Fore Play - Reliving 2020

Episode Date: December 30, 2020

In our final show of the year, we go through 2020 from January debates to The PLAYERS playing one round before canceling to the Kisner match, Knives Creek, Behind The Greens, Barstool Classic, hulk Bryson, and Jack Nicklaus, to Tiger and Charlie Woods. And lots in between!!!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. We are edited, as always, by our very good friend Jake Bass, and he also does all the promos. All the little promos that you do, that's Jake Bass, all of our format scrambles, a lot of the more deeper edited videos that you see, that's our guy, Brendan Jones. So we have obviously a very good team. It's been a great year considering everything that's gone on and how. obviously terrible it's been, how unpredictable it's been. We've luckily been able to power through, try to crank out as much stuff as we can.

So big thanks to those guys in this podcast. We can't tell already is going to be a little bit of a year-in-review type thing. I pulled some very interesting tidbits from throughout the entire year. But we have a whole squad here. We got Lurch, Frankie Trent, myself. Boys, this is the last show of the year, 2020. It's going to be one that we talked about for a very long time. How are we?

I'm in a great mood. So I'm still in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and I'm currently sitting in the midst of a blizzard. And it's just beautiful out. So I'm in high spirits right now because I came back home and I wanted a snowy Christmas. I did not get that. But the last couple of days have been pretty snowy. And right now, it's snowing like the dickens, as they say. So it's very snowing.

I'm very happy. Nice to hear. I'm in Sunshine, Florida. So wildly different. I'm sure about 80 degrees here. and feeling good. Got my negative COVID test pack. And, you know, there's nothing wrong with me.

I forgot. I might have a little sniffle, a little cough, but I'm okay. Very nice. Good to hear. You still have a sniffle on a cough still? Yeah, still a little bit. It's like I'll wake up. You have the common cold maybe?

That's exactly what I think. And I'm glad that it's only the common cold because when you get the rapid test when I got that back and it was negative, you're kind of like, all right, I dodged a ball of. there but that's like 50-50 if that's right or wrong but then when i got the PCL PCR or PCL PCL PCR test back then i felt like i don't have this thing and i just have the cold and we're good to like be around people again but i'll still i'll tell you what if you cough in public or if i'm running and i cough you still get horrible looks from people which is expected yeah there's a couple

there's a couple mix-ups for me where i was calling a ppr because i was in the midst of a dog fight in fantasy football. It was just in my head, PPR, needed Y-Receiver. Stefan Diggs. Need him to get some catches. But, you know, feeling good at home. Feel like I'm, like, quarantining right now because, like, we've been off for the week, and I've just been kind of just in my room. Tret and I streamed for about seven hours yesterday. I built a little more Butters Bay. So I'm not taking many steps. But I did order a Peloton. I didn't talk about this on the last show. I'm going to do that. I've ordered the peloton. I got it for my mom for Christmas. But really, it's for everyone. one to use. So I told anyone in the house that's going to be coming over, we have like an extra room.

Now, you know, my sister moved out, the whole thing. So like when we're back home at my parents, we have a, like a gym in there now. And I'm like, you just have to buy the little cleats because I didn't have to get cleats or shoes. Those things are fucking expensive. Let me tell you. But yeah, it's, I didn't get shoes right around. Like, you all have to get your own shoes. I got the bike. That's all. That is what it is. But I'm very excited to get on that thing because I need some motivation to get up and move. I joined my hockey league. You're going to build up a little leg strength. I mean, the bike is all about leg strength. I think that could actually help your physique in a wild amount of waves.

I got the saturation going on on my camera today, too. I'm feeling good. I got my little water bubbler back here. I was going to say, the peloton's very important. Get in shape, 2021. You're going to be the best version of you. But that water bubbler back there, that's the headline, folks. Yeah, it really is. It's a full-off. office water cooler right next to my fucking little desk set up at home. You know, I'm talking, I don't know how many, I mean, this is just gallons of water. Now, tell me why that's not in the kitchen. We've got one in the kitchen.

I wanted one next to my desk because I wanted to save that walking down. You know, it's just one of those things where it's like you wake up in the middle of the night. And when I get a house and stuff, like I can always take it with me. This is something that you can own for a long time. It's got a little refrigerator on the bottom. You can keep drinks in there. I just think when I'm here, when I'm streaming, when I'm sitting here for seven hours,

I don't want to get off the screen. I wanted something I could just hit and just fucking bubbles. You know, let me, can you guys hear the bubbling? Oh, yeah. Would you describe those as bubbles, or would you describe that as you're just pouring water? Well, the bubbles up top was boom, boom.

Oh, yeah, yeah, the big bubble. I know that big bubble. We've done a lot of streaming over the past. couple of months and not once did i see frankie drink a single glass of water we streamed yesterday for a few hours and he drank 15 glasses of water so i mean it's uh it's good it's motivation and it's i don't know if it's i don't know if it's i don't know if the whole bike the water is is that new year new me type bullshit which i don't like doing you know everyone joins a gym on january because it's a new year it's like well you're the same piece of shit you were in december there's no difference it's just monday went into tuesday

and nothing changed. But I think a little subconscious thing is happening where that happened to me. And I was like, you know, next year it's been a bad 2020, 2021. Let's get fit. I got a couple of weddings coming up. Like, let's, on the pictures, if I get caught, I'm, I'm finding myself when I get caught on the side angles. They're bad angles right now. I got the chin.

I'm looking around. I got the little side gut where it looks like, I don't know. I don't want to talk about it. But we're going to get fit. We're going to get fit. It's very, I remember one time. One time I was living in Boston. I forget the details, but basically I signed up for a gym,

did the better me thing, start of a new year, and whatever, you pay your like $150 initiation, then you pay your monthly gamut. After like two months, I was like, dude, I haven't been to this gym yet, and I'm not going back. So I went in there to cancel it. They lock you in for a year, though. So they were like, you have to pay $250 to get out of this thing.

So I was like, I don't care. Just charge me the $250. I'm not coming back. I don't want to ever come back here. Just whatever. So I ended up spending like $500 for this gym and never once actually went in for a workout. The gym that I signed up for, I went four times in New York City. I signed up to this fucking gym in New York City.

They're making me, I want to cancel, right? I'm like, I want to cancel this membership. I refuse to come anymore. And they're like, well, you have to handwrite a letter and send it to our headquarters. I'm like, well, I'm just never going to do that. So just keep charging me. Keep my tab running. I still have a Planet Fitness membership that I will be paying until the day I die.

Because of that. Physically walk into the gym to cancel it. And it's like $7 a month. And it's not enough to motivate me to go to the gym. Like, you almost have to your prices, your monthly fee has to be high enough where I feel like I have skin in the game where I'm going to go. But if Planet Fitness is $8, like I'm just not going to go. That's not enough for me to go.

And it's not enough for me to go cancel. so I'm just going to be paying that until I'm dead in the ground. It's like with golf clubs. I mean, we have a little golf show here so we can turn it to that. But like, you know, for Christmas and New Year, a lot of people say, oh, I'm going to get a new set of clubs. I'm going to play more golf this year. A lot of the dads, the older guys, like, I know my dad's like, I'm going to get a new set. I need a new driver.

I'm going to play a lot of golf this year. It's like that mindset. Like, I'm going to get out. I'm going to walk. And that that initiation or that thing that catapults that desire is usually like a new gym membership, a new set of clubs, maybe a new outfit, like for golf. You always need that new thing. You can't just, you can't take the old you and move yourself into that new you without like buying something shiny. For me, it ended up being a bike. But for other people, it could be really anything, I guess.

Riggs sold me on it actually, or the last gym that I joined. Riggs was like, oh, no, it's an investment in you. It's an investment in your health. I think this was like two years ago. Straight out of the pamphlet. Yeah, I know. It was like somebody got to him infiltrated his mind. a USB chip in there and then he just regurgitated it. An investment in you. Right. So then we go, you pay 200 bucks a month for this gym. And I think Riggs went to it once.

I think you went once. I started to actually go, but it took me about six months to get into it. So I'm in for $1,200 before I actually took my first step in there. But I actually started to go maybe, I don't know, once or twice. We're talking about the real expensive one in New York City? Yeah. Okay. Let me tell you what happened.

Let me just tell you what happened. happen. Like, so we're talking about Equinox. And we can, this is like a cult. This isn't a free ad because we just never went there. So essentially what happened was Caleb Presley, our good friend Caleb Presley, who we had on the show midway through last year when he started to get into golf 51 strokes. He's very fucking funny. Sunday conversation.

But Caleb had the conversation where he convinced me like he was a fucking rep. Maybe he was trying to get his referral fee, but he did the whole thing where he's like, you know, if you really think about it, man, like your health and your fitness, you can't put a price on it. And if you join a place like Equinox, you're going to be really into going. And it's actually such a sweet place that it's going to make you on a daily basis be excited to go into the gym and they've got this pool and it's on top of the, this outdoor like fucking roof pool. And I was like, you know what, dude, that makes so much sense. Here's $250 a month for the next year and a half. And I went one time. And that one time that we went, it was a great

experience. But I had to get up at fucking 7 a.m. and like Lurchin, I went in there. And then we got like a shake afterwards that cost like 25 bucks. And we left. And I said like, well, I didn't get my breakfast sandwich that I usually get. I'm up fucking two hours earlier than I need to be up. I really don't feel any better. I'm just tired now. My whole body's going to be sore for a month.

And I never went back the whole time. And I will say the one positive that I can say about Equinox is I went to cancel those motherfuckers a couple months ago. All I had to do was send them an email. And they responded within like a couple days. And they just said like, no problem. Your email your subscription is canceled. That's because they have real humans working over there.

