Right About Now with Ryan Alford - The Week of March 22, 2024 | Stanley Looks to Replicate the Water-Bottle Hype Among Guys

Episode Date: March 22, 2024

TakeawaysMarch Madness has a significant impact on the economy, generating billions of dollars in revenue and causing corporate losses due to unproductive workers.Paid memberships in stores and restaurants are becoming more popular as businesses look for reliable sales and customers seek exclusive perks and experiences.Apple is considering integrating Google's AI platform into its iPhone, potentially improving the digital assistant Siri and enhancing the user experience.Stanley, known for its vacuum insulated water bottles, is expanding its market to include men, targeting outdoor enthusiasts and offering new products.The tire market is experiencing a boom due to the increased demand from electric vehicles, which burn through tires faster and cost more than internal combustion vehicles.While Tinder downloads have declined, dating apps as a whole are still popular, with users seeking a variety of options and experiences beyond Tinder.Chapters00:00 Introduction and March Madness06:35 Paid Memberships in Stores and Restaurants08:41 The Rise of Memberships and Private Clubs16:03  Apple Integrating Google's AI Platform23:42 The Tire Boom Caused by Electric Vehicles30:30 Decline in Tinder Downloads If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over 6 years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and cashing checks? It starts right about now. Right about now. What's up guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's March Madness Week, March 22nd, our weekly business and marketing news.

What's up, Chris Hansen? What's up, Mr. Alfred? How are you today? I am. I'm pretty jazzed. It's March Madness Week. Alford, how are you today? I am. I'm pretty jazzed. It's March Madness Week. The boys and I, we have our bonding moments around different things, and basketball watching is one of them. So there's going to be quite a bit of madness at the Alford residence. Huddled around the television watching those last-minute buckets drop.

So pretty pumped about that. Is everyone in the household an auburn fan absolutely not or clemson fan yes oh yes they both have lakes and they both are uh in the southeast but no and they're both tigers but clemson yes absolutely, absolutely. They play New Mexico today, March 22nd, later on today. So we'll be watching that one closely, eating the popcorn, yelling at the screen, doing what we do. So it's a big deal. Like, I'll say this, like, we watch Clemson basketball

no matter when or what happens, but I don't know. I guess this is what March madness has done to the game. Like the other games. We'll see what happens in March. Cause then this is just a tournament and it's just the finality of it all. Like coming down to the buzzer, do or die.

Who's going to be left. And it's exciting. So we will be watching march madness and i did want to bring up just the business impact found a good article from wallethub.com these are the top 10 march madness stats and facts as it relates to the business of basketball in March Madness. $1.3 billion is the annual revenue for the NCAA in 2023, which was a 14% increase from 22. 1.3 big ones, billion. $9.6 million is the salary for college basketball's highest paid coach,

which is Kansas Bill Self, versus $1.1 million combined for the University of Kansas' chancellor and the state's governor. That's wild. So just think about that for a second. $9.6 million for the basketball coach. The chancellor and the governor make $9.6 million for the basketball coach. The chancellor and the governor make $1.1 million combined.

Who's bringing in the Benjamins? That's all you need to know. Who's bringing the views? 52X. The difference between the average NBA rookie salary and a D1 men's athletic basketball scholarship for a year.

So if you make the rookie salaries, 3.7 million and the scholarship for a year is 71,000. But now with name, image, and likeness, I don't know, like motivation. Yeah.

So you have motivation to get there. And, but now with name, image, likeness, they can make a lot more than that. So I don't know if that's quite as relevant as it was before.

$10.3 billion is the corporate losses due to unproductive workers during March Madness. That's the combined inefficiency generated because of the times of the games being all day of you watching them so they're not working 17.3 billion is the corporate losses that's a big number that's just how you might as well have vacation days maybe if your company culture is like big into the tournament and some are more than others maybe industry specific just go ahead and take just make those like pto days or something take the days off teen million is the projected

economic impacts impact on phoenix from this year's march madness 413 million just for that week of March Madness. The final four and everything else that's going to be in Phoenix. Wow. Great for their economy. $334 million estimated value of the University of Kentucky's basketball program. Highest among all

schools. Generates revenue of $22 million. So the basketball program is worth $334 million alone. $71 million, NCAA basketball funds, 2024 distribution to the D1 schools, distributed $171 million to the basketball funds for these schools. Zero, the amount of money the NCAA pays the players participating in the tournament. Big fat zero.

