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"Golf Shop, This is Chris" | Chris Pierce on Going Viral & Life at Hermitage Golf Club · Single Tree Nation Show

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welcome back to single tree nation guys we
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have been trying to record this episode
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for ten minutes welcome i'm your man
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charlie eblen and as always we have our
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illustrious co-host mr derry wells here
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what's up everybody i need char i need
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trent understand we can edit in the intro
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just get going we can fade in we
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can do all this stuff we'll figure it
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all out we missed eight minutes of gold
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babe no just look so i am stoked
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about our guest today uh
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if you're on tick tock you've probably
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already met him um but um i'm on
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instagram and i know who he is because
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i told you yeah he didn't know who
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i was i walked to the door he
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was like hey are you the next guest
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or what are you here to do you
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know i thought i had to use the
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restroom i'll wait until you sit down
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If you have seen Golf Shop This Is
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Chris,
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then you know who our next guest is.
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Mr. Chris,
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and I am drawing a blank on your
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last name.
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It's okay.
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Golf Shop.
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Golf Shop.
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Chris Golf Shop.
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Chris Golf Shop.
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I've answered it far worse.
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so let's uh let's start for the the
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guests and viewers at home that don't know
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you um and give them a quick intro
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to who you are what you do and
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uh we'll dive
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No,
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so I'm the director of golf at Hermitage
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Golf Course in Old Hickory, Tennessee.
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And about three years ago,
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we started doing,
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I guess you'd call them spoof phone calls
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over all the real questions we had gotten
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from people who had walked in the door,
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which then had morphed to...
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Other golf professionals had called and
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said, hey,
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you're never going to believe what's been
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asked.
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Can you please put it in a video?
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Because I don't have a platform to say
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it, and somebody's got to say it.
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And so that's kind of part of my
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gig.
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My full-time gig is that I just mop
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the floors, I take the trash out,
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and I get yelled at when somebody gets
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really, really mad.
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And it works out well for everybody at
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Hermitage because I tell everybody I let
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the adults in the room make all the
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decisions.
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i walk around like i'm busy and then
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they're like hey chris this guy's really
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really mad like you need to go talk
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to him and that's that's about ninety
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percent of my day but she works out
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well for everybody i never understood and
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i've played golf my entire life uh my
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dad played professionally i tried to play
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professionally um but i was too short and
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fat to to play professionally that's what
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the coach told me i don't know that's
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what the
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Oh, thank you.
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That's twice today.
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I'm the best assistant timekeeper there
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is.
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But I've never understood.
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And maybe it's because I just love the
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game so much.
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But I've never understood how people can
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get so upset on a golf course.
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Oh, whatever.
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I don't even play golf.
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And I know why y'all can get upset.
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There is a goal.
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And if you were this much competitive and
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you think you did it right.
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And you, the wind,
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the bird came by and crapped on your
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ball.
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I don't care what happened.
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You will find a way to become a
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fear.
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I could get infuriated for you.
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I could walk around and just be pissed.
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Give me a five dollar set of clubs.
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I can be pissed for you.
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Cause it's so that's part of what the
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public loves watching the meltdown.
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But a bad day on the golf course
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is a great day to anything else.
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I could see both sides.
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The thing that baffles me being on this
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side of the counter and managing golf
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courses is the amount of people who will
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come in and get mad because I played
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in four hours and forty five minutes
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instead of four and a half hours.
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And it's like we're talking about fifteen
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minutes, Mr. President.
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I don't know what you're doing.
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We're talking about fifteen minutes.
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You know what I mean?
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And I don't mean that.
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I say that like,
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what are you doing where that fifteen
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minutes is a big deal?
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Right.
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You know, hey, listen, don't get me wrong.
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If your schedule's that tight,
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golf wasn't your thing today.
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We probably weren't what you need to be
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doing.
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You know,
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and so sometimes that's the stuff I think
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for all golf professionals that baffles
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us.
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I totally understand if somebody says
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something to you or whatever the case may
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be.
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I get that.
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I get that.
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I totally get that.
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You've paid good money and you want to
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be treated a certain way.
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I totally understand that.
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I do.
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But to say, well,
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I thought I was going to play in
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four and a half hours and we played
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in four hours and forty five minutes and
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it ruined my experience.
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It's like, really?
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You know,
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and then you take the aspect of.
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I'm, I'm this way, right?
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I mean, I brought the cripple.
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Who's going to slow your walk down then?
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That's what you shouldn't have done.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Tell me if I played with you last
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week,
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I wouldn't have slowed your game down.
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You're not crippled.
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That ankle was pretty sore last week.
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Well,
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I've seen people who were bad golfers play
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really fast.
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And I've seen people, Oh,
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Speaking of professionally, right?
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I mean,
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I tell people all the time I tried
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to play mini tours for two years and
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I love to eat and I wasn't a
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good enough player to eat while I was
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out there on tour.
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And I was like,
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I got to get real.
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And I was bad, but I played fast.
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You know, I mean,
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I was I remember going to my first
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professional event and I shot ninety two.
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and uh but i did it really really
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fast because i didn't want to slow the
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guys around me who were shooting and and
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the best part about or the worst part
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about it was you have to show back
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up for the second round and they're just
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like god this guy came back oh no
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one guy one time was like hey man
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i'll just pay you the entry fee if
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you're afraid of losing the money and i
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said dude if you just pay a quarter
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of my entry fee i'll go home
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You know, I don't want to be here.
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You can clearly tell.
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I don't need to be here.
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You know, it wasn't like I got shot.
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Your first professional tournament you
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shot ninety-two.
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I shot ninety-two.
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Posted it.
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But then you could go home and be
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like, hey honey, I didn't make money,
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but I didn't lose money.
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No,
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the problem is you did lose money because
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I had to buy gas and I think
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I lost like golf balls and I had
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to buy balls.
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Chris,
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what you don't understand is how good you
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just made me feel.
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you know because my first my first
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professional tournament i shot and i
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thought i was the worst golfer in america
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no no no no i um it got
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a little bit better where did you play
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so i did your very your first tournament
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uh my first tournament was the state open
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qualifier for the tga okay uh i shot
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I played at Greystone,
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which I absolutely love that golf course.
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I think it's always in great shape.
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They always do a really,
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really good job down there of running the
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facility.
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The TGA does a great job of running
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events.
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I wish I had a better story to
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say, hey, after that,
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I went on and I played thirteen years
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on tour and the case of the matter
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is I went on and I missed a
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lot of cuts.
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And so I don't have that,
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I don't have that story,
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which it worked out great.
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It sure did.
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You know, and I love that I'm there.
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I met my wife there.
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I've met some of my best friends there.
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That's awesome.
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Um,
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but I don't have this story of like,
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well, I shot in the state open qualifier.
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And then after that, I figured it out.
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I figured out I didn't need to be
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doing this, but I had a great time.
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And then I went and did some, um,
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Carolina's pro tour in North Carolina.
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I did some winter series stuff in Florida.
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And then I was a caddie for a
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little bit for a good buddy of mine,
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Zach Radford,
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who hits all these trick shots on
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Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
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Super good guy, really,
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really good player.
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So I got that aspect of it,
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but then I found out I'm not.
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I tell this story all the time.
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Best round I ever shot in competition was
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.
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I went out,
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I played about as well as I could
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play.
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This dude shows up on the number one
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tee.
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I think he's still drunk.
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He throws up before he tees off.
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He probably throws up two or three more
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times.
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Probably ends up being hung over by like
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hole seven or eight.
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He slaps it around the yard for four
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hours, shoots sixty-seven.
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And he played so bad.
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And I thought,
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I'm in the wrong side of the business.
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I'm not beating that guy on his best
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day.
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I played as well as I could play
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and shot .
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And after that,
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that was the last tournament I played in.
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And I was like,
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I need a real job.
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But you knew your limit, though.
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I did.
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I had a great time.
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Met some really cool people.
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Some guys who were still playing out
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there.
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For us non-golf types,
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you have people who love the game.
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have tried your hand at the pro side
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and whatever else there is a skill there
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is an ability how much of it comes
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down to though just the ability to hit
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a hundred balls instead of ten the
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consistency or is just some of people are
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just not going to be that good and
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that's just where it's at
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I think at the competitive level,
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at that level,
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you're talking about two or three shots.
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And it usually comes down to,
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there's a lot of guys who play at
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Hermitage that if you put them on the
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range and you watched them hit range
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balls, you're like,
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I bet that guy plays on tour.
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Like, I bet he does something on tour.
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The difference with the guys on the mini
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tours,
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on like the Corn Ferry and the PGA
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Tour,
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you're talking about two shots a weekend.
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when you think about it.
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And it usually comes down to,
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and I used to know this stat,
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the average,
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the worst putter on the PGA Tour,
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I think averages like,
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thirty putts a round.
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The worst putter on probably some of these
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mini tours or the best putter on some
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of these mini tours probably average like
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thirty two putts around.
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OK.
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Well, when you take that over four rounds,
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that's eight shots.
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Right.
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Right.
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OK.
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And it's not anything that you can see.
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Right.
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By watching him swing or him swing or
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you swing or me swing.
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It just comes down to he's making ten
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footer after ten footer after ten footer.
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And you're only making three ten footers.
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OK.
