Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to the first major of the year.
Speaker 1: Just starting off today, LZ with the homage to a
Speaker 1: friend of mine, Jim Nance, as he starts every Master's
Speaker 1: telecast with Hello, friends, it's Master's Week. We won't be
Speaker 1: talking golf, but.
Speaker 2: Just know, you know what, let's talk about it a
Speaker 2: little bit, a little bit because it's the reality of
Speaker 2: our lives, your life. You've been talking about it for
Speaker 2: a week ahead of it, and I have to be honest,
Speaker 2: I don't know how I missed this the first five
Speaker 2: years we've been together.
Speaker 3: I thought it was just the weekend. It's Master's Week.
Speaker 1: It's Master's Week.
Speaker 2: There's like events with the golfers, families and friends, and
Speaker 2: so you've been keeping your ear to the ground.
Speaker 3: Now I got it. You know what the iet to
Speaker 3: give your credit on something.
Speaker 2: You had an invitation to go to the Master's right,
Speaker 2: and you didn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why is that? Baby?
Speaker 1: I have been blessed with the ability to have gone before.
Speaker 1: So I've been there. I've been to a game.
Speaker 2: Let me give you a little credit for a second, though.
Speaker 2: When Chris says he's been blessed with the ability. He
Speaker 2: is a humble person, and he is my husband, and
Speaker 2: I know him, so I can tout him a little bit.
Speaker 2: Chris gets invited to things and goes to things because
Speaker 2: he shows up for other people. The reason you have
Speaker 2: an invite to the Masters is because you're a great
Speaker 2: friend who's been a great friend of people for years,
Speaker 2: and so they want you to be at things. They
Speaker 2: extend invites back to you because you bring them to
Speaker 2: cool things and you're just a good friend who everybody loves.
Speaker 2: So that's why you had an invite, babe. But why
Speaker 2: did you turn it down?
Speaker 1: Let's start here. This is my Chris Harrison Man's plain.
Speaker 1: This is the greatest week of the year. This is
Speaker 1: why your husbands are about to disappear.
Speaker 2: He's wearing his Augusta National Golf Club T shirt right.
Speaker 1: Now, my T shirt. I have my blanket out. Sweet
Speaker 1: enough to put my blanket out that I got at Augusta,
Speaker 1: my Augusta National Tea Cup. I'll be drinking tea out
Speaker 1: of it all week as I get up and watch.
Speaker 1: So it starts obviously really Tuesday, you have the Champions dinner.
Speaker 1: All the champions get back together so on social media
Speaker 1: now it's funny back in the day. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: you would never see anything. This is how much things
Speaker 1: have changed. And Augusta was such a private, exclusive place.
Speaker 1: The only thing you ever saw was, as they say,
Speaker 1: the second nine, they don't say the back nine. The
Speaker 1: second nine. At Augusta, that's all you ever saw. On Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: you would only see holes number ten through eighteen.
Speaker 2: So it did use to truly be a weekend and
Speaker 2: that people only saw the weekend.
Speaker 1: But now we see because ESPN and Golf Channel and
Speaker 1: ESPN Plus and all these things. You see practice rounds,
Speaker 1: they were live at the Masters. ESPN is their golf channel,
Speaker 1: so you are non stop inundated with coverage from the Master.
Speaker 1: We see him on the driving range. You're seeing parts
Speaker 1: of the course that you never see, including the first nine.
Speaker 1: We never saw guys tea off before. So I went
Speaker 1: and played Augusta and that was the first time I
Speaker 1: saw the front nine. Because my whole childhood, all you
Speaker 1: saw was for three or four hours of coverage, that's it.
Speaker 1: So it's amazing how much it's changed.
Speaker 2: How much it's grown. Now it's a week of coverage
Speaker 2: across channel.
Speaker 1: There's a par three tournament that was yesterday. It's kind
Speaker 1: of this traditional thing they have a par three course.
Speaker 2: It is one thing I love about it. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: love the tradition of it. Like our friend Sergio Garcia
Speaker 2: is there with his wonderful wife Angela and their kids,
Speaker 2: and like to see the kids and the wives and
Speaker 2: the families all support and play together.
