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Speaker 1: kind of part of another deal. Rarely, rarely, we played

427
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: church and church is that's funny. He's kind of my

428
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 1: only guy. I gotta kind of check because every now

429
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: and then he's critical and he has some taste. So

430
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 1: I kind of know and I'll know. I'm trying to

431
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: always introduce him to something new, but all of a

432
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: sudden make sure he knows I have a great appreciation

433
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: for the old good stuff. So it's like, you know,

434
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 1: I know his I know his touch points. I mean

435
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: like you know, if you want to get on his

436
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: good side. You just you're playing singer, you're playing whaling,

437
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: you're playing you know, Willie, uh just, I know where

438
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: he is, and then you trying to interroucing something new

439
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: and he'll kind of give you one of these like

440
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: kind of a it's kind of a like a disappointing uncle,

441
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: like look, don't, don't, don't, don't say that, don't say that,

442
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: don't do that. So yeah, it's a little bit of

443
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: a pressure cooker. So you gotta I was, I was,

444
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: I was on my my a game most of the trip.

445
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: I asked Eric Church if he was inspired to play

446
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: any music while on this trip and his answer was no. Apparently,

447
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,919
Speaker 1: when he's on a golf trip it's all about the

448
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: golf and the group. I mean there's always exceptions that

449
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: depend on the trip, but I mean I've really never

450
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 1: I mean and and the use of the guys I

451
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 1: go with. No that I mean when I go I'm

452
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: there to hang. I don't make you know, Peyton Eli

453
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: told me a football either. So I'm there to I'm

454
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: there to hang and just and just hang out, you know.

455
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: So we're trying to just get to know each other

456
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 1: and Um, I did write a pretty, pretty good song

457
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: Um at Royal County down. That I was we got there,

458
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: which is gonna probably work out in the future, but

459
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 1: it's just kind of this spooky, you know, kind of deal.

460
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: So it did have a that was an interesting thing. Musically,

461
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 1: I couldn't shut that part off. You know. I didn't

462
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: have a guitar, so I ended up just writing it

463
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: with just vocal and but my my phone, you know.

464
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: I took me like twenty minutes and just fell out.

465
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: So there's some juice and there's some juice in Royal

466
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: County down at least a sleep sleeve doddard. It's a

467
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: good place. More on the Song Eric Church wrote. Later

468
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: in the story you might even get to hear a

469
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: little bit of it, but for now we get this

470
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: trip started. And where they begin is where Tigers Week

471
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: is coming to an end. It's Friday afternoon in St

472
00:25:54,800 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: Andrews and it's the playing of the open championship. First

473
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 1: on the MIC, appropriately, is Taylor Peyton and his wife

474
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: Ashley were coming over from Paris Um. So they weren't

475
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: that he was not there yet. He got there Saturday morning,

476
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: but everybody else, uh, that was arriving arrived on Friday afternoon.

477
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: In fact, the live broadcast shows this plane coming into

478
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,199
Speaker 1: lucers and I thought that has to be them and

479
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: and I text them immediately and Eric text back confirmed

480
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: and but the I don't know if they showed it

481
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: on NBC, but I know they showed it on our USA,

482
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: but they showed it on sky and here's this plane

483
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: coming in. Oh, this must be some Americans coming in

484
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 1: for the weekend at the Open Championship. And I'm like,

485
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. Next, Marshall Alexander, when we

486
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: landed in Scotland, you know, we just went directly from

487
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: point a to point B. There was no like let's

488
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 1: drop our bags in the room, there was no hey,

489
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: let's go check this out. We went right to that

490
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: balcony overlooking the eighteenth green and it felt like we

491
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: were just in a time. I mean that's the greatest

492
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: view in golf arguably, and uh, to be surrounded by,

493
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, great friends and and to how that scenario

494
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: was unreal. You just kind of blink and you're like

495
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: how did I get here? Eli Manning on following Friday's action.

496
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: You know, it tiged up well with that Friday arriving

497
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: and you know, it was like a full full sprint

498
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: to the hotel. You know, we're kind of getting updates

499
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: on our phone. Eight Tigers on sixteen, like we gotta

500
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: we gotta go, we gotta go. Um. And so, I

501
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: mean get to the hotel, you know, don't even wait

502
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: for bags or anything, and go straight up to the

503
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: to the little balcony. The immediately come out the patio.

504
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: While I'm on the air, they're like high five thing,

505
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: you know. You know, we're here, here, here we go.

506
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 1: And then, yeah, tigers coming up to last and it's

507
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: pretty power off a moment. He's, you know, filled with

508
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: the motion. And that's the that's kind of how we

509
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: pressed play on the our our five day adventure. Eric Church.

510
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: We had landed within the hour, you know, before that,

511
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: and we come we we were we knew, you know,

512
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: we didn't plan to do it, but it was very

513
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: serendipitous that we got there at the same time that,

514
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: you know, that was happening, I mean and Roy was

515
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: teeing off and tiger was coming up, and you know

516
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: what it was. It was a really great foreshadowing for

517
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 1: an incredible memorable trip, because when you you see something

518
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: like that, it just kind of it sets everything up.

519
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: You know, that's the first thing we didn't we didn't

520
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: take our bags to the room. We left the bags.

521
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: We weren't running up to the rooftop there at Roo

522
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: sex and at that time tiger was putting out on

523
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,959
Speaker 1: seventeen and then he teed off on eighteen and we

524
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: got to you know, got to watch that and a

525
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: little bit of a I don't know what Tiger's future

526
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: will be, but to watch him, Paul's there on the

527
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: bridge and, you know, the nod De Rory. It was

528
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a passing of the torch

529
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: and I was very, very glad that we made it

530
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: for that and got to see that and Eli Manning

531
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: again on witnessing a snippet of golf history. Eighteen at

532
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: the old course, Um, you know, maybe his last last

533
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: British Open. You know, as you know, assumed his last,

534
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: you know, open at St Andrews. It's you know, it's

535
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,239
Speaker 1: a while to you know a little bit. Do they

536
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: have another one? So to see him Um, you know,

537
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: walk walk through the eighteenth you know, took a couple

538
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: of pictures. I've gotten to know his caddy Joe Lacava, uh,

539
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: fairly well, you know, kind of send him a text

540
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: afterwards to a picture of him and tiger on on

541
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: the on the green at eighteen and send him a

542
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: picture and here's Joe Lacava, Tiger's legendary caddy. If you

543
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: could just give me your perspective on kind of again that,

544
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: that that moment in which you're you're in in the colosseum,

545
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: is they're watching the scene. Do you do you need you?

546
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,239
Speaker 1: Can you give me kind of reflections of what that

547
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: meant to you to kind of be in the middle

548
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: of all of that? Yeah, no, I first thought is,

549
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, Steve Won with him twice here, so he

550
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: deserves and should have the recognition. You know, I'm on

551
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: the back half of the career but I'm still enjoying

552
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: every minute of it and I as a golf Storian,

553
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: being in the business seven, obviously I get it what's

554
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: going on coming up eighteen and the fact that you

555
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: had a great parent and you've got two young kids

556
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: who idolized tiger. Um You got rory in the mix

557
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: going down wanting at jt ting off on one. So

558
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool in that respect. If you have

559
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: four young kids that all love tiger, respect the game,

560
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: respect what he's done. So to steal those guys take

561
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: it all in from me was neat because I was

562
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: kind of to the side. So it's neat to see

563
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: tiger across the bridge waved the hat. But again seeing

564
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: the young kids almost like, Oh my God, this is

565
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: his history for them too, being a kids and name

566
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: accomplished a lot in the game too, but they still

567
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: respect everything the tiger's done and then trying to chase

568
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: him down with his records. So that was kind of neat.

569
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: And obviously seeing all the bleachers fall. You know, the

570
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: whole Roos sex thing is full people that you can

571
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: just hear the noise and the buzz and everything about it.