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And that's the difference at the top.
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I played with some guys when they hit
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it.
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I was like, I don't know.
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about that.
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It didn't sound the same,
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it didn't look the same,
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but you put them within a hundred and
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twenty, a hundred yards.
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Unbelievable.
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I mean, they were, they were hitting it,
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they were hitting it inside this table.
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Right.
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Consistently.
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Right.
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Then you get them on the green or
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you get them around the green and they've
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got to get it up and down and
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they're going to make par a heck of
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a lot more than what they're going to
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make bogey.
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That's the difference.
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That's the difference.
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I've never heard it put quite that way.
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And like when it's just two or three
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shots per round or weekend, like that's,
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that's awesome.
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How much of that is the mental head
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space?
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A lot.
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Okay.
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And I think that's any sport, right?
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Kind of on my own page,
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and it's funny that you teach at Oakland.
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My brother was a head football coach at
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Blackman Middle for a long time.
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Now he's the head high school football
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coach at DCA.
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And I coached for a long time,
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and I coached with him.
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And I think that's every sport,
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that some people just have the ability to
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give me the ball and get out of
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the way.
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And I don't care if it's football,
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baseball, basketball, golf, tennis,
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you name it.
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And I do think there are some people
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who,
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when they step on their field of
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competition,
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they're able to go to a completely
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different universe.
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And you're just like, okay,
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that person's got something.
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Tim Grover's book about –
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relentless.
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He talks about Michael Jordan did that.
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Like when he was on the court,
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he was at this next level that nobody
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could attain to.
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And so I wonder that.
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And a lot of athletes just have the
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ability to be an athlete.
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Like they just let the natural take over.
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And, uh, I'm always curious about golf.
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I respect the heck out of it.
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I would never legitimately step out there
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and play it.
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But when I
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three people who play fairly regularly i
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get intrigued by it just enough i think
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i could buy clubs but then i'm smart
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i'm like no wait a minute but see
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here's the thing it's a it's a fantastic
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game for everybody right right and the
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great thing about golf is the clock runs
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out on any other sports you play right
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i mean you're going to have i mean
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just take we're in the season of football
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right now think about how many seniors
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just in rutherford county right now in
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what eight weeks right that clock's going
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around they're never going to play another
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snap of football
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Golf,
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you can play competitive golf your whole
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life.
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They have amateur tours.
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They have the TGA.
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And then if you don't really care for
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that aspect,
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you can play golf your entire life.
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The amount of people who came out during
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COVID when golf was one of the outside
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activities that you could do,
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and they just do it recreationally.
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They don't care what they shoot.
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Heck, some don't even keep score.
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They buy a six-pack of beer.
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They're with their three other buddies.
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They ride around, and for four,
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four and a half,
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they go have a great time.
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I'll be the golf cart driver.
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We see that too.
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We have a nonprofit that I'm on the
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board of called Minutes Wisely.
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we give back to veterans first responders
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and gold star families um we just had
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a big barbecue event the other day at
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the restaurant and we're doing a
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tournament tomorrow um here in town um and
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the amazing thing about golf for me is
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just being on the course i'm not playing
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tomorrow i'm i'm i'm driving around the
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photographer and i'm stoked
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Like the weather's supposed to be nice.
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I'm going to be on a golf course
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all day.
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Like it's going to be great.
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Like there's, it's, it doesn't matter.
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And it doesn't to me,
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like I growing up,
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on a golf course in my life has
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always been,
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I've been to so many different kinds of
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golf courses because after my dad's
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professional career,
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he went into being a pro,
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he was a greenskeeper, superintendent,
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and then became a sales rep for Tommy
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Armour Golf.
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And so I grew up in the game.
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And just being on a golf course is
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almost like being home, right?
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There's nostalgia there for you.
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Very much so, right?
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So if I wasn't on a golf course,
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I was cooking and barbecuing.
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That's just what we did, right?
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I was on a farm with a fire
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or I was on a golf course having
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a good time.
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And it's just it's a wonderful sport that
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hit the nail on the head.
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You can be sixty five,
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seventy years old and go out and enjoy
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the day and have a great time and
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and play the game.
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But you're not going to do that in
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baseball.
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And the great thing about golf is a
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lot of the golf courses that you see
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the tour professionals play,
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you can go play.
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There's some private courses that you
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can't get on,
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but you can go play Pebble.
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And the Ryder Cup's here in a few
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weeks.
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I think it's at Bethpage,
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which I should probably know that as a
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PGA golf professional, but I don't.
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With actual dates?
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That and the golf course.
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That's kind of the big deal.
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But you can go play those.
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You're never going to stand in Yankee
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Stadium and get a fastball.
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You're never going to do that.
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What's the one in Scotland?
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st andrews st andrews if i there's a
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few but saying there's what we're talking
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about okay if i had that's the ones
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on the sea right most of them most
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of yeah yeah if i had a dream
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golf course it's st andrews and that comes
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from tiger woods pga game on whatever my
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brother played back in the day
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because every time we went to that and
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then you start and get older and you
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realize how beautiful that is and like it
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is just awesome if i had a a
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bucket list of of places that'd be mine
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so now that i've said that do you
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have one that you've never played that you
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like if i ever got the opportunity to
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go there
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I think I went there and I watched
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it with the Masters at Augusta.
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I think that's my bucket list.
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That or Pebble to go play those two.
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And to talk about golf courses, I mean,
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there's not really many better places you
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can spend four, four and a half,
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five hours outside.
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They're always well kept.
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The weather's usually perfect when you're
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out there.
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don't have a lot of riff raff around
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it's just quiet i mean you can kind
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of be with yourself you're with your
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buddies or whatever the case may be so
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there is an unbelievable amount of upside
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um to being on a golf course and
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even if you're not a golfer and this
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is why i say augusta even if you're
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not a golfer you have to go see
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the piece of property right i mean
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nothing's out of place it's kept i mean
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it's it was the brush the grass oh
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i know i used to teach with a
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guy that had somehow had the family
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connection he'd been going since he was
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like
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years old, went every year, always on,
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I think between and somewhere in there,
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same spot, same thing every year.
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And that was what he talked about was
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just, it's one thing,
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like even non golfers know Augusta, right?
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I mean that like that's,
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but once he said,
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once you're on that property,
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and you see just the entirety of the
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landscape he said we make jokes about the
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two dollar per minute she sandwich or
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whatever but like then you're there yep
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and you see the clubhouse and you see
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the the blade of grass that was laid
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to the right not the left you know
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what and he just said it's it's wild
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so it's wild
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um i think that'd be cool to visit
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i would i wouldn't have any business even
16:52
putting a club on the grass there but
16:55
it'd be cool so they wouldn't allow you
16:56
no they wouldn't no they wouldn't they'd
16:58
see me coming a mile late no sir
17:01
no you stay away the pimento cheese is
17:04
over there your content how much of that
17:09
is rooted in the the the stuff that
17:12
you have heard on a day-to-day basis
17:16
Uh,
17:16
just about a hundred percent of the
17:17
questions.
17:20
I think we did a video on like
17:21
cicadas.
17:21
Right.
17:21
That's the only one that wasn't real.
17:24
Right.
17:24
Um, the majority of those,
17:26
those questions were asked in that pro
17:28
shop.
17:30
I can't imagine.
17:31
I wouldn't be able to keep a straight
17:32
face.
17:32
I would just feel like,
17:33
did you really just ask me that?
17:34
The best part about it was when we
17:36
first started, like, it wasn't my idea.
17:38
So Hermitage Golf Course is family owned.
17:41
And so the daughter is the president.
17:43
And what she's done with the place is
17:44
incredible.
17:47
The daughter-in-law is director of
17:48
marketing and the son-in-law is the GM.
17:50
And like I said,
17:51
I let all the adults in the room
17:52
make the decision.
17:52
So anyways,
17:53
it was pouring down rain one day and
17:54
we're telling a bunch of stories.
17:56
And they said, well,
17:57
let's just act like you're answering the
17:58
phone.
17:59
And I said,
18:00
I don't know about this guy.
18:01
I was like,
18:02
we're hardcore making fun of people.
18:04
Yeah, it's wonderful.
18:07
I mean, right.
18:09
And so the director of marketing was at
18:10
a huge ad agency before she was in
18:12
Hermitage.
18:13
And she said, listen, let's just do one.
18:15
If it falls flat, no harm, no foul.
18:17
You know, we'll just, hey,
18:18
we tried something.
18:18
It didn't work out.
18:19
And there's a guy who's been managing the
18:21
social source for a long time.
18:22
And he said, I'll film it.
18:23
And he does such a good job of
18:25
filming and answering the questions and
18:26
all of that.
18:27
And we did one and it took off.
18:29
And they were like,
18:30
do you want to keep going?
18:31
And I was like, well, yeah,
18:32
if y'all want to keep going,
18:32
we'll keep doing this.
18:33
And so it was awesome.
18:35
He goes, hey,
18:35
let's just kind of start writing some
18:37
ideas down,
18:37
and I can make a script for you,
18:39
and you can read it.
18:39
And I said, oh.
18:41
I said, hey, let me tell you something.
18:43
I said,
18:44
the last book I read was The Berenstain
18:46
Bears Try for the Team.
