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The most dominant stretch in postseason play of any team ever. It was crazy. The best run of any team ever. I think we could say, like, Yukon dominated everybody. The games were not particularly exciting. I think they're the best second-a-half team in the entire tournament by a vast margin. But it felt like it might be close a little bit in the first half when Zack Eady was superhuman, and he played awesome in the first half. He was the best player on the court by far. He was dunking on people. The hook shots were falling. He did look a little bit like he was seeing something new when Klingon was playing defense on him. He would turn around, he'd do that fast pivot, and he'd be like, I'm not used to having a guy's shoulder right here and a guy's hand right here where my hand is. But he was still making his shots. He just got exhausted.

He got exhausted. In Yukon, they have great players, and they are so well coached through this two-year run where you saw right away It was clear, and Dan Hurley said this after the game. He was like, We were going to let Zack Edee get his points, and we were going to let him score 20, 30. He ended up scoring what? 37? Did he score 37? I believe so. 37. He was like, But we're going to make him work for it. And if the rest of their team is held to 20 or less, there is no way that they can beat us. And that was exactly what they did. They were so aggressive on the perimeter, faceguarding. I mean, Purdue shot the three all year long. I think they had seven three-point attempts. They had two in the first half. So it was very clear besides Zack Eedy, the only other Purdue boy of the maker who really came to play was Braden Smith. And Lawyer was completely taken out of the game. Gillis was taken out of the game. So it was Yukon. It was very similar to the Iowa game on Sunday, where it was like, they have a great player, Purdue, in Zack Eedy, who is a great, great college basketball player.

Yukon's team is so good and so well balanced. And even their guards just rebounding They all were- Cam Spencer was awesome. I think their entire starting five had over five rebounds, the team effort that it takes in the team defense. Even in the second half when Klingon got in foul trouble, and it was like, oh, this could be a little nerve-wracking. Dan Hurley adjusted, started. Even when Klingon was in the game, started doubling in the post, Zack Ead would throw it out. Guess what? Those guys haven't taken shots all game. They're not in a rhythm. They weren't making anything. They just suffocated him and stepped on him. Dan Hurley said it perfectly after the game. We won by a lot again. Yeah.

And Dan Hurley also played some great defense on his own player when he went on the court. He just lost his mind. He went on the court. He was like, I need Cam to move. Two feet on there, steps on, pushes Cam, and then he looks at the ref like, What would I do? Why are you calling a foul on me? That's not technical. I'm allowed to. That's my player. He blacked out. I can shove my own player if I want to. That's how Danny Hurley tells players that he loves him.

Yeah. We love Danny Hurley. I know he's not for everyone. We'll get to that, especially Greg Doyle, indie star. We'll get to that in a second. But I want to talk about the game a couple more things. The team, watching a team like Yukon throughout this two-year run, and they lost 75% of their scoring from last year. It really is a crazy thing to see. You saw even some of the clips that people were posting of Dan Hurley talking about when we go to the transfer portal, it's just as much about a player's family and what type of makeup they We don't want guys who are jumping from school to school every year. They've just figured it out. This is a time in college basketball where we're in a weird transition, where every school is trying to figure out the transfer portal and NIL and all these things. And Yukon just did it before everyone else. And now, Danny Hurley's press conference after the Villanova loss in 2020 might go down as one of the coolest, most badass clips of all time when he said, Get us now because we're coming, and you're not going to get us later.

And that after they lost to Villanova in 2020, and now they sit atop the throne. I don't know. Going three-peat would be insane, but I also think that what they've got rolling right now in their coaching staff and their system, I wouldn't put it past them.

I would not bet against Yukon next year. Danny Hurley seems to have it all figured out. His son got in the game again. Andrew Hurley got in there. What's their record now? 43?

43 and 0.

43 and 0. When Andrew Hurley plays in the game, he wanted to shoot the ball so bad. His His dad was yelling at him like, Don't do it. He was rocking that pivot foot, and then he turned the ball over because he's the designated turnover guy when they need to not shoot at the end of games and let the shot clock run out. So he got another turnover. I wanted him to shoot so bad.

So that This is where I think Greg Doyle decided he was going to write his article because we couldn't see it, but he was sitting pretty close. Apparently, Matt Painter was basically telling Andrew Hurley, Go ahead and shoot. Like, shoot, shoot, shoot. And so Greg Doyle was like, Wow, that was a really classey move by Matt Painter. Greg Doyle also admitted that he was like, I don't watch a lot of Yukon. Is he always this much of an ass, Danny Hurley?

That's what Danny Hurley does.

He is, and he admits he's an ass. Also, Andrew Hurley gets into every... He's been into every single tournament game, and he's done the same thing every time. That's just what they do. They stomp on you, and then he comes in and closes out. But Greg Doyle afterwards wrote an article that was titled On the Biggest Stage, produce showed What Indiana already knows, boilers are all class, while Dan Hurley was really just an ass. Probably the saltiest article I've ever read. I actually paid for the subscription to read it. It was essentially just like a thousand, 2,000 words of him saying, Matt Painter, you really learn a lot about guys in the final four and what Matt Painter showed, we should all be so proud of. And Dan Hurley is a monster and a terrible guy. And Greg Doyle, you should just stop writing and stop covering sports because guess what? You know what people like to watch? They like to watch people win and win in ways that Dan Hurley is doing. He shows his emotion and he's not a fucking robot, and he's the new face of college basketball.

It was a thousand words to say, I didn't watch college basketball for the last three seasons. Yeah, pretty much. That's what he did. He's like, Is this guy always... Is this his normal... Yes, that's what Danny Hurley does. But his players like him. That's the big thing. If you're an ass like that and your players don't like you, you don't play hard for your coach, then that can be a problem. But if your players like you and you're intense and they get it, then you can do really awesome things, which you got us done. We talked a little bit on Monday's show about what a dream run you must have if you're a Yukon fan who is also a Boston sports fan, which half the state probably is. Somebody sent this to me. This is AWL Saber Metrix. He was born in 1991. He's a Boston sports fan, and he's a Yukon fan. He's had six Super Bowl's, four World Series, a Stanley Cup, an NBA Championship, six men's titles, and 11 women's titles since he's been born. Sports must kick so much ass.

Don't forget the 2011 Fiesta Bowl.

Of course.

They did go to a Fiesta Bowl.

How many civil conflicts have you won?

There was that little blip where they gave the Big East an automatic PCS Bowl, and they won that year. I think that was Dan Orloff's. No, that might not have been Dan Orloff's year. I don't know who was on that team, but they went to a Fiesta Bowl.

Yeah, just a dream run. Life is so good if you're that person.

Yeah, you want a crazy stat.

Just being told that you're better than everybody at least once a year.

Yeah, and you're just like, Oh, even if you never win another one, you had that run. Yeah. That's Insane, and he probably will win more. But here's a crazy wild stat for Yukon. This is from a Way Tooworthy on Twitter. Yukon has missed 32% of the NCAA tournaments played since 1999. Yukon has won 24% of the NCAA tournaments played since 1999. They've never lost a championship game. They've been to seven final four, six national titles. It's crazy. Jim Calhoun has built something that he passed to Kevin Ollie, don't forget Kevin Ollie, and then passed to Dan Hurley. It's nuts. I mean, they're the class. They have more national titles than Duke and Indiana. Think about that.

That's wild to think.

They have the third most national titles. Ucla has 11, Kentucky has eight, Yukon has six.

It's crazy. Good job, Buchan. I'm happy for you. Danny Hurley. I like Danny Hurley. I think he's a funny guy. I think he gets super intense on the court, and then he immediately afterwards is like, Okay, I got a little carried away there. I'm going to try to work on it. And he tries to work on it a little bit, but it's still going to come out. That's just who he is.

He had a great line when they asked him about Kentucky. He was just like, I just started making money. I don't want to get divorced.

Yeah, he said, Ask my wife about that.

It's a great coach line. Just being like, Listen, I'm the head coach of the basketball team. She's the head coach of the family.

They did show his wife after the game. Respect.

Again, Jake, you were on the floor. What did you think?

I was. It was a tremendous experience. Very fortunate to be able to do those types of things. Third straight year and second straight year interviewing Dan Hurley on the court after he cuts down the net.

Can we be honest about something, though, Jake? Yeah.

Critique me as much as you want.

No, not you. The tournament. Grade the tournament.

Yeah.

I give this tournament probably a D.

Yeah, it wasn't the best tournament, but it's still the tournament.

Yeah, I agree.

It was the tournament.

Yeah. We're not going to look back and say this was a great tournament, but in the moment, these three weeks, I still enjoy them as much as I do every year.

The story is not the tournament this year. It's that Yukon went back to back. That's really what it is because we didn't have all these moments that maybe we look back and be like, Oh, my God, it was crazy. It was chaotic. Nc State run, obviously comes to mind. But Yukon, Golky. But Yukon was the story. I Also, we'll just say to the AWLs who may be listening to this, who are Houston fans, I do think we were robbed of that because I think Houston... I do not think Houston would have beaten Yukon, but I think Houston was the second best team, and that's no offense to Purdue, but Purdue had an incredible run. They Silenced a lot of the haters, getting bounced in terrible fashion the last few years. Zack Eady is an all-time college basketball player. They just ran up against a team that was that much better than everyone else.

Yeah. Zack Eady is like... When you bought a basketball video game when you were a kid and you get to create a player, he's exactly the player that you would... Just like a huge guy. You're like, I'm going to make a dude that's going to dunk all over everybody. And then you dominate, you're loving the game. And then playing against Yukon is like when you level up the difficulty, the first game that you do that and you're like, Oh, shit, this is hard. You come out, you still get your points. But nothing was easy after the first half for Edi.

Yeah, it's not like a... You can never feel good about losing the national championship game. But I think if you're a Purdue fan, you can at least take solace in that what had this happened in the last three years, you had an incredible run that made a lot of memories. Again, this doesn't help right now because it's still fresh. But if Purdue had not gotten to the sweet 16, it would have been way worse. He'd rather lose the national championship game. Yes. As much as it might hurt right now, you guys had a great season, a great run, and Zack Eady will go down as one of the best college basketball players, and I think the tide turned where people were like, You know what? Let's maybe stop. Maybe that's because I don't have to deal with him anymore.

I loved it when he was yelling at people, when he was screaming at dudes hanging on the rim. Yeah, he showed a lot of fight. He didn't have that fire in years past. It was cool to see, and he was dominant. He's probably going to be on the Canadian Olympic team, so we might not be done with Zack Eady just yet. Actually, I think, I don't know, I'm not an NBA scout, but I feel like the way that he played against Yukon, he looked so good in that first that there will be a team that wants to take a chance. He'll be drafted for sure.

He'll probably be drafted in the first round. Someone will take a shot at it and just be like, See if we can work with this. Because it wasn't enough that all the women's former players or current players went after Kaitlyn Clarke, Draymon Green decided to chime in with- He said he quit. He quit. He said, Job well done, 35. You did your job tonight. It was him that made Edie quit with about 19 minutes ago in the second half. There was a turnover, and I saw Edie body language walking back. He was done. Now, rewatch game from that point on. #free game. I don't know, man. Zack Edie was playing his balls off, and no one else was helping him. Also, Draymon Green, you've quit a lot.

Yeah. Also, Edie was probably exhausted because he had another big man that was just leaning on him for an entire half. He wasn't used to having a big dude like that just pushing him around all the time. I think he just got tired.

He got tired. No one made shots. The Yukon's plan was... I mean, you saw it. They were just like, All right, we'll let him go one-on-one in the post in the first half, and we will make sure they were faceguarding everyone being like, You're not going to get the ball back.

Heidi made a shot.

Heidi made an awesome shot.

Heidi came from nowhere. I have Heidi number one on my NBA draft big board right now just for that putback dunk.

That was incredible.

I saw that. I was like, Why wasn't that guy starting?

Yeah. Clingin did shoot a three. He did.

Fanta was so close. Oh, Johnny Fanta. What a moment that would have been. Would have been incredible. But yeah, overall, not the best tournament, but Yukon-We got to witness greatness. Yeah, they're the class.

Shout out, greatness.

The fact they did it double digits. Again, I know not everyone gambles, but 12-0 against the spread is so insane because they make the lines to make it so that it will be 50-50. It was just free money. The entire two-year stretch. It's crazy.

Did you guys see the all tournament team? They announced it right after the game.

Who's on it?

Zack Ed. Yeah. Donovan Clingon, Stefan Castle, Tristan Newton, Camp Spencer.

What if you put Zack Eady on Yukon? That I was literally dominant. How dominant would they be?

Poor Alex Caravan.

Yeah. The only starter. Did he play well, too? They all played well.

Yeah. This is crazy. You never see that where it's just first team is literally-It's like a castle was awesome.

Yeah. It's like when the-Tristan Newton, Tristan Newton was like, he went to East Carolina, was not looked at at all out of El Paso, went to East Carolina. I think his coach got fired, and then goes to Yukon and wins back to back, most valuable player in the final four. Crazy, awesome story.

Jake, that's when the Pistons had, I think five all-star... Or maybe not the starters, but they had five all-stars, and for a period during the all-star game, they had all five. So it was the Pistons against the Western Conference all-stars.

