Fore Play - The COVID Rahmshell, Olympic Collapse, Brooksy Wars, & Frankie vs Boston

Episode Date: June 8, 2021

Golf is BUSY. Jon Rahm with a 6-shot lead was forced to WD from The Memorial after being alerted he tested positive for COVID-19 in spectacular fashion. The U.S. Women’s Open saw a collapse give way to a rising new star. Brooks vs Bryson has continued to ramp up. Frankie Borrelli has taken on the entire city of Boston, and lived thus far to talk about it. A lot to talk about!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Foreplay, I'm at Barstool Sports. Everyone is on edge, and there is a lot to talk about golf, golf, golf, golf is popping right now outside of golf. We have our very own Frankie Borrelli, who is basically at war against the entire city of Boston, personified perfectly by Mr. Tanktop guys. So we got a lot to get to. Owens Mixers, okay, they are our title sponsor. They have been with us for a very long time. They will be with us for a very long time. They partnered with us to create our favorite

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You surviving? You're feeling good. Your face looks really nice. Good complexion right now. Thank you. Appreciate it. We have some trouble with the lighting in this room. And Lurch took offense to that. But what I, what's going on in my... My face is washed out. I don't look good. My face. The lighting you're false now. See, I never said it like that. Lurch has this thing where like anyone smaller than him in the human body has this like high pitch scrawny little voice. That's not what happened. No, I'm just completely toned up. So I can't really mimic anybody. The screen is just whatever. We're not going to get into that. My, whatever, yeah, there you go. Whatever. Why? Lurch, Lurch used to call a, Lurch, one of the most kind of degrading things is

me and a couple of our buddies, Lurch would just call a sub six footers sometimes. Like, Much of lurks thing. That really, yeah, that would be a big time. It was a pretty funny chirp, actually. Just be, oh, what are you? Some people care deeply about it, exactly. I think you care a lot by putting out that shirt. No, it's just, you know, some people, like, you've got to chip on your shoulder about things,

but I don't think it's anything to do with your height, honestly, but other people, like, care. Like, one of my buddies from college, McDonald, always wanted to be six feet, would write it on, you know, his, the lacrosse roster, whatever, six feet, and then doctor certified like five, ten and a half. So just for those people, it's a good shirt. You know, whatever gets some people's getting. It's no secret. Guys want to be taller. It would be nice to be like six four.

Like, that's just pretty sweet as a guy. I wish I were six two. Six two would be perfect. I'd take six one. I'm five, eleven and three fourths. I'm just, I'm almost there. You're nipping at it. But I actually, I go the other way.

I understand wanting to be six foot. Your boy wants to be six foot really bad. But also like if I'm five eleven and three fourths, I'm five eleven and three fourths, I'm five eleven and three fourths, I'm five eleven and three fours there's nothing wrong with that now am i five eight five nine no and i i feel for those guys because all of those guys want to be taller and i understand that so you can give them a sub five 10 ten and a half for five 10 because sub five 10 you're starting to get small yeah a lot of honor in saying five 11 three fours not just rounding up to six because with shoes on you're probably

six probably yeah but yeah but i also like i want the people to know who aren't six foot that's not the end of the world we don't have to be six foot it's not the end of the world we don't have to be Six foot, it's fine. Yeah, and you are right in that if you're, I've never even really considered like, man, I wish I was a few inches taller. I do think if you're in the 5-8 range, you probably think about that a decent amount of the time. But I don't know. I'm about 5-8.

Yeah, I would really think so. So, yeah, there's a lot we could start with. There's an enormous amount of things that have happened in the last four days. I do, you know, I think people are personally invested in what goes on with these four personalities here on this show. So Frankie, you've really, you've been the center of attention, I would say, for the last, you know, week with the Islanders versus the Bruins. Some of the most all-time memorable clips and photographs in the history of martial sports have happened with you in the last week and both sides of it.

I mean, life is a full circle, you know, is just looking every other day at what is happening with you on the internet from like 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. at night. And it's, how are you feeling? How is your brain? You seem a little bit on edge if we're going to be honest with each other in the trust tree. Yeah, a little on edge. You know, it's just a stressful time in my life. I never in my entire life thought that I'd be an enemy in a city.

You know, Ryan Whitney in Boston was like, dude, you have to kind of feel kind of cool that you walk into a bar and the entire bar is booing you, screaming, fuck you, Frankie, because you represent the team that they're playing in the playoffs. Like, they're not even booing the people on the ice. They're not booing the screen. They're not booing the islanders. They're legitimately the entire night,

a thousand people in a Boston bar to watch the Bruins screamed, fuck you, Frankie. And like, there's a part of that that's like fucking awesome. It's like how many athletes in the world go to a city and become a fucking villain? It's crazy. Like, Tray Young goes somewhere and he's like, now he's the enemy of the Knicks. But I show up to Boston and I'm no one even, who's, why aren't you booing Ryan Pooleck? You know what I mean?

Like, come on. I'm not doing anything. So that part's been fun, very stressful. a couple people very mean in Boston, but we got through it, and I got my little revenge, and now we go to Borrelli's. The thing is,

like, I wanted to be able to not explode and celebrate too much, but, like, because I was like, oh, what if they just lose the series? But then I thought to myself, like,

then what's the point of having, like, the series? What's the point of having fun? If you're not going to die and live with each game, you're going to have your assholes that'll be,

going to be like, this didn't age well. But, you know what, it aged perfectly fine, because that day that I crowd surfed, we won. That day that I cried, we lost. That day that I told the entire city to go,

suck my fucking dick, we won. Like, there was nothing that changed. There was no aging. It's not wine. It's not cheese. It's not a dry rubbed steak at Teller's chop house, which I went to the other night, unbelievable steak. I got a nice bone in New York strip. Whoa. Oh, you went with the strip. Yeah, finally. Are you a committed, are you a committed strip guy now? You know, it was a lot, it was very different. It was a lot more flavor, but I did miss the consistency of the filet. But yeah, I did like the, I like the strip. It was very good. Just a nice cut of meat. But yeah, man, I'm

happy. I'm excited. Borelli's has about a thousand people piling into it today. And it's just never in my left that I think it was going to be like that. You're standing on top of a chair, yelling at thousands, hundreds of strangers in a different city that fuck you

suck my dick. You're yelling at it. They didn't do anything about it. Nothing. They just kind of took it. The great thing is that, like, you have that in you. Like, you are, your Frankie Borelli, your family owns an Italian restaurant, but you also are an islander psycho. Like, we've been telling people about psycho Frankie for years now. And now you just get to see it on full display where you have to go into the lion's den. And if they're going to give it to you, you're going to give it right back.

Like that's to not fully commit to that because that is actually who you are in those moments would be ridiculous. So I think, like these guys are saying, the pictures that are coming out, the videos that are coming out, like no matter what happens in this series, like those moments are going to be etched in Barstil history forever. and they're fantastic. It's like Muhammad Ali type pictures, honestly. Like, it's like a sparring mat. And then if you're the one editing those photos, they're incredible.

The way that you're like popping in the image and then all these people are almost in like black and white looking at you, like they want to kill you. And also Boston fans are, they're great fans, you know, in terms of they want to win so badly.

You're a tremendous Islanders fan. It's pretty much all you care about in this life. I would say like 90% of this life. And no, I mean, I remember one time I was up in Boston, I wore a Richter's jersey, and it was just like a regular season game. I think the Rangers won three one. I sat there. I didn't really say anything, but obviously I was wearing that Rangers jersey, Frankie, that you know.

And then at the end of the game, I just stood up and gave this really loud kind of clap when it was over. And then one kid below me looked up and he goes, come to Sully's Tape, I'm going to knock your fucking teeth in. And then he starts coming over the chairs at me because I just kept clapping. And his buddy, thank God help him back because I didn't want to do anything with that. Yeah, man, the craziest thing for me is that, like, I've been doing this, like you said, Trent, forever just in my room or going to Borrelli's.

That's how these streams, that's how that, like, setting of the streams started at Borrelies, the commercial New Amsterdam, shout out of Amsterdam vodka. Me and my dad would go in the back of Borrelies, we'd go to our house and we'd just watch the game anyway, playoff game, we'd make it an event. And now to be able to be like, all right, I'm going to do this thing that I've been doing my whole, life and now a thousand people are going to be on my side and they want to come in and experience

it with us. The natural progression of that is so cool to see. Like the fact that I didn't really have to do it. I just had to watch the Islander games like I always do. You know what I mean? It's kind of crazy. Do I wish I was in the Coliseum? Yes, but Dave knows content. He knew that it was going to be insane going to the opposing city and it worked out. It's also cool that you're there representing a massive amount of people that feel the way that you feel. Like, it's not like you're just a heel that's a really hated person in the WWE and the only person that likes you is you.

You're actually like, you are representing thousands and thousands of people in Boston. That, like, you're going to go home and you're going to have the home field. But for this week, these two nights, like, I'm here representing my people, motherfuckers. And like, here we go. Like, that's what's cool is that you have that crowd. Yeah, and the crowd got crazy. I got to give a shout out to John from Isles Fanatics.

He runs one of these ridiculous Instagram pages that have like 18,000 Islander psychos that love to just talk about everything. I love them. But man, I send him one message. Like, you think we can fill up Raleys? Because like the first night was okay that we did it. Then that second night when Sue Fire came, this guy, Isles Fanatics had that place filled to the gills. I mean, just Islander fans just show up, man.

So I had to give a shout to him. And then the photos aren't edited, Ben. We have this guy, Dennis De Silva. He does the Islanders photos for the Islanders. He's the one that takes them coming out of the tunnel. Bro, he was taking photos. And then it was going straight to his phone from his camera. And he just, he just air dropping to us.

Like, every photo was just straight from the camera. The ones from Hurricanes up in Boston? So that was another guy. I forget his name. But same. Same. He showed it to me on his camera and just air dropped it to me. Just sent it to me.