18:47
And I don't know if they made the
18:49
team because I didn't finish the book.
18:51
I said,
18:51
so I'm not sure I'm going to be
18:52
able to read that script.
18:55
And he didn't believe me.
18:56
And since then, he's been like,
18:57
you know what?
18:57
You're right.
18:57
You're never going to be able to read
18:58
that script.
18:59
And we just kind of riff.
19:01
Like, we just kind of would be like,
19:02
well, what do you want to do here?
19:03
And I was like, well, you know,
19:04
I heard this question the other day.
19:05
And so we would kind of take it
19:07
that way.
19:07
And then we thought, okay,
19:09
we could do something on like
19:10
announcements for scrambles because
19:12
nobody's listening.
19:13
You know,
19:13
you got this rule sheet and par's your
19:15
partner and you can't shoot any worse than
19:17
.
19:17
And somebody turns in .
19:23
And they're like,
19:23
you made that announcement?
19:24
I said, we did.
19:25
And we put it in print.
19:27
You signed the waiver.
19:30
Like you asked what tees you were playing
19:31
from and right underneath that you said
19:32
you can't shoot anywhere.
19:35
And so we just did all of that.
19:37
Like we just did what we thought would
19:38
be funny.
19:39
And we were just trying to entertain.
19:42
And the amount of people that I've had
19:44
call since.
19:46
and been like,
19:47
you shouldn't talk to your customers like
19:48
this.
19:49
This is not how golf is.
19:51
This is not customer service.
19:52
If you worked at my place,
19:53
I'd get you fired.
19:54
And eventually I was like, hey, listen,
19:55
mom,
19:55
I know you're not a huge fan of
19:56
my material,
19:57
but just don't call every time I release
19:58
a video.
19:58
And so, no, I mean,
20:00
I had a guy stop me in the
20:02
bar and he was like, hey man,
20:04
I watch your...
20:06
I watch your videos.
20:08
And I said, okay.
20:09
And he said, you're talking about me.
20:12
And I thought,
20:13
this guy's about to hit me.
20:15
How's this going to go?
20:16
And he goes, sir,
20:18
I've asked all those questions.
20:21
And I said, really?
20:22
And he goes, the weather?
20:25
Asked it.
20:25
What's the radar?
20:26
Asked it.
20:27
Speed of the greens?
20:28
I don't need to be doing that.
20:29
Yardage book?
20:30
He said, sir,
20:30
I've asked all those questions.
20:31
And I thought, where's he going with this?
20:33
And he said, let me tell you something.
20:34
Because of you.
20:36
I've stopped them all.
20:38
And I said,
20:38
somebody loves you more than you know,
20:39
sir.
20:39
He goes, I don't know about that,
20:40
but I'm not doing that anymore.
20:43
And, uh,
20:46
I was going to ask if you've had
20:48
anybody come up and be like,
20:49
was that one about me?
20:51
I do.
20:52
I do.
20:52
I do.
20:53
Let's take a quick break and we're going
20:54
to come back and dive into that.
20:56
Killing the vibe.
20:58
Sorry.
21:01
I did that.
21:01
Uh,
21:04
welcome back to single tree nation guys
21:07
we're diving right back into questions
21:10
with uh chris here questions from the
21:12
guilty that's what it is there's a podcast
21:17
questions from the guilty i don't even
21:22
know but his name's kyle like i don't
21:24
like that and i'm not wrong kyle and
21:28
chad both
21:30
cornered Chris.
21:31
That was me, wasn't it?
21:35
He didn't say no, by the way.
21:36
I mean,
21:37
there's been a lot of people over the
21:39
last two and a half years who have
21:40
come up and been like,
21:42
is that about me?
21:43
So y'all started doing that two and a
21:45
half years ago.
21:47
Sure.
21:49
Somewhere in that neighborhood.
21:51
It's kind of all ran together.
21:53
Because I didn't think...
21:55
I thought what we were talking about was
21:57
funny, right?
21:58
But I thought what we were talking about
21:59
was funny to a really, really,
22:01
really small group of people.
22:03
And who I thought would get it would
22:04
be like golf professionals and people in
22:05
the industry.
22:08
But the amount of people who have come
22:09
into Hermitage Golf Course and said,
22:10
I've never played golf,
22:11
I'll never play golf,
22:12
I've never held a golf club,
22:14
but I had to come see the place
22:15
because of what you're doing online.
22:16
And I think it's hilarious.
22:18
And I wasn't being disingenuous because
22:19
that's not lost on me that people are
22:21
coming to Hermitage Golf Course,
22:22
but I was like,
22:23
how did you get the joke?
22:24
Right.
22:25
Like,
22:25
you don't know what we were talking about.
22:27
And they're like,
22:28
we just thought it was great.
22:29
And they buy a shirt and they buy
22:30
lunch.
22:30
And so it's been really cool.
22:32
It's been a different way for us to
22:34
be able to tell our story,
22:36
to get people on property.
22:36
And to reach the non-golfer.
22:38
That's right.
22:38
I mean,
22:38
because if you get somebody to come in
22:39
and drop fifty bucks,
22:41
that's the only time everyone will spend
22:42
that fifty bucks with you.
22:43
I mean,
22:43
that's fifty more than you would have had
22:45
any other time.
22:45
You haven't bought a golf shirt in a
22:46
while, huh?
22:49
I was talking about lunch.
22:58
I'm amazed at what golf certs cost.
23:00
Cause I was, after you said, I was,
23:02
oh, that's right.
23:02
They're like seven or eight bucks.
23:04
And he's like, no,
23:05
I'm not even coming in here in that
23:09
basement.
23:14
and they drop fifty dollars they get who
23:15
wears heather gray to the golf course
23:17
that's what i want to know he giggled
23:22
that'd be a big problem what do they
23:25
identify as i don't know i don't know
23:27
i'm gonna leave that spring leave me alone
23:28
i made one joke one time that i'm
23:34
i'm big fall guys autumn weather i mean
23:36
like big boy weather's here right i made
23:39
one joke like a year and a half
23:41
ago and i cannot get away from it
23:44
So I did the best thing.
23:45
I embraced it,
23:46
and now I'm making fun of myself with
23:47
it.
23:47
That's the best way to do it.
23:48
Look,
23:49
we hadn't brought up MapQuest in a long
23:50
time.
23:50
Shut up!
23:51
Like, whatever!
23:53
You still use MapQuest?
23:58
I had it sitting in the seat.
23:59
Chris, I keep a printout.
24:01
I did.
24:02
I printed the directions and I had it
24:05
in the passenger seat.
24:06
My wife was like, you could use ways.
24:08
And I was like, why?
24:08
It's a fad.
24:12
I saw a thing the other day said
24:13
that people are talking about putting
24:15
accidents away so nobody will go that way.
24:17
So how do you make it better?
24:19
You're still using like the Tom Tom,
24:21
you know?
24:24
Oh wow.
24:25
All right.
24:25
Yeah.
24:26
Anyhow.
24:26
All right.
24:27
All right.
24:28
Expensive golf starts a heck of a segue.
24:30
We did there.
24:31
Oh man.
24:34
So did you ever,
24:37
did you ever think that it was going
24:39
to continue into what it has today?
24:41
No, you didn't really, I mean,
24:44
based off of what it looked like to
24:46
me when I was going through your socials
24:48
is it really didn't look like you were
24:49
doing much social prior to the
24:53
i did none on my own page and
24:56
and we were we hired sam is the
24:58
gentleman who manages all that for us and
25:01
uh and we were just showing off the
25:02
golf course and and here's hermitage and
25:04
this is what we're doing and we had
25:05
this idea and at first we did it
25:07
on tick tock and then we started to
25:08
kind of branch it into instagram and and
25:11
i don't think any of us thought
25:14
it would be where it is, right?
25:17
And the amount of people who would want
25:19
to come in and the amount of people
25:20
that it would bring to Hermitage.
25:21
I certainly didn't.
25:23
Again,
25:24
I thought we're making fun of people.
25:27
How's this going to be received?
25:28
And I don't care.
25:29
I love to tell jokes.
25:30
I love to write.
25:31
I do stuff on my own page about
25:32
coaching and being married and having
25:34
kids.
25:35
But I didn't want to make it harder
25:36
on anybody else.
25:37
For me, the best part,
25:38
like your dual purpose.
25:41
It's not just the golf part that you
25:43
come in,
25:43
the high school coach day one or whatever.
25:45
And I'm like, this is grossly accurate.
25:47
Now I know.
25:50
But the holy cow, I'm like,
25:52
you're disgusting because I can have this
25:54
conversation.
25:54
But the best part about that is,
25:56
and somebody asked me, they're like,
25:57
we're like,
25:57
how do you find time to film?
25:59
And I said,
26:00
when my wife asked me to do something
26:01
around the house.
26:04
I'm like, I'm not doing that.
26:07
And she'll come back and she's like,
26:07
Chris, the house is still a wreck.
26:09
And I'm like, yeah, but check this video.
26:12
She's like, what is that?
26:17
I asked you to lay out ground beef.
26:18
She said, I asked if you could vacuum.
26:19
And I was like, yeah,
26:19
but it's spring ball day one.
26:21
We got content to film.
26:25
What are we doing?
