On today’s episode, we’re live from the Barstool Classic Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club. The guys break down what makes the event so special, tease a potential format change, and revisit a Barstool Classic social media legend, Yip Strickler, as he continues policing tournament handicaps.
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You guys did something that people didn’t even think was possible on YouTube Golf. That’s insane. It is that you did that at it. I didn’t think you could do it. Thank you. Athletic, bold, commanding. We’re talking the Chevy Equinox EV. We’ve had a great show from Chevy today. Brendan Jones, super producer Brendan Jones joins the show for the second half and we really comb through this internet invitational. I know a bunch of people wanted to hear us really go into it. going into it with the mastermind behind the entire filming of it, editing of it, all the behind the scenes, which then leads to us kind of combing through a little bit more of some of the big moments, some of the controversies, some of all that stuff. Uh, and then we got a lot of handicap talk. Yep. Strickler Bartool Classic. So, it’s a nice show. All brought to you by Chevrolet. Yep. All brought to you by Chevrolet. We are in a Chevrolet uh this week at the Barsto Classic Championship in Arizona. I thought you were going to say right now taking us No, taking us from the hotel to the golf course. Uh it’s been great and yeah, always great to be here in Scottsdale uh during the the Barcel Championship. Uh obviously ridiculous rain, outrageous weather. I’m in a full uh rain gear courtesy of Adidas, but nice rain gear. Yeah, really, really good. Um but hell of a show. Really good show. We get into a lot of stuff that I think people want to hear. Equinox EV, it offers 319 miles of EPA estimated electric range with front-wheel drive. Uh, Equinox EV has the massive, and we’ve talked about this before, focus on this. Go check it out. Massive 17inch diagonal center screen, the largest of any EV in its class. When it comes to EVs, the Chevy Equinox EV is the smartest choice you can make. Four play presented by Barol Sports. We are live at Greyhawk Golf Club. It’s actually the fourth straight year we’ve done the Barcel Championship here at Greyhawk. We’re in my neck of the woods. You know, we had year one here, perfect weather. Year two here, perfect weather. year three here. Perfect weather. This has been about as bad a weather as we get. I think somebody said we get like 10 to 20 days of rain a year in this uh in this township here and we’re having like three straight days of rain. Been relatively okay today thus far, but um we’ve been going non-stop for three days. We did Nick Taylor, we filmed a match against Nick Taylor early Monday. We went straight into two-hour podcasts. Then we went straight into doing a one-hour live stream trying to get a hole in one. And then we went straight into a uh draft kings host party all night. Yesterday we announced people on the first tea or the 10th tea all day long and then did a little closest to the pen over the water mingling all night. Today we announced again all day long people on the first tea with the walk up song. So I am pretty much at the end of my voice and we’re about to do a two-hour podcast. But we’re going to battle through it, gentlemen. Yeah, I’ve been surprised by the multi-day rain. I didn’t think you would ever I didn’t think Arizona or Scottsdale could string together multiple days of rain. And if you look at the forecast for tomorrow, I think it’s more rain. The desert doesn’t make any sense. And we’ve we’ve had a little bit of bad luck with that. We’ve we filmed videos out here years ago. Freezing. Freezing. And it felt like every time we went to Arizona, we got bad weather. But then we did get the good stretch with the Barcel Championships, and our luck seemingly has run out. Yeah. If you recall, like the first time you guys came out here to film, right after I had moved here, we were filming with Paige Sporanic and a handful of other crews. And she actually apologized to us cuz she’s like, I have to wear like several sweaters to be so cold and miserable right now. Well, at the time it was like, you know, getting a video with Paige was like you, she didn’t really do YouTube videos at that point. She was a really popular Instagram account and obviously like she does what she does on Instagram. She looks great on Instagram. No doubt about I remember us being super excited about all that and then she came and it was it was like a winter hat and all and she apologized. It was it showed that she had a really good sense of humor. Totally. She 100% apologized. She’s like, “Hey, I’m sorry. It’s like too cold. We were like 40 degrees.” Bummer. We also got our asses kicked in that match. We did. That was like our first scramble loss. We had my boy, our boy Dustin Schaefer was hitting, he had he had won, which he again, he’s always supported the hell out of us. He’s always buying merch. He’s always paying for all the charity stuff. and he had like acquired a seat on that table on that team and was pounding drives down the middle. But um we are here nonetheless. Greyhawk continues to be amazing. The whole setup with they do the bar stool logo. They paint onto the grass. We’ve got all the signage from Wasserman and Ryan Edwards and his whole crew combined with our team, the marketing team. That logo painted on the grass is a waste of money. Why? Why do you think so? It’s a nice touch, but like the only people that get to enjoy it is like the drone, you know? I think Brendan Jones with the drone is maybe the only guy. It’s like it’s on the ground, so like I don’t know. And like I’m I would assume it’s like kind of costly, right? You got like that’s like You think that’s expensive? I think it might be. I know. But like it’s like an artistry. It’s a whole thing. I would like to dive deep into what that costs. Just it’s like it’s not like no one sees it. You know what I mean? You could see it from the patio. You could, but it’s like this way, you know, a little It’s like not a steep enough. I think whatever it costs, I think you could spend that money on something cooler. Find out. I’m a tax question. I was going to say I think the people How much does the paint on the ground I think this is going to be a laughable number. Painted bar stool logo. So, for the people that don’t know, on the 18th hole at the Barcel Classic Championship, there is a huge large massive Bar Stool Sports logo next to like just off the green, which I love because like at a lot of our events, it’s all bar stool golf and like the Bross T. And when you get the big stool and stars somewhere, I’ve always said to our merch team like, “Let’s just throw that stool and stars on a big old hoodie and like let’s just call it a day cuz that is who we are.” I still love that logo. It’s the first moment I fell in love with the company. Of course, it’s it’s the one like I was buying merchandise. I got that I had that original like dad hat that I mean people probably that’s probably when you think about me uh in in most Barcel fans memory. I’m wearing that hat every single day. That blue is that kind of the Mike Portoy hat too. Mike cartoon hat that like that Milmore would draw me wearing like that logo to me is like that’s my first week working for the company. We Barcel used to sell the hoodies with the big Barcel logo on the front of it. And I emailed Dave first week. I was like, “Can I get a couple of those hoodies? I’d love to just wear them around.” I got no response. Just sent you the store link. I just Right. I got no But yeah, that I love that logo and it’s it’s hugely painted. Just nice to see it around our events. Like it’s it’s good because sometimes we we go with alternate logos all the time. It’s just nice to see this is the OG. But having said that, you hate the painting. Yeah. It’s just one of those things. It’s cool to see it when you’re around it, but I don’t know facing a wave. I know with how much you love like Disney and theatrics. I don’t know that that doesn’t get me going. You know what gets me going is the little floating truly can in the water right that gets me going. Okay. That’s like a This is a real event, but that’s a real That’s something real events do. I know that this is year seven of this and year four here. Uh it is amazing what the Barca Classic has turned into. It is such a machine. It’s so wellrun. The people that are here obviously have such great feelings about it because they are now playing for multiple more uh rounds of golf basically on the house, right? They get to get to the championship. It’s two rounds of competitive golf with a chance to win $20,000. They make vacations out of it. I’ve seen so many uh family members, grandparents, part children coming by to watch their their dads or moms playing in it. It’s so much fun to see. And uh and when you get to talk to all these people, I know Ryan Richen and Brennan were going out making a video about the the Barcelo Classic. It’s such a reminder of just like how important it is to these people and like how cool it is for their golf life where maybe you didn’t make it as a pro, you didn’t make it after college golf or whatever it might be. You’re you play at your local club and you’re one of the top players, but that’s really all you can get to. And then this is something that they really can go out and try and win and like it’s something that they really hold near and dear to their hearts. It’s cool that that’s our event that that it has meaning. Yeah, incredibly cool. I would say to the the goal of the Barcel Classic from a competition standpoint when you enter it, there’s 25 qualifiers around the country is to qualify for the championship. That’s just a win. Yeah, you’ve already won. Oh, yeah. Sure. One team wins the whole thing. Don’t get me wrong, that’s like the overall goal. We’re sitting here right now, everybody’s playing the back nine of round two, so there’s a handful of teams that that’s still their main goal. But the second that you finished top four in a qualifier out of about 50 teams, you have done the thing. You have like paid, you played in the Barcel qualifier, you had a chance to win a handful of prizes. There’s long drive. There’s closest to the pin. Uh there’s a hole in one prize. There’s putting contest. You have a bunch of drinks. It’s like a member guest type vibe. And then if you make it in the top four to this event, like we’re saying, there’s a Monday night welcome party at DraftKings where uh all like Boston beer products, which are Sam Adams, Twisted Tea, Truly, obviously. Um they got the Sun Cruisers, all that’s comped, all the food’s comped, and then you have two rounds at Greyhawk, which I love the guys up here at Greyhawk. It is no pretty penny to play a round of golf at Greyhawk. It’s several hundred dollar per round out here, especially in the winter time. So, you get to play two rounds of golf at Greyhawk. During that time, your food’s covered. I just had like three delicious tacos. Your drinks once again are covered. Last night, we do the closest to the pin. They call it the dry heave here. We had tacos here just now. The truly Oh, yeah. I had tacos as well. You had tacos? Yeah. When did you I came in, I had to change some travel plans and I went out that door, got some tacos. Chicken or beef? Beef. Nice. Speaking of beef, how about the tribute to him? Great. Really good on the tea. The uh the tea. You mad about the tacos? I’m just thinking about them. Okay. Incredible tribute. They did such a good job with that. I’m sorry I cut you off there. I don’t know if you were still I mean they get so much stuff. You know what I mean? It’s I don’t know if you have more to get at. They’re getting um They’re getting the last night to the guy that won I can’t remember the lefty. He won the truly uh single swing we called it yesterday where we all you go I love a tradition here that they do but from the back of the 10th T- box on the Raptor course to the 18th green on the Raptor course which is this pond right out in front of the back patio at Greyhawk the mountains the sun is setting we set up lights out there it’s an 81 yard shot over water and whoever wins closest to the pin dude they got $500 gift card that’s just like to anything in the world $1,500 from Diamonds Direct. Spray a Barcel logo on the ground with that. Maybe. Who knows? Probably maybe half. I’m not sure. We’re going to find out. Um $1,500 I think it was to Diamonds Direct, which my watch I got from Diamonds Direct when we won the Riner Cup. This thing is is a phenomenal phenomenal piece. They got so many awesome pieces. And then they also got a like um Adidas Originals golf bag. Sick. Oh, nice. I didn’t see the bag, but that’s got to be sick cuz the Adidas bag we have is the best bag we’ve ever had. That’s awesome. The tan one. Is that what we’re calling it? Tan khakiish one. Khaki. Um, but that’s just the prize pool for the Monday, no Tuesday night hangout. Yeah. And then you come back out today and we’ve got, you know, we had live music last night. We got live music this afternoon. There’s a big shootout where we had the music going last year. You had four, five, six teams depending on how many people qualify for the shootout playing a two-hole alternate shot. And then the finale, the winners get 20 grand. We do all kinds of skins. I know our guy Coupe who won a couple years ago with his partner Chase, he had two gross eagles on the back nine on Raptor yesterday. He chipped in on 11 and then on 17, which was like 301 to the pin, he had a driver to like 15 feet, buried the putt. So like you can win a bunch of money with skins. So point being, like if you make it to this championship, yeah, you got to pay travel, you got to pay for your lodging, but outside of that, you have to pay for [ __ ] And you’re also getting a lot of your um the gifts, they get sent right to your door. That’s what one of the guys said. That’s so elite. Yeah, that’s been nice. I don’t have to like bring it back. Like everything that we’re getting in the gifting is getting sent right to our door. And one of the gifts is that four-wheel travel bag by Sun Mountain. We got to talk about this, too. This is laughable how and I I mean I wish we were selling it because I would love to be able to promote how good this is. Also make insane that me, you, and you weren’t on this trend earlier. We maybe travel with like amateur level golf clubs for with them more than any other humans on earth. I said it to you guys. I my flight out here was my 100th flight of the year and I’ve been traveling with a golf bag for 99% of your arm just falling off. I’m my wrist. I’m surprised it’s not broken or that. I think I need to get offseason wrist surgery this year. Yeah. Because of me pulling that bag around. 