Something seems weird about that, right? Yeah. I think that's going to be changing. 63,400. State Farm Stadium's capacity for the Final Four. So they can seat 63,000 people to watch the final four a lot of people watching a basketball game smaller court than like a football stadium so i think i'll watch it on the old big screen all i think about is leaving a parking lot with 60 000 people that's doesn't

sound very appealing yes so there you have the economic some business facts for the march madness tournament we know you're out there watching you already you were unproductive yesterday we know you're even more unproductive today a part of that 17.3 billion lost and just take the day off kick the feet up have a, have a bloaty sandwich, whatever you do. It's March Madness time. What About Now is here to support your unproductivity, given the March Madness. Right About Now approved. We have some other news of the week.

Comes to us from AP News, also known as the news source. AP, the biggest source for all news, want to feel special, stores and restaurants with paid memberships are betting on it. Paid loyalty programs are all the rage in the restaurant and retail worlds, looking for reliable sales in an unpredictable spending environment. More companies have extended their points-based loyalty tiers to making their most dependable customers feel valued for an upfront fee. Customers bombarded with membership offers or promised perks, PP, such as free deliveries and first dibs on new launches. But also, in some cases, the right to jump ahead of non-members on reservation lists and customer service queues.

So you're seeing a lot of upticks in this. People want that reoccurring revenue. These memberships, you think of Prime, you think of, we talked about last week, Target 360, Circle 360 that really rolls off the tongue and others. But they also, the article went on to talk about it. It isn't on my show notes, but I did read it. And the increase in private clubs and memberships and those types of things, that's on the rise. So you're seeing that. And not necessarily like just luxury type things, but just private experiences, memberships, all that stuff. And I do counsel like work with businesses. It is a great way if it makes sense for the business that you offer that reoccurring revenue is just crucial with knowing and

understanding cashflow and like having sources of repeatable and scalable business. So those membership fees are helpful. And I do think people want those first-class experiences and depending on the product or service, want to jump ahead or get first access. So it really just depends on what the offering might be. Are you a big membership club type guy? 50-50. I've joined some clubs.

I was part of a tennis club in Houston for a while. Yeah. You are members of the Shriners, aren't you? I see you riding around in those little motorcycles. Yeah, with my tassel on it, my knees pointing out. Does Costco count as a membership? Yeah, it does. It totally does.

That's like first on the list of these kinds of things. Talk about that, man. I love Costco. And it's a great experience. But talk about the greatest like ploy of all time. We're going to have you pay membership to come here and buy a ton of shit that we make a ton of profit on. We're going to call it a club. Sam's Club was like the first.

Costco was after Sam's Club. And now when I go to sam's club it feels like the bobo experience a little bit like it's not quite costco i'm just gonna call spade it's a little not so great it's like walmart and target yeah that's a good comparison and but costco's prices are generally about the same or better. Or it's like the Sam's Club. And the food at the counter, man. Sign me up for that hot dog or that pizza at Costco.

I'm not going near that Sam's Club food counter. Old Ted, who's running that counter, looks like he's been road hard and put up wet. I'm staying away from that guy. Ted, whatever he's serving at that Sam's Club counter. It's not good. It's not what Pam at the Costco has going on with that little frosty, little extra chocolate sauce, hot dog, give me one of those sausage rolls,

whatever those things are. I'm in. And all that for $7. I'm like, man, I might start taking the old Alford clan three square meals over at the Costco deli. I mean. Every time I'm there, I get a hot dog. It's like a ritual.

That's a good Frank. And it's a great deal. It is a great deal. It's like the world's largest hot dog and it's like $1.85 or something. You can get out of there. I can get out of there feeding the whole family for less than $20. And I feel like it's such a good deal. That's why it's always packed because people are like, dude, $1.85.

You got to do this. They use that to bring in people. Now, purely to get them in and buy 17 rolls of toilet paper, 57 bags of trash bags that you didn't really need. Five pounds of granola mix. I will convince myself to get that hot dog and a slice of that pizza that I need 452 good bars. Honey, we like these. The next six years, we'll eat them eventually.