26:28
like it's homecoming yes look i haven't
26:32
gotten past the football videos okay
26:34
because i've been going through your
26:36
personal stuff to listen to those because
26:39
the hermitage ones get me every time so
26:41
i have to i have to space my
26:43
time out but the uh
26:47
are you are you strictly football or do
26:50
you go into basketball hockey yeah
26:54
baseball i'll do baseball basketball like
26:56
i started doing like some eight u um
26:58
travel ball stuff oh buddy and one of
27:01
the one of the biggest videos i ever
27:02
did on my own page was there's three
27:04
reasons that you make a travel ball team
27:07
and uh i said one you uh you
27:11
either know the coaching and the coaching
27:12
staff
27:13
Two,
27:14
your dad's got a lot of money and
27:15
he pays for it.
27:16
Or three, you got a hot mom.
27:17
Right?
27:18
It's the only three reasons you make a
27:19
travel ball team.
27:20
Hang on.
27:22
I have been in the stands in a
27:24
high school basketball game.
27:25
I got all three of those.
27:26
And have heard all this from high school
27:29
coaches.
27:29
Like, whatever.
27:31
Look at her.
27:31
That's the only reason he made that team.
27:33
I'm like, no, stop.
27:34
But it fast forward.
27:36
I,
27:37
when I first started teaching kids would
27:39
come all the time.
27:39
No, I'm on the AAU team.
27:41
I said, good.
27:42
You wrote a check.
27:43
No.
27:43
Oh, we had tryouts.
27:44
Right.
27:45
And then you wrote a two hundred and
27:46
fifty dollars check like that for the
27:49
first week.
27:51
for just the shoes.
27:52
But they would get so upset that I
27:54
would reduce it down to,
27:55
you wrote a check.
27:56
I'm sorry.
27:58
It's grossly accurate.
27:59
It's so accurate.
28:00
I started doing it.
28:01
And look,
28:02
I think there's a place for trouble ball.
28:04
A hundred percent, there is.
28:04
And I think there's a thing like- There's
28:06
a place to make fun of those pants
28:07
too.
28:07
And I'm making fun of myself.
28:09
Right.
28:09
I mean,
28:10
like one of the videos we did on
28:11
hermitage, one of the first ones we did,
28:13
I made fun of myself because when we
28:16
started it, they said,
28:16
do you want to hear the bad comments
28:17
or the good comments?
28:18
And I said,
28:18
I want to hear the bad comments because
28:20
we can make that funny.
28:21
Right.
28:22
That's where the gold's at.
28:22
That's where the gold's at.
28:23
And this one guy was like, you know,
28:25
he looks like a middle-aged PE teacher
28:27
with a bad haircut.
28:28
And I was like, I'm not middle-aged,
28:30
you know,
28:32
I thought I kept better care of my
28:34
skin.
28:34
So I was like, you failed that test,
28:36
bud.
28:37
But I just thought, okay, that'll be cool.
28:39
And I thought, okay, listen,
28:40
if you're going to make fun of people
28:41
online,
28:42
you have to expect them to make fun
28:43
back online.
28:44
And that's part of the fun.
28:46
And my thought process is if we can
28:48
laugh at ourselves and one another and
28:50
non-serious issues,
28:51
the world would be a better place.
28:52
And we're just having fun.
28:54
We just want to entertain.
28:55
And I tell people all the time,
28:56
because I really did have a guy call
28:57
me and he said,
29:00
I just don't think you should talk to
29:01
your customer like this.
29:02
And I said, well, hold on.
29:03
You think it's a real phone call?
29:05
And I said,
29:05
what do you think the odds are we
29:06
set a camera up in the shop for
29:07
eight hours?
29:08
I worked my entire shift.
29:09
I got the same question three times and
29:10
we took out the other material we didn't
29:12
want.
29:12
And he goes, you know,
29:14
when you say it like that,
29:15
it makes a lot more sense.
29:18
But still, if you worked at my club,
29:19
I'd get you fired.
29:20
And I should have let it go.
29:21
I should have just said, you know what,
29:22
maybe this is not for you.
29:23
And I said, well,
29:24
so that's what I'm trying to do here.
29:25
I just don't know what to say.
29:26
Click.
29:31
we're the right opposite at hermitage and
29:32
that's what i i also want to convey
29:35
when i do podcasts or we do videos
29:36
is that if you showed up to hermitage
29:38
and you had a bad experience we're going
29:40
to bend over backwards to make sure we
29:41
take care of it oh hands down this
29:42
is just a way that we entertain and
29:45
we get it out and and look at
29:46
somebody that has played there recently i
29:48
your your course is amazing thank you the
29:50
people are amazing everybody in there
29:51
treated us with the utmost hospitality we
29:54
had we had an absolute blast i was
29:57
setting up the lunch tent on
30:00
whatever hole i was on i don't even
30:02
remember now but and i had four or
30:05
five people go by me how you doing
30:07
today sir everything good what can i do
30:08
for you like i mean it's y'all were
30:10
phenomenal okay phenomenal yeah there's a
30:12
bunch of really good people that that care
30:14
about the place right and and it's not
30:17
and i think it's from the top down
30:18
i think it's from ownership down that
30:20
there's such good people to work for that
30:22
you want to see the place succeed
30:23
How much of that is rooted in because
30:25
it is held by the family versus an
30:28
exclusive private club?
30:29
I think it's one hundred percent.
30:30
You know what I'm saying?
30:31
I think it's one hundred percent right.
30:33
I tell people this all the time.
30:34
Mr. Eller,
30:35
who I think the absolute world of,
30:37
he's seventy five, seventy five, seventy.
30:41
Yeah, I think he just turned seventy five.
30:42
And a couple of years ago,
30:43
he wanted to start all over on the
30:44
general's retreat because he still has a
30:45
vision of we can be better and we
30:48
can strive to be better.
30:49
And when the gentleman who's had an
30:50
unbelievable career says,
30:52
says hey we can be better that trickles
30:54
all the way down right and and to
30:56
somebody who has put money so much money
30:59
back in the place for bunkers and greens
31:01
a new bar and grill we just opened
31:03
two new lodges you you want to work
31:06
for people like that and you want to
31:08
go the extra mile for people like that
31:10
and the best part about the videos
31:12
is ashley who's his daughter the president
31:14
i said hey this was like video five
31:17
or six in and i said hey has
31:19
your dad seen any of these videos and
31:21
she was like i don't think so and
31:22
i said wrong um because when i post
31:25
them on my page it shows up and
31:27
she's like well he doesn't say anything to
31:28
me and so until he does we're just
31:29
going to keep going and blah blah whatever
31:31
well he's having lunch in the uh in
31:33
the grill and he says hey come over
31:34
here and sit down i want to ask
31:35
you a couple questions so we're talking
31:36
about this is it
31:38
i didn't it just kind of caught me
31:39
off guard so we're sitting down he
31:40
finishes lunch and it's like perfect
31:42
weather and he goes uh what are the
31:45
odds it just rains on eleven fairway today
31:48
and i went oh you've seen the videos
31:50
he goes seen him i love him he's
31:52
like we can't stop he's like but you
31:54
make sure we keep it respectful make sure
31:56
we're not you know and he kind of
31:58
had a couple points so don't do this
31:59
don't do that and i said yes sir
32:00
and when he gave his stamp of approval
32:03
i was like okay
32:04
Like I'm all in, right?
32:06
Because I respect him so much and what
32:08
he's done and what the family's done.
32:10
And I respected the staff enough that I
32:13
didn't want people calling me like,
32:14
why is that jerk?
32:15
I didn't want any of that.
32:16
Have them come talk to me.
32:17
I'm the guy doing it, right?
32:19
And so when the staff was cool with
32:21
it and when he was cool with it,
32:21
I was like, all right,
32:22
we just got to keep going.
32:24
ever feel any of those calls personally
32:25
like you're like gung-ho about one like i
32:28
hope somebody like this video that's going
32:30
to be the one that gets a remark
32:31
i miss a lot of social cues okay
32:33
and so early on people would call in
32:36
and be like hey what's the course record
32:37
i'll be like well you know annika at
32:38
the sarah lee shot and they're like aren't
32:41
you the guy that does the videos and
32:43
i'm like yeah and he's like i didn't
32:44
want that answer and i'm like well i
32:45
have to keep some level of professionalism
32:47
right yeah like we can't do stand-up all
32:50
the time
32:52
Like they're paying me to treat the place,
32:55
you know?
32:56
And so now I kind of understand when
32:57
somebody comes up and they're like, Hey,
32:59
you know, what's the course record?
33:00
I'm like, sir,
33:01
you're going to shoot a hundred.
33:02
What do you care?
33:04
And now I kind of realize that people,
33:06
they want that, you know,
33:07
which is kind of wild for me.
33:09
I can't wait till you find the angry
33:11
guy.
33:12
No, sir.
33:13
I've never shot above a seventy four and
33:15
you're not going to put that hex on
33:16
me.
33:17
I had a guy call and say, hey,
33:19
my son and I are driving through town.
33:21
We're passing through town.
33:23
Do you have a junior rate?
33:23
And I said,
33:24
I do have a junior rate.
33:24
How old's your son?
33:25
He goes, he's eighteen.
33:32
So I thought he was kidding.
