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don't know about the Danny and I found some audio. Okay, that's really
all I want to say. We found some audio. It pertains to you,
Kevin Turner, that you're gonna be shocked to hear on these airwaves.
And that's one hour from right now, Kevin. I would say, you
hear that, Kevin cool. You can play it cool if you want.
Apparently you do want to. Will You'd be singing a different tune in about
an hour, my guy, because the Piranha guy called in. You get
the rest of the birth as real quick. Yeah. Gwyth Paltrow's fifty one,
known more for her vaginal candle than her acting at this point, and
her goop kind of screwed up. Right, do we all think vaginal candle?
Yeah? I mean she's definitely into other things as well. I got
her butt candle. What do you haven't heart of her anus candle? Oh
my god. No, we leave it to you, Kevin to keep up
with such matters. Steve Kurves fifty eight. What's he know about that?
I like Steve Kurves. I'm like a nice guy. Everybody kind of likes
well, I don't know, maybe it's any who. I've heard that his
butt candle sales had plummeted in recent years. He was the king of butt
candle sales until Paltrow launched Hers kind of blew him off the front front page
of Etsy. Stephen Jenkins, a third eye blind, is fifty nine and
suffers from narcolepsy. Etsy one of us. Huh, yes, he's one
of us, and he's done a great job of raising awareness for narcolepsy.
Better News, Steve Kerr, check out Mats. Steph was on fire tonight,
Clay I played well, could have Draymond back. He holds this whole
thing together And thanks for all for coming out tonight. If you had a
minute tonight, pop on Etsy slash Kerr Asker backslash butt candles. Yeah,
it's some nice new butt candles we put on. Their higher quality than Gwyneth
last longer longer, Wick longer Wick. If you have a minute, I
don't know, that's fine. It won't be a big goopy wax. It
will be a big goopy wax mess uh meat Love would have been seventy five.
It's Danny. I don't know. I'm gonna be laughing all day at
the concept of the Steve kerr Butt candle. No reason, no reason.
Wilford Brimley would have been eighty eight. He liked dope meal, he hiked
dote mel isn't he the Yeah, he's the Wilford Brimley line. Who else
would be? I suppose? Yes, he's the guy who has Oh,
isn't where's Danny? He's probably passed. I passed it years ago. Bro.
Yeah, I think he was like forty six or something like. That's
how old was he when he was in Cocoon. Yeah, he was in
his mid late forties. I believe. Okay, forty h turned fifty during
filming, so essentially it's fifty years old, right, Yeah, he was
fifty. He looks seventy seven. That's incredible. Diabetis Yep. He was
a spokesperson for the sugar diabetes. Yes. If you guys ever see Cocoon,
Yeah, I think Cocoon is great. I think it's amazing. I'm
really good film, But thirty years since I've seen it, he should watch
cocoon and review it for us. But you know the Tonight Show nineteen fifty
four, it's about to be seventy years that's been happening. And then the
Cleveland Show came out in two thousand and nine, Danny, that's great.
On the list of Danny's impressions, what here did he come out? Two
thousand and nine? Happy birthday to me, Cleveland Brown, that's the worst
impression I ever heard. That call. We on our shared doc we have
a list of Danny's characters. The one added to it was Barney Rubble the
other day, Buddy, that's all I have. That's it. Somebody on
text when we had our rock breaking guy that called in earlier, asked if
Nolan yeah, who won tickets and called in in our hot New six am
segment, what are you doing up? Do you fw? Somebody asked him
if he screamed Yabba Dabba do when he got off work, how did we
miss damn? How did we miss that? Well done? Text her,
he's not barefooting to work and he slide off the tail of a brontosaurus before
he touched out like he's grinding the rail. Gosh, so dumb. What's
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a half game lead in the AL West. The best case scenario they lost
yesterday. They lost but the Mariners one, which meant that those two teams
kind of just stayed static and they're leading to and Alf. Those two teams
are over there playing with each other, feeling around each other's privates while the
Rangers are they can just lose and it's no big deal. I think it's
a three game or magic number to clinch a playoff spot for the Rangers,
Okay, and I think it would be, and I could be wrong,
and maybe you lessen that, and I believe it's DL West are still in
there here and they win to night. Here's the big news for the Rangers,
and then we'll move on to Ryder Cup one O one. Scherzer was
originally expected to need eight to twelve weeks of rest to heal this major strain
in his forearm. Well, he's been playing catch. I've been flicking it
and here's what he said yesterday. It's another step forward. I'm continuing to
strengthen my arm. Throwing off the mound is close. He is working his
ass off to get back and it may be dangerous and it could screw up
his arm for next year, but he wants to pitch in the playoffs this
year. Our hetero chrome hero is gonna come strutting onto that field. Kind
of love him, I love it, kind of love him. Well,
I mean no dates on and even a guess when, like deep into the
playoffs, we need to win a series. I don't know it does we
don't know. I don't know. I think that means it's such a he's
a war daddy. That's what Chris Young was like, saying that, you
know, oh yeah, well he's done for the season. Or does that
mean the season the postseason? What does that mean? Uh? That's why
Church when we played the audio of it two weeks ago at we gotta get
into more, right, we gotta we gotta get this checked out and see
what it is like. Everything is like an urgent matter with him. I
just love it. So there's that Rangers again late night tonight against the Angels,
against the Angels tomorrow, and then three with Seattle. There are five
games left in the regular season and they are getting close to clinching and anything
goes on clinch night. Guys, Ryder Cup is this weekend. When I
get home from Trees on Friday night, if you're seeing Electric six a great
band, when I get home from that, I'm gonna get home, probably
a little little buzzed, and I'm gonna turn on NBC and I'm gonna watch
the Ryder Cup, my number one sporting event of all time, and it's
not even close. I love that. You love it so much. There
is no number two. It's one, and then there's like the seventh favorite.
