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Mike Nutcher joins the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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Drinking, drinking, well, going back they drinking my dog? What is
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going on everybody today? I have a very special guest, a friend of
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mine, Mike Nutcher, Viva Seltzers, fresh from Ireland. Just got back.
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How you doing, my friend, I'm doing great. Thanks for having
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me that I pronounce your last name correct? You did? Oh? Thank
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god? Yeah? I would. I would have to start over. Yeah.
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Some people say Nutcher and aggravates the hell out of me. So I
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think when we checked into the hotel in Boston, I heard you say it,
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and that's kind of why I think I got it right perfect obviously.
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So you are one of the owners of Viva Tequila Seltzers. Yep, you
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guys win a lot of awards. You guys are Nesson sponsor right correct for
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Red Sox and Bruins and everything. Nesson Charlie. Have you met Charlie Moore
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yet? I have not met. I'd loved it though, right me too.
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I'd love to get him on this show. No offense to you right
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here. Uh So, let's we'll talk a little bit about Viva and then
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we'll get into some one of the hottest topics of the day, revolving around
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the Golf World. But talk a little bit about your Viva's. Yeah.
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So Viva started a little over a year and a half ago, m or
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a Boston based, Quincy, Mass based company. So my buddy Steven,
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he worked for Anna Hazerbush for about fourteen years before starting Viva. Um.
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You know, seltzers have been growing like crazy the last you know, four
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or five years, the fastest growing category, and tequila is the fastest growing
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spirit right now. So if Steven wanted to create a drink that's a seltzer,
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but a more healthier version than the current ones out there. So he
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came up with the idea of you know, low calorie, no carbs,
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no sugar, and came up with Viva. And that's what separates us from
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the other seltzers is eighty eight calories, zero carbs, zero sugar, gluten
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free, and naturally flavored. Zero hangovers. I heard hangovers had much better.
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Yeah, depending on the level. We'll get into that story. When
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we were in Boston, so you got four flavors, you got an Elderberry,
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which is that was the one that was voted. Yeah, that Elderberry
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one number one hard celts in the world last year at the World Spirits competition
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in San Francisco. We beat out seven hundred and fifty entrants with the elderberry
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flavor. Wow, that's that's amazing. Yeah, Huckleberry is my personal favorite.
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Yeah, Huckleberry's actually in number one flavor by sales. That one.
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You can actually get a storage restaurant, yes, you can. Six cases.
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We're dropped off yesterday, so we're moving through it pretty good, lovely,
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and you will beat that by this Sunday. I will be there.
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Come down. Sunday. We have Nashville Night, so it's shot down.
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Starts at like two and then at five o'clock is uh Chicken Fried. I
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think it's a Zach Brown cover band. And I heard they're phenomenal. I've
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not seen them yet. I have seen them, have you They're good,
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They're really good. Yeah, so it's gonna be crazy. People are the
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ones we're running off the hook for some to day. It's gonna be nuts.
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I bet um, and we'll have Viva's flowing all day. You can
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come and meet Mike yourself. I'm sure you'll buy you one. Absolutely.
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So. Yeah, the huckle Bearer is my favorite. And then you're drinking
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the great Fruit. Yeah. Great, fruits my favorite. Yeah. So
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this is our take on a smoky poloma. So there's notes of mescal to
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it, and get all of our flavors. Everything's subtle, Yeah, everything's
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light, it's clean. It's the cleanest beverage on the market. Yeah.
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Nice. And the last one is watermelon. Now that one also has a
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little smokiness to it, if I remember it does. Yeah. Yeah,
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we use the rind of the watermelons, so it's very different than the traditional
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watermelon selters out there. It's a little more tart. There's notes of vanilla
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to it. But they're all great, and they're all They're all four very
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different flavors, So depending on what your tastes are, you're gonna love probably
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all of them, but you're definitely gonna love one or two of them at
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minimum. I like the fact that it's like lower carbonation. It's not like,
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yeah, I mean, I don't lie to drink a lot of white
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claw, but those are get a little too carbonated for me. One thing
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I've noticed at work is people are asking for the high noon tequila seltzers.
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I have heard they're fucking awful, not gonna lie, and I had one
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yesterday. The golf tournament was at. It was lime. It was fucking
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awful. I gave it to my plan. I can't even drink this thing.
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This is disgusting. Yeah, people are asking for him just because they
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love the Higdan vodka. That's it's just named recognition, that's it. Yeah,
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because they nailed the high Noon vodka. Um, you know it's good.
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That's one of the first real RTDs. You know, Seltzers came out
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with you know, Let's Bond Live and then White Claw, you know,
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but then the high Noon changed the game. And you know, we're not
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making the malt liquor based seltz We're gonna make an actual spirit based Seltzer.
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So they kind of changed the game and Seltzers are now called RTD ready to
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drink cocktails. Yeah, and you know, actually White Club did it themselves.
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They made their own Ye vodka one and I'm sure they'll follow up with
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tequila and stuff and all that. Yeah, but yeah, it was awful.
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I don't really like high Noons at all, Like I just I don't
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know. It's just there's there's this, uh the video wall, like PGA
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memes, right, that's Instagram guy was telling you how to drink a high
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noon while playing golf and he's like got the club in his hand and he
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brings it back and he just purposely dumps it out and then he swings through
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and then he goes to the ground. He picks up at Tito's and soda.
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Uh shit. So also exciting with your product is you guys are the
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official alcoholic beverage of nesson New England Sports Network official Hard Seltzer. The Boston
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Bruins and the Red Sox coverage on nesson. That's awesome. Yeah, that
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that's been a huge partner of ours. Um. You know, we have
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our ads going through all the Bruins games all all season long, and now
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that it's baseball season, you know you can see our full length commercials during
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the pregame shows and then throughout the whole the whole game, you'll see our
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ads pop up. Yeah. I'm always working, but I turn around I
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see your seltzers up there like they're flashing them in between whatever. Yeah,
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good stuff. And I had the honor of Cohen with you too that Bruins
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game that they lost too to one, and it was a regular season game
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so that it didn't matter. This is an honest question when you get involved
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in something like this. I mean, obviously you're hoping for the best for
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those teams, but I remember the Bruins lost and he were texting each other.
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I'm like, you gotta be fucking kidding me. Yeah, you know,
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it's like, I'm sure you're not getting any money back, but it
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would have been nice to have a nice long player. Yeah, run the
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further they're playing. Actually, don't know. Does Nessons show the games though
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after the first round it might go national after that. No, like,
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so like they're they're not showing like the games. Like obviously Standing Cup is
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once or TMT or whatever it is now. But the biggest, you know,
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let down for us was because Boston's our biggest market, right So when
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the Bruins are in the playoffs longer, the bars in Boston are gonna be
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busier, They're gonna be drinking more Vivas. Our ads will be on TV
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a lot more. Um So, the fact that they got knocked out the
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first round, they got the Presidents Trophy curse. But no, it's still
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been a great partnership. Obviously, I taker tape for a living awesome.