572
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: You know, I try to stay off to the side

573
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: and let enjoy his moment and obviously hit a couple

574
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: of good shots in there. Didn't make the pot and

575
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: still hit two good shots in there, so that was

576
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: fun to end up that way. I think they've sold,

577
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: you know, three D thousand tickets. I mean seeing it

578
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: is always gonna be a great thing in regardless of

579
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: what's going on. But yeah, definitely an extra buzz. Not

580
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: so much knowing it could be tiger's last go around,

581
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: but knowing that he's forty six years old and we

582
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: all go with to Tom Watson's competing at fifty nine. Yes,

583
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: it could happen, but realistically maybe that's the last time

584
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: he's got a chance to compete and be somewhat healthy.

585
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that's not the case, but at the same time,

586
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: in case it did, you want to be there and

587
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of it and I think,

588
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: like you said, having bones there and the other players there,

589
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: in the place packed and the buzz, it was incredible.

590
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: Back to Ben Weppron such a big event and everybody

591
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: knew it, you know, with the good of the evil

592
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: and live and all this stuff going on, and like

593
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: something special was happening even on, you know, Monday, and

594
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: you knew that before, and then when you saw that

595
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: and tiger, I mean I just that was that was

596
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: really impactful and he's such a hero to everybody there.

597
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: That was really cool. And to watch it for the balcony. Yeah,

598
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: big time. And then we had a fun dinner that night.

599
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: Um Joe Lacava, uh, you know, Tiger's Catty, had dinner

600
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: list on on the rooftop of the rust acts, which

601
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: is called eighteen, as they're starting their trip. You're kind

602
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: of decompressing. What do you remember about getting in the

603
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: mix of this? Well, I fortunate enough to get asked

604
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: to come over and have a beer two with the guys.

605
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: You know, Ben, who's running the show there, and skinner

606
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: and you know the rest of the guys. They're all

607
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: having a blast and you know I'm people that know

608
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: a little bit about me know that I'm a huge

609
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: Shians fan and I've come across many he as a

610
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: potential stalker. I don't know. You know. So of course

611
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: I got the giants lid eyes and I'm all in.

612
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: I'm hanging out with the guys and I actually texted

613
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: my door I guess what, I'm hanging out with him,

614
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: hanging out with Eli and the giants had too much.

615
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: You know, you're legit. You've been a real giants fan

616
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: for whatever fifty years now. You can. You can go

617
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: ahead and with the giants. They know you. So I'm

618
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: just having a good time and actually forgot that I

619
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: hit it off with was cooper because I didn't really

620
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: know him now well, and he was hilarious. I mean

621
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: you could see the manning's habit, the drive, sense of

622
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: human whole nine yards. I get it. But I think

623
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: Cooper might be the funniest of them all. I had

624
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: an absolute blast with him, Um, but just just sit

625
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: there and have dinner. Like you said, the sun setting

626
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: at that place. You know, we're talking a lot of golf. Yeah, Mike,

627
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: bummed out that. You know, we didn't make the cut.

628
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: Of course I am, but at the same time you

629
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: gotta try to make the most to be not gonna

630
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: sit your bedroom and I feel sorry for yourself. So so

631
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: so I gotta get out of the hotel room. Having

632
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: a good time with these guys and we have an

633
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: absolute blast. I was told Lakaba knows so much about

634
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,479
Speaker 1: the giants and the franchise. He was actually coaching Eli

635
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: up on the team's past. In turn, Eli was sharing

636
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: what he knows about the future. See, he really never

637
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: saw the dark days that we saw growing up as

638
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: kids in the seventies and early eighties. I mean they

639
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: were off of the worst team in the sport. So

640
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: he can't appreciate that. He came in. You know, the

641
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: first couple of seasons weren't great, but he had a

642
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: lot of success throughout his entire career. Obviously there. So

643
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: he doesn't know anything about the dark days. You know,

644
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,479
Speaker 1: we hear about it, but then to hear a fan,

645
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: like a passionate fan, go after him a little bit

646
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: and tell him about it. The other stage you're thinking,

647
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: I never thought as a kid growing up they ever

648
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: actually get to the playoffs, let alone win one and

649
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: then win four super bowls. So you know, as a

650
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: as a gnarly giants fan, that's just all you had

651
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: growing up. They were just bad. He knew they were

652
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: gonna be bad. Um, thank God they turned around with

653
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: Sims and then Eli and stuff like that. But we

654
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun and actually Eli is one

655
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: of those guys where you know he's gonna he knows

656
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna get bombarded with giants questions. So I'M NOT

657
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: gonna kill him on that because I get it. You know,

658
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: I'm around these guys that don't want to talk golf

659
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: when you're with tigers, so on and so forth, but

660
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 1: he's kind enough to engage the conversation. We talked little

661
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, a little Barkley and he gave me some

662
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: insight on those guys too. So we had little. We

663
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: had a great back and forth and I know he's

664
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,919
Speaker 1: a he's a giant, you know, giant Nutt and and

665
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, put him in touch with kind of the

666
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: equipment guys with the giants and say hey, we gotta

667
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 1: send him like the most updated gear, like he's gonna

668
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: wear it at the masters, like he's got to wear

669
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: it at the British Open. You'RE gonna see it underneath.

670
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 1: You know, the kind of the caddy bid like, you know,

671
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: let's get him, get him the hat, get him the stuff,

672
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: like make sure he's got the new stuff going here.

673
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: You know he's representing the giants like this is. You know,

674
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: he's gonna get a lot of air time. You know,

675
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: no one's getting more airtime. And if tigers number one,

676
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: it's like, but is like number two, then it's rory.

677
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: You know, no one's he's gonna be on there. It's

678
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: make sure he's got the right gear. I got a

679
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: box just big at home of all sorts of golf stuff,

680
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: t shirts, workout stuff, the whole nine yeards. I think

681
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: part of the problem is, you know, I'm I'm old

682
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: school dinosaurs, so I think the stuff that I show

683
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: up with the giant stuff in Augusta is the same

684
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: stuff year after, year after year, because I just get

685
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: comfortable with and I like it. That's my giant stuff.

686
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: So some of the stuff is probably eight years old.

687
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: They're like, Oh my God, that's like vintage, like nineties.

688
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: Get this guy something news. I'm decent here. So he

689
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: was kind enough to send me a big box, more

690
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: than I need. Obviously my kid got two thirds of it,

691
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: so I don't have much of it left anyways. Meanwhile,

692
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 1: back at the rooftop restaurant, Eli's jet lag is kicking

693
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: in and we're having dinner, you know, and I was

694
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: sitting next to the Kava and it's I don't know

695
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: what the time it is. It's eleven o'clock or eleven thirty,

696
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: and like I am, I'm crashing, like I'm getting very tired,

697
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: but I had, you know, the food hadn't come yet,

698
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I'm so tired, yet I need

699
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: some I know I need some food in my system

700
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: right now. I kind of skipped, skipped, you know, it

701
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: didn't really have breakfast, we didn't have lunch, so like

702
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: I needed my one meal of the day and I've

703
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: just gotta fighting through it. The thing I remember most

704
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: is I guess they got that big seafood pladder or

705
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: whatever it was. I'm just engaged in conversation a couple

706
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: of years. I'm not paying attention. The next thing I

707
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: know they kind of put it down to my right

708
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: and Eli was to my left and all I got

709
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: was for I think twenty straight minutes, all I had

710
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: was his hand and elbow coming across, grabbing seafood after

711
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: seafood after seafood, and I'm like, what is going on here?

712
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: How is this guy in such great shape? He ate

713
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: probably four, I'M NOT gonna at four or fifty oysters,

714
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: those lobster the whole night yards and he was kind

715
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: of he was so hungry, like you said, so tered

716
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: he was kind of leaning over, grabbing and putting his mouth,

717
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: spitting on me and just ship with twine everywhere. It

718
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: was incredible. He was so hungry and I think finally

719
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: after he ate a little bit and got a big belly,

720
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: all of a sudden now he's tired. He's going like this.

721
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: Now here's the deal. Everyone was insisting you go to

722
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: bed like you're tired. You're seeing. I'm like, I know

723
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: you're firing. You're firing. You hang in there, because I

724
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: want to talk to more giants football. So I was

725
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: the only guy trying to keep him up. Everyone else

726
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: to tell him I go to bed. And so we

727
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: watched that night with dinner with Joe. We were all

728
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: kind of at one point Eli has got up from

729
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: dinner at you know, jet lag. He goes, I got

730
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: I'm going to bed. I'm like, can you do that?

