were down in Florida. And then they went back to their homes in different parts of the country. And it just spread like a wildfire, which I know I'm just one person.

And I don't know if I have it. I don't think I do. I've been quarantined for three weeks now. But I get very nervous about just the perception even of leaving because people are getting shamed for even going outside of their apartments. It's just a scary time. That's the way you need to think. That's the way the whole country needs to think right now.

Like everyone is responsible. You're like, you can't just think like, I'm just one person. But I mean like at the end of the day, like a lot of these people, are in their homes, like where they're comfortable. Like if you are, if you're, if you're not like in a good spot right now, like mentally and physically, I think you're able to like, you know, the people in spring break or like making out with each other and literally going on the news saying give it to me. Like I don't like they didn't do it fuck.

Like you just opened up your blind today so you can see the sun for the first time in three weeks. So I think, I think maybe you're safe, but I agree. It's a good way to think of it. I think everyone needs to think that way. You know, what's crazy is like there's people out there. that can't quarantine. Like I've been,

my dad every night, he's healthy right now, everything's good, the restaurant's been going well, people are still ordering. But it's like he's there, he's just drained, like so tired.

And I'm like, you just not allowed to do with the rest, like, like, not even just him, he's got to run the restaurant. He doesn't have to. Or else like everyone just goes out of business. Like they're all the people that have worked for him.

His 65 years of business just goes down the drain. You have to go. You have to wake up every day and go to the restaurant and do your, your regular stuff. I mean, nurses, like my girlfriend does MRI. eyes every day she's in a full fucking quarantine suit she's got to go in there and make sure

people that have all these like some people are in there to get their things checked to see if they have cancer like this stuff doesn't end like you don't just there's people out there that are working every day brady shay's fiance is a nurse brady shay is a professional hockey player making millions of dollars living in new york city apartments living in carolina and his fiance is still working as a nurse to where what was you saying she lives in like the newborn like maybe she like delivered babies or something yeah yeah yeah yeah but still like that's like you're at ground zero of this you're in the hospital like you're going every day to make sure the world keeps turning and like that is who we need to pay respect to right now is like

i understand like new york city tried to do that with that's what the yeah that's what the fire but like we can figure out other ways like donating stuff i know we're going to start doing stuff with beryllis where we're going to be donating pizzas to um hospitals and nurses and places like offshore nurses and stuff like that um people that are still working but it's just fucking insane right now Well, on that note, on that note, shout to Pinehurst, who raised, I think, over $260,000 for their employees. So they've got, oh my God. That's crazy. Amazing.

They've got like about 1,500 employees and they're down to, like, 250 are the only ones that are still employed right now. So, you know, they're trying to come up with creative ways to raise money. They did this auction, which was pretty much about two and a half days. And they raised, you know, they put all these really cool things up, stay at the door to cottage for a couple nights, which we did, which is down with us. old house. We've talked about it a lot on here. That went for like 25 grand. And then afterwards, you know, they had a couple groups bidding for it afterwards that, you know, we called up like the guy that bids second and we're like, hey, like, you know, Pinehurst is like, hey, we'll offer you the same deal, if you're willing to like match that, that 25K and do it. And the guy's like,

absolutely, because Pioneer is like, you know, we can do a couple different trips, obviously, for two different groups and whatnot. So they're offered up all these things. I put in a match against myself, which our friend Josh, was the high bidder. And so he just beat me in a fucking match out of the dad by class. Which he talked about. And then he paid 10 grand to play me at Pinehurst number four. And we did the same deal where, you know, I'm there with like the president of Pinehurst, this guy, Tom Pashley, who's the nicest guy in the world.

You guys all know him. And they're like, you know, we're going to call for a lot of these biggest prizes. We're going to call the people right afterwards and just say thank you. And so they're calling like, oh, yeah, we're going to call. is like a guy you know right rigs and i'm like yeah they call them up and josh answers the phone and just goes i'm going to kick their shit out of rigs and it was like it wasn't anybody's phone number it's just like the pro shop's fucking landline that they called from and he answered the phone like that so uh we had barso classic championship team and then that went for 20 grand and then

they've got a bunch of other stuff so they raised fucking close to 300 grand at the end of the day for their employees that they're going to put out which is so people were it's one of those things where like the worst situations, you always actually hear thousands of stories about like the best of people, which is awesome. Josh is one hell of a man, one hell of a guy. I'm the why I said, man, one hell of a dude, one hell of a guy, whatever. But every time it seems like we try and just a little bit more. Yeah, every time we raise money for something, we did blogs for dogs and I know he was involved

in that. He like was a high bidder in that. So like clearly he's a very successful guy and doesn't feel like he has to like hold on to everything that he like gives back a lot of money because every instance that i've seen that barcel has offered any sort of like um contest whether like to spend money and like get yourself involved he's like not only done it but won it like he's going above and beyond with all this money i know you like sent you guys out to pebble beach and like made it sure everyone was like accommodated for this guy is like one of the most like incredibly like nice guys and generous and nice people in

Yeah, the blogs for dogs, he won the one where you get to actually post and write a blog on Barstle sports. And the biggest fear among everyone, like, after we kind of realized it, was like, oh, somebody's going to win this and it's going to be a company and they're just going to do a way cheaper ad than like it costs to like advertise on Barstle. And Josh paid the money, won and then legitimately tried to write like a funny blog on the website. Yeah, it was like things not to do on like the subway or something like that. It was just like something that he's all, like little things that he's,

I've always bothered him and he, like, put it into a blog for him. And that was it. That's it. That's it. He paid whatever the fuck it was, 10 or 15 grand for that. So you're right. Like, he is super generous. And, uh, but it's people all like him that were able to raise money.

In this situation, I think other resorts are in courses and clubs are going to, um, probably like kind of copy Pitehurst playbook to some degree and try to raise money for their employees. And then, I even talking about like, Borrellys, you guys are selling T-shirts. You got a bunch of people around the country that are fucking buying T-shirts because they're like, sold out right now. Sold out right now. Sold out right now. So I can't get the T-shirts.

We're going to come up with a 65th anniversary one. I was thinking of maybe putting a mask over the Borrelli's guy. Like, it's like the Corona version, but then I didn't know if that was like, I don't know. Trisky. I thought it was pretty funny, like, because, like, people have put making their avatars with the masks on them. And I don't know if anyone saw.

I don't know if I talked about this on this podcast. I don't know how to wear a mask. Did I tell you guys this? What do you mean? I, like, I guess I don't know how to wear a mask. And I tried to do the right thing. You know, I'm making delisks. deliveries every day and like I'm wearing the gloves. I'm wearing the mask. And one of our guys who

run stool scenes, Rudy was like, hey man, can you actually document yourself like what it does, like what it takes to like actually make a delivery there? Like I want to like raise people's awareness and shit. So I'm like filming myself and I'm like, hey, we're here at Borelli's restaurant. Like as you can see like all the tables are up and all the chairs are up. It's like a nightmare here that these tables aren't going to be down for another three or four months. Like, but thank you guys for delivering the whole thing. I did all. did a whole thing. And I'm wearing the mask and whatever, but I guess I had the mask underneath my nose. And the reason is because I've never worn a mask before. And right before

I put on the mask, I'm like, this is super uncomfortable. And I had like a pimple on this out of my nose and like, it was like scratch. And I put it underneath. I'm like, oh, that must be right. Like, I don't know. Like, I thought it's for like coughing or I always thought like a mask, which I think it is still is to protect you, not like the people like around you. That's what someone like told us on Varsal Radio that that's what they do in China. It's more to like protect yourself. No, it's the opposite. It's to protect. In case you're sick, it's to protect others around you.

Yeah, I think that's what Frankie was trying to say. Yeah, I'm going to make something, whatever. All I know is is that I had it on wrong and I don't know if you're not aware of the thing. And like I put out this video. I didn't even put it. I said it to Rudy and like it's supposed to be this nice thing. Like I'm making deliveries. And I got absolutely reined out my asshole, my dry asshole that people are like, man, like you're just spreading.

I'm like, first of all, I'm fine. I'm healthy. And second of all, like, I'm out here just making deliveries. I don't know. Like, it's not like, I don't know. Yeah, I was wearing it over my mouth for that one second. But like, calm down. But yeah, it was a lot of people were mad.

Like, like mad mad, like real mad that I was wearing the mask correctly. Maybe the maddest I've ever seen people get at me ever in my life. You should sell like a bumper sticker or something that says like I supported Borrellys during COVID-19 or something like that. The big thing is like, and this is like super into like the business and stuff, it's just like it's a mom and pop shop. It's a huge restaurant that sits 220 people. And our big part of our business is like wedding rehearsals and baby showers and like 60th birthday parties and like these big, we like have a brand new room in the back where it's like, you know, $4,000, $5,000 checks where like we completely transform the room to however they want it.

Like their colors and their backdrops and everything. and that's something that's just going to be gone for a long time, like even when things start to come back. So my dad's a little bit nervous about that. But I mean, not just brother, but every place right now is doing projections, like, well, if I made X amount of dollars in June, July, and August, and I, you know, I paid the bills, but it's like we're not like a successful, like crazy restaurant. Like, it just pays the bills.