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Imagine all the vivas would have been flowing them. How long you guys signed
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on with them for. So we're until October, so the end of the
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baseball season, and then he'll reassesss. We'll see, we'll take a look
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and see if we want to renew it or not. But they've been a
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great partner, so yeah, we'll see what happens. I had a blast.
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We were up in the ness and suite. We went up there,
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and I remember it was in between the second and third period, were able
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to go over to the studios the intermission guys, Billy Jaffee and those guys
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that do the intermissions. And I remember looking to him. I had left
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and there was the anthem singer, like his name is escaping me right now.
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But I knew we bartended there before. I knew him Barten there before
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he took over the Anthem gig. It used to be called like the a
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teen t Sports Deck. I forget what they call it now, but it's
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basically a bar that's on the level of where all the luxury suites are,
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right and I saw him so me and it was the kid that you brought
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from the Rhode Island package stores, yep. And me and him went over
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and I was trying to like get a selfie like with him behind me,
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and I was like, hey, look up. He's like, put your
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fucking phone down. I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. He goes,
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now come over here, I'll come around the bar. We'll take a real
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picture. And I'm like, oh, nice, all right, nice,
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And I'm fucking six sheets to the wind that that probly guys like. Then
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then I ordered a couple of Jamison shots and I don't want to get him
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in trouble, but he might have done one with us. Sorry, yeah,
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but oh and then uh, we were we were doing good. We
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were drinking the vivas, we were feeling good, and we went to I
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think the greatest sports bar YEP with Kenny Stills. They now retired NFL a
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wide receiver. You know he's only thirty really, yeah, because when I
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was talking to that night, he's like, yeah, I'm kind of done.
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You know, he's made like thirty four million dollars in his career.
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You know what he does now skis Yeah, but he has like this program
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where he tries to get you know, blacks more involved in golf and like
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skiing in the winter sports that are predominantly White for whatever reasons. And I
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think it's great. And he's got like I think they had something in mount
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Snow where he's like one hundred and fifty people like showed up and they were
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all skiing and learning how to ski and that's great. Yeah, it was
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awesome. I remember him saying mentioned that I gave him my card to him
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if I were in Connecticut we could play some golf. And yeah, I'll
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see if he takes me up on that. I sent him a message,
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you know, and now he never read it come on the show. But
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he was a gentleman. He's a very nice guy. Yep. Had a
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fun time. So yeah, so we were up in the sweet and drinking
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vivas and they were at all the bars. We went to Hurricanes, right,
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that's where he started. I don't remember ye hurricanes everybody right, Okay,
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yeah, yeah, you don't remember we did? We did? Um,
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so you can get them pretty much anywhere now, right, yeah,
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anywhere. But we're in a lot of places. Yeah, um, you
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know we're in We had a lot of package stores, a lot of package
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stories. You get us some total wine. Yeah, that's a big one
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here in town. Winds and more Winds More Yeah, Corey. Corey has
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better, great partner. He's been selling a ton of Viva's there. You
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can get at stone Bridge, you can get at dock Side, um,
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all the elized locations. Nice. Yeah, yeah, that was that.
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That was that. The last times at dodock Side, they weren't there yet
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with that. Girl looked at Me's like what's that. I'm like no,
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I was, I'm like, they're here, They're behind the bar. And
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that's when I texted it. You're like, now two weeks now, like
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shit, I feel like a dick. Shit. So again, Viva Tequila,
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Seltzer's Elderberry, huckleberry, great fruit, and watermelon. Go check them
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out. They are not only variety packs though. Right now you can buy
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individual flavors, so our variety packs more like a sampler pack. So yeah,
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figure out what your favorite flavor is and then you can just go back
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and buy that flavor. Yeah, and we'll have the Like I said,
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we've got the huckleberries at stone Bridge currently. All right, So big day
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today in the world of golf. At golf yesterday at Shorehaven and South Norwalk
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at a great time, great day, great weather. So for those of
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you that don't really follow golf too much. Basically, the PGA has been
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around forever and it's pretty much the only it's almost a monopoly. You could
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say it's the only league. It pays the most. But there's been a
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lot of player griping over the years that you know that. I mean,
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Woods helped out everything. You know, Woods makes make all these guys millionaires.
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But along came Greg Norman and he's an old school golfer, and he
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partnered with Saudi Arabians, like just pure money people, and they started a
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competitive competitor league called Live LIV. And it's kind of a different structure,
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right, there's like teams almost they only play three days, they only play
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fourteen turn mints. And the people that went there were offered a ship ton
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of money ship tone and like Tiger Woods was offered a half a billion dollars
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and like he doesn't really play anymore, like he just always hurt. But
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he turned it down for the good of the PGA, where guys like Phil
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Mickelson and Dustin Johnson and those guys went to Live. I think Dustin Johnson
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got like two hundred and fifty million dollars. I mean, it's just like
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sign on bonuses, you know, so a lot of animosity amongst the guys
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that left. And the commissioner of the PGA is I believe his name is
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Jay Monahan or Moynahan. Just a year ago, was on TV talking about
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you know, nine to eleven survivors. We're pretty much protesting LIVE because you
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know, Saudi has A, you know, theyre has ties to some of
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the terrorists that were involved in that, and obviously they're human rights aren't a
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wonderful thing over there. So rightfully, so a lot of people were upset,
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and Moynahan comes out and says, you know, if you ever played
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in the PGA, you never have to apologize for playing in the PGA.
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Well just one year later, here we are, right And what fascinates me
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is how I think Live is like hemorrhaging money, Like I don't see them
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as a threat. Like part of me thinks, was this just like a
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snap decision because keepco won the you know, the PGA, Like I don't.
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I'd love to see the details, right Well, that's the thing.
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So they're not bouncing the details to the end of the month. Um,
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but it's basically they're gonna combine forces leadership on both ends are gonna have leadership
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roles within the new PGA. I look at it as like, you know,
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when the WWE took over WCW. You know, granted that's not real
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sport, but like that's kind of you know, there's gonna be a lot
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of animosity amongst these players. Like we were talking earlier, like if you
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know, if if Phil Nicholson ends up playing with Rory and Rory's you know,
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on camera and that Netflix show saying fuck Phil, basically, like,
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how is that all gonna? I don't think Phil plays as much anymore because
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he's over fifty now, but it's gonna be fun to watch. Oh man,
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Like what what do you what do you think? Where do you think
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it goes? Like do you think they bring some of the live like live
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rules to the PGA or are they just buying back their players. It's probably
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be a little bit of both, because you know, I'm team PGA.