They're so good. Because it is like you're going 13 rounds. honestly with everybody in that bar, whatever. They're so good. I guess, hold on, Rick, before you ask a question, I want to know, because Frankie, this is within you. For the 1,200 people or whatever that you're going to pack in umbrellies, is there any background research being done on these 1,200

to ensure that they're all Islanders fans? Oh, Island. I mean, there will be a couple of Bruins fans, which is fair. Like, that's okay. There was like one or two Islander fans in the bar that I heard just like, after we scored, I heard like a yeah in the background. But no, I mean, this is, it's classic Borrellas. Like I got like my girlfriend, she's going to be checking IDs at the door.

I got my dad's got like two cooks coming in. Dude, we only fit like 280 people. So we have the outside overflow. We have TVs in the parking lot tonight. So it's like it's going to be a fucking war zone. But the thing that I'm going to change about tonight is every person behind the camera, I will know. Like in that back room. Yeah.

So that we kind of avoid like, we had a couple problems last time. this guy in the green shirt, he got a little too crazy. He said some things that will probably end up putting him in jail at some point. I mean, he was on a live stream. He was crazy. So, yeah, I mean, we had a couple of issues. And so tonight I will know and be accounted for every person that will be on screen, which will be good. Well, what I was like, dude, the one picture of you with the evil smile is like you have a joker smile on your face that I've never, ever seen your teeth and mouth make like that shape of a smile in my life.

that and it came out right there where you just wrote it was one of the most amazing things i zoomed in was like is that frankie's mouth did they put like he's mouth on him from the joker like what is what is that it was amazing i don't know yeah it did look like if you look at a uh like a batman comic when you look at the joker's teeth or anybody's teeth where it's all white and you can't really even see the lines of the teeth that's what you looked like and you just it looked crazy but the professional photography, the people in front, that has changed barstool streams forever. That like any...

Dennis to Silva, I texted him that. I said, you have now added a wrinkle into the Barstool universe. Like, we can no longer do really anything without still shots. Like, still shots go more viral than the videos. No doubt. It's preposterous. Like they're because they look like Renaissance paintings. Right.

It's very dramatic. And you can hear opera music when you're looking at these pictures. And that is just like think about all the streams Barstool has done over the course of the last eight, you know, five, six, seven, eight years. And if we had had a professional photographer at all those, they would be even bigger than they already were. He really has added a completely new aspect to these things. It's incredible. And it was his initiative to do it. He's like, hey, man, like, I'm going to come watch the game.

Do you mind if I bring my camera? I think it'd be really cool to get some snapshots of how insane it is. And I was like, yeah, whatever. I thought it was kind of weird at first, like taking photos of us. I was like, whatever. But then he was sending us fucking pictures as we were happening. I'm like, dude, you are doing something right now. Yep.

Yeah, they're iconic. Well, good luck tonight, Frank. Thank you. That's what's being lost in all this is like game. You have a huge game. Like the stream's cool. The photos are amazing. Whatever.

Like game five tonight is your, your livelihood as a fan, which is clearly what keeps you alive is on the line tonight. Game five, man. It's fucking crazy. And it's been a great series. Like, you look back. The Allen just could be up 3-1 or they could be down four-nothing. They could have gotten swept or they could have been on the precipice of winning right now.

So I was actually on a plane for the game on Friday. So I was like just seeing in a little bit, but I wasn't able to watch it in real time. When pasta hit the post, was it zero zero? What was the score there? Because obviously I saw that highlight get played a thousand times over again. When you had the wide open net? Yeah. I think it was maybe was it.

Was it one nothing? Was it one nothing? I think it may have been one nothing brew. everyone is to put it to nothing. Honestly, it's like watching the games in those bars, it's like you can't hear anything. And like, it's just wait for the, wait for the siren to go off and go crazy. Like, you're obviously watching intensely and like you want to be able to know everything that happens, but I can't remember a thing, which kind of sucks.

I remember that from the Blues series, the St. the Cint of the Finals where it's like, I actually remember very little about the actual happenings of the games. Right. Except for like the final moments just because it was such a blue. and it's so emotion. It's almost like you're seeing stars the whole time when you think back to it because everything was so intense.

But yeah, good luck tonight, Frankie. Big series. Best part is whoever wins the series just like plays the lightning next round. We were saying that in the bar, like this is the Stanley Cup finals for Barstool. This is like Barstool Cup finals almost. And then you have to go win two more series somehow, some way against a team that's like rolling the best team in the league, Carolina Hurricanes, which is very funny and very barstool.

still that we're like we're taking this as seriously as you can and you're not even halfway there yet like there's going to be a lot of people who know who win this series that probably have no idea who won the Stanley Cup right you're in the semi-finals of the conference right yeah yeah personally for me because I'm not a hockey guy this is my Stanley Cup like whoever was this I'm like oh wow congrats to them on they did it their success yeah uh yeah the uh the Bushnell wingman speaking of success. This is the world's first golf speaker featuring audible GPS distance and premium sound quality. The sound quality of this thing is just fucking fantastic. That's really the best way to describe it. You can jam on this thing for up to 10 hours, which is 36 holes of golf easily.

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magnet, which I love. That's really good representation of what it does to the golf cart. It just bites onto it and does not let go. It's, yeah, I know Frankie's mentioned it before, but if you just, if you want, and somebody DM me or tweeted whatever the other day that they have now started to bring the Bushnell speaker into their bathroom while they shower. And it's just as good. It's better than a laptop.

Like when I bring my laptop into, like when I'm shower and play some music, I can barely hear it. But with the Bushnell, that thing rocks. And it's, it's awesome. So fun fact, I brought my laptop into the bathroom when I was, like in college and set it next to the sink to play music while I was showing. And I reached out at one point to change the song, as some dog shit song came on,

reached out and some drops of water got him. The keyboard, ruined the keyboard. And then for the rest of the time in college, I had to get one of those detached keyboards. And when I would sit in class, you know, I would have to have the keyboard on top of the actual keyboard trying to type.

People looked at me like, Who is this poor person in class? Right. in Harvard. Like, don't you know somebody they're taking? Like, this isn't Harvard. You have highlighted a life problem that doesn't get talking about enough. Like, yeah, it's tough out there.

Like, life is very hard. It's a difficult endeavor for everyone. But the thing that, one of those things that's very hard is changing the song when you're in the shower, when you're soaking wet. And it's a laptop. Because you do run that risk every single time. You try and, like, shake it off. Or if the towel's handy you, you wipe it down a little bit and do it. But, you know, a couple droplets get on there and you look like rigs in class.

Dude, it was like the R and the T button were like they just didn't work on my computer. It was awful. I love how you're sticking to just listening to music while you have your laptop in the bathroom. It's not like you guys are changing like porn video to porn video. I wouldn't do that in the shower. It's too much of the process. I'm being honest with you when I say that's not what I was talking about. Okay, good, good.

Because honestly, laptop in the shower or something I really never heard of. Listen, you sicko, don't project on to us what you do in the bathroom. I would say, I don't bring. I just make sure that laptop, Frankie, isn't connected to your wingman at that given time because then we're knowing exactly what Frankie's doing in the shower. I don't bring my laptop in the shower. It's why I bring my wingman.

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and overall meaning. Obviously, we're going to break all that down because it was phenomenal. Olympic was amazing. I was there for several days. We played Olympic, so we can talk a lot about that and we will, the Mike Finn guy who was on the bag. But the John Rom story went, you know, it was one of those that transcended the golf world. John Rom

comes off the 18th Green on Saturday after finishing his third round. He's got a six-shot lead at the memorial. They tell him like, you know, before he even gets to the rough, basically, he's still on the fucking fringe, he was immediately disqualified and has to withdraw from the tournament because he tested positive for COVID-19. He looked like him.

He's about to cry like he went down, you know, like, oh my God, devastated clearly, immediately has to withdraw. The whole golf, Twitter, the whole sports world went nuts because there was a lot to break down. COVID already is just a hot-button issue. It's gotten super political, so people are weighing in on their COVID takes vaccinations. People are weighing in on their vaccination takes. Clearly, John Rom, like, had chosen not to be vaccinated, in which case he's then subject to testing, like, every day throughout the whole week. So people were weighing in on that.

And then the PGA Tour, who is one of, you know, people's favorite pinata in the world of golf is to just shit on the PGA Tour. So they were getting roasted for the way that they handled the whole thing. And then obviously people were painting an asterisk all over yesterday's result with Patrick Cantley winning the whole thing. You know, we'll start with Trent Daddy because Trent, I feel like, is usually one of our more level-headed folks on the show. But just your reaction to the whole thing, Trin.

Well, it's a difficult thing to talk about on social media. And Riggs, I know you put out the clip. I put out the clip of them telling him as soon as he got off the green. And my mentions under that dumpster fire. Just as soon as you put it out, and I tweeted after that being like, all right, in my mentions here, we're getting close to a solution. So keep an eye on my mentions, and we're going to have this thing figured out here in the next 10 minutes. So, like, and the thing about this whole scenario is there's really not a right answer.

Like when you think about them telling him right when he gets off the green and you think, oh, man, that's a crazy place to do that. He's still on camera. Clearly he has an emotional reaction to it. That's not a great place to do it. But then you think about what if they let him walk through the crowd and he's, you know, he's shaking hands. He's high five and he's fist bumping people.

And then you find out afterwards that he's tested positive for COVID. And then people are piling on the PJ tour being like, why would you not tell him immediately so then he's not trying to touch all these people. So it's a no win for anybody. So, but it was just a tough and kind of a surreal scene to see a guy with a six-shot lead just played an incredible round shot of 64 to walk off the green and then be told that he's going to be forced to withdraw from the tournament. And again, I don't have an opinion about like, this is what they should have done.

And if you don't think this, then you're wrong and fuck you. And like, I don't know what the solution is because this is a scenario. if you had said this, if you had, you know, had this hypothetical and presented it to the PJ tour, they'd be like, that's the craziest hypothetical we could think of. So I don't know what the protocol would be. And then it happened. And that's just, I don't know what the right answer is. I don't know what the wrong answer is.

