Speaker 1: Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Shane Bacon, and don't normally do this,
Speaker 1: we don't invite the guests right in, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: this whole episode is about myself and the guest, so
Speaker 1: I figured why not introduced him right away and we'll
Speaker 1: get going. Damon a Hack of the Golf Channel joining
Speaker 1: me Shane Bacon of the Golf Channel. Is that is
Speaker 1: that what we say here? Damon? I think the rumors
Speaker 1: are true, but we're gonna be working together. It sounds
Speaker 1: like a pretty darn suon. Yeah, announcement today, really exciting stuff.
Speaker 1: Um really happy to be joining the NBC team in
Speaker 1: the Golf Channel crew. I feel honored, I feel humbled,
Speaker 1: all of those emotions that come when somebody reaches out
Speaker 1: to you with interest. Is uh, is a part of
Speaker 1: what's gone on the last few weeks, in the last
Speaker 1: couple of months. But Damon, as I was talking to
Speaker 1: the people that are our bosses and the people that
Speaker 1: are the movers and shakers in and around NBC Sports
Speaker 1: and Golf Channel, I was waiting around to see who
Speaker 1: I would be working closely with, and I find out
Speaker 1: about a week and half two weeks ago it's you,
Speaker 1: which is like, you know, it's like opening the perfect
Speaker 1: holiday gift and then walking outside wearing the jacket and
Speaker 1: realizing that they also bought you a car. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like this this I shouldn't be this lucky. This
Speaker 1: is awesome. Well, I'll tell you what the feeling is. Mutual. Um.
Speaker 1: I was kind of left in the dark, not really
Speaker 1: knowing what was gonna be happening with me in this
Speaker 1: move in one who I'd be sitting next to, and
Speaker 1: when I found out that it was gonna be Shane Bacon, Uh,
Speaker 1: someone who I've respected from Afar, who I spent a
Speaker 1: magical week with at at bandoned Dudes. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll get into that as the days, weeks and months
Speaker 1: and maybe this podcast we're on. But Buddy, yours as
Speaker 1: versatile and talented as anyone in the business. You love
Speaker 1: this game much to anyone in the business, and that
Speaker 1: means a lot just on its own. So to be
Speaker 1: able to work with you and talk about this great
Speaker 1: game was We're gonna do five days a week on
Speaker 1: Golf Channel. I could not ask for anything better. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the new show, just so people know, it's called Golf Today.
Speaker 1: Obviously playing off NBC's Today Show success and the great
Speaker 1: job they do over there, Golf Today is gonna be
Speaker 1: a daily show. You and I are gonna be rocking
Speaker 1: and the roll and I believe Wednesday through Sunday, Is
Speaker 1: that right, Damon, That's exactly right. Wednesday through Sunday will
Speaker 1: kind of set up that week's tournament and then really
Speaker 1: every day set up every round and kind of get
Speaker 1: inside the game and the stories. And we've kind of
Speaker 1: talked about you know what, we what we hope the
Speaker 1: show will be. I think it's gonna be unpredictable and
Speaker 1: not really a formulaic type of show. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: go where the where the tea leaves take us, and
Speaker 1: where the stories take us, you know, inside what these
Speaker 1: players are working on the best players in the world,
Speaker 1: but also just the game as a whole. As you know,
Speaker 1: we're lovers of this game. We play this game at
Speaker 1: two completely different levels. By the way, one of us
Speaker 1: is actually a very good player. I'll let your listeners
Speaker 1: decide us think whom on us is really really good?
Speaker 1: Who happens to just be passionate, loves it, but but
Speaker 1: can barely get the ball around the golf course. But
Speaker 1: I think all of those things combine our love of
Speaker 1: covering the game, of talking about the game, of playing
Speaker 1: the game, of interviewing the best players in the world,
Speaker 1: and the coaches and the movers and shaskers and stakeholders
Speaker 1: in this game, it's gonna be what I envisioned, a
Speaker 1: one stop shopping for the golf for the golf fan.
Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna be an absolute blast really
Speaker 1: seeing this show evolve into whatever eventually becomes. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you that I was gonna get
Speaker 1: into it in a bit, but I figure, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll do it right now. Since you mentioned, I mean,
Speaker 1: you joined the Golf Channel back in two thousand twelve,
Speaker 1: and you know you have worked in a lot of
Speaker 1: positions at the Golf Channel. How excited are you for
Speaker 1: this opportunity to create eight a show? I mean, you
Speaker 1: you were You've been a part of so many shows,
Speaker 1: and I know you've been so influential and how those
Speaker 1: shows go, but this really your your first chance to
Speaker 1: kind of create from the ground up a new show.
Speaker 1: With our producers and with all of our talented team
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. But how excited it is that for you.
Speaker 1: It's a huge honor. I don't take it lightly. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a huge responsibility, uh, to really start something
Speaker 1: fresh part of Morning Drive now. Since so thankful that
Speaker 1: that Molly Solomon, the executive producer, brought me down. I
Speaker 1: was living in New York and working for Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: and to have the chance to to make the move
Speaker 1: to television and for her to trust me in my
Speaker 1: background as a sports writer covering golf in the National
Speaker 1: Football League for s I and the New York Times
Speaker 1: and for news Day and with the Sacramento b and
Speaker 1: taking this you know, ink stained wretch as it were,
Speaker 1: this old newspaper guy and magazine guy and let them
Speaker 1: talk and run his up on television has been quite
Speaker 1: a joy and connected with viewers and being excited and
Speaker 1: passionate about the game. And I want to take it
Speaker 1: to the next level. I want to continue to build
Speaker 1: relationships with our viewers and be transparent and and be
Speaker 1: you know, authentic, and I know that you're you're built
Speaker 1: the same way, and um, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a collaborative effort between us and our producers obviously, but
Speaker 1: I think it's also a great chance to to build
Speaker 1: on the chemistry I think we already have. I think
Speaker 1: both of us a kind of quietly excited about, you know,
Speaker 1: what this show could become and what a great honor
Speaker 1: for both of us at Golf Channel is kind of
Speaker 1: giving us the ball and say, hey, you know, you guys,
Speaker 1: go with it and let's see where it goes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had my we had our first meeting, official meeting,
Speaker 1: I guess on Monday, as you guys are listening to
Speaker 1: this on Tuesday or beyond, had our first official meeting
Speaker 1: on Monday, and damon my wife and I and my
Speaker 1: wife credit to her is an unbelievable rock star when
Speaker 1: it comes to managing, you know, paperwork. And I would say,
Speaker 1: all the tasks that I hate doing when it comes
Speaker 1: to something huge like a move, my wife just does
Speaker 1: them all. And I'm the guy that's like she, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of dragging his feet, and she's given me the side.
Speaker 1: I like, hey, you need to you probably need to
Speaker 1: box some stuff up today. But I'm watching during this meeting,
Speaker 1: you know, the Women's open is wrapping up on a Monday,
Speaker 1: and I have the iPad onto the side, as I
Speaker 1: think everybody in the meeting had, because obviously we have
Speaker 1: to keep one eye on on what's happening in the
Speaker 1: golf world. And I couldn't help but feel like the
Speaker 1: Women's Open was mirroring my life. They showed a replay
Speaker 1: of Thursday. All the players are in shorts, and it's
Speaker 1: this beautiful day in Houston. And come Sunday, Uh it
Speaker 1: is it is this really, really nasty ear muff park
Speaker 1: a jacket weather day. And and I brought up my
Speaker 1: wife to say one thing We've both echoed throughout this
Speaker 1: whole experiences. I am, you know, on cloud nine in
Speaker 1: terms of the excitement level of the job part. But
Speaker 1: we also have to move our lives from Arizona to Connecticut.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help but look at this and go, it's
Speaker 1: a little about what I'm gonna have to deal with.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go from short weather I'm wearing shorts right now, damon,
Speaker 1: to the northeast. It's a little bit chillier there. You're
Speaker 1: there right now? What are we? What are we? What
Speaker 1: are we in uh expecting? As we encounter Connecticut in January. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can tell you what you're expecting and what I'm
Speaker 1: living with and dealing with right now is snow today.
Speaker 1: Today was my first snow day in Westport, Connecticut was today,
Speaker 1: and it was upon me what degrees the real field
Speaker 1: temperature they called real field temperature? You know what's a
Speaker 1: real field temperature. I'm learning about that as well. I mean, buddy,
Speaker 1: not a lot of golf courses are opening are shut down.