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At the same time, I love that live happened, Like the game of
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golf needed it. Um, it's better for the fans for so there's been
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a lot of changes, um. And obviously the players in the PGA are
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making more money now. They're they're looking at different things. But like,
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you know, think about Tiger Woods could drive a cart, he can play
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a lot more. Yeah, or you know we're in shorts. You know,
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the game has changed. And you know, back in the day,
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you have to have your you know, shirt perfectly tucked in and it was
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even out a little bit. Your hat had to be perfect. Everything had
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to be I think my hat off yesterday walking in the clubhouse. Yeah,
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we still do this shit. Some places are some are So the game has
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changed. You know, think about fifteen twenty years ago, no one was
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blasting music on their car. Oh now it's yeah, now half the people
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out there are playing music. So the game has changed, it's evolved,
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and it's getting more and more people into the game. A lot more younger
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people are looking to play golf. They see how much fun it is a
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bunch of guys going out and drinking with the reis and how good are getting
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more involved. Yeah, I mean it's crazy. Like I feel like it
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was just such an odd time to do it, Like I think they just
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could have let Live fail. But I think it came down to the golfers
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because what was the other one, the DP, which is the European Tour
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like they're part of this too. And I know the golfers that were on
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Live, we're no longer allowed to play in any European PGA events. There's
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now now, it's got to be now, It's okay, yeah, right,
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So here you are, Here are these guys. They get all this
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money they go and now it's a shorter schedule, only three days a week.
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You know, the prize purses are probably bigger than PGA. Plus they
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get all that appearance money up front. I think, I don't know if
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it was a yearly thing, but and just one calendar year later it's pg
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I think, yeah. And you know, it's like it look said,
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it's gonna be fascinating to see how it all plays out. But Frankie sent
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me a tweet earlier from Donald Trump on his truth social a year ago.
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We're reading for this is July eighteenth, twenty twenty two. Donald Trump tweeted,
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all those golfers that remain loyal to the very disloyal PGA in all different
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forms will pay a big price when the inevitable merger with Live comes and you
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get nothing but a big thank you from the PJ officials. Who are making
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millions of dollars a year. If you don't take the money now, you
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will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the
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original signees were. Gluck to all, and congratulations to the really talented Cam
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Smith on his incredible win. Spot up, spot on. Wow, I
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didn't know that. I didn't read that before. That's fucking that's spot on,
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because I mean here, it is like a lot of people like like
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that. If you if you were mildly into golf, you have to watch
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the special on Netflix. It's like, yeah, full Swing. It's fantastic
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behind the scenes, and you really get to see the struggle that these mid
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line golfers face, like their caddy only makes money if they make money,
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and if you don't make the cut, you don't make a dime. Like
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they're getting sponsorship money. They're wearing the hats and the T shirts and playing
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with titleists or whatever. But that pales into comparison of what a win gets,
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you know, you know, I think the purse last week was like
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I think the winner was like two point nine million dollars. I think for
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the more yep, it's crazy money. But now all these guys leave,
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they all get paid, and boom one year later that he's right, they're
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back and like with anything else, time will heal everything. They'll all be
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buddy buddy again. But and then when this first happened, like, oh,
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you're not gonna play in any of the majors. They let him all
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play in the majors. Yeah, which is good, you know, because
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you want the best players. Yeah you don't. I mean, you look
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at a leaderboard now and like I might recognize two names in the top ten,
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like who are these guys? You know, it's not the best golfers
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anymore, right, And unfortunately this merger is going to hurt some of the
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golfers. They're gonna be either kicked back down with a corn ferry tour or
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I mean, I don't know how they keep their card. It depends how
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they have to have to win a certain amount of place certain a lot of
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make cuts. And I've never really looked at the like the guy that was
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the club pro with the PGA, you know, and they invited him to
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play the following week, which you know, he like was not going to
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play well, and they invited him for the rest of the year to play.
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Yeah, But like that's kind of fucked up because there's these guys that
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just grind out, grind out just to get a chance to play, and
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now one of their spots is eliminated because we had a cool story. You
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know. Yeah, well you know that was a cool story. It was
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a fantastic story. But you know, and they played it up even more
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just because Keepko was winning that gonna win that tournament. So now they could
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steal away from right from Keepca. Yeah, but Keepka said, if he
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wasn't hurt when the decision came for the live, he might not have made
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the decision he made. But now I'm sure he's not regretting that decision at
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all. Like all the cur outside of OC Tiger Woods, all the current
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PGA guys are like gonna be on all these guys yachts. You know,
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these guys made that kind of money to buy super yachts. Decki Matziamo.
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The other day flying Spirit Airlines, come on Spirit Airlines. I heard he
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got offered like, you know, two hundred three hundred million by Live and
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he turned it down. He tweeted today, Uh what did he tweet?
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It was a kind of a sarcastic oh love getting my news from Twitter.
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Basically, what they're saying is it's like they didn't None of these players fucking
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knew this was coming. Like they're all like what wait, what you know?
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Like how do you? I mean, one good thing though about Live
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for the PGA players was you started noticing before this merger happened today that the
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prize pools were getting bigger. A lot of these guys were getting more appearance
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and appearance fees because all the live golfs. I mean, you have to
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keep these guys happy. Yeah, I mean, well, they changed a
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bunch of events this year at elevated events where it's smaller fields, more money
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in which the travelers is going to be that way. So I'm looking forward
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to that this year. Yeah. Yeah, And you know, these guys
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like look like Woods, like you look at him now, he's a shell
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of himself. Granted some of itself inflicted, but like the ferociousness of his
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swing playing, you know, twenty six tournaments a year, you know,
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for ten straight years. Probably you know, he kind of dialed it down
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and he got in through his thirties, but you know, he was the
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guy. I mean, it's where he made all his money, but he
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was Now he's body can't handle it. Yeah, it's like Larry Bird in
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the NBA. Man, he's dope for every fucker. Loose ball took probably
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five years off his career. Yeah, you know, he's Look at Bryson.
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He spent a year and a half getting bulked up to make his swing
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as hard as he could and he got hurt. Yeah, now he never
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plays. Well, that's good for Live. He only has to play three
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rounds and right, fourteen times a year. Right, So, and then
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you know there's there's so much money, so much money in the PGA.
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Like you think about it, they have like four Super Bowls a year,
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you know, and that's not even thrown in you know, the Players Championship
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or you know, the waste management opened his huge, huge draw, huge
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TV ratings, you know, and they get four days of it, you
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know, and where's that money going? Right, Like, I'm curious to
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see what the TV deals are. Like that's the one thing I think Live
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fucked up on. Like I think they rushed it where like the first season
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wasn't even televised. He had to go on the internet. Yeah, you
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have to go on the internet. And then this season It's not like the
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CW where just four weeks ago they had a tournament that went into a playoff
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and it ran past whatever time and they had to show like Home improvement,
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so they bumped it back to the internet as like three players are going into
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a playoff and they showed home improvement and like those home improvement guys and just
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sitting Ah, there's my fucking show man. Wow. I didn't know that.
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Yeah, So it's like, I'm I don't know if there was like
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a tentativeness to like for like a I don't know, say a t NT
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or or a USA network too, uh, make a bid to televise the
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live tournaments, because I think a lot of it is like I'm still kind
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of confused. I've never seen one, and know there's teams and Phil has
22:52
his team, and I don't know if it's there's some individual tournaments and some
22:56
team tournaments, like I think they both go at the same time. So
22:57
there's gonna be a team winner and then an outright winner. Okay, Um,
23:02
so if you you're on the winning team and you finished the last place,
23:03
you're still gonna get some money for that. Yeah, um, but
23:07
yeah, you're right. They should have waited until they got a TV contract
23:10
before they started this. That should have been the first in the first thing,
23:12
especially if you're getting these stars. You get Dustin Johnson, and once
23:15
you got pill Michelson and Dustin Johnson and Brooks, she'd like, Okay,
23:18
yeah, let's get a deal with somebody. You know. Again, maybe
23:22
they're just like, we don't want to be the first people, you know.
