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Episode 36-Masters Preview · Johnny's World

• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hello friends.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: PW here.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Live from the Johnny Packer Studios in Starkville, Mississippi.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful spring day, Johnny.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: How are you today?
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm doing masterfully well.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: Very good, Johnny.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, uh, this is this is the Masters Preview Pod, Johnny.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: Is this Jim Nant Nance I'm talking to right now?
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Sure sounds like this is uh this is uh this is BW Nance.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: BW Nance Man, I love that.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: I love Jim Nance.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: I heard this is Jim Dance week from the Final Four to the Masters.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: What what a what a gig.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh it is.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: I hope he never retires because I love that guy, especially the masters.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, his voice is just goes with the masters.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: There's a certain amount of announcers out there when you put their when you listen to their voice, you automatically think of something, and you think of Jim Dance with the Masters and the Final Four.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I hope he never retires.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well, welcome everybody to the show.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: This is a special edition.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna talk a little bit about the masters here, so we'll get into that in just a moment here.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: But just wanted to give everybody an update.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: We still have the coffee available at johnnypacker.com.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: So if you need a good caffeine fix, or even if you like coffee but you just want decaf, you can go on there and take a look.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: It uh we've got several different varieties.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Go on there and place an order for a bag or two.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, as soon as you order that bag, they will get roasted freshly to you that week and they will get shipped to you.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so you'll get fresh roasted coffee that's been roasted within that first week.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: And if you've never had coffee that's been roasted that fresh, it's excellent.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I think uh we were just talking before the show.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Johnny, you said you're going down to see uh John Schneider in a couple weeks, and you're gonna order him a bag.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: So um, I'm interested to see what he thinks about it, but I think he'll like it.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he he's uh he's a big coffee guy.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: I got him some coffee a while back from Mississippi State and he loved it.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, I think he'll he'll like it also.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully I'll be able to spread the word down there to all his people down there.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we can get some sales from it.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, get him that Stark Vegas crime.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's the uh Colombian.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh friend Juan Valdez down there making good Colombian coffee.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh definitely.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well, um, well, let's talk a little about the masters.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: So let's let's get into um a little bit about I know you've been before, so I want to hear that story, and then after we hear that, maybe we can make some predictions about it.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: So uh you know, I've had this uh this bucket list before the bucket list movie even came out, before bucket list was even a thing.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: And and one of the things on my bucket list was go to the Sunday round of the masters, and uh I was like, uh, so which is you know that's kind of like an impossible thing to do.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's really hard.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: Not just going for a practice round or to tournament, but these Sunday rounds.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I was like, man, go big or go home on my bucket list.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: So that was uh that was uh that was on there, and and my good friend uh Meridian Tom Sykes, who uh we've done a lot of stuff together through the years.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: He helped me knock off some of these things on my bucket list.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: He took me to Sperryville, Virginia, uh for the first ever uh Dukes Fest, uh back when I was in college, and and uh because he knew I was a huge Dukes of Hazard fan.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: So we would we did that, had a great time.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: So I told him, I was like, something else my bucket list is to see the Sunday round of the masters, JC, Sunday round of the masters.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's pretty pretty hard to do.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: But let me let me see if I can work on some stuff.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: So uh one of his good friends in in Meridian uh he ended up uh getting tickets for.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: So uh so we got I went down there to Meridian, spent the night with him, and we got up bright and early the next morning, and it was uh January.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean not January.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: The reason why I said January is that was a pretty cool moment because uh we went April 12th, 2008.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: Well, on January 12th, 2008, um I shot one of my first deer with Tom out there, so we were like 12 that that that year it was like 12 was the was the lucky number.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: But uh so we got in the car.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: We uh we drove to Augusta.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: We met some uh the people that we're gonna have our uh that we're getting the tickets from.