Whatever they got working over there are Blink Fitness. I don't want to share them down to the ground. But, dude, I waited on the phone for 45 minutes to finally get to someone, and they basically did like the and then just hung up. Like, I can't hear you bad connection. Got a hand right with quail ink, whatever, a quill pen. Yeah, most places are like go to the top of a mountain and do a bunch of start a fire and smoke-siggle your cancellation to this gym.

otherwise you are not getting out of this deal and that's just the way that it is. Whatever. A couple things I want to go through here. First, I want to talk about Owens Mixers. So now that we're coming to the end of the year, one of the things that I have on my list because there's a lot of things that we created and that we launched or that sort of came

and were created out of nothing this year for the first time. One of those things is the transfusion. We're actually able to launch our own drink, which we filmed a commercial with a donkey and like Trent became tight with the donkey. I almost killed the donkey.

I was watching that video the other day. That was a weird day, huh? I almost fucking smoked that donkey and its handler. I really did. So when we were doing that commercial, they're like, all right, guys, like miss hit a couple, because the storyboard is going to be, you're going to miss hit a couple,

you're going to drink the Owens, and then the Owens is going to make you like a better golfer. And we're like, well, okay, like nothing's going to make a better golfer, but we like the drinks, so we'll do it. And I'm like, oh, let me miss hit one, which in reality, you can just get, me 10 shots and like a couple of them are going to be a miss hit but i really tried to miss hit one and i

topped it to just straight right and i'm telling you i think there's video of it somewhere on twitter but i fucking i sizzled this thing right at this donkey because it was it was to the right like just off camera it wasn't a part of that that shot and boy i mean the handler was like you almost just murdered me almost like a golf ball 120 miles an hour to the neck yeah she was like i thought this was like a commercial and you guys were like acting i didn't know you're going to actually trying to hurt me. Yeah, shout out to a shout out to Elle with the donkey. And one of the funnier things that I'm going to struggle

to explain to people who weren't there is the old man with the camera. I know we've talked about it before, but that guy buzzing out, that 150 year old man who saw something on the golf course that his house backs up to and he grabbed his camera and power walked out to us. And then it was just, it was really one of the funny things that's ever happened. He was just

so excited that something was going on. He's never seen, he's never seen so much, so much activity going on behind his retirement home and Pioneers number one. And he was just, he needed to know what was happening. He got the camera that he probably sends pictures to the rest of the community with, whether he sees, you know, a big squirrel or sometimes, I don't know, maybe a deer walks by. He likes to alert the community of his findings. And he saw a commercial going on on his hole. And he was, he put on his good white shoes that day and he came a fucking sprinting out to that tee shot. too. Like at some point when you're old and you've moved into like retirement community,

your whole job in life is to just get in the mix. Like that's pretty much what you exist to do. And like Dave's dad is a great example of that. Cousin Mike and cousin Murray. Like they just exist to be like involved in stuff hopefully. That's what they're looking to do. And that guy saw a legit donkey and a commercial being shot in his backyard. It was just like, I got to be in the mix here. And he came out lightning. Cousin Mike, Dave's dad now is like he's like got a high with news, right? News reporting. He loves to get in on the news now. He sees a news a news briefing going on on the street and he loves to just walk by and see what's going on. So that's pretty much the example of what we're saying about this guy. He needed to get in on the

mix. Speaking of getting in on the mix, Owens Mixers, which is the company that is our sponsor, are presenting sponsors. They're heroes. We love them. We love the people that work there that started the company that worked with us to create the transfusion. So do yourself a favor. understand that you can get these mixers on Amazon. You can get them at Publix now. That's a huge, obviously, development. So you can just walk right in and grab those puppies. Owensmixers.com.

They've got a store finder so you can find the transfusion. You can find where they've got drinks. So big thanks to Owens. Mint cucumber and lime is probably my favorite outside of the transfusion. The grapefruit and lime is making a serious charge for a number one contender. So all their mixes are very good. A big thanks to Owen's mixtures. Okay.

Real quick, before we get it, get into the, into the history of the year. I have a, I have a snapple on my desk here and it, it'd be a huge travesty for me not to read the fact. Yeah, well, let's hear it. A human being could comfortably fit, comfortably fit and swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale. I'll tell you this, the blue whale of that American history museum, um, uptown on the west side. They got a blue whale in there and it's fucking shocking and you see the thing. I can't imagine how big it is. I'm trying to think, like, you see shots of them when they come up and they fucking, or they'll usually be like, the cameraman will be like below it and it'll go across the top

of them and it'll cover the sun and the whole ocean becomes dark. But I don't even know what that means like to me. What do I look like on that? I mean, if I could swim through its blood vessels. Right. And comfortably? The comfortably word, like I can go freestyle. I guess so. Yeah, that thing's huge. Look at that room that thing. It's in a grand room and it takes up the whole thing.

It takes up the entire thing. It's amazing. So the blue whale, but the fact you can swim through it's blood, what? What could go through my blood vessel? What could swim comfortably

through one of my blood vessels? Your blood? The one's like, dude, yeah, yours, right? I mean, for you, it's like,

regut the cheese and fucking macaroni. There comes a brutal joke. Not that much, not that much different from the blue whale example, I don't think. I mean, I'm looking at, like, my wrists right now. Like, it's, maybe an ant. I thought I was going to get some backup from Taddy, and he just lobs on another part. Dude, I'm, I, we, we're talking about New Year and to me. I'm just huge right now after this holiday.

I have eaten so much garbage. An ant, an ant, an ant can go through your, yeah, I think an ant's probably correct. Look how big that fucking blue whale is, dude. Look at that room and that guy on there. See, that makes me think that that dude, that makes me think that the blue whale has crazy big blood vessels though. Right. Because like, that guy's like pretty big like next to that blue whale. I mean, the blue whale's huge, but still like you would think his blood vessels would be minute compared to that man.

Right. You think maybe like a little small dog could swim through those blood vessels. Right, which would be still a crazy fact. Like, oh, a dog. Yeah. Blue whales are huge. You guys can actually, our music. It was even open right now?

I don't think so, right? I doubt it. Yeah, sad times. Anyways. Sorry. No, that's okay. Big fish. Okay.

So here's what I want to do. I want to go through a little bit of this year. It's been obviously the pandemic, the PGA tour stopping and then restarting and everything else that went into it. I was going to just start by listing a few of the things that sort of were created this year within foreplay. First is the four-man scramble. Like, the four-man scramble just didn't exist.

it started really on this show. It was like it was going to be a match. And then we kind of combined it with like this longstanding debate of like could average golfers just compete on the PGA tour? Could they beat a PGA tour player playing as a four man scramble? And we came up with the other guy like, why don't we just try that against Kevin Kisner at Piner's number two? We ended up doing it.

There was so much hype going up to it. I was actually looking and like we had Kiz on like the week or two before the show. And he just roasted us the whole time. like, no, I've played off with you guys. Like, you guys suck. I'm really good. I'm just going to beat you. And then we ended up defeating him.

And when we defeated him, I was really kind of thinking, like, if we didn't beat Kevin Kisner, in theory, the four-man scramble could have just died right there. Like, I don't know that you have a series. Like, if we just lose, it's like, it's just over. And instead, we won. And that sort of created this thing where now we are moving our way up the ladder and we can just beat people that are the best fault in the world. Yeah, I agree.

I think it needed to be, you needed to come up with a bang. I mean, we also thought that if we were to lose, it would be a constant, like, when are we going to win video? Like, when's that first time you're going to win? But it would definitely, I don't know. I almost think that we've been too good because now we're proving that, like, really, like, a decent four-man scramble can beat the best players in the world. There's a point.

Like, we almost need to get, like, beat by one of these guys at some point because, like, you have guys like Dave now being like, well, you guys have already proved that, like, it's, like, you're just going to win the next. next one. It's like, well, we're also playing outrageous. You have to sit there and watch the video and see how crazy, like, Lurch has to hit the ball of two feet or else we lose the match to Pat Perez. So, yeah, it is, it's fun. If Jake could go back and actually, he's probably got murdered me, but if he could go and put that audio in and how much we didn't really want to do that, it was at

the height of the pandemic, I feel like, and we're like, I don't feel like flying, but we know that the four-man scramble is the correct way to go about this. And we're like, oh, is it going to work? I actually want to listen back to like how we talk that through because it is by far one of our best ideas that we've had as a group because like it's we have pros now wanting to play us in golf, which we never would have had unless we were all collectively one player ever in a million years. No one must have played us by 13 strokes. It's boring. Right. And I think the key to the Kizermatch, where loss was that we couldn't have lost by too much and we couldn't have won by too much. Like the magic of the four-man scramble is that it's close every single time for the most part.

Kisner's was about as close as you can get. But if we had won, like, on the 11th hole, or if he had won on the 11th hole, then the idea dies because you get your answer right there. But the fact that it was so close, and the Joel Damon one was, it got close. You're going to see that video coming out soon. And then the Pap Perez one was so close.

Like, that's what makes it great. I get that we beat all these guys. We're 3 and 0, but it's closer than the record appears for sure. Also, my favorite thing is, I think the reason that they're great is because fundamentally it feels flawed. Like when Pat Perez or Joel Damon or kids leave the golf course, they are so confused that how they could possibly have just lost based on what they've seen. So like that is my favorite thing as well. Somehow in this group, confidence is built when you're the last man on the stage,

which isn't always the case for a lot of four man scrambles. You think like I'm the last guy up, like I got no chance. The last guy up has continually like performed way outside of expectation. have like a sneaky clutch gene that we didn't know that we have. Right. I think there's a lot to that. We're the one man. The four man scrambles turn into the one man show or the one hit wonders or whatever. We should just rename it.

If they go into the match being like there's no chance I win because these guys have four shots. And like when they see us on the range, they can actually hit the golf ball like somewhat. If you can hit the, if you can advance the ball, you can probably beat me. And then they watch how the match goes. They're playing pretty well. They see us hitting the ball all over the place. and they're like, all right, I should be able to win now.