731
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 1: Can you just leave in the middle of dinner? Apparently

732
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: you can. On the first night. I guess you get

733
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: a pass. You just the body. The body just breaks down.

734
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: So Um and so the next day we started off

735
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: and went to King's bards now, apparently, and that night

736
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: at dinner, Um John Daily Texted Church dinner and said

737
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: where are Y'alls? That we're up top. Was I'm coming up.

738
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: Church like, Oh God, here, you know, no telling what's coming.

739
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: So they started talking and he tells him we're playing

740
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: at kingsbarns tomorrow and then he goes I'm gonna come

741
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: out there. So I rumped into John. We were at

742
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 1: the we're at a restaurant. uh, that night ethnics was

743
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: called at at at Russacks and Um John was around

744
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: and we started talking and I knew John a little

745
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: bit from from Nashville and just being around him and Um,

746
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: he just you know, he asked, Um, what do you

747
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: guys do tomorrow and said we'll playing. I told him

748
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 1: the whole trip this is what we're doing. What time

749
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: you play in Kingsbarr and I was like, well, I

750
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: won't player on ten, you know, in the morning. He

751
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: said you mind if I joined and I thought it

752
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: was you know, we're late at night with drinking. You know,

753
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: I thought this will never happen and about five minutes

754
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: still tea time, John Daily Rolls Up and POPs out

755
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 1: on an SUV and proceeds to grab my beer and

756
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: put up golf ball on it and tee off from

757
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: the first team. Destroyed my beer, by the way, but

758
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: he hit a damn good drive down the down the fairway.

759
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 1: If Daley was in on the golf it meant s

760
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: Burger was out, but he didn't mind. He pulls up

761
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: as I don't even remember what he was driving, but

762
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: as I picture it, it's like it's like this giant

763
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: bus right. I mean, I don't think that's even right,

764
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: but he rolls out and he's got St Louis Cardinals

765
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: shorts on me. You know, he's just just loud everything,

766
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 1: big beard. I mean it's just it's so clearly John Daly.

767
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: And he steps out and the first thing I think

768
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: it's like this guy wanted this guy wanted open and

769
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 1: and he's one of the most talented golfers maybe ever. Um,

770
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 1: and just a legend. And he almost made the almost

771
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: made the cut the day before, which is incredibly think

772
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: about me and shoot, tiger was I don't know how

773
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: many strokes behind him. Um. So always you roll. He

774
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: steps out and announces that you know it has been

775
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: a big night. He's still feeling it a little bit.

776
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly when he went to bed. Like John.

777
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: You want to go to the range, like John Dayley

778
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: doesn't go to the range right. So he gets he

779
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: gets all the stuff. It's in a cart which he's

780
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: driving with a speaker blaring Eric Church music, none of

781
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: which is allowed at kings barns. Marshall Alexander's Perspective, the

782
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: guy is a legend, uh, obviously for what he does

783
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: and what he's done. Um, you know, he goes up

784
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: to Eric and says hey, Co'm bar t yeah, yeah,

785
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: here you go, you know, because he grabs his tall

786
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 1: boy beer instead of tenants beer. Is What we were drinking,

787
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: Scottish lager, and I was like, okay, I guess it.

788
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: Once beer takes that, plops it on the floor or

789
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: on the tea box, teas his ball up, nails a

790
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: three hundred yard drive and goes best drive I've had

791
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: in three days. And the fact that, you know, he

792
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 1: showed up three minutes before his tea time. He drove

793
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 1: a golf cart on of course they don't allow golf carts.

794
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: He was listening to music louder than anyone there. You know,

795
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: it was just you couldn't have painted a better description

796
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: of what what what came to be. It was pretty

797
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: hilarious my talking it all mine three days back to

798
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: Ben Weppron. That was a serious that was a serious

799
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: and it was like that was the beer we drinking

800
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: the whole time. I mean, I don't know, Eric was

801
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: mad about the beer. Like Dude, it cares about the beer.

802
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: That was amazing. Did you just see what a what

803
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: a Jeb took a cart. No one's allowed a cart.

804
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 1: He just comes up in a cart playing country music.

805
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: The legend that was hilarious. It happened and he was

806
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: John was sweet man. We had a great time with him. Um,

807
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: we had to kind of foursome going on that day.

808
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: We broke it up a little different, but he played

809
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve with us and then he had to

810
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: he had to head back, you know, to the to

811
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: the old course. But Um, it was, it was. It

812
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: was just a fun memory, you know. But you know again,

813
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: I mean you're kicking off your your trip as far

814
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,760
Speaker 1: as spectating with tiger and you're kicking off you're playing

815
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: with John Daly and I just uh set up a

816
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: pretty good, pretty special, pretty Starchi trip Taylor. But I

817
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: think he made history that day by driving his own

818
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: cart with his speaker blaring Eric Church and Hank Williams

819
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: jr another country music out on the course and uh,

820
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: he puts his golf ball on a tenants beer on

821
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: the first tea as his tea and stripes one down

822
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: the middle and and here we go. I I couldn't

823
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: believe that that that's how we were starting our golf trip.

824
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: But Um, Peyton and J D put that out on

825
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 1: their social media and Um, my boss at Sirius Xm

826
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: said are you working the open championship this week and

827
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,760
Speaker 1: I said yes, I am, but I'm doing some research

828
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: right now. Uh. At kingsbarns before the third round we

829
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: took a group picture. John posted that on instagram so

830
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: everybody was made aware that we were in Scotland right

831
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 1: after that. But I missed the tee off the UH,

832
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 1: off the beer cap. I've seen John do that before

833
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: on social media, but it sounds like I was a

834
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: pretty cool view up close to personal. But that was

835
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: our first round at kings barns. Uh. kind of like

836
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: my last trip. I feel like I peaked too early.

837
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: I shot seventy seven at kings barns. I'm like, this

838
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: is it, I got it, I got the rhythm. I'm

839
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 1: going low at you know, North Berrick and I yourr field.

840
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: I just seemed to kind of go a little higher

841
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: from that before and on. So Zarz gets back to

842
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: cover the Saturday afternoon at the open. The rest of

843
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: the crew takes it in from the various Rusix texs

844
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 1: and bars that overlooked. To finish, it's like a super

845
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: bowl at Lambeau or or or world series at Wrigley Field,

846
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: or or or you know or fenway it's it's like

847
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: for us it's the greatest venue with a longstanding history

848
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: that goes back to the beginning of the game. You know,

849
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: it's an NBA finals at at at I don't know,

850
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: like you know, at the old garden right, like, I mean,

851
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: it's just it's just, it's just different. We were trying

852
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: to do, you know, you see, there's a Jimmy Roberts

853
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: is there, Mike Tarko is there, UM, and it was

854
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: fun to kind of Bait them and like how do

855
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: you compare this, especially just setting right there, with where

856
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: the russas is, and they were like it'd be like,

857
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 1: you know, it's not, it's not. It's like, Um, if

858
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: you're being at Riggley, but but being on top of

859
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: the pictures man or. I mean you can't even like

860
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: there's no better spot to watch something like that. Ever,

861
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: I was trying to search for some sort of, you know,

862
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: hypothetic comparison, and I'm not sure Youboy, came up with

863
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: something this perfect. Here's Eric Hasberger on the vantage point

864
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: that the rustix hotel provided. I think we said like

865
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: maybe if you could build a hotel on the on

866
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: the Te box, on a Ben Corner you know, like

867
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: have you purged up there? And I you know, have

868
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: access to this amazing like hospitality suite and then your

869
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: room right around the corner if you want to go,

870
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: laid out and if you want a pizza, you just

871
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: say hey, mark, we get some pizza, and he was

872
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: of course, we can get some pizza and it's just there.

873
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: It was. It was unbelievable. Kick I try to explain

874
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: to my buddies Um got back home. I'm like, I

875
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: don't even know how to tell you about this because

876
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: you're not even gonna believe it. That night, on the

877
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,919
Speaker 1: eve of the final round, having already had a few

878
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: unexpected guests on the trip, they get their first call

879
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: to action. Back to Hasburger. Tell me about the cemetery.