I just know that it's a shitty situation for John Rom. It's a shitty situation for the PJ tour. And I guess you just learn from it. Like, I don't know what the right answer is. I think Riggs setting you up as the most level-headed person on the show really was. personified in that answer right there i mean that was the most level-headed answer of all time like you just said we're going to learn from it i'm like but you know what i mean like no i do i i do i i agree like i probably wouldn't have had that same take until i just heard you like i wanted a fucking

rip into the pGA tour being like how could you possibly think that that's the place to tell john rome where he is going like that he just is out of the tournament he has covid like that is just the most you can't tell him in the scoring table but i get it like he goes up there to high fives a million people if the news, which the news will come out because he won't be playing the next day, they will go back, search the tape, see who he touched. That's just a nightmare. So yeah, the whole situation kind of sucks.

Like, when did he take the test? Is that prior to the round, obviously? Like, how long did they know that he was, like, COVID positive? Aren't those, like, rapids kind of quick? So, yeah. And I think everything that's been said captures this probably better than, like Trent originally said, anything that has or could have been done on social media and 280 characters, especially on

Twitter, which is everyone wants to attack and shit on one target. That might be the PGA Tour in this instance. It might be if you're a big vaccination person, it might be wrong. Like whoever, people want to attack someone, right? Because it's a preposterous situation that you think someone should basically deserve all of the blame. And like immediately I was making fun of the PGA Tour. and I still think there had to be some different way to do it than like those theatrics because it felt like that it was done more in a WWE Monday Night Raw way than it was like how the PJTor handles someone with the virus that has shut down the entire world because of a global pandemic.

So that was very tricky. When you do go back and look at everything how it went down, Rob, you know, I believe Monday, like alerted officials that he had come in close contact with someone who has COVID-19. therefore he was subject to different protocols immediately. Like he couldn't go into public areas. He couldn't go to the clubhouse. He couldn't go into player dining.

And he had to take a COVID test every single day, basically like before his round. Well, what got tricky was they didn't finish the third second round until Saturday morning because of rain delays. So he actually, between his second and third round, which were both, that period was like Saturday midday, he took another test. They got that result back a few hours later. that result was positive, then they decided to reconfirm that test, which is like their standard protocol, in case it was a false positive, so they didn't just yank somebody out of the tournament based on a bullshit test. They got that back at like 605 p.m. Eastern,

and I believe he was just about to finish up at that time. So when you actually go look at that, if all those things are true, it becomes difficult to find how the PGA tour could have really done it better and safer because the original optics were like, okay, you let this fucking guy play a whole round on Saturday, where you knew he was positive. How come he can't just play a whole round on Sunday where you know he's positive

and win his $2 million or $1.7 million. But when you go through it that way, you know, like he clearly inherited the risk by not, by choosing to not have the vaccine, which is fine. That's a personal choice. You choose not to have the vaccine. But like you also therefore are subject to test.

You're subject to, you know, being more likely to get the virus based on all the science. And that's pretty much what happened. And the fact that the one person that like tested positive in the field, was the guy that had a six-shot lead after Saturday. You can't make that shit up. But I am hard-pressed to find where someone other than, like, the coronavirus deserves all the blame.

What do you think, Larch? I just think it's a little bit tricky. It's incredibly tricky. It's just so hard. It's, yeah. I mean, to say, like, if there was blame, I would say that, like, as soon as they found out, like, I think they should have just gone out to them, been like, hey, like, we got to stop it here. Like, what's the?

point letting them play those extra holes as soon as they found out that information. I think you just stop it in that moment because like where they stop them. Like there's, you know, I'm a big believer in that there's a time and place for every comment. You know, you can work those two angles to have like the proper time and the way you say something to somebody. And it's hard to find that moment in this. But like, because if it was after hole six when they got the report back, like, do they just

go back out there and tell them after whole six? Like, I think that might be even better to do it then because you tell them, hey, you know, rules official, sorry you have COVID. Like, we got to stop it here. Like, you can't go on any further. Yeah, I guess their logic there was, um, they wanted to retest it because like Rick said, if you pull somebody for a false positive, you're just, you're just surrounded by landmines in this. Like if you step one way, you're fucked. If you step the other way, oh, we pulled him. Then we found out to false positive, but we still force him to withdraw.

Now we're fucked. And I understand they, it's just the events that had to happen for them to tell him right off the 18th green after extending his lead to six strokes. Like that's not great. And it made for the biggest social media explosion you could possibly have. But every other scenario is, has enough landmines on its own. Yeah. And not to say that we have the answers in the room, but like maybe at that point, like if they were retesting, that adds some. some vagueness to it of like when they actually had the results and when they could have stopped them.

They could have in that moment on the 18th said, hey, we're still testing for COVID. We do have like a belief that you tested positive. So will you just walk with us in this direction? And we're going to continue to test it so that he doesn't go into the crowd, whatever, go to the scoring table. Maybe they can accommodate him differently because of that. And then tell him officially, you know, that night or whatever just to like right off the 18th Green was like that old bet that I kind of thought of where, hey, would you do like five foot, five foot putts? And if you miss one, you just get killed, like right off the eight.

Like they essentially kind of executed him right after the whole, which I just thought was preposterouser. Like, I just thought that's the way that they did it. There had to be something else that they could have done or brought him into a private room. I mean, like, not only is it the 1.7 or whatever that he would have won, but you went on the PGA. that's like that's a that's a world-class achievement you know what I mean there's just 0.000 of people that ever get to do that so yeah it was strange and to rigs this point yeah like

you kind of boil like most of it just goes to the coronavirus and we're just living in this like post-pandemic currently pandemic right and also like but I do think that there is some sort of gray area where they could have brought him to another location or said hey we're still continue to test it, but we do have belief that you've tested positive. If that's the case, if that holds to be true, then we're going to have to disqualify you for or remove you

from the tournament or whatever. Post-18th green, like right next to the green side bunker where whoever mentioned it, like, he barely got to the rough was like it was, sir. It was preposterous. Yeah, it was. It was a ridiculous clip. It was like, it was made you think to him, like, the way

he handled it too, like in that exact moment. He ended up with his statement. He's being high road. He's classy. But in that moment, he was, because you were thinking as a viewer like, that's devastating. And then he reacted like, that's devastating. You were like, oh my God. So this is the whole

thing. It was like, holy fuck when you saw that clip. It was a clip that you saw on your phone that you immediately had to show you had to stop everyone at your dinner table. It would be like, have you guys seen this fucking clip? Like that, it was that kind of clip. Well, in his reaction then warranted a reaction from Faldo and

Nance. Like if they had told him, if they had said it to him and he was like, okay, like he was pretty steel, he was pretty stone face, like obviously devastated, but not doubled over in devastation. Then I think maybe they say, oh, it looks like maybe something's going on, but then they cut to commercial. Instead, they stayed on the broadcast. Nance talked about it. And then they cut to Dottie Pepper who was just like, holy fuck. Like now I got to tell the world that John Rom just tested positive for COVID and is being forced to withdraw from this tournament that he is winning by six strokes. Dude, credit to Dottie Pepper, who announced, it like he was dead and it was her delivery she just like they cut to her and she was so direct

and she just goes can't confirm john rom tested positive for COVID-19 and had to withdraw from the term and then she like cut off her mic and just stood there like oh this is the grieving period it was it was the gravity of that announcement by her was all time well did she even announce that he would drew like or did he just she stated the facts of like he's got COVID and then i thought it was dead air on her side because then I thought eventually Nance was like it kind of drifted and then then Nance was like and I think he now has to withdraw from the tournament and I like and then it was like black like like like what what no come back we need to know more no that is what happened donnie pepper confirmed the COVID and then she was just dead Mike standing there and just like

it was like okay she just by a great stand here right just like she's just by a great stand there's nothing else to Dottie here and then Faldo and got an I didn't know what to do. And then Nancy gave that, like, yeah, now I think he has to withdraw. And then it was just dead air. And then it was just like, oh, God. It's not funny, obviously, but it is certainly absurd. And the whole thing was just like, we've never seen anything like this.

And Doddy Pepper didn't know what to do. Fowler didn't know what to do. And they were like, all right, we're just going to stick to the facts here. Because we don't know really what's going on. It was quite a scene. Yeah. It was bizarre, man. It was one of the more bizarre things ever seen.

And by the way, he 100% wins that tournament, obviously. Like, he had to shoot. All he had to do was shoot, I think, a four, over 76 or better yesterday and he would have won as a guy that was 18 under through three rounds like he probably would have won by more than six shots so he just got told I mean he got they just not they again coronavirus just stole 1.7 million dollars and all kinds of status and bonus and potential Hall of Fame talks because you lose a win in the win column like from John Ron which is which is a tough break for him but congrats to Patrick Kentley I guess I don't you know

I couldn't have given a fuck less about the tournament yesterday because it's, I mean, the guy that won the tournament is just not playing the final route. It's not, who cares? Like, honestly, from a, from a viewer's standpoint, who cares? That tournament is not real anymore. Yeah, Kali afterwards even was like, yeah, it's weird. It's weird that I'm here because I think in an alternate universe where John Rom, he didn't say this, but it was like, where John Rom doesn't have COVID, he clearly wins this golf tournament.

But now I'm the benefactor and I get one point. $1.6 million in my bank account because of it. That's a weird spot to be in. It's a nice spot, but it's also a strange one when you win a tournament that a guy was dominating. It's a strange spot to be it. Patrick, Patrick Cantley should send him something nice. I think that, I think that should be in the cards.

Buy him a car or something. Yeah. What's a fair, what's a fair gift for Patrick Cantley to give to John Ron? Half? I would say almost half. You buy him like a fucking, you buy him like a $500,000 car or something. You send it to him. You're like, congratulations.

Happy birthday. You know? Sorry you got COVID. Our guy, Todd Martin, who Peter Mouar, he texts me and said that he should donate like $250,000 to John Rom's like foundation. Yeah, that's a move like that. And Todd's obviously smarter than we are, so it makes sense that he came up with that. Right.

But something along those lines. Like he has to do something like. And I feel bad a little bit for Patrick Kahnling because like he's not going to withdraw from the tournament. He's like, okay, I'm like, this, you know, like a pandemic just took out the guy that's in front of me. Okay, what do you want? It's, you know, it's like a NASCAR driver's got like a, I don't know, a gigantic lead. And then an asteroid comes out and just takes out his car.

