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On The Green with Dean Unglert, Joe Amabile and Zac Clark · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I almost famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost famous podcast. We're here today.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to break down exactly what we did in
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  Speaker 3: French Lick, Indiana. But today I have three incredible people,
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  Speaker 3: incredible friends, and we just spent a couple of days
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  Speaker 3: playing golf together. Now, golf is not a topic that
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  Speaker 3: listeners love to listen about.
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  Speaker 2: None of us are pros.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody really cares about how good Dean is compared to me.
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  Speaker 3: But I do want to talk with Joe, Zach and
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  Speaker 3: Dean who are on this trip to French Lick. Now,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of background I mentioned a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: For years of my life, I bet it's been ten
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  Speaker 3: years of my life. I've always dreamed of bringing my
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  Speaker 3: friends together into one place to hang out with no
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  Speaker 3: other expectation other than to be together. And the reason
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  Speaker 3: for this is I feel lucky. I don't think every
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  Speaker 3: already gets this opportunity. I feel lucky that I have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of friends from all different stages of life
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  Speaker 3: that I just really like, and a lot of them
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen in a while. And it gets harder
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  Speaker 3: and harder to get together as we get older. Family,
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  Speaker 3: star work starts, people move across the country. So I
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  Speaker 3: invited forty two people to French Lick. Two people couldn't
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  Speaker 3: make it. Forty dig come, including three of my favorites
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  Speaker 3: from The Bachelor time in my life, as I mentioned, Zach, Joe,
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  Speaker 3: and Dean, who are with us today.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome guys, Hi, thank thanks for having me, Thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 5: Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I'm going to start. We're all so awkward.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like media.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, thank you for being here. Now I want to start.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to start with Dean on this one. Dean,
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  Speaker 3: the Bachelor obviously has a huge impact in your life
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  Speaker 3: because of it leading you to your amazing wife, obviously
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  Speaker 3: kind of leading us into friendship. So that's a big
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  Speaker 3: plus for you and me. But am I wrong to
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  Speaker 3: say that you don't exactly desire to still be integrated
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  Speaker 3: in that world as much as some.
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  Speaker 4: You're saying me personally?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you personally, I mean, I just I guess.
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  Speaker 6: That's that's probably true. They're it's just I'm not really Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: that's true.
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  Speaker 4: That's true. I'll just go with that. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 4: go with that's being true. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So a trip pops up with with friends, but
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  Speaker 3: people from The Bachelor, So Joey was there, Wells was there.
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  Speaker 3: Then the three of us in addition to that, what like,
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  Speaker 3: what kind of things do you still say yes to?
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  Speaker 3: And do you say and yeah, that's not gonna be
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  Speaker 3: my speed. This is you know, this is not a
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  Speaker 3: group I want to associate with anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's not even it's it's not that, it's just
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  Speaker 6: you know, I love you so much. I would move
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  Speaker 6: mountains for you if I was physically capable of doing it.
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  Speaker 6: So when you invited me on the golf trip.
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  Speaker 4: I was thrilled to be. I don't know that you
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  Speaker 4: have forty two invites and forty yeses.
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  Speaker 6: Is that is an incredible success rate with getting people
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  Speaker 6: to come out to Indiana.
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  Speaker 4: I think he should be really proud of that.
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  Speaker 6: But no, I mean, obviously, you know, I think I
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  Speaker 6: would jump at any chance I could get to play
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  Speaker 6: golf with you and Joe and I met Zach for
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  Speaker 6: the first time and that was a great experience too,
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  Speaker 6: so and we kind of talked a little bit about
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  Speaker 6: what you're asking right now, because you know, Zach's removed
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  Speaker 6: himself a little bit. It's not like unconsciously removing myself
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  Speaker 6: by the way. I love the show and what it's
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  Speaker 6: given me, and I will do what I am able
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  Speaker 6: to for them. It's just I don't really get has
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  Speaker 6: to anymore. No one really cares about me, so you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of it's kind of that situation. But no,
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  Speaker 6: this the Bachelor stuff, like you know, with you and Wells,
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  Speaker 6: Zach and Joe and Joey. I think that was kind
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  Speaker 6: of our Bachelor group that was there, all guys that
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  Speaker 6: I love and I you know, I like most of
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  Speaker 6: the people that I've met from the show anyway, So
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  Speaker 6: if you did a full Bachelor, it's like forty people
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  Speaker 6: from the Bachelor's style trip golf trip. I don't know
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  Speaker 6: if I still say yes to it, because I could
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  Speaker 6: hang out with you guys and play golf, but I'd
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  Speaker 6: be a little less excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I tried to do that a few years ago
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  Speaker 3: with Almost Famous, and I had like four people show up, So.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, you know, you know what I do think.