880
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: So how, how? How? How did that all come about?

881
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: And what? What do you remember about it? Yeah, so, Um,

882
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 1: so we've gotten to know Um Jim, Jim nance since

883
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: he moved to Nashville. Ben In particular, that wasn't doesn't

884
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: really well. And and so I guess Jim has a

885
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 1: tradition where he goes and pays tribute to old Tom

886
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: and young Tom um the night before the Sunday of

887
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: the open on the cemetery. We hear from Church and

888
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: then that night Jim Nances, like you guys got to

889
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: go to the cemetery. Yeah, okay, this one now Jim

890
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,399
Speaker 1: has never I know Jim pretty good. We have never

891
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: really talked about this. This is something that he he

892
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: sprung on this kind of last minute. Said if you

893
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: guys are game, you have to go there at midnight,

894
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: and we're just sitting there, you know, all going and

895
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: finally we decided, you know what, we're here. It's that

896
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: kind of trip. Let's go, not knowing where it was,

897
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: not knowing how far, you know, we just we just all,

898
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: you know, jumped out and here we go. And then

899
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: I didn't realize. I thought you could just go see it.

900
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: Now you gotta break in the place. You actually have.

901
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: You can't just they don't let you in. You actually

902
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 1: have to break in. On that Saturday it started. There's

903
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,240
Speaker 1: several different streams. I got a picture of Taylor and Marshall.

904
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: You just booked to Marshall Right too, and then we

905
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: were toasting you, my man. I love you, my man

906
00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: so Bo. That was from Ben I said. Has To

907
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: be incredible being there on the eve of great history.

908
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: We just saw your pal trevor. He's at Rusex with

909
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: everyone else, you know. And then I said my tradition

910
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: at midnight on Saturday night since two thousand is to

911
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: climb the law at the Old Town cemetery and go

912
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: pay my respects at the grave side of old and

913
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: young Tom Morris. Any takers tonight? It's a four block

914
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: walk from the hotel. So I seated the idea and uh,

915
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: they had shifted over to another stream. So I seated

916
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: the idea. So the first guy to right, two minutes

917
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: behind me, was Eli. He says I'm in. So I

918
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: had to have somebody step up. Belies such a good dude.

919
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 1: Nan said. You gotta ask him about the cemetery. I

920
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: guess you were on this trip. I was on it.

921
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 1: You know, I've definitely on any on any Um guy's trip.

922
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 1: I'm definitely on the no man left behind, and so

923
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: someone's someone's you know, hopping a fence or jumping on

924
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: something like. I gotta be included. I gotta I can't

925
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 1: miss out on these opportunities, on these adventures that you

926
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: never know what what might happen, but usually a great story. Uh,

927
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: this is where the great stories come from. So they're

928
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: kind of telling me about, you know, about man's and

929
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 1: then hopping the fence and the tradition and you had

930
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: to keep going and go see old old Tom Morris's grave,

931
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: and and and. So I was like yeah, you know,

932
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: I'm in involved a graveyard and popping a fence like

933
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: it sounds right at my speed and much to my amazement,

934
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: later on I started to realize this had taken hold

935
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: and the great majority of the group decided this was

936
00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 1: a good idea. So I said to them I it

937
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: at the last four opens at St Andrew's. The wall

938
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: can easily be climbed by you athletes, which is not

939
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,240
Speaker 1: that easy. We know that. Maybe I oversold that. Here's

940
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: Taylor's ours, Ben Eric, Marshall, Eli and I ended up

941
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: going and Marshall got in. Marshall Um was rather fearless

942
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 1: and he jumped over very quickly, jumped over the trash

943
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: Canon over the wall and immediately cut his finger wide

944
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,439
Speaker 1: open as he did it. The rest of us were

945
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: a little bit more thoughtful of how we got over

946
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: the wall. This was, I guess, midnight, at one am,

947
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: and uh, full of excitement, said all right, we've got

948
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 1: to go to old Tom's grave. You know, that's part

949
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: of the tradition. And and and uh, let's go. So

950
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: we stalked up, you know, back full of beer and

951
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: walked down the streets and we get to the cemetery

952
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the they had built a temporary

953
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: chain length fence. Obviously you probably want to keep people out,

954
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: which Um was. You know, I didn't keep us out,

955
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: you know, but we uh called the fence and I

956
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: didn't even kind of look. I was at that point

957
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 1: where I just kind of hopped over and landed on

958
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: the on the ground. Said, man, I looked at my

959
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: finger and it was bleeding pretty good and grabbed a

960
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: beer and washed off the blood and uh, and then

961
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: it kind of kicked and I go we're at the

962
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: beginning of a five day golf trip and the best

963
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: golf courses of the world. What the Hell Am I

964
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: gonna do? So Uh got through the night, I got

965
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: a band aid and I was, like I said, you know,

966
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: I couldn't feel a thing at that point. Obviously the

967
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: Morris Gravesite is on the right wall of the cemetery.

968
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: My guess is there will be a few people, perhaps

969
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: a dozen, that are they're doing the same thing. Your

970
00:50:54,719 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: flashlight APP will come in Handy and Taylor wrote. Well,

971
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: we're at ruse x right now. Cooper wrote, I'm wearing camouflage.

972
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: Peyton said, Jim, do we have to wear a turtleneck?

973
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: I said required at the door, preferably tweet jacket also.

974
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: Peyton then said Hello, dead friends, Web said, hysterical and

975
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: had been said grave jump, a tradition unlike any other.

976
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: The good news is they're in. The bad news they

977
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: don't know where to go. Here's Eli Manning, you know,

978
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: typical morons, like we hopped the fence or in the

979
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: graveyard and it's kind of like, Oh, where is it?

980
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: You know, we do anybody taught the Nancy tell us

981
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: any direction? Like we're just like looking at random, you know, Um,

982
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, stones. They're trying to like, you know, have

983
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: a flat, got the iphone, you know, flashlight, trying to

984
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: say this it, no, this is it. I mean we

985
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: would have been there for, you know, two hours until,

986
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: you know, we found the way. We should call Nan's

987
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: and he give us a little directions. So got got

988
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: him on the on the phone and then it turned

989
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: into a facetime call, which I did not expect. I'm

990
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 1: trying to think of where I was when I received

991
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 1: that facetime call because I was outside somewhere, back to

992
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: Ben Weapron. I totally felt like he was there. We

993
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: facetimed him, Um uh, when we got to the grave

994
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: and he was you know, we couldn't find it and so,

995
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, let's call Jim's called him up, you know,

996
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: and he told us to where to go and we

997
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:40,839
Speaker 1: had no clue we were going. We just walked over there.

998
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 1: He got to go there and we didn't know. We've

999
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: never done it before, and he guided us through the

1000
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: whole thing. And is Jim man's voice. Yeah, even I

1001
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: got on the facetime and said, Hey, Jim, where is

1002
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: this thing? I'm looking at it like a Batman looking structure,

1003
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: Batman building. It is part of the old ruins that

1004
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: are there. And I said, Oh, I know exactly where

1005
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: you are. Make a right turn. It's up against the

1006
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: wall on the right side. It's about equal distance with

1007
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: that one structure. You're in the neighborhood and I could

1008
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: hear a voice up ahead. I think I found it.

1009
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: I think I found it, and you know that we

1010
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: would have never found this without the help of Jim

1011
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: man's because we're going through. It's a massive cemetery and

1012
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: we said, Hey, does it tell me what? You know what?

1013
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm looking at. I see this big thing

1014
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: that looks like Lord of the Rings, you know, it

1015
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: looks like a Batman building. He's that perfect. Go to

1016
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: that and take a right. And then we did that

1017
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: and we keep walking. He said, you can't miss it's

1018
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: along the East Wall. There's this ivory tombstone that's implanted

1019
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: in the wall. You can't miss it. So it was

1020
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: gonna show up a little bit, even under darkness, with

1021
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 1: a Moonlit Skuy. It just it popped a little bit

1022
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: and someone I could just tell, was running towards it

1023
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: and discovered it. They were like just a bunch of

1024
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: kids on a treasure hunt. So we keep walking, keep walking,

1025
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,720
Speaker 1: and finally see, you know, the the old Tom Morris,

1026
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: young Tom Moors, great and then we um Taylor's ours are.