Now all of a sudden you win the race. And he, I mean, he earned it. He went to a playoff of Collmore Cowell. Like it wasn't an easy W by any means, but it is strange. And yeah, I think the donation and then maybe even a little bit more, just something else because there's, that was John Roms tournament and he just couldn't play on Sunday. There's not a ton you can do, though, like financially, like both these guys are so well off. Now, it was some up-and-comer, no-nameer, like, then you'd think more financially gifted,

but the status, yeah, just, it's a tricky one. I certainly, I think, yeah, Todd Martin, shout out Peter Mouar. I mean, that's, that's just a better path. You just give it to their foundation. We want, we want, we want, we want, we want Patrick Cantley to buy John Rama Bentley. We're like, buy him. We're the same. Yeah, nice, family. It's like, if it was me, I want everything. I want, like, the 1.7, I want a Bentley, and you pay my insurance until the car's dead. We're like, get him the word. We're like, get him the word. investment you can possibly make, which is a car. Get him a car.

This is something we didn't talk about, but how about the guy being chosen to tell John Rom the news? Like, what was that meeting like? I would love to have ears on that meeting being like, all right. So John Rom is test positive for COVID. He now is going to have to withdraw from the tournament. Somebody in this room, and we're going to draw straws. Somebody is going to have to tell him a guy with a known history of being a bit of a hot

head. And by a bit, I mean a lot. You got to go tell him right off the 18th. that he is now not going to earn $1.6 million. Obviously, John Rom handled it in the best way that he could. And the Instagram afterwards, it was a good message. But, like, that's a tricky moment for that guy, because John Rom could just be like, what the fuck, man.

It's a lot. Yeah. Yeah, I think my final point on this, and I was trying to sneak in him before, if they've had a protocol this entire time for a guy that's been exposed to COVID, like he probably wasn't going to go touch fans. and like they should have had since they knew that this was a possibility it really shouldn't have been as big of a surprise and as big of a theatrical performance on the end of 18 like there should have been some protocol for him to just follow from Monday to Sunday so that if this had happened it doesn't happen on the 18th green that's where a little bit of blame for the pGA tour happens like some like he should have been following rules given from them that even if he finishes with a positive COVID-19 result he is going to continuously do it. the same thing that he's been doing since Monday because each day he had the opportunity

of being positive right like he did the job he told them I have been exposed and they're like okay here's protocol but instead it's like it was like this thing was sprung up upon him it's like well no we've been dealing with this for the past week yeah and I do think one of the failures is we're now in this different stage of like pandemic where like the old protocols were very like we didn't even have fans on the property that's how stringent it wasn't it was necessary now Lots of people are getting vaccinated. People are showing up to sporting events. Like, I almost think the protocols haven't really,

and maybe they haven't had time to do it, haven't really grown with the situation where we're at now, where the old ones like, I don't know. I just think the protocols are maybe a little out of date. They need to update them to where we are now, and that could have helped the situation a lot. Yeah. Yeah, there's going to be people that could have done it better

because, you know, it blew up the way it blew up because it was such a dog shit situation. And that's obviously going to require that there were some mistakes to be made to get to that point. It sucks. Now, John Rahm's in a position where he will, I believe, the Tuesday of U.S. Open Week is when he gets out of quarantine. So, like, he has to self-isolate. And then I think, like, Tuesday afternoon is going to be 10, 24-hour periods from when you, first tested positive and that's the requirement now.

So I think it turns out to like Tuesday afternoon practice round, he's back. He's like out of quarantine at Tori Pied. So that's another interesting little wrinkle. But yeah, whole thing was weird. I think we handled it. Gentlemen, I think for us, we handled that about as well as we could have. That was pretty good. Yeah.

It's always good to just say I don't have the answer. Because I don't. Because it's such a tricky situation that if you claim to have the answer, you're the most wrong. Yeah. I think we all agree that there was a better path, though. Somewhere in our brains or other brains, like one foot off the green, there might have been a better avenue there.

Yeah, don't know the answer. Just wrong place. I know the answer is that was the wrong place. I do know that. So I'm not, if someone, if I can't remember all of our takes, but if we, if someone had said that that was the correct place to do it or that we didn't know the answer about where to do it, that person's wrong. And I'm very confident in saying my side is that they should not have told him as he's

walking off the 18th green on the green. You have to tell him at some point. But boy, oh boy, did I feel bad for that guy? We were at the bar for the Islander game. And like, it started going crazy amongst the people. I mean, it was pregame. No one could believe it. They had it on the screen like, what's going on.

Whitney's like, did you see what just happened here? I was like, are you like, we're what? our draws were on the floor. They're like, they told him on the green, the green. Everyone's like, dude, I actually thought when I saw the video, I saw the video first of him going, I thought that he, someone died. I thought they told him that a family member had passed away.

Yeah. I think that was a lot of people's reaction if they didn't know the context. That's probably, it probably crossed Nance and follows mine too. Like this seems like a, like a family situation. And it was bad. Yeah.

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So Bryson, you know, reports came out. I don't even know if they were necessarily reports. It was just somebody tweeted out that people were calling Bryson, Brooksie, which everybody predicted when he, you know, said at the PGA championship that people had to stop calling him that. Obviously, everybody's going to call him that. Part of my take is going to egg it on and encourage people to call him that. I think we might have even been considered, you could argue,

that we encourage people to call him that. Well, people were calling him that at the memorial, and someone tweeted out that he and his caddy were pointing people out individually at having them escorted out of the memorial tournament at Mirfield Village. That's obviously going to make it better for him going forward. So he then was asked about it in the interviews afterwards, called it bullying. He called what Bryson is doing or what Brooks is doing to Bryson bullying. And then folks obviously quoted some of the things that Bryson has said about Brooks over the years,

like saying that he has a six-pack but that Brooks doesn't. And, you know, like chirp, they've just chirp back and forth. So for one to call the other, a bully all of a sudden is not a good look. So Bryson's in it deep right now. We kind of knew that he just wouldn't be able to handle this game as well as anyone else, but especially Brooks Kepka. And boy, is he not handling it well at all. Well, and then Brooks put out the video after with the giveaway being like, hey, guys, it's Brooksie. And like, that video was weird.

That I thought actually was kind of lame. Totally. Yeah, like that was. I understand what's going on. Everybody does, except Bryson, it would seem, like, what's going on in the situation. And it will get to a point, and I will not go as far as to say bullying, because that's a word that I don't think I want to use in this scenario. But like, where Bryson clearly just doesn't want anything to do with this anymore, he's just like, listen, man, like, I understand that you don't like me. And yeah, they've had their back and forth about the abs and the majors and the wins.

But, like, at a certain point, Bryson doesn't want to be involved in this anymore. and the more Brooks pushes it on him and pushes it on his fans to call Bryson Brooksie, it's going to get to a point where people like, all right, man, like you just got it. Now you got to lay off Bryson a little bit. I don't know if we're at that point yet, but it's going to get to that point if Bryson continues to say, like, I'm going to keep taking the high road. That's something that, you know, the tour has to handle. I'm not going to handle it.

Like at a certain point, you're not dealing with a worthy foe anymore. You're just telling your fans to call a guy Brooksie when his name is Bryson. Yeah, I don't think there's any big winners in this, though, either. Like, I'm just like, to Brooks and Bryson, I'm just, I'm, I don't, less enthused with both of them. The most I was in on it was when Bryson was giving it back on Twitter being like, oh, it's rent free and all that. Because then it's, it's two guys going back and forth. And it's like, that's a battle. That's something I want to watch.

When it starts to go where the one guy is just so sick of it that he's having people thrown out of golf tournaments and the other guy is continuing to push the narrative to call him a name that makes him mad and upset, then you get to. to a point where it's like, well, what the fuck are we doing? Right. I mean, Bryson's got to handle it better and not. Totally. Once you overreact, it's a mess. Then it's, and Brooksie's also the perfect name because Bryson's like this massive Hulk of a human being now.

And now you're calling him the name of someone that he hates, but without that like cute little end to it. Like, oh, you know, a little Trenti or whatever, Brooksie, like that name. Like, I don't know. That doesn't obviously work. But yeah. But Frankie, you know, you got to add a little bit more on it. But yeah, I mean, it's just digging at him, eating on them.

And then as soon as you ask people to be removed from a tournament, it's like, well, that name now just went from X to 10X. And people are just going to, you're going to chirp that on every T-box. The reason why Bryson wants us to be over and doesn't want to engage in it is because he's getting dominated in it. I mean, how is that a fair thing to say about like Brooks's, so because Brooks has just beaten him in this robbery, like he has to stop. Like that's, I mean, Bryson was every much a part of this robbery up until now he just doesn't want to be a part of that.

That's just not the way the world works. Like Brooks is allowed to just continuously beating up on the guy because two weeks ago it was like a heated rivalry. Now Bryson's like, you know what, I'm out on this. Like imagine we were able to do that in fights and debates. You know what? I'm actually, you know what? I actually don't want to do this anymore. It's like, of course, because people are making fun of you.

That is fair. But it is a strategy that will eventually work for Bryson. Because if he continues to go radio silent and just says, I don't know why this guy hates me. I'm just going to play golf and he's having his fans do this to me. It will flip. The narrative will flip on Brooks at some point. Whether or not do you agree with that or if you think that that is worth, you know,

if it should do that, it will flip. And that's a strategy that will work for Bryson eventually. It will work to the point where Brooks will stop. But in the meantime, it will destroy Bryson Deschambeau's life and his person and everyone's perception of him. Like, he'll continuously say, like, oh, I'm going to take the high road. Like, I don't want to talk about that. It's like, yes, you actually do really want to talk about that.

You're just getting pummeled to the ground to the point where you're asking people to stop. And that makes you softer and softer each time. Like, if he just was 10% of a normal human being, he'd be able to respond with something funny, witty, get back at him, but he can't. He doesn't have that in him. Bryson D. DeCambeau does not.

have that in him. It's unfortunate because Brooks, like... But it makes me feel bad for him a little bit that he doesn't, right? This is what I'm saying. This is where that's where it's going to flip. It's not, it's not equal because it is a little bit like the jock is like beating up on the, I mean,

that's why I use the term bullying, but like he's beating up on like the dork that's into the science. And yes, Bryson brought it on himself. He egged it on to a degree himself, of course. And so I, like, I think what Lurch said is kind of where I stand. We're like, They both kind of come off a little bit lame throughout this whole thing to me.