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  Speaker 6: I remember getting the like a loose invite for that,
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  Speaker 6: and I was like, ah, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Probably not going to go to that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably not going to make it.
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  Speaker 3: You know I'm with you, though, I think the whole
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  Speaker 3: purpose of me bringing you guys on today. I got
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  Speaker 3: to meet Zach at an event we did with the
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  Speaker 3: Solheim Cup and the LPGA last year, really for the
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  Speaker 3: first time, and Joe and I have crossed pass and
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  Speaker 3: I just have always enjoyed being around Joe. We've gone
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  Speaker 3: on a few iHeart trips back in the day together.
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  Speaker 3: But then you know, you picked up the clubs Joe
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  Speaker 3: what two years ago and started playing full time a
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  Speaker 3: year ago?
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  Speaker 2: A year ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I remember talking with Zach and him just
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  Speaker 3: telling me that you you love this game, like this
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  Speaker 3: has been something that you've invested a lot of time, effort,
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  Speaker 3: money into over the last year. And so I was
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  Speaker 3: pumped to play with you because it's really fun to
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  Speaker 3: see somebody invest so much into a game that I've
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  Speaker 3: loved for so long and still don't get much better at.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. I become addicted to things that I'm really bad at,
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  Speaker 7: and like I'm really bad at golf. So I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: well I'm gonna give this a few years and see
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  Speaker 7: if I could actually get better. But it's and like
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  Speaker 7: every golfer says, it's like that one shot that keeps
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  Speaker 7: you coming back where you're like, oh damn, like I'm
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  Speaker 7: I'm good at this game, like I'm good at golf,
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  Speaker 7: and then you go up and then you go back
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  Speaker 7: out there and you can't hit. But I think it's
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  Speaker 7: also one of those things where I'm getting older, I'm married,
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  Speaker 7: I'm really just kind of like the going out part
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  Speaker 7: of my life is basically over. So it's like, what
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  Speaker 7: what else is there to do? And it's you know,
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  Speaker 7: you go to the gym, you run what, you try
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  Speaker 7: to make money to the best of your abilities, and
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  Speaker 7: it was just it's just like a social event that
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  Speaker 7: I can now do, like all my friends golf, and
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  Speaker 7: I've seen you guys post about golf a lot, so
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  Speaker 7: you know, I'm like, oh man, feeling left out. I
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  Speaker 7: want to get involved in this. So yeah, and I
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  Speaker 7: love it. I'm addicted and I got Oberg to when
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  Speaker 7: the US Open. We'll see how that goes.
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  Speaker 2: Joe's really that's a loser, Yeah for sure. No, I
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  Speaker 2: love that all of us are probably.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's on my iPad right here, like I
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  Speaker 3: got it up right now, there's no chance of missing it.
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  Speaker 2: Jaws impressed.
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  Speaker 3: I mean again then we're not going to talk about
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  Speaker 3: golf in detail this whole time. But I was impressed
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  Speaker 3: with your game, Uh, not just impressed, like very very
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  Speaker 3: just kind of in awe of somebody picking up golf
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  Speaker 3: clubs a year and being able to get it around
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  Speaker 3: a golf course is not an easy thing for anybody.
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  Speaker 3: And and so the whole time I was when I
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  Speaker 3: got to play with you, was watching being like this
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  Speaker 3: guy you have, you're never gonna stop playing this game
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  Speaker 3: because all of a sudden it's gonna switch and you're
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  Speaker 3: you're never going to be able to get away from it.
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  Speaker 3: You're like very close to having way too much fun
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  Speaker 3: doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm right there.
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  Speaker 7: I'm right there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so close.
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  Speaker 6: I was telling Joe and Zach as well that they're
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  Speaker 6: going to kind of been like the most fun spot
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  Speaker 6: of golf in my opinion, where you know, like you've
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  Speaker 6: been for instance, as like a I don't know, if
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  Speaker 6: you're five handicaps something around there, you have to work
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  Speaker 6: really really hard to shave a stroke off your handicap.