1027
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: He was with us. Gave a little speech and well,

1028
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,799
Speaker 1: commemorative thing that we that we we facetime Jim on

1029
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: and sent him. The signal broke up and so he

1030
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: did fall off, but we sent we did a video

1031
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: while we were there. We sent it to Jim. He

1032
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:25,399
Speaker 1: he was incredibly appreciative of that and you know, as

1033
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: as you know, he's just Um, in my opinion, the

1034
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: voice of Golf, and for for him too to ask

1035
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: us to do that was was a real honor and

1036
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really glad we did, because I think all

1037
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 1: of us were pretty moved by it. Here's the recording

1038
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: of Taylor's speech that night. Old Tom Morris and young

1039
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: Tom Morris started major championship golf. Jim Nance is one

1040
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: of the greatest voices in American sports history and we're

1041
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: here to pay tribute to our friend Jim Tonight by

1042
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 1: seeing two of the greatest golfers of all time that

1043
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: gave us major championship golf. And here we are at

1044
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: the edition of the Open Championship, the most historic major ever,

1045
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: paying tribute to the guys that started all of this.

1046
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: We pay tribute to them and we're thankful for all

1047
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: the people that came after them and whatever happens tomorrow

1048
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: will certainly be significant, but it all happens because of

1049
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 1: what these guys created. Okay, I'll be in the lobby.

1050
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: I think it was just powerful to to be standing there,

1051
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: you know, in that moment, and it was funny because

1052
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,879
Speaker 1: Eric always waffles about early morning golf and we were

1053
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: playing Don Barney the next morning at eight thirty, and

1054
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: so I gave this little speech and, uh, everybody was

1055
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: kind of taking in the moment and Eric said, okay,

1056
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 1: I'll be in the lobby at eight thirty tomorrow morning.

1057
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 1: A really good tradition. He does it every year and

1058
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: it was it was really cool to keep it going,

1059
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: you know, and he couldn't be there to do it. So, Um,

1060
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: I didn't know what we were participating in, but I

1061
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 1: was all in for breaking into own it's very poeted.

1062
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: It was almost psychot of dead poet society where we,

1063
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:16,479
Speaker 1: you know, demeanor shifted to this more Shakespearean like let's

1064
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: pay homage and read some you know. You had Taylor,

1065
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: whose commentary has got a voice of uh, you know,

1066
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:24,879
Speaker 1: and it was really kind of stoic how it all

1067
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: happened and meaningful and it was great. It was awesome.

1068
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: At twelve fifty two their time, they sent me the

1069
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: video of of their escapades and when I saw the

1070
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: video I said indescribably poignant. Brought tears to my eyes.

1071
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 1: It did. Thanks, guys, thanks to all of you. The

1072
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 1: tradition continues, I said, at the hundred and fifty open

1073
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: at the stroke of midnight. FREAKING FAN astick. So for

1074
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 1: this old soul who's into these kind of connections with

1075
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: the past and bringing it all together, to have some

1076
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: buddies on the ultimate buddy trip go and actually stand

1077
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: in for you and allow you to experience it vicariously,

1078
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: connect me live via facetime, worlds apart, eight time zones removed,

1079
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: had me there live and in person. Very nice gift,

1080
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:36,439
Speaker 1: gift of friendship. Golf does that to you. You get

1081
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 1: to understand it through this game more than any other thing.

1082
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: You can think of, any other endeavor that brings people together. Meanwhile,

1083
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: Mark Eubanks was back tending to the duties of running

1084
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: the Russis hotel. Were you involved in the cemetery trip?

1085
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: Now you could. You didn't go to the cemetery. I

1086
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: was the q rf for that one. That's the quick

1087
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: reactionary force in the event that there was any issues

1088
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: with them jumping the fence and going to the grave

1089
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: side of old Tom Morris. I said you just sent

1090
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: me a text and there will be a group of

1091
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: people show up that will extract you from the situation.

1092
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: Safely and get you back to the hotel. So No,

1093
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 1: I was not a part. I saw the picture and

1094
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: I said what is this and they said don't you remember?

1095
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: And I'm like no, I wasn't a part of that.

1096
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: Woke up in the morning. Yeah, I couldn't move my

1097
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: finger very well get to the driving range of Dumb

1098
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: Barney and uh, I was just like, I can't, I

1099
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: don't know. So I changed my grip and I was

1100
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: able to do it on the fly and ended up

1101
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: shooting seventy seven that day and it was fine, but

1102
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: it's still bleeding a week later. And but yeah, that

1103
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: was that was, you know, one of those moments where

1104
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: you're with your best buds. It felt like, you know,

1105
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: college or high school getting into something fun, Tom Fleury

1106
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: and and uh so, yeah, Tom Tom Morris's spirit was

1107
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: with us for the whole trip after that. As for

1108
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: a course review, here's on Dum Barney. I can see

1109
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: why there's some chatter about them potentially hosting the Scottish

1110
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: open at some point. It's got very similar vibes to

1111
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: renaissance and Kings Barnes. And you're right, uh, the Greens.

1112
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: You can tell they've had some issues but you can

1113
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: tell they're also coming back. They were slow, but there

1114
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: they were in much better shape than I thought that

1115
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 1: they would be in Um and I just have to

1116
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: let layout was beautiful and so different than the old

1117
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: course or any of the St Andrew's courses. And there

1118
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: it's fifteen minutes away. It's just it's neat to be

1119
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: right on the water and have such a different experience

1120
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: than what you would have at at the at the

1121
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: old course. Um and so yeah, I'm absolutely glad we played.

1122
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: We had a we had a great time there and UM,

1123
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: a couple of great group back to coopermanning. Some guys

1124
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: took caddies and some guys even carry their own bag. Um.

1125
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: I had a great caddy who I literally he had

1126
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: the thickest accident I could. I understood about every sixth word.

1127
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 1: That's why I played so badly. I've been blame it

1128
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: on him the whole time. You know. Yeah, it's a

1129
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: it's an unbelievable track of land and gorgeous. They had

1130
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: green trouble. So the Greens were really slow and but

1131
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: you can tell that's got the you know, the makings

1132
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: of Scottish open you know, in the next few years

1133
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: or whatever. I mean, it's just it could get really

1134
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: hard and we had the best weather. I mean everybody

1135
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 1: we wore. I never, I don't think I ever put

1136
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: on a rang jack the whole trip. I mean we

1137
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,479
Speaker 1: just I didn't know you can wear shorts. Back Times,

1138
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: when I've been a long time ago, they were long pants.

1139
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: It's little more funny wear shorts and a little more.

1140
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: I mean some people didn't. Church didn't breathe shorts. Yeah,

1141
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: he looked like he was bested as a a polar bear.

1142
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: I mean he was sweating his you know, sweating his

1143
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: tail up. Yeah, Dun Barney, I don't remember very much

1144
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:12,439
Speaker 1: of done Barney, if I'm being a hundred percent honest

1145
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: with you, but I I remember Saturday was a really

1146
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: long day for me. So Dun Barney I got part of.

1147
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: I don't I think I I'm not sure. I may

1148
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: have lost money that day too, but I remember getting

1149
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: back and then getting there for, you know, the final round,

1150
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: and that was something we had looked at, you know,

1151
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 1: all day. We were following along as we played. You know,

1152
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: are they making noise? What's happening here? You know, we

1153
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 1: were kind of doing that thing. But it was really interesting.

1154
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: I was certain that rory was gonna win. I mean

1155
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 1: I certain. I would have bet any amount of money.

1156
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: I'd have bet any amount of money on two things,

1157
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: that tiger would have made the Putt at eight team

1158
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: and he didn't, and Rory would have won, because he

1159
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,520
Speaker 1: just felt like it was one of those things. And

1160
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:00,400
Speaker 1: when we got back, you know, Um to the to

1161
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 1: the for the open to watch the final round. The

1162
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: leaders were on the front night. So they had not

1163
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: cam had not made that that launch. Yet you know

1164
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: that all of a sudden everything changed in five holes.