Like, we're just a mom and pop place. And I don't have that coming up. Like, how am I going to survive past that? Like, if you're doing the math, it's like, yeah, you can get loans and stuff from the small business association. but like that's just a loan you got to pay that back and stuff so it's really scary i feel bad for people that have worked their whole lives and that you know something like this can get wiped out i mean it can happen at any moment world war anything like this has happened before in the history it

fucking blows but that's the risk you take when you own a small business and you don't have like you know you don't work for a big corporation and stuff like we're lucky enough of barcel where we get to do our thing but it sucks but it sucks it sucks it's tough so shodd everybody's helping out you know in any way that they possibly can. All right, we've got to get into some From the Gallery. I know Alert you have to go in a few minutes. So while we're doing from the gallery, if you need to exit, then I would just say, you know, exit.

Put my hand up and say, hit it hard. Yeah, there you go. That's actually a great idea. Quickly, quickly before we get into from the gallery, our producer Jake just sent us all text that said, it's a tweet from Will Gray. And it says, Zander Shoffley says he has lost a sense of purpose. during tour shutdown hasn't touched clubs in sawgrass and has had to work on remaining

mentally sane while feeling unemployed. So our guy, Xander Shoffley, is going through it right now, not being able to playoff. He's in it deep right now. He's in it real deep right now. He's in a deep. I see you too. He's getting a little bit roasted for like being tone deaf by some people, which I think is complete and total bullshit. Like he's he's going through what everybody's going through. Like, no, we are even talking about it. I think maybe it's in this interview upcoming or when we're with Matthew Fitzpatrick about like, it's the. great equalizer right now. Like, no matter how much money you've made,

no matter how much, like, you're all just fucking stuck at your place. Your place might be nicer than others. Shout out, Brady Shay versus Trent, people in New York City that we're witnessing right now. But, like, mental, mental, like, it doesn't, you know, like, your mental sanity or emotional sanity isn't direct tied to, like, money. We've seen that, like, the case over case over case through the years.

So, like, Sanders going through, everybody's fucking going through it. So I'm not really with the people that are being like, how toned up is this? I think that's kind of fucked up. I it drives me nuts when people are like shaming these celebrities and and like philanthropists and all like did you see when fucking Zuckerberg gave 25 million dollars and everyone's like that's just like zero point zero two five you know worth like who gives a flying fuck on a stick like I don't care if it's worth whatever like you can't blame the guy for being an entrepreneur and building his business better than you didn't he's one of the richest people of all time like you can't like blame him for that he is a successful human being. And then he also is like one of the most isn't enough. It's like $25 million. Like what was his life like born to like, oh yeah, I'm going to make all this money and have this huge company. And I'm also just going to give all it away because like that's what I'm supposed. And he's already doing that like every day. That's just one thing. He does another thing with like Bill Gates.

It's like it's crazy. $25 million, take it and run. Who cares? It's an incredibly backwards way of looking at things. It's not don't look at how much it costs to Zuckerberg's bottom line and net worth. Look at how much it helps whatever he's giving to. Like, don't think about it. You got to think about it in a different way. Don't think that Zander Shopping is not allowed to be upset and pissed up that his, like, daily routine and like him like staying active and swinging a golf club, which is all he does.

It's his job. He's got to pay caddies. He's got to pay managers. He's got to pay lawyers. Like people just like, there's people around him that are probably like stressing out. Like, like, caddies don't just get paid like for nothing. Like even kids are saying, I got to figure out how to like get these guys on payroll. Like they all live a certain life.

Sorry. You don't know. Yeah. The crazy part is too, if those people are complaining, it's like 0.12% or whatever. It's like, did you even give 0.1, 2%?

Like, are you helping out? Like, are you giving your like, it's like, you're just yelling at like to yell because that's maybe quote unquote negative. It's like, or they would say something like, well,

that would be like me given $29 to it. It's like it's not because it's not $25 million. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I could give 29 cents. Like, well, then that does absolutely nothing. He is better than you and he's able to give $25 million.

million of them. So sit down, shut up and be happy that he's that he's so much more successful than you, that his 0.25 is something that you can't even dream about giving. So shut the fuck up. Could agree more. And so shout to everybody that's fucking going through it. That's theater right now. I think like no matter who the fuck you are, it just sucks. It sucks. It sucks for everyone. We're all trying to get through it together. And it doesn't look like it's going to be over soon. So you better get used to us doing these quarantine fucking podcasts. That's pretty much the situation. from the gallery.

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were perfectly flat, literally zero break, zero downhill, zero uphill, anywhere, perfectly flat putting green. how many strokes, how much would it help you on the grades? Oh.

Or would it help you at all. It would help me so much, man. I put lights out when I go to like a golf galaxy PGA tour, PGA Superstore, something like that. When you just go on that flat turf and you're buying a new putter or something, and you're stroking it and you're like, look at me. Does someone want to come over to aisle four and watch what Frankie Borelli is doing over here? Because I've trained 11 ponds in a row and I am a goddamn superstar.

are. So if that was every single green in America, I would be lights it out. I mean, it would, no joke, no joke take off, I don't know, five, six strokes around for me. Because half the time, even though I can, like, read greens, I've caddied before, or I know, like, when they're going to I can't, like, read greens to the point where it's like, I know where the grade's going. Whenever someone tries to talk to me about grain, I look at them like they just spoke another language. I'm like, I, yeah, I get, like, Northeast, we just don't get it. We don't understand. Like, you go to Florida, you can go out to, like, California. Grain? Like, They'll be like, oh, yeah, this is clearly an up on a left to right putt,

but because the grain, it's like two feet right to the left. Like, what the fuck you're talking about, grain? It just makes no sense to me. Yeah, all the grains look like regular greens to me, but like I can see some of like the undulations. But like, if you're telling me right now, every time I'm on a green, it's just going to be dead straight, I would, I would be nails. I mean, you'd have to, half the time you miss these putt is

because you have no idea where it's going or it just like goes way too far right to left. It's not really like you're that far off aiming-wise. You're not that far off. How about how insane grain is? like people are telling you that because the sun, it's later in the day and the sun's like over to the right, that this grass is like jumping out of the ground towards the sun trying to get over there and that's going to change the way my fucking ball breaks. Get out of here. What are you talking about?

Bryson's bullshit. No, I mean, I would definitely put way better. It also made me think if you're a place that sells putters, you should make the practice putting green. It just funnel into the hole so people buy more putters. Dude, I think they do. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. magnets down there because I've never missed a putt inside one of these. Because like you were saying like,

oh, go ahead. Well, I was going to say like you were. No, classic quarantine moment there. I know. That was our first one a long time.

It was. Like we talked over each other. I talk over everyone. See, I'm doing it right now. I talk over people because I just get going. But I was going to say it's also like. It right my heart there.

That was a tough one to witness. I know. It was bad. Is that? Oh, that sucked. We should almost like go back and put in the three hours later. Like from the SpongeBob.

It's never good when you hit the, it's like, no, you go ahead. And they happen at the exact same time. Tough. Yeah, not good. No, no, no, you go. Yep. Yep. So which one are you got?

Who's going to talk now? No, sorry. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Okay. No, I hear you. That's cancer for the years right now.

They're hating. They hate that so much. When that happens on CNN, it's the worst. When you're trying to watch this shit. And you can visibly see that they are, you can actually see when the person is like delayed because they're like nodding maybe a second or two after the person. after the person said something and then they go to say something and the other person's still finishing the question.

Like, yeah. Oh, yeah, no, sorry. It's just like, uh, fuck. Dude, it's super impressive when the, uh, when like the reporter, they actually are really good at that, like, because they'll be out in the field and then they time it perfectly. That's one of the most impressive skills I've ever seen, especially with all these other idiots on their webcams now

and how bad they are at it. Those reporters, shout out to them. They crush it in the field. Go ahead, Frankie, please. Did anyone just hear that? Are you doing, did you just stop? Are you trying to do a frozen thing now? No, I got a FaceTime, but it came and just took over my laptop to the point where it was like,

it was so loud in my ear. I thought I took down the show, like legitimately thought the whole show was over. What I was going to say originally was that, oh, boy, we just can't, we just can't gel right now. And I feel uneasy. I just feel uneasy right now. I feel like I'm on my toes and I can't just sink into it. All I want to say is that at these places like these stores, is not only do I think they have magnets at the bottom of these holes,

but I think when you go into the simulator, they juice those fuckers up 30, 40 yards, spin rates are off the charts, all these things are perfect because they just want you to be like, oh, yeah, you gain 30, 40 yards on that. Like unrealistic numbers when you pick up a new driver, when you pick a new eye, and then you're like, I have to buy this.

I just have to buy it. If I become president one day, I'm going to make sure there's regulations in all of these simulators. I want them to all be regulated by the government. I want them to be like, all right, you can't, you cannot do that to someone when they're buying a $500, $600 club. You have to tell them legitimately, this one's worse for you and that you can't buy it. Dude, I felt that way when we got fitted for clubs.

Like I felt they were like, oh, you're roasting your driver, you're roasting your arms. They said you hit it 300 yards. Yeah. Like, who knows if that's true or not? No, they want you to walk out feeling like you got the biggest dick in town. You're like, hey, what's what I did? I haven't hit one in like the fucking two years since we got those clubs. Like it said, I was hitting it on that fucking monitor.