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  Speaker 6: Zach and Joe only have to go out and play
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  Speaker 6: golf right like consistently, and they're going to shave fifteen
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  Speaker 6: strokes off their handicap. You know, Yeah, that's a really
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  Speaker 6: fun time. I feel like for that for that to be, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get better now, Like I haven't gotten better.
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  Speaker 3: I only get worse. And I don't like that's not
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  Speaker 3: joking because you kind of each the pinnacle of your
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  Speaker 3: game and then there's no way but backwards. And to
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  Speaker 3: get from like a five to a two takes something
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  Speaker 3: that like I haven't yet found no matter how much
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  Speaker 3: time I put into it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just doesn't exist, Zach.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I I gave these gifts, these Pennon They're
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  Speaker 3: they're called penn and AS's headcovers, and I it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a really cool brand. If if you ever are needing
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  Speaker 3: like a Father's Day gift or a brother in law
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  Speaker 3: gift or whatever for somebody that golfs, I would recommend
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  Speaker 3: pennen Aces. Just check them out. They do these all
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  Speaker 3: these unique head covers. I bet they have two hundred
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  Speaker 3: different unique headcovers that they design and they throw out
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  Speaker 3: there on their website. And so for the for the guys,
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  Speaker 3: I thought it would be fun to go through and
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  Speaker 3: buy a headcover that reminded me of each person I
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  Speaker 3: got Dan one because I think he's a traveler. I
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  Speaker 3: think he has this like just spirit h that is
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  Speaker 3: needs to be in the wild.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I was gonna say I didn't. I wouldn't think
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  Speaker 4: you would remember what you got me.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember, Yeah, I got you a leopard?
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  Speaker 4: You got me a leopard? Good memory? Do you remember
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  Speaker 4: everyone's that you got?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: These like I spent probably a week picking out these
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  Speaker 3: gifts for each person, going through the website, kind of
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  Speaker 3: thinking about what reminds me of each person. I got
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  Speaker 3: Joe one that was the Ninja turtles because there's a
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to get him something Italian and I was
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  Speaker 3: hoping there's like a pasta dish, but there wasn't. And
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  Speaker 3: so I was like, Ninja turtles are gonna work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he goes, he goes, he goes.
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  Speaker 7: I got you Ninja turtles. They're Italian.
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  Speaker 8: I said, Summer is the season of love. Some are loving.
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  Speaker 4: Here we come.
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  Speaker 9: If you're old enough to remember, some are loving, you're
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  Speaker 9: old enough to find and I do Part two. Listen
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  Speaker 9: each week as our host make it their goal to
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  Speaker 9: find you the next true love of your life.
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  Speaker 8: Any Garth, Jana Kramer.
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  Speaker 9: Alexia Napola, Cheryl Burke, Jen Fessler, Kelly Ben Simone, Amy Robock,
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  Speaker 7: Listen to I Do Part two on the iHeartRadio app,
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  Speaker 3: Zach's one, and I think all of us can attest
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  Speaker 3: to this. He's doing great things in this world, and
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  Speaker 3: he is changing the world through the work that he does.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's just been fun to kind of witness
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  Speaker 3: and be around you, Zach, as you are so busy
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  Speaker 3: in leading this incredible organization and also running all the time.
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  Speaker 3: And so I guess my question for you is, in
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  Speaker 3: the midst of a very busy life with a lot
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  Speaker 3: of responsibilities, why do you say yes to a trip
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  Speaker 3: with like this? And then why is golf kind of
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  Speaker 3: your escape outside of like running a marathon and leading
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  Speaker 3: people through recovery and all the other things you do.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, no, thanks Ben for having me.
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  Speaker 5: Just to be clear, Ben gave me an Abraham Lincoln headcover.
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  Speaker 10: I can basically never cheat in golf again. I see that.
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  Speaker 5: It's like I'm screwed, Like there's no there's no like
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna take a six year it's like put the
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  Speaker 5: belt down. But no, I mean like, look for me,
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  Speaker 5: golf is just a vehicle to the hang right, Like
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  Speaker 5: That's that's why I do any of these things, is
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  Speaker 5: to hopefully see old friends and make some new ones.
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  Speaker 5: And it was awesome to spend Dean is just like
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  Speaker 5: good energy, so it was good to kind of hang
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  Speaker 5: with him for a minute. And obviously me and Joe
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  Speaker 5: spent a lot of time here in the city, and
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  Speaker 5: you know, it just it just leads some more opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, like Wells and I were out playing last weekend.