That was like the Rip Hamilton, Chauncey Willups. The five of them started.

Rachid Wallace, Ben Wallace.

I was thinking about this, too. Tashaun Prince. Rip Hamilton was there. Yeah, Rip Hamilton was there. There's some guys who you could be like, Oh, they built it. Ray Allen didn't win a title, but he helped build it. Cliff Robinson, I think, was there. He helped build it. Okafor. Okafor won a title. Rudy Gay. Rudy Gay, I feel like that has to suck because that was one of the teams that was supposed to win a title, lost to George Mason.

It's like- Ben Gordon won, right?

Ben Gordon one, yeah. But You have the guys that built the program that you're like, Okay, that makes in the '90s with Jim Calhoun.

It's like Dimeo Ryan.

Yeah, and then just like, Okay, yeah, you're here. It's brotherhood. Please, Yukon, don't do a brotherhood weird, stupid thing like that.

Yeah, He'll be okay with that one. It was funny also seeing Bill Murray spooning with Jim Calhoun. I think he's probably the only dude that could spoon with Calhoun without Calhoun punching him in the face.

Yeah. Luke Murray said that he's going to stay. Yeah. I feel like he would get a job, but it's probably so much fun- Winning.

Winning. Winning everything Everything.

Winning all the time.

Inviting Calhoun onto the stage was really cool. Yes.

He's the architect. He built the whole thing.

Calhoun and Danny Hurley holding the trophy. Yeah.

They had to... I think it was... I might be speaking that term, but I'm pretty sure when the Big East was created, like, Yukon had to beg to get in because they didn't really fit into the whole... They were a state school, and they didn't have the history of some of the other schools.

It's weird that they left for the AAC. I know.

That's a weird era. Football fucked everything. Yeah, they're back. The Big East, they They had the Big East Commissioner cut them back down.

Yeah, Val Ackerman.

Yeah.

What happens if Yukon wins a third in a row? Because right afterwards, right after the game was over, they immediately started saying, Yeah, I think we can win a third. And I think that they can. At that point, they become Yukon women's Yeah, they're bad for basketball. Ten years ago, they're bad for basketball. Then at that point, if you win three in a row, I feel like the NBA would just toss a shitload of money at Hurley.

Yeah. Although I think he's going to get a new contract, so we can talk about it.

He's going to have to get a new contract. I think he does want to stay. I think he will stay. It's just about if they offer him seven mil and then Kentucky comes in with 12 mil. I still think he would stay, though.

I do, too. Cal officially said that he's going to Arkansas. He posted the grainiest video ever, which was very funny. He also had on Monday, a reporter found him walking his dog with his dog stroller. I think the dog was not in the stroller. It was just the most ridiculous video because Cal is the center of all conversation in college basketball, and he's walking on a public street, and he's like, I'm just walking my dog. Can you leave me alone?

Yeah, it might be the most... I I think it's the most SEC video ever. Yeah. He's using his dog as a shield against the media.

It's like Jimbo with the Christmas. Yeah, I'm walking my dog here.

Of course, I can't talk to you. Then the next day, he goes home. He's like, Okay, I do need to make a video and issue a statement. He has the same camera that they used to film Bigfoot coming to his living room. They videotaped him saying, Bye to Big Blue Nation. Then he deleted it after five minutes because everybody was roasting what a bad video was, which is a genius move because now no one's mad at Coach Cal for leaving Kentucky. They're just making fun of how shit he his camera is. Like a 500 IQ play by Coach Cal.

Yeah, he should have done a video. This is actually for anyone who has to leave a place and under weird circumstances, maybe do the video and just don't have audio first.

Yeah, the worst video. Yeah, make it as bad as possible. Yeah, so he's gone. He deleted, he reuploaded. He's not a one undone guy after all. The new video is crystal clear.

Yeah. We had NATO say that he's Billy Donovan said he's out. Danny Hurley has said he's out. It looks like maybe Scott Drew.

Scott Drew would make a lot of sense. He did build that program from less than scratch. Yes. He brought it back from the death. He had the death penalty. Yeah.

It feels like Scott Drew is going to be the name. Although, again, it's college sports, so any coach saying they're out doesn't mean anything at all.

You know who hasn't said that he's out? Who? Patino.

Oh, Patino.

He's not out. He's still in.

He's got to go back to actually move forward.

He might pull out later, but he's in right now. It'd be great.

What was his biggest regret when he came on the show? Yeah.

Kentucky. He even Kentucky.

He won so many there. Although I love Pitino in the Italian League.

Yeah, he's good for the sport.

He's in the Italian League.

Is Danny Hurley making the Big East less Italian?

I don't know. He's got Italian energy. He's a shorter guy, fiery. Yeah.

Yeah. Max Honorari?

No, yeah. He has Italian vibes. Also, it was really nice hearing everyone say Four of Eight.

Oh, yeah.

Vilanova. Yeah, because you don't get the Four of Eight without the cast. That's true.

But this has to hurt because it's just, They have become what you were.

Four of eight. Well, but then no, because they had a lull, too.

They won those two. No, I said they have become what you were. Yeah, but- But we're in present tense right now. Correct.

But we're going to get back. Okay.

We're going to get back. That answers my question that he knows they have become what Vilanova was, and that hurts.

Now you have to deal with Vilanova every year. You have to deal with old Vilanova. Yeah.

That sucks.

Yeah, no. Then there was another thing on Novo Twitter being like, Fuck. Because 18 was the best team of all time. Now it's tough.

Statistically, this is the best team of all time.

You know what the funniest thing is? I think the highest Ken Palm-rated team of all time was actually 99 Duke, who lost to Yukon.

Yeah, but that doesn't...

I mean, if you lose, you're out. No, I'm saying they beat the best team of all time, and they also... I think they outscore their opponents by 140 or something. Something ridiculous.

So, yeah, tough, Max. Can you imagine if they get Cooper flag to flip? Get that Providence Twitter shit going on.

It is funny watching the film. You're like, You sure?

The Flip. The Flip. The Flip.

Oh, yeah. They really wanted us to give you a.

We're going to have to do that. We will do that.

But Cooper.

It also is crazy.

For America, Cooper. I don't think Cooper Flagg understands how much America is going to hate him at Duke?

Yes.

Just flip a lot.

Just flip Cooper.

It also is crazy that everyone just keeps talking. Like, Yukon, they literally return nobody. But they still have just as good of a chance as anyone.

Because they'll find someone, and they'll return a couple of guys.

No. Dr, their six man is the only one who has any eligibility left.

No, Tristan Newton definitely does, right?

I don't know.

I was looking it up. Caravan definitely does. So you're living in fantasy land right now.

I don't know. I was looking it up online. That said that DR was the only one that had any eligibility.

Was this like a- You found someone who told you exactly what you wanted to do.

Caravan is a sophomore.

Caravan is a sophomore.

Samson Johnson is a junior.

You might declare. Samson Johnson might come back.

Pull a brawny.

Tristan Newton is a senior, but let's see, he might have a COVID year. No, he- He's played in five seasons. He probably doesn't.

But who knows?

I wouldn't be shocked if Cam Spencer tries to take it to court to play another year because he just is like, I want to be... He's going to be... We make fun of Rico for succession plans. Cam Spencer will be the succession plan at Yukon.

Yeah, he's just going to go me.

In 10 years, he'll just be the coach. Yeah. So, yeah, that's tough that you were wrong.

Caribans is the only one I was wrong on.

Okay.

That's a big piece. Yeah. I mean, that's the fifth guy in there.

Donovan Clinging could come back.

No, he's not going to. He's going to be a time castle. But he's not going to. But he's good. But he's not going to. He's going to have a castle He could come back as a freshman. But they're not going to.

What if the NIL has changed everything?

No. Both of them are going to be top 10 picks.

I'm just saying, what if the NIL has changed everything? Yeah. All right.

Anything else? Cling Kong.

Kling Kong. Yeah, go have the Kling Kong shirts.

Nil money goes to Donovan Clegan.

I showed him on the court. I showed him the picture of the shirt, and he said, That's awesome.

Well, I hope he had seen it before. He had seen it, yeah.

Also, credit to Dan Hurley for crediting us. Yeah. Thank you for that video, Jake.

Anytime he makes a final four, he's welcome to come on. We got to put that on a shirt. Cash it in, brother. Brother. Yeah. Brother. I botched that. That's okay. You did a good job, Jake. All right, anything else before you do Hot Seat Cool, throw them and get some masters?

Yeah, There's one other thing in college basketball. Avila is in the transfer portal. Yes.

Yeah, but they're saying he's going straight to St. Louis to follow his shirt. Apparently in the portal, you can put a red exclamation point, which means you can't contact the player.

Why is he in the portal?

Because he's going to St. Louis.

You have to formally do it to transfer.

But if you already knows.

If you mark yourself, you can't be contacted.

I don't like that. I just wanted a couple of weeks of every team just thinking about the Avila photoshopps that could be out there.

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Here we go. Let's go one more. One in the middle. Make it a challenge. Home stretch starts now. Optimism can be hard to come by. So today we're providing a little perspective. Now you can always tell yourself, my glass is half full, even when your bracket is a totally empty dumpster somehow going up in flames.Look at this.Oh.

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Look at this cute little pint glass here.

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The last one. He said-Pick a number, bitch.

This tournament, we remember for Yukon's dominance and the calendar's dominance over. Look away.

Look away. Got it. It's a koozie. Reversible sleeve knows that nothing celebrates a win better than a beer. It also knows nothing saves a loss better than a beer. Now, whatever happens, you'll be ready to represent with chill. And I got a koozie. Hooray, I won on the koozie. Was that clean enough for you, Max?

That was pretty good.

Yeah, that's right.

That's right. All right, Hank, Hot Seat, Cool Throne.

My hot seat is Is... I guess I don't really... Should I reverse my hot seat or just go with it? Reverse. Okay.

What was your hot seat going to be?

It was going to be max, but it's a cool thrown. My hot seat was... No, that's hot seat. My cool thrown was us, but it could be a hot seat.

The switcheroo.

So my hot seat is us. We're still in the third dimension.

Oh, yeah, you were wrong.

I was looking forward to it, so it was going to be cool thrown, but I was hoping we were in the fourth dimension. Eclipse sucked. Overrated Eclipse.

Well, we were in a bad spot for it.

But I think Everyone, the consensus, even the people that were in the...

Well, not that woman who's screaming.

Zone of magicness.

I will remember the Eclipse is the video of the guy's ball sacks. Yeah, that's funny. That was Mike, our security guard, sent it to me. I sent it to everyone on my phone. He then tweeted it. Then I think I saw a Mexican news station actually put it on air by accident.

That video rocked. They were just mortified by looking at the ball sacs. But yeah, we were not in the zone of totality. Is that what it's called? The path of totality. The path of totality. But I did have a particle physicist reach out to me last night, and they were talking about Hank's performance on the podcast on Monday and all the things that Hank got wrong. Apparently, this physicist wants to turn the CERN Collider onto you and just make you disappear because you're so wrong about everything.

I would be down. If there's a test dummy to get to the fourth dimension, I'd be the Christopher Columbus of that.

Now, how do you know that we're not in the fourth dimension, though?

You I don't. I guess we'll find out tomorrow when he puts.

Maybe this fourth dimensional Hank is really good at golf.

Tomorrow, mini golf open.

Yeah, if I'm good, then maybe we're in the fourth dimension. Right, exactly.

If you hit every hole in one, then we We were there.

4d.

That would be sick. People just call me 2D in high school because I was so skinny. My cool throne is Max.

Oh.

He's going to be living his dream. Yeah. I think we alluded to it on Monday. You guys were confused what I was talking about. But this Friday, 4:12, starting at the Barstool Bar, Max is going to be-Which Barstool Bar? Barstool Bar in Philly. Okay. Max is going to lead the first 100 people that go to the Barstool Bar. They'll get a ticket to ride the chill train and go to the Sixers game. It's Pride Night, coincidentally. Oh, it is Pride Night. At 6:00 PM, Max is going to be leading the Sixers drum line from Barstool Sandsum to the Chill Train to the game.

If you know anything about Max, he is very good at leading these trains. He did one for Darts Day three years ago before he quit Darts, and he gets the people going. Yeah. He gets the people going. If you're in Philly, show up to the Barstool bar, get a free ticket on the Chill Train, and Max is going to put on a show. That's what I promise you. Yeah, he is. Max will put on a show for you guys.

Starts at 4:30. Get there at 4:30. I'm nervous about people coming. On Pride Night?On.

The train?

On everything.

You're going to run a train on Pride Night. Okay.

First hundred people get a free ticket to the game. It's a big game.

Max is going to make sure people come. Yeah.

Max is going to make you come when he runs your train on Pride Night.

This is a big moment for you, Max.

I know. I don't like it.

The city of Philadelphia is going to show up for Max.

Will he be sitting in a box? I don't think so.

Don't throw tomatoes at him. No.

Come on.

What? Don't. I said, Don't. I love I love when you say, Come on. It's so fucking cute.

