Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever, and iHeartRadio podcast
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren z e mc comedy from the
Speaker 1: home office in Austin, Texas. But it is Tahoe we're
Speaker 1: talking about on this episode of the most dramatic podcast.
Speaker 2: Ever, Long Drive. It's gonna hit a tree. The greens
Speaker 2: are rolling.
Speaker 1: I had the honor of taking part in the American
Speaker 1: Century Championship, the big celeb tournament that was on NBC
Speaker 1: this weekend, hosted by American Century and our good friend
Speaker 1: Jonathan Thomas, his wife Cindy. They are first just the
Speaker 1: most incredible people. Great shout out to them, and it
Speaker 1: was a week to remember because it's unlike any event
Speaker 1: I've ever been to. There's so much to talk.
Speaker 2: About listen, as you all know, and I just affirmed
Speaker 2: with those golf terms I tried to throw out, I
Speaker 2: don't know anything about golf. I don't love golf, but
Speaker 2: I had a great time at this tournament. It was
Speaker 2: so First, the biggest thing was the people, like you
Speaker 2: just mentioned, Jonathan, the CEO of American Century and his
Speaker 2: wife Cindy and their whole family were just such good
Speaker 2: people and I think they set the tone because the
Speaker 2: people they picked to invite to this. I mean, yes,
Speaker 2: it's a celebrity event, but it was just some good celebrities.
Speaker 1: We didn't have any divas. There were no and that's
Speaker 1: hard to say because.
Speaker 3: It's bags in the fray.
Speaker 1: Because there's ninety so ninety celebrities athletes are brought in
Speaker 1: by American Centrated to Edgewood Resort and golf course there
Speaker 1: at Lake Tahoe. It is on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
Speaker 1: So the backdrop is just ridiculous. It is stunning. But
Speaker 1: the celebs and athletes, I mean they go from you know,
Speaker 1: John Elway, to Travis and Jason Kelsey who we will
Speaker 1: be talking about, to Dylan Dryer, meteorologists from NBC. So
Speaker 1: I mean it really runs the gamut of celebs that
Speaker 1: were there. I was one of the newbies. There were
Speaker 1: sixteen newbies this year, rookies. Blake Griffin was another one.
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, Los Angeles Laker was there. He was a newbie.
Speaker 1: I think Miles Teller had been there before. Miles was there.
Speaker 2: This is his first time. Well, and actually I was
Speaker 2: so happy for you because I didn't realize they'd asked
Speaker 2: you to come before, but you were always working, you
Speaker 2: were always filming.
Speaker 1: The Yeah, it's in July. It's always in the same time.
Speaker 1: And I was doing the first year I got invited,
Speaker 1: I was hosting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and
Speaker 1: I would I used to do Bachelorette, go right to Paradise.
Speaker 1: I would come home for a week for like fourth
Speaker 1: of July. Then I would move to Vegas for like
Speaker 1: ten weeks, come home a week later. I would leave
Speaker 1: and do Bachelor So that used to be my summer,
Speaker 1: which was Man, that sounds fun, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Jeez?
Speaker 3: But this was so great you kind of wish you'd
Speaker 3: been able to go in the past.
Speaker 1: I know it, and so yeah, so this has always
Speaker 1: been on my bucket list. If you are a golfer,
Speaker 1: an amateur golfer, if you have any kind of modicum
Speaker 1: of fame, like you know this tournament exists and you
Speaker 1: this is on your bucket list. This is the tournament.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give it in layman's terms to our
Speaker 2: listeners who are not so well versed, aka just like me.
Speaker 3: You helped me understand why this is such a big deal.
Speaker 2: So in the past, you've paid played in like the
Speaker 2: at and T pro am that means professional and amateur.
Speaker 2: And you've played in a televised golf tournament, but like
Speaker 2: pros are still in it, and that's kind of why
Speaker 2: people are really.
Speaker 3: Into watching it.
Speaker 1: And you're leaning on the pros.
Speaker 3: In this tournament.
Speaker 2: It is only non golfer celebrities. No pro golfers here,
Speaker 2: just celebrities maybe golf. And so what's cool for you
Speaker 2: guys is you are treated though as if this is
Speaker 2: like a full on professional golf tournament. Everything from you know,
Speaker 2: the caddies to the tea times and the tents and
Speaker 2: the televised and you know, you you got physical therapy
Speaker 2: at the end of every day.
Speaker 1: Like you get to kind of Jimmy Roberts, Roger Maltby,
Speaker 1: Peter Jacobsen is there. I mean it's the NBC Sports crew, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know they they this year was a great addition.
Speaker 1: They brought in Smiley Kaufman and our good friend Kiera
Speaker 1: k Dixon. You know, Smiley has really blown up with
Speaker 1: his kind of Fridays with Smiley where he sets up
Speaker 1: on a hold. It's kind of a party thing and
Speaker 1: Smiley does his you know, his charisma and charm and
Speaker 1: all that. So they set up on the Fame seventeenth
Speaker 1: and so, I mean it was eight You're right, it
Speaker 1: is everything that the pro golfers get to do. That's
Speaker 1: why we get Yeah, we're playing in Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2: And it was so fun for me because the way
Speaker 2: they set it up is so intimate, so well run.
Speaker 2: I mean every single night, so I kind of walk
Speaker 2: with you during the day and.
Speaker 3: Watch you play golf. But there were great drinks and snacks, and.
Speaker 2: Then at every night they had like a fun dinner,
Speaker 2: a fun event. We did karaoke one night, Travis Kelce one.
Speaker 2: We'll get into it. And they made it such a
Speaker 2: fun weekend for family and friends as well, Like people
Speaker 2: brought their kids and their spouses and it was a
Speaker 2: very intimate. Like I think what we both know was
Speaker 2: how much there are just some major people at this thing,
Speaker 2: but everybody felt comfortable and let their guard down.
Speaker 1: So one of the coolest things that you start with.
Speaker 1: And again being a rookie there you get there on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: You can get Monday or Tuesday. I got there on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I played a little practice round and you immediately just
Speaker 1: start running into people. If you are a fan of
Speaker 1: any of these athletes. You can look up the ninety
Speaker 1: celebs and athletes. You have such great access to everybody.
Speaker 1: You're right up close, you get to talk to the autographs, pictures.
Speaker 1: Everybody's so giving that week. It is this great collegial,
Speaker 1: fraternal feel to it. But Wednesday night we have a
Speaker 1: mandatory was it Wednesday or Tuesday night? Tuesday night, sorry,
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, we have a mandatory players meeting. So you
Speaker 1: go to the that.
Speaker 2: You loved this so much I did.
Speaker 3: This is like summer camp for you.
Speaker 1: So it was like summer camp. So I walk into
Speaker 1: this thing that and I'll be honest. Okay, So here's
Speaker 1: here's the truth. I don't care who you are and
Speaker 1: what you've done. When you do something for the first time,
Speaker 1: you're nervous. Think of going to camp for the first time.
Speaker 1: You're nervous. So I have nerves. I'm the new kid.
Speaker 1: I don't know where to eat, I don't know whose
Speaker 1: table I can sit at, I don't know what's what,
Speaker 1: I don't even know where things are yet. So you
Speaker 1: have the nerves.
Speaker 2: Just all right, the jocks over there where did the
Speaker 2: TV herite? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And it's like, you know me, Colin jos Carson, Dally
Speaker 1: and you know, Jay billis Is you know, so it
Speaker 1: was just very interesting of getting the vibe. But this
Speaker 1: is where I love the group that American Century has
Speaker 1: brought in. Everybody was so welcoming. And I will say
Speaker 1: I knew a lot of these guys because I played
Speaker 1: in a bunch of these events, so you know, whether
Speaker 1: I was friends or acquaintances, you know, I knew them
Speaker 1: and they knew me, which was nice and it kind
Speaker 1: of took a little bit of the pressure off. But
Speaker 1: i walk into the players meeting that's in this kind
Speaker 1: of nightclub area at the Harris Casino or Harvey's Casino
Speaker 1: there in Tahoe, and I'm just looking around the room.