Speaker 3: Our friend John is caddying for Sergio. Shout out to them.
Speaker 3: So it's just really fun to like see that part
Speaker 3: of it. For sure. I like the emotional side of sports. Shocker.
Speaker 2: But when you say it's the greatest week of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I know you're not the only one who says this,
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to help out everybody at home so
Speaker 2: that we can all understand each other better. Why is
Speaker 2: this one because there's four majors?
Speaker 3: Did I get that right?
Speaker 1: You're wow, well done.
Speaker 3: We are married majors.
Speaker 1: So and when I say it's the greatest week, so
Speaker 1: what we have had Opening day of baseball, the end
Speaker 1: of March madness, which is you really astutely pointed out
Speaker 1: it's April madness. We don't really do much in March anymore,
Speaker 1: but we still call it March Madness because of the alliteration.
Speaker 1: So we had March Madness on Monday, you have leading
Speaker 1: into the week of the Masters. It's just it's a
Speaker 1: great time in sports.
Speaker 2: Oh so it's more than golf. It's baseball and basketball too,
Speaker 2: So that's why. Okay, so for me, this is like
Speaker 2: when my like three favorite Housewives franchises are all airing
Speaker 2: at once on Brova.
Speaker 1: And that kind of leads into god un for the
Speaker 1: Roses season. Okay, we have big with Kentucky Derby coming up.
Speaker 1: It's just it's an awesome time. But the Masters is
Speaker 1: really spring has sprung. It's just it's a great time
Speaker 1: that this kind of kicks off the year. And it's
Speaker 1: the most prestigious of all of the majors.
Speaker 3: For sure, it's the biggest one, even of the major.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the US Open, it's it's more competitive, but to
Speaker 1: win the Masters and to win that green jacket, and
Speaker 1: this goes back to Eisenhower and Bobby Jones, and it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of just as you said, the history how
Speaker 1: exclusive it is.
Speaker 2: And I also feel like you, I mean, I know
Speaker 2: because I see all of our friends and neighbors, their
Speaker 2: husbands are are getting into it. You got we have
Speaker 2: a watch party for the finale. What is it?
Speaker 3: What's the ending? It's not the finale, the final round,
Speaker 3: the final round, the finale.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's the most dramatic golf round ever.
Speaker 3: So we have a watch party.
Speaker 2: We're going to on Sunday. Our friend William Beckman is performing.
Speaker 2: He performed at our wedding.
Speaker 1: Django is going to be performing as well.
Speaker 3: Jango Walker, he's awesome.
Speaker 1: Hey, Jeff Walker's son. So here's the thing. If you
Speaker 1: go into my phone right now, you could choose any
Speaker 1: of my group texts. I would say one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty percent of them are just masters texts.
Speaker 3: Well the math on that ain't math.
Speaker 1: And gambling, just gambling with each other picking over unders.
Speaker 1: Who's going to go with gambling? You bet okay? Our
Speaker 1: friend Jeff put out. We just throw out bets. So
Speaker 1: this morning, Jeff goes, okay, I'm setting the over under
Speaker 1: on Tiger Woods score today at seventy five point five
Speaker 1: or over.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I was wondering how much money are you
Speaker 3: betting on?
Speaker 1: Twenties of dollars?
Speaker 2: That is one thing I love about in twenties, like
Speaker 2: you bet on golf, but you're like, we bet twenty bucks.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hurt anybody group. We just want to
Speaker 1: be able to say I've got I got that venmo
Speaker 1: from you.
Speaker 3: So oh wow, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 2: Now you can gamble with your friends so easily from
Speaker 2: across the country, just venmo.
Speaker 1: You just have to be very sly about what you're
Speaker 1: doing because if they know you're gambling, they take oh
Speaker 1: they take a percentage.
Speaker 2: Never mind, we're not. You're not doing that. That's why
Speaker 2: paigeysh owe them money.
Speaker 1: Okay, they can kiss my you know what.
Speaker 2: But so give the people at home, Yes, a couple
Speaker 2: phrases maybe we can say, or things we can say
Speaker 2: so that we can almost fool our partners if we're
Speaker 2: the non sports person and make them turn and go, wait,
Speaker 2: what'd you say?