We got him a big, whatever you call it, conductor's hat, like the person that-Oh, yes. One of those batons.

This is an overall stream.

This is a nightmare. This whole thing is a nightmare.

You're going to do great, sweetie. But it's like one of those things where you say it's your nightmare, but low-key, it's like your dream. Yeah, it's not my dream.

You need a fucking drum line on Pride Night. If you told 12-year-old Max Delente that, he'd be like, Oh, my God. Thank God. I made it.

I just hope people show up.

People show up. I just hope people show up. Please show up.

Free ticket to the game.

Free ticket to the game. Free ticket to the game. We're still fighting for that six seed Pacers one today. That was tough. But two nights off and Beatle definitely be playing. I'm just going to say it, and Beatle definitely be playing. Nice. Magic. Good basketball team. Big win. Got to win on Friday night.

Let's go, Max. Okay. Have some pride. Pft, your hot seat, cool thrown.

My Hot Seat is every Major League baseball pitcher Because they've all got elbow issues. Yeah. And they're all getting Tommy John. They're all getting UCL injuries. How many have there been this year? A lot. It feels like six quality starters that have gone on the DL with some shoulder tightness. And I looked up the stat, starting pitchers that throw 96.5 miles per hour in a season from 2019 to 2023, they're all injured. All of them have been injured. I'm looking up and down this list right now. We've had even a couple more added in the last two days. It seems like every good pitcher is getting hurt this year.

Well, we talked about it on Sunday. It's just everyone's obsessed with velocity throwing it so fucking hard.

And the uniforms. And the uniforms are an additional issue. But yeah, the list just keeps growing day by day by day. My cool throne. I'm going to switch it up a little bit. My cool throne is the Masters app. We're going to talk to Max Home about it in a second. I redownload the Masters app. It's a tradition unlike any other. And when you log into the first time, it just feels... It's such a great way to come down from the NCAA tournament being over. And now you have the Masters app back, which is the greatest piece of technology ever invented. And you open it up and you're like, everything's going to be okay because the Masters app is here and it's comforting and it's perfect and it runs as smoothly as anything. I fucking love the Masters app.Yeah, I do, too.

All right, my hot seat is NBA playoff strategy. We had two things. One, someone on Twitter threw this out there that I'm very interested in what you guys think. He said, Is it legal for players to kiss as a strategy? Let's say that it's the finals, game seven in a crunch time. If Luka starts kissing Kyrie, not a single defender will be watching the ball, leaving Exem open for an easy three. Would Luka and Kyrie be called for a tech, or would the points count?

I think it counts. We talked about this on the show. I think this was our idea.

Oh, so someone stole it from us.

I think it's an old… Yeah, that's an old.

Okay, it's our idea. It's old.

You You remember the old... You've seen it in high school tapes where one player will get on the ground. Falls down. Like a dog. All right, so that's it. That thing? Yeah. Just make out with... Is it a foul to make out with your opponent? No, I don't think so. Is that... I don't know. We need to get a rule.

Your I heard it probably, but you've seen me. I was like, This sounds vaguely familiar, but then it was from yesterday. So I was like, damn, they're just stealing us from 2018. Yeah. But here's the new strategy that no one's ready for. The Bulls unveiled tonight, the double person dunk. It didn't go in, but I think if it did, it would have counted for four points.

Do you think it was a double dunk, or do you think the guy behind was trying to block the shot?

No, I think it was so Tori Craig went to throw it up off the glass to himself, and Andre Drummond thought he was throwing it to him, and they both tried to dunk at the same time, and neither of them dunked. But I'm pretty sure if it had gone in, it would have been a double dunk, four points.

Yeah, it's hard to defend.

The picture of them, of- I saw that. Sorry, Craig, just being like, What the fuck? Why is there someone on my back trying to dunk this ball?

You should never try to do something like this when you're losing.

Yeah. Andre German also turned his ankle like the next play. Yeah. So the Bulls, yeah, they're going to figure it out. Also, I do think I think the only reason that Billy Donovan is still alive for the Kentucky job is that Jerry Reindsdorff would pack his bags for him, being like, Now I don't have to pay you. Because there was a story in the Chicago Sun Times today about Jerry Reindsdorff in the White Sox. He said, A source recently said that Reindsdorff, who is also the chairman of the White Sox, knew that manager Pedro Grifal had put in a fireable season by mid-summer of 2023, but he wanted to wait at least a year so the dead money wasn't as big a hit.

Okay.

So just terrible employees being like, I don't want to pay him.

Yeah, but that's good that they might move on, though. Or did they already move on? No, they haven't. No, that's bad.

Yeah, that's what he's dealing with. All right, my cool turn. I got two as well. One is Anyone who loves coffee because Stella Blue, we have the golden mug. We have done our first golden mug of the year. It's going to be all day today, all day Thursday. We got new merch. This hat is in the store. All the coffee is stocked. Cold brew season's here. Five people are going to win a custom Stella Blue golf bag and a new driver. So five people can win the golden mug. It's going to be great. Obviously, we give money to dogs, It's Paz Chicago. But yeah, we got all the new merch, hats, coffee, everything. I love doing the gold mug because it makes me feel like Willy Wanka. So go buy it right now. And then my other cool thrown was the Chargers because Jim Harbaugh has unveiled his new strategy, which our friend Sam Schwartz has told us he has all kinds of stuff like this. But Jim Harbaugh has made some locker room changes. Not only are players' lockers rearrange numerically, but each player's nameplate now shows the recruit level coming out of high school, not ranked through five-star recruit level.

I like that.

We all came from a different place, and now we're here, all this together.

Remember, also for the guys that weren't highly recruited, remind them of that every day.

Khalil Mack.

I think he was zero stars. People think you suck.

Right. When I asked Sam what this probably meant, and he said that he just loves to rank stuff, loves to remind everyone that it doesn't matter where you started, we're all in this together. Then he said that Jim Harbaugh used to call... He'd classify all the players at Stanford, and the lowest classification was Bus Ryder, Steke Eater, because they don't play. They just go to games and eat the team meal.

I like that. I That's what this writer's stake is. When Harbaugh was making this list, when he was assigning all the different stars, all the players from their past, he probably in his head thinks all the players that were zero stars, those are my core guys. I want 53 of those guys on my team.

Yes, but The chargers changes have started. All right, Jake.

My hot seat is basketball fans. Oh. Yannis, noncontact injury tonight. What? Mri.

I saw some unauthorized aggregator Twitter accounts posting this. They don't think that it's an Achilles. They think it's a calf.

Doc Rivers says, postgame, his level of concern is high, but he's the honest. I think everyone probably feels the same way as I do right now, so we're just hoping to hope for the best.

The Bucks have had the season from hell, it feels like.

You have Doc Rivers as your coach. Yeah.

So we don't have much info.

Hank. I mean, that had to be the only team you were even slightly worried about. That had to be the only team you were slightly worried about.

I never root for injuries. I mean, Pat Biv, they said he was going to be out for this season. He started, got 20-10, belt the ass.

But are you... If he's playing, I'm not worried.

All right.

Were the Bucs the only team that you had a little bit of worry about?

Not really. Okay.

There They're still fighting for the two-seed against the Knicks. If they get it, then you could potentially rest you, but then they might be playing the Sixers or the Heat. So, yeah, Celtics are in the finals.

Pro football doc says Probably not Achilles.

Oh, okay. That's good. It'll be fine.Caffe is not good, though.Caffe.

Is not good either.Caffe.

Is not good. All right, Jake?

My Cool Thrones: The Champions dinner. It took place tonight. Oh, yeah. Max, if you want to pull up the picture of Big Cat. I feel like this is the coaches's picture, light version.

The light version. Yeah, light version. But they're all dressed the same.

Yeah, but their smiles are different.

Yeah.

So.

Yeah, what stuck out to me was immediately Phil Mickelson. Phil, if you zoom in on Phil, that's a man who I don't think he had much of an appetite for dinner. I think he probably... Yeah, he took his-He's wide-eyed. Yeah.

He's looking like he's ready to go to a Florida Panthers game.

He's very alert for this dinner.

Yeah. It just reminds you, if you win a Masters, that's just got to be the coolest thing, be like every year, once a year.

Yeah.

I get to go to this.

Can we do a part of my take dinner for life?

What do you mean?

We just have dinner.

When?

Once a day?

Sunday?

No. Sundays. No, just once a year, in 50 years.

Yeah, but then we would have to invite Billy.

That's true. We'd also have to invite his 50 secret service agents. Yes, that's true.

You might be President.

Yeah, we could do that. We'll do that at the White House. We have to invite Jilly.

Yeah. Okay, if Billy gets elected President one day, we will have an annual part of my take dinner in the Lincoln bedroom at the White House.

How fast, if Billy became President, would he just forget that we existed?

No, he would arrest us. Yeah. He would have us.

Be like, I know this guy.

He send a secret band podcast.

Yeah, those would just not be part of- Anyone who said one word on a mic.

Yeah. I also love John Roms facial here in this. Yeah. He's got the White Sox Dave beard going on.

Yeah, Tiger's looking good. Where's Fuzzie Zeller.

Is he alive?

I also don't know where Angel Cabrera is.

He's not there.

Angel's not there? No. You really are a dimplehead.

No, I know he's not there. I'm saying I don't know where he is.

Fuzzie Zeller is alive. Oh, he went to jail.

All right, let's go Fuzzie.

Good job Fuzzie. Who's the Wilford Brimley guy?

What does that mean?

The guy with a mustache.

The fat guy with a mustache. That guy's on TV all the time. That's exactly what it means. Wilford Brimley.

What's his name? He's on TV. Do you reverse image?

Yeah, who's No, what's his name? We're showing ourselves right now. People could be like, Oh, fuck. How did you not know that guy?

He's always on TV. It's going to be bad.

This is good podcasting. This is really bad podcasting. Champions Wilford Brimley. Maybe it just is. Wilford Brimley did not win a green jacket. It looks exactly like him. All right, well, we'll just have people tell us how we were wrong and we didn't know anything. This is going to suck if it's a name that we should have known, PFT.

I'm telling you, I asked Kirk earlier. I didn't recognize it.

And what did he say?

I forget.

What do you mean?

It's an old guy's name.

All right, we're doing the image search right now. Okay.

If nothing's going on.

This is great. He's just bringing up a lot of green jackets.

Great podcast.

Do you think Augusta has a trademark on that Pantone green?

This is doing nothing for us.

Oh, wait.

Did that say his name? No, it doesn't. Most likely to call his waitress's sweetheart. That's true. That's very true. Maybe someone applied in it. Two words, sex symbol. Okay. Oh, man. All right, this is going to kill us.

Let's see. I'm just going to type Old guy, mustache.

Yeah, look, someone said Wilford Brimley. Old guy. Even more than Brimley.

Mustache and golf.

I just searched Wilford Brimley, masters. Okay, we got to find this now. This is a terrible podcast, and we apologize to everyone. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Craig Stadler.

Craig Stadler. Oh, dude, how did we not get Craig Stadler?

He wanted a playoff in '82.

'82. Of course. The Walrus. Oh, the first picture is him just chewing on a bottle of wine.

What a fucking legend. Yeah, this guy rocks.

Okay, let's get to Max and Brooks, and then we have Riggs and Trent as well. We're going to talk some masters, get you ready for the masters. Also, everyone, tune in. 8:30 Central. The Barstool Minigolf open will be live. The Pardon My take tea time is 9:30 Central, so you can watch us. You can watch us on all of our socials, too, right? If you want just hole by hole.

We'll be live on Instagram. Great. And then the broadcast will be live on Barstool Sports.

nick and I on the main feed. Yeah.

And I want Hank to win. Hank, I'm rooting for you. I do, too.

I want a playoff. We haven't had a playoff in any of these.

I want Hank to win.

I want Hank to win in a playoff.

It's been a blowout as we went to the 72nd hole. I want Hank to win in a playoff. We want drama.

I want Hank to beat me in a playoff. That'd be good. I want Hank to beat both of us in a playoff. I just want Hank- You're a playoff, Hank win.

I just want Hank to win first, second, and third place. Thanks, guys. Yeah.

I wanted to be like, Yukon. Because then it would be like, You won, you beat us, you beat me in PFT in the three-player playoff. Then when the top golf video comes out, it won't matter. True. Right.

Which will be out. This one's for money.

Right.

Good luck, Hank. Good luck, Hank.

All right.

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Okay, we now welcome on our very, very, very good friend, an Augusta tradition unlike any other. It is Max Homa. He's Getting ready for his masters, the year that he finally puts on a green jacket. Max, I actually have to ask you a question first because this has been in the headlines. Your wife is not pregnant right now, is she?

No.

Okay, all right.

That was in the headlines?

No, not you, not you, specifically But Scottie Scheffler said that he would leave if his wife goes into labor. So I just wanted to... We needed to make sure that you weren't going to leave at any point if you're leading the masters.

I think we're all, sadly, rooting for her to give birth a little early the way he's been golfing.

Someone's going to send her some Thai food or something. Try to speed it up.

Hey, Meredith, do you want to walk on this curb, one leg off the side for us, please?

All right, so how are you feeling, Max?