Speaker 1: I mean they're the really good clubs in places they
Speaker 1: might have like an indoor facility where you can kind
Speaker 1: of get a little toasty and hit some shots out
Speaker 1: of like a three sided trailer or something. But buddy,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be very hard to work on your
Speaker 1: game year round. You have to really improvise and trying
Speaker 1: to figure things out. And that's okay. I mean, we
Speaker 1: are going to be busy. That that's the key is
Speaker 1: We're gonna be so busy January, February March and beyond that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that we'll be missing really time on
Speaker 1: the links. I think once uh, once we get away
Speaker 1: from work, it's gonna be families and kiddos and as
Speaker 1: focusing on that. But we have a positive only rule
Speaker 1: in our household right now. So again with moving and
Speaker 1: packing and you know, wrapping glasses and I one of
Speaker 1: my jobs today was to wrap all our pictures and
Speaker 1: that sticky you know safety whatever the hell of the
Speaker 1: plastic is that they give us, but that was one
Speaker 1: of my jobs today. And yeah, I'm still sitting there.
Speaker 1: I'm whistling, I'm enjoying, and I'm listening to a podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay positive as I'm getting set to
Speaker 1: where a few more jackets than we tend to do
Speaker 1: here in Arizona. But I wanted to go through with you, um,
Speaker 1: if you will, a few questions that people might have.
Speaker 1: I jotted down some questions that people might have for
Speaker 1: us about our new show Golf today. Uh. Number one
Speaker 1: question that I could see people asking, and so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna present this to you is Damon and Shane. You know,
Speaker 1: we we know you guys love golf, but there's not
Speaker 1: an analyst on the show. How are you guys going
Speaker 1: to dive deep into the golf? So I wanted to
Speaker 1: present that to you first, Aim. I think it's a
Speaker 1: great question. I think we'll have analysts on from time
Speaker 1: to time, but not necessarily a regular analyst. I think
Speaker 1: we use our powers of observation, our powers of reporting.
Speaker 1: Both of us have you know, a pretty good role
Speaker 1: of deex of people that we know inside the game,
Speaker 1: from players and coaches. I'm not above texting a player,
Speaker 1: texting a coach calling a coach calling a player. From
Speaker 1: time to time, it'll be great to get some insight
Speaker 1: from inside the ropes on a Wednesday or Thursday and
Speaker 1: interview some players and get some players press conferences and
Speaker 1: pull some quotes from from the internet, from social media,
Speaker 1: from press conferences that we're able to break down and
Speaker 1: talk about. I mean, we've both been covering this game
Speaker 1: and loving this game for a long time, and I
Speaker 1: think if there are things that we need to to
Speaker 1: pull some different opinion, if we need a you know,
Speaker 1: Aim and Lynch from Golf Weak to talk about a
Speaker 1: story he wrote, or Brandon Shamblita to break down a
Speaker 1: specific aspect of the footwork or the shafflene of a player.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it will be about bringing somebody on and
Speaker 1: having them leaving their expertise. But I think both of us,
Speaker 1: with our knowledge of the game, love of the game, uh,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna be afraid to to take some pretty
Speaker 1: big swings ourselves into the matters that are surrounding our
Speaker 1: great game. Yeah, I I think it's it's knowing the
Speaker 1: sport and it's explaining the sport with the knowledge that
Speaker 1: is well beyond your abilities. I guess it's probably the
Speaker 1: key way of doing that. You know, I give a
Speaker 1: lot of credit to uh now, the No Dunk's Crew,
Speaker 1: but they're previously the starters and Basketball Jones even before
Speaker 1: that when I used to work with Jay Skee. Yeah
Speaker 1: who sports back in the day. But you know, I
Speaker 1: give a lot of credit to two groups of people
Speaker 1: like that who started a show about basketball. And those
Speaker 1: four guys on the set weren't professional basketball players and
Speaker 1: didn't play professional basketball, but they were knowledgeable enough to
Speaker 1: speak on the sport. They knew what to say and
Speaker 1: how to say it. They never overstepped, you know, really
Speaker 1: into that player world trying to talk of of maybe
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of behind the scenes because they
Speaker 1: didn't know that much about it. And I even think
Speaker 1: in our sport, I mean, the No Laying Up guys
Speaker 1: have done such a great job of establishing a group
Speaker 1: of people that talk about golf and No golf, and
Speaker 1: they have different personalities and you know, different experiences in
Speaker 1: the sport, but they're able to talk on it because
Speaker 1: they know enough about the players and the stats and
Speaker 1: the history of those players at events, at tournaments, and
Speaker 1: so really we've seen people do this before. I just
Speaker 1: feel like on TV, you know, it maybe isn't the
Speaker 1: normal thing to have to have a show without analyst.