60 lb bag. Just get pulling my wrist and my and my shoulder out of its socket. Um and and if you just put four wheels under it, a little bit elevated, you can move it with your pinky. Everyone thinks that everything we say is like an ad. I’m telling you, we are not selling this bag. And I’m about to give you the No, you got to go and get this bag. It’s a Sun Mountain bag and it’s got it. It’s got a great No money coming in from Sun. Zero nothing. This is a free ad. Zero. Good job, Sunmount. Yep. Great job on you. Honestly, you pull this bag and you’re like, “All right, this is a golf travel bag.” And then they’ve got this little plate on the bottom that you pull down. Super easy to pull. You can do it with your foot, by the way. Oh, you can do it with your foot, dude. You can do a little foot push. You pull down this little You push this little pedal down and these two wheels pop out and now it’s this fourwheel looks like a dinosaur almost. Yeah. And it’s just you could pull a 100 pound bag with your pinky if you want. It’s so smooth. The wheels move all different ways. You ever see those commercials like the Tesla’s pulling like the Empire State Building? That’s what it feels like. How much easier it is to travel around this country with that. Me and my buddy Kyle Cocket on our abandoned trip were doing we had some time to kill and it was my first time ever using this. He’s been using one for years and we were doing how many things can you hold in your hands while still pulling your golf bag and at one point I had like an ice coffee, a beer, a suitcase, a backpack and I was able to just pull my bag with like the tip of my pinky. I enjoy traveling with the golf bag now. That’s how easy it is to roll around. It makes it so much easier. It’s fun. Anyway, it is fun. It is fun. So that was the gift this year. That was the gift this point. Oh, I was just going to say on our wherever we were our last trip, I still was using the old bag and you were using the new one and I’ve never felt like such an bigger ass. I made him I made him I’m like, why don’t you just take mine for a spin for a second? He laughed out loud. I mean, it was so good. I had mine. I just hadn’t unboxed it and like got it out. Like I was like, how different can it be? A traveling golf bag is a traveling golf bag. I could not have been more wrong, dude. I almost didn’t even use the feature the first time I switched bags. I was like, it seems a little gimmicky. No, dude. What a regret that would have been. Thing kind of glides on its own almost. Oh, dude. It’s not as bad. The the What’s the really nice bag that Jizzy got us for the Dabot Classic? That little like uh carry-onable suitcase. Oh, that’s like a little Tumi bag. Tumi. That Tumi’s wheels are two wheel. It goes. That thing’s like R2-D2, too. It just takes off. Oh, I lose that thing all the time. Dude, you take a piss. It’s on It’s It’s like four stalls next to it. Bathrooms are the biggest problem with that thing. I’m just like, “All right, just stay here.” Here it is like R2-D2. Stay right here and then I turn around and it’s at a Hudson News. I’m like what? Slippery. It’s like on ice, dude. That thing they’ll do that on a carpet. It’s crazy. And the worst like when I’m getting in an Uber and like if you’re trying to put the golf bag in first and you look and that thing’s getting run over by a bus just it’s insane. It is insane. But that little item, man. So we gave those out as a gift. I think that was a Lisa Litback idea. She does a great job. giving out that Sun Mountain golf travel case bag that comes with the elevated wheel. You push it with your pinky. Unbelievable how awesome that is. Like 220 people are getting to experience that, right? So, how many people make it to the championship? It was uh 202. 202. So, we’ve got four teams from 25 stops of And you have some repeats there because there’s a few teams that qualified that were also in the two team two-year exemption because they’ve won the Barcel overall. Um, we had one team no show, which sucks. Yeah. Yeah. We had one team no show for that. They were like, they claimed that they sent an email. The events team, the Marshall Classic team scoured through and was like, they didn’t send us any email, which really sucks for a bunch of reasons. One being that like you’re leaving a whole team has to play without two people. Luckily, we’re able to find spotters, people that work on the squad, whatever. But you’re also just taking the spot from two other people that would have come as alternates. Yep. That’s right. Which completely sucks. That sucks. So, we had two no-shows uh for the entire event and then we had two teams no-show day two cuz they just were out of it and they just first one out of it. Second team claimed um like a personal tragedy and they had to go out. So, obviously uh you know that understandable justifiable we were able to get Mancini and Adam were out there playing amazing had to twist their arms which we love to see. And then yeah, right. They they they were already hitting the t-sh there and play. Ball was teed up, but good for them. And then uh and then the other group was actually two of my best buddies from home from Bogey Hills, Cody and Ryan, and they were left hanging. And I was and they’re both really fast golfers. And I was like, why don’t you guys just join this group that was about to tee off and that group was like, “Of course.” They just played as a six and they said they were waiting. And I was like, if you guys are slow after three or four holes, we’ll make you split up. But if you guys just keep up. And then they were having a great time. They’re out there gambling and having themselves a nice time. Um, but yeah, Barto Classic, man, we are, you know, we’re going to talk about this at some point. We’re slightly changing the format next year. Yes. Um, I think for the better, though. Again, this was kind of a Lisa idea that has been percolating a little bit that we all sort of agreed with and had been kind of probably thinking something along these lines would be a good idea going forward. doesn’t really change the format for the participant. I would say almost not at all. Almost not at all. But with us with travel, with all the different things that we do, we’re somehow we’re trying to figure out how can we lessen the total number of like travel trips needing to be needed to be taken but keep the event at like the size that it is. One thing that we came up with is to also enhance each event to a degree is every stop next year is going to be a two-day event. Each one is its own individual qualifier. So if it’s a Monday, Tuesday event, Monday 108 golfers, top four teams advance. That’s over. Tuesday, same golf course, same setup, 108 golfers, totally new qualifier even though it’s at the same place. top four teams, different teams advance. However, that night in between, we’re going to do a really fun party happy hour event, inviting everyone. And so that way, we could kind of knock out two qualifiers in one trip, but we also instead of you just showing up, playing golf, having a drink or two afterwards, and then leaving, you’re also adding like a nice party hangout environment in between. Yeah. I mean, how many times, at least on our side, we’re at an event and then as soon as it’s over, we’re at the airport and you’re just sort of in and out. You don’t feel like you were ever anywhere that you went, like you you you feel like you’re there for less than 12 hours. So, being able to set up shop at these different locations and kind of own a couple of days, I think it’ll be really really cool. Yeah. The amount of times in the last 5 years that somebody’s been like, “Oh, where were you guys last week?” And I go full like, “Where were you stationed on them?” And I’m just like, uh, I do that all the time when they when I check my now awesome can roll it with my pinky golf bag. When I’m checking it at the counter and they go, where you going? I go, I don’t know. Boy, I didn’t know this was a quiz. Yeah, I didn’t know there was going to be a pop quiz when I got to the airport. But yeah, then I have to think and I’m like, “Oh, I’m going to Phoenix.” But they’re like, “What is wrong with this guy?” Like, bro, I was I’ve been in a million different places. Randomly check his ass. He doesn’t Right. That’s what That’s always what I think. They’re like, “Well, this guy, he doesn’t care where we go today. He doesn’t care where he’s going, and that’s a problem.” Yeah. He’s not worried about the destination. I think it’ll make the events way better. I mean, yes, we’re going to cover less of the country, but I think it’ll make it more of like you want to travel to there. We’re all We’re also going to pick pretty damn good golf courses now that we have less of them that we’re going to choose from. So, getting two days at premier premier courses. We always have premier courses, but I think we’re going to pick the best of the best for this new iteration of the Baru Classic. And like you said, when you start to add in like the party aspect and the nighttime features at these really elite courses, that’s where getting into the Baru Classic becomes even more of uh, you know, a big ticket item for you to want to get into. Just like here, like two days, actually three days, like you get the Monday, the Tuesday, and the Wednesday. Um, it makes it into a whole trip. Yeah, I agree with that. I think each qualifier will be closer to what the championship is. Exactly. Than, you know, um, and part of that too, like the format of it has sort of lent itself to us feeling like, okay, I’m going to get in as late Monday night as I can. I’m going to get up Tuesday. I’m going to get the earliest flight out Tuesday that I can without missing the entire event. Yep. And like we kind of do that. Whereas now it’s like get there and bed yourself. Let’s do this. Let’s hang with all these people for two days and have ourselves a great time. So that’s going to be fun. I’m sure we’ll add some contests and stuff to be involved in the party. I know a couple times due to weather or due to like how close uh proximity the putting greens were. We’ve done a couple indoor putting competitions. We did rain putting competition in the bar. So fun. So we’ll work with our team. That’s actually a good little sponsorship idea. I like that. Sun Mountain Sun Mountain hop on throw some cash our way. Um but we should do a little indoor putting. We can get a whole setup so that it’s a little bit more like uh universal than it was where we were just kind of planking it around there. Even though that was fun, right? You need some sort of hole cuz we would just grab like a glass. Yeah. Which was cool in the moment. It was a little novelty experience, but kind of like an ode to uh was it the Duck Inn in Scotland? Yep. Oh wow. The owner’s name. The Ducks in the Ducks in the owner’s name was Donald Duck. Man, that that feels like a lifetime ago. Remember that? I also remember sleeping in the room. My room didn’t have air conditioning. Yeah, that was Yeah, that was the coast. Seasonably hot though. It was on the coast. It was a really like old town. Yeah. Um but we did that putting game where you stood on the chair and you putt down into the Yep, we did. And had to go up the ramp and go down into the Yeah, we were there with Tate. Little things like that I think we could definitely add cuz that’s just that’s what that’s what this needs. It’s an amazing event. It’s the best event in our world like in our YouTube creator, you know. Not even even in terms of like I mean not to [ __ ] on the Golf Digest open, but like I just don’t think that they can do what we’re able to do right now. We have we have it going right now. We’re just really really humming in terms of the set. Something funny about the Golf Digest open somebody sent me recently. I couldn’t God. What was it? We we also I just think we’re in a really good spot with it and we can make it bigger and better and this is the way instead of stretching ourselves. Yeah. We also just have the best team. And I know we’ve talked about them a lot where it’s like you find out like especially I mean we’re getting a ton of feedback with the Internet Invitational here and I know Brendan’s got a lot of feedback the editors everybody but also the infrastructure of our team and the way they put events on was a big uh feedback from the people who participated in the Internet Invitational. They’re like this is first class what you guys are doing. So we’re very lucky in that regard too. Someone gave me an idea gave us an idea. I don’t if we want to say it on the on the podcast, but they gave an idea on how to get like a regular person in like a non-media member into the uh into the internet invitational. Um I’ll just shoot it out right at you here. He was like, “You should take the the champion of the Baro Classic and then they would get into the Invitational.” And I said, “Well, then two people are getting in. That’s like ridiculous. It would probably be one person getting this like shot at a shot of a lifetime to get into this event.” And then I said, “Well, now wait a second. I actually took him off the ball. I made him step off the ball and I said, “Now wait a second. What if in the same vein of the bar still of the Invitational, once they win the Barstow Classic, now you have two guys. You fly them to the Internet Invitational and you make them do a onevone shootout. Correct. Now you pin them against each other. You when they’re flying to the location, they don’t know who’s going to play for a million dollars.” Interesting. And now they have to play against each other and then the winner gets in. You celebrate them as a team and then rip them apart. Exactly. That’s beautiful. It’s like that scene with And I don’t know that we have to like I don’t know that we have to like commit to that. It doesn’t need to be the internet invitational. It doesn’t have to be the Barto Classic Champions. We could do that with just some other maybe off, you know, off Barstow Classic tournament of just people submit and they want to get in. We get just people off off the streets to just come and play in this thing. Interesting. when it’s I saw that I heard that being floated around quite a bit on my T- box day too of like yo maybe the champions get in their invitation and that was also I was looking at it a little bit um I was taking that a little bit with like a grain of salt because I was like well you guys are all playing in the tournament so you’re trying to get into the other tournament which I get that too which I understand I’d shoot my shot as well we’re not saying that that’s what’s going to be I think we’re we should come up we have we have a meeting coming up with the Bob guys we’re going to really dive deep into what went right nice debrief what went wrong and how we can improve it and what we’re going to do for next year. Um, which is it’s going to be a great meeting because I think we’re all pretty positive. We there’s a lot of positive takeaways from it. Um, and I do think that we should include the aspect of like just one of the fans gets in and how do we get there. You know what’s also been a great wrinkle of this Barcel Championship this year? Nick Taylor just hanging around. Nick Taylor’s the man. The man. Yeah. I’m not I listen I don’t want to promise that going forward. But I don’t know what his commitments are for two Barcelic Championship dates, but like he was at the DraftKings the first night and then he came and hung yesterday during the single shot and he’s just been hanging, dude. He played us 18 holes for a match. Like he just gave us so much time. He really did. Charles Barkley was at the bar as well. He was I heard about that. Everybody said he was and and he’s a big Scottsdale guy. He’s a whisperout guy. So I’ve I’ve for whatever reason I’ve never met Charles Barkley, but I’m all over this [ __ ] guy’s orbit. And I’ve heard story after story after story that Charles Barkley is just the homie to hang out with. Dude, there’s a great picture of um Zah and Spider a prof because we’ve got professional photographers around this whole event just like capturing everything and they they got a professional picture with them and Charles Barkley and it’s the best picture I’ve ever seen. It is really good. So yeah, Chuck, I just heard he’s the man. He was buying shots apparently. He’s up there gambling, hanging at DraftKings. Can’t really beat that. Yeah. Nick Taylor rolling by DraftKings like sure there’s like service day parts. He just came by DraftKings like just to have a beer and hang. Yeah. And he is a really good dude. Really great. He is so good at golf. God. Yeah. During that closest to the pin thing over uh hitting off a mat from the first te to the 18th green, he watched 200 people attempt it and then went up there with a wedge, someone else’s wedge. He’s wearing like an Adidas casual wear outfit. Not even not even