33:36
And I took it as a chance to
33:37
make a joke.
33:38
And I said, I'm sorry.
33:41
And he goes, yeah, he's eighteen.
33:43
And he said it kind of like,
33:44
come on.
33:44
Come on, funny man.
33:46
Like I fed you straight line here.
33:47
I did.
33:48
So I said...
33:51
I said, sir, I'm not real smart.
33:52
I said,
33:53
but I think we consider him an adult
33:55
in all the fifty states.
33:56
So I don't have a junior right for
33:57
an adult.
33:57
And he goes,
33:58
so you won't be a smart aleck.
34:00
And I thought, okay.
34:02
And I said, no, no.
34:05
And he was like,
34:05
that's some bull crap that you talk to
34:07
your customer like that.
34:09
I never show up to your place and
34:10
hung up.
34:11
And I was like,
34:12
what I thought,
34:13
I thought you want to be.
34:14
So I have to really be careful on
34:17
like face to face.
34:18
I'll do it.
34:18
If I can read social cues on, okay.
34:21
Are you really trying to joke around?
34:22
You know,
34:23
I'll have a junior course for the,
34:25
I didn't have, I was like,
34:26
I don't have a junior right for an
34:27
adult.
34:30
sorry sorry i would cry i like i
34:33
would just pull up a table and watch
34:34
you do your thing and i would cry
34:36
like best one is best response i had
34:39
um i had this older lady come in
34:42
it gets a little heavy but i i
34:44
this was unbelievable so the course is
34:46
busy and i'm kind of holding court i'm
34:47
talking to people over here i'm talking to
34:48
people over there and this older lady
34:49
walks up to me and uh she had
34:52
two guys with her
34:53
About my age,
34:53
I'm thirty six and they look to be
34:55
about thirty six or seven thirty eight.
34:56
And she said, hey,
34:57
I don't want to take too much of
34:59
your time.
34:59
She said,
35:00
I just want you to know that my
35:01
boys and I,
35:01
we've driven all the way down from
35:02
Louisville to come see you.
35:04
She said, my husband was your biggest fan.
35:06
He caught you from like video three on.
35:08
And we just wanted to come down and
35:09
see the place.
35:10
We wanted to meet you.
35:11
We wanted to do all this.
35:12
She said we were very successful in this
35:13
world.
35:14
She said, but unfortunately.
35:16
My husband and I,
35:17
we put this off and put this off
35:18
and put this off.
35:19
We never put anything off.
35:20
And she said, unfortunately,
35:21
my husband passed a heart attack before he
35:23
could come down and see you.
35:25
And she said,
35:25
we're kind of paying homage for my husband
35:26
and my sons to say, hey,
35:28
we met him and everything like that.
35:30
And I said, ma'am,
35:31
my father passed a heart attack in twenty
35:32
fifteen.
35:33
I said,
35:33
I don't know what it's like to lose
35:34
a spouse,
35:35
but that's how my father passed and
35:36
everything like that.
35:37
And she said, well,
35:37
there is one good thing that's come from
35:39
this.
35:39
And I said, yes, ma'am.
35:41
She goes, and she paused.
35:43
She goes,
35:45
at least my husband didn't have to waste
35:46
a three-hour trip to find out you're not
35:48
as funny in person as you were on
35:49
the phone.
35:49
Oh, absolutely wrecked you.
35:53
And I said, ma'am,
35:54
let me tell you something.
35:56
As long as I'm telling stories,
35:59
I will tell this story everywhere I go
36:01
because her boys were kind of chuckling.
36:02
So I think she kind of set them
36:04
up like, Hey, I'm going to do this.
36:06
And it was her delivery was so good.
36:10
So good.
36:11
So good.
36:12
I'll never forget that.
36:14
One of my questions was going to be,
36:16
has anybody got you?
36:17
And you got got.
36:19
She got me.
36:19
That was a good one.
36:21
She got me.
36:22
So I have to ask a question out
36:24
of my golf course days.
36:29
I've never played golf on a golf course
36:33
that had livestock.
36:34
Yep.
36:36
Walking around the golf course freely.
36:38
Yep.
36:42
Pardon my ignorance.
36:43
They have sheep that walk around the golf
36:44
course.
36:45
Okay.
36:45
I was going to say,
36:46
please define livestock.
36:47
And it's not like,
36:48
and it's not like two or three.
36:50
Okay.
36:50
Sixty, sixty-three.
36:52
Sixty-three.
36:54
Sixty-three sheep.
36:56
You just get ready to hit a shot
36:57
and one will just come up and say
36:58
hi to you.
36:59
Yep.
37:00
So how do you keep... Go ahead.
37:03
How do you keep them off the greens?
37:05
They walk.
37:06
So they really won't...
37:08
They stay away from the greens more than
37:09
you think because they can't get down to
37:11
eat that grass.
37:12
They like the taller grass.
37:13
That's why if you know anything about
37:14
Hermitage Golf Course,
37:15
there's the President's Reserve and
37:16
General's Retreat.
37:17
They stay mostly on the President's
37:18
Reserve because the taller grass,
37:20
the native grass,
37:21
it's easier for them to eat, right?
37:23
They really don't mess with the fairways
37:24
much.
37:25
They won't mess with the greens at all.
37:27
And...
37:28
and even if they do walk across the
37:29
greens doesn't hurt them no doesn't harm
37:33
them what what is the the clubhouse rule
37:37
though if a sheep affects a play you
37:39
gotta take one home
37:45
Got him.
37:45
Was that the answer you were looking for?
37:46
No!
37:48
I'm not trying to smoke a rack of
37:49
lamb over the weekend.
37:52
Are we losing a stroke?
37:53
No, they are pretty docile animals.
37:56
They will kind of scatter and stay out
37:58
of the way.
38:00
This time of year, well,
38:01
this time of year is a little bit
38:02
different, but like June, July, August,
38:03
they're looking for shade.
38:04
Yeah, they're staying up.
38:05
They're going to stay in the shade.
38:06
But they really, I mean,
38:07
they've kind of become almost domesticated
38:09
where some of them,
38:10
if you've got like chips in your cart,
38:12
they'll come up and take the chips and
38:14
eat it.
38:14
And, you know,
38:15
some of the employees are like, oh,
38:17
that's just Jerry.
38:18
And I'm like, I have three kids.
38:19
I can't keep them separate.
38:19
There's no way you know, you know,
38:23
And they're like, ah,
38:24
it's Jerry eating somebody's apple.
38:26
And I'm like, I'm sorry.
38:27
Like, is that, is that a starter Marshall?
38:29
And they're like, nah, it's sheep.
38:29
Twenty-one.
38:34
You know, I'm like, okay, but it's sheep.
38:36
Twenty-one.
38:36
Chris is out here counting ear tags.
38:37
They're like, no, no, it's Frank.
38:38
He's been doing this all week.
38:39
You can't stop Frank now.
38:40
He's been doing this for three years.
38:41
You know, but it started because Mike,
38:45
the Eller, Mr. Eller who played,
38:47
who played at whistling straights, um,
38:48
in Wisconsin.
38:49
Okay.
38:50
The sheep followed him for like three or
38:52
four holes.
38:52
He thought it was awesome.
38:54
And who I worked for,
38:55
who I got in the business,
38:56
who I was hired by,
38:57
was a guy named Jim Vernon, who, again,
38:59
I think the world of.
39:00
And he was at Hermitage for twenty five
39:02
years.
39:04
PGA professional of the year.
39:05
I mean, he's super good, dude.
39:06
So Mike calls Jim from Whistling Straits
39:11
and says, hey,
39:11
I'm going to put sheep on the golf
39:12
course.
39:13
And Jim was like, why?
39:17
He said, hey, pro,
39:18
that looks like Scotland out there.
39:21
We're in Old Hickory, Tennessee.
39:23
We don't really look like Scotland.
39:24
He said, no, I'm going to do it.
39:26
And so this was on like a Wednesday,
39:28
and they didn't say anything else about
39:29
it.
39:29
He didn't say anything else about it.
39:31
And like ten days later,
39:32
this dude in a tractor trailer truck shows
39:33
up, and he's like, hey,
39:34
I got a twelfth sheet for your golf
39:35
course.
39:36
And Jim was like,
39:37
I don't think you do.
39:37
And he's like, no, no, no.
39:38
I've been driving a long time.
39:39
Those are sheep in the back of that
39:40
car.
39:41
And they're not going back with me.
39:43
No.
39:43
And this is a one-way trip.
39:45
And he dropped them off.
39:46
We started with twelve.
39:48
We grew to like forty-ish.
39:52
Um...
39:53
because, well,
39:54
we probably grew more to like, thirty,
39:56
something like that,
39:56
because we had gotten some more in from
39:58
Virginia,
39:59
and then we thought we had took care
40:02
of all the males, right,
40:03
where they couldn't reproduce,
40:04
and we missed one.
40:05
Yeah, we thought wrong, yeah.
40:06
And there's a guy who comes out and
40:07
shears them in the spring, and he's like,
40:09
well, that one's pregnant,
40:10
and that one's pregnant.
40:11
We're like, no, it's not impossible.
40:13
We took care of that, and he's like,
40:13
yeah, okay,
40:14
I only do this for a living.
40:17
And he was right.