You know, it's a little bit of a cowardice thing to be like, yeah, I'm losing. So now I don't want to be a part of this when like you just chirp the guy a week ago on Twitter and said like, I'm living rent free in your head. So to try to fail out of it is is cowardice. But the whole thing, I do think it's moved past where I loved it. And you could probably a week ago on the show, I was like, we've never seen anything like this in the sport to I'm already kind of over it. Right. And it goes to my point where if Bryson was engaged and if he did have that 10% that you're talking about, Frankie, this would be awesome.

And it would continue and it would continue until it would reach a boiling point. And I don't know when it would come to a head, but everyone would be looking forward to it. But I agree with the rigs where it's like now, if Bryson doesn't want to be involved, I don't want to just watch a guy beat up on a guy like over and over again and have his fans beat up on him in every tournament where Bryson's just like, yeah, yeah, I don't want to be involved. remove me from this narrative, as Taylor Swift once said. It's like, but that's kind of where we're at right now. Bryson does not want to be involved anymore. And a big part of it is that he's getting beaten so badly in it. Yeah, just called a part.

You're like rewarding your fans, rewarding your fans by heckling a guy at a golf tournament with like free beer is like, it's a little bit like it's lame. That's pretty lame, I thought. Yeah, the thing that always drives me fucking crazy about Brooks is that he like forgets he is, and like he is a Bryson. he's a golfer. He's a professional golfer, dude. You're not one of your pals on part of my take.

Like, that goes up, you're not a football player. You're not a fucking cool athlete guy that you've always wanted to be. You're not in the MLB wearing the fucking long pants and chewing on the fucking tobacco and spit it. You don't have that fucking look, man. You're a golfer. You're a golf nerd. You have to partake in the argument. Is it a hobby or is it a sport?

Like, that's who you are, dude. You make a shit ton of money playing golf. You probably got bullied. didn't fucking high school because of it. That's just who you are. And you're this like good looking guy and you got the whole lifestyle and you're like, whatever, bra. That's all Gucci, my man.

It's like, dude, you're out there fucking grinding just like Bryson is. So stop acting like you're the only person in the world that's ever been cool to play golf. That's the part that drives me crazy about him. He thinks he's the first, he thinks he's cracked the code. Like, yo,

Gucci, bro. We're going to play some fucking G today. Like, what? What, dude? You just hit the fucking driving range for six hours. You make fucking hundreds of millions of dollars playing the sport. you don't like it you don't you don't you don't you don't want to practice it you're mad that this guy's

taking too much time playing the game that you guys are getting paid millions for you don't enjoy that you're not just as invested as he is it drives me fucking crazy just like one day act like you care brison uh brooks it's crazy so like all right so that yes your point of like him being the too cool guy yes but on the comment of like him and bryson what are you like what do you feel about that is do you think it should continue like i think to a couple points in this room, it's like almost like call the fight. Like, Bryson, I think, put his comment out there, like living rent free and didn't realize that

there was going to be punchbacks. And once there was punchbacks, he just, he had nothing else. Well, I think he thought there were probably going to be punchbacks. But he also realized that he was like, oh, wait, no, no, I don't want to do that. Like, I think if he could take the rent-free back, he would. Totally. Because then the last video where Brooks is sitting there, call me Brooks, you the Michael of Ultras.

That's where like, okay, like in a UFC battle, you like, all right, like, you can't defend himself. We got to call this one. Where if Brooks comes back with another video, I really, I'm just like, this is so stupid now. Like another Brooksie type video. You won this, play it out, whatever. It's going to continue on. But I don't think that he has to keep like just, you know, punching the guy in the

temple when he really can't do anything to defend himself. And then just like let it die and let like another, if something else boils up. I think that's fine. But yeah, it's like he's a clear winner in this thing. I just, I don't think there's, if he does something else, I'm like, oh, you both kind of lost a lot of value in my brain. And I would, if you're Brooks and you're seeing what Bryson is doing now, if I'm Brooks, I also call the fight.

Because what I'm saying about the narrative flipping on him eventually, he can stop that now. If he decides today to never mention Bryson again until something else happens, he's the clear winner and everybody just goes away and he's like man remember when they kind of had a dust up and Brooks just completely bodied him on on Twitter on the golf course like everywhere but if he continues to try to motivate people to get under bryson's skin I think that's where people are going to be like all right now you're just now it's too much yeah the video coming from micklea bulcher like we're on the other side I feel a lot of listeners don't realize like how fucking lame that like sponsored ad is like

you know that someone at like on his team was like hey like michelope like came to us with this really cool idea bro like this would be fucking sick if you like gave away some like that's such a bunch of guys sitting around a fucking conference table seeing how they can engage on Twitter and like get their natural like organic conversation going with like hashtag michelope ultra and like dude that's really cringeworthy like that's something at barce though that like a dave Port and I would like, be like, are you kid? Like, I'm just going to bury this guy into the ground and I'm not like, I'm not going to throw a spot.

I don't need to attach an ad deal to it. No, like, oh, like, we're going to turn this like natural like fight into like something that's so sponsored. Like you, I'm surprised he didn't put hashtag ad at the end of that. Like, I think that that's actually like illegal. I think you like have to do that. It's fucking insane. I think you're having a tough time with this one because you don't like Brooks.

Like it is like mindset of like I'm too cool for school. I do. I don't like it. I don't like that either. Like I'm very much with Frankie on that. Right. No, I know. But Frankie like doesn't like that side.

But I do think that Frankie likes to stay on a point and drive at home. Yeah. He's a born argument. He's having like a mental battle. Exactly. No, I think like, yeah. Because like he would hate. He would certainly hate if you did it or certainly if I did it too.

Like if we were getting beaten and arguing so bad, I was just like, well, I don't want to talk about anymore. So he'd be like, fuck for you. Right. The gap part about Bryson. I'm like, you're not allowed to do that. There's a rule somewhere. Someone wrote a rule that you're not allowed to like literally start the fight. Bryson, I'm pretty sure through the first punches.

Did he not? Like with the, when he was on his fucking Twitch stream like two years ago or a year ago? It didn't start slow play. It was slow play. But at this point it's like they basically both through punches at the same time. It's not that different. It's been years. Like who like you have to stay in it.

You can't just you can't just wipe it away clean. but then again, like, the guy you're trying to wipe it away clean from is insufferable. Like, Brooks is insufferable. Yeah, and look, like, Brooks Kepka just benefits from the fact that part of my take had him on and said he's really cool. Like, he just benefits from that. And if you really look at a lot of the stuff, like, people should make up their own minds about, like, is he really that cool? Because he's actually alienated a lot of people. Like, he had the comments about DJ last year going into the final round of the PJ to where, like, even Rory MacCore responded to that and said, like, it's pretty hard to knock a guy.

that's got 21 wins, which is three times what Brooks has. So it's like he's clearly rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with that stuff. And he does, you know, it's a little bit of, like, it kind of is a little bit of the bowling because Brooks comes with the army that's like the PMT crew that has been like, we're going to call him Brooks's, and we're going to chirp. And that's, that's made it a little bit of an unfair fight where like Brooks Kepka now has this army of people that just like, whatever side he's on, they're going to back it. And it's going to be cool because he's one of the guys. And he's specifically one of the PMT guys.

And like even we struggle with that because like PMT, it's Barstle. He's one of their guys. But like when we're this tied in and we love golf and we're obsessed with the logos from the courses and what people are trying to do to get better and like the language and is that a concession? Is that a gimmee or not? Like an average sports fan might be. Are these fucking idiots really talking about whether a three footer should it be given or not? And it's like, yeah, we'll do a whole show on that because we fucking love golf.

And then one of the guys is like, yeah, golf's not even. been that cool. Like Frankie said, like bra, it's Gucci, like, whatever. You're like, well, fuck you, dude. Like, this is our sport. This is what we like to do. You're not above golf. Like, I see you out there with all your training aids, trying to learn how to get your putting stroke a little bit better for five hours straight. We know that you went

to play to the European tour and played all over the world so that you could eventually make it in golf because you love golf. So why do you act like you're too cool for golf? So all of that is at play. And when you then basically allow all of it to get, you know, brought to the surface by the

PMT popularity from Brooks, it kind of is annoying to people like us that are in the trenches with golf all day long to just have somebody be considered super cool, even though in the golf world, like, is he really that cool? Like, are you that cool? Are you that cool? Frankie, what's the analogy you always make? It's the most perfect analogy in regarding Brooks and golf that's ever been made because it's 100% accurate.

He's Zach Efron in high school musical. He is a kid that has a shit ton of talent. that was playing on the basketball team and all his friends are like, yo, we're going to go drink some fucking nooners. And they're like, we're going to go home and drink nooners just a Saturday. And he's like,

yeah, but I actually got to go see something at home real quick. And then he sneaks home and he's like with his fucking little crew singing a cappella for the play next week. And he's like, don't tell anyone. Like this is like, this is my passion.

But like, oh, and then they see him in the hallway and he pushes Bryson into the fucking locker. It's like nerd. Meanwhile, he's fucking playing golf at the, him on Saturday. Listen, like, yeah, I've listened to a bunch of interviews at Brooks.

Like, I've listened to him on part of my take. And he obviously, like, likes golf. But definitely. It's this, like, it's this stigma that he's given himself. Like, you know, like, he doesn't even want to talk about it. He's like, yeah, it's just, you know, I don't like to practice. He said that to us and we interviewed him. I don't practice.