Speaker 1: I've been in some crazy rooms, but I've never been
Speaker 1: in a room like this where there were thirty forty
Speaker 1: fifty Hall of Famers or future Hall of famers, from
Speaker 1: Joe thisman to you know, Vince Carter who just got inducted,
Speaker 1: and Andrew Whitworth, who's going to be And I'm just like,
Speaker 1: there's Baker Mayfield, there's Trevor Lawrence. But it really is
Speaker 1: just a who's who in this business, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is crazy.
Speaker 3: Like little Joe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a little bit of a roast. They kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, put up some bullet points that kind of
Speaker 1: poke fun at you. They pulled up for me and
Speaker 1: this was really funny. So Blake Griffin, also a newbie
Speaker 1: basketball All Star. The guy was just unreal. They showed
Speaker 1: him dunking on everybody flying through the air. The greatest
Speaker 1: highlight reel a human could ask for it. They didn't
Speaker 1: really well, they got to the end and they'd put
Speaker 1: up a silly picture of him and they had some
Speaker 1: funny bullet points about who he was, but no, not
Speaker 1: really a roast. Then they're like, okay, you know Chris Harrison,
Speaker 1: first time DA. They pull up video and they run
Speaker 1: the sound of season one of The Bachelor. I don't
Speaker 1: know where NBC Sports got this, but they pulled up
Speaker 1: this video and it's just ever. It looks you know,
Speaker 1: if you've never seen it, it looks like I'm in
Speaker 1: my I borrowed my dad's khaki suit that's three sizes
Speaker 1: too big and it probably had eight buttons on it.
Speaker 1: This is two thousand and two fast.
Speaker 2: I like the early two thousands when men were wearing
Speaker 2: like bright couple collared shirts.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking Night of the Rock.
Speaker 1: It looks like I hadn't shaved yet my life because
Speaker 1: I couldn't grow whiskers. But that's so that's what they show.
Speaker 1: And then they put up the silly bullet points and
Speaker 1: they pulled an old picture of me from high school
Speaker 1: and put it up there.
Speaker 3: Where did they get a picture you?
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know where NBC dug
Speaker 1: to get this, but maybe NBC News. They did some
Speaker 1: good digging to get all these pictures of us. So
Speaker 1: that's it really kind of just set the tone of
Speaker 1: we're having a good time. But afterwards, well, I think it's.
Speaker 3: So important what you just said about, Like.
Speaker 2: I just agree.
Speaker 3: I think even I think about.
Speaker 2: When I volunteered at Experience camps for the first time
Speaker 2: last summer. I'm a confident person. Yeah, I know who
Speaker 2: I am, Like, I know what I bring to the table,
Speaker 2: but still just being in a new situation, and for
Speaker 2: me in that situation, it wasn't televised and I wasn't competing.
Speaker 2: You're still like, okay, how do things work here? And okay,
Speaker 2: I want to make new friends and I want.
Speaker 1: Where the flight I didn't where the first he was.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just like, you know, like where
Speaker 1: do I go? Where can I warm up?
Speaker 2: And was there anyone you were in when you looked
Speaker 2: around that room, anyone you were intimidated by or in
Speaker 2: awe of or nervous to meet. I mean, I know
Speaker 2: you had a lot of friends there, but anyone who
Speaker 2: you hadn't met yet.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd never met Nate Pergatzi, And afterwards got
Speaker 1: to got to meet Nate Pergatzi because I think he
Speaker 1: is comedian who we love. I think he's the best
Speaker 1: comedian in the game right now. And there's some great
Speaker 1: comics doing some great work and I and that's heady company,
Speaker 1: but right now he is doing it and doing it
Speaker 1: on a level that nobody can compete with. And I've
Speaker 1: you and I are such fans. We just saw him
Speaker 1: here in austin the Movie Center, and I was delighted
Speaker 1: to see that he was such a nice guy. I
Speaker 1: had never met Colin Jost and I had met Don
Speaker 1: Cheatle before, and we kind of knew each other from
Speaker 1: playing poker. There was a poker game in LA that
Speaker 1: we used to all play in and Don Cheedle was
Speaker 1: a big poker guy, and so I knew him, and
Speaker 1: it kind of helped that I knew Don Cheatleh because
Speaker 1: he and Colin Jost were talking and Jost welcome to
Speaker 1: me into the conversation. Maybe golf is the nice icebreaker
Speaker 1: because we started talking about golf and then we got
Speaker 1: into family and you know, all the travel and he's
Speaker 1: been doing because he's been over in Asia, I guess
Speaker 1: because his wife, Scarlett Johnson has been shooting a movie.
Speaker 1: So he just came home and came right into Tahoe
Speaker 1: and he just literally he said, he got off a plane,
Speaker 1: got his stuff in LA and then or New York,
Speaker 1: and then came right in and so it was just
Speaker 1: good to meet some of these people that I had
Speaker 1: never met that I was a little stand offish of okay,
Speaker 1: how are they going to be? But when you're looking
Speaker 1: around that room, I mean to my left was Roger Clemens,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest pictures of all time. Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: Jerome Bettis, the bus running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: was right in front of me. Right behind me, Colin Jost,
Speaker 1: to my right Evince Carter, Hall of Famer. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. I mean, honestly, what you're thinking, is
Speaker 1: what am I doing in this room?
Speaker 2: May why are you signing yourself?
Speaker 1: Because you just and we all feel like this. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who you are, you all feel like you're
Speaker 1: in awe. There's so much respect and admiration and love
Speaker 1: in the room and it kind of it really disarmed everybody.
Speaker 1: There was no egos, there was no yeah, I'm better
Speaker 1: than you or whatever. Everyone just sat everybody. Yeah, everybody's
Speaker 1: done something amazing and what they're good at, and it's
Speaker 1: there was just a lot of admiration and love.
Speaker 2: I will say it's not something I relate to because
Speaker 2: of the non sports awareness or enjoyment for me, but
Speaker 2: it's very cute to.
Speaker 3: Me how much grown men love.
Speaker 1: Athletes like it, and athletes love performers.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well that's true because.
Speaker 1: Like athletes want to be rock stars. Yes, rock stars
Speaker 1: want to be you know, we want to play golf.
Speaker 1: It's like and it's and the funny thing is we
Speaker 1: all shared the one thing is that none of us
Speaker 1: are that great at golf. Like, wow, some guys are
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the thing, you know, Okay, there
Speaker 2: are some guys. Obviously, no one hears a professional golfer,
Speaker 2: but there were a lot of professional athletes in other ways,
Speaker 2: and so there were a few good golfs well.
Speaker 1: And I should say we're kind of.
Speaker 2: By the way, babe, you did pretty good.
Speaker 1: I did pretty good, but we are kind of overlooking
Speaker 1: the greatest golfer of all time, Anika Sorenstam easily the
Speaker 1: goat in women's golf. She's retired now, but she was there,
Speaker 1: so she is that good. I think she finished third
Speaker 1: or fourth behind Marty Fish, professional tennis player. He won
Speaker 1: it his second time to win it. He's a good
Speaker 1: friend and just such a great golfer, by the way,
Speaker 1: but a really good guy. He and his family were there.
Speaker 1: John Schmoltz was up there, Mark Mulder a great pitcher.
Speaker 1: But Anica Sorenstein was right there with the boys, kicking ass.
Speaker 1: She is so sweet, so kind everybody because everyone is
Speaker 1: so in awe of her as a golfer, and everyone's
Speaker 1: just watching her swing the club. Everyone's talking to her,
Speaker 1: trying to pick her brain. But yeah, again, you could
Speaker 1: just keep going down the list. Again, there's ninety people,
Speaker 1: and nobody is a slacker in this group.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about karaoke night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the big night is Wednesday night. I have
Speaker 1: been told about this that Wednesday night's the best night.
Speaker 1: It is celebrity karaoke, but it's different kind of karaoke.