It's so good. Yeah, and right when it starts on the first
day is pretty damn juicy. Two warning for everyone out there and Danny Friday
morning to be distracted. I'm with you. We're gonna have it cranked up
in here. Yeah, watching our boys. How do we want to do
Ryder Cup one on one? What are we doing? Remember, Danny knows
what it is. He's not a nay yet, but I think he has
questions. We have information where the golf bullies. Yeah, well the Ryder
comack you around all knowledge? Ye before Danny asked questions. Let me just
get this out of the way. You just don't answer any of my questions.
All right, But I shall say the Ryder Cup is not golf.
The Ryder Cup is about patriotism. He's right, it's going to play golf.
It's like anyone who got golf. It's a big display of flags.
Oh, it is the biggest play of flags and outfits. Yeah. For
the people that do that stuff. Yeah, Okay, you're just saying that
you hate America. Okay, I mean, if you want to be that
guy that's on you. You're the one who's gonna put your head to the
pillow. If you hate the troops, that's on you. That's something you're
gonna have to deal with. And you can look yourself in the mirror.
US First Europe Danny. Danny questions, shall we hit me? All right?
Let me get my list. Okay, let's start a list. Question
number one, how long has this thing been going on? Nineteen twenty seven,
Danny? What the first ever Ryder Cup? It was matched with the
US against Great Britain. That's how this began. And then and I think
it was nineteen seventy three, I believe Great Britain team was officially changed to
Great Britain and Ireland because Great Britain was like, these Irish dudes are pretty
good, we need a couple of them on board. And they actually played
on Team Great Britain before they made that change, and then it was it
was a Great Britain in Ireland for a few years. The nineteen seventy nine
the GB and I as it was called, squad was expanded to include players
from all of continental Europe, which is what we see today. You s
versus Europe love it Okay, So in America, a lot of the tournaments
kind of have a father of the tournament. You know, you have the
Buick Open, I guess which was tiger Woods big tournament. Who would you
say is the father of the Ryder Cup. Who was the guy that was
the big proponent maybe even came up with the idea? Where did it originate?
And why seven Valsteros was one of the guys who is seen as the
big I don't know, promoter of it even. And then on the American
side, it was in the modern era. Modern era I'm talking about the
origin of came up with the idea for this. It had to have been
it was God on some level. It was God. And then the troops,
sure the idea two men. I know it's named after English businessman Sam
Ryder. Samuel Ryder. He donated the trophy, which is a very iconic
trophy as well. We're going to get to the Claret Jug in a moment.
Guys, well that's not what this is. This is not the Claret
Jug. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, that's the dude
who's it's named after. I don't know. I think they were golf in
their asses off in the twenties and said let's do a little team competition,
settle it. Yeah, but in the modern era, Sevy, well that's
who I mean that it's Sevy was started in nineteen twenty seven. It's been
going on for a very long time. But you're right, in the modern
era, the guys we think of is the face of the Europeans, fior
Euros. Yeah, and there's a thought for a long time that it means
more to the Euros because American golf dominance has been a thing for a lot
of decades generally speaking, and Americans, to some in the world, even
golf were unrelated, are considered selfish and more interested in themselves. So the
team aspect is really embraced by the Europeans. But okay, next question,
what kind of pageantry should we expect big events like Super Bowls, World Series.