in a golf attire. and he just gets up there and just sticks one to what? Five feet. I don’t know. Yeah. Right on the stick. So good at golf. He’s really good. God, that guy could play. Yeah, man. It’s been a great This event is great and people love it. I love the Barcel Classic. I love how into it people are. A lot of them, like you said, they we do spectator tickets, so we allow people to buy a spectator ticket. It’s like 70 bucks or whatever the hell it is, and they can have trulies, have all the food and beverage. We just do that because we need to know how much food and beverage to have out there. And uh a lot of people bring their wives, girlfriends, their kids, their parents have been rolling around. So almost every group that rolls up to the tea has like spectators with them. Yeah. Um I played I play I I played Mini Men by 50 Cent in front of some There was a family following, but the dad picked the song that happened. Yeah. So and and then there’s old I think or listen I I mean you’re talking to one of the biggest 50 Cent fans in the world. There might be a time with him. I did get a photo with him that he wasn’t that happy about. He was in front of the old Barcel office. He got stuck because he shooted a music video and but like I played that music and I was like, “Is it right if I play this?” And they’re like, “Go ahead.” And I was like, “Okay.” And then after a couple of words started getting thrown around, I’m like, “You got to just hit next.” Once the ball was in the air, we went to the next song, which I think was Brandy. But I it’s it’s cool. Six-year-olds looking around. What What did I say? But it is cool seeing how cuz the people take you up on that. Like they uh they bring their families and there’s their like it’s cool. I really like that part of Another cool part about the format switch next year is we’re going to be able to conclude the schedule earlier, which means we’re going to be able to bring in more locations for a potential championship because we’re going to do it earlier. Interesting. Yeah. Whereas when you do the championship midway through November or later, you’re really pretty limited. Like the reason we don’t go to Pioners anymore is there’s a couple different ones, but one of the main ones was that even when we did it in like early mid November, it was pretty dicey on the weather. Yeah. it was like cold and we kind of got lucky whereas and again as we don’t have the great weather here. It’s a little bit ironic saying this but we were like Arizona or Florida or like Texas in November through December are kind of like you’re limited on those places for a championship. Yeah. And then people like oh you go to like maybe California but it starts to get really expensive. Whatever. Now if we do it let’s say by the end of August through like early middle October the whole country’s open right. I mean the first one was at Liberty National. Yeah, it was October 15th. That’s awesome. At Liberty National, and I don’t want to take anything away from what this is. This has been the best location ever. Phenomenal. Two courses. Everything’s right in the middle. I love everything about it. But yeah, it would like to change it up. Yeah, it’d be nice to change it up. [Music] You know, we love seeing how small moves can lead to big moments. Well, Kraken’s taking it up a notch this November. They’re giving away one full Bitcoin. Uh we’re talking $100,000 dollar. I mean I think not that long ago Bitcoin was like $120,000. It’s been around that 100,000. It could be up, could be down just for trading a single dollar. That’s what we’re doing. 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How do you stop people from not in inputting their scores? Yeah. I mean, look, here’s my take on the whole thing is that you there’s just a degree of policing that we have to cut ourselves off at for bandwidth reasons, for all that. And that’s from how people play the golf each shot. That’s the handicaps. It’s all included in there. And the reason I say that is like if you really want to cheat in this event, you can cheat in this event, right? You could cheat in this event. You could go up to the first tea. You could be paired with a couple guys that you knew you were paired with them. You found out you’re paired with them. You talked to them at the bar the night before. You both agreed to like whatever. You could both fuzz your your your scores a couple gimmies. You could do whatever and come in five shots lower than what you want to. You could 100% cheat that way. You could cheat without your playing partners really knowing just by, you know, you went over to the desert, you found your ball, you moved it a little bit. You could cheat by maybe not posting scores or posting them from a different T. There’s a lot of different ways of cheating. And so for me, it’s like we definitely cannot go out there and police every single blade of grass that’s moved. And we also simply cannot police every single element of one’s handicap within the gin system. So if you’re going to trust people to go out to the golf course and play within the rules of golf, you’re also exercising that trust on the handicap system. And so yes, there are glaring like there are times where there are glaring seemingly glaring like violations within posting scores, not posting scores that you could track down and we have done that before. But overall with like 200 something golfers and with our team like they’re not going to be able to police it to a degree where you can really make a call and like punish people which is the one time I really did do a deep dive response to Yip Strickler was I think a year ago now or like last year where it was like going through it it was similar to um a Dave with Meloi type situation where it’s like sure maybe people think there’s a lot of damning evidence but like there’s nothing I can make a call on that’s going to determine the future of this event. That’s kind of the the place that I that I stand on it where it’s like I’m not going to ask out of our team to spend their entire life calling every golf club of every member and being like, do they post all their scores? What exactly do they shoot in this member member and then what do they shoot in the member guest? That would take up their whole lives. And at some point, we also I think like owe it to the people that play in our event, pay to play at our event to trust them as people. Yeah. And so that’s sort of the the angle that I come at it. Like there’s always going to be a degree of if you want to cheat and violate the rules to gain an advantage in this event, you can do it. You could get away with it most likely. It’s not our job to like enforce and and deeply police the entire thing. We try to do it to the best degree that we can. And ultimately like I think there’s some stuff too like this guy I pulled it up. This guy uh Will Snow I believe is his name. Yeah. who a lot of people were freaking out about yesterday because they don’t understand how we do the handicaps. They’re like, “How about a one handicap made eight birdies?” That guy’s a plus 3.7 handicap. Actually, it’s just the lowest guy in the field is a plus five. So, this guy, I want to make sure I get his name right so I don’t [ __ ] I think it was Will Snow. This guy Will Snow is a plus 3.7. His partner Romano is a plus 3.3. Those guys come in as one handicaps on the leaderboard when you look at it because they’re getting one shot off the lowest guy on the field who’s a plus five or six. So, is it This guy Will Snow is nearly a plus four. They’re playing from a tea up, by the way. They’re playing from like 6,500 yards. It’s soaking wet, which every example we’ve ever seen in pro golf is that like when a course is wet, these guys can stop the ball right next to the hole and shoot really good scores. So, you’re telling me out of 200 golfers, guess what? In order for one team to win or be in the lead, they’re going to play unbelievably well. That’s just how it works. You play way better than the other teams. Yep. So someone who’s a plus4 handicap goes out and shoots five, six, seven under par playing from a tee up in really soft conditions. That sounds pretty reasonable to me. That can like happen. And so you know, so that’s where like yes, the Yep Strickler stuff, I get it goes crazy viral. I think the videos are funny, too. But I don’t really feel this inclination to like also like to like like we don’t we don’t actually even owe it to the internet to like do anything that Yip Strickler wants us to do. It’s our event. So in theory it’s like right if if I want to go pay out someone and I’m like god you guys cheated. Great. Here’s your check. I could do that. We could not like what does he want us to do? That’s the part that I when I started I’m like I don’t know enough about it. like what would his solution be when you come across a guy that and I I saw him like he had his favorites to win the Bars Classic and then they got off to a great lead. I don’t think they’re leading it right now, but like they only put up four or five scores for the year or something like that. Like what is what would his I saw all the jokes too. They’re like, “Oh, they just must love all the uh all the like food and beverage options in their club because they they never play golf.” What would his solution be? Like what would someone else what would what would the perfect solution if Yip Strickler was in charge? What would he do? would he like tell them they can’t play in it? Is that like a common pra that’s a genuine question like is it a common practice for events to not let players play in in events if they don’t have their handicap like up to shore? I guess I don’t know the full answer to that either and I think it’s it’s really complicated. I think I would I would lean on like um the pro shop staff, you know, like like Beef’s job and what Beef did running running a pro shop and stuff for like member guests. And what they’ll do is they will, you know, the member guest is like the event of the year and there’s half the field they don’t know about the field. So they do sort of like uh a lot of times they will especially a repeat guest if they play really well they’ll like shave strokes and stuff. Okay is kind of what they’ll do I think. But that’s still based off of like sort of democratizing the field and trying to be like okay you guys have won two of the last four years. We’re going to shave your strokes and even if you don’t think that’s fair you’ve already won twice and we actually think the event’s better if more people win because it’s just more fun. I think so it’s like I’m not I don’t really know. I I think I think it’s I think what you laid out rigs is is really it was really well put and I think you’re right about it and what it is to me and I get why Yip Strickler does the videos they do really well and they are funny and like what world we’re living in that Yep Strickler has become you know I actually think it’s great he’s worked hard at it yeah I know but there is enough in what you laid out rigs there is enough wiggle room where it’s something you can criticize where on the other side of it I don’t know if there’s a clear-cut answer that you’re asking for Frankie yeah is kind of what I’m getting And I’m actually happy he does what he does because it keeps people honest and you don’t the more he does it the more people don’t want to end up being called out. So in the end at the end of the day he’s probably or he’s definitely doing what he wants us to be doing is like holding people accountable where it’s just we’re not in the position to be doing that. We’re hosting the event like you’re saying. It’s it’s this is they paid to be here. This is something that’s supposed to be Yeah. There I don’t I don’t know that we’re supposed to be like calling out every single person that comes into this thing. We have to have some sort of in my opinion there needs to be some sort of trust in this game that you just like trust these people that they’re telling the truth. And the thing that kind of irks me sometimes is like and I don’t again I don’t know enough about so I don’t know if he’s correct every time. If there’s in my mind I’ve seen him make some videos where I’m like what if that person had the day of their life? Maybe they’re telling the damn truth and they went out and shot their career around and now they got to go on Instagram and they’re and they’re getting called out for being cheaters and like they shouldn’t have done it and they’re wearing a different color belt. I I there’s just and I’m sure that sucks. I’m sure he does his research and makes sure he doesn’t ruin anyone’s life. I don’t agree with that. I don’t know the answer and I hope that he does. I hope he takes that pretty seriously cuz it’s one thing to try and get views and get likes and like become an internet personality which he’s definitely trying to do and it’s another thing to like take people down while doing that and I think that sometimes he toes the line on that. He doesn’t he might not know we’ve had people come up to us at Barcelics saying I’m on Yip Strickler’s radar. I don’t know what he wants me to do. I I did only have seven in there but like my wife had two babies. One of them had a complication. Uh, I haven’t really been able to play that much golf and when I do I’m pretty dialed right now. I don’t know what it is. I have a I have a simulator at home. I’m like I keep my game pretty tight because like I made five five birdies out here. I don’t know what else you want me to do. And and that is a little sad where our events turning into this thing where people are walking on eggshells because they don’t want to go on Yep. Strickler’s radar. I agree with that. And I guess my my kind of conclusion from the whole thing that I was saying is in line with what you’re saying where I would rather heir on the side of trusting our fans and the people that play in our events and celebrating when they play well and I would rather heir on that side and be, you know, have someone hit me with a gotcha where they chose to cheat and we kind of let it slide than air on the other side where we like dog and bury people that are our supporters, right when they didn’t deserve it. I think that’s absolutely right. I would rather air on the other side. I would like to find a middle ground where maybe we have a little bit more. We can learn from our mistakes. If we are making mistakes, letting people come in here and just like run a muck of the bar. I don’t think that is happening. But, you know, I don’t know if it’s like bring Yip Strickler, make him the budsman. Let Hey, you figure it out then, you know, like you be the bad guy. I don’t know what the answer is. I don’t think that should be the answer. We might do that for next year to a degree. Have him be like a Barcel consultant. I think you Yeah, I think you And then he has to face those people, too. You got to tell that person and see what they say. If they’re like, “Dude, I had a negative in him being the guy that makes the call, you know.” But how far how far can he take it? I mean, if if you want to let Yip Strickler like off the chain, like he’s I mean, he’s going to start knocking people’s houses, seeing how many times they golf, like whatever he wants to do. I don’t I don’t mind that, but he could be um he could be like um an appointed special adviser to the president, but the president’s is still I think like us in this room. Oh, 100%. you make call. That’s what I was asking. That’s what I was asking. You can’t have him be like you. You’re out of here. I meant more like get like let him see the side of our that our staff sees and see if he would make any changes. Yeah. Right. It’s like it’s a 50% handicap. It’s a 50% handicap net event. He hates net events. But that’s what this is because you don’t want just going to be some kind of net. You don’t want the best golfers