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um they were at Hooters.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we went to we went to Hooters first stop in town in Augusta, Augusta Hooters, and you know, that's where uh John Daly hangs out.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um he always sets up a shop at the Augusta Hooters Masters Week.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of funny.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I went to uh uh Cooperstown, um, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame induction weekend back in 2014 and and same sort of deal.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: Pete Rose, uh, you know, he can't be involved in the Hall of Fame, but he sets up shop right outside one of the stores over there.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: So kind of reminded me of that with with Pete with uh John Daly.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: He he was over at uh at Hooters.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: So uh but uh yeah, we watched the Saturday round at uh when we got there, we got watched the Saturday round at at um at Hooters and uh had a little putting green out front.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: We did a little putting contest and and uh we stayed at uh we went we went to the hotel and spent the night and then got up bright and early and uh got over there.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: And uh of course at that time you I don't know if it's changed or not, that was in 2008.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you had to check in your phones, you had to check in everything, so you're just pretty much going in, just reduce the phone.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I still think you can't take your phones there.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm sure that's still still the case.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: I think you can during the practice rounds, but not okay.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so yeah, we checked our phones and all that, went went to the souvenir shop, bought all the souvenirs and stuff, and then we walked in, man.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: It was like walking on on um hallowed grounds, man.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: It was it's one of my favorite things in go into sporting events, you probably uh feel like this too, man, is that moment like if you're going to a ballpark, major league ballpark, when you're walking up the uh walking up the aisle right before you walk up to the uh to the uh where the seats are and you get that view of the field, you just it's just something about that, man.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Whether it's football, basketball, baseball, whatever, you get that feeling like, wow, I'm here.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is it, this is the real deal.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: Same tour to feeling when you're walking up to uh at the uh near the clubhouse, the 18th green at uh at Augusta, and it's just uh Magnolia Lane and all that.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's just awesome.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: So we got in there and and uh of course I if I was there, man, I had to follow Tigers.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that's who uh who I was following that day.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, everybody else was uh 99% of the tournament was following Tiger Woods that day.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: I vividly remember this.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: He was uh he was teeing off and some kid and he was eating a banana and uh getting ready to tee off.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: He was eating a banana.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: He threw his banana down uh after he uh he ate it before he teed off, threw the banana peeling down.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: And these kids dove under the under the roped off part to get just to get the piece of banana that he had.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: Who knows what they did when they probably put it on eBay and sold a tiger with a banana?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: But uh but uh man, it was so much fun going to Aemon Corner, seeing that we had some uh we had some pimenta cheese sandwiches and and and uh actually just re laid down on one of the uh can't remember what hole that was, but laid down after uh the players had played and uh on that hole and I kicked back and just enjoyed it.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh but yeah, you know, you when you see it on TV, it's just like when you're there, you're like, wow, this is this is this is the real deal.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is I mean, the TV is awesome, but but seeing it in person just just something out of this world at A-Men quarter and that whole area over there.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, the get the the tournament we went to, the the guy that won won it was uh Trevor Immelman was his name.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's right.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: I had to look it up.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: I think that might have been South Africa.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's his only major win.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty sure, and I don't know how many actual PGA wins he has, but but Tiger finished in second that day, and it was a battle on the on the back nine.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's what I was wanting.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: I was wanting to see a battle on the back nine on on uh Matt Sunday Masters, and uh and that's exactly what happened between Emo Man and Tiger.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but we we were uh me and Tom were on the 18th uh fairway when they were the final group was coming up, and we're sitting there talking, and and this girl sitting there talking.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um we're sitting there talking, the girl kind of hears our conversation.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: We start talking with her, and she's like, Yeah, my um, I don't remember if they're married or not.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: She might have said my fiance, um, didn't make the cut.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: He he had to head on back, but I'm I decided to stay for the weekend and watch the watch the uh rest of the uh tournament.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: We're like, okay, we're like, who's your fiance?
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: And she was like, uh Sergio Garcia.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: So we're sitting there next to Sergio Garcia's fiance.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: That was pretty cool.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: 10 years later, he won.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he won a few years later.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so when he won that a few years later, I asked Tom, I was like, Man, you think he's still with that uh with that woman that we talked to on the 18th 18th fairway?