And then they get the confidence where it's like, I'm going to fucking dominate these guys. And then we just somehow win. And yeah, it's a roller coaster for the pro more than it is for us. Like we know our game. For them, they're like going in thinking they're losing halfway through they're going to win. At the end, they're walking in their cars being like,

what the fuck just happened? So it is, it's more fun for the pro to playing it than us because they're in a wild case of emotions. Well, Kisner on the range, that was, I feel like the longest range session we had. Also, Kisner's team was there as well. like looking at us hit the ball. And I remember going back to them. I was like, do you think we have a chance today?

And they're like, dude, you guys all are horrible. Like we were shanking the ball. One guy rips it left. Then it's like a low missile right. Then Kiz is like, oh, Riggs, like bend your knees in. That's really going to work. Or like, oh, you just pick up the club and then try to hit it through. And you're like, yeah, I mean, we don't really have like a full idea of what's going on.

But I think like the confusion of them seeing us to then Frankie hits just an absolute bomb down the middle to somehow we just keep having one ball and play. And then walking off the golf course is like my favorite thing. Like Perez, Perez was fundamentally shocked that he lost the match. And then he was like, I just, I don't believe that that happened. Like he was pissed. Yeah. Yeah.

It is in, and, you know, we've talked a lot about the four man scrambles, but I think we've gotten, you know, lucky in a way that like we are actually right around that skill level as a four man scramble that like we don't blow them out. don't get blown out. It just turns into a good match and that's great content. Okay, going through this, I wanted to start. I looked at all of the kind of show titles throughout the entire year. I mean, we do two podcasts a week, 52 weeks in a year.

So we do over 100 shows a year. And the very first, so what happens is, you know, we do our podcasts, and then we whip up one of these little a title and a description for the Spotify or for the podcast app or whatever. And I want to read the very first description on January 1st from our first. show says new year new decade new predictions what kind of year will pyger have will that psycho john rob win a major is phil done or is he ready for a resurgence who win the masters pga u.s open and british open all that plus frankie details as only he could his atlantis trip and the things that

happened only to frankie and looking at that and like even asking about like phil like phil went and won two, like, champions tour events. And like the, and then, you know, who's going to win the, like, the British Open didn't even happen. And thinking about that, like a year ago, that how different in the things that you're actually focused on and what are going to occur versus what actually occurred is, again, just stop it. I can't, yeah.

Thinking back to that is a shocker. Yeah, the Atlanta's thing. But I just, the one thing that I remember is when I first came into the office or like early in the year. I was scared about COVID and like I touched a handrail on a subway that day. That must have been like a month and a half into the year. That seems like two years ago that that happened. Well, yeah, I mean, it was.

It was probably like late February. I want you guys to guess who our first guest was last year. Oh, well, wait. Was that the Justin Thomas podcast? Or no, was that two years? That was the year prior. That was two years ago. Jesus, Craig.

Good guest, Trent. You're never going to get it, I don't think. Michael Breed. No, but I do love Michael Breed. He's a great guy. You too. Our very first guest was Jeff Shackleford. No way.

Yeah. That makes sense. Coming back from the trip, we got him on. That's right. We got him on. And we came back. We literally did our January, like, first show. and then our next show was like five or six days into January,

and we had Jeff Schofer on the show. I gave him a little lesson on how to fucking come into the 21st century. Boy, actually, I think that was probably one of my best shows I've ever had because I don't know why my brain was, my brain synapses were firing. And when I get angry, when I'm backed into a wall, I feel like I can sometimes either burn up into a million pieces or fire off some sort of weaponry

and catch a couple little pieces of fleck. there and I think I did with Jeff Shackleford. I want to listen back to that show personally. And I mean, he was a scared little man when we were fucking screaming at him. It was, we were giving it to him. We were really given it to Shackleford. Yeah, I think about 90% of that show, it was pretty cordial and we like met the middle on a lot of things.

And then Frankie just like got hot under the collar for whatever reason. Yeah. And started telling him what, how Twitter works, how Instagram works. Like why Barstool is dominating the media landscape. Yeah, that was, that was. I want to get back into that shit. Let's fucking call that guy up. I don't want to start screaming.

We should be like, it's been a year since we fucking bullied you around the ring. So like when we left that podcast, Trent looked at me and goes, man, it feels good to be on the right side of the equation. Like, he just like, just like,

you know, sometimes we're going to be on the wrong, the right side of the coin, but this time it just feels good to be on the right side of this coin. Were we in a studio for that? Yeah. Yes. We were in studio.

He was, I think he, like, FaceTimed in or zoomed in at the time. But it's funny to think, too, like since that moment, a year later. Like, Jeff Schoacifer is nowhere.

He's not on television ever. I don't see him on any, like, legitimate golf online streaming program. I don't, like, he's nowhere. He's just nowhere. I don't think he has any, like, jobs anymore. I don't know what he does. He's just nowhere. I haven't seen Jeff Schauchford and God knows how long.

So I think he was just murdered on her show. But that was January 6th of 2020. And then, of course, as only Frankie could, he had this awesome show. And then I look, January 15th, it says, Frankie forced to apologize to an anonymous Tiger Woods fan account. What the fuck? I did something where I called him out and he was right, right? Like what happened?

It was like Tiger Woods Legion or something like that? Yeah, you called him out about something. And he was just like, you said that he had like no credibility or something and you called. And he was just like right about it. And you had to formally apologize to an anonymous Tiger Woods. I did. The roller coaster that is Frankie Borelli. I love it.

And then I started to say that we were actually the ones who ran the account. That it wasn't them. It was us and we're starting a war with ourselves. What was it out? Was it TW. Spot or was it like the... Yeah, it was TW. But it's Tiger was Legion on Twitter.

T.W. Spot on it. It's the same person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Trent was saying, show yourself. And then he was like, no, we're just that person. Like, there's no proof that we're not that person unless you actually show your... face.

Then January 27th was our first show after Kobe died and Tiger played the final round at Farmers while the whole thing was going down. And if you remember, like afterwards, Joey, like, told Tiger because he didn't want him to get, like, bombarded in the interview. And I just was, like, when I was scrolling through, I was like, oh, my God, that was, like, 11 months ago. Just bizarre to think about it. Yeah, I remember they walked off the 18th

Green and they're walking towards the scoring tent and I think you could sort of hear Joey say something to him and Tiger stops and was like, what did you just say to me? And then they, like, because you're right, he didn't want to learn in the interview. And then Tiger gave like a nice, you know, post around interview about it.

But that was, I mean, that feels like 100 years ago. And he remember people were yelling, you know, like obviously all kinds of different Kobe related things to Tiger and he just didn't he was kind of thinking like he said afterwards he was thinking like okay like this there's something going on here but he didn't know and and the fact that that all happened on like a Sunday during the farmer's insurance and then what was going to come the rest of it was just like looking but when I saw that headline I was like oh my god that was last year's

show and that feels like 10 years ago in a way and it also feels like yesterday and that it happened so it's almost like I kind of feel that whole way about 2020 where it went by super slow and then also it feels like it didn't even happen. It went by really fast half the time. So I don't really know. It's weird. The whole thing is. Then February 3rd was the famous, what did you shoot on that whole versus what you make on that whole debate. And made it into an entire like the full description and title of the podcast was all about that. So I think we were pretty much at each other's throats at that point. February 12th was the first time we ever had.

Alfonso Ribero on the show. Legend. What a brain. What a brain. What an absolute brain. He just brings the fucking energy. God, that was February 12th, Riggs? Yeah.

So that was right before everything broke. I remember him sitting in the office with us. It was amazing. See the burn. I mean, that is nuts. God, there's so much, I forget. I mean, when we're going through this, can anyone, would anyone in this room be able to, like,

regurgitate the last year? It's a no for me. No, no chance. He was wearing a nice suit, wasn't he? He was really nice suit. He looked great. It looked like a total stub. I remember, and not to jump ahead too far,

but I remember one of the first shows we did post-COVID happening and they shut down New York City. I remember asking the question, when's the next time we're all going to be in the studio together? And that has yet to happen. I'm pretty sure. Hasn't happened. Even when we've been together, have we done a podcast, not via Zoom?

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March 4th, 2020, the title of our podcast was, what if coronavirus cancels the masters? And I remember us, like, saying there's no chance. Like, the masters will go on. The Kentucky Derby goes on. Like, we were even looking up stats. Like, even during World Wars, like, most of those old school fucking events always go through.

like the Kentucky Derby never missed a year even during World War II and shit like that. And now looking back like I mean, coronavirus won a lot of stuff. Like coronavirus beat down the sports industry, the restaurant industry, the fucking every industry in the fucking world. Except for Walmart and Target. We're not going to get to that. But it's just it's just absolutely crazy. I mean, it's just crazy town looking back. Once we start getting into this March now, like now these like this whole everything from here on out is just fantasy land from what you're.

you're about to say. I don't even know what we talked about from March until today, but like this world has been a movie scene. I think, I think it was the big 10 tournament college basketball where they stopped the games at halftime. They came out for the first half. Was that or was the, what was it? It was one of the college basketball tournaments where they stopped the games at halftime, they didn't come back out. And then March madness fell. And then it started to feel like the Masters was maybe going to get canceled. But before those things happened, there was no chance in hell that they were going to even think about touching the masters. And then like Frankie's saying with the episodes, it was the same way with the world and

the sports world where as soon as we shoved off into late March, anything was possible. And then the players, like, they just stopped the tournament at the players. Like they said, no people. That's right. And then they just canceled it. And it was like. Yeah, the players championship, if you recall, the players championship in the same week that on like, let's say Tuesday, March Madness fell, then like Wednesday, the NHL season fell. Thursday, the Players' Championship hosted its first round with fans. Yep. And the night before, they have like concerts and shit outside.

Yeah. Thursday, he literally held the first round of the players' championship. And we actually, that Tuesday, put out a show with our buddy, Steve Elkington, walking around the Players' Championship practice area with like Brooks Kepka chipping, gearing up for the player's championship. And he, like, walked around and did an interview with us from inside the ropes at the Players' Championship. That was March 11.