to win. You want people to have a chance to win. You want everybody to have a chance. like in like Leo and Catch Me If You Can when the FBI brings him in like show us the holes. If Strickland Thursday just got way more serious cuz he’s probably been waiting for this. Yeah. I wonder and I don’t mind that. I’m glad you brought it up because I had it on my list too and I went through cuz that was when I saw that I saw a couple tweets or somebody said it to me on the tea and I I’m going to bring up Will Snow again but again he deserves it because I’m I’m actually harping on when he throws an X on there. Will Snow He’ll throw like an X and say he doesn’t include his score. Well, I believe like we ask people to do that. Like if your partner’s in for a score that you can’t beat, pick your ball up and move for pace of play. We ask people to do that. Hates that, right? Because now like Cooper Greer did that on 18 yesterday and he ends up with like a 60 and he X’s on 18 and he doesn’t include that in his handicap now. He won’t post that. Well, we’ll see like how he does end up posting that as his handicap and all that. Like we could judge that later, but that’s what we want people to do. We’re trying to go pacewise. It’s a team best score. So Coupe hit one in the water cuz I was out there. Okay. hit one in the like so his partner Chase hits one way right on 18 into the 10th fairway from 248 he hits this unbelievable shot just short front of the green coupe hits one that’s in like the grass but it’s on the lip of the bunker so he’s got this crazy stance since his partner’s up there looking most likely like a birdie tries to hit this heroic shot goes in the water so he would have to almost be hitting the same shot again hitting his second two in three out four hitting his fourth shot his partner’s chipping for eagle so coup goes up, grabs the flag, and is like, “I got you, Chase.” Coaches him through the shot. Chase ends up making like a five, sixfooter for birdie. Coupe goes nuts. Walk off. That’s what we want, right? Like we want people because and so that’s where the handicap police also I get. I think they’re the they’re the loud minority. And like those are the same people. They [ __ ] about pace of play or that, but then they also think that you should be doing like a metal play event with yourself every time you play golf. It’s like, “No, dude. We’re out there to play. We’ve talked about this in Europe where they don’t even have stroke play scores on the scorecard. It’s just plus or minus match play because they want you to play match play. So, we want people to do that. You’re still, and again, as much as people shoot at my handicap, I actually know the ins and outs of the handicap pretty damn well. You’re still supposed to post your most likely score. That was going to be my question. What should he have done? What should he do if he’s going to post it? So, what he should do there based on his It’s also your most likely your most likely score is based on your handicap. So he would have been it’s a par five, two in the water, three out. He would say from 170 yards hitting his fourth shot, he’s most likely to make three strokes from there, which would be a six. Okay. Four in the middle of the green, two putts, five, six, he should write down a bogey on that hole. So then he posts a 66. You know what I mean, right? He’s kind of he’s won the Barsuit Classic. He walks the golf course. He’s a very serious person. Coup’s great. I follow him. He had a bad swing off 10 where we were doing announcements and he just he didn’t even get in the car. He just started walking, dude. Chase handles him so well and like there were multiple incidents because they played with my two buddies from back home yesterday and so it was fun being out there with him and my dad loves Coupe. He’s not here this year but my dad’s like that Coupe guy’s got the fire or whatever and uh and there were a couple instances yesterday where Chase who’s like a good player but he’s not as he’s not on the same level as Coupe and Chase would be like four-footer for probably be like coup you want me to clean that up or and Coupe just goes just get out of my way dude. He really does scare himself like that. So, but in like an endearing way. For sure. I love it. Yeah. And the more that this keeps going on, the more years this this keeps rolling, you’re going to get more repeat guys like Coupe. He becomes a little bit of a name in our world where it’s like, “Oh, Cooper Greer back at the Bar Classic Championship.” And I get excited to see him like he’s like it’s fun to see him out there and he’s he loves it. He does. He walks every hole and Chase just always looks at me and he goes, “Rigs, will you ride with me this year?” I got nobody to ride with. It’s just Coupe walking down the fairway by himself. But yeah, look, there’s no It is true. Look, net golf is not the purest form of golf. I get that. Yeah. But that’s what our tournament is. We want every group of or every twosome team in the country that plays golf on a semi-regular basis and carries a handicap to show up and believe that they have a chance to make it to the championship and all that. And it’s always going to be that way. This is not the USGA fourball. The USGA fourball is truly to determine like who the best twoerson amateur team is. That’s like uh um Drew Stoaltz sleas and Drew KDson. Um they they make the run every year in the USGA fourball. They’re out there. They’re boozing a little bit. They’re really both good dudes. I know both of them really well. Like Drew KDson might be the best amateur golfer in the country playing the Masters and like Stoultz is a phenomenal player. like that’s that’s the USGA fourball and that tournament is already set that we’re not going to try to create the Barcel to compare with a USGA championship, right? This is the Barsville Classic and it’s like it’s supposed to be kind of a member guest boiled down into like one day of a qualifier and then more of a member guest feel for three days. Netgolf’s never going to be perfect. I kind of like that Yip Strickler always goes after the Bars Classic because it just hypes up the Barcel and like and at the end of the day, like I said, I’m I don’t think I ever want to get to the point where we’re policing it so much that we have like instant replay on everybody’s shot. And that’s sort of what he’s trying to get us to do with like handicaps where it’s like if you want to try to cheat the system with your handicap that sucks and that’s shitty. And I think we should have something in place where we can try to catch as many people as we can, especially when it’s blatantly obvious. But if you really want to try to cheat that system a little bit, you can do it and probably get away with it. And if you really want to try to cheat on the actual golf course, you could definitely do it and get away with it. Like, we’re just not going to be able to police it the whole time. To the good. Straight to the good. That’s what he always say. Speaking of straight to the good, I’m going to do a little bit of a a segue here. We’re going to do my um my trivia. Oh, yes. Top 10 list. And it has to do with handicaps. Great. We’re going to kind of roll right into that. You okay with that, Ryan Rich? You like that? Here’s the question for today, guys. And and I’m sure YB Shirler’s probably been waiting for that kind of debrief and I I think you made a lot of great points that he’ll understand. Should get him on the show, too. I’d like to talk to him. I think I think what you just I would love to have him on the show. I think what we just said is answers a lot of his questions. Okay. Okay, good. Do you agree with that? I think I think so. I mean, I think what Briggs laid out was like Yeah. makes sense. Like you I totally agree. I’ve also been firing for arguments all day because I’ve been arguing with Dave about Yeah. Yeah, you have been. Yes. My bra my brain’s in that position. You are. Yeah. I mean, you you were ready. You were warmed up. All right. So, what’s your list? The list for today, the states with the lowest handicap. Wow. Okay. On average. So, what state has the lowest handicap? Uh, this is according to golf.com as of 2024. So, it may have changed over the last year or so, but um 1 through 10, lowest to highest. What do you guys think? What state has the lowest average handicap? I started with this one when we did most golf courses. I’m going to go with it for uh for this one as well. Florida. Florida is not on the list. Wow. So So the thing that I think helped us get correct answers as most we could in the last one, which was the most courses, is something that we’re going to have to re reverse engineer. Okay. which was that I think like you could almost just do most golf courses based on most populous states. That got us through like the first four or five. It was like Florida, California, New York, you know. I think this one is a little bit like you got to think about like my god. Can I just say Florida was 52nd. There’s only 50 states. I know. Why is that? Okay. And then are we counting like what that that like I didn’t know where I was for like half a second. Well, that’s why I had to pick it up. I was like I was like what the Did I miss a period in history? Yeah. Did something crazy happen while we were doing this podcast? Did somebody tweet something while we were on this podcast that gave us more states? Did Canada find No. What was in those Epstein files? Like what happened? Strange. Is it um Okay. Well, DC and then what? Like the uh uh Dominican Republic or something? Uh, Puerto Rico or Puerto Rico, I mean. Okay. So, there you go. That’s how you get to 52. There you go. Okay. All right. So, so I just so we’re clear on on this now. I picked the last one. You went full You went full Harris English Kamora data golf. Correct. You were the last one on there. That’s almost more impressive than guessing one on the list. Oh, by it’s average handicap index by states and territories. There you go. Territories. Bang. Territory feels like kind of a derogatory. Not good. Yeah, it’s not good, doesn’t it? Territory for sure. But I think that’s what you call it for sure. And the USGA is calling it. I think they got to come up with a new term. Okay. Anyways, not to go all full like woke on you. No, I’m going to go back to the Well, North Carolina. North Carolina is not in the top 10. Georgia. Georgia is number 10. Okay, try Ryan. Try and guess what the what the average handicap is in Georgia at 10. Oh boy. And with this, so we’re talking the the exercise is lowest states, right? Oh, man. I got to guess. You go. Uh, average handicap. I’m going to say 13.4. It’s 14.3. Wow. Okay. Okay. All right. Re, give me a state or territory. California. Not 10. I kind of suck at this game. It’s hard. But even like the other versions of this game. Well, we were talking about it. Yeah, it’s still it’s hard. I think I’ve got my 35th at a 17.1. Better than 52. Trent did it. Arizona. No. Okay. Okay. I got one. I’m saying Alaska next time around. I got one. Massachusetts. No. [ __ ] you, Frankie. I love this game. All right. He gets to be the house in this game. Rhode Island. No. I see what you were doing there. That’s what you said to do. Where are the best golfers? Where are the best taxers? Here’s the thing. You get mad at us, but you’re looking at the list. Number nine, 13.8. He gets mad at us, but he’s looking at the list. I know he is. I know he is. I’m not getting mad. I’m trying to Will you But I was thinking like every golfer comes from California. I was thinking Tiger Woods. There’s a couple states in there that Okay. Okay. I got one right. I got I got uh What the hell did I just say? So, so far we have Georgia and Texas. Number 10. Number nine, Oregon. Wrong. God, I love that guess, too. I know. Wisconsin. Wrong. These games suck. Iowa. Wrong. Ohio. Wrong. Okay, Ryan Richen, why don’t you throw a guess in there, Ryan Rich? The guys with the lists are the meanest. No doubt about They’re like, “It’s so easy.” You let me know when you want me to rattle this thing off. No. New York. No, I don’t want you to rattle it off. Um Um Okay. Colorado. I don’t [ __ ] know. No. Puerto Rico. No. Can I say DC? No. No. No. Not going to. Washington DC is sixth. Shut up. Yep. 13.2. You talking small population? I guess those yuppy [ __ ] they all work in they all work in the political office and go to like northeastern school but you can see right pretty good got to think that that’s a pretty what was the number 13.2 too is the handicap. Yeah. Almost a full stroke better than Georgia. But what would you say is the argument for that? I would assume that Washington DC is a golfing community with like pretty high level golfers. So if Right. So if you’re if they’re counting that as a location, it’s a pretty small location with a lot of golfers in it. High level golfers than what I would assume. That’s what I would have thought about Rhode Island. Yeah. But like I think DC is like a working city, so people are probably just living there. doesn’t necessarily mean they’re from there, but they’re all probably golfers from other states. You know what I mean? I mean, I’m answering it because I know the answer. I’m acting like it was an obvious one. I’ve got uh uh Nebraska. Nebraska is not there. Nevada. No. Michigan. No. How many states are there left? I think we got to get to the answer here. Hawaii. No. You number 10, Georgia. Number nine, Texas. Number eight, North Dakota. Number seven, Tennessee. Number six, Washington DC. Number five, Alabama. Number four, Oklahoma. Number three, today I thought about Oklahoma. Louisiana. Number two, Arkansas. And number one, the lowest handicap index by the USGAA as of 2024, Mississippi, an average handicap of 11.6. That’s just all the states you wouldn’t think. Those are all states for sure. Yeah, it’s good college states, right? So, it’s like Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama. But what do you mean good college? I got like they they have a good I’m a little biased, but like they have good college teams. Like I don’t know. Good college teams. I see. You know, maybe they’re getting some maybe that would have went in your brain at some point. Brad Dulkey, Oklahoma. I think you give us another hour we’d have got there. I think so. Our game kind of brings down the vibes a little bit because of how No, I love the game and I just I apologize. We were just so bad at it. Yeah, we’re just really bad at it. Yeah, I couldn’t wrap my head around where where that one was going. This could be our thing. You guys are just horrible at lists, I guess. So, come on. The first list was a faulty list, wasn’t it? Yeah, it was. True. True. Try try on or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Been a big week for us with Adidas, man. Layering season. You guys probably didn’t expect that when you came out here to the desert. No. In November, but the amount of layers. I’m wearing three layers up top of Adidas right now. I got this jacket. I got this crew neck. I got this polo. It’s been layering season for us. It really nice gear, man. And super efficient and needed like when it rains like that sideways and it’s coming in. Especially out here in Arizona where the golf carts don’t have anything built for rain. They don’t have windshields. I remember that from our Paige match that we they don’t have windshields and they don’t have anything that’s covering the golf clubs in the back. So, you’re just getting dumped on and you drive 12, 13, whatever 20 m hour. I don’t even know how fast these things go. And like the rain’s just hitting you in the face in the lap. Rain hitting you in the lap while you’re driving a ve electric vehicle is outrageous. And shout out to Adidas for bringing the truck out here. Adidas, my main point is when we’re geared up like this, it really shows just how good this stuff is. This jacket I’m wearing was laughable at how dry I am underneath here. I got all Adidas from head to toe underneath. I got pants on, the whole deal. Uh I’m loving it. They they have taken the bar stool golf the bar stool classic championship to the next level. Bringing that huge truck that’s essentially a moving store. It’s amazing. Every single person that participated got an Adidas shirt. 