Speaker 1: But I think you and I are also two guys
Speaker 1: that are okay with asking the questions. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't have to see it, and actually we know everything.
Speaker 1: I think that's a very important part of this is
Speaker 1: asking the wise to the people that know the answer
Speaker 1: to our questions. Absolutely. I think at the basic level
Speaker 1: for both of us were curious minds where reporters I
Speaker 1: love asking questions, probing questions, questions that elicit answers and
Speaker 1: responses where I can kind of stay out of the way,
Speaker 1: and where I can learn and be educated and the
Speaker 1: viewer can learn and be educated. And there's different different,
Speaker 1: you know, aspects and strengths that will bring to the
Speaker 1: to the show. I mean, I've been to South Korea,
Speaker 1: for example, I was thinking about al m Kim winning
Speaker 1: uh this US open that we saw on a Monday
Speaker 1: finish and I'm thinking, my god, I've been to South Korea.
Speaker 1: I might not be able to break down all the
Speaker 1: aspects of her swing, but I I do know what
Speaker 1: that country is like as a powerhouse golf nation that
Speaker 1: has minor league you know, we're talking about the l
Speaker 1: p g A over there. It's the k LPGA is televised,
Speaker 1: and then there's minor league golf below that's televised, and
Speaker 1: then the level below that is televised. And speaking of
Speaker 1: levels they have, you know, you talk about top golf
Speaker 1: and shot makers and all these you know, things that
Speaker 1: are sprouting up here that that's been the way of
Speaker 1: South Korean golf for decades and decades. They're dotted all
Speaker 1: over Soul in different parts of South Korea, and it's
Speaker 1: and it's no wonder that they're producing major championship winners
Speaker 1: at such a high clip. So we'll be able to
Speaker 1: figure out our way around this great game, as both
Speaker 1: of us have done from Afar, and now we'll do
Speaker 1: it side by side. We're gonna take a quick break
Speaker 1: and be right back. David, this is more of a
Speaker 1: question for you because you'll have obviously a better feel
Speaker 1: for that now and and and especially over the last
Speaker 1: few years of just working on it. But you know,
Speaker 1: with Morning Drive going away and and and golf today,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out in the start of two one,
Speaker 1: what do you feel like will be similar or similar
Speaker 1: to Morning Drive? What do you feel like will be
Speaker 1: different to Morning Drive? With what you and I are
Speaker 1: gonna do? I tell you it's been such a joy
Speaker 1: for me, who a TV newbie back in twelve to
Speaker 1: be able to work alongside you know, too many great
Speaker 1: people to to count on Morning Drive and and to
Speaker 1: be able to laugh and and have some fun. And
Speaker 1: that's probably my biggest joy was collaborating with with people
Speaker 1: on the show and having some great laughs with with
Speaker 1: the Charlie Rhymers and and Gary Williams of the world,
Speaker 1: and a more recent vantage of you know, Robert Dammer
Speaker 1: and and LT and Hannah Whiteley and Page. It's just
Speaker 1: been fun to to have a group that that you
Speaker 1: wake up with every day and you're you know, you've
Speaker 1: got the the your eyes are barely open when you're
Speaker 1: walking into the office and you're you're trying to figure out, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, what's this rundown? What it looks like and
Speaker 1: then you you build a family. And I think that
Speaker 1: chemistry is so important. And my favorite aspect of Morning
Speaker 1: Drive was the chemistry that we built, and I think
Speaker 1: that that's gonna be a big part of what makes
Speaker 1: our show successful, Shane, is that that we have the
Speaker 1: chemistry and the respect for one another, and the and
Speaker 1: the idea of rowing in the same direction and not
Speaker 1: being afraid to disagree if we do disagree, but also
Speaker 1: having a healthy respect for one another. So I think
Speaker 1: chemistry is hugely important and I imagine that will be
Speaker 1: a big part of what we do. We interviewed a
Speaker 1: lot of people on Morning Drive. Imagine we'll do that
Speaker 1: as well. What we'll have the the cameras on the
Speaker 1: ground as we did at times at Morning Drive. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping one thing that's differences we have more cameras on
Speaker 1: the ground for golf today, that we're able to sit
Speaker 1: on players a little bit more and talk about what
Speaker 1: they're working on, what are their joys and what are
Speaker 1: their fears, and what are their you know, ceilings and
Speaker 1: limitations in this game. And both of us have spent
Speaker 1: enough time around these players, is you know, interviewees and
Speaker 1: interviewers spending time with them after major championships or or
Speaker 1: tour events and talking to them about what they're working
Speaker 1: on and what they want to accomplish. So I'm just
Speaker 1: hoping that we can convey our love of the game
Speaker 1: and in talking to the viewers of golf channels, that
Speaker 1: they know that, uh, you know, my energy is really
Speaker 1: your energy is really I'm so excited to have the job.