So that was just on the press. And then what? Like March 12th. And then by March 18th, the world was shut down. So March 13th, the Masters and the players were canceled. And we put out an emergency podcast reacting to the entire thing. Oh, my God. And when people, like, we had.

So that was on March 4th. We had a podcaster. We essentially mocked the idea of the master's getting canceled. And we basically mocked coronavirus as like, no, you can go up against, you know, humanity and our frail bodies. But you cannot go up against the master's tournament. Like, good luck with that. And then a week later, Masters canceled players championship. They played one round, canceled it.

And then they didn't play again for, what, three months? Yeah. Dude, I remember being. in my apartment and like, well, whenever that first basketball game that we were just talking about got canceled and the players were walking off the court. I remember there was rumblings at the office, like, oh, the office is going to be closed next week. New York City is going to be shut down. I remember walking my buddies being like, this is kind of weird, but like, you know when you're in the midst of like something crazy in the world? You're like, this is kind of interesting. Like, it's like a big

snowstorm. You're like, you don't like it, but you're like, this is a change up that like is, I'm like going to keep my eye on this because like every day I take the subway. way I go to work. We do pizza reviews. We come home. Now it's like the office is closed. The guys are walking off basketball courts. Like Kobe had just passed away. Everything's like, what is happening in the world right now? I remember watching the news a lot more. And now, like my buddies will text me and be like, remember when you said that like you wanted like a little mix up in like the daily routine? We're still fucking home. People are, I mean, the world has ended essentially. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's fucking outrageous.

To, to agree with you to an extent, there's something tantalizing about impending chaos. Like this snowstorm thing. That's, I totally agree with that. But yeah, none of us, none of us, nobody in the world thought of it like this. We obviously didn't want any of that. But to that degree, I, I understand what you're saying. But it just went to a level that no, I just remember being such like a, like an innocent, naive brain being like, oh, like, How bad could it be, right? Like there's like this like virus coming from China and like people getting sick. Like what is happening right now?

Like is this a Michael Bay movie? Like I remember we like arguing with people. Like you guys are fucking stupid. There's no chance. And then like we like we get an email from work like this office is closed. Like bar stools closed. Like what? We don't close for fucking anything.

Dave hasn't missed a day of work his entire life. Right. Sorry. I was going to say. I remember being in the office before that Friday. before we shut down. And the conversation in the office was centered around will probably be shut down for a week.

That would be our guess. We had to guess how long it would be a week, two weeks at the most. And boy, is that not what happened? Is 2020 a top 10 worst year of all time? Oh, you could probably go back and there's been some bad things. The world wars and everything like that.

I would say the world wars are tough. World wars are tough. Some things that led to the world wars are tough. Humanity really got that. just smoked their war. I'd be interested if a, like, a historian went back where, like, documented the worst years. I mean, it's got to be a top 10 worst year of all time.

A top 10, 10 worst year of all time? I just, I disagree with that. I said yes so fast, but the only reason is, is because I experienced it. Like, I would, like, if you want to talk about, like, death, like the year, what about the year the asteroid hit and killed all dinosaurs? Right.

Right. It's a bad year. That's a bad year. That's got to be the word. Bad year on Earth or a bad year for humans? I think you're of all time. There's been a couple bad years for humans. Bad years for humans.

I mean, the fucking swine flu was bad. The Great Depression, a little thing called the Great Depression. Right, right. 1929, bad. No, I know, but you got 10 of them to throw them in the mix. I think, like, I think it's a fringe, 8 to 12. Somewhere in there. 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943.

He just says Titanic. I may be suffering from recency bias, but it's got to be close to the top 10, if not strongly in the top. Maybe on a global scale. Like, something affected the globe. I would give you a top 10. I would give you a top 10 nomination for that for sure. I just meant top 10 all time of the U.S. It's like, there's like, yeah.

That's how I viewed it when I first heard it. I don't know, because like I'm thinking of like 9-11. Like that's like a bad fucking day for humanity. but like it didn't affect people in France as much as it did in here. But that's still a top 10 bad day for humanity in my eyes. But like, but that's not what we're talking about like where it's actually effect. Like people in Italy are staying in their homes the same way we are right now.

And that's weird. Like that's a different type of effect affecting. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. Comparing tragedies is tricky territory. Very tricky. I'm my brain. I'm on ice.

I'll feel like Bambi on ice right now. I want to get me, get me on to some fucking solid ground here. here, please. It's a bad year. It was a very, very bad year. Really bad year. I'm going to say I bet it's probably top 10 worst years for humanity. It's got to be close. Dude, if you factor in all the economic repercussions and all of the, yeah, it's bad. It's bad year. Yeah, I do agree with Trent though. It's probably not our wavelength to talk about. So let me hit the water bubble real quick. Let's, let's refresh this one. Get some water.

that's nice that's our new segue that's our new segue on April 8th April 8th 2020 we had our guy Seth Waugh on the show and Seth Waugh discussed the newly announced schedule where the masters had come together the USGA had come together the PJ of America had come together the PJTor had come together and they had all and the RNA and they had all figured out without except the RNA because they just canceled to collect the insurance money But they had all come together and figured out essentially a schedule that would work. And I remember at the time, you know, we're trying to get off the tragedy to talk and then there's something a little bit more light. This was viewed and we talked about it a lot.

We praised it a lot as one of the more impressive collaborations during such a shitty time. Like this was still early in the coronavirus. This is April. Like early April. This is when it was supposed to be a master's week. They came out and announced the new schedule. And ultimately that ended up working out great. Like the tour came back a few months after.

after that. There were a few cases early on that people panicked about, but ultimately the PGA tour handled it. And when you look at the case numbers and the bubble, phenomenally, they stuck to that schedule. Very few tweaks had to be made outside of that, outside of canon, that shit tournament of John Deere Classic. And pretty much they just went on and executed the schedule that they announced in early April that they were going to execute and it worked. So that was April 8th that we had Seth while on the show. Okay. April 8th. If you would ask when I thought that happened, it would have been way later, right? My internet, I think my internet's going in and out, but.

What's that, what's that hamster slowing down again, Trent? Here we go. Here we go. You got to feed that fucking hamster in your basement? I didn't want to give Frankie the opportunity, but my, not only am I in Iowa, which that has nothing to do with it, but Frankie has somehow implanted that in my brain that that matters. We are in the middle of a legit snowstorm. The snow is starting to come down even harder. So I love that I've implanted in your brain that being in Iowa has affected your internet connection

because you now believe that that is a source for your problems for internet connection. It makes no sense because we have internet routers like everywhere else. We have internet providers like everyone else. It's all the same. But for whatever reason, Frankie, you repeat it, berating me on the last show, calling me corn boy and saying that my internet suck has had an effect on me. Dude, as anyone here seeing the clip of when we streamed yesterday on YouTube of Trent's, mommy coming down and telling them that he's played too much video games and that he has to come

upstairs and he just left the stream. I mean, it was, it was one of the most wholesome and incredible moments that I've ever been a part of. Yeah, we've been playing video games for three to four hours at that point and my sister stopped by to say hello and, you know, just conversate a little bit. and my mom came down and knocked on my basement door that I'm staying in while I'm here, and she was very polite. But the message was, stop playing this video game with your friend Frankie and get your ass upstairs so you can be the family.

And, you know, that's just what it is. That was quite a moment. It was very wholesome. Yeah, it was great. It was fucking great. I kind of sided with your mom on this one, too. I mean, like, you're at home, spent a little family time.

It was just the optics of, like, I got a glimpse into 11-year-old Trent playing video games in the basement and mom or Ryan coming down and be like, Tread, you've been playing for four hours now say goodbye to your friends and let's come upstairs. And he's like, okay, I got to go, guys. I'll be on later.

Yep, yep. Yeah, I can come up. He literally said, like, I'll be on later, which it just brought me back to, like, that's how I grew up with my friends, being like my mom's calling me downstairs. I'll be on in an hour. And to be clear, I've been spending a lot of time with my family.

Oh, yeah. A big great trip home. There you go. I'm glad you cleared that up. That's good. We're just trying to pay me like an anti-family man. No, I was just asking a question. It seems like some of a little sensitive.

No, you actually didn't ask a question. You said I side with your mom that you should be spending more time of your family. I was bringing up a topic. I would also like to side with my mother, just in general. He's a great lady. Smart move. May 20th, we had the Jonas Brothers on this podcast. What a moment that was.

What a name drop to be able to see. You dressed up for that one. Yeah, I wore my cool guy's shirt. I also, the year of 2020 was ups and downs for me, obviously. I mean, we have a lot of highs in our professional careers. I feel like we had a good year for Foreplay with videos and a lot of more connections and all this stuff and even bigger in 2021. But personally, I went through some crazy shit with my facial hair and just staying inside my whoop band, my stats. Everything about

like my personal being was a kind of a shit year. But, you know, it was looking back, being able to talk to the Jonas Brothers was one hell of a fucking moment. And to make my point, seeing the video of that makes me cringe a little bit where I, I mean, I looked ridiculous. And I know that people probably told me that to my face, but I wish, it's one of those moments first, like, why didn't you guys, like, punch me or something? Like, well, I clearly, I clearly, like, had a problem or, like, I don't know, I was going through, like, a thing. Like, you guys aren't, like, you got, you look, everyone was telling me I look good. This podcast, I think, and did we tell you you, look, specifically during the Jonas president of interview, because it was an icebreaker. It gives us,

it gives us, like, something to make fun of, and you're the butt of the joke that everybody laughs at, and then we get, we move on with the thing, everybody's company. There was conversations about like, like, lurched that I found it looked like a human. I had facial structure. I didn't look like an avatar. So like I was, I kept it. I went, I went to the White House with that. I've looked back at photos of me in like the Oval Office and I just have this outrageous, outrageous facial hair going on.