Speaker 1: How do you know that I'm going to give you
Speaker 1: one sentence? You know how? I think it's great that
Speaker 1: the patrons can't have cell phones on the grounds and
Speaker 1: they just have to really experience it. No, you know,
Speaker 1: when you see when you see Tiger Woods driving, no
Speaker 1: one's holding up cell phones behind them. Just and make
Speaker 1: sure you say, patrons, not fans, not the crowd. We
Speaker 1: call them patrons at Augusta. So say, you know what's
Speaker 1: really cool, Babe, I love that the patrons can't have
Speaker 1: cell phones, which is very very strict policy. Number one.
Speaker 1: Number one, you cannot run. You have to walk everywhere.
Speaker 1: There's no running to a hole. There's no scurrying.
Speaker 3: It's it's no scurrying.
Speaker 1: You walk. And what about a power walk you cannot
Speaker 1: you can you can power walk. There's a great video came,
Speaker 1: but you cannot have a phone. And so it's it
Speaker 1: actually is so wild that And when I was there,
Speaker 1: you leave your phone in the car and everybody is
Speaker 1: just interacting and experiencing.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: It's really wild. It takes you back to the nineties.
Speaker 2: Can we share the funny story of me almost going
Speaker 2: to the Masters without you?
Speaker 3: Yes, So let's just tell the story. We give Hunter.
Speaker 1: We'll give Hunter and Kelly a shout out.
Speaker 2: Kelly Travis Ham, a former Bachelor contestant who you've stayed
Speaker 2: good friends with her husband Hunter. They were at our
Speaker 2: wedding in Austin which season was Kelly on.
Speaker 1: She was with uh one, Pablo Andman and that whole.
Speaker 3: Crew okay, and so you've stayed friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've stayed friends. And Hunter invited us very
Speaker 1: kindly to the Masters. I said I couldn't go, and
Speaker 1: he said, well, if Lauren would still like to come,
Speaker 1: she can come hang out with Kelly, so sweet way.
Speaker 3: I love Kelly.
Speaker 2: Yes, but for me to go to a golf tournament,
Speaker 2: And this is where I bring it up because you
Speaker 2: then told.
Speaker 3: Me, babe, you know, you wouldn't even be able to
Speaker 3: have your phone out there, like Kelly, I love you, babe,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: There's not a The only redeemable thing about a golf
Speaker 2: tournament for me is that I get to film it
Speaker 2: and like have fun with it on Instagram. And if
Speaker 2: I couldn't even do that, I'm just watching it.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And when I say no phones, I don't mean it's
Speaker 1: it's discouraged or they'll tell you to put it away.
Speaker 1: If you have a phone, they will take your phone.
Speaker 1: They will take your ticket and escort you off the
Speaker 1: Premier and you will never go back.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: They do not f around.
Speaker 2: Okay, because you've played at Augusta several times, which I
Speaker 2: think is on a lot of people's bucket list.
Speaker 1: It is a number one bucket list.
Speaker 2: Any can you give people a little insight what is
Speaker 2: it like to play at Augusta because the tradition, like
Speaker 2: the no cell phones thing, what are some of the
Speaker 2: other like traditions and rules that they have, and what
Speaker 2: are like the accommodations like it Augusta.
Speaker 1: The accommodations aren't they're every We always say in golf,
Speaker 1: it's everything you need, nothing you don't. It's not overly fancy,
Speaker 1: it's not ostentatious.
Speaker 3: Twin bed it real.
Speaker 1: There was a I was in a twin bed one
Speaker 1: time that I sent you a picture of. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know it's it's Eisenhower's cabin and you see, you know,
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was there, and you see a picture of
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan sitting on the couch that you're sitting on.
Speaker 1: So the history of it all, and there's these you know,
Speaker 1: there's a bird's nest where above the pro shop where
Speaker 1: President Eisenhower had his secretary and his office so he
Speaker 1: could play and do work there. And there is a
Speaker 1: letter from Eisenhower asking permission to set up an office there.
Speaker 3: So wow, So this is checking all your boxes. History, yeah,
Speaker 3: history and golf okay.