23:25
And then it took a year and then, like I said, CW,
23:26
I don't even know what the channel that is. I'm sure I could
23:30
find it, but I don't know. Have you ever watched it? When
23:33
at first the first one was on YouTube. I watched it for about five
23:36
minutes. I said, this is stupid. It's you know, started buffering.
23:40
It wasn't my internet, so I just shut it off. Yeah,
23:42
no, it's it's weird. But uh, you know, now the US
23:47
opens what like two weeks away, and uh, that's gonna be It's gonna
23:51
be some good watch. Yeah, it's good, good, fun good,
23:53
I mean golf. It's I think it's great for golf and golf fans.
23:57
You know, it's always helps to be talked about, you know, if
24:00
you're not talked about you fade away. So if we look at the Travis
24:03
Championship, they used to give away tickets. It's like the first two days
24:07
for years and years. Now they're expensive, yeah, which which you know,
24:11
it's good and bad at the same time. It's you know, it
24:14
sucks for us fans have been you know, going forever, but now I
24:17
love it though it's it's packed. It's I'm going Wednesday, the pro Am
24:22
thing or whatever they do. The celebrity Yeah they do. I did it,
24:26
like, oh god, eighteen twenty years ago, and it was Bill
24:32
Belichick and his son Stephen, who at the time was like fourteen and driving
24:37
it. Really yeah, he builds you know, old and whatever. But
24:42
yeah, it was I was the last year Paul Newman was there, and
24:45
he passed away the following years whatever year that was. It was a while
24:48
ago. Yeah, he was old and frail. But I'm like, dude,
24:53
that's Paul Newman. Man. That's pretty cool. That's really cool.
24:56
Because I work all weekend, so I can't get up there, you know,
24:57
so I have figured go to the Wednesday thing and happen. Yeah,
25:00
you guys got a tent up there or anything. We don't we you know,
25:03
we tried to become the official hard Seltzer tequila Seltzer for them, and
25:08
so they already had official tequila there, not not a tequila Seltzer, but
25:12
tequila, and they said that they couldn't they would compete with that. So
25:15
that's weird, it is, I bet you, because if I go there,
25:18
there's probably high noon tequila or high noon Vodkas there. And I'm sure
25:22
there's a Tito's there too. Oh, I know, I know Tito's.
25:23
Yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna ask. I think Great Goose is there
25:27
too. I mean, well that's sponsorship though. Yeah. I'm just talking
25:32
like if you bought a tent, you know, yeah, you know,
25:36
like it's one of those things to you look at your return investment for four
25:37
days, five days, um, you know costs probably a ton of money.
25:41
Um. But you know, some day in nine and ninety in two
25:45
thousand, I was working at the saw Grass Marriott for the TPC and there
25:49
was some beer. I can't remember the name of it. It was green,
25:53
like the bottle like a Heineken bottle, green Bavara or I don't know
26:00
what the fuck it was, but they fucking dumped their whole life savings into
26:03
sponsoring this tournament. So we had to bring it into the bars that you
26:07
know at the Marriott. It was. It was banners everywhere, signs and
26:10
it was official beer of the TPC and I never saw it again. You
26:17
gotta be smart, you know, at the startup, you know, you
26:18
gotta be smart about your your your your budget and where you're gonna put your
26:22
money. And again, what's gonna be a good return out our investment is?
26:26
You know what it comes down to, right as you guys did with
26:29
us, and it's turning out that was huge, right for sure. Yeah,
26:33
Now if the Red Sox could play a little better, that would be
26:36
a big help. They started off slow, then they got a little hot
26:38
for a while, yep, and they got to play the raise. I
26:44
mean you see they play the other night. I didn't see it, but
26:45
well I saw it later. But it was like a like a bad News
26:49
Bears inside the park home run. So like I don't know, a guy
26:55
hit a ground or they're short and tried to throw home to get the guy
26:59
out of home and it went over the catcher's head and the runner was that
27:03
hit the ball was going to second, so he threw it to second,
27:07
got by the second baseman all the way into center field, but the center
27:10
fielder wasn't there anymore because he was covering. The ball just rolled all the
27:14
way out Like hell. Boy, that's how as you put an outfielder to
27:18
play shortstop. All right, So let's get down to it. You just
27:26
got back from Ireland, one of my favorite vacations I've ever taken. Done
27:30
it twice. Uh, that was it was awesome. You know, this
27:33
was last time I was in Ireland. Was the first time, and that
27:37
was a golf trip with the guys. This time I was with my wife
27:41
and some of her friends and eleven days touring the whole country. Please tell
27:45
me there was more another mail with there was another. It might have been
27:48
a little rough. We had a great time, yeah. Um. We
27:52
started off in Dublin, drove to Galway, down to Dingle, to Collarney
27:59
to ken Sale, to Waterford, Cork and then back to Dublin for another
28:03
night. Wow. Yeah, I had one hundred Guinness easily. Um.
28:08
You know every day, you know Guinness whiskey. There was no Vivas over
28:11
there, so I just drank the Guinnis and the and the did you get
28:15
out to the cliffs, the Cliffs of the Mary. Yeah, that was
28:18
incredible, and we had the best weather. Like the people they are saying
28:22
they've never had weather like this. It was sixty degrees and sonny on a
28:27
bad day, high of seventy seven on some days. Not a cloud in
28:30
the sky the whole week, so like all the sight see sight seeing opportunities
28:34
were perfect. You could see for miles and miles, which was unheard of
28:37
there. Yeah, did you go to the Guinness Factory. We did go
28:40
to Guinness Factory that was flupstairs for the Gravity year. We got our face
28:45
printed on top of the Guinness Yeah, I didn't have They didn't have that
28:48
when I last That must be new. But I love it. It was
28:53
a slam though. Yeah, Like that's the only thing that sucks about it.
28:56
It's so like I could spend an hour up there and just walk around
29:02
the windows because you know, they have the little inscriptions it was of what
29:04
you're looking at, yep, you know, whether it's the church or whatever.
29:08
But it's so fucking busy, Like, yeah, it's just too busy.
29:11
Like I just think they overpack it. But whatever, they're in the
29:14
business to make money. I get it, but yeah, no, it's
29:18
I asked you before the show, did you find the guinness different over there?
29:25
But I think you thought he said something else because you went off in
29:27
a different direction. I was like, I don't ask it off the show.
29:30
Did you find the guinness different there? Yeah? You know what.
29:32
Some places had great pores, you know, that tasted very different, and
29:36
some tasted you know, kind of like back here. The best guinness I
29:40
ever had was in Northern Ireland when I went last time at Royal County Down.
29:45
We got some guinness at the turn and it was just creamy and smooth.