Right. I think I've hit one 301. You think I've hit one 301 yards with a hundred and 27 mile an hour spin, swing speed and 161 mile an hour ball speed? Like, are you insane? I can barely get the ball off the tee right now. Frankie, how about all the map is different except your total yardage? They're like, no, no, no.

Like, we can get that the map is different with all the other spin stuff from the place, but yours just went further. It doesn't make any sense. No. By the way, no free ads, but Taylor made sent me a SIM driver to try to probably get a free ad. And I just have to say, like, people have been noticing it and commenting on it. This thing is a weapon.

It is the biggest weapon. It might be the shaft. We don't know enough about shafts. Obviously, none of us know anything about equipment. Maybe it's the shaft. Maybe it's the SIM. But this thing, like, even, like, people that have seen me play before that are all of a sudden watching, like, seeing me hit a drive or just like, dude, I've seen your swing and it's

idiots and you can't hit the ball that well, what the fuck just happened? They're like, this thing is a weapon. So if I've been using, here's another fucking free end. I mean, we're, I've been using these tailor made TP5s. I'm showing them right now. They've got this little American flag thing. It kind of looks like the soccer ball print. And dude, when I bring these out on the golf course, people can't get over it.

And I actually haven't lost one yet. So I have like a full box. I got 12 of them. And I've used them two rounds now. Haven't lost a ball yet. But they are so mint. Like when I, I literally walk up to the first year, I'm like, look what I got here. I'm flipping it up and down and catch up.

They're like, what is that? And like, when you walk up to your ball, maybe, like, you hit the same drive as someone and they're like, oh, who's that? And you just know mine is the one with the little American flag. Like, I don't even know what that is. It's like, it's almost like the ball's ripped and like the bottom. It's almost like the ball is like fading, like the actual white part. And the bottom is like an American flag like ball.

And it's like just peeking through. Those things are kind of looks like a butterfly. Like if you're going to like, as it's like, as it's landing on the green, then you got a little butterfly delicately landing on the green. If anyone wants to make another ball like that, I'll take it.

It doesn't have to be Taylor. Taylor Made is not paying us for this and we just keep doing this. Like, we're legit. And I'm also like, my stim driver is so sick that I text the guy. I was like, can you send me a three wood and like a hybrid?

He's like, absolutely, they're that good. And like, Titleist did pay us for the clubs. And I think my favorite thing I got from Titleists are my Voki wedges. Those things are outrageous,

how good they are. awesome. I can't say the same. Well, it doesn't look like it. It doesn't matter what company was. No, it didn't. It's not the tools of the car. Yeah.

Get it in. Come on, baby. Hit me. Hit me with your best shot. You say I'm going crazy. You're going fucking crazy. I am going crazy, man. Oh, by the way, speaking of wedges and bulky wedges,

Brock Nelson, an American hero, a good guy who plays hard, loves the game, who has a thing called a weapon, just got brand new wedges today, Voki wedges, the brand new line, all black, and he got them, he got them stamps, unbelievable stamps on them. I said the U word, I'm just, this kitty is just crazy. Who cares though? Are we ever even going to see each other for this kitty? Good luck. I'll say unbelievable all the time. You're never going to see me again. I'll say unbelievable. Add another five, that's 15, unbelievable, 20, 20 bucks in the pot because I don't care anymore.

Anyway, he put a weapon on like the 58, and then he was asking me for different like stance, and I said to put the scalpel on one of them because I think that's such a good name. It's like you're a surgeon and you ask for the scalpel. That's solid. Yep. And another one is Dart Vader because he's a big Star Wars guy. And another one is the elder, the elder wand from Harry Potter because it's the most powerful wand in the whole entire Harry Potter universe. So his wedges are incredibly stamped.

We'll get him on the show one day to talk about like the process on how he decided all those. But I just thought that that would open up a good thing for our listeners. is like what are your best stamps on your wedges because I have butter on my 58 and knife on my 50 oh I'm sorry butter on my 52 and knife on my 58 so by the way that was like maybe the worst decision of all time that that's what you're trying to get away from that's the mentality you're trying to change and you got them stamped permanently on your wedges just hand me the knife and it's

just a 58 it's never going to go away but you're right though like we need to do we need to do a segment we need to have people submit them because when we did do our deal with title list And they were like, oh, yeah, we're going to customize your wedges. What do you want them to be? We need to know, like, tonight. That was maybe the hardest, like, night of my life. I think scalpel may be the best one of all time. If you're a really good wedge player and you name all of your,

so, like, I don't know any more surgical names, but if you can find out what, like, surgical tools there are, and all of your wedges are surgical tools, as if you're just like a neurosurgeon, just absolutely dicing this golf course up and just perfectly pinpointing balls. I think that's hilarious. And if you're, like, belonged to a club and you have caddies all, time. If you're able to call for like the scalpel, like scalpel and you just and you just perfectly

drill this wedge right next to the pin, it's like laugh out of funny every time. DART Vader's a good one. It's more of like an internet one, I feel like you'd see. And I mean, the Elder Juan was one that we really workshop. That's, that's top notch. Like the Elder One is, is no. Those are really good. Speaking of Elder Juan, Frank, I started rewatching Harry Potter from the beginning last thing. Well, it's just crazy because Robbie Fox is rewatching Harry Potter. He's actually watching Harry Potter for the first time ever because he's this huge like nerd um i mean that's a ricochet shot but he would call himself a nerd he's no he watches that was an endearing term i think i've often called robbie like robbie's in like robbie's like his brand Robbie fox's brand is in now it's no longer

a nerd like we are now like if you're like that like jock that just like sports and like loves to just like do sports and eat creatine and chew on ice cubes you're like stupid but like if you're like you're Robbie Fox and you know like culture and you know like Batman and Ironman. You know like the Captain America story when all these people are waiting online to just get in to see Avengers. Like you know this shit. You've been there since day one. Robbie Fox has been standing Captain America and the Dark Night and the Joker.

Like it's like it's cool now to know about the Joker. He knows the Joker's entire life. Like you know what I mean? Like he knows this shit. So for him not to see Harry Potter is absurd and he's now watching Harry Potter from the beginning. And we're actually going to talk about a little. bit. Riggs, you should get involved. I have a crazy sensation

right now that Trent wants to talk and that he just had, I've tried to, I've heard him. I feel like try to talk a lot. Trent, you got to talk. Wait, no, I was, I didn't want the thing to happen again where we're talking all over each other. I was kind of on a roll there. Oh, there we go. No, you made a good point. What I was going to say is like, comic movies based on comic books are the biggest thing to ever happen to movies. So yeah, being a nerd is 100% in. Also, I need to stand because my, I mean, my back is in shambles. Oh, fuck. I just can't sit. How deep is Robbie right now?

What episodes you are? He just watched the Sorcerer's Stone, which every time I search it, so the UK version is the Philosopher's Stone. I guess that's what the book was originally written as. So it's called the Philosopher's Stone in UK, and then we adapted it to the Sorcerer's Stone. I guess like they did some sort of, I don't know, like one of those tests where they had a bunch of people in a room

and they're like, which one do you think sounds better? And they said the Americans were like, oh, a Sorcerer Stone sounds more. I guess the word philosopher is too hard for us, stupid Americans. But he just watched that. He has some takes on Draco Malfoy, which is hilarious because he is a little piece of shit in that first moment.

Dude, also, I think the C word was used. I watched the Sorcerer Stoll in last night. And, like, it's appalling what his, Harry's family. Like, they legit are doing, like, illegal child abuse to Harry Potter. It's the whole series. It's crazy. I mean. It's, like, very funny up.

The Dersleys or whatever they're called, like Dudley and the cousin. They're the worst people in the world. They keep them inside a staircase. Dude, at one point he goes, I'm not going to feed you for a week. I'm like, oh, my God. That's fucked up, man. But they, like, I, so I read all the books and, like, the first couple books compared to the last ones, like, from a, I don't know, just like a literary perspective almost.

Like, they kind of suck compared to the last ones. They're just not as deep. And, like, she's not as evolved as a writer or what. but I forgot that the movies are not that way. Like the first couple movies are fucking awesome. Oh my God. Wizard chest. Oh, they're so well done.

It's amazing. I walked out to get to get water from the kitchen or something and Robbie was like an hour into the movie and he was like, I just got to say this movie is a delight. It's like, yeah, I mean, you're in the stuff like this. Wait until he. Like, you always got to go through it right now. Wait until he gets to like when it becomes actual movies. Like when they actually become actors.

Like you're talking like, I mean, there's like death and love and like, dark shit, man. Dark shit. Like once like Voldemort comes like into the mix, it's like, holy smokes. And I don't think he knows really anything. Like it's not like, no, I don't think he knows like really the storyline at all. He doesn't know the names. He doesn't know like who comes back, who kills you and whatever. He has no idea.

I'm really excited for that. Rig, you got to get involved at some point. Maybe you'd hop in one of these things. I think he's like trying to like get a little Zoom action going. I know like Fran was in. Yeah, I'm going to get involved. I'm 100% going to get involved because I, yeah, I was just, I don't know, I just started to get into it literally last night.

You can rent them like $3.99 on YouTube and HD or something. So done. And I just been cranking them out. Well, that's not true. I'm just one movie in, but I want to go through the whole thing again. It's so, you know what that was happening. Dude, the biggest secret, the biggest secret going is YouTube movies. They have everything on there.