Nicole's always like, where are we going to put all this toilet paper I'm like we're going to make we're going to find room hey believe me I want that hot dog I'm stocked for a family of five and I'm solo in here yeah I literally have a paper towel box I'm looking at with 24 rolls where it's like bro I think they have to lose money on the food because even the pizza's got six inches of cheese on it. This is the cheesiest slice of pizza I've ever seen and it's $1.47 or whatever it is.

My son will usually eat five or six. My oldest son will eat five or six pieces of regular pizza. Here's a Costco. One and maybe two bites of the next one. And dad gets the rest of his second slice. So it works out good. Because then I get the hot dog and the pizza,

and I don't have to order it. We got this bad valve. One of everything. Yeah. And every time they ring it up, that's four of these, five, six of those, two of those. All right, it's $17.85. Perfect.

Oh, man. All right, I'm going to go buy some paper towels no they got me that's what we come for the membership for so they're growing and if you want to feel special get up those paid memberships baby

alright this comes to us from metro.co.uk our good friends over there we love those guys across the pond inside this is Metro.co.uk. Our good friends over there. We love those guys. Across the pond. Yep. Inside, it says 8 million pounds or whatever,

but it's really like a $100 million futuristic city that's being built by Toyota. So we talked about this last week. They should have built these places where you could drive these autonomous cars but didn't have people walking around. Sure enough, the next week, this all works together, Chris, the master plan, these articles. That's why you have to listen every week.

So it starts building these storylines. First announced in 2021, Toyota has been hard at work constructing their woven city just miles away from Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu, with the first of 2,000 anticipated residents now expected to move in before the end of the year. Marketed as a mass human experiment, sounds a little weird, Woven City will provide a living laboratory for Toyota to test prototypes of their renewable and energy efficient self-driving vehicles dubbed e-palettes. I think that's what that says.

Palettes. E-palettes. Yeah. There you go. If you want to be a crash test dummy, sign up to go to Mount Fuji and get in there. I'd like to know what the benefits are besides this there's going to be all these sensors like they're tracking everything this is like a total futuristic like area data everything's being collected like i think everything on steroids

with sensors and automation all this stuff. Same thing when you walk into the stores, like you order something just by looking at it or something. Oh, I didn't look at those chips. I swear I didn't. You're thinking about it. They knew it. They got that brain link chip in there and they're like,

shit, I was daydreaming about those chips. They just charged me. I guess I got to take them home now. You know, that's what we're going to your neuro link. I know. Just thinking about drinking that soda. Damn. I really wanted that cheer wine. They got me so good. Yeah. I need my car to come over here. You just think it, the car shows up. Hope that it doesn't hit you on their testing. Those sensors. Yeah. You're on the sidewalk yeah you're on the sidewalk you're on the sidewalk oh we gotta send it back for the sensors oh just broke that guy's leg that's part of the test buddy you're in the 2000 you're in the you're in the you're in the trust tree here. It's part of the experience. All expenses paid.

All injuries not cried about. That's how it goes. That's how it goes here in Woven City. Toyota leading it. Hey, I could live at Mount Fuji for a little bit. Hang out there. We're going to see. I'm going to go check it out.

Exactly. Richard Branson is probably going to be there. Definitely. Elon hanging out. Yeah, hanging out. Putting chips in people's head. So this is interesting. I think Apple's had, between the car failing and this article,

innovation is slowing at the Big Apple. I'd be a little concerned if I was old Tim Cook. I need to get in the kitchen because it ain't good. This comes to us from RetailDive.com. They're kissing cousins with our friends at Marketing Dive. Apple is discussing a potential deal to integrate Google's

artificial intelligence platform, Gemini. I'm glad Gemini is back. American Gladiator is all I think about when I hear that. Yeah. Artificial and platform, Gemini. Into the iPhone. Bloomberg reported Monday in what could be a major deal between the rival tech giants

and impact the wider AI industry. Apple will release iOS 18, the latest version of its mobile operating system, later this year. And it's expected to integrate several AI features, including a more powerful version of the digital assistant, Siri. So again, expanding upon this, essentially everything Apple's been doing behind the scenes in AI is inferior

and behind like Google and a lot of these other players. And so they're putting it to the side and they're going to integrate Gemini into their platform. And it's interesting on a couple of levels. Apple and Google didn't always get along. Apple fought forever. You used to couldn't get a Google browser on the Apple. You had to deal with Safari.