Yeah, good. It's been great. I was waiting to tell you I'm playing with Brooks tomorrow in the part three, so we're getting the Pardon My Take vibes. Love that. That's as good as they come. So I think that's a really good start to the actual event.

That's great. I saw that you were paired with your childhood hero, Tiger Woods. I also saw that your screen name when you were a kid was Next Tiger Woods 59.

Yeah. I've gotten a lot of people. You haven't been one of them, shockingly, PFT, but I've gotten a lot of people saying, Oh, all the kids say, That's Cap now. And they say, That's Cap. It was 69. And I was like, Well, it was... I was like nine years old. It was 59 because of golf. It's even nerdier. 59 is like a sweet score in I guess as you get older, 69 becomes significantly sweeter. But yeah, that was it. Next time, it's 59, about as embarrassing as it gets.

All right. So we got to... He's just a guy. We can't be a puddle around him. He's just a guy.

No, just a guy. Just a guy. Just a really, really cool childhood hero of mine. But no, it actually has been easier since the first time I played with him, we've gotten to be a lot closer. Pft, though, I feel like you were just about to tell me your embarrassing name, and I would like to feel better about mine.

Yeah, it was 6969. I spelled out the word 6969 and then numbers. I was fucking- You were such a badass. Yeah, I was fucking... You know me, Max. You know me, holy cow. Getting the dick wet a little bit. Oh, Speaking of that- God, it was soaked. I saw the other news about Tiger Woods, that he's not having sex leading up to this Masters tournament. Are you taking a similar route?

I mean, some days by choice, some days not, I guess. I don't know who... Nobody cited their source there, but I'm not sure Tiger has got a friend close enough to him that would talk to the media that were true. So I'm so confused by I feel like some guy just asked somebody and said, Yeah, Tiger is not having sex now. I don't know how you get close enough to him to know that. And then if you did get close enough, I'm pretty sure you're usually quite as a mouse. So that was a weird story, man. But good for that journalist.

Yeah, it was a weird story. Our only theory was that maybe Tiger's penis wrote that story because that's the only one who would know. But yeah, that was definitely a weird story.

That might be like a classic NFL smokes screen thing where Tiger has one friend that he thinks is running his mouth a little bit. So he only tells that one friend that story to see if it gets out. And now that guy's out of the circle.

I wonder if then it came out and he's like, Oh, got you, bitch. He's like, Fuck, now that story is out.

Damn it.

Did it come up with something a little less weird.

Yeah, damn it.

That's a good point. Yeah, I didn't think about that one.

Max, a weird question. You're a diehard Dodgers fan. If you get a text on Thursday morning from a number you don't recognize, and it's show Oheo Tani, and he's like, Hey, I just put $4.5 million on you win the Masters. Would that be more pressure or less pressure?

It sounds about on brand because he sounds like if he was gambling and he was down four and a half million, putting all of it on to win the Masters sounds right about on par, for lack of a better pun. That's been crazy. We've been dumbfounded, enamored a little bit just by how you could be that far in the hole, even if it wasn't him. That's impressive. And that Bookie is what a guy. Just taking on some serious feet. The whole situation, I need a documentary about the whole thing, whether it was Shohe or not.

Yeah, it is a fascinating story. And And the Dodgers are a super team. So it's nice that they gave us this one thing we can make fun of when they win like, 115 games this year.

Yeah. Joe said it best this morning. He goes, his bad world, perfect world would be if Shohe somehow got suspended, and we still won the World Series, so we didn't have to listen how we bought our team for a year.

Yeah, it's not a bad point.

That would be best case, worst case, I guess.

Yeah. So in terms of your game right now, I know you played last week. You usually You really don't play the week before the Masters. You decided to this year. What was that decision about? Why did you figure, Okay, you know what? I won't take a break this year.

Great question, PFT. I typically sit at home and I try to get my golf game as perfect as I can get it. And I noticed when I show up here on a Monday, I'm just trying to hold onto it when you're really just getting going Monday to Wednesday, you're getting moving and seeing what's working and going and checking out the golf course instead of just trying to I'm not really a perfect robot of a golfer. So I felt like if I went last week, I'll get a bit more into golf. I never remember what side of the brain you're supposed to use. I'm not going to ask Max because I think he only uses one side anyways.

Right brain, I think. He's in the front of his brain.

Yeah, only the front. The first thing that comes to mind. I think it's right brain. I get too left brain at home, and I'd like to play a bit more right brain. So I tried to do that a bit more Last week.

Yeah. How would you say Max is holding up your name right now?

Great. I'm doing great. He's been disappointing at times.

No, he wasn't mad. No, that was a question for Max. That was not a question for Christopher Delente. That was a question for Max Homa.

But I'm doing a really good I got a job over here, so I just wanted to step in.

I would like it to be known that the eight minutes I'm on the show once every four months, you are bad girl, not Max.

So if someone asked Max a question, it should be at me. That is all I asked. Eight minutes. But He's doing all right. He's got more seconds than I do, so that's something.

Yeah, that's a fair point. You've been in the news a little bit recently, Max. You've had a couple of shots that have either hit a patron or come close to hitting a patron. The one last week was so funny where the dude just fell over as he tried to step away from it.

I wish I could have seen it from the tee. That was a bummer. I saw it on Instagram after. I was like, Oh, man, I actually would have given a good laugh at that with that guy. A lot of effort. I don't know what the plan was.

He was doing a great job. He took a nice tumble. He was trying to get out of the way. And he obviously is not as athletic as maybe he once was and didn't realize the limitations of his body at his current age, and then just tumbled backwards onto the ground. But everybody had that guy's back. Everybody was like, great job as a volunteer. That's what you should be doing, getting out of the way, trying to track the ball.

I think people appreciate effort.

Yeah.

Sometimes you fail, but effort is important. And that guy had all of that. He had no athleticism, unfortunately for him, but I loved it. He got out of the way, then in the way, and then rolled out of the way again. He did everything really fast. But I like how he just laid there and just looked up in the sky like, damn. Probably just completely regret it ever volunteering for those two seconds.

That's the I know I'm on TV face that you make. Yeah. You're like, Gosh. In that moment, he was thinking about what the next two days of his life we're going to be people just sending him that video repeatedly. Yeah.

Yeah. And he doesn't have Instagram, so every time they send it in the Instagram link, he has to say, I don't have an Instagram. Then he's going to finally download it, read the comments, and be like, Oh, none of these are nice. I thought it was going to be nice and jolly and fun. I didn't know the internet was so fucking terrible.

It is a terrible place. I got a dumb question for you, Max. So there's rain in the forecast on Thursday. We're regular guys that just love whenever a plan gets canceled, period. I don't care if it's It's a good thing, a bad thing. If I have something I have to do, and then you tell me I don't have to do it, I'm like, holy shit, that's awesome. I basically have free whatever time. Is that similar with the situation with the rain, or are you like, I want to go? I like, let's go.

That's actually a funny question.

Yeah, because it is the master, so I'd assume it's maybe not like us. But you could tell me I'm going on vacation and then be like, no, actually, it got canceled. I'd be like, oh, awesome. Now I can sit and watch nothing for three days. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good point. I would say typically I'd be pissed because I would like to just get going. But this week's a bit unique.

I have some of my friends stay at my house this week, so it's actually fun not to be at the golf course, where typically we're usually just sitting in a hotel room, trying to...

They don't baby proof hotel rooms as you know, Big Cat. So you're just trying to have your kid not bump his head on something. So this week is a little different. Being home is not so bad. So I guess for this one, I won't care too much much if we don't get going, but it is always... You get a little antsy as it gets close, but I don't think it's quite the same as when you have a flight and you're like, Oh, thank God, I don't have to get on it, even though you want to leave. But it's a bit similar. I mean, you get itching and ready to go, and if it gets pushed all the way to Friday for us, that would suck. But I don't know, maybe Tiger will want to come over and play like shoots and ladders or something. I feel like that would be a nice little adjustment. So I guess I could float that idea.

That'd be very fun. I I also have a dumb question. Do you download the Masters app? Hell, yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool.

It's the best app ever. It is. For one week, it's our favorite thing.

Yeah. So even if you're playing in the tournament, you download the app, you can check in on people. Do you actually watch the Masters as a fan while you're competing in it?

Yes, absolutely. I guess I like... Because on the PJ tour app, it's somewhere you star your favorites or whatever. But the Masters app is just one week and there's less people. So I like going through and seeing who I'm going to star for the week. Usually just me, but every once in a while, I'm curious what this guy is going to do this week. So I'll star him up. So I do enjoy going in and almost at the end of the week being like, what prompted me to star? Why did I give a shit at any point in the tournament? But yeah, it's fun. They do a good job. You can see all your shots too back, which is pretty rare for us. So that's cool. But yeah, it's just a nice, dirty thing. I like golf nerdy shit.

Another dumb question. How tiring is Augusta? Because all I hear about is we're watching on TV, but never been. We want to go some year. But people talk about the walking in the hills, it's a lot more steep than you realize. Is it actually after 18 holes, you're like, Okay, that was different than a regular course?

That's definitely a golfer thing to say to make us feel better. But yeah, I don't know how the fuck Joe does it with the bag. There's just a couple hills, 8 and 18. I already walk fucking weird. Watch how low my chest gets to the ground halfway up both those hills. I'll fucking drag it ass going up 8 and 18. It's steep as shit, man. I wouldn't say you're dead tired by any means, but it definitely sneaks up on you.

Yeah. What's your favorite hole?

I feel like you're leading me to a joke here. I'm not.

I'm not going to go for it.

No.

I'll start first. Vagina.

You go. That means I got to pick.

I just took one of them.

Okay, I'll go second. Mouth. Okay, you're up, Max. Fuck.

Yeah, the 13th hole.

Okay, good answer.

God, you guys picked the two ones. I should have just spit it out earlier.

We got the clear one, one, and one, two.

Yeah, man. That's such an obvious couple The 13th.

Okay, so we got to watch you on the 13th.

Thirteen sick.

How is the gallery, Ben? Has everyone been behaving themselves? I know August is different. This week's clean. Yeah, this week's clean. But other tournaments, does everyone- I had one yesterday.

Oh, in general, no. I still had one yesterday. I couldn't believe he had the balls to do it at Augusta. It's getting a lot better. I'm pretty impressed. But then there's just some weeks these guys, they go fucking nuts. But it's gotten better. I'm definitely hearing a lot more parverts, which I will accept for the time being. I still contend beyond my favorite thing that happens every week or two, someone will scream homosexual, which they... I mean, they yell the whole time, all day. Everybody's like, I'm a homosexual. I'm a sexual. Most of the time, a lot of the people around them get it, but got it hit so hard last week. Some guy screamed it. And you could just tell there was a group of 10, 15 guys that did not know what it was, what they were getting at. And they lost their shit laughing so hard. They were just so confused. Like, what a weird place. Golf course, the 60th hole to come out. It was fucking It makes me laugh so hard because I think my favorite part about people not understanding why I don't like being called a pervert in public is that they can't separate the internet from real life.

Not everyone gets that this is a It's a joke, and I'm not going to explain it, and I am a real person. And so I like when people do shit from the internet in public and then almost get embarrassed. No, it's a joke, dude. And everyone's like, Well, what do you mean? And they're like, No, it's from a podcast. Just to some part of my. What the fuck is that? No, it's Big Cat and PFT. They're like, What the fuck is a Big Cat and PFT? And I listen to it. I'm just like, Yeah, how dumb do you fucking sound?

Yeah, the funniest jokes are when you have to explain them for minutes and minutes.

Homosexual, I love because you could piece it together. It's a great... You all came up with it. It's a great idea. But the pervert one takes eight levels of explaining. I'm just like, Yeah, dude, it doesn't sound good anymore, right?

I like the idea of a guy saying, standing on and be like, I am a homosexual. And then the whole crowd looking at him and slowly breaking into applause. Like, Congrats. I'm so proud of you.

I had it at a Tampa two years ago. A guy on the 10th T, kid walks up, dad and his son were standing next He goes, Hey, Max, I'm a homosexual. I nodded and the dad looked at him and just gave him a nod of approval like, Good for you, man.

That's cool.

He's proud of you for being proud. I was like, This is a heartwarming moment. He doesn't get the test. He's telling a different story to his family when he gets home. I was just like, Man, what a time to be alive.

Yeah.

He makes you laugh every time.

Yeah. We'll reiterate, AWLs have to police each other. We're rooting for Max. I appreciate that. We want Max to do well, so let's get him in a good spot. I know August is different because it's just prim and proper. But when you're back on the tour, everyone just do a good job. Listen, we want Max to win, so then he'll win us money and show.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Allegedly.

Yeah, allegedly.

Yeah, allegedly. Maybe just his translator. Yeah. That's a weird wrinkle to the story that the Bookie issued a $4.5 million line of credit to a guy that makes 200 grand a year, too. Yeah. He's good for it.

He's a lot of icky parts. Maybe he was up a lot for a while. I don't know. A handshake agreement. I don't know what goes on over there.

So, Max, what can we expect this weekend from you? What's your goal?