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How did you guys accomplish this? How was it done? We kind of alluded to it in in a past show, but I think just hearing from him, he deserves to be able to kind of tell that story. I think everybody wants to hear from Brennan Jones. Yeah, that’s right. Why don’t you get out here? [ __ ] you bring Why don’t you bring a chair out? Maybe Brennon Jones, headuc an audience applause as write a note to throw in a low applause as he’s coming up here. Thank you. Studio, he deserves it. Maybe. Yeah, bump the volume more than right now. Bump it up. Yep. Oh, it’s like Beetle Mania on the Keep it going. Keep Keep it going. Keep it going. Bele mania. Whoa. At the very end when he’s ready to go. Once he sits down, once he sits down, have a woman scream. Woo. And then he then cut it off. And then cut it off. Right. When he sits down, have a woman go. Still have it going. I think Bren Jones is standing up on purpose. The camera. Is he in frame? All right. Now you sit down. The applause is has reached its height. And once he sits down, I want to I want a woman to go woo. and cut it. Super producer Brennan Jones has joined the show. Yep. How long have you been the producer of this show? 2020 I joined. Five plus and a half. Yeah. Years. Yep. Right. Yep. So you can walk in front of the camera next time. Ryan Richen, it’s fine. You’re part of Ninja. Yeah, he rolled. He ducked and rolled. February 2020, right before co Interesting time for the world. You met Briggs in Pinehurst, right? met him in the office and then we went ahead and lived together for he wore a uh at the time we were sponsored by Peter Malar and he wore a Peter Mar shinikok quarterzip to the interview and I was like this guy gets it this guy knows what he’s still own that bad boy um and then he came down and we ended up for a while we lived in a house with uh Abby Leventhal who uh and her now husband Brennan uh Arnbrock who’s the man but uh she we didn’t know Abby we met her for the first time Trent at Augusta. Yep. She worked for Titus, then she worked for Imperial, then she worked for the USGAA, and now she works over at the Friday. Oh, really? Fried egg. Yep. She runs the For the Ladies. She does For the Ladies, which is incredible, incredible series of events where she basically like breaks down all the barriers to entry that might be intimidating, especially for like women getting into golf. And it’s like a clinic, it’s like how to like dress, it’s like etiquette, it’s at really cool places. Um, she does a great job with all that. But anyways, that was like our housemates at Piners. Crazy start to a job just right in the middle of COVID, living in another state, filming videos while the world shut down. It was great cuz we were you were editing the Pioneers travel series, which is the first ever travel series we had done. And then our uh videographers and producers that were on that, the manga, he had like left since then. And so Brendon was taking it over and he was like, “Feel like I need to immerse myself in Piners to like edit the videos properly.” You guys talked about it so highly and I was like, “I don’t even know what this place is about.” Also, I don’t want to be in New York. So went down and visited, right? It worked out great. You were able to interview Pash more. It’s a great series. Two or three times. Yeah. Yeah. Like for every episode, anything I needed, it was obviously just at my fingertips. If I wanted to go get drone footage of, you know, XYZ, it was right there. Well, what’s funny is like that the first that’s the first video edited. And if you go back and watch those, which would be fun for people to that really care about this stuff, um, to go see the difference between that and then we’ll get to the Internet Invitational and kind of how you’ve evolved in this world. To me, watching you do it is very bar stool in the fact that like no one really, you didn’t go to school for specifically how to edit those types of videos. You were what, working at News12? You were like an anchor. You’re a sports anchor. What the hell were you doing? Two, two different jobs. I was at the MLB and the NHL Network where you learned how to edit a little bit, five days a week. Yeah. They were uh they were like super professional about everything. That’s kind of like camera facing at News12. I was Yeah, News 12. I was a local sports anchor for a little while. So, you had you had the tools to be able to like jump right into editing a video. Um I’m assuming just like I did and just like everyone at Barcel did, you probably watched a lot of YouTube videos on how to learn certain things. And as you edit videos, you start to build and build and build. You start to see what other people are doing in the space. You come up with your own ideas in that. And then you start to own like Brendan has his own stuff that will forever be uh for the betterment of YouTube golf like you know introducing the cart cams for certain things and droning from tea to green and that being the transition. Those things were not happening. People weren’t using drones as transitions and it’s just I’m sure someone could fact check me on someone doing it once or twice before it but it really felt like we started to have this system where like we had a guy that he wanted his own feel and his own in his own Uh, thing style is the word I’m looking for. Thing was something else. Uh, thing is a little too general style with his own thing. Um, and I think you nailed it. And now it kind of I mean you can talk more to that, but it all kind of culminated with getting the internet invitational dropped on your lap and being like, we trust you now. You know, it’s amazing when you watch that old video at Piner where we had like Joey Molinari doing the voice over trying to act like uh Attenboroough. Bro, you know, like go back and watch those videos and watch how different they were to now. And that’s all this guy learning more [ __ ] dude. Yesterday somebody was talking to me about the Internet Invitational and it’s been crazy to see the feedback and seriously thank everybody who’s been in my DMs. It’s the most DMs I’ve ever gotten in my entire life. Hell yeah. Even in person. Dude, I went to Home Depot earlier. Literally went to Home Depot early to get something and this it was I had I had our battery. battery. I was looking for a charger and I had our battery and the battery says Barcel Sports. This was 2 hours ago and the guy at Home Depot was like, “Do you work at Barcel Sports?” I was like, “Yeah, I do.” He literally goes, “I just watched that golf event, the internet invitational.” And I talked to him about it for like 5 10 minutes. He’s like, “Were you there for that?” I go, “Oh boy, dude, was I there for that?” Well, sir, how much time you got? When’s your break? Three months straight. The reach has been crazy. But somebody yesterday talked to me at the Barcel Classic about, you know, how great it was in the production value and I go, “Dude, go back and watch the Kevin Ker scramble.” Yeah. There’s not a single Tracer in the video. No, it’s crazy. Oh, yeah. Dude, it’s wild. How is that watch that trash? Did we have Did we have the ball hitting the green or No. Uh, was there a camera sometimes? Wow. Yeah. Now we got Nate the Great out there capturing every ball that lands. I’m watching the Morcal video right now. you and I have uh we’ve like gone long nights especially like when we’re doing the behind the greens on like making it as easy for the viewer to just watch a round of golf and I think that there’s a lot of different styles out there right now. We are always amazed at the good good guys and now even Bob Bob and and the jet they’ve kind of taken like the good good style of it as well where it’s like just kind of shoot and go and moving no microphones. There’s a there’s a shotgun mic on top and it just works for them. And I we’ve always thought that it was like chaos for us to try and do because we’re like oh we set this standard of ease watching and then if we go back if we go to that now you know what I’m saying like I feel like people are going like this [ __ ] sucks now even though like if you started that way they never would have you know what I mean right exactly you’re almost in a tough spot is what I’m trying to get at I say that to our guys all the time I’m like our standards higher than a lot of people out there and that’s and that doesn’t mean it equates to more views. cuz it’s just that’s like that’s what you’ve set for yourself. And then now like when the Jet I’m sure he would be okay with us saying it when the Jets saw what you guys were doing at the Invitational, he couldn’t believe it. Oh yeah. He’s like why are you guys putting this much stuff into it? He goes he could just do it the way we do it and we’re going to get millions of views anyway. Yeah. He came to New York. You’re just a crazy person when it comes to like Yeah. I mean you should be proud of what you do, right? And that’s kind of where we stand on everything. Dude, and what you said earlier how like, you know, the Internet Invitational kind of just obviously got tossed on our plate as like the foreplay production team. I was thinking about it and I was like, “Dude, it is crazy for Dave to have trusted us with all that.” Like this was huge. And he knew it was huge. But like when I think about it, I’m like in that one meeting, I remember I blurted it out. I was like, “It’s 3 hours and 45 minutes.” The first episode. Yeah. Cuz I had to tell him cuz I I knew he wasn’t used to that number or had probably not thought Nobody used to that, right? Nobody was. What? Yeah. Nobody was. And the style that we were doing it was obviously brand new. Nobody’s ever done anything like this. But it’s funny. No one was used to it, but we watch like the RBC Heritage for 6 hours. Yeah. True. People saying this is too long. Like you you watch golf Thursday through Sunday, like eight hours of coverage. It’s a good point. Yeah. And then all he responded was just like, “Oh, wow.” You know, and I could tell you could see his wheels kind of spinning a little bit, but he dude he trusted us with with the whole thing. He like trusted the golf guys. Austin and Bob does sports to really like take it home which is pretty great. I’ve thought about I’ve talked to so many people about this and this is as much as the whole internet invitational has transcended and we notice it with like the airport test right when you’re in the airport people come up to you out of nowhere like I love that [ __ ] invitational. People say in the bathroom when you’re at a [ __ ] restaurant you go to the bathroom like that invitational is unbelievable. This is also the first time I’ve really noticed people unsolicitedly telling me about how good of a job you guys like all the time. a bunch of people in the internet or in the Barsto Classic today and yesterday. People that I randomly see that we stop and talk to at the airport or at dinner or the guy that got me the was supposed to be a beer but it was a $40 glass of wine cuz my [ __ ] observer. But all those people are going out of their way to be like, I can’t believe the production value. I my reaction is like, dude, I want you to know how crazy it is from our vantage point cuz that’s not like our team to me is not guys that came up and like um went to some unbelievable whatever like production school and then worked at like HBO Go and then worked on Game of Thrones and it’s like you guys are like our buddies that are like editing this. Well, that’s that’s the real testament to you guys is that you guys did something that people didn’t even think was possible on YouTube Golf like like you’re saying. Yeah. If you come from these big platforms or these big whatevers and like, oh yeah, these guys know how to do it. Now they’re just going to do it and put it on you on YouTube. You guys did you’re homegrown. You you’ve been with us forever. And I not that you guys ever had any limitations in terms of what you could do, but I don’t think people thought this was possible. That’s the difference. It’s It’s been really And yes, because I’ve gotten reached out to by I don’t know almost every videographer I’ve ever worked with just being like this was incredible. But then you hear from Colin Ross who’s been running good good [ __ ] for like a long time. Him and Max hear from Skyler B. Mlan. Um some of Bryson’s team. Skyler obviously does Grant stuff. The Jet obviously and all of them just say hey this was unbelievable. You’ve guys you all have changed the game. And I’m just like whoa. Right. people in your own industry who are like, “Wow, that’s cool.” When you can when you can impress those people cuz they obviously know what goes on, you know, behind the scenes for it all. Uh, that’s really cool. And dude, I’ve said this forever, like when you watch Surviving Bar Stool or anything that Bar stool does, like Bar Stool’s post-production team is far and away the best post-production team in the content game and probably like in television. Yeah. I mean, the surviving Barcel is is and now it’s insane. It’s it’s insane to put internet invitation on the same vein because when I watch Surviving Barcel, I can’t believe it’s a Barcel production. I can’t it it is legitimately a prime time TV show and now we get to say that about a golf uh thing that we own. It’s insane. It is that you did that at its height. I didn’t think you could do it. Thank you. At it. I really didn’t. That’s what I’m talking about. And it’s not even that. It’s not I know what you mean. How could you tell the story of 48 people out there on the golf course at the same time and make it compelling and and and show all the shots that you need to show? My head was spinning just thinking about it. Well, let’s get into it. Like, all right, we’ve got the footage. It’s whatever. It’s It’s late August. We’ve just filmed this thing. What happens going into August? Yeah. How the hell did you know just as crazy as post? Yeah, true. That’s a good point. But it’s I mean, it all starts So, you come out of the womb. What do you think? Yeah. No, it all it all starts on trying to make things as easy as possible, which means just like condensing and making like everything you’re about to do smaller, if that makes sense. Like we edit every video hole by hole and each hole, you know, and we shoot hole by hole and each hole is its own video in essence and then you put them all together and you have this one big story. So I was trying to do that on a grand scale, you know, at with the internet invitational. I talked to the jet about all this. Once we had the format, it’s like, “All right, man. how can we do this? Every tusome that went out had a camera. There was two cameras um you know in the group following each tusome and in order to like keep pace up and not like have a million carts driving everywhere, we just threw a camera person on each green. So as you guys were rotate, as you guys were playing, the camera on the green would would stay there, shoot balls landing, and then shoot everybody walking off and then just turn again and fire with the people who were coming. Day one, you had 33 cameras out there. So, it would be 24 + 9 for the greens is 33 plus 24 GoPros plus two running simultaneously. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Plus Dave’s isolated cam plus Big Cat’s isolated cam. 35 cameras. Plus three drones. 35 cameras. Three drones. 48 microphones. Plus Dan and Big Cat. 50 microphones. 