They bring out celebrities, they bring out luminaries, What kind of what
kind of pomp and circumstance is going to be surrounding this tournament, if any
at all. Well, the biggest celebrity they'll have is probably just somewhere near
the first team column. Montgomery is just over there eating a bowl of pasta.
Jiggling his man breasts. Hut Kevy is gonna be there. I know
you get a press pass. Yeah. I don't know that there's celebrity involvement
that you can count on, but what there is is the highest level of
fan involvement and engagement. You will have synchronized chants galore. Anytime they play
this stuff in Europe, which they are this year in Rome at Marco Simone,
we will have scores of people decked out in exact outfits, matching outfits,
singing, doing chants. And I get to say, Europeans destroy US
fans as far as chance go. Ours is more of just a drinking show
here in America and over there they have. It's very coordinated, it's very
it's just more intense, I would say, yeah, but it's just the
number one thing that you don't think about this in golf much. It's just
the idea. A guy hits a shot into the bunker for the other country
and everyone goes yeah, they're cheering in his face, and a guy for
your team rips it down the middle of a fairway and you're going hot dog
and everyone jelling, and it's just it's just amazing. It's all the whole
thing, because every single point matters for this team aspect, that's what matters.
Yeah. That brings me to my next question. What determines I know,
this event happens every two years, correct? Yeah, okay? What
determines the location? I think they go back and forth between Europe and the
United States, they alternate. Yes, Well, what determines what course that
it's going to be played on? Is there a bidding situation? Is it
already predetermined years in advance of where these events are going to be? The
Ryder Cup is going to be held, do you but by a long time?
Ye? But what constant? I mean who who makes those decisions?
God? God, I actually don't know that. I give up. I
don't know. Is it the PGA OF and the U and the RNA,
I mean they work together, This is a this works for both. Yeah.
I mean they are rewarding courses with this. I mean it's much like
assigning a major to a course. I mean, it's it's a good thing,
you know, I mean everyone. I don't think it's very combative.
I mean they're trying to award venues with the honor of hosting the Ryder Cup,
which is massive do the venues themselves lobby Okay, that's our new headquarters
in Frisco's lobbying to get it in twenty thirty nine or twenty forty one,
I believe, and it could be earlier than that. Twenty thirty one and
twenty thirty five are both on accounted for it right now. But yeah,
Bethpage Black in New York will host the twenty twenty five one. That is
the Black Course. It's, of course so hard. They have a sign
on the front that says regular golfers don't come around here, like, don't
play these teas, you don't belong here. It's kind of cool, like
it's a famous hard course. But we get to see some cool European courses
that aren't in the British Open Roto, which tends to be the only courses
that US American fans know are the ones in the rotation for the British Open,
Right St Andrews that like the famous courses Troon and all this, so
they jump out. We've remember seen Marco Simone. I haven't. It's probably
on the euro Tour or on the DP World Tour, but that's in Rome.
There's a course in Ireland twenty twenty seven. That's that's kind of cool
that we'll be able to see for the first time. So yeah, I
mean, it's certainly a ward to host this thing, and but how that
actually shakes out, I'm not positive. Okay, let's do a little speed
round. How has lived impacted the field this season or that for this tournament.
Well, Dustin Johnson was not ranked as the top golfer, so he
couldn't automatically automatically qualify Brooks Kepka is on the team, Bryson d Shambo is
not. There's a feeling that there could be some politics involved there because Justin
Thomas, who is on the tour, was selected. But he's a friend
of everyone's, including Tiger Woods. But Zach Johnson is your Ryder Cup captain
and he is a PGA Tour loyalists, so it does feel like he would
probably shun most of the live guys either way. The live guys were not
going to get automatic bids because they were not getting PGA Tour points in the
top six of the twelve people on the team are automatic bids based on their
tour points. Don't make sense. It made it harder for live players to
automatically qualify, they essentially couldn't, so they have to be so good that
the captains would have no choice but to leave him off and keepco is the
only one that fit that category. Okay. Two more, how much do
players make for participating and or winning the Ryder Cup? Free? Nothing?
Do they cover their expenses? Yes, there's no monetary benefit. This is
simply for national pride. Yes, that's one of the things that makes it
awesome. I agree. The only time you're not just playing for yourself,
you're playing for the partner that you're paired with or obviously singles is Sunday.