You couldn't even get the basics. But then they finally worked that out and Apple realized that was not going to fly with users. So they brewed that hurdle. But there's always a little bit of this give and take between the companies. And now that they're going to integrate this in, which is good, if it's a better experience, it's better for consumers. That's all that matters at the end of the day. But this is more like,

eh, Apple gave up on the car. Now you're putting in Google's AI, instead of your own. And what the hell's going on over there? I'm all about the- What are you guys doing? Yeah, the Vision Pro. They're sitting on more cash

than any company in the world. Can they not hire better developers or something? I don't know. Your Apple, I imagine you could get a pick of the litter of the best people on the planet if you really wanted to. Yeah. But it's like the phone, man. Come on. When are we going to innovate?

What's different here? And it's interesting. You've been saying this, but even last night at the gym, I'm sitting in the sauna. I hear three guys. They were talking the same thing. One of them said he returned his Vision Pro. And they said the exact same thing. They're not innovating.

The tech in the Vision Pro has a lot of promise, right? But the actual, which we've talked about, the actual usability of it and integration just isn't there yet. So people are noticing Apple. And it's going to be, and it starts to erode like at brand trust and stuff like this so that's the slippery slope here like they've been the gold standard in technology you're charging the prices you're charging yeah and maybe it's all going to be software innovation that's just what this is like with ai and stuff like that's great and maybe it'll just be millions times better siri's not that smart anyway so you

came in okay great set the alarm that's wonderful right but if i try to tell her like contextually anything send a text message to nicole tomorrow at 9 a.m and remind her something that doesn't fucking work you can't schedule text messages it's fucking 2024 give me a damn break are you serious like if it's you could do one thing set an alarm for this send a text to why but you add any more layers to it it's like internet serves for the cold text message what what the fuck this isn't helpful. I didn't want to insert that. It's more frustrating. Yeah. And so innovate, do something. But they're going with Gemini. It's all that matters.

Can't beat them, join them. Exactly. And if you want to learn from me directly, join my newsletter, ryanofford.com backslash newsletter. Sign up. I give daily advice on marketing personal branding podcasting life give that a shout join that it's free it's daily just

like this show give away our best advice stanley looks to rep replicate the water bottle hype among guys this is all the rage at the middle school my wife's a middle school principal and all the middle schoolers have these stanley bottles i don't even know where's your stanley i didn't know what they were talking about i know what they're talking about now stanley has spent the past few years turning a vacuum insulated 40 ounce water bottle into one of the most desired women's wear accessories on the planet that That was really difficult to get out. Now it is widening its focus to include the customer it was first designed for more than 110 years ago.

Men, the company, which is owned by Chicago-based HIVI, Havi, next year plans to release new products geared towards guys beyond its current male audience of outdoor enthusiasts. The old Stanley bottle. Are you familiar with this old fad, this trend? Oh, yeah. I've seen it in the gym. I've seen all these videos, all these college girls doing choreographed dances with them and stuff.

What I don't understand is what the hell happened why didn't yeti just put a damn handle on theirs same thing how did they let this market get out they should they owned it like everybody had to have a yeti and then but just put a handle on it those yeah slip on but that's not the same to be honest no so to even let anyone else in this game was a mistake by them. And all they needed to do is Stanley comes in. Old Stanley. You can't trust him.

He gets in the old hen house. Snuck in. He just snuck in. He's taking up all the space with those handles. And I will, to hear my wife talk about it with, like, our kids, the middle schoolers, it's a thing. It's huge. It's huge.

Where's my Stanley? I've seen it everywhere. Where is this guy Stanley? I'm going to kick his ass. Oh, it's a fucking bottle. What? It's just another Yeti with a handle. Yeah.

In pastel colors. Yeah, exactly. Pastel color bottle. And it's- The Yeti, you had someone're saying basically the opposite of this. Hey, maybe we should look at a product to target women. Yeah. And these days, look, they're bulky as hell.