29:49
But again I said earlier, I don't know if it's different. I
29:52
didn't have any hangover system so but it definitely tasted a little creamier. I
29:56
think. Yeah. Like the four I went, all as I heard was
30:00
it's served warm and right total falls and uh, it's just different is what
30:08
I always heard. I'm like, it's different because it's warm. And then
30:11
I got there, I'm like, this ain't warm, it's not fucking served.
30:14
It's kind of you know, reminds me at home and drinking. Yeah,
30:17
but they know how to pour it there because you know, you get
30:19
over here, you get to some places. They don't know how to pour
30:22
it properly. Did you game a certificate? I didn't know. Come on,
30:29
I got two of them twice. I know how to pour it.
30:32
It's not hard to pour. No, it's not. It's not. But
30:34
when I'm slammed at work, like right to the top, here you go,
30:37
pal, eight dollars, thanks for coming. YEA, well you're doing
30:44
slow poor that. I don't fucking care. You see how busy I am,
30:47
bro. Yeah, but we do it in the cans. That's done
30:49
bridge outside. Yeah, and I don't I don't mind it. I don't
30:53
either. Just it's like kind of the same process. Ye just dump it
30:56
right upside down and casts How do they get that to do that? I
31:02
just I'm not sure. It's it's a beautiful sight. Yeah, there's nothing
31:06
better than a perfectly poured guinness. And over there it's the full fucking you
31:10
know. So I was a twenty ouncer, I think right, it's a
31:11
big glass. Yeah, the best one I had was in a mug,
31:15
in a glass mug. I'll show you the picture. It's I think that's
31:21
how they used to serve him over there. But let's see here. It
31:27
was that one of the bars. It was also a hardware store, which
31:30
is which is pretty cool. Let's see here that got this one in Waterford.
31:41
Look at this picture here. Oh yeah, that's nice. That was
31:48
the best gutness. Yeah, so I turned you onto this book. So
31:52
there's so if everyone ever again, anyone ever goes to Ireland, shoot me
31:56
a text and I'll get you the link. Was it twenty five bucks?
31:59
Maybe? Yeah, good book, It's the Dead Rabbit. They got three
32:02
books, I believe, but one of them is basically aware to go as
32:06
far as local bars. So if you avoid the tourist traps, you avoid
32:09
all that stuff and you've had some pretty good experiences, as did I using
32:14
this book. This book was spot on right. So soon as I got
32:17
to a town, first thing I did was going to this book, search
32:20
for that town's page and find the pubs. A couple of more hardware stories
32:24
slash uh. You know, pubs, grocery stores and pubs. And they
32:29
weren't filled with tourists. They filled with locals, which is great because that's
32:31
what I want. I'm one of the experience. I met this one guy
32:35
at the hardware store at Jake Karns. His name was excuse me, Mossy,
32:40
Mossy, great guy. We had a couple, had a couple of
32:43
challenges, you know, chugging guinnis, and guy was out of his mind,
32:46
you know when I got there. And then uh, three days later
32:50
I ran into him in Collarney, Yeah, an hour and a half away,
32:53
and he had no clue who I was, um until I showed him
32:57
the picture that we took together. And then he remembered and he invited me
33:00
and his wife or my wife to his wedding in January. Oh. Nice.
33:04
Yeah, he probably forget about that the next day, but he invited
33:07
us to get take it out your info. I did I get it.
33:08
I got his email. Nice. Yeah, so maybe we're going back in
33:13
January for a wedding that's probably gonna be cold in January. They're not bad,
33:15
yeah, but that's what I was kind of looking for, that those
33:20
experiences with the locals. And when I travel, I you know, some
33:22
people tell me, like you fucking talk to anybody? I'm like, well,
33:27
what am I gonna do? Just staring to fucking this wall. No,
33:30
it's where it's awesome. It's where you learn life experiences and meet new
33:34
people like last week or the week before on the show, we were talking
33:38
about when when I fly, or like when anyone flies, you know,
33:43
you're on a plane, like do you talk to the person next to you?
33:45
And I'm like, I got lifelong friends, like you know, Facebook
33:50
friends, let's say, but people I met on planes that you know,
33:52
we became friends. And you know, maybe once every couple of years they
33:57
might, you know, be in the area. They pop into stone Bridge
33:59
and say hello, you know. Yeah, not somebody I text daily or
34:01
anything, you know, but there's some interesting people out there. You never
34:05
know who you're gonna meet. Yeah. And actually, older ira drunk irishman
34:09
you know, came up to me and started talking to me, and he
34:12
kept saying over and over he doesn't cost anything to say hello, it said
34:15
to me, like a hundred times he was or three sheets though wind but
34:19
um yeah, and it's like you're right, dominic, you know, it
34:21
doesn't cost anything to say hello. Yeah, did you tip while you were
34:24
there? Yes? Yes, I know you're you're not supposed to. You
34:29
don't need to over there, but you know, I would say every time,
34:31
you know, because a lot of times you play with card they just
34:34
hand you the handheld out snow tip. But if we had any euros on
34:38
us, you know, we would, uh we would tip. Or if
34:42
we pay with cash, um, you know, we would tip. And
34:45
they loved it, like I think some of them too would. They would
34:46
ask for it because they knew we were Americans and they knew that we're used
34:49
to tipping. But over there, it's it's not a common practice. Yeah.
34:52
I always have like the coins on me, like the dollar euro coins
34:54
you have, throw them a couple here and there, and then you know,
34:57
they they fucking know we're Americans, right, so maybe they're like,
35:00
oh, we can might have some tippers here, you know. Yeah.
35:04
And for all you Irish people out there, when you come here, you're
35:07
supposed to tip twenty percent minimum minimum. I accept twenty five and thirty yeah,
35:13
yeah, uh yeah, it's it's it's it's weird over there, Like
35:17
you don't really start tabs, no, No, you just go up and
35:21
whatever, you order your order and you pay for it right there. Yeah.
35:22
And I was telling you earlier. All the alcoholic drinks are measured to
35:27
a tea every single time, like all the bottles are all the popular bottles
35:30
are hanging upside down and one ounce pores already pre measured into that little thing,
35:35
and yeah, push it like like a tap system. It drains the
35:38
one ounce you release it, it fills up for the next one. So
35:43
which here, you know, drinks are every one to happen. It's probably
35:45
smart because they know you're going to be drinking all day long and then at
35:49
night too. Yeah, so they're like, we gotta paste these fuckers.
35:52
But yeah, they give you twenty ounces in a Guinness and you're chugging it
35:55
with something, dude. Yeah, I mean what one of my favorite spots
36:00
was Galway? Is it is? It's it's on the water. Uh,
36:05
there's actually like beaches there. I guess it's a it's a college town apparently,
36:08
and it's got it's a little younger. We're Dublin's more. You know,
36:13
Dublin's the city, so it's got that metro feel to it. But
36:16
always got that that one little strip and that's just pub after pub and it's
36:21
just you just get lost. Did you take the ferry over there in Islands?