I'm also so sunburnt because I thought I was getting tan this summer. It's just, it was a very, very much of a roller coaster, 2020 personally with my looks. but yeah the Jonas Brothers was quite a moment because I was a huge Jonas Brothers guy I love the Joe Bros growing up the Joe Bros were I mean the Joe Bros were everything yeah I mean look we had the Jonas Brothers like they're mega mega mega stars so the fact that we had them all three of them on this show is ridiculous and that was very cool on May 27 a week later we beat Kevin Kisner and had a podcast about how we beat Kevin Kisner I think 26 is when we beat him And the 27th is when we had that show. Then I look, June 8th is the first time that I see in our podcast descriptions or titles, a mention of Knives Creek. And look how far that's going. Dude, like, this is what I'm talking about.

Everyone's like, go fucking cover the sporting event and like type in who's leading the tournament. It's like, I think we had a pretty fucking good unique year. A lot of shit came out that was different. And that's like what we do. I watch CBS for golf coverage just like you do. That's like not what we're here for. I sit there and I watch the leaderboard come up and it fucking comes up. I see who's winning the tournament and then I turn it off.

Like this is like cool shit that happened this year. And I'm very proud of what's gone on. Like we had behind the greens, four man scrambled, nice creek. I mean, our bars school got society has 115,000 players within the society. The game costs 60 bucks a game. It's not some fucking free to enter tournament. Like you walk in, you just fucking press join now. Like this is a fucking hard thing to join.

You got to go buy a console. You got to buy the video game. You've got to find us within a mode inside the society, which they didn't even really help us, like, promote that. Like, I mean, we did it all on ourselves. And 115,000 people. Like, that goes a long way. We're building a world now around it.

We're partnering with 2K for the next iteration of the game. It's going to be fucking awesome. So, like, I think what we did in 2020 with staying in our houses and being able to travel and stay safe, like no one got coronavirus, knock on fucking wood. Like, we were able to stay safe. We were able to, I mean, you're going to,

going through this list, it was like, Jonas Brothers, Kevin Kisner, the former Scramble. Then we're going to play the other guys in the former Scramble, the country music superstars. And with all the guests, I think that 2020 went fucking phenomenal for what we had to do, for what we had to deal with. For the record, no one here is saying that we had a bad,

I think, like, this is like, yeah, I mean, we did as well as we possibly good. We had an awesome here. Like, we did all kinds of cool stuff, all things considered. And like you said, like behind the greens, I obviously have that on my list. this, but behind the greens, that thing took the internet by storm and it's so different than anything that we've done before. And that popped up when we were just at Wingfoot. We were filming a

completely different video. We kind of met, went back with Steve Rabinu, and boom, next thing you know, a little vision, a little execution, a few really early mornings and a bunch of awesome editing. And we whipped up a video that, again, took over US Open Week and was the dominant story, really, in terms of like a lot of the media and media coverage, until Bryce ended up going on a winning, but June 17th, Pat Perez joined the show. That was his first time in 2020, where he joined the show. And he was having wine and hanging out with Jason Koukrak. And we just ripped through for like an hour with Pat Perez. And that interview to me really stuck out. I mean, it was early. I think they had just gotten to like Hilton Head. So it was early in

their year. It's going to be a real battle with me and this guy on the speaker right now. Yeah, that was Because they all just got to Hilton Head And we were all like There was reports of guys like not being able to go out to dinner And like we were trying to figure out like What is the vibe like on the PGA tour And we just got to talk to Pat Perez

Who was sitting there drinking wine Being like yeah, I'm with this guy fucking Coke rack And he like we realized that like he was going to be dropping F bombs And be like one of the guys And he's become like one of our boys now And maybe like the best guest on four play that comes on. I mean, the way he speaks about the game, the way he's just an open book, that initial talk with him was fucking phenomenal. I was just like, that one really sits

with me as one of the best interviews we've ever done. Yeah, I remember him, Perez saying, first of all, that Jason was going to win shortly after that. He did. And then he did. And then also, I remember him just, he kept saying to him, he was like, get you the 20-year vets and more wine. And then, like, you know, he was just like pulling weight in the room. But Perez is a beast. And he's and just the joy to talk to. Also, I just love when he refers to Tiger as the cat. That makes me so happy. Every time we're talking about, I don't know if this was the question,

but it was something to the fact like, we don't want anybody to get coronavirus, but who can the PJ tour, you know, have them get at the least, and it was the cat. It's the cat. He kept saying the cat. I just love that he calls him that. Yeah, Pat Perez is now our guy. He's got probably the best four-man scramble that we've done so far

coming out here in the future. He's just an awesome guy who's got an awesome house and an awesome Jordan collection. What are unique, like, the way he speaks, his vocabulary, his, like, his tone of the way he speaks about things, like, just saying the cat like that. And he's so just, like, serious, but also says very funny things. I don't know how to wrap my head around his, like, personality, Pap Perez, because, like, he's very dialed in it.

I don't think anybody does. I don't think anybody does to be honest. Like, I can't pin it down. Like, is he, like, a, is he, like, a jokester? Like, or is he even trying to be funny half the time? Because half the time he says things and we laugh. he just, he has a straight face. So it's like, I went out there.

I won four fucking million dollars. And you're like, ha ha. And he's like staring right at you. And you're like, holy fuck. Like, I don't know. Like, yeah. You like don't know. He catches you on your fucking toes.

Like, you're like, oh, shit. Like, where are we going now? He's a fucking unique cat to use his lingo. Yeah, Perez is awesome. So we ended up having him on the show multiple times this year. And we also did the four men scramble. So that led to a ton of cool stuff. January, by the way, which is coming.

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show and I believe that this was really about the time when we started to realize and the world was starting to realize like this Bryson Deschamba thing where he's the incredible Hulk and he's trying to change the entire game of golf and he's trying to take the distance debate and the distance issue to the

extreme and he has done all of this work over the last year and he's become an absolute cartoon character that was built to hit golf balls of million miles and hit them pretty straight might actually just work out and to think that that was already all the way through to July 6th so after the fourth of July like over halfway through the year that we started to kind of get to that point but we weren't quite there yet um is ridiculous because since then he's won the US open there were talks that he was going to um really lead to like the

downfall of against the national and and make it is bitch and um and that was only July 6th trying to look up when he put out that weird video. A quarantine video? Yeah, the quarantine video. Because that's when he really, to me, started dominating the headlines. I cannot find the blog, but it had to be around then. Yeah, you can't mention the year of golf without mention in Bryson. He's just, I still don't know how we feel about him as a general thing.

I have no idea. I don't know either. I mean, I think we love him for golf. I think we know that he's amazing for golf. I think we also all agree that he's just kind of a weirdo. And being a weirdo is fine, but we all also agree that he doesn't want to be known as a weirdo. Like I think he wants to be known.

He wants to be viewed. He wants to have his public image, be that he's like a really cool athlete. And a reality, he's just a total fucking dork who that's fine. Like dorks are cool. Being weird is cool. That's totally fine.

But he doesn't embrace that. I think he resists against it. And so it leads to this weird kind of caught in the middle phase that he goes in when everyone's like, dude, you're not coming off. Genuine, you're not representing yourself. Well, why don't you just be you? Just be you.

And then we would all like you. But instead he's kind of caught him in the middle. Yeah, I think a lot of the general public doesn't see through like what, like Dave was wondering if that video was real or if he's in on the joke. And I think a lot of people like wonder that. We see it for like what it is because we've been around him. We know that he is not in on the joke.

He wants to be very much like like. you ask him a question about his personality or like the way people perceive him his brand he blinks a million times and he like really thinks about like what he wants his brand to be and he gets really emotional about it like he was saying even on our show that one time he's like I like like when people cheer for me I hate when people boom me like I want to be I want to be able to change the game like single length irons the whole thing I can change the game forever that's what I'm here to do I think everyone has a purpose like the whole fucking bullshit he is not in on the joke and I wish, and I've always said this, I wish he would be.

I wish he shows up to fucking tournaments wearing like a muscle shirt and he would like his driver head covers were protein shake bottles and stuff. Like that would be a very funny on brand personality and like in his entire brain he could build around. But he just is so fucking unlikable with the stuff that he does. He really is. It's like and that's just to me. That's my personal opinion about him.

Like I find his stuff to be extremely on. likable and almost more so he has all this potential to be the most likable dude on tour. It makes me that much more mad that he doesn't do it correctly. Speaking of that, I'm looking at these old Bryson blogs from the ear. And these two back to back are pretty good picture of that. It says Bryson had disastrous 15th hole at the memorial, argued about offense and ended up making a 10. And then a couple weeks later, Bryson D. Shambo tried to convince a rules official that he should get a drop because fire ants were putting him in a dangerous situation like those are situations that he puts himself in with rules officials that just make

people hate him i will say that i think fire ants are no fucking joke well i got bit by an ant at piner's that you guys didn't believe me so i am kind of with bryson on that one but he was that was just a thing in a long line i just remember that and thing he like pointed at the hole and he's like you're telling me that's not you're telling me that's not a situation which i can move my ball and the guy looked at he goes no I don't see it And Bryce like, okay It just wasn't even close

The guy's like I don't see anything you're talking about He's like I swear the ants were here two seconds ago But remember Brooks chirped him like later in that week And was like oh what about you got any ants out here Or something like that August 3rd Was the PGA championship That's when I was there And I was doing the live podcast

While following Tiger in the practice round And trying to get audio of Tiger and Joey talking so that we could claim they were on our podcast. You got that picture taken to you. Yeah, there's that one picture is like awkwardly standing there with your phone sideways to make it look like you weren't filming, but then also the fact that like you're definitely filming. That was, that's a really, that's a high moment for Foreplay right there is us being like

one of the only media people on the premises at the PG Championship and we were using our time to eavesdrop on Tiger Woods and his caddy. to say that we got them on our podcast unofficially. That's foreplay for you. I love it. Obviously, Kyle and Morikawa went on to win that one.

He sort of catapulted onto the scene. I mean, he had won a few times he had, what was it, the work day? Because I know they're both at Mirrefield. Was it work day where he beat JT in that playoff? I think it was. Yes, yes. But it was at Mirafield.