Speaker 1: It's on the lawn there at Edgewood, right behind the
Speaker 1: resorts here between the resort and the lake. The sun's
Speaker 1: going down, so you have one of the most amazing
Speaker 1: backdrops ever. And it's not just your typical karaoke because
Speaker 1: they don't just play the music. There's a band and
Speaker 1: it's not just any band. It's Jada Marcus from Rascal
Speaker 1: Flats and Jason Chef from Chicago. That's who's running the
Speaker 1: band that's playing music for you.
Speaker 2: Like, first of all, I've never seen karaoke with a band.
Speaker 2: I've only ever seen it with you know, like they
Speaker 2: push the button and the prompter comes up with the lyrics,
Speaker 2: like with the bright blue background. This is you're singing
Speaker 2: with a live band and it is some of the
Speaker 2: most incredible musicians in.
Speaker 1: Front of about seven hundred of US. I would think,
Speaker 1: I think here's that many, maybe five hundred, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a private dinner for all the American Century clients,
Speaker 1: but also the celebs, our families, our spouses. Everybody's invited.
Speaker 2: So video from karaoke kind of went everywhere because as
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey saying, and I believe he dedicated uh to
Speaker 2: Taylor Taylor Swift. Yes, Wow, Travis got up there, and
Speaker 2: I was impressed. He's saying, here I go again bye?
Speaker 2: Is it white Snake?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: And a deeper voice like again again on my like gravelly,
Speaker 2: like more growley than I thought, and very yeah. Just
Speaker 2: a strong stage presence like I kind of I don't
Speaker 2: know why, maybe because I've only really seen footage of
Speaker 2: him at Taylor Swift concerts. I thought he'd get up
Speaker 2: and do something like kind of goofy, but he like
Speaker 2: sort of went home.
Speaker 1: Clearly he's been paying attention, you know, watching, watching, He
Speaker 1: hasn't just been on the road. He's been studying because
Speaker 1: as you said, he didn't just come on stage and go,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just gonna sing White Snake and timid.
Speaker 1: He left it all on the stage. He's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go and I'm gonna go big. Good for him
Speaker 1: because he could have done the opposite. And by the way,
Speaker 1: Baller move. He also flew in Wednesday, and because he
Speaker 1: wasn't at the Player's meeting on Tuesday. He came in hot,
Speaker 1: got off a plane. The car literally pulls up into valet.
Speaker 1: He walked over to the stage. It was his turn,
Speaker 1: and he walked right on stage and delivered this baller
Speaker 1: performance of Whitesnake. And so kudos to Travis Kelsey, who
Speaker 1: ended up winning Celebrity Karaoke. But there were some other
Speaker 1: really good ones who stood out to you.
Speaker 2: Dude, Jake Owen doing Van Halen. I was like, I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously he's Jake Owen. He's an incredible singer, but I
Speaker 2: you know, to hear him do he.
Speaker 1: Did something like that jump by Van Halen, I would have.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, you had so many incredible
Speaker 2: performers there. I was kind of like I would have
Speaker 2: watched the whole night of just like the singers here
Speaker 2: doing covers of stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, that was super cool.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, because Jake. I'm like, because I was
Speaker 1: standing next to Jake. I've known him for quite some
Speaker 1: time and he's a good friend, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you going to do? And he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't do country.
Speaker 2: I got it. I said, it's karaoke.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm gonna really blow the roof off this place.
Speaker 2: And so personal request next year, like different genre. I
Speaker 2: want to see him do a Broadway song.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Okay, the only thing I actually thought I was wrong.
Speaker 2: I thought the Kelsey brothers would get up together.
Speaker 1: Yes, I did meet Travis Kelsey as well. I actually
Speaker 1: hung out a lot with Jason. I had never met
Speaker 1: him before. But you know, Andrew Whitworth, who we're good
Speaker 1: friends with, is really good friends with Jason Kelsey and
Speaker 1: Travis as well, but really with Jason. And so before
Speaker 1: Travis arrived on Wednesday, we had already been there a
Speaker 1: couple of days, and so I hung out a lot
Speaker 1: with Andrew Whitworth and Jason Kelcey. And he's such a
Speaker 1: good dude, such a nice guy. Spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time with him, got a chance to kind of dive
Speaker 1: deep with him, and just a really interesting guy and
Speaker 1: very you know what, I found stunning. And I don't
Speaker 1: know why this would have surprised me. I know Travis's
Speaker 1: life has changed exponentially because he's dating the most famous
Speaker 1: woman in the world, but to see how Jason's life
Speaker 1: has changed because his brother is dating the most famous
Speaker 1: woman in the world. Is incredible. And I know he's
Speaker 1: also a big figure. He's going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: an instant Hall of Famer, one of the best, you know,
Speaker 1: offensive linemen of all time and all that, and super
Speaker 1: Bowl champion. So in his own right, he is a star,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. But to walk in his wake
Speaker 1: around Tahoe. We went to the casino and we went
Speaker 1: to this one party before Travis got there, it's incredible.
Speaker 1: There's a buzz around him that you would think Bono
Speaker 1: is there. And so it really is interesting to not
Speaker 1: just see how Travis his life has changed. Jason's right
Speaker 1: there with him on that level. And then when Travis
Speaker 1: got into town, it was almost unimaginable. These two walking around.
Speaker 1: What rock stars they are. And they came across our
Speaker 1: tea box at one point where we were about to play,
Speaker 1: and they stopped and we talked for quite some time
Speaker 1: and gave us hugs. And the funny thing is, no
Speaker 1: matter who you are, we're all so gung ho about golf.
Speaker 1: You know. Travis came up and gave me a bro
Speaker 1: hug and I said, how you doing, man, He's like
Speaker 1: I got back to zero. It is my goal here
Speaker 1: to not finish in negative points because it's a weird
Speaker 1: scoring system. They try to help the celebs. It's not
Speaker 1: a typical golf tournament. You're actually not trying to be
Speaker 1: under par. You're trying to score points in this Stableford
Speaker 1: scoring system. And he's like, I'm just trying to get
Speaker 1: to zero or above. I just don't want to be negative.
Speaker 1: But we talked for a little bit and he was
Speaker 1: having the time of his life. I really admire how
Speaker 1: he's handling everything. He's embracing it. He's having a blast.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, he's having a blast. But he
Speaker 1: really does a good job to put himself out there
Speaker 1: and not hide from it, not try to act like
Speaker 1: he's bigger than this. In fact, he's like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: going to do I'm going to shotgun a beer with you,
Speaker 1: take a picture, I'll sign your chest. Whatever he is,
Speaker 1: he is. You know when you and I did the
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift Travis Kelcey why he would be perfect for her?
Speaker 1: I think I stand behind why. He is not as
Speaker 1: big a star as her, but he's as big a
Speaker 1: personality and he embraces everything that comes with Taylor Swift's
Speaker 1: magnificent spotlight. He can handle it.
Speaker 2: Part of me thought Taylor Swift might show up. I know,
Speaker 2: because Kylie, Jason's wife was there. She was lovely, and
Speaker 2: I just feel like Taylor and Travis have been so
Speaker 2: supportive of each other.
Speaker 3: And oh somebody.
Speaker 2: Actually I was with someone who's a real swiftye and
Speaker 2: I was telling her about this, and she looked up
Speaker 2: Taylor's tour dates and.
Speaker 3: She was like, oh, she doesn't have any tour dates
Speaker 3: during that time.
Speaker 2: So I kind of thought, oh, maybe she might show up.
Speaker 2: But I will say, excuse me, seeing the layout of
Speaker 2: it and everything. Now, if she'd showed up, that would
Speaker 2: have been a whole other level of security needed and
Speaker 2: like planning and yeah, but you know, it was it
Speaker 2: was cute that Travis dedicated his karaoke win to Taylor.
Speaker 2: And then definitely I saw when he was up on
Speaker 2: seventeen that hole where they like play all the music
Speaker 2: and have all the fun.
Speaker 3: I think they played a few Taylor Swifts on they did.
Speaker 1: When he walked up, they played Taylor Swift. It was
Speaker 1: very on point, and he embraced it instead. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like he that's a great thing. He gets it
Speaker 1: and so he.