Speaker 1: I have to be able to talk about the game
Speaker 1: that I love to collaborate with people on the air,
Speaker 1: and I hope that that good feeling of chemistry and
Speaker 1: collaboration continues, and I expect that it will. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it. It's interesting you bring up the chemistry part
Speaker 1: of of Morning Drive and how much fun you had
Speaker 1: working with that crew. You know, my first ever TV
Speaker 1: opportunity back in two thousand and fourteen, Um, I went
Speaker 1: into an office at one point with the Modra shot,
Speaker 1: who you know I watched, you know, as a kid,
Speaker 1: and and it was an awe of you know, everything
Speaker 1: he did in and around the n B A and
Speaker 1: uh and so I'm kind of in this in this
Speaker 1: room with a mod Rashot. You know, You're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, is this guy gonna say to me, and um,
Speaker 1: he told me. He said, you know, the most important
Speaker 1: thing about television, especially a studio show, is chemistry, because
Speaker 1: the show is only as good as the chemistry you
Speaker 1: have with with your coworker, with your co host. And
Speaker 1: I uh, I always took that and found that so interesting.
Speaker 1: I've I've had opportunities on both sides where it's worked great,
Speaker 1: and I've had times where maybe it wasn't the most
Speaker 1: amazing chemistry in the world. And every time that's been
Speaker 1: the case, I always go back to that modershot moment
Speaker 1: because it's so true what he told me. So that's
Speaker 1: that is something I'm again going back to the fact
Speaker 1: that I got the announcement, Hey, Damon and you were
Speaker 1: doing this. I was like, well, this this is I'm
Speaker 1: getting paid as as well, and this is like such
Speaker 1: a bonus. I mean, the chemistry part checked the list,
Speaker 1: which brings me to my next question, Damon. The next
Speaker 1: question viewers might have, didn't you guys peak in ten?
Speaker 1: Is the question, and it's it's a fair one to
Speaker 1: bring up. It's a fair one to bring up, I wondered,
Speaker 1: did Matt Jenella asked that question? Who get that texted
Speaker 1: in or something? And we took down at the Uncle
Speaker 1: Tony Invitational Abandoned Dudes, and that's where this relationship really started.
Speaker 1: I mean, both of us were kind of making our
Speaker 1: way in the business before then, but we were we were,
Speaker 1: you know, paired together, team together at Bandoned Dunes. And
Speaker 1: this is of course a well known in golf circles match,
Speaker 1: you know, as annual you know, hitting giggle, I guess
Speaker 1: you call it, but it gets pretty serious there on
Speaker 1: on the weekends as folks trying to bring home that title.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of revelry and laughs, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: they've had it at Pinehurst, they've most you know, notably
Speaker 1: had it more regularly had it at Bandoned Dunes. And
Speaker 1: we went out there and Shane, of course, who's you know,
Speaker 1: trying to qualify for for national championships and and competed
Speaker 1: at at Pack twelve Powerhouse out in Arizona. And here
Speaker 1: I am like new to the game for the most
Speaker 1: part as a player, stuck in the high teams of
Speaker 1: my handicap at we somehow well, I'll tell you from
Speaker 1: my perspective, if Shane Bacon is your partner, uh and
Speaker 1: I imagine this could be both in front of the
Speaker 1: camera or when you're when you're you know, playing golf together,
Speaker 1: it just frees you up to be your best. So
Speaker 1: I'm playing alongside the big left to you see the
Speaker 1: three hundred yards and somehow I'm able to put together
Speaker 1: two or three rounds. In the eighties, a couple of eagles,
Speaker 1: including on the third hole abandoned tray down, win three
Speaker 1: for one. This bumps all around, and we took Matchella
Speaker 1: out and that was really that was the haymaker. That
Speaker 1: was like the big punch. And and and Janella and
Speaker 1: his partner Tim, they never really recovered Shady and you
Speaker 1: were there. You saw the look of doubt in their
Speaker 1: eyes that they've been visited by by Nicholas and Palmer
Speaker 1: in the Wryter Club. We took them down. I will
Speaker 1: never forget the look on their face. So so Hack
Speaker 1: makes three for one on a part five. Okay, makes
Speaker 1: an eagle, gets a couple of pops, so he makes
Speaker 1: a net one, which for those counting of homes good
Speaker 1: on the card. That's a really good thing to do.