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  Speaker 5: So I just feel like in this day and age,
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  Speaker 5: to be able to go out there. Like I really
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  Speaker 5: put the phone down for those couple of days in
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  Speaker 5: French Lick, like I wasn't checking. I was pres and
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  Speaker 5: you know, the game probably wasn't where like I wanted.
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  Speaker 4: It to be.
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  Speaker 10: But That's not what I'm gonna remember about the trip.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's that and my almost hole in one, which
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  Speaker 5: I'm still losing sleepover.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Zach had a moment where a group was
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  Speaker 3: of our friends were playing in front of him. It
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  Speaker 3: was kind of a blind part three where you couldn't
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  Speaker 3: see the green. He gits an incredible shot.
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, we're playing a five ball and
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  Speaker 5: I'm the worst golfer in the group, right. So it's Dean,
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  Speaker 5: Joey Wells and Wells's buddy from Ole Miss and the
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  Speaker 5: four guys hit and we're playing a friendly match and Joey,
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  Speaker 5: who's on my team, basically says like we shouldn't we shouldn't.
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  Speaker 10: Have dropped the hammer, like we already lost this hole.
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  Speaker 10: And I turned him.
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  Speaker 5: I said, like, I still got a shoot, bro, I
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  Speaker 5: still gotta go.
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  Speaker 10: Like that is not the energy we need right now, and.
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  Speaker 5: So I throw it up on the hill and it's
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  Speaker 5: like trickling, you can go, Ben, But.
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  Speaker 2: It was no.
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  Speaker 3: It was trickling towards the cup. Everybody starts cheering. That's
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  Speaker 3: up on the green watching, so you think it went
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  Speaker 3: the hole.
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  Speaker 10: Wells and I got halfway to the green. We were Mike.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, I was like leap braveheart style, charging
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  Speaker 5: the green with my potter in the air. And then
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  Speaker 5: halfway there, I see someone go like this and I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: what just happened?
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  Speaker 10: I hit a hole?
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  Speaker 5: And I thought, you know, so it was very embarrassing,
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  Speaker 5: and but that's why you show up and whatever.
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  Speaker 10: It'll keep me back. Yeah, that trip.
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  Speaker 6: I had a lot of great memories on that trip,
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  Speaker 6: but that moment was the thing I'll probably remember the
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  Speaker 6: most as well.
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  Speaker 4: You like, just just the other group.
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  Speaker 6: Cheering and then you and well sprinting ahead with your
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  Speaker 6: hands in the air like clubs all over the place,
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  Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden they give you that
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  Speaker 6: it didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Go in sign I was.
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  Speaker 6: I felt for you in that moment, because there's nothing
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  Speaker 6: worse that thinking you got it and then halfway up
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  Speaker 6: realizing that it didn't go in.
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  Speaker 3: I think they felt I think they felt for Zech too.
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  Speaker 3: They felt really bad about about leading him on the
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  Speaker 3: as we we kind of close up here. Uh, let's
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  Speaker 3: iving a little bit to the Bachelor world, obviously, Dean.
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  Speaker 2: I think you said it perfectly.
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  Speaker 3: I have nothing against the bat I would love to
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  Speaker 3: go back and do anything to a certain degree that
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  Speaker 3: they want, because I do have a lot of respect
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  Speaker 3: for the show. It did so many great things for
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  Speaker 3: me personally. It led me to great friendships and great people,
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  Speaker 3: and I've met a lot of people on the show
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  Speaker 3: that I do like. I think there is it feels
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  Speaker 3: like at this age of my life though, And I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if this is good or bad. If you
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  Speaker 3: don't golf, it's hard for me to hang out with
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  Speaker 3: you too often because it's something it's when I have
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  Speaker 3: free time or a day off, It's typically where I
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  Speaker 3: want to be is on a golf course. And so
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  Speaker 3: I do think the people in this bachelor world, it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't a do I like you or not kind of invite,
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  Speaker 3: it's do you golf?
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  Speaker 2: And then do I like you? But mostly do you golf?
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  Speaker 3: I think my question for all whoever wants to answer
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  Speaker 3: it is what about this game?
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  Speaker 2: And and what is it?