And they're like you said, $3 and you just order it and it just appears on your television. It's the best thing, especially during quarantine. You can just watch anything. So you can type in any movie in the, world, just like any movie you think of. I want to watch this movie, bang. Yeah, pretty much. That's what I found thus far. Like, I wanted

to watch the Dark Night Rises the other night, and I was just like, oh, look it up on YouTube, boom, it was there. Great. All right, we do have a few more from the galleries. I'm just going to save them for next show because we have like an hour with Brady Shea that you guys are about to listen to. So,

look, everybody enjoy the interview, the chat. It's just nice to catch up with other people in quarantine. that we don't, especially ones that we don't usually talk to. And obviously an NHL who was a first rounder. We get into it about, you know, Borrelli, Borelli's situation and history getting into it with Henrik Lundquist. I don't know how your guys' relationship's going to be now, Frankie, after that conversation,

you feel okay about it? I feel okay about it. We've talked about getting around on the books. He was super grateful and, like, happy that we had him on the show. I think he was as bored as us, so just getting him to do something and look forward to. I remember I texted him that Friday and then he was just like, I was like, hey, would you want to come out on Monday? He's like, yes, like now I have something to look forward to. Like, no days matter at this point.

Like, let's just do it. Let's rock and roll and talk some golf. He's a really good dude, Minnesota man. So he'll be playing in the Barso Classic when we get there once everything gets back and going. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so it was pretty good talk. I like hearing from guys like that. And he's really interesting guy and just a good dude at heart too.

Also, and this is just a reminder. please tweet at us and message us your favorite or just tweet us the pictures of your wedges. I want to see these stamps. Like honestly, I think that's hilarious. I want to see your really good ones. And, you know, we'll talk about it on the next show. Yep. Good reminder there.

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So Brady, what's like, what's your guys status and like communication with organization? and like what the hell's happening? Are you guys just kind of a hold or what's the situation? Yeah, pretty much. I mean, we're, um, guys on the team have, like, calls with the PA pretty frequently. And yeah, we're, uh, we're kind of sitting around waiting. We definitely want to, I mean, the league and the players want to finish the season really badly.

I mean, that'd be a huge loss if we'd been. So there's definitely talk and, I mean, I don't think we're not going to see it for, I think they're saying like June or July if it happened. I mean, we really have no idea. Depends on this virus does. Yeah, man, it's crazy times for sure. It's like everyone's in a holding pattern. And obviously you're stuck in New York right now.

It's like everything's just like no one knows where to go. No one knows what to do. But you showed us before we started here that you ordered a, like was it the first day of quarantine? Did you order for a brand new putting mat? I did. Yeah, I was on my way up here. from Carolina to New York and bought an 18-foot putting green with four cups on it. So I've probably rolled about 5,000 pots in the last two weeks.

Yeah, it's 18 feet. It's just an insane amount of this. That's like, you can't find 18 feet puts at like outdoor putting greens. This is like, it's one of the most ridiculous indoor putting greens I've ever seen in my life. Dude, this guy from one of these putting mat companies that they like outfit indoor facilities with like chipping and putting and all this. He responded when I was doing my dumb ass like daily nine putting on our little five foot mat that we have in our apartment or whatever it is. And he responded, it was like, bro, let me get you like a real one. Like I'm going to send you one of these. What are the dimensions here at barbent?

I was like, you know, six by six. We got like two and a half feet on the side and then maybe six and a half. He's like, no, no, like, what about like the bigger room? But I said, no, that's the biggest room. We have this one that comes halfway into our living room and doesn't work. The dryer that takes five hours, like kind of cuts into it. So do you have something for that dimension? Like, no, and then you've got an 18-foot, just full putting green in your thing.

So, yeah, I got, I got, well, I think, I mean, I got pretty bored after, like, I was probably like an hour or two. I was putting on it. And they gave me, like, this little, I don't know. I guess you could probably see it if I can move it. See that little mat right there. Yeah. I'd put that like five or six yards behind the putting green and start chipping.

Oh, that's good. That's awesome. Yeah. Golf games, I'm going to work on the golf game for sure. We just talked to Matthew Fitzpatrick for an hour and your setup is better than his. What does he got going? He's got like a $3 net that he ordered that's in like his little courtyard. He calls it in his garden.

He's just hitting into it. When's the last time you skated? In Jersey, that probably the, that was probably two and a half weeks ago. There's no, I mean, he came and skated. There's no rinks open, nothing. So a lot of in-home workouts. And we actually went for a run today for the first time in like five years.

Dude, running sucks. I hate it. It's the worst. It's the absolute worst. It's no fun at all. It's so boring. I never go off run. I feel like kills my knees too after I'm done.

Like it's just not fun at all. Riggs has been a big advocate for it being the worst thing for your back and your knees. I believe it. Yeah. There's also a chance I've just been saying that because I just want to like get this notion out there that running sucks so people will stop doing it. You said that so much that I now say that to other people like I just did on this podcast. I'll be like, well, no, you shouldn't be running because Rick says it's like really bad for your kneecaps. And they're like, okay.

And then like the whole world stops running. And then like everyone just becomes like obese and ogres like lurch. I'm a huge advocate for like anti-running propaganda. Like I just, I spread that shit all over the place. So our boy Josh, our mutual buddy Josh who said that like running messed up his back and then he couldn't have as good of a golf string or whatever. So I just took that and fucking ran with it. No point.

There you go. Smart. So Brady, people know you obviously, NHL, defenseman, you know, you used to play for the Rangers, we don't talk about that. That's why we're friends now. You're now in Carolina. Large big Rangers fan in here. Huge Rangers guy.

But, you know, people may not know that you are a stick on the golf course. Like, you know, you played high school golf, right? I did. Yeah, I played. Yeah, I did. Was there ever like a decision to me? Because, like, you know, you hear all these stories. I talked to like Brock Nelson, guys that you, you know, grew up with in Minnesota.

They're like, yeah, Brady's a stick. Brady's a stick. I see you all the time. Instagram you were playing Bayonne. I'm like, how'd you play? You're like, oh, it was all right, 78. Like, you're putting out these numbers that are insane. Was there ever a decision? Like, should I, like, pursue golf? Like, did you ever have that as, like, a passion to, like, pursue beyond hockey? Or was hockey always, like, the number one thing to go after? Hockey is always probably my number one thing I was going after. I'd say in, like, middle school,

I was very passionate about both, but I had much more love for hockey and golf. and I played high school golf from eighth grade to my junior before I went to Ann Arbor, Michigan. And yeah, I felt like I got more of a future in hockey than golf too. I think even at a young age, I kind of knew that. So I ran with that, but no, I still, I mean, obviously I love still working on my golf game. I love playing in the summer I play all the time. So definitely it wasn't that hard to.

Who are other guys like on the team that you that you play a lot with? Who do you have like your big match against? Carolina, I've actually gotten down there. I don't know, I was probably on for two and a half weeks. I played three rounds. Justin Williams is a stick. He's really good. He shot a 73 the first time I played with him.

Like an easy 73. It was wild. And then Hayden Flurry and Ryan DeZingle are probably that or two. are digging. We have had two, four-person matches. So it's, yeah, it's good. They love golf down there. It's not like it's frowned upon to play during the year. So I'm kind of excited about that. I'll be able to play a little bit during the year next year. Yeah, is there any, like, is there any concern about being, like, shamed for playing during the season? Well, I mean, in New York, it's tough, obviously, with the weather and everything. I think

in the southern climates, I mean, guys, There's no real shame about playing. I've given off day and you want to go out in the morning and play a team. There's nothing wrong with that. So, yeah, I don't think no one was really frowned upon it playing on off days. You ever play on like a game day? No. Never play the game day.

Definitely not going to admit it here. Yeah, no, yeah. I would admit, I would tell you guys, but no, I never played on a game day. No. What are, like, the guy, like, what's the, the chatter like behind the scenes right now? Like, what are, what's everybody doing? Are people telling you to try to, like, stay guys doing certain shit to try to stay in shape? Is everybody just addicted to video games?

Like, what, what's everybody doing? Yeah, I mean, everyone's, everyone's, I mean, everyone I've talked to is taking this very seriously. Everyone's pretty much stay inside. I get Snapchat's from guys on bikes all the time. And also, guys on putting greens working on their golf. golf games. So guys are kind of laying low. I've played a little bit of Fortnite too. Not good at all, but I've definitely got into it. And Frankie, I heard you're pretty good for then, aren't you? We were going to play one time. Yeah, we play, we have a little crew here.

It's like Devon Taves and Brock. We play close to every night now. It's, but we're not very good. I'm not very good at all. I actually bring the squad down. I'm more there for moral support, and I like to keep the chatter going, keep the vibes up, but I'm usually the first one to be dead, and then I'm more of a spectator for the rest of the night. But there's really nothing else to do. Like, you just, it's the only thing you can do right now is like,

I wake up, I go down, I work for my laptop, I play video games, I eat, I go back to my bed, and that's it. It's crazy. Yeah, I mean, me too. I feel like I've, the last like two weeks, I've woken up, worked out, made breakfast, putted, fortnight, putted, Fortnite, I went to bed.