Speaker 1: So the next hole is a tricky kind of difficult
Speaker 1: part four. And then the next hole abandoned trails is
Speaker 1: one of their signature short part three's on the entire
Speaker 1: resort and you hit the flag, so you went three
Speaker 1: for one and then hit the flag two holes later,
Speaker 1: and they just they were looking at each other, they
Speaker 1: were looking at us, they were look in the caddies.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were looking at the deer that were
Speaker 1: passing over behind the greens. You know, everything they could
Speaker 1: stare at. They couldn't believe what was happening. And with
Speaker 1: all that going down, I remember Janelle had a putt
Speaker 1: on eight team to tie us, and I believe he
Speaker 1: lifted out from like he had a hell of a punt.
Speaker 1: But that was a lot of fun. And to answer
Speaker 1: the question, yes, we did Peek in two thousand fourteen,
Speaker 1: possibly as golf partners, not TV partners. Yeah, exactly. I
Speaker 1: think that was a good place for us to. You know,
Speaker 1: who would have known six years later and now he's seven,
Speaker 1: talked about one that we would be able to collaborate
Speaker 1: on a golf show together. But man, that was that
Speaker 1: was the real deal. My golf has not really improved that.
Speaker 1: That was probably my high watermark as a golfer. And
Speaker 1: I even probably about it to have that week of
Speaker 1: just joy and to have a partner who's playing so
Speaker 1: well that I was able to kind of just you know,
Speaker 1: out of my own head for for a couple of
Speaker 1: days and just kind of see the ball hit the
Speaker 1: ball hit a couple of fairways, make a few put
Speaker 1: I hope we get to do that again. I imagine
Speaker 1: were you being down in the Northeast and us doing
Speaker 1: a show together. We'll get out and play some gold
Speaker 1: when I start going out and like start taking some
Speaker 1: folks down. We'll go to clubs and we'll go to
Speaker 1: some muties to start to like like Trevino back in
Speaker 1: the day, we'll do. We'll go out there and start
Speaker 1: to get cleaning people's cloth. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1: I won't even carry any cash in my pocket. I
Speaker 1: just know it. You know that's I guess that's to
Speaker 1: continue at the Trevino legacy. We're gonna take a quick
Speaker 1: break and be right back. Ye damon, before I go,
Speaker 1: you're up there, you've already moved. How much research have
Speaker 1: you already done on where you may possibly uh layer
Speaker 1: sticks so we say and become a member how much
Speaker 1: because I've I just want to say, I may or
Speaker 1: may not have done a decent amount of research already
Speaker 1: and I'm still in Arizona. Well, buddy, you that's a
Speaker 1: great question that you asked, and I can tell you
Speaker 1: quite a bit. I've had phone calls, i have visited places.
Speaker 1: I've talked to membership directors, directors of golf head professionals
Speaker 1: both on the Connecticut side of the border and the
Speaker 1: New York stile and the New Jersey. I've been to
Speaker 1: New Jersey as well. So I'm not afraid to to
Speaker 1: to pick up a phone and go make a visit
Speaker 1: to golf club anywhere in the I say, within fifty miles.