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  Speaker 3: I guess what does it feel like to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of something that has no expectations on her?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: There isn't this expectation of we got a post on
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  Speaker 3: social media. We this golf trip has to blow up
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  Speaker 3: so that you know, we get more famous from it
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  Speaker 3: or get some attention from it. It's just really, like
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  Speaker 3: Zach said, a hang, what does that feel like in
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  Speaker 3: this world surrounded by bachelor people? Because I think that's unique.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's unique to be in an environment where
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  Speaker 3: there's no expectations and we're just hanging out as friends.
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  Speaker 7: I yeah, I think it's great. It's like I don't
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  Speaker 7: see Dean and he's the first thing he does is
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  Speaker 7: pick up his phone and take a selfie of being him,
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  Speaker 7: you know, like we just don't we don't do that.
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  Speaker 7: And I think, like it's just it's it feels like
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  Speaker 7: I'm just hanging out with my friends back home, because
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  Speaker 7: it's kind of the same. So its just it feels
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  Speaker 7: it's relaxing and you could actually be like Zach said,
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  Speaker 7: you can put your phone down and be in the moment.
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  Speaker 7: And I feel like when you are around not to
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: talk about anybody, but when you do anything that's related events,
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: usually posting is some part of that deal. So and
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: like I'm not the greatest at posting on social media anyways.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean I just really enjoy it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean same for me.
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: I feel like one of the reasons that Ben you
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: and I became such good friends, and same with with
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Wells is when I was living in La Wells and
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: I could play a lot of golf together and then
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: you know, whenever we see each other, it's all come
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: to Denver and we'll play Bear Creek, which you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: I love that course obviously, so it's nice kind of
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: like you guys have already touched on all these points,
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: but like I.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Agree with what you said earlier.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: You know, my all my main friends in life now
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: are people that I play golf with, and a lot
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: of my best friends from when I was younger I
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: don't see as often because if we're not especially like
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: in the summer, you know, if we're not golfing, it's
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: kind of it's not like it's hard to find something
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: to do, but that's just like what I would prefer
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: to do in my spare time. So it's great to
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: be able to use golf as a vehicle to foster
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: friendships and meet new people. Like I met a lot
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: of your friends in Indiana for the first time and
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: they're all amazing as well. And you know, to see
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Zach and Joe and be able to play golf with
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: them competitively too. You know, it's fun to be able
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: to compete in your thirties for something and gamble a little.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Bit, you know, five bucks a hole, whatever it might be.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: It doesn't have to be a lot, but as long
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: as there's something at stake, it always makes it a
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: little more interesting and more exciting and kind of, like
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: you said, you know, we're gonna be playing this game
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: for the rest of our lives, and it's good to
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: be able to play it with people that you like and.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Just Y's fun.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: It was a testament to you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, like you made it very clear from the
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: outset that this was not there was no obligation to
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: do anything like if we wanted to share some things,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: that would be cool, because I think there was some
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: help that we kind of got from some of the
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: people you were playing a trip with, so we all
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I think we all did our part in that, which
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: is like it was respectful and it wasn't over the
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: top and wake Tean like, I mean, like, I'm very
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: grateful for the opportunity to have been on the show
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: and meet new people. And that's really kind of like
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: what life is all about. And I think like whenever
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I walk into a group, like I have a choice
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: to hopefully or an opportunity to hopefully meet some people
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: that I can get along with and hang with.