40:17
Tell the agriculture guy he's wrong.
40:19
He was right, you know,
40:20
and so then we got to like,
40:22
seventy-something.
40:23
and now we're we've sold a few and
40:25
and so we're like sixty three sheep but
40:27
i i used to tell people all the
40:28
time that when i'd have to speak for
40:29
the golf course i have to tell that
40:31
story or uh my contract's not renewed um
40:35
and i joke around a hundred percent but
40:36
it's one of the greatest marketing things
40:39
that's ever been done so outsource all the
40:41
herd management uh if you mean outsource
40:44
we do it yeah okay
40:48
But here's the thing about it.
40:49
And I'm talking to you like I know
40:51
what I'm talking about.
40:52
I really don't.
40:52
But the sheep know the golf course so
40:55
well.
40:56
And it's like,
40:57
they know the time of day so well
40:59
that we put them up at night,
41:01
just left a tin on presidents,
41:02
which you probably saw when y'all were out
41:03
playing.
41:04
We let them out in the morning,
41:05
about six.
41:05
And what time is it right now?
41:07
It's a six.
41:08
I guarantee you they're standing by that.
41:11
Waiting for somebody to close that gate.
41:13
Hilarious.
41:14
It's unbelievable.
41:15
It's just a matter of routine.
41:16
It is.
41:16
Yeah, it is.
41:17
And they kind of take the same track
41:19
every morning.
41:20
They'll they'll walk kind of down the
41:21
path, coming to presidents,
41:23
back to the clubhouse.
41:23
They'll kind of run around there.
41:24
And then, I mean, it's.
41:27
It's unbelievable.
41:27
In my mind, you get home.
41:29
Hey, what'd you do today?
41:30
Well,
41:30
after I let the sheep out and did
41:32
feeding chores, I got it.
41:34
It took five phone calls.
41:36
Talk to Roger for an hour.
41:40
Jeff was eating an apple.
41:42
Yeah.
41:42
Yeah.
41:42
Jeff, Jeff stole another guy's hamburger.
41:44
He did it again.
41:45
You know,
41:46
food costs through the roof because sheep,
41:48
you know, he's healthy.
41:53
Yeah.
41:53
He's healthy.
41:54
Every moment of this, like, like you said,
41:56
the very beginning of this,
41:57
the stuff starts to ride itself.
41:58
Oh yeah.
41:59
Between the, the,
42:00
just the natural function of dealing with
42:03
the public.
42:04
day-to-day craziness and then sport.
42:07
Like you've kind of got a trifecta there
42:09
of... It's an unbelievable job.
42:10
Right.
42:11
And I told somebody the other day,
42:14
we see a hundred thousand people a year.
42:17
they give us content willingly or
42:19
unwillingly.
42:20
Some people know they've given us content
42:22
because now they know.
42:26
They'll say something dumb and they're
42:28
like, oh man, you're that guy.
42:29
And I'm like, I'm that guy.
42:32
And some people just don't get it.
42:34
They're like, hey, I mean,
42:36
literally guys will show up ten minutes
42:37
late to their tea time and be like,
42:38
any chance you can get us out early?
42:40
And it's like,
42:40
I don't understand that question, sir.
42:43
like it's one fifteen you were supposed to
42:45
be here for a one ten and you
42:46
just asked if we could get you out
42:47
early anything i do now you know i
42:52
mean i don't understand the question and
42:55
so uh it goes back to that whole
42:57
not reading a whole lot um but it's
43:00
a fantastic place and i think it's any
43:02
kind of walk of life when you're dealing
43:03
with the public the majority of the people
43:05
you deal with are awesome
43:06
Oh, yeah.
43:07
I mean, they're super cool.
43:09
But there's always one that stands out.
43:11
Always.
43:11
Or a few.
43:12
Always.
43:13
But I tell people all the time my
43:15
job is really cool because I get to
43:16
go all over the world,
43:18
and I never leave Old Hickory with who's
43:19
coming in.
43:19
Yeah.
43:20
You got people coming in from Europe.
43:21
You got people coming in from every part
43:23
of the country you can imagine,
43:25
every city of the country you could ever
43:26
imagine,
43:28
and they're coming in from everywhere.
43:30
Yeah.
43:32
And I wish I could say,
43:33
it's because of the videos.
43:34
And there's probably some.
43:36
Sure.
43:36
They come down from Louisville.
43:38
All the time.
43:40
yeah a lot of people coming in from
43:41
murfreesboro too but they're coming from
43:44
everywhere and and it's really cool to see
43:46
that right i mean because when i first
43:48
started at hermitage um just kind of the
43:50
business side of it it was a third
43:51
a third a third a third of play
43:52
was out of town a third play was
43:54
local a third play was um outings and
43:58
now i bet our out of town place
43:59
probably closer to forty four forty five
44:01
forty six percent wow and on the weekend
44:03
it's probably even higher than that
44:05
um downtown nashville is bachelor party
44:08
capital of the world it's insane and um
44:11
and so that presents its own challenges
44:13
right because you're trying to manage a
44:14
place on it's saturday and that's usually
44:17
the day where hey i can go play
44:19
golf and i want to go out and
44:20
have a good time and but i don't
44:21
want to spend a year on a saturday
44:23
out there i want to kind of clip
44:24
through it and um in bachelor parties
44:27
they're not intentionally trying to slow
44:28
the golf course down and i would say
44:29
this to anybody i don't think they're
44:31
intentionally trying to slow the golf
44:32
course down but if i t off at
44:33
eleven
44:34
we're not going to the southern until
44:35
seven o'clock at night what do i care
44:36
if i play fast right i'm gonna drink
44:38
regardless right i'm either gonna drink on
44:40
your golf course or i'm gonna drink at
44:41
a bar right and so they're here and
44:43
so i don't think they're intentionally
44:44
trying to do that but that does present
44:46
challenges when when you know you've got i
44:49
don't know i think last last friday we
44:51
had uh twelve groups of twelve or more
44:54
people
44:56
All bachelor parties.
44:57
Wow.
44:57
So there is kind of a,
44:59
there's a balance there in the business
45:01
that you have to try to keep an
45:02
eye on to make sure you're kind of
45:04
keeping an eye on everything that's
45:05
happening.
45:05
It's crazy.
45:06
Look,
45:07
we truly believe in storytelling as far as
45:11
a business model.
45:14
A friend of mine named Sean Walsh says,
45:17
you can build it,
45:17
but does it mean they're coming, right?
45:19
You have to go tell your story.
45:21
And he built his restaurant and nobody
45:24
showed up and they had to figure out
45:25
how to do it.
45:28
I've built my business off of that.
45:31
we started the show we've done we do
45:33
a lot of social and stuff like that
45:35
as well how do you think the business
45:37
has changed from what it was prior to
45:42
answering the phone yeah to what it is
45:45
today
45:46
I think for golf in general,
45:50
I think it changed during COVID.
45:54
Golf,
45:55
as bad as COVID was for the world,
45:56
golf took an unbelievable spike across the
45:59
country,
46:00
across probably you could even say the
46:01
world.
46:05
So we saw a really big rise since
46:08
COVID.
46:08
And so I wish I could say, man,
46:12
I think the videos have brought in X
46:14
amount of dollars.
46:14
Have the videos brought in people?
46:16
Without question.
46:19
I think it's done a job of reaching
46:22
people who maybe had never heard of
46:24
Hermitage Golf Course.
46:27
they're a golfer they're local or they're
46:29
in a state that touches tennessee they're
46:31
on social media they saw our videos pop
46:33
up because i've had that quite a bit
46:35
hey i didn't know where hermitage golf
46:37
course was until i saw your video and
46:39
so i think it just put eyeballs on
46:42
on a golf course in old hickory tennessee
46:44
that is trying to do it right are
46:45
we are we perfect absolutely not there are
46:48
days we do it despite ourselves and i
46:51
have no problem telling the staff that
46:53
The majority of the time we're doing it
46:54
because we are active in making you have
46:56
one of the best times you could ever
46:58
have on a golf course.
47:00
So I think it put eyeballs on a
47:02
place that we were doing it right.
47:04
We're trying to take care of people.
47:06
We understand that, hey, man,
47:07
you're spending one hundred fifteen
47:08
dollars of your hard earned money.
47:09
You want to have a great time.
47:10
Well,
47:10
we want you to have a great time.
47:12
And so I think it just put eyeballs
47:14
on a golf course that maybe people had
47:16
never heard of.
47:17
And I don't know if it's.
47:19
It's so hard to say what it's done
47:21
for that T-sheet and bottom line and top
47:23
line because, guys,
47:25
since about June of twenty twenty,
47:28
the place has not stopped.
47:29
We were very fortunate.
47:30
We were very blessed.
47:32
And that's not just us.
47:32
I don't think it's just married to
47:33
Hermitage Golf Course.
47:34
I think that's all of golf.
47:36
But we were very,
47:37
very fortunate and blessed that since,
47:39
I mean, the place has been really,
47:41
really busy.
47:41
Do you think the live golf tournament or
47:45
tour has made as big of an impact
47:51
as something like COVID did?
47:53
For play or for eyeballs?
47:54
I think probably so.