36:25
No? We didn't. Uh, we thought about it, and then
36:29
we took the bus trip to uh to the cliffs, yep, And I
36:34
did the same bus trip the same, like the same one twice each time
36:37
it went, and we they stop at this little pub and this tiny little
36:40
fucking cowtown on the way out to the cliffs. It's probably like thirty minutes
36:45
outside of the cliffs and you get like five you get like they get you.
36:50
It's like you stopped for lunch. Trugers. Maybe it's like a little
36:52
strip like white building it's right near the cliffs some more. Yeah, yeah,
36:58
no, I'm thinking a dangle. Yeah byby stopping. It's like the
37:04
best guinness too, I've ever had in my life. And you know they
37:07
don't traditional Irish food. So the first time I went to Ireland, I
37:14
actually was eating like the fucking blood fucking sausage and I love the full Irish
37:19
breakfast. Oh I can't. I had it every single day. Yeah,
37:23
so my first food experienced Island. The first time I went, I was
37:25
not impressed. But getting that book and doing more of the local stuff like
37:34
a hundred times better. The second time I went, like, I was
37:36
like super impressed with the food over there. Fish and chips is the best
37:38
fish and chips I ever have. Yeah, yeah, they we had a
37:43
good spot and go always like you just some of these there's like a little
37:45
like pop up places. Just walk in and you know it's like a little
37:49
kiosk and you get fish and chips there and ship. Yeah, go sit
37:51
by them, you know, go sit by the beach and get fat and
37:55
all the stories one thing and they close it like five six o'clock. Yeah,
37:58
that's weird. Yeah, you can't get like you go, you get
38:01
caught in the pump for a couple of hours. You wanted to go to
38:04
that souvenir story, it's called the six o'clock not up again into eleven o'clock
38:07
the next morning. We are the last time I went, we were.
38:14
We had just gotten off the plane to Dublin. Now I don't know how
38:17
the fuck you drove over there. I can't drive on the other side of
38:21
the road. Everything's a fucking round about circle. So we we just we
38:28
just did um we We took the train from Dublin to Galway and then we
38:34
bust it down to Cork and then we took a train back from Cork to
38:37
back to Dublin to the tail end of the trip. But that first morning,
38:42
like we flew out of uh it's not Westchester, but what's the other
38:50
small airport out that way. I can't remember, but it was a direct
38:55
shot and we tried to sneak, not sneak, we tried to bring on.
39:01
There was like fifty nips of gray goose that we got from the rep
39:06
and they confiscated like forty of them. Like we were like what the fuck?
39:13
Like I thought, like the rule was there in a ziplock bag a
39:15
court it was, I guess I was supposed to be a court, not
39:16
a gallon. So they downsized it to a court and they let us each
39:21
take like two on or something. It's like what the fuck. So anyway,
39:24
so we still find it's pretty easy to get drunk flying over there.
39:29
Yeah, we land, we're pretty hungover. But now it's you know,
39:30
it's like eight am their time, so everything's just starting to get going.
39:36
So we go to the train station they head over to Galway and we're either
39:39
still drunk or just whatever, and but we're hungry and at the train station
39:44
made like a half hour wait for our train, there was like traditional Irish
39:47
breakfast and I just looked at it. I can't, I can't. I
39:52
need a fucking bagel right now. And they didn't have anything, but they
39:55
had like soda bread, something like, I'll just give you a roll,
39:59
not even fucking blood sausage or I love that. I had it every single
40:02
morning. Oh god, protein, I know. Well, you're like a
40:07
fitness dude, not me. I'll eat pizza for breakfast. I did have
40:13
pizza at one place and it wasn't terrible. Yeah I did too. Like
40:16
the bread out there is good. Yeah, So it's different and it just
40:21
feels more natural and healthier version than the process stuff we have back here.
40:25
I mean there's literally nothing when you drive from Dublin the Galway. No,
40:30
it is just fields of maybe some cows, cows and sheep. It's pretty
40:36
pretty eerie, but like, you know, that's fresh land, you know
40:38
what I mean, Like it's clean land. The arrow is crisp. Yeah,
40:42
it was very crispal. That's why didn't get a hangover. The Chris
40:44
Bears breathing high quality oxygen. Well, I had the theory before the show.
40:50
I feel like when you're on vacation, it's it's you know, you
40:52
can't get it. You can't waste the day right being hungover. So I
40:55
think you're mental. Fucking something's going on and synapses in your brain and it's
41:01
just say no, you're not getting home over today. But then when you
41:04
get home off the trip, it's like when you get home. I got
41:07
home last night, Oh jesus, I want to just struggling through that fucking
41:09
viva. I said I wasn't going to this next week. I don't know.
41:14
It was like you right off the plane, that's all right, nice?
41:17
Nice? Oh man? So yeah, I'm looking to get back.
41:22
I'd love to get back. I think it'd be great. Uh if you
41:24
do like a guy's you know, golf trip, Yeah, hit me up
41:28
definitely, like I want to last time. I just don't do it in
41:30
the summer. Well, like in May and like September are the best times
41:35
to go to, right for weather wise? Right? Um? But yeah,
41:37
I would love to go back and do it a guy's golf trip in
41:40
this time because we did almostly round Dublin, um drove up to Northern Ireland.
41:45
But I want to do like a west coast southwest hit up Dingle,
41:49
Clariny Cork, those golf horses out there. I've never been to Dingle.
41:52
How was that? Dingle was my favorite? Was it? Really? Yeah?
41:54
Nice? Like small? Yeah? Yeah, but they had some good
41:59
pubs, good food and the sightseeing there was beautiful. We found this driver
42:04
that took us around for eight hours, showed us all the popular spots and
42:07
it was beautiful. Nice. Yeah, we were We were good to stop
42:14
there, I think, but we ended up last minute get and we were
42:16
in middle Cork. We got passes to go to Middleton to you know,
42:22
see the Jameson It was it was it was okay. I mean I'm kind
42:24
of like a bed the one destillly been to them all kind of thing.
42:28
Same with breweries, but you know, you're there for the tasting, let's
42:31
be honest. So we had a tasting at the end. It was like
42:37
a private one that our rep sent us up with and we were trying like
42:43
twenty five year old like like green spots. It was a green spot that
42:46
was like in a Madero wood finished. I mean like some of the nicest
42:50
shit, the Middleton ones like whoa like stuff you can't get here. Yeah,
42:54
you know, I have a buddy who flies to Ireland just for the
42:58
duty free, doesn't even get out of the airport. He just flies there
43:01
to buy stuff. Whiskeys you can't get in America, like two three bottles,
43:07
right and just flies back, doesn't even doesn't leave the airport. Wow.
43:12
Yeah, you ever heard of the rambling In. Yes, yeah,
43:15
it's Troy, the one of the owners of it. He just he flies
43:19
over like every three or four months. Just six hours there, six hours
43:22
back, boom boom, gets his whiskey. I was like, you don't
43:25
want to stay up a couple of nights you Yeah, I guess he's spending
43:30
all that on his you know, on the booze he brings back as he
43:34
served that and his in the bar. Uh, yeah, he's got yeah.