Has your putting stroke gotten like immaculate over the last like week or so? Dude, I feel like I'm thinking way too much now. I think I started watching YouTube videos on a putting stroke and now I'm just like a mental headcase over the ball. I'm thinking way too much. Oh yeah. That'll happen. I mean, you have that much time, that much space too, like to start working on new like

quirks and new tips and stuff and you're just going to find yourself in an insane asylum sooner or later instead of just like putting freely. I was watching Ricky Fawler's putting stroke and trying to emulate that and not going well at all. Yeah, you're doing the little pop stroke thing? I don't know. What is that? Yeah, like, I feel like more than, he doesn't come off as, like, brushing it.

It's more like he's kind of like brain genetic or he almost pops at it, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I honestly, I tried, doesn't he hover the club over the bottom? Yeah, and he does the hover before he takes it back. I don't know how you can do that. I've tried that and hit the ball before like every time. Like I just have no, I stand.

I put it above the ball and it's just like my hands are shaking. But I've tried, I've tried everything. I've been so bored. I feel like half the time when I set up to my putts, I actually bump it anyway. So then I go, oh shit. Sorry, I'm nervous. I have like shaking hands. I don't know what the hell to do.

Yesterday I played Beth Page and I played with a buddy. and we were, so they had like, they actually didn't have the PVC, I said it at the fifth, but they had like foam inside the, inside the cup. So like the cup was basically only like an inch or two deep.

Like it was just like, basically like a pool noodle was stuck inside. And there was this one hole that like was coming down towards the end of the match and like things are getting kind of serious. And like I need to start rattling off some strokes here and like make putts. And I hit, so the pins obviously in.

It's like a four foot, three foot putt. And I hit it towards a, left of the pin and it goes hits the pin hard and we all know that now with this new like bryson thing sometimes when you hit these pens even without like the pool noodle it'll like pop out and like it just wasn't the right decision to leave the pen in but in this case scenario like I hit it kind of hard hit the pin and we and like I made the argument that it hit the foam and popped out like so like now we're dealing with all this stuff like what like what are you what is correct like what's not correct like are we all playing the same type of game where if it doesn't fall like that doesn't fall like

they could have easily hit the noodle and then it popped out as well he made a put right before me like he can make the argument like well no mine went in you didn't got to go in the hole you think so oh yeah it's go it's so funny because like he was just like riggs would absolutely say that that ball has to go on the hall and you would lose this argument 10 times out 10 and I said well no like we all saw it bounce out and like there's no way that that is the right rule like it was gonna go in had to pull noodle knob and out and he's like well no you just don't get that We're all putting with the pool noodle in, and I got the ball inside the hall. That's the game that we're playing today, and you didn't.

But I always win arguments like that because no one wants to hear me bitch and moan for two hours while they're playing up. So I ended up taking a stroke. Yeah. It's on the third hole. Yeah, exactly. Like, whatever. You know what, man? You're going to lose anyway.

Just, yeah. Is Bethany right now, Frankie? Yeah, it is actually. So, like, it's a ghost town, though. So usually it's a madhouse. Like Beth page, I've always complained that you have to, like, give over your driver's license, your social security number. Like, you have to show proof that you belong to, like, stay to New York. It's nuts.

But now you basically order, you sign up online like Supreme or one of these other, like, any of these other companies. And you like that, Rick. I'm just trying to plug in. I don't know where Supreme lies right now, but I know that they're a friend of the program. I don't know where they lie either. So just. Yeah, so we actually booked on Supreme, went to Bethpage. And really one person is allowed inside.

like the pro shop ticket area at a time and you go up they have full glass there everyone's wearing masking gloves and they make you they just have like the only thing showing is like a credit card like thing so you basically just go in stick your credit card in and you don't even like get a receipt you just go up to the first tee and like they have the information up there I guess um and then you just like tee off there was no one in front of us really there was like maybe a there was like a single well there's a two some like six holes ahead of us that we ended up catching but aside from that like no one really no one really on top of each other. Like I said, the ball's not going inside the hole.

So it's, you know, it's obviously like you have a ton of golf courses there. I don't know how many of them are open. If the black was open, that'd be unreal. I'd play there like every day. But I played like the yellows. All right. Let's get out there. I'm ready to go.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we got to get out there because we're going to go fucking insane. I have to go out and golf. We have to. You can't be ashamed. That's the one thing. Like, Riggs is like not getting ashamed by playing in Pineshurst right now. Yeah, I've seen the videos.

It looks unbelievable. Even the whole place yourself looks like. There's, I mean, it is. Well, they have fucking 10 golf courses. So like 10 golf courses, everybody's quarantining mostly inside around the whole country. And then there's like members and a few other people out and about. But when you have 10 courses, even if they're, you know, even if you have like 300 golfers during the day, you don't even notice them because they're over 10 courses. So I am legit.

Like a lot of holes, I'm just standing there on the green for like 10 minutes deciding what I want to film. and then moving out of the next one, I don't see us sold the whole time. It's amazing. It looks unreal. I should have stayed down there for another week and I joined you down there. We could have ourselves a little match.

So you and Frankie should go out. How many strokes would you have to give Frankie? What's your handicap? What's your handicap is this? It's like a one or two. Like a one or two. This guy's fucking, I'm telling you this guy's a stick. Like he's going to go out there and shoot a 74,

or no problem. And I'm going to be out. I'm going to need, I'm going to need, I'm going to need. What you shoot, Frankie, like you shoot, Frankie, 85? 80, 85. I shot 85 yesterday. Yeah, so.

I'm going to need 12 strokes. That's a lot. That's a lot. I'm going low. If he, if Frankie, if Frankie gets 12, I'll take Brady all day. Yeah, I'll take, same. Because Frankie can go shoot a 98. So then, like, that's not a bit.

Yeah, like, he's got to 85 yesterday, but that doesn't mean, like, if he has a bunch of wedges, I mean, then you win each one of those holes. Every time you see him pull the wedge, you just win the hole. Yeah. We can do that. Let's go to go to the bath page. We'll do 12. We'll do 12, six aside. Six aside.

See, like, that makes me look bad, though, because I play Brock, and I play Brock straight up. And, like, and it's like, now all of a sudden it's like, now I'm playing Brady and getting 12 strokes. I'm going to be a joke amongst the NH. I'm not going to be up the. do that. That won't be fair. And like, if I win, I'll feel like less of a man. Like, I can't start taking 12 strokes when guys in his inner circle, I'm playing straight up. Now, let's say, I'm losing every match to Brock. That's a fact. Like, every match I played against Brock, I lose pretty handling. I blow up magic wedge. He's got the weapon, he calls it.

And we're going to get Brock on here at one point whenever he can come on. But he, his wedge game is. I'm never seeing like it. I've never seen, like, I play with him. probably twice last summer. He gets up and down from everywhere around the green. Does he have your dad's wedge? Does he have had rubber wedge? No, he doesn't have a spin doctor. He has this black spin doctor.

You have you heard of this? Frankie, explain to what a sprint to spin doctor. My dad has this wedge. It's just like a 58 degree. Actually, so I bought him new ones because he like broke recently. So I bought him new one. It was like 200 bucks for a full set. you get a 58, a 52, and like a 48.

So it's like a kind of a pitching wedge also that has, that has these grooves with Brady. It's got like, it's a huge face of a wedge that has just rubber, a rubber face that has all these little jagged edges. So like when you hit the ball, it's basically raised grooves like to like the most raised grooves you've ever seen in your life. So no matter where you are, no matter what kind of trouble you're in, if you have to get it, even if you have to hit like a little chip like two feet just to get it on to the green,

it'll just stop like on. on impact. So he's just shooting darts all day long. Like, he's going right, he's going right after the pin. Bro, we'll be 45 yards out. There's a downhill. There's a downhill green pins on the downhill. And he just sticks it tight and starts laughing.

We're all like, this isn't golf. Like, this isn't, like, the, the, the beautiful thing about golf is being able to hit that shot, like, on the top of that lip and have it rolled down. You're just, like, you're playing with, like, a stick-em glue. Like, it's crazy. And it's crazy. No. But it's so funny. And then sometimes he'll blame it, say, oh, I was supposed to roll out, so it all evens out. Like that one, I wanted it to roll out and it stopped. So now it evens out. Like some of the shots I like, some of the shots I like, whatever. He's a gimmick golfer. But. Good doctor.

Yeah, Brock Nelson has the weapon from all different angles. It's crazy. You think he's out of a hole. He'll hit one to the other green, and he'll be like on the fringe of another green. You're like, all right, he's done. And all of a sudden, you're walking up to your ball. You mark your ball. And there's a ball sitting around. the edge of your hole. What just happened? He's like, he just waves the weapon at you. You're like, are you fucking good? Isn't it black too? It isn't like a black face? Yeah, it's black face.

It says weapon on it. Jesus. So it's just one wedge, but he's, he just uses it from everywhere. I think he's got like a plethora of wedges, but I think the 58 degree or whatever is the weapon, yeah. Anywhere inside 100, I feel he has that thing in his hand. Who's your like go-to crew when you're back home in Minnesota? Do you play with like Gardner at all?

or? I don't play with guards. I play with guards probably once or twice a summer. Mikey Riley, I play with quite a bit. A guy from college I play with Vinny Luterry, who's a goal for a guy I played a college with him. He's in the heart right now. We got pretty good, I mean, it's pretty good crew in Minnesota in the summer.