And look, Morcau's got a few wins So it wasn't like he popped out of nowhere, but like going from a young stud on tour who can win to a major champion and winning the first major championship back after an unprecedented break during a global pandemic was fucking awesome. The way that he did it, hitting that T-shot on 16, where he drove the green. Very, very funny story from this past weekend where we were.

So obviously the kids, you know, hunting, fishing. Actually, there was no fishing. It was just hunting and shooting guns with Kiz, Dewey, his swing coach, J.T. His short game coach, Tim. And that hole came up, actually, from the PGA. And Dewey was telling a great story where, so they had, like, been talking strategy about how to handle that hole. And J.T., who is, you know, we all know Tillery, he's kids, the swing coach. He had been sort of like looking at some of the play. And I guess kids was playing later in the day. So he had come. come up with the idea that like anybody who misses right there is like totally screwed.

So you got to lay up. And so I guess kids had the honor after playing like the 15th hole, it steps up on like 16 and just hits like a five iron down the middle of the fairway. And then walks out of bathroom. I guess Dewey was looking at it. And Dewey said that he's like, I'm looking at the sheet. And it says 292 hole. And there's a big bowl essentially the pin's just like in a bowl.

And he's like, kids' driver literally goes 292. It's like the perfect, perfect shot for Kis's driver. It's in a fucking bowl. And if you miss a little left, it's just an easy up and down. And Kiz always hooks the ball, so he'll miss lap. And they said, so kids like goes to the bathroom and Doey looks over at JT who's outside the ropes and is looking at him like, you are such a pussy.

Like, what do you mean we're going to lay off? He's like chirping him. And they said they're walking down the fairway. And Kiz is like looking at the green, the closer they get. And he's like, dude, it looks like a pretty damn good driver off the tee. And then I guess the line that kids said. was like there was one fucking divot on that T-box and it was mine. He's like, nobody's hit an iron the whole fucking week.

There's one divot in the T-box, Dewey, and it's mine. And he's like, turpenter the entire time. I guess he ended up hitting a wedge to like eight feet and making like a curler for birdie. And I guess he walked off and was like, you motherfuckers are lucky I made birdie right there because that would have been ridiculous. But that's the whole, you know, Morikawa hit it to seven feet, makes Eagle, ends up winning the PGA championship.

And then really after that, I mean, once we got into September, there was the lead up to the U.S. Open with Wingfoot with behind the greens and kind of the launching of behind the greens. And sort of this idea and this chatter that like Wingfoot, the winter was going to be 10 over par. And then they went out and lit it up the first day. And then only one person ended up under par at 600. And it was Bryce and DeShambos. So we had sort of the emergence and like the vindication of Bryce and. entire method when he won at wingfoot and won the u.s open yeah wing uh u.s open was was an awesome awesome experience for all of us i think just like seeing like we got to go play the course before we got

to see it um especially during a pandemic year where we weren't allowed on the premises the fact that we were able to get that access was fucking awesome um the wingfoot guys are forever in debt to those guys they are the best cast of characters i think you can find at a golf course that are maintaining a course i'm finding out that there are many places just like that and it's really been an eye-opening experience. And it's crazy. The amount of respect I have for that community, how far I've come personally for golf course maintenance

and people that go to turf school. It really started with me playing with a super at my place, Rockville Links. And I have to give them a shout at for what they did during. My guy Luke and Kagan over at Rockville Links, like on Monday mornings, he would have a golf cart ready for my dad, who was obviously going through a lot with a restaurant. and then Mondays he had to close down. And my dad's never been country club living.

And like, and the fact that, like, he was able to show up to a golf course that was kind of down the road and, and, and Luke would have it ready for him on maintenance day while they were working around the course. My dad was able to go play golf. Like, even when I wasn't there, he had waters in there, beers for him. Like, just that, like, seeing that side of golf, and I used to shit on those guys being like, you went to turf school. You don't know what the fuck.

Get out of the way. I'm hitting my fucking drive. And now I'm so team golf course. it's not even funny. Like I root for the golf course. I root for the USDA. I love all of that. Like I'm anti-player now.

I love like I'm when I'm walking around the course, that little stuff like, oh, that guy did that. I'm finding little like knickknacks that I see that they put on the course. The way that they, the way that they rate the greens. I'm learning so much more. I mean, I'll rate the bunkers. I'm learning so much more about what goes into it. And I'm forever grateful for this year being that introduction to this whole new world.

I mean, I never, I never would have been able to do that. And I feel like I would have been an asshole the rest of my life when it comes to this whole entire industry. So yeah, shout out to those guys. I'm fucking, I'm very excited to do more behind the greens. We had on August 26th, one of the best stories of the year. Sophia Popov.

So we had her on the podcast. That was a few days after she won with no status where she had been catting a few weeks before for someone else, one of her friends out on tour, went and won the women's British Open and like completely changed her life. That was one of the best stories the entire year. We had her again on the show on August 26. So if you want to go back and re-listen to that interview, she's cool as hell. She's got such a good perspective. And she again, literally came out of the clouds, came out of nowhere, not in her own mind, but in everybody else's mind, her world ranking, her status, all of that came out of nowhere and just won a major championship

in the women's game. So that was the August 26th show. September 23rd, we had Jack Nicholas on the podcast. So again, like a monumental thing that honestly, like not that I, but even just going through, I was trying to think like going through top five, top 10 like things. Like I could have just forgotten that that even happened. Not that that. It's just like so many things occurred throughout the year and like work for saying. My memory is so bad. I just forget so many things that when I scrolled across that name, I was like, holy shit, that's right. Like we sent down with Jack Nicholas and talked about like the debate between, you know, him or or tiger. being the greatest player of all time and him like watching tiger go out and try to break his

records and if he's really rooting from tiger woods after like all of the discussions that we've had about it and the fact that that actually occurred was and that you almost like forget about it speaks a lot to like how much that we've done um then looking into early november like another thing we haven't mentioned is i mean we had we did seven we did 17 really um like live golf events throughout this entire year crazy we did six six 16 Garstall Classic Qualifier stops. And then we did a three-day Pinehurst championship. We had a whole day on the cradle, a whole day of two different courses at Pinehurst,

and then a third day of, you know, over 100 golfers on Pioneers number two, playing for a championship with like Jeff McNeil was down there. So the fact that we were able to do all of that while doing everything else that we're talking about is fucking crazy down. And like the amount of travel that we've done, and like we tried to be as safe as we possibly can. Like Frankie said, like fingers crossed that none of us have gotten coronavirus in the year 2020 so far. We got a few days to go and hopefully that doesn't happen where anybody tests positive.

But like we just also like we have work to do. And like we've had a lot of work to do. We've gone to all these places. Like, you know, you see a lot of it in the videos that we put out. But also, you know, like Frankie and the crew when all of us don't go are going to places and filming behind the greens. And then like me and the Barstall Classic crew are going to 15 different cities across the city or across the country and like putting on golf tournaments. And we're just like trying our best to get shit done. And when you look at the year in review, it's fucking amazing and how much shit we were actually able to get done.

Especially when what, like half of the year has been pretty much a quarantine situation. It's ridiculous. It's got to be, yeah, it's got to be one of the only. Erica always says it's like the only running tour that went on. in all of sports like a non-professional during the pandemic. Like it's crazy the fact that like no other media company, no other concert, like no concert tours were going on, like a couple of people tried to do drive-thrus. But this was like the only thing that was able to make it all the stops,

have people come in a safe fashion. Golf is a safe way to get through the pandemic. You're outside like you're saying and you're healthy and you're enjoying the fucking social distancing, the whole thing. But the fact that we were able to pull it all. off that that's the whole team over there i mean mb that whole team that takes over with you rigs it's crazy how much work goes into all that stuff and setting up the golf courses and all the pros at each stop like you like i don't know all the guys that they were like the guy maddie at cherry

valley like how much work goes into making sure everything was safe and all the precautions were taken and all that i mean hats off to that whole entire that whole entire system the whole crew yeah like lisa litvac who runs our live events who works most closely with me to kind of run the barso classly is fucking awesome. We had Trisha, we had Kelsey, we had Ian, we got Nick, we got Brendan, Jake were there, a ton of them,

and B, obviously, as you mentioned, so like we do, like our team to be able to get through that. We had to cancel some stops in like certain cities that were having spikes. We had to then flip a few more on sale that sold out in like three minutes. We obviously had to water down

some of the experience in terms of the social aspects. And we had a lot of people at, you know, that dropped out of events that had. you know, I can't because of COVID. I don't feel comfortable or, you know, I know somebody I was exposed. You know, a lot of people that reached out that, like, heroically said that, you know, I was actually in contact a week ago with someone who tested positive a few days later.

And even though I don't have any symptoms, like, I'm going to do the right thing and that comes. So, like, you know, all of that going on, the amount of people that came to the Barstow Classic and played and said, like, hey, guys, this is the first time I've been out of the house in, like, four months. And this means the world to me. Like, this is just so fun. I really needed this. and the fact that people were willing to do it, the courses that were willing to all be flexible,

like the rules were different at every single stop. So that was nuts that we were able to put that entire thing on. Then looking at November, I mean, we had a master's November, speaking like Barsoe Classic and CoronaVlaris, ended up being, and I know I've said this a million times, the week that we booked the entire Barso Classic to conclude it ended up being master's weekend. Like we booked it into, we booked it to finish in November,

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You're welcome done. Masters tournament Dustin Johnson went out there and just solidified his awesome year and dominated the field at the masters. Him and his brother were like emotional at the end of it. And that was kind of the last real golf, if you like that we saw. And the fact of that happened in November, the fact of like DJs now won a U.S. Open at Okma and obviously a master's at Augusta National

has sort of elevated him up there up there and a lot of people think too like when is this guy Dustin Johnson going to he's got 23 wins or whatever it is like finally finally start closing a lot more of these majors while he's a defending master's champion he did it in pretty convincing fashion so it was a good way to finish out the major championship year yeah I saw that he made 24 million bucks this year which is uh you know it's a pretty good chunk of change Frankie what do you What are you got going on over there? What are you drinking? Oh, I made an emergency water. And I just, I don't have the, the capabilities of shaking it.