43:38
He actually he just had something where it was like a rare whiskey tasting
43:45
on the rambling In. It was pretty expensive, but it was like six
43:49
bottles that are probably all five sicks on hour bottles. And yeah, I
43:53
wasn't able to go, but it would have been pretty interesting. But he
43:57
brought a shitloaded he I had him on the show. He brought a shitload
43:59
of stuff here and we were just you know, trying to ship you know,
44:04
my girlfriend's texting meet. Is this a drinking show? I've got I
44:07
got twenty different whiskies on my table. No, I'm good, bed.
44:15
So how's your golf game right now? Golf game is not bad. Yeah,
44:19
it could be a little bit better. Um, you know, it
44:22
comes out a little confidence, you know, like right now it's confidence.
44:24
Isn't out of ten for ten, but it's it's like a seven right now,
44:27
which isn't bad. Yeah. I played yesterday, like I said,
44:30
in a tournament, which is obviously you know, it's more relaxed setting.
44:35
You know, if you don't hit a good drive, you don't have to
44:37
worry somebody's gonna hit one in the group. And we scored okay, I
44:40
think we were well, we were minus three, but one of them was
44:45
because of that hole that we got a hole in one on but we didn't,
44:47
you know, they just score it that way. So I think we
44:51
were one under, which is nothing to write home about. But it was
44:53
windy as fuck down there yesterday though. Wind was whipping. Yeah, right
44:58
on the water there and shore. Even nice country club. They have vivas
45:04
there. No, they didn't have well I mean that tournaments they don't.
45:07
Probably they have they have it for the members. Oh shit, I didn't
45:10
know that. I would have asked because I ended up So you're not a
45:14
little bar. They had outside patio with a brick off and pizza. The
45:19
girl must have been eighteen years old and like didn't know what the hell was
45:23
anything. So I saw I like, I saw her open up the cool
45:28
No, it's not a glass cool or so I saw her open it up.
45:30
You know. I asked for a fucking I'm sorry, didn't ask for
45:32
viva. I don't think you guys were there. Um. I just asked
45:36
for white claw and they didn't have it. And then she opened the door
45:37
like real quick, and I saw what's that ship long drink? Ye,
45:43
I'll take one, you know, it's all open, everything's free something like,
45:45
I'll take one of those and whatever. And like I said, we
45:46
got out to the course and they had the high noon Seltzers spit that right
45:52
out. It was disgusting. Yeah, but Nardelli's subs was there. They
45:58
were they did lunch. I love. Yeah. The owner of nar Delis
46:02
was in front of us, Marco, the other one I don't think his
46:07
name was Marco. It's two brothers, right, Yeah. So the guy
46:13
I'm with, this guy Justin who was playing with us, it's it's it's
46:16
it's actually his brother in law's brother in law. His name is Dino.
46:22
Really nice guy started this project purple and excuse me. It's, you know,
46:27
battling trying to trying to find early detection for pancreatic cancer, because there
46:30
really is no early detection for pancreatic cancer. Uh So it's a fundraiser for
46:36
that. And uh so Justin we're driving and the guys in front of us,
46:42
I know one of them, Dave, and I don't know that nar
46:44
Deli guys from a hole in the wall. And Dave told me, oh,
46:47
the guy that I'm rying with is the owner nar Delis. So Justin
46:51
turns to me and he goes, oh, I know his father through something
46:55
and something. So when we finally get caught up and we're all waiting on
46:59
a hole, he goes, yeah, I know your father, and he's
47:01
like you do he goes yeah, No, he goes no, that's my
47:05
brother. So I go, wow, do you feel younger? I like,
47:13
Jesse, had you fuck that one up? He's like, I don't
47:15
know, but yeah. So it was good. So two or three foursomes
47:20
in front of us was jam And Bronson, who was the Knicks point guard,
47:23
came out from the Dallas Mavericks and I knew like he had to be
47:27
somebody wasn't sure. But like right when I saw him, we were in
47:29
this little hut getting the no daily sandwiches and a beer. I'm like,
47:34
oh, I know you and he's like, oh, who who am I
47:37
I go, you're the guy that left Alas and shambles after when he went
47:39
to the Knicks. Now they can't win a playoffs. They can't. He
47:44
didn't make the playoffs this year with fucking Kyrie and fucking Luca. Do you
47:49
know that they were They were in third place in the Western Conference when they
47:54
traded for Kyrie. Really and they finished outside of the top ten to make
47:59
the plan. That's how bad they were Kyrie. Wow, So Vegas is
48:06
up two. Oh they blew them out last night. I saw score this
48:12
morning. I popped up with my with my live thing. I just got
48:15
home from miland I turned the game on put the sleep time round. I
48:19
didn't catch five minutes of it. Yeah, I didn't. I see,
48:21
you know, I didn't know they're playing. I didn't think they were playing
48:22
last night. I thought they're gonna play tomorrow, all right, tonight?
48:25
I mean, uh. And then the other series is Denver Miami. No
48:29
one's really watching it, but it is one one. Uh Miami. Strange,
48:34
man, I don't know how they're getting it done. Like they were
48:37
five minutes from not even making the playoffs. Like they lost the first play
48:42
in game, and then they were down like ten points in the fourth quarter
48:45
of the second playing game, and if they lost that game, they wouldn't
48:49
even have been in the playoffs. And now here they are, three wins
48:51
from the title. It's great. Well, look at Florida too for hockey.
48:54
They just snuck snuck in and we're trying not to talk about that on
48:59
this show. Okay, yeah, yeah, well yeah, they came down
49:01
to the last game right of the regular season to make the playoffs. It
49:04
was never pitt I believe, Yeah, And I was like, I knew
49:08
it too. I'm like, because Florida was the President Trophy of the Year
49:10
before, right, so they're not a bad team. And she chucks a
49:14
year older and he's getting into his game. He said that, hey,
49:16
last night he put on what was that on? What do you hit?
49:22
You know, I don't know many of the Vegas guys. Now it was
49:23
one of their bigger guys. He hadn't coming back, but he fucking cracked
49:28
it right across the Middle took him out. But yeah, like Florida that
49:31
they scared me. But but then we were up three one on my guard.
49:34
We're good. Yeah, you know, we're good. And yeah John
49:38
Quick might get another ring. Yeah, yeah has a backup. Yep,
49:44
that's crazy. Huh. I played with him in high school, did you?
49:45
Yeah? Yeah, so I was a senior. He was, he
49:49
was a freshman. Oh okay, yeah, he grew up playing with my
49:52
brother. What what position did you play? I was a center? Okay?
49:54
What's he goalie in high school? Yea, yeah it was good.
49:59
Yeah? Did he did? He go right from high school the pros or
50:01
they were two years at Hampton and then he went to Avon Old Farms,
50:05
then played at UMass Amherst and then he dropped out halfway through to go play
50:09
from pros. Drafted. Wow that was a surprise. Well, he got
50:14
traded twice this year, didn't he. Yeah, he got traded to Columbus.