I mean, we have, I don't know how many NHL guys there, but all of them like to golf. So it's not hard to find. find a force and that's for sure. I don't know if you saw, but we're doing the Barso Classic in Minnesota at Hazeltine. I saw that. You're going to have to come up with the crew because I know Brock is in. I know the chin, the captain, Anders Lee is probably going to be in.

So we're going to have to get some crews going down and seeing who can win that battle because that's one hell of a track and one hell of a freaking tournament to play it. Yeah, I'd love to. I've never played with Anders. How was Anders going to? I feel like he just murders the golf ball. I've actually never played with him either, but I've heard. heard like he'll just connect with some that are just like laugh out loud funny how far they can

go because the guy just has a tree he's got tree trunks for legs his legs are the size of my waist it is insane how about lurch couldn't not eat during the podcast like he had to eat during the show we've been here for now like two hours what are you eating big man what do you eat out there well it's pretty well documented that now i'm just like living my girlfriend's place and she's kind of like cutting food out of my equation She just gave me some avocado toast. Avocado toast. It's really good.

Just avocado on like pumper-nickel bread is like the ultimate. You're getting you're getting too fat, sweetie. Here's a snack. Like, why don't you just, why don't you take a chill pill and just gnaw on this for a little bit? Do you regret going and staying with her since you can't eat everything that you want all the time? Yeah, I mean, it's saving your life. Yeah, potentially. One day at a time, one meal of it.

I was, yeah, I was hoping I was. was going to actually be less this morning. I stepped on the scale this morning. I was $2.52. Hopefully you didn't hear that. That's a turnoff. Brady, how's the transition been, obviously, like, playing for the Rangers in the middle of New York City

and then going down to Carolina? I mean, that's a fun team down there, and the crowd's really into it, huge fan base. But, like, obviously, change of pace, like, for sure, right? Like, you were living with, like, just two years ago. You're living with, like, Kevin Hayes and Jimmy Visi in, like, a crazy apartment. and now you're probably a little more laid back, right, in Carolina?

Yeah. It's been really good, actually. I think the first time I noticed was how easy it is living down there. I mean, obviously, I love the city and I love New York, but like getting to practice is like 45, 50 minutes. I mean, just getting around is kind of challenging. And going down there, it's like 10 minutes to practice rank, 10 minutes of the game rank. You're driving around everywhere. It's just a lot more like how I grew up in Minnesota, which is kind of nice.

It's definitely a slower pace, but like the weather, everything. Obviously, the golf is huge. Right. Actually, my first game there, we were playing Colorado. And whenever I went down to Carolina before, it was with the Rangers. So there's a ton of New York people down in Carolina. And it was like, I mean, the rink had a ton of Rangers fans. So when we scored, it was pretty loud for us.

when the cane scored, it was, it was loud, but not, not like crazy loud. And my first game against Colorado, when we scored, I've never heard the building that loud before. It was absolutely insane. And the guy said the playoffs there, it's nuts. Like the building is, it's an older building, but it's, like, made for sound. And I guess it absolutely rocks in the playoffs. So I'm excited to be down there for that. Sounds like a little place called Nassau Colisean, if we're, if we're going to be honest here.

Sounds like a little old place in NASA. Cool. school right there. Well, I'm sitting in my NASA County seats right now. Don't show my legs. Don't show those legs. Don't show the legs, you know.

Someone please put, no, no, before we get to the next thing, Jake, I'm telling you right now, when you make these promo, please put a blur over my legs. We can't be showing that to people. You can't tilt them down.

They look like, on a shirt camera. Something that looks like a blur. All right. Wait, what are you going to say, Brady? I was laughing so hard when, Do you guys post on I think it's on Instagram

When I'm not ripping out When trying to have the khakis on And so it's Oh my God I was laughing so hard Dude it's insane He's got this uniform It's like you sitting in your bed

Like it's like if you were sitting in your bed Like before a hockey game Just like sitting in a fully uniform Just like just like just in your pads And like your skates Be like oh Oh sorry for trying to bring a little normal See to a world that's not normal right now

Nothing is normal You're not going to be like the, you're not going to be like the bearer of normalness. You're not going to bring normalcy to the podcast or the world by wearing khakis in bed. I'm trying to keep comfortable. I'm trying to keep societal norms going while the world breaks down. I'm, I will say,

I don't think wearing khakis in bed, tight khakis in bed is a sign of normalcy. I'm like, oh, here's another run-the-mill day. Tight khakis is so much, like, more descriptive and like exactly what people are in this way. They're so,

They're just like not comfortable at all. If you're going to define them as a marketer, be tight, non-breatheathable, sticky jackies. They're not even meant to be tight, but I have like Andrews Lee type legs, apparently where it's just these things, I have huge legs, so they're tight.

Dude, I played a game of, I was playing Texas Holden with my buddies the other day, where you, like, found some, like, website that you can just play and demo each other. It's like, we're just trying to stay sane,

just play competitive games all, like, every other night. And I was actually texting Brock, and he was like, oh, you're playing poker. he's like I got in one night and I was like yeah I just lost to quads and he's like anders is in so like I guess they call him quads I don't know but I'm like this guy's legs must be just so just like well known around the league that everyone knows it this guy you can't

see the word quads I see you being a huge bluffer Frankie who me you see the problem with me playing poker is like I try to but I don't have any sort of backbone like you guys know I fold like a deck of cards not to make any no pun intended but like I I will like start to like bluff you and then when you call or you like try and like see if I'm bluffing, I fold immediately. So like I'll play a, I'll play a game at Texas Hold' them and I'll start with, let's say like 10,000 chips. I'm like aggressive at first. I'm like, oh, like I'll raise you straight straight off the blinds, raise, raise, and like people call me, I fold. They're like, where are you doing? Like five hands later, I got 4,000 chips left. They're all just, they're just gone. The whole rest of

the game's gone and I'm done. I will say I think you'd be much better at online poker. I feel like in person, you get like pocket axes or something like that and you start like giggling with excitement I was probably pretty good I feel like hockey culture is based a lot around card games right you guys are constantly playing cards on the on the planes right

yeah we are I mean guys are just trying to start Texas hold them on the plane for the Rangers and I'm like you have the worst poker face ever I lose so much money if I started that so we play this game called 7 up 7 down

It's like a Trump game. It's good. I mean, it's a good way to pass time. Some guys watch movies, but usually like eight to ten guys on the plane, play cards, which is usually a lot of fun. Are you syncing up with any of the X-Ranger or Rangers or your old teammates went up here? Because obviously, like, Vinny being an old college teammate, still probably maybe local in the area or now that you're back up here post-Colona?

I actually, I think most pretty much every. Every guy has gone from the Rangers. They're all of the city. Yeah, everyone I've talked to, all the guys that I've talked to have all went home or just went somewhere else. So my fiance is actually a nursery in the city, so I came back and could be with her. And then also I kind of want to spend some time in this apartment since we bought it and got traded a week before it was done. So your fiance is like working at the hospital right now? Yeah, yeah, she's on the mother.

Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. She's, she's on the mother baby unit. So she's not directly, you know, working with the COVID cases. But, yeah, the hospitals are insane right now. Man, that's, I mean, that's all praise to her. And obviously, like, you know, all the first responders, all the health care workers, like a bunch of my buddies are all police officers right now. Like, they got to keep going to work.

It's crazy. Yeah. It's just got, you got to go into these houses sometimes. Like you go in these bad areas where people aren't like social distancing and like my buddy like works in an area in like the Queens where he has to walk into these like, you know, these crazy apartment buildings where like there's millions of people. And he's just like, man, any moment you can just get this if this thing's spreading like this. So it's crazy. But yeah, that's awesome that your fiance's work and nonstop. Yeah.

No, it's good. It's good for sure. So, I mean, you're obviously a ranger for several years. What do you think about Frankie's take that, you know, Henrik Lundquist is basically the most overrated, you know, a player in the history of the National Hockey League? No, I, uh, when someone's actually in the room, he mumbles on her.

No, I, uh, I think I gotta disagree with that. Oh. Oh, interesting. Yeah, I love, I absolutely love Hank. I mean, I've honest, I mean, I've never, there's never been a guy that actually, I don't think it works harder than him, like, that I've played with. I mean, he is out there before practice every day. I mean, he's 30, was he, 36, 37 right now?

He's out there every day, 20 minutes before I went to goalie coach, and then he must take 40, like, breakways after practice, which as a goalie, that's, like, insanely hard. I mean, those guys are, that's, like, super tiring for them. So, I mean, he was like one of the hardest working guys I've ever been around for sure, especially and he's like working harder as he gets older, which is pretty impressive. Oh, yeah, because he hasn't achieved his goal that he wants for his whole life, but it's fine. I'm not going to get, listen, I'm not going to put Brady in a bad spot here.