Speaker 2: Just started to do It's right because some people, and
Speaker 2: I've seen this with people I've interviewed and everything, like
Speaker 2: they'll get annoyed about that thing. I actually would always
Speaker 2: advise people. I mean, you know, not that I know
Speaker 2: what it's like to be super famous, but if people
Speaker 2: were up and coming and I was interviewing them for
Speaker 2: the first like one of the first times, I would say, like,
Speaker 2: don't start getting mad at the thing that.
Speaker 1: Made you embrace what you're known for. Well.
Speaker 3: I mean like there were.
Speaker 2: Some people, honestly, like from the Twilight cast who and
Speaker 2: I think they've changed now because it's been years, but
Speaker 2: they would be like, don't ask me anything about Twilight.
Speaker 2: And I was like, but, like, that's why.
Speaker 1: People love you when you realize that's your home run
Speaker 1: and that's what most people are going to love you
Speaker 1: for and know you. Yeah, even if you do other
Speaker 1: great things, it's not that you can't, it's.
Speaker 2: Just don't be angry about it. Like, you know, I
Speaker 2: get it to a certain extent. I'm sure when you've
Speaker 2: been asked about this thing for the millionth time, but
Speaker 2: you know, I think that usually happens in the very
Speaker 2: beginning when people get famous, They're super happy to be
Speaker 2: asked about the thing, and then years later they realize
Speaker 2: the importance of the thing. It's those middle years sometimes
Speaker 2: where they like get a little lost and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm over it or.
Speaker 3: I'm too big for that now.
Speaker 2: Jason and Travis, from my just seeing them perspective, what
Speaker 2: they're doing right is is staying true to who they are. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And that's actually a harder thing to do than you
Speaker 2: would think in this business. Like even when I was
Speaker 2: at ET, people like I really got to be myself
Speaker 2: on Roses and Rose, but I would literally get the
Speaker 2: feedback at ET of like you need to ask that
Speaker 2: question in the ET way when I was interviewing people,
Speaker 2: and I looking back and this isn't like any you know,
Speaker 2: I was just trying to be good at my job.
Speaker 2: But looking back, I wish i'd i'd stayed a little
Speaker 2: more true to myself.
Speaker 3: It's hard because you're trying to do the job right.
Speaker 1: And people above you are telling you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also you know for them, like obviously, when
Speaker 2: you hit a certain level of fame, I'm sure parts
Speaker 2: of you wants to like be more garden you need
Speaker 2: to be, but they're really staying true to who they are,
Speaker 2: and it was really beautiful. This is another thing I
Speaker 2: like about sports, is like that these people can be
Speaker 2: hero heroes to kids. Like to see all the kids
Speaker 2: who were there and how much they look up to
Speaker 2: Jason and Travis, and that they took the time to
Speaker 2: say hi to the kids and everything, and the.
Speaker 1: Crowd that just means a lot. Well, the crowd that
Speaker 1: Jason and Travis bring out now to an event like
Speaker 1: this is different. I noticed a different crowd out there.
Speaker 1: And again this is my first year, but I noticed
Speaker 1: a bunch of young girls different from what well I
Speaker 1: just I mean, there was a bunch of young girls.
Speaker 1: Teenage girls are out there term you know. And look,
Speaker 1: I love John Elway, you know, and I love all
Speaker 1: these other big, you know, stars, but are teenage girls
Speaker 1: going to come out and see them.
Speaker 2: That's what's not about this championship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so everybody was there really was this amazing mix.
Speaker 1: And also, look, I wasn't with them twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven because you know, I know Andrew Whitworth played with
Speaker 1: them two days, but I also talked to him about it.
Speaker 1: Kudos to the fans that came out. They were very respectful,
Speaker 1: They just wanted to have fun. They just wanted to
Speaker 1: see him, touch him, get an autograph, take a picture,
Speaker 1: and he really leaned into it and had a great time.
Speaker 1: But a great addition to the tournament. I thought, are
Speaker 1: they going to be you know, how will they handle it?
Speaker 1: Will it be too much? Will they beat divas? Man?
Speaker 1: Those guys are anything but divas. They were awesome. They
Speaker 1: were so cool. And by the way, yes they had
Speaker 1: security while they were walking on the golf course, but
Speaker 1: they were hanging out at the hotel just doing their
Speaker 1: thing and people would come up to them, even at times,
Speaker 1: you know, inopportune times, but they really took it all
Speaker 1: in and they understand this was these people, their opportunity
Speaker 1: to see them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, maybe I'm going to give you credit on
Speaker 2: that too. Well, honestly, you're talking about them. But from
Speaker 2: my perspective, what was interesting about this is like, because
Speaker 2: it's televised, they did tell all the players that like
Speaker 2: wives and family, can't walk with you on the greens
Speaker 2: the whole time. So I could sometimes go into the
Speaker 2: ropes and say hi to you, but I had to
Speaker 2: a lot of the time just like walk. You know,
Speaker 2: I walked with everybody and that actually was super fun
Speaker 2: because I got to see all the love that people
Speaker 2: had for you. And when you talk about bringing out
Speaker 2: teenage girls, I mean, baby, your fandom as women.
Speaker 1: I definitely, you know, it was funny because you could see.
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody who was taking pictures of you was.
Speaker 1: Not a golf Fanly there were a few dudes. I
Speaker 1: was happy to see some guys that came up to me,
Speaker 1: but yes, for the most part, it was definitely the wives,
Speaker 1: the moms, the daughters that came up.
Speaker 2: That was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that love was amazing.
Speaker 2: You brought out a great crowd and I loved seeing it.
Speaker 2: And it was kind of funny because you know, I
Speaker 2: had like a hat and glasses on and a lot
Speaker 2: of the time just standing with everybody, and like nobody
Speaker 2: knew that we were you know, people might not know
Speaker 2: who where I was or that we were married. And
Speaker 2: it really like warmed my heart to just hear people
Speaker 2: talking about you, because all people would say would be like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, that's Chris Harrison, like from The Bachelor.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I love him. Oh I want to
Speaker 2: hear him talk. I grew up listening to his voice.
Speaker 2: He's the best voice like all us and it was
Speaker 2: just so nice and fun to hear, and everyone was
Speaker 2: so kind and loving, and of course there was a
Speaker 2: lot of like Chris, we want you back on TV,
Speaker 2: we miss you and we are working on it. And
Speaker 2: by the way, I got to give a big shout
Speaker 2: out to American Century because first of all, they spend
Speaker 2: a ton of money to put this thing on, but
Speaker 2: they give back a ton of money. They give huge
Speaker 2: donations to cancer research.
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't realize until this weekend that forty
Speaker 1: percent of all profits made by American Century go straight
Speaker 1: to charity. Yeah, and primarily cancer research. With that is
Speaker 1: that is forgetting your bottom line. So kudos to Jonathan
Speaker 1: Thomas and the American Century folks for I mean, they
Speaker 1: gave so much this weekend. To say they put on
Speaker 1: a class event is gross understatement. But yeah. So the
Speaker 1: golf is one thing, but then after every shot you
Speaker 1: realize you're there to see everybody because really, nobody other
Speaker 1: than a few of the guys that are really good
Speaker 1: at golfer on a kasare and stam, nobody's there to
Speaker 1: see you hit a golf ball to party. They're there
Speaker 1: to have a good time. And so as soon as
Speaker 1: you get done with a serious golf shot, you immediately go, hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing high fives pictures? And that part is
Speaker 1: fun for me because it's also a big pressure release
Speaker 1: because you realize it's okay that you just screwed up.
Speaker 2: Name you didn't well a few times coming on a
Speaker 2: few times. I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 2: a couple awesome fans who we met.
Speaker 3: Ingrid was so sweet.
Speaker 2: There was a wonderful father and daughter who I met
Speaker 2: who were like, it's their thing that they go to
Speaker 2: the championship together every year and they like go to
Speaker 2: golf tournaments together, and they were both so sweet. She
Speaker 2: was a Roses and Rose fan and they were big
Speaker 2: fans of yours.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I think her name was Kristen was there
Speaker 3: with her husband every day. She was so great.