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but yeah, it was so cool.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: And and then uh we just stayed around.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: It was kind of like uh man, uh another thing that was been big on my bucket list, talking about Final Four and stuff, you know, was the uh Duke North Carolina game at Cameron Indoor.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's like the mega thing for college basketball.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I went on that, went to that on my 26th birthday.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: I was telling somebody just the other day about that.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I was I was the uh I got there early.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: My seat was up in the corner, it was blocked off.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, I was just happy to be there, but I kept looking at all during the first half, like, is there gonna be an open seat?
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: Is there an open seat?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I found an open seat and I watched it the whole first half.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: By halftime, I got down and walked down to I was like, anybody sitting in this seat?
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Yeah, uh the guy has seasoned tickets.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't show up tonight.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: You're welcome to sit here if you want.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: So, of course, the whole second half I sat right below right near the core, which is awesome.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: And then after the game, I pretty much I got a uh I got a uh someone from the hotel, uh taxi driver, somebody to take me and then take me back to the hotel.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_01: But he gave me his number.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, Call me whenever you're ready, and I'll come pick you up.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I kid you not, I was the last person to leave.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they turned the lights off at Cameron indoor, and then I walked out.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: I was the last person just went on the coat court, soaked it all up, that sort of stuff.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: And that was the exact same thing at the masters, man.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't want to leave.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: It was just like, man, we're here.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's just uh so I remember it was getting dark uh that Sunday, and you know, they the trope the butler cabin where they print out, uh they give you the green jacket and all that.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: We were sitting outside, standing outside of it, watching everything take place.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: And uh we didn't want to leave.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: It was uh it was just a very magical special place.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: But it's one of those things, of course.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: If I had the opportunity again, I'd I'd jump on it in a in a flash.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: But it's also one of those things that like you know, um, a lot of things in life are like that.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like once you go one time, it's like you don't ever want to go back because it it's it's just like I don't know how to describe it.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's just special, memorable type thing.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: It would never, I guess what I'm saying is if you went back, it would never live up to your first time.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so so I mean, I yeah, if someone says, JC, you want to go tomorrow, I'd say uh heck yeah, let's go.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_01: But it just uh it we'll never live up to the first time of going, just like that is with anything uh memorable and special.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: So uh so yeah, I ticked it off the bucket list in 2008 and been been watching the Masters Tournament every year since then, and uh it's pretty cool watching after you've been so you can see uh exactly remembering certain holes and all that sort of stuff.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: So uh man, two two years or I guess three years ago now, 2019, the last time the tiger won it.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I was watching the hospital at UAV, man.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: That was before I got hold of the miracle drug, and I was so sick that that Easter, and um I stayed the hot stayed that that's the only Easter I've ever had to stay.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean uh holiday, I guess, in the hospital that and uh and so I watched the Tiger win in the in the hospital room at UAV, but uh and then the you know 20 they had it during football season, which was kind of weird pandemic, and then they had again last year.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: And and but they said I won't I was watching the golf channel today that everything's full go for a normal masters.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: So it's gonna be awesome.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's one of those things.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's there's not a lot of things that that I care about going to, but the masters is one of them.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, I've been been playing golf since I was a teenager, and I remember watching '96 when Greg Norman had the meltdown.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember uh Chris King and I, we had the I got the Sports Illustrated magazine, and we hated Faldo for the longest time after that thing.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but but I've always I've been in that lottery, like as soon as you can get on there every single year, I put in for like four practice round tickets, four regular tickets every single July.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: I get an email.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: We are sorry to inform you, Mr.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: Wally, you have not been chosen for master's tickets.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, man, like I don't understand.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: I've been doing this for so long.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: I told my wife, I said, unless you're having a baby, if I get tickets to the master's, I'm I'm out of here.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so I hope one day I can make it and see it.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh it's it's a special place for sure.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, uh, it's kind of like and it's weird.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, we stayed the night and then Monday we got back, we got up and we went over to the uh course.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, you can't get in, so we just took our picture by the gate that day with the sign and everything.