1165
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: Golf is the hardest spectator sport to watch. You know

1166
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: you you're only seeing the action in front of you

1167
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: and you don't really know what else is happening. So

1168
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 1: I have a monitor that our engineers had wired into

1169
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: the truck and Um, Tommy Roy, who I'm sure you

1170
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: saw at some point last week, is also staying in

1171
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,920
Speaker 1: the same hotel and he's just mind blown how we

1172
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: created this and he's like this is how did you

1173
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: do this? He's like this is the greatest spot. But

1174
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: we had we had a program feed out there. Um

1175
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: that Jeremy Davis and Darryl doss are our producers and

1176
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:50,720
Speaker 1: engineers had had wired for us and so the entire

1177
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: patio was hovering over my shoulder and Carl Paulson's shoulder

1178
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: as there as we're watching the action. You know what

1179
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: is already doing and what is Cam Smith doing and Um.

1180
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: So they're just watching all of this transpire and that

1181
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:11,080
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. We've got Um, we've got peyton Manning,

1182
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: who was literally stationed between Carl and me. He was

1183
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: hovering in just trying to watch what was happening. was

1184
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: was awesome. Yeah, Taylor's Golf was not very good on

1185
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday because, hey, I don't think he was

1186
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 1: supposed to be playing golf. Uh. A matter of fact,

1187
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: when daily posted the picture, that sort of you know,

1188
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:34,479
Speaker 1: uh made everybody a where, you know, who was playing golf.

1189
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 1: I think Taylor's boss calling and said, Oh, you know,

1190
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: hanging out playing eight team with John David Day. You know. So,

1191
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: so much for your pre tournament preparation. But his golf

1192
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 1: was terrible because he was thinking about am I gonna

1193
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: be back on time? He was checking his watch. So

1194
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: he was a good opponent to uh those first couple

1195
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: of days, let's say that. But yeah, you have to

1196
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: get back and to be able to watch that. And

1197
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: you know, when you when you know some of the

1198
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 1: golfers vs some of the proms and I played in

1199
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: through the years at Pebble Beach Or, you know, the

1200
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: memorial sponsored by Work Day. Now I've gotten to know,

1201
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 1: you know, Rory and and George Speed and Justin Thomas,

1202
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: and so when you see him play, you certainly pulling

1203
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 1: for him. And look, it was very obvious that so

1204
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: many people were pulling for Roy Matheil Roy at that time,

1205
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: as he had to lead. I was no different. He

1206
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 1: was staying there at the hotel uh, as was Speith

1207
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 1: and Thomas, so that was pretty cool and uh, but

1208
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: it was exciting to watch both those rounds. Are Golf between,

1209
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, watching it alive on eighteen and having a

1210
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,440
Speaker 1: TV and watching the broadcast at the same time. It's funny.

1211
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 1: We're watching, we have a TV on inside, inside and

1212
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: we also are watching listen to Taylor actually broadcast what's

1213
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 1: going on. He's got a TV, so we're all kind

1214
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: of looking at his TV and then, you know, looking

1215
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 1: down watching, you know, what's going on a team and

1216
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 1: the leaderboard. It was it was Finomal, it was it

1217
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: was it was so fun. Coop decided to come out

1218
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,480
Speaker 1: in his bathrobe. Everybody else was was out there and

1219
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, Sunday Golf Attire and cook comes out in

1220
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: his russacks bathrobe and he's great looking robes and Brussacks.

1221
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: He's Great White Terry cloth rose with a with a

1222
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:18,160
Speaker 1: great bad RUSSEC, and I said, shot, I'm gonna wear

1223
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 1: that down to the I got dressed and just put

1224
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 1: that on real tight and you can see, and I

1225
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 1: went down, you know, out there, everybody on the deck.

1226
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: This is, you know, for four to thirty in the

1227
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 1: afternoon and you know, Y'all obviously have a different I

1228
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: thought on how you're gonna Watch Golf, and I do.

1229
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 1: I like to be very comfortable, and everybody want to

1230
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: take pictures out. You were drinking and uh, it was,

1231
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: you know, Cooper coming out in a road that's the

1232
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 1: least surprising thing that happened on the whole trip. Just say,

1233
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: you know. Then all of a sudden you kind of

1234
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 1: hear a little buzz about Cam Cam Smith, you know.

1235
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 1: You know, hey, he's had three birdies in a row. Hey,

1236
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 1: he's had four, break five birdies in a row. You know,

1237
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's you know, he's one, he's

1238
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 1: one back and uh so this thing is getting this

1239
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 1: thing is getting pipe. Taylor is doing his broadcast on

1240
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: the balcony. So we had really we could hear, you know,

1241
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: what was going on on. You know, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,

1242
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: seventeen coming up and cam on a Birdie parade. Um

1243
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 1: It was you know, you just knew. I mean you

1244
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 1: were just part of something really special. I used to

1245
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 1: do some NASCAR work and in the last few years

1246
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:27,200
Speaker 1: of daylor and Har Junior's career it felt like he

1247
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 1: was playing a home game every time he was in

1248
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: a race, that everybody in the entire everyone at the

1249
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 1: racetrack was cheering for him. It felt like you were playing.

1250
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: It was like on the Ohio State or Alabama or

1251
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,919
Speaker 1: Georgia home game in a way, and that's exactly what

1252
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 1: it felt like at the open. Rory's popularity has grown

1253
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 1: so much even this year that now people are chanting

1254
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: his name every time that something good happens on the

1255
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: golf course for him. When he hold that bunker shot

1256
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 1: on ten on to day to make Eagle, immediately you

1257
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:06,800
Speaker 1: have all these chants of Rory, Rory, and that carried

1258
01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 1: him around the golf course. No one was upset that

1259
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 1: Cam Smith won or has anything against him, and everybody

1260
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: said well played, but you're right, everybody was cheering Ferrari

1261
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: and it was kind of the icebreaker. Conversation that we

1262
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: had with the head pro or anybody on site at

1263
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: the golf courses the next couple of days or the

1264
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 1: caddies was I can't believe Rory didn't get it done,

1265
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: or I thought he was going to get it done.

1266
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to see it Um. So yeah, I think

1267
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: that to a degree it was a bit of a

1268
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:43,040
Speaker 1: bummer that the last nine holes didn't go the way

1269
01:07:43,080 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 1: everybody thought that they would, but to see Cam Smith

1270
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 1: play that well and and go out and win the

1271
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 1: Claret Jug like that still was very enjoyable. It was

1272
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: a remarkable setting. You know, four or five days removed

1273
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 1: from it, I still got flashbacks going through my mind

1274
01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: to be able to be there with those special people,

1275
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 1: to see Taylor do his craft, to hear the crowd

1276
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: honor Cameron as well as rory. Um, it was. It

1277
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 1: was epic. And also rory was staying at the Russacks,

1278
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 1: so we, you know, behind the scenes, were hoping, you know,

1279
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 1: if rory one, you know, the party comes back there

1280
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: and we, you know, we'd already rehearsed drinking out of

1281
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:30,280
Speaker 1: Clara Judd. We had like big you know, I was

1282
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 1: saving up. I was like this is gonna be the

1283
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 1: greatest night of my life. You know, upstairs in the room,

1284
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: everybody saw it. So we were, uh, you know, I

1285
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:44,760
Speaker 1: would say, secretly pulling hard for him. And and you know,

1286
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 1: I know Ky. I heard Cam had a really fun,

1287
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: good party at the Old Corps Hotel, which we didn't

1288
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: get invited to. So but when you're Russix guys, you

1289
01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:00,680
Speaker 1: don't get to the saying you you good, loyal ru

1290
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: six year old course hotel. It's it's not Tiger Phil,

1291
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: it's Cama Rory. I mean that's the way it gets.

1292
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 1: It is thousand percent, thousand per cent. So that being said,

1293
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:13,640
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure Cooper was cheated out of a

1294
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 1: party back to Eric Church on that robe. And what

1295
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: came of the night? Were you a part of this?