Speaker 1: We'll say I've been to quite a few places. Uh,
Speaker 1: things are shutting down, but my eyes are wide open
Speaker 1: and I am I'm open to the to the I
Speaker 1: guess the highest bider whoever wants to be shading. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll be a package deal. Maybe will say, hey, you know, well,
Speaker 1: let let's take us both and maybe we'll make make
Speaker 1: something happen, maybe have some fun. Yeah, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how how our bosses are gonna like it when one
Speaker 1: day we both show up on set and we're both
Speaker 1: wearing the logoed polo from the same course. Like, guys,
Speaker 1: you have to chain change. I want to let you
Speaker 1: know that you will not be allowed to wear this
Speaker 1: on on set. At the same time, we get the point.
Speaker 1: We get you guys joined a club. But I think
Speaker 1: you can hear in our voices we're really excited. I'm
Speaker 1: really excited. I again just want to say um to
Speaker 1: everybody at the the NBC team and the Golf Channel crew,
Speaker 1: to Molly and everybody. I mean to get a chance
Speaker 1: to do a show on Golf Channel, um is is
Speaker 1: a dream come true. You know, Damon, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this about me, but I've had one
Speaker 1: job that I wanted to do my entire life, and
Speaker 1: it was to be a sports broadcaster. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have you know, videos VCR VHS videos that I tossed
Speaker 1: in the VCR back and my my high school days
Speaker 1: and even in seventh and eighth grade where I was
Speaker 1: recording Keith Jackson games and listening to him and reading
Speaker 1: about broadcasting. I I sent Stuart Scott a note when
Speaker 1: I was in high school on best processes of of
Speaker 1: getting into the broadcasting world. He was nice enough to
Speaker 1: write back. I went to school, I I joined the
Speaker 1: newspaper my freshman year. I had to lie and say
Speaker 1: I was a writer, and I went home and wrote
Speaker 1: a couple of fake stories and and brought him to
Speaker 1: the newspaper and then they hired me. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to get and be in this world, specifically
Speaker 1: on the TV side, And so you know, to to
Speaker 1: to to have your name associated with the show on
Speaker 1: Golf Channel is um, yeah, I mean I I couldn't
Speaker 1: ask for for anything better. And again, as I said
Speaker 1: to start to start this, I'm I'm humbled and honored.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I I can't wait for our first show
Speaker 1: and our second show, and our fiftieth show and our
Speaker 1: two hundred show. I just I'm excited about it. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to put our hands on it and see
Speaker 1: what comes out of it. So thank you for agreeing
Speaker 1: to this. Thank you for you know, agreeing to have
Speaker 1: me as a part of this as well. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get out there and and and get the
Speaker 1: ball rolling on it. And I cannot wait to U
Speaker 1: to sit next to you and talk golf. But you
Speaker 1: were a kid in Texas and I was a kid
Speaker 1: in California, you know, listening to Vince Scully and and
Speaker 1: and Chickern and and dreaming of a similar career. So
Speaker 1: for us to be able to have some heroes this
Speaker 1: business and to be able to follow through on our
Speaker 1: dreams and to be able to talk about a game
Speaker 1: we love and to do it with each other, I
Speaker 1: cannot ask for a better gift for one And I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get started, my friends. Golf Today is
Speaker 1: our new show, Golf Today, UM and uh and we
Speaker 1: will we will start rocking in early January. And UH
Speaker 1: to everybody out there, thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 1: Cannot wait to transition you from a listener to a
Speaker 1: viewer I believe is the right term. So UH, I
Speaker 1: hope you follow along as well with this new journey
Speaker 1: in my life. And uh and and and I would say,
Speaker 1: a different street that Damon's gonna go down, you know,
Speaker 1: same neighborhood, different street, but it's a lot of new stuff.
Speaker 1: And as I said, the show will look a little
Speaker 1: bit different in March than it looks in January, and
Speaker 1: probably will look different in June than it looks in March.
Speaker 1: So that's UH. Our commitment is to give you the
Speaker 1: best product and to uh to give you something that
Speaker 1: we would want to watch as well. And that's what
Speaker 1: we're excited about, So tune in and early January, Damon,
Speaker 1: enjoy the time off for me because I'll be there
Speaker 1: soon and then you'll have to hang out with me
Speaker 1: a lot, so that that's gonna be part of the
Speaker 1: God job that works for me. Safe travel, Rest up, buddy,
Speaker 1: because we have a lot of fun. We'll spend a
Speaker 1: lot of energy on the air. Absolutely, Thanks Damon. The
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