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: And that's what I found in this world, just like
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: any other world.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: It was fun for me selfishly, it was great because
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: my dad was there, my father in law was there,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: high school buddies, middle school buddies' college friends. It's just
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: cool to see everybody hanging out and at night. We
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: obviously hit up the casino. A little shout to french Lick.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Not a place that I think many will when it
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: came up on like the list of where we could
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: go for a golf trip. I don't think french Lick
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: is necessarily popping off. I would say this, and I
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: have no obligation to say this. I thought the three
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: courses we played were absolutely incredible for a golf trip.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I thought the accommodations were awesome. And then there's a
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: casino right there on property that we spent the evenings at,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: and if you gamble or not, we had TV's going,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the playoffs, NBA Playoffs were on. We're all hanging out together.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I think it's the perfect spot to do what I
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: was hoping to do, which is just to get people
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: to spend time together for a few days without you know,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: any distractions, to put the phones away, to get to
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: catch up, to get to play a little golf competitively.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I am a massive fan of it. It's the only thing
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I do today really with a group of people that
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I can get competitive against them on And I'll be honest,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: if you add Joey and Wells into this and then
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: three of you, there's probably like, there's very few people
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I would want to beat on a golf course more
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: than the five of you, like I want to. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: want to come out on top against everybody, but especially
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: you five because I just think it means a little
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: more to me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, wait till next next year, because I'm still
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: gonna be rolling in with a high handicap on my swings.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: My swing's getting better. About the worst.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: The worst part about me is there is a part
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: of me that is like, maybe you could go pro,
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: like every.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Time I have every night. I think all of us
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: have that thought. And it's a it's a.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Serious issue because I could barely hit the ball.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Not not if you living, not if you keep living.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, I've been sitting out of twelve for ten years.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: You can't practice. You go to Chelsea Piers. It's it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: two dollars a swing.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: The uh golf trip uh dot Ai also helped us
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: plan that. I want to give a shout out to them.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: French Lick Indiana one hundred percent recommend for any golf trip,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: you will not have a bad time. Do you guys agree?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Did it live up to expectations? This again, you have
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: no obligation to say it did.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Loved it. I had a great time.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was great.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: The courses were amazing, a lot more challenging than I
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: think that I'm used to, at least here in Colorado.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: You know, they're they're longer than the course of in Colorado,
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: and the ball doesn't fly quite as far because it's
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: set six hundred feet elevation. So it's it was really
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: interesting to play out there. And that's kind of the
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: tricky thing playing with you guys is you guys all
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: hit the ball so far and I don't really hit
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: it very far. So I'm hitting driver three wood into
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: a par four while Wells is hitting a driver for
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: eight iron, you know. So that part was a little challenging.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: But the courses were great. It's it's it's way more
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: fun to to play a challenging course like that, in
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: my opinion, than to play like a course that's overly easy.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: So the golf was amazing. The casino was great. It
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: was cool to see Joe in his element, and and
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: and thriving in the casino and the Pacers, games Man,
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: the pace with you guys, that.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Was amazing as well. So yeah, top to bottom as
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: good as it possibly could have been.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: It was a great place, guys. I'm so thankful that
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: you said yes to it. You're you're good people, You're
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: good friends to many more years of this. We got
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: to come up with a name. I'm open to do
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: names because I don't think we're gonna be able to
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: do this in Indiana forever, even though I'd love to.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: But we got to come up with a good name
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: for this trip because it's a way for us still
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: to get together. Dean, Zach, Joe. Any last closing words
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: for anybody listening when it comes to friendships in the
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Bachelor world or golf trips.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: No, No, I'm really grateful to know you, Ben, because
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: that helps me get to hang out with these guys
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: more often. It's really cool to see you with your
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: forty friends that you invite to a trip like that,
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: because everyone was amazing, and that's a testament to you
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: and the people that you are able to get around you.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: I think that was an amazing experience, and I'm excited
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: for more. I hope we can do this or something
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: like this once a year or more. You know, every
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: time I see you in Wells go on like one
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: of these program trips, I always get very very jealous
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: on the inside, and I make sure to express it
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: outwardly as well. But yeah, it was great, and I
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: hope we got to do it a million times again.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I will say, when you say that you're jealous, I
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: would be jealous too, Like I get it, like I
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: feel for you. I don't know what to do about it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: There's like I have no control, but I get it
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and I feel it. And if I was on the
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: outside of that and there I am on some of
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: those things like the American Century, I'm always jealous. I
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: don't even watch anymore because I just get mad. I'm
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: not mad at the people there. I just get sad
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: that I'm not there in Tahoe. So maybe we can
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: create our own little Tahoe and you all will have the.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Invite every year.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: We'll just we'll do it on our own, because if
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: people don't invite you to something, you just got to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: create it. And I'm with you. The courses that we
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: played were very challenging.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Dean.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: My dad told me yesterday. I talked to him and
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: he goes.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I think you're trying to completely annihilate any confidence I
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: ever had on the golf course because of French lick.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: And then we played Congressional this week together. He said,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: this is getting to be really frustrating for me, and
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: I said, hey, just makes you better, Dad, Just keep grinding.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: You know what, There's room for improvement even in your sixties. Gentlemen,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: you're the best. I appreciate you. Thanks for coming on.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: This has been the Almost Famous podcast. We'll be back
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: very soon. Until next time, I've been Ben.
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