1296
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: Cooper coming out in the robe? I wasn't a part

1297
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:24,840
Speaker 1: of it, but Cooper came out in the road. Yeah,

1298
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: when I when I got there, I didn't know what

1299
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 1: I missed. You know, Cooper was in a robe and,

1300
01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:34,040
Speaker 1: you know, debauchery had ensued. A lot of players and

1301
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 1: other people were on the balcony and he turned into

1302
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 1: a it turned into a hell of an event and

1303
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 1: it turned into a decently late night we had that

1304
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: we had to get up pretty early the next morning

1305
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: head to North Barrick and so we didn't have as

1306
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 1: long of a night as we did, you know, Um,

1307
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: the night before. So, but it was just a lot

1308
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: of celebration, a lot of you know and again, uh,

1309
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: to be there for an event that's that's that historic

1310
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: and your buddy happens to you know on the hotel

1311
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: and you're with your it just was it's just not

1312
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 1: something you can ever make up. None of our lives

1313
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: would ever collide like that. Like we're all people that

1314
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 1: do different things and incredible things and we're all busy

1315
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 1: and just to get everybody in that spot was just

1316
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 1: not something that would that ever happens. And then I

1317
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 1: got in the road and we have underneath in the

1318
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:21,840
Speaker 1: bottom of the Rusex. I don't know if you went

1319
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 1: that bar of a bar down there called one under

1320
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: and I went down there and it was had a

1321
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: girl playing tunes and everybody was in there. Just I

1322
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 1: went down there and got it. I got behind the

1323
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 1: bar and started bartending and got into a drinking game

1324
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: where these people. I'M gonna cut coop off here. We'll

1325
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: get to the drinking game in a minute, but we

1326
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: don't get there without more time with him behind the

1327
01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:46,639
Speaker 1: bar pouring pints. Here's Hasburger on the events that led

1328
01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:49,840
Speaker 1: up to one under. You know that the story was

1329
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:52,120
Speaker 1: he ended up down to one under curfain drinks right

1330
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 1: and playing, playing the beer game or drinking games. But

1331
01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: the initial intent was there was some guys. So everything

1332
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 1: was over right, done the trophy ceremony and the crowds

1333
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 1: and the crowd just swarmed the eighteenth and then they

1334
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:08,640
Speaker 1: slowly kind of you know, dribble away and there was

1335
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 1: some guy who was clearly having his own nostalgic moment,

1336
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:15,720
Speaker 1: who was just lying down on the eighteenth fairway and

1337
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: he had like a pose where he had his knee up,

1338
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: you know, and his elbow up and he's kind of

1339
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: he's sort of posing and sort of his weird his

1340
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: weird position and goes I think I'm gonna go lay

1341
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,840
Speaker 1: next to that guy in my bathroom. So he's down

1342
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: there trying to you know, the only way in was

1343
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: to climb the fence and there was no way he

1344
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 1: was climbing the fence on the bathroom, but I don't

1345
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: think he realized that. So he had to bail on

1346
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 1: that plan, originally for the original plan, but to get

1347
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 1: down there, I think he went through the one under

1348
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:45,559
Speaker 1: and that that's where, you know, that's where it clicked.

1349
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:47,479
Speaker 1: And so next thing you know he's he's down there

1350
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:49,600
Speaker 1: and he was down there before anybody else. Was it

1351
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:51,880
Speaker 1: just him? You know, the staff at the Russ sex

1352
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:54,880
Speaker 1: contact me and they're like, Mr you, thanks, we have

1353
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 1: a problem downstairs in the one under, and I'm like what,

1354
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 1: what's the problem? Peyton manning is wearing a robe and

1355
01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:06,799
Speaker 1: pouring Biz for free. And I said, well, that's not Peyton,

1356
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: that's cooper and it's okay. How are you gonna Stop Cooper?

1357
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: That was Cooper Manning, who has, uh, unfortunately, favors me

1358
01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 1: and sometimes doesn't always correct the person when they call

1359
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:24,640
Speaker 1: him Peyton. You know he will, he will run with

1360
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 1: that for a little while. He's used to do that

1361
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 1: back when I was in college. You know, I'm asleep

1362
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: the night before a game he's out at a bar

1363
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:35,280
Speaker 1: in Knoxville. He's visiting, like Peyton, what are you doing out?

1364
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: He's yeah, you know, we're just playing banderbilt tomorrow. What's

1365
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:39,759
Speaker 1: the big deal? You know, and he takes the puff

1366
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 1: of his cigar. So, you know, not helpful to me.

1367
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, twenty something years later he's still doing it.

1368
01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: I would never wear a robe probably anywhere, much less, uh,

1369
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 1: in a bar at the open championship. But coope was

1370
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: in his element. He was bartending, he was writing the mix.

1371
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: I was down there, I was, I was taking lots

1372
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 1: of pictures. There are a lot of fans down there, uh,

1373
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of Americans, and so I was.

1374
01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 1: I was in the mix, doing my part, you know, socializing,

1375
01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: but I was. I was dressed in golf clothes like

1376
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 1: most normal people. Back to Ben Weppn, you know, one

1377
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:17,360
Speaker 1: under the bar on the road, on the on the road.

1378
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 1: I went down there one night with I was I

1379
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 1: don't know, Eli and I don't know who else. I

1380
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 1: think it was just Eli, and we walked down there

1381
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 1: and couples behind the bar and bartending. No one's surprised.

1382
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: We were just like Ye, take a Tenet over to

1383
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: Eli for his thoughts. Couch ROB is this? I mean, uh,

1384
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 1: let's it's saying it's it's not the first time I've

1385
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 1: seen coople go into a public setting in a row.

1386
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 1: So I'm not shocked by it. You know, uh, kind

1387
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 1: of come to expect it. Just went. When's it coming?

1388
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: The best is the best is I'm sitting there with

1389
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, Weaburn, you know, a guy, you know when

1390
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: the GM old Shamus I think, kind of comes up

1391
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:06,840
Speaker 1: and it's like hey, we we have, we have an issue.

1392
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:09,519
Speaker 1: We have a major issue. was that he's like peyton

1393
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,400
Speaker 1: manning is in a row down at one under and

1394
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 1: he's handing out three beers to everybody. He's handing out

1395
01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: pre beers to everybody and like I was like, I

1396
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: don't think that's Peyton, that's that's debbely, not Peyton, and

1397
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think you'll be okay. It's

1398
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 1: definitely that's definitely coops move. He likes to get behind

1399
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 1: bar and just, you don't know how to make any

1400
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: drinks and you don't know how to take any money.

1401
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 1: Maybe some tips, but you know, just, you know, handing

1402
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:35,920
Speaker 1: out beer, as anybody once one. Yeah, I guess Peyton

1403
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:38,479
Speaker 1: says he's been pretending to be Peyton. You know his

1404
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:42,240
Speaker 1: whole line. Yeah, yeah, he did it at Tennessee, he

1405
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:44,679
Speaker 1: did it. You know, did it to be at old mess.

1406
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:48,080
Speaker 1: Just got out out on a Friday night before a

1407
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: game and, you know, smoking a cigarette, drinking a scotch,

1408
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 1: and people like Eli, what do you know, what are

1409
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 1: you doing? And Coops, we just got Kentucky tomorrow. No,

1410
01:14:56,080 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 1: no big deal, you know. So you know, I was like,

1411
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, Hey, you gotta calm down on this. It's

1412
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 1: it's funny for a little bit. I think image I'm

1413
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 1: to get in trouble. Coaches think I'm out in the

1414
01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: town on a Friday night. We do an interview with

1415
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:12,920
Speaker 1: the winner of each major. So I had to go

1416
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: as the as the Brits say, get in the queue

1417
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: for for Cam Smith over there near the first tee

1418
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 1: on the practice putting green and my phone was blowing

1419
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:26,720
Speaker 1: up saying you're you're missing uh cooper pouring drinks in

1420
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 1: his robe at the down. What is it? The Down Underbar?

1421
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: The ONE UNDERBAR? Yeah, and so I hate that I

1422
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: missed that. We we we tried to hustle back after

1423
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:39,439
Speaker 1: the interview to see it, but we had missed it.

1424
01:15:39,479 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: At that point he was playing drinking games, I believe. Um,

1425
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 1: we missed his turn, as as the bartender, but that

1426
01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 1: does not surprise me. Cooper is the life of the party.