I never play golf. Golf should be 14 holes. Like, what are you, who are you appealing to? The person that doesn't like to play golf, I don't, I don't understand, like, who his like target audience was when he set out to have that like brand where it's like I don't really love this sport like it might be non golfers you know what I mean like there's a and he's gotten though right he has like the part of my take crew fucking loves him because he is like a football guy they call like he's the football guy's guy's guy's whatever that you know what I mean that he's not

he's like he's like not a golf guy like it's just that's his like that's his little thing that he's built up for himself but um I can't say I hate I at the end of the day it's something that we've always talked about that we want. Like we want fucking drama in the PGA tour. It's kind of cool that it's still going on. We've got these crazy characters. And this is a Tiger Woods like not, Tiger like just hasn't been a part of these storylines.

And it's still been just crazy to watch, which I never thought was going to be able to happen. I honestly thought I'd never be able to watch golf again without Tiger Woods in the mix. I mean, I'm not saying he's never going to come back. But like the fact that golf is this fucking hot right now with this many storylines, good for the game. fucking good for the game.

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Oh, yeah. No, I did. I signed a new lease. Yeah. Wow. Congratulations. That's Trent. Thank you very good.

and talk to the people about how fucking stressful that was. Well, it's just funny because we have so much travel coming up. You were just going to be homeless. Well, yeah. So for anybody who follows Barstoldall, I've been living with Robert. Did that pretty much. I've been living with last year. I was literally homeless for about four months last year.

I didn't have a home address. No, I was saying, yeah, I was saying when we get back from all this travel that we're doing, I might just get back in New York City and I'm going to be a homeless person for, you know, for the foreseeable future. But luckily, I signed a lease. Robbie Fox and I, again, if you follow Barstodal, Robbie Foxer, MMA guy, he's great. We've been living together for almost four years now,

and we are going our separate ways, and I had to find a new apartment, and I just hadn't, I wasn't hearing back from the people that I needed to hear back from in that manner that I thought was appropriate because, like I said, when we, because we're going out to Tory for the U.S. Open,

when I get on that plane, when I get back, if I either have an apartment or I don't, and if I get back and I haven't signed anything, I'm going to be sleeping on couches. I know producer Jake Bass was nice enough to offer me like somewhere to lay down at night if I need if I need heat or if I need air conditioning but I move the process along I badgered the people a little bit and I have now signed a lease so

July 1st I will be in my own place I'll be living by myself and I am very excited about it it's it's an exciting time I was a very funny visual I was you sleeping on our producer's couch as your your full-time resident I never would have done that I would have done that I'm generally a pretty like stress-free guy. I like to keep things light. I like to keep things loose. But when it comes to where am I going to sleep at night? Where am I going to live?

I get very stressed out about that. So that has been taken care of and I'm excited about my new place. I was with Trent and he was like legitimately texting a billion just every time I looked over his phone. It was just a new text message being sent and it was just a number at the top like no name. And it was each time it was like I need information on a place to live. I didn't think that they were understanding how it need to be done in a timely manner. Because I was like, I'm going to be gone the last half of this month.

And I need a place. And they were just like, this is just some idiot, which I am, just get it. You know, maybe give them a place, maybe don't. But I was like, I need it now. I need it now. Dude, there was, you know, we get a lot of products sent to us. Obviously, as people know, like our different sponsors, shoes, clothes, all kinds of stuff sent to us. So our team, you know, very frequently is like, hey, we have this coming in or new merch

you should try out that we might put on the website coming in. Where should we send it? And I'd be like, ha, ha, like, I don't, I actually don't have a home address. And then they'd be like, ha, no, I know. But like, seriously, where should we send it? No, I don't live anywhere. I don't, you don't get it. Like, I have a storage unit in New Jersey.

But I don't, I don't own, I don't have an apartment. There's nowhere that I live. And that was for like four months because we were on the road so much with the classic and with our travel that we do. And with Corona going on, I just didn't have an apartment. And so finally in November, that's why people, you know, ask, maybe the number one asked question of the classic is like, so why did you move to Scotia? What's the deal?

It was like, well, I didn't live anywhere else. So it's kind of, I had to live somewhere. And I was like, I'll just do Scottsdale for a little bit. But yeah, I'm glad you do not want to be doing that either, Trent, because it kind of sucks. I'm living with that. Not having an apartment or anywhere to call home sucks. And I was dreading moving so much.

Everybody hates moving. Like, that's just the number one worst thing you have to do when you're in New York or anywhere, really and I didn't want to move so much that I'm just moving into a unit in the same building. I'm just taking my things, throwing it into the elevator, going to a different floor and putting it into the new apartment. I'm not, my address will be a little different because the unit is different, but my address is going to be pretty much the same. It will be the same. So it's, which I'm looking forward to. I'm very excited about that. I didn't want to have to run a truck and throw all my shit in the back of a U-Haul and drive around Manhattan in a U-Haul. So I was just like, I'm going to move into the same building,

just a different unit. And that's what I did. This guy wears the same clothes every single day. And when he moves apartments, he stays in the same building. It's just the consistency is unmatched. I wouldn't go as far as to say that I'm afraid of change, but I don't like it. No, I think there's something to you that you, yeah, you try and avoid change at all costs. Yeah. But then again, I also am a guy from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who now lives in New York City.

I'll change certain things about my life that I want to. achieve and I want to do. But in terms of like normal everyday things, I want to drink the same coffee in the morning. I want to wear the same clothes. I want to wake up in the same apartment. Like for those things, I like consistency. Everything else, our job is the least consistent job. True. And in a long list of jobs. But there are certain parts of my life that I like to keep consistent. And it's sort of where I, it's sort of where I connect and I can ground myself a little bit. I like it. It's tremendous. Really. I don't know. Yeah. Is it trust? Is it like not consistency, but you just want to trust what you are going to do everything. Like coffee every day,

same clothes. Like you trust the way you're going to look. You trust the taste. Is it more than that? You just say you wanted to eliminate the choice, like the stress in the morning. I did that with the clothing thing. Yes. Where I was just like, why am I so worried about like who? And I wasn't overly worried about it, but it was just it's one less thing I have to deal with. I wake up. I put on the cackies. I put on the, you know, well, today I'm wearing something a little different, but I put on the, you know, the black crue neck or the, or the, or the, or the, or the, or the Hart shirt that people are, people are noticing that I just wear that same looking carhart shirt all the time. I bought a ton of them. But, um, I just like that. It's not even about trust. It's just part of my life. I like to have predictability. And the rest of it, whatever we do on this show, wherever this show takes us, wherever Barstool takes me, I'm down for all of that. But there are certain parts of my life that I like to keep in check. You know what's so funny. And this is like, it's, it's like, it's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's so funny. I think that you legitimately did. So like you were saying you didn't like want to make a decision each morning about like, oh, like what's going to look good or like basically like, will people like care about my outfit, right? Like you want to eliminate that part. But by doing what you did, people took notice to your outfit a thousand times more than they would have if you just chose a different outfit each day. Right. Like your outfit became more like, oh, wow, transwearing the same thing for the past month every day. that that is actually more noticeable than if you like that stress in the morning like oh what should I wear today you know what I mean yes I know exactly you mean but it's it's a different part of it

I don't necessarily care like how good I look or like what people say about what I wear it's it's more personally for me eliminating that choice like I don't want to wake up and be like oh what am I going to wear it's just like I'll put on this every single day I understand what you're saying it draws far more attention to it and it has to the point where I wore it on a on a network TV show and I I pulled luggage out of a room and I made a specific request to the producers saying, I have to wear this outfit because it will make people laugh. And I did that. And it worked.

It very much worked. But it's like I don't, it's going to, it's probably 90% true that I know I don't care about the way that I look or the what I wear and what people think about it. I just like to wake up and put on what I know I'm going to wear because it's consistent. God. It's tremendous. I apologize. I got, I got to say goodbye.

I have to run, but it's been a nice morning chat with you all. and I will talk to you later. All right. Good luck out there slinging those drones, buddy. Thanks. You guys. Sell it. I don't know how we got on to the inner workings of my life, but that's fine.

The irony of this whole thing is that you're not wearing your outfit right now. That's the irony of it is you're not even wearing your go-to outfit. Well, and I don't want to say too much about it, but now a new part of my life is that I'm trying to be, well, this always was a part, but now we've really hyper-focused on it. it is being a better golfer. So I was practicing the game of golf this morning. And that's why I'm wearing, you know, a Barstall golf cordisip. This thing's actually great.

Shout out to Peter Millar. So, yeah, that's why I'm wearing something different. But you better believe in my backpack in the other room, I brought my khakis and my black Carhart shirt. So I'll be changing into that once we're done with this podcast. Gotcha. So you had to, you had to wear one outfit and then go through the hassle of packing a different outfit.

Yes. You could dress the same every day. yeah so i there's got to be some answer to that like i don't know if a therapist has to message us because i mean i i if there anyone if anyone he's a therapist it's me so maybe you can send me a diagnosis of what you've heard on this show about myself how i'm a psychopath my heart's going to explode in my brain i can't go to sleep at night but for trent there's got to be some sort of character trait that he has to wear the same outfit every single day i'm telling you there's something about that brain there's something there man

There has to be. Maybe it's like a common thing. Like, what if we could diagnose you with something that is like you have to wear the same outfit every day? And that is consistent with this. I'll tell you this. My grandpa wore the same thing every day. Holy shit. Dude.

So I like that. That's where at least we are getting somewhere here. Trent. How do you not mention that? That's unbelievable. Well, yeah. Is the genetic is the choice of clothes? Crazy to withhold that information.

Is the choice of clothes genetic? Well, or is it genetic or is it I, it's a learned thing where I saw him or he was like, yeah, I wear the same thing every day. And I was like, oh, that seems like a manageable and acceptable option for me, whether it's genetic or it's something that I witnessed and I decided to put it into my own life. That's for science and the therapist to decide. Okay. That I'm glad we got that out because, you know, I do think that that adds a nice little wrinkle into it. You know, no pun intended shirts. He wore.

He wore like a white polo shirt and, you know, and shirt. shorts every single day. Don't like Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs wear the exact an outfit every day? Yeah, I've made that argument. People have tweeted those at me when those articles come out. They say, oh, these super mega genius rich guys also do what I do. But it's also our situations are clearly much different. Maybe it's a stroke of genius. It was your grandfather, like, what did he do? He was an engineer. Yeah, he was a smart guy. What? He was really sure. Fred, this might be on to something. Like, have you been hiding? Have you been like hiding a genius inside of you this whole

No, no, no, no. You have genius inside of you. You've suppressed them with Sour Patch kids. Yeah. You've like beaten them down to a pulp with sugar and fucking soda. And you're just like, don't come out. You can change the world, Trent.