Goals to win. Our game does feel really good. Getting a little bit more comfortable. I'm excited. I don't know. I feel like- Something about majors gets you amped up, but I feel like I've done a good job of just enjoying my week and trying to be myself a bit more and have a bit more fun.

I love that. And I feel like you have come a long way from whatever it was five, six years ago when I was like, Can you win it? And I know you can win it now. One of my favorite questions, I got to ask myself that every week.

I'm going to ask myself Thursday before I walk to the seat and say, Can you do this? And then I'm just going to answer it Honestly, and I'm just very hopeful that answer's yes. Yes. I'll get the swing in.

You've been playing great golf the last couple of years. You're ready to go.

I think I know now that on a good week, if things go the way They can go. I know I can win it, which I guess is different than maybe a few years ago where I didn't know if my great golf was good enough. I know for a fact my great golf is good enough. It just needs to come out the right week. So let's just hope it's this week.

But that's got to feel awesome to be like, I know that if I just play to the best of my abilities, I can do this. That's a huge difference.

It's a big difference. It's a little bit more calming knowing that it doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be good. And I've done enough times to know. I think it would be the pressure on Sunday that would be the most unique thing. But as far as the golf goes, I think, fortunately, I've lived enough of these golf experiences to know I can physically do what needs to be done. So it'll be fun to get to see. To eventually have an opportunity to just see what that's like when you're getting down to the nitty-gritty.

Yeah, I would love that, Max. We might cry. We might cry if you win.

I will cry with you guys. I'll lead the charge.

Yeah. If you win, you'll be on with your green jacket on Sunday night, which would be incredible.

I have not been drinking at all, trying to get ready for this whole part of the season. And I am really looking for an excuse to get White Girl wasted. I'm ready for it. Sunday would be a great time.

I'll cry, and I'll get White Girl wasted with you in solidarity. Okay.

What if we see a drunk podcast?

We're just hammering his max one.

We have max one. All right. Max, I got one last question. Roback question, robackquestion, robackquestion, rhoback. Com, promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, roback. Com, promo code take. Thank you for doing this. I know that you got a busy schedule, and we appreciate your time very much. Also, my last question is not a question. It's just I wanted to apologize to you in face-to-face. I knew you were going to say that. We've texted.

I lashed out.

I was a bitch. Honestly, the whole Wisconsin JMU thing, I've been in a mental funk for a month or three weeks because I hate how I was. I've beaten myself up. Don't worry about it. I haven't even read. I'm sure there's people online who've said really mean things, and I've done a good job of avoiding that. But know that I've hated myself more than anyone in the world the last three weeks.

Dude, no, it's good. I've been a bigger bitch than that. So I mean- Yeah, we all have moments.

We all been there. Yeah, we all have moments. We've all been there. Yeah.

The only part of the podcast I didn't like when you lashed was that you said my joke wasn't very good because I thought it was funny.

It was good. You know what?

I thought into it. I was going to text BFT and Big Cat and do this thing. And then I was glad Hank pointed out. He's like, You do this all.

No, he was right. I was an idiot.

That was the point. I can read it here. This is during the game. Was it at halftime? No, it was whenever.

It was halftime. At halftime, Hey, just wanted to let you know I'm watching the game and I'm rooting for your team.

I know he'll be mad, but that makes it even better. And then he followed up with, Oh, shoot. I didn't mean to send this to both of you guys.

And there was only one person who could be mad in the moment because Wisconsin played terrible. And the other thing is that I didn't explain well was it wasn't you. It was two people from my private life who texted me that I was very upset about, that I didn't want to say their names, but that was what sent me. I also didn't realize, I was trying to- Rosillo sent me a phone. I didn't realize.

He was a great guy that night.

I didn't know you could send a FaceTime?

A message, yeah.

A FaceTime message. I didn't see it for a week. And then I pulled it up, and I deleted it right away. He was just smiling, and it was the end of the game, and he's like, Hey, buddy. And I just deleted it right away. I was like, I'm still not ready. Him and his fucking cardinal's hat. He probably turned off the game at halftime anyway.

No, he's watching with me.

I was talking to him the other day, and he was telling me about the game, and he said he was basically a personal security guard because he thought you were going to fight every Wisconsin fan in the building.

Yeah, they didn't want any of this, though. They're all talked.

It's a bunch of yapping dogs. They're not going to fight a big old pitbull like you.

That's also very funny of Rasila to be like, I stepped up for it. That's Rasila's dream. He's like Mark Wahlberg in that moment being like, Oh, I'll fucking... It would have been different if I were there.

Also, Max, you can... That girl, You can correct me if I'm wrong. Rasilla didn't step up to anything.Yeah, no.

But in his head- I backed the guy down. Yeah, in his head.

Yeah, no.Rusillo?Yeah..

It was essentially you.

It was essentially you. But there was the initial interaction, and then it was It's funny just hearing Rusillo be like, Hey, I know this is probably a little tough for you to hear, but he is a big deal.

This is a big deal.

Also, I had Batgirl and Rusillo with me. That's such a beefy security team.

No one's fucking- That's literally where Roussel goes to bed at night, and he's like, I really wish that someone would step to one of my friends so that all these squats I'm doing in my garage by myself are worth it.

That's his dream. I've got this running joke, but a real thing. It has nothing to do with being a golfer and not wanting to have to talk to somebody who might know me. It's more like when I'm in an Uber or I meet a stranger at times, as they say, and you're in close quarters, and they ask you what you do. My running joke has been that I a real estate agent because my wife is, so I know a lot about it. I just don't want to talk about golf. I imagine that Rizillo's answer to that, if he does this, is a bouncer because he wants people to make him a bouncer. He has one of the coolest jobs in the world, but I almost guarantee you he'd be like, I wish it mattered how strong I was. I wish I could talk about this more.

Yeah, it absolutely is what he answers.

Or just like something that everybody would hate so that they try to pick a fight with him.

Yeah. That's actually a really good idea.

Yeah. I actually beat up dogs for a living. I'm a Duke fan.

All right. Well, Max, best of luck. We're rooting for you. Have fun with Brooks tomorrow. We had him on, too. The only two bets I made, I'm riding with my boys, so let's go get a green jacket.

That's good odds. Like I said, we're going to get the Big Cat bet vibe rolling tomorrow. Yes. Start the event off right. Yeah, get this thing. But thank you guys for having me on. What a tradition. I love this. Yes. All right.

All right.

Thank you, Max.

Go kill it.

All right. Thank you, boys. Good luck. Love you, PFT.

Love you, too. What about me?

For it for you. Hey, love you, too, Big Cat. All right. Thank you. Love you, too. Even bad girl.

Yeah, even bad girl. And Hank.

Hank, I love you extra.

Oh, call it duty because I fucking still suck. All right, see you, Max.

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Okay, we now welcome on our good friend, One Time Blake of the Year.

I think so.

Did you win Blake of the Year?

I got the Goose head close.

Oh, no. Well, we're doing the green jacket this year, then later, we're going to do the real masters, which is Blake of the Year. Yeah.

So it is Brooks Kepka, our guy from Smash FC. No, Smash GC. Rookes, thank you for joining us. It is Master's Week. Let's just start here. How are you feeling? How is the game feeling? How's the mental's feeling? And just so you know, we also are going to make sure that Hank does not jinks you this year.

Yeah, I think that's the big thing. I need Hank to lay off. I feel good, man. I feel really good. Really happy where I'm at and excited for a good week. It'll be a lot of fun. I need a little redemption.

Yeah. So compare it to this week last year, because I think a lot of people didn't really I understand that Brooks was back last year at this time. You were telling people like, you feel good, games in a good place. Now people know that Brooks is back. Are you feeling better than you did last year? Best shape of your life?

You're not best shape of my life, but yeah, I I mean, I'm getting old, man. Dead body. It's in right now. Wait. But yeah, I feel good.

What was the best shape of your life?

Probably when I did that body shoot for ESPN or whatever, I lost like 30 pounds. That was stuck, but yeah.

That was the best shape of your life.

I can't get back to it. You're not imposing nude shape, but you're imposing... Would you do a nude body shoot only wearing the green jacket?

Oh, absolutely.

That would rock.

Absolutely.

If that happens, yeah, it'll be a gentle will be.

I saw a picture, by the way, of all the live guys Sergio treated were coming for that green jacket. When he says we, is it you? Is it Are you guys playing as a team? Does he know that it's not a team, Masters?

I feel like he should know that it's not a team event right now. Yeah, I would like to win.

I'll throw my name in the rink there. Yeah. I want you to win it, too. Not just because I bet on you, but because you're a friend, and also you'd come on after and show us the green jacket, and that would fucking rock. Yeah.

But if you win, you have to give partial credit to Sergio, though, because that's a wee win for the league.

I give the wee to PMT. Oh, yeah. That's the we. When I win, we win.

Yes. I like that. I like that. So, Brooks, I saw you had a piece in golf. Com yesterday, maybe yesterday. It was 10 lessons that Brooks Kepka taught me in 32 minutes. One of the lessons, so you did 10 lessons. The first one is, Don't think about anything, which I love. But then, lesson, what was it? It was like seven Lesson eight was, Don't think about consequences, and lesson 4 was, again, don't think about anything. So three of your 10 lessons were just don't think.

Honestly, fellows, that's the best way to be.

I just kept scrolling, and I was like, Wait, we're not... Oh, just a reminder. But don't you think that if you're telling everyone to not think about anything, now they're thinking about not thinking about anything?

Which is perfect. That's right where I want them.

Okay. All right. But when you step up to the golf ball, I understand what you're saying. It's a spin zone.

Yeah.

When you step up to the ball, I get what you're saying because you go on to tell the guy you want to react. And in golf, there's no reaction, usually. You set up And you do a lot of thinking. And most people think when they're hitting a golf shot, but you want to make it so you react. So you completely shut your mind off and act like when you open your eyes, Oh, there's a ball. I got to hit it now.

Yeah. Well, usually you're standing behind guys that are playing really slow. So it's like five and a half hours. You know what I'm saying? You get a lot of time to think. So if you don't think for that five and a half hours, it's beautiful.

I like the other lesson that you had on there, which is that you only warm up with your odd clubs. Is that only you? Do you only warm up with nine irons, seven irons, five irons, three irons?

Yeah, I think it might. I don't know. I guess, I don't know. I've always done it that way. I don't know. I never really looked at anybody else, what they're doing on the range. But I would say, yeah, probably guys probably do the same thing, or maybe not the odd clubs. They might go even. Probably even. Four, it's even. Five is odd.

So you only warm up with your odd clubs and you wear them out way faster than your even clubs?

Yeah. I barely ever hit my six iron unless it's on the golf course.

And so when you step up to hit a six iron on the course, you never think about that. Because me personally, I know if I just warm up and I hit a seven iron well when I'm practicing, I I get up there and it's an eight iron shot. I'm like, God damn it, my eight iron wasn't good, but my seven was earlier. You just don't have that problem. You're just like, Oh, I guess I'm hitting the six.

Yeah. Now, when I think back to Chicago when we played, I probably should change that all up going in this week.

I don't want I don't want you to change any. I want you to just go in and not think about anything. So this is your ninth Masters. Ninth Masters, you finished second twice. You finished top 30 every single time that you didn't get cut. So You've been right there. Is there anything you're changing about the Masters, like going this week? Is there anything that you're like, I'm going to do this differently to get me over the pump?

No, not going to do anything. Still going to stick with the odd clubs in the warmup. Yeah, nothing. I got nothing for you, fellows.

Okay. That's actually good.

I just don't want to think about anything, so I'm just going to do whatever I do.

Yeah, right.

That's smart. Do you have a strategy for what number you want your catty to get?

I did last year. It was the last year I waited. I actually waited for one person so I could get 69. When I get there on Monday morning, is there any... What number you guys want? I can't get the loner ones. I'm sure guys are there Saturday and stuff, but whenever we're going for these- A hundred?

Sixty-nine would be funny.

What about 99?

99 looks badass. I don't know.

They get the guys at play. I don't know how many guys I'm assuming. It usually goes up to 90.

Jake, what lot of balls- Can we draw a lottery ball to figure this out?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, great call.

Okay. Tell you what, Brooks, we'll do 100 lotto balls, and we'll take the one that comes up the most, okay?

So stand by. I'm hoping it's above 45 to make this realistic.

Yeah, we'll just draw it so you get above 45, and that'll be your level.

Perfect. Okay. It's spinning. 44 was the first one. So we go again. Of course.

That's 44.

Underneath 44, it's 52. You want to go 52?

52, it might be close because I can get there Monday morning early.

We'll do another one because that one was not selected. I want this to be legit. 44 again.

I think you got to get 44. You didn't drop it.

Big Cat said it.

That would have been crazy.

Okay.

No, Big Cat forgot to clear it. He forgot to clear it, so we're going to do another one. Okay, it's cleared now.

We're just putting you right back into Blake of the Year, the worst Blake of the Year ever. We're just going to be right here. We're not there yet.

72. 72.

That's the number. 72. 72, okay.

That's where we shoot for it. I won't register until I get the '72 number.

But not what you're shooting for in the tournament? No. Okay. All right.

That's where I'm trying to register. 72. I got it.