But yes, it is a whole different sport, which time it's cool to
go to work and not get paid seriously? Okay, which brings me to
my final question, and this is the big one that I think most people
that are just kind of casual golf viewers that don't maybe know much about the
Ryder Cup want to know what makes the gameplay different than a typical PGA event
like the Masters, US Open, etc. Why is the Ryder Cup different,
How does it work? How is it structured? Tell me, well,
the the format of play is different. It's not just one hundred and
fifty six people playing golf against each other. They partner them up, so
you basically get two guys going off against two other guys, two Americans versus
two Europeans, okay, and you have six per okay. But they go
out to eight at a time, basically the four teams at a time,
so there are four points on the line every time they go out. So
there's two sets of play on Friday, two sets of play on Saturday.
Don't understand what you mean? Two play Friday morning. Yeah, they're gonna
play two on two, right, and it's foursomes or four ball the first
one morning four it's foursomes and that's all right, Actually that's yeah, that's
foursomes, which is alternate shot. So they're gonna go out there on the
first tea, which i'll tell you about tomorrow because there's some amazing quotes about
the first tea. It's called the most terrifying shotting golf. And all these
dudes who are these legends of golf cannot put the ball on a te their
hands are shaking so bad. But they're gonna go out there Friday morning into
this cauldron at Marco Simone and it'll be two on two. It'll be two
Americans versus two Europeans, and they're playing alternate shots. So let's say that
the two Americans are whoever Speth and Thomas right, ye, Speth teas off
first, Thas second takes the second shot, Speth hits the third, back
and forth and then and from that point it's eighteen holes and you just play.
Then it's match play. So if if the Speth and Thomas make a
par let's say, and then the European team of Stepstraka and ludvig Aberg make
a bogey, the US is one up. And no matter how much you
win that whole bud Yeah. And if if Sepstraca pumps it out of bounds
and then they retee it, and then he puts it in a lake and
then they drop it, he hits in a bunker, and the US is
on the green right by the hole in two, the US the European team
can concede. You don't even have to finish the whole. You're like,
oh, well, you win the hole, pick him up and a wash
is a wash. Push yeah, I'll square, And each team gets half
a point. So there's four matches going on. At once, and they'll
flash the leaderboard or the scoreboard up on the graphic and you'll see the American
flag or the European flag based on who's winning up or whatever. And you
get a point for each of these matches. So there's four matches in the
morning, four matches in the afternoon. Saturday, there's four matches in the
morning, four matches in the afternoon. Sunday, there's twelve one on one
match matches. Is it all about points? All that? It's all about
winning your match play battle and winning a point. The best you can do
is win one point, and the team wins. Like that, the country
wins, the region wins on at the end of the all the golfing's done
on Sunday. What determines the winner of the Ryder Cup. So there's twenty
eight total points. You have to get fourteen and a half points to win,
Okay, So whoever gets to fourteen and a half wins the Ryder Cup.
Now is this a person or is the no team the team? Yeah,
there's four. Yeah, there's twenty eight total points and all the stuff
he just said, including twelve points available on Sunday, and whoever gets to
fourteen and a half wins. Now, if it's a tie, which has
happened, the team that has the Ryder Cup retains it. So if they
tie fourteen to fourteen, which does happen, the US, who's who won
at Whistling Straits and the last Ryder Cup here in Wisconsin, would would retained
the Cup and essentially win the Ryder Cup. US is not one in Europe
since what ninety two, a long ass time. Europeans have dominated US over
there. For sure. We just now won two years ago. We won
for the first time in a long time, and this is good, like
a historical landmark that goes back, that involves Tiger and phil And maybe we'll
talk about that tomorrow and might give us a little bit of information about the
course, and I might ask for more clarity on the structure and the gameplay,
because I still don't feel one hundred percent like I understand it sounds like
the games change every day. Yes, yeah, so it's like three different
types of Golf's three different types of golf. And there's a chance you don't
even finish the eighteen yeah. Yeah. If if your team is four up
and there's only three holes left, there's no point what can you possibly do?
And then you turn around to do it again that night. Yeah,
and you switch partners if you want. If you did really good, you're
gonna stick with your partner. If you didn't, Zach Johnson's and the squad
are going to change partners. Some people sit out those first two games.
They don't even play those first two days because there's there's what eight guys to
play, so you don't have to play. Yeah, you might not play
at all until your singles match Sunday. Sometimes, Yeah, some guys won't
because some guys are on the team probably shouldn't be on the team. Yeah,
like a very bad form, or if you just got your balls blown
off, They're like, all right, you ain't playing in the afternoon.
I don't understand singles match. Can we hit that up off at the top?
Absolutely, real quick. We're called the golf bullies, but we're friendly
and we want you to like I've ever met. We didn't even take my
lunch. Yeah, exactly, that's next. Plus, oh my god,
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