1427
01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 1: My group left me. I hung on there. Played a

1428
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 1: game called Essen P with a bunch of people, a

1429
01:15:55,840 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: bunch of uh, you know, Scotland, Americans and Europeans, where

1430
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 1: you go rounding around and you gotta think of a

1431
01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 1: word that starts that doesn't. You can't say a word

1432
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 1: it starts with SNP, but it's got to be related

1433
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 1: to the next word. So, in other words, this guy

1434
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 1: starts off, he goes uh, donkey, and I say, if

1435
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: I say Dorito, I gotta drink, but if I say,

1436
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 1: you know, horse, I'm good. I keep going. But if

1437
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: you say word and so exact when you're sober, exact,

1438
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 1: like one of the easiest games in the world. But

1439
01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 1: if you say a word it starts SMP and to drink.

1440
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: People could not put say words and started with s.

1441
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: They would say pony, like moron, drink. You know. It

1442
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 1: was like and so I'm in a road down there,

1443
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 1: you and this people leave like who the hell is

1444
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: this guy, I think. Think the spot. You take a

1445
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,639
Speaker 1: wrong turn in the spot and wound up in the bars.

1446
01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 1: What the Hell is going on? But that was a blast.

1447
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 1: It was a total pivot. I had to do a

1448
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 1: little I was tired of my group at that point.

1449
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:57,639
Speaker 1: I was laughing out loud to myself for like an

1450
01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: hour and a half yesterday the because I was down

1451
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 1: the rabbit hole on cooper wearing a robe, going going

1452
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:11,560
Speaker 1: down to one under porn pines, playing drinking games with

1453
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:15,640
Speaker 1: the locals. Yea, and he brought that. He brought a

1454
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: great drinking game. I think everybody's everybody's used it since

1455
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:27,559
Speaker 1: the SMP, right, SMP. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So funny. So fine.

1456
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 1: They went to Um. They go to this fair every

1457
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: year um down in Mississippi, and I think he brought

1458
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 1: it down there too. So it's already it's spreading. He

1459
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 1: sent me, he sent me pictures of like his yeah,

1460
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:49,680
Speaker 1: he's brought it to his family together. Yeah, he's UH,

1461
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 1: he's he's a character, isn't they? Oh my God, I

1462
01:17:53,080 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: had no idea. Oh Yeah, unbelievable talent. So this is

1463
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: where the trip takes a turn. They're leaving the home

1464
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 1: of golf. And now they start the part of the

1465
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: trip that is golf centric. But before they leave St

1466
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 1: Andrew's and before we segue to part two of this podcast,

1467
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: final thought from weapon. My thought the whole time we

1468
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:19,840
Speaker 1: were doing this. This is the home of golf. We

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01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 1: want this to be the living room. That was it,

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01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,439
Speaker 1: where everybody comes and they gather and they tell stories

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01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:28,599
Speaker 1: and they have a beer and they, you know, talk

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01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: about history and meaning and like purpose, and that was it.

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01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 1: This was, you know, you said, like my dream when

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01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:38,600
Speaker 1: we concepted this and whatever, was like this is going

1475
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: to be the epicenter of the open and it came true.

1476
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: Like this was all manifested through all of these things

1477
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: and I think the idea were like this fell up

1478
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,120
Speaker 1: great and good and connect everybody cared. It was the

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01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:50,640
Speaker 1: headspace everybody was in. They were so grateful, they were

1480
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: so glad, they were so appreciative to be there celebrating

1481
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: this monumental occasion in this backdrop, which was really special.

1482
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:00,160
Speaker 1: And I think you know, what we tried to do is,

1483
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about you know something that felt

1484
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,360
Speaker 1: good to you. It feels good to us to write.

1485
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, you know, Eric doesn't write or

1486
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:09,880
Speaker 1: make a song. You know what he thinks people want

1487
01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 1: to hear. He does something that feels true and real

1488
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: to him. It's the same idea, you know, in our

1489
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 1: businesses we build stuff that we really connect to and

1490
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: hoping that it connects to the broader market. And you know,

1491
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: like you saying that in the seven of set, like

1492
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:26,519
Speaker 1: that's why we do. You know what we do and

1493
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:29,599
Speaker 1: you know and the culture that you mean the general

1494
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:32,640
Speaker 1: manager and mark and everybody, and Philip like they just,

1495
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 1: you know, they all bought in right. This was a

1496
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 1: shared mission to bring these any of these hotels, you know, skin,

1497
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: our investors, everybody. This was a shared, you know, idea

1498
01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 1: that is now living out in real life. and to

1499
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: see an idea from you know, to execution to fruition

1500
01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:52,800
Speaker 1: is super meaningful to all of us, everybody involved. And

1501
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 1: you're right, by the way, CBS, ESPN, ABC, it didn't matter.

1502
01:19:56,600 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 1: Rory Justin Thomas George's speak, like I was just holy ship.

1503
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:03,760
Speaker 1: I can't, I mean, you couldn't write this, Dude. I

1504
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: mean you can't see. You couldn't write the script. And

1505
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,600
Speaker 1: here we are, like I swear I thought rory was

1506
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:10,600
Speaker 1: gonna you know, hit his drive on a teen and

1507
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:11,880
Speaker 1: make it like I thought I was gonna go in,

1508
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 1: because like that's how all of these things dude, I'm

1509
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:17,479
Speaker 1: sitting here like this, this is real. I'm sitting here

1510
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 1: on the balcony one sixteen with my best friend and

1511
01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:23,920
Speaker 1: this like kind of just, you know, so blown away and,

1512
01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 1: you know, and grateful. At this point, mark eubanks goes

1513
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 1: off the clock at rue six and he joins the

1514
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:34,720
Speaker 1: golf component of the trip. Hassburger is headed home. His

1515
01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: final thoughts. Like I said, I left Monday morning and

1516
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:40,640
Speaker 1: they carried on for another couple of days and at

1517
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:42,680
Speaker 1: the end of dinner, that's Sunday and eyes exactly what

1518
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 1: I said. Just thanks for having me. You know, this

1519
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 1: is and that meant like on all of it right

1520
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: like seven years ago, Ben when you decided that it

1521
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:55,200
Speaker 1: might be cool for us to partner together. You know,

1522
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:59,600
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. You know, Peyton and Eli, some

1523
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:02,720
Speaker 1: kid that you kind of know. You know, thanks for

1524
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:05,880
Speaker 1: having me, Eric, like let's like, it's just, it's it's

1525
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 1: just the appreciate. That's I think that's the coolest part

1526
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:11,400
Speaker 1: of the whole thing is everyone was having an amazing

1527
01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:14,440
Speaker 1: time and it was fun. It was everyone was so appreciative,

1528
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:19,360
Speaker 1: you know, and not not necessarily appreciative of of you know, yes,

1529
01:21:19,439 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 1: the hospitality and the access and all those things, but

1530
01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 1: just being able to be a part of the whole thing,

1531
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:29,680
Speaker 1: you know, and it's all one the package together, is

1532
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:35,479
Speaker 1: just something that you never never put together again. In

1533
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,799
Speaker 1: part two of this manning brothers ultimate buddies trip podcast,

1534
01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: they play over the stone walls of North Barrick. Only

1535
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:44,439
Speaker 1: a few of them go for it to go in.

1536
01:21:45,240 --> 01:21:47,880
Speaker 1: They have the Perfect Mirror Field Day, which is to

1537
01:21:47,960 --> 01:21:51,920
Speaker 1: say they washed down that famous lunch within infamous drink

1538
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 1: and they busted up to Royal County Down, which is where,

1539
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 1: at the base of the mountains of Morn, Eric Church

1540
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 1: gets inspired to write a song. He's currently recording a

1541
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 1: bit of that song that I'll be able to end

1542
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: the whole podcast with Church's version of a song that

1543
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:12,240
Speaker 1: he wrote about this trip. You know he could do that.

1544
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 1: His mind is genius and Eric Starts, starts getting an

1545
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:21,679
Speaker 1: idea and it just the dots get connected really quickly.

1546
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: Put another log on the fire and hears give the

1547
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:45,599
Speaker 1: time