Speaker 2: There was another wonderful couple who I met, and she
Speaker 2: had just lost her father, whose name was On and
Speaker 2: so we talked a little bit about lost together, and
Speaker 2: she said she appreciated when we cover some of this
Speaker 2: stuff on the podcast.
Speaker 1: It was fun to see kind of walking around ye
Speaker 1: speaking of just how much LZ love there was in Tahoe.
Speaker 1: That was, and you know, there was one guy in particular.
Speaker 1: I wish I'd gotten his name. But it was really
Speaker 1: funny because again, typically we kind of have our fans
Speaker 1: and you kind of know what they look like because
Speaker 1: typically they're female. But there was a young man. He
Speaker 1: couldn't have been in his twenties, and he's like Roses
Speaker 1: and Rose and I'm like, so, I mean, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: he's in his probably maybe twenty so, maybe late teens
Speaker 1: or whatever. He was watching Roses and Rose. He was
Speaker 1: such a big fan of yours. That was really funny.
Speaker 1: Right there by the clubhouse. So yeah, and how many
Speaker 1: people listen to the most dramatic.
Speaker 2: Podcast and she was great. It was just so wonderful
Speaker 2: because it was such a great environment to meet everybody
Speaker 2: and like for it to be I don't know, like
Speaker 2: I think the fact that it was so organized, you know,
Speaker 2: made it like you kind of knew, Okay, we're going
Speaker 2: here every day, you're going to play some golf and
Speaker 2: you're going to get to meet people.
Speaker 3: And it was a really fun way to do it
Speaker 3: in that setup.
Speaker 1: That it was amazing in that way.
Speaker 2: How nervous were you though, Oh god, plane, I was
Speaker 2: surprised by this, okay, so more nervous than I thought
Speaker 2: you would be playing golf.
Speaker 1: You get so the first tee shot is I will
Speaker 1: host a million shows in front of millions of people.
Speaker 1: And yes, I still get a little nerves, but it's
Speaker 1: more excited and I know I can handle it, and
Speaker 1: I know I can go on stage and do my thing,
Speaker 1: because that is my thing. It's what I have practiced
Speaker 1: and done so many times. But it's hard to explain
Speaker 1: the nerves of getting on the first tee with hundreds
Speaker 1: of people. Music's going and they introduce you, and this
Speaker 1: is the start of the tournament, and you just want
Speaker 1: to get off the tee. You just want the ball
Speaker 1: in the air. You really don't even care where it goes.
Speaker 1: You just wanted to start. But what I found interesting
Speaker 1: is I expended so much energy in that first nine
Speaker 1: holes that my first day, my goal was to score
Speaker 1: ten points a day, and the first day I played
Speaker 1: nine holes and I hit a wall. Emotionally, I think
Speaker 1: I just I released so much energy. By the back
Speaker 1: nine of that first day, I was just done and
Speaker 1: I totally bonked and hit a wall and I ended
Speaker 1: it with three points. And as you know, you can
Speaker 1: see the look on my face. I had a great day,
Speaker 1: but I was a little disappointed in myself by only
Speaker 1: getting three points because I was up to seven at
Speaker 1: one point I was rolling. I'm like, Okay, this is good.
Speaker 1: And then I just kind of slid back. But that
Speaker 1: first day just there was so much emotion, so much energy.
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep well the night before. I was so nervous.
Speaker 1: It was just exciting to be a part of this thing,
Speaker 1: which is funny, but that's what I love. That's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons I do this. I love putting myself
Speaker 1: in situations where I'm really uncomfortable. I know I'm going
Speaker 1: to be nervous, I know I might fail.
Speaker 2: Do get like a rush from there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? I like to see what I can do
Speaker 1: under the pressure.
Speaker 3: Do you get more of a rush from that?
Speaker 2: And you're a little more competitive than I am in
Speaker 2: terms of like like I like to play a game,
Speaker 2: but I don't really care I win or lose. You
Speaker 2: do care.
Speaker 1: But I thought the nerves were all out of me,
Speaker 1: because the next day I played really well. I scored
Speaker 1: seventeen points, had three birdies. I was rolling shot at
Speaker 1: seventy six. One of the best rounds of my life,
Speaker 1: and to do it in competition was insane. But then
Speaker 1: there then came Sunday and I thought, Okay, by Sunday,
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for three days. I'm almost done.
Speaker 1: And in fact it was the second to last hole,
Speaker 1: the seventeenth hole. I had heard about how this is
Speaker 1: on the weekend, but I wasn't prepared for. When you
Speaker 1: walk on that tea box, there are thousands of people
Speaker 1: from the tea box all around the green and the
Speaker 1: lake is tier right, it is packed with people on
Speaker 1: the sand. Hundreds of boats have pulled up.
Speaker 3: Well, that was cool. I'd never seen that in a tournament.
Speaker 2: The boats can pull up on one side and people
Speaker 2: are in their bikinis watching you.
Speaker 1: People are doing shots, people are screaming at you. It
Speaker 1: is a mind f It's hard for your brain to
Speaker 1: take it all in. And then they're like, okay, calm down.
Speaker 1: You have to hit one hundred and fifty five yard
Speaker 1: golf shot par three with water on the right, fans
Speaker 1: to the left. Somehow, miraculously I hit one of the
Speaker 1: best shots of my life and hit it to about
Speaker 1: five feet. Then I nervously missed the putt, which people
Speaker 1: saw on TV. My true friends are like, nice shot
Speaker 1: on seventeen, great Pott.
Speaker 2: But that shot was great, and that was the shot
Speaker 2: that was on NBC. So that was a good shot
Speaker 2: on the air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they put it on the air. Smiley Kaufman outed me,
Speaker 1: by the way on the broadcast because I had just
Speaker 1: mentioned to him I had a side bet. John Elway
Speaker 1: wanted to bet. So I played with John Elway, the
Speaker 1: Great John Elway, the quarterback of the Denver Broncos Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. Yes, and then we also played with Chase Sutley,
Speaker 1: the great Philadelphia Philly and both nice guys. But halfway,
Speaker 1: you know, we got in like a whole or two
Speaker 1: and el was like, ca, we a little side action going.
Speaker 1: I played better if I if I'm betting. So we
Speaker 1: had a bet and Elway and I were on seventeen.
Speaker 3: I So in your mind, you're like, I'm tied with
Speaker 3: John no joke.
Speaker 1: So he's the greatest competitor of all time, that one
Speaker 1: of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Like I'm going
Speaker 1: to beat John Elway. This is my goal today and
Speaker 1: I will tell this story on my podcast. I kicked, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Will I kicked John Elway's ass. So I hit the
Speaker 1: shot on seventeen. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna birdie this
Speaker 1: and I'm going to go one up with one to play.
Speaker 1: We both par it, so we're tied going into eighteen.
Speaker 1: And in true fashion, John Elway hits the drive. And
Speaker 1: if you guys know John Elway, he's famous for the
Speaker 1: drive when he won the Super Bowl, John Elway Birdie's eighteen.
Speaker 1: I par eighteen. I lose down one in the match
Speaker 1: to John Elway. I owe him one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: So here's what I love about golf is that men
Speaker 2: talk about it like they've been to war. They're like,
Speaker 2: it was me against the great John Elway. We were
Speaker 2: there on the seventeen tea box.
Speaker 1: But that would have been a story I would have told.
Speaker 1: And so now I just I owe John. And by
Speaker 1: the way, John I have not, for he got out
Speaker 1: of there quickly.
Speaker 2: It's still a good story.
Speaker 1: But I owe John lay one hundred dollars. Like literally
Speaker 1: are all.
Speaker 2: Talking like, oh dude, this that's sixthmall man. Wow.
Speaker 1: If anybody has John Alway's venmo, let me know. But
Speaker 1: my playing partners for the week give a shout out
Speaker 1: to Dylan Dreyer, uh meteorologist a part of the Today Show.