I'm telling you, man, you could probably change. You probably are changing the world. You're making people happier. But you could probably do something really special. I ate two pines of ice cream the other night, back to back. Oh. That's just something that happened. What kind of ice cream?

You know, I don't know. I barely even got to look at it before. That was Ben and Jerry something. I think it was the cookie dough flavor. Welcome to the county. Can I get two pints of what? Just don't fucking, just that. Just going to fly by me anyway.

Is there milking it? Is there milk and sugar? They freeze that shit? All right, yeah, give it to me. who Trent Wants Wants up to the

Frozen The frozen aisle Like it's the red light District in New Amsterdam He fucking He like peers his eyes Through the windows And he fucking starts

Licking his lips Starts looking at his wallet To see how much money he's got The guy The guy who runs the bodega Across from my apartment He knows secrets about me That even my closest friends

And family don't even know He sees He sees me do things that no one else sees. Dried mangoes, bro. That's where I buy them. I buy them from that spot. Yeah. Trent has these dried mangoes.

You wouldn't believe the taste on these things. They have to be the least. So he said he was trying to eat healthier one day on the golf course. He goes, you know, I'm trying to snack a little bit healthier. He brings out this plastic box of dried mango. It's just basically sugar compacted into something that looks like a mango strip. It's the tastiest, but also a most unhealthy thing I've ever eaten in my life. and I was like, where'd you get this?

He goes the bodega across the street. Like that bodega across the street does know some darknesses about you. Oh, yeah, he'll see me wander in there at hours that he's like, you guys wouldn't even believe. Yeah, those dried mangoes, Frankie loves them. I think I started his own addiction. Oh, they're unbelievable. We should get him on the podcast.

That would be something interesting. Bodega guy? I'll quit. I'll disappear. You guys won't ever hear from me again. The U.S. Women's Open at Olympic Club, raging success. This was one of the best tournaments to watch all year long. Olympic is as iconic as it gets. I think this was the 11th U.S.GA championship that they've hosted there.

Several U.S. Opens. They've got a Ryder Cup coming there. And now they hosted for the first time the U.S. women's open. It is as San Francisco as it gets. You can literally see the Golden Gate Bridge from the first T. It's on the side, you know, of a massive hill mountain. It's got enormous cypress trees that just swallow up golf balls. And it's hard.

It's extremely difficult. the rough grown out and ultimately it tested the best players in the world. There were phenomenal storylines from amateurs, 17-year-old amateur making a run to ultimately a victory from the first Filipino to ever win a major championship in golf history who's only 19 years old. Lexi Thompson who's had, God, I think over like maybe eight top threes in major championships, but there's only won one and it suffered a bunch of heartbreak who had a five-shot lead on the back nine. And ultimately couldn't get it done. We could start, you know, with the champion and kind of go through it. But Yucasasa, which is, by the way, one of the coolest names I think I've ever heard in golf

history, Yucasasa. Well, wins on the third hole, third playoff hole at Olympic with a birdie, really just got it done. I mean, to go into a playoff at the U.S. Open, which was the first time I'd seen the two-hole aggregate score, which is kind of the U.S.J. They got rid of the 18-hole playoff thing. But to go in and go par par par birdie in a U.S. Open in a playoff, after coming back from back-to-back double bogeys in the second third hole earlier in the round, birdied 16 and 17 to ultimately get into a playoff and was just clutches held down the stretch, made that birdie putt on the ninth hole, which was the third playoff hole to win it, started talking about what it meant afterwards, and she started, you know, tearing up saying

that her family and her sponsors and her whole country supporting her was amazing. So that was just badass and ties to the day. This was stunning. To the day, the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Open in history. To the day. Jeez. That's just stunning. That was Justin Ray again, right?

I think so. That guy is, he's dealing with some magic. Every time there's a golf tournament going on, he'll have a stat. I got a bubble in my throat right now. You can hear it. Yep. You got to clear that out, please. Get out, Trent.

Get out the bubble. he just always brings it like everybody does stats and so it's like it's always like a kind of an interesting stat but you scroll right by you're like that was okay justin ray he's a he's a showstopper when it comes to those and when he had that one ready the the tie with the seven i think it was 19 years 11 months seven days something like that to the point where i saw people asking him in the comments being like we need to know what time they were born like we need to know down to the hour down to the minute down to the second how close it was and i bet he has it at some point He might even have already tweeted it out.

He's got it when it comes to cool statistics. What do you think he's got over there that no one else? Like what access does he have? Is he have books? I don't know. You know? Imagine he's just good with like Excel and spreadsheets and stats. Like those stats classes that I had to basically like cheat on to get through in college

and high school. You know, with the, what was it like the coefficient of like R and all that? like, get the fuck out of here. I can't do any of that stuff. I think he can just do all of that stuff really well. Right. The rough at Olympic, and we played it, you know, not in those conditions, obviously,

but that rough, that was some of the most, you know, it was just ugly. And those girls, they just, Lexi Thompson had a great shot out of the rough yesterday. They had a couple of great shots out of the rough that I just wouldn't even be able to get a club on. It was just so impressive watching that at the end of the day yesterday. Yeah, they were able to judge and hit some pretty sick shots. but she was so money under pressure, you know, not really having ever been there before to win the biggest championship in the game in women's golf was awesome.

It was so bad ass to see, clearly a rising star. Lexi Thompson was probably the biggest storyline in that she's one of the more recognizable names. She's been around for a long time. She's been in the middle of some controversy before. She in 2017 was, of course, the one who marked her ball incorrectly on the green on Saturday. and then in the middle of her final round on Sunday was informed by the USGA that she got a four-stroke penalty that put her from winning by like three to down by a stroke

and then ultimately lost that A&A inspiration, so that would have been another major championship. So she's been right there, and then like I said, I think the number is eight top three finishes she's had in major championships. And she's got, I think, 11 wins on the LPGA tour. So to have that many wins have been that close in majors

and only got the one A&A inspiration, which has been from, It's been like years and years and years since she won. She had a five-shot lead on the back nine and ultimately posted a 41, including a couple birdies coming down the stretch on 17 and 18, which 17 is a very burdiable, reachable par five. And 18 was only 315 yards or so, even though it was playing pretty damn difficult with that front pin.

It's just a collapse. There's really no other way to, there's just no other way to describe it. Her par put on 18 hurt my soul. just didn't give it enough, didn't give it nearly enough. And you could see it as soon as she struck it. I was like, I don't think that was nearly the right speed for that putt. And it just wasn't. And she knew it.

And it was, it's one of those moments where like if that ball rolls maybe just two inches closer, it's not people are like, oh, she just didn't have the right speed. But when you hit it that short, people are like, oh, the moment got to her. She, the moment overwhelmed her. And she just didn't hit it. a good put at all. So like it's yeah, it's a collapse. I know people don't want to use that word. It's a, it's a strong word. But when you add up the numbers, you look at the bogies on the back, how much her, how big of a lead she had going into that back nine. Unfortunately, that's

a collapse. It's a meltdown. It's a collapse. It's a, it's a disaster. It's everything. I mean, it's at the moment got to where she couldn't handle the, whatever. It's all of those things. Yeah. That's just what happened. She was one under, I believe, on the front nine and had a five-shot lead. She chunked a chip on the 11th hole, which led to a double. She had a couple horrific puts. Her power putt on 17 also was horrific. Is that stuff harsh? Yeah, well, guess what?

Like, we're talking the top of the top of the game in order to win the biggest championship. Like, you know, it's going to be under a microscope. That's why it's so cool. That's why it's so rewarding when you win. That's why it's so devastating when you lose. And to break it down, she just collapsed. Like, that's just what it was. And the downhill putt like that, too is probably the easiest, like decent put to hit.

Like you just get it started online with like any kind of decent stroke and it'll have a chance to hit the hole in the way by. And Yucasasa, for example, like she was above the hole in that second playoff hole and she gave it a run and hit it like eight feet by and ended up making the eight foot comeback. That comebacker, that was maybe the most impressive moment of the whole fucking day, man. Totally. She's rolling that birdie putt that far by. I like, I almost threw up what just like just in terms of nervousness because you're like, oh,

just get it up there close and, you know, if it goes, in oh my god we win this thing if it if it doesn't then we're just close ran it right by having the stones to make that comebacker was was very impressive that was awesome like and i thought she was going to i was like oh my god this awesome tournament is going to come down to this dog shit finish where like she had the birdie putt everyone's thinking oh there's a good chance she makes this and then all of a sudden it's like oh eight footer for par to extend it no chance she makes this and then she made that one and ultimately got it done olympic is famous for collapses and big names a man by the name of Arnold Palmer in 1966.

He had a seven-shot lead on the back nine. Billy Casper, I went making a few birdies and snatched it and won that one. And then Jim Furex famously snap hooked one on 16 on the par five when they moved the T-box up. And the electric factory, that is Webb Simpson came in and got the W. And, you know, is known as the U.S. Open champion from 2012 at Olympic Club. So not the first person to be a pretty big name, be the most recognizable name on the leaderboard, be probably the most impactful, at least here in the U.S. with the U.S. media, and then not get it done in Olympics. So that kind of continues.

Mike Finn. So Mike Finn, caddied for the 17-year-old amateur, Megagana, who made a run, was leading the tournament, had an phenomenal. She was talking about how she had to do, like, her calculus homework, and then her calculus teacher tweeted back at her, like, don't worry about the homework. and she had a great storyline going, well, her caddy, a local Olympic club member, Mike Finn, was the same motherfucker who stumbled on to our podcast and we recorded our podcast at Olympic Club when he was putting as the sun was setting in San Francisco

and we were talking on the show about like, how about this guy living the dream and he came over, he ended up being a four-play fan and was asking us about our games? That dude met this girl on Monday and became her caddy for the whole week. You put that information into the group chat over the weekend and I don't think I had a proper response

because I don't think I responded at all because I was just like I almost couldn't believe it like I was just thinking like oh that's interesting but then the more I got to thinking about it I was like that's amazing that that guy just stumbled onto our show and then ended up caddying for the low amateur at the U.S. Women's Open

like I don't know if we're giving that it's proper due to how amazing that was but now like we you know we've had him on our show he should come back on our show now it's like the chances of that didn't even, I was like, that can't be the same name. Right. The same.