Yeah. I just want to make sure that's correct.

Rick will have that '72 match right in his chest.

Yes. Okay, I love that.

He'll be riding for us.

Yes. If you win with 72, we have to put you in the part of my take Hall of Fame, which I don't think there's anybody in that, right?

Well, we'll have to pay Rick, and we'll just- That was what I wanted. Yeah. We'll pay him for the number, and we'll just put it up here and be like, this is the one that Brooks won the Masterson. Yeah.

That's beautiful. Brooks, I saw yesterday that Anthony Kim just found out that you were a major champion because he was off the grid for so long, not paying attention to golf. Did Did he come up to you and was he like, Holy shit, dude, congratulations. That's awesome.

Ak is a man. I didn't get to know him because he left right as I was coming up. But he's a good dude. He's funny. The nicest guy ever.

Yeah. I mean, it's a crazy story that he's back. It's awesome. We're all rooting for him. I have two semi-personal questions for you, Brooks. One, how did you end up on the Blackjack table Super Bowl week?

I was out there Super Bowl week, so I I feel like it was pretty obvious I was going to be somewhere at a table.

Yeah, we were playing together, but did you end up okay?

I've had better trips.

Okay, that's a no. That's fair. I've had better trips. I know that answer. That's all you had to say. Two, did you watch Feet the Streets: Arch Madness with Jerry, and did Jenna maybe watch and be like, I could probably have won this?

I did not. I feel like I should have. I'm probably going to have to reach out to Jerry now and apologize for that. Actually, Jenna should apologizing. It's not me. She was telling me she was going to send feet pics. We'll talk to Jenna about that.

Yes. I mean, I competed in it. I did my nails up. Jerry thought I was a woman for about 20 minutes, and I saw the competition. I think Jenna could have taken it home. I think she could have won.

Yeah. We're going to have to. Next year, next year is the year.

Yeah, because I feel like- Next year is the year.

It's going to have to happen.

Yeah. If you win the green jacket and it's like, what else could this family have? Arch Madness. Those are hand in hand of illustrious awards someone can win.

The fifth major, many say. Yeah.

You guys would be the number one family in golf and feet.

If he makes a trophy for it and if she wins it, there's a big trophy case in my house, like golf majors. We'll put it right in the middle of the trophy case.

It's a giant foot. Yeah.

Yes. Also just- Just a giant foot sitting there. In the middle, too, I swear. Yeah. And just so we're clear, just because I want to back up Jerry here, he just wants to make Everyone know that it's not sexual. He's just judging feet. It's not sexual.

Yeah.

No, it's black and white.

It's pretty- Yeah, it's just feet.

He's like an artist that makes statues. He just appreciates the human form. It's beautiful.

All right, so what else? Are you doing anything different to Gust a week? Like, your chef is going to be there? What are we doing? Meals? I want to get so focused. I already bet on you. 20 to 1 is an absolute slap in the face to a guy of your stature.

I feel like those are good odds. Is that what the odds are at right now? Or when you place this bet?

I did it two days ago, 20 to 1. I mean, it's crazy. They have no respect for you.

None. I love it, though. I love it because then it just makes everybody out. The odds go high. It's perfect. Nobody's betting on me. Everybody else can make some money off me. It's perfect.

It's a great situation.

Do you actually get fuel off being an underdog when people are doubting you?

No, I just think, listen, whoever's going to be placed in the bet, they're going to win a hell of a lot more money. Good for them. I'm sure my boys are going to be that, too. So I'm like, All right, great.

Yeah. No, it'd be very lucrative for this podcast if you want. So I would appreciate if you did that.

Yeah, we might be able to buy the ace.

Again, yeah, Hank is not allowed to design merchandise. He's not allowed to even think about shirts. No jinks. Hank should not be allowed to watch the Masters.

I won't say work. Hank, rule number one, don't think about it.

Yeah. Yeah, don't think about anything.

That's easy for me.

Rule number one, did you not read the thing? Yeah, and rule number four, and also a little bit of rule eight.

Yeah.

Come on.

Brooks, I don't know if you saw this clip, but our good friends over at spit & chiclets, they interviewed JT, and they were talking about the masters. Paul Bissenet came up with a theory that Augusta has kidnapped all the squirrels there or killed all the squirrels in Augusta. Have you seen a squirrel in Augusta?

I don't know.

I know they got speakers in the trees. You never see birds, but you can hear the bird chirps. But sometimes when you get to 12:00 and 13:00, you can look up and you can see the speakers. Yeah. They're like, I'm getting from the fans, but we can see them.

I've been thinking about that. I've been saying they pipe in crowd noise like it's Seattle's field, except it's at Amen corner. They've got speakers up there. I'm going to be on the lookout for that. But if you do see a squirrel, please let us know because our sharpest mind here at Barstool, Paul Bissenet, is hard at work cracking that mystery.

If I see a squirrel, I will be very quick to point it out and I'll let biz know.

Okay. Yeah.

I appreciate that. How is my last question, Roback question, robackquestion, robackk. Com, promo code, take 20% off your first purchase, Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, everything, roback. Com. I'm wearing the joggers right now. How are the vibes? That was a good ad read, right? That was great. Yeah. Just black out and don't think about anything. How are the vibes? It feels like this Masters will be a little bit less contentious in terms of the live in the PGA guys. You guys are all good now, right? You're not going to have to deal with people side-eyeing you and everything.

No, I don't think anybody be side-eyeing. I just think, hopefully, the PGA guys don't get in a beer checking contest with the living guys. I think we would definitely- You guys would crush that.

You guys would kill that.

That was pitiful. How many boys saw that? Yeah. Yeah. No. But yeah, I think we would definitely go to the app. No, it's all good right now. It's fine. Like I said, I think we're in a year and a half of this, so nobody knows what the hell is going on, so might as well just enjoy the ride.

Yeah, I think in a way, it could end up being good for golf where it's like WCW, WWE. You got two rival factions. They'll be reunited at some point. Have you heard anything about what that would look like when the merger goes through?

I have no idea. I don't know if it's going to go through. If it is going to go through, it's just... I know that they're meeting, they're having talks, but I'm so far removed from that. And I think the PGA, I don't know. It seems like the PGA guys get a little more info than we do. But At the same time, I haven't really heard much of it progressing or going to anything, even from the PGA guys I would talk to.

Don't think about anything.

Don't think about it.

Don't think about anything. That's the key of life. That's the key of life, though. Yeah.

If you do think about one thing, if you just put something in their ear of the PGA tour, just be like, Hey, let us wear shorts.

Yeah. See?

I mean, it's awesome wearing shorts. I'm not going to lie. I love it out here.

Shorts are back. All right, well, Brooks, best of luck. We're rooting for you. Just go Let's just go win a green jacket this week.

I know. I think that's the goal. Seventy-two right there, fellows.

Not where you're going to shoot. Not where you're going to shoot. Not where you're going to shoot. Seventy-two.

We made that clear.

Yes. All right, Brooks. All right, Brooks. Go not think about anything, and let's win a Masters.

Easy. Easy down, fellows.

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Okay, we're going to finish the show with some guys on golf, and we have our good friends Riggs and Trent in studio. They were at Augusta 24 hours ago. They're here for the Barstool mini golf open, which is teeing off at 8:30 in the morning, central time. As you're listening to this, it has already started. Boys, let's start here. How was your... What were you, 24 hours in Augusta?

Yeah, I haven't washed our hands or anything because we were just rubbing it against the dirt and the grass in Augusta.

Like grass stains on your shirt rolling down hills.

I'm doing sleeping with the shoes on.

I'm doing the master's thing where I'm wearing the gear that I bought so everyone knows that I went, and I'm bragging about it because I went.

I have a question about that. I one day really want to go to Augusta. It looks incredible. All of it just It's one of my favorite weekends to sit on the couch and watch the tournament. What has happened in Augusta that has brainwashed people to the point where I saw Marty Smith had he posted a picture of the Eclipse glasses that looked like they were maybe 70 cents, and they had the Augusta logo on it. He said, These are the coolest Eclipse glasses ever.

Not kidding.

Yes, he's right.

When we went in and they handed those to us, we all looked at each other and said, This is the most important thing I've ever heard.

I just had to be there. All right, that's a fair answer. Also, all the other stuff I'm down with, like the merch, the menu, I love all that stuff. But when we get to Eclipse glasses, I was like, All right.

Have you seen any other Eclipse glasses, though? Those are the coolest Eclipse glasses.

I don't know. The ones Frank was wearing was pretty cool.

I didn't see those. But for the ones that I've seen, I would agree with Marty Smith.

It was also the idea that you were potentially going to be inside of Augustineafel during an Eclipse. That feels like fake life shit. I think that was a big part of the appeal.

Yeah, that was a huge part of it. I think that, what is it? Every 20 something years or 40 years?

There was one seven years ago.

He's the master's every year rigs.

Yeah. I think the next- Augustineafel, I hope that, except World War II, they didn't do it for three years.

Yeah. Actually, I had a friend that went there, I think four years ago. J. P. Finley from DC does DC Sports video there, and he hit me up. He's like, Do you want to eat merch while I'm down here? I can ship some to you. I didn't realize what a big deal it was to get something shipped out of Augusta. I asked him for a pimento cheese sandwich. He got a pimento cheese, put it in the mail. A little pro tip for everybody, don't try to do that. It does not arrive fresh. No way. If you want to eat the mayonnaise and the cheese the day that they slice it.

What you guys are saying is it is just as special as it is. If you get the Eclipse glasses, they are the best Eclipse glasses.

Guys like us, somebody sees that. You were at Augusta National during that Eclipse. People go to Austin, Texas, or whatever to watch it. We were at Augusta National. The efficiency in there is insane with all of the concessions and all that. You realize we were having a funny conversation being like, It's crazy that everywhere doesn't just copy this. You're like, Oh, well, everywhere doesn't have unlimited money and billionaires that run the whole thing. Yeah.

You will be stunned when you go, though, for the first time. The concessions are unlike any other sports concession where it's a walkthrough. It's not a walk up and stop and then turn around and go back. You just keep moving the whole time. You You're grabbing- Like an Aldi?

You've been to an Aldi? It's like a really cheap grocery store. Oh, I have been to those. So you can't go back. You just keep going forward.

That's exactly what it is.

People are grabbing. Augusta and Aldi. Augusta will probably kill me for a second.

I think IKEA is the same way, too, right? You just follow that path.

Yeah, right.

You just keep going. I think that's right.

But it's that special.

Yeah, they just figured it out because so many people go there with the concessions and the merch that you can't have a line take three hours. You cannot have that. When I was in the merch line yesterday, I looked at it and I said, That's going to take 3 hours. They have people standing on the sign, This is going to take 18 minutes. It's not going to feel like that when you're looking at it, but it's going to take 18 minutes.

Takes 18 minutes. Takes 18 minutes. Are you guys at the point now? Because Foreplay, you guys have had so much success. You are crushing it. By the way, we have a Stella Blue Foreplay collab coming out very soon. Very excited for that. Hold Brew. Flavors are going to be really good.

Do people know the flavor yet? We're holding it.

I think we're holding it. Yeah, we're holding it. It looks awesome. We're going to do a golf video. I've actually been thinking about maybe doing a-Transfusion coffee. Well, I was going to drink a pint of cold brew for every hole, and then Hank looked at me like I was insane. He's probably right. I trust Hank.

I think your heart would explode, no?

Yeah, I trust Hank in these situations, but we'll figure it But are you guys at the point now where are you getting any extra? Is Augusta being like, Oh, they're the foreplay guys, or that just will never happen? No.

Okay. In fact, Augusta-Nope.

Not even a little bit.

No, we don't. Dan, obviously, is more of our golf writer, our Big Jay. I know he's been on PMT, and he's had his credential, and we were a little worried. He went from Golf Digest and Legacy Media to Barstool Sports. You still have a credential at the Masters? Got it. But now they almost treat us like we have to walk more on eggshells. They're like, One of you guys has a credential.

They have leverage.

They got a little leverage on us. It's like, We got to be careful.

How close are we to playing at Augusta?

Not even close.

They'll never let you get around? Dude, Perfect, did it? Yeah.

All right. We had this conversation on our show, too. We were like, All right, they're maybe opening the door to alternative types of media. Then we went on their YouTube channel, Dude Perfect. They have 40 million YouTube subscribers. We have 440,000. It's not even a same bracket at all.

I I was upset when they opened the door to the DP guys because they went out. They defiled Augusta. They brought tennis rackets out there. They were playing weird sports on the hallowed grounds of Augusta National. I didn't like it. I thought that was bad for Masters.

We started, all of us, our whole brand, being making fun of Old Man Yell at Cloud, but we're such Augusta golf guys that we were like, You can't allow that at Augusta National. I don't even know if we would want them to allow us to film our type of stuff.

That's what I was going to say. I would prefer that they don't give us anything. That's their appeal. The There's been stories of members like, If you really want to be a member at Augusta National, they won't give it to you. If you're too thirsty for an Augusta National membership, they're like, I'm not giving it to that person. I think them keeping the door closed, the Dude Perfect thing did make me a little bit mad because of that, but I mean, I would prefer that they're just like, No, you guys can't come in.