50:19
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like a day later, he's
50:22
Yeah, it was like the Mike Piazza trade the day and now he's gonna
50:25
get another ranger. A good from him? Man, Yeah, I'm happy
50:29
for him. Yeah his uh oh no, I'm thinking of somebody else,
50:35
lunk Twist from the Rangers his backup Alquet, I mean not now, we're
50:39
talking back back when he was Yeah, I think al Cat. He's from
50:44
around milf Ball. He married a girl from Milford. Okay, so he's
50:46
every once in a while he does the studio show now for the Rangers,
50:51
like intermission stuff. I think, okay, everyone's a while he pops into
50:53
storage. But it's funny hockey guys. Man. I always know when like
50:58
a like a Sound Tigers in or now was an islander. Sorry, yeah,
51:00
And I'm just like, all right, all right, what position are
51:05
you? Like? I can just tell you a hockey player. You just
51:07
guys is all. They have a look. They have a total look.
51:09
Yeah, a little long flowing locks, big muscular hands. Like I had
51:16
a guy a couple of years ago. It was it was around this time,
51:21
like April, when the playoffs were happening. I think that those Sound
51:23
Tigers were in it. And he's just I'm like, I was working on
51:28
a lunch for whatever reason. The guy comes in sinto the bar and I
51:30
said, oh, I go, are you guys gonna win this around?
51:34
You know? And he's like, how do the fuck do you even know
51:36
I could tell? So we start talking right and I'm like, you know
51:38
what position are you? And he's like, well, I'm just a career
51:42
goon. Basically, I just go in and I just fight, and it
51:45
has allowed me to play like he was in his thirties, like he was
51:49
up there and he goes. It's just allowed me to play hockey for a
51:51
longer time. Like if I he goes, I don't have the skill set
51:53
to you know, score goals like these some of these guys. But but
51:58
I'm in a forcer and it's been a pretty solid career for me. I'm
52:02
like, you just look see it, like I wouldn't want to funk,
52:06
dude. These guys are a different breed one percent, and those guys like
52:08
you get give them your hardest punch to fit the face. Wouldn't even face
52:12
them. Do you played past high school? I did play college at Division
52:15
three where Western New England. Oh yeah, Springfield yea yeah, wah wink.
52:20
Yeah. My college buddy dated a girl that went there. Every once
52:24
in a while. We drive up there in party up there. Yeah,
52:27
it was fun because it was D three. It's not yeah, as strict
52:30
as you know. D one. You can still you know, go out
52:31
after games and not taking a full time job like Division one athletes. But
52:36
yeah, that's changed to you look at some of the Division three schools now
52:38
that it is a full time job there. You know, they don't take
52:42
anyone that's under the age of twenty one. And the fact that I got
52:45
right out of high school was was fortunate because that kind of just changed a
52:49
few years after that. Well, you think about all these colleges have so
52:52
much money. Yeah, and if you're an alumni and you're a donor to
52:55
that school, you want your athletics the probably at least be pretty good.
53:00
I mean, I remember when I went to University Haven at ninety two.
53:02
By the time I left, like you know, they'd already made these brand
53:07
new gyms and the uh you know, the training facilities that were just top
53:12
notch. You know, all this money pouring in and we had a good
53:15
football team back then and crazy all right, man, So Sunday it all
53:22
goes down. Yeah, it's Nashville. It's the Nashville Viva Night. That's
53:25
tone Bridge perfect, we'll call it. I love it. I will be
53:30
there probably at noon. Um, what time you thinking here? I would
53:34
say five to seven, four to seven something like that. That works.
53:37
That's probably will be the busiest hours right until like eight thirty or nine.
53:40
Perfect, And uh, come check out my boys shotdown Jeff, he's been
53:45
on the show. They're playing first, and then it's Chicken Fried I think,
53:51
not fried Chicken Chicken Chicken Fried Chicken Fried band, which is all like
53:54
it's just a fun, you know, rock country rock kind of stuff.
53:59
It's a guy from the Zoo. It's the Zoo. Yes, I kept
54:01
calling it Kick. You remember her Kick? They were they were a cover
54:06
band back in the day. But you're right, it's the Zoo, Brandy
54:07
from the Zoo. It's the side project. I think a couple of guys
54:09
from the Zoo are in this, but yeah, yeah, it's it's their
54:14
cover band stuff. But don't play Zach Brown Band and other country stuff.
54:16
And you know, I'm not a country but they're very entertaining. Yeah,
54:20
no, I'm looking forward to it. I like, I don't like country
54:23
music, but I don't mind country rock. If he can kind of yeah,
54:27
you know, uh, who is that country? Oh, I'm gonna
54:31
go see Jelly Roll when he's in Bridgeport, like August and They just had
54:36
a documentary on him the other day on Hulu. That dude needs to lose
54:40
weight. I've never I've seen a picture's face. I've never seen is he
54:45
big if he's like four hundred and fifty pounds? Really and he's got like
54:49
this hot blonde wife that he met before ship took off for him. Oh
54:54
yeah, it's kind of a cool story. And he just started, you
54:58
know, that Saved Me or whatever, his big song when I was just
55:01
like took off and the show kind of focused around him, like a red
55:06
rock in Colorado, Like he did a show there and like sold it out
55:09
in like ten minutes and just fucking he's like blowing up. Everyone heard like
55:14
two of his songs. Isn't that better? I like dead Man Walking,
55:15
That's pretty good song. That's one I don't like. Like, my girlfriend
55:21
is surprised I knew who he was. I'm like, well, he's on
55:22
octane, Like it's got he's got a cross, he's got that crossover ability.
55:28
I guess yep, I don't know why it's on octane, but it's
55:30
a good song. Nonetheless. But all right, Michael, we will see
55:35
you Sunday. Uh, it's gonna be fun. Come on down, uh,
55:38
and we'll party with some Viva's all day. Absolutely, and we'll actually
55:45
we're golfing soon, aren't we. We're golfing at the farms in a few
55:46
weeks. So I looked that place up. Yeah, when you said the
55:51
farms, like I I forwarded at the campy. He's oh, that's a
55:53
nice place. But you know what, I thought you were talking about Whitney
55:55
Farms. So I'm like, I don't really like I hate that course first
56:00
of all, just for my game. Yeah, yeah, it's just like
56:02
you can't slice it at all. The ball you're you know, I don't
56:06
score well there because I usually slice. Uh. But then I google with
56:09
the farms, I'm like, oh oh yeah, all right, so we'll
56:14
be there in a couple of weeks. So I'm just gonna stay below the
56:16
hole on all these Yeah. If the greens are lightning fast, fuck.
56:21
But it's open though, so just ye, you can get yourself to the
56:23
green and the three put Yeah, that's fine. That's I have. I
56:28
have a hat is a three put perfect. That's my game right there on
56:31
and three and three puts. Mike, Thanks so much, buddy. I
56:35
appreciate coming on and they're probably dead tired, but you're actually going out and
56:37
playing nine in a little bit right. Oh yeah, well thanks for having
56:39
me, Yeah, no problem in I'll see you Sunday and we'll have a
56:43
great time. Great, thank you. I'll talk to you guys next week