Speaker 1: And so it it really is amazing, and the food
Speaker 1: is incredible. The wine it has one of the best
Speaker 1: wine sellers in the world.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, no wonder you love this place.
Speaker 1: Which the Smalia will take you down and you can
Speaker 1: visit the wine cellar and it's fun to kind of
Speaker 1: cruise around. As far as the golf goes, it's second
Speaker 1: to none. It's one of the it's the most manicured,
Speaker 1: spectacular golf course as you'll ever see. As they say,
Speaker 1: it's one of the best pieces of grass because once
Speaker 1: you walk out the backside of the locker room, it
Speaker 1: just looks like one big piece of grass that is
Speaker 1: just pure.
Speaker 2: Let me have a little fun right now, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: test your knowledge. What kind of grass is it?
Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm shocked. I all the different types of grass.
Speaker 1: You actually should know that. That's really a that's really
Speaker 1: a miss by me, but it is. It is. They
Speaker 1: are unbelievably kind because you have to be there with
Speaker 1: a member, and once you are welcome by a member,
Speaker 1: you are essentially treated like a member to a certain degree,
Speaker 1: and they're very respectful. They know you're there at a
Speaker 1: probably a once in a lifetime opportunity, and so it
Speaker 1: really is. It's they treat it as a very special thing.
Speaker 1: They don't treat you like you don't belong here. It's
Speaker 1: Southern hospitality.
Speaker 3: Not like, oh, are you a member or not?
Speaker 1: All they know who the members are and they know
Speaker 1: who isn't so and you mind your p's and q's.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a suit and tie at dinner. You
Speaker 1: are very respectful of the rules. There are no phones.
Speaker 1: You cannot even when you're playing there, you're not pulling
Speaker 1: your phone. Wow, I talk to you, which I have?
Speaker 1: You go back to the cabins so.
Speaker 2: You're not allowed to take a picture. I got a
Speaker 2: hole in one and Augusta.
Speaker 1: They will allow you to bring a digital camera or
Speaker 1: an old school camera and you.
Speaker 2: Can take Oh that kind of works because by the
Speaker 2: way those are back. I noticed that with the kids
Speaker 2: on spring break. We're coming back around. Everybody's got a
Speaker 2: digital camera.
Speaker 1: Now everybody is doing the cameras again.
Speaker 3: People at home. You know how much I love Here's
Speaker 3: what I'll do.
Speaker 2: If Chris is playing in a golf tournament or something,
Speaker 2: I'll turn to one person and be like, hey, can
Speaker 2: you tell me something smart to say? And they'll give
Speaker 2: me like something I have no idea what it means, like, oh, say,
Speaker 2: the greens are really rolling fast right now, and then
Speaker 2: I turn to someone else and say that, and they
Speaker 2: think I know what I'm talking about. So I want
Speaker 2: a few more of those things. And maybe by bringing
Speaker 2: this up, it'll spur something that like people at home
Speaker 2: can say and sound informed. Like your friend Jason Day
Speaker 2: is playing. We love Jason and Ell either the kindest people.
Speaker 1: Tiger He's playing with Tiger Woods for the first two rounds,
Speaker 1: which is very Oh.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Your two friends are out there playing together and competing
Speaker 2: with each other.
Speaker 1: How fun is that?
Speaker 3: And then also your pal Wyndham Clark.
Speaker 1: Dubs in there. This is his first Masters.
Speaker 3: That's very exciting.
Speaker 2: So do you reveal a little something about what you
Speaker 2: try to do with Wyndham Clark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it didn't work at Pebble Beach at the
Speaker 1: at and T I would always play with Wyndham Clark
Speaker 1: and he is he won the US Open last year
Speaker 1: Major Champion winner Taysha our good friend Taysia Adams, former
Speaker 1: bachelorette or Bachelorette. I tried to hook her in Wyndham
Speaker 1: Clark up, And in fact I did what I did
Speaker 1: was I had a big table at dinner at at
Speaker 1: Spanish at the end, and I invited Taysia and I
Speaker 1: invited Wyndham.
Speaker 3: Clark in my mind, great couple.
Speaker 1: And I sat them across from each other.
Speaker 3: No, you took this as far as they had dinner together.