You're saying we're playing it cool. We're like, Yeah, we're not even really that worried about ever playing there.

Yeah, because it feels like that's the secret society, man. It's like you can't play on that golf course.

We act like we don't even want to play there. Maybe we'll get to play there.

I think it does turn you into immediately when you go there. You could be like a young, like a rapscallion. You can be like a rebel, and you set foot on there and you're like, I'm going to behave myself perfectly today. I'm going to make sure that I'm wearing a freshly pressed shirt. I'm going to start narking on the other people next to me that might be yelling inappropriate things. It matures you just being at a gusto.

The no phone thing changes everybody.

That I'm actually excited for the first time I go.

Dude, it's the best. The first 30 minutes you're going through withdrawals, you're tapping your pocket, you're trying to check your phone, and then you're free.

You're free.

It was It's so freeing that yesterday I made a crazy claim that I'm considering going phoneless as a person.

Yeah, that's the dumbest thing you ever said.

It is.

That's what it does to you, Big Cat.

It's like me saying I'm going to do a diet.

Right. That's what I was telling. It's no different. I was like, you know your whole life.

Like Hank saying he's going to dunk.

Right, that one. It's like, that's our whole... If you're on your phone, that's our whole lives. But it's nice even just asking people for the time. People with watches in Augusta National are a big deal.

Are there any other pro tips? Because that sounds like one that people wouldn't think about before they go there. Like, wear a watch so you know what time it is. Any other pro tips for your first time going to Augusta?

I would say one of the biggest ones is you truly have to commit, if you know someone else that's going, of meeting somewhere at a certain time because you just, Oh, we're all going. Next week is going to be great. You get out there, you're like, I have absolutely no way to communicate with this human. It's jarring. You cannot communicate. If you lose somebody, it's over.

It's like you're in a Seinfeld episode.

Dude, you go back in time.

If you go into the restroom together with someone and they go to this, and then afterwards, you didn't agree on where... You legit might not find them for the rest of the day.

Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's very cool. It's like, yeah, like old... I mean, PFT and I date ourselves a lot. You guys are a little older as well, but the idea of going to a bowling alley as a kid and my mom giving me a dime or a quarter and being like, just call. You want to get picked up in the pay phone.

I really dated my dad. They have not paid. They just have phones, old school, where you can... We were like, Oh, yeah, would you call somebody? We don't know any phone number.

Yeah, right.

I don't have anybody. 911, that's the only number I'm going to call.

Nobody It's a little tough.

They should do just text phones where you can text somebody at a pay phone that you know they're going to be next to. Beepers. Beepers, yeah. I just invented beepers. Just invented beepers.

Last question before we get to Hank's questions. Everyone give a pick. Give us a pick. Are you guys worried about Scottie and the baby?

Honestly, I'm worried about Scottie ruining the tournament because he's so much better than everyone else.

But are you worried about the baby? Because he said that he would leave the grounds if his wife goes into labor. Now, it's their first child, and I think the due date is not until the end of the month, so it should be okay. But would that not be the craziest thing ever if he's killing everyone?

I was going to ask you guys, with your kid, if it's your first kid- If I was running the Masters, I would not leave.

You wouldn't leave? If I was winning the Masters, I would not leave. I agree with you. First kid. If I was winning the Masters, if I was winning the Masters, I would not leave. In contention. I would say in contention, maybe I would leave because then I could always be like, I would have won.

The kid will be there tomorrow.

But if I was up- If I'm in the last group of the Masters, I'm not leaving. I'll name my kid Augusta. How about that? You're always going to remember that kid. The kid will understand, too, once he grows up. The kid, they'll be like, Good call, dad.

I like the storyline just because it's something to follow. Because if it happens, the footage of Scottie Scheffler running off the golf course would be incredible.

Yeah, and then it's Scottie, and then who's the other- Sam Burns. Sam Burns. He actually, I think his wife is a week away.

Yeah, she's a lot closer.

Yeah, that is a a lot more nerve-wracking because I think Scottie would be fine.

I also think there's a funny dynamic of two of them are best friends, but Scottie's number one player in the world has won the Masters before. If you're Sam Burns and you've never won the Masters, never won a major championship, and then he's in this spot where he's like, Scotty said he was going to go, and you're like, Well, I haven't won the Masters.

Yeah, Scottie screwed him on that. Because his baby's also not due for a lot longer. He got the first, which usually the due date is about right with the first.

I think that's the math, though. If you have more green jackets or equal amount of green jackets as you have children, then you stay to try to get another. If you've won it twice and you're about to have your third kid, then you stay and you try to win on Sunday. If it's the other way around, then you have to go. If it's your first kid, you've got two green jackets, you got to go.

I would leave If I was 15th, I would be like, All right, I'm leaving, and then I can just tell everyone I would have won.

How are they going to let them know? How are they going to call them?

Someone, they have a bat phone.

They've got telepathy out there. They have a batfall.

Beepers. Remember, we invented Beepers. Yeah, it's true. They will call this number.

All right, so wait, who's your pick to win?

My long-shot pick is Jason Day. Okay. I think he's 6,000, 60 to 1.

Remember that time he collapsed? Yeah. That was pretty funny. Vertigo. He's a big vertigo guy. You can laugh about vertigo.

Yeah, I think that was Chambers Bay. Then he contended at the Masters a handful of years ago, and he had a broken back the whole time.

I like Jason Day. Okay, Trent.

I'm taking Brooks. Okay.

20 to 1. We already took it.

Big game, Hunter. He really wants this one, too.

And he's very cocky right now.

By the way, we should update everyone. Yeah, he is very cocky. So everyone just listened to Brooks, we had him on, and he was like, I'll pick the... We did the lottery ball, and he was like, Whatever number comes up, I'll just pick that for my caddy. So 72 came up, and in classic Brooks fashion, he texted me and he said that he zoned out and Cam Smith jumped in front of him, so he got number 73, which is perfect, bro. It's perfect. It's perfect, Brooks. He's like, I literally just looked. I was just staring out the window, and then he jumped right in front of me, and so I got 73.

He's I've seen this, Brooks, before where he's just in fuck it mode, and he's not thinking about anything.

That's rule number one, four, and eight. I don't know if you guys saw. He did a golf digest 10 rules, and three out of 10 of them were don't think. Smart. There's just different versions of don't think.

Yeah, he's talking shit. He's taking little shots of people. He was having some Lucy out there on the range today. He is very cocky.

Dude, he's healthy. Him being healthy, he can win any tournament in the world, and he loves the majors, obviously. I feel very good about that.

His presser today, too. If someone Someone asked a question that he thought was a dumb question. He basically just said that's a dumb question.

Yeah, well, that guy asking, Can you shoot 59 here? That guy was asking everybody that. It's so crazy. Laught at him and said, Have you played the course? Yeah. He was like, No. Okay, dude, shut up. All right, guys on golf, we got Some questions from the listeners.Yes, we do. Hank.

Hey, fellows. Huge fan of the podcast. I'm 24, and now that I'm working 9:00 to 5:00, and me and all my boys are washed up, we've taken up golf. I'm in a top-tier, vibes-wise, guy on the course, but bottom-tier in actual skill and of my golfing friends. Which do you recommend for getting better at golf, hitting a simulator for a couple of hours and playing a virtual course, or going to the range and hitting a bucket of balls?

I don't think I've gotten better at golf. Since we started all this.

I love your series against the haters, though. That's great. That's fucking awesome. Great idea. Thank you.

I appreciate that. The problem is nobody actually wants to play.

Of course, because they're cowards.

It's infuriating. Because you go through, we were like, Oh, yeah. Any of the videos I post, we'll just go through, look at all the comments. They're all insanely negative. Just message those people. Be like, Hey, we'd love to have a match, and none of them will actually do it.

We got to get you hooked up with our buddy Andrew Santino because he had a similar idea to hold an actual tournament with the haters. If you did If I did that with him, it'd be hilarious. He was like, We'll just invite all of them out. Because then in numbers, I feel like the haters feel a little more of a safety blanket.

Yeah, that's right.

That would be great. Wait, Trent, you've gotten a lot better at golf. Yeah.

I think you got to go to the range. Simulator golf, although you guys have a simulator here, and I can't stop hitting balls over there. This place is incredible. I think you got to go to the range. That's just where you get better. No mats, no simulator. Just go to the range and hit a bunch of balls. That's it.

Also, as cliché as it may sound, taking even one lesson, I think makes a massive difference. You realize you don't know what the fuck you're doing.

I'm of the mindset that I will never let another man teach me how to swing. That's me.

I've taken I take a couple of lessons, and I feel like every time I take a lesson, I learn one thing that I can take. It's like 10 lessons, I get one thing that I can take. I need to take probably about 600 more lessons, and I might be okay.

You're going to be right there, you're going to be dialed in.

What about just watching a YouTube video before you go to sleep? I like to do that, and then I think about the YouTube video in my sleep. Subconscious. Yeah, subconscious work. So the next thing you know, I get a bunker shot in the morning.

Have you ever watched that YouTube video where the guy tries to fix the slice and he just never gets to the point?

Yeah, because there's so many of those guys. I love of those guys that are selling their informational DVD or whatever, and you have to watch the YouTube video. And then he's just like, It's so easy. It's so simple. He just never tell his story.

This is the one key tip to fix that slice. You're like, What is it?

And there's a line of the most unathletic and weirdos that are like, He fixed my swing. Now I'm hit a 275 right down the middle. And he's like, All you got to do is come to my seminar. Yeah.

I watched 50 minutes of it when we were at Pinehurst, and he just never got to it.

The main reason I say that about a lesson, too, is because the amount of times that any of us have gone to a range and air quotes, practiced and had no idea what you're actually practicing or doing is every time. And then you walk off and you're like, I actually don't think I learned anything.

Right. Well, let me ask you guys because brook says that he doesn't think about anything at all when he It's every time I learn something new, I have another thing that I think about as I'm swinging, and then I forget about the previous thing I was thinking about that fixed my old problem. Now I've got my old problem, but I fixed my new one. Do you guys think about anything at all? Like, consciously keep your arm tucked?

The more I think about stuff, the worse I am.

Right. Brooks is in a position when he's not thinking about anything, that's why he's one of the best in the world, because he doesn't have to think about anything, doesn't have to think about keep her elbow tucked, go this far back. If you can have no thoughts, he's actually right, because then you're just... It's all athleticism and what you know. Yeah.

Brooks had in the full swing series in season one, one of my favorite clips, because he obviously comes on here and he's great. We laugh about him not really giving a shit about golf all the time, but you could see how frustrated he there. And he had all the quotes about how when you're sucking or struggling or whatever, you've got a trillion thoughts. He's like, I bet Scottie Scheffler doesn't have any thoughts. They cut to Scottie Scheffler and Meredith walking down. Yeah, down the street to have a golf. And that sums up golf perfectly. So yeah, if you can, like I said, Something that I've honestly been doing better lately when I've been hit it better is on the range, you work on all this stuff where you're thinking about this, you have seven swing thoughts. When you go to the course, you just honestly just swing as crazy as that sounds.

My best rounds when I think about tempo, that's it. I honestly Freddie couples in my head. If you want to watch golf, YouTube videos, just watch Freddie couples swing. You don't have to mimic his swing, but his tempo is what you want. It's so sweet. It's so sweet. You don't have to swing hard. You don't have to swing fast. It's very easy. Technology in the clubs are so good now that they're going to do a lot of the work for you. If you just keep things in control and hit the ball, it's going to go. If you just do it slow, you'll be... It's funny, feel versus real, people talk about all the time. You'll feel like you're going as slow as molasses, and then you'll see your swing on video, and you'll still be going fast. Just slow everything down, that's what I do.

I got to say, shout out to the vibes guy because you can suck out there as long as you're just a good vibes guy. One guy I saw in an amateur tournament, got up and he said, The best thing I ever learned was, if you can't play great, just be great to play with. That's such a good point. If the vibes guy is always bringing the vibes, then he's doing a great job.

That is a good point.

Best vibe bringer personality. It's like personality traits, I should say. Selecting good music, not being slow, obviously.

Saying you're going to love that.

I know you're great at that.

No matter what.

You're the king of that.

Yeah, sometimes they're sarcastic.

Picking up the round with the car girl.

Yeah, that's a good one. Anybody who capitalizes on opportunities to acquire alcohol. Yeah.

I feel like that's- Compliments. I like to compliment. But not in a belittling-Not in a sarcastic way, but actually do like, That's a great shot.

Not playing slow is a big one. Just knowing when you're out of the hole. If If you're on swing-Oh, I'm good at that. If you're on swing eight and you're still like 170 yards out, just pick that sucker up and let's go.

There's nothing better than when you see a guy who's clearly out of the hole and you're looking back being like, Are we going to have to... And he's just walking towards the hole with a ball in his pocket. He's done. Nope, I'm out on this one.

I'm good at that because I will be out of multiple holes in a row. If I have a really bad one, I'll be like, That's it for the next story.

Me and Big Cat conceded a hole off our T-shot when we were doing the-Yeah, I played against you guys.