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: But it's kind of like a traveling circus, man, like the the our fair.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they they live, they go to the next next town.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a ghost town on Monday after the master's gone.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of weird, they pack up and leave.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: But uh it was a memorable experience for sure.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: Well, this is a little off topic, but it made me think about when you were talking about the Duke game.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, if you ever go to a sporting event with Johnny, he's not gonna be settled.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: If he's sitting up in the nosebleeds, he's gonna be trying to figure out a way to get down.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I remember going one time to a Grizzlies game, and I think it was when LeBron was playing, and somehow we got down like below the like the floor area.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: There's like a lounge, the Lexus lounge underneath there, and we went down there at halftime, and then that's where all the Grizzlies players come out, and then after that, um, you can kind of like walk out if you have tickets like around the floor.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember we didn't have tickets anywhere near there, and we just like walked out there, and all of a sudden you're like on the front row behind the bench, and there's LeBron standing right there and everything, and and you just like almost like sit down in somebody's chair and just waiting on somebody to come around.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: And basically, if somebody's gonna kick you out, they're gonna kick you out.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: But I got scared.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: I think I went back up and you you stayed down there for like 15 minutes.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think I remember one time I think when we went to a couple of those games, one of those I remember just walking around in circles at the bottom because we couldn't the moment we sat down, they were gonna kick us out, so we just kept walking.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: As long as we kept walking, they would let us uh be down there, which is funny.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, man, that's I was like, that's my philosophy, man.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'll just try to get as close as I can, and then what's the worst that's gonna happen?
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: Someone's gonna be sitting there and they're gonna kick you out.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: You have to go back to your seat.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: But like that new game, they might not might not be there that day and you might be lucky.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, pretty, pretty crazy.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, a buddy of mine got us tickets.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, another thing on my bucket list was Kobe LeBron, the final game, and uh in LA.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and we I went over and uh to friends of mine live out and live out in LA and stay with him, and and we went to the went to the game, and he got us uh tickets um with his business somehow.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: And before the game, we were able to go into the Lakers uh uh like the tunnel as the team is coming out of the locker room.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: And we were we were on the court for the shoot around before the game, and uh, and we stayed like the first half on courtside seats until kind of the same deal, until someone came down, then we moved up to our seats.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, before the game, as the players came out, man, I fist pumped uh Kobe Bryant when he was coming out of the locker room.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: So still got that video of uh of that.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_01: I remember that.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: So awesome.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: You were sending you sent me that video like while it was going on.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, it was man, it was awesome.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: What a night.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, yeah, man.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: I love going to sporting events, you know that, and and try to get the best seat as possible.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: And like I said, if you're out there listening and you're like, Man, I always sit up in the top, just go down, try to find a seat and kick you out.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: What's the worst that can happen?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: You go back to your other seats, exactly, exactly.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, yeah, it's fun.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: You want to make some predictions?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: You have you have any thoughts about what's gonna happen this year?
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh man, I I you know when you turn on the TV, there everybody's gonna talk about Tiger nonstop, it's gonna be Tiger Fest, which is deserving.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I mean, we didn't think he'd be able to play again, you know, after that wreck.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and so I mean, I'm a huge tiger fan, and and and the fact that uh he's able to play or compete.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then I read today where he said he's pretty much gonna do it.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: He that, you know, it was the other day, game time decision, but today he said that uh he was he was gonna try to try to uh go for it.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: They said, Do you feel like you have a chance to win?
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: And he said he's never gonna play in a tournament where he doesn't have a chance to to win.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: So man, I'd love to see him in the field on Sunday competing like all the times again.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: But uh I don't know if I'll be brave enough to pick him if I had to if I had to pick a uh pick a uh a winner this year, but uh hopefully he can surprise some people.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean this in his first uh round of this is the first round of competitive golf, I think, since the accident.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: So right.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so all the eyes of the golf world are gonna be on him this weekend.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I'd love to see him make a run for it.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: But if I was a betting man and had to put money on it, I'd probably pick someone like uh Dustin Johnson or Brooks Kepka or somebody like that.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, uh there's another guy, Cameron.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um what is his name?