Speaker 1: She is amazing, lovely. Her husband also was fantastic caddie
Speaker 1: for we that day, John Carlson, great Stanley Cup champion
Speaker 1: hockey player from Washington.
Speaker 2: Next day you had Carson Daily and you and Carson.
Speaker 1: The next day was TV host analyst day. You know
Speaker 1: me and Carson Daily from the Today Show and the
Speaker 1: voice obviously Jay Billis, who was a former Duke basketball player,
Speaker 1: played in the NBA and now he's an analyst for
Speaker 1: ESPN and AGREAP.
Speaker 3: Can they do the groups and kind of themes.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, there's the quarterbacks, there's the lineman, there's the baseball.
Speaker 3: Player, TV guys, you had the TV.
Speaker 1: Guys and so and I have known Carson for a while.
Speaker 1: He is a very good, good, great golfer by the way,
Speaker 1: just went through surgery, but he usually plays better than
Speaker 1: he did this week, but a super nice guy. His
Speaker 1: family was out there. And then the final day they
Speaker 1: kind of pair it more towards how you have done
Speaker 1: in golf. And this turned out to be a dream
Speaker 1: because I was with John Elway and Chase Utley and
Speaker 1: again to me, I'm like, which one of these is
Speaker 1: not like the others.
Speaker 2: Well, did you basically feel like you were a professional?
Speaker 1: I'm like, did I win a World Series? Did I
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl? No?
Speaker 2: Okay, So I just pulled up because I was kind
Speaker 2: of looking at the scores because I didn't even know
Speaker 2: where you ended up.
Speaker 1: I think I was tee tied for twenty seventh place.
Speaker 2: You broke the top thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my goal. Good, In all seriousness, my
Speaker 1: goal was to make top thirty for my first year
Speaker 1: because I just didn't know how it would go, how
Speaker 1: nervous I got it.
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm not trying to call anybody out.
Speaker 2: I'm just bringing the scoresy So you had thirty four,
Speaker 2: Tony Romoh had twenty one, and then, oh God love him,
Speaker 2: Jason Kelcey with a negative fifty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jason Kelcey. Where was Travis Kelcey because he wanted
Speaker 1: to make it in the positive. Jason had a disaster.
Speaker 2: But Alex Rodriguez negative fifty nine, he was second to last. Yeah.
Speaker 1: A Rod had maybe one of the most humbling experiences.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to give a Rod a shout out
Speaker 1: because he was so nice and never lost his cool. Honestly,
Speaker 1: if I had been playing like that, I would have
Speaker 1: said my back hurt. I would I would have been home.
Speaker 3: Travis Kelsey negative ten.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh so he didn't get there negative ten.
Speaker 2: So miss negative fifty, We love them, miss. By the way,
Speaker 2: l he's such a great guy.
Speaker 1: Such a nice guy, and such a good friend.
Speaker 3: Bills tell her negative fifty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Miles, where did Jost? Where did Colin? Joe's finish?
Speaker 2: Colin's negative twenty five?
Speaker 1: Negative?
Speaker 3: You're a good golfer, play right now.
Speaker 2: You're a good golfer.
Speaker 1: It's hard to finish in the points? Do you understand? Okay?
Speaker 1: So if I asked you you were there all week?
Speaker 1: Do you understand the scoring system?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I now after By the way, can I get
Speaker 2: a little credit?
Speaker 1: Baby, you can get a lot of credit.
Speaker 2: I walked and watched you played golf for three.
Speaker 1: Days straight, fifty four holes of.
Speaker 2: Golf for like five hours each day.
Speaker 1: Seven miles.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been thinking of of how.
Speaker 3: We can equate this, and how can I pay this?
Speaker 1: How can I pay you back?
Speaker 2: Because this is like you know, in our everyday lives.
Speaker 2: Go play as much golf as you want. You never
Speaker 2: need to pay me back. But there's nothing that I
Speaker 2: can do right that You're going to go watch me
Speaker 2: do and walk around and cheer me on for five
Speaker 2: hours days a year.
Speaker 1: Did somebody say you need to go?
Speaker 3: This was my idea.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is your idea.
Speaker 2: I shared it with some of the fans. Okay, you're
Speaker 2: going to come on a day with me. We're going
Speaker 2: to go to multiple home goods, TJ Max and Marshalls.
Speaker 2: You're going to walk around behind me as I shot.
Speaker 1: We're doing this for five hours, for hours.
Speaker 2: When I find a candle I love, You're going to
Speaker 2: cheer me on.
Speaker 3: Great candle, babe, good fie.
Speaker 1: Let me smell that, Let me smell that. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: is that amber wood? That is so good?
Speaker 2: When I find an excellent side table on a discount, honey,
Speaker 2: good steal.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can see that. I can see
Speaker 1: that in our house already. I know where that's going.
Speaker 2: She crushed it ten points.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, I owe you this and
Speaker 1: and I will put this up on social media. I'm
Speaker 1: going to spend the day with you, and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna and it. I'll be like your caddy. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to walk behind you slowly with a cart.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3: The cart is my golf mack. Yes, and you're gonna
Speaker 3: put my items in it. Yep. I'm going to make
Speaker 3: you one of those little like bibs with Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Like the caddies were, okay, I like this, this is
Speaker 1: gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Okay, but no, I didn't understand the system basically, like
Speaker 2: if you like made it in under.
Speaker 1: Par let's says. Let's say it's a par four.
Speaker 3: And if you made it an under a par four,
Speaker 3: you got some points.
Speaker 1: And so then the birdie was three points.
Speaker 3: I mean you're losing here on what a birdie is.
Speaker 1: That's one less than par. So if I got a
Speaker 1: three on a par four, he still has three points. Okay.
Speaker 1: If there's a par you get.
Speaker 3: One, you did well, you got points. I understand a.
Speaker 1: Boge zero points, double bogey. The problem is you can
Speaker 1: see by some of these scores, a double bogie is
Speaker 1: minus two and that's where you get in the A
Speaker 1: Rod Jason Kelsey.
Speaker 3: You're good at golf.
Speaker 2: I'm impressed, thank you, and I mean you beat yeah. Like,
Speaker 2: by the way, I know who tj Oshi is he's
Speaker 2: a hockey player. He only had eight points. Chandler Parsons
Speaker 2: pro basketball player, great friend of ours, awesome guy, but.
Speaker 3: He had twelve. You beat Chandler, You beat Tony Romo,
Speaker 3: you beat uh.
Speaker 2: Larry Fitzgerald fits wove fit by the way, all wonderful people.
Speaker 1: One of the He's the first person that gave you
Speaker 1: a hug when you got there. This is great. Lauren
Speaker 1: walks in and there's Larry Fitzgerald. He leaves because I
Speaker 1: had been talking to him in the lobby. I was
Speaker 1: waiting on LZ to get there, and he's like, sees Lauren,
Speaker 1: boom gone, he's the nice thing. So he gives the
Speaker 1: Is this weird to say? He gives the best hugs?
Speaker 3: No, bab and I love that.
Speaker 1: You can see he gets okay. So Larry Fitzgerald is
Speaker 1: a He still looks like he should be playing. Just
Speaker 1: a hulk of a man. Google him if you don't know.
Speaker 1: He's a great wide receiver, Hall of Famer and now
Speaker 1: works as an analyst on the Great Amazon Coverage Amazon
Speaker 1: Thursday night football coverage with Wit and Ryan Fitzpatrick and
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson. By the way, but he comes up and
Speaker 1: gives you a big hug, and I was almost jealous
Speaker 1: of that hug because he's like, he just he's big
Speaker 1: arms man. He's just such a Sure's.
Speaker 2: Another thing I loved about this weekend was just the
Speaker 2: bro love.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like at one point because at the resort, the edgewood,
Speaker 2: which is gorgeous. Can't recommend it enough. It's stunning. You
Speaker 2: never when you stay there, you never need to leave
Speaker 2: the property. It's right on the beach of Lake Tahoe.