It's 40 ounces. It's a giant. It's giant. Like it's four beers in it. Almost. I could speak from experience. That's the only thing I use is Stanley. I'm like, I need a roadie. That's the only time I use a Stanley. I'm like, I need a roadie.

That's a good roadie. Four roadies to go. Yeah. Go on a little golf cart ride. Hey, there you go. We don't have to just go around the block now. We can go as far as you want. Got that Stanley roadie.

That's a good time right there. But Hey, let's do it. They come out with men. We're going to rock it. We need to get them. That's sponsor. Number one,

right there. Number two, right about now, Stanley, call us. We'll get the men excited about your hand. Why don't you get a handle on it? Boom.

There's a free one. The next one costs money. All right. Next, CNBC.com brings us why EVs are causing a tire boom. The total market value has remained around $50 billion in the past few years, and the overmarket grows at a rate of about 2% per year. They're talking about the tire market. But electric vehicles are presenting a whole new set of opportunities,

opportunities for the business and costs for us. With their heavyweight and quick acceleration, EVs tend to burn through tires about 20% faster than internal combustion vehicles. This is according to Alex Partners or Alix, A-L-I-X Partners, and the tires cost about 50% more. All these savings that have been promised from these EVs are starting to get eaten up one way or another elsewhere.

Oh, I got to replace the batteries. Oh, the batteries might go bad. Oh, they're better for the environment. Are they? And now we're burning more rubber. You know? Yeah, there's a lot coming out. That's right.

No one told us this in the beginning. Yeah. I think we're letting the air out of this story. Yeah. I liked it. The other one. That was low-hanging. You're on fire today.

Yeah. The dad jokes. But in all seriousness, I'm really not. I like the EV thing. I like the premise of it. It sounds great. I like my RS7 motor purring or scaring people when I go by.

But that's just me. But I understand why, hey, saves the planet, causes less energy. Okay. Get behind some support doing things. like causes less energy okay behind some support doing things but the reality though is it doesn't really have that much of an impact and the sales have been slowing overall like i've made all these head all these investments and so it's coming it's starting to backfire a little bit maybe i put intended i'm talking about backfire that dodge dart my mom had when i was like five years old that thing would backfire dude it takes two minutes that thing to turn off you bet you your ev won't do that that's an experience in itself you show at the grocery

store no one's been embarrassed the way I was embarrassed as a kid growing up. That car taking two minutes to shut off. That walk of shame from parking the car to walking in. Ma'am, your car's still on. No, it'll turn off on its own. Those are 80s problems. Oh, yeah. 80s problems.

I need to get it. We have a whole movie of that thing. The Dodge Dart. That thing was so bad. Anyway, there's a tire boom from all these EVs. I don't know. I'm not buying it yet. This EV revolution.

The more I just feel like with time, there's more and more coming out about there's not only not cost savings, but there's more negative impacts, it seems. Yeah, definitely. Environmentally. Yep. Speaking of tires, one of our official sponsors got big tires. You don't need an EV. What you need is a performance e-bike. The X2.

It's a mountain bike. It's a street bike. It's a city cruiser. If you go to MacFoxBikes.com, check that thing out, the X2. I'm installing that double battery today, 90-mile range, Chris. I can go 90 miles. I can ride to my mom's house. I can go, like, here to Charlotte.

That's a ride worth bringing a Stanley on. Yeah. I could attach a Stanley to that thing. I've been looking at the accessories. They got, like, this thing you put on. Yeah. I could put a, attach a Stanley to that thing. I've been looking at the accessories. They got like this thing you put on the back. It's like, I can go pick up groceries in this thing. I'm going to,

I think I'm going to attach a wagon behind it or something. I don't know, but. And me pigs when you do. Yes. The X2, get 150 off, $150 off.

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A little less girth. And a little baby for smaller kids and or maybe as a more of a street bike the next two is just a beast up it goes about 28 miles per hour i have to go on 28 and a 15 and didn't even think about it chris just feeling free wind flowing through the hair just living the dream bro yeah get the double battery i'm telling you that's the way to go. It's got a long, comfortable seat. This thing is a true hybrid bike. It's like, kind of looks like, it looks like a mountain bike, kind of looks like a cruiser.

