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Speaker 1: we sent you. What is going on everybody, John Middlecoff,

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Speaker 1: We're going with a little go low. We're doing little

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Speaker 1: golf podcasts. Here's the plane, have a couple of golf takes. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I will do a football pod cast this week. If

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Speaker 1: the NFL litigates, I don't I don't even know if

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Speaker 1: that's the right word. If there is a suspension handed

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Speaker 1: then we'll have a three and out podcast. And I

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna have much next week,

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Speaker 1: the summer. This is when you guys don't listen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the metrics speak for themselves over the years, and uh,

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Speaker 1: time to not think about talking. There's my phone is

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Speaker 1: so many spam calls. It's like Apple, Facebook. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who's giving out our number, but literally every human

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Speaker 1: It is pretty nuts. I mean I remember growing up.

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Speaker 1: fire into my d M s on on Instagram. Three

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Speaker 1: and Out is just my own at John Middlecoff. You

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Speaker 1: got any questions, I'm gonna need you. It's just we

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Speaker 1: And I there was a big name and and I

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Speaker 1: love this. I've seen a lot of this when Keptko

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Speaker 1: to the Bills game and I'm going to the Bill's Dolphins,

426
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Speaker 1: I know everyone I know too is playing. I know,

427
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Speaker 1: I'm not that I care, but Tyreek kill, Josh Allen,

428
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,600
Speaker 1: all their star players are gonna play unless they're injured.

429
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Speaker 1: Where in in golf, no clue and in basketball, same deal.

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Speaker 1: So I I hear you there, someone, It's pretty crazy

431
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Speaker 1: that if you play as an amateur that you don't

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Speaker 1: get paid, which is a longstanding rule in the sport

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Speaker 1: of golf. It's just the reality. But like last week,

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Speaker 1: the Stanford guy finishes fourth, he does not get money,

435
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people like, well, he's a rich

436
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Speaker 1: kid from Massachusetts. He's going to Stanford. Listen, I don't

437
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Speaker 1: care how much money you're worth. You play a league

438
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Speaker 1: golf for four days and that spot gets four hundred

439
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Speaker 1: six thousand dollars and they skip you. That's that'd be

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Speaker 1: hard one to stomach. Could you explain the whole amateur

441
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Speaker 1: versus pro status and why amateurs can't get paid. It

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Speaker 1: seems like if they play in a tournament all square

443
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Speaker 1: without benefit of handicap, they should get paid. I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think it has to do with like collegiance status,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not quite sure on that. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: just a reason, like in gymnastics and some of these

447
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Speaker 1: sports that I don't know. I I'm the wrong guy

448
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Speaker 1: to ask, but I know in golf it's just a

449
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Speaker 1: longstanding rule if you're an amateur, you're just not gonna

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Speaker 1: get any money, which again would uh it's one of

451
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Speaker 1: those things that's like no big deal and then you

452
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Speaker 1: actually win a lot of money. I would be hot,

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Speaker 1: I I really would. Um. I wonder if the reason

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Speaker 1: this guy's keeping his amateur status because he wants to

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Speaker 1: play in the U S Amateur this summer, which would

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Speaker 1: be my guests, I I didn't. I didn't have a

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Speaker 1: lot of the broadcast audio on I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they talked about that. I saw someone DM me like,

459
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Speaker 1: can you believe that they didn't mention this on Sunday?

460
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Speaker 1: They doesn't make any money. My biggest issue with the

461
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Speaker 1: PGA Tour is in terms of their broadcast. Beside the commercials,

462
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Speaker 1: which they love their money because they set up a

463
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Speaker 1: million commercials, they never talk about money, like we all

464
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Speaker 1: play golf, whether it's for ten dollars, whether it's for

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Speaker 1: a hundred dollars, whether it's for ten tho dollars. A

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Speaker 1: whole the money conversation is a huge part of the

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Speaker 1: sport and their consumer. Like ten million people don't watch

468
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Speaker 1: golf tournaments a couple million people. Their consumer is a

469
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Speaker 1: highering consumer. I would imagine their consumer in terms of

470
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Speaker 1: demo household income is double all the other sports. So

471
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Speaker 1: these people are wealthy. Just talk about cash, talk about

472
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Speaker 1: how much money these guys are ruining. It's interesting you

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Speaker 1: couldn't pay Jim Nance to discuss that, even though Jim

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Speaker 1: Nance has paid millions of dollars to talk on TV.