Same. The same person. And then they had the, you know, they were talking about how like she had a huge gower and most of the fans were like Olympic club members that were out there because they know Mike who's like the Olympic club members. So the whole thing was like, what's a real world am I living? And then as soon as I found that out, she doubled the first hole, which is like a part five. So I was, I had all the, I had pulled the audio from the podcast. I was going to put that out. Be like, this is the same guy. And then immediately she double bogey and I was like, all right, we're not going to draw it. ton of attention to this whole thing. But

we got to get him back on and just talk through the whole experience because, yeah, he met her on Monday. I saw him in the fucking parking lot on Tuesday. He was like driving by me and he was like Riggs, what's up? It's Mike. I was on the show. I was like, oh, what's up, man? He's like, I got on a bag for an amateur and he gave me the name

and I didn't recognize it and I was like, okay, yeah, whatever, good luck. And then Thursday, I look at the fucking leaderboard and I'm like, that's Mike's girls leading the U.S. Open. So, what a bizarre coincidence that was. bizarre the things that had to happen for us to know that guy like insane we had no plan to record that podcast at olympic we were like rushing we almost missed our flight like that it's the things that like

you're saying that had to happen for those for us to meet him are insane dude i like i was not paying attention to the podcast i was just looking around Olympic and i'm like look at this fucking guy over here like had i just been like in the moment with you guys like people people are putting around us all the time. All the time. It's a golf course. There's a putting green. You know, crazy. Proposterous. That was so, so wild. And he ended up having an awesome week out there. Obviously, it was part of one of the coolest storylines that was getting, you know, probably the most press of the whole thing up until Sunday when she kind of fell out of contention. So awesome stuff from her. Great work by our guy Mike Finn, who we'll have to have back.

He was the guy that we asked, like, Frank, you asked him, like, are you actually, is there any process to what you're doing while you're putting? Or is this just, are you just putting? He's like, no, I'm just kind of fucking. Yeah. He might decide. I think he slow played us. I think he, he was acting like, oh, no, I'm just out here. I take my shoes off. I have a couple beers.

When he, like, clearly knows his shit. Clearly. Yeah, I think they said he's like a scratch. He's a real good player. And he was, like, when I talked to him, he was like hawking to get a bag. Like, he was around

that area. He's like, I will end up on a fucking golf bag for this tournament. And he did. And he ended up having a great performance. So you got to know what you're doing. Like, if you're in, the U.S. women's open for the biggest storyline and she continued to play well. Like, he's giving her reads on putts.

He's telling her where to land chips so that they end up next to the hole. Like, he's dialed into that shit. Totally. That's, what a thing to have happened. The guy doesn't just purposely punt. No. Without any purpose whatsoever.

Are you kidding me? He knew, he had a process. Did we lose all that audio? Well, I guess it doesn't matter. We're recording locally. For everyone at home, I mean, we have this, like, this, this, um,

the Cisco WebEx thing, just like just says like it's being recorded and we just didn't know what was happening and then it said it was not being recorded anymore this whole show could just possibly be just gone i think it's once again falling victim to the internet at barstile sports hq all right that would be good as long as we have everything because it'd be a real shame if we lost it all that would be a real shame i feel we've had a good time today we have had a good time been quite the enjoyable time discussing golf um the only thing i can make it better really is maybe a macanudo cigar and i'm actually looking out at our girl, the macanito lady that we have talked about many times

who enjoys cigars sometimes in her car on the way to work. And I'd just been thinking about how on this Monday afternoon here at the Barstool Classic, where there are giant snakes in the toilets, I'm going to have a cigar and enjoy my afternoon. I went golfing with my dad, my girlfriend's dad. We were out on the course. Shout out Rockville, Links. As always, it's become the home club.

Love that fucking place. Shout out. And, you know, we just, I was like, you guys want a cigar today? Like, is that something that you guys would enjoy? And they kind of like, my dad was like, yeah, you know, like he didn't really say anything. And we were on like the sixth or seventh green and some guy walks by. I guess he was just using the course as his, you know, walking route as people sometimes do.

Hiking trail, a trail maybe? Yeah, but it's like, it's through the course. Like I feel like members like to do that, right? Like they'll walk the cart pass and they'll just walk the course kind of. The course was closed the day we were there. So definitely a long. local guy that just likes to walk the course. He was smoking a cigar and he walked right by us and we,

we smelt it. We felt it. He had a huge puff around him and we're all looking at this guy, but no one said a word and my dad goes, yeah, I'll take that cigar. Like I'll, I'll take a cigar now. Like at first he was like, I don't know, it's early. It was like 9.30 in the morning. He's like, I'll take a cigar now.

So I popped open that macanudos and man, was it an enjoyable experience? Just everything about it. like just the case and it's just such a good experience man like when you when you smell one and when you're around one it's so just i don't know man it's just it's fucking awesome to just it's just a cool thing to be a part of it's perfect for the golf course it truly is like i i had never been a cigar guy and these macanudos the man the way that they they're just like well first of all they're the best selling handmade cigar in the united states they use like the finest hand-selected tobaccos, which we talked about on this little call with them,

this WebEx call that we had, where they were going through kind of what goes into it, how carefully it's done, and it just delivers. Their cigars are crafted in the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. They've got the Inspirato White and the Inspirato Orange. The orange, it's kind of like a medium-bodied, smooth, creamy. It's got a little bit of a citrus flavor. That's my favorite, but the white is, I mean, I dabble with the white just as much. It's got lots of flavor. It's mellow and strength. So do yourself a favor. You can enter and win a limited edition branded golf set and a humidor for your macanito inspirato smokes at macanudo.com slash barstool. You got to be 21 plus only for entry, but go to macanudo.com slash barstool.

Get involved in the Inspirato white, the inspirato orange game, the macanunos. They're so good and they're perfect for the golf course, perfect for all kinds of occasions, especially this summer. All right, gentlemen. Yeah, we've got. a giant rattlesnake in one of the bathrooms at the wolf dancer here at the Barstow Classic. There's just a huge rattlesnake in the bathroom. Yeah, I saw somebody tweeted a picture of it at us yesterday, I think, and that's scary. Obviously, we talked about snakes a week or two ago, and they're just out there, and now you have to deal with those.

It's no bueno. Yeah, I feel like if you live anywhere but the northeast, and maybe even the northeast, I don't know. Luckily, I haven't had this situation on Long Island, but it's like checking the toilet, like underneath the sea and all that stuff. Is that a thing that people have to do when they go to the bathroom? Fuck, look at that, dude. That is crazy. Nightmare.

Absolute nightmare. But like, have you ever seen the videos of the snakes like curled up in the toilet? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That to me, is that something that you just affected Jake Bass's life. I watched him have a physical reaction to that.

And now it's the only thing he's going to be able to think about. It's like the one time, and I don't mean to do this to anybody, but like when the one time someone says, do you check behind the shower curtain to see if there's a, a murderer in the bathroom every time. It's like, no, but I will do that now forever. Same thing

with the snake where you're just sitting there and you're like, fuck, it could happen. But is that something that's like more common in like certain areas of the world? Like they just somehow get in, I mean, obviously where snakes are, they just get into pipes, they end up in the toilet. I want to say it happens more in

in warm climates. Growing up in the Midwest, we didn't deal with a ton of snakes. Snakes love the heat. That is true. love the heat. But I mean, there is a sign. There is a sign here at the Barstall Classic that says, like, due to recent snake activity, you have to be extremely careful. It says, please use extra caution due to recent snake activity on resort grounds, in particular at dusk on all paths and at times in areas with tall grass or heavier foliage. So, yeah, they're just

a problem. Like, if you have to put out a fucking sign, that means the snakes are just a problem. It's not a joke. It's not a funny thing you see on TikTok. It's just a real life problem that human beings that are at this resort are being told to be on high alert for fucking evil serpents that slither around on the ground and attack people. It's crazy. It is funny to think about the threshold for the sign. Like at a certain point they're like, yeah, we got to put a sign up. Like it gets so bad that they're like, there's so many of these that we got to put up a physical sign that does not move to let people know that snakes could be around here.

Real incidents occurred that led to a. decision process making where someone typed those words into a document printed then up put them behind a thing and made it a sign that folks could see that's like that's real that's just that's super real what the fuck what are we doing here i'm scared i dude i'm scared sitting here like what if one came out of the ceiling while we're trying to record the show that'd be incredible not for you but for the for the video you guys watch this you guys watch this fucking black hole documentary on Netflix no you guys realize what's going on out there does anyone ever think about it do you does anyone care what's happening the most i think about it is when on the show the most we the most we the most i think about

space is on this show when you say to me have you watched the black hole documentary we black holes and i could be you know i don't know what i'm really talking about here's a telephone now with you and netflix black holes legitimately could could could ruin or all alter all of the science we know about the universe. Like, like what it does, like, after watching this documentary,

like they know nothing about it. No information, right? And it sounds like an phenomenal documentary. It's like, well, like they took a pick, the whole thing's about they took a picture of one.

They took all this data and they finally got a picture based out of data, which isn't even a picture, even though it is a picture because pictures on phones are just data, right? Pixels all put together from fucking data points and stuff. It's fucking insane. But that's basically what they do. but like black holes we know no information about what they do why they're there what happens inside

them to the point where like all of our algorithms and all of our equations about what we predict about the universe like where it goes what happens out there the fact that this thing exists and we don't know anything about it and that it seemingly goes against all of the rules and regulations that we've put forth about what happens in space it really just put science on, like, you know, in a blender. Like, these scientists are like, I don't know what's going on in there. Hit it hard, boys. Hit it hard.

Hit it hard.