Speaker 2: And at one point after the day of golf, I
Speaker 2: looked out into the water and my husband was just
Speaker 2: frolicking in the water with a group of men and
Speaker 2: it was beautiful. I mean that in a beautiful way.
Speaker 2: It was like all the guys like Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jason Kelsey was out there.
Speaker 2: You guys have gotten in the water together and you
Speaker 2: were just swimming around and talking about the day.
Speaker 1: I love it very I love what you called it
Speaker 1: a cuddle puddle. It was a cuddle you called it
Speaker 1: a cuddle puddle. She said, did you enjoy your cuddle puddle?
Speaker 1: And I was like, uh yeah, so yeah. Frolicking with
Speaker 1: Jason Kelce and Ryan Fitzpatrick in the Tahoe Waters.
Speaker 2: Well, like, it's really cute. It's cute that you guys
Speaker 2: have this thing that you share. Like you said, golf
Speaker 2: is this instant bonding thing for you all. And it
Speaker 2: made everybody like, the thing is, you have all these
Speaker 2: super successful people, but nobody's like worried about their thing
Speaker 2: that they are successful at this weekend. Yeah, golf became
Speaker 2: this great equalizer that some people who are great athletes
Speaker 2: weren't that great at and some people who aren't we're
Speaker 2: good at. And it brought everybody together under this separate
Speaker 2: umbrella from what they do in life, and it creates
Speaker 2: a really beautiful camaraderie.
Speaker 1: A couple not It's one of my favorite times of
Speaker 1: the day is afterwards I would go into the physio room.
Speaker 1: They have like a physical therapist in there, and you
Speaker 1: can do the little uh, the what do you call
Speaker 1: the sleeves, the compression sleeves on your legs, and then
Speaker 1: they'll work on your back if you want, you can
Speaker 1: stretch and all that. So I'm sitting in there and
Speaker 1: Michael Pania, the great actor, the way, great.
Speaker 2: Dude, such a nice so nice to meet, you know.
Speaker 3: It's always kind of a tell pretty good golfer.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 2: A tell is if someone and this is just anybody
Speaker 2: in life, but if they not only like say hi
Speaker 2: to you, but also say hello to your spouse and
Speaker 2: say hi. And Michael Panya and Don Cheedele were both
Speaker 2: so lovely, So thank you to them for being such.
Speaker 1: This is what I love. This is why I love
Speaker 1: Lauren Zema. So I'm in. We're in the room there
Speaker 1: afterwards yesterday and we have it. We have the telecast on.
Speaker 1: We're watching Marty Fish and Taylor Twelman, a bunch of
Speaker 1: the guys that are doing really well finish up.
Speaker 2: It's like the final, yeah, the final.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting in the physio room with Michael Pania.
Speaker 1: We're talking. I've known Pania for a while, and Don Cheedle,
Speaker 1: David Wells, the Great Pitcher, walked in. Some other guys
Speaker 1: were kind of filtering in and you were so good.
Speaker 1: You're like, you knew how much I was enjoying that room,
Speaker 1: and you, babe, stay here and watch the end of
Speaker 1: the golf. I'm gonna go upstairs and just chill for
Speaker 1: a little bit. And so you kind of left me
Speaker 1: knowing that was cool for me to like hang out
Speaker 1: with these guys to talk to him, to catch up,
Speaker 1: and it was really fun. And so I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you recognize those moments.
Speaker 2: Well exactly, I was sitting in there with you, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I want to be with you, but
Speaker 2: I just knew if I'm winghing and talking here like
Speaker 2: you guys just wanted to talk about the golf, you know,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, if I'm here, it changes the conversation.
Speaker 2: So let me just like go chill in the room
Speaker 2: for a minute and then I'll catch up with you
Speaker 2: later and enjoy this moment.
Speaker 1: Okay, two other things I need to mention because these
Speaker 1: were connected and very surreal. Number one, back to karaoke
Speaker 1: Brett bar Oh, say what you will about Brett Baar.
Speaker 1: I don't care about politics, none of that. Brett Bear
Speaker 1: got up on karaoke night and he brought the house down.
Speaker 1: I think Travis, because of you know, Travis Kelsey, he
Speaker 1: ended up winning. Brett bar was second. I believe you
Speaker 1: could have easily made a case for Brett Bhaar to
Speaker 1: have won this thing. At one point he was rapping.
Speaker 1: Brett Bear was rapping and killed it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, first, he did a rewrite of I believe
Speaker 2: it was Country Road, and he rewrote it to like be.
Speaker 1: About American century, golf, no.
Speaker 2: But also like I think it was about like the
Speaker 2: election a little bit and stuff, but in a funny way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was so nice and he was so smart.
Speaker 2: And then he went into he goes hold level up,
Speaker 2: I want to like change a little bit. And I
Speaker 2: think he wrapped every word of Rapper's Delight at the
Speaker 2: Sugarhill Gang like you the entire song.
Speaker 1: Yes, Brett, and I know what you're thinking, great showman,
Speaker 1: this is the Brett Bear. We're all thinking of Fox News. Yes.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I talked to Brett for quite
Speaker 1: some time because I had known, uh, you know, we'd
Speaker 1: met at the Pebble Beach pro am, but we never
Speaker 1: really had a chance to talk. And the great thing
Speaker 1: about the American Century that's different from Pebble Beach. You
Speaker 1: kind of run into people at Pebble Beach, but you
Speaker 1: really don't have a lot of time. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not as fraternal and collegial as far as getting together
Speaker 1: at all these events, whereas American Century is all about that.
Speaker 1: So you end up having really meaningful conversations with people
Speaker 1: and really getting to know not just them, but there
Speaker 1: are spouses and kids that are running around, so it's
Speaker 1: really just a deeper, deeper connection. And so I talked
Speaker 1: to Brett several times and got to know him really
Speaker 1: well and just a real gem of a human being.
Speaker 1: And then that leads to Saturday. And obviously we all
Speaker 1: know the historical event, the assassination attempt that took place
Speaker 1: on Saturday with former President Trump. And this happened around lunchtime.
Speaker 1: So we finished and we were eating lunch, so Elsie
Speaker 1: and I my caddy, my buddy Chip Humphreyes who was
Speaker 1: my caddie, shout out to Chip and we kind of see.
Speaker 1: So over at this other table next to us is
Speaker 1: Larry the cable guy and Brett Baer And what was
Speaker 1: crazy is so, Lauren, I'll never hear you looked at
Speaker 1: your phone and you go someone like Trump's been shot.
Speaker 2: Well, I was honestly confused for a second because my
Speaker 2: mom texted me like about you golfing and like about
Speaker 2: your shot. But then like a second later she was
Speaker 2: like Trump was shot, And I truly thought she was
Speaker 2: talking about like Trump also golfing somewhere yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and then I realized, oh my god, no, she means
Speaker 2: Trump was shot. And it was sort of very instantaneous
Speaker 2: because I think she must have been watching you on TV.
Speaker 2: And then the news broke and so then we all
Speaker 2: pull out our phones and obviously the mood changed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we knew it was interesting because and the reason
Speaker 1: I pointed that out with Brett Bear is you kind
Speaker 1: of felt this commotion, this energy to our left, and
Speaker 1: that's where Brett was, and I realized he had already
Speaker 1: been on the phone for a while, like he was.
Speaker 1: He had walked off and kind of had his back
Speaker 1: turn to everybody and was obviously getting the news firsthand
Speaker 1: of what was going on. And then you know, moments later,
Speaker 1: we all kind of dispersed, went back to our rooms,
Speaker 1: turned on the news like everybody did for the next
Speaker 1: five hours, and was mesmerized by it and quickly saw
Speaker 1: that Brett was on the air, and he flew directly
Speaker 1: to Milwaukee and started, yeah, yeah, he got on a
Speaker 1: plane and meeting. He dropped out of the tournament and
Speaker 1: went straight to Milwaukee and you know, went into breaking
Speaker 1: news mode. But it was just it was the juxtaposition
Speaker 1: of we're sitting there, just said hi to Brett Bear
Speaker 1: and then thirty minutes later, in the middle of lunch,
Speaker 1: all this happened and you see him in go mode.