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Speaker 1: It's it's very bizarre and it's something that they need

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Speaker 1: to improve. Uh So, I do think the reason that

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Speaker 1: he didn't play as a professional again could be wrong.

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Speaker 1: They might have discussed this wasn't listening. Is because he

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Speaker 1: wants to play in the U S Amateur this summer

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Speaker 1: and then turn pro, which a lot of guys do.

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Speaker 1: Roy plan. His best golf is quite in quite a while.

482
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Speaker 1: Makes you wonder how much of this is tied to live.

483
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: It's almost like he needs something to play for more

484
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Speaker 1: than dudes on tour. When COVID hit and there were

485
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Speaker 1: no fans, his game dropped off like a cliff. Now

486
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Speaker 1: they are back and he has added incentive of wanting

487
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Speaker 1: to stick it to Norman and he looks like Rory

488
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Speaker 1: of old. Yeah, he clearly ran out of gas. Uh

489
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Speaker 1: he was, He was leading the tournament and he pumped

490
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Speaker 1: it ob and took a quad and then he was

491
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Speaker 1: never the same. But I'm with you. You know some people,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's most guys are not Tiger Woods and

493
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady or Elon Musk where they have an unlimited

494
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Speaker 1: amount of money, like literally everywhere they go everything is free.

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Speaker 1: I remember someone describing they told me the story they

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Speaker 1: read about this billionaire. And then someone asked him like

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Speaker 1: at a on a panel, what's it like? Can you

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Speaker 1: describe being a billionaire? And he said, you know, not

499
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Speaker 1: trying to be arrogant. Everywhere he goes everything is free. Now,

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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, Tiger technically a billionaire. Brady,

501
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Speaker 1: you know him and his wife probably are guys like

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Speaker 1: Elon clearly are Everything they do is free, right because

503
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Speaker 1: there is no amount of money they can spend on

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Speaker 1: stuff to ruin the amount of money they have. So

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Speaker 1: to have the drive. If I just looked at my

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Speaker 1: bank account right now and I had a hundred and

507
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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars, let's just pick a number, it's enormous,

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Speaker 1: and I would never have to work again. I don't

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Speaker 1: have to do anything like ultimately, what would I do now?

510
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Speaker 1: I would get bored fast. I'm not one of those guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I could vacation for a little bit, but

512
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Speaker 1: I already play a lot of golf. Uh, you know,

513
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Speaker 1: I work. I don't have that any hot Like what

514
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Speaker 1: else would I do? So to keep the drive when

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Speaker 1: you have an unlimited amount of money. I have a

516
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Speaker 1: ton of admiration for people like that, and sometimes just

517
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Speaker 1: the way you're wired. Rory became so rich so fast,

518
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Speaker 1: and I don't think he's necessarily quote unquote driven by money,

519
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Speaker 1: or he would have gotten to live they offered him

520
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Speaker 1: five hundred plus million dollars. But I do think that,

521
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Speaker 1: like you have a kid, you start getting older, your

522
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Speaker 1: prospective in life changes. It's just sometimes you need new motivation.

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Speaker 1: Like I sometimes I wish something crazy would happen in

524
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Speaker 1: my life to create a little motivation. Professionally every once

525
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Speaker 1: a while kind of Joe Chin into gear and whether

526
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Speaker 1: it was the live thing that's motivated him, whether it

527
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: was just kind of relaxing a little bit. He's talked

528
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Speaker 1: about that he looks like a fucking badass right now.