Speaker 1: Oh one hundred percent. And I made sure there was
Speaker 1: like twelve of us at dinner, and I made sure
Speaker 1: that they were sitting across from each other.
Speaker 3: Where was I I can't believe I missage.
Speaker 2: No you didn't.
Speaker 1: You weren't you weren't there that day you came. I
Speaker 1: think I was one of those times you came the
Speaker 1: next day. And so I had Wyndham and I let
Speaker 1: them both know that they were both single, and I
Speaker 1: think they went out on a date or two. They
Speaker 1: actually dated for a bit and Wyndham was kind of
Speaker 1: in a different place and just didn't work out. They
Speaker 1: both they're still friendly. I believe they. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they still talk, but they did date. They went
Speaker 1: on a couple of dates anyway, all right, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was I told Taysha, I said, hey, I got
Speaker 1: a guy for you professional golfer looking young. He is
Speaker 1: on the verge of blowing up and it's funny. So
Speaker 1: he won the US Open, another one of the biggest
Speaker 1: tournaments in the world, this last year, and I actually textedation,
Speaker 1: I go, you blew it?
Speaker 3: What'd she say?
Speaker 1: She just laughed, she laughed.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we got Jason Tiger Wyndham.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I mean, as I was kind of setting up our
Speaker 2: living room for you, I saw Jack Nicholas's there winging
Speaker 2: on everything.
Speaker 3: Of the legends.
Speaker 2: These these are the moments I actually do love sports
Speaker 2: because it's sort of beautiful, like people coming together in like,
Speaker 2: you know, we all crave community now, you know, And.
Speaker 3: This is one of those moments.
Speaker 2: I saw somebody say the other day, why was Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift's Eras tour so big? Like, yes, it's Taylor Swift,
Speaker 2: yes we love her, but it was like next level,
Speaker 2: the biggest tour in history. And one person suggested, and
Speaker 2: I think there's some truth to it because we're all
Speaker 2: living such isolated, lonely not lives now we crave communal,
Speaker 2: shared experiences. So that's something beautiful this weekend. With that
Speaker 2: in mind, with the knowledge you have of golf, what
Speaker 2: are a few things people can say to sound like
Speaker 2: they know what's up with the masters and be part
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Babe. You know what's cool about Augusta Those subair units
Speaker 1: that they put under the greens and under the fairways.
Speaker 1: Did you know that it can heat or cool the
Speaker 1: grass and suck water out?
Speaker 3: Oh wow?
Speaker 1: So if it rains at Augusta, they have a very
Speaker 1: particular special thing that And you can hear the fans
Speaker 1: as you're walking on the grounds because obviously the air
Speaker 1: has to go somewhere. They have these like units that
Speaker 1: blow the air out, but they can suck moisture out
Speaker 1: of the grass, so even if it's raining, it's playable, okay.
Speaker 1: And so they can firm up the greens, they can,
Speaker 1: and if it's freezes, they can heat them up and
Speaker 1: keep them. Wow.
Speaker 3: Insider knowledge, okay.
Speaker 2: And what about like the odds, like who's gonna win
Speaker 2: this weekend?
Speaker 3: This is a tough question.
Speaker 1: Scotti Scheffler, University of Texas, Austin, Boy. He is the heavy,
Speaker 1: heavy favorite. If you want to go in and really
Speaker 1: blow your significant other way saying you know what I know.
Speaker 1: Scotti Scheffler is the heavy favorite. But his putting has
Speaker 1: been suspect, and you gotta be a good putter to
Speaker 1: win it Augusta, not the.
Speaker 3: Putting being suss.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh, I've heard you say that. Augusta's a lot
Speaker 2: about the puzzy.
Speaker 1: If anything is going to expose you at Augusta, it's
Speaker 1: the greens and they are lightning quick and they are
Speaker 1: so subtle. It is so hard to pussure. And if
Speaker 1: Scotti Shchuffer has one hole in his game, it's putting,
Speaker 1: so that'll really golf wise, that'll really blow your your person.
Speaker 3: Away one hole in his game, am I right now?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Well, I always love when we get to talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about something.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for giving me that.
Speaker 3: You're so welcome. I know this is a big week
Speaker 3: for you.
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