And I took a sip and it was a lot of the gook that went down. And it just wasn't, I wasn't prepared for that type of consistency. And I almost regurgitated it out onto my desk and my laptops system over here. So that was a tough, tough moment. But yeah, Dustin Johnson, hell of a fucking run for him this year. that was the dominating performance that you said the golf course was weird augusta was strange it was like seeing behind the curtain of disney we say it all the time we didn't like to see the brown grass around 12 and the mud balls and no azaleas and stuff it was a little strange um but

dustin johnson he is uh his stacks are outrageous the amount of weeks at number one and how fucking good he really is like when you break it down to how many times he's you know how many times He's won, and now he's starting to win majors, and he's starting to just rack it up $24 million in one years, an astounding number, an astounding number. Like, no one's had. Is that really? That can't be how much he won last year.

I don't know. FedEx. FedEx. And then he won the FedEx. You're right. I totally forgot about the FedEx Cup. What a year. Yeah, 23 million without, 24 million without the FedEx is impossible.

It's a lot. You got to win 12 times. Right. It's an incredible year. Oh my gosh. Yeah. He's a dominating golf figure. And you don't really think of him that way until I feel like this year.

I know. I feel like he gets brushed over way more than he should. Like this year at the TPC Boston, he shot like 30. Didn't he shoot like 30 three unders? 30. I think he hit 30. So, I mean, like he does these outrageous things that I feel like not enough people talk about. I guess Riggs just zapped out on his flight.

So I guess he's gone. Let's talk about how much we hated Riggs over the year 2020. What a fucking ass. I'm just kidding. No, I think it's got to have something to do with the personality, right? Lurch. Like, just that he doesn't have like the electricity that some other, like, like John Rom. Talking about Riggs here or?

Oh, no, I'm just kidding. That's another joke. Sorry, sorry, sorry. You are so ready to talk shit about it. No, I mean, he's one. There's one more coming, too. Yeah, he's not done yet. Dude, you guys keep talking about that, what you're doing here.

I'm going to look up this John Romstead. Go ahead. Keep going. No, I think that's too much more. And that's why after he did, he won the Masters and Amanda and I honestly did that great poster on interview with him where he's crying and he can't say two words without getting choked up. Like that moment resonated with so many people because it was like, there it is.

Finally, Dustin Johnson showing a little bit of emotion that he never shows. and I think if he, he doesn't, he can do whatever he wants. He's Dustin Johnson. He made $24 million this year. But I think, you know, to really resonate with a lot of people, you have to have a little bit of fire and a little bit of emotion. And that might be part of the reason why people sort of brush over him at times. For the most part, people do give him this due. I agree with that.

I mean, it certainly humanized him when he, like, cried and was like, you know, just it took him back, which we've never seen. He wins. He's won before. He's won majors before. But we've never seen that piece of him that was like, oh, this might actually. mean something to him before it was almost like I want to say machine-esque but it's not not in that way at all but like in terms of this is going to come off like papuing him but like that mentality of just being a machine and not caring so much and just winning going about doing your business and then just

leaving but the master's was the first time that ever like it kind of brought him back a step and we've talked about it before but he always gets backhanded compliments about his demeanor like short-term memory or he forgets the bad stuff easily or just things like that where it's they're they're trying to say that he's he doesn't think about things too much or that he's not smart which he's clearly very smart and very good at the game of golf and I think a lot of that is starting to go away after the show of motion at the masters but there's just parts of him that are sometimes robot like and people can't connect with that so they don't talk about it as much let's quickly touch on john rom I've often

talk shit about his game saying like not really but i didn't put a lot of confidence into him um i said there's no chance he makes a top 10 at augusta and he was flirting with that top 10 i really i think he snuck in there with like a nine or a seven a t-7 or t-9 uh which i was pissed that i wasn't able to gloat about that that correct call going to augusta but someone sent this this message to me it was like a fucking dm from golf tv or whatever and john rom in his first 100 events in official golf world ranking, counting events. He has 10 wins

second to Tiger Woods. 24 top threes second to Tiger Woods. 37 top fives second to Tiger Woods. 50 top tens in the first 100 events, 50 top tens second to Tiger Woods

and only 12 missed cuts second to Tiger Woods. That is fucking... That's John Rom. That's John Rom. Now is that... We're talking 50 top tens. Right.

hold on but is that comparison at the same age that tiger was at that time so it's yeah through their first 100 events well so the ages are going to be different okay yeah yeah but yeah but there's the same sample size okay yeah yeah yeah still wildly impressive wildly impressive yeah the only thing that you could say that's wildly different is through his first 100 events tiger woods had five majors and john rom has zero now that's that's a huge difference but no one's talking i i won't want to say no one because he's a top, he's a top favorite in most tournaments coming in. But not enough people are talking that through his first 100 events, John Rob has 50 top tens.

I mean, that is, that's a number to me in golf that is so unachievable for a guy like John Rom. Like, that's a Tiger Woods number. Oh, and half the events he plays in, he's top 10. I mean, that's how you're talking about. That's how you make a lot of money, too. That has to be better than Dustin Johnson, right? He just said it's second. So in the first 100 cents,

it's just better than everybody. Right. Let me hit that water bubble real quick. Hit it one more time. Let me just hit that water. All right. Remember when he had a cup of coffee as normal golf in the world after he won at the memorial

and then he lost it like two weeks later. But John Rom is incredibly good at golf, but I had not thought about, you know, finishing in the top. the first 50 of 100 starts. That's pretty fucking good. So Riggs is... Riggs is...

He's not coming back. Right. And so now I think it's just a joke on us because now we have to remember the latter half of the year of what transpired. You were pretty much done. We were through the mass. Through November. I think the last thing...

The last big thing that happened in golf was Tiger and Charlie taking over the internet at the PNC Championship. Is there anything else that's happened? There has to be... Look it through like... Photo was like, no, we played the form of... man scrambles in Arizona.

Those were big moments for us. We knocked out three, four man scrambles. We went two and one. One of them was in exhibitions, but we beat Joel Damon. We beat Pat Perez, and then we lost to Paige Baranick and crew. I'm trying to think of what else happened. I'm looking through my photos right now. I had a pretzel.

You had a pretzel? Soft pretzels. Yeah, one of those soft big pretzels. It was a homemade one, too. We were able to put as much like a much seasoning as we wanted on it. So we made it kind of an everything. Oh.

Oh my God. I listened to, oh, the Barsoe Classic Championship was around that time. We talked about that a little bit. I listened to the DMAs for the first time from Australia. Our travel series videos have come out. Travel series videos came out, yep. A lot of merch came out. We had a lot of big, we had a huge merch Black Friday deal.

I mean, some of the best merch that you could possibly see Trent's showing us the snow in Iowa right now. Dude, it's snow. I just, I wish you guys could see how much it was snow. Oh, we could see. Holy shit. Yeah, no, that's a good amount. It's seriously snow. That's a big amount of snow. Yeah, we had really good partnership as well, as always with Peter Millar,

Owens Mixers. All of our partners have been fantastic this year. We can't thank them enough. We have a lot of exciting things coming 2021. I guess just to finish it off, Charlie Woods, yeah, he was maybe the biggest story of 2020. I mean, in golf world. This kid's coming up. He's the fucking heir to the throne. Tiger puts his son in the middle of the spotlight. We know that it's going to be a crazy media circus. And Charlie just delivers. He's twirling clubs. He looks just like Tiger Woods. He wears the red and black. The one thing I want to apologize for is that we didn't really talk about,

and I've thought about this when we hung up the phone and we did that podcast. I don't think we mentioned Justin Thomas's name once when we talked about the PNC championship. Like maybe we glossed over the fact that they won. But like Justin Thomas and his dad played absolutely fucking lights out. And I've often given his dad like some shit being like, oh, he's like he owned a country club or he was manages as a country club and his son grew up a country club player. That guy can fucking hit the golf ball, JT's dad. I mean, he can really hit the golf ball under pressure like that.

That was a fucking with all that circus going on to the right of mini tiger and tiger playing golf like in your same group to be able to just, he was firing dark j t played maybe the best golf he's ever played in his life that weekend i'd argue that the tiger woods and charlie show makes the pressure go down you think so yeah because there's no focus on you guys don't want to lose to a 12 11 year old though no i well that's another argument but i think i mean there was all tiger woods and charley woods all weekend like there was no other storyline like i feel like john daly and little john daly are usually the focus of that tournament obviously that's not the case when Tiger Woods and his son show up. But I think having that going on while you're playing in that same group,

I think that takes the pressure off. The Thomas has played phenomenally. Obviously they won the whole thing. But yeah, I mean, yeah, they played really well. But you're going to get dwarfed by Tiger and Charlie. Yeah, which is fair. But I just remember watching that whole weekend, I was so intensely viewing Tiger and Charlie that every time they would zoom in on the put

for Charlie, like, like JT was just inside them. And he was just playing so lights out that weekend. And I just don't know if he got his shine. And he put up on his Instagram, like, this was one of my favorite wins ever because, you know, I got to experience it with my dad. And like, we talked about a little bit, he was nervous about his dad playing because you don't know, your dad just gets a shanks. Like, he's not a pro golf.

He's not on the tour. What if he just gets a shanks and just plays embarrassingly bad on national television? So, yeah, that was pretty cool to see. and I just wanted to give them the shout-out because I don't know if they got what they deserved on our pod last time. Now, did that come as like a sole fanboy as you've, you know, put it in,

you bet on JT this whole year? Where'd that come from? That's another thing. No, I didn't even think of that. I did bet. You know, I had a big year with JT. I rode with J.T. We do these picks for the Barstles Sportsbook.