And it rides like a scooter. And you feel like the wind. Go to macfoxbikes.com. Use that code. I'm telling you, I am not the bike guy. I'm telling you, I am not the bike guy, but I find myself being like, there's a magnet in the garage. It's like pulling me. I want to just take the bike out because I am like one of those guys that I don't like. I like working out and getting sweaty. If I'm working in the yard, I'm going to the gym, I like to sweat. But if I'm not doing one of those tasks, I don't like to be sweaty and stinky.

But to be able to hop on the bike and the convenience of that and the quickness of that, to be able to do that really quickly, to hop over to the gas station, kids needed some chips for a sandwich to or get to work like scoot on over there not deal with traffic as much and using the electric and not smelling like stinking it up because you're sweating your balls off you know and look we're in south carolina it's about to get hot i'm gonna be fake pedaling that thing all over town. I'll do a couple of pedals in one gear. Like it looks, I'm really working this thing and really there's no exertion whatsoever. And so again, I exercise, I want to get my exercise, but if commuting, when you're commuting, you don't necessarily want to get stinky. This is the no stink machine right here baby the x2 for mac fox take it off road on road

great sponsor of right about now and ryan offered ryan offered 150 telling you i only talk about shit that i like it's like a magnet pulling me in i just want to ride it i it. I put Nash on that thing this weekend. We rode around the driveway in the yard. He's riding with me. I don't know what it is. It's fun. Give them a shout out.

You'll thank me for it. Finally today, this one's fun. This relates to you, Chris. This is just for you. This comes from our good friends at CNN. And your buddies at CNN. Oh, Don Lemon. This is just for you. This comes from our good friends at CNN. Oh, God. And your buddies at CNN. Oh, Dom Lemon.

He's still over there. Him and Cuomo. Yeah. Neither one of them's there, but. I know. Anyone more punchable than those guys? Anyway. Tinder downloads are falling, but the dating app era isn't over yet. As many as 46% of online daters say they've

used Tinder, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center report. But annual downloads are down more than a third from the app's 2014 peak. Match Group, the company that owns Tinder, reported its most recent earnings report of paying users fell by 8% last year to just below $10 million. So what they're saying is the peak has gone down, but the reality is dating apps as a whole, I think you've seen this spread because there's just more varieties more options with the apps themselves tinder's not so tender anymore so hot do you use tinder i've used it before i'm definitely not i think there's better you're more of a grinder guy now i'm definitely not a grinder guy that is one that has never been on my phone but yeah 2014 the hot new thing the world is much different if anything i think people are trying to move back towards just meeting people

are you on e-harmony is that for old people is that still going on i don't know e-harmony match.com they were the farmers only yeah and niche possible. Yeah, but you're right. I think you're headed towards the in real life thing. Hopefully that's picking back up. From even myself, I would prefer that. And from what I hear, that seems to be more people are just over it. And even these companies, they've got bots and shit on there. You know what I mean?

It's like you got creeps. That's the other thing is, it's like when you have these mass market things you're always gonna have the creepy ends of the spectrum right so someone's gonna abuse this and be really weird it's a lot of creeps and then you've got only fans girls just promoting their pages via the dating app i i think it's a great way to augment like i'm happily married so but just thinking about it like functionally it's a great way to augment. I'm happily married. But just thinking about it functionally, it's a great way to, I don't know, if you can use it to filter and use it to hopefully get down to a worthwhile relationship

or at least the dates that are seemingly building towards something. I know plenty of people married. Yeah. My wife, Nicole, and I met met on match I was shopping from New York back here in G Vegas and found a winner yeah I believe in it

I hate the player I hate the game yeah if you're not in the game maybe you should jump in it maybe they're on one swipe away. The love of your life. Oh, how life changes. My username then was golf too often. I haven't golfed in two years. I never seen you hold a golf club, bro.

Dude, I was a six handicap, man. Now I need to play. Be lucky to break names. I believe that. I believe it. No, I can play. I can go bang the ball around. What happened is driving would be fine. It'd be the chipping and putting and short game.

It'd be like, oh, it drives me crazy when you don't play. But golf less often. The first to go. That's what mine is. And I don't miss it. I'd rather be in my kids' is. And I don't miss it. I'd rather be in my kids' games. Six hours is just too long.

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