You know, it's one of his buddies. It's one of his ex-teammates. I don't want him to talk about. He's got a business, sure, but like, you know, whatever, it's fine. Like, he, if you're going to start putting Henrik Lunkwist in this upperm, for echelon, then you got to put like Peckery Day and all these other guys that are like doing just as good, have just as good stats over their career without winning a Stanley Cup. So it's like at some point you got to put like, like, where's, uh, Crawford then? Like who's won three Stanley Cups? And where's, where is, uh, I don't know, like any other guy that I've gone through this so much. And now I can't remember the names because I see Lurch's face looking at me smirking because he's like, you're just doing this again because I do this every single day. But like my argument always is just going to be a NHEL about like, I know, it's crazy. And here you are with like your little blocking sweat shirt on.

It's like, come on. It's crazy. What world are we living in here? It's crazy. It's a crazy world. You like can't look into the camera. No, because, hey, I'm going to look over here because I just can't. Because you just can't like.

A gold medal of Vesda. And here comes Frankie Borelli like biting his ankles. But my argument's always been that I live in a town and like an area where like people put this guy. But like, yeah. but like I'm in the mix with Islands and Rangers. I mean, Brady knows you just said like when you played with the Rangers and you guys went to Carolina.

It was like half Ranger fans were in that building. It's like when I go to Islander Games, like Islander Rangers games were sometimes 60% Ranger fans, 40% Islander fans inside the Coliseum. It's like that's all I've known is like this crazy robbery. So obviously when like the opposing fan, fan base is going to put this guy in this like Derek Jeter, like upper echelon, like best player of our generation.

Like they call him the king. Every time Sam Rosen, And every time he makes a save, Sam Rosen creams himself. A goat. Sam Rosen is the goat. He is the goat. It's like he made the save of the century. But like the guy just like hasn't won anything.

So like I have that to just always fall back on. Like he just hasn't won that cup. You do this with all these guys. Peyton Manning took a lot of shit about it until he won. Like it's just something that I have. I have that card. And until he does it, I'm always going to play it. I do sound like a whiny bitch about it, but I am a whiny bitch.

Is there a bigger stud? like a country stud than Zuccarella. Did you ever go, didn't you go over to Norway? I've heard that my place is like lights up. And I've also heard he's a pretty good golfer. Is that true? I don't think he's a good golfer. Okay.

A.K. he knows he's not a good golfer. That might be false. Okay. Bad rumor. But no, I went over there for his charity game a couple years ago. And, I mean, it was like he was a, an absolute A-list celebrity. Like anywhere he went, like, crowds of people followed him.

Like, it was, it was absurd. We went out, like, went to a bar and, like, police escort, like, around, like, for him to go to the next bar. Like, it was wild. That's crazy. That's right. I mean, so we played a charity game with our team was, like, me, him, Carl Hagelin, Oscar Lindberg. and then like six of his buddies and like they played a bunch of Swedish guys and we sold out like

14,000 arena it's absolutely insane yeah yeah crazy supposedly when they were like going over there like there was like there was like it was insane oh yeah it's huge that's enormous what you think that like out of the ordinary here he's like he's a great player but you know like sometimes like a role play Like he's not like the number one guy, like on any team that he plays on. But then he goes back to his home country. He's got billboards about it. It's like, well, Brady can't recommend if I'm wrong. But like when you talked about breakaways, it made me think of them.

And then when you said like the king, he is like the king of Norway. So that's what they're. What the fuck? Yeah. It's crazy. And but like he was a YouTube sensation. Like he, I mean, you can, Brady, you can say yes or no, but like he kind of had to work on a stride. But from a breakaway shootout perspective, he is like the goat.

I mean, maybe ocean two with what he did. but I mean, he was crazy. Yeah, he has insane skill, like crazy skill. And the stick he uses as well as tall as him, which is, I don't know how he possibly can do that. But, no, he is the best I've seen in shootouts for sure, I think. Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm. That I played with.

Sorry, I was bummed to see go and whatnot and leaving the Rangers. Oh, here we go. Here comes large. No, but I just, I want to ask, like, where the NHL season is right now. Obviously, it's a tight race in the east. I mean, you guys must be bumming. Also, you must be, you must be like Frankie in terms of trying to get back at the Rangers right now and get them out of the playoffs and sneak your way in there.

Is the sentiment of the team, like, is everybody want to get back? Or where are all the players and, like, everybody in your kind of, like, NHL network stand on the season and where it's going to finish? No, I mean, I think, everyone obviously wants to play like that's the biggest thing like everyone no one wants to the season to be suspended or or canceled so every i think every guy is on board that like they we want to get back and start playing but we got to be careful with this virus for sure so um yeah i mean i don't know when like when we when we could but no doubt that every guy is sitting at home right now like bored as

all ready to get back and start playing. It was getting tight, too. Those fucking standings were getting tight. Every game mattered. I mean, you guys, you want to talk about Carolina now that you guys won that game at the Coliseum on maybe the most ridiculous situation I've ever seen with that high stick and no one knew what the hell happened. If you get the puck in from the high stick, I've been thinking about that high stick

every night since. Like, at some point, I almost want the season to be canceled so that that doesn't come back to fuck us. That was, yeah. I was, yeah, I was, I mean, I was kind of, I, I was kind of surprised too. I mean, it was very close to being a high stick for sure. I never knew that rule where, like, if you have a high stick and it goes into the net,

if the stick is above the crossbar, then it's no goal if it goes in. But if it's not in, then that means that they can go back and see that if he was standing up straight and then it was over his shoulder length, then that is not a high stick once the player, like, touches it and clears it next. It was crazy. So it's like, what are we talking about here? Someone standing up straight and shoulder lengths. Like if it's a high stick, it's high stick, let's go.

But you guys end up having a power play anyway. You're going to win that game. I'm going crazy. See, I'm going stir crazy right now. I can't, I can't. My brain doesn't stop. My brain's not stopping though. It wants to like run.

It wants to get out. It wants some walking around money. It wants to walk around and just like going. It's caged inside this room. I want to go places. I want to do things. I want to go to the Islander game. I want to watch hockey.

I want to do this, but like you can't because you can't be an asshole and you can't spread this thing. You have to sit home. You have to do this. Brady, what's the, what's the most nervous you ever been for a hockey game? I'd probably say when I got called up, not my, when I got called up at the end of the season, my first year when I was in like Hartford and New York kind of playing both, we made to the playoffs. and we were in Pittsburgh for the first round. I'd say skiing onto that ice was probably,

I feel like I don't want to be like, cliche, but I feel like I try to not get nervous. I try to be more excited than nervous. And that was the most excited slash nervous I probably ever been when I skate on the ice to the playoffs the first time. And Pittsburgh fans, I think those towels going. It was wild.

So that was probably number one. It must feel like entering like a video game, Like you step onto that ice and everything looks like the video game like simulation. It was insane. All the towels were like it looked like everything was going like this at the same speed and the music was blasting. That was that's probably the most nervous and most excited, most excited I've ever been to play hockey and for sure. What about on the golf course? Have you ever been like super nervous?

I mean, everyone has first T Jitters, but have you ever been in a situation where like maybe you're playing with someone that invited you to like their club or like, did you play with any like really? big name hockey player or something have you ever like found yourself like super nervous playing around a go out um again not not crazy nervous i feel like i mean first two jitters for sure in the state my playing the state term in Minnesota and um i think my first first t-f i literally topped the ball like 60 yards oh no the first round my first state tournament in golf and uh that was probably the most nervous I've actually done me. I definitely stayed turn. I was like a freshman in high school, I think.

And I was playing like our four summers with like guys that are going Division 1 in golf or Division 2 in golf. And I was like this 150 pound, 140 pound kid, top in the ball off of first tee. Yeah, that feeling. I think I shot like in 87 or 86 the first day of the third tournament. So I was out. He just described me at Palmetto with Kisner, just this 150 pound kid, just topping the ball off the first team.

I watched that. Dude, that video was incredible. I watched every second rep thing. That was awesome. He seems like such a beauty. It's just crazy how easy it is for him to play the game of golf. Yeah.

I saw him potty, even like him potting. I was like, this guy is like right next to the cup every single time for like 40 feet. Dude, he too, like he would be chirping as he's like getting ready to hit his butt from six feet and just pour them in the heart every single.

time. Like putting is the easiest skill in the world for that guy. Yeah. I don't get, like, those guys don't miss inside 10 feet. I don't understand that. It was like the hardest putts. I feel like I'd rather have a 15-flitter than, like, a eight-footer. Those are the hardest putts for sure, but like the lag puts, I think, are almost more impressive. When they're, when they maybe, like, miss, like, their spot on the green, they're still just not out of it. Like, when I missed my spot on the green, like, yesterday I played, and, like, I'm on the green, but I hit it on the right side, pins on the left, And I'm like, all right, like, any competent golfer should be able to get this ball close.

But then, like, you leave it just way too short. And then your next one's a miss. And then that's where the three putt comes every single time. Like, like, Kiz, when he maybe hit the front of the green or, like, maybe it's spun back too much or whatever, his next put was either in or on the ledge of the hole. So it's like you're always right. It's insane. That five iron flop shy it was unheard of, too.