47:56
I mean,
47:56
I think anything that's new and it pulls
47:59
some of the top players in the world
48:00
from the biggest tour in the world,
48:02
I don't know how it couldn't bring people
48:05
to the game.
48:06
I was talking about my dad was watching
48:08
a live tournament not too long ago,
48:11
and he is in his late seventies.
48:15
and so golf to him is persimmon headed
48:17
woods and steel shafts and and spikes
48:19
right yep which we have none of those
48:21
anymore right so like i say that because
48:25
he's a very traditionalist when it comes
48:26
to golf yeah um so one of the
48:30
things he said to me he's watching his
48:31
turn he's like i can't believe this crap
48:34
you're wearing shorts yeah
48:37
on tour yeah yeah they're wearing shorts
48:41
yeah is that a faux pas so on
48:43
a pga tour you're not allowed to wear
48:45
shorts you have to wear pants um i
48:48
mean long pants you know i'm wearing i'm
48:50
wearing a golf hoodie yeah and we sell
48:52
them in the shop and and i've been
48:54
i've been in the golf is that for
48:55
fifty bucks
49:00
That particular one.
49:01
But the other thing about it is I'm
49:04
not in the business to break even.
49:09
I mean, ten years ago,
49:11
you would have never thought we would sell
49:13
hoodies in a pro shop or that you
49:16
would see Rory and some of those big
49:18
names wearing them out on tour.
49:20
And so I think golf, well, I mean,
49:22
listen,
49:22
I played every sport growing up but golf.
49:24
I didn't pick up golf till I was
49:25
nineteen years old.
49:26
And I think golf,
49:28
how people viewed it twenty years ago,
49:30
let's call it when I was sixteen and
49:32
how people view it now,
49:33
it's vastly different.
49:34
You know, I think it's a little more.
49:36
Twenty years ago,
49:37
you didn't work out to play golf.
49:39
It's true.
49:40
And I think you can thank Tiger for
49:42
for that.
49:42
Yeah.
49:43
And and, you know,
49:45
and so I think now I think I
49:48
see more people who.
49:50
And this is purely just walking around and
49:52
listening to the facility.
49:54
People who are just coming in to have
49:55
a good time.
49:56
They don't care what they shoot.
49:57
I mean,
49:58
you still have those guys who want to
49:59
go out and try to shoot .
50:01
And we have a really cool feature at
50:02
the golf course that your first beer is
50:04
what you shoot.
50:06
So if you shoot ,
50:07
your first beer is .
50:10
If you shoot ninety,
50:11
your first beer's ninety.
50:14
And it's a cool way to get people
50:15
back into the clubhouse and get people
50:17
back into the bar grill.
50:19
And you can have some friendly banter
50:21
behind the bartender and be like, man,
50:23
your first beer's a dollar thirty-five.
50:24
How'd you shoot a hundred and thirty-five?
50:27
And it looks like you're missing four
50:29
holes here.
50:31
So you really shot about one-sixty.
50:34
How did you double?
50:36
You doubled a hole you didn't even play,
50:38
sir.
50:39
And so I think there's that banter back
50:41
and forth that people are,
50:43
I think people want to be entertained.
50:44
I love it.
50:45
And so that's what we try to do.
50:47
Darryl, you got a macro beans for us.
50:48
Yeah, I got a macro beans.
50:49
So macro beans are this or that.
50:51
So you're walking into your favorite
50:54
barbecue restaurant.
50:55
Are you ordering the Mac and cheese or
50:57
the barbecue baked beans?
50:58
Barbecue baked beans.
50:59
Okay.
50:59
Well, he didn't even hesitate.
51:00
No, it was quick.
51:01
Yeah.
51:02
So now my other that,
51:04
and I've tried to be kind of cool
51:05
about golf and I don't just so bear
51:08
with me.
51:10
You play holes one through seventeen and
51:13
you birdie all of them.
51:15
And hole eighteen, you do seventeen over.
51:18
You're at par.
51:20
Do you want to play that round,
51:21
or do you want to play a round
51:23
where all eighteen holes are par?
51:25
That's a great question.
51:28
I would ask why we play all eighteen
51:29
holes.
51:29
I'm sorry.
51:35
We're not twenty-five.
51:35
I'm sorry.
51:37
That is a fantastic question.
51:39
I think I'd want to play...
51:42
I think I'd want to play the first
51:44
one.
51:44
All right.
51:45
And I don't really have an answer.
51:46
In my mind,
51:47
making seventeen birdies would be pretty
51:48
cool because I'm not sure I've made
51:49
seventeen birdies in my entire career over
51:52
the course of all my rounds.
51:54
But I think that would be pretty neat.
51:55
Right.
51:56
You know.
51:57
Because you're finishing par either way.
51:58
You're shooting even par.
51:59
So I want to sit here and think
52:01
that I did that for some people who
52:03
have probably never hit par.
52:04
Right.
52:04
If you parred eighteen holes in a row,
52:06
I mean, that would be.
52:07
Yeah.
52:08
nearly i got to tell you for a
52:09
for a non-golfer that is a phenomenal
52:12
question look i i i come here but
52:14
i'm gonna have to agree with chris the
52:16
seventeen birdies in a row all day long
52:19
yeah all day long because i'll tell you
52:22
and here's why and i haven't i have
52:24
a reason why is my very first professional
52:27
golf tournament one of the guys in my
52:30
threesome uh shot seventy two that day
52:35
And he parred all eighteen holes.
52:39
And it was never missed a fairway,
52:41
never missed a green, and two putted.
52:43
I mean, every time.
52:47
every time yeah and i shot and i
52:52
had way more fun shooting my than he
52:55
did shooting his yeah because you probably
52:57
made a couple birdies it was yes it
52:59
was it was boring to watch him play
53:02
now now granted here yeah he made the
53:05
cut and i didn't right but he got
53:07
to eat that week yeah he got to
53:09
eat and i didn't he had potential to
53:10
get paid and i went home but yeah
53:12
yeah
53:13
We had ramen for dinner.
53:17
I just think that the idea of.
53:20
Seventeen birdies.
53:22
would if you're going to finish par let's
53:25
be honest from a golf standpoint a lot
53:27
of guys would love to say consistently
53:29
they could finish par sure so i gave
53:31
you that that's the softball part you're
53:34
part of the way i think if you're
53:36
sitting there making the kind of shot or
53:37
two putting on the green to where you're
53:39
hitting birdie every time especially on
53:41
like some you know par three hole where
53:43
it's just bang bang they're really good
53:45
clean shots that'd be awesome and you
53:48
That's my non-golf take.
53:49
I don't know about Chris,
53:50
but I will tell you,
53:51
I get two birdies in a row and
53:52
I feel like I am on cloud nine.
53:55
Yeah.
53:55
I mean, I'm,
53:56
I'm calling my wife and like,
53:57
I know you probably don't care about this,
53:58
but I just birdie three, four.
53:59
She's like, no, you didn't.
54:00
I'm like, okay, you're right.
54:01
I probably didn't.
54:04
I think I'm the only guy.
54:04
She's like, you probably make double.
54:06
And I was like, okay,
54:07
I went back to back bogeys,
54:07
but that's pretty good.
54:09
I tell people all the time.
54:10
Yeah.
54:11
I hit a decent shot.
54:12
If I got all my shots and spread
54:13
them over three holes, I'd burn you too.
54:15
I tell people all the time,
54:16
I was the only guy,
54:17
I think I'm the only guy in mini
54:18
tour history,
54:18
I hit all eighteen greens and shot
54:19
seventy-seven.
54:21
I three putted that many times.
54:23
And the guy who kept,
54:24
the guy who didn't keep my scorecard,
54:26
like you said, I'd hit the fairway,
54:27
I'd hit the green.
54:28
He's like, man,
54:28
that guy had to fire the course record.
54:29
And I was like, nah,
54:30
I don't talk to that guy.
54:30
He's like, what?
54:31
You seem pretty nice.
54:32
He's like, dude, you shot a .
54:34
And he's like, no way.
54:35
You kept my card.
54:36
And he's like, no, dude, I mean,
54:37
I just couldn't putt.
54:38
So to say I made seventeen birdies or
54:40
to say I made two birdies,
54:42
if I made two birdies, I'd quit.
54:47
Chris, like, that's it.
54:48
I'm at the clubhouse.
54:49
Yeah,
54:49
you know how people hit a hole in
54:50
one.
54:51
They're like, oh, you got to buy drinks.
54:52
Like, let's go.
54:53
If I birdied a hole and then I
54:55
followed it up with another birdie,
54:56
I'd say, hey, boys,
54:57
y'all just let's go to the bar.
54:59
I'll catch y'all.
54:59
I don't really drink,
55:00
but let's go to the bar.
55:01
I'll be having a seltzer and water.
55:03
Y'all just take me up on the way
55:04
out.
55:04
Hey, I just, you know.
55:06
Yeah.
55:07
Because I don't think people understand,
55:10
like you see people do it on television
55:11
or you see people do it in a
55:12
college event or even a high school event
55:13
or whatever the case may be.
55:15
I don't think people understand how good a
55:17
round of golf it is to shoot even
55:18
par.
55:19
Or even to break eighty,
55:22
to break seventy-eight.
55:23
I don't think people truly understand.