Speaker 1: It was. It was pretty fascinating, and so it was
Speaker 1: kind of that historical moment, one of those. It's kind
Speaker 1: of one of those times you'll probably never forget where
Speaker 1: you were when you heard it happen. That was one
Speaker 1: of them. And to be sitting in that moment and
Speaker 1: to have Brett there and and Larry the Cable Guy
Speaker 1: was a little surreal.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was Larry the Cable Guy. Such he must
Speaker 2: have his golf gear custom meet because was it like
Speaker 2: that the T shirts still the golf shirts.
Speaker 1: Still looks like a still sleeveless. Yeah, no, he never
Speaker 1: never breaks out of character.
Speaker 3: And then I think he had like golf balls were.
Speaker 2: What was on his golf balls?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had the stars and stripes, he had the American.
Speaker 2: Golf balls and custom golf Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know know, I will say Calloway Golf, shout out
Speaker 1: to Calloway Golf. And while I'm doing it, G four
Speaker 1: as well, who I wore G four outfits all weekend long,
Speaker 1: felt good, played good and thanks to Calloway golf played
Speaker 1: all my Calloway clubs and Callowey balls. Season twenty five
Speaker 1: of The Bachelor, they did make me rose golf balls
Speaker 1: and I played those. Yeah, I did. I think I
Speaker 1: still have some. I should have brought him and thrown
Speaker 1: him around. Next year, next.
Speaker 3: Year, next year, next year, maybe maybe you bring a
Speaker 3: few roses for the people.
Speaker 1: And next year, I think I'm gonna do karaoke. I
Speaker 1: didn't do karaoke. It was it was my freshman year.
Speaker 1: I didn't partake in the karaoke. Ray Romano was up there,
Speaker 1: did a great job.
Speaker 2: We need some suggestions then for your karaoke song. I
Speaker 2: would love please guys, dm us if you have the
Speaker 2: perfect karaoke song for Chris and.
Speaker 1: Rob Wriggle and Brian Baumgardner from the Office hosted Karaoke Night.
Speaker 1: They did a good job. That was fun. Brian's great,
Speaker 1: Brian just kind of he's such a popular because I
Speaker 1: think he's so recognizable. Kevin from the Office and yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just he he can't go anywhere without getting pulled over.
Speaker 2: They might. It was fun to see everybody you know,
Speaker 2: Like you said, we were newbies and you were newbie,
Speaker 2: but people who have been coming for a while. They
Speaker 2: really kind of use people's different talents, like like Jay
Speaker 2: and Jason being musicians, like they played in the tournament,
Speaker 2: but it's like, okay, they're going to play the music
Speaker 2: for the band, or like Colin Joe's does stand up.
Speaker 2: So like Saturday night, the event was we all went
Speaker 2: to watch him do some stand up, which was super cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he brought in a couple comedic friends and they
Speaker 1: So we may need you to.
Speaker 3: Host something at future a sir, But what a weekend
Speaker 3: it was. What do you think.
Speaker 2: Will be the biggest takeaway for you? What was the
Speaker 2: most meaningful part about it?
Speaker 1: Easily the people, The high that I still have today
Speaker 1: from the people that just non stop from the moment
Speaker 1: you walk out of into the lobby at the hotel
Speaker 1: and start heading to the golf course to the time
Speaker 1: you get back to your room, you're just hugging, taking pictures,
Speaker 1: signing autographs, hearing stories, meeting people. It's such a wonderful
Speaker 1: just it fills your cup up in a way that
Speaker 1: I never even imagined. And I had heard great things
Speaker 1: about this tournament, and I heard it was good in
Speaker 1: that way because it's not aggressive and it's not annoying,
Speaker 1: it's not it was just love. There was so much
Speaker 1: love and con camaraderie in the entire place that that's
Speaker 1: what I'll take away. That's what I'll go back for.
Speaker 3: What moment will you remember the most?
Speaker 1: The shot on seventeen for sure? The shot on seventeen.
Speaker 1: I had a couple ones that because those couples will
Speaker 1: probably go back to golf. For me, the players meeting
Speaker 1: for sure, just looking at that around that room and
Speaker 1: just seeing the who's who of people that I have
Speaker 1: admired and loved and respected for so many years during
Speaker 1: my childhood, et cetera, and still do that are still playing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, you know, by the way, I had
Speaker 1: a great conversation with Aaron Rodgers, another person that I
Speaker 1: always enjoy seeing. But people like that that, I'm like,
Speaker 1: they're about to go play, They're they're getting back to it.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, the defending champ, wasn't there because he's getting
Speaker 1: ready for the Olympics. He'll be back next year. Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: he'll probably be back next year. So these are the
Speaker 1: type of people you're seeing and that's the fun part.
Speaker 1: But yeah, golf wise, the tea shot on seventeen yesterday
Speaker 1: and then the people. So a great week at the
Speaker 1: American Century Championship. Again a shout out to my man,
Speaker 1: Chip Humphreys. He's the guy in the colorful pants that
Speaker 1: you saw. He caddied for me, my best friend friend.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my best friend. He came to Tahoe spent
Speaker 1: the week with me, and that, by the way, if
Speaker 1: you asked me, one of the best things just I
Speaker 1: hung out for a week with my best friend. I
Speaker 1: played golf. That's as good as it gets, and we
Speaker 1: played with legends. And a huge thanks to Jonathan Thomas
Speaker 1: his wife Cindy. American Century, thank you for the invite.
Speaker 1: It was an honor. If I am lucky enough to
Speaker 1: be invited back next year, I will be there one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Congrats to Marty Fish who took it down.
Speaker 1: And thank you Tahoe. You guys showed us into all
Speaker 1: those that traveled to Tahoe because I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people traveled in just for this week because it's
Speaker 1: it's a tradition, and a lot of people come every
Speaker 1: week just for the American Century. Thank you you are
Speaker 1: the ones that made it so special and hopefully we
Speaker 1: get a chance to do it again, and most importantly,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, LZ, thank you for showing up being
Speaker 1: there this week, because honestly, it was a thousand times
Speaker 1: more special watching seeing you there, having you there, spending
Speaker 1: time with you because it is a very family oriented event.
Speaker 1: I wanted my family therebe Can.
Speaker 2: You be honest, Yeah, I was there because you wanted
Speaker 2: to ask the advice on every shot, because the greens,
Speaker 2: the greens, no. Like, it was awesome, you know what.
Speaker 2: Probably my favorite part was like watching you be happy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love, I feel privilege to be able
Speaker 2: and blessed that we can have these moments where like
Speaker 2: you can have such joy. It makes me happy for
Speaker 2: you to be happy and to watch you like I
Speaker 2: can't think of a situation where you obviously if you're
Speaker 2: with your family and the kids, but like for you
Speaker 2: to be there with your friend doing something you love,
Speaker 2: surrounded by people you love. I was just so joyful
Speaker 2: watching the smile on your face.
Speaker 1: One great moment with LZ that I didn't tell that
Speaker 1: she's so good because she knows when I'm very competitive
Speaker 1: and at one point I was kind of struggling on
Speaker 1: the back nine. The last few holes of the first
Speaker 1: day and she'd come up give me a hog and
Speaker 1: a kiss, and she's like, next hole, forget about it,
Speaker 1: next holl let's go moving on. And at one point
Speaker 1: she I walked off. I think it was like the
Speaker 1: sixteenth and I hadn't done a very good job, and
Speaker 1: she's like, would it help if I flashed you, and
Speaker 1: just being silly, I said yes anyway. But thanks to
Speaker 1: everybody who was a part of it. It was great
Speaker 1: to see everybody this week. And if I got to
Speaker 1: meet you, thank you for coming up and saying hello,
Speaker 1: if you gave me a shout out said I love you,
Speaker 1: I love you back. It was such such an honor
Speaker 1: and we will do it again next time because we
Speaker 1: have a lot more golf to play. I mean, we
Speaker 1: have a lot more to talk about. Thanks for listening.
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