33. This is going to turn into the Christmas 72 with the GoPros. Golden 33 cameras, three drones, 50 microphones. That was good. You’re a music and 24 and 24 go. Yeah, dude. It’s a lot. And one internet. So, I got a stupid question. Batteries, right? So, everybody had How are you still married? Like, how did you edit all of this? So, uh, everybody went out with, you know, the proper amount of batteries. We’ve done this a bunch of times. We shot with these cameras, you know, quite a bit. Also, shout out to like all of the YouTube, uh, golf videographers, like Brian Bros guy, Carney, was there for all three days and filmed all three days. You had the Busted Jack uh, videographer, Kaden, he was out there, uh, helping us film. We Yeah, he was with you because you were with Cole a lot. Yeah. So, we asked everybody like, “You’re obviously going to bring your videographer because if you get bounced, you know, you’re going to go film YouTube videos with these other creators. If your videographer wants to shoot that first day, like more than welcome. We’ll pay them to help out.” And a lot of them did, which was awesome because they obviously know the space. Who was with me on the final day? The Brian Bros camera guy. Carney. Yeah, Carney. Yeah, he is awesome. Yeah, he’s impressive. He He caught Dave’s eye, which is pretty wild. See the guy running around? Yeah, Dave. Dave Dave Dave’s like, “That’s not a Barcel guy. I know that. That’s what I know.” He like in the most nerve-wracking days of my day of my life, he was really like nice to me and and and was like a very solid dude right behind the camera when I would look back at him and like my heart would be pumping or I’ my eyes would be darting. He’d just be like, “It’s good. It’s good, dude. Let’s go.” Like, you know, kind of that he wouldn’t say anything, but it was just that look like come on. Yeah. He filmed every single shot uh of that final round. He was really good, dude. Really good, dude. Yeah. So, at a tight there were, you know, however many cameras. I didn’t do the math, but everybody filmed their match as if it was its own YouTube golf video. That was very smart. So, cuz you can’t, you know, you don’t want to miss anything. So, you need to have camera and that’s the bar way. You have to have cameras rolling, film everything at all times. So, you know, when we announced the format and the players, like we just kept, you know, at one point it was going to be 20 players and I was like, “All right, we can handle that.” And then it was like 30 and then it was like 64 at one point. I almost like [ __ ] my pants and then it went down to 48 and I was like, “All right, still a lot, but we could potentially handle this.” How many long calls did you and I have where I would just put them on speaker and we would just talk about how many people were going to be in it and you like couldn’t believe that. I was just like, “Damn, just keep adding people and all I see are just like more camera people that like we have to try to find.” Yeah. Like each person is like two cameras. Do you think the PGA tour is there’s people in the PGA tour right now that are sitting in a boardroom with this podcast playing? They all have like notes and like pen and paper. They do love. just want to give away the secrets too much. How are we going to do this? Yeah, but it was So, every match was shot as finding 50 of him. Yeah, it’s never going to happen. Every match was shot as its own YouTube golf video. And you guys alluded to us obviously putting those out individually, which is nice. Are we going to put all those out or just the kind of I think we talked about it today. I think we just put them all out eventually. Absolutely. You have how many? You had 24 videos. 24 matches on day one because you had 12 and 12 and then you had six and six on day two. So, that’s 36. You can put 36 videos out, almost one a week. I mean, it’s, you know, leading up to an Invitational, too. Sure. And I said some of them might get 10,000 views, whatever. Just put them all out. Put it out there. Doesn’t matter. Just build the channel up. Yeah. It was obviously incredibly daunting like going into it all. And I had conversations with the Jet who was amazing, you know, throughout the entire process. But the Bob does Sports team and the post-production team and just team in general is much smaller than ours, right? So like they obviously were just working with us and doing the best they can to help with whatever they had, which was awesome. And the Jets like a great YouTube mind, just a great production mind. So it was awesome like having him as like a confidant slash like teammate throughout. Yeah. But I always wanted to make everybody’s life and job just narrowed if that made sense. I’ll take care of the big picture and like I’ll take on all of that or whatever along with the jet, but what you’re doing right now like just complete the task or the two tasks. So, you’re just trying you’re trying to basically silo these people off. Correct. Cuz you’re saying small, you’re saying narrow. You’re like this thing is huge, but we got to get it small for the people who are working on each piece of it. Exactly. And that was essentially how we tackled the edit. Now, it’s funny, too, because it was all a YouTube golf video, but there was such a reality aspect of everything, too. So, it was like, all right, I could plan for the golf, you know, no problem. This is how you do it. Everybody’s used to shooting golf. But then it’s like, all right, you know, they’re about to do this draft. I need, you know, we need you on him and you on him and a wide shot here, you know, to capture the entire thing and go get some confessionals from people who are like just been drafted. And that’s where like the the bar stool camera ops are amazing to have when you have, you know, Fulli out there. He’s shot stool scenes forever and you have dude, what a needed that so bad. I just need that. Yeah, that was so funny, dude. But yeah, so you had that aspect of it and then you had to like roll it right into golf and dude, everybody on site that help was so so good at their job. So that all makes sense. What where I think it would get the most complicated is like the flow of information in terms of what’s happening when and what’s happening like with the Luke Quan thing when people are finding out and what’s happening with different matches like things are happening but you don’t want to show things that haven’t happened yet if that makes any sense. So that’s yeah so that’s more of like the edit style. also everything was captured on site really well done. And as it dwindled down, it it quote unquote got easier cuz like less players, less matches, you know, were going on and everybody knew like their role going into the, you know, next round or whatever they were filming. But then when it got to the edit, it was the same thing like let’s just isolate you know responsibility where you had you know three or four people or you know for every person they were assigned three or four individual nine-hole matches to to handle. Okay. So it was you know you handle match one, two, three, four. Somebody else will will handle five, six, seven, eight and then another person will handle the last four and that is three editors handled three uh you know all of the matches on session one day one. Now obviously I can’t watch everything and everybody can’t watch everything. So what I had and I was talking to you about this on the phone was a document created and it was essentially a log where each editor would log each hole of every match. So tell me briefly what happened in this match and going into this uh like log here are the main story llines like obviously after day one Luke Quan was the only thing people could talk about so like if there’s any Luke Quan chatter you know log it log who won the hole log if anything crazy funny happened if it’s a mustwatch log that do that for every hole of every match and I could much easier read a log and piece a story together. Uh then you know somebody’s just telling me what happened or watch it back, right? So you can’t watch all that footage. No, it’s impossible. Especially cuz we were still trying to do things, right? We still were putting out videos up until the beginning. So there’s there’s that master document of like here’s what’s going on. Exactly. So, I knew the vid like I had the vision with the jet and I knew that I could handle putting together that first episode and that if I could show the other five finishing editors, you know, what this thing potentially could look like, then it would make their life a lot easier. So, I just ripped through this giant log, found, you know, how to go from match to match. I saw that on the second hole um is when you know hole in one trick shots found out that Lu Kuan didn’t show up for his match. So I should probably include you know that part of it. That part was amazing watching it back like yeah the Lu Kuan stuff was was really cool with Lu Kuan and with all the storylines of like being able to enhance the storyline with footage of someone from somewhere else talking about it in a timeline that made sense, right? Was amazing. Yeah. Well, exactly. And it was hard. Like, it was definitely hard. But like watching the whole field find out about Luke Quan and me not realizing that like not everyone was where I was when I found out they were through hole six or they were two holes away from teeing off or whatever. And like or the range. Yeah. And them digesting it before they teed off versus being four holes in in a in a dog fight. Like all of that was really interesting. Yeah. you have to essentially know, you know, where everybody is and what makes sense with where you’re at in the video. So, yeah, once once Luke Quan was woken up and told and all that stuff, like I knew that if so and so was on the sixth hole and they found out, like I could I could go to that. But like, you don’t you know, you don’t want to show them on the seventh hole playing golf because then it doesn’t make right any sense. Do you think the log um that you had that really highlighted like all the big quote unquote drama moments or like the big moments is why some people that may have not been critical of the internet invitational but like their one takeaway that could be deemed as negative was that we we sought out the drama and that like it’s it felt like it was more about the reality TV aspect than the golf. Like I feel like in the beginning some people might feel that way and then when you hear like how your breakdown of how you were going to edit was basically around like just the biggest moments as opposed to like the biggest golf shots. I think that’s how people can see like that’s really the only way you were able to kind of piece it together. You know what I’m saying? You gave you gave these three editors the three matches and like you’re just asking what was the biggest moment out of that? And to them, the biggest moments were them complaining about Luke not waking up. And so but then like when you get all of that information and then you’re taking all of your starred big moments, it just happened to be a lot of the drama and not like a great wedge shot next to a hole. Sure, you showed that. Yeah. Right. But like that is kind of what just happened because of what happened at the event. You know what I mean? Those were the big moments and it’s I’ve seen some comments being like, “Oh, they harped on the Lu Kan stuff too much.” and uh you know, let’s just focus on golf and like put it to bed or whatever. And I’m like, man, we were there and it was the only thing people were talking about. Like the no laying up guys said that it was a reality TV show, not a golf tournament essentially. But every time like I’m okay with that. Yeah. I was like, is that a criticism or compliment? I mean, we didn’t. Also, honestly, this is a point Colin Morawa made last week on the pod when he was like, people say they I just wish they’d show more golf. And he’s like, well, is that really why you’re watching? No. to just watch endless golf shots from everyone. I will say so said he liked it. He he enjoyed it. I appreciate it. Nice. He’s like that’s more than Yeah. Like Morawa’s point is like no, you have to like as you hone in on the golf tournament and who’s going to be the two or three people that might win it, you’re trying to tell a story. Yes. Like that story is the important part and then the shot has more context. I think the people who complain about the PJ tour would we did it the way that they would want it done where like we always talk about story building and we did that. We just that’s what we did. How many shows have you watched in your lifetime on HBO or whatever, whe whether it’s Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad, where there’s a bunch of episodes where you’re like, why are they why are we seeing this? Why are they going to this home this character, this side character’s uh you know, they’re following him the entire episode or or why are we seeing this? And then at the end, you look back, you’re like, I’m so glad that we know that character so much more now because of what happened in the end. That’s exactly what you guys had to build. That’s It is the reality TV of golf. I think I take that as a compliment. Yeah, that when you said that sounded like a compliment to me. Yeah, it is. It kind of I think some people probably looked at it as like a negative because hate came That was a weird butt. What? What was that? I just said butt. It sounded like he was Did I squeak it out? No. No. He said butt. We squeaked it. I think some people might say like you piled on. and you piled on like the the the Luke stuff and and really everything was about all the drama incidents and at the end of the day like those are just the things that happened. Those were the moments when you’re in the moment when you were there. It was like it you were drenched in it. They also you were suffocating in the drama. Correct. Cuz those moments elicited the biggest reaction from the people there. So you know they’re going to elicit the biggest reaction from the people watching. opposed to a regular YouTube got video where the biggest reaction is like a hole out from 150 yards. This one happened to be that the guy slept in. I could go up anybody I went up to on site whether we’re done with their match or playing their match. I’d be like, “Hey, how’s it going?” They just made bogey. Lu Kuan slept in. Here are my thoughts. I was like, “All right, okay.” During the cast of Lu Kuan, George Bryan like chipped in to advance his match uh like to the ninth hole to keep his his alive. I don’t think a single person is talking about that. It was like the coolest chip in ever. And to be clear, I was there. It was sick. It was the sickest chip ever. But everyone’s like, “Well, what’d he say about Luke?” And then right after that, he said something to Luke. Yeah. He’s like, “Thanks for sleeping in.” Exactly. And to be clear, those shots were all shown, right? It’s like not not the takeaway. Yeah. No, of course. But I’m saying like to the people who are like, “Oh, there needs to be more golf.” It’s like there is golf in it. It’s just there’s also there’s like How many hours was the whole series? Oh, there’s there’s I’ve seen like 10 hours of golf. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. And I also I like Luke a lot. Chip if we’re being honest. Yeah, we all like show less of that golf. You know, we all like Luke uh a lot. He’s a great friend of the program and he came up to me on site and said, “Do what you got to do and I said I was planning on it, but thank you. I respect that. I respect that.” I know we kind of talked about this in the last show, too, but it’s like the Luke Quan thing is so funny to me because it’s like we’re talking about a man sleeping in a little bit too long in a golf match. It who cares at the end of the day? Like we all care care because it was funny. But none of that equates to like Luke Quan’s a bad person. It’s like funny. It’s like oh yeah, he kind of slept in. Oops. No. And that really came into effect with the Mo and the Page stuff later on. It’s just like Frankie and I were talking about it yesterday or a couple days ago where it’s like I wish people could just watch something, have like a a reaction where they’re like, “Wow, that’s interesting.” And then kind of be done with it as opposed to like let’s track these people. All right. This someone’s sitting there like this watching it being like, “Well, okay. That grass just got pushed down. Now I Now I act like this is not going to stop until I fix this.” Yeah. It’s like just be It’s like being a fan of a sports team where you’re just like they win, they lose, you your ups or your downs. It’s like it is what it is. But I don’t like find that person’s whatever. I do want to add now that I said that I did watch Francis kind of talk. He’s been on a couple different podcasts about it. Son of a boy dad. He talked about um his side of things. We want to get him on the show. Him and Brad are supposed to come on the show today. We have the Barcel. We we messed up the timing a little bit so we couldn’t get him on. Um but I do want to say in the last show we kind of did that rushed version of my first takeaway since I’ve bladed the chip publicly and since everything that happened with my teammates with Mo and Paige. And I I I was saying that at the end of the day, like we lost the hole with Paige and like you kind of just move on. And then when you hear Francis side of it where he felt like he he was just so mad regardless of what the intention was that like maybe he could have gotten cheated out of winning his share of a million dollars. That part really pissed him off. See, hearing it from that perspective, it does make me feel bad for him in that scenario. And I and cuz I did say um that like there was gamesmanship by Francis like saying it to Paige and maybe trying to rattle her or whatever it was. And I probably in the back of his mind there was a little bit of that. But I genuinely think that he was just trying to play a clean fair game cuz he knew how much was on the line. So I do want to like I’m on Francis’s side on that. Like I want that very clear. Like certainly if you look at it from his perspective, right? It is like that is the only perspective you should look at like it should be a clean fair game and regardless of people’s intentions which we’re very I’m very stern on the fact that like I I feel like the intentions even though people made mistakes the intentions were probably not as is it nefarious is the word I’m trying to look for nefarious is pretty good like the intentions weren’t as nefarious as people want them to be because they want that drama into their teeth that he still has every right to be pissed off and call people out. Mhm. Yeah, I agree. And I think that I think they would agree too, the people on the other side of him. Yes. And I would also say that is why those two events were such a big deal to the people on property in real time. It’s not cuz we were all like gossipy little queens. It was because we all were like, “Wait a second. This is a golf match for a million dollars. We need to make sure this is being done properly and someone’s not we’re not going to allow someone to skirt by cheating the rules of golf and take a million dollars of the prize pool on our watch that we need to get this right. That was why we were watching all the footage. Brennon went and got a laptop. We blew up the footage from a phone to a laptop. Not because again we were all like we were like dude we got to get this right. What is the call? What really happened? And so that was like where we were all coming at it from because I think we would all feel the way that Francis laid out really perfectly and how he felt. And I think that like there can also be things that are all true at the same time, which is that like I do think people could be in the match heated trying to do the best thing for their team in that situation and not think that they’re doing anything wrong or nefarious or illegal and maybe cross a line and feel horrible about it or like those two all those things can exist at the same time. And so yeah, I think a lot of my reaction where it’s like I haven’t taken any like hard stance this way or that way is is because like I think that being there in the pressure and the heat of the moment that was so palpable and you could feel it like I kind of get everybody’s vantage point of like I know [ __ ] me. I’m trying to make sure that like we have the best chance to get through this hole with a tie and then those people on the other side are like are they [ __ ] cheating me out of a million dollars? And then you’re also trying to hit shots. Then you’re also trying to be like there’s the Dave aspect and he had bet on one side, Whitney bet on the other side. Is that factoring in? Like all that stuff being considered. It was a crazy pressure cooker. And I think everybody was just kind of trying to get it right. And I think that the one biggest takeaway from the last show that we did was that like nobody that we have ever dealt with in this space that was at the event deserves no matter what you think they did or didn’t do to be like labeled or to be crucified as like some horrific person where it’s like both everybody that like we mentioned people specifically last time but it’s like everybody we worked with there it’s like been awesome to us. Awesome person. Sent us really good notes. We’ve had such a good time filming with them, most of them multiple times at different locations around the world. And so like you kind of want it to remain within the realm of the invitational and like be judged there and we all weighing in and then let it like you said be like, “Well, that was [ __ ] really interesting. Glad I watched that.” Not like go out of your way to be like going after things that are farther stretched out than that person, whether it’s their family or whatever. That’s like lunacy. And I just hate seeing all of that. And I Yeah, I think my overall takeaway from that was that like everyone’s trying to win. People may or may not have crossed the line. There’s evidence that we had to address. That’s why it was all included. You can make your own judgments. We put all of it in there. We put people weighing in. But then I don’t think it ever crossed the line of somebody being like ruled as a shitty person or not. They’re all awesome people that have done a great job to get to this point. Yeah. The evidence also unfortunately for because if it was a little bit more clear it would be one thing or the other. It would be like you cheated or you didn’t. But unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you’re looking at it all of it is still just debate. It’s up for debate whether you think it’s right because clear or not like it technically is not. You guys looked at the footage and put in Noa, right? This is um this is hockey and and the puck is underneath the pad. Yes, we all think it probably crossed the line, but there’s no conclusive evidence that the puck went over the line. So, the goal stands the save stands. It’s not a goal. There’s a difference. It’s amazing how Sorry, fans are leaving going nuts. They’re like, “Fuck that.” If you had a rational thinking brain, you would understand that went over the line. I love rational thinking brain Frankie. Rational thinking brain says this puck probably went over the line, but we can’t see it. So, we have to just live in this world where this is what happened. I put myself in the final video. Sorry. I put myself in the final video and I I don’t do that often. I literally said when we were watching on the laptop, I just my one line was I don’t think it’s conclusive. Yeah. Right. It’s inconclusive. Isn’t that amazing too because you would think I would think being like you just said we had 72 cameras on. How many football games have you watched where they go to the zoom and you’re like, “All right, we’re going to know right away.” And then they watch it and you watch it from several different angles and you’re like, “Oh, I don’t know if that was a catch or not.” You know, you’re like, “That’s amazing that it does happen that way a lot where you’re just like, dude, I truly don’t think it’s conclusive.” And you’re like, “That’s unbelievable. We have 100 cameras.” But I that’s kind of was my takeaway was it is conclusive that Paige moved the grass away. That’s conclusive. You see it, but is it’s not conclusive of what her uh intentions were. Yeah. And it’s correct because you are like people made this point too. You are uh not only like allowed to, you’re like required to identify your golf ball to the point where you could pick it up and take it out of the grass. And so like in order to identify that golf ball, there’s some version of getting your hand in there and like being able to actually see it and ident. how if it crossed the line or didn’t cross the line to like improving a lie. Is it a loose impediment? Again, that’s the part where it’s just like not conclusive. And I thought that her reaction was telling of the like girl that I’ve gotten to know over 10 years, which is that like the second she even thought she might have done something wrong, not even that she was being accused, but she thought she might have done something wrong. I thought her reaction was immediate like remorse and like not like I’m trying to cheat you [ __ ] out of a million and I’ve been caught. It was just like, “Oh [ __ ] I’m so sorry. I hope that wasn’t the case. Oh my god. Not like malicious or nefarious. And I didn’t think the the the evidence there was like conclusive one way or the other. Everybody can judge and that’s like why it’s it’s been talked about at times. And I thought with with the Mo thing, it’s like Dave was kind of between a rock and a hard place as well of like you got to make a call, man. Does the evidence at times look bad? Sure. Of course it does. Is there a way where you could sit there and see one clip where you’re like, “Yep, this is exactly what happened.” I’ve seen posts and zoomins of both sides conclusively saying it was either on the whole time or off. There’s one post that says every single time the camera is on him shooting something, it’s off there. There’s screenshots for it. Then there’s also a video of him quite literally clicking it on and off when he touches it. So like you when he was freaking out went back to the cart touching too much, which also crazy like that could be a nervous tick. Like when I hold a pin that has a clicker on the top, I’m like click click click click. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. All this we’re trying to find the middle ground, which people hate. We’re trying to just let people know that like I everything that we’re saying right now, Francis is allowed to just despise. He’s allowed to say, “I was playing for a [ __ ] million dollars.” And anything that even toes a line on it is [ __ ] Right. It’s actually interesting. We have such an interesting perspective on it because you were involved in it. These are my teammates. I know. And Francis was involved in it. But we’re getting both like we were just there like watching and like holy [ __ ] But it’s really interesting to hear as we wanted to be to be able to just like hear what you guys want to say. I’m okay to say like I’m okay to say that I I was his teammate. I thought the footage of Mo was sketchy. I thought it was when I saw it in real time when they showed it to me on the golf course. Everybody Mo said the footage was sketchy. Yeah. Mo when he was confronted. Dave was like, “Do you see how like he said something to the degree of like, do you see how like then Mo was like I 100% see that and get that.” He’s like, “But I’m telling you.” So, like, I think he would agree like, “Yep, that doesn’t look good, but I didn’t do it.” And you’re like, “Okay, if he says he didn’t do it, and the simple fact is what we what didn’t happen was we didn’t freeze everybody on the green and go check rangefinders.” That’s conclusive inconclusive as oppos It’s great for debate. Last time I said some people take it too far, very far. And the last time I said this on the last show about Paige where I said, “I don’t know what her intentions were.” Everyone’s like, “You’re an idiot. She literally admitted to doing what she did 10 seconds later. I’m not saying that her intentions weren’t to move the grass. Her intentions clearly were to separate the grass and check the golf ball. I’m just saying when she was clearly doing that at that moment, was she saying to herself, I’m going to try and get an edge on everyone right here and I’m going to try and get a better path to this golf ball for Mo so we can knock it out of knock it out of the grass or cuz he was hitting the next shot, right? Yeah. I just think things just happen. Cameras are around. She’s been around this for a long time. I just I don’t know that she would ever go into any moment being like I’m gonna I’m gonna pretty publicly cheat this right now, you know. And I think that that comment on one ended up [ __ ] her. I agree. When she said that to Francis, I said I was like pissed at her at at that point. You could see it when we’re driving to the second hole. I was like, I kind of get what he’s saying. Like I mean like why would he give us a putt for a million? You know what I mean? Like I get it. Like we’re all out here to just make the ball go in the hole. That was her gamesmanship. That was her gamesmanship. I agree. Which is what we want. Yeah. Yeah. When you said that last show, I came back to fight her hard. She didn’t want that. I’m just saying if that didn’t happen on one, I don’t know that anyone’s even thinking about the intentions being the other way because she’s she’d be allowed to say, “Oh, I didn’t even know that that was the rule. I’m sorry.” You can’t call out the guy in the first hole and say, “You don’t know the rules.” That’s where it’s all just It’s a perfect storm, dude. It’s a perfect storm. It’s [ __ ] drama you couldn’t even write up in a [ __ ] ABC sitcom. That’s where I landed on it where it’s like from a theatric standpoint. Great. I just, you know, obviously we had to address people going too far and it’s like that’s so crazy. But like in terms of like putting it all together and wanting an event to transcend and have an impact, I think we did. I wanted to ask you at Brendan, at what point or at any point during the edit or the building of it or the final touches did you feel like the most underwater was there that point? Most underwater was probably like yeah two weeks before the first episode when we had met prior with Dave and it was supposed to come out the next week and then there was like a lot of question marks up in air and up in the air and Dave you know kind of wanted to see the first episode which was which was obviously three and a half hours three and a half hours I got to see what’s going on and I was just like panicking to the point where like if he didn’t like it then you got to redo the whole thing which is a [ __ ] nightmare. So I was just yeah super uh stressed out. He just had a couple Yeah. Know he had a couple graphical tweaks and I actually we were planning on doing that lower right graphic similar to the RDER Cup. So it was uh it all worked out thankfully and he enjoyed it and liked it and told me he did so which was awesome. So unsolicited man. Good job text from Dave. You did a great [ __ ] job. You did an amazing job and honestly shout out to Dave for caring that much. He watched it and had like notes that that’s where I started to get the chills a little bit. I’m like we got something here. Dave Portoi is this invested into this thing and also it wasn’t that