55:25
Like,
55:26
the golfer doesn't understand the amount
55:29
of force and energy you have to generate
55:31
to hit a golf ball three hundred yards.
55:32
I used to fit,
55:34
when I got in the business,
55:36
I used to fit for Titleist.
55:39
And the amount of people would be like,
55:40
I hit it three hundred.
55:41
And I'm like, I don't think you do.
55:42
No.
55:42
And I'm not being mean,
55:43
but like the amount of force and energy
55:45
you have to strike that golf ball.
55:46
You may have done it once.
55:47
Right.
55:48
You are not going to go do it
55:48
again.
55:49
Right.
55:49
Yeah.
55:49
And because it was a creative character on
55:51
PGA Tour,
55:52
that does not mean that translates into
55:54
real life.
55:56
Yeah.
55:57
It should have seen the way I hit
55:58
the ball on top.
55:58
You know, I got that backstool, man.
55:59
And to say, hey, look,
56:00
you hit it two fifty, two sixty.
56:02
Like that is still great.
56:04
It's great.
56:04
Yeah, that's great.
56:06
It's a hard game.
56:07
It's a hard game.
56:08
it is a very hard game it's a
56:09
lot of fun and it's a great game
56:11
and and i'm in i'm fortunate to be
56:12
where i'm at but it's a hard game
56:14
yeah yeah and that's why i said even
56:16
though like the people are like oh you
56:18
walk eighteen holes that's the toughest
56:20
part about it first of all no it's
56:21
not secondly the person the the non-golfer
56:24
me i will always respect what is happening
56:27
just the physics behind it don't always
56:29
make sense.
56:29
I mean, and, and,
56:31
and I saw a graphic today that they
56:33
were talking about ball placement based on
56:36
what, uh,
56:37
what club you're using and it should be
56:38
out in front or, you know what?
56:40
And I'm like, I would never like,
56:42
I just, to me,
56:43
you've always just go out there and you
56:44
hit the ball, you know?
56:45
So I respect the game wildly, but.
56:48
I think it's fun that somebody in your
56:51
spot can step back and be like, Hey,
56:52
you know what?
56:53
Let's just have some fun with this.
56:55
Like it doesn't have to be so tight,
56:58
gripped, white knuckled all the time.
56:59
That's right.
57:00
And, and I think it's a blast.
57:01
So I think you got a fan out
57:02
of me from golf and from,
57:05
from just content and stuff.
57:06
So well done.
57:08
Well, what's on the,
57:08
what's on the horizon for, uh, hermitage.
57:14
We just opened two lodges, right?
57:16
So now we have eight cottages and two
57:18
lodges so we can sleep a total of
57:19
sixty four people.
57:21
So that's exciting.
57:22
Literally,
57:23
when I say we just opened and we
57:24
opened them up Monday after Labor Day,
57:26
Tuesday of Labor Day.
57:28
And so that's it.
57:29
Right.
57:29
I mean,
57:30
it's it's trying to it's trying to keep
57:32
going what we've got going.
57:33
Right.
57:34
And I know that sounds cliche ish,
57:36
but that's it.
57:36
Like we just want to we just want
57:38
to keep going what we got.
57:39
It's a good thing.
57:40
It's a good place with a lot of
57:41
really, really good people.
57:44
so yeah there's no real big plans for
57:45
hermitage other than just try to keep on
57:47
keeping on yeah are we uh are we
57:50
continuing the social media are we gonna
57:53
we got anything from a social standpoint
57:56
that's going to to grab attention
58:00
differently than it does now yeah
58:03
um we're gonna keep doing it um we've
58:05
jotted some ideas to do like some more
58:07
theatrical type stuff right and maybe not
58:09
so much of the golf shop videos which
58:11
we'll still do some of those um but
58:13
we're gonna film some stuff like on the
58:15
like we did i don't know if y'all
58:16
saw the video of like the tsa um
58:19
where we act like we're checking the guy
58:21
coming through tsa and we dump the bag
58:22
out and he's got iron covers like we're
58:23
gonna do more of that
58:25
That's great.
58:26
We're going to do more of that.
58:27
I need you to incorporate the sheep.
58:30
Work them in.
58:31
I don't know how you'll do that without
58:32
probably taking off some of the sheep and
58:34
messing up the herd there.
58:36
I'm trying to think if we did.
58:37
Did we do something?
58:38
We did something with Two Rivers Forward.
58:41
It's our corporate sponsor.
58:42
And we did something, sheep power.
58:45
We did a video.
58:46
Instead of like horsepower, I was like,
58:48
what's the sheep power?
58:49
Okay.
58:49
And I was like, you know,
58:50
like we have the metric system and all
58:51
that.
58:52
Like,
58:52
how do you convert that to sheet power?
58:54
And the people from Two Rivers were great.
58:55
They were so much fun with that.
58:57
So we had a lot of fun.
58:57
I don't know why my head just went
58:59
to like Mario Kart.
59:04
Yeah.
59:04
Like something like, I don't know,
59:05
but yeah.
59:07
And that's what I enjoy.
59:07
Right.
59:08
I, um, Chris come back there next time.
59:09
Yeah.
59:10
That's it.
59:12
North Carolina dirt track, you know,
59:14
seeing sheep.
59:15
Twenty-one steal somebody's hamburger.
59:17
They get an automatic bird.
59:18
Twenty-one doesn't even know he's made the
59:20
show and he's now a star.
59:22
My guy asked me where we bought the
59:23
deer from.
59:28
They came natural.
59:29
I did.
59:29
He said, did you buy?
59:30
And I, again,
59:31
maybe the guy thought it was going to
59:32
be a bit.
59:32
Yeah.
59:33
And he said,
59:34
so do y'all buy the deer from the
59:35
same place you bought the sheep?
59:36
I just answered, yep.
59:38
I said, no.
59:39
And he was shocked.
59:40
I said, you know, the deer live,
59:41
I mean, they're kind of like around here.
59:43
And he was like, oh,
59:43
I thought maybe y'all got like a deal.
59:45
Yeah, we got two for one deal.
59:48
Have you bought thirty sheep?
59:49
We'll throw in eight deer.
59:50
You know?
59:53
no we're never short of content and uh
1:00:05
i heard some comedians who i think are
1:00:06
really really funny and stand-up comedians
1:00:09
um
1:00:10
I was fortunate enough,
1:00:10
I got to meet a guy named Jeff
1:00:11
Allen, who has his own podcast as well.
1:00:13
And Jeff's a stand up comedian for forty
1:00:15
years.
1:00:15
And he asked me to do a thing
1:00:17
with him at the Anti-Predator Project at
1:00:20
Zany's.
1:00:21
And so I got to do Zany's,
1:00:22
which was really, really cool.
1:00:23
And then I played.
1:00:24
But I heard them talk about like.
1:00:27
your jokes and how you craft your jokes
1:00:29
and like you need to look on the
1:00:32
world on i i can't believe that happened
1:00:35
to me too i can make that funny
1:00:37
and when you see it through that lens
1:00:40
anything and everything can be funny and i
1:00:42
just thought that was so cool hearing that
1:00:44
from him and then hearing from other
1:00:45
comedians that i watch their podcast and i
1:00:46
think the world of they all kind of
1:00:48
have that attitude on you just have to
1:00:50
kind of be on the lookout for the
1:00:51
most mundane task
1:00:53
How can I make that funny?
1:00:56
And that's kind of what some of us
1:00:57
do at Hermitage,
1:00:58
and it just kind of seems to work
1:00:59
out from time to time.
1:01:00
That rocks.
1:01:01
That's just great.
1:01:02
I need to do some more funny content.
1:01:05
Yeah.
1:01:06
How can I make a pig funny?
1:01:11
don't leave that alone yeah like that and
1:01:13
that could ride itself just gonna say
1:01:15
y'all i think y'all have pretty good
1:01:21
episodes i don't know how to land the
1:01:22
plane right there pretty good show up
1:01:24
until the fifty-eight minute mark what
1:01:26
went bad i started talking about pigs i
1:01:28
said something about making a pig funny
1:01:29
and i kind of got weird from there
1:01:32
you know
1:01:33
Leave it to the barbecue guy.
1:01:34
That's right.
1:01:38
Yeah.
1:01:38
You got a Friday feel good for it.
1:01:40
Don't take life so serious.
1:01:42
We've obviously had a great time in here
1:01:44
today.
1:01:44
You can laugh.
1:01:45
You can enjoy.
1:01:46
There are traumatic experiences that
1:01:49
obviously impact you.
1:01:50
But your day-to-day lifestyle,
1:01:52
your day-to-day events,
1:01:54
they are usually not that serious.
1:01:55
Learn to laugh.
1:01:56
Learn to enjoy life.
1:01:58
Find somebody you know.
1:01:58
Tell them you love them.
1:02:00
outstanding chris thank you so much for
1:02:02
coming to hang out with us we appreciate
1:02:04
it very much y'all get a tea time
1:02:07
go see my man chris up at hermitage
1:02:09
if you want to get involved with the
1:02:10
show please feel free to reach out to
1:02:11
me you can call me at six one
1:02:13
five three zero seven zero one two zero
1:02:15
or you can email me at charlie at
1:02:17
singletreebbq.com and until next time
1:02:22
we'll see you then y'all be good