529
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's clearly to me the best player in

530
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Speaker 1: the world. Um, I just I honestly don't think it's

531
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Speaker 1: that close. I don't know Scheffler has had a better season.

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Speaker 1: But if you told me for fifty million dollars, Rory

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Speaker 1: Verse Scottie Scheffler one on one all week like I

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Speaker 1: had been on Rory, especially if there were some like

535
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Speaker 1: he could talk about live when it was all said

536
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Speaker 1: and done, Uh love the pod. So this was the

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Speaker 1: beginning segment for the PGA Tour Live broadcast. Where the

538
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Speaker 1: announcers start the day. I doubt they want to advertise

539
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Speaker 1: the live in any way, But here we are just

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Speaker 1: screenshot this from my phone while I played two kp

541
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Speaker 1: g A and got in the mood for tomorrow's ten

542
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Speaker 1: thirty tea time. I agree that. I mean the PGA

543
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Speaker 1: tour people are talking about live NonStop. And this gets

544
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Speaker 1: back to Norman like he's made a lot of in

545
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Speaker 1: roads and it's not dying at all. Everywhere I go,

546
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Speaker 1: even casual golf people they know about it. They're talking

547
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: about it because it intersects everything. A ton of money politics,

548
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: just Greg Norman, these guys leaving. UM. I I'm fascinated

549
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: by the story. I mean, I think it's the most

550
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: interesting story to have in sports in a long time.

551
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Speaker 1: Does LIV want to take everybody or just the top guys?

552
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: Why aren't more middle of the pack players jumping at

553
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: the chance to make guaranteed cash. If you're a guy

554
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: ranked fifty to a hundred and probably will never win

555
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Speaker 1: a major, I don't see any reason to not take

556
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Speaker 1: the money. I jumped ship in a heartbeat. It makes

557
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: no sense now if LIV doesn't want to pay for

558
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,360
Speaker 1: lower middle class tier players, there I guess those players

559
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: have no choice but to stay with the PGA. But

560
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: if liv wants them and they're refusing, yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're willing to pay a lot of

562
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Speaker 1: money for the older accomplished guys the Westwoods, the Poulter's, Sergio,

563
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: that group, and obviously Phil let It and then a

564
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Speaker 1: lot of the famous younger players. And when I say younger,

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Speaker 1: like under forty, So I don't necessarily like, let's just

566
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Speaker 1: pick a random guy Kevin Kissner like Pat Perez, Now

567
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: he would fall in the older group too, he's in

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Speaker 1: his mid forties. But let's you is Kisner? If if

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Speaker 1: they offered Kisner ten million dollars, is it worth it

570
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Speaker 1: for kidsn er to go for ten million dollars? And

571
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Speaker 1: is he worth it to live for liketty million dollars?

572
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: Probably not. So I would imagine a lot of these

573
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Speaker 1: guys are getting numbers where it would be a large

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Speaker 1: sum of money, but is it really worth it, Like

575
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Speaker 1: they could ultimately make ten million dollars by continue to

576
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: play on the PGA tour, they don't have to get

577
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: involved in this crazy political craziness. So I do think

578
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Speaker 1: that the fifty to a hundred guys, they're probably not

579
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Speaker 1: offering They're probably offering a number that it's easier for

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Speaker 1: those guys to at least ultimately say no. Now it

581
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Speaker 1: might be tough at first, but when they factor in

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Speaker 1: the next several years of earning power, they can say no.

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Speaker 1: That's why I think they're going after the younger amateur.

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Speaker 1: As a kid from Texas. I would imagine they're all

585
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Speaker 1: over this guy from Stanford and they're trying to offer

586
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: them money to get them to come. And I would

587
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: you start sealing the next guy to Scheffler, the next

588
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: the Gala, the next Davis Riley, you start destroying the

589
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: PGA tour internally like that would be a problem. Now

590
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: they've been lucky. These guys have said no. But we'll

591
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: see how long that persists. Because it does feel like,

592
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,719
Speaker 1: you know, you can only kind of fight off, like

593
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Speaker 1: if you're cornered by a wild animal who is just

594
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Speaker 1: not scared of anything. Uh, you're gonna have some problems.