Dude. from like what the fuck is on the green because it sounded like he bladed it like it sounded yeah a little like off the leading edge and he bladed it over and guys like I had deep

and I was like if you're deep with a five iron from 80 yards that's like you're way deep and they're like no he's just on the back of the green and then his pot was infinitely better than mine he had like 30 feet and almost made it and I was like are you fucking kidding me dude like with a five iron rings let's talk about

this fucking little, this little shit out in Hawaii, this little eight-year-old. Who's this kid? Who's this kid? Who's this kid Blake? That keeps tagging us at these videos. You guys got to see him. I don't know, Lurch, Brady. You got to look this kid up. There's an eight-year-old Hawaiian kid on Twitter that is like, he's putting out flop shots at five irons. He's roasting drives. I saw that. It's crazy. He's tagging me in chips. He's like chipping over like cars that are moving. Then he's like getting in the hall. It's like, who is this kid? And like, what do we have to do to? stop him. This little fucking twirp, he goes,

a little twirp. Hey, Kisner, watch this five iron challenge. And he flops a five iron to like five feet. And he just goes, where are you at, Riggs? I'm like, well, I mean, we're going to have to go to Hawaii and beat the shit out of this little kid. I don't know.

That's what we have to do. That's what you have to do. I don't say. I'll go do it. Legitimately. Now, we saw the way this kid hit the ball. Do you think he could, without a doubt, beat me in a match from the same T's eight years old?

No. From the same. He's no. Yeah. But he's, he is, he is dynamite with wedges and putting.

He doesn't miss the hole. So like, he's, he's, he's dead. No, yeah. Do you know how,

like, little eight-year-olds are? They're so small. But how far you think you can hit the ball? What a? 30 yards, 140 yards?

Yeah, like, yeah, I bet he can drive it like 150 maybe. I mean, he's the size of, like,

your leg. Figure than that. Yeah, he's small. I know he's small. My point is that, like, if I'm, like, all over the place and this kid's just straight down the middle, and then once he gets up to the green, he's just infinitely more better than I am.

Like, at some point, it becomes kind of a match. Like, I wouldn't have you shake balls out of the game to becomes a match, but you should beat him. If you play from the same teams, he's got to take, like, you know, he's got to take three shots to every green. Yeah, here's this.

I was saying, you guys, why don't you both play it from like 5,100 yards or something? Okay, yes. And then I think he would beat you. Like, I think if you move it back to your tease, no. But if you play his teas, I think you'll prove. That would be amazing. He could think most of us.

Dude, that's great. Yeah, that's so true. He would definitely beat me 5,100 yards. That would be awesome. 100%. That would be so frustrating. So frustrating. Lake Tagawa or something like that.

Like, he's got a super Hawaiian name. And you know that, like, He's got the look. Like he, if we go play him in Hawaii, he'll kill us. He's like, they're, that's, so we might need to get him off the island. That's his home turf. We can't beat him on his own turf. He's too comfortable.

Listen, if we got to go fly out to wherever this is, I'm fine. We just got to get an expense and then we're good. Brady, do you have any annual, can't miss golf trips with your bodies or anything like that? I do, actually. And I've missed it last year because I was playing the world championships. But every year, no, not. The last two years we've done, I grew up in a city called Lakeville, Minnesota, and the high school actually split when we were in like six or seventh grade.

So it's split from north to south, or north and south. And so all my buddies we grew up playing hockey with, I had to go to different schools and play for different teams. and we like a 10-on-10 Ryder Cup match and up in northern Minnesota. That's a lot of fun. That's so much fun. That's great.

Yeah. Yeah, so it was a tough one to miss last year. I got some heat for that for sure. What's your favorite course you've played so far? Obviously, I mean, like I said, you said before, you played Bayonne, which is like one of my favorites of all time. But anything else, like, stick out to you? I played Fisher's Island.

I don't know if you guys played that yet. I've played Fishers. Fishers is incredible. Fishers is so sick. I think the whole day we actually, so Rick Nash is a huge golfer, and his goal is to knock off like the top 100 horse in the country. I think he's at like 60, 70 already. Like he's played on the top 100.

We got to talk to Rick Nash. Yeah, you do. He's a good player. And he scheduled a helicopter. So we flew from the Tribeca, like the blade airlift there. Flew to Fishers, played 36 and flew back. It was like the greatest golf experience in my life. Like flew right up in a helicopter.

Yeah, it was wild. And Nashir set it all up. So it was pretty sick. Because me, him, Kev, and Jimmy that went. and it was a blast. I mean, that's like the top golf experience I've ever heard of a lot. You took a chopper from Manhattan to Fisher's Island and back and played 36. 36 old.

Just put the sticks on the chopper and just land on the first tee. Rip around a couple times right back to your freaking apartment. Are you kidding me? It was out of control. I was my rookie years. Yeah, rookie year. Welcome to the show. What the hell?

was going on. Yeah. Life is good. This is great. Miners are perfect. That's awesome. I got to stay up to here somehow. That's crazy.

All right. Well, I, uh, you know, it's nice checking in. It's nice making sure everybody's still alive out there and kind of kicking. It is an absolute ghost town in the city. It is wild. Your pictures and videos are insane. You got a bunch of people like Trent just sitting in their apartment just like,

cuddled up in the corner just staring at a computer screen. Like, no one's walking outside now. If you don't have an apartment like Brady, you come off like Trent. Coming off like Trent is not coming off like Brady's place. No. Dark times, boys. It's dark times.

We can hang out if you want. Sounds delightful. It does sound delightful, especially with that putting mat. You're going to get so good at putting. It's crazy. I actually am going to start searching putting mats for myself. Because I'm the worst putting in the world. Bertieball.com.

That's where I got mine. A little plug. A little plug there for Birdieball. Small plug. I mean, you said size that thing? They probably said give him a shout out. It'll give you a thousand dollars off or whatever it is. Shut up.

Oh, yeah. Brady, we'll try and social distance ourselves at Bethpage or something or somewhere out here because, I mean, at some point we got to hit the golf course. You can't be sitting inside 24-7. Let me know. I'm in. Let me know. I'll be there for sure.

We can't do strokes. The more I think of that, it's like maybe. one or two. Maybe one or two because you're probably better than, I mean, you're better than Brock. So it's like at some point, if I'm losing every one of those matches, I have to have some pride in trying and try and win the match with a couple.

That's the best part of a handicap system. You get strokes so you can make it competitive. If he's a one and you're a 12, you're going to lose every time. I know, but it's just like, I know. Yeah, we'll figure it out. Two or three, two strokes aside.

Two aside I can live with. Because at least, What are you shaking your... Murder. Murder. It's better than getting 12. After that golf, that's going to look like Trent right now.

But it's better than getting 12 and losing anyway. So I might as well like, I might as well like have some of my spirits and like some of the backbone and be like, yeah, let's go. Like I'll only do like two a side. And then if I lose it's like whatever, like it just better golf than me. If I get 12 or if I get the designated amount

that I should get based off handicapped and I get fucking waxed, that means I just suck. having a backbone doesn't do any good when you get run over by a fucking truck. So it's like you need to put yourself in a position by using the system. This is the Ryan Whitney debate that exists for a reason so people are going to have fair golf matches. How many strokes did you get with Kiz? You gave him 14. You were close.

Were you close to beat? So what happened was Kiz and I played from the first T on and I didn't start playing Scott Brown, who's obviously like his partner in the Zurich Classic with the PGA Tour player until like the second or third hole. I ended up beating, getting 14 shots. I ended up beating Brownie one up on 18, but that was like I played the last four holes well. Kids beat me five and four,

but then I played the last four holes well. So it would have been closer, but he closed my house fucking early that I just got murdered. He gave me 14 shots. That's insane. That's wild. He's five under. He's like, I think I shot like 84 or something.

I didn't play particularly well, but he was, he shot like 67 easily. And like James. And like, he can't go up against a match, 57 is just going to win every time. I don't care how many jokes. You go out there in a match and golf with an amateur golf from shoot a 67, game over. It's like it's over. He was in like a hoodie, too. He looked like he wasn't even, yeah.

He didn't even care and shot at 66. Right. I would have needed like two shots a hole, though, like have a chance. It's insane. So. Wild. These guys are big good. They're really fucking good.

It's scary. It's frustrating. Well, when everything clears up, everything, get back to normal, we'll have to come out to Minnesota and do a video with you playing because we've got to see this game. Yeah, we got to set up a group for your guys as a tournament for sure. Yeah, we need to get. I'll do that. I'll get you guys.

I'll for sure can find four easily. So definitely got to do that. That'd be a blast. Hazel team? I'm on Brock's bag. too. Yeah, I'm on a bag. I got the full get-up coming in with Nelson on the back, 29 on the chest, so I'm going to make sure he's all set for that one. He literally can use a driver of seven ironing and the weapon and he'd be fine. Yeah, exactly. I'm not going to be doing much work, yeah.

No. I mean, a guy who has a club that people refer to universally as the weapon is the most intimidating. Universally, right? He's like, not just Brady. Like, I've been at, like, after games, like I've been waiting for the guys and, like, someone will come up and think, oh, what's up, Frank? I think it was like Strom or someone else, like, someone else knew of Brock's game. And he's like, oh, like, if you played with Brock before, I was like, yeah, he goes, you know, the weapon? I was like, are you kidding me or not? Like, how do all these guys know about this guy's, like the weapon? It's crazy. That's amazing. I want to see that. It's incredible.

All right, Brady. We appreciate it. All right, guys. Thanks for having me on. Yeah. Thanks for calling on. Stay safe. No. Yeah, you guys too. We'll talk to you soon. Some golf. Stay safe. Clear up. Sure. See if I'll. See, bro.