What are our picks? We go down the list and make the graphics. I picked Justin Thomas every single week that he played. And, you know, he won what? once. So, I mean, it worked out for me one time. Every other time, not so much. But, Mark, you and I were right one week. We picked the same guy. I was like Bryson, right? We put Bryson. And then we got crap for it because he was like the betting favorite. Even though I picked J.T was the betting favorite, like maybe 25% of the

time and I kept picking him. Yeah, favorite or not. Like, and then we got into discussion about how often the favorites win. I can't remember what those numbers were. But I'm still, that was That was a win for us. Before we close up, it feels like we're dwindling off. I want to give a thank you to all who donated. I don't know if you guys saw, but I played around. What'd you do this weekend? Or this week, I don't know.

It was amazing. So I'm down in Florida. I was walking up, you know, the first fair way. And I was thinking, I can probably raise a couple bucks for the barstool fund. So I said that anybody who wants to do it, it would be kind of like a 50-50 pot. You throw in 25 if I don't shoot better than. and 82 and a half, I'll give you 25 back so you get 50 back. However, if I shoot under 82 and a half, I'll keep your 25, put in, I'll double it as well, and we'll send that into the barstool fund.

I said I would take a max of 250, so it would raise 500. Well, then I started getting donations from people that I was rejecting and sending back, but then people kept sending and be like, no, this is just for the barstool fund. So then it started naturally. And then I just was like, all right, so I'll just open it up to anybody that wants to, like, give to me, and then I'll just repurpose it to the Barstool Fund. Maybe because people thought, like, you know, I only have five bucks. I only got a buck, like, whatever the case is, it might feel small. So then we started just taking in, like I just started opening my Venmo account. We collected, now it's over $8,000, even though I say my Venmo is closed. And we've got 126 people that have donated to me, which is aggregated

over $8,000, which I've donated, I think, $7,700, something like that into the Barstool Fund, and I'll send an extra 400 that's sitting in my Venmo account tonight in case any others filter in. That's like, if my math is great, that's like over a $50 average donation, no? Yeah, we got like, like, I got, I don't know what your math is equating to, but we had a, I think we had three or four people donate 500 bucks. Holy shit. Well, I just did. It was like $8,000 divided like $14,000.

I didn't know exactly what the numbers are, but yeah, it's like 55 bucks a person, which is fucking awesome to a random Venmoca, not random, but like, that's, they were just trusting you to go through your account to play golf and hit a certain number. Like, that's just, that's a really good thing that you did. It's amazing that you raise that much money. That helps a restaurant or a store. Like, that's, that goes a long way, $8,000. I mean, that's, that's a monthly, I don't know, electrical bill for a place that's struggling right now.

that that single-handedly gets someone through something which is awesome yeah I mean it's you know eight grand something like when you think about you're betting like how much money you have in your like bank account like yeah so we donated seven thousand six hundred you keep saying we have a team over there is this just you going through no but I know so I put in you know I sent you some money and then I put in my own money into the barstool fund as well so when I say that that I know what you were saying it is if it was like you were like oh well I don't know i mean i would say we like you know this four play team we've done a ton over the year like i'm just a cog you guys hear that so no so i would say you know you guys are quasi part of it as well as people entrust us to you know kick the money over to barstable fund it's a phenomenal thing that's a very cool thing that you so i wanted to say thank you to all who donated i got people subscribing to the four play youtube page right now and it's making a ding noise and it's it's taken up my ears my my ear space um All right, boys. I think that's a pretty good.

That's a great thing, Lurch. I don't want to gloss over that. That's fucking phenomenal. No, no, no. You're not at all. Not at all. Really, really good. And I mean, I can't thank people enough for, I mean, and everyone's chipping in. It's crazy little things like that that are raising that much money. It's, and we're closing in on $10 million on the Barstall Fund.

When you think about that being funded by just the common man and woman of like the internet, right? Like this isn't, it's just a private business that came out and said, hey, we're going to raise this money from our fan base and let's see who we can reach. And we have $10 million in nine days, basically. It's basically a million dollars a day. Right. Does it just start? The only thing just started. There's no reason it can't get to $50 million.

I mean, if you really think about how many businesses you can help, like I think there's already been 35 businesses. And that's, I mean, they're not. even halfway there with the money they have now, not even close to halfway there with the amount of businesses they can help. So it's fucking phenomenal, man. It really makes me, like, emotional thinking about all these, all those videos that Dave's posting and how many lives are changed. And we talked about it on the podcast yesterday, but it's not just the business. It's the person that helps that business and the other person that knows that business. It goes a long way, man. Each one's helping a community. So, um, it's amazing. Some of the people, some of the people

donated to me, wrote me like, uh, note on Instagram saying that they run a small business to. It's like they donated to me to donate to someone else. Like the goodness in someone's hard to do that is amazing. So that I said that tonight, just collecting all those people, I was like, if you run a small business and you actually donated to me, I'll just, you know, not that it will make a huge difference, but just do a little swipe up story for their small business store or something off.

There's a place stats that that gas goes to, stats is south. Boston. I've been there. And they like donated like I mean they have to be hurting too. They're a fucking bar and restaurant like they donated whatever it was five grand or it may have even been more to the fun just because they know what other people are going through. And yeah, it's it's awesome. So yeah, it's been a crazy 2020. I think it's been a successful one on our part and I'm really excited for what 2021 has in store. I think we're just really starting here with how big this thing can get, which is crazy. If you think about all this up that's happening and behind the scenes

that people are going to find out the next couple weeks. So yeah, it's going to be, everything's going to be bigger. Barso Classics are going to be bigger. More videos are going to come out. Sponsorships are going to be bigger. Our partnership's going to be bigger.

So yeah, it's exciting stuff. And hopefully this fucking world can get back to normal. Shout out to all the listening. Yep, I was just about to say the same thing. Thank you so much for all the listeners. It won't be anything without you guys. So it's been a heck of a ride.

I'd be at fucking Barrelli's fucking probably not getting anything and just fucking sitting there tossing dough until the lights went off. crazy, the listeners and the fans are life changing. Yeah, I'd be a security guard in this very city that I'm in right now. I'd be at a corn plant

making sure, no, nothing crazy is going on. I'd be selling software, which I'm just about to go back to. So I still live exactly that life. Yeah, Lurch isn't as thankful for you guys. Let's put that on the record because he has the same exact life regardless of if you're a part of it or not. So let's just keep that one of them. Let's end the year on that

good note. Maybe I'll make a buck. Say you guys. All right, fellas. Yep. Hit it hard. We'd be crazy. And we'd come back and we'd be crazy not to mention that during this whole thing, we're recapping 2020, that we do not bring out the fact that Riggs stayed at Pioneers

fled New York City during a pandemic. Stayed at Pioneers for 99 straight days became the moral compass at Pioneers, kicked someone off the golf course for playing later that night. Tom Pashley gave him a fucking compass. I said moral compass. He became the leader of Pioneer. Hurst, North Carolina, and he cried on his way out. It's become one of the greatest viral moments in foreplay barstool history because of how preposterous it is. So I did not want that to be

forgotten in this crazy year, the fact that all this stuff's happened, especially during this like this like small business time where we're all raising money, the fact that while all those people were all struggling and getting crushed, that happened at Pinehurst, like at the height of when all this shit was hitting is a very, very funny moment. What we all know, Riggs is like a very good funny great guy at heart and that it had nothing to do with the actual pandemic. It's just he happened to be there and has lifelong friends and Pashley is maybe one of the nicest guys in the fucking world.

We love Tom Pasha. We love fucking Piner's but had to bring it up. I don't know if you guys have anything to say about that. I was just going to say that it's funny that the guy who at the beginning of the episode was like, yeah, I put a few things together here. I went through our old podcast just to talk about 2020. He conveniently left out the part where he stayed at Piner's for 99 days and cried. on his way out. So I'm with Frankie.

We would be remissed not to mention that. Yeah, it was well said, Frankie. There's really not much else to add other than exactly what you shared. So thank you for coming back on how preposterous the year was, the fact that that that happened this year. More preposterous than anything we brought up in this whole entire, this whole outline of what happened this year. That's the number one.

Now I'm thinking how skewed was his outline. What else did Riggs do over the course of the year that we're simply forgetting or just He's moved to the two best. He fled COVID. Which is like good on him. Like you should, right? Like you shouldn't just like succumb to this virus and be like, just get taken by it. Like if you can flee it, then go.

Like you shouldn't want it. Like you shouldn't want to be stuck in your house. So he did it. And I mean, it also allowed him to do the Barstow classic and travel all over the place. So that was fucking fantastic. And yeah, listen, it was a good thing for foreplay, the fact that Riggs was able to go to Piner's. We had video content coming out every single day. The 12-year-old P challenge, was that this year?

Yes. So he lost to a 12-year-old. Also, which was left off. He forgot to bring that one up. Which was left off. I mean, he lost to a 12-year-old from the same T's, which I actually later found out they played from like 6,100 yards. Or it was even like it was like it was the white T's where they played 12-year-old

Pete. So yeah, 12-year-old Pete for sure happened this year. I beat 12-year-old Pete, but he gave me nine strokes. The totally different match. Totally different match. Not even close, but I love it. Anyways, Trent, stay safe out there. Don't want you to get snowed in.

Yeah, no, I'm indoors for the foreseeable future. So I'm all good. I'm just going to watch the snow and not venture out there. Maybe tomorrow you could do a snow angel for us. Okay, maybe. I used to do those. That's really, when Vine was still a thing, every time it's snowed, I would do a snow angel.

When I speak to you guys next, it will be another year. True. So this is the last time you're hearing my voice for the entire year. Right. Even when people listen to this in other years, I was speaking in 2020 right now. So if you're listening to this in the year 2027, if you've somehow come across this podcast, I am currently in 2020. I don't even know if I'm going to be alive by 2027.

All right. I think Trent's mom's calling for him to wrap it up. I have to pee so bad. Bye, bye. See you. Hit it hard, boys.