many notes. So, our guy edited the first version of this to a point where Dave really likes it and he loved every single teaser that you guys edited. Awesome. So, yeah, man. You crushed it. I mean, getting that text from Dave is you should print that thing out and put it above people. When Dave sent me one nice email, he sent the company a nice email after we did behind the greens. I pulled over and I cried. Yeah, I didn’t cry. I shouted scared. I cried. I called him and I said he [ __ ] said good job. It’s it’s a it’s a rare attab boy, but it’s definitely an earned one. Um, shout out to Kyle Tims, Jared Debro, obviously on our squad. Ryan Richen cut a bunch of social promos. Trent Christensen took episode four. Kevin Zupy handled episode three. Mike Delos, this is the A team at Barto Stool. Like, holy hell. Jake Mike Delos did five at Cliffhangers. Jake Losski helped out on the draft uh day one. And then me, Kyle, and Jared did the final. So, let’s go. Vancini said we probably got 20 minutes. Oh, cool. They still need six scorecards. So, but those are Yeah, that’s the those are like the quote unquote Just so folks know, we’re rushing. I don’t want to rush your thank you. We do have the champion. We have the Barcelo Classic Championship concluding within the next 20 minutes. Yeah, those were like the the guys who put together, you know, the big timelines and then 48 hours before every episode I would go in, make sure obviously it all made sense. Add anything that needed to be added. They crushed it. I didn’t have to do much. It was just like some tweaks here and there. But yeah, Delo, Trent, Zupie, Kyle, Jared, Jake, Josh, Tajins, the head of post-production. Those guys were like massively, massively helpful. They’re so damn talented, man. It’s crazy. They needed a guy like you to be able to tell the story, though, and give them direction because you needed to do it in a way that was YouTube golf ready and and and viewable and and digestible. And you nailed it. They nailed it. Everybody nailed it. It was perfect. That full you okay? Yeah. I need water. Um I want everyone now is going to guess the number on what it cost to paint Barcelona logo on the grass. Okay. I have the number. Was it worth texting and and saying on the podcast? Is it a good number? Extremely worth it. Wow. I knew it. Okay. I knew it. I love it. I can’t believe you said that. Next question. I like it, too. Who has your opinion on it changed since now seeing the number? Yes. All right. I’m going to say but I I will agree with you. I like it and I’m surprised you don’t like it cuz it’s like you’re kind of think I just knew it was going to be I’m going to say it was Well, hold on. Hold on. I think we all cuz I think if you do guesses like this, it might influence people who are going to guess. Okay. I also don’t 100% know that we cover all of it, but I guess we probably do. Whatever the number is, that number could then get put to something else. So, everybody write down a number and you can’t change it because I think if you make a guess, it could affect what other people are going to say. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I want Greyhawk to know that we love you very much and I think it’s it’s cool and people should do paintings out there and stuff. Oh, yeah. But it’s a hell of a number. I was shocked. I was shocked. Write it in the foreplay chat. Okay. Invisible ink. You doing invisible ink? Yeah. All right. I was shocked because first I definitely saw like some air getting deflated out of like the Barcelo Classic team’s balloon when you said that. I was like, “Oh, they’re not going to love that.” But then I was like, I can’t believe Frankie didn’t, you know, they’re not going to like that. I said, well, I I this cool painting stinks. No, I just Yeah, I don’t love it. I don’t know. Well, I I don’t love it because I think it I think that it’s expensive. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Like if it was just something that like we went out there and like when I was in freaking McVey elementary school and we did the we we painted the concrete with a bunch of those uh chalk pens. That’d be great. We all go out there and we do a little bit of Well, you might be right. You guys have all guessed. Yeah. All right. I’m going to read these guesses as I unveil them. Frankie sent his text in first. So Frank Bellic’s guess is $10,000. This is what this was the one in my brain that I said if it is $10,000 that It’s so funny cuz when we were out there you said it to me as it was a fact. Like I that thing cost $10,000. I’ve been saying I’ve been saying that all day. Look, I bet you that cost $10,000 to do. Trent Ryan’s guess $3,000. Oh man, I might be an [ __ ] Producer Brandon Jones. $12,000. No way. You said 10. I know that’s a high number. The answer’s $5,000. All right. That makes me feel a little bit better. Okay. Still a big number, though. I would have thought I would have thought that takes that’s a pretty big 10 to 15 minutes and costs a,000 bucks. Five grand’s a lot. Yeah, it is a lot of money. That’s a lot of money. Think about 5,000 paint to paint a logo. Yeah, it’s cool. But the Bar Classic does well and I think you could spare five. No, I know that. I know that. I’m just saying that it’s on the ground so you really can’t see it that well. You see that it’s there and I think it’s such a big logo that you know what it is. maybe $5,000 huge hockey pucksiz bar stool uh logo that is like up and visible or something. Who knows? You know, something I think your main something that’s issue with it would be you can’t really take a picture with it. Correct. Which is kind of what we want. That’s what the announcements are about. That’s what where it’s like you want something where it’s like this is what goes on at this event. That’s right. Let me show you. I struggled to get a good picture of it. This was like the best picture I could get yesterday and still was like it’s just I get phenomenal pictures from the air. Yeah, that’s what we said. We said Brennon Jones is the only because you’re flying the drone. I think that would probably be the argument. It’s not that it’s stupid or that it sucks or it’s just I just I think you can’t really touch. Yeah. You can’t magnify the event. You thought it was 10 grand. I know. It was pretty close with three. All right. I think we got to get out there. Thanks for letting me tell. Dude, you you [ __ ] crushed it. Amazing work. Amazing work. Nate Edwardson wants me to go in and talk about the edit as well. Yeah, Nate Edwardson. I like him. Mhm. Does a good job. You got a hell of a resume, man. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Really good resume. That’s a hell of a thing to have underneath. That’s a hell of a notch on your belt. Yep. Um, lot of work. Lot of work. Barcel, shout out to everyone. I know that we’re joking about the sign, but I do want to say Lisa Lipback, Justin Manini, the whole entire team. Tyler Ray, there’s a bunch of other people. I didn’t go to many of them this year. Um I had the I had my son, so you guys kind of let me stay home, which was very very nice. Uh on some of the bar trips that you guys all kind of went to, Beef was huge for that and in the sense that he went to every single one. This was his event. It’s been amazing to see how many people he impacted that came to the Baro Classic. Having his um stuff on the 18th hole, the silhouette photos of him and the whole deal has been incredible to see. Have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful day already. Players, he had his oneliners. everyone knew him and uh yeah, we’re going to miss that guy and obviously being at an event here really just reminds you how how impactful he was. So uh but thank you to everyone. Hopper too, right? I mean there’s so many people that the best parts absolute stud. Yep. All of them insane. Toughest thing to edit I’ll ever toughest thing I’ll ever have to edit in my career. Oh, dude. Looking at all that footage from the 18th hole. Well, oh you’re saying the beef stuff. The beef stuff. Yeah. Yeah. me. I remember you saying just every time you started on it or looked at it, you were just balling. Yeah. I like very seriously texted you like this is the most emotional thing in the world. Yeah, you did. And I was like I I I didn’t watch it until we watched it with Cody’s family last week was the only time I saw any of it. Me too. Ton of bricks. Me, too. Yeah. I mean, and then even more so the the other side of that was like the day that we found out that he had passed away, we had to get like an announcement out because the next day the video was going live and I had to like aggressively like make sure you guys were getting a graphic done about our friend who had passed away. I’m like texting Rob White like why isn’t it on Instagram yet? Because the yak is about to go out and say this thing and people need to know what happened. Yeah. And none of it’s easy. Like I remember it just being like and then I was like you got to edit a video to put in tomorrow’s biggest video we’ll ever put out of our friend passing away. It is a crazy that was not a good spot for you guys to be in. So I’m sorry you even had to do that. That’s not easy for anybody. I mean the mindset behind the scenes was holy hell we have to get this thing done to how are we going to do it? And then it quickly changed on Monday to we have to edit this thing for our boy and do him justice. Yeah. Yeah. You guys did a great job. Unbelievable job. Yep. Unbelievable job. Um, all right. What a show. What a show. Uh, Jonesy, thanks for jumping on. Anytime, boys. Video is live. We’re watching it right now on the big screen. We are. Rigs played some outrageously good golf. Make sure you go check that out. Um, yeah, make sure you go scope that out. Uh, awesome work, Jonesy. Thank you for, uh, listening. We’ll keep you updated on all the updates on the Barcel going into next year. But uh thanks to all our sponsors, Ryan Richen on the ones and twos. Duck and camera. Duck and roll. Well done. We’ll be back next week uh Thanksgiving week. So, we’ll probably just have one show next week, but we’ll see you Tuesday. Hit it hard. Hit it hard. Hit it hard. Hit it hard.
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I think Mo was turning slope on when getting yardage then turning it back off. Was no reason for him to grab rangefinder like he did. He was moving thumb making sure it was off.
ok Question if mo would have lose that hole would they have lose the match that the point
Factor this in. Dave comes out with Million dollar purse. Sure he has the cash to throw it away, but you spend a million to make 10 or 20 or whatever the views were going to generate and the video guys make bank for you by turning this into the youtube golf event of all youtube golf events
Put the mics down….cmon guys!
Getting a Barstool Classic winner or just having a weekend warrior in the Internet Invitational needs to happen. Very good call Frankie
How did you split the proceeds from the Adsense and sponsorships with good good?
Wish I knew at its height….
54:40. Smaller state with large golf culture. I’m from Oklahoma and knew we’d be on there. For only have 4 milly people there a shit ton of pros from here
When I was a 9 handicap, I shot my career round of -1 gross in a stableford format tournament. Scores were kept by our competitors playing with us and people still thought I cheated. Career rounds happen lol. Yip is funny but forgets this sometimes.
i was hoping every Episode was over 3 hours..
How was Jersey Jerry not in this?
It’s the most Riggs thing ever to wear a watch on his right wrist
Love the peak behind the curtain from BJ. Kudos to the entire production team. The behind the curtain look is what separates barstool from everyone else.
Let. Brendan. Talk.
Not sure why people don’t talk about how Frankie’s “A” player left a 160 yard shot in the fairway 30 yards short on the last hole…
What about an Internet Inv play-in event or series between Barstool and Breezy tournaments?
Lots of content opportunities there.
Riggs has a guttural voice
Trent not only swings and misses when trying to hit a golf ball but he hasn't ever formed an opinion of his own about anything they have ever talked about. He simply repackages takes and talking points right after they are brought up. It's as if you put a random person on the show and forced them to hit a certain word count without knowing what was going on.
We hate the middle ground
Florida would make sense having a high handicap index, considering most of the golfers are retired and 75+
In regards to the top 10 handicap index, when I look at the states I immediately think they are all states that probably don't have many golfers, but the people that do golf, are legit. They are mostly states that I'd say more people hunt or fish, than play golf
The editors are the true heroes
You guys need to convince Dave Portnoy to buy a golf course and have people come to you
The new sign off for the podcast should 100% be changed from “Hit it hard” to “Hats off for Beef”.
Will there be out takes and extras footages?
You guys are killing it. Hopefully u will receive much more respect from the You Tube community
Amazing how three unfunny guys with zero charisma can be this successful in this space. They must have an amazing work ethic. Hats off gentlemen.
Ok for the fan addition to the internet invitational: what if various YouTube channels like good good, Bryan bros etc hold their own qualifier that the winner of gets to play against the other golfers that qualified on the other channels and they play 18 to get in with the YouTuber who’s channel they qualified on as their caddy? Winner gets to stay.
You’ll are clueless on handicap and how to run a tournament
I would be terrified someone is gonna offer Brenden a ton of money lol
Kids on our local baseball team use to always just burst out with the espn clip noise “bada den bada den” when anyone would make an insane play I thought it was hilarious… I heard those kids when Brad hit that bunker shot
Was the perfect way to tell the story – for anyone who has ever done big yearly golf trips with similar style (draft, match play, etc) the way it was put together made you feel like you were there. Brought back memories of similar things that happened over the years. The memories of each trip are much more about things that happened than the actual golf. Amazing job!
Is there a way for all the footage to be stamped with what the local time was when it was filmed to help with timeline integrity?
Really pissed there wasn’t a woman woo for Brendan Jones
Best special guest interview, from a true creative, Brendan Jones! Don't lose him
Paige had to apologize for wearing a sweater 😂😂😂😂.
1. Rotate the person who chooses the to top 10 list each week.
2. yip stickler probably doesn't want you to do anything, he like just wants the golfers to be honest (but if that happens, he runs out of content)
3. Frankie, stop cutting people off when they're talking.
Great podcast but Riggs and Frankie need to let some other people talk. How about Trent and your guest. Jeez
Y’all are pretty good, I must say. Always have been a portnoy fan and a YouTube golf fan but never really got into your guys content until this past event which obviously was unavoidable in the YouTube golf world. Now I’m watching all your guys golf matches I’ve missed and your pods and everything. Y’all are living the dream. Keep up the content!
S/O BRENDAN JONES and the crew‼️‼️🤯🤯
Imagine 1 full bitcoine being worth $30,000k less than they promo on an ad. 😂
Dan Soder
Hey guys listen to us name states for 10 minutes, how fun was that?!
Frankies rambling cutting off Brendan when he’s trying to talk would piss me off
Just get off social media.
I have no fucking clue who yup is, or what the fuck you're talking about.
Your acting like people know what the barstool tournament is.