I was in that. People were like, You guys are such pussies for doing that. I was like, Why Why? We suck. It's funny to concede.

I thought that was admirable.

If a guy's in pocket and then he goes up and pulls the pin out and is like, Oh, what do you guys see here? And is still involved, you're killing it.

Actually, can I ask you guys a question? Hypothetically, if you're playing golf, you're on a course, Maybe with your producer of your podcast, maybe the guy that's been producing you since the start. He's been around for a while.

Mic click on.

I don't know who could have turned the mic on there. But you have to pee, right? Everyone's got to pee on the golf course. No big deal. Would you recommend pulling your penis out and peeing directly onto the middle of the cart path as it's about to trickle down on everybody's shoes that are right behind?

Yeah, I would say generally, pick the surface that absorbs water the worst and pee right onto it, preferably uphill and into the wind.

The only surface that doesn't absorb pee on the golf course, would you pee right onto that?

When I heard that from the hypothetical, when I heard that there could be a hypothetical like this, I've played golf thousands of times. I've never seen that move in my life.Yeah.Not once.Changed the game. Hypothetically.

Hypothetically. All right, Hank, what's the next one? Ask the foreplay boys, once Tiger inevitably retires, who is their number one guy after that? Good question. It can't be Charlie Woods because we have Dibbs.

You guys do have Dibs on that.

Yeah. He is a teenager. I know. Dibs on that little boy.

I have Dibs on Charlie. Charlie's going to be on that couch before he knows.

Oh, boy.

Man, I would say I'm trying to think of someone that isn't a friend because that's always a little... You know what I'm saying?

He can't criticize the same way.

Well, yeah. Tiger, we don't want Tiger to be our friend, really. He's our guy. He's an icon. He's above being our friend. Kids are somebody that we're close with. It's like, Oh, yeah, I root for that guy. He's your buddy, whatever. I would say he is our friend, but Joel Damon.

That was the first name that popped in my head.

I just root for that guy. I think he's so regular. I feel like in the second season of Full Swing, he got dogged a little bit, and they just made him look like he just drinks 24/7, 365, which is not accurate. He cares about it. I don't know. I just like Joel Damon a lot.

That was the first name that popped into my head. I don't even really like to look into the future like that with Tiger because it makes me sad. But I think it would probably be Joel. We still got probably 10 years left with Tiger. We're fine. Of what? No, we're fine.

Okay, we don't have to do it.

Did you guys talk at all about the abstinence thing?

Yeah, I did. I think it's going to backfire.

We want Tiger to fuck.

That's what we said. Why would that be the formula?

He's probably going to try to fuck Max.

Well, maybe. Max might try to fuck him.

Max is a good-looking dude.

Well, that made no sense to us. I don't know where the rumor came from, but in the prime of Tiger's career, he was fucking. To not fuck, I think that's the answer, is idiotic.

But he then again, he's got leg problems, so maybe he's trying to save up all his energy. That's fair. Maybe just a blowjob.

Yeah, it's blowjob era. It's the blowjob era.

It's the blowjob It would rock if Tiger was like, I'm not having intercourse, anal only, for the two weeks leading up to the match.

This is no sex policy. Just butt stuff.

I think everyone's on the same page. I hadn't seen all business Pete in two years. The first thing he said to me, he's like, I feel like Tiger needs to be fucking. I was like, I think everybody feels that way. Yeah, it's concerning. Very concerning.

Yeah. It might have also just been a classic Tiger like bait and switch where he said it and then the hottest girls hit him up and like, I'll fix you.

He's single now.

Yeah, right. He might have done It was not on purpose.

Not that it would have mattered, but we're dealing with a single Tiger Woods.

All right, let's do two more, Hank.

My friends and I are not great at golf, but enjoy playing nine holes every now and then. We almost always walk when playing nine, but walking, coupled with a few bad shots, leads to groups behind us talking shit, saying we aren't playing fast enough. Sometimes I understand this, but when we are playing at a public course and the angry group behind us is riding in a cart, do they really have a leg to stand on? How are we possibly supposed to play at the pace of the group behind us who's in a cart when we are walking?

Isn't this just depending on the course? There's walking courses and there's-There's also...

I mean, it sounds bit... If it's ever cart path only, I think you just walk every time. Cart path only sucks. You drive up, you got to run all the way across, you inevitably-Just piss everywhere. The cart path's on the right, you always hit it left. You're bringing three clubs out there, and you never grab the one that you wanted. I think walking is actually faster if it's car path only. But in the other situation... I mean, just tell them to go fuck that. I don't know. I don't know what you do.

Tell them to walk because walking is underrated. I get that. I agree. If you're out there with buddies and you want to drink and you're having a big group like I get, getting in a cart. But if you find a course and you find a slot of time where you can walk, it's amazing.

It does feel great.

I sound like the old romanticism of golf guy. You've evolved on that. Oh, yeah. I used to be cart guy only. I like that. But then recently, within the last couple of years, I would walk nine holes. Never 18. I'm going to die out there. But if I walk nine holes, it's fucking beautiful. It's beautiful. Because in a cart, you almost aren't looking at the scenery around you. You're outside. You forget that sometimes when you're in a car. It's like, shot, grab a beer, drive to the next shot, hit it, get in the cart, go. When you're just walking, you're taking it all in.

It's also actually more social with the whole group. Yeah, for sure. It sounds counterintuitive because obviously you're chit-chatting with your one guy, but the other two, you only see them on the tee. They go to their ball, you go to yours, whatever. When you're all four walking together, it is. It's nice, it's peaceful, it's more social.

And this is with caddies. Yeah, we're not We're not carrying our own bags.

I have been recently, but-You get the cart? Oh, yeah, of course.

The push cart? Push cart. Yeah, push cart. Yeah, push cart is nice.

I like the cart that just follows you around everywhere.

Yeah, the little R2D tooth.

Yeah, those things are sweet.

That's a classic country club, Older The guy move and he just plays every Saturday and Sunday morning and just hits a little button and his thing goes down. That's great.

All right, Hank, last question. He's having trouble reading.

Last year, live golfers killed it finishing at the top of the master spots and really showed out. My The question is, this year, do you think PGA players or live golfers will do better at the Masters this year?

Yeah, I would say that was shocking last year to a lot of people because there was a belief that the Liv guys weren't playing as much. It's not as competitive. The fields aren't as deep, blah, blah, blah. Then obviously, Brooks almost won the Masters, won the PGA, Phil finished second in the Masters. There are a bunch of other names up there. I think it'll be close. I really do. I think John Rom is maybe the second favorite. I think he is, third favorite.

Liv has gotten so many good golfers now.

Gotten a ton. Even guys that don't get talked about a ton, like Sergio García was leading a lot last week on Liv. He could contend at the Masters easily. You got Thierry Lhatten, who nobody really talks about, who's a great guy to watch play There's a lot of helicopters, clubs all over the place. He's somebody that could contend. I think, honestly, it'll be pretty damn close now.

You also just find that these are the best golfers in the world, and they get up for these big tournaments. Regardless of how they're playing or what tour they're playing on, we found out last year? They're probably going to play pretty well. Yeah.

Do we know what it's going to look like when they merge the two? Any idea?

They have been incredibly tight-lipped because I don't think they know.

I think John Rams also gave a... His answers made it seem like they're very far apart because it feels like he went to live being like, Don't worry, we'll just be the PGA in a year.

Yeah, he was the guy. When he went, it felt like he went as the tipping point of Tor was going to be like, Oh, shit, we really got get something done, or Live's just going to keep taking all of our players. Ron was going to be the last guy that cashed in. He got three, four, 600 million, whatever it was. And then he seemed frustrated. He does. Yeah, it's not working, which sucks. So it's a little split. We talk about it a ton, obviously, on our show, as you can imagine, and we get a little bit annoyed that the best players are playing together all the time. But other people make the point that they don't really play together or didn't all the time anyways. It wasn't like they all played the same tournaments. They really didn't. It wasn't that common that you got Rory and and Tiger and Phil back when they were all together playing and contending in the same tournament. That never fucking happened. It's frustrating for us because like, Brooks and Ram and those guys that we love watching.

All of the interesting guys went. Patrick Reid, as much Polarizing Guys went. When you lose that from the main tour or whatever you want to call the main tour, it lessens the product and it's more boring. At first, we talked about this on the show, too. At first, when this all started to happen, we were like, This is great for guys like us because it's all story lines. Who's going to jump? How much money they take? This is incredible. Now we're in a holding pattern where everybody who... All the big names who were going to jump have jumped. All we've done is split the talent pool. When you watch, if you watch the PJ Tour or if you watch Liv, whichever one, you're watching a watered-down product. For a sport like golf that is not cool enough to water down its product, we are now fucking the sport over completely.

It's also guys like Patrick Reid and Bryson. Bryson was the biggest headline guy forever, whether you hated him or loved him. Those guys are headline guys and drive it when they're unhappy about stuff. Now they're at Live and they're like, This is great. Their lives are awesome. They're never in the headline anymore. When they were at the tour, they bitched, they hated the other players, their wives hated the other players. It was amazing. Now they never bitch about anything.

That's true. It's a mess. To go back to the original question, I don't think they're close. I don't know when it's going to come together.

Yeah, it sucks.

I like the strategy, though. Let's give Patrick Reid so much money, he won't steal from his teammates ever again.

But he probably He still is thinking about it. That'd be great if Patrick Reid did a Tiger headline. He was like, I'm not stealing for the two weeks before the master.

You know what would rock? It would rock if they offered Rory $500 million to join Liv for a year, and then he just bounced for the PGA tour. He went back on everything.

Five hundred million. I think if he went, there'd be riots in the streets. Probably not because it's golf, but if he went, there's so many clips of him being like, I hate live. I'll never go. But at this point, that's what Ram did and what you were saying, Dan, where he was thinking he's going to take the money and we're all going to be playing the same events here anyway. I think it's probably going to end up that way eventually, but it might be two years.

Yeah, it might be a while. One thing I don't like is when the players or anyone really, in any situation where they take a ton of money, say, I had to do it for my family. Because what I don't understand. When has raising a kid and just giving them $100 million worked out?

Never. No, it's just an easy way. People love to do it, whether they're in controversy or a situation like this. I'm thinking about my family. Right.

I'm like, Rob, you already had $50 or $100 million. That's plenty for any... I don't understand what that means. If your son wakes up and you hand them trust fund and endless money, that kid's going to be dead by the time they're 25.

What he should say and what the reality is, he should be like, I'm thinking about my great, great grandchildren. Because that's where the money… When you get to a certain point, it's like, you can't spend all that. You're just setting up all the Roms for the rest of the life.

And provide them a safety net and all that. But you still got to raise a human being in order for them to work out sex. You can't just throw money at them. That It always drives me crazy. But I still would have taken the money.

Well, especially now because the original guys, the DJs and the babas and all, they took the brunt of it. If you jump now, nobody cares.

The first guys had to be like, I'm really passionate about team-style golf. It wasn't about the money at all.

The reporter would be like, We were asking you about 9/11. I don't know why you're talking about team golf.

Did you say 9/11? No. Is that the length of the shorts that they're going to be playing? Is that the inseam?

Now, even the Ram stuff, Ram jumped, and two days later, people were like, All right, that's cool.

That's Sounds good. All right, you guys want to pick some numbers? Yes. All right. Should we do numbers? Should we finish the show? By the way, Trent, I gasped when I saw you in Linen. You looked so hot. You looked so hot.

Thank you. I really appreciate that. We were shooting a commercial, and they were like, put on all this linen, and I did, and something shifted in me.

You looked hot. It stopped me in my tracks on Twitter. I was just like, whoa, I need Linen.

I've already been shopping for Linen. Yeah. I already ordered It just looked fucking cool.

It looked like you just look relaxed.

You're comfy, too. That's what you're looking for.

You look good.

No one ever calls me hot. Today, people are calling me hot. If I'm comfortable and people are like, You look good, that's the route.

It was a tough hour for me because the whole premise was like, Trent was shitting on me a little bit. It was awesome. We had to do the take many, many times. We just kept pulling up next to me and shitting on me looking really hot.

It was awesome. Well, we did a commercial where the whole thing was that we have small dicks and we had to basically be naked for it. So it could be worse.

Definitely. He'll be all right. Hot Trent shitting on me is fine.

All right. Numbers, what do you guys got in the booth? 8, 40, 20, 3, 18, 99, Pug. Here we go, Pug.

21.

All right, what do you guys got?

55.

16. I'll go 73.

Because it's going to be 16th major for Tiger.

Tiger's not even going to make the cut.

Tiger's not even going to make the cut.

Tiger's not even going to make the cut.

He's healthy.

He looked really good in the practice.

I'll bet him to make the cut.

If he makes the cut, that's a win for Tiger.

I picked 16 because it's his 16th major he's going to win this week. If he makes the cut and doesn't withdraw. It's like 10. Who's got nine? Anyone got nine? No. Nine majors? Gary Plier. Gary Plier. Gary player is going to bet on Gary player. All right. 87-year-old man. Everyone go subscribe to 4Play. Watch them, all their videos, their golf videos.

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