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: Smith.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: Cameron Smith, yeah.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: Heard by him, Justin Thomas.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the guy that's number one in the world right now, man.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: I I've never heard of him.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: Scotty Scheffler, yeah.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Big Scotty, big Scotty, he's number one in the world.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm won like two or three tournaments in the past um you know, three or four months.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and I think two like pretty close together.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh Jordan Speith, man, you can't can't count him out.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: He's always one of my favorites, also.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: I really like him a lot.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, it's certainly it's really no clear-cut favorite.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, those guys, like I mentioned, are always in the it seems like Dustin Johnson and Brooks Kepka are in contention just about every every major tournament.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: They're always at the end.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: So uh it might be somebody like Trevor Embleman when I went.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: Who would have picked Trevor Embleman to win it in 08?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: You never know.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh right, but but he was in there with Tiger on the battling out at the end.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: So you could have somebody surprise surprise us that we don't know about, or it could be a uh winner that's won before.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know what what about you, man?
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Where are you picking?
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, golf golf is like the hardest thing to pick.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it's funny, I I never really liked Tiger when he was in his heyday because I just got so tired of hearing about him, and I never I never felt like he was I thought he was kind of a jerk and everything, but yeah, he really seems like he's personality-wise, he's so much nicer now.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, after he won that one in 19, I was like, well, when he won that the year before, when he kind of made that comeback towards the end of the year, I started liking him then, and I was glad to see him win the 19.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: And so I would definitely like to see him compete, but I don't know, it's it's tough coming back from that.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: So the thing about Augusta that I like is that some of the old guys can still hang around because it's the same course and they know the greens and they just know where that where they can hit the ball and where the putts are and where it breaks and everything.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: And so you always see guys like Freddie Couples being in there, and Tom Watson used to be up there, and so there's always going to be you know an older guy hanging around, but usually by like Saturday or Sunday they kind of fade off.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um then you know it's there's certain people like Speith, he always plays good there.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Mickelson, of course, he's not playing this year.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then there's always guys like Mark Leishman, he always seems to do good, Tony Final, um Bubba Watson, like all those guys you can never really count out.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: And um and then somebody, like you said, somebody comes out the blue, you know, that wins it, like Miguel Enhel, Jimenez, or somebody like that.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like who's this guy coming from nowhere?
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's hard to say.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um I would I would honestly probably like to see Jordan Speith win it.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: That would be that would be what I'd like to see.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Or um McElroy, because he hasn't won the masters, so I'd like to see him get that get that.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I would say one of those two guys would be my pick.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's a good pick.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Rory McElroy.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: He uh didn't he uh he almost won it one year.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: I think he choked at the end, didn't he?
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he hit it really close.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he hit it over there.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: I think he was winning going into Sunday, and then he just had a hole meltdown the whole day Sunday.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: He hit it over there like by some cabins and was like way off in the middle of the woods, and just just a bad deal.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it it'd be it'd be good to see him win, you know.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh especially someone who had had like Phil Mickelson, for example.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: You remember, remember when he won that first major?
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: It was like getting a monkey off his back.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so yeah, my favorite thing on Sunday is to watch when they play hole 12, that little short par three.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, I don't think it's very far, but that shot must be really hard because so many guys put it in the water there.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: And um that year Tiger won that uh friend Francesco Molinari guy, he put it in the water there like two times, I think, um, when Tiger was winning.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know it.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: You just never know what's gonna happen.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: And my favorite, my favorite clip, which will probably be shown multiple times throughout the uh tournament with Tiger.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, is the you know exactly the one I'm talking about with when the ball stops right at the end stop and it goes in and Vern Lunquin goes, in your life, have you ever?