595
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Speaker 1: I've listened three and Out for years and I've always

596
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Speaker 1: liked how realistic you are, and I think that's why

597
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Speaker 1: I like your show. In your opinion, do you think

598
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Speaker 1: Live will end up being the downfall of the p

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Speaker 1: G A And do you think the new American League

600
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Speaker 1: will model the live going forward. I it's hard to

601
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Speaker 1: kind of see the big picture here of like where

602
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna be at in three or four years, but

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Speaker 1: I would say that the PGA tour is uh my

604
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: description has been that there at sea right now, they

605
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: are lost at sea and they have Jaws circling them.

606
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: And you know in the movie Jaws, he was able

607
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Speaker 1: to kill it by putting them basically the bomb in

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Speaker 1: his mouth. I don't know if Jamon Han has that capability,

609
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Speaker 1: and I only think Rory Jordan and JT can only

610
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Speaker 1: do so much. So I yeah, I think that they

611
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Speaker 1: have a chance. I don't want to say destroy it,

612
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Speaker 1: but change it forever, and they already have. I mean,

613
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Speaker 1: they're creating some of this new stuff now where that

614
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: leads like I do think Justin Thomas said it best.

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Speaker 1: It sucks like ultimately, I don't want to have to

616
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: look over here, look over here. I like everything in

617
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: one spot. I like going to a steakhouse ordering a steak.

618
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Speaker 1: You go to a buffet in theory, it should be

619
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Speaker 1: good even if you go to sweet buffets, and like Vegas.

620
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: You start walking all over. The food actually isn't as good,

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Speaker 1: and you get a lot of stuff that you like.

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00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: You know, pizza, I got Chinese food, I got pasta,

623
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: I got a lot going on. It's much easier. Just

624
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: go to a Mexican restaurant and order a couple inch alataus.

625
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: You know exactly what you're getting and listen. The PGA

626
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: tour has his problems, but at least in a good event,

627
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: I go there Riviera, every sweet players playing now that

628
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: has been few and far between. Besides like riv and

629
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: the players like even Pebble Beach, most of those guys

630
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: now go to Saudis because the Sidi's have been paying them,

631
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: ultimately trying to get him to join this. So it's

632
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Speaker 1: just I think we're at a time of unknown and

633
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Speaker 1: dy and which makes it cool to talk about because

634
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: there are so many different angles, so many people are interested,

635
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: but it also is kind of scary because I don't

636
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Speaker 1: I don't want to have to watch like seven different events.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just I just like one event with everyone there. Now,

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Speaker 1: again that's selfish. I understand, like I've said, why these

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Speaker 1: guys are leaving, but because they got the bag. I

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Speaker 1: love that. That's such an NBA term, Like, No, they

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Speaker 1: don't fucking pay you in a bag of money. This

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Speaker 1: isn't the Italian mob in the nineteen seventies. They wired

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Speaker 1: transfer you money. And when they wire transfer your amount

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Speaker 1: of money that they're wiring you, you'll over half to

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Speaker 1: the government. That's the way it works in the real world.

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Speaker 1: This is not you know, Eddie to Bartlow handing the

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Speaker 1: bag of money to the Uh, the dude in Mississippi

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Speaker 1: trying to get a riverboat casino in n That's it

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen anymore yet. Wire transfers that the government knows about,

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Speaker 1: and then if they give you fifty, you give them

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Speaker 1: twenty seven. Sucks. Uh. I haven't had that problem yet,

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Speaker 1: but it's the way it works. I hope everyone is

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Speaker 1: having a good day. UM share the podcast. I I

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Speaker 1: should have a football podcast out this week if something

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Speaker 1: happens with DeShawn Watson. If not, I'll talk to everyone

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Speaker 1: soon and hopefully people are enjoying the summer and your family,

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Speaker 1: your kids, your lives. Peace. The volume