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: Man, what a moment that was.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: That was I think that was five masters.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: That was it was awesome.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: Oh six, I think.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh six, oh six.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and uh yeah, it was it was so cool.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh get to see all that stuff.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: And and one of the other things I like about the masters since we're talking about it is uh is the the uh opening of the masters.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they always had the legends out there, you know.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was back in uh when uh Arnold was alive or Jack Arnold and um uh what's this guy's name?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Gary Player.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Gary Player, yep.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: And they would always have the opening tee shot.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, so and it'd always be like uh right when the sun is about to come up, it's cool the grass uh dew on the ground, and then they and then the guy says, All right, the masters are officially begun, and that's when you know it's on.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm interested this year.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: I guess he'll be Gary Player and and Jack probably.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if they agree.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I can't remember who if they got anybody else, but um yeah, kind of the last thing I I like is when they show that old uh Jack Nicholas clip from uh I think it was 84 when Vern Vern was making the call and he makes that penny go, Yes sir.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, we love yes, sir, man.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir, Arkansas, Sam Pittman.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but another thing that's uh cool is uh you know, we had uh DJ Gregory back on the show uh back in the fall.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I gotta start and find out.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh uh we'll probably look him up on social media and find out who he's following and yeah uh and cheer for them also.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh because if you've if you listen to this podcast back in the fall, he he follows a different golfer every uh every tournament through the whole year.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: And then that uh when that golfer makes a birdie, then his charity, uh Walking for Kids, gets some money.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: So uh it's always good to support someone like that uh in the tournament.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: So I make to see who he follows.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: I know he he has followed uh Zach Johnson around a while, and he is uh Ricky Fowler and uh Jack Zach Johnson, as we know, is a master's champion, former master champion.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh I remember him liking our episode of the podcast.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: I remember texting you all right.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: Right, Zach Johnson liked our podcast episode.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: You're like, man, who would have thought a former master's champion would be listening to our podcast?
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: That was pretty good.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: Zach, if you're if you're listening, come on.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: We'll we'd be glad to talk to you.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: We'd love to uh to talk to you.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, I'm actually see who DJ's following.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh, if you're out there listening and want to know who we're talking about, just look at our episode uh from the fall with DJ Gregor.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: You can find him on the uh walking for kids, and uh and you can keep up with him and his uh uh who he follows for the masters tournament.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, it's it's gonna be exciting week, you know.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty excited.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: I hope the weather uh plays out well.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we don't want to be anything.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: So uh hopefully good weather and and uh be a good tournament to watch and uh get us out.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you know, when the masters is here, you know, it's springtime and and thank goodness the cold weather will be gone and and the sunshine's out, our time of the year.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: We're we like baseballs, man.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: Then we got a big, big uh for Mississippi State fans listening to the podcast.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: We've got a big series against LSU this weekend in baseball.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: So uh maybe the Bulldogs took one from the uh Arkansas.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: I thought we were gonna get swept.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, we took one game, so that made me feel better about it.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: So if they could do some get they gotta they're climbing out of the hole, they gotta uh beat some beat some teams to uh to get back in contention.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: But if if they could take two from LSU, that would be huge on the way back.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: So I'll probably go out to duty noble, uh, but Sunday my eyes could be uh on the masters the final round.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it's gonna be a good good time.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, Johnny, enjoy your time out there.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: And uh folks, if you're if you're getting up early to watch the masters, get online, get some johnnypacker.com, get some coffee on there, and uh get you a nice cup ready to go.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, indeed.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: And hey, if you're in Memphis and you wanted some shades, y'all still got them at the store up there.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: We got them, yeah.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: Swing on by there, Carrieville Vision Center.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Good.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: 358 New Behalia Road.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Go put the shades on and hit the golf course and uh and play golf and uh looking looking supporting the Johnnies.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, and it's all for a good cause.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody knows who's listening to this, is all this goes to CF Foundation and helps uh support the cause because without money being raised to CF, I wouldn't have been able to get a hold of the miracle drug that has uh saved my life.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: So uh so yeah, every little bit helps.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: So go get you uh get you some of the coffee that that Brandon has on the website and uh I know you're making uh making a donation to a great cause and helping save lives.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so we'll have a good good good master's memory from this year, also.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll be talking about it from years to come.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: That'd be great.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: All right, we'll talk to you soon.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: All right, have a good week.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.